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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Mainpiece Title: La Strattaggemma; Or, The Stratagem

Related Works
Related Work: The Clown's Stratagem; or, A New Way to get a Wife Author(s): Henry Carey

Song: Before the Burletta: Singing-; several songs, a duetto-Signora Saratina, Reinhold

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Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Music: CConcerto on the Harpsichord-Stanley; solo on Violin-Hay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The French Flogg'd; Or, The English Sailors In America

Song: Diet, The Humours of Bartholomew Fair-Alley Croaker, Signora Ciperini; And a Song- on the late glorious success gained over the French by his Serene Highness Prince Ferdinand

Event Comment: By Authority [repeated in each bill]. A new English Burletta. Taken from the Memoirs of Jeffrey Ap Arthur of Monmouth, interspersed with Critical Remarks by Mess Snarler and Hum for Mr Bombast the Author. The Music, Scenes, Cloaths, and other Decorations entirely new. Prices: 4s., 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d. 6:30 p.m. [First announced on 7 Sept. for 10 Sept., and deferred on account of death of Princess Elizabeth. It was adapted from Henry Brooke's Jack the Giant Queller, 1748. Published 1778.

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Mainpiece Title: Galligantus

Related Works
Related Work: Galligantus Author(s): Henry Brooke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

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

Dance: Comic Dance,The Threshers-Leppie, Granier, Mlle Capdeville

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: As17591005

Event Comment: Receipts: #109 15s. 6d. Bill setter's bill paid, #3 15s. 6d. [Miss Brent enter'd the 8th ins. at 13s. 4d. per night. Mr and Mrs Tariot enter'd ditto at 5s. each per night. Mrs Stephens advanc'd to 5s. per night.

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

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Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Stephens

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: As17591012; The Threshers, as17591005

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Stephens

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Dance: As17591012; with a New Comic Dance call'd The Irish Turf@Cutters-Poitier Jr, 1st time here in 3 years, Miss Capdeville

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Stephens

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Dance: As17591017

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Stephens

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Dance: As17591102

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Stephens

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: As17591102

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Stephens

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: As17591102

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Young Bevil-Ross; Myrtle-Smith; Sir John-Gibson; Sealand-Sparks; Cimberton-Shuter; Tom (with song in character)-Dyer; Humphrey-Anderson; Daniel-Collins; Lucinda-Mrs Baker; Phyllis-Mrs Vincent; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Stephens; Isabella-Mrs Ferguson; Indiana-Mrs Ward.
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Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Stephens

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Song: Lowe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: TThe Plowman, as17591121; a Comic Dance-Granier, Miss Hilliard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Stephens

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Dance: II: The Threshers, as17591005

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Stephens

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: HHornpipe-Miss Dawson; Country Dance-Characters in the Play; End II: A Comic Dance-Granier, Miss Hilliard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Related Works
Related Work: The Honest Yorkshireman Author(s): Henry Carey

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Related Works
Related Work: The Mock Doctor; or, The Dumb Lady Cur'd Author(s): Henry Fielding

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Desert Island

Performance Comment: Actors only in bills, but Macmillan lists: Ferdinand-Holland; Henrico-Fleetwood; Constantia-Mrs Pritchard; Sylvia-Miss Pritchard; Prologue-Garrick in character of a Drunken Poet.
Cast
Role: Henrico Actor: Fleetwood

Afterpiece Title: The Way to Keep Him

Related Works
Related Work: The Letter Writers; or, A New Way to Keep a Wife at Home Author(s): Henry Fielding

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Desert Island

Cast
Role: Henrico Actor: Fleetwood

Afterpiece Title: The Way to Keep Him

Related Works
Related Work: The Letter Writers; or, A New Way to Keep a Wife at Home Author(s): Henry Fielding

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Stephens

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: As17600108