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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mlle de Vaurinville"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mlle de Vaurinville")') 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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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

Performance Comment: Petit-Maitre-Mlle Grognet; Kitty-Mrs Clive; Harlequin-Le Brun; Beau Mordecai-Stoppelaer; Debauchee-Mullart; Mittimus-Topham; Poudre-Este; Madam Decoy-Mrs Mullart; Constable-Jones; Keeper-Burnet; Porter-Hallam; Jenny-Miss Davenport; Bess Brindle-Leigh; Pompey-Young Carney; Le Coutillion-Lally Sr; Hungarians-Lally Jr and Mrs Walter; Fingalians-Davenport and Mrs D'Lorme; Punch-H. Tench; Pierrot-Holt; Mezzetin-Leigh; Ladies of Pleasure-Mrs Anderson, Mrs Davenport, Miss Brett .
Cast
Role: Petit Actor: Maitre-Mlle Grognet
Role: Maitre Actor: Mlle Grognet

Dance: I: English Maggot by S. Lally and Mrs Walter. III: The Revellers by Essex, Miss Latour, S. Lally, Miss Mann, Holt, Mrs Delorme. IV: Grand Dance in Momus: Sailor-Nivelon; Lively Lass-Miss Man; Swains and Nymphs by Lally, Miss Latour, Holt, Mrs Anderson, Davenport, Mrs Delorme, Topham, Mrs Davenport

Song: In II: The Original Song in the Play, by Mrs Cibber

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Terpsicore

Performance Comment: Cast not listed, but edition of 1734 lists: Apollo-Carestino; Erato-Signora Strada; Terpsichore-Mlle Salle .
Cast
Role: Terpsichore Actor: Mlle Salle

Afterpiece Title: Pastor Fido

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A La Mode

Performance Comment: Hardy-Delane; Campley-Giffard; Brumpton-Huddy; Trusty-Hulett; Cabinet-Havard; Sable-Lyon; Puzzle-Rosco; Trim-R. Wetherilt; Tom-Hamilton; Tattleaid-Mrs Monlass; Mrs Fardingale-Penkethman; Kate-Pearce; Lady Brumpton-Mrs Roberts; Sharlot-Mrs Hamilton; Harriet-Mrs Giffard; Mlle D'Epingle-Bardin .
Cast
Role: Mlle D'Epingle Actor: Bardin

Afterpiece Title: Britannia

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mother-in-law

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: I: Russian Sailor by Denoyer, &c. II: By Denoyer's Apprentice. III: Shepherd's Mount by Denoyer, Mlle Salle, &c, with a new Scene, and New Habits. V: Minuet (in modern Habits) by Denoyer and Mlle Salle

Performance Comment: II: By Denoyer's Apprentice. III: Shepherd's Mount by Denoyer, Mlle Salle, &c, with a new Scene, and New Habits. V: Minuet (in modern Habits) by Denoyer and Mlle Salle .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Music: III: Preamble on Kettle Drums by Poitier. IV. The Cuckow (by VivaldI) by Master Oates

Dance: I: A new Peasant Dance by Master Oates, Miss Oates Jr. II: Serious Dance by Mlle Roland. V: Harlequin and Harlequine by Poitier and Mlle Roland

Performance Comment: II: Serious Dance by Mlle Roland. V: Harlequin and Harlequine by Poitier and Mlle Roland .

Song: End of Afterpiece: Mock Italian Song by Roberts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Music: As17351018

Dance: II: A new Grand Serious Ballet by Denoyer and others. IV: By Mlle Roland. End Afterpiece: Le Chasseur Royal by Denoyer, Mlle Roland, &c

Performance Comment: IV: By Mlle Roland. End Afterpiece: Le Chasseur Royal by Denoyer, Mlle Roland, &c .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Revellers by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c. III: Tambourine by Mlle Roland. V: Venetian Gondolier and Courtezan by Denoyer, Mlle Anne Roland, &c

Performance Comment: III: Tambourine by Mlle Roland. V: Venetian Gondolier and Courtezan by Denoyer, Mlle Anne Roland, &c .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd; or, Taste a la Mode

Performance Comment: Tragedy-Raftor and Mrs Cantrell; Comedy-Turbutt and Mrs Bennet; Squire Flash-Taylor; John Trot-Hough; Longbib the Vintner-Salway; Park Centinel-Fife; Harlequin-Le Brun; Colombine-Miss Mann; Enchanter-Salway; Auctioneer-Rainton; Prentice-Rosamond; Park Keeper-Gray; Kate Sutler-Beckham; Ballad Singers-Salway, Mrs Pritchard; Drawers-Roberts, Towers; Milkmaids-Mrs Walter, Mrs PelUng, Mrs Anderson, Miss Brett; Mlle La Modestie-Harlequin Phillips; Mons Flip Flap-Towers; Mons Somerset-Roberts; Mons Roundall-Hough .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Deceit

Dance: Tambourine by Glover and Miss Rogers. Comic Ballet by Lalauze, Mlle d'Hervigni, &c. French Peasant by Tench and Miss Rogers. Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers, Desse, Mrs Ogden, Tench, Mlle Delorme

