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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(perftitleclean,performancetitle) "The Picture"/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: Auction Of Pictures

Dance: As17490107

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Dance: As17490107

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

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Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The New Hippocrates; or, A Lesson for Quacks

Entertainment: After the Play: by Desire, for that night only The Picture of a Playhouse or, Bucks Have at Ye All-Mr King; a Mimic Comic opera song-Mrs Clive

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Office

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Entertainment: I: The Cries of London-Shuter

Dance: II: A Hornpipe-Mlle Capdeville, 1st time; a Minuet-a young Gentleman, a Young Lady (a Child of 5 years) scholar of Desse Jr; III: The Provincial Sailors-Maranesi, Miss Twist; IV: The Painter in Love with his Picture-Balthazar, Hussey, Mad Marianne; End: The Last New Comic Dance-Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville

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Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Entertainment: I: King (for this night only) will present the Public with a Serio-Comic, Satiric, Prophetic, Poetic Oration, call'd The Brass Prophecy or News Ten Years Hence-King; End Farce, By Particular Desire: The Picture of the Playhouse or Bucks Have at ye All-King

Dance: IV: A New Hornpipe-Miss Baker. *uö?dl After: The Farmer's Return from London. As17620329

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller

Dance: II: Hornpipe-Master Cape (Scholar to Walker); IV: Hearts of Oak, as17620421

Song: III: If o'er the Cruel Tyrant Love, as17620513

Entertainment: New Sketch of his own picture drawn from the life by way of Epilogue-Mr Tomlinson, his second time of attempting to speak on the Stage

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Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Dance: III: The Medley, as17641120

Entertainment: For that Night Only, a short Epilogic Lecture on Conjurors-King; By Particular Desire, a Picture of the Playhouse; or, Bucks Have at Ye All-King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Song: I: By Particular Desire a Song, 1st time-Miss Twist

Dance: II: A New Turkish Dance-Lariviere (his 1st appearance on English stage); III: A Hornpipe-Miss Twist, Miss Wilford; IV: A New Dance call'd The Lost Picture-Lariviere, Miss Wilford; End: A Minuet-Dumai, Miss Twist

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

Dance: End: The Medley, as17680416

Entertainment: End: Mr King for that night only will entertain the Audience with a Picture of the Playhouse, or Bucks Have at Ye All-Mr King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Dance: IV: A Hornpipe-Walker

Entertainment: V: (By Desire) the Picture of the Playhouse, or Bucks have at ye all-Dodd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Entertainment: V: The Picture of a Playhouse; or, Bucks have at ye all-Master Cape

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella; Or, The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of the Turf

Dance: II: The Sailors Revels, as17711008

Entertainment: V: The entertainment A Picture of the Playhouse or Bucks Have at ye All-Palmer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: End Monologue: a Dance-

Entertainment: MonologueEnd: The Picture of a Playhouse or Bucks have at Ye All-Palmer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suicide

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: End: Dance-; In II afterpiece: a Minuet-Harris, Miss Harper

Entertainment: Monologue Following 1st dance: The Picture of a Playhouse; or, Bucks have at ye All-Palmer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Afterpiece Title: The Miniature Picture

Dance: II: New Dance, as17791126; End II afterpiece: The Coopers, as17800224

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Miniature Picture

Dance: End II afterpiece: As17791220

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miniature Picture

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Dance: As17791220

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Miniature Picture

Dance: End II afterpiece: As17791122

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker; Or, The Humours Of The Navy

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Dance: In mainpiece The Merry Sailors, with a Double Hornpipe, by the Miss Stageldoirs

Song: In mainpiece Rule Britannia by Williames, Chapman, &c

Monologue: 1783 05 02 End of mainpiece The Picture of a Playhouse; or, Bucks have at Ye All by Palmer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Song: In Act IV of mainpiece Time bas not thinn'd my flowing Hair by Williames and Miss Phillips

Monologue: 1783 05 14 End of mainpiece The Picture of a Playhouse; or, Bucks have at ye all by R. Palmer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Magic Picture

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Song: In Act II of mainpiece a Grand Chorus [Crowned with conquest] by Bannister, Reinhold, Johnstone, Mattocks, Brett, Mahon, Doyle, Darley; Mrs Bannister, Mrs Johnstone, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Kennedy. [For songs, see below.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Magic Picture

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Song: As17831108