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17462 results for: Keyword - Mr Vernon</i>-much Applause (<i>Hopkins Diary</i>). Benefit for Vernon. Paid $<span class=
We found 15912 matches on Event Comments, 2621 matches on Performance Comments, 638 matches on Performance Title, 35 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

10801
25 April 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnstone. Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2. Larpent MS 980; not published]: By a Gentleman of the Bar [Horatio Edgar Robson]. The Story partly founded on the celebrated old Scotch Ballad of the Heir of Lynne. The Irish, Scotch, Italian and French Airs selected, and the new Music and Medley Overture composed by Reeve. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Morning Herald, 24 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Johnstone, No. 19, Piazza, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #488 9s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: Money at a Pinch or The Irishmans Frolicks

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors-

Song: In afterpiece: the following songs (incidental to the Piece) The Row, The Land of Potatoes, My sweetest Honoria (to a favorite air of Carolan's)-Johnstone

10802
27 April 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in MS annotation on BM playbill (cg, Vol. VIII)]. Receipts: #324 15s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: How To Grow Rich

Cast
Role: Warford Actor: Pope
Role: Formal Actor: Thompson

Afterpiece Title: The Invasion

Cast
Role: Sir Gregory Forester Actor: Quick
Role: Peregrine Forester Actor: Munden
Role: Captain Forester Actor: Macready
Role: Beaufort Actor: Davies
Role: Women Bathers Actor: Mrs Powell, Mrs Ratchford, Mrs Lloyd.

Dance: As17930418

10803
02 May 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #168 14s. (114.2; 39.1; 15.11; tickets: none listed) (charge: #158 17s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings False Colours

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

10804
02 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Pope. Mrs Pope not being sufficiently recovered from her Indisposition to perform to-night, Mrs Mattocks has kindly undertaken the part of Lydia Languish , and Margaret of Anjou [advertised on playbill of 1 May] is unavoidably obliged to be changed to The Soldier's Festival. Morning Herald, 8 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Pope at his house, Half-moon-street, Piccadilly. Receipts: #216 16s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Soldiers Festival

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Cast
Role: Beaufort Actor: Davies
Role: Women Bathers Actor: Mrs Powell, Mrs Ratchford, Mrs Lloyd.

10805
03 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Munden. 2nd piece [1st time; M.INT 1, by Thomas Hurlstone, Published by J. Debrett, 1793; in 1795 acted at cg as The British Recruit; or, Who's Afraid?]: The Overture and Music (a Glee and Air excepted) entirely new, by Shield, Giordani and Dr Stevenson of Dublin. To conclude with a Representation of the Grand Fleet under Sail. Books of the Interlude to be had at the Theatre. Morning Herald, 3 May 1793: This Day, at Noon, will be published To Arms (6d.). Morning Herald, 15 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Munden at his house, No. 6, Frith-street, Soho. Receipts: #448 17s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: To Arms or The British Recruit

Afterpiece Title: Two Strings to Your Bow

Dance: In 2nd piece: Byrn, Mme Rossi

Song: End 2nd piece: The Sea Storm-Incledon

Entertainment: Monologue. As17930410

10806
04 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in MS annotation on BM playbill (cg, Vol. VIII)]. Receipts: #501 5s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: How To Grow Rich

Cast
Role: Warford Actor: Pope
Role: Formal Actor: Thompson

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Cast
Role: Sir Gregory Forester Actor: Quick
Role: Peregrine Forester Actor: Munden
Role: Captain Forester Actor: Macready

Dance: Scotch Divertisement-Byrn, Holland, Mme Rossi; In afterpiece: The Lucky Escape, as17921116

10807
08 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Farren. Morning Herald, 30 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Farren, No. 85, Gower-street. Receipts: #395 16s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Relief of Williamstadt

Cast
Role: Sir Gregory Forester Actor: Quick
Role: Peregrine Forester Actor: Munden
Role: Captain Forester Actor: Macready

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

10808
09 May 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Goodall and Mrs Bland. [In mainpiece the playbill retains Kemble as Beverley , but "Kemble being ill, Whitfield played Beverley" (Thespian Magazine, June 1793, P. 3).] Morning Herald, 4 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Goodall, No. 13, Russel-street, Covent-Garden; of Mrs Bland, No. 12, St. Albans-street, Pall-Mall. Receipts: #432 4s. (74.19.0; 40.1.6; 7.8.0; tickets: 309.15.6) (charge: #169 10s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings All In The Wrong

Cast
Role: Blandford Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

10809
10 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Incledon. 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT 1. For indication of scenes see 24 May]. Morning Herald, 25 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Incledon, No. 12, Bow-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #469 16s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17920920, but Macheath (with an additional song, for that night only)-Incledon; Peachum-Powel; Lucy-Mrs Martyr; Polly (for this night only)-Mrs Ferguson.

