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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Lavinia Fenton"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Lavinia Fenton")') 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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353 results for: Keyword - Lavinia Fenton
We found 278 matches on Performance Comments, 47 matches on Author, 30 matches on Performance Title, 10 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

351
04 May 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Polly [Miss Fenton]. Receipts: money #137 12s.; tickets #17 12s. Probable attendance: boxes, 157 by money and 35 by tickets; stage, 51 by money; pit, 263 by money and 39 by tickets; slips, 28 by money; first gallery, 323 by money and 30 by tickets; second gallery, 176 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

352
20 March 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Barry. Mainpiece: By Elijah Fenton (Genest, V, 269). By Samuel Pordage (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Herod And Mariamne

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: IV: Comic Dance, as17690926

353
20 February 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Law Of Lombardy

Afterpiece Title: Jehu

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Farren, Lamash, R. Palmer, Miss Sherry, Miss Farren; Town and Country Magazine, Feb. 1779, p. 62, assigns Lord Jehu-King; Larpent MS 467 lists this part, as well as the other parts: Whiffle, Fenton, Groom, Mrs Gules, Lucy. Prologue , not listed on playbill, printed in Public Advertiser, 24 Feb., written by the author, and spoken by-King.