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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.

15951
17 September 1764 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Authority. Benefit for Lauder. By Desire. For this night only. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. To begin at 7:00 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

15952
07 March 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber's benefit deferred on account of her dangerous illness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Capricious Lovers

15953
11 March 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMrs Cibber extremely ill, benefit to have been tomorrow deferred. Her death reported (Winston MS 9) [but see 29 March]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Capricious Lovers

15954
14 March 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Benefit for Smith. Ladies desired to send servants at half after 3.No persons can be admitted behind the Scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: As17641107, but Lady-Mrs Bellamy; Bacchant-Mrs Baker for Miss Miller; Euphrosyne-Miss Poitier.
Cast
Role: Bacchant Actor: Mrs Baker for Miss Miller
Role: Dances Actor: Duquesney, Sga Manesiere, Miss Wilford.

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: After the Masque: a Hornpipe-Miss Twist

15955
25 April 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Benefit for Mrs Cibber. Send servants to keep places at 3 o'clock. Tickets deliver'd for King John will be taken. Garrick returned [from trip to France and Italy] to his house in Southampton St. (Winston MS 9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distressed Mother

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: III: The Medley, as17641120

15956
27 May 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Particular Desire and for the benefit of several Persons in distress

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Cast
Role: Lady Wronghead Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

15957
29 July 1765 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire for the Benefit of a very Laudable Public Charity

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lyar

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Dance: As17650708

Entertainment: Between the Acts: The Cries of London-Shuter

15958
30 April 1766 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Authority. Benefit for a young Gentleman. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returnd from Paris

15959
23 December 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Particular Desire of the Right Honorable and Honorable The Governors (Being the Last Time of performing till the Holidays). Not acted this season. For the Benefit of the General Lying-In Hospital, Quebec Street, Oxford Road. Charges #85 5s., Balance to Hospital #5 6d. Hospital also receiv'd #156 10s. from tickets (Box 544, Pit 116, Gallery 31). Paid for 1 year's watch for theatre due at Xmas #12 10s. and for the House in Bow Passage 12s. 6d. Paid Dunstall the balance due for the theatrical Fund #136 17s. (Account Book). Receipts: #90 5s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Performance Comment: Young Mirabel-Smith; Old Mirabel-Shuter; Duretete-Woodward; Dugard-Gardner; Petit-Cushing; Page-Mas. Besford; Maid-Miss Allen; Bravos-Wignel, Buck, Weller, Murden; Oriana-Mrs Vincent; Lamorce-Mrs Stephens; Bizarre-Miss Macklin.
Cast
Role: Page Actor: Mas. Besford

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: Beaufort Actor: Baker

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-Miss Pitt; End: The Village Romps, as17661008

15960
12 March 1767 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new comic Opera, composed by Fischietti, a Neopolitan. Benefit for Lovatini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Signor Dottore

15961
15 May 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Being the last time of performing it this season. Afterpiece: By Desire. The Conscious Lovers, for benefit of Weller and Lewes and Murden, oblig'd to be deferr'd to Tuesday the 26th instant. Present the Prince and Princess of Brunswick, and Lady Louisa (Account Book). Receipts: #93 1s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: II: A New Tambourine Dance (third time)-Mas. Blurton, as17670427 End Opera: New Pantomime Ballet (second time)-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford, as17670427

Performance Comment: Blurton, as17670427 End Opera: New Pantomime Ballet (second time)-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford, as17670427.
Cast
Role: New Pantomime Ballet Actor: Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford, as17670427.

15962
08 September 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Author's Night. [Hartson's second benefit.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Countess Of Salisbury

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: End: Miss Froment

15963
18 September 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission. Benefit for Mrs Dancer. A new Tragedy altered from Southerne's Oroonoko

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Captive

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: HHornpipe-Miss Froment

15964
18 September 1767 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: By Particular Desire. Benefit for Lowe. The last night of the Season. Admittance 3s. To begin at 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Solomon

15965
22 February 1768 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Authority. Benefit for Lauder, a Scots Musical Pastoral, not done these two Years for that Night only. Tickets delivered for 15 Feb. will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Patie And Roger Or The Gentle Shepherd

Performance Comment: Sir William Worthy-Lauder; with several Scots Songs-Lauder; He will speak a Prologue-; Epilogue by Dr Smollett-; Patie, Roger, Bauldy, Peggy-Performers from Edinburgh their first performance in London.
Cast
Role: Peggy Actor: Performers from Edinburgh their first performance in London.

15966
10 March 1768 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Sga Campolini and Sg Guglielmi are extremely sorry that the New Dances intended to be performed this night are prevented on account of the indisposition of Sga Radicatti. The Poetry, taken from an old Book, is altered and adapted to the present Taste by Bottarelli; Music by Piccini. Benefit for Signora Campolini and Guglielmi. Scene Painters and Machinists-Bigari and Conti

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sesostri

15967
28 April 1768 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Authority, for that night only. Benefit for a Widow and three small children in distress

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Or The Unhappy Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: End: Charles Gondorff, a Hungarian. He mimicks three Voices at one and the same time-Charles Gondorff ,to wit the natural sound of the Base, the Bassoon and Flagolet (the latter has the sound of a small organ) all which is performed without the least movement of the lips

Performance Comment: He mimicks three Voices at one and the same time-Charles Gondorff ,to wit the natural sound of the Base, the Bassoon and Flagolet (the latter has the sound of a small organ) all which is performed without the least movement of the lips.

15968
13 May 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Cancelled. Theatre and all the Gardens [closed] on account of the Death of Louisa Anne [sister of His Majesty]--until 23 May. [This was to have been the Benefit night for Mortimer, Tomlinson, and Lings.] Tickets deliver'd by Miss Berkley, Mas. Cape, and for The Committee were to have been taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Cast
Role: Mrs Goodman Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: None

Dance: [I: Double Hornpipe-Mas. Cape, Miss Taylor.

15969
19 December 1768 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Authority. Benefit for Walker. To begin at 6 pm

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: Between the Acts: Dancing-

Entertainment: CCries of Edinburgh, with a new Scotch Cantata-Boyack

15970
23 December 1768 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Dunstall the Balance due of the Benefit for Theatrical Fund, the 20th Inst. #101 17s. 6d. (Account Book). Receipts: #198 17s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Cast
Role: Dwarf Actor: Miss Ford

15971
03 February 1769 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: For the Benefit and Increase of a Fund established for the Support of decayed Musicians and their Families. Pit and Boxes put together at Half a Guinea. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. [Expenditure for past year #653 9s. Towards relieving the proper beneficiaries.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: Between the acts: a Concerto on the Hautboy-Fisher; solo on the Violin-Pinto

15972
27 February 1769 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Authority For that Night only Benefit for Lauder No money returned after the Curtain is drawn up

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Patie And Roger Or The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: Middlemist

15973
28 February 1769 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Authority For one Night only. Benefit for Phillips. By the Particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction. To begin at 6:00 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

15974
02 March 1769 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new comic Opera. Music by Alessandri. Benefit for Lovattini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Re Alla Caccia

15975
04 March 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: N.B. On Saturday Next, 11 March, for the Benefit of Woodward will be presented Cymbeline...and a New Tragedy in Two Acts, call'd The Rival Favourites; or, The Death of Bucephalus the Great: Alexander-$Woodward; Philip-$Shuter; Statira-$Mrs Green. With a Triumphal Entry. The Funeral Procession of Bucephalus to the Monument of the Houyhnhnms and a Solemn Dirge [See Comment 7, 9, 11 March.] Receipts: #208 7s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton