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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Lady Ann Lumley"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Lady Ann Lumley")') 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 5023 matches on Performance Comments, 2487 matches on Event Comments, 503 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Antient History Of The Unnatural Parents; Or, The Fair Maid Of The West

Performance Comment: Sir Adam Wealthy-Spiller; Lord Lovewell-Eaton; Trusty-Morgan; Lady Wealthy-Mrs Elsam; Fair Maid-Mrs Haughton; Betty Wealthy-Mrs Morgan; Dame Strike Fire-Baron Egleton.
Cast
Role: Lady Wealthy Actor: Mrs Elsam

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: Horner-Ryan; Pinchwife-Quin; Harcourt-Walker; Sparkish-Milward; Dorilant-Diggs; Sir Jasper-Hippisley; Quack-Hall; Country Wife-Mrs Younger; Alithea-Mrs Berriman; Lady Fidget-Mrs Bullock; Mrs Dainty-Mrs Rice; Mrs Squeamish-Miss Fenton; Lucy-Mrs Morgan.
Cast
Role: Lady Fidget Actor: Mrs Bullock

Dance: FFrench Peasant-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre; French Sailor-Salle, Mlle Salle; Pastoral Dance-Glover, Dupre Jr, Lanyon, Mrs Ogden, Mrs Anderson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone; Or, The Fox

Performance Comment: Volpone-Mills; Mosca-Wilks; Corbaccio-Johnson; Corvino-Cibber; Voltore-Thurmond; Sir Politick-Norris; Peregrine-Watson; Celia-Mrs Booth; Lady Wou'dbe-Mrs Horton.
Cast
Role: Lady Wou'dbe Actor: Mrs Horton.

Dance: Roger, Mrs Brett, Young Rainton, Miss Robinson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: Richard-Ryan; Henry-Boheme; Buckingham-Quin; Richmond-Walker; Stanley-Diggs; Lord Moyor-Bullock; Elizabeth-Mrs Berriman; Dutchess of York-Mrs Egleton; Lady Anne-Mrs Bullock.
Cast
Role: Lady Anne Actor: Mrs Bullock.

Afterpiece Title: Jupiter and Europa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of Bedlam

Performance Comment: Mad Soldier-Nivelon; Mad Dancing Master-Glover; Mad Gamester-Pelling; Mad Taylor-Newhouse; Mad Astrologer-Lanyon; Mad Lady-Mrs Legar.
Cast
Role: Mad Lady Actor: Mrs Legar.

Afterpiece Title: Pan and Syrinx

Dance: As17261024

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Cast
Role: Lady Betty Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Lady Easy Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Lady Graveairs Actor: Mrs Horton

Dance:

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Furbarie Per Vendetta; Or, Brighella's Revenge Thwarted By Argentina: With Divers Transformations Of Harlequin, Viz

Performance Comment: Physician, Musick-Master, Madam Pantaska, or Lady Pancake, Swaggerer, Cyant and Grand Bashaw, Together with the Comical Egress and Regress from and to the Twon. Edition of 1726 lists no cast.
Related Works
Related Work: Lucrezia Romana Violata, da Sesto Tarquinio: Viz Lucretia the Roman, Ravish'd by Sextus Tarquinius: with Harlequin a Jealous Husband an the Pantalon's Rivality for Argentina Author(s): Giovanni Bonicelli

Dance: Turkish Men and Women, being the Invention of Mr Poitier

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Cast
Role: Lady Lurewell Actor: Mrs Oldfield

Dance: As17260924

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Performance Comment: Fainall-W Mills; Mirabel-Wilks; Witwoud-Cibber; Petulant-Boman; Sir Wilful-Harper; Millamant-Mrs Oldfield; Mrs Marwood-Mrs Porter; Mrs Fainall-Mrs Heron; Lady Wishfort-Mrs Baker; Foible-Mrs Wetherilt.
Cast
Role: Lady Wishfort Actor: Mrs Baker

Dance: Boval, Lally, Mrs Booth, Miss Tenoe, Mrs Walter, Young Rainton, Miss Robinson; Myrtillo-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Cast
Role: Lady Brumpton Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Lady Charlot Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Lady Harriet Actor: Mrs Booth

Music: Between Acts: Music-

Dance: TThe Fawns, Pierate-Roger, Mrs Brett

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Performance Comment: See17260927, but Lady Betty-Mrs Oldfield.
Cast
Role: Lady Betty Actor: Mrs Oldfield.

Afterpiece Title: The Miser

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wit; Or, Sir Mannerly Shallow

Performance Comment: Sir Mannerly-Miller; Ramble-Mills; Sir Thomas-Griffin; Tom-Johnson; Merry-Th. Cibber; Booby-Harper; Drybone-Shepard; Lady Faddle-Mrs Wetherilt; Christina-Mrs Horton; Betty-Mrs Brett; Isabella-Mrs Tenoe; Goody-Mrs Moore.
Cast
Role: Sir Mannerly Actor: Miller
Role: Lady Faddle Actor: Mrs Wetherilt

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Performance Comment: See17261006, but Lady Dainty-Mrs Oldfield.
Cast
Role: Lady Dainty Actor: Mrs Oldfield.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Performance Comment: As17261027, but Lady Pride-Mrs Willis.
Cast
Role: Lady Pride Actor: Mrs Willis.
Role: Lady Laycock Actor: Mrs Baker

Dance: As17260924

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Cast
Role: Lady Wishfort Actor: Mrs Baker

Dance: CCoquet Shepherdess-Lally, Mrs Booth; Harlequin-Mrs Booth

Event Comment: Benefit Boheme. And the Flyings, Sinkings, and usual Decorations. N.B. Mr Boheme continuing indispos'd, the Tragedy of King Lear cannot be acted. Receipts: money #30 18s.; tickets #57 5s. Probable attendance: boxes, 6 by money and 49 by tickets; pit, 59 by money and 246 by tickets; slips, 9 by money; first gallery, 97 by money and 81 by tickets; second gallery, 51 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17260926, but Banquo-Diggs; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Berriman.
Cast
Role: Lady Macbeth Actor: Mrs Berriman.
Role: Lady Macduff Actor: Mrs Bullock

Dance: With the usual Dances proper to the Play-; Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Poitier; French Sailor and his Wife-Salle, Mlle Salle

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Performance Comment: As17260924, but Lady Darling-Mrs Baker; Parly-Miss Tenoe.
Cast
Role: Lady Darling Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: Lady Lurewell Actor: Mrs Oldfield

Dance: Mrs Booth, Roger, Mrs Brett, Young Rainton, Miss Robinson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cartouche The French Robber

Performance Comment: Brighella : With his surprizing Disguises, and counterfeiting the Personages of a Foreign Prince, a Turk, a Petit Maitre, a Merchant, a Gniais, a Swiss, an English Waterman, an Armenian, a Florentine, a Venetian Gondolier, a Scaramouch, a Stuttering Musick-Master, and a French Dwarf Lady, condemn'd at last to the Galleys.

Entertainment: The Representation of a true Accident that lately happen'd in this City-; Likewise some Italian Catches, Musical Entertainments, extraordinary Comical by the said-Brighella; The usual Concert of Instruments will be augmented-; and the Dances entirely new, by several Grotesque Characters, the last-sixteen different Dancers; Dances-Signor Grimaldo Francolino of Malta, Operator for the Teeth, being on his Daparture will perform for this Time only some of his wonderful Dances; particularly one within a Dark Lanthorn

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Woman's A Riddle

Performance Comment: Courtwell-Ryan; Miranda-Mrs Younger; Manly-Walker; Vulture-Bullock Sr; Sir Amorous-W. Bullock; Butler-Ogden; Clarinda-Mrs Rice; Necessary-Mrs Martin; Aspin-Spiller; Lady Outside-Mrs Bullock.
Cast
Role: Lady Outside Actor: Mrs Bullock.

Song: As17270407

Dance: FFrench Peasant-Poitier, Mrs Bullock; Tollet's Ground-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Poitier; French Sailor and Wife-Salle, Mlle Salle

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Cast
Role: Lady Betty Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Lady Easy Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Lady Graveairs Actor: Mrs Horton

Afterpiece Title: The Strolers

Music: Between Acts: Select Pieces-

Dance: End III: Spanish Dance-Miss Robinson; V: Coquet Shepherdess-Lally, Mrs Booth; End Farce: Pieraite-Roger, Mrs Brett

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Afterpiece Title: The Metamorphoses of Cartouche

Performance Comment: Pantalon, the Doctor, Brighella , being the first Time of their Appearing on that Stage, wherein Brighella transforms himself into the following Shapes, viz. 1st, An Idiot; 2d, A Swiss Musick-Master (with the Stuttering Song); 3d, A Venetian Gondolier, with the Song in Imitation of Les Tambour; 4th, An Armenian Teyman; 5th, A Florentine Cook; 6th, A Scaramouch; 7th, A French Dwarf Lady. 3d, A Venetian Gondolier, with the Song in Imitation of Les Tambour; 4th, An Armenian Teyman; 5th, A Florentine Cook; 6th, A Scaramouch; 7th, A French Dwarf Lady.

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Nivelon, Poitier

Song: Two Songs in Italian by the Author-Rochetti

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Cast
Role: Lady Brute Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Lady Fanciful Actor: Mrs Cibber

Dance: Boval, Lally, Young Rainton, Miss Tenoe, Miss Robinson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: As17270131, but Sir Charles-Milward; Gibbet-W. Bullock; Mrs Sullen-Mrs Berriman; Lady Bountiful-Mrs Egleton; Cherry-Miss Fenton.
Cast
Role: Lady Bountiful Actor: Mrs Egleton
Related Works
Related Work: The Belle's Stratagem Author(s): Hannah Cowley

Dance: HHarlequin-Nivelon; French Peasant-Poitier, Mrs Bullock; Shepherd and Shepherdess-Salle, Mlle Salle

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Cast
Role: Lady Wishfort Actor: Mrs Baker

Dance: Lally, Essex, Haughton, Young Rainton, Mrs Brett, Mrs Walter, Miss Robinson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Cast
Role: Lady Dainty Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Lady Sadlife Actor: Mrs Horton

Afterpiece Title: The Strolers

Music: between the Aetween the Acts: Select Pieces-; End II: The 8th Concerto of Corelli-; IV: The 5th Concerto of Corelli-

Dance: I: A new Spanish Entry-Miss Robinson; III: A new Chacone-Essex, Young Rainton, Miss Robinson, others; V: A new Pastoral-Miss Robinson; End Farce: Pieraites-Roger, Mrs Brett