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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Comical Songs Scots English and Italian"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Comical Songs Scots English and Italian")') 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 2756 matches on Performance Title, 2315 matches on Performance Comments, 1352 matches on Event Comments, 122 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: The Stage will be illuminated, and put in the same Form as it was in the Balls. Tickets half a guinea. Gallery 5s. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Consisting of above 30 Songs chosen out of former Operas, perform'd-Signior Francisco Bernardi Senesino, Signior Boschi, Signora Darastanti, Mrs Anastasia Robinson, Signora Salvai

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the best Masters; Particularly, Two new Cantatas by Mr Hendel and Sig Sandoni-; Four Songs, Six Duettos by the famous Signor Stefan-Signora Durastanti, Signor Senesino

Event Comment: Pit and Boxes at half a guinea. There can be no Admittance to the Galleries, they being cover'd as formerly in the Balls. Doors open at 7:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ridotto

Music: Consisting of 24 Songs chosen out of the late Operas-Signor Francisco Bernardi Senesino, Signor Benedetto Baldassari, Mrs Anastasia Robinson, Signora Salvai

Event Comment: Tickets one guinea. The Pit will be cover'd, and there will be Instruments in two Places. At 7:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ridotto

Music: Consisting of several Songs chosen out of the last new Operas, some new Cantatas by Signor Bononcini-Signor Francisco Bernardi Senesino, Signor Benedetto Baldassari, Mrs Anastasia Robinson, Signora Salvai

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess; Or, Generous Portuguese

Song: The Enthusiastick Song-

Event Comment: Benefit Legare. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Otway. Receipts: money #25 1s.; tickets #39 9s. Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 7 April: Mr Christopher Bullock, the Comedian, died Thursday Morning of a Fistula and a Consumption

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Soldier's Fortune

Afterpiece Title: The Magician

Song: With several new collected Songs-Mr Legare, never performed by him before

Dance: Hornpipe-Jones

Event Comment: Benefit Sandham's@Son@and Daughter. Receipts: money #18 6s.; tickets #71

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Cast
Role: Mad Englishman Actor: Spiller

Song: Mad Song-a Gentleman that never appeared on the Stage before

Dance: Sandham's Son, Sandham's Daughter; Dutch Skipper-Sandham , on his Toes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

Afterpiece Title: Amadis

Song: The Enthusiastick Song-

Dance: Hornpipe-Jones

Event Comment: [Author unknown.] A new Dramatick Entertainment. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. Benefit Penkethman. N.B. The Boxes will be illuminated with Wax Candles

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Distress'd Beauty; Or, The London Prentice

Dance: Dutch Dance between a Dutch Boor and his Frow-Newhouse, Mrs Willis; French Peasant-Newhouse, Miss Francis; Drunken Man-Harper

Song: The Dame of Honour, Mimick Song in Praise of a Country Life-Mrs Willis; Mrs Boman

Event Comment: At Penkethman's Miller's and Boheme's Great Booth in Smithfield Rounds

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Distress'd Beauty; Or, The London Prentice

Dance: Newhouse, Mrs Willis, Mrs Middleton, Miss Francis

Song: Mrs Boman, Mrs Willis; particularly a Mimick Song in Praise of a Country Life between a Court Lady and a Country Nymph-

Event Comment: Receipts: #23 0s. 6d.Daily Post, 3 Nov: On Tuesday last a Great Disturbance happen'd at the Playhouse in Lincoln's Inn Fields, occasion'd by several Persons assaulting the Centinels upon Duty there, and throwing Dirt at them

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess; Or, The Generous Portuguese

Music: With the Enthusiastick Song-; Dialogue, as usual-

Dance: Lally, Lally Jr, Newhouse, Pelling, Mrs Rogeir, Mrs Bullock, Miss Francis

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Song: With a new Song proper to the Play-Imoinda [Mrs Thurmond]

Dance: Thurmond Jr, Topham, Boval, Mrs Bullock, Miss Tenoe; Hussar-Shaw, Mrs Booth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Dance:

Song: With a new Song proper to the Play-Imoinda

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess; Or, The Generous Portuguese

Song: Mrs Isabella Chambers; Enthusiastick Song-Leveridge; In Praise of Love and Wine-Leveridge, Legar

Dance: All new Dances-Dupre, Francis Nivelon, Louis Nivelon, Glover, Pelling, Lanyon, Mlle L'Inconnue, Mrs Rogeir, Mrs Wall, Mrs Bullock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Northern Lass; Or, The Nest Of Fools

Song: Original Songs-Miss Lindar

Dance: Shaw, Miller, Boval, Mrs Booth, Miss Lindar, Miss Tenoe; particularly Lads and Lasses-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Song: Original Song-Mrs Hill

Dance: Two Children, Scholars to Mrs Roussau

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Song: Original Song-Mrs Hill

Dance:

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medley

Entertainment: Between Mr Aston, Mr Aston's wife, Mr Aston's Son , by Way of Natural Recitative; several Songs-Mrs Aston Sr

Event Comment: Benefit Aston's Family. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. @'Tis a pitifull Age@And Puppet-shew Stage,@True Humour and Comedy've lost us;@Yet by Fools some still thrive@There's Punch all Alive,@A windmill, the Devil and Faustus@

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medley

Entertainment: New Songs-; Drunken Man-

Event Comment: Benefit Johnson, lately from Ireland. Tickets 5s. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Overture to Radamistus-; Three songs out of Julius Caesar-Kytch; Three Violin Concertoes-Johnson; The Cuckoo-Johnson; Concerto for Two French Horns by Handel-; Trumpet Piece-

Event Comment: Benefit Hild. Bullock and Mrs Wall. Receipts: money #27 15s. 6d.; tickets #67 9s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Quixote

Dance: End I: Chacone-Mrs Bullock, from dl, being the first Time of her appearing on the Stage these 5 Years; II: Stripping Dance-Newhouse, Mrs Rogier; III: Venetian Dance by DelaGarde-Mrs Bullock; IV: Louvre-Mrs Wall; Dutch Boor-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; V: Saraband-duPre, Mrs Wall

Song: Trumpet Song-Salway

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Dance: Houghton, Mrs Willis

Song: A Mimick Song in Praise of the Country Life-Mrs Willis

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke; Or, Trapolin Suppos'd A Prince

Afterpiece Title: Hob; or, The Country Wake

Song: A Quaker's Song-Mrs Willis

Dance: Highland Lilt-Mrs Willis; Running Footman-Houghton; Union Dance-Houghton, Mrs Willis

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses; Or, The Custom Of The Country

Song: Original Songs-

Dance: With the Original Dances-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess; Or, The Generous Portuguese

Performance Comment: King-Quin; Armusia-Ryan; Ruidias-Leigh; Governor-Boheme; Quisara-Mrs Bullock; Comical Parts-Bullock Sr, Hippisley, Spiller, H. Bullock.

Song: Mrs Isabella Chambers; The Enthusiastick Song-Leveridge; In Praise of Love and Wine-Leveridge, Legar

Dance: The usual Dances by Dupre, Nivelon, Glover, Pelling, Lanyon, Mlle L'Inconnu, Mrs Legar, Mrs Wall, Mrs Ogden