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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Vernon much Applause Hopkins Diary Benefit for Vernon Paid Mr "/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Vernon much Applause Hopkins Diary Benefit for Vernon Paid Mr ")') 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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17452 results for: Keyword - Mr Vernon</i>-much Applause (<i>Hopkins Diary</i>). Benefit for Vernon. Paid $Mr <span class=
We found 15888 matches on Event Comments, 2621 matches on Performance Comments, 638 matches on Performance Title, 34 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

17201
23 September 1757 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire. Benefit for Lauder. The curtain to rise punctually at half an hour after six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Impromptu Faragolio

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Frolic

17202
21 October 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #65 6s. (Account Book). Benefit for Mrs Mayo. Charges #80. Deficit to Mrs Mayo #14 14s., covered by #79 1s. from tickets (Boxes 160. Pit 191. Gallery 104)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: FFingalian Dance, as17571013

17203
03 December 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This is ye same farce that was play'd for Woodward's Benefit last Years, & call'd Ye Modern fine Gent: (Cross). Receipts: #200 (Cross). [See Theatrical Review, 1757 and Beginning of 1758 for comment on Male Coquette: 'On the whole the beauties of this little comedy exceed the faults in number and importance." The reviewer gives a nine-page review, cannot guess who wrote the piece, suggests Murphy.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Performance Comment: Biron-Garrick; Villeroy-Havard; Baldwin-Berry; Carlos-Davies; Sampson-Bransby; Bellford-Jefferson; Isabella-Mrs Cibber; Nurse-Mrs Bennet; Epithalamium-Beard, Miss Young [as17571202.as17571202.
Cast
Role: Bellford Actor: Jefferson

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette, or 1757

17204
24 January 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tickets to be had of Lee at the Golden Ball in Bow St., Covent Garden. N.B. On Account of the Horses, &c. there will be no building on the stage. Receipts: Benefit for Lee. #117 9s. plus income from tickets, #91 9s. (boxes 82; pit 345; gallery 192) (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Performance Comment: As17571021, but Frenchman-the Gentleman who performs Johnson.
Cast
Role: Frenchman Actor: the Gentleman who performs Johnson.

Dance: FFingalian Dance, as17571013

17205
07 March 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Tickets to be had of Dodsley in Pall Mall: Miller in the Strand; Chapelle in Grosvenor St.; and Varney at the Stage Door, where Places may be taken. Mrs Cibber's Benefit, on account of her illness, is oblig'd to be deferr'd till the 7th of next month. Cross For ye Author. Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Agis

Cast
Role: Vocal Parts Actor: Beard, Champness, Vernon, Mrs Vernon, Miss Young

17206
11 March 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: not acted 6 years. [See 21 April 1752.] Afterpiece: By Desire. Benefit for Mrs Hamilton. Receipts: #87 15s. 6d. Plus Tickets #167 13s. [box 229; pit 514; gallery 333). Charges #63 Mrs Pudsey entered as a New Renter for 1 share (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Dance: As17571217

Ballet: TThe Judgment of Paris. As17571217

17207
14 March 1758 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. Ths Musick newly composed by Sig Cocchi. New Clothes, Decorations, and Dances. [On Monday 13 March Sga Frasi published in the Public Advertiser thanks for those who supported her benefit (6 March) and apologized for deficiencies in the performances. Some of the principals were engaged in the run of the new tragedy [The Prophetess? Mariamne?] whose run she could not anticipate.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Issipile

17208
17 April 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Shakespear. Not acted these 7 years. Benefit for Bencraft and Vincent. Receipts: #50 4s. Charges: #63. Deficiencies of #6 8s. apiece covered by income from tickets; Benecraft, #55 14s. (boxes 123; pit 151; gallery 23); Vincent, #62 1s. (boxes 78; pit 213; gallery 106) (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Ballet: Judgment of Paris. As17580413

Dance: likewise a newClikewise a newComic Dance-Lucas, Mlle Capdeville

17209
13 December 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Author's Night. Tancred and Sigismunda, for the Benefit of Widow Jona and her Children, is obliged to be deferr'd till further Notice

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cleone

Cast
Role: Beaufort Sr Actor: Ridout
Role: Beaufort Jr Actor: Dyer

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: As17581111

17210
18 April 1759 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By children not above thirteen years of age. By Authority. Benefit for Miss Valois and Miss Burn. 6:30 p.m. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. The House will be lighted with Wax Candles

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cleone

Song:

Dance: A Minuet-Miss Valois, Miss Burn

17211
08 June 1759 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Authority (being the only time of performing it this Season). A Scots Musical Pastoral. Benefit for Lauder. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Patie And Roger; Or, The Gentle Shepherd

Dance:

17212
19 June 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For the Benefit of some distressed Actors who formerly belonged to the theaters. [Originally advertised for 12 June, but deferred because of the races at Ascot.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: II: A New Dutch Dance, as17590515; III: A Hornpipe-Morris; concluding with: Country Dance-the characters

17213
28 June 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For the Benefit of some Distressed Actors, who formerly belonged to the Theatres. Play to begin at exactly 7 o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: II: A New Dutch Dance, as17590515; V: Hornpipe-Master Mathews, a child of 5 years of age

17214
28 September 1759 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Authority. Benefit for Mrs Charlotte Charke. (As I am entirely dependent on chance for a subsistence...I humbly hope the Town will favor me.) Boxes 5s. Pid 3s. Gallery 2s. The Seventh Night of performing here

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Song:

Dance:

17215
15 February 1760 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: A Sacred Oratorio by Pope, set by Charles Barbandt. Benefit for the Composer. Box 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. To begin at Seven O'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Universal Prayer

17216
21 February 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Being the last time of performing this Opera till the Benefits. Receipts: #182 10s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Dance: As17600212

17217
21 February 1760 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Authority. Benefit for Lauder. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. To begin at Half an Hour after Six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Patie And Roger; Or, The Gentle Shepherd

Song: Introducing several favorite Scots Songs-Lauder

17218
22 March 1760 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Operas for the future to be for the benefit of the actors and actresses.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arminio

17219
29 March 1760 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: The Operas for the future are to be for the benefit of the actors and actresses, who beg a continuance of that generous protection which they acknowledge to have received from the Subscribers, the Nobility, and gentry of this Kingdom. [The notice subsequently repeated.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arminio

17220
08 April 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: HHolland's Benefit deferred on account of Garrick's indisposition

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: The Vocal Parts Actor: Champness, Reinhold, Mrs Vernon, Miss Young, Miss Spencer

17221
24 April 1760 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: For the Benefit and Increase of a Fund established to support Decay'd Musicians and their Families.[The Governors publish a statement of financers; #533 11s. 9d. spent in past years.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: I: A Solo On the Violin-Hay; II: A Concerto on the Hautboy-Vincent

17222
25 April 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Particular Desire. Benefit for Mattocks, Mrs Pitt, Mrs Green. Tickets delivered out for Mrs Stephens and for The Tender Husband will be taken. No building on Stage. Receipts: #53 10s. 6d. in cash. Charges #64 5s. Deficit to each beneficiary #3 11s. 6d. covered by income from tickets. @Mattock Box 25@Pit 176@Gallery 100@Value #14 13s.@Mrs Green Box 28@Pit 90@Gallery 83@Value #28 16s.@Mrs Pit Box 14@Pit 149@Gallery 216@Value #47 9s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance: I: The Dutch Skipper, as17591017; II: The Lamp Lighters, as17600318 End Opera: By Desire, a Minuet-Leppie, a Young Lady, who never appeared on any stage before

17223
31 May 1760 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: The last Night of the Subscription. A New Opera. Music by Cocchi. N.B. The opera will be continued for a few nights more for the benefit of actors and actresses. [The opera next season to be under Signora Mattei.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Erginda Regina Di Livadia

Dance: Gallini, Mlle Asselin, Maranesi, Sga Provenzale

17224
11 June 1760 @ Ranelagh Gardens

Event Comment: Poems of Milton, with music by Handel. Benefit for Beard. Admittance 5s. To begin at half after Six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'allegro Ed Il Penseroso

Music: A New Medley Overture-Bates; a new Musical Medley by way of Epilogue-

17225
19 June 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By the Richmond Company for the Benefit of Distress'd Actors. 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: Miss Rogers; II: Dutch Dance-Settree, Blagden, Miss Twist; III: Miss Rogers; End: A New Dance-Settree, Miss Blagden