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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "New York"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "New York")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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We found 3237 matches on Event Comments, 2688 matches on Performance Title, 1650 matches on Performance Comments, 1 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Consisting of Church Musick- for six or eight Voices, by Mr DeFesch; Several Songs in Italian-Mrs De Fesch, the first Time of he performing in publick since her Arrival in England; a new Concert on the Violon-Mr DeFesch; a Solo , composed, and perform'd on the Bass Viol-Mr St.Helene; Solo on the Violoncello-Mr St.Helene the first Time of his performing in Publick

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: I: Tambourine-Miss Wherrit; III: Merry Country Lass-Miss Wherrit;

Song: II: A new Drinking Song-Excell; IV: A Cantata of Mr Hayden's-Excell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Song: I: Singing in Italian-Mrs Hill; II: Singing in English-Mrs Hill; III: Another Italian Song-Mrs Hill; V: New Mad Tom-a Gentleman from Oxford

Dance: IV: Miss Wherrit

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: English Maggot-Lally Jr, Mrs Walter; V: Harlequin-Miss Brett; End Farce: The Midsummer Whim (new)-Lally Jr, Holt, Mrs Walter, Mrs D'Lorme

Song: In I: Miss Raftor; End IV: E. Roberts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Husband Outwitted

Entertainment: Several new and surprizing Performances, never perform'd by any one besides herself, on the Strait Rope [the famous-Signora Violante [[1] She Dances a Minuet as Neatly as a Dancing Master on a Floor. [2] She Dances with a Board, ten Foot in length, loose upon the Rope. [3] She Dances with two Boys fastned to her feet; which Occasions great Mirth. [4] She Dances with two heavy Men ty'd to her Feet. [5] She Performs the Exercise of the Colours. After this surprising Performance, Miss Violante will Dance a Louvre in Boys Cloaths

Dance: t the Desire of several Gentlemen and Ladies, the White Joke-will be danced by an Old Woman, with Pierrot in the Basket; Pierrot-Lalauze; Old Woman-Tobin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: SScotch Dance-Mrs Bullock; New French Peasants-de Valois and Mlle de Valois

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Dance: As17321102

Song: IV: new Song-Excell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Song: MMimick Song in the Character of a +Ballad-Singer-Stoppelaer

Dance: SSailor's Dance-Jones; Chacone-Mrs Bullock; The Friendly Lasses (new)-Miss Wherrit, Miss Sandham

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Dance: PPierrot and Pairayte (new)-Mons and Madam Jouan de Vallois; Chacone-Mrs Bullock; Friendly Lasses-Miss Wherrit, Miss Sandham

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance: I: new French Peasant-Poitier, Miss LaTour; II: Comic Dance, as17321209

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance: I: French Peasant-Poitier, Miss LaTour; II: new Comic Dance-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre, Pelling, Mrs Pelling, Newhouse, Miss LaTour, Lesac, Mrs Ogden, Delagarde Jr, Miss Baston

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Dance: TTambourine-Miss Rogers; IV: New Scotch Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre, DuPre, Mrs Pelling, DelaGarde Jr, Mrs Ogden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Dance: s performed last night before Their Majesties, but order of dances is: %II: New Comic Dance-; IV: Tambourine-; V: Scottish Dance-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Dance: II: New Comic Dance, as17330123; IV: Tambourine-Miss Rogers; V: Scottish Dance, as17330123

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Dance: III: New Comic Dance, as17330123; V: Scottish Dance, as17330123

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Dance: TTambourine-Miss Rogers; new Comic Dance-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre, Pelling, Mrs Pelling, Newhouse, Miss LaTour, Delagarde, Mrs Ogden, LeSac, Miss Baston; French Peasant-Poitier, Miss LaTour; Scottish Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre, DuPre, Pelling, Delagarde, Mrs Ogden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: TTambourine-Miss Rogers; Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Poitier; Scottish Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre, DuPre, Mrs Pelling, Delagarde, Mrs Ogden

