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 for Mrs Cibber. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Receipts: #213 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: Sg Giorgi, Sga Lucchi

Event Comment: Benefit for Ross. By Particular desire. Tickets for Venice Preserv'd will be taken. Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock. Afterpiece: Never acted before. Tickets sold at the Door will not be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The She Gallant or Recruits for the King of Prussia

Dance: The usual Country Dance, as17581009; Hornpipe, as17581009

Ballet: TThe Feast of Bacchus. As17581116

Cast
Role: Satyrs Actor: Granier, Leppie, Gosly, Dumai, Desse, Rochford
Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pritchard (Cross). Part of pit laid into Boxes. Receipts: #230 (Cross); Charges #60 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bellamy. Mainpiece: By Desire, and not acted these 4 years. [See 17 Jan. 1755.] Tickets deliver'd out for the 19th, and 22d for Douglas will be taken. Tickets sold at the Door will not be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Performance Comment: Sir Charles-Ross; Foppingoton-Smith, both for 1st time; Morelove-Ridout; Lady Easy-Mrs Elmy; Edging-Miss Nossiter, 1st time; Lady Graveairs-Mrs Hamilton; Lady Betty-Mrs Bellamy, 1st time.

Afterpiece Title: Florizel and Perdita

Dance: PPastoral Dance incident to the Farce-Delaistre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clive. Part of Pit will be laid into Boxes and Amphitheatre on Stage. Receipts: #230 (Cross ); Charges #60 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Event Comment: Benefit for Sparks. Afterpiece: Never acted there

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Comical Resentment or Trick for Trick

Dance: As17581016

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Macklin. Part of pit laid into Boxes, Amphitheatre on Stage. Receipts: #180 (Cross); Charges #63 ( Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. Mainpiece: Not acted in 3 years. [See 29 March 1757.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple Or A Trip To The Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: Florizel and Perdita

Dance: As17581111

Event Comment: Benefit fot Beard. Pit laid into boxes, Amphitheatre on stage. Receipts: #280 (Cross); Charges #63 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: I: A New Ballad-Beard; II: The Goldfinch-Miss Young; III: A Bacchanalian Song compos'd by Dr Boyce-Beard; V: A New Comic Dialogue compos'd by Dr Boyce-Beard, Miss Young

Event Comment: Benefit for Dyer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: FFingalian Dance, as17581111; The Threshers, as17581016

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Receipts: #180 (Cross); charges #63 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Song: II: A Bacchanalian Song-Beard; V: The new Dialogue of Jenny and Kate-Beard, Miss Young

Event Comment: Benefit for Ryan. To prevent any obstruction in the Performance there will be no Building on the Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cleone

Performance Comment: As17581202, but Beaufort Sr-Ryan; by Particular Desire Epilogue-Miss Bellamy.
Cast
Role: Beaufort Sr Actor: Ryan
Role: Beaufort Jr Actor: Dyer

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: FFingalian Dance, as17581111; The Threshers, as17581016

Event Comment: Benefit for Lowe. Afterpiece: A Musical Masque. With new Additions. Books of the Masque may be had at the theatre, Price 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Judgment of Paris

Dance: FFingalian Dance, as17581111; The Threshers, as17581016

Event Comment: Benefit for Gallini, who submits himself to the Generosity and Protection of the Subscribers, whose tickets will be admitted, if they please to make us of them

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Demetrio

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Nossiter. Mainpiece: Not acted there 3 years. [See 15 April 1755.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: FFingalian Dance, as17581111; The Threshers, as17581016

Event Comment: Benefit for Havard. Afterpiece: Not acted these 6 years [btt see 16 March 1758]. Tickets deliver'd out for 31 March will be taken. The ode will be printed and deliver'd (Gratis) at the Doors. Part of Pit rail'd into Boxes. Ladies send Servants by 3 o'clock. Receipts: #240 (Cross); Charges #63 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Entertainment: S+Specialty Anniversary Ode in Commemoration of Shakespeare set to music by Dr Boyce; The Vocal Parts-Champnes, Beard

Event Comment: Benefit for Yates. Farce not acted for two years [see 5 May 1757]. Last acting till after Easter Holidays. Receipts: #180 (Cross); charges #63 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal or The Tars of Old England

Dance: IV: A Comic Dance-Giorgi, Sga Lucchi

Event Comment: Benefit for Fleetwood. Receipts: #160 (Cross); charges #63 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Event Comment: Benefit for Bencraft and Mrs Vincent. No Building on the Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Entertainment: Between Play and Farce: Shuter's Dish of All Sorts, As17590322, for that night only

Dance: As17581016

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: As17581123

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pritchard. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Farce for last time this season. Tickets of Miss Pritchard in Great Queen St., lif; and at stage door. Receipts: #260 (Cross); charges #63 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Event Comment: Benefit for Holland. Tickets of Holland, at his lodgings next door to the Bedford Arms, in the Piazza, Covent Garden; and at the Stage Door. Receipts: #170 (Cross); Charges #63 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Event Comment: Benefit for Author of the Farce [Dr Hiffernan]. Farce never perform'd in this version before [see Maiden Whim at dl, 24 April 1756]. Farce publish'd at 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Ladys Choice

Ballet: The Feast of Bacchus. As17581116

Cast
Role: Satyrs Actor: Granier, Leppie, Gosly, Dumai, Desse, Rochford
Event Comment: Benefit for Barrington and Mrs Lampe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

Song: IV: A New Musical Dialogue The Country Wedding, written and set by T. A. Arne-Lowe, Mrs Lampe

Dance: TThe Milkmaid's Holiday, as17590421

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Yates. Miss Young had tickets. Receipts: #150 (Cross); charges #63 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Cast
Role: Lady Wishfort Actor: Mrs Clive

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Song: I: Johnny and Kate-Beard, Miss Young; III: A Cantata-Miss Young; IV: Miss Young