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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(perftitleclean,performancetitle) "The Universal Prayer"/1)') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=150, performancetitle=100), ranker=wordcount

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Mainpiece Title: Jupiter And Juno

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Happy; or, Jack Spaniard Bit

Entertainment: GGrand Scaramouch Dance-Phillips, others, as he performed it at the Opera House in Paris, upwards of Forty Nights successively, with universal Applause; Scotch Dialogue-Parry, Mrs Phillips; A new Song-Parry in Praise of Admiral Vernon; Sailor Dance-Phillips; A Grand Dance call'd Vertumnus-Phillips

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Mainpiece Title: The Universal Passion

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Song: The Favourite Airs out of L'Allegro il Penseroso by Handel-Miss Edwards; I: Miss Edwards; IV: Miss Edwards

Dance: II: L'Arlequine deux visages-Mlle Chateauneuf; III: La Tambourine Matelote-Maltere, Mlle Maltere; V: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

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Mainpiece Title: The Universal Passion

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: L'Arlequine deux visages-Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Desse; V: Les Matelotes-Maltere, Mlle Maltere

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Mainpiece Title: Humours Of Covent Garden; Or, The Covent Garden Tragedy

Afterpiece Title: The Universal Monarch Defeated; or, The Queen of Hungary Triumphant

Entertainment: While the booth is filling, the Audience will be diverted by Curious Performances-Ruffian Boy

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Mainpiece Title: Jeptha's Rash Vow; Or, The Virgin Sacrific'd

Music: The Original Musick- as performed by Mrs Lee, with universal applause, about 15 years since

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Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: I: A New Comic Dance, call'd The Cumberland Corn@thrashers-Mas. Blurton (Apprentice to Fishar), Miss Mathews; II: (By Particular Desire) a Minuet-Fishar, Sga Manesiere; III: A Hornpipe, first time-Miller (Scholar to Fishar)

Monologue: IV: a New Grand Ballet (that night only) called The Festival of the Black Prince(As performed at Paris by Fishar with universal applause). Black Prince-Fishar; Favourites-Sga Manesiere, Miss Twist; Pages-Mas. Blurton, Miller; Dancers and Attendants-Hussey, Petrie, Dumay, Settree, King, Merrifield, Curtat, Holloway, Miss Capon, Mrs Willems, Miss Stede, Mrs Inuill, Miss Matthews, Miss Bassan, Sodi, Mrs Holloway. With dresses in the mode

Ballet: V: First time this season The Wapping Landlady. Jack-Fishar; Landlady-Banks; Nosegay Woman-Sga Manesiere; with a New Hornpipe-Fishar, Mas. Blurton, Sga Manesiere, Miss Twist, Miss Capon, Miss Besford (Six principal dancers)

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Mainpiece Title: L'olimpiade

Dance: End I: Admete-as17890402; in the course of which the celebrated Minuet of Iphigenia (performed with universal applause in Paris)-Mlle Guimard (1st appearance), Didelot; a new Pas de Deux Anacreontique (composed by Noverre)-Mlle Guimard, Didelot; End Opera: a new Pantomine Ballet, composed by Noverre, the music by Federici, Annette et Lubin-Mlle Guimard, Nivelon, Didelot, Mlle Emilie Colombe, Beaupre, Mlle Saulnier and see17890609

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Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Netley Abbey

Dance: In I: Grand Masquerade-; with the Minuet de la Cour and Allemande, as17950921

Song: End IV: Elegy-; Solemn Dirge-; Vocal Parts, as17950921, but Miss _Stuart, Miss _Kirton; After entertainment: Black@ey'd Susan-Incledon; My Mother had a Maid called Barbara, as17960314but _Bowden; Old Towler-Incledon

Entertainment: End: Monsieur Tonson, as17960426; After which Recitation and Music, as performed last Season with universal Applause at Freemason's Hall, in which Errors of the Press-Holman; Dryden's Ode of Alexander's Feast-Middleton; The Story of the Dog (written by Whitehead)-Pope