SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Vernon much Applause Hopkins Diary Benefit for Vernon Paid Mr Barthelemon"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Vernon much Applause Hopkins Diary Benefit for Vernon Paid Mr Barthelemon")') 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 Mrs Giffard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Womans A Riddle

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit Dessessars, the Pantalon, and Mrs Dessessars

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tartuffe

Afterpiece Title: Les Precieuses Ridicules

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Always Harlequin

Dance: The last new Lilliputian Scotch Dance

Event Comment: Benefit the Author [of Mainpiece. For an essay on the play, see Prompter, 11 March.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Taste

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Orpheus

Event Comment: Benefit the Author of the opera. Afterpiece: A new Serio-Comi-Farcical-Elysian Ballad Opera of Two Acts. [Author unknown. Apparently not printed.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Abra Mule

Afterpiece Title: Macheath 1n the Shades or Bayes at Parnassus

Performance Comment: Macheath-Stoppelaer; Bayes-Chapman; Polly-Miss Norsa; Alexander-Mullart; Peachum-Hippisley; Sejanus-Paget; Charon-Morgan; Cardinal Wolsey-Houghton; Mat-Clark; Ben Johnson-Aston; Horace-Wignell; Cleopatra-Mrs Templer; Jenny Diver-Miss Binks; Slammekin-Mrs Kilby; Thalestris-Mrs Forrester; Mrs Trapes-Mrs Martin; Helen-Miss S. Rogers; Mercury-Hale .
Cast
Role: Thalestris Actor: Mrs Forrester

Dance: Tambourine by Miss Rogers. Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers, Le Sac, Miss Baston, Delagarde, Mrs De L'Orme

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Burges. By a Company of Lilliputians. Pit and Boxes 3s. Gallery 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Extravagance

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: Benefit Quin. Mainpiece: Written by Ben. Johnson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone Or The Fox

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Minuet by Denoyer and Mrs Walter. Amorous Swain and Rival Nympbs, as17350310 Russian Sailor by Denoyer

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Horton. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Dance: Pigmalion by Mlle Salle and Lally. Glover's Scotch Dance

Event Comment: Benefit Wetherilt and Bardin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Dance: Scotch Dance by Haughton, Mrs Bullock, Vallois, Mrs Woodward, Tench, Mrs Vallois

Event Comment: Benefit Walker. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sophonisba Or Hannibals Overthrow

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Music: Handel's Water Musick, with Preamble on Kettle Drum by Benj. Baker

Dance: La Coquette Francoise by Lally, S. Lally, Mlle Salle. Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers, Le Sac, Miss Baston, Delagarde, Mrs De l'Orme

Song: Tippling Philosophers by Leveridge

Event Comment: Benefit Hulett. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Dance: I: Pierrots by Vallois and Delagarde. II: Scotch Dance by Mrs Bullock. IV: La Follette c'est Ravize by Tench and Mrs Woodward

Song: III: Was ever Nymph like Rosamond by Miss Jones. V: In Italian by Mrs Chambers

Event Comment: Benefit Hippisley. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [Ryan, who was injured by street robbers, Sunday, 16 March, was forced to relinquish his roles for awhile.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: As17341112, but Archer-A. Hallam; Cherry-Hippisley's Daughter, who never appeared on stage before .

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Dance: Scot's Dance, as17350315

Song: Tippling Philosophers by Leveridge

Event Comment: Benefit John Liege, Boxkeeper. Afterpiece: Written by Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Fausse Coquette

Afterpiece Title: Le Mariage Force

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit Ryan. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: A Farce, never performed before. Taken from Moliere. [Author unknown. Apparently not printed. See London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 19, 20, and 21 March, for expressions of good will to Ryan, including a gift often guineas from the Prince of Wales.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: A School for Women

Dance: La Coquette Francoise by Lally, S. Lally, Mlle Salle. Scot's Dance, as17350315

Song: By Leveridge and Mrs Wright

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Roberts. At the particular Desire of several Ladies

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Emperor Or The Conquest Of Mexico By The Spaniards

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: After the Indian Manner by Haughton

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Fompre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lecole Des Femmes

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Always Harlequin

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit John Festin. 6 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Event Comment: Benefit Davis and Bartlet. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. [A puff in Daily Advertiser, 21 March, extols Davis as having been trained by Nicolini Haym.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Sauvage

Afterpiece Title: Les Deux Arlequins

Dance: The Jealousy between Three Lilliputians. A Harlequin by Young Cochoy

Event Comment: Benefit Machen. [For an essay on the bill proposing regulation of the stage, see Prompter, 21 March.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Covent Garden Tragedy

Dance: By Le Sac, from DL

Song: By E. Roberts, from DL

Event Comment: Benefit Bridgwater. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh. With his Additional Scene. [Tickets at Bridgwater's Lodgings, No. 16, Craven Buildings.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: Scot's Dance, as17350315 Pigmalion by Mlle Salle and Lally

Event Comment: Benefit Topham, the English Sampson. [Tickets at Topham's, Corner of Little Bridges Street.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lembarras Des R1ches

Dance:

Entertainment: After the Play [Topham] will shew Surprising Activities of Strength: And further to oblige the Audience, will endeavor to accommodate them with several New Performances

Song: In English and Italian by Topham

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Clive. Mainpiece: Written by Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom

Music: Solo on Violin by Charke

Dance: III: Amorous Swain and Nymphs, as17350310 IV: Russian Sailor by Denoyer. V: By Denoyer's Apprentice

Event Comment: Benefit Rosco. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality and Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Performance Comment: Merchant-Havard; Clause-Hulett; Higgen-Penkethman; Prig-Rosco; Woolfort-Richardson; Hubert-Bardin; Vandunk-Huddy; Boor-Norris; Gertrude-Mrs Haughton; Jaquelin-Mrs Hamilton .
Cast
Role: Woolfort Actor: Richardson

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song:

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit Verneuil, Mrs Verneuil, Miss Mimi Verneuil. By Command of his Royal Highness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Astrologue Ramoneur Enfant Statue Skellete Negre

Afterpiece Title: Arlequin Hulla

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit the Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Taste

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Orpheus

Event Comment: Benefit Johnson. [For a discussion of the impending bill to restrain the playhouses, see Prompter, 27 March.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom

Dance: Amorous Swain and Rival Nympbs by Lalauze, Mrs Walter, Miss Mann. Russian Sailor by Denoyer, &c. French Peasant by Nivelon