SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(perftitleclean,performancetitle) "by Dby Desire The Necromancer"/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: The Beggar's Opera

Dance: HHornpipe (by Desire)-Jones

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Dance: TThe Pastorella, as17320228

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Dance: I: Pastoral-Vallois, lately arrived from the Opera at Paris, the first Time of his dancing in England; a Scholar to M Marcelle; II: Wooden Shoe Dance-Poitier; Serious Dance-Poitier, Mrs Laguerre; III: Sicilian Dance-Glover, Mrs Pelling; (at Desire) Two Pierrots-Poitier, Pelling; IV: Highlander and his Mistress-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; V: A new Peasant Dance-Poitier, Mrs Laguerre

Music: Grand Concert of Water Musick by Mr Randal [Handel?]-; [in which Poitier will beat the Kettle@Drums-Poitier

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Music: Between the Acts: Select Pieces-

Song: II: Dialogue-Leveridge, Mrs Wright in the Northern Stile

Dance: I: Scots Dance-Mrs Bullock; II: Pastoral Dance-Master Weeks, Miss Rogers; III: French Peasant-Poitier; IV: Hornpipe, with Additions,-Jones, Mrs Ogden, in the Footing Manner; V: By Desire, Drunken Man-Mr Hippisley performed instead of Hob's Wedding; Tambourine-Miss Rogers

Ballet: GGrand Comic Dance. Harlequin-Dupre; Woman-Mrs Pelling; Punch-Pelling; Dame Ragonde-Miss LaTour; Pierot-Legare; Woman-Mrs Bullock; Scaramouch-Dupre Jr; Woman-Mrs Ogden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fond Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Husband Outwitted

Entertainment: Several new and surprizing Performances, never perform'd by any one besides herself, on the Strait Rope [the famous-Signora Violante [[1] She Dances a Minuet as Neatly as a Dancing Master on a Floor. [2] She Dances with a Board, ten Foot in length, loose upon the Rope. [3] She Dances with two Boys fastned to her feet; which Occasions great Mirth. [4] She Dances with two heavy Men ty'd to her Feet. [5] She Performs the Exercise of the Colours. After this surprising Performance, Miss Violante will Dance a Louvre in Boys Cloaths

Dance: t the Desire of several Gentlemen and Ladies, the White Joke-will be danced by an Old Woman, with Pierrot in the Basket; Pierrot-Lalauze; Old Woman-Tobin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer; or Harlequin Dr Faustus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not; Or, The Kind Impostor

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fond Husband; Or, The Plotting Sisters

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Dance: I: new Scottish Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre, Dupre, Mrs Pelling, Legarde, Mrs Ogden; II: Two Pierrots-Poitier, Nivelon; III: new Comic Dance-Nivelon, Pelling, Newhouse, Legarde, Lesac, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs Pelling, Miss Latour, Mrs Ogden, Miss Baston; V: The Judgment of Paris-Poitier, Glover, Pelling, Newhouse, Lesac, Legarde, Mrs Laguerre, Miss Latour, Miss Rogers

Music: IV: (at the Desire of several Persons of Quality) Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Poitier

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant; Or, Beggar's Bush

Afterpiece Title: A Journey to Bristol; or, The Honest Welshman

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Nivelon, Pelling; Scottish Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre, DuPre, Mrs Pelling, Delagarde, Mrs Ogden; (by Desire) Hippisley's Medley; or, Drunken Man-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: Comic Dance, as17330416 IV: Scottish Dance, as17330329 Hippisley's Medley; or, Drunken Man (By Desire)-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Le Menuet & La Marie-D'Vallois, Mrs Bullock, being particularly desired; II: La Payzane Mantaignez (new)-D'Vallois, D'Blainville, Pollet in Wooden Shoes; III: Two Pierrots-D'Vallois, Delagarde; IV: English Peasant-D'Vallois, Madam D'Vallois

Ballet: V: La Provansalle (newly composed by D'Vallois). Two Provansals-D'Vallois, Mrs Bullock; Other parts-Holt, Mrs D'Vallois, J. Delagarde, Miss Wherrit, Sandham, Mrs Haughton, Evans, Miss Sandham

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: GGrand Dance of Fawns-Glover, Miss Rogers, Pelling, Delagarde, Newhouse, Mrs Pelling, Miss Latour, Mrs Ogden; Tambourine-Miss Rogers; French Clown-Nivelon; Ball Dance call'd The Louvre (concluding with Minuet (By Desire)-Glover, Mrs Laguerre; Scottish Dance, as17330329

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Opera Of Operas

Entertainment: TThe Crowing of the Cock-a Gentleman for his Diversion

Dance: new dance (by Dew dance (by Desire)-Jones to the 5th Concerto of Vivaldi, which he accompanies himself upon the Violin, the first time of his performing it in public

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

Music: By Desire of several Persons of Quality, the 5th of Vivaldi's Concertos and the 7th of Corelli's Solos on the Welsh Harp by Mr Petry, from Wales

Dance: A new Scotch Sword Dance by Baker in a Highland Character. Drunken Peasant by Le Brun

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer; or, Harlequin Dr Faustus: In it Bacchus and Ariadne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer