SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Sparks Jun"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Sparks Jun")') 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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Event Comment: The Trip to the Jubilee deferr'd on account of the Indisposition of Sparks

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Wilkinson (1st appearance there), Dyer, Sparks, Dunstall, Davis, Bennet, Collins, Mrs Burden.

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: As17601013

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted this season. Full Prices. [Sparked by Victor's publication of his History of the Theatres of London and Dublin, 1730 to the Present, a series of articles on the Rise and Progress of the English Stage appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine for May (p. 214 ff); June (p. 264 ff); and July (p. 297).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17990919, but Rosencrantz-Caulfield; Grave@diggers-Wewitzer, Hollingsworth; Players-_Ryder, Sparks.
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Role: Players Actor: _Ryder, Sparks.

Afterpiece Title: The Embarkation

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Role: Sawney Actor: Sparks
Role: Juniper Actor: Bannister Jun.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cutter Of Coleman Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man's The Master

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tryphon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tryphon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Disappointment; Or, The Mother In Fashion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice; Or, It Cannot Be

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistakes

Event Comment: The United Company. The date of the premiere is not certain, but reference to it in the Gentleman's Journal, May 1693 (issued in June 1693), suggests that it appeared in May: We have had since my last a new Comedy called, The Female Vertuosos, something in it was borrowed from Moliere's Femmes Savantes, and as it hath Wit and Humour, it cannot but please in the perusal, as in the representation (p. 168). One song, Love thou art best of human joys, to words by Anne, Countess of Winchelsea, was set by Henry Purcell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Vertuosos

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Event Comment: Betterton's Company. The date of the premiere is not known, but the fact that the play was advertised in the London Gazette, 4-7 July 1698, suggests that the first performance occurred not later than late May or early June 1698

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fatal Friendship

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Richmond Heiress

Song: Variety of Songs-