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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.

8601
27 July 1773 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: Benefit of Peguenit, treasurer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

8602
05 August 1773 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: Benefit of Miss Wilde. The Orchestra, Boxes and gardens will be splendidly Illuminated with a great number of lamps of various colors, and (by desire) for the convenience of those who have books, the seats will be illuminated. 11th night of the Subscription

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Magnet

8603
12 August 1773 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: Benefit for Phillips. [For illumination, see comment 5 Aug., but Public Advertiser notes near 1,000 lamps."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

8604
23 August 1773 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Weston

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Upon Two Sticks

Afterpiece Title: The Tobacconist

Entertainment: I: A Variety of Imitations Rhetorical and Vocal-Hutton; II: O What a Charming Thing's a Battle-Bannister; End: A New Song-Miss Wilde

Dance: End Interlude: A Tambourine Dance-Giorgi's Scholars

Monologue: Between Play and Entertainment: A Comic Interlude (taken from the Primitive Puppet Show) call'd A Sentimental Comedy; or, Piety in Pattens. Butler-Weston; Squire-Fearon; Mrs Candy-Mrs Palmer; Polly Pattens-Mrs Jewell

8605
31 August 1773 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Afterpiece Title: The Tobacconist

Monologue: 1773 8 31 Interlude. Piety in Pattens. As 23 Aug

Song: II: O What a Charming Thing's a Battle-Bannister

Dance: As17730823

8606
08 September 1773 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Woodman, lately left a widow with a large family of young children and near lying in again

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Dilletante

8607
13 September 1773 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: Benefit for Doorkeepers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wedding Day

8608
16 September 1773 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: Benefit for the Waiters

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

8609
18 December 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the City of London Lying-In Hospital, Corner of the City Road in Old Street. Tickets deliver'd for the Clandestine Marriage, and the 22nd instant will be taken. Charges: #81 5s. Profit to Hospital #23 6s., plus #111 14s. from tickets (Box 293; Pit 171; Gallery 128). Paid Palmer (wax chandler) #144 8s. Receipts: #104 11s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Dance: III: The Old Ground Young, as17731208

8610
30 December 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Composer, of the Afterpiece. Charges: #65 11s. Profit to the composer #86 18s. 6d. Receipts: #152 9s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: Achilles in Petticoats

Dance: End: A Dutch Dance [see17720925]-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford

Performance Comment: Blurton, Miss Besford.

8611
24 February 1774 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Millico

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lucio Vero

Dance: As17740222

Song: End Opera: Two Songs-Millico; accompanied on the Harp-Millico himself

8612
12 March 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Woodward. Mainpiece: In Three Acts Never Performed there. [This seems to be some adaptation of Garrick's Florizel and Perdita in three acts, but without the character Rogero.] Charges #72 16s. Profit to Woodward #129 17s. 6d., plus #57 from tickets (Box 228). Receipts: #202 14s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winters Tale

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Afterpiece Title: The Sylphs

8613
14 March 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. Mainpiece: Not acted these 16 years. Part of Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Tragedy by Samuel Pordage. Charges #64 12s. Profit to Smith #62 19s. 6d., plus #110 from tickets (Box 380; Pit 68; Gallery 48) Receipts: #127 11s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Herod And Mariamne

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: End: The Old Ground Young, as17740205; with an Allemande, as17740205

8614
17 March 1774 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Schiroli

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Buona Figluola

Song: II: A favourite Song-Taretti; III: A New Rondo-Mrs Barthelemon

Dance: I: Comic Dance-Sga Mazzoni, Bocchini; II: A Chaconne-Fierville; III: Persian Dance in Perseo- [Haram]

8615
19 March 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. Mainpiece: Not acted this season. Charges #76 17s. Profit to Mrs Mattocks #84 5s., plus #69 15s. from tickets (Box 279) Paid one year's Assurance on #5,000 in the Royal Exchange Office to 31 March 1775 #12 10s. Receipts: #161 2s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: II: The Corsican Sailors, as17731013; End Opera: The Highland Reel, as17731112

Cast
Role: Double Hornpipe Actor: Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford.

8616
21 March 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Charges #76 6d. Profit to Clarke #40 19s. 6d., plus #110 2s. from tickets (Box 228; Pit 276; Gallery 117). Paid Hewetson & Lonsdale (lacemen) #45 8s., Hughes (linnen draper) #18 14s.; and Hughes & Bates (linnen drapers) #20 3s. Receipts: #117. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Cast
Role: Watchman Actor: Besford

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17731005

Cast
Role: Double Hornpipe Actor: Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford.

