SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Widow of Mr Walter Aston"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Widow of Mr Walter Aston")') 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 4508 matches on Event Comments, 2221 matches on Performance Comments, 1432 matches on Performance Title, 103 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Man of Quality

Dance: IV: The Irish Fair, as17751003

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Dance: I: The Sailors Revels, as17751220

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Spleen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: I: The Gardeners, as17760116

Event Comment: Ladies send servants by 5 to keep Places and prevent Confusion. Doors will be opened at half after five o'clock. To begin at half after 6 o'clock (playbill). Mr G. Voice and Spirits was never finer he never wanted Spirit or Voice thro' the whole part and Convinced the Audience that those Amazing powers he has always possess'd are now as brilliant as ever. Never was a part play'd with greater Propriety nor an Audience more lavish of their Applause (Hopkins Diary). [MacMillan's note from Kemble differs slightly.] [A full column letter for the Morning Chronicle this date from Theatricus to Garrick protested the fact that his announced benefit for the Theatrical Fund on the 30th of May would be all sold out to the highest bidders for tickets; that a nobleman offering ten Guineas for four box seats would get them in preference to the tradesmen who offered only a pound, the stated price of the tickets. Since charity was the cause this writer suggested that Garrick give a second benefit night to the Fund, with the hopes (1) that the Fund would be thereby vastly increased, and (2) that opportunity might be given for twice as many People to see a Garrick final performance. It was, perhaps, in response to this public request that Garrick gave a second Benefit night for the Fund on 10 June. The Morning Post, 29 May, noted: "The concourse of servants assembled yesterday morning at seven o'clock, at Drury Lane Stage Door, to take places for the approaching benefit, in which it is said Mr Garrick will again play Richard III , was astonishing, amounting to many hundreds, three fourths of which were not able to Succeed in their embassies' (Hampden, Journal).] Receipts: #307 3s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist; or, The Sham Doctor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Afterpiece Title: The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great

Entertainment: Monologues.Preceding: Prologue to Barbarossa in the character of a Country Boy, containing an account of his Journey to London, his different Services there, first in the City, next with a Lord, then with a Lady, and last of all with a starved Poet-Master Russell; End I: a Scene from Lethe: Fine Gentleman-Master Russell; End II: an Harangue in a Tubafter the manner of the celebrated George Alexander Stevens-Master Russell; End: The Drunken Buck-Raymond

Performances

Mainpiece Title: New Brooms

Afterpiece Title: Braganza

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: As17761015

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: A ChristmasTale

Song: II: Mrs Scott

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A-la-mode

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Dance: As17770215

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Milesian

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Experiment

Dance: End: Hunting Dance, as17770218; End I afterpiece: The Villagers, as17770122

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Runaway

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: As17761128

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Dance: End: All in the Downs, as17770425

Song: As17770505

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Word To The Wise

Afterpiece Title: True-Blue

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: End III: As17761123; In interlude: Langrish

Song: End I: a favourite air (composed by Dr Arne)-Mrs Farrell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: End I: The Corn Thrashers, as17770419; End II: a Hornpipe-Master Staples (scholar of Blurton)

Ballet: End: The Wapping Landlady. Jack in Distress-Blurton; Wapping Landlady-Mr Griffiths; Orange Woman-Mrs Sutton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: End: The Merry Lasses, as17770611

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Dance: As17770707

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of Bath

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: End: The Venetian Regatta, as17770611

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distress'd Mother

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Minor