SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Several"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Several")') 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 4159 matches on Event Comments, 341 matches on Performance Title, 195 matches on Roles/Actors, 171 matches on Performance Comments, and 0 matches on Author.
Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Pix's Executor. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by the Author of a Comedy call'd, The Gamester. [A similar announcement in Post Boy, 26-28 May, adds: "the greatest part of which said Comedy (The Busy Body), and also that of the Gamester, was wrote by the said Mrs Pix."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busie Body

Event Comment: With an addition of a whole new Scene, consisting of Three Songs, compos'd by Signior Scarlatti, and perform'd by the famous Signior Cavaliero Nicolini Grimaldi. The Scenes, as 2 April. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Admission to pit and boxes by Printed tickets only. Stage boxes half a guinea. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d

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Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Event Comment: Benefit Leigh. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Event Comment: Benefit Bowen. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. For the Entertainment of his Excellency Don Joseph Diaz, Ambassador extraordinary from Muley Ismael Ben Shreif Elhossemy, Emperor of Morocco. [In Daily Courant, 1 June: "The Play-House at Dorset-Stairs is now pulling down."

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Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Event Comment: At the Deire of several Ladies of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: Troilus And Cressida; Or, Truth Found Too Late

Event Comment: Benefit Cave Underhill the old Comedian. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [In Tatler, 26 May, Underhill had announced his benefit, stating that he had losses to the value of nearly #2,500. See also Tatler, 31 May.

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Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: The Busie Body

Afterpiece Title: Sganarell; or, The Cuckold in Conceit

Event Comment: Benefit Nicolini. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. The boxes and pit open by tickets only at 7s. 6d. First Gallery 2s. 6d. At 7 p.m

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music entirely new by the famous Scarlatti Bononcini, other the greatest Italian Masters-; To which will be added, the new Scene which was perform'd on Saturday last in the Opera of Pyrrhus and Demetrius-; The Vocal Parts-Signior Nicolini, others

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies in Greenwich and from London. At Mr Penkethman's New Theatre in Greenwich. At 6 p.m

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Mainpiece Title: The Fine Ladies Airs

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [See also Tatler, 22 Sept.

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Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: Marriage A La Mode; Or, The Comical Lovers

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite; Or, The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage; Or, The Innocent Adultery

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: The Busie Body

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: The Rover; Or, The Banish'd Cavaliers

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea (comic part only)