SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Ann Williams"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Ann Williams")') 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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Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Event Comment: Benefit the Widow of Thomas Williams, who perform'd in the Theatre Royal. At 8 p.m

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music, particularly that celebrated Song, set by the late Mr Henry Purcell (for the Yorkshire Feast)-the best Masters of each Profession in England performing their Parts

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Mainpiece Title: The Judgment Of Paris

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Mainpiece Title: The Libertine Destroyd

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Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cimbiline King Of Brittain The Great Protector Of His Country

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Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline King Of Brittain The Great Protector Of His Country

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Mainpiece Title: Marry Or Do Worse

Event Comment: Benefit Williams. At the desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by Mr Southern

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Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Song: Purcell's From Rosy Bowers-Leveridge

Dance: A French Peasant and his Wife-duRuel, Mrs duRuel; Punchanello-Cherrier

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Mainpiece Title: The Playhouse To Be Let With Sganarella The Blacksmith Of Paris

Afterpiece Title: Mock Pompey

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Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Williams

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the greatest Masters

Event Comment: Benefit Williams and Willer [Weller?]. Tickets delivered for Saturday 23 taken this night

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Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Song: As17070327

Dance: As17070403

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Mainpiece Title: The Maids The Mistress

Event Comment: See Tatler, 26 May. [In Daily Courant, 24 May, William Bowen announced that The Stratagem, advertised for this day as his benefit, is deferred and that tickets for it will be accepted on 1 June at Sganarell; or, The Cuckold in Conceit.

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Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

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Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Event Comment: Ryder, Diary, pp. 359-60: Went to see the tragedy of Tamerlane which was acted with a new prologue in honour of King William and in memory of what he did for us. The play itself is good....Mills who acted the part of Bajazet did it mighty well and expressed that furiousness and rage and malice and ambition admirably well in his gesture at the end, but, which is his distinguishing character, very well kept up throughout. I observed in the general that the manner of speaking in our theatres in tragedy is not natural. There is something that would be very shocking and disagreeable and very unnatural in real life. Persons would call it theatrical, meaning by that something stiff and affected

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Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; Singing-Mrs Fletcher; Concerto-Matthew Dubourg; Solo-Kytch

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Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Dance: Shaw, Weaver, Boval, Lally, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Bullock, Miss Tenoe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Dance: Desnoyer, Thurmond Jr, Boval, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Younger, Mrs Tenoe

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-Castrucci, Kytch

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Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Dance: Shaw, Mrs Booth, Thurmond Jr, Mrs Bullock, Boval, Mrs Bicknell, Miss Tenoe