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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "TTheir Majesties"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "TTheir Majesties")') 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 1049 matches on Event Comments, 31 matches on Performance Comments, 30 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. The Heiress [advertised on playbill of 31 Jan.] is deferred till Monday next. [Afterpiece in place of Selima and Azor, advertised on playbill of 31 Jan. Prologue by James Cobb.] Receipts: #238 6s. 6d. (219.17.0; 18.7.0; 0.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Dance: End III: As17870920; End IV: a Scotch dance, The Lucky Return-Mills, Miss Blanchet, Miss J. Stageldoir

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. A Comic Opera, composed by Paisiello; under the direction of Storace. Receipts: #386 6s. 6d. [non-subscription]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gli Schiavi Per Amore

Dance: End I: Les Offrandes a l'Amour, as17871208

Ballet: End Opera: L'Amour et Psiche. As17880129

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of The Merchant of Venice; afterpiece of Love a-la-Mode, both advertised on playbill of 12 Feb.] Receipts: #315 15s. (304.2; 1.13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

Afterpiece Title: The Dumb Cake

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #254 13s. [non-subscription]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gli Schiavi Per Amore

Dance: As17880403

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #258 18s. [non-subscription]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Giulio Sabino

Dance: As17880422

Event Comment: The last Night of the Company's performing this Season. [As 2nd and 3rd pieces the playbill announces, respectively, The Maid of the Oaks and The Farmer, but they were not acted. Their substitutes are listed in the Account-Book, and both are reviewed in Morning Chronicle, 10 June.] Account-Book, 13 June: Received [stage] Forfeits #42; 20 June: Received from Their Majesties for the Box #60, from the Princess Royal for the Box #30; 10 July: Paid Lewis for Management from Lady Day 1785 to Midsummer 1788 #650. Receipts: #147 19s. 6d. (141.18.6; 6.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marian

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Afterpiece Title: Animal Magnetism

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Song: As17881117, but Vocal Parts-Miss Hagley, Miss _Collett

Entertainment: Monologue. End afterpiece: An Ode on the Recovery of His Majesty-Mrs Siddons; in the Character of Britannia. Conclude with: God save the King!-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Vendemmia

Dance: End I: Admete-, as17890428; End Opera: Les Caprices de Galatee, as17890507

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Song: End: Poor Jack!; or, the Sweet Little Cherub (written and composed by Dibdin)-Dignum; After: Glee on the Happy Recovery of His Majesty (the words by Col. Arabin)-Dignum, Sedgwick, Mrs Edwards, Miss Romanzini

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. To prevent inconvenience, Ladies and Gentlemen are requested to be early at the Theatre-and to order their Servants to keep Places at Four o'Clock. Receipts: #452 14s. 6d. (438.16.0; 13.18.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. To prevent inconvenience, Ladies and Gentlemen are requested to be early at the Theatre--and to order their Servants to keep Places at Four o'Clock. Receipts: #396 14s. 6d. (394.8.0; 2.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. To prevent Confusion Ladies and Gentlemen are requested to send their Servants to keep Places by Half past Four o'Clock. God save the King was sung "by the performers and by the audience five times: twice on the entrance of the King and Queen, once after the Play, twice after the Farce" (World, 19 Dec.). And see 23 Apr. 1790. Account-Book: In the Pit of this Night 525 Persons, this is the greatest Number ever remembered to be in at any One Time. R. P. [i.e. Richard Peake, sub-treasurer]. Receipts: #290 11s. 6d. (279.13.0; 9.18.6; 1.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Dance: As17891204

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years [not acted since 11 Nov. 1784]. Receipts: #409 13s. 6d. (407.4.6; 2.9.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

Dance: As17891231

Song: In III: song-Duffey

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #374 13s. (369.12; 5.1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #305 (288.5.0; 16.6.6; 0.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #326 16s. 6d. (318.6.6; 8.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The German Hotel

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Dance: As17901123

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #301 15s. 6d. (282.5.0; 17.18.6; 1.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #393 4s. (391.5; 1.19)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Picture of Paris

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of The Earl of Essex, advertised on playbill of 19 Jan.] Receipts: #394 0s. 6d. (390.14.0; 3.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist

Afterpiece Title: The Picture of Paris

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Afterpiece in place of High Life below Stairs, advertised on playbill of 25 Jan.] Receipts: #300 8s. 6d. (283.11.0; 16.10.0; 0.7.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Favour

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #371 18s. (368.18.6; 2.19.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Dance: As17901020

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of The Rivals; afterpiece of No Song No Supper, both announced on playbill of 12 Feb.] Receipts: #301 4s. (282.3.0; 18.9.6; 0.11.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Armida

Dance: End I: Divertisement by D'Auberval-

Ballet: End II: an entire new Pantomime Ballet, in I act, composed by D'Auberval, Amphion et Thalie; ou, L'Eleve des Muses. Principal dancers-[Didelot, Duquesney, Vigano, Fialon, Duchesne, Rousseau, Boisgirard, St.Aumer, Schweitzer, [Mme Didelot, Mme Vigano, Mlle Theodore, [Mlle Gervaise Troche, Mlle Deligny, [Mlle L. Simonet, Mlle R. Simonet, Mlle Puisieux, [Mlle Bithmer Cadette, Mlle Bithmer, Mlle Rousseau, Mlle Vedie, Mlle Durand; [Cast from synopsis (H. Reynell [1791]:) Amphion (eleve des Muses)-Didelot; Bergers de la Phocide-Duquesney, Vigano; Thalie (Muse de la Comedie)-Mme Theodore D'Auberval; Jeune Nymphe de la Phocide (eleve de Terpsichore)-Mlle Gervaise Troche; Terpsichore (Muse de la Danse)-Mlle Leonore Simonet; Jeune Nymphe (favorite de Thalie)-Mlle Rosine Simonet; Melpomene (Muse de la Tragedie)-Mme Didelot; Clio (Muse de L'Histoire)-Mlle Augustine Bithmer; Erato (Muse de la Poesie Lyrique)-Mlle Bithmer; Euterpe (Muse de la Musique)-Mlle Rousseau; Uranie (Muse de l'Astronomie)-Mlle Jacobs; Calliope (Muse de l'Eloquence)-Mlle Birt; Polimnie (Muse de la Rhetorique)-Mlle Watson; Nymphes a la suite des Muses-Mlle Vedie, Mlle Durand, Mlle Berry, Mlle Bougier; Suite d'Amphion-Mme Fialon, Mme Duchesne, Mme Simonet, Mme Menage; Habitants de la Phocide-Mme Boisgirard, Mme Rousseau, Mme Omer, Mme Schweitzer

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #372 14s. (369.1; 3.13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Two Strings to Your Bow