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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(perftitleclean,performancetitle) "Amusement"/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 Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: Comic Dance, call'dCountry Amusements-M Devisse, his 1st appearance in England, Mad Auretti; a Grand Dance call'd Pigmalion-Devisse, Mad Auretti

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: CCountry Amusements, as17501102; Pigmalion, as17501102

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: CCountry Amusements, as17501102; Pigmalion, as17501102

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: CCountry Amusements, as17501102; Pigmalion, as17501102

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Afterpiece Title: The Secular Masque

Dance: CCountry Amusements, as17501102; Pigmalion, as17501102

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Secular Masque

Dance: II: Country Amusements, as17501102

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: II: Country Amusements-; V: Pigmalion, as17501102; III: Running Footman's Dance, as17501020

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: II: Country Amusements, as17501102; End: Running Footman's Dance, as17501020

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: II: Country Amusements-; V: Pigmalion, as17501102; III: Comic Dance-Mathews, Mad Camargo, the Little Swiss

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: II: Country Amusements-; III: Comic Dance, as17501117; V: Pigmalion, as17501102

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband; Or, The Accomplished Fools

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: Between the acts: Country Amusements, as17501102; Pigmalion, as17501102; Comic Dance, as17501117

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: II, V: Country Amusements, as17501102; Pigmalion, as17501102; IV: Comic Dance, as17501117

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: III: Country Amusements-; V: Pigmalion, as17501102

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: IV: Country Amusements-Devisse, Mlle Auretti; End: A Hornpipe-Mathews, the Little Swiss

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: IV: Le Matelot Basque, as17521005; V: Country Amusements, as17530412

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple; Or, A Trip To The Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Inchanted

Dance: III: Country Amusements, as17530412

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: III: Dutch Dance, as17521125; V: Country Amusements, as17530412

Song: I: A Cantata-Beard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Shepherd's Lottery

Dance: CCountry Amusements, as17530412

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: An Alteration of Scapin

Dance: II: A Dutch Dance, as17521125; IV: Le Matelot Basque, as17521005; V: Country Amusements, as17530412

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Scapin

Dance: CCountry Amusements-. See17530412

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: IV: The Country Amusements-Devisse, Mlle Auretti

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: I: The Gipsey Tambourine- see17531012; II: The Country Amusements, as17540416 III: A Hornpipe-Granier, Harrison, Morris; IV: A Serious Dance-Devisse

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Grumbler

Song: II: A New Ballad-Beard; IV: A New Song call'd The Return-Vernon

Dance: III: Country Amusements, as17540416 V: A Minuet-Gerard, Miss Batchelor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Grumbler

Song: I: The School of Anacreon-Beard; IV: A Ballad-Beard

Dance: II: Country Amusements, as17540416 III: The Drunken Peasant-Morris; the Clown-Shawford; V: A Hornpipe-Morris

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Oracle

Song: I: Mary Scot (by particular desire)-Beard; III: A Scots Cantata-Beard; IV: Hooly and Fairly-Beard

Dance: CCountry Amusements, as17540416