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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.

6826
15 May 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Benefit on basis of half value of tickets for eight beneficiaries]: James, Anderson, Thompson, Mrs LeBrun, Miss Ferguson, Mrs Gondou, Mrs LeFont, and Miss Morrison. Receipts at the door: #13 5s. /For Box Pit Gallery Value Half-Value/James 1 152 115 #34 11s. #17 5s. 6d./Anderson 10 89 84 #24 5s. #12 2s. 6d./Thompson .. 61 46 #13 15s. #6 17s. 6d./Mrs Lebrun 1 32 36 #8 13s. #4 6s. 6d./Mrs Gondou 6 57 60 #16 1s. #8 0s. 6d./Mrs Ferguson 9 34 58 #13 3s. #6 11s. 6d./Mrs Morrison 15 25 43 #11 16s. #5 18s./Mrs Le Font 8 60 49 #15 18s. #7 19s./Totals 50 510 491 #138 2s. #69 1s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

6827
16 May 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Lawrence, Powell, and Gardiner [Door-Keepers]. [Profits to the beneficiaries unspecified.] Charges #70

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

6828
18 May 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Wright, Miss Bennett, Fleetwood, Reynolds, Green, Ockman, and Elliott. Tickets deliver'd for the Provok'd Husband will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

6829
28 May 1747 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Nicholson, Dancing Master. 6:30 p.m. A Concert, etc

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

6830
16 November 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Elizabeth Dove, now a widow

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse Or Virtue In Danger

Afterpiece Title: Tea

Cast
Role: Advertised as for the Thirty Actor: eighth Day.

6831
25 January 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for a Widow and her Son...A Concert etc. Boxes 4s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Performance Comment: With a new additional Scene-; in which will be introduce'd two new characters; the Part of Fribble to be perform'd by the Author of the scene; after which an Epilogue- in the Character of Fribble.

Dance: To conclude with: Country Dance called The Whim-

6832
29 January 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Troas. Pit and Boxes put together 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. To begin at half an hour after six (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Concert Of Musick

6833
02 February 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Foote, being the last Time of his Performing this Season. Tickets deliver'd for Wednesday the third will be taken this Day. Servants will be admitted to keep Places on the Stage, which for the better Accommodation of the Ladies are form'd into Side-Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: Tea

Cast
Role: Advertised as for the Thirty Actor: eighth Day.

6834
08 February 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Bridgwater. Tickets and places to be had of Page at the stage door, and of Bridgwater at his wharf near Whitefriars. [His notice of hopeful acknowledgement (3 Feb.) repeated.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

6835
16 February 1748 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Cassarini. A New Song will be sung by Sga Casarini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Enrico

6836
29 February 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Sowdon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17471228, but Richard-Sowdon 1st time; Tressel-Gibson; Blunt-Paddick; Catesby-Bencraft; Oxford-_; Norfolk-Paget.
Cast
Role: Oxford Actor: Bencraft

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

6837
29 February 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Dunning and Mrs Rowley. To begin at 6 p.m. Prices: 5s., 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: Between the Acts: a Gentleman

6838
08 March 1748 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Signora Galli. Composed by Handel. Signora Galli will sing the Part of Alexander, with all the original songs of Senesino. [As Senesino created this role in 1726, the piece performed tonight may be Handel's, not Lampugnani's; see kings, 15 Nov. 1743 and Deutsch, Handel, p. 647.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Roxana

6839
14 March 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Woffington. As ye Curtain was rising for ye farce a Gentleman's sword was taken out of ye Scabbard & carry'd up with ye Curtain & there Hung to ye terror of those under it (least it shou'd fall) & ye Mirth of ye rest of ye Audience--a Scene man fetch'd it down (Cross). Four rows of the Pit will be rail'd into the Boxes; and the stage form'd into front and side boxes. Tickets and places of Hobson at the stage door. Receipts: #240 (Cross); house charges, #50 (Powel).This was also in her agreement to pay no more than the above sum (Powel). Cash, #84 19s. 6d.; tickets, #100 3s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: II: Tambourine-Anne Auretti; IV: New Comic Dance-Matthews, Mrs Addison; V: Dutch Dance, as17471128

6840
21 March 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clive, Mainpiece: At the Desire of Several Ladies of Quality. Part of Pit rail'd into Boxes. Stage form'd into front and side Boxes. Send servants by 3. Tickets and places of Mrs Clive in Great Queen St., Lincolns Inn Fields, and of Hobson at the Stage Door. Cross: Ned Thompson dy'd. Receipts: #220 (Cross); house charges, #60 (Powel); cash #78; tickets, #94 10s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Performance Comment: As17471110, but With a New Scene restor'd, in which will be perform'd-Lowe, Mrs Clive; the Original Dialogue- set to music by Arne (General Advertiser); Taylor-_; Justice-_.
Cast
Role: in which will be perform'd Actor: Lowe, Mrs Clive

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

Song: By Particular Desire, the Irish Song, Ellen a Roon-Mrs Clive

6841
21 March 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Beard. Afterpiece: A Masque of Music, reviv'd, in two Interludes, preform'd at the end of the 3rd and 5th Acts. Written by Colley Cibber. Servants will be allow'd to keep Places on the stage, which (for the better accommodation of the Ladies) will be form'd into an Amphitheatre, illuminated and enclos'd, as at an Oratorio. Tickets for Boxes and Stage to be had of Beard at his house in Red Lyon Square, and of Page at the Stage Door. Ladies desired to send servants to keep Places by three o'clock (General Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Cast
Role: Ford Actor: Ryan
Role: Mrs Ford Actor: Mrs Horton.

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

6842
22 March 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Macklin. Afterpiece: A Farce in 2 Acts taken [by Macklin] from Le Legataire Universel of Mons Regnard. Tickets of Macklin at his house in Bow Street, and of Hobson at the Stage Door. Stage will be form'd into front and side boxes. Receipts: #200 (Cross); house charges, #60 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: A Will and No Will or A New Case for the Lawyers

Dance: End: Savoyards, as17471215

6843
24 March 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Anne Auretti. Mainpiece: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Seven rows of Pit will be rail'd into the Boxes. Stage to be form'd into front and side Boxes. Receipts: #270 (Cross); house charges, #50 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Le Charactere de la Dance-Anne Auretti; III: The Savage Dance-Cooke, Matthews, Anne Auretti; IV: Dutch Dance, as17471128; V: Hymen's Temple-Cooke, Janeton Auretti; End of Farce: a Minuet, Louvre-Cooke, Anne Auretti

6844
28 March 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Cibber. Tickets of Page at the Stage Door. [The entertainments and mixed afterpieces formed the most elaborate night's performance this season.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Afterpiece Title: The Authors Farce

Song: I: Go lovely Rose-Beard; II: Tis Liberty-Mrs Storer; III: Sper il Fostore-Miss Faulkner; IV: Smiling Liberty-Miss Faulkner

Dance: V: Drunken Peasant-Philips

6845
28 March 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Lowe. Mainpiece: For the last time this season. Afterpiece: By Desire. Stage form'd into Front and Side Boxes. Tickets deliver'd out for The Recruiting Officer will be taken. Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of Several Persons of Quality. Powel: Rec'd of Mrs Rudd, Fruit Woman, in Part #9. Receipts: #240 (Cross); house charges, #60 (Powel); cash, #78 15s. 6d.; tickets, #99 2s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

6846
30 March 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Rawlinson. To begin at 6:30 p.m. Prices: 4s., 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: Archer-Cushing; Mrs Sullen-Mrs Cook; Cherry-Miss Rawlinson who never appeared on any Stage before; rest of the parts-Gentlemen from the theatres (Theatrical Clippings Folger Library).
Cast
Role: Cherry Actor: Miss Rawlinson who never appeared on any Stage before

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

6847
31 March 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Havard and Mrs Havard. Tickets and places of Hobson at the stage door. Being the last time but one of Acting till the Holidays. [The following financial analysis appears in the page reproduced from the Clay MS, in the Oct. 1926 issue of the Connoisseur, p. 93.] @Cash #101 17s.@Tickets #61 6s.@#163 3s.@Stage #15 17s.@#3 1s. 6d.@#18 18s. 6d.@ Receipts: #170 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: A Will and No Will

Dance: Cooke, Anne Auretti

6848
31 March 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Leveridge. [See his advance notices on 18 and 24 March.] Wednesday Next Hamlet, Towards the Relief of the Unhappy sufferers by the late Fire. The Monies arising by that to be lodg'd with Messrs Ironside and Belchior to be paid by them into the Hands of the Committee (that is or shall be appointed) to be apply'd with the other charitable Collection towards the relief of the unhappy sufferers by the late dreadful calamity. [Miss Faulkner's song "Liberty" was probably the aria from Judas Maccabaeus: Come, ever smiling Liberty [Deutsch, Handel, p. 649).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Song: I: Who'll Buy a Heart a Cantata by Stanley-Beard; II: Cupid's Power I Despise, Liberty-Miss Faulkner; III: a Song in the Anacreontic style- of Leveridge; IV: O Peace, Shepherd what art thou pursuing-Mrs Storer; V: Mirth Gives Courage-Leveridge; Epilogue of Thanks in Music-Leveridge

Dance: Master Granier, Miss Granier

6849
05 April 1748 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Fund established for the Support of Decay'd Musicians or their Families. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered this Day at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. Gallery 5s. Gallery opened at Four o'clock, Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin exactly at Six. N.B.: Tickets delivered to Subscribers to this Charity will admit one Person to any part of the House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainment Of Music

6850
06 April 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Relief of Sufferers by the late Fire. [It happened in the Exchange on 25 March. See General Advertiser accounts.] Boxes and Pit laid together at 5s. each. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. [Statement about gift of the night's box receipts (31 March) repeated. See note, 11 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Song: Beard, Miss Faulkner, Mrs Storer