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 the Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Dance: II: The Jealous Woodcutter, as17621023

Event Comment: Benefit for The General Lying In Hospital, By Particular Desire of the Foreign Ambassadors and others of the Nobility. Part of Pit will be laid into Boxes, where Servants will be allowed to keep places

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: CComic Dance, as17621210

Event Comment: Benefit for Author of Mainpiece

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elvira

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cibber. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [See 30 March 1761.] Part of Pit will be laid into Boxes. Ladies desired to send servants to keep places by 3 o'clock. That there may be no interruption in the Performance, Mrs Cibber begs leave to assure those Ladies and Gentlemen who shall please to honour her with their company, that there will be no Building upon the Stage, nor any admittance behind the scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petruchio

Dance: End of Play: The Cow@Keepers-Grimaldi, Miss Dawson

Event Comment: Benefit for Woodward. [Both pieces advertised as for the last time this season.] Afterpiece: By particular Desire. N.B. That the Cabin may be convenient, and in regard that he would not be too popular, and too generally visited, the Captain will have No Building upon the stage. [See 13 April 1763. The Prologue is Larpent MS 221, wherein Woodward requests smiles of approval as he takes off himself.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Formal Actor: Costollo

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: II: The Garland, or the +Milk-Maid's Holiday-Miss Poitier; [see17590421] [in which will be introduced a Hornpipe; End: The Jealous Woodcutter, as17621023

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. Mainpiece: For last time this Season. Part of Pit rail'd into Boxes. No Building on Stage. Tickets sold at the doors will not be admitted (playbill). [See 6 April 1763. Smith's Skit is Larpent MS 222, in which each of the seven ages is acted out and accompanied with generalized comment.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: Beaufort Actor: Young

Entertainment: After: The Humours of the Age Imitation of Shakespeare's Stages-Smith

Dance: TThe Jealous Woodcutter, as17621023

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pritchard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: The Irish Lilt, as17621025

Event Comment: Benefit for Shuter. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Daily Advertiser: Lost: a leather Pocket Book...containing 4 Box Tickets for Shuter's Benefit...As the Numbers are known, care is taken to have them stopped by the Box, Pit and Gallery Keepers. [The Daily Advertiser also lists as thefts at the theatres: 1 violin, 4 pocket books (two stolen in the 2s. gallery), 4 gold watches (one with baronial arms), 1 woman's coat, 1 diamond ring. At Drury Lane thieves has stolen 4 pockets books, 1 silver watch, 4 gold watches, 1 woman's coat, and 1 sable muff.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not Or The Kind Imposter

Performance Comment: Don Manuel-Shuter; Don Philip-Ross; Octavio-White; Trappanti-Woodward; Soto-Dunstall; Corrigidor-Wignel; Hypolita-Miss Macklin; Rosara-Miss Hallam; being 1st time for all the above actors; Flora-Mrs Vincent; Viletta-Mrs Pitt.

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: TThe Jealous Woodcutter, as17621023

Entertainment: New Comic Lectural Exhibition in his Old Taste-Shuter

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Brent. Pit and Boxes laid together at 5 shillings. Servants will be permitted to keep places in the Pit; and those Ladies and Gentlemen who have taken Places in the Pit are desired to come as soon as possible

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: I: The Dutch Skippers, as17630101; II: The Catalonian Marriage, as17630308

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga DeAmicis, who will present it [the afterpiece] in its own natural beauty, such as it originally came from the hands of the ingenious author Sig Pergolesi, and as it was first done at Naples, in order to give the Nobility and Gentry the most favorable idea of so masterly a piece. Pit and Boxes to be put together at Half a Guinea each. Gallery 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Tutore E La Pupilla

Afterpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit for Holland. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. No building on Stage. Afterpiece not acted these 10 years. [See 19 April 1750.] Last time of company's performing till the Holidays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: End: The Camp Alarm'd-Vincent, Miss Baker

Event Comment: Benefit for Ross. No Building on Stage. Last time of company's performing till Easter Holidays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Dance: III: The Jovial Gardeners, as17630312 End: A Minuet-Duquesney, Miss Twist

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. No Building on Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17621006, but Halmet-Holland; Ghost (for that night)-Garrick.

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: TThe Camp Alarm'd, as17630326

Event Comment: Benefit for Dyer. No Building on Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: II: The Dutch Skippers, as17630101

Entertainment: TThe Cries of London-Shuter

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Yates. No building on Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Sir John Loverule Actor: Vernon

Dance: The Irish Lilt, as17621023

Event Comment: Benefit for the Composer. Pit and Boxes laid together

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: A New Comic Dance, as17630224; The French Gardeners, as17630407

Event Comment: Benefit for Sparks. No Building on Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Music: End of Opera: A Piece on the Harp-Master Bromley, a Blind Youth, 1st performance on any Stage

Event Comment: Benefit for Obrien. No Building, &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Sir John Loverule Actor: Vernon

Dance: IV: The Dutch Dance, as17630217

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Macklin. No Building on stage. Afterpiece: Only time of performing it this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal Or The Ladys Philosophy

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Dance: TThe Dutch Skippers, as17630101

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke. No Building on Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Formal Actor: Costollo

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Music: I: A Piece on the Harp-Roberts

Dance: TThe Catalonian Marriage, as17630308

Event Comment: Benefit for Love. No Building on Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

Related Works
Related Work: The Witch of the Wood; or, The Nutting Girls Author(s): Reginald Spofforth
Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Poitier. No Building on Stage. Afterpiece: By Desire

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: II: A New Pantomime Ballet, The Savoyards, or Madam Catherina: Savoyards-Granier, Miss Poitier (with a song in Character); Mad Catherina-Miss Granier, 1st time of performing; Peasants-Miss Wilford; End: The Sicilian Peasants, as17621125

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Palmer. Mainpiece: For the Last Time. No Building on Stage, &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Cast
Role: Balthasar Actor: Vernon

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Cast
Role: Bully Actor: Vernon

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunstall. Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. No Building on Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: Beaufort Actor: Young

Dance: A Hornpipe-Miss Poitier; a Country Dance-characters in the Opera; End II: A New Comic Dance, as17630224