SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,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: [By Susanna Centlivre.] Never Acted before

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Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Event Comment: [By Charles Beckingham.] Never Acted before. With Habits for all the Characters entirely New. Preface: [The play] was twice deferr'd by reason of a Principal Actor's Indisposition;...and even, when brought on the Stage, appear'd to less Advantage: The Principal Character of the Play being read the First Night, and the next Principal Character the Second

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Mainpiece Title: Scipio Africanus

Event Comment: [By John Breval.] Never Acted before

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Mainpiece Title: The Play Is The Plot

Event Comment: [By Richard Savage.] Never Acted before

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Mainpiece Title: Love In A Vail

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Benefit the Author. With the Addition of some new Scenes (never acted before)

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Mainpiece Title: Love In A Vail

Performance Comment: See17180617 but A new Character-Norris.

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

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Event Comment: [By Charles Johnson.] Never Acted before

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Mainpiece Title: The Masquerade

Event Comment: [By George Sewell.] Never Acted before

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Mainpiece Title: Sir Walter Raleigh

Event Comment: [Author unknown.] Never Acted before

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Mainpiece Title: The Younger Brother Or The Sham Marquis

Event Comment: [By T. Killigrew.] Never Acted before. All the Characters new dress'd. Original Weekly Journal, 21 Feb.: The House was so crowded, that several hundred could not find admittance. Some Disorder happen'd in one of the side Boxes, occasion'd by a Gentleman drawing his Sword on a Footman, who was keeping Places; and some Blows were exchang'd between the Gentleman and the Footman, which, however, ended without any bad Consequences

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Mainpiece Title: Chit Chat

Event Comment: '[By William Taverner.] Never Acted before

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Mainpiece Title: tis Well If It Takes

Performance Comment: Edition of 1719 lists: Loveless-Leigh; Oldish-Bullock Sr; Charles-Ryan; Prate-Spiller; Careful-Quin; Easy-Pack; Boy-Billy Bullock; Corinna-Mrs Bullock; Alicia-Mrs Moreau; Wishit-Mrs Knight; Isabella-Miss Willis; Beatrice-Mrs Spiller; Lucy-Mrs Giffard; Betty-Mrs Robertson; Prologue-Ryan; Epilogue-C. Bullock in the character of Harlequin ; Song written by Theobald and set to music by Babel-Pack in III.
Event Comment: [By Edward Young.] Never Acted before. With new Habits

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Mainpiece Title: Busiris King Of Egypt

Event Comment: [By Francis Tolson.] Never Acted before

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Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick Or The British Exile

Event Comment: [By Charles Beckingham.] Never Acted before. [The Prince expected to attend.

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Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth Of France

Event Comment: [By John Dennis.] Never Acted before. [See the Dedication of the 1720 edition for Dennis' grievances in the presentation of his play. The receipts this night, he states, were: near a hundred Pound.

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Mainpiece Title: The Invader Of His Country Or The Fatal Resentment

Event Comment: [By John Leigh.] Never Acted before

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Mainpiece Title: The Pretenders Or Kensington Gardens

Event Comment: Written by Mr Southerne. Never Acted before

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Mainpiece Title: The Spartan Dame

Event Comment: Mainpiece: [By Charles Molloy.] Never Acted before. Afterpiece: [By John Leigh.] A new Farce...being the Sequel to Country Wake. [The Prince present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Half Pay Officers

Related Works
Related Work: The Half Pay Officers Author(s): Charles Molloy

Afterpiece Title: Hobs Wedding

Dance: Bashful Maid, Irish Trot-Mrs Fryer

Event Comment: [By Benjamin Griffin.] Never Acted before

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Mainpiece Title: Whig And Tory

Event Comment: [By John Mottley.] Never Acted before

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Mainpiece Title: The Imperial Captives

Event Comment: Benefit Leigh and Hall. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Afterpiece: a new Farce, (never Acted before). At their Leigh-Hall? Great Booth in Bird-Cage Alley

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Mainpiece Title: Henry The Fourth Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Broken Stock Jobbers or Work for the Bailiffs

Dance: Comical Drunken Man-Harper; Also the surprizing and diverting Entertainment of The Italian Shadows which gave such universal Satisfaction last season in the New Theatre-

Event Comment: [Written by Colley Cibber.] Never Acted before. Whincop, p. 197: Mr Cibber's Enemies shew'd themselves very warmly at the Representation of this Piece, and I think without much Discretion; for they began to hiss it before they had heard it, and I remember very well, began their Uproar, on the first Night, as soon as he appeared to speak the Prologue

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Mainpiece Title: The Refusal Or The Ladys Philosophy

Event Comment: [By Eliza Haywood.] Never Acted before. Receipts: #37 12s. 6d. Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 4 March: Since the late Riot at the New Playhouse, his Majesty has been pleased to order that Company the same Number of Guards they have at Drury Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Captive

Event Comment: [By William Phillips.] Never Acted before. The Characters all new Dress'd. Receipts: #57 10s. 6d

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Mainpiece Title: Hibernia Freed

Event Comment: [By Ambrose Phillips.] Never Acted before. With new Habits. [See also Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 24 Feb., and Freeholder's Journal, 21 Feb.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Briton

Event Comment: At (alias Jubilee Dicky), Norris's, Chetwood's, Orfeur's, and Oates' Great Theatrical Booth, next Mr Bullock's in Bird-Cage Alley. An excellent new Droll, never acted before

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Mainpiece Title: Merlin The British Enchanter Or The Child Has Found His Father

Song: Mrs Boman