SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Ackman Public Advertiser This day only Paid Mr C B"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Ackman Public Advertiser This day only Paid Mr C B")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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We found 9670 matches on Event Comments, 3173 matches on Performance Comments, 1218 matches on Performance Title, 295 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: As17551101

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Britannia

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman from Paris

Event Comment: Benefit for Yates. Being positively the last time of performing the mainpiece this season. Afterpiece: Never acted before. Sad Farce (Cross). [Afterpiece sent to the Licenser under the title The Kept Mistress; or, The Mock Orators. Larpent MS 125 lists the parts: Harry, Belton, Hempton, Miss Belladue, her Maid; Old Ringworm, Widow Lovephrase, Servant; Lady Whiffle; Old Belladue, First Lady, Second Lady, First Orator, Second Orator, Third Orator, Doorkeeper; Press Gang (Mr Grapling Chart, Mr Anchorstock). The concluding sailor's Song most patriotic: "Our Navy see, spread o'er the Seas..."]. Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Orators

Dance: NNew Comic Dance-

Event Comment: Benefit for Barrington and Mrs Vincent. No building on Stage. Mainpiece: Performed for the last time this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: Taste

Entertainment: IV: (By Desire) Cries of Dublin-Barrington

Dance: V: The Villagers=, as17560315

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: Poitier Jun; first appearance that stage Mrs Vernon;

Song: Beard, Champness

Event Comment: For one Night Only. Benefit for the Author [John Slade]. A New Tragedy, never acted before. To begin 7 p.m. Places for the Boxes to be had of Varney at the Stage Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Duty

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Desire. This Night when Brisk (Mr Woodward) was reading the Verses with Lady Froth (Mrs Clive) instead of observing, with the Author, that her Ladyship's Coachman, John, had a red Face, said because Yr. Ladyship has a red face, & as Mrs Clive is of that Complexion the Audience burst into a loud roar, to her no small Mortification; but she behav'd well & took no Notice of it--Mr Foote brings sad houses (Cross). Receipts: #80 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: Gardiner, Mrs Vernon.,As17561021

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant Or The Way To Win Him

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman returned from Paris

Dance: As17561023

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Song: I: Miss Young

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Davies. Last time of performing the Mainpiece this season. Tickets to be had at Mr Davies's No 16 in New Crown Court, Covent Garden. Receipts: #230 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal

Dance: IV: Minuet-Miss Pritchard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Medley Concert

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Frolic

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: JJovial Coopers, as17571107

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Insolvent Or Filial Piety

Afterpiece Title: The Faggot Binder

Dance: II: Colin and Phebe-Master Settree, Miss Twist

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: IV: The Italian Peasants, as17571004

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Song: III, V: Legg

Dance: IV: Comic Ballet, as17580502

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella Or The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: IV: Spanish Dance, as17581014

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: TThe Swiss, as17581102

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caligantus

Event Comment: TThe Provok'd Wife was in the Bills for this Night, but Mr Garrick finding himself ill in ye Morning Fresh bills for Ye Mercht were posted at one o'Clock-two or three hiss'd when the play began, but Mr Havard told 'em ye reason of the Change & all was over (Cross). Receipts: #185 15s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Song: IV: Miss Young

Dance: III: The German Hunters, as17580916

Event Comment: Benefit for the Use of the Marine Society. Towards collecting clothing and equipping the distressed (both men and boys) who are inclined to serve in the Navy. Boxes 10s. 6d. Pit 5s. First Gallery 3s. Upper Gallery 2s. Tickets to be had of Mr John Stephens, Secretary to the society, in Princes St., near the Bank; Batson's Coffee House, Cornhill; and of Mr Varney at the Stage Door, where Places may be taken. As this is the Entertainment exhibited this season for this most beneficial undertaking, by which so many distressed Persons as well as Vagabonds have been preserved and rendered useful in the highest degree, it is hoped the polite, the brave and humane, of both sexes, will shew their approbation of this design, by interesting themselves in the promotion of it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alfred The Great

Music: I: Concerto on Violin-Pinto; II: Concerto on Hautboy-Vincent; Concerto on Organ-Arne Jr

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Hough, late Student of the Temple. Mr Hough, having been bred to the law, takes this liberty to recommend himself to the favour and protection of the several Members thereof, trusting that their Smiles of Friendship will crown his Wishes with Success. No Building on Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Song: II: (By Particualr Desire) a Song-Miss Brent; IV: Nymphs and Shepherds in the Oratorio Alfred-Miss Brent

Dance: V: The Milkmaid's Holiday, as17590421

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Indsor

Performance Comment: As See17590926, but only Falstaff-Shuter; Ford-Ryan; Mrs Ford-Mrs Hamilton.
Cast
Role: only Falstaff Actor: Shuter

Afterpiece Title: The Fair