SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "M G Lewis Esq"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "M G Lewis Esq")') 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 1371 matches on Performance Comments, 1166 matches on Author, 615 matches on Event Comments, 50 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Prince Volscius-Davies; Gentleman Usher-Weston; Tom Thimble-Quin; Thunder-Johnson; Smith-Lewis; Prettyman-Death; The Sun-Blakey; Amaryllis-Mrs Osborne; Chloris-Miss Platt; two Kings of Brentford-Hayes, Jackson; Parthenope, Moon-Mrs Daly; Bayes-Wilkinson (with a variety of imitations); Johnson-Kennedy; with an additional Reinforcement of Mr Bayes's new rais'd Troops-.

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: II: A Serious Dance-Miss Street (scholar to Ghendi); V: The Venetian Gardeners-Master Rogier, Miss Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Englishman Return'd From Paris

Performance Comment: Buck-Foote; Sir Chas M'Ruthen-Gibson; Crab-Lewis; Latitat-Weston; Lord John-Death; Tallyhoe-Jackson; Rackett-Murden; Servant-Somers; Lucinda-Miss Reed.

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: I: The Venetian Gardeners-Rogier, Miss Street; II: The Provincial Dance-Master Clayton, Miss Street (Apprentices to Mr Gerhardi)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Englishman Return'd From Paris

Performance Comment: As17630805, but M'Ruthen-Lewis; Crab-Gibson.

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: VVenetian Gardeners-Rogier, Miss Street; Provincial Dance-Master Clinton, Miss Twist

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beaux Stratagem

Performance Comment: Archer-Kennedy; Aimwell-Davis; Bonniface-Johnson; Foigard-Lewis; Sullen-Brown; Gibbet-Murden; Sir Charles Freeman-Wallis; Hounslow-Summers; Bagshot-Pierce; Scrub-Weston; Cherry-Miss Read; Dorinda-Mrs Osborne; Gipsey-Mrs Johnson; Mrs Sullen-Mrs Daly.

Afterpiece Title: The Contented Cuckold

Dance: Master Clinton, Miss Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Performance Comment: Carlos-Davis; Clodio-Kennedy; Sancho-Weston; Don Choleric-Lewis; Antonio-Johnson; Charino-Jackson; Monsieur-Summers; Page-Master Summers; Don Duart-Murden; Jaques-Wallis; Louisa-Mrs Daly; Angelina-Miss Read; Elvira-Mrs Osborne; Honoria-Mrs Johnson.

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance:

Entertainment: I: Comic Dance-Rogier, Miss Street; III: Serious Dance-Miss Street; IV: Comic Dance-Master Clinton, Miss Street; End: Hippisley's Drunken Man-Weston; a Hornpipe in Taste-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part I; With Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Performance Comment: Falstaff-Shuter; King-Sparks; Prince John-Miss Valois; Northumberland-Redman; Westmorland-Davis; Douglas-Anderson; Prince of Wales-Ross; Worcester-Hull; Blunt-Perry; Peto-R. Smith; Gadshill-Buck; Bardolph-Lewis; Sheriff-Wignel; Francis-Stamper; Vernon-Gibson; Poins-White; Carriers-Dunstall; Bennet; Lady Piercy-Mrs Vincent; Hostess-Mrs Pitt; Hotspur-Smith.

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant; Or, The Way To Win Him

Performance Comment: Young Mirabel-Smith; Old Mirabel-Shuter; Duretete-Dyer; Dugard-White; Petit-Cushing; Page-Mas. Morgan; Bravos-Dunstall, Buck, Lewis; Oriana-Mrs Vincent; Lamorce-Mrs Stephens; Bizarre-Miss Eliot.

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse; Or, Virtue In Danger

Performance Comment: Foppington-Woodward; Loveless-Smith; Young Fashion-Dyer; Worthy-Ross; Sir Tunbelly-Marten; Syringe-Shuter; Lory-Cushing; Coupler-Hayes; Bull-Lewis; Amanda-Mrs Vincent; Nurse-Mrs Pitt; Miss Hoyden-Miss Hallam; Berinthia-Miss Elliot.

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: TThe Knife Grinders (perform'd but once), as17631012

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not; Or, The Kind Imposter

Performance Comment: Don Manuel-Shuter; Don Philip-Ross; Octavio-White; Soto-Dunstall; Trappanti-Woodward; Don Lewis-Davis; Corrigidor-Wignel; Diego-Marten; Rosara-Miss Hallam; Viletta-Mrs Pitt; Flora-Mrs Vincent; Hypolita-Miss Macklin.
Cast
Role: Don Lewis Actor: Davis

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: Falstaff-Shuter; Ford-Ross; Page-Hull; Caius-Holtom; Sir Hugh-Lewis; Shallow-Costollo; Slender-Bennet; Pistol-R. Smith; Host-Marten; Fenton-Davis; Simple-Mas. Morgan; Mrs Page-Mrs Barrington; Ann Page-Miss Miller; Mrs Quickly-Mrs Pitt; Mrs Ford-Mrs Ward.

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: III: The Knife Grinders, as17631012; End: The Cudgell'd Husband, as17631101

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Performance Comment: As17631010, but Clement-Lewis.

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: TThe Cudgell'd Husband, as17631101

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: Valentine-Ross; Sir Sampson-Dunstall; Scandal-Clarke; Tattle-Dyer; Foresight-Bennet; Trapland-Lewis; Jeremy-Barrington; Ben-Shuter; Mrs Foresight-Mrs Baker; Mrs Frail-Mrs Vincent; Nurse-Mrs Pitt; Miss Prue-Miss Elliot, first time; Angelica-Miss Macklin, first time.

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda and the Arcadian Nuptials

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Counterfeits

Performance Comment: Parts-Yates, Palmer, Packer, Ackman, Baddeley, Miss Plym, Mrs Lee, Mrs Bennet, Mrs Bradshaw. Taken from Gil Blas, not printed, characters were perhaps Gil Blas-Yates; Don Lewis-Palmer; Melchoir-Baddeley; Aurora-Miss Plym; Laura-Mrs Lee; Bernarda-Mrs Bradshaw; Isabella-Mrs Bennet (Genest, V, 46); Parts-Packer, Ackman.
Cast
Role: Don Lewis Actor: Palmer

Dance: III: The Provancalle, as17631014; End I Farce: The Irish Lilt, as17630922

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice; Or, It Cannot Be

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Performance Comment: Timothy Peascod-Woodward; Sir Roger-Marten; Justice Statute-Redman; Corporal-R. Smith; Sir Humphrey-Wignel; Peter Nettle-Bennet; Soldier-Holtom; ThomasFilbert-Shuter; Steward-Anderson; Stave-Costollo; Dorcas-Miss Helm; Constable-Lewis; Aunt-Mrs Copin; Joyce-Master Besford; Kitty Carrot-Miss Elliot; first time, with the song 'Twas when the seas were roaring-.

Dance: II: Hornpipe-Miss Pitt; End: New Grand Ballet, as17640320

Song: III: Will be a Duette-Mattocks, Miss Polly Young

Entertainment: End: The Cries of London-Shuter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Performance Comment: As17640210, but Charino-Lewis.
Cast
Role: Don Lewis Actor: Shuter

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Dance: I: A Hornpipe-Miss Twist; End: The Calabrian Peasants, as17631222

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: The Absent Man

Performance Comment: Principals-Shuter, Dunstall, Mattocks, Anderson, White, Bennet, Miss Cokayne, Weller, Mrs Stephens, Miss Miller, Haynes, Lewis; Occasional Songs-.

Dance: End Masque: A Hornpipe-Miss Pitt

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Performance Comment: Drunken Colonel-Woodward; Goodall-Dunstall; Oldcastle-Lewis; Lettice-Mrs Walker.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Patron

Performance Comment: Sir ThomasLofty, Sir Peter Pepperpot-Foote; Rust-Weston; Dick Bever-Death; Frank Younger-Davis; Puff-Hayes; Dactyl-Granger; Sir Roger Dowlas-J. Palmer; Staytape-Brown; Robin-Parsons; John-Lewis; Juliet-Mrs Granger (British Museum ADD MSS 39302).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Patron

Performance Comment: Parts-Foote, Weston, Davis, Death, Granger, Hayes, Palmer, Parsons, Lewis, Browne, Taylor, a young Gentlewoman.

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: I: Sicilian Peasants-Master Rogier, Miss Valois; End: A new comic Dance, The Carpenter and the Fruit Dealer-Gherardi Jr, Master Clinton, Miss Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orators

Performance Comment: Players-Foote, Weston, Davis, Palmer, Death, Lewis, Parsons, Brown, Castle, Hayes, Taylor, Granger.

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: As17640705, but order reversed%

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: As17640716 but Sir Richard-Lewis.

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: As17640710

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orators

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Performance Comment: Dick-Wilkinson; Simon-Weston; Wingate-Lewis; President-Death; Gargle-Brown; Scotchman-Parsons; Irishman-Granger; Catchpole-Palmer; Charlotte-Mrs Brown.

Dance: I: The Sicilian Peasants, as17640626 End: The Dutchman-Gherardi, Master Clinton, Miss Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Bayes-Wilkinson, in which he will introduce a variety of Imitations; Johnson-Palmer; Physician-Castle; Smith-Lewis; Drawcansir-Brown; Prince Volscius-Davis; Prince Prettyman-Death; Lt General-Wild; Tom Thimble-Parsons; 1st King of Brentford-Taylor; Gentleman Usher-Weston; Pallas-Pierce; 2nd King of Brentford-Moor; Fisherman-Granger; Clovis-Mrs Parsons; Parthenope-Mrs Granger; Amaryllis-Mrs Brown; Lightning-Mrs Jeffreys; with the additional reinforcement of Mr Bayes's New Raised Troops-; and several new entertainments of Dancing-.

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orators

Afterpiece Title: Taste; or, Tragedy a la Mode

Performance Comment: Parts-Foote, Weston, Lewis, Castle, Wilkinson.
Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Foote, Weston, Lewis, Castle, Wilkinson.

Dance: As17640824

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part I; With Humours Of Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Performance Comment: Drunken Colonel-Woodward; Goodall-Dunstall; Oldcastle-Lewis; Lettice-Mrs Walker.