SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Hen Purcel"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Hen Purcel")') 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 4233 matches on Event Comments, 1144 matches on Performance Comments, 533 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Mrs Vixen Actor: Mrs Stephens

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Dance: FFingalian Revels, as17570329

Event Comment: Benefit for Lowe. [See following "puff" from the Public Advertiser. "Sir: Perhaps there never was a period when the members of the stage were more respected than at present; and this favour consequently proceeds from the decency of their behaviour, and an emulative pride to please that public, whose generosity is an ample reward for their assiduity and perseverance; and when we consider the many qualifications, as well natural as acquired, requisite to constitute a player, surely the most rigid judge will be of opinion that the encouragement is not more than equal to the excellence. An actor must feel, that is, have the most refined idea of his part, to make an audience feel likewise; and adequate to the pleasures he enjoys in the applause of his approvers, will rise his degree of unhappiness, if by accident or sickness he is obstructed in the execution of his Genius; and should this happen at the era of his benefit, it must then be his misfortune to supplicate that interest which otherwise his merit would have commanded. "I was led to these reflections by accidentally perusing an advertisement prefix'd to a bill for the benefit of Mr Lowe; a performer too well known to need encomiums here; from whom the Town receive no inconsiderable Satisfaction at the theatre, and whose harmonious performance at our deservedly frequented summer scene of pleasure, has long obtained their highest approbation. We are told that a severe cold and Hoarseness have hindered his performing for some weeks past, and that he is now incapable of going abroad." Follows an elaborate plea for Lowe's friends to excuse his not calling on them, and for them to support his Benefit Night. Signed Veritas.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Dance: As17570103

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Statue; or, The Jealous Farmer Outwitted

Dance: FFingalian Revels, as17570329 Hornpipe-Poitier Jr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Cast
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Stephens

Dance: I: Hornpipe-Poitier Jr; II: Old Scotch Dance-Leppie, Miss Hilliard; III: Fingalian Revels, as17570329 V: Louvre and Minuet-Leppie, Miss Hilliard

Song: IV: A song-Mrs Chambers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Tamer Tam'd

Song: I: Miss Young

Dance: II: A Comic Dance [dancers unspecified]-; III: A Hornpipe-Harrison; IV: A New Comic Dance-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Mrs Vixen Actor: Mrs Stephens

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: I: Country Lass, as17570512; II: Dutch Sailor, as17570525; III: Dutch Peasant, as17570512

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Medley Concert And Auction

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Frolic

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses; Or, The Custom Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Related Works
Related Work: The Contrivances; or, More Ways Than One Author(s): Henry Carey

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: II: The Italian Peasants, as17571004

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Related Works
Related Work: Mercury Harlequin Author(s): Henry Woodward

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: The Italian Peasants, as17571004

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Medley Concert

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Frolic

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Medley Concert

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Frolic

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant; Or, The Way To Win Him

Afterpiece Title: Merlin (Harlequin Skeleton)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Young Bevil-Ross; Myrtle-Smith; Sir John-Gibson; Sealand-Sparks; Cimberton-Arthur; Tom-Dyer; Humphrey-Anderson; Daniel-Collins; Lucinda-Mrs Baker; Phillis-Mrs Vincent; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Stephens; Isabella-Miss Ferguson; Indiana-Mrs Hamilton; with Singing-Lowe.
Cast
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Stephens

Afterpiece Title: Merlin (Harlequin Skeleton)

Dance: JJovial Coopers, as17571107

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar; Or, The Double Discovery

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette

Dance: IV: The Italian Peasants, as17571004

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Cast
Role: Phenix Actor: Bransby

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Related Works
Related Work: The Authors Farce; and, The Pleasures of the Town Author(s): Henry Fielding

Dance: III: The Market, as17571126