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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We found 15926 matches on Event Comments, 2665 matches on Performance Comments, 704 matches on Performance Title, 131 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Benefit Bridgwater. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Tickets deliver'd out by Rawlins, and for Rule a Wife will be taken at this play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius Or The Force Of Love

Dance: II: Les Matelots, as17430324 III: New Grand Comic Ballet, as17430407 IV: French Peasant, as17430324 V: a New Ball Dance by Kellom Tomlinson (by Desire)-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde

Music: Between the Acts: Select pieces-

Event Comment: Benefit Mills

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Music: I: Concerto-Piantinida; IV: A New Concerto (never perform'd before) on the German Flute-Burk Thumoth

Dance: II: Neopolitan Punch, as17430324

Song: III: Distracted I Turn-Beard

Event Comment: Benefit Woodward

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Event Comment: Benefit widow and four children of actor Milward

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: As17430217, but Prue-Miss Hippisley, from the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden; Snap-Freeman; Mrs Foresight-Mrs Bambridge; Nurse-Mrs Haughton; Jeremy-Miss Royer; Epilogue [kindly sent to his [Milward's] Widow the Night before by the Gentleman who wrote The Man of Taste [James Miller]-Cibber. (Theatrical Clippings, Folger Library.)
Cast
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Bambridge
Role: Foresight Actor: Julian

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Performance Comment: See17430314 but Lucy-Miss Hippisley; Coupee-Gentleman, who never appear'd on any Stage before.
Event Comment: Benefit Roberts and Mrs Stevens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: TTambourine-Cooke; Peasants, as17421230; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; New Grand Comic Ballet, as17430407

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Macklin. Tickets of Mrs Macklin, Bow Street, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: Forgard Actor: Yates

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Song: II: Beard; IV: Lowe

Dance: III: Sicilian Peasant, as17430310

Music: V: Concerto on German Flute-Burk Thumoth

Event Comment: Benefit Lalauze

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Dance: CCharacters of Dancing, as17421025; Tambourine-Cooke; Peasants, as17421230

Event Comment: Benefit Lowe. Tickets at his lodgings next Seven Stars, Bedford Street, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Performance Comment: School Boy-Garrick, positively for last time this season.
Event Comment: Benefit Michael Lally. Two Rows of the Pits will be laid into the Boxes. And for the better accommodation of the ladies, the stage will be form'd into side boxes, where servants will be allow'd to keep places. Ladies desired to send servants by three

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Dance: I: Dutch Skipper, as17421025; II: Characters of Dancing, as17421025; III: Grand Ballet, as17421108; IV: Grand Comic Ballet, as17430407 V: (By particular Desire) a Louvre, Minuet-Lally, Mlle Anne Auretti

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Bradshaw. Tickets for 9 April will be taken. [Customary concert notice.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Song: Mrs Dunstall

Event Comment: Benefit Neale and Turbutt. Tickets to be had of Neale, a Dyer, in David St., near Grosvenor Square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The What DYe Call It

Song: III: Beard; IV: Gentle Parthenissa-Sullivan; V: Caesar and Urania-Beard, Lowe

Music: II: Concerto on German Flute-Burk Thumoth

Event Comment: Benefit Leveridge. Tickets and places to be had of Page at the stage door, or at Leveridge's Lodgings, the third door on the right hand in Hanover St., turning out of Long Acre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Dance: I: Peasants, as17421230; III: Grand Ballet, as17421108; V: Les Boufons du Cour, as17430305

Song: II: The Contented Man-Leveridge; IV: The Miser's Passport-Leveridge; V: An Epilogue in Music, address'd to the Town,-Leveridge: What I have said before I still recite, All shall be over about Nine at Night

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Tame, late Mrs Turner, of Bow St. Tickets delivered out for 9 April will be taken. [Customary concert formula.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies or Tom Thumb

Event Comment: Benefit Harrington, Master Gillier, Miss Allen, and others

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Dance: CCharacters of Dancing-Janneton Auretti; Tambourine-Master Gillier; L'Aimable Vainquers-Master Gillier, Mlle Janneton Auretti

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Mills. At the particular desire of several Ladies of Quality. Servants admitted to keep places on the stage. Tickets to be had of Mrs Mills at her House in Nassau Street, near Soho. Stage form'd into side boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Devil To Pay

Song: I: Stella and Flavia-Beard; IV: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard; II: A Cantata (compos'd by Stanley)-Lowe

Music: III: Concerto on German Flute-Burk Thumoth

Dance: V: Grand Serious Ballet, as17421005

Event Comment: Benefit Rosco, Lacy, and James

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: II: Dutch Skipper, as17421025; III: Characters of Dancing, as17421025; V: Grand Ballet, as17421108

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman in Misfortune. Tickets deliver'd out for tomorrow the 22nd, for the Play As You Like It will be taken this night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Song: III: Was Ever Nymph Like Rosamond-Beard

Dance: II: Sicilian Peasant, as17430310 IV: La Florana, as17430408

Event Comment: Benefit Bencraft, Richardson, Mrs Vincent

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Dance: NNew Comic Dance-Richardson, Delagarde; Le Rendezvous Gallant, as17421217

Event Comment: Benefit Piantanida (Musician). Tickets deliver'd out for As You Like It will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Devil To Pay

Dance: I: Grand Serious Ballet, as17421005; V: Sicilian Peasant, as17430310

Music: II: Concerto-Piantanida; IV: Solo-Piantanida

Song: III: An Italian Song-a Gentlewoman

Event Comment: Benefit Delamaine and Janneton Auretti

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: I: Italian Dance-Delamaine, Mlle Auguste; II: a Harlequin-Anne Auretti; III: Louvre-Delamaine; IV: Un Pas de Deux, as17430406 V: a Minuet-Delamaine, Janneton Auretti

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Mullart and Mrs Wright. Tickets deliver'd out by Mrs LeFont, and for a Person Under Misfortunes will be taken this day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Dance: MMinuet-Villeneuve, Mrs Wright

Event Comment: Benefit Mlle Bonneval. Tickets deliver'd by Leviez will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: II: Serious Ballet-Mlle Bonneval; III: La Florana, as17430408 IV: A New Hussar Dance-Boromeo, Mlle Bonneval

Music: V: A concerto-Piantanida

Event Comment: Benefit Stephens. At the desire of several Persons of Quality. The Play for tomorrow King Lear is deferr'd till Thursday next, when tickets deliver'd out for that play will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Dance: NNew Comic Ballet-Picq, Mlle Auguste; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; Les Boufons du Cour, as17430305 Grand Ballet, as17421108

Event Comment: Benefit Yates and Blakes. Garrick refus'd to act. Neale did Clodio (Winston MS., from Dyer MS.). [Marr doubles Don Manuel and Sancho]. Tickets for Marr will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: II: Beard; III: Lowe

Music: IV: Concerto-Burk Thumoth

Event Comment: Benefit Ridout, Dupre, Goodall, Stede. Tickets deliver'd out for Tuesday will be taken this day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Dance: A Ball Dance concluding with, a Minuet-Dupre, a Young Gentleman