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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Pelling"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Pelling")') 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 2105 matches on Roles/Actors, 326 matches on Performance Title, 196 matches on Performance Comments, 18 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Performance Comment: As17331013, but Nymphs-Mrs Ogden, Mrs Pelling, Miss La Tour, Miss Baston .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Performance Comment: As17331027, but Apollo-Glover; Zephyrus omitted; Spaniard-Le Sac; Polonese-Pelling; French Woman-Miss Rogers .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Cheats of Harlequin

Performance Comment: Perseus-Rochetti; Cepheus-Leveridge; Mercury-Sal way; Cassiope-Mrs Sanderson; Andromeda-Miss Norsa; Medusa-Mrs Wright; Stheno-Vincent; Euryale-Comani; Ethiopians-Thompson, Vincent; Amazons-Miss Binks, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs Ogden, Miss Rogers, Miss Baston, Mrs Vincent, Mrs Kilby; Infernals-Comani, Glover, Dupre, Lesac, Newhouse, Delagarde, Duke; Hussar-Pelling; Harlequin-Lun; Petit Maitre-Laguerre; Hussar's Servant-Hippisley; Valet de Chambre-Ray; Colombine-Mrs Younger; Concluding with the Grand Dance of Momus . Concluding with the Grand Dance of Momus .
Cast
Role: Hussar Actor: Pelling

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer; or, Harlequin Dr Faustus: In it Bacchus and Ariadne

Performance Comment: Bacchus-Malter; Fawns-Dupre, Lesac, Delagarde, Duke; Bacchantes-Mrs Ogden, Miss Norsa, Miss Rogers, Miss Baston; Ariadne-Mlle Salle; Grecians-Dupre, Delagarde, Duke, Lesac; Phaedra-Mrs Laguerre; Theseus-Haughton, the first time of his appearing on that Stage; Infernal-Leveridge; Spirit of Helen-Miss Norsa; Good Genius-Salway; Evil-Thompson; 1st Fury-Malter; Harlequin-Lun; Miller-Pelling; Miller's Man-Salway; Miller's Wife-Mrs Laguerre; Tumblers-Ray, Houghton; Haymakers-Dupre, Newhouse, Smith, Delagarde, Mrs Stevens, Mrs Kilby, Mrs Forrester, Miss Horsington; Doctor's Man-Hippisley .
Cast
Role: Miller Actor: Pelling

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: I: Venetian Gondolier and Courtezan by Denoyer, Mlle Anne Roland, &c. II English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. III: Le Badinage de Provence by Poitier, Mlle Roland, &c. IV: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. V: A new Comic Dance called The Rover: Rover-Essex; Flanderkin Woman-Mrs Walter; Dutchwoman-Miss Mann; Peasant Woman-Mrs Anderson; Dutchman-Duke; French Peasant-Davenport; Dutchmen and Wives-Pelling, Janno, Miss Brett, Mrs Davenport

Performance Comment: II English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. III: Le Badinage de Provence by Poitier, Mlle Roland, &c. IV: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. V: A new Comic Dance called The Rover: Rover-Essex; Flanderkin Woman-Mrs Walter; Dutchwoman-Miss Mann; Peasant Woman-Mrs Anderson; Dutchman-Duke; French Peasant-Davenport; Dutchmen and Wives-Pelling, Janno, Miss Brett, Mrs Davenport .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite; Or, The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton: With Harlequin a Captive

Performance Comment: Jupiter-Winstone; Neptune-Turbutt; Priest of Aurora-Stoppelaer; Terra-Mrs Bennet; Phoebus-Hill; Phaeton-Cross; Clymene-Mrs Clive; Ethiopian-Essex; Moors-Pelling, Villeneuve, Dukes, Rector; Turk-Thurmond; Harlequin-Philips; Morocco Servant-Macklin; Colombine-Miss Mann; Harlequin's Good Genius-Miss Cole; Adonis-Denoyer; Venus-Mlle Roland; with a Grand Ballet-Denoyer, Mlle Roland.
Cast
Role: Moors Actor: Pelling, Villeneuve, Dukes, Rector

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Afterpiece Title: The Burgomaster Trick'd

Performance Comment: As17361103, but Burgomaster-Pelling.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton; With Harlequin a Captive

Performance Comment: Vocal Parts-Beard, Mrs Clive; Ethiopian-Muilment; Turl-Pelling; Colombine-Mrs Walter; Morocco Servant-Macklin; Harlequin's Good Genius-Miss Cole; Harlequin-Lun Jr (the first time of his appearance on this stage).
Cast
Role: Turl Actor: Pelling

Dance: A Ballet-Haughton (his first appearance at dl in five years)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite; Or, The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: Robin Goodfellow; or, The Rival Sisters

Performance Comment: Robin Goodfellow-Master W. Hamilton; Glowworm-Miss Edwards; Puck-Master Holman; Cobweb-Master J. Hamilton; Moth-Master Burgess; Mab-Miss Cole; Mustard Seed-Miss Morrison; Peas Blossom-Miss Saunders; Oberon-Master Ferg; Titania-Miss Wright; Harlequin-Lun Jr; 1st Colombine-Miss Mann; 2d Colombine-Mrs Chetwood; Squire Freehold-Beard; Father to Colombines-Pelling; Damask-Woodburn; Bawble-Gray; Porter-Leigh; Mrs Muslin-Miss Thynne; Maid-Miss Wilson; Old Woman-Ray; Marrowbone-Baudouin; Artichoke-Rector; Spinnage-Carney; Mrs Marrowbone-Miss Jones; Mrs Artichoke-Mrs Bennet; Mrs Spinnage-Mrs Vallois; Apricote-Liviez; Mrs Apricote-Mrs Walter; Mrs Taffata-Miss Thompson; Slouch-Macklin.
Cast
Role: Father to Colombines Actor: Pelling

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton; Harlequin a Captive

Performance Comment: Clymene-Mrs Clive; Mercury-Beard; Ethiopian-Muilment; Turk-Pelling; Colombine-Miss Mann; Morocco Servant-Macklin; Harlequin's Good Genius-Miss Cole; Harlequin-Lun Jr; Grand Dance-Muilment, Mrs Walter.
Cast
Role: Turk Actor: Pelling

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Robin Goodfellow

Performance Comment: Robin-Master W. Hamilton; Glowworm-Miss Edwards; Puck-Master Holman; Cobweb-Master J. Hamilton; Moth-Master Burgess; Mab-Miss Cole; Mustard Seed-Miss Morrison; Peas Blossom-Miss Saunders; Oberon-Master Ferg; Titania-Miss Wright; Harlequin-Lun Jr; 1st Colombine-Miss Mann; 2d Colombine-Mrs Chetwood; Freehold-Beard; Father to the Colombines-Pelling; Old Woman-Ray; Slouch-Macklin; with a Grand Ballet-Muilment, Mrs Walter.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

Afterpiece Title: Mars and Venus

Performance Comment: Mars-Denoyer; Followers of Mars-Livier, Baudouin, Froment, Carney; Venus-Mrs Walter; Graces-Miss Thompson, Mrs Chetwood, Miss Kilby; Cupid-Miss Morison; Vulcan-Essex; Cyclops-Pelling, Rector, Woodward, Lee; Apollo-Muilment; Diana-Mrs Chetwood; Jupiter-Livier; Juno-Miss Kilby; Neptune-Baudouin; Thetis-Miss Thompson.
Cast
Role: Cyclops Actor: Pelling, Rector, Woodward, Lee

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar: With The Death Of Brutus And Cassius

Performance Comment: Caesar-Mills; Calphurnia-Mrs Butler; Brutus-Quin; Cassius-Milward; Anthony-Wright; Octavius Caesar-Havard; Caska-Winstone; Trebonius-Ridout; Artemidorous-Shepard; Portia-Mrs Roberts; Citizens-Johnson, Griffin, Macklin, Woodward, Yates, Reed.*a1739 10 10 dl Robin Goodfellow. Robin Goodfellow-Miss Cole; Oberon-Master Ferg; Titania-Miss Wright; Puck-Master Matthews; Cobweb-Master Burgess; Moth-Master Donavan; Mab-Miss Morrison; Mustardseed-Miss Ferg; Peas Blossom-Miss Saunders; Harlequin-Woodward; 1st Colombine-Mrs Walter; 2d Colombine-Mrs Chetwood; Peasants-Davenport, Carney, Rector; Women Peasants-Mrs Vallois, Miss Woodman, Mrs Davenport; Dr Tackem-Taswell; Maid-Mrs Woodward; Old Woman-Ray; Bridemen-Carney, Leigh, Gray; Bridemaids-Mrs Vallois, Mrs Chetwood, Miss Thynne; Father to Colombine-Pelling; Freehold-Yates; Slouch-Penkethman; with a new Grand Ballet-Muilment.*c1739 10 10 dl By particular Desire. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear.
Cast
Role: Father to Colombine Actor: Pelling

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton; Harlequin a Captive

Performance Comment: Clymene-Mrs Clive; Mercury-Beard; Turk-Pelling; Colombine-Mrs Walter; Morocco Servant-Penkethman; Harlequin's Good Genius-Miss Cole; Harlequin-Woodward; with a Grand Ballet-Denoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf, Liviez, Baudouin, Fromont, Carney, Mrs Walter, Mrs Thompson, Mrs Woodward, Mrs Vallois.
Cast
Role: Turk Actor: Pelling

