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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: Beaufort Actor: Perry.

Dance: II: Rural Love, as17651115

Event Comment: Benefit for Gibson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: II: Hornpipe-Miss Pitt; End: The Sicilian Peasants, as17660311

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Wright. Part of Pit laid into the boxes. [Prologue and Epilogue to Falstaff's Wedding as spoken by Dodd and Mrs Pritchard printed in the Public Advertiser.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Dance: End: A Comic Dance -Sg Giorgi, Sga Giorgi, as17660207

Event Comment: Benefit Walker. Mainpiece: Acted but once these 9 years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: End: Rural Love, as17651115

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunstall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal Or The Humours Of The Navy

Performance Comment: Beau Mizen-Woodward; Commodore Flip-Dunstall (in which will be introduc'd the Famous Sea Song of Ninety-Two); Worthy-Smith; Rovewell-Hull; Sir Charles Pleasant-Wignel; Cribbidge-Perry; Easy-Gardner; Arabella-Miss Macklin; Belinda-Mrs Baker; Jenny Private-Mrs Gardner; Jiltup-Mrs Walker; Barmaid-Mrs Evans; Arabella's Maid-Miss Cokayne; The Fair Quaker-Miss Wilford (first time).
Cast
Role: The Fair Quaker Actor: Miss Wilford

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Entertainment: End II: The Cries of London-Shuter; End: (by particular desire) Joe Haines's Epilogue-Shuter riding on an Ass

Dance: IV: The Village Romps, as17651019

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. New Farce never performed. Part of Pit laid into the Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: The Hobby Horse

Dance: End: The Irish Milk Maids, as17651209

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Mistake

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: IV: The Village Romps, as17651019

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Plym, and Miss Ford. Tickets diliver'd by Mrs Lee will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Dance: I: A Comic Dance-Miss Ford; End: The Irish Milk Maids=, as17651209

Entertainment: End: A New Epilogue-Miss Ford

Event Comment: Benefit for Squibb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Song: II: A Hunting Song set by Arnold,-Squibb; IV: The favourite song Delia set by Jackson,-Squibb

Dance: End: Rural Love, as17651115

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Baker. [Ralph's Ramble (Larpent MS 254) seems patterned on the Farmer's Return from London. Ralph returns to the Mill and gives impressions, not all complimentary, of his trip to London. A Monologue in Couplets with a song.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Dance: I: A Dance-Aldridge, Miss Baker; After the Entertainment: A New Dance call'd the Fortune Tellers-Aldridge, Miss Baker

Entertainment: End: King (for that night only) will present the Audience with a New Comic Descriptive Piece call'd Ralph's Ramble Or O'Rare London! (being a short sequel to a comic character in the Maid of the Mill.)-King

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs and Miss Vincent

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: IV: A Minuet-Fichar, Miss Vincent; End of Play: Rural Love, as17651115

Entertainment: After the Ballet: By Particular Desire, Joe Haines's Epilogue-Shuter riding on an Ass

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Vincent

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Song: I: By Particular Desire, Thro' the Wood Laddie-; III: The Lark's Shrill Notes-Mrs Vincent

Dance: V: The Irish Lilt, as17651004

Event Comment: Benefit for Miles, Mrs Green, Mrs Pitt

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Duke of York Actor: Mas. Besford

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: II: The Drunken Peasant-Miles (Peasant), Bennet (Clown); IV: A Comic Dance-Master King, Miss Pitt; End: The Village Romps, as17651019; Between acts of Farce: A Double Hornpipe (for this Night Only)-Walker (From Drury Lane Theatre), Miss Pitt, his scholar

Entertainment: End: The Cries of London-Shuter

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Weichsel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Phillis Actor: Miss Wilford

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: End: Rural Love, as17651115

Event Comment: Benefit for Champnes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Cast
Role: Major Belford Actor: Packer
Role: Bell Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17651004

Event Comment: Benefit for Morris, Anderson, Stede

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: Beaufort Actor: Perry.

Dance: IV: The Venetian Gardeners, as17650925; End: Rural Love, as17651115

Event Comment: Benefit for Younger (prompter). Tickets delivered by Mrs Stephens, Miss Helme, Miss Twist, and Murden will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko Or The Royal Slave

Performance Comment: Oroonoko-Younger, first time; Governor-Anderson; Blanford-Hull; Stanmore-Davis; Aboan-Gardner; Jack Stanmore-Murden; Capt. Driver-Dunstall; Daniel-Shuter; Hotman-Wignel; Planters-Bennet, Buck, Morgan; Charlotte-Miss Macklin; Lucy-Mrs Stephens; Widow Lackit-Mrs Pitt; Imoinda-Miss Ward, first time.
Cast
Role: Blanford Actor: Hull

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Song: II: A Song-Miss Twist

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-Miss Twist; IV: A Minuet-Dumay, Miss Twist; End: The Sicilian Peasants, as17660311

Entertainment: End: By Particular Desire (For positively the last time this season) Epilogue upon an Ass-Shuter

Event Comment: Benefit for Packer and Bransby. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Cast
Role: Octavia Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Agrippina Actor: Miss Ford

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: II: By Desire, The Lark's Shrill Notes-Mrs Vincent

Dance: V: The Irish Lilt, as17651004

Event Comment: Benefit for Hull. Afterpiece: Translated (with alterations) from Detouches. Never perform'd before. Translation by Thomas Hull (Biographia Dramatica)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: All in the Right

Entertainment: II: The Cries of London-Shuter

Dance: IV: The Venetian Gardeners, as17650925; End: Rural Love, as17651115

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Baker

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: Minuet Actor: Fichar, Miss Wilford

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: III: The Village Romps, as17651019

Event Comment: Benefit for Davis and Costollo

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Performance Comment: As17660408 but Dick-Davis; for first time and with the Original Prologue-Davis; Spouters-Perry, R. Smith, Murden, Morgan (playbill).

Dance: I: A Hornpipe-Miss Twist; III: The Venetian Gardeners, as17650925; End: The Village Romps, as17651019

Event Comment: Benefit for Rooker. Tickets deliver'd by Miss Tetley will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: IV: A Hornpipe-Miss Tetley

Event Comment: Benefit for Dibdin, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Jones. Mainpiece: For the Last time this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Formal Actor: Costollo

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: II: A Medley Hornpipe-Miss Pitt; End: The Sicilian Peasants, as17660311

Event Comment: Benefit for Bennet and R. Smith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: End of Masque: The Drunken Peasant, as17660421

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Rogers, Giorgi, and Evans (subtreasurer)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part 2

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Cast
Role: Major Belford Actor: Packer
Role: Bell Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Dance: II: Irish Milkmaids-Miss Ford; III: A New Comic Dance call'd the Venetian Travellers-Sg Giorgi, Sga Giorgi, Miss Collet; End: By Particular Desire, a Minuet-Noverre, Miss Rogers his scholar