Performance Comment: Comic Ballet by Lalauze, Mlle d'Hervigni, &c. French Peasant by Tench and Miss Rogers. Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers, Desse, Mrs Ogden, Tench, Mlle Delorme .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton: With Harlequin a Captive

Performance Comment: Jupiter-Winstone; Neptune-Turbutt; Priest of Aurora-Salway; Terra-Mrs Cross; Phoebus-Mrs Cantrell; Phaeton-Cross; Clymene-Mrs Clive; Ethiopian-Essex; Moors-Pelling, Villeneuve, Davenport, Rector; Seasons-Villeneuve, Duke, Mrs Walter, Mrs Pelling; Turkish Dancers-Delamayne, Mrs Walter; Turk-Salway; Harlequin-Le Brun; Morocco Servant-Poitier; Colombine-Miss Mann; Her Maid-Mrs Pritchard; Captain of the Galley-Este; Innkeeper-Turbutt; Barber-Grey; Porter-Leigh; China Woman-Mrs Ferguson; Lodging Woman-Mrs Bennet; Harlequin's Good Genius-Miss Cole; Adonis-Denoyer; Venus-Mlle Anne Roland; Followers of Adonis-Pelling, Rector, Davenport, Mrs Davenport, Mrs Villeneuve, Miss Cantrell; Hours-Pelling, Rector, Davenport, Mrs Davenport, Mrs Villeneuve, Miss Cantrell .
Cast
Role: Venus Actor: Mlle Anne Roland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Performance Comment: Phoebus-Mrs Cantrell; Phaeton-Cross; Clymene-Mrs Clive; Ethiopian-Essex; Turk-Salway; Harlequin-Le Brun; Morocco Servant-Poitier; Colombine-Miss Mann; Adonis-Denoyer; Venus-Mlle Anne Roland, but see17360228.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: I: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. II: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. III: Le Ballet d'Amour by Denoyer, Mlle Anne Roland, &c. IV: Rover by Essex, Mrs Walter, Miss Mann, &c. V: French Peasants by Poitier, Mlle Roland, &c

Performance Comment: II: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. III: Le Ballet d'Amour by Denoyer, Mlle Anne Roland, &c. IV: Rover by Essex, Mrs Walter, Miss Mann, &c. V: French Peasants by Poitier, Mlle Roland, &c .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: 1: French Peasant by Tench and Miss Rogers. II: Comic Dance by Nivelon and his Scholar. III: Wooden Shoe Dance by Leviez. IV: By Desire, a Ball Dance by Dupre and Mlle Delorme. V: French Peasants by Lalauze and Mlle D'Hervigni. End Afterpiece: Scot's Dance by Glover and Miss Rogers

Performance Comment: II: Comic Dance by Nivelon and his Scholar. III: Wooden Shoe Dance by Leviez. IV: By Desire, a Ball Dance by Dupre and Mlle Delorme. V: French Peasants by Lalauze and Mlle D'Hervigni. End Afterpiece: Scot's Dance by Glover and Miss Rogers .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love; Or, The World Well Lost

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer; or, Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Lun; Genius-Leveridge, Salway, Miss Hillyard; 1st Fury-Glover; Demons: Harlequin Man and Woman-Desse, Mlle Delorme; Pierot Man and Woman-Shawford, Tench; Mezzetin Man and Woman-Glover, Mrs Moreau; Scaramouch Man and Woman-Dupre, Mrs Ogden; Miller-Nivelon; Miller's Wife-Mrs Moreau; Doctor's Man-Hippisley.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur; Or, Merlin The British Enchanter

Performance Comment: Arthur-Johnson; Merlin-Hewitt; Oswald-Giffard; Conon-Havard; Osmond-W. Giffard; Aurelius-Richardson; Albanact-Woodward; Guillamar-Hamilton; Grimbald-Lyon; Emmeline-Mrs Giffard; Philidel-Mrs Hamilton; Matilda-Miss Tollett; In which will be performed the Original Musick (composed by the late ingenious Mr Henry Purcell)-Corf, Hussy, Kelly, Touchbury, Nicholls, Kellnar, Mrs Chambers, Mrs Carter, Mrs Jones, Miss Gerrard; Venus-Miss Wilson; Cupid-Master Hamilton; being the first time of his appearing on this stage. Dancing-Haughton, Mlle Roland; Who never appeared on this stage before. With a New Prologue to the Town-Mr Giffard.
Cast
Role: Dancing Actor: Haughton, Mlle Roland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder: A Woman Keeps A Secret

Afterpiece Title: The Worm Doctor: With Harlequin Female Bone-Setter

Performance Comment: Doctor Pestle-Dove; Harlequin-Lun Jr; Pierrot-Norris; Mortar-Penkethman; Dropsical Man-Ware; His Servant-Hamilton; Constable-Wetherilt; Drawers-Harrington, Yeates; Chimneysweepers-Master J. Hamilton, Master W. Hamilton; Colombine-Mrs Hamilton; Maid-Mrs Dove; Bawd-Nichols; Nurse-Mrs Wetherilt; Mrs Lovepuppy-Miss Gerrard; Female Bone Setter-Harlequin; Bandage-Rosco; Callous-Ray; Vertebra-Lyon; Dislocation-Davis; South (Innkeeper)-Hewitt; with dancers-Haughton, Mlle Roland, Vallois, Lesac, Mrs Woodward, Miss Oates.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mithridates

