SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mrs Price"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mrs Price")') 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 23337 matches on Performance Comments, 4909 matches on Event Comments, 4210 matches on Performance Title, 45 matches on Roles/Actors, and 9 matches on Author.
Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by Sir Robert Howard. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Queen

Music: As17150719

Event Comment: Benefit Tim. Buck, to release him out of Prison. At Common Prices. Receipts: #100 13s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Of A Wife Or A Comical Transformation

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Sack

Dance: As17150823

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Gentlemen and Ladies. With all the proper Decorations of Scenes, Machines, and Dances. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Cast
Role: Amphitrite Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Airy Spirit Actor: Mrs Bowman.

Music: All the Musick by Mr Weldon and perform'd Compleat, as at the Revival of the Play-

Event Comment: With all the proper Decorations of Scenes, Machines, and Dance. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Cast
Role: Amphitrite Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Airy Spirit Actor: Mrs Bowman.

Music: As17160807

Event Comment: At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Song: As17170204

Event Comment: At Command Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Song: As17170204

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. At the particular desire of the Author's Friends, Two Benches of the Pit will be rail'd in, at the Price of the Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Masquerade

Event Comment: Tickets will be deliver'd out at the Treasury Office at the Theatre, and no where else in the Theatre, at usual Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Balourd Or Harlequin A Blunderer

Event Comment: At Common Prices. N.B. Part of the Company will continue to Act two Days in a Week during the Summer Session. Original Weekly Journal, 6 June: A Quarrel happening in Drury-Lane Play-House, betwixt a Gentleman and an Officer, they immediately drew their Swords, and the Latter was wounded in the Arm

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don John Or The Libertine Destroyd

Music: With the Original Shepherd's Musick by the late Henry Purcell-Birkhead, Bowman

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Cast
Role: Hippolita Actor: Mrs Bicknell
Role: Dorinda Actor: Mrs Santlow

Dance: Thurmond Jr, Topham, Birkhead

Event Comment: John Vanbrugh to Jacob Tonson (Vanbrugh, Works, IV, 125): The Opera will begin about the 10th of March under the Academy of Musick. It will be a very good one this year, and a better the next. They having engag'd the best Singers in Italy, at a great Price. Such as I believe will bring the Expences to about twice as much as the Receipts. But the fund Subscribed being about #20000, may probably Support it, till Musick takes such root, as to Subsist with less aid. The King gives a #1000 a year to it

Performances

Event Comment: At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Event Comment: With Scenes, Machines, Songs, and Dances proper to the Play. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Event Comment: With Scenes, Machines, Songs, and Dances, proper to the Play. At common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest Or The Inchanted Island

Event Comment: Written by Mr C. Shadwell. At Common Prices. Receipts: #39 12s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Cast
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Rogier
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Spiller
Role: Jiltup Actor: Mrs Gulick
Role: Barmaid Actor: Mrs Egleton
Role: Arabella Actor: Mrs Bullock

Afterpiece Title: The Magician

Event Comment: At the Request of the Inhabitants of the Town and Corporation of Windsor. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. At common Prices. Receipts: #60 15s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Cast
Role: Mrs Ford Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Mrs Page Actor: Mrs Seymour
Role: Mrs Quickly Actor: Mrs Egleton.

Afterpiece Title: The Magician

Event Comment: As 3 Jan. At Common Prices. [The opening of the Summer Season.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Event Comment: As it was alter'd from Shakespear by Sir William D'Avenant and Mr Dryden. With all the Songs, Dances, and other Decorations proper to the Play. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest Or The Inchanted Island

Event Comment: At the Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Captives

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Concluding as usual with a Grand Masque of the Heathen Deities. No Money (under the full Price) will be taken during the Time of the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As it was alter'd from Shakespear by Sir William D'Avenant and Mr Dryden. With all the Songs, Dances, and other Decorations proper to the Play. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest Or The Inchanted Island

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea or The Country Wedding

Event Comment: At the Desire of several of the Inhabitants of Cripplegate Parish, This present Tuesday, and no more, at the Castle Tavern without Cripplegate. Price 1s. 6d. or 1s. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: Scene of The Spanish Fryar

Song: New Song-Tony Aston in the Habit of a Fryar; other new comical songs-made this year at Tunbridge Wells

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. N.B. For the better Information of those who do not thoroughly understand the Italian Language, a Book with the Argument and Explanations in English, of what is transacted in every Scenes, may be had...at the usual Places in the Opera-House. Price 6d. [The King, Prince, and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Enchanted Island Of Arcadia Or The Magician Doctor With Harlequin King Of The Woods Flights Decorations And Transformations Of Harlequin Cupid Pantalon Venus And Brighella Jupiter And The Sacrifice Of Harlequin

Dance: Furies, Nymphs, Shepherds, Statues-; , the latter performing the Labours of Hercules-Statues , after the Manner of the Venetian Gondaliers at Venice: The whole full of Variety

Event Comment: The Lilliputian Theatre, Under the Direction of Mr Richardson...in Mr Hewetson's Great Room, the Upper End of Bow-Street, Covent-Garden. A New Opera. Price 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Enchanter

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of the King of the Cherokees, the Prince, the four Generals, and the young Captain, lately arrived from South Carolina. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-