SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Their Highnesses"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Their Highnesses")') 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 610 matches on Event Comments, 17 matches on Performance Comments, 9 matches on Performance Title, 5 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.
Event Comment: Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 4 Oct.: His Majesty, and their Highnesses the Young Princesses were at the Play...the House being very full

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Egbert, King Of Kent And Monarch Of England; Or, The Union Of The Seven Kingdoms

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; Several Solos, Concertos-Castrucci; Trumpet Piece-the famous Signior Mantelli; Solo on the Hautboy-Ketch

Event Comment: For The Entertainment of their Royal Highnesses the Young Princesses. [The Princesses present.] For comment on the current theatrical scene, see The Letters of the Late Thomas Rundle, pp. 18-22

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Harlequin A Sham Astrologer, A Parrot, A Child, A Statue, And A Chimney Sweeper

Dance: Danjeville

Event Comment: Original Weekly Journal, 9 April: His Majesty was present; as were also their Highnesses the young Princesses, all in Black Velvet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Numitor

Event Comment: At Mr Penkethman's Theatre, before their Royal Highnesses, the Prince and Princess

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Singing the Famous-Signor Beneditte

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. Written by the late Mr Dryden

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Mainpiece Title: The Indian Emperor; Or, The Conquest Of Mexico By The Spaniards

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Event Comment: By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. Mainpiece: Written by Monsieur de Racine

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phedra & Hippolite

Afterpiece Title: Les Funerailles de la Foire & Son Rapel a la Vie

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highnesses' Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Cartouche

Afterpiece Title: L'Usurier Gentilhomme et les Vendanges de Suresne

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Oldfield. By their Royal Highnesses' Command. Written by Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

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Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. [Theodosius advertized, but Booth's illness deferred it. Daily Courant lists The Man of Mode, but Rich's Register lists The Earl of Essex.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode or The Earl Of Essex

Event Comment: [Author unknown.] A new Dramatick Entertainment. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. Benefit Penkethman. N.B. The Boxes will be illuminated with Wax Candles

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Distress'd Beauty; Or, The London Prentice

Dance: Dutch Dance between a Dutch Boor and his Frow-Newhouse, Mrs Willis; French Peasant-Newhouse, Miss Francis; Drunken Man-Harper

Song: The Dame of Honour, Mimick Song in Praise of a Country Life-Mrs Willis; Mrs Boman

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highnesses' Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman under Misfortunes. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. For a Prologue designed for this occasion, see St. James's Journal, No. 28, p. 166

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Dance: As17221015

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highnesses' Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Constancy

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. The Prince and Princess present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Dance: The Hussars-Shaw, Mrs Booth; Tollet's Ground-Mrs Younger, Miss Tenoe; Highland Lilt-Mrs Bullock

Event Comment: By command of their Royal Highnesses, the young Princesses. Receipts: #151 19s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. The Pit and Front Roxes put together by tickets at 5s. Gallery Box 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Dance: Shaw, Mrs Booth, Thurmond, Mrs Bullock, Topham, Miss Tenoe

Event Comment: Benefit Chetwood. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. N.B. Tickets given out for The Merry Wives of Windsor will be taken at this Play. [See Daily Post, 3 Aug., for Penkethman's celebration at Richmond on 1 Aug., the anniversary of the Hanoverian succession to the throne, and British Journal, 8 Aug., for an account of William Marshall, of lif, as an anti-Hanoverian demonstrator on 1 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: Drunken Man-Harper

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Event Comment: By Their Royal Highnesses' Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. Receipts: #146 16s. 6d

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin a Sorcerer

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Oldfield. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Dance: Mrs Booth, Miss Robinson, Young Rainton

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. Pit and Front Boxes put together by Tickets at 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Dance: As17250304

Event Comment: By Their Highnesses' Command. Written by the late Mr Wycherley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer