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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Theatre Royal Windsor"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Theatre Royal Windsor")') 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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Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: II: La Follette c'est Ravize by Tench and Mrs Woodward. V: A new Dance by Delagarde and Mrs Bullock

Song: III: A Song, called Goodman's Fields Theatre, addressed to the City, sung by Excell. IV: In Italian by Miss Jones

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Mainpiece Title: The Soldier's Fortune

Afterpiece Title: A Hint to the Theatres

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Soldier's Fortune

Afterpiece Title: A Hint to the Theatres

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Wedding

Performance Comment: By a Company of Comedians from the Theatres.

Afterpiece Title: A Hint to the Theatres

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Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Dance: I: Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Lalauze; II: Le Badinage de Provence-Poitier (his first appearance since his accident at the other theatre), Mlle Roland Elder (the first time of her appearance on that stage); III: Les Amours de Polichinelle and Dame Ragonde-Lalauze, Nivelon (in wooden Shoes); IV: The Miller's Jealousy-Poitier, Mlle Roland, Nivelon, Mrs LeBrun; V: Grecian Sailor-Glover

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Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Barber

Dance: I: Concerto-Mlle Mechel; II: Minuet, French Rigadoon-Mechel the Father, who never appeared in any theatre in England, Mlle Mechel the Daughter; Minuet-Mechel the Son, Miss Polly Woffington, the first time of her appearing on the stage; IV: The Metamorphoses of the Windmills-Mechel, Mlle Mechel, Miss Woffington, Master Ferg, a little French Boy; lately come from France. End Afterpiece: A Wooden Shoe dance called Les Sabotiers de Piemont-Mechel Sr, Mechel Jr., Mlle Mechel, little French Boy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Dissertation On Various Theatrical Subjects On Theatres

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Entertainment: After: Lecture upon Heads-Shuter (as originally given at the Theatre in the Hay-Market by G. A. Stevens)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: II: The Drunken Peasant-Miles (Peasant), Bennet (Clown); IV: A Comic Dance-Master King, Miss Pitt; End: The Village Romps, as17651019; Between acts of Farce: A Double Hornpipe (for this Night Only)-Walker (From Drury Lane Theatre), Miss Pitt, his scholar

Entertainment: End: The Cries of London-Shuter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: SSerious Dance-; The Gallant Peasant, as17670904

Entertainment: By Desire, Occasional Prologue on opening the Theatre-Mr Foote; in which will be introduced Through the Wood Laddie-the real Blackamoor Lady (Neville)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Entertainment: End: Interlude taken from Foote's Comedy of Taste: Lady Pentweazle-The Young Gentleman (who performed it last year at Drury Lane Theatre)

Ballet: II: The Wapping Landlady. As17720424[Sixfold Hornpipe, as17720424

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Buona Figliuola

Dance: End of Act I Pastoral Dance, as17811128, to conclude with The Emperor's Cossac (composed for the Masqued Ball [held at this theatre, 24 Jan.] by Noverre) by Nivelon and Mlle Theodore; End of Act II Divertisement Dance, as17811117; End of Act III Les Petits Riens, as17811211

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Viaggiatori Felici

Dance: End of Act I Pastoral Dance [see17811117] by Henry, Bournonville, Raymond, with a Pas Seul by Mlle Simonet, and to conclude with the Dances introduced in the Masquerade [held at this theatre, 24 Jan.: The Prince of Wales's Minuet, The Emperor's Cossac, The Queen's Allemande, Quadrilles] (composed by Noverre) by Gardel and Mme Simonet, Nivelon, Mlle Theodore, Simonet, Sga Crespi, Slingsby, Mlle Baccelli; End of Act II Le Triomphe de 1'Amour Conjugal, as17820110

