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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.

9126
24 April 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wrighten. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #291 10s. 6d. (84.10.0; 7.2.0; 0.14.6; tickets: 199.4.0) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Dance: End: The Butterfly, as17800921

Song: Between the Acts: Tally Ho!-Mrs Wrighten

9127
24 April 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mattocks. Public Advertiser, 20 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mattocks, Great Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #156 17s. 6d. (127.4.6; tickets 29.13.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Cast
Role: Foresters' Dance Actor:

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Cast
Role: Foresters' Dance Actor:

9128
25 April 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Brereton. Receipts: #241 7s. 6d. (94.1.0; 28.19.0; 0.9.6; tickets: 117.18.0) (charge: #109 9s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Performance Comment: SCENE I. A Church Yard by Moon Light. Poor Thomas Day-Bannister, Gaudry, Suett; [SCENE II. A Forest. Tally ho!-Mrs Wrighten; [SCENE III. A View of the Grand Fleet at Spithead. Blow high-Bannister; [with a Dance of Sailors-Blurton; [SCENE IV. A Venetian Carnival. Beviamo tuttre [recte Beviamo tutti tre] -Delpini, Gaudry, Du-Bellamy; Italian Laughing song-Delpini; [A Dance of Anticks-; [SCDNE THE LAST. A Rural Prospect. A Dance of Shepherds and Shepherdesses-Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Henry, Miss Armstrong; [To conclude with How merrily we live-Bannister, Gaudry, Mrs Cargill; Hecate-Holcroft.

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

9129
25 April 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Reinhold. Receipts: #194 2s. 6d. (107.17.6; tickets: 86.5.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Cast
Role: Mr Ford Actor: Wroughton
Role: Mrs Ford Actor: Miss Younge.

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Performance Comment: As17810403, but SCENE III. A View of the Sea. The Storm-Reinhold; We be three poor Mariners-Davies, Doyle, Simpkinson; To conclude with a Dance-Aldridge, others; SCENE IV as SCENE V on 3 Apr. SCENE V. A Church-Yard. Poor Thomas Day-Edwin, J.? Wilson, Davies; SCENE VI. A Banquet Scene. A Burlesque Italian Medley-Reinhold; To conclude with several Catches and Glees-the most eminent performers; Come honest Friends and jovial Souls-_SCENE VII omitted; Chorus-_; Dance-_; Attendant Genius-_; Venus-_; Dance of Warriors-_; Mad Tom-_; The music-_; She that will but now discover-_.
Cast
Role: To conclude with several Catches and Gle Actor: the most eminent performers
Role: Foresters' Dance Actor:

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Song: End III 1st piece: When Phoebus the tops of the hills did adorn-Leoni, Mrs Kennedy

9130
26 April 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. Public Advertiser, 19 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 8, Air-street, Piccadilly. Receipts: #239 4s. 6d. (82.0.0; 38.16.0; 0.19.6; tickets: 117.9.0) (charge: #69 7s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: In III of 1st piece: a Hornpipe, as17800921; Scene the Last: The Butterfly, as17800921

9131
26 April 1781 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mme Simonet. Public Advertiser, 21 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mme Simonet, No. 5, Dover-street, Piccadilly. "[Vestris's] forcible manner of characterising the passions in the part of Jason distinguished him as an actor superior to all his contemporaries. Mme Simonet in Medea, it is said by the judges, is equal to him as an actress" (London Magazine, Apr. 1781, p. 156)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Piramo E Tisbe

Dance: End I: Les Caprices de Galatee, as17810329in which a Minuet, Gavotte-Simonet, ballet-Master, Simonet's Daughter, only 6 years old; and also The Devonshire Minuetas17810327Mme Simonet, Vestris Sen

Ballet: End Opera: Medee et Jason. As17810329

9132
27 April 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #118 12s. 6d. (99.6.0; 18.12.6; 0.14.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dissipation

Cast
Role: Alderman Uniform Actor: Parsons
Role: Miss Uniform Actor: Mrs Cargill

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Cast
Role: Sandford Actor: Aickin

Dance: End: The Irish Fair, as17800930; End I afterpiece: The Minuet de la Cour, as17800919

9133
27 April 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Aickin. Receipts: #159 2s. 6d. (110.13.6; tickets: 48.9.0) (charge: #67 9s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Cast
Role: To conclude with several Catches and Gle Actor: the most eminent performers
Role: Foresters' Dance Actor:

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Song: As17810425

9134
28 April 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Baddeley. Public Advertiser, 21 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Baddeley, No. 2, Little Russell-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #165 14s. 6d. (85.14.0; 25.10.0; 0.3.6; tickets: 54.7.0) (charge: #108 14s. 11d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

9135
28 April 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Wilson. 1st piece [1st time; PREL I, probably by Richard Wilson. Larpent MS 557; not published]. 3rd piece [1st time; F 2, by James Cobb. Larpent MS 556; not published. Author of Prologue unknown]. Receipts: #222 6s. 6d. (122.18.6; tickets: 99.8.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seventeen Hundred And Eighty One Or The Cartel At Philadelphia

Afterpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice or It Cannot Be

Afterpiece Title: Whod have Thought It

9136
30 April 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Prudom. Public Advertiser, 28 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Prudom, No. 8, facing the Green Park, Piccadilly. Receipts: #132 0s. 6d. (57.19.0; 18.2.6; 1.9.0; tickets: 54.10.0) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lord Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: End: The Dutch Quaker-Traffieri, Henry, Sga Crespi

