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 Warner. A concert, etc. 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Mathews, Williams

Event Comment: Benefit Costollo. At the New Theatre. 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee Or The Faithful Irishman

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: II: Russian Sailor-Phillips; V: Drunken Peasant-Phillips

Song: I: The Answer to the Fly-Cunningham; III: In Praise of their Wives-Master Butcher; IV: The Irish Trot-Costollo

Event Comment: Benefit of a Citizen and a Vintner's Widow

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Song: As17461124

Dance: As17461124

Event Comment: Benefit a Decay'd Citizen, with a large Family. By particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

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Role: Blandford Actor: Cushing

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: As17461104

Event Comment: Benefit J. Yeates. 2s., 1s. 6d., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Event Comment: Benefit for the author of the Dramatic Entertainment. [Afterpiece written by Joseph Dorman.] Never before performed. [See 18 Nov. 1740.] Tickets to be had of the Author at Pons Coffee House in Cecil Court, St. Martin's Lane. Tickets deliver'd out for Monday the 22nd Instant will be taken. Ladies send servants by three

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Sir Roger de Coverly or the Merry Christmas

Song: III: Lowe

Event Comment: Benefit Garrick (Charges #60.) as author of the Farce (Account Books, Egerton 2268). Receipts: #194 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Event Comment: Benefit Richard Starkey, late of Goodman's Fields Wells, now a Prisoner in the Fleet, and having not the Opportunity to wait on his Friends

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: As17461124; Hornpipe-Williams

Event Comment: Benefit a Distress'd Gentlewoman. Prices 3s., 2s., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple Or A Trip To The Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Howard. Prices 3s., 2s., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Major. Prices 2s. 6d., 2s., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: Master Morgan, Miss Baker

Event Comment: Benefit Barry. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Ladies send servants by three. Tickets at his lodgings in Bow St

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved Or A Plot Discoverd

Dance: II: Salomon, Mlle Violette, Cook, Salomon's Son; III: Muilment; V: Grand Comic Dance-Salomon, Mlle Violette, Cooke, Sga Padouana

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Budgell. Prices 3s., 2s., 1s. Nothing under the full price will be taken during the whole time of the performance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Event Comment: Benefit Ravenscroft and Beaumont. For the Entertainment of the Ancient Family of the Rowlands,

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: As17461124; Hornpipe-Beaumont

Event Comment: Benefit Sga Padouana. The last night of Mlle Violette's dancing (Winston MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Dance: Entertainments-Salomon, Mlle Violette, Sga Padouana, Salomon's Son

Event Comment: Benefit W. Hallam. Prices 3s., 2s., 1s. [These prices are repeated]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tragical History Of King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: Brett

Dance: As17461124

Event Comment: Benefit Hussey

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Song:

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Clive. Mainpiece written by Beaumont and Fletcher, never acted there. Servants allow'd to keep places on the stage which will be form'd into front and side boxes, and so commodiously enclos'd as to prevent the Ladies from taking cold. Ladies send servants by three. Tickets of Mrs Clive at her House in Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, and of Hobson at the stage door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wild Goose Chase

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Performance Comment: Margerina-Mrs Clive (to be performed in a burlesque manner) 1st time; Moore-Lowe; Gubbins-Sullivan; Dragon-Reinhold; Mauxalinda-Mrs Mozeen.

Dance: Muilment, the Mechels

Event Comment: Benefit Smith, Carpenter to the House. [Prices 2s. 6d., 2s., 1s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: As17461124, but Drunken Peasant-Miles

Song: Brett

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Boxes and Pit 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Poictiers

Song: Brett

Dance: As17461124

Event Comment: Benefit Delane. Mainpiece: As written by Shakespear. Tickets deliver'd for Monday the 9th will be taken. Tickets to be had of Delane at his lodgings at the Unicorn in New Exchange Row in the Strand. Places of Hobson at the stage door. There is now in rehearsal at the Theatre Royal [dl] and speedily will be acted, a new Petit Piece in imitation of that species of writing on the French Theatre call'd The Suspicious Husband Criticiz'd; or the Plague of Envy (General Advertiser). [A Folger edition of 1750 entitled Chorus for Shakespear's Tragedy of King John lists songs by Sullivan, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Storer, and Mrs Mozeen; the play had no other performance at a London theatre in the interim between 1747 and 1750.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: As17470314

Event Comment: Benefit Cushing. Lodgings at No 3 Lambeth Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Martha Smith. [Prices 3s., 2s., 1s. continue until 11 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: Brett

Dance: As17470216

Event Comment: Benefit Wignell and Shuter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage Or The Innocent Adultery

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Event Comment: Benefit Owen and Fulwell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: TThe Early Horn-Brett

Music: French Horns-Baker, Stroud

Dance: As17461124