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 [of mainpiece: Richard Brinsley Sheridan, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #259 9s. (250.7.0; 8.19.6; 0.2.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #73 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Maria Actor: Miss P. Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Cast
Role: Lubin Actor: Vernon

Dance: End: as17780409

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bulkley. Mainpiece: With the Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Babylon. [This was included in both subsequent performances.] Afterpiece [1st time; C 1, author unknown. Not in Larpent MS; not published; synopsis of plot in London Chronicle, 23 Apr.]. Public Advertiser, 9 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Bulkley, No. 10, New Ormond-street. Receipts: #195 13s. 6d. [166.16.6; tickets: 28.17.0) (charge: #73 7s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Afterpiece Title: The Dutiful Deception

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Wilson, Whitfield, Lee Lewes, Mrs Wilson, Mrs Bulkley. Cast from London Chronicle, 23 Apr.: Sir Oliver Beaufort-Wilson; Beaufort-Whitfield; Harrison-Lee Lewes; Betty-Mrs Wilson; Clarissa-Mrs Bulkley.
Cast
Role: Sir Oliver Beaufort Actor: Wilson
Role: Beaufort Actor: Whitfield

Dance: New Dance, Allemande-Aldridge, Mrs Bulkley

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [In afterpiece Prologue by David Garrick.] Public Advertiser, 7 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Palmer at his house in Bow-street, Bloomsbury. Receipts: #132 16s. 6d. (55.15.0; 26.3.6; 0.8.0; tickets: 50.10.0) (charge: #75 0s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love Or The World Well Lost

Afterpiece Title: A ChristmasTale

Cast
Role: Floridor Actor: Vernon

Dance: As17780422

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Lessingham. Public Advertiser, 10 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Lessingham at her house, the corner of Percy-street, Rathbone Place. Receipts: #160 7s. (100.18; tickets: 59.9) (charge: #64 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: As17780128, but Jessica-Mrs Morton [i.e. formerly Miss Dayes]; Nerissa-Miss Ambrose; Portia-Mrs Lessingham (1st appearance in that character).

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Dance: End III: The Irish Lilt-Aldridge, Miss Valois; End IV: as17780421

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Brown. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Midas [announced on playbill ff 24 Apr.] cannot be performed on account of Wilson's sudden illness. Tickets delivered for Love Finds the Way will be admitted, that Opera being unavoidably postponed on account of Mrs Farrell's Indisposition. Public Advertiser, 3 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Brown, No. 10, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #150 18s. 6d. (89.17.6; tickets: 61.1.0) (charge: #67 7s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17780424

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick. Afterpiece 1st time; F 2, by Ursula Agnes Booth, based on the same, by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger. The playbill lists Death in place of Lee Lewes, but he 'Was not to be found...Hull begged permission for Lee Lewes to read Death's part in his own undress, which [was] granted" (London Chronicle, 28 Apr.).]. Books of the Entertainment to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 30 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Quick, No. 15, Drury-lane. Receipts: #262 2s. (157.2; tickets: 105.0) (charge: #64 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: The Little French Lawyer

Dance: End monologue: The Poney Races, as17780421

Entertainment: Monologue. End: Cunning Isaac will relate his Escape from the Duenna [with a new song]-Quick

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunstall. Morning Chronicle, 4 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Dunstall, Little Queen-street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Receipts: #237 3s. 6d. (79.15.6; tickets: 157.8.0) [charge: #64 5s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: End: The Poney Races, as17780421; In afterpiece: Minuet, as17771121

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wrighten. Morning Post, 6 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Wrighten, No. 56, Drury-lane. The Battle of Hastings [announced on playbill of 27 Apr.] is obliged to be deferred on account of Mrs Yates' Indisposition. Tickets delivered for the Battle of Hastings will be taken. Receipts: #288 10s. 6d. (74.0.0; 7.7.0; 0.8.6; tickets: 206.15.0) (charge: #66 2s.). Account-Book totals the charge as follows: Ord[inary] Charge #64 4s.; Nosegay 1s. 6d.; Tea for three 1s. 6d.; Negus 1s. 2d.; Bread & Cheese 4d.; K[ettle] D[rum] 5s.; 19 Carp[enter]s #1 8s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Runaway

Cast
Role: Lady Dinah Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Harriet Actor: Miss P. Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Dance: End III: as17780425

Song: Between Acts: her two favorite Vauxhall songs He's Aye Kissing Me, Tally Ho!-Mrs Wrighten

Event Comment: Benefit for Lee Lewes. Public Advertiser, 23 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Lee Lewes, Charlotte-street, Rathbone Place. Receipts: #205 6s. (82.16; tickets: 122.10) (charge: #66 9s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Performance Comment: As17780223, but Clown (for that night only)-Grimaldi.

