SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Costollo Tickets deliver\'d out by "/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Costollo Tickets deliver\'d out by ")') 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: By Authority and Particular Desire. For the Son of an Officer, fifty Years in Commission. Tickets delivered by Smith and Sharpless for the 15th and Monday the 19th will be admitted. N.B. As Regularity, at least, will be attempded, it is hoped no Gentleman will ask admittance behind the Scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Afterpiece Title: The Whim or The Hospital Fools

Entertainment: I+Interlude. Three Old Women Weatherwise-

Event Comment: By permission. Benefit Mrs Gardner. Tickets delivered by Mr Death will be admitted. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beaux Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Vintner Tricked

Entertainment: IV: Tragical Imitations-Miss Rose (By Particular Desire); End of Play: Imitations of Mr and Mrs Cadwallader-Mas. Frank, Miss Rose; Between the Acts of the Farce: The Picture of a Playhouse; or, Bucks have at ye all-Death

Event Comment: By Authority. To begin at 6 p.m. Tickets delivered for the 2nd will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Event Comment: Benefit for Barry. Barry did not act Doubtless ill (Winston MS 10). Tickets delivered for All for Love will be taken. On Account of the extraordinary demand for places, most part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Send servants by half past 4 o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Dance: V: Comic Dance, as17700922

Event Comment: The Last Night. By Authority and By Desire of Several Persons of Quality. Benefit for Lalauze. Tickets delivered for 11 March will not be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Athelwold

Afterpiece Title: Cupids Friendship

Dance: As17710311 Dancing in demi@character-Von, his first appearance in England

Event Comment: The Farce altered form Ben Johnson, by the author of The Tobacconist. By Authority for one Night only. Benefit Vandermere. Tickets delivered by Fearon, Collett, Mrs Granger, Dancer, Mrs Didier will be admitted. [Hissed (Whitehall Evening Post).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Coxcombs

Dance: I: Statue Dance-; End Opera: Dance-the Characters; End Dance: Hornpipe-Lepper

Event Comment: Benefit for Wheeler, Walker, and Mrs Simson. Tickets delivered by Kear and Stevens will be taken. Receipts: #212 12s. 6d. Charges. #64 14s. Profits to Wheeler, Walker, Mrs Simson: #147 10s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: End: Hornpipe-Walker

Event Comment: Benefit for Mortimer Tomlinson and Lings. Tickets delivered by Page, Chinnal and Carleton Sen will be taken. Receipts: #242 9s. 6d. Charges: #84. Profits for Mortimer, Tomlinson, Lings: #158 9s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Entertainment: IV: introduce the Description of a Man of War and a Sea Fight-Moody

Dance: V: New Double Hornpipe-Master Whitlow, Miss Lings (scholars of Sg Giorgi)

Event Comment: By Permission. Positively the last Night of Performing this Season. Benefit for Dancer, Mrs Fearon, and VanRymsdyck. Tickets delivered by Lloyd and Vowell will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Entertainment: A Variety of Imitations-a Young Gentleman [Stokes]

Event Comment: Benefit for Lying In Hospital, Oxford Road. Tickets delivered for Twelfth Night will be taken. Receipts: #233 19s. Charges: #84. Profits to Hospital: #149 19s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Event Comment: By the Particular Desire of several persons of distinction. Tickets delivered for the Resurrection will be taken. The Last time of performing this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prodigal Son Messiah

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [See 10 May 1771.] Benefit for J. Bannister and W. Barry. Paid Easter Offering for St Martin's one year 10s. 6d.; Chorus 2 nights (this incl.) #3 6s. (Treasurer's Book). Tickets delivered by Kear will be taken. Receipts: #135 11s. Charges: #84. Profits to J. Bannister and W. Barry: #51 11s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zenobia

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Entertainment: End: Bucks have at Ye All-Palmer

Event Comment: Benefit for Mortimer, Tomlinson and Lings. Tickets delivered by Page, Carlton, Sen, and Walton will be taken. Receipts: #236 13s. Charges: #84. Profits to Mortimer, Tomlinson, and Lings: #152 13s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: I: A Hornpipe-Master Whitlow, Miss Lings; III: A New Wooden Shoe Dance-Mas. Whitlow, Miss Lings, Miss Wilkins, scholars of Giorgi

Event Comment: Benefit for Bowers, Cridland, Piercy. Tickets delivered by Hodges will be taken. Paid Mr J. French on acct #5 5s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #259 8s. 6d. Charges: #84. Profits to Bowers, Cridland, and Piercy: #175 8s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: V: The Sailors Revels, as17720919

Event Comment: Benefit for Weston. Tickets delivered for 7 April taken. It is agreed this day between Mrs Abington and Mr Garrick that the former shall be engag'd to him and Mr Lacy, Patentees of the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, for three years from this date, or three acting seasons, at the sum of twelve pounds a week, with a Benefit, and sixty pounds for cloaths--the above agreement to be put into Articles according to the usual form. s@ Frances Abington, D. Garrick for himself and Mr Lacy (Folger Library, Garrickiana 962 MS [Cage, p. 154).] Receipts: #205 14s. 6d. Charges: #66 5s. Profits to Weston: #139 9s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Pantheonites

Entertainment: End II: Imitations vocal and rhetorical-Bannister; End III: Hippisley's Drunken Man-Weston; End V: (For that night only) Judge Tycho's sentence-Weston riding on a rhinoceros

Dance: After Judge Tycho's Sentence: The Taylors, as17740428

Event Comment: Benefit for Watson, Roberts, Wilson and Palmer. Tickets delivered by Humphreys will be taken. Receipts: #267 13s. Charges: #84. Profits to beneficiaries: #183 13s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Entertainment: End Opera: Bucks Have at Ye All-Palmer

Event Comment: Benefit for Widow Bowers, Percy, Wood and Robinson. Tickets delivered for The Orphan and by Mr Hodges will be taken. Paid Mr Davies on Note #30; Mr Clinch for 5 days at beginning of season not on list #2 1s. 8d.; Mr Cooke's 4 boys 11th inst. #1 10s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #256 12s. 6d. Charges: #84. Profits to Widow Bowers and beneficiaries: #172 12s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Event Comment: Benefit for Berrisford, Carlton Jr and Kaygill. Tickets delivered by Burroughs and Archeveque will be taken. 48th Bt. (Treasurer's Book). This Ends the Season 58 different Plays 39 different Farces 188 Nights in all (Hopkins Diary). [See 30 May; 2 June.] Receipts: #246. Charges: #84. Profits to beneficiaries: #162 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant Or The History Of George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Ring

Dance: V: The Sailors Revels, as17730928

Event Comment: Benefit for the Relief of Persons Imprisoned for small Debts. The Provok'd Husband is oblig'd to be changed on account of Mrs Yates illness. Tickets delivered for that comedy will be taken. Rec'd stopages #14; Paid salary list #564 6s.; Mr Slingsby on note in full of #150 per order; #40, J. French on Acct #5 5s.; Mr Weston's Law Bill, #15 10s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #122 17s.; Charges: #84; Profits to Charity: #38 17s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Event Comment: Great Applause to the Farce (Hopkins Diary).Benefit for Mrs Abington. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Tickets delivered for The Tender Husband will be taken. Send Servants by Four to prevent Confusion. [Sir Joshua Reynolds had procured forty places in the front boxes this night. Boswell and Dr Johnson were among his guests. Johnson could see and hear little, but sat out the performance, commenting on Garrick's excellence as a writer of Prologues. See Boswell's Life of Johnson, ed. G. B. Hill, II, 324ff.] Receipts: #287 9s. 6d. Charges: #64 4s. Profits to Mrs Abington: #223, 5s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Event Comment: Under the direction of Dr Arne. Being desired again by several persons of Quality. Tickets delivered out for 27 April by Miss Donadieu and Mrs Farrel will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sot

Song: Catches and Glees-; Cymon and Iphigenia-a Gentleman; a Capital Trumpet Song-Miss Jameson

Event Comment: Last time of Performing the afterpiece this season. Tickets delivered by Cushing, Holloway, Leoni, Miss Bassan, Redman and Walters will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Druids

Dance: III: A Double Hornpipe-Leoni, Miss Bassan; IV: An Allemande-Holloway, Sga Daguville

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett and Wheeler. Tickets delivered for The Grecian Daughter will be taken. Receipts: #233 12s. 6d. Charges: #66 5s. 6d. Profits to Fawcett & Wheeler #167 7s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: II: The Pirates, as17750422

Event Comment: Benefit for Messrs Tomlinson, Mortimer, Walton and Carlton Senr. Tickets delivered by Page will be taken. Paid Tabor & Pipe 5 nights (9th inst. incl.) #2 12s. 6d.; Mr Wrighten on note #42. Receipts: #239 16s. Charges: #84. Profits to beneficiaries: #155 16s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: V: The Pirates, as17750422

Event Comment: Benefit for Theatrical Fund. Pit and boxes laid together. Send servants by 4 o'clock. Play to begin half past 6 o'clock. Tickets delivered for Thursday the 18th inst. will be taken. Expenses for Fund Night: Renters #4; Supernumeraries & Kettle Drum 19s.; Soldiers 14s.; Printer #2 6s. 6d.; Extra constables &c. #1 10s. 6d.; Candles, Oyl & Lampmen #3 18s., 6d.; Salary to Mr Simonet, Sg Como, Sga Crespi & Mrs Hartle #1 10s.; Carpenters extra #1 7s. Total #16 6s. 4d. Receipts: #309 10s. 6d. Charges: #16 6s. 4d. Profits to Fund #293 4s. 2d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

Dance: Slingsby, Sga Hidou [title of dance not specified]