SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Several"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Several")') 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 4159 matches on Event Comments, 341 matches on Performance Title, 195 matches on Roles/Actors, 171 matches on Performance Comments, and 0 matches on Author.
Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by the famous Ben. Johnson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Admission as 5 Jan., but no benches railed into boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Admission as 5 Jan., but no benches railed into boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Benefit Wilks. [According to Baggs, Wilks cleared #90 14s. 9d. at his benefit, and the receipts may have been #176 2s. 1 1!2d.

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Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the famous Ben. Johnson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone; Or, The Fox

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Admission as 5 Jan., but no benches railed into boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Oldfield. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: #134 3s. [In a complaint by Mrs Oldfield in lc, 7/3. See also Nicoll, p. 291.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Admission as 5 Jan., but no benches railed into boxes. From this day until Easter, 24 April, there are no performances on Wednesday and Friday

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Benefit Mrs Rogers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple; Or, A Trip To The Jubilee

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Event Comment: Benefit Powell. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Admission as 5 Jan., but no benches railed into boxes. [According to Ch. Dering, it was "acted expressly for Lord Marlborough." See Egmont MS, p. 246.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Event Comment: Benefit Booth. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Tofts. At the Desire of several Persons fo Quality. Admission as 16 Feb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Event Comment: Benefit Cibber. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. [Receipts: probably #115 1s. 1 1!2d., according to Baggs.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Rogers. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Event Comment: Benefit Baroness. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Admission as 5 Jan

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. And at the request of some Persons of Quality, 2 Benches of the Pit will be rail'd into the Boxes at the same Price. [Receipts: possibly #127 2s., according to Baggs.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A La Mode

Event Comment: Benefit Keene. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Note, The Tickets deliver'd out for the 14th will be taken this Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aurengzebe; Or, The Great Mogul

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. With an entire set of new Scenes, Painted by two famous Italian Painters (lately arriv'd from Venice) and all the other Decorations that were represented in the Opera of Clotilda. Admission as 5 Jan., but no benches railed into the boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Event Comment: Benefit Penkethman. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Lindsey. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. With the scenes as on 2 April. Admission as 5 Jan., but no benches railed into boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Event Comment: Benefit Betterton. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and No Person to be admitted but by printed Tickets at half a Guinea each. Note, That the Tickets deliver'd out for the Moor of Venice, and Great Mogul, will be taken at this Play. [Receipts: possibly #154 6s. 7 1!2d., according to Baggs.] For a comment on this occasion, see Tatler, 12 April. Whincop (pp. 175-76) states: But Mr Betterton being new past Seventy Years of Age, and lame with the Gout, seemed but to burlesque the Part of youthful Valentine

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love