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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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81 results for: Title - Occasional Prelude

1
21 September 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Dance: End: The Fingalian Dance with Double Hornpipe-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford

Monologue: Preceded: New Occasional Prelude. The Principal characters-Dyer, Kniveton, Younger, Davis, Cushing, Wignell, Saunders, Fox, a Young Lady Miss Barsanti her first appearance on any stage

2
23 September 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: End: The Fingalian Dance with Double Hornpipe, as17720921

Monologue: Preceded: New Occasional Prelude. As 21 Sept

3
25 September 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Dance: End: The Dutch Milkmaid-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford

Monologue: Before: The New Occasional Prelude. As 21 Sept

4
28 September 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: End: The Old Ground Young-Aldridge, Mas. Harris, Miss Twist. [See17711030.

Monologue: Before: New Occasional Prelude. As 21 Sept

5
20 October 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Monologue: Before the Play: New Occasional Prelude. As 21 Sept

6
27 October 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Monologue: Before: By Particular Desire, the eleventh night, New Occasional Prelude. Characters first listed: Manager-Dyer; Author-Kniveton; Young Actress-Miss Basanti; See 21 Sept.

7
31 October 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Monologue: Before: New Occasional Prelude. As 27 Oct

8
12 November 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Dance: IV: The Merry Sailors, as17721012

Monologue: 1772 11 12 Before: (By particular desire) New Occasional Prelude. As 27 Oct

9
19 November 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Monologue: Before the Play: (By Desire) New Occasional Prelude. As 27 Oct

10
11 January 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Monologue: Before the Play: (By desire) New Occasional Prelude. As 27 Oct. 1772

11
13 January 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Monologue: Before: New Occasional Prelude. As 27 Oct. 1772

12
19 January 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Monologue: Before: By particular desire, New Occasional Prelude. As 27 Oct. 1772, but Author-Hamilton

13
10 May 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17721028

Monologue: 1773 5 10Before the Play (Seventeenth Time): New Occasional Prelude. As 19 Jan., but Author-Quick

14
23 April 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A-la-mode

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: End: The Highland Reel, as17731112

Monologue: Before: By Particular Desire, the Occasional Prelude. Manager-Wroughton; Author-Kniveton; Carpenter-Davies; Young Actress-Miss Barsanti. [See 10 May 1773.

15
26 April 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: St Patrick's Day

Dance: End: Mirth and Jollity, as17760102

Monologue: Before: The Occasional Prelude. Manager-Wroughton; Young Actress-Miss Barsanti. [See 10 May 1773.

16
19 September 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Occasional Prelude

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

17
23 September 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Occasional Prelude

Afterpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

18
17 September 1792 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Occasional Prelude

Afterpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

19
19 September 1792 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Occasional Prelude

Afterpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: Modern Antiques; or, The Merry Mourners

20
14 October 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved; Or, A Plot Discovered

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: V: The New Occasional Song by Lampe-Beard [see17451011]

Dance: Cooke

21
21 October 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nonjuror

Song: GGenius of England-Beard; New Occasional Song and Chorus-Beard [see17451014]

22
03 December 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Song: A New Occasional Ballad-Beard

23
30 December 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: Beard; A New Occasional Ballad, as17451203

24
07 February 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

Song: TThe Flocks shall leave the Mountains, as17460125; Occasional Ballad, Over the Hills and Far away-Beard

Dance: Cooke, Sga Campioni, Sodi

25
14 February 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The New Occasional Oratorio