SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr H"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr H")') 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 4283 matches on Event Comments, 1418 matches on Performance Comments, 530 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 1 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Song: Beard

Dance: Cooke, Sga Campioni

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: I: Sailor's Hornpipe-Phillips late Harlequin of Drury Lane, his first in this Kingdom for three years; II: Quaker's Sermon on Viola-Phillips; III: Drunken Peasant-Phillips

Ballet: V:Pantomime Dance call'd Harlequin and Clown. Harlequin-Phillips

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Song: III: Lowe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Dance: The English Boy, English Girl

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Event Comment: Benefit for ye Author (Cross). Places for Boxes to be taken of Hobson at the stage door. Tickets to be had of Mr Miller, in the strand; Mr Dodsley in Pall Mall; at the Half-Moon Tavern, near Holborn Bars, and of Mr Hobson. Just Publish'd Mahomet and Palmira. A Tragedy as it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, by a Gentleman of Wadham College. [This would seem to be James Miller's Mahomet, with the printer capitalizing on Johnson's production at dl.] Receipts: #175 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet And Irene

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest; Or, The Inchanted Island

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With Proper Decorations. Dance by Desire. Paid Mr Donell for a Brown velvet coat & Breeches and a blue velvet flower'd waistcoat #4 4s.; to Mr Hughes for a blue velvet suit embroider'd, a Gray cloth coat lac'd with gold, a scarlet velvet waistcoat, an uncut velvet suit & cold straps #55; Paid Blandford (Tallow Chandler) #17 18s. 11d.; Paid Mr Havers five eights share Rent 100 nights #7 5s. 10d.; Paid Mrs Stanhope's 2 shares ditto #28 6s. 8d.; Norton 3 chorus 15s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #200 (Cross); #170 8s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Dance: GGrand Scotch Dance, as17491031

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Event Comment: Benefit for Geminiani. A Grand Entertainment of Sacred Music called...To conclude with the Magnificat compsoed by Conti. Mr Geminiani will conduct the Orchestra and perform a Concerto and Solo of his own Composition. Pit and Boxes 10s. 6d. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. To begin at half after six. Mr Geminiani has altered his day from Friday 6 April Mr Handel having agreed to have no Oratorio on Wednesday 11 April. So Tickets for 6 Apr. will be taken (General Advertiser). [Cross incorrectly dates this on Tuesday 10 April.] Receipts: #230 (Cross); charges, #21 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert Spiritual

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: I: Fingalian Dance-McNeil; II: Black Joke-the Little Swiss, Miss Foulcade; III: Grand Scotch Dance, as17491031; IV: Hornpipe-Mathews; End of Play: Minuet-Mathews, Mad DeLaContri

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gil Blas

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alfred, A Masque

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Event Comment: Benefit for Havard. Mainpiece: By particular desire. No building on the stage on account of the machinery for the Masque. Tho' Mr Havard's long and severe indisposition has prevented his personal solicitation, yet he hopes it will not deprive him of the preference of those Persons of Quality, &c. who used to favour his Benefits. N.B. Those ladies and gentlemen who applied for places and were disappointed the last time the Masque was performed, may have them for this night, by sending to Mr Hobson at the stage door, by whom tickets will be deliver'd; As also at the Bedford Coffee House, and at Mr Havard's in Broad Court, the upper end of Bow St., Covent Garden. Tickets hitherto deliver'd will be taken. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alfred

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eugenia

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: IV: Sg Piettro, Janeton Auretti, Master Piettro

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Dance: II: L'Entree de Flore, as17521106, but Piettro, Miss +Rayner, Mad Auretti; III: A +Hornpipe-Mathews

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab