SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Vernon much Applause Hopkins Diary Benefit for Vernon "/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Vernon much Applause Hopkins Diary Benefit for Vernon ")') 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

Result Options

Download:
JSON XML CSV

Search Filters

Event

Date Range
Start
End

Performance

?
Filter by Performance Type










Cast

?

Keyword

?
We found 14530 matches on Event Comments, 2620 matches on Performance Comments, 638 matches on Performance Title, 35 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Benefit Penkethman and Powell. Mainpiece: Written by the famous Authors Beaumont and Powell. Mainpiece: Written by the famous Authors Beaumont and Fletcher. Note, Tho' it be a Benefit Night, the Subscribers' Tickets will pass. It being Positively the last time of Acting at Greenwich this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Country Innocence Or The Maid In The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Performance Comment: Nicodemus-a Gentleman for his Diversion.

Entertainment: Care will be taken that there be a good Consort of Musick-; and several diverting Entertainments of Singing and Dancing-

Event Comment: Benefit Nicolino. With New Scenes and Cloaths, particularly the Scene with the Fountain. Pit and Boxes half a guinea. Stage Boxes 15s. Gallery 4s. At 6 p.m. Weekly Packet, 25 June: Signior Nicolini's Quail-Pipe continues to lug the Nobility and Gentry by the Ears, who have gone very far on his last Benefit-Night, towards equipping him for another purchase at Venice, he having already built a stately Edifice there, near the Rialto, upon which is written in Characters of Gold, Villa Britannica, as a Testimony that Scaliger's Saying, that we are Hospitibus Feri, is a downright Untruth, and falsly imputed to our Nation

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Knight. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: money #27 17s. 6d. and tickets #23 13s. The Epilogue was printed in Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 7 April, with a note: The Author of the following Epilogue would never have thought of publishing such a Trifle, but to let the Town see that scandalous Piece (as some were pleas'd to call it) not fit to be spoken. Mrs Knight's Zeal to the Government (which she has always express'd at the Worst of Times) cannot be enough applauded....It was wrote with no other Design than to do her some Service on her Benefit-Day; but has had indeed a quite contrary Effect, and kept back that Part of her Audience whose Money is as good as other Peoples, tho' their Principles (as being Tories) are the worst in the World

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler of Preston

Song: As17160215

Dance: delaGarde, Moreau, Thurmond Jr, Mrs Schoolding, Mrs Cross; particularly the last new comic dance-Moreau, Mrs Cross

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Santlow. Pit and Boxes together by Seal'd Tickets at 5s. By His Majesty's Command. Tickets for Mrs Santlow's benefit for The Rehearsal and Sir Courtly Nice taken at this play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Event Comment: Benefit Penkethman, to make up the Deficiency of his last Year's Benefit. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

Dance: As17171203

Event Comment: Benefit the Author of afterpiece [Daily Courant]. Benefit J. and Ch. Rich [Rich's Register]. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: money #71 3s.; tickets #26

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow Or The Wanton Wife

Afterpiece Title: Amadis

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Robinson. Boxes and Pit by tickets only at half a guinea. Tickets for The Man of Mode taken. [An order of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, 5@157, p. 284, directs the managers not to allow any benefit before those for Mrs Oldfield and Mrs Porter.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Song: Between the Acts: Singing-

Event Comment: Benefit Signora Margherita Durastanti. Particular Care will be taken to Place Benches on the Stage for the Accommodation of the Company. [According to Deutsch, Handel, p. 160, her benefit brought her #1,000, in addition to a salary of 1,200 guineas yearly. The Cantata is printed in the Daily Journal, 18 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

Event Comment: Benefit. Benefit Mills

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Dance: TThe Pieraite-Roger, Mrs Brett; Sultana-Miss Robinson Jr, a scholar of Essex's

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Barbier. This is the last Benefit Mrs Barbier will have in England. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: money #53 9s. 6d.; tickets #74 17s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis last Interlude

Song: Mrs Wright, Mrs Chambers

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Their Majesties' Command. Pit and Boxes put together at 5s. [Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.] Universal Spectator, 26 Feb.: For the Benefit of that celebrated Actress Mrs Porter, (who has not been able to appear upon the Stage this Season, from the unhappy Accident of breaking her Thigh Bone, by being overturn'd in her Chaise last Summer)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Modern Husband

Dance: Denoyer, Mrs Booth

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman, late of Eaton School. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: money #65 6s.; tickets #88 16s. Daily Advertiser, 6 March: To-morrow...for the Benefit of a Gentleman late of Eaton School...and the Company of his School Fellows will be very acceptable to meet at the Bedford Arms Tavern...in order to proceed to the said Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Forrester

Dance: HHornpipe-Jones

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Hallam. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [Tickets for Mrs Forrester's benefit also taken.]Receipts: money #38 11s. 6d.; tickets #95 17s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Performance Comment: Arcas-Milward; Damon-Aston; Cymon-Salway; Mopsus-Hulett; Phillida-Mrs Forrester.
Cast
Role: Phillida Actor: Mrs Forrester.

