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 Dumay, Hussey, King and Merrifield

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Two Misers

Dance: II: A New Dance call'd The Nosegay-Rudd (2nd appearance), Miss Matthews [See dl 27 April 1767]; IV: Minuets, Allemandes, Cotillions-Dumay, Hussey, King, Merrifield, Miss Matthews, Miss Brown, Miss Ross, Mas. Holland, Miss Armstrong, a young Lady[, scholar to Dumay [See17740518]; End: The Enchantress, as17750201

Event Comment: Benefit for T. Ansell, Pilfold, and Symonds. The Last time but one of performing this season. Tickets deliver'd by Wooley, Wells, Claridge, Doe, Furkins, Layley, Robson, Francis, W. Ansell, Stephenson, Fowlis, Mrs Hitchcock & Mrs Trott will be admitted. Doors open half past 5. To begin half past 6 o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: III: The Humours of Blackwall, as17750429

Event Comment: Benefit for Weston. Mainpiece: Not acted these four years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lame Lover

Performance Comment: Sir Luke-Foote; Circuit-Wilson; Woodford-Lane; Fairplay-Lloyd; Secret-Whitefield; Jack-Weston; Betty-Miss Platt; Mrs Circuit-Mrs Gardner; Mrs Simpson-Mrs Love; Charlotte-Mrs Wilson.
Cast
Role: Woodford Actor: Lane

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Dance: The Merry Lasses-

Entertainment: End: Imitations vocal and Rhetorical-Bannister

Event Comment: Benefit for Jewell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar Or The Double Discovery

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Portsmouth

Dance: A Dance-

Entertainment: Imitations Vocal and Rhetorical-Bannister

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Dance: A Tambourine Dance-

Entertainment: End: A Variety of Imitations-Hutton, Bannister

Event Comment: Benefit for Westminster New Lying In Hospital near the Bridge. Rec'd stopages #10 13s. Receipts: #82 9s.; Charges: #84; Deficit to Hospital: #1 11s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Would And She Would Not

Cast
Role: Rosara Actor: Miss Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Cast
Role: Mercury Actor: Vernon
Event Comment: Benefit for City of London Lying In Hospital, Old Street Road

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Cast
Role: Belford Actor: DuBellamy

Dance: End: The Gamesters, as17751011

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Entertainment [i.e., Prometheus]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Prometheus

Event Comment: Benefit and Increase of a Fund established for the support of Decayed Musicans, or their Families. N.B. The singers have taken cold by sitting too [long] on the stage, it is humbly requested that the [audience] will indulge them with coming on to sing and leaving when the song is finished (Public Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Concert Of Vocal And Instrumental Music

Event Comment: Benefit for Rauzzini. A New Opera, written by Badini; Music entirely New by Rauzzini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Ali Damore

Dance: I: Les Deux Soeurs, as17760203; II: Ballet Pastoral, as17760120; End Opera: Pigmalion Amoureuse de La Statue, as17751031

Event Comment: Benefit for Thomas? Sheridan. Mainpiece: Written by Congreve and now carefully revised, and corrected, by expunging the exceptionable passages, not acted these twenty years. [See 25 May 1758.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Syrens

Performance Comment: As17760226, but Margery-Miss Francis for Mrs Pitt.

Dance: End: The Italian Gamesters-the Zuchellis. [Query: Gardeners or the dance called simply The Gamesters? See17751011.

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Gabrielli

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Ali Damore

Dance: Les Deux Soeurs, as17760229; Ballet Pastoral, as17760229; Pigmalion, as17760213 with the dancer N. N. omitted

Event Comment: Benefit for Trebbi. By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Ali Damore

Dance: Les Deux Soeurs, as17760229; Ballet Pastoral, as17760229; Pigmalion, as17760307

Event Comment: Benefit for Barry. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. [Send servants by 4 o'clock and come early to avoid confusion and trouble in getting to seats.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Barry. By Particular Desire. Mainpiece: A Tragedy by the author of Douglas [John Home], never acted there. Part of Pit laid into boxes. Ladies send servants by 4 o'clock, and come as early as possible to avoid Confusion and Trouble

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Discovery

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: Benefit for Lee. Mainpiece: With the characters for the time in old English Dresses, By Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: End: The Italian Gamesters, as17760305

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. N.B. HALF PRICE will be taken to the latter account [i.e., for those who came to see the pantomime only]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: Prometheus

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. Last Night of performing before the Holidays. [See first version of this afterpiece under title What We Must All Come To, 9 Jan. 1764. It was damned then but now met with success. A Comedy by Arthur Murphy. The reviewer for the Westminster Magazine for April stamped the afterpiece with his approval.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks After Marriage

Entertainment: End: (By Particular Desire) Bucks Have At Ye All, with alterations, spoken-Lewis

Dance: Before Farce: The Merry Sailors, as17760314

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Two Misers

Entertainment: InterludeEnd: True Blue; or, The Press Gang-Mattocks, Reinhold, Baker, Mrs Willems; The Dance-Aldridge

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Macklin. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Ladies send servants by 4 O'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: As17751006, but a Song for Jessica-Miss Dayes.

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Dance: II: A Minuet-Dagueville, Miss Macklin; III: The Pilgrim-Harris, Miss Mathews, as17750927; IV: Rural Merriment, as17751220

Event Comment: Benefit for Mattocks. N.B. Half Price will be taken to the latter account [see 25 March]. Being positively the last time of performing the Mainpiece this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Prometheus

Entertainment: Interlude.End: True Blue, as17760409

Event Comment: Benefit for Reinhold. Tickets delivered for An Opera will be taken. Books of the Entertainment [i.e., afterpiece] to be had at the theatre. Afterpiece: A Musical Entertainment by D. J. Piguenit. 8vo 1774, played this one night only (Biographia Dramatica). [It had been played as a Burletta at Marybone Gardens according to the Westminster Magazine for April, and though some of its music was good, the Burletta writer had taken great liberty with his original.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Don Quixote

Entertainment: Interlude.End: True Blue, as17760409

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Baccelli

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Sposa Fedele

Dance: I: New Grand Chaconne-Miss Baccelli; Pas de Deux-Mlle Sophie, Helm; II: La Fete du Village, as17760224; III: A Grand Serious Ballet with various Divertissements-Helm, Mlle Sophie, Fierville, Miss Baccelli

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunstall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man Or The Fops Fortune

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Entertainment: Interlude.End: True Blue, as17760409 but Mrs _Willems; The Dance, as17760409

Event Comment: Benefit for Leoni. Last Time of performing the Mainpiece this season. N.B. Half Price will be taken to the latter Account

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: Prometheus