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 Sga Sestini. Tickets to be had of Sga Sestini, No. 52, Margaret-street, Cavendish-square. Opera: Reduced to 2 acts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Buona Figliuola

Dance: As17820411 throughout

Song: In Act II Sento ch' in Seno by Sga Sestini, and composed for her by Giordani

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #68 4s. 6d. (55/1/0; 12/16/0; 0/7/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair American

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: As17820302athi

Event Comment: Benefit for Curteen, Condell & Colborne, box-keepers. Receipts: #181 16s. 6d. (32/8/6; tickets: 149/8/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wifes Relief

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: Benefit for Dumay, Harris & Holloway. Receipts: #238 0s. 6d. (35/18/6; tickets: 202/2/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece a New Quadrille, also The Belle of the Village, as17811101; End of Act IV The Devonshire Minuet and a New Rondeau by Holloway and Miss Besford; End of mainpiece, as17811219

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bach (Widow of the late [J. C] Bach). Tickets, half a guinea each, to be had of Mrs Bach, at Zoffany's, Albemarle-street, near Piccadilly

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Viaggiatori Felici

Dance: End of Act I Le Triompbe de l'Amour Conjugal, as17820312End of Act II Rinaldo and Armida, as17820223

Event Comment: Benefit for T. Ansell, Pilfold, Marks & Furkins. Tickets delivered by Claridge, Doe, Wells, Roberts, Walker, Cox, Abbot, R. Ledger, Sargent, Seymour for She Stoops to Conquer [announced on playbill of 27 May] will be admitted this Evening. [Afterpiece in place of Retaliation, announced on playbill of 27 May. This was Miss Catley's last appearance on the stage (erroneously stated in DNB, Grove, &c. as taking place in 1784).] Receipts: #245 3s. (26/0/6; 2/10/6; tickets: 216/12/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: End of mainpiece The Merry Sailors by Langrish and others

Event Comment: Benefit for Watson, Wilson, Carleton Jun., Hicks & Palmer [Sen.]. Receipts: #246 6s. (27/11/0; 11/7/6; 0/13/6; tickets: 206/14/0) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17820223; In afterpiece the Minuet de la Cour by Zuchelli and Miss Collett

Song: In Act I of mainpiece a song by Williames

Event Comment: Benefit for Rolles, Brereton, Longley & Colley. Tickets delivered by Robson (pit door-keeper), Stephenson, Robinson, Varley, W. Ansell, Smallwood, Shuter, Pillbrow, Turtle, Haliburton, Jennings will be admitted this Evening. [Afterpiece in place of The Citizen, announced on playbill of 28 May.] The last Time of the Company's performing this Season. Receipts: #240 8s. 6d. (27/13/6; 1/14/0; tickets: 211/1/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beaux Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle

Dance: As17811219

Event Comment: Benefit for Portal, Carleton Sen., Shade & Enoe. [Afterpiece in place of The Flitch of Bacon, announced on playbill of 29 May.] Receipts: #204 6s. C35/5/0; 24/17/6; 0/6/6; tickets: 143/17/0) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Cast
Role: Lady Wronghead Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Cast
Role: Miss Bridget Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Dance: End of mainpiece The Irish Fair, as17820406

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, Percey, Cameron & Morris. [Palmer's 1st appearance as Archer was at the HAY, 17 Aug. 1779. Afterpiece in place of The Alchymist, announced on playbill of 30 May.] Receipts: #254 17s. (36/2; 19/6; 0/0; tickets: 199/9) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Fillagree Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Event Comment: Benefit for Le Picq. [Opera in place of La Contadina in Corte, announced in Morning Herald, 4 June.] Tickets to be had of Le Picq, No. 40, Great Marlborough-street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Buona Figliuola

Dance: End of Act I New Dance, as17820603 but added: a Minuet by Le Picq and Mme Simonet; End of Act II an entirely new heroic Ballet, composed by Noverre, Apelles and Campaspe; or, The Generosity of Alexander the Great, by Le Picq, Mme Simonet, Gardel, Simonet, Sga Crespi, Mlle Theodore. [Partial cast from Morning Herald, 6 June (which also has a synopsis of the action): Apelles-Le Picq; Alexander-Gardel; Campaspe-Mme Simonet.]

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The East Indian

Cast
Role: Danford Actor: Staunton

Afterpiece Title: None are so Blind as Those HAY Who Wont See

Dance: As17820613

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The East Indian

Cast
Role: Danford Actor: Staunton

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Webb. Afterpiece: Never performed here

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Performance Comment: Doyley-Parsons; Gradus-Bannister Jun. (1st appearance in that character); Sandford-Aickin; Granger-Palmer; Charlotte-Miss Kirby; Miss Doyley-Miss Morris .
Cast
Role: Sandford Actor: Aickin

Dance: As17820606

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: In Act I of mainpiece a Masquerade, in which a Dance by Master and Miss Byrn; End of Act III, as17820606

Song: In Masquerade a Song by Miss Morris. imitations. End of mainpiece, by Bannister Jun

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The East Indian

Cast
Role: Danford Actor: Staunton

Afterpiece Title: The Candidate

Dance: As17820613

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Farce

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Afterpiece Title: The Candidate

Afterpiece Title: at end of Act I of the farce The Tobacco Box

Dance: As17820606

Event Comment: Benefit for Jewell, treasurer. Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2, by George Colman, the younger. It has also been ascribed to Sarah Gardner, but for Colman's authorship see Peake, 11, 99. Composer of music unknown. MS: Larpent 589; not published]: The Words of the Songs are inserted in the Public Papers of this Day. Public Advertiser, 12 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Jewell, in Suffolk Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: The Female Dramatist

Dance: As17820613

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wells. 2nd piece: With the Manual Exercise by Mrs Wells

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: The Recruiting Serjeant

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Haymarket

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Monologue: 1782 08 27 End of Act I of 2nd piece Joe Haynes's Epilogue, on an Ass, by Dick Wilson, after the manner of Ned Shuter. imitations. End of 2nd piece, as 9 Aug

Event Comment: Benefit for Edwin. Tickets to be had of Edwin, No. 2, Piazza, Russel Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Dance: As17820606

Song: End of mainpiece Four-and-twenty Fidlers all on a Row, by Edwin

Monologue: 1782 08 28 End of Act I of afterpiece A Description of the Tombs in Westminster-Abbey, by Edwin

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Harper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: Rose and Colin

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Public Advertiser, 31 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Palmer, No. 39, Goodge Street, Rathbone Place

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Monologue: 1782 09 03 End of 2nd piece A Description of the Tombs in Westminster Abbey by Edwin

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: none listed (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Walloons

Afterpiece Title: St

Dance: As17821009

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Farce. Receipts: #121 4s. 6d. (84/13/0; 36/9/0; 0/2/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Too Civil by Half

Cast
Role: Lady Treacle Actor: Mrs Hopkins