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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Hays"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Hays")') 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 252 matches on Event Comments, 135 matches on Performance Title, 68 matches on Roles/Actors, 67 matches on Performance Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ignoramus

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ignoramus

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ignoramus

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All Alive And Merry

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All Alive And Merry

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Dance: II: La Caprice (new)-Mons Granier, the first time of his appearing on this stage, Miss Oates

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Woman Is A Riddle

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: Dutchman and his Wife by Le Brun and Mrs Walter. III: Two Pierrots by Poitier and Nivelon. IV: Polish Dance, as17340318 but Miss Mann added. V: Revellers

Song: II: By Miss Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Rivali Delusi

Dance: End of Act I Le Reveil du Bonheur, as17840513; End of Opera Le Deserteur, as17840608

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Song: As17850405

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lawyers' Panic; Or, Westminster Hall In An Uproar

Afterpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Afterpiece Title: The Devil upon Two Sticks

Song: End of Act I of 2nd piece The Twaddle by Wilson. imitations. End of Act II of 2nd piece a great variety of Imitations by Kean (1st appearance on this stage)

Monologue: 1785 05 07 End of 2nd piece Joe Haynes's Epilogue, riding on an ass, by Wilson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mountaineers

Afterpiece Title: Old Straw

Afterpiece Title: Don Juan; or, The Libertine Destroyed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Afterpiece Title: The Social Songsters

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: The best Performers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: By direction of Sig Francisco Conti, the Consort of Musick-Sig Francisco Conti for her Majesty, and which he had the Honour to perform at court upon the Union-day; Singing-La Signiora Margaretta the Baroness, Il Signior Valentino; and there is to be several Instrumetns, and the said Great Theorbo, La Mandelitta an Instrument hitherto unknown-Signior Conti

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Song:

Dance: Leguard, Miss Norris

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Harlequin A Merry Spirit

Afterpiece Title: Pantomime

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Feint Astrologue, Pagode, Ramoneur, Petit Infant, Statue & Perroquet

Dance: As17260328