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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(perftitleclean,performancetitle) "How to be Happy"/1)') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=150, performancetitle=100), ranker=wordcount

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Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Punches Dance-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; III: Turkish Dance-Muilment; IV: Comic Dance-Poitier

Song: II: Wou'd You Taste the Noontide Air (from Comus)-Beard; IV: (By Desire,) Oh Happy Pair (out of Alexander's Feast)-

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Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant; Or, The Way To Win Him

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Punches Dance-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; III: Dutch Dance (new)-Baudoin, Miss Thompson; V: Grand Ballet-Muilment, Mrs Walter

Song: IV: By Desire, Oh Happy Pair (out of Alexander's Feast)-

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Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Dance: After Overture: a new Grand Ballet-Denoyer, others to the Overture of Flavius, composed by Handel; II: Hungarian Dance (in the Manner of the Country,)-Denoyer, Mrs Walter; IV: Russian Sailors-Denoyer; V: Ball Dance, concluding with a Minuet-Denoyer, Mrs Walter

Song: I: Oh Happy Pair-Beard; III: Mary Scot-Mrs Clive

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Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Taste; Or, The Guardians

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Song: III: The Noontide Air, as17390407; IV: Oh Happy Pair-Beard

Dance: II: Hungarian Dance, as17390424 V: Ball Dance, with a Minuet-Denoyer, Mrs Walter

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Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: SSaraband-Miss Scott; Serious Dance-Muilment, Mrs Walter; Minuet-Rector, Mrs Walter

Song: OOh Happy Pair-Beard

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Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queen; Or, The Death Of Mary Queen Of Scotland

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Wedding

Song: II: Oh Happy Pair-Beard; IV: Mary Scot-Mrs Clive

Music: In V: By particular Desire, the Dead March in the last New Oratorio, called Saul and David, by Mr Handel-

Dance: V: Punches Dance-Master Ferg, Miss Wright

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Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: PPunches Dance-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; III: Pierots-Pelling, Leviez; IV: Minuet-Leviez, Miss Kilby

Song: II: Happy Pair-Beard

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Mainpiece Title: The Escapes Of Harlequin By Sea And Land; Or, Colombine Made Happy At Last

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Mainpiece Title: Jupiter And Juno

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Happy; or, Jack Spaniard Bit

Entertainment: GGrand Scaramouch Dance-Phillips, others, as he performed it at the Opera House in Paris, upwards of Forty Nights successively, with universal Applause; Scotch Dialogue-Parry, Mrs Phillips; A new Song-Parry in Praise of Admiral Vernon; Sailor Dance-Phillips; A Grand Dance call'd Vertumnus-Phillips

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Mainpiece Title: All Alive And Merry; Or, The Happy Miller Just Arriv'd: Being The Humourous Magical Mill That Grinds Old Men And Women Young Again

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Grand Volgi

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Mainpiece Title: The Happy Captive; With An Interlude In Two Comic Scenes, Between signor Capoccio, A Director From The canary Islands, And signora Dorinna, A Virtuosa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Happy Captive

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Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Grand Ballet-Maltere, Mlle Maltere; III: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; V: La Matelote-Maltere, Mlle Maltere

Song: II: Noon Tide Air-Lowe; IV: The Happy Pair-Lowe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Dance: I: a Ballet-Desse; II: a Comic Dance between a Miller and his Wife-M Mechell, Mlle Mechel; A Sailor's Dance-Dumont, Mrs Walter

Song: II: Happy Pair-Beard; IV: Non Ch' Amarmi a Song of Farinelli's-Mrs Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: I: Happy Pair, as17411015; III: Non Ch' Amarmi, as17411015

Dance: II: Ballet-Desse; IV: Sailor's Dance, as17411015

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Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

Song: I: The Early Horn-Lowe; III: Happy Pair-Beard

Dance: II: A Sailor's Dance, as17411015; IV: a Ballet, as17411015

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comedy Of Errors

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

Song: I: See from the Silent Grove Alexis Flies-Beard; III: A Cantata-Lowe; IV: Happy Pair-Beard

Dance: II: Les Matelotes, as17411110; Le Genereux Corsaire, as17411102

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Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Dance: II: Les Matelotes, as17411110; End: Le Genereux Corsaire, as17411102

Song: III: Happy Pair-Beard

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Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Song: I: Bright Author of my Present Flame-Lowe; II: Happy Pair-Beard; IV: If all that I love is her Face-Mrs Arne

Dance: III: A Dutch Dance, as17411114; V: Miller and his Wife, as17411015

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

Song: I: Bright Author of my Present Flame-Lowe; II: Happy Pair-Beard,

Dance: III: A Dutch Dance, as17411114; IV: Sailor's Dance, as17411015; V: The Swiss, as17410926

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwrecked

Song: I: The Early Horn-Lowe; III: Happy Pair-Beard

Dance: II: A Dutch Dance, as17411114; IV: A New Dance The Italian Peasants-the Mechels

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Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwrecked

Song: I: Early Horn-Lowe; III: Happy Pair-Beard

Dance: II: Sailor's Dance, as17411015; IV: The Italian Peasants, as17411205

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwrecked

Song: I: Happy Pair-Beard; III: Was ever Nymph like Rosamund-Beard

Dance: II: a Tambourine-Mlle Mechel; IV: Les Matelotes, as17411110, but-the Mechels

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwrecked

Song: II: Noontide Air-Lowe; IV: Happy Pair-Beard

Dance: I: Sailor's Dance, as17411015; III: The Swiss, as17410926

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Song: I: New Ballad-Lowe; III: Happy Pair-Lowe

Dance: II: Le Boufon, as17411030; IV: Les Jardiniers Suedois, as17411128