Afterpiece Title: The Sailors Festival or All Alive at Portsmouth

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: III: Hornpipe, as17920920

Song: End I: Black Eyed Susan-Incledon

10810
13 May 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Fosbrook, box-book and house-keeper. Receipts: #491 15s. 6d. (85.0.0; 37.9.6; 2.3.0; tickets: 367.3.0) (charge: #168 2s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Rivals

Cast
Role: Mrs Malaprop Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Spoild Child

Cast
Role: Miss Pickle Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Dance: End: Minuet-Hamoir, Miss DeCamp

10811
15 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett. Morning Herald, 30 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Fawcett, No. 9, on the Terrace, Tottenham-Court-Road. Receipts: #273 13s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wild Oats

Afterpiece Title: To Arms

Afterpiece Title: Love and War

Dance: As17930503

Song: End: a favorite old Ballad-Incledon

10812
21 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Chapman. Morning Herald, 3 May: Tickets to be had of Miss Chapman, No. 16, Henrietta-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #263 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Performance Comment: As17920917, but Sulky-Cubitt; Sophia (for that night only)-Miss Chapman (1st appearance in that character).

Afterpiece Title: The Relief of Williamstadt

Cast
Role: Sir Gregory Forester Actor: Quick
Role: Peregrine Forester Actor: Munden
Role: Captain Forester Actor: Macready

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Performance Comment: With Dialogue intended only to introduce the following favorite songs, selected, written and composed (with new accompanyments) by Dibdin: The Lamplighter, I'm jolly Dick the Lamplighter-Cubitt; Peggy Perkins, Let bards elate-Blanchard; [Irish Drinking Song, Of the ancients its speaking-Johnstone; The Greenwich Pensioner ["Twas in the goodship Rover], Tom Bowling [Here a sheer hulk]-Darley; [Comic Song, How much I love thee-Powel; Taffy and Griddy, Abergavenny is fine-Mrs Martyr; [Hunting Song, To Batchelor's Hall, Poor Jack, Go patter to Lubbers, The Portrait, Come painter with thy happiest flight-Incledon; [To conclude with a Rural Masquerade-; [Indian Song, Dear Yanco say and true he say-Miss Broadhurst; [Sea Song, A Sailor's Life's a life of woe-Mrs Harlowe; [The Masquerade, Sure an't the world a Masquerade-Johnstone, Chorus.
Cast
Role: How much I love thee Actor: Powel

Music: End I 3rd piece: a sonata from Op. 2, by Clementi, on one of Longman and Broderip's newly invented Grand Piano Forte Harpsichords, by the celebrated-Master Field a Child of Nine Years Old

Performance Comment: 2, by Clementi, on one of Longman and Broderip's newly invented Grand Piano Forte Harpsichords, by the celebrated-Master Field a Child of Nine Years Old.

Entertainment: Monologue. As17930410

10813
22 May 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Whitfield and Mrs Ward. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by-Fernside, for whose authorship see Kemble Mem., based partly on Love's Cure; or, The Martial Maid, probably by Philip Massinger. Incidental music by Richard Suett]. Public Advertiser, 15 May: Tickets to be had of Whitfield, under the Great Piazza; of Mrs Ward; No. 6, York-street, Covent-Garden. Morning Herald, 12 June 1793: This day is published The Female Duellist (1s.). Receipts: #469 13s. 6d. (51.4.0; 33.9.0; 8.4.0; tickets: 376.16.6) (charge: #158 17s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings A Trip To Scarborough

Cast
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Female Duellist

Song: End: As on the pleasant banks of Tweed-Master Welsh

10814
23 May 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mme Mara. Public Advertiser 22 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mme Mara, No. 25, Queen Anne-street, East. Receipts: #216 4s. 6d. (114.17.6; 28.11.0; 2.18.0; tickets: 69.18.0) (charge: #163 17s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

Song: the favourite Harp Song-Mme Mara [Ah che nel petto io sento]; accompanied-Meyer Jun

10815
23 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Harley. Morning Herald, 15 May: Tickets to be had of Harley, No. 1, Castle-street, Bloomsbury. Receipts: #341 5s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Performance Comment: As17920928, but Strickland-Harley (1st appearance in that character); Mrs Strickland (for that night only)-Mrs Mattocks; Jacintha-Miss Chapman; Lucetta-Mrs Harlowe; Clarinda-Mrs Esten (1st appearance in that character).