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd: With the Loves of Paris and Oenone

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Lun Jr; Pantaloon-Dove; Colombine-Mrs Hamilton; Clown-Penkethman; Haymakers-Delagarde, Hays, H. Fayting, Mrs Dove, Miss Hughs, Miss Gerrard; Proteus-Touchbury; Tritons-Vallois, Delagarde, Lesac, H. Fayting; Paris-Kelly; Oenone-Mrs Chambers; Followers-Touchbury, Nichols, Corf, Hussy, Miss Jones, Miss Wilson, Mrs Carter, Miss Thornowets; Myrtillo-Haughton; Amaryllis-Mlle Roland; Shepherds and Shepherdesses-Lesac, Vallois, Delagarde, H. Fayting, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Woodward, Miss Gerrard, Miss Oates.
Cast
Role: Amaryllis Actor: Mlle Roland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd

Performance Comment: Apollo-Glover; Daphne-Mrs Laguerre; Nymphs-Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Ogden, Mrs Delorme, Miss Norman; Burgomaster-Nivelon; Boor Servant-Hippisley; Colombine-Mrs Kilby; Scaramouch-Bencraft; Harlequin-Lun; Peasants-Bencraft, Bodine, Dupre Jr; Women Peasants-Mrs Forrester, Miss Horsington, Miss Dancy; with The Triumphs of Love: Venus-Mrs Wright; Diana-Miss Hillyard; Silenus-Leveridge; Bacchus-Laguerre; Pan-Salway; Zaphyrus-Glover; Frenchman-Desse; Spaniard-Tench; Polonese-Richardson; Frenchwoman-Mlle Delorme; Spanish Woman-Mrs Moreau; Polonese Woman-Mrs Ogden; Flora-Mrs Laguerre.
Cast
Role: Frenchwoman Actor: Mlle Delorme

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Performance Comment: As17361115, but Ballet-Denoyer, Mlle Roland.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Performance Comment: Perseus-Beard; Cepheus-Leveridge; Ethiopian-Salway; Cassiope-Mrs Wright; Andromeda-Miss Hillyard; Mercury-Laguerre; Amazons-Mrs James, Mrs LeBrun, Miss Dancy, Mrs Moreau, Mlle Delorme, Mrs Ogden; Infernals-Leveridge, Desse, Tench, Baudouin, Dupre, Richardson, Davenport; Hussar-Nivelon; Harlequin-Lun; Colombine-Mrs Kilby; Hussar's Servant-Hippisley; Valet-James; Petit Maitre-Lalauze; concluding with the Grand Dance in Momus-Glover; Fawn-Glover.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite; Or, The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: Britannia; or, The Royal Lovers

Performance Comment: Germanicus-Miss Jones; Britannia-Mrs Chambers; Attendants on Germanicus-Corfe, Touchbury, Richardson, Kelly, Nichols, Osborne; Attendants on Britannia-Mrs Marshall, Mrs Ware, Mrs M. Giffard, Mrs Dove, Miss Hughes, Miss Tollet; Cupid-Master Hamilton; Mars-Haughton; Bellona-Mlle Roland; Their Followers-Vallois, LeSac, Delagarde, H. Fayting, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Woodward, Miss Gerrard, Miss Oates.
Cast
Role: Bellona Actor: Mlle Roland

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Pantomime; or, The Contending Colombines; Intermix'd with Ballad Songs in the Characters of Polly and Lucy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Performance Comment: As17361207, but Ballet-Denoyer, Mlle Roland.
Cast
Role: Ballet Actor: Denoyer, Mlle Roland.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Britannia

Performance Comment: See17361211, but Germanicus-Miss Jones; Britannia-Mrs Chambers; Mars-Haughton; Bellona-Mlle Roland; Followers-Vallois, LeSac, Delagarde, H. Fayting, Mrs Bullock,Mrs Woodward, Miss Gerrard, Miss Oates; Sergeant of Grenadiers-Lyon.
Cast
Role: Bellona Actor: Mlle Roland

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Pantomime

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Performance Comment: Flash-Este; Longbib-Stoppelaer; John Trot-Hough; Harlequin-Philips; Colombine-Miss Mann; Mlle La Modestie-Harlequin Phillips; Ballad Qingers-Stoppelaer, Mrs Pritchard; Somerset-Roberts; Roundall-Hough; Equilibrist-Peters; With a New Burlesque Tragi-Comic-Farcical Interlude: Tiddi@Doll, Director of the Gingerbread Company-Master Green; Pistolet-Miss Cole; with a Comic Medley Overture by Arne-.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Performance Comment: As17361211, but Ballet-Mlle _Roland.
Cast
Role: Ballet Actor: Mlle _Roland.
Role: Ballet Actor: Denoyer, Mlle Roland.

Song: II: La Nuvoletta-Miss Cecilia Young; IV: Wou'd you gain the Tender Creature-Miss Cecilia Young