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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Topham Sr"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Topham Sr")') 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 513 matches on Performance Comments, 222 matches on Performance Title, 218 matches on Author, 100 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: The Worm Doctor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: FFrench Peasant-Lalauze, as17361109; Glover's Scot's Dance-; A new Comic Dance-Nivelon, Lalauze, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs LeBrun

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Eunuch; or, The Darby Captain

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Afterpiece Title: Robin Goodfellow

Dance: As17381124

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: Muilment

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

Dance: Muilment

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: III: Grand Ballet, as17390313 V: Turkish Dance-Muilment

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband; Or, The Accomplish'd Fools

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Dance: III: Pierots-Pelling, Liviez; IV: Scotch Dance-Master Mathews, Miss Wright

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: Robin Goodfellow

Dance: I: Le Gout Anglois-Master Matthews, Miss Wright; IV: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Dance: I: Je ne scay quoy-Villeneuve, Richardson, Miss Oates; II: Grand Ballet-the Elder Mlle Roland; III: Grecian Sailors-Glover; IV: Le Badinage de Provence-Poitier, the Elder Mlle Roland; V: Grand Ballet-Glover, the Younger Mlle Roland

Song: TThe Parting Lovers (a Sea Lieutenant, a Sailor, and His Mistress)-Laguerre, Salway, Mrs Lampe [by Henry Carey]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess; Or, The Generous Portuguese

Afterpiece Title: Cupid and Bacchus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Chymical Counterfeits

Dance: CComic Dance-Davenport; A new dance-Master Matthews

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Dance: Mechel, Mlle Mechel

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: M. Fourner; who never appear'd there. Les Muniers Amoureux de la Coquette-two Masters and Miss Granier, being their first time on that stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Song: I: Bright Author of my Present Flame-Lowe; IV: Non Ch'amarmi a Song of Farinelli's-Mrs Arne

Dance: II: A Pierrot Dance, as17411114; III: The Drunken Peasant, as17411029; V: A Musette, as17411114

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All's Well That Ends Well

Afterpiece Title: Bickerstaff's Unburied Dead

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Song: Brett

Dance: As17451028

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal; Or, The Humours Of The Navy

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Song: Brett

Dance: As17460101

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Dance: As17461027

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband; Or, The Accomplished Fools

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: Between the acts: Country Amusements, as17501102; Pigmalion, as17501102; Comic Dance, as17501117