Song: The Gentlewoman who was to have sung, being exceeding ill and not able to perform, in lieu thereof will be the last new Dialogue-Leveridge, Mrs Wright

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: I: Tambourine-Miss Rogers; III: French Peasant-Poitier, Miss LaTour; V: Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden

Song: II: No Kissing At All-Leveridge, Salway; IV: new Je ne scai quoy (in the Northern Stile)-Leveridge, Mrs Wright; V: The Grand Whisper, with the Resolution of the Two Kings of Brentford,-Leveridge, Laguerre, in the Style of Camilla

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Le Menuet & La Marie-D'Vallois, Mrs Bullock, being particularly desired; II: La Payzane Mantaignez (new)-D'Vallois, D'Blainville, Pollet in Wooden Shoes; III: Two Pierrots-D'Vallois, Delagarde; IV: English Peasant-D'Vallois, Madam D'Vallois

Ballet: V: La Provansalle (newly composed by D'Vallois). Two Provansals-D'Vallois, Mrs Bullock; Other parts-Holt, Mrs D'Vallois, J. Delagarde, Miss Wherrit, Sandham, Mrs Haughton, Evans, Miss Sandham

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Musette-LeSac, Miss Baston; II: The Mattelot (new)-Dupre, Miss Latour; III: Sicilian-Glover, Mrs Pelling; IV: Hornpipe-Jones, Mrs Ogden; V: Scottish Dance-Young Weeks, Scholar to Dupre; Clown-Nivelon; Before Farce: Shepherd-Young Weeks; End: La Mariee, Minuet-Dupre, Miss LaTour

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Afterpiece Title: Damon And Phillida

Dance: I: Drunken Peasant-LeBrun; II: The Watteau-Miss Robinson; V: Les Bergeries-Essex, Haughton, Miss Robinson

Song: IV: A New Dialogue-Stoppelaer, Miss Raftor in the Characters of a Town Spark and a CountrY Lass

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: TThe North Country Maggot new, by Holt-Holt, Miss Wherrit

Ballet: MMasquerade Dance. Le Petit Maitre-Holt; Mademoiselle-Mrs Bullock; Friendly Lasses-Miss Wherrit, Miss Sandham

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performance Comment: See17330402 A new Epilogue by way of Dialogue by Woodward-Woodward, Miss Wherrit.

Dance: MMasqueraders-Vallois, Mrs Bullock; A new Scotch Dance-Miss Wherrit; Chacone-Mrs Bullock; Friendly Lasses-Miss Wherrit, Miss Sandham

Event Comment: Benefit Ray, Newhouse, Thompson. Receipts: money #17 7s. 6d.; tickets #123 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Dance: I: Tambourine-Miss Rogers; II: La Folette s'est ravisee-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre; III: Musette-LeSac, Miss LaTour; IV: Scottish Dance, as17330507

Ballet: V: The Cobler; or, The Merry Wife Constant (new). Cobler (Punch)-Newhouse; Petir Maitre (Harlequin)-LeSac; Doctor (Scaramouch)-Dupre Jr; Merry Wive-Miss Baston

Performance Comment: Cobler (Punch)-Newhouse; Petir Maitre (Harlequin)-LeSac; Doctor (Scaramouch)-Dupre Jr; Merry Wive-Miss Baston.
Cast
Role: Cobler Actor: Newhouse

Song: III: Chancon a Boire-Leveridge, Laguerre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Music: Select Pieces-; particularly a new Grand Overture by Dr Pepusch-; V: Handel's celebrated Water Musick-; in which Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Benjamin Baker , accompanyed with Trumpets, French Horns

Dance: I: Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; II: Tambourine-Miss Rogers; IV: Mock Minuet-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre, Pelling, Mrs Pelling, Newhouse, Mrs Ogden, Lesac, Miss Baston

Song: III: A Dialogue in the Scottish Stile-Leveridge, Mrs Wright