Dance: III: Hornpipe-Jones; IV: Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; V: Highlander and his Mistress-Salle, Miss Laguerre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Cowley. Tickets for benefit of Barcock taken also

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beaux Stratagem

Dance: II: Highland Dance-a Native; III: Irish Trot-Coker

Event Comment: Benefit Denoyer. By Command of His Royal Highness. Mainpiece: Taken from Moliere. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 17 March: The celebrated Monsieur Denoyer and Mademoiselle Salle, by Permission of the Masters of the two Theatres Royal, have agreed to dance together at each other's Benefit

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mother in law

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: I: Russian Sailor by Denoyer, &c. II: By Denoyer's Apprentice. III: Shepherd's Mount by Denoyer, Mlle Salle, &c, with a new Scene, and New Habits. V: Minuet (in modern Habits) by Denoyer and Mlle Salle

Event Comment: Benefit Mons Salle's Widow. N.B. Whereas it has been reported that the Box-Keepers . . . were to have their Benefit Night [Wednesday 19] ... it is false ... Witness our Hands. M. Mason. W. Cossins. J. Skinner

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lembarras Des Richesses

Afterpiece Title: La Sylphide

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman under Misfortunes. [In London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 24 March, Ryan thanks the public for assistance at his benefit and adds that Sir William Saunderson engaged for Ryan "near a fourth Part of his Audience."]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Music: Solo on Violin by a Youth of 13 Years, who never performed in public before, a scholar of Signor Catanio

Dance: Scot's Dance, as17350311 By Lally, S. Lally, Mlle Salle

Event Comment: Benefit Bond. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality who have universally applauded the same. N.B. Many of the greatest Persons being engaged at the Opera last Saturday desir'd therefore this Delay, in order to crown this Gentleman's Benefit, with their Presence, that after so great an Expence, Reward may not be wanting to the Merit of the Piece

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Cibber. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. [Tickets at Mrs Cibber's, Great Queen Street.] N.B. Mrs Cibber's present Condition not permitting her to play on her Benefit Night, as she purpos'd, she is oblig'd to change the Play; and Tickets deliver'd out for The Conscious Lovers will then be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restord

Dance: I: Tambourine by Mlle Roland. II: Shepherd's Mount, as17360410 III: Double Jealousy, as17360327but Mrs Villeneuve replaces Miss Brett. IV: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. muSIC V: Preamble on Kettle Drums by Poitier

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Heron's Executors. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Daily Advertiser, 9 April: We hear, the late Mrs Heron, on Account of her long and expensive Illness, having contracted some Debts more than she apprehended her Effects would discharge, in order to do Justice to her Creditors, in almost her last Moments made her Entreaty, that the Profits arising from a Benefit Play . . . might be distributed amongst them. . .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: I: Pierrots by Delamagne and Villeneuve. III: Black and White Joak by Phillips and Miss Mann. V: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentlewoman under Misfortunes. [Rich's Register states that it was a benefit for a Gentleman.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Tambourine by Miss Rogers. Polonese by Mlle De L'Isle. Peasant by Tench and Miss Rogers

Event Comment: Benefit the Prompter. Mainpiece: Written by Sir J. Vanbrugh. Receipts: money #10 9s. 6d.; tickets #62 2s. Rich's Register: Benefit Steed, Bencraft, Dupre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Music: End Afterpiece: Handel's Water Musick, with Preamble on Kettle Drum by Benj. Baker

Dance: II: Peasant Dance by Tench and Miss Rogers. IV: Harlequin, Punch, and Colombine by Nivelon, Lalauze, and Mlle De L'Isle. End Afterpiece: Glover's Sailors Dance

Song: I: Mock Italian Song by Roberts. III: Dialogue by Leveridge and Mrs Wright. V: Praise of old English Beer by Leveridge, &c

Event Comment: Benefit Odell, formerly Proprietor of Goodman's Playhouse. [Daily Advertiser has benefit postponed to 10 June, but probably not given then; see 30 Aug.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Lover His Own Rival

Related Works
Related Work: The Lover His Own Rival Author(s): Abraham Langford
Event Comment: Benefit Hatchett. Third Piece: an additional Addition of a new entertaining Scene. In which the whole Art and Mystery of Free-Masonry is delineated, by the Admission of a Lady. At 6:30 p.m. Tickets for Mrs Haywood's benefit taken this day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Historical Register

Afterpiece Title: Eurydice Hissd

Afterpiece Title: The Female Free Mason

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman who has wrote for the Stage. [Professor John B. Shipley of the University of Colorado has called to my attention a letter written by James Ralph to Thomas Birch, dated 14 February 1741, in which he states that this benefit is to be for Ralph. See B.M. Add. MSS. 4317, fol. 94.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: LLa Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; Shepherds and Shepherdesses-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf