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 for Shawford, Gray, Dunbarr and Burke. N.B. Tickets sold by the Orange Women will not be admitted. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Song: I: Master Mattocks

Dance: II: Hornpipe-Master Shawford; III: A Comic Dance-Master and Miss Shawford; V: Louvre, Minuet-Shawford, Mrs Shawford

Event Comment: Benefit for Marten, Cushing, Stoppelaer. Tickets sold at the Door will not be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady Jane Gray

Cast
Role: Lord Guilford Dudley Actor: Ryan

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

Event Comment: Benefit for Foley, Bride Berrisford, Tomlinson, Smith, Atkinson. [Cross lists The Virgin Unmasked as the afterpiece, but not so advertised in the papers.] Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: II: Comic Dance, as17501231; IV: Hornpipe-the Little Swiss

Song: III: Master Mattocks

Event Comment: Benefit for Desse, Oates, Elrington, Miss Ferguson, Miss Morrison. Tickets deliver'd out by Dupre, Mrs Bambridge, Miss Allen and a Family under Misfortune will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Performance Comment: Sir Wilful-Macklin; Mirabel-Ryan; Fainall-Ridout; Lady Wishfort-Mrs Macklin; Mrs Marwood-Mrs Elmy; Mrs Fainall-Mrs Barrington; Foible-Miss Ferguson; Petulant-Cushing; Waitwell-Arthur; Mincing-Miss Haughton; Peg-Mrs Cushing; Witwou'd-Dyer; Millamant-Mrs Vincent.
Cast
Role: Lady Wishfort Actor: Mrs Macklin

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Event Comment: Benefit for Hobson. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Song: III: Master Mattocks

Dance: IV: Hornpipe-the Little Swiss

Event Comment: Benefit for Evans and Green (Boxkeepers)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: CCharacters of Dancing, La Paisanne-Mlle Heutte

Event Comment: Benefit Wright, Y. Cross, Mad. Camargo & 4 more had tickets (Cross). [The four were: Sturt, Lewis, G. Bullbrick, and Loyde.] Tickets for 13 April will be taken. Receipts: #110 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: I: Comic Dance, as17501231; III: Hornpipe-Master Shawford

Event Comment: Benefit for Lawrence, Vaughan, Condell (Boxkeepers)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: As17510511

Event Comment: Benefit for Driscol, Banks, Barnard, Miss Davis, and Trott (Lobby Doorkeeper). Tickets deliver'd by Mlle Huette, Mrs Hanmeuze, Mrs Griffith will be taken. Tomorrow the Fair Penitent and on Friday Romeo and Juliet, being the last time of the Company's performing this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Dance: As17510511

Event Comment: Benefit for the Widow Reinhold and her four small children in great distress. Tickets at Mrs Reinhold's at his house, the Green Door in Little Chapel St., and of Hobson at the stage ooor. Being posivitively the last time of performing this season. A Gift Day for ye Wid: Reinhold & 4 Small Children (Cross). Receipts: #101 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: others Actor: Vernon, _Mathews, Mad _Camargo.

Dance: Devisse, Mad Auretti

Event Comment: Benefit for Signora Cuzzoni, since I am "involved in a few debts, before I quit England." At Hickford's Room, Brewer St. To begin at seven Price: 10s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Concert

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Hallam. At the New Wells, Lemon St., Goodman's Fields. For one Night only. A Concert &c. By Desire of Several Persons of Distinction. Boxes 3s. Pit or Gallery 2s. (London Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Event Comment: Benefit for a Family in distress. At the Great Tiled Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark. A concert, etc. Boxes 2s. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite Or The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Entertainment: EEquilibres on Small Wire-Cooke

Event Comment: Benefit for Yeates, Jr, at the Great Tiled Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark (London Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Escapes of Harlequin

Event Comment: Benefit for Cooke. At the Great Tiled Booth, Bowling Green

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Escapes of Harlequin

Entertainment: EEquilibres on Small Wire-Cooke an Englishman and Citizen of London who performs all the Turk did

Event Comment: Benefit for Dan. French, Mrs Hyde and Mrs Knowles, Two Ale-Conners Widows. A Concert, etc. Boxes 4s. Pit 2s. Gallery 1s. 6d. To beg1n at 6

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant Or The Way To Win Him

Afterpiece Title: Flora or Hob in the Well

Performance Comment: The part of Hob-Hob himself; Roger for Somersetshire-Trimming Dick of Taunton Dean; to play out an old Grudge, Friendly, Flora-Friends of Hob's who never appeared on any Stage before.
Event Comment: Benefit for a Tradesman Under Misfortunes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: Grandchamps, Madem Camargo

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Yeates. A Concert, For One Night Only. To begin at six by reason of the length of the Performance. Boxes 2s. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Event Comment: Benefit for ye Author (Cross). Afterpiece: By Desire. [Tickets see 22 Feb.] Receipts: #87 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eugenia

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: II: Grand Provincial Dance, as17520204

Event Comment: Benefit of a Family in great Distress

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Event Comment: Benefit Signor Antonio Ambrosia, Operator on the Cremona Staccato, vulgarly call'd the Salt-Box. Tickets delivered for 5 March will be taken. Prices, Boxes 4s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. [The fifteenth night.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Womans Oratory

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pritchard. By Particular Desire. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Servants admitted to keep places on the Stage. Ladies are desired to send servants by 3 o'clock. Play to begin at 6. Tickets and places to be had of Mrs Pritchard in Great Queen Street, and at the stage door of the theatre. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Shepherds Lottery

Cast
Role: Thyrsis Actor: Mas. Vernon

Dance: Mad Auretti

Event Comment: Benefit for Lauder

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clive. Mainpiece: Not acted in seven years [see 7 May 47]. Altered from Dryden by Colley Cibber, Esq. Part of Pit laid into boxes. Amphitheatre on Stage. Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: III: Mattocks

Dance: IV: Mad Auretti

Event Comment: Benefit for Lowe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Song: RRise Glory Rise-Lowe

Dance: GGrand Dutch Dance, as17511021