SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Moll Davis whom I never saw act be"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Moll Davis whom I never saw act be")') 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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Event Comment: Not Acted these Ten Years [but see 29 April 1707]

Performances

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

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these Six Years. Afterpiece: Not perform'd these five Years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Troop; Or Monsieur Raggou

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wedding

Event Comment: Boxes 8s. Pit 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. Stage Boxes half a Guinea. At 5:30 p.m. Notices as 23 Oct. It having been the Common Practice of several Persons to come into the Opera and stay a whole Act, and sometimes longer, without paying, to the great Prejudice of the Opera, therefore it is humbly desired for the future, that no Person will take it ill that tney are not admitted without Tickets. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arminius

Event Comment: [Opening night, under the management of John Rich.] By the Company of Comedians under Letters Patents granted by King Charles the Second. Beginning exactly at Six. No Persons are to be admitted behind the Scenes, nor any Money to be return'd after the Curtain is drawn up. Receipts: #143. Weekly Packet, 18 Dec.: This Day the New Play-House...is to be open'd...by the Company that act under the Patent; tho' it is said, that some of the Gentlemen who have left the Theatre in Drury-Lane for that Service, are order'd to return to their Colours, upon Pain of not exercising their Lungs anywhere; which may in Time prove of ill Service to the Patentee; that has been at vast Expence to make his Theatre as convenient for the Reception of an Audience as any one can possibly be

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Event Comment: Not Acted these Nine Years. With proper Entertainments and Decorations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess; Or, The Generous Portuguese

Event Comment: Not Acted these Six Years. Receipts: #106 15s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist; Or, The Sham Doctor

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Event Comment: Not Acted these Six Years. Receipts: #40 17s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Related Works
Related Work: The Perplex’d Couple: or, Mistake upon Mistake Author(s): Chalres Molloy

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Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not Acted these 12 Years. Receipts: #31 12s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance: DuPre, Moreau, Bovile, Sandham, Miss Schoolding

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these Six Years. Receipts: #47 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cheats Of Scapin

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance: As17150113

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By Christopher Bullock.] A Farce of one Act, taken out of a Play written by Mr Shirley, call'd, A Mad World, my Masters. Receipts: #40 9s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Slip

Dance: duPre, Moreau, Bovil, Sandham, Miss Russell

Event Comment: Not Acted these Five Years. Receipts: #28 0s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Yeoman Of Kent [tunbridge Walks]

Dance: As17150114

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Knight. Mainpiece: Not Acted these Six Years. Receipts: #141 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius; Or, The Force Of Love

Afterpiece Title: The Beau Demolished

Song: A Dialogue-Leveridge, Pack; A Trumpet Song-Rawlins; The New Boy

Dance: As17150125; particularly An Italian Night Scene between Harlequin, Scaramouch, and Punch-

Event Comment: Not Acted these Six Years. Written by Mr Wycherley. Carefully Revis'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Event Comment: Not Acted these Six Years. Carefully Revis'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Greenwich Park

Event Comment: Not Acted these Six Years. Receipts: #59 5s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Transformation

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Sack

Dance: Dutch Skipper-Thurmond Jr, Mrs Cross

Event Comment: Not Acted these Ten Years. Written by Sir Robert Howard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Queen

Music: With the Original Vocal and Instrumental Musick , composed by that famous English Master Mr Henry Purcell; The principal Parts-Randall, Renton, Teno, Burkhead, Mrs Willis, Mrs Mills, Miss Booth

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Event Comment: Not Acted these Six Years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Flora's Vagaries

Song: Mimick Song of a Country Life-Mrs Willis; No Kissing At All-Renton, Mrs Willis

Event Comment: Not Acted these Five Years. Receipts: #37 8s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Duke And No Duke

Song: 'This Sultry Weather Pretty Maid-Hall, Mrs Thurmond

Dance: A new Entry-Thurmond Jr, Mrs Cross; A new French Peasant-Spiller, F. Leigh, Mrs Spiller

Event Comment: Not Acted these Ten Years. Written by the Ingenious Mrs Behn. Receipts: #25 17s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Count; Or, A New Way To Play An Old Game

Song: A Dialogue-Pack, Cook

Dance: Dutch Skipper-Thurmond Jr, Mrs Cross

Event Comment: Not Acted these Ten Years. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: #29 18s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

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Event Comment: Not Acted these Twenty-Five Years. Written by the late Sir Robert Howard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surprizal

Song: Purcell's Genius of England-Randal

Dance: Miss Younger

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these Five Years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid's Tragedy

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis (First Interlude)

Dance: Dupre, Boval, Dupre Jr, Mrs Santlow, Miss Younger

Event Comment: Not Acted these Five Years. Receipts: #25 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus, King Of Thebes

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music composed by Mr Hen. Purcell-Leveridge, Randal, Reading, the Boy

Dance: A new dance-Moreau, Mrs Cross

Event Comment: Not Acted these Ten Years. Written by Mr Wycherley. Receipts: #37 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Song: As17151006

Dance: As17151029; Dutch Skipper-delaGarde, Mrs Bullock; The last new comic dance-Moreau, Mrs Cross

Event Comment: Not Acted these Sixteen Years. And all the Original Musick. The Habits, Scenes, Machines, Dances, and all other Decorations proper to the Play, being entirely New. Boxes 6s. Pit 5s. Gallery 2s 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. And whereas there are a great many Scenes and Machines to be mov'd in this Opera, which cannot be done if Persons should stand on the Stage, (where they could not be without Danger) it is therefore hoped no Person will take it ill that they must be deny'd Entrance on the Stage. Receipts: #198 18s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess; Or, The History Of Dioclesian