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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "his Mae Author The Spartan Dame"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "his Mae Author The Spartan Dame")') 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 1929 matches on Event Comments, 356 matches on Performance Title, 264 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: By particular Desire, Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the Toy Shop

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Music: III: As17390117

Dance: V: Grand Dance of Moors, as17390117

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Egmont, Diary, III, 23: In the evening I went to...Mustapha...the language of it is lofty but not bombast, the sentiments fine and justly expressed, the characters kept up to, and the principles of honour and virtue inculcated; in a word, to one of our best modern tragedies

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mustapha

Event Comment: Benefit the Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mustapha

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mustapha

Event Comment: Benefit Delane. Afterpiece: Written by Mr Gay, Author of the Beggar's Opera. [Tickets at Delane's Lodgings, the Golden Ball in Exeter-Court, the Strand.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Dance: II: Comic Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; V: Grand Ballet-Glover, Mlle Roland

Event Comment: A new Tragedy. [By Anthony Brown.] A Compleat List (1747), pp. 182-83: With no Success, which the Friends of the Author imputed in a great Measure to Mr Quin's refusing to act a Part in it; whereupon, to shew their Resentment, he did not appear on the Stage for some Nights without being hissed or houted at

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Retirement

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A new Pantomime Entertainment. [Author not known. Apparently not published.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Woodward; Queen of Gipsies-Miss Jones; Gipsies-Leigh, Green, Vaughan, Gray, Mrs Davenport, Mrs Vallois, Miss Woodman, Miss Story; Young Rustick-Liviez; Colombine-Mrs Walter; Colombine's Father-Pelling; Mittimus-Usher; Goaler-Reed; Mother-Yates; Maid-Mrs Woodward; Magician-Rheinhold; Pierrot-Lalauze.
Cast
Role: Colombine's Father Actor: Pelling
Role: Mother Actor: Yates

Ballet: with a Gwith a Grand Entertainment of Dancing call'd A Voyage to the Land of Cytherea. Adonis-Denoyer; Venus-Mlle Chateauneuf; Pilgrims-Liviez, Baudouin, Rector, Cook, Mrs Walter, Mrs Chetwood, Mrs Wright, Mrs Woodward; Cupid-Muilment

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Lillo, Author of George Barnwell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elmerick

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Lillo, Author of George Barnwell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elmerick

Event Comment: Benefit Ryan. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: A Piece of Musick, with several Additions by the Author. [By Henry Carey. First given on 1 Dec. 1739 as entr'acte piece. Tickets at Ryan's House, the 3d House in Great Queen Street from Drury Lane.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Parting Lovers

Performance Comment: Nancy's Father-Leveridge; Tom Trueblue-Salway; Dreadnaught-Laguerre; Coxen-Ladd; Nancy-Mrs Lampe.
Cast
Role: Nancy's Father Actor: Leveridge

Dance: I: French Peasant-French Boy and Girl; III: Miller and His Wife-French Boy and Girl; IV: Scots Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland

Song: II: Leveridge, Salway

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. 5s. To begin at six and end at eight

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosalinda

Afterpiece Title: David's Lamentation over Saul and Jonathan

Music: Violin-Festing?; Violoncello-Caporale?; Several Concertos-

Event Comment: Benefit Macklin. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of Pasquin. [Tickets at Macklin's House, No. 12, in Wild Court.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Performance Comment: See17390915, but Miser-Macklin; Lappet-Mrs Clive (with The Life of a Beau); Clerimont-Mills; Frederick-Havard; Harriet-Mrs Butler; Mariana-Mrs Mills.

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great

Dance: I: Le Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; II: Muilment; IV: Ballet-Desnoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf; with music by Martini-; V: Pierrots-Lalauze, Livier

Song: English Captain (as17400325-Beard

Event Comment: Benefit Peirson, Treasurer. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: A Farce. [Author not known. Tickets at Peirson's, the Green Door in Great Queen Street.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Vintner in the Suds

Dance: I: Minuet, Louvre-Desnoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf; II: A new dance-Muilment; III: Russian Sailor-Desnoyer; V: Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

Song: IV: Black@ey'd Susan, disposed into a Cantata, with Recitatives and Airs adapted to the different Expressions in that celebrated Ballad, the Musick New by Mr Arne-Beard, Mrs Arne; V: English Captain (as17400325-Beard; End Afterpiece: The Eccho Song (Comus)-Mrs Arne

Event Comment: Benefit Salway. For the Entertainment of the Grand Master and the Rest of the Brethren of the Ancient and Honourable Society of Free and Accepted Masons. Afterpiece: With several Additions by the Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-Salway; Polly-Mrs Vincent; Lucy-Mrs James; Peachum-Hippisley; Lockit-Mullart; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Mullart; Player-Anderson; Beggar-Gibson; Filch-Clarke; Mat-Stoppelaer; Mrs Coaxer-Miss Horsington; Jenny-Mrs Mullart; Sukey-Mrs Cross; Mrs Slammekin-Mrs Kilby; With a Prologue proper to the Occasion-Hallam; Epilogue-Mrs Horton.

