SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Order of Gregorians"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Order of Gregorians")') 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 797 matches on Event Comments, 43 matches on Performance Comments, 22 matches on Performance Title, 1 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #74 14s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 70 paid and 16 orders; stage, 2 paid; pit, 200 paid and 20 orders; slips, 10 paid and 3 orders;first gallery, 163 paid and 13 orders; second gallery, 82 paid and 3 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: [T+The Necromancer, not advertised, may have been given as an afterpiece, as the Daily Journal, 12 Feb., states that the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princesses Amelia and Carolina saw it as part of the program.] Receipts: #68 15s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 113 paid and 30 orders; stage, 2 paid; pit, 164 paid and 17 orders; slips, 7 paid and 12 orders; first gallery, 117 paid and 4 orders; second, 123 paid

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Mainpiece Title: Themistocles, The Lover Of His Country

Event Comment: Receipts: #36 4s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 26 paid and 6 orders; pit, 110 paid and 17 orders; slips, 6 paid and 2 orders; first gallery, 74 paid and 3 orders; second gallery, 97 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Themistocles, The Lover Of His Country

Event Comment: Receipts: #34 16s. Probable attendance; boxes, 35 paid and 8 orders; pit, 103 paid and 12 orders; slips, 2 paid and 4 orders; first gallery, 69 paid and 1 order; second gallery, 60 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Themistocles, The Lover Of His Country

Event Comment: Receipts: #33 16s. Probable attendance: boxes, 37 paid and 1 order; stage, 2 paid; P1t, 77 paid and 10 orders; slips, 4 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 80 paid and 2 orders; second gallery, 69 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Themistocles, The Lover Of His Country

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #100 19s. Probable attendance: boxes, 49 paid and 29 orders; pit, 259 paid and 14 orders; slips, 28 paid and 4 orders; first gallery, 252 paid and 7 orders; second gallery, 183 paid. [This is the last entry in the Harvard Manuscript which lists the receipts in various sections of the theater.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Event Comment: Luttrell, A Brief Relation, II, 413: By order of the queen, the lord chamberlain has sent an order to the playhouse prohibiting the acting Mr Dryden s play called the tragedy of Cleomenes, reflecting much on the government. Gentleman's Journal, April 1692 (licensed 13 April): I was in hopes to have given you in this Letter an account of the Acting of Mr Dryden's Cleomenes; it was to have appear'd upon the Stage on Saturday last, and you need not doubt but that the Town was big with Expectation of the performance; but Orders came from Her Majesty to hinder its being Acted; so that none can tell when it shall be play'd

Performances

Event Comment: An order of the Court of Common Council for London forbids any performances of plays or interludes at Bartholomew Fair. See a broadside in the British Museum [1851 b. 25 (25)], reported by Alfred Jackson, Review of English Studies, XIV (1938), 55. Flying Post, 22-25 June 1700: The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Court of Alderman have ordered that no Play-house Bills be affix'd on any Post, &c. in this City; and the like Orders are resolved on in Westminster

Performances

Event Comment: [By Owen Swiny.] Not Acted these Ten Years. All the Characters new drest. Pit and Boxes to be laid together by tickets only at 5s. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. Receipts: #163 3s. 6d. Probable attendance: p1t and boxes, 464 paid and 14 orders; stage, 2 paid; balcony, 4 paid; slips, 21 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 270 paid and 9 orders; second gallery, 124 paid. [The Prologue was printed in London Journal, 26 Nov.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Event Comment: Receipts: #62 17s. Probable attendance: boxes, 49 paid and 17 orders; pit, 213 paid and 15 orders; slips, 4 paid and 2 orders; first gallery, 123 paid; second gallery, 66 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: Dupre, Nivelon, Salle, Pelling, Newhouse, Dupre Jr, Lanyon, Mrs Ogden, Mrs Pelling

Event Comment: Receipts: #80 18s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 119 paid and 13 orders; stage, 1 paid; pit, 206 paid and 10 orders; slips, 15 paid and 3 orders; first gallery, 132 paid, second gallery, 38 paid. For comments upon theatrical affairs, see Mist's and London Journal, 10 Dec

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Event Comment: [By Leonard Welstead.] Receipts: #63 12s. Probable attendance. boxes, 81 paid and 10 orders; balcony, 3 paid; pit, 257 paid and 8 orders; slips, 22 paid; first gallery, 139 paid and 11 orders; second gallery, 70 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dissembled Wanton; Or, My Son Get Money

Event Comment: [By Philip Frowde.] All the Characters new Dress'd. Receipts: #148 3s. Probable attendance: boxes, 198 paid and 17 orders; balcony, 1 paid; pit, 283 paid and 3 orders; first gallery, 409 paid and 1 orders; slips, 64 paid; second gallery, 82 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of Saguntum

Event Comment: Receipts: #56 5s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 34 paid and 9 orders; balcony, 2 paid; pit, 187 paid and 4 orders; slips, 19 paid; first gallery, 114 paid and 2 orders; second gallery, 102 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of Saguntum

Event Comment: Receipts: #46 8s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 44 paid and 12 orders; pit, 121 paid and 4 orders; slips, 6 paid; first gallery, 123 paid and 3 orders; second gallery, 86 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of Saguntum

Event Comment: Receipts: #124 1s. Probable attendance: boxes and pit, 294 paid and 30 orders; stage, 1 paid; slips, 10 paid; first gallery, 304 paid and 7 orders; second gallery, 140 paid and 1 order

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: Receipts: #188. Probable attendance: boxes and pit, 472 paid and 20 orders; slips, 36 paid and 2 orders; first gallery, 410 paid and 2 orders; second gallery, 190 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Woman's Revenge; Or, A Match In Newgate

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: Receipts: #176 6s. Probable attendance: boxes and pit, 472 paid and 28 orders; slips, 28 paid and 4 orders; first gallery, 383 paid and 5 orders; second gallery, 179 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Fond Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: Receipts: #166 11s. Probable attendance: boxes and pit, 409 paid and 19 orders; slips, 32 paid and 2 orders; first gallery, 375 paid and 3 orders; second gallery, 179 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cartouche; Or, The French Robbers

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #122 6s. Probable attendance: boxes and pit, 277 paid and 24 orders; slips, 19 paid and 2 orders; first gallery, 319 paid and 6 orders; second gallery, 134 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country House

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: Receipts: #157. Probable attendance: boxes and pit, 380 paid and 26 by orders; stage, 3 paid; slips, 32 paid and 3 orders; first gallery, 355 paid and 1 order; second gallery, 167 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist; Or, The Sham Doctor

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: Receipts: #96 10s. Probable attendance: boxes and pit, 173 paid and 40 orders; slips, 23 paid and 3 orders; first gallery, 268 paid and 17 orders; second gallery, 225 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist; Or, The Sham Doctor

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: Receipts: #159 4s. Probable attendance: boxes and pit, 412 paid and 41 orders; stage, 4 paid; slips, 29 paid and 5 orders; first gallery, 317 paid and 4 orders; second gallery, 176 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Woman's Revenge

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: Receipts: #99 10s. Probable attendance: boxes and pit, 235 paid and 22 orders; slips, 22 paid and 7 orders; first gallery, 223 paid and 9 orders; second gallery, 135 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: Receipts: #83 14s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes and pit, 168 paid and 25 orders; slips, 14 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 252 paid and 3 orders; second gallery, 113 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Fond Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine