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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: False Appearances

Afterpiece Title: The Farm House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Dance: End IV: Fortune's Favor-Byrn, Mrs Goodwin, Mrs Ratchford

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist; Or, Stop Him Who Can

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Entertainment: Imitations. In: Vocal Imitations-Mrs Wells [of Mrs Martyr, Sga Sestini, Kelly, Mrs Crouch (Diary, 16 May)]; End: a Scene from the two Great Tragic Actresses of the Country [Mrs Crawford as Alicia and Mrs Siddons as Jane Shore (Diary)]-Mrs Wells; [with one speech [afterwards pourtraying the different manners of both ["For ever! Oh, for ever!" i.e. the concluding speech of Act IV of Jane Shore (Diary)]-Mrs Wells

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Married Man

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Dance: As17890708

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Catch Club [i

Afterpiece Title: The Comet; or, How to Come at Her

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Afterpiece Title: The Benevolent Planters

Dance: As17890805

Entertainment: Monologue As17890617

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham; Or, Days Of Old

Afterpiece Title: A Quarter of an Hour before Dinner

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Foundling; Or, Virtue Rewarded

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck; or, Walking Statue

Dance: End: a comic dance, The Affrighted Dwarf; or, Whimsical Transformation into Mad Moll-Blandford

Entertainment: Monologues. End I: Epilogue-Somebody in the Character of Nobody; End II: British Loyalty; or, A Squeeze for St. Paul's, will be introduced the characters of a Fide Lady? a Beau, an Irishman, a Scotchman, a Welshman, a Jew, an Old Man, and a British Sailor-Randall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Frolicks; or, The Power of Witchcraft

Dance: In II: As17891209; Afterpiece conclude: Grand Ballet-the young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp [which was included, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances]

Song: As17891209

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Frolicks

Dance: As17891204

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In Many Masks

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Dance: End: a new Comic Dance, The Elopement; or, Marriage-a-la-Mode-the young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Adventurers

Dance: As17891204

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Dance: III: Hornpipe-Bourk

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Adventure; Or, Stop Her Who Can

Afterpiece Title: Cymon

Dance: Following Imitations at end: As17891021; In afterpiece: Dances, as17900409

Entertainment: End II: Tragic Imitations [of Mrs Siddons in Belvidera's 1st scene in Venice Preserved, I.i., and of Mrs Crawford in Lady Randolph's 1st speech in Douglas]-Mrs Wells; End III: Comic and Vocal Imitations [of Mrs Abington as Widow Belmour in The Way to Keep Him, and of Mrs Martyr, Mrs Jordan, Sga Storace, Sga Sestini]-Mrs Wells; End: A Scene from Isabella [The "ring speech" in II.ii] (Above identified in World, 29 Apr.)-Mrs Wells

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Strangers At Home

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Afterpiece Title: The Adventurers

Song: In course Evening: Rosy Bowers (composed by Purcell)-Mrs Crouch

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: Don Juan; or, The Libertine Destroyed

Dance: In afterpiece: under the Direction of D'Egville, Hamoir, Bourk, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp, Edition of 1790 adds: Fairbrother, Whittow, Kirk, Whitmell, Walker, Bidotti, Nicolini, Mrs Davis, Mrs Brooker, Mrs Haskey, Mrs Brigg, Mrs Barrett, Mrs Harris, Mrs K. Davis, Miss Bourk

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The German Hotel

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp; or, Patrick in Prussia

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Better Late Than Never

Afterpiece Title: Don Juan

Dance: As17901026

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Favour; or, Harlequin Animated

Dance: Afterpiece conclude: Dance of Fairies and Pantomimic Characters-Hamoir, the young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Arrogance

Afterpiece Title: The Picture of Paris

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Malabar

Afterpiece Title: Two Strings to Your Bow

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Dance: As17901123

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Bella Pescatrice

Dance: End I: Divertisement, as17910217; End II: a Grand Heroic Ballet in 3 acts (1st time), Telemachus in the Island of Calypso (composed by D'Auberval)-Didelot, D'Egville, Mlle Theodore, Mlle Gervaise Troche, Mlle Deligny, Mlle L. Simonet, Mlle R. Simonet, Mlle Menage. For assignment of parts see17910322

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Greek Slave; Or, The School For Cowards

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel