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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.

6851
11 April 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Bencraft and Mrs Hale. Mainpiece: Not acted these 9 years. [See 4 Dec. 1740.] N.B.: A parcel of tickets having been lost, none sold at the doors of the theatre will be admitted. Tickets to be had and places taken of Page at the Stage Door of the Theatre. [Inserted in the General Advertiser this day is Buskin's Apology]: @Enur'd to ills of various kinds,@By ancestors undone;@The Author has severely paid@For failings not his own.@From Disappointments Buskin writes,@Confesses 'tis for gain@Yet scorns all profits which arise@From giving others pain.@No private character he sneers,@No venom taints his mind;@His sole ambition is to please,@Not satyrise Mankind.@ On Wednesday last the Tragedy of Othello was acted at Covent Garden towards the relief of the unhappy sufferers by the late Fire; and on Saturday the sum of #218 12s. 4d. was paid into the hands of Messrs Ironside and Belchier; the company of comedians and the band of musick having generously given their performances (General Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

6852
12 April 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Delagarde, Mrs Hippisley [sic], Mrs Gondou. Tickets deliver'd out by Rawlings and Mrs Dumont will by taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Provokd Husband

Performance Comment: As17480115, but songs in character specified for-Mrs Storer as Jenny.
Cast
Role: songs in character specified for Actor: Mrs Storer as Jenny.

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Song: Beard

6853
13 April 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Neale and Winstone. By Particular Desire. Tickets at the Kings Arms Tavern in Bond St., and of Hobson at the Stage Door where Places may be taken for the Boxes. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire, as well as Afterpiece. Dawson &-fought in long Field ye first kill'd on ye spot (Cross). Receipts: #160 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel); cash, #48 6s.; tickets, #109 5s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Albumazar

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: II: Savoyards, as17471215

6854
14 April 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Faulkner. Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of Several Ladies of Quality. Afterpiece: By Desire. Miss Faulkner playing Polly "for the 1st time." Tickets of Page at the stage door in Bow St., Covent Garden; and of Miss Faulkner at her house in Leicester Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

6855
15 April 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Leviez and Sullivan. Stage form'd into Front and Side Boxes. Receipts: #213 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel); cash, #63 0s. 6d.; tickets, #150 14s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song: II: Powerful Guardians from Alexander Balus-Sullivan; III: With Ravish'd Ears-Sullivan; V: a Favourite song in the Opera Artamene-Sullivan

Dance: I: Savoyards, as17471215; IV: Louvre, Minuet-Leviez, Anne Auretti; V: Shepherd's Dance-Cooke, Janeton Auretti

6856
15 April 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Storer. Mainpiece: Not acted these 12 years. [See 1 Jan. 1735.] Tickets at Mrs Storer's lodgings at the corner of New Broad Court, Bow Street, and at the Stage Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder Or A Woman Keeps A Secret

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Song: II: The Smiling Hour by Handel-Mrs Storer; III: From Rosie Bowers by Henry Purcel-Mrs Storer

6857
18 April 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Bridges and Desse

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone Or The Fox

Afterpiece Title: Phebe or The Beggars Wedding

Song: II: Mrs Storer; IV: Miss Faulkner

Dance: HHornpipe-Harrison

6858
19 April 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Villeneuve and Roberts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Song: III: Roberts

Dance: IV: Louvre, Minuet-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde

6859
20 April 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for LaLauze. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Afterpiece: A Pantomime Entertainment

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Performance Comment: As17480116, but Oroonoko-a Gentleman who never appear'd on any Stage before; Capt. Driver-Dunstall; Hotman-_; Jack Stanmore-_.
Cast
Role: Oroonoko Actor: a Gentleman who never appear'd on any Stage before
Role: Blandford Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: The Perplexd Husband

Song: I: Beard; III: Consider Fond Shepherd, Tis Liberty alone-Mrs Storer

Dance: II: Drunken Peasant-Philips; IV: The Amorous Swain, or Rival Nymphs-LaLauze, Mrs Delagarde, Miss Hillyard; V: a Ball Minuet (By Desire)-three scholars of LaLauze

6860
20 April 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for a poor distress'd citizen's widow and six children. The concert to begin at five o'clock. Songs: By the Particular Desire of Several Ladies. Afterpiece: By the Particular Desire of Several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Love In a Mist

Song: LLove a favourite song from Acis and Galatea-; Between the Acts: Songs-a Gentleman

Music: Solo on a German Flute-a Gentleman

6861
21 April 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for James, Stoppelaer, Mrs Bland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: I: Go Rose-Miss Faulkner; II: Ellen a Roon-Mrs Storer; III: Se Spuntan Vezzoze-Miss Faulkner; V: Come Ever Smiling Liberty, 'Tis Liberty alone-Miss Faulkner

Dance: V: Minuet-Villeneuve, Miss E. Faulkner

6862
26 April 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Anderson; Harrington (Prompter); Miss Ferguson; and Miss Morrison. Tickets deliver'd out by Messing, Plummer, and Mrs Dupre will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Performance Comment: Mirabel-Ryan; Fainall-Anderson; Marwood-Mrs Bland; Sir Wilful-Morgan; Witwou'd-Cibber; Petulant-James; Mrs Fainall-Mrs Hale; Lady Wishfort-Mrs James; Foible-Miss Ferguson; Mincing-Miss Morrison; Millamant-Mrs Horton.
Cast
Role: Lady Wishfort Actor: Mrs James

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Music: II: Concerto on a German Flute-Lawson

6863
26 April 1748 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Signor Reginelli

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dido

Song: In I: favorite Song-Reginelli; accompanied on the Saltero-Caruso, which was never performed in any Concert before

6864
27 April 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Marten and White (Treasurer). Afterpiece: A farce in Two Acts [Anonymous] never acted there before. [See 14 Jan. 1743, at lif.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Drums Demolishd or Bickerstaffs Unburied Dead

Song: I: Go Rose-Beard; II: Ah Se Amanti Fasti Mai, Felice Belve-Miss Faulkner; IV: Come Ever Smiling Liberty, Tis Liberty-Miss Faulkner

6865
28 April 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Dupre, Froment, and Oates

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song: I: Ellen a Roon-Mrs Storer

Dance: II: Dance-Oates; III: Minuet and Louvre-Froment, Madem. Dumont; IV: Peasant-Oates; End: A Pantomime Dance call'd Pigmalion-; Pigmalion-Froment; Statue-Mlle Dumont

6866
28 April 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Macklin. Mainpiece [by John Ford]: Reviv'd not acted these Hundred years. Afterpiece: A New Farce never acted before by Charles Macklin. Note: Tickets deliver'd out for 22 April will be taken. Tickets to be had of Mrs Macklin in Bow St., and of Hobson at the Stage door. Cross: The play lik'd--farce not. Receipts: #93 (Cross); house charges, #60 (Powel); cash, #80 19s. 6d.; tickets, #12 15s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lovers Melancholy

Afterpiece Title: The Club of Fortune Hunters or The Widow Bewitchd

Dance: III: Savoyards, as17471215; V: Pastoral Dance, as17480326

6867
29 April 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Stede, Collins, Paddick and Miss Haughton. Tickets deliver'd by Miss Stevens, Miss Allen, Mrs LaFont, and Mrs Hitchcock will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant Or The Sick Ladys Cure

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Song: Mrs Storer

Dance: Master Granier, Miss Granier

6868
30 April 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Adams, Scudamore. Three front rows of the boxes railed into the Pit (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: JJocky Dance-Adams

6869
02 May 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Vaughan and Evans (Box Keepers)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

6870
02 May 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit of Nicholson and Mrs Daniel. A Concert, etc

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: LLouvre, Minuet-Miss Mondozie, Nicholson

6871
04 May 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Ray, Leigh, and Dickenson a Door Keeper (Cross). [The General Advertiser lists Dickenson as Gallery Office Keeper.] Receipts: #219 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel); cash, #37 18s. 6d.; tickets, #181 6s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: V: Savoyards, as17471215

6872
04 May 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Paget, Lawrence and Powell (Box Keepers). Tickets deliver'd out for the Provok'd Wife for this day will be taken. Mainpiece: At the Desire of Several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: Master Granier, Miss Granier

6873
05 May 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Condell and Singleton (Boxkeepers), Page (Housekeeper), and Miss Mattocks. Tickets deliver'd by Verhuyck, Emmet, and Palmer (Pit Doorkeepers) and Driscoll will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

6874
06 May 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Simpson, Shawford, Rogers and Miss Minors. Receipts: #200 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel); cash, #31 10s.; tickets #151 10s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: As17480212, but Jeremy-Neale; Buckram-Simpson; Mrs Foresight-Mrs Bennet; Miss Prue-Miss Minors.
Cast
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Foresight Actor: Taswell

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: III: Peasant Dance-Mas. Shawford, Miss Shawford; V: Comic Dance-Matthews, Mrs Addison

Performance Comment: Shawford, Miss Shawford; V: Comic Dance-Matthews, Mrs Addison.

6875
06 May 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Banks, Gwinn (Pit Doorkeeper), Trott, Smith. Tickets deliver'd by Massey, Elliot, Carney will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd