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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Porters"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Porters")') 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 2421 matches on Roles/Actors, 894 matches on Performance Comments, 97 matches on Event Comments, 28 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Performance Title.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

Song: In course: a song-Miss Barnes; The Greenwich Pensioner-Dignum

Entertainment: Vaudeville. End: an Epilogue in the character of Harlequin-Banks

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

Afterpiece Title: The Female Adventure

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Dance: As17901204

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's King Henry The Fifth; Or, The Conquest Of France

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of Martinico; Or, Britannia Triumphant

Afterpiece Title: THE BELLE'S STRATAGEM

Afterpiece Title: THE HIGHLAND REEL

Dance: In Act IV of 2nd piece a Masquerade, in which a Minuet by Mrs Pope and Byrn

Song: In Masquerade Old Towler by Incledon; End of 2nd piece A Catalogue of Plays and Farces; or, a Love Letter from Dick Ranter to Kitty Sprightly, to an old Tune, by Bernard; After which Sally in our Alley by Incledon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The World In A Village

Afterpiece Title: THE FARMER

Dance: As17931022

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahmoud

Afterpiece Title: Alive and Merry

Performance Comment: Characters-Russell, Wathen, Wewitzer, Trueman, Suett, Bannister Jun., Hollingsworth, Maddocks, Miss DeCamp, Mrs Bland; [Larpent MS lists the parts: Repartee, Andrew, Charles Seymour, Amoabite, Shroud, Porters, Bailiffs, Security, Jack Junk, Servant, Caroline, Nancy.] Prologue-Bannister Jun.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Travellers In Switzerland

Afterpiece Title: The Farm House

Dance: In: The Savoyard-Jackson, Mlle St.Amand; End II afterpiece: The Lamplighter [composed by Aldridge]-Jackson, Mrs Ratchford

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Modern Antiques

Dance: As17961227

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Raft

Afterpiece Title: Reformed in Time

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Ballet: End: Lowland Festivity. Jamie-Bologna Jun.; Croudy-Bologna; Jenny-Miss Bologna; Moggy-Mrs Watts