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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

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16199 results for: Keyword - Mr Vernon</i>-much Applause (<i>Hopkins Diary</i>). Benefit for Vernon. <span class=
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.

6601
14 May 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Plummer (Box-Keeper). Tickets to be had of Plummer, a Cheesemonger in King's Gate St., near Red Lion Square, Holborn; at Temple Exchange Coffee House, Fleet St.; and of Hobson at the stage door. Tickets deliver'd for the 15th will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Performance Comment: Mirabell-Giffard; Petulant-Neale; Millamant-Mrs Woffington; Witwou'd-Cross; Fainall-Mills; Sir Wilful-Turbutt; Waitwell-Dunstall; Marwood-Mrs Bennet; Mrs Fainall-Mrs Chetwood; Lady Wishfort-Mrs Cross; Foible-Miss Budgell; Mincing-Miss Cole; Betty-Mrs Horsington; Peg-Mrs King.
Cast
Role: Lady Wishfort Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: II, IV: Morland

Dance: III: Mlle Auguste

6602
14 May 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Duck, Banks, Trott and Connor. Tickets deliver'd by Bianchini, Mrs Tubman, Mrs Marten, Widow Rivers, and others will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: Cooke

6603
15 May 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Peacopp (Housekeeper), Mayle, Walker, Edwards, Pritchard (Officer-Keeper). Tickets deliver'd for Saturday last will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: III: Mlle Auguste

6604
16 May 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Ray, Green, Barclay, Mrs George. Afterpiece: By Desire. Not acted these 7 years [see 14 May 1739]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: III: Mlle Auguste

6605
16 May 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Pennington and Simpson. 5s., 3s., 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

6606
21 May 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Fenn (Stage Door-Keeper), Bishop (Gallery Keeper), Steele, Heath, Kisheir, Hussey. Being the last time of acting the mainpiece this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: I: a Tambourine-Mlle Auguste; V: a Peasant-Muilment

6607
03 December 1744 @ James Street

Event Comment: Benefit a Person under Misfortunes.3s., 2s., 1s. 6 p.m. [The usual concert formula is in every advertisement.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Performance Comment: Young Gentlemen for their Diversion.

6608
11 December 1744 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Galliard. Pit and Boxes put together at 5s. Gallery 3s. Upper Gallery 2s. Special Care will be taken to have the Theatre well aired. [Last performance known at this theatre.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Folly

Afterpiece Title: Serenata

Music: New concerto grosso-; 24 Bassoons-; accompanied- violincello-Caporale

6609
22 December 1744 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit a decay'd Tradesman. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 2s. Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant Or Beggars Bush

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: As17441210

6610
08 January 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit a Person under misfortunes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Oxford Actor: Bencraft

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Cooke, Sga Campioni

6611
25 January 1745 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Widow. [See a curious allusion to Colley Cibber for not helping out in the present exigency, in today's Daily Advertiser.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

6612
05 February 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Goodfellow. Boxes 3s. Pit 2s. First Gallery 1s. 6d. Upper Gallery. 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

6613
06 February 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit an antient Widow Gentlewoman. Stage Boxes 3s., Boxes 2s. 6d., Pit 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

6614
14 February 1745 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Sullivan

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Queen Of Spain Or Farinelli In Madrid

Music: Solo on Violin-Festing; Solo on Violincello-Caporali; Solo on Bassoon-Miller; Solo on German Flute-Balicourt

6615
20 February 1745 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Valentine Snow and William Douglass

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Concert

6616
21 February 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit the Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Papal Tyranny

6617
25 February 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit the Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Papal Tyranny

6618
25 February 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit a distress'd Gentlewoman. Boxes 3s. Pit & First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery. 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

6619
26 February 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Daniel. [Prices return to Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit and First Gallery 1s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s.] Tickets of Mrs Daniel at Mrs Cliff's, in Buckle St., near the Lead House, Goodman's Fields; Cardmakers Arms in Gray's Inn Passage, Red Lion Square; King Harry's Head, Red Lion St., Goodman's Field

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

6620
11 March 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Delane. Tickets at his lodgings at the Unicorn in New Exchange Row in the strand, and of Hobson at the stage door where places may be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Song: II: Lowe

Dance: III: Grand Dance-Muilment; V: Comic Dance-Sga Bettini

6621
11 March 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Quin. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince George, Prince Edward, and the Lady Augusta. N.B.: Servants will be permitted to keep places on the stage which will be form'd into an amphitheatre, enclos'd, covered, and kept ward, as at the late Oratorios. Tickets to be had at Quin's House in Bedford St., Covent Garden; and of Page at the stage door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

Dance: Cooke, Sga Campioni

6622
14 March 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Clive. Mainpiece: At the Desire of Several Ladies of Quality. Never acted there before. [Amphitheatre on stage as described 11 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ladys Last Stake Or The Wifes Resentment

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: II: Wanton Breezes, from the Oratorio Love and Friendship-Miss Edwards; IV: (by particular desire) the Irish Song Ellen a Roon-Mrs Clive; V: The Favourite Duette Let Caesar and Urania Live (compos'd by the late Henry Purcell)-Mrs Clive, Miss Edwards

Dance: III: Cooke, Sga Campioni

6623
16 March 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Cibber. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Servants admitted to keep places on the stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Song: II: Gentle Shepherd-Mrs Arne; IV: Vo Solcando a Favourite song of Farinelli's-Mrs Arne

Dance: III: a Serious Dance-Muilment; V: Turkish Dance-Muilment

6624
18 March 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Ryan. Mainpiece: At the partiuclar desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: I: (by particular Desire) The Charms of Polly Willis-Mrs Clive; IV: Beard

Dance: III: Cooke, Sga Campioni; V: LaLauze, Sga Campioni

6625
18 March 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Cushing. 2s. 6d., 2s., 1s. Tickets at the Brown Bear in Hooper's Square; King Harry's Head, Red Lion St.; Dawson's under Furnival's Inn, Holborn

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Flora