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16190 results for: Keyword - Mr Vernon</i>-much Applause (<i>Hopkins Diary</i>). Benefit for <span class=
We found 14513 matches on Event Comments, 2620 matches on Performance Comments, 638 matches on Performance Title, 35 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

15551
01 November 1703 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [By William Walker. Not advertised in Daily Courant, but this date accepted as premiere by Nicoll, p. 363 and Genest, II, 303.] Preface: It was so hem'd in between the Benefits that it seem'd meerly Confin'd to the Limits of a Single Night before hand

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marry Or Do Worse

15552
30 November 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Subscription. None to be admitted into the Pit or Boxes but by the Subscribers Tickets. The Boxes on the Stage and the Galleries are for the Benefit of the actors. At 5 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; in which several Songs in Italian and English-Mrs Tofts; accompany'd-the best Masters in England

Dance: Labbe, others

15553
16 January 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: After the Italian manner, All sung, being set to Musick by Master Clayton. No Person to be admitted into the Boxes or Pit but by the Subscriber's Tickets. The Boxes on the Stage and the Galleries are for the Benefit of the Actors. [Premiere of the opera.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arsinoe Queen Of Cyprus

Dance: l'Abbe, duRuel, Cherrier, Mrs Elford, Mrs duRuel, Mrs Moss

Song: Before and after Opera: Singing in Italian and English-

15554
22 March 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Quacks Or Loves The Physician

Performance Comment: [Announced as benefit for Ben. Johnson but stopped by Vanbrugh's request; see Nicoll, p. 289, and poem in Diverting Post, 31 March-7 April].

15555
08 April 1706 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By George Farquhar. The preface is a semi-serious, semi-humorous apology for having the play open on the night of D'Urfey's benefit at the Queen's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: Edition of 1706 lists: Ballance-Keen; Scale-Phillips; Scruple-Kent; Worthy-Williams; Plume-Wilks; Brazen-Cibber; Kite-Estcourt; Bullock-Bullock; Costar Pearmain-Norris; Tho. Appletree-Fairbank; Melinda-Mrs Rogers; Silvia-Mrs Oldfield; Lucy-Mrs Sapsford; Rose-Mrs Mountfort; Prologue-; Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Sapsford
Role: Rose Actor: Mrs Mountfort

15556
15 March 1707 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By subscription, as 4 March, but the Stage Boxes, Balconies, and Galleries are for the Benefit of the House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosamond

15557
31 March 1707 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: For the Benefit of Will Bullock, as the Saying is. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the Author of the Recruiting Officer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

15558
01 April 1707 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by P. A. Motteux. Music adapted by Pepusch.] A new Opera. By Subscription. The Front Boxes and Side Boxes to be laid open into the Pit; where none are to be admitted but by the Subscribers' Tickets. And the Stage Boxes, Balconies, and Galleries are for the Benefit of the House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Thomyris

15559
25 May 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For the Benefit of the Author'd Widow and Children

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

15560
14 March 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Benefit Mrs Rogers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple Or A Trip To The Jubilee

15561
25 May 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: See Tatler, 26 May. [In Daily Courant, 24 May, William Bowen announced that The Stratagem, advertised for this day as his benefit, is deferred and that tickets for it will be accepted on 1 June at Sganarell; or, The Cuckold in Conceit.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

15562
07 June 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Announced but not given. On 6 June the Lord Chamberlain silenced Drury Lane because of its failure to obey an order issued earlier which forbade the deduction of more than #40 from the receipts at a benefit

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Epsom Wells

15563
07 February 1710 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For the Benefit of your Humble Servant Francis Leigh. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue

Dance: Between the Acts: With 6 several Entertainments of Dancing as are express'd at large in the great Bills-

15564
25 February 1710 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By Charles Shadwell.] Never Acted before. [Tickets given out for this day for Tamerlane as a benefit for Corey and Elrington will be taken on 7 March.

Performances

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

15565
09 March 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [In Daily Courant, 8 March, Thomyris had been announced for this day as Nicolini's benefit .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

15566
24 April 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of the Four Indian Kings lately arriv'd in this Kingdom. Benefit Bowen. [For the Prologue see Bond, pp. 4, 99. See also Genest, II, 451.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mackbeth

15567
01 May 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By Charles Johnson Premiere.] Benefit the Author. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Force Of Friendship

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Chest

15568
28 September 1710 @ Greenwich

Event Comment: Written by the late famous Poet Laureat John Dryden, Esq. Note, The Subscribers' Tickets Pass every Night there is Acting at Greenwich, tho' it be on a Benefit Night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aurengzebe

Song:

Dance:

15569
18 May 1711 @ Stationer's Hall

Event Comment: For the Benefit and Encouragement of some English Performers. In this Consort there will be a more exact Decorum than has been observ'd hitherto. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Collected from the Works of the most Celebrated Masters in Europe

15570
05 June 1712 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece by Newburgh Hamilton.] Benefit Mrs Willis. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Petticoat Plotter

Performance Comment: Principal parts-Bullock, Norris, Pack, Leigh but edition of 1720 may represent cast for this performance: Sir Simon Scrapeall-Norris; +Thrifty-Bullock; +Truelove-$Elrington; Plotwell-Pack; +Nincompoop-Leigh; +Ananias-$Spiller; Cabbage-$Burkhead; Isabella-$Miss Sherburn; Mopsa-$Miss Willis; Epilogue-Elrington.
Cast
Role: Principal parts Actor: Bullock, Norris, Pack, Leigh but edition of 1720 may represent cast for this performance: Sir Simon Scrapeall-Norris

15571
24 February 1713 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece: Author unknown. Apparently not published.] Benefit the Author of the afterpiece

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Afterpiece Title: A Woman Will Have Her Will

15572
21 May 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #44 4s. 6d. The Season being so far advanc'd that the Cloaths, Scenes, and Decorations proper to the New Tragedy, call'd, The Fair Captive, cannot be got ready as soon as was intended, we are oblig'd for some time to defer it. N.B. The Tickets deliver'd out for the Benefit of the Author of the Tragedy, will be taken at this Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Dance: As17150512

15573
02 June 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: [By Charles Knipe.] Never Acted before. Benefit the Author. Receipts: #114 7s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Ramble Or The Humours Of The Comptors

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Dance: As17150512

15574
05 March 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Benefit a Gentleman of Musick on account of Arrears. Receipts: money #32 18s. and tickets #87 16s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Mountebank

Dance: As17151230; Two Punchanellos Harlequin and Dame Ragondi-

15575
19 March 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By Christopher Bullock.] A New Farce of One Act. Benefit Bullock Sr. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: #69 16s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Sea Voyage

Afterpiece Title: The Adventures of Half an Hour

Song: As17160317

Dance: As17151104