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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "C Smart"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "C Smart")') 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 1348 matches on Event Comments, 809 matches on Performance Comments, 110 matches on Performance Title, 23 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Afterpiece Title: Tristram Shandy

Dance: As17820927

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Friend In Need, Is A Friend Indeed

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: The Recruiting Serjeant

Afterpiece Title: The Receipt Tax

Song: End of Act III of mainpiece a favorite song by Miss George. vaudeville. In 2nd piece The Manual Exercise, with the Officer's Salute, &c, by Mrs Wells

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cheapside; Or, All In The City

Afterpiece Title: The Sailor's Sheet Anchor

Afterpiece Title: A New Way to Keep a Wife at Home

Dance: In 2nd piece The Merry Sailors and The Wapping Landlady (perfomers not listed for either dance)

Monologue: 1783 09 17 End of Act III of 1st piece The Farmer's Blunder by Kenrick

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Magic Picture

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Song: In Act II of mainpiece a Grand Chorus [Crowned with conquest] by Bannister, Reinhold, Johnstone, Mattocks, Brett, Mahon, Doyle, Darley; Mrs Bannister, Mrs Johnstone, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Kennedy. [For songs, see below.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies' Frolick

Dance: End of Act IV of mainpiece, as17830918; In Act I of afterpiece the celebrated Crutch-Dance [performers not listed; danced in all subsequent performances]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: More Ways Than One

Afterpiece Title: The Country Mad-Cap

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Reparation

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: Afterpiece to conclude as17831104

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disguise

Dance: End of mainpiece a new Comic Ballet, The Return of the Hunters, by Mr and Miss Hamoir. [Beginning with the 3rd performance, on 11 Mar., this was entitled The Sportsmen's Return.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood; Or, Sherwood Forest

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Rambler

Dance: End of mainpiece a New Dance by Le Bccuf and Mlle Constance (from the King's Theatre in Paris; 1st appearance)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Veil

Afterpiece Title: Jewish Education

Afterpiece Title: The Quacks; or, The Credulous Man

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17840311athi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Dance: As17840311athi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Dance: End of Act I a new pantomimical, operatical, farcical interlude, The Peasant Metamorphosed; or, Delpini's Voyage from Dublin in an Air Balloon, in which Delpini will introduce a specimen of singing in French, Italian and English, and which will conclude with a new Hornpipe by the celebrated Blake (by permission of the Managers of the Opera-house; his 1st appearance on that stage); End of Act II a comic pantomime dance, The Country Squabble, by Delpini, Mrs Dagville, Miss Parish, Duquesney Jun.; End of play a new pantomimical dance, The Rival Clowns, by Delpini, Blake, &c, in which the famous rondo of Orpheo, in Italian, by Delpini, and to conclude with an Allemande in a new comic stile

Song: End of Acts II and III, by a Young Gentlewoman (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified])

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Election Of The Managers

Afterpiece Title: The English Merchant

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lord Russel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Two Connoisseurs

Afterpiece Title: Foote, Weston, and Shuter in the Shades

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lord Russel

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deception

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: End of Act IV of mainpiece a New Dance incident to the Piece by Mr and Miss Hamoir

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fontainbleau; Or, Our Way In France

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: End of mainpiece The Belle of the Village, as17840917

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Cavern; or, Virtue's Triumph

Song: In Act I of mainpiece song by Brett

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Carmelite

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies' Frolick

Dance: In Act I of afterpiece the celebrated Crutch Dance [performers not listed]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Cavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: The Caldron; or, Pantomimical Olio

Dance: In afterpiece, by Mr and Miss Hamoir, Mills, Miss Stageldoir. [The dances were included, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Refugee; Or, The Rival Jews

Afterpiece Title: A Musical Interlude

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Song: End of Act I of 3rd piece How sweet's the love that meets return by Mrs Henley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Alchymist