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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(perftitleclean,performancetitle) "The Mad Tom Of Bedlam"/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: Mad Tom Of Bedlam; Or, The Distress'd Lovers: With The Comical Humours Of squire Numscul

Song: Mr Corse, age 12

Dance: DDutch Skipper-Sandham; Drunken Man-Wilcox; (On 8 Aug. and there after:) Mad Dance, Pierrot-Le Sieur Labisle, from France

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Mainpiece Title: The Mad Tom Of Bedlam

Dance: MMad Dance-; Dutch Skipper-Sandham upon his Toes; Drunken Man-Wilcox

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Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: I: New Dance-Devisse, Mad Auretti; III: a Provincial Dance-Devisse, Mad Auretti; V: Louvre, Minuet-Devisse, Mad Auretti

Music: II: Concerto on German Flute-Mr L'Cler

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Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: I: A Masquerade Dance-Matthews, Mad Janeton Auretti; End: L'Entree de Flore-Mad Auretti; Peasant Dance-Matthews, Mad Janeton Auretti

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Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: I: Les Characters de la Danse-Madam Auretti; II: A Hornpipe-the Little Swiss; III: A Chacone in Italian Characters- Harlequin Mad Auretti; Polonese Sg Piettro, Mad Janeton Auretti; Scaramouch, Punch, Messitin, Pantaloon, Pierot, others; IV: A Tambourine-Master Pietro; V: The Louvre, Minuet-Sg Piettro, Mad Auretti

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Mainpiece Title: Abroad And At Home

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner at Large

Afterpiece Title: Fun and Frolic; or, Sailors' Revels

Song: In course Evening: The Storm-Incledon; Black Ey'd Susan-Incledon; Mad Tom of Bedlam (in character)-Incledon; Together let us range (composed by Boyce)-Incledon, Miss Poole

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Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage; Or, The Innocent Adultery

Song: Henry Purcell's Bess of Bedlam, a Mad Song,-Shaw

Dance: The Devonshire Girl, Mrs Bicknell, Laferry

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Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Song: Interlude of Flora and Blesa (from Almahide)-Dogget, Mrs Lindsey; John E're You Leave Me-Dogget, Leveridge; Mad Man and Mad Lady-Leveridge, Mrs Lindsey

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Mainpiece Title: An Evening's Love; Or, The Mock Astrologer

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wake

Song: Mad Song, Mad Dialogue (composed by $Purcell)-Turner, Mrs Willis in their proper Habits

Dance: As17151122; Harlequin-Mrs Santlow; Mimic Song and Dance-Mrs Willis

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Mainpiece Title: Harlequin Laron, Provost, Et Juge

Afterpiece Title: Le Port de Mer

Dance: Mad Men and Mad Women-Mrs Dechaliers, Roger who plays the part of Pierrot; The Flourishing of the Colors-Signora Violenta

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Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Song: TThe White Joke-Mrs Thomasin Man's Cloaths; A new Mad Tom-Bart Platt

Dance: TThe Yellow Joke (new)-Eaton by Ravenscroft

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Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Song: The Song of New Mad Tom-a Gentleman

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Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Afterpiece Title: The Sailor's Wedding

Song: NNew Mad Tom-Dodson

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Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song: I: Mad Tom-a Gentleman for his Diversion

Music: V: Welch Harp-a Gentleman for his Diversion

Dance: II: Dutch Skipper-; III: Scaramouch-Smith; V: Scaramouch and Harlequin-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Whittington

Song: MMad Tom of Bedlam-Platt; Thames and Augusta-Platt, Papillon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Song: I: Singing in Italian-Mrs Hill; II: Singing in English-Mrs Hill; III: Another Italian Song-Mrs Hill; V: New Mad Tom-a Gentleman from Oxford

Dance: IV: Miss Wherrit

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Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Ballet-Maltere, Mlle Maltere

Song: II: Blow Blow thou Winter Wind-Lowe; IV: Was Ever Nymph Like Rosamond-Lowe; V: Mad Tom-Mr Topham the Strong Man

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Mainpiece Title: The Comedy Of Errors

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwrecked

Song: I: A New Ballad-Beard; III: Noontide Air-Lowe; IV: Mad Tom by Henry Purcel-Beard in character

Dance: II: A Dutch Dance, as17411114; V: The Italian Peasants, as17411207

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Mainpiece Title: Audlin; Or, The Merchant's Daughter Of Brastol; With The Comical Humours Of Roger, Antonio's Man

Song: Batt Platt, the original Mad Tom

Dance: Sig and Signora Capuchino, Mynheer Drollelo, being children lately arrived from Holland, who never appeared on any Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: New Pantomime Entertainment

Song: III: Genius of England-; End: New Mad Tom-Platt Sen

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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

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Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: Devisse, Mad Auretti, Matthews, Mad Camargo, the Little Swiss

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

Afterpiece Title: The Rehearsal; or, Bayes in Petticoats

Dance: Devisse, Mad Auretti, Harvey, Mad Camargo

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Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: Bayes in Petticoats

Dance: Devisse, Mad Auretti, Harvey, Mad Camargo

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Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: Devisse, Mad Auretti, Mathews, Mad Camargo, the Little Swiss