SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Weston but changed Winston MS Paid "/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Weston but changed Winston MS Paid ")') 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: Sampson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Belshazzar

Afterpiece Title: Concerto on Organ

Event Comment: Benefit for Woodward. Afterpiece: A New farce written by Mr Woodward-for his Benefit, The farce was a kind of dispute among ye Actors, & went off, as it was a Benefit, without Interruption, but I believe will not be play'd agen, ye Epil: was a parody upon Shakespear's Stage of Life, & was Lik'd (Cross). No Part of Pit will be rail'd into the Boxes. Ladies send servants by three. Tickets to be had of Woodward at Clarendon's Warehouse, and of Hobson at the stage door. Last time of performing the mainpiece this season. [Larpent MS 92, indicates the afterpiece as a criticism from the actors' view of the way they are handled by audiences, and of their own damnation of a play presented to them. All works up to the Epilogue: @'All the town's a farce-he says and swears,@And all the men and women merely players...'@ which is severe upon politicians, doctors, statesmen and connoisseurs. The characters appear under their own names, Cross, Clive, etc.] Receipts: #300 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: See17510131, but Romeo-Garrick; Juliet-Mrs Cibber; Mercutio-Macklin.

Afterpiece Title: A Lick at the Town

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jeptha

Event Comment: This day publish'd at 1s. the first number of the Dramatic Censor, being remarks on the tragedy of Venice Preserv'd, with observations on the principal performers, by Mr Derrick. This pamphlet is a specimen of criticism intended to be made on our most celebrated dramatic pieces. By several hands. Wherein, should the publick approve by encouraging this first essay, not the beauties and Inaccuracies of the poet, but of the several performers will be considered...To this number is added Proposals for printing by Subscription a New Tragedy call'd Osman by Mr Gentleman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Macchabaeus

Event Comment: Benefit for Macklin. Afterpiece: A New Dramtic Satire in two acts. N.B. As several of the Town have prejudged the Pit the Boxes and Galleries acting their own parts themselves for their diversion, to be of the same species of the Lick at the Town last year; and that it can mean only the ordinary Approbation or Disapprobation of the Audience, Signor Pasquin thinks it incumbent on himself to assure to Publick that all those conjectures are groundless; And farther, he assures them that the Pit, &c. acting their parts has no other meaning than the common literal sense; and that the Audience are really interwoven in the piece; and are to be bona fide part of the Dramatis Personae; and he makes no doubt but that he shall make them perform their parts to a numerous and polite audience, and with universal Applause. But he begs that those Ladies and Gentlemen who intend to perform in the Pit and Galleries will be at the Theatre betimes, for particular reasons; and those who are to act in the Boxes are requested to send their servants to keep their places by three o'clock. Signor Pasquin has received the letters sent by the Town and the Village, and they may depend upon having Places kept for them upon the Stage. The Hiss concerning the Robin Hood Society will be complied with (General Advertiser). [The parts were: Pasquin, Marforio, Sir Eternal Grinn, Sir Conjecture Positive, Sir Roger Ringwood, Bob Smart, Soloman Common Sense; Count Hunt Bubble, Sir John Ketch, hic and Hac (Scribblers), Hydra, Lady Lucy Loveit, Miss Diana Singlelife, Miss Brilliant, Miss Bashfull (Larpent MS 96).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Performance Comment: As17511128, but following parts only are listed: Lady Townly-Miss Macklinher 1st appearance in Comedy; Sir Francis-Macklin; Townly-Barry.

Afterpiece Title: Covent Garden Theatre or Pasquin turnd Drawcansir Censor of Great Britain

Dance: GGrand Comic Ballet, as17511216

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Hercules

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jephtha

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lo Studente A La Moda

Dance: Entertainment-[unspecified]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaserse

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lamour Costante

Dance: [Unspecified.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Macchabaeus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Attilio Regolo

Event Comment: Play a New Italian Burletta. The first performance in England. Libertto by Goldoni; Music by Galuppi (Loewenberg, Annals of Opera, p. 107). Books of the Opera will be sold at the theatre. Ladies send servants by half past three. Nothing but full prices will be taken during the performance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Larcadia In Brenta

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Hercules

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Macchabaeus

Event Comment: Benefit for Sparks. Afterpiece: A farce never perform'd before. [Possibly Thomas Sheridan's The Brave Irishman, but see Ten English Farces, Leo Hughes and A. H. Scouten (Austin, Texas, 1948), pp. 221 ff.] Last time of the company's performing till the holidays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Song: Lowe

Dance: As17541203

Event Comment: [W+Winston MS 8 lists the mainpiece as All for Love. But Love for Love appears in the Public Advertiser and in Rich's Register.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returnd from Paris

Dance: As17551101

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Athelstan A New Tragedy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Macchabaeus