SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "T C"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "T C")') 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 2824 matches on Roles/Actors, 1326 matches on Event Comments, 797 matches on Performance Comments, 110 matches on Performance Title, and 12 matches on Author.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Proteus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Schoolboy

Dance: IItalian Peasants-Granier and Mrs Granier

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: IItalian Peasants, as17550414

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: End II: The Lilliputian Sailors, as17551030

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: Guerin, first appearance on the English stage, Mlle Capdeville

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Chinese Festival

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Chinese Festival

Event Comment: Soon as Mr Garrick appear'd, a great Clap, with some hissing upon wch he said-Gentlemen it is impossible to go on with these hisses, I don't know what offence I am guilty of-they clap'd greatly-& he proceeded-Let one Gentleman speak for the rest & I'll give an Answer-there was a moments pause, & then a general cry of-Go on with the Play &c., all ceased-& all continu'd quiet (Cross). Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: IV: A Hornpipe-Mathews

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love Or The World Well Lost

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: As17551114

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: Mrs Roland; and "By Desire" the Fingalian Dance, as17551126

Song: Lowe

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A new farce by Doctor Heffinal [sic] for his benefit. O Sad! (Cross). Tickets at Forrest Coffee House, The Bedford, and Randall's, and author's lodgings at Mew's Coffee House. To the Printer of the Public Advertiser, 24 April: Sir, Let this suffice for a general answer to all unfriendly whispers or paragraphs against the new farce to be performed tonight at Drury Lane -its author never previously Caballed, never published his sentiments of any stage performance till after the run -then neither the writer nor manager could be injured -its principal characters are Lady Protea, a coquet alarmed at the apprehension of dying amid; Lord Epigram Strainwit, a pert coxcomical witling; Dr Matho, a Virtuoso, Antiquarian, and in love; Dreadnought Broadside, a sea-officer and strenuous Antigallican. I am &c. Receipts: #90 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Afterpiece Title: The Maiden Whim or The Critical Minute

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Lover His Own Rival

Dance: LLes Paisans Gallants, as17551203

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: It having been reported that Sga Frasi has refused to sing for the Benefit of the Decayed Musicians, she thinks it her duty to take this public method of clearing herself of that charge by informing the Nobility, Gentry, &c., that being applied to for her assistance, she readily consented (as she has always done for these fourteen years past) but that a few days after a number of the Managers called upon her to let her know that Giardini had undertaken to conduct the performance, and that they would not want her assistance. For the truth of this she appeals to those Gentlemen who called upon her with that message (Public Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert Of Vocal And Instrumental Music

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Song: I: The Country Wedding-Beard; II: The Bonny Broom-Miss Young; III: By Desire, Music: Sir Watkins Delighton the Harp-Parry; IV: The Toast-Beard; V: A Duetto When Phoebus the top of the Hills does Adorn-Beard, Miss Young

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Music: By Desire aConcerto on the Violin-Cross Jun

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: New entertainment of dancing, particularly End: , by Desire a Minuet-Leviez, Miss Pritchard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin