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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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.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

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Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Music: Kontzen, a Youth of 7 Years of Age, lately arriv'd from Germany, being the first Time of his Appearance on the Stage

Event Comment: [By Samuel Madden.] Receipts: #114 2s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 146 paid and 16 orders; stage, 2 paid; pit, 287 paid and 1 order; slips, 62 paid; first gallery, 209 paid and 3 orders; second gallery, 170 paid. Preface to 1729 edition: Yet, with all its Faults, I did not think this Piece deserv'd so severe Treatment, as to be peremptorily refused, after the most earnest and early Sollicitations, at the Old House for two Winters together; which however, I have the less Reason to complain of, since Mr Rich's great Civility, and the agreeable Action of most of his Company, have prevailed on all the unprejudiced Part of the Town, to have every Day a better Opinion of this Piece

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Mainpiece Title: Themistocles The Lover Of His Country

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Congreve. [According to the Craftsman, 29 March, Cibber removed this passage from the play: Foresight , 'Pray what will be done at Court?' Valentine , 'Scandal will tell you; I am Truth, I never come there.'

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: As17280912, but Mrs Foresight-Mrs Horton.
Cast
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Horton.
Role: Foresight Actor: Johnson

Dance: Essex, Miss Robinson Sr, Miss Robinson Jr, Young Lally, Miss Brett

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Cast
Role: Lady Wishfort Actor: Mrs Mills

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Song: Vocal Parts-Boman, Rainton, Ray, Miss Raftor, Mrs Willis, Mrs Boman

Dance: DDance of Winds and Masque of Devils, Waterman's Dance, Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite, Grand Dance of Infernal Spirits as perform'd before the Grand Signior, by the Kister Aga and black Eunuchs of the Seraglio, at the Byram Feast.-Thurmond, Essex, Lally, Boval, Haughton, Rainton, Harper, Bridgwater, others

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The History Of Bonduca Or The British Heroine With The Humours Of Corporal Macer

Afterpiece Title: Phebe or The Beggars Wedding

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Wedding

Performance Comment: Hunter-Ray; Chaunter-Hulett; Phebe-Mrs Mountfort; Tippit-Mrs Nokes; Mrs Chaunter-Mrs Thomas; rest-Wilcocks, Rosco, Pearce, Machen, Russell, Dove, Mrs Kilby, Mrs Palmer, Miss Mann, Mrs Clark, Mrs Jones, Mrs Barnett.
Cast
Role: Phebe Actor: Mrs Mountfort

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Performance Comment: Parts-Ray, Hulett, Willcocks, Rosco, Machen, Mrs Nokes, Mrs Mountfort.

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of Harlequin

Music: With the Original Band of Musick

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: Sir Sampson-Shepard; Valentine-Wilks; Scandal-W. Mills; Tattle-Cibber; Foresight-Johnson; Trapland-Norris; Jeremy-Oates; Ben-Miller; Mrs Frail-Mrs Porter; Mrs Foresight-Mrs Heron; Angelica-Mrs Thurmond; Pure-Mrs Cibber; Nurse-Mrs Willis.
Cast
Role: Foresight Actor: Johnson
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Heron

Dance:

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth Part Ii With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff And Justice Shallow

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Wedding

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Wedding

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Flora

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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: SSpanish Dance-Lally, Essex, others; Muzette-Master Lally, Miss Robinson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest Or The Inchanted Island

Afterpiece Title: Neptune and Amphitrite

Song: DDear Dear Pretty Youth by Henry Purcell-Miss Raftor as Dorinda

Dance: DDance of the Four Winds-; Grand Dance of Infernal Spirits-, as perform'd before the Grand Signor, by the Eunuchs of the Seraglio, at the Bairam Feast; Dance of Watermen-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Dance: -RRoger, Essex, Lally, Rainton, Young Lally, Miss Robinson

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. [Prince of Wales, attended by Lord Ashburnham and Colonel Townshend, attended. In Daily Post, 5 Nov., The Conscious Lovers had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Performance Comment: Millamant-Mrs Oldfield; Mirabel-Wilks; Fainall-W. Mills; Witwoud-Cibber; Petulant-Boman; Sir Wilful-Harper; Waitwell-Shepard; Mrs Marwood-Mrs Porter; Mrs Fainall-Mrs Horton; Lady Wishfort-Mrs Mills; Foible-Mrs Shireburn.
Cast
Role: Lady Wishfort Actor: Mrs Mills

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Emperor

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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon Or The Two Sosias

Afterpiece Title: The Strollers

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Event Comment: By a Company under the Direction of Mr Aston. At the Front Long Room, next to the Opera-House in the Hay-Market. Price 2s. 6d. At 6 P.M. N.B. We perform henceforward on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays only

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks

Song: Between the Acts: New Comical Songs-; particularly A Dissertation on the Famous Beggar's Opera-