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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(perftitleclean,performancetitle) "WAYS AND MEANS"/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: Blue Devils

Afterpiece Title: Ways and Means

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Ways and Means

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ways And Means

Afterpiece Title: Obi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Count; Or, A New Way To Play An Old Game

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant; Or, The Way To Win Him

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Song: Several new Songs-Mrs Hodgson; A New Song by way of Ballad, call'd The Misses' Lamentation for want of their Vizard Masks in the Play/house-Mr Boman

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Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Dance: As17051212

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Debauchee; Or, A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Dance: As17150512

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bonduca

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances; or, More Ways Than One

Music: Mainpiece: by Henry Purcell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Count; Or, A New Way To Play An Old Game

Song: A Dialogue-Pack, Cook

Dance: Dutch Skipper-Thurmond Jr, Mrs Cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Count; Or, A New Way To Play An Old Game

Dance: Thurmond Jr, Shaw

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances; or, More Ways Than One

Song: Turner, Mrs Bowman

Dance: As17151122

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant; Or, The Way To Win Him

Song: A Dialogue between-Cook, a Gentlewoman, who never appear'd on any Stage before

Dance: Thurmond Jr, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Schoolding, Miss Smith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Dance: Shaw, Wade, Topham, Mrs Santlow, Mrs Bicknell, Miss Younger

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Dance: Shaw, Topham, Mrs Santlow, Mrs Bicknell, Miss Lindar