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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.

1851
12 February 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Author (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Discovery

1852
16 May 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Receivers (Cross Diary). Smith, Watson, Cridland, Dalton (playbill)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: As17621112, but Foresight-Parsons; Jeremy-Castle; Mrs Frail-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Foresight Actor: Parsons
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Bennett

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Wedding

Dance: IV: The Irish Lilt, as17621023

1853
08 May 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Aickin and Mrs Lee. House Charges #33 8s. Rec'd stopages #2 13s. (Treasurer's Book). Tickets deliver'd by Sg Giorgi and Miss Berkley will be admitted. Neville MS Diary: Went to ye Pit to see 2nd part of Henry IV. [Comments on performances of individual characters in general.] Falstaff very well by Love. This last uses his eyes with great propriety in this and many other characters....Pistol by Baddeley (King should have played it)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Capricious Lovers

Dance: End: A Minuet-Miss Giorgi, Miss Collett Scholars to Sg Giorgi; End I of the Farce: Hearts of Oak, as17670212, but-Grimaldi, Mrs King

1854
19 May 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Messrs Wignel and Stoppelaer. Neither Piece Acted This Season. The Prologue and Epilogue spoken By particular Desire by Master Wignell. Charges #72 15s. [of which Wignel bore #32 2s. 6d. and Stoppelaer bore #40 12s. 6d. Their deficit codered by income from tickets: Wignel #97 6s. (Box 82; Pit 362; Gallery 225); Stoppelaer #104 15s. (Bhx 118; Pit 377; Gallery 187).] Paid Edward Bamford for the Giant in the Dragon of Wantly #1 1s. (Account Book). With difficulty got into the Pit just before began (Neville MS Diary). [He comments favorably on the play and performers. Liked Shuter, especially, as Sharp in the afterpiece, and thought Miss Baker looked well in men's clothes.] Receipts: #48 7s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Performance Comment: Mizen-Woodward; Flip-Dunstall (with Famous Sea-Song of Ninety-Two); Worthy-Smith; Rovewell-Hull; Sir Charles Pleasant-Wignell; Arabella-Miss Macklin; Belinda-Mrs Baker; Jiltup-Mrs Walker; Jenny Private-Mrs Gardner; The Fair Quaker-Miss Wilford.
Cast
Role: The Fair Quaker Actor: Miss Wilford.

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: III: Blind Man's Buff, as17670516; End I Farce: Double Hornpipe, as17670427

Entertainment: After: The Prologue to the Apprentice-Master Wignell; End Farce: an Epilogue addressed to Most Noble Order of Bucks-Master Wignel

Ballet: End I Farce: The Wapping Landlady. As17670427

1855
26 May 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Weller, Murden, Lewes. Afterpiece for 52nd and last time this season. Tickets deliver'd for Friday the 15th will taken. Tickets sold at the Door will not be admitted. Charges #65 10s. [Deficit to each beneficiary #1 14s. 4d., covered by income from tickets. Weller #41 14s. (Box 7; Pit 145; Gallery 182); Murden #41 12s. (Box 31; Pit 111; Gallery 172); Lewes #61 10s. (Box 45; Pit 239; Gallery 144).] Paid the Duke of Bedford half year's ground rent due Lady Day last for the theatre #41 13s. 4d. (#50 minus half year's Land Tax #8 6s. 8d.). Paid Duke of Bedford half year's ground rent for the New Building adjoining the theatre #12 10s. (#15 minus half year's Land Tax #2 10s.). (Account Book). Receipts: #60 1s. (Account Book). At 5 went to Covent Garden to see Conscious Lovers &c....Got a bad place hn the First Gallery...Lewis did Harlequin, but not so well as Woodward; and Miss D. Twist did ye Miller's Bride, Miss Wilford's Character. Mrs Mahon does the jealous fellow's wife (Neville MS Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Phillis Actor: Miss Wilford

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: The Other Characters Actor: Miss _Wilford, Miss D. Twist.

Dance: IV: Double Hornpipe, as17670427

Ballet: IV: The Wapping Landlady. As17670427

1856
14 August 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Jewell, Treasurer. Afterpiece: A Farce (for that Night only) taken from Congreve's Play of the Old Batchelour. Neville MS Diary: Half past six went to the Haymarket...out could not get into the Pit, Boxes or Galleries

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Fondlewife and Laetitia

Song: II: DuBellamy

Dance: IV: Fingalian-; End: Italian Peasants, as17670805

Entertainment: PPost@Haste Observations from his Journay to Paris-Shuter (for that Night only)

1857
20 December 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for London Lying In Hospital Aldersgate Street (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: III: The Wake, as17680929

1858
29 March 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Yates. Tragedy written by R. Glover. Part of Pit will be laid into Boxes. Send servants by 4 o'clock. Charges #64 19s. Balance to Yates #52 19s. plus #151 3s. from tickets (Box 589; Pit 26) (Account Book). Neville MS Diary: Having places in the Pit at Covent Garden went to see Mrs Yates do Medea in which she is inimitably great. My strong desire to see her in this character was one reason of continuing to town so long. Read her part before the play began. Her husband is truly comic in Tim in the Knights. Receipts; #117 18s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medea

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Dance: End: The Tartars, as17681004

1859
31 March 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Reddish. Neville MS Diary: Went to see the Maid of the Mill played for the first time at Drury Lane. Bannister is the best Giles I have seen since Beard left the stage. The farce was No Wit like a Woman's, played but once before. Assisted in hissing it as both foolish and immoral

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: No Wit Like a Womans

Dance: I: New Comic Dance, as17681210; End of Opera: The Wake, as17680929

1860
15 April 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Jefferson. Royal Slave Posted...Mr Barry Ill (Cross Diary). [Playbill advertises The Royal Slave. See 11 March, but Song in Act II was to have been by Mrs Scott. It was further advertised as "By Desire of the most noble Grand, Vice Grands, Council and Brethren of the ancient and honourable Order of Bucks belonging to the Euphrates Lodge."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Cast
Role: Ralph Actor: King for this night only.

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: II: New Comic Dance, as17681210

Entertainment: End: Bucks Have at ye All-King (that night only)

1861
22 May 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Cridland, &c. (Cross Diary). Foley and Robinson. Tickets deliver'd by C. Roberts will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Cast
Role: Millwood Actor: Mrs Hopkins.

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petruchio

Dance: End: The Wake, as17690518

1862
19 February 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of Lionel (Cross Diary). Mainpiece: By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: II: Comic Dance, as17690926

1863
29 May 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for House. Tickets Miss Platt, &c. (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Cast
Role: to be spoken for the last time Actor: King.

1864
27 November 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Author (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: tis Well Its No Worse

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

1865
21 May 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wheeler, Walker and Mrs Simson Watkins (Cross Diary). Tickets deliver'd by Carlton and Mons. Langlois will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Cast
Role: Widow Blackacre Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies Frolick

Dance: II: A Hornpipe-Walker

1866
02 April 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. A new and accurate edition of Isabella to be had at the Theatre. [In mainpiece the playbill retains Kemble as Biron, but he being ill on Thursday night, an apology was made for Whitfield's assumption of Biron, on the ground of his having studied the character on two hour's notice" (Diary, 6 Apr.) Public Advertiser, 28 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Palmer, No. 3, London Road, St. George's Fields. Receipts: #274 6s. 6d. (117.4.0; 15.5.6; 3.1.0; tickets: 138.16.0) (charge: #123 13s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Cast
Role: Belford Actor: R. Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Song: As17881028, but Vocal Parts-Mrs _Forster, Dignum

1867
02 May 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Fontenelle. Public Advertiser, 14 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Fontenelle at her house, No. 271, Holbourn. 2nd piece: Compressed into 3 short Acts. "Miss Fontenelle...is the best Romp we ever saw, Mrs Jordan alone excepted...We were sorry to see [her] fall over the groove of the scene; but as practice is more forcible than precept, we hope it will teach her the truth of Friar Lawrence's caution, 'they stumble who run fast'" (Diary, 4 May). Receipts: #219 19s. (133.14.6; 6.8.6; tickets: 79.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sultan

Performance Comment: As17890219, but Roxalana-Miss Fontenelle (for that night only; 1st appearance in that character). 1st appearance in that character).

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Quick, Edwin, Bannister, Johnstone, Blanchard, Cubitt, Davies, Miss Reynolds, Miss Fontenelle. [For cast see17881106; on this night Cubitt acted Laird of Raasay.]For cast see17881106; on this night Cubitt acted Laird of Raasay.]

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Dance: End 2nd piece: The Piping Pedlar-Byrne, Mrs Goodwin

1868
05 August 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kemble. 1st piece [1st time; M. PREL 1; at its 2nd performance, 10 Aug., acted under its 2nd title, and published as such]: Written by Thomas? Bellamy. [The Address by--Codrington, of Exeter (European Magazine, Sept. 1789, p. 218).] World, 1 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Kemble, No. 26, Villiers-street, York-Buildings. Diary, 1 Sept. 1789: This Day is published The Benevolent Planters (1s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Friends Or The Benevolent Planters

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner at Large

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: In: a new dance, Liberty or We Slaves Rejoice-

Entertainment: Monologues End 2nd piece: As17890617 Preceding: An Address to the Humane Society on the Abolition of the Slave Trade in the character of a Negro , by-Kemble; End 3rd piece: Belles have at Ye All-Mrs Kemble

