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 Hook (Author and composer of Cupid's Revenge)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: As17720619 but Shift-Bannister; with a great Variety of Imitations for this night only-Bannister.

Afterpiece Title: Cupids Revenge

Dance: End: A New Dance The Haymakers-Giorgi's Scholars

Event Comment: Benefit for Norris. [The play is submerged in a long cconcert program of vocal and instrumental music.] At the Grotto Gardens, St George's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ephesian Matron

Event Comment: Benefit for Piguenit. [The performance is submerged in a concert and followed by the usual fireworks.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

Song: Several favourite songs-Mrs Forbes; Musical Imitations-Bannister; Vocal parts-Culver, Mrs Cartwright

Event Comment: Benefit for Jewell, Treasurer. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Cupids Revenge

Entertainment: I: Imitations Rhetorical and Vocal-Bannister

Dance: As17720817

Event Comment: Benefit for Piguenit. [Arnold's Ode had been sung there earlier in the season, on Tuesday 18 Aug. The play was submerged in a concert and followed by Fireworks.] Tickets 3s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

Song: Several songs-Mrs Forbes; Musical Imitations-Bannister; An Odecomposed by Arnold will be sung in the manner of an Oratorio-Reinhold, Bannister, Mrs Forbes, Mrs Cartwright, Mrs Thompson, with a number of the best Chorus Singers

Event Comment: Benefit for Storace. [The play a musical entertainment by Storace, between a concert of vocal and instrumental music, and the usual fireworks.] Tickets 3s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Coquet

Event Comment: Benefit for Culver. [Concert and Fireworks formula.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Dilettante

Entertainment: Ode Arnold composed in honor of the Prince of Wales's birthday sung by-Reinhold, Bannister, Mrs Forbes, Mrs Cartwright, Mrs Thompson

Event Comment: Benefit for Storace. [Concert and fireworks formula.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Coquet

Event Comment: Benefit for Culver. [Concert-fireworks formula.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Magnet

Performance Comment: Parts-Bannister, Mrs Forbes, Mrs Thompson.

Entertainment: Odeby Arnold for Prince's Birthday,-Bannister, Culver, Mrs Forbes, Mrs Cartwright, Mrs Thompson

Event Comment: Benefit for the Waiters. Tickets 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Magnet

Event Comment: Benefit for Dispensary for Infant Poor in Soho Square. Ladies send servants to secure their places by 5 o'clock. Charges #85 10s. Profit to Dispensary #36 11s. 6d., plus #128 9s. from tickets (Box 365; Pit 248) (Account Book). Receipts: #121 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Song: II: (By particular Desire) The Soldier Tir'd of War's Alarms from Arataxerxes,-Miss Catley

Dance: IV: The Merry Sailors, as17721012

Event Comment: Benefit towards the establishment of a Fund for the Relief of Performers retiring from the stage. Charges #75 11s. Profit to Fund #143 3s., plus, presumably #13 15s. from 55 Box tickets (Account Book). Receipts: #218 8s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Cast
Role: Guilford Actor: R. Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: Beaufort Actor: Baker.
Event Comment: Benefit for Widow Lauder. To begin at 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Song: III: The Flowers of Edinburgh-

Dance: Hornpipe-Clark

Entertainment: End of Play: The Three Old Women Weatherwise; Description of a Storm-Wooler

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: Benefit for Middlesex Hospital. Charges #85 2s. Profit to Hospital #4 2s., plus #119 6s. from tickets (Box 421; Pitt 69; Gallary 37) (Account Book). Receipts: #89 7s

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Dance: End of Play: The Old Ground Young, as17720928

Event Comment: Benefit for Increase of a Fund for the support of Decayed Musicians, or their families. Pit and Boxes half a Guinea. Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. 6d. Doors open at 5:30 to begin at 6:30 p.m. [Governor's report from June 1770-June 1771 indicates an outlay of #826 17s. 3d.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert Of Vocal And Instrumental Music

Performance Comment: Part I, Overture in Artaserse-(Giordani); Songs-Savoi, Sga Carara, Ristorini; Concerto on the Basson-Richter, first time of performing publicly in England; Part II, Songs-Savoi, Sga Girelli, Ristorini, Millico; Concerto on the German Flute-Tacet; Concerto on the Violincello-Crosdill; Concerto on the French Horn-Spandau; Part III, Songs-Sga Carara, Sga Girelli, Millico; Concerto on the Hautboy-Fischar; Solo on the Violin-Hay; a favourite overture for two orchestras composed by Bach. a favourite overture for two orchestras composed by Bach.
Event Comment: Benefit for Millico

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: End Opera: A Grand Ballet-Mlle Heinel, Slingsby, Fierville

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Mainpiece (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #176 13s. Charges: #73 10s. Profit for Hume: #103 3s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alonzo

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Girelli

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Song: In the Above Opera, four new airs-Sga Girelli; one of which, at the end of Act II, will be accompanied on the French Horn-the celebrated M Spandau

Dance: I: Grand Serious Ballet-; in which the favourite Entree of last season-Mlle Heinel; II: A Grand Ballet, with a new Pas de Cinq-Slingsby, Mlle Grenier, Sga Crispi, Leppy, Mlle Lafond; End Opera: A Grand Ballet, New Grand Chacone-Mlle Heinel, Fierville

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Hartley. Charges #69 2s. 6d. Profit to Mrs Hartley #89 12s. 6d., plus #90 14s. from tickets (Box 270; Pit 132; Gallery 34) (Account Book). Receipts: #158 15s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: End: New Dance, as17730206

Event Comment: Benefit for Shuter. Charges #75 6s. Profit to Shuter #48 6s. plus #97 3s. from tickets (Boxes 307; Pit 136) (Account Book). Receipts: #123 12s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Cast
Role: Guilford Actor: R. Smith

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: End: New Dance, as17730206

Entertainment: End of Farce: (By Particular Desire) The Cries of London-Shuter

Event Comment: Benefit for Mlle Heinel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Apollo Ed Issea

Dance: I: An Allemand-Slingsby, Mlle Lafond; II: two new Entrees-Mlle Heinel, Fierville; II: A New Grand Ballet entitled La Fete du Village-Slingsby, Mlle Grenier, Crispi, Leppy, Mlle Lafond; in which Minuet-Mlle Heinel, Fierville; End Opera: A New Grand Ballet-Mlle Heinel, Fierville in the characters of Sauvages; conclude: New Grand Chacone-Mlle Heinel, Fierville, other principal dancers

Event Comment: Benefit for Thomas Linley Jun

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Concert

Event Comment: Benefit for Dibdin. Receipts: #134 9s. 6d. Charges: #64 9s. Profits to Dibdin: #74 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Cast
Role: Lady Touchwood Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Ring

Cast
Role: Zerbino Actor: Vernon

Dance: V: The Surprize, as17730401

Event Comment: Benefit for Jefferson. Mainpiece: Not acted for 3 years. [See 6 March 1770.] Receipts: #108 1s. Charges: #57 5s. Profit to Jefferson: #51 16s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False Delicacy

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Dance: End of Play: The Sailors Revels, as17720919