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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "R Ledger"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "R Ledger")') 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 2082 matches on Performance Comments, 261 matches on Event Comments, 21 matches on Performance Title, 5 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement; Or, An Adventure At Margate

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb

Cast
Role: Ledger Actor: Gardner

Dance: End I: The Scheming Jockey and the Fortune Teller, as17870613

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Separate Maintenance

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Song: I: song-Mrs Forster

Entertainment: Monologue As17870611

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Two To One

Afterpiece Title: A Mogul Tale; or, The Descent of the Balloon

Dance: End: The Scheming Jockey and the Fortune Teller, as17870613

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: The Two Connoisseurs

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Son-in-law

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Dance: End 1st piece: a new dance, Love for Love-the two Miss Simonets

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suicide

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Dance: End I: Love for Love, as17870625 End III: The Scheming Jockey and the Fortune Teller, as17870613

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: The Siege of Curzola

Dance: As17870702

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tit For Tat

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Dance: End: Love for Love, as17870625

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Transformation

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Cast
Role: Ledger Actor: Gardner

Afterpiece Title: English Readings

Dance: End: a Pas de Deux Provencale-the two Miss Simonets

Entertainment: In the course of the Evening's Entertainments various Imitations-Bannister Jun

Ballet: End 3rd piece: a grand dance, never performed, Gli Schiavi per Amore. Bastiano Amazzagatta-young D'Egville; Mons. Perruque-young Giorgi; Don Berticco-George D'Egville; Mad. Neri-Miss Blanchet; Glinda-Miss DeCamp

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dr Last's Examination

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Afterpiece Title: The Day

Entertainment: Imitations End 2nd piece: As17870807

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir John Cockle, At Court

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost; or, The Man Bewitch'd

Song: End 2nd piece: the new Four@and@twenty Fiddlers all on a Row-Edwin

Entertainment: Monologue End: Lingo's Opinions on Men and Manners (a Comical, Whimsical, Operatical, Farcical Rhapsody)-Edwin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Cast
Role: Sailors Actor: Painter, Ledger

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Dance: End IV: The Capricious Lovers-the two young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Song: I: a song-Dignum

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Percy

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End: The Capricious Lovers, as17870920; End I afterpiece: The Irish Fair-Ferrere, Miss Stageldoir

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: In afterpiece: The Minuet de la Cour-Hamoir, Miss Stageldoir

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella; Or, The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Song: III: Epithalamium Vocal Parts-Mrs Forster, Miss Stageldoir

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Song: III: song-Dignum [In all subsequent performances this was sung by Williames]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Song: II: song in character-Mrs Crouch. [This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.