8617
24 March 1774 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Fierville

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lucio Vero

Dance: I: Ballet with Chaconne-Mlle Heinel, Fierville, Sga Vidini, Asselin; II: Provencale-Slingsby, Sga Mazzoni, Daigville's Scholars; End of Opera: Polish Ballet-Mlle Heinel, Fierville, Vidini, Asselin

8618
26 March 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mattocks. Last time of performing till the Holidays. [See additions in bills for 5 April.] Charges #72 16s. Profit to Mattocks #108 17s. 6d., plus #37 1s. from tickets (Box 135; Pit 22). Receipts: #181 13s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Afterpiece Title: The Country Madcap

Monologue: True Blue; or, The Press Gang. Principal Parts-Mattocks, Reinhold, Baker, Mrs Baker; The Dance-Aldridge. [See 11 May 1773.

8619
06 April 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Moody. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #237 8s. 6d. Charges: #74 14s. Profits to Moody: #152 14s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker

Cast
Role: Belinda Actor: Miss Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

8620
06 April 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Wroughton. Mainpiece: By Desire. Charges #66 3s. 6d.Profit to Wroughton #36 2s., plus #43 4s. from tickets (Box 105; Pit 113) Receipts: #102 5s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Monologue: True Blue. As 26 March

8621
09 April 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Jameson. Hull is to succeed Colman in the management of Covent Garden (Winston MS 10). Colman sold his share of the patent to Harris in the spring of this year, this departure to take place in June (Page, George Colman, The Elder). Michel Dyer Died (Genest, V, 424). Miss Jameson's charges #77 13s. 6d. Profit to her #59 10s., plus #66 7s. from tickets. (Box 127; Pit 138; Gallery 139). Receipts: #137 3s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: II: The Corsican Sailors, as17731013; End Opera: The Highland Reel, as17731112

Cast
Role: Double Hornpipe Actor: Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford.

8622
11 April 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Younger. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [See 18 May 1772.] Tickets delivered by Miss Helme will be taken. Charges: #66 17s. 6d. Profit to Younger #52 1s., plus #130 1s. from tickets (Box 201; Pit 344; Gallery 382) Receipts: #118 18s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton with Stockwell Scenes

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Lewes; Clown-Cushing; Farmer-Fox; Mother Shipton-Baker; Ballad Singer-Dunstall; Others-Rayner, Banks, Wild, Hamilton, Thompson, Hollingsworth, Holtom, Mrs Helme, Mrs White; Colombine-Miss Twist; The Dances-Fishar, Miss Valois, Blurton, Miss Besford.
Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Miss Valois, Blurton, Miss Besford.

8623
12 April 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Afterpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [See 9 April 1771. Seemingly MacNamara Morgan's adaptation of the Winter's Tale.] Paid half yrs. New River Water to Xmas last #3 2s.; Housekeeper's Bills 2 weeks #8 8s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #199 16s. Charges: #65 5s. Profit to J. Palmer: #134 11s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Cast
Role: Emilia Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: Florizel and Perdita

Entertainment: End: Bucks have at ye all-Palmer

8624
14 April 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Smith. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #185 15s. Charges: #74 14s. Profit to Mrs Smith: #111 1s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Cast
Role: Forge Actor: Ackman

8625
16 April 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Aldridge. Tickets deliver'd for Every Man in His Humour will be taken. Charges #67 15s. Profit to Aldridge #40 6d. plus #70 10s. from tickets (Box 146; Pit 154; Gallery 109). Receipts: #107 15s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantly

Dance: I: New Dance-Mas. Langrish, Miss Besford [see17730426]; II: The Whim-Aldridge, Miss Twist, see17730426]; III: [A New Dance call'd The Pilgrim-Mas. Harris, Miss Matthews; IV: [A New Comic Dance call'd The Frolick-Aldridge, Miss Capon, Miss Besford; End: A New Hornpipe-Aldridge

Performance Comment: Langrish, Miss Besford [see17730426]; II: The Whim-Aldridge, Miss Twist, see17730426]; III: [A New Dance call'd The Pilgrim-Mas. Harris, Miss Matthews; IV: [A New Comic Dance call'd The Frolick-Aldridge, Miss Capon, Miss Besford; End: A New Hornpipe-Aldridge.
Cast
Role: A New Comic Dance call'd The Frolick Actor: Aldridge, Miss Capon, Miss Besford