SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "MMrs Pritchard"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "MMrs Pritchard")') 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 1002 matches on Performance Comments, 191 matches on Event Comments, 9 matches on Performance Title, 2 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: MMrs Cibber is recover'd & plays tonight-Mr Garrick taken ill, Holland did Chamont (Cross). [Probably Havard of Davies did Polydore, as both were familiar with the part.] Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Lilliput

Event Comment: MMrs Vernon & Young. Tickets (Cross). Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [See 15 May 1754.] Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Event Comment: MMrs Yates play'd Hermione (Indiff) (Cross). Mainpiece: Not acted for 3 years. [See 16 April 1755]. Receipts: #80 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Event Comment: MMrs Glen did Zara (bad) (Cross). Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Ballet: TThe Prussian Camp. As17571223

Event Comment: MMrs Glen did Zara agen-Oh! (Cross). Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber play'd. Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Agis

Cast
Role: Agesistrata Actor: Mrs Pritchard

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Ballet: I: The Prussian Camp. As17580131

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber's first appearance this season (Hopkins MS Notes)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanter

Song: II: Lowe

Event Comment: MMrs Yates very imperfect, and played very bad (Hopkins Diary--MacMillan). Receipts: #63 5s. 6d. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder; Or, A Woman Keeps A Secret

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

Event Comment: MMrs Hopkins play'd Mrs Strictland. Mrs Davies ill (Hopkins). Receipts: #118 16s. 6d. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber's benefit deferred on account of her dangerous illness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Capricious Lovers

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber extremely ill, benefit to have been tomorrow deferred. Her death reported (Winston MS 9) [but see 29 March]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Pritchard

Afterpiece Title: The Capricious Lovers

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber's death reported yesterday contradicted. She prov'd out of danger (Winston MS 9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Event Comment: MMrs Fitzhenry [formerly Mrs Gregory] engaged from Ireland to curb Mrs Yates, whose friends suspected as much and treated her cruelly (Genest, V, 87)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber is come to town and so well recovered as to be able to appear in Belvidera the latter end of the week

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber='s name appears here for last time in the bills (Genest, V, 91)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Event Comment: MMrs Fitzhenry hissed a little. Mr Dodd being ill, Master Burton played Fribble in the pantomime (Hopkins Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

Event Comment: MMrs Clive taken extremely ill, The Clandestine Marriage deferred (Winston MS 9). [The St James Chronicle; or, British Evening Post, this day contained four epigrams on Foote's accident.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Event Comment: MMrs Bellamy thinks it her duty to inform the Public, that, as her name is in the Bills, (Though the Managers have sent her word she was not to play) she should think herself wanting of that Gratitude she owes the Public, if she did not let them know, she is ready to perform Cordelia. [Pasted in playbills of dl 1766-67 at 19 Jan. See Mrs Bellamy's Apology (1785) IV, 145-47, where she notes that although Miss Wilford made her entrance the audience forced her to withdraw and Mrs Bellamy acted the entire part.] Receipts: #221 3s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Event Comment: MMrs Jeffries made her first appearance on this stage in Belinda.--not perfect.--was pretty well received.--is a little smart figure (Hopkins MS Notes). At 15 minutes past 4, took my place in the Pit at Drury Lane to see the Provok'd Wife. Mr Garrick is inimitable as Sir John Brute, Palmer does Heartfree, and Mrs Abington Lady Fanciful (with a song not printed in the play) very well. Constant by Cautherly, whose figure and manner I do not like, Vernon in Col. Bully sings a song (Neville MS Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: MMrs Jeffries very imperfect in Lucy. The Farce greatly applauded (Hopkins Diary). Afterpiece: With alterations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, The History Of George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Event Comment: MMrs W. Barry very bad in Almeria-imagine she was in Liquor (Hopkins Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Event Comment: MMrs Hippisley d---k, and could not speak (Hopkins Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zenobia

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Event Comment: MMrs Barry spoke the Original Epilogue to Mainpiece By Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False Delicacy

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: II: New Comic Dance, as17681210

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: Peggy Actor: Mrs Pritchard

Music: With theOriginal Musick, carefully reviv'd,-Mrs Clive, Ray, Stoppelaer, Rainton, Este, Raftor, Mrs Pritchard, Mrs Willis, Mrs Marshall

Dance: II: Two Pierrots-Livier, Pelling; III: Punch's Dance-a Child of Six Years old that never performed on the Stage before; V: Wooden Shoe Dance-Livier, Villeneuve

Song: I: The Lady's Lamentation, as17370503