Entertainment: Monologue.As17780427

Event Comment: Benefit for Mlle Baccelli. Tickets to be had of Mlle Baccelli at Chanu's, No. 46, Rupert-street, Leicester-fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Buona Figliuola

Dance: End I: Serious Ballet, as17780120; End II: Masquerade Dance, as17780303Minuet de la Cour and Gavot, as17780303Provencal, as17780303Allemande a la Strasbourgoise, as17780303End Opera: La Serenade Interrompuee, as17780224

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Farrell. Public Advertiser, 9 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Farrell, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #266 3s. 6d. (135.1.6; tickets: 131.2.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: Hornpipe, as17771017; End: The Poney Races, as17780421

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Walpole. Public Advertiser, 15 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Walpole, No. 150, Drury-lane. Receipts: #153 5s. (56.19; 26.13; 0.12; tickets: 69.1) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Hawthorn Actor: Vernon

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End II: The Minuet de la Cour, as17771111; End: Hornpipe-Miss Walpole; End I afterpiece: The Sailors' Revels, as17780425

Event Comment: Benefit for Aldridge. Tickets delivered for Love in a Village [announced on playbill of 1 May] will be admitted. Public Advertiser, 27 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Aldridge at the Carpet Warehouse, Piazza, Covent Garden. Receipts: #199 16s. [132.2; tickets: 67.14) [charge: #67 5s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Dance: End I: a new Comic Dance-Langrish, Master Jackson, Miss Parish, Miss Lings (pupils of Aldridge); End II: [The Cricket@Match [sic]The Cricketters, as17780128; [in which part of the celebrated Tambourine Dance-Aldridge[, originally composed and danced by him; III: Hornpipe, as17771017

Ballet: End: a new, Grand Marine Pantomimical Dance, suited to the times, The Sailors' Revels at Portsmouth; or, British Glory. in which an accurate view of the Isle of Wight and the Fleet now riding at Spithead. Principal Characters: Bobby Flip the Boatswain-Aldridge; Powder Monkey-Master Jackson; Mat Mizen-Langrish; Molly Topknot-Miss Besford; Susan Constant-Miss Valois; with variety of other Characters, and Hornpipe Dancing-in an entire new stile

Performance Comment: in which an accurate view of the Isle of Wight and the Fleet now riding at Spithead. Principal Characters: Bobby Flip the Boatswain-Aldridge; Powder Monkey-Master Jackson; Mat Mizen-Langrish; Molly Topknot-Miss Besford; Susan Constant-Miss Valois; with variety of other Characters, and Hornpipe Dancing-in an entire new stile.
Cast
Role: Molly Topknot Actor: Miss Besford
Event Comment: Benefit for Farren and Miss Sherry. Mainpiece: With the grand Triumphal Entry. Tickets delivered by Thompson will be taken. Public Advertiser, 22 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Farren at Rumler's, Clare-court, Drury-lane; of Miss Sherry at Nichol's, Baker, Bridges-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #265 7s. (84.5; 15.9; 0.1; tickets: 165.12) (charge: #75 12s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Cast
Role: Parisatis Actor: Miss Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: End: The Sailors' Revels, as17780425

Event Comment: Benefit for Hurst and Burton. Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Public Advertiser, 25 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Hurst at his house, No. 374, Strand; of Burton, Duke's-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #209 15s. (42.11.0: 11.16.6; 0.2.6; tickets: 155.5.0) (charge: #65 3s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A School For Fathers

Cast
Role: Lady Mary Oldboy Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: As17780504

Event Comment: Benefit for a Fund for the Relief of those who from their Infirmities shall be obliged to retire from the Stage. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Ladies and Gentlemen are requested to come early to prevent Confusion, and to send their Servants by Five o'Clock to keep the Places. Receipts: #278 12s. 6d. (157.10.0; 9.18.0; 0.4.6; tickets: 111.0.0) (charge: #60 7s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Maria Actor: Miss P. Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Cast
Role: Lubin Actor: Vernon
Event Comment: Benefit for Wilson. Public Advertiser, 21 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Wilson at the Tilt-yard Coffee-house, Horse Guards. Receipts: #167 8s. 6d. [60.15.6; tickets: 106.13.0) (charge: #64 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Finds The Way

Cast
Role: Bellford Actor: Mrs Farrell

Afterpiece Title: The Dutiful Deception

Cast
Role: Sir Oliver Beaufort Actor: Wilson
Role: Beaufort Actor: Whitfield

Dance: As17780427

Entertainment: Monologue. End: Don Jerome's Trip to England (with a song in character) (1st time)-Wilson

Event Comment: Benefit for Lamash, Legg & Blurton. Twelfth Night [announced on playbill of 7 May] is oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of the Indisposition of 2 principal performers. Tickets delivered for Twelfth Night by the Miss Stageldoirs and Mrs Pulley will be taken. Receipts: #225 5s. 6d. (30.0.0; 10.6.6; 0.1.0; tickets: 184.18.0) (charge: #67 11s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Hopkins.

