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 Arthur

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: As17511021

Event Comment: Benefit for a Tradesman Under Misfortunes. A Concert, &c. To begin at 6. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Song: Vocals-an Italian Gentleman

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Bellamy. No Building on stage. Part of Pit only [laid into boxes]. Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock. Tickets at her house in Thrift St., Soho. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: A Provincial Dance-Sg Piettro, Mad Auretti

Event Comment: Benefit the Gentleman who acts the part of Glaud

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Event Comment: Benefit for Mad Auretti. Pit and Boxes together & Amphitheatre on stage. Tickets and Places to be had of Mad Auretti at her house in Leicester Fields; and at the Stage Door of the Theatre. Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: I: Les Characters de la Danse-Madam Auretti; II: A Hornpipe-the Little Swiss; III: A Chacone in Italian Characters- Harlequin Mad Auretti; Polonese Sg Piettro, Mad Janeton Auretti; Scaramouch, Punch, Messitin, Pantaloon, Pierot, others; IV: A Tambourine-Master Pietro; V: The Louvre, Minuet-Sg Piettro, Mad Auretti

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Ward. Last time of performing Mainpiece this season. Tickets to be had of Mrs Ward, next door to the Chapel in Little Wild-Street, near Drury Lane; and at the Stage Door of the Theatre, where places for the boxes may be taken. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Event Comment: Benefit for Cooke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: I: Grand Ballet, the Gondoliers-Cooke, Miss Hilliard; II: Grand Dutch Dance, as17511021; III: (By Particular Desire) Grand Scot's Ballet-Cooke, Miss Hilliard; V: a Ball Dance call'd the Rigadoon concluding with a, Minuet-Cooke, Miss Hilliard

Event Comment: Benefit for the Gentleman and Gentlewoman who act the Parts of Jenny and Bauldy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Event Comment: Benefit towards Increase of a Fund for a Publick Charity Afterpiece: At particular desire of several persons of Distinction. Tickets will be taken for Romeo and Juliet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius

Afterpiece Title: The Oracle

Event Comment: Benefit for the Increase of a Fund for the support of Decayed Musicians of their Families. To begin at 6 p.m. Pit and Boxes half a guinea. Gallery 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert Of Vocal And Instrumental Music

Event Comment: Benefit Mause, Madge. On Tuesday Evening several Performers by an order from the Lord Chamberlain were taken up for acting Plays, or Drolls, at Shepherd's Market, May Fair, and carried before a Magistrate who committed them to Prison on the Vagrant Act (General Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Event Comment: Benefit for Barrington and Miss Pitt

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

Event Comment: Benefit for Roger

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Elmy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Cast
Role: Blandford Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: The Oracle

Dance: III: A Grand Scots Ballet, as17511009

Event Comment: Benefit for Stuart. [The thirteenth and last performance.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Event Comment: Benefit for Havard. Tickets at his house in Broad Court, upper end of Bow St., Covent Garden; Bedford Coffee House; and at Stage Door. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Duke and no Duke

Dance: V: A Dance-Sg Piettro, Janeton Auretti, Master Piettro

Song: II: Dryden's Incantation Song-Beard

Event Comment: Benefit for a Widow Gentlewoman in Distress

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Womans Oratory

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Hilliard, and Mrs Storer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantly

Dance: I: Grand Dutch Dance, as17511021; III: A Grand Scots Ballet, as17511009; V: Louvre, Minuet-Cooke, Miss Hilliard

Song: II: (By Particular Desire) an Irish Song call'd Ellen a@roon-Mrs Storer

Event Comment: Benefit for Lauder. By Particular Desire of Persons of Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Arne. Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Being the last time of acting it this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Oracle

Dance: GGrand Comic Ballet, as17511216

Music: CConcerto on the Harpsichord-Master Arne

Event Comment: Benefit for Noell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Womans Oratory

Event Comment: Benefit for A Citizen's Widow and three small children. Tickets to be had at Sam's Coffee House in Exchange Alley; the Bank Coffee House, Threadneedle St.; Old Slaughter's Coffee House, St Martin's and the Stage Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: Sg Piettro, Mad Auretti

Event Comment: Benefit for Villeneuve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: II: Grand Comic Ballet, as17511216; IV: Grand Dutch Dance, as17511021; End: Louvre, Minuet-Villeneuve, Madem Camargo

Event Comment: Benefit for a Tradesman in Distress

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Event Comment: Benefit for White (Treasurer)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: VVenetian Gardeners, as17520418