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Separate Maintenance

Afterpiece Title: GRETNA GREEN

Music: Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre

Song: As17830613

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Curioso Indiscreto

Dance: End of Act I an entirely new Divertissement (composed by Lepicq) by Nivelon, Mlle Dorival (from the Opera-House in Paris; their 1st appearance), Frederic, Mme Julien, Mlle Fusi, Mme Bithmer (their 1st appearance), Henry, Zuchelli, Sg and Sga Pitrot Angiolini (from the King's Theatre at Naples; their 1st appearance); End of Opera a new Grand Ballet (composed by Lepicq) Le Parti de Chasse d'Henry IV-King Henry rv-Angiolini; the other Characters by Lepicq, Mme Rossi, Frederic, Mlle Dorival, Zuchelli, Nivelon, Sga Pitrot Angiolini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Little Hunchback

Dance: End II: As17891013; End: The Guardian Outwitted (1st time at this theatre)-Byrne, Boyce, Ratchford, the two Miss Simonets. [This was 1st performed at the king's, 11 Jan. 1783, as Le Tuteur Trompe.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Wou'd Be A Soldier

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Song: End IV: The Group of Lovers; or, Beauty at her Levee (1st time at this theatre)-Munden; End: The Pleasures of the Chace-Incledon; after which Say Bonny Lass will you lie in a Garrat-, being a Parody on Say Bonny Lass, will you lie in a Barrack; Timothy Staytape-Munden; Miss Tippet-Mrs Martyr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fontainbleau

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Dance: End: The Drunken Swiss (1st time; composed by West)-West (1st appearance at this theatre), Mlle St.Amand (1st appearance these 2 years)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woodman

Afterpiece Title: The Frolics of an Hour

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Faustus

Song: In the course of the EveningOld Towler-Incledon

Entertainment: In the course of the Performances: Imitations of the principal Performers of both Theatres-Townsend

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahmoud

Afterpiece Title: A Dramatic Cento

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: End I: (by permission of the Proprietor of the king's Theatre) the new favorite Ballet, in the Scots' Stile, Little Peggy's Love- The Pantomime, Principal Steps by Didelot; the Principal Characters the Dancers of the Opera House: Didelot, Gentili, Ms Vidi, Ms Bossi, Ms Barre, Ms Parisot, Ms Hilligsberg, Ms Rose

Song: End 3rd piece: the Finale to The Iron Chest, Harmony Harmony- being the last Composition of Storace

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Performance Comment: See16820209, but Prologue To His Royal Highness Upon His first appearance at the Duke's Theatre since his Return from Scotland. Written by Mr Dryden-Mr Smith; The Epilogue Written by Mr Otway to his Play call'd Venice Preserv'd; or a Plot Discover'd; Spoken upon his Royal Highness the Duke of York's coming to the Theatre, Friday, April 21, 1682-. The Epilogue Written by Mr Otway to his Play call'd Venice Preserv'd; or a Plot Discover'd; Spoken upon his Royal Highness the Duke of York's coming to the Theatre, Friday, April 21, 1682-.
Event Comment: No Performance. Theatre clos'd for royal death of the Duke of Cumberland. Love for Love & The Royal Chace listed next day. [Opened again 11 Nov.]*c1765 11 01 cg No Performance. Theatre clos'd for royal death of the Duke of Cumberland. Love for Love & The Royal Chace listed next day. [Opened again 11 Nov.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: II: The Garland?-as17651003

Event Comment: UUniversal Spectator, 27 June: Thomas Odell, Esq. Master of the New Theatre in Goodman's Fields, hath been at Windsor to obtain Leave to bring his Company of Comedians down thither to perform Plays during the Court's Stay at Windsor; and we hear that he hath succeeded therein

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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Schoole Of Complements

Performance Comment: [Love Tricks, by James Shirley.] Edition of 1667: The Prologue-; [No actors' names. Epilogue-. [As it is now Acted by His Royal Highnesse the Duke of York's Servants at the Theatre in Little Lincolns Inn Fields.As it is now Acted by His Royal Highnesse the Duke of York's Servants at the Theatre in Little Lincolns Inn Fields.
Event Comment: It is possible that The Tempest had been acted regularly to this date and that it continued to be presented frequently in the following week. In L. C. 5@15, p. 3 (Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 356) there is an order directing Turner and Hart (and any other members of the His Majesty's Chapel Royal) who sing in The Tempest to remain in London during the week, going to Windsor (when the King was absent from Whitehall) on Saturdays and returning on Mondays

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