SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Prince and Princess Landgrave of Hesse"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Prince and Princess Landgrave of Hesse")') 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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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sighs Or The Daughter

Performance Comment: Von Snarl-Suett; Totum-Fawcett; Adelbert-C. Kemble; Leopold-Barrymore; Hans William-Palmer; Nicolas-Chippendale; Josephine-Miss DeCamp; Louisa-Mrs Gibbs; Mrs Rose-Mrs Davenport; Ellen-Mrs Bland.
Cast
Role: Ellen Actor: Mrs Bland.
Related Works
Related Work: Sighs; or, The Daughter Author(s): Prince Hoare

Afterpiece Title: Tis All a Farce

Song: [not listed on playbill]in II: 'Twas in the solemn mid@night hour-Mrs Bland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sighs

Cast
Role: Ellen Actor: Mrs Bland.
Related Works
Related Work: Sighs; or, The Daughter Author(s): Prince Hoare

Afterpiece Title: The Jew and the Doctor

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of False and True, advertised on playbill of 24 June.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sighs

Related Works
Related Work: Sighs; or, The Daughter Author(s): Prince Hoare

Afterpiece Title: Fortunes Frolick

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Cast
Role: Henry Moreland Actor: C. Kemble

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Related Works
Related Work: My Grandmother Author(s): Prince Hoare

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sighs

Related Works
Related Work: Sighs; or, The Daughter Author(s): Prince Hoare

Afterpiece Title: Obi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sighs

Cast
Role: Ellen Actor: Mrs Bland.
Related Works
Related Work: Sighs; or, The Daughter Author(s): Prince Hoare

Afterpiece Title: Obi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Obi

Afterpiece Title: Sighs

Related Works
Related Work: Sighs; or, The Daughter Author(s): Prince Hoare

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sighs

Related Works
Related Work: Sighs; or, The Daughter Author(s): Prince Hoare

Afterpiece Title: Obi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sighs

Related Works
Related Work: Sighs; or, The Daughter Author(s): Prince Hoare

Afterpiece Title: The Review

Event Comment: [Prince of Wales and Princess Amelia present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne

Event Comment: [Prince of Wales and Princess Amelia present.] Lord Hervey to Henry Fox, 2 Nov.: No place is full but the Opera; and Farinelli is so universally liked, that the crowds there are immense. By way of public spectacles this winter, there are no less than two Italian Operas, one French play house, and three English ones. Heidegger has computed the expense of these shows, and proves in black & white that the undertakers must receive seventy-six thousand odd hundred pounds to bear their charges, before they begin to become gainers. Ilchester, Lord Hervey and his Friends, p. 211

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Event Comment: [Prince of Wales, Duke, and Princess Amelia present.] Daily Advertiser, 30 Jan.: The Opera oF Mithridates was so full on Tuesday Night, that there were above 440 Ladies and Gentlemen in the Pit and Boxes, besides the Subscribers. Above 50 People were oblig'd to go away for want of Room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mithridates

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clive (Cross). Music of Afterpiece by DeFesch. Tickets at her lodgings at the Wheatsheaf in Henrietta St., and at the Stage Door. Afterpiece: Never performed but twice. Part of Pit to be laid into the boxes. Receipts: #210 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The London Prentice

Performance Comment: Princess-Mrs Clive; Prentice-Beard; Emperor-Wilder; Humdrumeda-Miss Thomas; Vizir-Vernon.
Cast
Role: Princess Actor: Mrs Clive

Dance: T$Three Sabatinis As17550203

Event Comment: [Princesses Mary and Louisa present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Festin De Pierre Ou Latthee Foudroye Or Don John Or The Libertine Destroyd

Performance Comment: Don John-Le Sage Sr; Don Phillip-Le Sage Jr; Don Alvarez-Dubuisson; Ghost of Don Pedro-Verneuill; Grand Prevost-Cochoy; Le Pelerin-De Lisle; Don John's Servant-Harlequin; Amarille-Mrs Cochoy; Shepherdess-Mrs Mimi; Bride and Bridegroom-Malter and Mrs Malter .

Afterpiece Title: Le Francois a Londres

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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: Britannia or The Royal Lovers

Performance Comment: Prince Germanicus-Mrs Thurmond; Britannia-Mrs Roberts; Royal Attendants on Germanicus-W. Giffard, Rosco, Bardin, West, Moore, Presgrove; Royal Attendants on Britannia-Mrs Haughton, Miss Norman, Mrs M. Giffard, Mrs Wetherilt, Mrs Dove, Miss Tollet; Priests of Hymen-Lyon, Dove, Ayres, Wetherilt Sr, Monlass, Morris; Watermen-Bardin, Stoppelaer, Jenkins, Harbin, Rosco, Sandham, Delagarde, Dove; Grenadiers-Huddy, Excell, Moore, Wetherilt, Evans, West, Monlass, Morris; Serjeant-Hulett; Cupid-Miss Cole; Deities-Vallois, Delagarde, Sandham; Graces-Miss Wherrit, Miss Sandham, Mrs Vallois; First Swain-Thurmond; First Nymph-Mrs Bullock; Followers-Vallois, Delagarde, Sandham; Nymphs-Miss Wherrit, Miss Sandham, Mrs Vallois .

Entertainment: [Author unknown.] The House will be adorned with the Portraits of the Royal Family, and his Highness the Prince of Orange; and a new Ceiling-piece of Apollo and the Muses. The Cloaths, Scenes, Machines, and other Decorations entirely new. On which Account the Boxes and Balconies on the Stage will be 5s. Boxes 4s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d

Performance Comment: ] The House will be adorned with the Portraits of the Royal Family, and his Highness the Prince of Orange; and a new Ceiling-piece of Apollo and the Muses. The Cloaths, Scenes, Machines, and other Decorations entirely new. On which Account the Boxes and Balconies on the Stage will be 5s. Boxes 4s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d .
Event Comment: Benefit the Author of the Farce, and Miss Burgess. Mainpiece: As originally written by Shakespear. Supervised, Read over, Revised, and Unalter'd. [For a puff (signed by W. Shakespear), see Daily Advertiser, 4 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of King John

Performance Comment: Prince Arthur-Miss Burgess; With a New Prologue- in the Characters of Shakespear's Ghost, the Squire, Mr Student, and Mr Bays; concluding with an Address to the Ladies- of the Shakespear's Club.

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Milliners

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Prince Volscius-Davies; Gentleman Usher-Weston; Tom Thimble-Quin; Thunder-Johnson; Smith-Lewis; Prettyman-Death; The Sun-Blakey; Amaryllis-Mrs Osborne; Chloris-Miss Platt; two Kings of Brentford-Hayes, Jackson; Parthenope, Moon-Mrs Daly; Bayes-Wilkinson (with a variety of imitations); Johnson-Kennedy; with an additional Reinforcement of Mr Bayes's new rais'd Troops-.
Cast
Role: Prince Volscius Actor: Davies

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: II: A Serious Dance-Miss Street (scholar to Ghendi); V: The Venetian Gardeners-Master Rogier, Miss Street

Event Comment: [Prince of Wales present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay or The Wives Metamorphosd

Event Comment: [Prince of Wales present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne

Event Comment: [Prince of Wales present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne

Event Comment: (Prince of Wales present.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne in Naxus

Event Comment: Prince of Orange expected this evening

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne in Creta

Event Comment: [Prince of Wales present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Performance Comment: Cast not known (London Daily Post and General Advertiser missing), but see17351120.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: [Prince of Wales present.] As 12 Jan

Performances

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restord

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Follies Of A Day

Cast
Role: Ferdinand Actor: Johnstone

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Afterpiece Title: A Masque In Honor of the Nuptials of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales with Caroline Princess of Brunswick on 8 April 1795

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Dance: In 3rd piece: a Grand Dance-Byrn, Holland, Mlle St.Amand, Mme Rossi

Performance Comment: Amand, Mme Rossi.

Song: End I 2nd piece: The Richmond Primrose Girl (Music by Spofforth-Poetry by William Pearce, Esq.) sung in character-Mrs Clendining