SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Pope"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Pope")') 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 4346 matches on Event Comments, 2282 matches on Performance Comments, 566 matches on Performance Title, 32 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Aickin as Jarvis, but "Packer Jarvis, Aickin ill" (Powell). This is inaccurate: "Aickin's part was played by Benson" (Thespian Magazine, July 1794, p. 275; and see 5 June).] Powell: Natural Son rehearsed at 10 (Suett ill; Miss Pope one scene; Burton not called till 12); Lodoiska at 12. Receipts: #267 18s. 6d. (199/8/0; 60/9/6; 8/1/0)

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Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: THE PRIZE

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wives As They Were And Maids As They Are

Performance Comment: As17970316but Principal Characters-_Holman, Pope.

Afterpiece Title: Raymond and Agnes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wives As They Were And Maids As They Are

Performance Comment: As17970321but Principal Characters-_Holman, Pope.

Afterpiece Title: Raymond and Agnes

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Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Song: End: a celebrated Scotch Ballad-

Entertainment: Monologue.Before: [the original Address-; [i.e. Prologue] [written by Pope, with four concluding lines from Prologue of Agis- [by John Home]

Performance Comment: Before: [the original Address-; [i.e. Prologue] [written by Pope, with four concluding lines from Prologue of Agis- [by John Home].by John Home].
Event Comment: Mainpiece: A New Oratorio, in Two Parts, the only one composed in this Country nearly these 30 years. Afterpiece: An Ode, in One Part. The Band will wholly consist of Professors of the first eminence, and the Chorusses will be numerously supported by the best Performers in London, assisted by the young Gentlemen of his Majesty's Chapels, and of Westminster Abbey. The music entirely new, composed by Thomas? Busby, who will take the Piano Forte. Boxes 7s. Pit 4s. 1st Gallery 3s. 2nd Gallery 2s. Grove: [Busby] worked at a setting of Pope's 'Messiah' for some years, and it was produced in 1799 with considerable success as 'The Prophecy.

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Mainpiece Title: The Prophecy

Afterpiece Title: Ocean

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Mainpiece Title: Ramah Droog

Afterpiece Title: The Birth Day

Performance Comment: As17990408, but Emma-Miss Murray (1st time) in place of Mrs Pope; Epilogue-Miss Murray.
Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Pope as Charles Stanley, but "The part of Charles Stanley this night devolved upon Claremont. It were to be wised that this gentleman would suffer the austerity of his features to relax, when he acts the lover. A continual frown ill accords with the soft workings of the tender passion" (Dramatic Censor, I, 78).] Receipts: #207 15s. (197.5; 10.10)

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Mainpiece Title: A Cure For The Heart Ache

Afterpiece Title: The Volcano

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Mainpiece Title: The Moore Of Venice

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cheats

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Mainpiece Title: The Step mother

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Mainpiece Title: Floras Vagaries

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Mainpiece Title: The Step Mother

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Mainpiece Title: Pompey The Great

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Mainpiece Title: Tu Quoque Or The City Gallant

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Mainpiece Title: Horace

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Mainpiece Title: The Roman Virgin Or The Unjust Judge

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Mainpiece Title: Henry The Third Of France Stabbd By A Fryer With The Fall Of The Duke Of Guise

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Mainpiece Title: The Mans The Master

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Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In The Dark Or The Man Of Busness

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Mainpiece Title: The Libertine

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Mainpiece Title: Every Man Out His Humour

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Mainpiece Title: Alcibiades