SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "the Palmers"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "the Palmers")') 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 17141 matches on Roles/Actors, 3601 matches on Performance Comments, 310 matches on Event Comments, 49 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Author.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: Too Civil by Half

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Dance: As17821005

Song: In Act in of mainpiece an Epithalamium, with singing by Miss Wright and Miss Simson

Event Comment: Mrs Siddons was "below herself. . .There was no Storm of Applause; there was not any of that Stillness of Attention which always precedes the Storm" (Public Advertiser, 24 Mar.). Receipts: #280 5s. (266/7/0; 9/11/6; 0/16/6; tickets not come in: 3/10/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by Half past Four o'clock. Receipts: #326 14s. (142/12/0; 6/14/6; 0/7/6; tickets: 177/0/0) (charge: #67 4s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Adventures of a Night

Dance: As17821107

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

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Role: Theodosia Actor: Miss Collett

Afterpiece Title: dl THE ADVENTURES OF A Night

Dance: dl As17830118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Adventures of a Night

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pope. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by Half past Four o'clock. Public Advertiser, 29 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Miss Pope at her house in Great Queen-street. Receipts: #278 3s. (86/14; 21/9; 0/10; tickets: 169/10) (charge: #106 5s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: As17830329athi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Adventures of a Night

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by Half past Four o'clock. Receipts: #315 5s.(133/11/0; 5/6/6; 0/2/6; tickets: 176/5/0) (charge: #108 1s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Event Comment: Benefit for Brereton. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by Half past Four o'clock. "I could wish an actor of Brereton's merit would avoid tones in speaking which approach to something like singing" (Davies, m, 251). Receipts: #311 7s. (131/15/0; 6/9/6; 0/1/6; tickets: 173/1/0) (charge: #106 10s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Cast
Role: Sotherton Actor: Norris
Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #282 15s. 6d. (275/1/0; 6/9/6; 0/2/6; tickets not come in: 1/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Song: As17830329athi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. Public Advertiser, 23 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 6, Great Russel-street, Covent Garden. [Afterpiece in place of The Apprentice, announced on playbill of 24 Apr.] Receipts: #184 1s. (99/19/0; 35/14/6; 0/1/6; tickets: 48/6/0) (charge: #106 10s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: As17821122. imitations. After the dance, (for that night only) various Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical, by Bannister Jun

Performance Comment: imitations. After the dance, (for that night only) various Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical, by Bannister Jun .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Dance: As17830329athi

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Adventures of a Night, announced on playbill of 30 Apr.] Receipts: #247 12s. (235/17; 11/10; 0/5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Cast
Role: Sotherton Actor: Norris
Event Comment: "Mrs Siddons, in most of the Parts she plays, is the best Actress we ever saw. Miss Kemble, in all the Parts she plays, is the very worst Actress we ever saw" {Public Advertiser, 5 May). [Afterpiece in place of The Adventures of a Night, announced on playbill of 2 May.] The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same for rest of season]. Receipts: #263 5s. 6d. (253/11/0; 8/9/6; 1/5/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Too Civil by Half

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: As17821005

Song: As17830315athi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair American

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: As17820920

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Adventures of a Night

Event Comment: Benefit for Burton and Harwood, prompter. King continuing so ill that it is impossible for him to perform this Evening, Waldron has kindly undertaken the Part of Sir Peter Teazle at a very short notice, and most humbly hopes for the indulgence of the Public. Receipts: #209 15s. 6d. (35/3/0; 15/10/6; 0/5/0; tickets: 158/17/0) (charge: #106 13s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: As17830505

Song: As17830514

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Dance: End of Act I of afterpiece The Butterfly, as17830426

Song: End of mainpiece Gramacbree Molly, as17830422

Event Comment: Benefit for a Fund for the Relief of those who from their Infirmities shall be obliged to retire from the Stage. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by Half past Four o'clock. [Mainpiece in place of Isabella, announced on playbill of 17 May.] Receipts: #292 (146/5/0; 10/12/6; 0/12/6; tickets: 134/10/0) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Too Civil by Half

Event Comment: Benefit for Chaplin, Alfred, Walker & Mrs Pulley. Tickets delivered for The Gamesters will be taken. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. Receipts: #225 2s. (16/1; 7/11; 0/15; tickets: 200/15) (charge: #105 17s. 1d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece Hornpipe by a Young Gentleman [unidentified] (Pupil of Walker); End of Act I of afterpiece, as17821005