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 Collins, Roger, Mrs Sibella and Mrs Toogood

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Event Comment: Benefit Widow Hale. Receipts: #42 14s., plus #55 8s. from tickets. Charges #60

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: Benefit Oates

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman under misfortunes. Mainpiece Alter'd from Dryden by $Colley Cibber, Esq.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Song: I: By Particular Desire, The Early Horn-Lowe

Event Comment: Benefit for Desse, Brownly St., Longacre, and Miss Hippisley. Receipts: #72 9s. 6d., plus #71 3s. from tickets, but distribution unspecified. Charges #60

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: English Boy and Girl; By Desire, Hornpipe-Matthews

Event Comment: Benefit Peacopp, Emberton, Dunbar, Berrisford, and Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Event Comment: Benefit Marr, Pierce, Mason, Witty, Lloyd, Costin, Mrs Barclay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Event Comment: Benefit Curryer, Fryar, Delahyde, and Shawford (General Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Event Comment: Benefit Hobson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Event Comment: Benefit for Villeneuve, Delagarde and Rector. Receipts: #12 14s. 6d., plus #127 8s. from tickets, distribution unspecified. Charges #60

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: The English Boy and Girl; Also, by desire, a Minuet-Rector, Mrs Gondou

Event Comment: Benefit Maculla, Bride, Lathbury, Pope, May, Tomlinson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: As17461204, but Mrs Foresight-Mrs Macklin; Tattle-Cross.
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Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Macklin
Role: Foresight Actor: Taswell

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Event Comment: Benefit Usher, Saunders, Heath, Pritchard, Goodwin, and Brooks

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Event Comment: [Benefit on basis of half value of tickets for eight beneficiaries]: James, Anderson, Thompson, Mrs LeBrun, Miss Ferguson, Mrs Gondou, Mrs LeFont, and Miss Morrison. Receipts at the door: #13 5s. /For Box Pit Gallery Value Half-Value/James 1 152 115 #34 11s. #17 5s. 6d./Anderson 10 89 84 #24 5s. #12 2s. 6d./Thompson .. 61 46 #13 15s. #6 17s. 6d./Mrs Lebrun 1 32 36 #8 13s. #4 6s. 6d./Mrs Gondou 6 57 60 #16 1s. #8 0s. 6d./Mrs Ferguson 9 34 58 #13 3s. #6 11s. 6d./Mrs Morrison 15 25 43 #11 16s. #5 18s./Mrs Le Font 8 60 49 #15 18s. #7 19s./Totals 50 510 491 #138 2s. #69 1s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Event Comment: Benefit Lawrence, Powell, and Gardiner [Door-Keepers]. [Profits to the beneficiaries unspecified.] Charges #70

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Event Comment: Benefit Wright, Miss Bennett, Fleetwood, Reynolds, Green, Ockman, and Elliott. Tickets deliver'd for the Provok'd Husband will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Event Comment: Benefit Nicholson, Dancing Master. 6:30 p.m. A Concert, etc

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Event Comment: Benefit for Elizabeth Dove, now a widow

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse Or Virtue In Danger

Afterpiece Title: Tea

Event Comment: Benefit for a Widow and her Son...A Concert etc. Boxes 4s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Performance Comment: With a new additional Scene-; in which will be introduce'd two new characters; the Part of Fribble to be perform'd by the Author of the scene; after which an Epilogue- in the Character of Fribble.

Dance: To conclude with: Country Dance called The Whim-

Event Comment: Benefit for Troas. Pit and Boxes put together 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. To begin at half an hour after six (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Concert Of Musick

Event Comment: Benefit for Foote, being the last Time of his Performing this Season. Tickets deliver'd for Wednesday the third will be taken this Day. Servants will be admitted to keep Places on the Stage, which for the better Accommodation of the Ladies are form'd into Side-Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: Tea

Event Comment: Benefit for Bridgwater. Tickets and places to be had of Page at the stage door, and of Bridgwater at his wharf near Whitefriars. [His notice of hopeful acknowledgement (3 Feb.) repeated.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Cassarini. A New Song will be sung by Sga Casarini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Enrico

Event Comment: Benefit Sowdon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17471228, but Richard-Sowdon 1st time; Tressel-Gibson; Blunt-Paddick; Catesby-Bencraft; Oxford-_; Norfolk-Paget.
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Role: Oxford Actor: Bencraft

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: Benefit Dunning and Mrs Rowley. To begin at 6 p.m. Prices: 5s., 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: Between the Acts: a Gentleman

Event Comment: Benefit for Signora Galli. Composed by Handel. Signora Galli will sing the Part of Alexander, with all the original songs of Senesino. [As Senesino created this role in 1726, the piece performed tonight may be Handel's, not Lampugnani's; see kings, 15 Nov. 1743 and Deutsch, Handel, p. 647.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Roxana