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16199 results for: Keyword - Mr Vernon</i>-much Applause (<i>Hopkins Diary</i>). Benefit for <span class=
We found 14530 matches on Event Comments, 2620 matches on Performance Comments, 638 matches on Performance Title, 35 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

5951
17 January 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit the Widow Robinson in Catherine Street

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: FFrench Peasant, as17361109; Clown-Nivelon; Comic Dance, as17361213

5952
17 January 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit The Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Defeat Of Apollo

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Bob Alias Gin

5953
21 January 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit the late Mrs Buchanan'a Children,

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: As17370117

5954
03 February 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentlewoman under Misfortunes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: HHornpipe (by Desire)-Ferguson; Peasant, as17370201

5955
09 February 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Widow Burley and her Three Small Children. By the Original Company who performed Pasquin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Milliners

Entertainment:

5956
18 February 1737 @ Castle Tavern

Event Comment: Benefit Balicourt. At the Castle Tavern in Paternoster Row. 5s. To begin between six and seven o'Clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: great Concert of Musick-the best Hands from both Operas

5957
19 February 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author of the Farce. Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of Pasquin [Henry Fielding]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Eurydice or The Devil Henpeckd

5958
24 February 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit the Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Tutor For The Beaus

Afterpiece Title: Hymens Triumph

5959
25 February 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit a Citizen of London under Misfortunes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: Flora

5960
28 February 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author, who is under Misfortunes. Mainpiece: A new Tragedy [by Matthew Gardiner]. Afterpiece: A new Ballad Opera, by the same Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Parthian Hero Or Love In Distress

Afterpiece Title: The Sharpers or The Female Match Maker

5961
02 March 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit a Decay'd Merchant and his Family, in Great Distress. Mainpiece: Written by the late $J. Addison, Esq.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: I: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; II: Frenchman and Frow-Phillips, Miss Brett; III: Muilment

5962
02 March 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Talbot. Mainpiece: Written by C. Cibber, Esq; Poet Laureat. [Tickets to be had at Talbot's Coffee House in the Old Playhouse Passage, Drury Lane.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

5963
03 March 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Founded on Shakespear's Much Ado About Nothing. By the Author of the Man of Taste. [For an Epilogue designed to be spoken to King John, as amended by Colley Cibber, see Grub St. Journal, 3 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Universal Passion

Dance: Muilment

5964
03 March 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Snow. Boxes and Pit 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. To begin between Six and Seven o'Clock. [For a puff (a letter by Shakespear, Johnson, Dryden, Rowe) attacking Harlequin and praising Common Sense, see Grub St Journal, 3 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the best Hands from both Operas

5965
05 March 1737 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Benefit John Festin. 7 p.m. Tickets Five Shillings each: Money to be taken at the Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

5966
05 March 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Denoyer. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat. Tickets at Denoyer's House in St. James's-Street, over-against Park-Place. Daily Advertiser, 7 March: On Saturday Night the Mob attempted to force into Drury-Lane Playhouse, and were so insolent, that Justice Deveil was oblig'd to go out and read the Proclamation concerning Rioters; the Guard was order'd to his Assistance, and some of the Offenders were apprehended and sent to Newgate. [For Occasional Prompter XXIV (on the alteration of Much Ado About Nothing), see Daily Journal, 5 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Dance: I: Serious Dance-Denoyer; II: Harlequin-Denoyer's Apprentice; III: Grand Ballet-Denoyer, Mrs Roland; V: Minuet-Denoyer, Mrs Walter

5967
07 March 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Horton. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Countess

Dance: II: Comic Dance-Nivelon, Mrs LeBrun; III: Peasant-Lalauze; accompanied-Desse, Dupre, Richardson, Baudouin, Miss Norman, Mrs Delorme, Mrs Moreau, Mrs Ogden; V: Comic Dance-Nivelon, Lalauze, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs LeBrun

5968
07 March 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Wallis, Noble, and Mrs Pattison

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Lover His Own Rival

Related Works
Related Work: The Lover His Own Rival Author(s): Abraham Langford

Dance:

5969
07 March 1737 @ Devil Tavern

Event Comment: Benefit a Stranger. 6 p.m. At the Devil Tavern at Temple-Bar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: [Of his the Stranger's] own Composition, in which he will performViola Domor

5970
08 March 1737 @ Swan Tavern

Event Comment: Benefit Caporali. At the Swan-Tavern in Cornhill. 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Singing-Savage; First Violin-Clegg; Two Solos, a Concerto on the Violoncello-Caporali; The other Parts-the best Masters

5971
09 March 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Lowe, from Openshaw near Manchester in Lancashire, who lately kept the Gray's Inn Coffeehouse, near Gray's-Inn-Gate, in Holbourn, and is now in great Distress. At the Desire of several Worthy Gentlemen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida or Hymens Triumph

5972
10 March 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Quin. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Written by Shakespear. [Tickets at Quin's Lodgings, King's Street, cg. For a long account of the disturbance at dl, 5 Aarch, see Daily Advertiser, 10 March, and for a letter on theatrical affairs, see Grub St. Journal, 10 March.] Daily Gazetteer, 12 March: On Thursday Night last a Footman, who was keeping Places at [dl] upon the Stage behind the Curtain, hearing some Gentlemen who were in the Pit, call to some Footmen who were in the Boxes to take off their Hats, leapt from his Seat, and opening the Curtain, cry'd out with a loud Voice, bidding the said Footmen keep on their Hats

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Dance: II: Turkish Dance-Muilment, Villeneuve, Livier; IV: Russian Sailor-Denoyer

5973
12 March 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Clive. Part of [the Stage], for the better Accommodation of the Ladies, will be formed into Side boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: DDublin Maggot-Philips; Tambourine-Mlle Roland; Russian Sailor-Denoyer

Song: TThe Lady's Lamentation for the Loss of Senesino (a new Ballad)-Mrs Clive

5974
12 March 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Hippisley. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [Tickets at Hippisley's in Bow Street, cg.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

5975
14 March 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Delane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Lawyer

Dance: II: Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Lalauze; V: Scot's Dance-Glover

Song: RRosy Bowers (set to music by Henry Purcell)-Beard; IV: Let Caesar and Urania live, a two-part song, set to music by Purcell,-Beard, Salway