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Dance: End II: Minuet de la Cour-the Miss Stageldoirs; End: Double Hornpipe-Master Staples (scholar of Blurton; 2nd appearance), Miss Stageldoirs; End I afterpiece: The Irish Fair-Blurton, Mrs Sutton [1st appearance this season]

Event Comment: Benefit for Waldron and Miss Abrams. Public Advertiser, 8 May: Tickets to be had of Waldron, No. 16, Glanville-street, Rathbone Place; of Miss Abrams, Little Bridges-street, Drury-lane. Receipts: #182 0s. 6d. [63.6.0; 23.15.0; 0.2.6; tickets: 94.17.0) (charge: #74 3s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Cast
Role: Cymon Actor: Vernon

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End I afterpiece: The Irish Fair, as17780508

Event Comment: Benefit for Peile. Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years. Tickets delivered by Dagueville will be taken. Public Advertiser, 1 May and 27 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Peile at his house in North-street, Westminster; of Dagueville, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #149 2s. 6d. (56.14.6; tickets: 92.8.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Performance Comment: Oroonoko-Peile [1st appearance in that character]; Governor-Whitfield; Blandford-Hull; Captain Driver-Dunstall; Stanmore-Robson; Jack Stanmore-Booth; Hotman-L'Estrange; Daniel-Quick; Aboan-Aickin; Charlotte Weldon-Miss Ambrose; Lucy-Mrs Whitfield; Widow Lackit-Mrs Pitt; Imoinda-Mrs Jackson.
Cast
Role: Blandford Actor: Hull

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: End II: new dance, The Arts and Sciences-Dagueville, Dagueville's pupils; End: new pantomimical dance, The Russian Light Infantry and Cossack Camp-Dagueville, Sga Tinte, Sga Vidini (1st appearance this season), fifty more performers

Song: End IV: a song-Mrs Farrell

Event Comment: Benefit for Wright, Carpenter & Butler. Public Advertiser, 5 May: Tickets to be had of Carpenter at Sutton's, No. 11, Little Russel-street, Covent Garden; of Butler, next Door to the Theatre. Receipts: #283 15s. 6d. (42.2.0; 7.2.6; 0.2.0; tickets: 234.9.0) (charge: #74 14s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: End II: Minuet de la Cour, as17780508

Event Comment: Benefit for Wild, prompter. Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years [acted 6 Jan. 1773]. End of mainpiece: The Procession from Westminster Abbey Coronation. Public Advertiser, 8 May: Tickets to be had of Wild at his house, No. 20, Crown-court, Bow-street. Receipts: #224 18s. (146.1; tickets: 78.17) [charge: #72 6s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth Or The Conquest Of France

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Song: End I: new song, The Cottage on the lawn (composed by Michael? Arne)-Mrs Farrell

Ballet: End Procession: The Sailors' Revels at Portsmouth. As17780502

Cast
Role: Molly Topknot Actor: Miss Besford
Event Comment: Benefit for Whitfield and Mrs Pitt. [2nd piece in place of The Ephesian Matron, announced on playbill of 12 May.] Public Advertiser, 2 May: Tickets to be had of Whitfield, No. 14, Crown-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #144 15s. [51.14; tickets: 93.1) [charge: #74 7s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens Or The Death Of Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Dance: End 2nd piece: The Poney Races, as17780421

Song: As17780511

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Love & Mrs Johnston. Tickets delivered for The Plain Dealer will be taken. Public Advertiser, 13 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Bradshaw at Mrs Norolk's, Glazier, Little Russel-street, Covent Garden; of Mrs Love, Gerrard-street, Soho; of Mrs Johnston, No. 97, Drury-lane. Receipts: #132 16s. (32.3; 20.13; 1.4; tickets: 78.16) (charge: #65 15s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Amiens Actor: Vernon
Role: Caelia Actor: Miss Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: As17780512

Song: End I: He's Aye Kissing Me, as17780428; End II: the much-admir'd song in The Milesian being a description of a Naval Engagement Stand to your guns my hearts of oak-Bannister; In V: song, as17771203

Event Comment: Benefit for Gaudry, Griffiths, Norris & Miss Armstrong. Receipts: #211 12s. (31.15; 11.11; 0.10; tickets: 167.16) (charge: #67 19s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Cast
Role: Ferdinand Actor: Vernon.

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: IV: New Dance, as17771125; End I afterpiece: The Minuet de la Cour, as17771111

Song: In: He's Aye Kissing Me, as17780428