SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Opera Office in the Haymarket"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Opera Office in the Haymarket")') 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: The Beggar's Opera

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Receipts: money #153 7s.; tickets #12 5s. Probable attendance: boxes, 184 by money and 49 by tickets; stage, 58 by money; balcony, 3 by money; pit, 281 by money; slips, 39 by money; first gallery, 381 by money; second gallery, 180 by money. Daily Journal, 8 Feb.: The Beggars Opera...meets with that universal Applause, that no one third Part of the Company that crowd thither to see it, can get Admittance: Which occasions a new Run to the Provok'd Husband at Drury-Lane; and so proves an equal Advantage to both Houses

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Receipts: money #162 8s.; tickets #13 10s. Probable attendance: boxes, 204 by money and 54 by tickets; stage, 43 by money; balcony, 2 by money; pit, 269 by money; slips, 58 by money; first gallery, 424 by money; second gallery, 180 by money. [For the fortunes of the play, see Gay to Swift, 15 Feb. in Correspondence of Pope, II, 473-74.

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Event Comment: Receipts: #170 9s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 236 paid; stage, 44 paid; balcony, 2 paid; Pit, 290 Paid and 3 orders; slips, 47 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 419 paid and 1 order; second gallery, 189 paid. For a comment on the play by Thomas Edwards, see V. M. Gilbert, Unrecorded Comments on John Gay, Henry Travers, and Others, Notes and Queries, August 1953, pp. 337-38

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Event Comment: Receipts: #176 14s. Probable attendance:'boxes, 224 paid and 3 orders; stage, 75 paid; pit, 279 paid and 5 orders; slips, 60 paid and 1 orders; pidgeon holes, 3 paid; first gallery, 444 paid and 4 orders; second gallery, 193 paid. [Both Daily Journal and Rich's Register call this the 35th performance; see 11 March.

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera