SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "College of New York"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "College of New York")') 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: Love And Revenge

Performance Comment: See17291112 With a new Prologue.
Event Comment: [By Nicholas Brady.]All the Characters new drest. Receipts: #67 8s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rape; Or, The Innocent Impostor

Event Comment: [By Ebenezer Forrest.] By Command of His Royal Highness. After the Manner of the Beggar's Opera. All the Habits and Scenes entirely New. Receipts: #161 18s. 6d. [For a comment on this performance, see Thomas Edwards to John Clerke, "Unrecorded Comments on John Gay, Henry Travers, and Others", N & Q (August 1953), p. 338.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Momus Turn'd Fabulist; Or, Vulcan's Wedding

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: A New Entertainment. [In Daily Post, 9 Dec., The Fair Penitent had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: The Comical Distresses of Pierot

Afterpiece Title: With the Scene of Apollo and Daphne

Event Comment: DDaily Journal, 22 Dec,: As the Author, in Compliment to that excellent Comedian Mr Wilks, had declared, that whenever he should leave off playing the Character of Sir Harry Wildair, the Comedy might e'en trip to the Jubilee; so the Curiosity of the better Sort was a good deal raised, to see how it would fare in the Hands of a new Company, and were as agreeably surprized to see it play'd to a fine Audience, with universal Applause; and particularly to the Parts of Wildair and Lurewell

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Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Dance: TTwo Harlequins-; The Shepherd's Holiday-

Song: Miss Thornowets

Event Comment: DDaily Journal, 31 Dec.: Whereas a Cracker was thrown with an evil Intention into the New Theatre in Goodman's-Fields on Tuesday last...This is to certify, that Peace Officers are constantly attending to prevent all kinds of Disorders, and that whoever shall discover the Offender or Offenders above-mentioned, shall receive five Guineas reward from me the Master of the said House. December 31, 1729. Thomas Odell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Dance: As17291220

Song: Mrs Mountfort, Miss Thornowets

Event Comment: [By James Miller.] All the Characters new drest

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humours Of Oxford

Event Comment: Never Acted here before. Revis'd and Alter'd by the Author. All the Characters New Drest. Receipts: #96 5s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife Of Bath

Event Comment: [By Benjamin Martyn.] With new Habits, and other Decorations, proper to the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timoleon

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. With an Additional New Song in the Second Act

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Temple Beau

Event Comment: With an Additional New Song in the Second Act

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Temple Beau

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part Ii

Performance Comment: As17290923, but Pistol-Norris; With a new Prologue, Epilogue- for the Entertainment of the (Masons).
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Role: Archbishop of York Actor: Roberts
Event Comment: [By Thomas Walker.] With Rich New Habits

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Villainy

Event Comment: [Written by James Thomson.] With New Habits

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sophonisba

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [Author unknown. Apparently not published.] A New Ballad Opera. Benefit Ryan. Receipts: money #81 10s. 6d.; tickets #104 11s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: Hudibras; or, Trulla's Triumph

Event Comment: With an Addition of some New Songs. [Prince, Princess Royal, Duke, and five Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Event Comment: A New Opera. [By Zeno. Music probably by Bartholmeo Cordans.-see Deutsch, Handel, p. 254.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ormisda

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Author's Farce

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Performance Comment: Octavian-a Gentleman; Scapin-Jones; Leander-Harris; With a New Prologue, Epilogue-Miss Jones.
Event Comment: [By William Hatchett.] With New Habits

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Father; Or, The Death Of Achilles

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Performance Comment: As17290922, but Gravediggers-_; 2d Gravedigger omitted; 1st Gravedigger-Leveridge (with Two New Songs in Character).

Song: End I: Mrs Wright; II: Since Times are so Bad-Leveridge, Salway; III: Mrs Chambers

Dance: IV: Nivelon

Event Comment: Benefit Cibber Jr and Mrs Cibber. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: [By Theophilus Cibber.] A New Scotch Ballad Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Afterpiece Title: Patie and Peggy; or, The Fair Foundling

Dance: Mrs Booth, Miss Robinson

Event Comment: Benefit Roger, the Pierrot. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: A New Pantomime Entertainment. Composed by Monsieur Roger

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Diana and Acteon

Event Comment: Mainpiece: [By Charles Coffey.] A New Farcial Ballad Opera. Afterpiece: By Desire. Tickets delivered for the Author's Benefit will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Parson; Or, Beau In The Suds

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: As17300418 but Angelica-Mrs Thurmond; Prue-Mrs Cibber; By Desire, an Entire new Prologue, Free Masons Epilogue-.

Dance: Essex, Lally, Thurmond, Roger, Haughton, Rainton, Mrs Delorme, Miss Robinson

Event Comment: Benefit Surel, the Harlequin. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: A New Dramatick Entertainment of Dancing. Composed by Mr Surel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Queen; or, Harlequin Turn'd Enchanter

Afterpiece Title: Concluding with the Loves of Shepherds and Shepherdesses