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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Event Comment: Benefit Villeneuve, Mrs Kilby, Miss Hippisley, &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ladys Last Stake

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Dance: SScotch Dance, as17441012; Louvre, Minuet-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentlewoman under Misfortunes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17441024, but Lady Anne-Mrs Horton; Stanley-_; Norfolk-_; Catesby-_; Tyrrel-_; Lord Mayor-_; Ratcliff-_; Lieutenant-_; Oxford-_.
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Role: Oxford Actor: Bencraft

Afterpiece Title: What Dye Call It

Dance: Cooke, Sga Campioni

Event Comment: Benefit LaLauze. Mainpiece not acted this season. By particular Desire of several persons of Quality. Tickets of LaLauze, at Widow Gwinn's, near the Castle Tavern in Drury Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: II: Comic Dance-Cooke, Sga Campioni; IV: La Gondalier-Cooke; V: Minuet-LaLauze, Sga Campioni; followed by a Ball Dance call'd the Louvre, concluding with a Minuet-a Boy (scholar to LaLauze), Sga Campioni

Event Comment: Benefit Berry and Havard. Afterpiece: By Desire. The Anatomist appeared in the advance notice as afterpiece for this day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Tragedy of Tragedies

Dance: I: Sga Bettini; III: Muilment

Song: II, IV: Lowe

Event Comment: Benefit Leveridge. At the particular Desire of several persons of quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Dance: II: Cooke, LaLauze, Picq; IV: Cooke, Sga Campioni

Song: I: By Desire a Song call'd Old England Forever-; with a chorus-; III: The Miser's Passport-

Event Comment: Benefit a Citizen and family in distress. Prices 3s., 2s., 1s. [Honest Yorkshireman announced on 20 April as afterpiece.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: More Ways than One

Event Comment: Benefit Sheridan. Lodgings at Watchmaker's opposite Tom's Coffeehouse, Russell St., cg

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Song: III: O Peace from the Opera Alfred-Mrs Arne; IV: Rise Glory from Rosamond-Lowe; V: Gentle Shepherd-Mrs Arne

Dance: III: Signora Bettini

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Lampe and Mrs Vincent. Mainpiece: an Historical Play reviv'd as written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

Dance: Cooke, Sga Campioni

Event Comment: Benefit a Widow in Distress. Prices 2s. 6d., 2s., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: Benefit Ravenscroft and Beaumont. Prices as 25 April

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler of Preston

Dance: By Desire, Hornpipe-Beaumont

Event Comment: Benefit Roberts. Mainpiece: At the Desire of Several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Song: II: Go Rose my Chloe's Bosom Grace-Roberts; V: War he sung is Toil and Trouble (in Alexander's Feast)-Roberts

Dance: III: Comic Dance, as17450423

Event Comment: Benefit Winstone, Woodburn, Miss Budgell. Afterpiece: By Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Tragedy of Tragedies

Song: II: Mrs Arne; IV: Nanny O-Lowe; V: Early Horn-Lowe

Dance: I: Sga Bettini; III: Muilment

Event Comment: Benefit Bencraft, James, Ridout, and Carr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: Benefit Marten and White

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: IV: Comic Dance, as17450423

Event Comment: Benefit a Family under Misfortunes. [Concert formula.] Prices 2s. 6d., 2s., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Flora

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Event Comment: Benefit Green, Dickenson, Peacop [Housekeeper], and Bradshaw

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: As17450129, but Miss Prue-Miss Bradshaw; Tattle-Yates; Valentine-Mozeen; Foresight-Collins; Jeremy-Neale.
Cast
Role: Foresight Actor: Collins
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: I: Early Horn-Lowe

Dance: II: Sga Bettini; III: Muilment

Event Comment: Benefit Dunstall, Delagarde, Dupre, Mrs Rowley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: Comic Dance-Villeneuve, Delagarde, Mrs Delagarde; IV: Scotch Dance-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde, Delagarde, Destrade, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Villeneuve; V: Comic Dance- [see17450423

Event Comment: Benefit Stoppelaer, for the Entertainment of the Grand Master, and the rest of the Brethren of the Ancient and Honourable Society of Free and Accepted Masons. The Brethren are desired to meet at the Shakespeare's Head Tavern next the theatre, at Five o'clock, in order to attend the Grand Master

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song: The Songs in Masonry-Leveridge, Stoppelaer, Bencraft

Dance: Cooke, Sga Campioni

Event Comment: Benefit Plummer [Box-Keeper]; Curryer Pit Office-Keeper]; Baker [Pit Door-Keeper]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Rosamond

Song: I: Cantata-Lowe; III: Gentle Shepherd-Mrs Arne

Dance: II: Muilment; IV: Sga Bettini

Event Comment: Benefit Laguerre, Rector, Thompson, Harrington [Prompter] and others

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: Cooke, Picq, LaLauze; particularly a Minuet-Rector, Delagarde

Event Comment: Benefit Ray, Leigh, Gray, Pritchard, Miss Minors, Miss Edgerton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: Tragedy of Tragedies

Song: I, III: Lowe

Dance: II: Sga Bettini

Event Comment: Benefit Anderson, Stede, Mrs LeBrun, Miss Jackson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: Cooke, Picq, LaLauze, others; Scotch Dance-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde, Delagarde, Destrade, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Villeneuve

Event Comment: Benefit Simpson, Collins, Baudouin, Shawford, Berkley, Miss Story. Tickets deliver'd by Falwood, George and Steele will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Muilment; II: Running Footman's Dance-Shawford; III: Minuet-Baudouin, Miss Story

Event Comment: Benefit Dunbar, Walker, Fryar, Edwards, Lathbury, Sga Bettini. Tickets deliver'd out by Bride and Brooks will be taken, and those deliver'd out by Collins that could not get in last night will be taken to this play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: I: Lowe

Dance: III: Sga Bettini; IV: Minuet-Baudouin, Sga Bettini

Event Comment: Benefit Hobson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: Tragedy of Tragedies

Song: I: Mrs Arne; III, IV: Lowe

Dance: II: Muilment