SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Ferguson"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Ferguson")') 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 4247 matches on Event Comments, 1390 matches on Performance Comments, 543 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Dance: I: The Grand Garland Dance as17760410 but-Slingsby, Sga Crespi, Mrs Sutton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Afterpiece Title: Taste

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The World In The Moon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: II: Tambourine by Miss Rogers. III: Ballet, as17360417 IV: Sailors (from Orestes) by Glover, &c. V: Hornpipe by Ferguson

Performance Comment: III: Ballet, as17360417 IV: Sailors (from Orestes) by Glover, &c. V: Hornpipe by Ferguson .

Song: By Leveridge

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Tambourine by Miss Rogers. Harlequine by Mlle De L'Isle. Hornpipe by Ferguson

Performance Comment: Harlequine by Mlle De L'Isle. Hornpipe by Ferguson .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Comical Disappointment or The Miser Outwitted

Performance Comment: Cast not listed. With a new Prologue and an Epilogue to be spoken by Miss Ferguson in Boy's Cloaths .
Event Comment: Benefit Laguerre. Tickets deliver'd by Miss Ferguson, Mrs Bland, and others will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: CComic Dance, as17420505; Pantaloon and Enamorata, as17420510

Event Comment: Benefit for Collins, Riccard, Paddick, Miss Ferguson. Tickets for the Royal Merchant will be taken. Tickets sold at the door will not be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Event Comment: Benefit for Stede &c. Tickets deliver'd by Miss Ferguson will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Statue

Dance: II: Drunken Peasant-Miles; the Clown-Bennet; IV: Grand Scots Ballet-Cooke, Miss Hilliard

Song: III: Smiling Dawn from Jeptha-Mrs Chambers

Event Comment: Tickets deliver'd by Mlle Camargo and Miss Ferguson will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Dance: LLes Taileurs, as17531210; also by Particular Desire, a Minuet, Louvre-Gardner, Mlle Camargo

Event Comment: [The first payroll of the season was met this night. It includes 91 actors, actresses and dancers, plus 36 named servants to the theatre and 4 groups (women dressers, charwomen, guards, and barbers). The pay period covered was for 3 days. It came to #168 2s. 6d. The highest paid actor for this period was Ross at #8 5s.; the highest paid actress, Mrs Yates at #8 6s. 6d.; the highest paid dancer, Fichar at #3. The lowest paid in each category were: actors: C. Smith and Hollingsworth at 7s. 6d. apiece; actresses, 11 who receiv'd 10s. each (Mrs Ferguson, Evans, White, Allen, Cockayne, &c.); Dancers: 11 who receiv'd 15s. apiece (male) and 2 (female) who receiv'd 12s. 6d. apiece. The highest paid servant listed was Stables at 15s., and the lowest the charwomen.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the best Masters; viz. A full Piece of Music of the famous Signior Pepusch-Mr Banister, Mr Dean, Mr Lamour; A set of Airs for the Arch/Lute and Violin-the Two Mr Deans, composed on purpose by Mr Dean Jun; A Sonata for the Arch/Lute and Flute Alleman-Mr Dean Jun, Mr Latour; Singing to the Arch/Lute-Mr Hughes; A Solo of the famous Archangelo Corelli-Mr Dean Sen; A Cantata to the Arch/Lute-Mr Newbury; Singing to the Arch/Lute-a Gentleman come on purpose from Worchester

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Preludio

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece a Hornpipe by Master Byrn. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Preludio

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Dance: In Act III of 2nd piece Hornpipe by Byrn

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17630922

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Theatrical Candidates

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: End: The Merry Peasants, as17751018

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Preludio

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Dance: III 2nd piece: a Hornpipe-Master Byrn, in girl's clothes (London Chronicle, 9 Aug., and see17810810) This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: I: A comic Dance call'd The German Hunters-Master Settree, Miss Twist

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: Thurmond, Boval, Mrs Brett, Miss Tenoe, Young Rainton, Miss Robinson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lover

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Ring

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sethona

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs