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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "W Purser"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "W Purser")') 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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1534 results for: Keyword - W. Purser
We found 1293 matches on Performance Comments, 268 matches on Event Comments, 32 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

26
12 May 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Dance: II: A Hornpipe-Wright

27
19 May 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Dance: III: The Wake, as17690518

28
18 May 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Song: End: A Hunting Song-Kear

Ballet: IV: The May Day Garland. As17700517

29
20 May 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: III: The Shepherds Frolic, as17710406 End: The Sailors Revels-Atkins

30
29 September 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

31
06 May 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Gazette Extraordinary

Afterpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Dance: 3rd piece: Dancing-Dagueville, Langrish, Miss Besford, Miss Matthews

Entertainment: [Vaudeville.]3rd piece: a Leap through a Cask on Fire-

32
26 May 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Dance: As17800414

33
11 May 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17820401, but omitted: Holloway

Song: End of Act IV of mainpiece Tally ho, as17820427

34
29 May 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beaux Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle

Dance: As17811219

35
22 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Afterpiece Title: Seeing is Believing: A Dramatic Proverb

Dance: As17830610

36
20 December 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Picture of Paris, Taken in the Year 1790

37
20 December 1793 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Picture of Paris, Taken in the Year 1790

38
09 November 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Captive; or, The Magick Fire

39
18 November 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: W Wooden Shoe-Mechel; Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Drunken Peasant-Phillips

40
05 October 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

41
23 May 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Song: End of Act iv of mainpiece Tally Ho!, as17830516

42
03 November 1792 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge; or, The Skirts of the Camp

43
04 May 1665 @ no theater listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow

44
09 November 1795 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speculation

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day; or, A Flight from Lapland

Dance: I afterpiece: The Long Minuet- taken from the Caricature Print of that title [The Long Minuet as Danced at Bath, by H. W. Bunbury; see17951116]

45
10 May 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Charles The First

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Song: I: Dialogue (composed by Purcell)-the Masters Hamilton; III: A Song of Lord Flame's out of the Opera of All Alive and Merry-Master W. Hamilton

Dance: II: Tambourine-Mlle Roland; V: A new Serious Dance-Mlle Roland

46
31 May 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mysterious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle, As17820930, but Jeremy-W

Dance: As17821231

47
08 March 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prodigal Son

Music: End of Part I concerto on the hautboy by W. Parke

48
02 May 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: End of mainpiece The Drunken Sailor Reclaimed, as17860304athi

Song: In Act I of mainpiece an obligato song for the oboe (composed by Shield and accompanied by W. Parke); In Act III a favourite song (composed by Sard), both by Mrs Billington

49
31 March 1787 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Song: In afterpiece: Sweet Echo-Mrs Billington; accompanied on the hautboy-W. Parke

50
28 January 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: End II: Leap Year-Byrne, Mrs Goodwin

Song: In afterpiece: (for that Night only) Sweet Bird-, from L'Allegro il Penseroso by Handel Mrs Billington; accompanied on the flute-W. Parke