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: Ines De Castro Or Royal Justice

Afterpiece Title: La F1lle Cap1ta1n et Arlequin Son Sergeant With the Scene of Le Professeur dAmour

Dance: Tambourine by Miss Chateauneuf. La Frolick (Daily Advertiser only)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Dance: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. Black Joak by Nivelon and Miss Mann. Polonese by Essex and Mrs Walter

Performances

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Dance: Grand Polish Ballet by Essex and Mrs Walter. Black Joak by Nivelon and Miss Mann. Grand Comic Ballet: French Peasants by Poitier and Mlle Roland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Chymical Counterfeits

Dance: As17341231

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: By particular Desire. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 4 Jan.: The kind Reception which Mr Poitier met with in his Performance on Wednesday last . . . lays him under the greatest Obligation to the Publick; and if he has lost the good Opinion of anyone, by the late unhappy Disturbance [see 7 Dec. 1734], he hopes his future constant Endeavours to oblige, will both be accepted, and regain their Favour

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mother in law

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom or The Virgin Unmaskd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zaire

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Always Harlequin

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Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Performance Comment: Sir Wilful-Harper; Mirabel-Milward; Fainall-W. Mills; Witwoud-Cibber; Petulant-Mechlin; Waitwell-Shepard; Millamant-Mrs Heron; Marwood-Mrs Butler; Mrs Fainall-Mrs Pritchard; Lady Wishfort-Mrs Shireburn; Foible-Miss Mann .
Cast
Role: Lady Wishfort Actor: Mrs Shireburn

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom

Dance: As17350118, but Le Brun, Miss Brett, and Dutchman and his From added

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Plot

Dance: Polish Ballet, as17341221

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Music: For the Second Musick, the First Concerto of the 2d Opera of Geminiani. For the Third Musick, the Overture to Esther. I: Concerto for Hautboys by Geminiani

Performance Comment: For the Third Musick, the Overture to Esther. I: Concerto for Hautboys by Geminiani .

Dance: II: Pierrots by Nivelon and Lalauze. III: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. IV: Polonese by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c. V: Russian Sailor by Denoyer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Performance Comment: As17350120, but Lady Wishfort-Mrs Cross .
Cast
Role: Lady Wishfort Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. A new Comic Dance called Tit for Tat by Denoyer, Nivelon, Mrs Walter, Miss Anderson

Performance Comment: A new Comic Dance called Tit for Tat by Denoyer, Nivelon, Mrs Walter, Miss Anderson .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom

Dance: French Peasant by Lalauze, Mrs Walter, Miss Mann. Tit for Tat, as17350215

Performance Comment: Tit for Tat, as17350215.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Orpheus or The Magical Pipe

Music: Select Pieces on the Violin by a Youth of 13 Years of Age, who never performed in public before, a Scholar of Signior Catanio

Entertainment: [Apparently not published. Author not known. For Poitier, see Daily Journal, 3 March.]

Performance Comment: Author not known. For Poitier, see Daily Journal, 3 March.] hathi.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cast Not Listed But See 5 March

Event Comment: Ijmdon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 27 March: We hear . . . that to perfect the Performance, Mr Handel designs to introduce, to-morrow Night (in the Oratorio of Deborah) a large new Organ, which is remarkable for its Variety of curious Stops; being a new Invention, and a great Improvement of that Instrument

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deborah

Afterpiece Title: the two Concertos in the Oratorio of Esther

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Taste

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Orpheus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom

Dance: By Command: II: French Peasants by Poirier and Mlle Roland. III: Pierots by Nivelon and Lalauze. V: Harlequin and Harlequine by Poirier and Mlle Roland

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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatom1st Or The Sham Doctor

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: Pierrot by Vallois

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: Ben-Miller; Tattle-Cibber; Foresight-Johnson; Valentine-Milward; Scandal-W. Mills; Sir Sampson-Shepard; Jeremy-Oates; Trapland-Griffin; Angelica-Mrs Thurmond; Prue-Mrs Clive; Mrs Frail-Mrs Cross; Mrs Foresight-Miss Hollyday; Nurse-Mrs Willis .
Cast
Role: Foresight Actor: Johnson
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Miss Hollyday

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay or The Wives Metamorphosd

Dance:

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd Or A Plot Discoverd

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Music: Select Pieces

Dance: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. The new Comic Dance called Fye! nay prithee John; or, Handel's Jig by Le Brun and Mrs Anderson