9137
30 April 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Edwin. 3rd piece: First Time Here. Receipts: #200 14s. (152.2; tickets: 48.12) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Cast
Role: To conclude with several Catches and Gle Actor: the most eminent performers
Role: Foresters' Dance Actor:

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Entertainment: Monologue.End 1st piece: a Prologue written by S. Foote, Esq.,-Master Edwin

9138
01 May 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Hodson, author of Zoraida [who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill; see 8 Feb. 1780]. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #92 19s. (60.3; 32.11; 0.5; tickets: none listed) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Cast
Role: Mrs Dangle Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Dance: I: a Masquerade, Dance-Henry, Miss Armstrong

Song: Mainpiece: the Funeral Procession-; Vocal Parts-Gaudry, Edwards, Fawcett, Holcroft, Chaplin, Shaw, Miss Field, Miss Collett, Miss Kirby, Mrs Granger, Mrs Booth, Mrs Smith, the Miss Stageldoirs, Miss Simson

9139
02 May 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Sharp and Miss Wright. Paid Felsner, Button Maker, on Acct. #10 10s. Receipts: #235 5s. 6d. (42.15.0; 21.8.0; 0.10.6; tickets: 170.12.0) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Cast
Role: Mrs Malaprop Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Song: Between Acts 1st piece: a song-Miss Wright

9140
02 May 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Martyr. Receipts: #196 6s. (73.13; tickets: 119.13) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Farmers Return From London

Afterpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: Chit Chat

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: St. David's Day-Aldridge [for full cast see17810501]

Performance Comment: David's Day-Aldridge [for full cast see17810501].for full cast see17810501].

9141
04 May 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Davies. Public Advertiser, 19 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Davies, Great Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #193 17s. (145.12; tickets: 48.5) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Cast
Role: To conclude with several Catches and Gle Actor: the most eminent performers
Role: Foresters' Dance Actor:

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Cast
Role: Foresters' Dance Actor:

9142
05 May 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Webb. Tickets delivered for a Comic Opera will be admitted. Receipts: #154 12s. 6d. (94.7.6; tickets: 60.5.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Farmers Return From London

Afterpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Cast
Role: To conclude with several Catches and Gle Actor: the most eminent performers
Role: Foresters' Dance Actor:

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

9143
07 May 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Fosbrook, box-book-keeper. Receipts: #301 17s. (47.16; 9.16; 0.6; tickets: 243.19) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Cast
Role: Lady Wishfor't Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: A Fete A Medley

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

9144
08 May 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. 1st piece: Never Acted Here. 2nd piece: Written by G. Colman Esq., with Alterations [from his Occasional Prelude]. 3rd piece: Not acted these 10 years [not acted since 17 May 1763]. Receipts: #207 18s. 6d. (89.5.0; 29.19.0; 1.13.6; tickets: 87.1.0) (charge: #106 13s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: The Young Actor

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: End 2nd piece: The Butterfly, as17800921; In 3rd piece: The Minuet de la Cour-Henry, Miss Collett

9145
09 May 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Du-Bellamy. Public Advertiser, 21 Apr.: Tickets to be had of DuBellamy, No. 6, Queen's Buildings, Brompton. Receipts: #170 17s. 6d. (60.4.0; 18.4.6; 2.1.0; tickets: 90.8.0) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: End: The Irish Fair, as17800930

Song: End II: Kate of Aberdeen-; End IV: Bessy Bell, Mary Gray-DuBellamy

9146
09 May 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Peile. Receipts: #181 10s. 6d. (107.10.6; tickets: 74.0.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Chit Chat

Afterpiece Title: Whod have Thought It

Dance: End 2nd piece: The Sports of the Green, as17810501

Song: As17810115

9147
10 May 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Lamash, Holcroft, Miss Barnes & Miss Kirby. 1st piece: Not acted these 4 years. Receipts: #203 4s. (38.7.0; 25.4.6; 1.19.6; tickets: 137.13.0) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Or The Humours Of The Navy

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Cast
Role: Sandford Actor: Aickin

Dance: Scene IV: The Butterfly, as17800921

Song: End III: song-Miss Barnes (1st attempt on any stage); End 1st piece: the Grand Naval Review-; Rule Britannia-Gaudry, Edwards, Williams

9148
10 May 1781 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Slingsby. Tickets to be had of Slingsby, No. 34, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Barone Di Torre Forte

Dance: End I: The Rural Sports, as17810123

Ballet: End Opera: Medee et Jason. As17810329

9149
11 May 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Farren. [Afterpiece in place of The Devil to Pay, announced on playbill of 10 May.] Tickets deliver'd by Daglish, Mrs Pulley and Miss Armstrong will be taken. Public Advertiser, 9 May: Tickets to be had of Farren, No. 60, Theobald's Road. Receipts: #225 18s. (37.3; 11.7; 0.4; tickets: 177.4) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Cast
Role: Mrs Heidelberg Actor: Mrs Hopkins.

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Cast
Role: Miss Bridget Actor: Mrs Hopkins.

Dance: End III: Minuet and Allemande-Master Daigville, Miss Armstrong; After the singing: The Force of Love, as17801018

Song: As17810504

9150
11 May 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Whitfield and Miss Ambrose. Receipts: #192 17s. (69.10; tickets: 123.7) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Cast
Role: To conclude with several Catches and Gle Actor: the most eminent performers
Role: Foresters' Dance Actor:

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Cast
Role: Foresters' Dance Actor: