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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "PPrince and Princess of Wales"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "PPrince and Princess of Wales")') 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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Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: Benefit Denoyer. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: LLa Folie Amoureuse (Comic Ballet)-Denoyer, Mrs Walter, Mrs Thompson, Livier, Pelling; III: Grand Ballet-Denoyer, Haughton, Mrs Thompson; IV: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; V: Minuet in Modern Habits-Denoyer, Mrs Walter

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Clive. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Mainpiece: Taken from Moliere by the late Mr Betterton. Six Rows of the Pit will be railed into the Front Boxes. [Tickets at Mrs Clive's House in Cecil-street, in the Strand.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: III: Tambourine-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; V: Ballet-Muilment, Mrs Walter

Song: IV: Ballad of Mary Scot-Mrs Clive

Event Comment: Benefit Milward. By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. [Tickets at Milward's in Brownlow Street, dl

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: French Peasants-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; III: Tambourine-Master Ferg, Miss Wright

Song: BBallad of Mary Scot-Mrs Clive

Event Comment: Benefit Handel. Pit and Boxes half a guinea. Gallery 5s. London Evening Post, 30 March: Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales were present; there was the greatest and most polite Audience ever seen there, and it's thought Mr Handel cou'd not get less that Night than 15001. Egmont, Diary, II, 474: In the evening I went to Hendel's Oratorio, where I counted near 1,300 persons besides the gallery and upper gallery. I suppose he got this night 1,000 1. [For further details, see Deutsch, Handel, p. 455.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Oratorio

Music: With a Concert on the Organ-

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Mainpiece: Written by Farquhar. Afterpiece: Taken from the French of Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Beard

Dance: II: Drunken Peasant-Philips; IV: French Peasant-Vallois, Miss Scott; V: Ballet-Muilment, Mrs Walter

Song: In III: J'aime la Liberte-Beard; V: Ballad of Mary Scot-Mrs Clive

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Agamemnon

Cast
Role: Melisander Actor: Cibber
Role: Cassandra Actor: Mrs Cibber
Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Agamemnon

Cast
Role: Melisander Actor: Cibber
Role: Cassandra Actor: Mrs Cibber
Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. None to be admitted into the Boxes or upon the Stage but by Printed Box-Tickets. N.B. Pit and Boxes will be separated for the Conveniency of Servants Keeping Places

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Performance Comment: Andromache-Mrs Mills; Pyrrhus-Mills; Orestes-Milward; Pylades-Havard; Phoenix-Boman; Hermione-Mrs Porter; With the Original Epilogue-Mrs Mills.
Cast
Role: Andromache Actor: Mrs Mills

Dance: I: Tambourine-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; II: Maggot-Haughton, Mrs Walter; III: Punch-Master Ferg; IV: La Pieraite-Livier, Miss Thompson

Song: V: The Lady's Lamentation for the Loss of Senesino-Mrs Clive

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Grand Volgi

Dance: I: La Pieraite-Leviez, Mrs Thompson; III: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales [who were present]. Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq. Admission: 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan: Intermix'd with Songs

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mrs Centlivre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: Marplot-Cibber; Sir George-Mills; Sir Francis-Griffin; Miranda-Mrs Clive; Sir Jealous-Turbutt; Charles-Wright; Whisper-Macklin; Isabinda-Mrs Mills; Patch-Mrs Pritchard; Scentwell-Mrs Bennet.
Cast
Role: Miranda Actor: Mrs Clive

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress; or, The Ridotto Al' Fresco

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Mainpiece: Not Acted these Twenty Years. Written by the late J. Addison, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer; Or, The Haunted House

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Grand Volgi

Performance Comment: Noble Venetian-Livier; Italian Bravo-Turbutt; Miller-Pelling; Colombine-Miss Mann; Pierot-Macklin; Gardeners, Wives-Rector, Carney, Mrs Vallois, Miss Wilson; Mandarin Gormogons-Pelling, Baudouin, Rector, Carney; Chinese Guards-Wright, Leigh, Hough, Gray; Harlequin-Phillips.
Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Cast
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Butler

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd; or, Taste a la mode

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. N.B. The Boxes, not being equal to the great Demand for Places, by particular Desire, two Rowes of the Pit will be Rail'd into the Boxes; and two large Side-Boxes will be form'd on the Stage for the Accommodation of Ladies only

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Afterpiece Title: Robin Goodfellow

Dance: III: As17381211

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part I

Performance Comment: As17381117, but Northumberland-Boman; Poins-Winstone; Peto-Raftor.
Cast
Role: Northumberland Actor: Boman
Role: Westmoreland Actor: Turbutt

Afterpiece Title: Robin Goodfellow

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Mainpiece: Written by the late Mrs Centlivre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Mainpiece: Written by Ben. Johnson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd; or, An Old Man Taught Wisdom

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Mainpiece: Written by Sir George Etheridge

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

Dance: Muilment

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mustapha

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highness the Prince and Princess of Wales. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 20 Feb.: We hear that Mr Walker [of cg], who had the Misfortune of burning his Foot very severely some Time since...hopes in a short Time to be able to appear on the Stage again

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mustapha

Event Comment: Benefit Quin. By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. [Tickets at Quin's Lodgings, Sign of the Sun, Bedford Street, cg.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear And His Three Daughters

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: III: Serious Dance-Muilment; V: Grand Ballet-Denoyer, Muilment