Afterpiece Title: The Parting Lovers

Cast
Role: Nancy's Father Actor: Leveridge

Dance: I: Peasants-French Boy and Girl; II: Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; End Afterpiece: Grand Ballet-Glover, Mlle Roland

Song: The Songs in Masonry as usual-

Event Comment: Benefit Chetwood and Mrs Chetwood. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of Pasquin. There will be no Building on the Stage. [Tickets at Chetwood's, No. 11, Wild Court, Wild Street.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Cast
Role: Queen Katherine Actor: Mrs Roberts

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies

Song: I: Mary Scot-Mrs Clive

Dance: II: Muilment; IV: Russian Sailor-Desnoyer; V: Les Characteres de la Dance-Mlle Chateauneuf; Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg

Event Comment: Benefit Havard, the Author. Mainpiece: Written in Imitation of Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Historical Play [king Charles I]

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: II: Le Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Muilment; IV: Pierots-Lalauze, Livier; D: Muilment

Song: I: The Noon Tide Air (Comus)-Miss Edwards

Event Comment: Benefit Penkethman. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of Pasquin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies

Dance: I: Two Pierots-Lalauze, Liviez; II: L'Allemande-Mlle Chateauneuf alone; III: Punch-Master Ferg

Event Comment: Benefit Stede, Guise, and Evans (Boxkeeper). Afterpiece: With several Additions by the Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Afterpiece Title: The Parting Lovers

Cast
Role: Nancy's Father Actor: Leveridge

Dance: SSwiss Dance-the French Boy and Girl; Grand Ballet-Glover, Mlle Roland

Event Comment: Benefit Bradshaw (Boxkeeper), Hobson (House Keeper and Stage Doorkeeper). Afterpiece: Written by the Author of Pasquin. [Tickets for Rumball taken.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies

Dance: I: Pierots-Lalauze, Liviez; II: Muilment; III: Le Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: Hornpipe-Yates; V: French Peasants-Leviez, Mrs Walter; End Afterpiece: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg

Song: II: The Noon Tide Air-Miss Edwards

Event Comment: Benefit Taswell, Paget, Miss Karver. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of Pasquin. [Tickets for Mrs Marshall, Mrs Moore, Miss Tenoe also taken.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Performance Comment: As17391009, but Gomez-Julian, from the Theatre at Edinburgh, the first time of his appearance on this stage; Fryar-Paget, who has not appeared on this stage these seven years.

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies

Dance: I: Pierots-Lalauze, Leviez; II: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg; V: Muilment

Song: V: Miss Karver

Event Comment: Benefit Bowcher and Giles. Afterpiece: With several Additions by the Author. [Tickets for Holland also taken.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Parting Lovers

Cast
Role: Nancy's Father Actor: Leveridge

Dance: I: Grand Ballet-Desse,Miss Oates; III: A Comic Dance-Richardson, Mrs LeBrun; V: Grand Ballet-Glover, Mlle Roland

Event Comment: Benefit the Author of Sir Roger DeCoverley [Joseph Dorman]. Receipts: money #38 8s. 6d.; tickets #120 3s. (Account Book); #170 (Rylands MS.). [On 19 Nov. Dorman paid the Treasurer #15.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performance Comment: As17401008, but Charlotte-Mrs Hale; Dorcas-Mrs Dodson, the first time of her appearing upon any stage.

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

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. Daily Advertiser, 22 Dec.: On Saturday last was performed...As you like it; the extraordinary Applause it met with, is a strong Proof of the Merit of that immortal Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: As17401220, but The Songs new Set by Mr Arne-.

Dance: I: Les Jardiniers Suedois-Fausan, Signora Fausan; III: L'Allamande-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Mr Lillo, Author of George Barnwell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Curiosity

Related Works
Related Work: Fatal Curiosity Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist; or, The Sham Doctor

Dance: Shawford, Mrs Bullock

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Roland and Mrs Vincent. Mainpiece: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh. Afterpiece: A New Farce, interspersed With Songs. [Author not known. Apparently not published.] Receipts: money #28 10s.; seals #85 5s. (Account Book); #120 Rylands MS.: The Whim Damn'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Performance Comment: Sir John-Bridgwater; Constant-Hale; Heartfree-Ryan; Lady Fanciful-Mrs Bellamy; Lady Brute-Mrs Horton; Belinda-Mrs Vincent; Mademoiselle-Mlle Roland, the first time of her speaking on the English stage.

Afterpiece Title: The Whim; or, The Merry Cheat

Song: Leveridge, Salway

Dance: Glover, Mlle Roland, Mechel