1869
19 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Dignum. Diary, 17 May: Tickets to be had of Dignum, the corner of Leigh-street, Red Lyon-square. Receipts: #323 19s. (31.14.0; 8.2.6; 0.12.6; tickets: 283.10.0) (charge: #105 16s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Song: End II: The Lass of Richmond Hill (composed by Hook)-Dignum; End IV: The Greenwich Pensioner-Dignum; End: Poor Jack-Dignum

1870
25 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Burton, Haymes & Miss Hagley. Diary, 17 May: Tickets to be had of Haymes, No. 2, Broadway, Blackfriars [others not listed]. Receipts: #222 (32.5; 14.1; 1.19; tickets: 173.15) (charge: #106 7s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Cast
Role: Clifford Actor: Wroughton

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Cast
Role: Marcelina Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Song: End IV: The Lass of Richmond Hill-Dignum

1871
27 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Phillimore, Miss Tidswell & Miss Barnes. Diary, 24 May: Tickets to be had of Phillimore, Little Russel-street; of Miss Tidswell, No. 8, Martlet-court, Bow-street; of Miss Barnes, No. 23, Clare-street, Clare Market. Receipts: #217 18s. (32.13; 21.14; 0.10; tickets: 163.1) (charge: #105 17s. 1d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

Song: In course: a song-Miss Barnes; The Greenwich Pensioner-Dignum

Entertainment: Vaudeville. End: an Epilogue in the character of Harlequin-Banks

1872
03 June 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Duffey and Cox. Diary, 3 June: Tickets to be had of Duffey, No. 115, St. Martin's Lane [Cox not listed]. Receipts: #315 10s. 6d. (94.12.0; 6.3.6; tickets: 214.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Cast
Role: Lieutenant of the Marines Actor: Ratchford
Role: Emai Actor: Miss Francis. Part I. A Nuptial Procession, with the Performance of the Marriage Ceremony according to the Custom observed at O'Whyee. The Manner of Combat between two Natives. Part II. The Arrival of the Resolution. The Disembarkation of the English, with the Ceremonies observed at entering into a Treaty of Peace with the Natives. A Preparation for a Human Sacrifice. The Assassination of Captain Cook. Part III. A Representation of the Naval and Military Honours observed on erecting a Pile to the Memory of Capt. Cook, by the Officers of the Resolution. The Ceremony performed on the same Occasion, according to the Manner of the Natives of O'Whyee. To conclude with a Representation of a Burning Mountain.

Song: End I afterpiece: Tho' Bacchus may boast (composed by Shield)-Duffey; End II: Mad Tom (composed by Purcell)-Duffey

1873
16 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clendining. The Poetry of the additional Songs [in 1st piece] by Peter Pindar, Esq. [pseud. for John Wolcot]. Morning Herald, 27 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Clendining, No. 19, Martlett-court, Bow-street, Covent-garden. "Mrs Clendining's endeavours to entertain were successful, and Fitzroy by Incledon gave a rich feast to the musical amateur. The air beginning, 'Dear Tom, this brown jug,' had a fine effect by the music being omitted" (Diary, 18 May). Receipts: #273 17s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Soldiers Festival

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Performance Comment: As17921204, but Dermot (for that night only)-Mrs Clendining; Fitzroy (with an additional song)-Incledon (1st appearance in that character).

Music: End: a concerto of his own composition, on the Grand Piano Forte-King (1st appearance in public)

1874
24 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Hull and Macready. 1st piece: In Act I a Grand Banquet. With the Procession [in Act IV] from the Abbey at the Coronation of Anne Bullen . To conclude with the Ceremonial of a Royal Christening. [In 2nd piece the scenes, as listed on 10 May, are indicated.] Morning Herald, 20 May: Tickets to be had of Hull, No. 7, Duke's-court, Westminster; Diary, 21 May: of Macready, No. 3, Mary-street, Charles-street, Tottenham-Court-Road. Receipts: #282 14s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: The Sailors Festival

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of A Day

Song: III: a song-Mrs Clendining

1875
14 May 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Walter and Mrs Pelling. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. [Tickets of Mrs Walter at Mr Hook's, Carpenter, in Stanhope Street; of Mrs Pelling at Mr Dagley's, Silversmith, near Castle Tavern, DL.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Dance: I: Minuet in Modern Habits by Rector and Mrs Anderson. II: Tambourine by Mlle Roland. III: Grand Ballet by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c. IV: The Amorous Clowns; or, The Courtezan: Clowns-Pelling, Davenport; Wives-Miss Mann, Miss Brett; Courtezan-Mrs Pelling. V: Rover by Essex, Mrs Walter, Mrs Pelling, Miss Mann, &c