SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "William Congreve"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "William Congreve")') 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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Event Comment: [Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Appleby, Bennett, Butler, Calkin, Dale Jun., Fosbrook, Gooding, Henderson, Humphries, Jacobs, Marks, Powell, Perry, Gaudry, Phillimore, Ryder, Scott, Tice, Williams, Wooldridge will be admitted.] Receipts: #58 10s. 6d. (28.15.6; 18.2.6; 0.0.0; odd money: 11.12.6; tickets: none listed)

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Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: As17980920

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by Henry James Pye. Prologue by William Sotheby; Epilogue by John Taylor (see text)]: With new Dresses and Decorations. "From the first drawing up of the curtain, till its final fall, we could not discover one single flight of fancy, one solitary scene of woe...It is but justice to add that for a first night the performers, with the exception of Barrymore, were very perfect in their respective parts [and see 27 Jan.]" (Dramatic Censor, I, 175, 181). Receipts: #309 13s. (246.4.6; 61.0.6; 2.8.0)

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Mainpiece Title: Adelaide

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Event Comment: Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Appleby, Briggs, Benson, Byrne, Bynam, Dale, Doyle, Edmonds, Faux, Garbutt, Gregson, Gauron, Henderson, Kent, Powell, Perry, Rhodes, Ross, Robson, Robinson, Smith, Sherwood, Stevens, Townsend, Williams, Whitmell, Wyler will be admitted. Receipts: #49 7s. (25.17; 20.3; 3.7; tickets: none listed)

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Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Afterpiece Title: Of Age To-morrow

Ballet: End: The Scotch Ghost. As18000612