SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mrs Aldridge"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mrs Aldridge")') 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 23346 matches on Performance Comments, 4331 matches on Performance Title, 4252 matches on Event Comments, 9 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Mrs John Evelyn to Mr Terryll: The censure of our plays comes to ee at the second hand. There has not been any new lately revived and reformed, as Catiline, well set out with clothes and scenes; Horace, with a farce and dances between every act composed by Lacy and played by him and Nell, which takes; one of my Lord of Newcastle's, for which printed apologies are scattered in the assembly by Briden's order, either for himself who had some hand in it, or for the author most; I think both had right to them (The Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, ed. Bray, IV, 14)

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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Dance: deBarques, Mrs Elford, Mlle de Noisy, others; A new Chacone-Mrs Bruce; Scotch Dance-Mrs Bicknell

Song: As17051011.Mrs Hodgson, Cook

Performance Comment: Mrs Hodgson, Cook.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arsinoe Queen Of Cyprus

Performance Comment: Mrs Tofts performing her own part.

Dance: As17060325

Event Comment: Mrs Moore's tickets for 3 March taken this day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Song:

Dance:

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Performance Comment: Mrs Tofts performing her own part, but See17081214.
Event Comment: Mrs Pendarves, 27 April: Yesterday morning [26] at the rehearsal of a most delightful opera at Mr Handel's called Sosarme. Delany, Autobiography, I, 463

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sosarme

Event Comment: Mrs Pendarves, 30 April: I go to-night... to Sosarmes, an opera of Mr Handel's, a charming one, and yet I dare say it will be almost empty!

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sosarmes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Two Anthems

Afterpiece Title: Davids Lamentation over Saul and Jonathan

Performance Comment: Mrs Arne, Beard, Russel, Rheinhold.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Womans Oratory

Performance Comment: Mrs Midnight's Concert and Oratory. See17530327 but Prologue-Hallet; Epilogue-Miss Midnight on a Jack Ass.

Song: TThe Dust Cart-Toe; accompanied-, Bombasto; Grand Dance in the Old British Taste-; Hornpipe-Timertoe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Womans Oratory

Performance Comment: Mrs Midnight's Concert and Oratory. See17530327.

Song: MMason's song, Several Scots Songs-Lauder

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: Mrs Cole, Smirk, Shift, Squintum-Foote; Baron-Costollo; Loader-Tindal; Sir George-Davis; Transfer-Parsons; Sir Richard-Gardner; Dick-Johnson; Lucy-Miss Reynolds.

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Cast
Role: Tagg Actor: Mrs Granger

Dance: I: The Dutchman, as17650719 End: The English Sailor at Marseilles-Mas. Clinton, Miss Street; New Hornpipe-Mas. Clinton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: Mrs Cole, Smirk-Foote; The Minor-Davis; Shift (with Imitations), Squintum-Bannister; Sir William Wealthy-Castle; Transfer-Weston; Loader-Palmer; Sir Richard Wealthy-Gardner; Dick-Quick; Tally-Pynn; Lucy-a young Gentlewoman, first appearance on any stage; Occasional Prologue in Prose-Laconic-J. Palmer; Scaffold the Builder-Bannister; Snarl-Weston; Manager-Foote-London Magazine.

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: Mrs Cole, Smirk-Foote; Sir Wm Wealthy-Castle; Richard Wealthy-Gardner; Minor-Aickin; Dick-Morgan; Shift, Squintum-Bannister; Loader-Davis; Tally-Jacobs; Transfer-Weston.

Afterpiece Title: The Statesman Foild

Dance: As17680530

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: Mrs Cole, Smirk-Foote; Sir William Wealthy-Castle; Richard Wealthy-Aickin; The Minor-Forde (from Dublin, his first appearance on this stage); Dick-Morgan; Shift (with Imitations), Dr Squintum-Bannister; Loader-Davis; Tally-Jacobs; Transfer-Weston; Lucy-Miss Ogilvie.

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Performance Comment: Major Sturgeon-Foote; Heeltap-Davis; Matthew Mugg-Bannister; Jerry Sneak-Weston; Lint-Castle; Bruin-Kearny; Roger-Jacobs; Snuffle-Pierce; Mob-Vandermere, Summers, Sharpless, Wheeler, Farrell; Mrs Sneak-Mrs Gardner; Sir Jacob Jallop-Sowdon.
Cast
Role: Mrs Sneak Actor: Mrs Gardner

Dance: As17690515

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Cast
Role: Zara Actor: Mrs Yates.

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Dance: I: A Dance-Aldridge, Miss Baker; After the Entertainment: A New Dance call'd the Fortune Tellers-Aldridge, Miss Baker

Entertainment: End: King (for that night only) will present the Audience with a New Comic Descriptive Piece call'd Ralph's Ramble Or O'Rare London! (being a short sequel to a comic character in the Maid of the Mill.)-King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Cast
Role: Goneril Actor: Mrs Stephens
Role: Regan Actor: Mrs DuBellamy
Role: Cordelia Actor: Mrs Yates

Dance: End: A New Comic Dance, call'd The Highland Reel-Aldridge, Miss Valois, Sga Manesiere (playbill); [But Public Advertiser lists The Irish Lilt by Aldridge and Miss Valois.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Performance Comment: Miser-Shuter; Frederick-Wroughton; Clerimont-Hull; James-Cushing; Ramilie-Dyer; Lappet-Mrs Green; Harriet-Mrs Baker; Mariana-Mrs Bulkley.
Cast
Role: Lappet Actor: Mrs Green
Role: Harriet Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: Mariana Actor: Mrs Bulkley.

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Performance Comment: Hartop-Shuter; Sir Gregory-Kniveton; Tim-Yates; Jenkins-DuBellamy; Jenny-Mrs Gardner;..
Cast
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Gardner

Dance: III: The Reel-Aldridge, Sga Manesiere [see17701103]; End: The Old ground Young-Aldridge, Mas. Harris, Miss Twist [see17701123]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Cast
Role: Patch Actor: Mrs Pitt

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Dance: II: The Whim (1st time this season) [but see17740416-Aldridge, Miss Twist; IV: An Allemande-Aldridge, Miss Twist

Monologue: Interlude.End: True Blue. As 3 May, but Dance-Blurton; Principal Parts-Mrs _Baker, Miss Twist

Performance Comment: End: True Blue. As 3 May, but Dance-Blurton; Principal Parts-Mrs _Baker, Miss Twist.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: Prospero-Hull; Ferdinand-Mattocks; Stephano-Wilson; Trincalo-Quick; Caliban-Dunstall; Gonzalo-Fearon; Alonzo-L'Estrange; Sebastian-Robson; Antonio-Booth; Master-Thompson; Boatswain-Bates; Miranda-Miss Brown; Juno-Miss Dayes; Ceres-Miss Valois; Ariel-Mrs Farrell.
Cast
Role: Ariel Actor: Mrs Farrell.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Frolicks

Cast
Role: Maid Actor: Mrs Whitefield

Dance: In: Aldridge, Miss Valois, others [the dance was composed by Aldridge (Morning Chronicle, 26 Nov. 1779), and danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances]; In afterpiece: as17761226

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Business

Cast
Role: Lydia Actor: Mrs Bulkley
Role: Mrs Carlton Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Mrs Flounce Actor: Mrs Helme
Role: Mrs Golding Actor: Mrs Green

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: III: A New Comic Dance-Aldridge, Miss Capon [see17731023]; After Epilogue: The Frolick, as17740416

Performances

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Cast
Role: Phillida Actor: Mrs Baker.

Entertainment: As17691007; in Masquerade after III: The Allemande-Aldridge, Mrs Bulkley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Cast
Role: Lady Rusport Actor: Mrs Green
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Willems
Role: Mrs Fulmer Actor: Mrs Gardner

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Cast
Role: Harriet Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: Termagant Actor: Mrs Green.

Dance: End: A Comic Dance-Aldridge, Mrs Stephens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Cast
Role: Lady Sycamore Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Patty Actor: Mrs Mattocks.

Afterpiece Title: The Romance of an Hour

Cast
Role: Lady Di Strangeways Actor: Mrs Green
Role: Zelida Actor: Mrs Bulkley

Dance: End Opera: A Comic Dance-Aldridge, Mrs Stephens. [See17711009.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady Jane Grey

Performance Comment: Lord Guildford Dudley-Lewis, first time; Pembroke-Bensley; Northumberland-Hull; Gardiner-Clarke; Suffolk-Fearon; Sussex-L'Estrange; Sir John Gates-Booth; Lieut.-Chaplin; Dutchess of Suffolk-Mrs Hull; Lady-Miss Pearce; Lady Jane Grey-Mrs Hartley.

Afterpiece Title: The Romance of an Hour

Cast
Role: Lady Di Strangeways Actor: Mrs Green
Role: Zelida Actor: Mrs Bulkley

Dance: End Tragedy: A Comic Dance, call'd Rural Merriment-Aldridge, Mrs Stephens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Cast
Role: Euphrasia Actor: Mrs Barry.

Afterpiece Title: The Two Misers

Cast
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Mattocks

Entertainment: InterludeEnd: True Blue; or, The Press Gang-Mattocks, Reinhold, Baker, Mrs Willems; The Dance-Aldridge