SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Cap Stevens and Wife Emelia "/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Cap Stevens and Wife Emelia ")') 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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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wifes Relief Or The Husbands Cure

Performance Comment: Riot-Smith; Volatil-Dyer; Young Cash-Shuter; Horatio-Davis; Valentine-Perry; Sir Tristram-Bennet; Spitfire-Holtom; Slur-Anderson; Cynthia-Mrs Elmy; Aurelia-Mrs Burden; Teraminta-Miss Cokayne; Arabella-Mrs Hamilton.
Cast
Role: Slur Actor: Anderson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation

Performance Comment: As17610930, but Dancing-Miss Capitani.
Cast
Role: Dancing Actor: Miss Capitani.
Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. John Rich, Master & Patentee of Covent Garden Theatre died (Winston MS 9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Arcadia

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Cast
Role: Cape Actor: King

Dance: II: The Camp Alarm'd, as17610926

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: II: Hornpipe-Miss Dawson

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Dance: III: A Comic Dance (not perform'd these 9 years) call'd The Taylors-Sg Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville; V: A New Comic Ballet, The French Country Gentleman, as17611210

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Music of afterpiece by Smith. On account of the Machinery and Music no persons can be admitted behind the Scenes or into the Orchestra

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanter

Event Comment: Both pieces By Command of their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Event Comment: Benefit for Ross. Mainpiece: Never acted there. Afterpiece: Not acted this season. No Building on Stage. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr Ross in the Little Piazza, Covent Garden; and of Mr Sarjant, at the Stage Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Performance Comment: Oakly-Ross; Major Oakly-Shuter; Charles-Clarke; Lord Trinket-Dyer; Sir Harry Beagle-Bennet; Capt. O'Cutter-Barrington; Russet-Dunstall; Paris-Holtom; Tom-R. Smith; Harriet-Mrs Lessingham; Lady Freelove-Mrs Vincent; Mrs Oakly-Mrs Ward.

Afterpiece Title: Florizel and Perdita

Dance: TThe Pleasures of Spring, as17620212

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clive. Farce written by Mrs Clive not acted in 9 years. [See 19 April 1755.] Now with Alterations and Additional Scenes in which will be introduc'd Part of an Italian Burletta. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Send servants by 3 o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Rehearsal or Bayes in Petticoats

Dance: %New Dutch Comic Dance, as17610925

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Ward. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. No Building on Stage. Tickets deliver'd out for Macbeth will be taken. Tickets to be had of Mrs Ward, at Mr Trouton's in Surry-Street in the strand; and of Mr Sarjant at the stage Door where places for the Boxes may be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: TThe Pleasures of Spring, as17620212

Event Comment: Benefit for Sparks. Tickets to be had of Mrs Sparks, at her house in Crown Court. Tickets deliver'd out for the Distress'd Mother will be taken. N.B. Mr Sparks having been very long indisposed and rendered incapable of attending the theatre, with the greatest deference persuades himself that Circumstance will readily plead his Apology, and induce his friends to dispense with his personal appearance, and favor him with their commands; and that they will excuse the changing of his play, to which he is oblig'd by the illness of a principal performer; of which and his former obligations, he shall always retain the most gratful sense. [Sparks had been ill since 14 Jan. when Hull took over his part of Buckingham in King Richard III.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Merry Counterfeit

Song: Between Acts: some Favorite Songs from the English Opera Artaxerxes-; viz: I: In Infancy our hopes and fears-Tenducci; II: If e'er the Cruel Tyrant Love-Miss Brent; III: Water parted from the sea-Tenducci; IV: Let no rage thy bosom fire-Miss Brent

Dance: TThe Pleasures of Spring, as17620212

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Davies. No Building on Stage. [The playbill lists Russel-$Davies.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Entertainment: IV: The Brass Prophecy, as17620330

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantly

Dance: New Comic Dance,%Les Sabotiers-Sodi, Sga Mansiere, Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville

Event Comment: Benefit for Champness and Miss Young. No Building on Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Song: II: A Duet-Champness, Miss Young; IV: A Cantata-Miss Young; End: Song in Character of a Sailor-Champness

Event Comment: Benefit for Poitier. On Account of the Dancing No Building on the Stage. Tickets and places to be had of Mr Poitier, at Mr Piddington's, Coach-Maker, in Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, where Mr Poitier hopes his Friends will favour him with their Commands, as this is the last Benefit he proposes taking

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: I: A New Serious Dance-Miss Wilford, Miss Valois; II: Handel's Water Piece-, in which, by particular desire; Kettle@Drum-Mr Poitier; III: A New Comic Dance-Maranesi, Miss Wilford; IV: The Pleasures of Spring, as17620212; V: The Academy for Dancing-Poitier, Mrs Vernon; in which will be introduc'd a Minuet-Miss Valois, in boy's Cloaths, Miss Wilford

Event Comment: Benefit for Maguire and Tindal. Afterpiece: Never perform'd there

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Performance Comment: Clerimont-Maguire; Capt. Cape-Tindal; Harlow-Davis; Heartwell-Gardner; Mrs Harlow-Mrs Burden; Miss Harlow-Mrs Maguire, first appearance this stage.
Cast
Role: Cape Actor: Tindal

Dance: TThe Taylors, as17620107

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: TThe Cossacks, as17620427

Event Comment: Benefit for Redman, Lewis, Dibdin. Hussey, Miss Cokayne. Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years. [See 18 May 1757.] Tickets deliver'd by Rawlins, Dufour, and Mrs Gwinn, and others will be accepted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Wives Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: III: The Pierrots-Hussey, Dufour; End: The Taylors, as17620107