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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: Love Makes A Man

Song: Leveridge

Dance: Dupre, Nivelons, Glover, Pelling, Lanyon, Newhouse, Mrs Rogeir, Mrs Cross, Mrs Wall, Mrs Ogden; particularly Flag Dance-Nivelon Sr; French Peasant-Nivelon Jr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Invisible in the Emperor of China's Court

Dance: Flag Dance-Nivelon Sr; Two Pierrots-Nivelons; Myrtillo-Dupre, Nivelon, Glover, Mrs Rogeir, Mrs Wall, Mrs Ogden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Dance: French Peasant, Running Footman-Nivelon Sr, Mrs Rogeir; Myrtillo-

Ballet: The Humours of Bedlam. As17231127, but Mad Soldier-Dupre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus, King Of Thebes

Dance: End I: Shepherd and Shepherdess-Glover, Mrs Wall; II: Tollet's Grounds-Newhouse, Mrs Rogier; III: Flag Dance-Nivelon Sr; IV: Myrtillo-Dupre, Glover, Lanyon, Mrs Rogeir, Mrs Wall, Mrs Ogden

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Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Dance: Dupre, Nivelons, Glover, Newhouse, Pelling, Lanyon, Mrs Rogeir, Mrs Wall, Mrs Ogden; particularly Flag Dance-Nivelon Sr; Running Footman's Dance-Nivelon, Mrs Roger; Stripping Dance-Newhouse, Mrs Rogier

Song: Mrs Chambers; In Praise of Love and Wine-Leveridge, Legare

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Of A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler of Preston

Dance: Saraband-Dupre, Mrs Wall; French Peasant-Nivelon Sr; Swedish Dale Karle-Lanyon, Mrs Ogden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan; Or, The Unhappy Marriage

Dance: As17280328 Spanish Entry-Miss Robinson Sr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Dance: Lally, Essex, Rainton, Mrs Booth, Mrs Brett, Miss Robinson Sr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Dance: End I: Harlequins-Young Master Lally, Miss Brett; In Masquerade Scene: Polonese-Rainton, Miss Robinson Sr; V: Coquette Shepherdess-Lally, Mrs Booth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Music: Between Acts: Select Pieces-

Dance: End I: La Jeunesse-Rainton, Miss Robinson Sr; II: A new Dance-Miss Robinson Jr, a Scholar of Essex; III: A new Dance of Ethiopians-Essex, Lally, Haughton, Rainton, Burney; IV: Sultana-Miss Robinson Jr; V: Hussars-Essex, Mrs Booth

Performances

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

Dance: End I: Pastoral Dance-Young Master Lally, Miss Brett; II: Comic Dance-Young Rainton, Miss Robinson Sr; III: Turks Dance-Thurmond, others; IV: Miss Brett; V: Fawns-Lally, Essex; Drunken Man-Harper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Dance: Roger, Mrs Booth, Miss Robinson Sr, Miss Robinson Jr; particularly The Pieraite-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Dance: Roger, Lally, Essex, Boval, Rainton, Mrs Brett, Mrs Mills, Miss Robinson Sr; particularly Fawns-; Pieraite-

Performances

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

Dance: End I: Harlequin Dance-Young Master Lally, Miss Brett; II: Miss Brett; Comic Dance-Rainton, Miss Robinson Sr; III: Turks Dance-Thurmond; IV: Rainton, Miss Robinson; Miss Brett; V: Pieraite-Roger, Mrs Brett; Drunken Man-Harper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift; Or, The Fool In Fashion

Dance: Essex, Boval, Lally, Rainton, Miss Robinson Sr, Miss Robinson Jr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Dance: Lally, Essex, Miss Robinson Sr, Miss Robinson Jr, Master Lally, Miss Brett

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Dance: Essex, Miss Robinson Sr, Miss Robinson Jr, Young Lally, Miss Brett

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

Afterpiece Title: The Lover's Opera

Dance: End II: Grand Moorish Dance-Essex, others; IV: Spanish Entry-Lally, others; V: Sultana-Miss Robinson Jr; End Afterpiece: Village Dance-Thurmond, Houghton, Rainton, Burney, Mrs Mills, Miss Robinson Sr, Mrs Walter, Miss Price

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Bethulia; Containing The Ancient History Of Judith And Holofernes; Together With The Comical Humours Of Rustego And His Man Terrible

Song: Mrs Fitzgerald Sr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Bethulia

Song: Singing in Italian-Mrs Fitzgerald Sr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; Vocal Parts-Leveridge, Legar, Rochetti, Salway, Papillion, Thompson, Mrs Wright, Mrs Sanderson

Dance: Poitier, Nivelon, Dupre Sr, Pelling, Newhouse, LeSac, Dupre Jr, Delagarde Jr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dione

Afterpiece Title: Love Runs All Dangers

Dance: Between the Acts: Dancing-Jones Sr, Jones Jr; Concluding With a Grand Dance-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: [The Mock Doctor

Dance: [Denoyer, Mrs Booth, Essex, Lally Sr, Haughton, Miss Robinson, Mrs Walter, Miss Mears, Lally Jr, Tench, Davenport, Miss Mann, Miss Price, Mrs D'Lorme

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: HHornpipe-Jones; Dutch Skippers-Jones Sr, Jones Jr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Afterpiece Title: Love Runs All Dangers

Dance: End Second Piece: Hornpipe-Jones; End Third Piece: Dutch Skippers-Jones Sr, Jones Jr

Music: End Third Piece: Mr Handel's Water Musick-; Accompany'd by Kettle Drums and Trumpets-