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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(perftitleclean,performancetitle) "Occasional Prelude"/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: The Wonder: A Woman Keeps A Secret

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: After the Monologue, by Miss Cranford

Monologue: 1785 06 17 End of mainpiece an Occasional Address to the Audience by Wright

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Mainpiece Title: Percy

Afterpiece Title: Appearance is against Them

Monologue: 1785 12 10 Before the mainpiece an Occasional Address spoken by Holman

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Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lover

Afterpiece Title: Annette and Lubin

Afterpiece Title: The Country Mad Cap; or, Miss Lucy in Town

Dance: End of 2nd piece The Drunken Sailor Reclaim'd, as17860424

Song: End of Act II of 1st piece a new song, Toung Henry, by Mrs Martyr

Monologue: 1786 05 09 Before 1st piece a new Occasional Address spoken by Holman

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Widow's Vow

Monologue: 1786 07 07 Before mainpiece an Occasional Address spoken by Bannister Jun

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Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Friar

Afterpiece Title: Harvest Home

Entertainment: Monologue End: Occasional Address (in character)-Young Sestini (European Magazine, July 1787, p. 63)

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Mainpiece Title: I'll Tell You What

Afterpiece Title: Harvest Home

Entertainment: Monologue Occasional Address (with Alterations), as17870516

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Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

Song: Between acts: The Soldier tired of War's Alarms-a little boy [Master Braham]

Entertainment: Monologue Preceding: Occasional Address-Palmer

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Mainpiece Title: Reopened (see 20 June) With Three Burlettas: The Birth-day; Or, The Arcadian Contest [1st Time, Anonymous]

Afterpiece Title: The Recruiting Serjeant

Afterpiece Title: Hobson's Choice; or, Thespis in Distress [1st time]

Entertainment: Occasional Address-Palmer

Dance: End: a new dance, The Triumph of Cupid-

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Love and War

Song: Vocal Parts-Johnstone, Bonville, Cubitt, Darley, Doyle, Rock, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Watts, Mrs Kennedy

Entertainment: Monologue Before: Occasional Address-Pope

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Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: Aladin

Entertainment: Monologue Preceding: an Occasional Prologue-Farren

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Prelude, On The Happy Recovery Of His Majesty

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Truth 0

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Mainpiece Title: A Prelude

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Truth 0

Music: End oratorio: God save Great George our King!-

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Mainpiece Title: A Prelude

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea; Triumph of Truth 0

Afterpiece Title: A Miscellaneous Concert

Music: End I: serenata solo on harp-Mme Krumpholtz (2nd appearance in this Kingdom)

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Mainpiece Title: A Prelude

Afterpiece Title: Redemption 0; Triumph of Truth 0

Music: End I oratorio: serenata solo on harp, as17890306End II: a new Grand Concerto on the harp-Mme Krumpholtz; Conclude: God save Great George our King-

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Mainpiece Title: A Prelude

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea; Triumph of Truth 0

Afterpiece Title: The Monody on the Death of Garrick

Music: As17890311

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Picture of Paris

Dance: End II: The Wapping Landlady, as17901204

Entertainment: Monologue Preceding: an Occasional Address-Harley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Flitch Of Bacon

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Song: As17920815

Entertainment: Monologue End 2nd piece: New Occasional Address-Mrs Kemble

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Mainpiece Title: Cross Partners

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Entertainment: Monologue New Occasional Address, as17920822

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Mainpiece Title: A Mogul Tale

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Entertainment: Monologue End 2nd piece: a Serio, Comic, Poetic Paraphrase on Shakespear's Seven Ages-King; End 3rd piece: Occasional Farewell Address-Mrs Bannister

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd; Or, Patie And Roger

Afterpiece Title: Wit's Last Stake

Dance: End III: a new dance The Caledonian Cottagers; or, Scotch Wedding-Allison, Allison's Pupils

Song: End IV: The Cries of Edinburgh-Shaw

Entertainment: Monologue Probably end: An Occasional Address-Walker

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Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: MARIAN

Song: In Act II of mainpiece Hark! the Lark at Heaven's Gate sings by Gray, Linton, Miss Barnett, Mrs Mountain; In afterpiece a new Hunting Song, composed by Shield, by Incledon [this song not listed on playbill, but see World, 19 Nov.]

Monologue: 1793 11 18 Before the mainpiece an Occasional Address by Middleton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: MOTHER SHIPTON TRIUMPHANT; or, Harlequin's Museum

Dance: In afterpiece The Burlesque Pas de Russe by Byrn and Miss Smith; Hornpipe by Holland

Song: In afterpiece God save the King by Gray, Linton, Street, Kendrick, Little, Miss Barnett, Miss Stuart, &c

Monologue: 1793 11 19 End of mainpiece An Occasional Address, in the character of Goldfinch, by Lewis

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: THREE WEEKS AFTER MARRIAGE

Music: End of mainpiece Master Julien Baux, a Child under Six Years of Age, will perform a Concerto on the Violin by Viotti

Monologue: 1794 05 22 End of afterpiece an Occasional Address by Miss Thomas

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Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Song: End: The Soldier Tired-Miss Crow

Entertainment: Monologue Previous: an Occasional Address-Miller

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Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Song: End I: Whither my Love, Ah! Whither art thou fled? (from The Haunted Tower)-Sga Storace; From Shades of Night-Braham; This fond Sorrow-Braham, Sga Storace (both from Mahmoud); End II: the celebrated Harp Song Ah che nel petto io sento, from Idalide,-Mme Mara; In IV: a Masquerade Scene, in which Ally Croker-Miss Leak, Master Welsh

Entertainment: MonologueEnd: a new Occasional Address-Mrs Jordan