Song: II: As17391024

Dance: III: Pierots-Pelling, Liviez; IV: Scotch Dance-Master Matthews, Miss Wright

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Performance Comment: See17391103, but Clymene-Mrs Clive; Phaeton-Green; Mercury-Beard; Priest of Sun-Rheinhold; Jupiter-Woodburn; Neptune-Marshall; Phoebus-Usher; Terra-Mrs Wright; Turk-Pelling; Colombine-Mrs Walter; Morocco Servant-Penkethman; Harlequin's Good Genius-Miss Cole; Harlequin-Woodward.
Cast
Role: Turk Actor: Pelling

Dance: II: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg; V: Scots Dance-Master Matthews, Miss Wright

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Woodward; Queen of Gipsies-Miss Jones; Gipsies-Leigh, Green, Vaughan, Gray, Mrs Davenport, Mrs Vallois, Miss Woodman, Miss Story; Young Rustick-Liviez; Colombine-Mrs Walter; Colombine's Father-Pelling; Mittimus-Usher; Goaler-Reed; Mother-Yates; Maid-Mrs Woodward; Magician-Rheinhold; Pierrot-Lalauze.
Cast
Role: Colombine's Father Actor: Pelling

Ballet: with a Gwith a Grand Entertainment of Dancing call'd A Voyage to the Land of Cytherea. Adonis-Denoyer; Venus-Mlle Chateauneuf; Pilgrims-Liviez, Baudouin, Rector, Cook, Mrs Walter, Mrs Chetwood, Mrs Wright, Mrs Woodward; Cupid-Muilment

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rambling Lovers; Or, A New Way To Play An Old Game

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Hayes; Softhead-Pelling; Bullcalf-Dove; Nincompoop-Lee; Mother Catterwawl-Mrs Hill; Colombine-Mrs Dove.
Cast
Role: Softhead Actor: Pelling

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Contention; or, The Politic Maid

Afterpiece Title: Neptune's Palace

Dance: Janno; Tumbling-Steward, Williams, Tindal

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of Fair Rosamond, Representing Her Amours With King Henry, And Her Being Poisoned By Queen Eleanor In Woodstock Bower

Afterpiece Title: The Modern Pimp; or, The Doctor Deceiv'd

Dance: TThe Miller and his Wife, The Jealous Savoyard-two Masters Granier, Miss Granier

Ballet: TThe Triumph of Britannia Over the Four Parts of the World. Britannia-Mlle Duval; Europe-Granier; Asia-Pelling; Africa-Miles; America-Olbeldiston; Women-Mrs Vallois, Mrs Phillips, Mrs Love, Mlle Glasson

Performance Comment: Britannia-Mlle Duval; Europe-Granier; Asia-Pelling; Africa-Miles; America-Olbeldiston; Women-Mrs Vallois, Mrs Phillips, Mrs Love, Mlle Glasson.
Cast
Role: Asia Actor: Pelling

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Peace

Performance Comment: Mars-Cooke; Mars' followers-Blakes, Vaughan, Marr, Adams, Shawford, Harvey, Yates, Harrison; War-Winstone; Power-Lee; Ambition-Palmer; Peace-Mrs Mills; Justice-Mrs LaFont; Liberty-Mrs Ansley; Shepherds-Havard, Beard, Reinhold, King, Master Maddox; Shepherdesses-Mrs Clive, Miss Cole, Miss Medina; Britannia-Anne Auretti; Hungarians-Cooke, Janeton Auretti; French-Mathews, Mrs Addison; Dutchman-Pelling; Spaniard-Shawford; concluded with a view of the Temple of Peace-.
Cast
Role: Dutchman Actor: Pelling

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Dance: II: Pigmalion, as17501102; IV: Comic Dance, as17501117

Ballet: End: A New Comic Entertainment of Dancing call'd The Bird Catchers. Peasants-Devisse, Mad Auretti; Shepherds-McNeil, Roger, G. Yates; Shepherdesses-Mad Camargo, Mad Mariet, Mrs Addison; Two Peasant Children-the Little Swiss, Miss Poplin; Bird Catchers-Pelling, Harvey, Shawford, Master Shawford, Miss Toogood, Mad Mimi, Mrs Shawford, Miss Shawford; a New Scene-; Decorations-

Performance Comment: Peasants-Devisse, Mad Auretti; Shepherds-McNeil, Roger, G. Yates; Shepherdesses-Mad Camargo, Mad Mariet, Mrs Addison; Two Peasant Children-the Little Swiss, Miss Poplin; Bird Catchers-Pelling, Harvey, Shawford, Master Shawford, Miss Toogood, Mad Mimi, Mrs Shawford, Miss Shawford; a New Scene-; Decorations-.
Event Comment: Benefit DuPre and Mrs Pelling. By Command of his Royal Highness. Receipts: money #43 6s. 6d.; tickets #93 9s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats; or, The Tavern Bilkers

Dance: End I: Scots Dance-Mrs Bullock; II: A new Serious Dance-Dupre, Mrs Pelling; III: Lads and Lasses-Pelling, Mrs Pelling, Newhouse, Mrs Ogden, Lanyon, Miss LaTour; IV: Myrtillo-Dupre, Mrs Pelling, Moreau, Miss LaTour, Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; V: The Dusty Miller (a new Jig)-Moreau

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Taste

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Orpheus

Performance Comment: Apollo-Salway; Mercury-Roberts; Caliope-Mrs Cantrel; Attendants on Apollo-Villeneuve, Livier, Davenport; Harlequin-Le Brun; Squire-Nivelon; Farmer-Harper; Pierrot-Lalauze; Innkeeper-Thurmond; Petit Maitre-Laguerre; Colombine-Miss Mann; Countrymen-Thurmond, Pelling, Davenport; Countrywomen-Mrs Walter, Mrs Pelling, Miss Brett; with Grand Ballet by Denoyer, Mrs Walter, Villeneuve, Pelling, Davenport, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Davenport, Miss Brett . with Grand Ballet by Denoyer, Mrs Walter, Villeneuve, Pelling, Davenport, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Davenport, Miss Brett .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cheats Of Scapin

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine; With The Birth and Adventures of Harlequin

Performance Comment: Ceres-Mrs Barbier; Proserpine-Mrs Chambers; Jupiter-Rochetti; Mercury-Legar; Sylvans-Mlle Salle, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Legar, Mrs Ogden; Gods of the Woods-Salle, Dupre, Poitier, Pelling; Sicilians-Glover, Newhouse, Lanyon, Dupre Jr; Pluto-Leveridge; Demons-Salle, Dupre, Poitier, Pelling, Newhouse; Harlequin-Lun; Yeoman-Nivelon; Old Man-Smith; Clodpole-Spiller; Colombine-Mrs Younger; Old Woman-Miss Latour; Countrymen, Lasses-Newhouse, Dupre, Lanyon, Mrs Vincent, Miss Fenton, Mrs Rice; Savoyard-Salway; Gardeners-Poitier, Pelling; Elements: Earth-Dupre; Air-Glover; Fire-Poitier; Water-Salle; Females-Mrs Pelling, Mrs Legar, Mrs Bullock, Mlle Salle.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Orpheus; or, The Magical Pipe

Performance Comment: Apollo-Salway; Mercury-Roberts; Caliope-Mrs Cantrel; Attendants on Apollo-Essex, Villeneuve, Livier; Attendants on Cassiope-Mrs Walter, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Davenport; Harlequin-Le Brun; Country Squire-Nivelon; Pierot-Lalauze; Petit Maitre-Laguerre; Colombine-Miss Mann; Countrymen-Thurmond, Pelling, Davenport; Countrywomen-Mrs Walter, Mrs Pelling, Miss Brett; Farmer-Harper; Innkeeper-Thurmond; with Grand Ballet by Denoyer, Essex, Mrs Walter, Villeneuve, Livier, Dace, Davenport, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Davenport, Miss Brett . with Grand Ballet by Denoyer, Essex, Mrs Walter, Villeneuve, Livier, Dace, Davenport, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Davenport, Miss Brett .

Music: Select Pieces on the Violin by a Youth of 13 Years of Age, who never performed in public before, a Scholar of Signior Catanio

Entertainment: [Apparently not published. Author not known. For Poitier, see Daily Journal, 3 March.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performance Comment: Ceres-Mrs Barbier; Proserpine-Mrs Chambers; Jupiter-Rochetti; Mercury-Legar; Sylvans-Mrs Laguerre, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Ogden; Gods of the Woods-Salle, Dupre, Poitier, Pelling; Sicilians-Glover, Newhouse, Lanyon, Dupre Jr; Pluto-Leveridge; Demons-Salle, Dupre, Poitier, Pelling, Newhouse; Yeoman-Nivelon; Clodpole-Spiller; Old Man-Smith; Harlequin-Lun; Colombine-Mrs Younger; Old Woman-Miss Latour; Countrymen and Lasses-Newhouse, Dupre, Lanyon, Mrs Vincent, Miss Fenton, Mrs Rice; Savoyard-Salway; Gardeners-Lanyon, Smith; Earth-Dupre; Air-Glover; Fire-Poitier; Water-Salle; Females-Mrs Pelling, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Laguerre.