Afterpiece Title: The Relief of Williamstadt

Cast
Role: Sir Gregory Forester Actor: Quick
Role: Peregrine Forester Actor: Munden
Role: Captain Forester Actor: Macready

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Performance Comment: As17930510, but Petruchio (for that night only)-Harley (1st appearance in that character).

Song: In course: The Mid Watch-Incledon

10816
24 May 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Dignum and Mrs Powell. [Afterpiece in place of The Devil to Pay, advertised on playbill of 23 May.] Morning Herald, 23 May: Tickets to be had of Dignum, No. 25, New North-street; of Mrs Powell, No. 22, Henrietta-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #510 1s. (54.13.6; 26.7.6; 3.17.0; tickets: 425.3.0) (charge: #160 5s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Mariners

Song: End II: The Lucky Escape-Dignum; End IV: Primroses deck the banks (composed by Linley? Sen.)-Master Welsh; End: Fair Rosale-Master Welsh

10817
27 May 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Master Welsh. Morning Herald, 4 May: Tickets to be had of Master Welsh, No. 2, Parliament-street, Palace-yard. Receipts: #263 1s. (106.9.6; 27.0.0; 0.6.0; tickets: 129.5.6) (charge: #167 3s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Pirates

Afterpiece Title: The Mariners

Dance: As17930408

Song: End II: a New Song composed by Percy-Master Welsh

10818
28 May 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for a Fund for the Relief of those whose Infirmities oblige them to retire from the Stage. The Last Time of Mrs Siddons's performing this Season. Receipts: #170 13s. (122.8; 0.0; tickets: 48.5) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Spoild Child

Cast
Role: Miss Pickle Actor: Mrs Hopkins

10819
30 May 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bateman. Morning Herald, 20 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Bateman at her house, the corner of Carlisle-street, Soho-square. Receipts: #397 1s. 6d. (161.18.6; 47.4.0; 1.3.0; tickets: 186.16.0) (charge: #157 8s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings All In The Wrong

Cast
Role: Blandford Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: Beaufort Actor: Bland

Entertainment: In the course of the Evening: [at end of mainpiece (Thespian Magazine, July 1793, p. 50)] Fencing-La Chevaliere D'Eon, Mrs Bateman, an English Officer

10820
03 June 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Brandon, box-book and house-keeper. Tickets delivered for May the 29th will be admitted. Receipts: #456 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comedy Of Errors

Afterpiece Title: The Sailors Festival

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Cast
Role: Sir Gregory Forester Actor: Quick
Role: Peregrine Forester Actor: Munden
Role: Captain Forester Actor: Macready

Dance: In 3rd piece: The Lucky Escape, as17921116

Song: End II: Black Eyed Susan, as17930510; III: a song in character-Miss Barnett

10821
04 June 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Burton, Fawcett [his last appearance on the stage] and Phillimore. Receipts: #231 18s. (28.18; 4.3; tickets: 198.17) (charge: #95 0s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: End: Minuet de la Cour and Gavot-Master and Miss D'Egville

Song: As17921030

10822
06 June 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Powel, Rock, Thompson & Follett. Receipts: #393 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fashionable Levities

Cast
Role: Welford Actor: Lewis

Afterpiece Title: The Relief of Williamstadt

Cast
Role: Sir Gregory Forester Actor: Quick
Role: Peregrine Forester Actor: Munden
Role: Captain Forester Actor: Macready

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Afterpiece Title: Oscar and Malvina

Song: In course: a favorite Sea Song-Incledon

Music: 4th piece: The Harp-Weippert

10823
10 June 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Marshall and Mrs Harlowe. Tickets delivered for the 5th of June will be admitted. Morning Herald, 1 June: Tickets to be had of Marshall [for 5 June], No. 17, Crown-court, Bow-street, Covent-Garden; of Mrs Harlowe, No. 54, Drury-Lane. Receipts: #378 13s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Columbus

Afterpiece Title: The Pad

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Song: End of 1st piece: Dibdin's song; The Lucky Escape; or, The Ploughboy's Return from Sea in character-Mrs Harlowe; End of 2nd piece: Sally in our Alley-Marshall; In 3rd piece: Farewell to old England dear Mary adieu-Incledon; Rule Britannia-Marshall, full Chorus; In the course of the Evening: Black eyed Susan-Incledon

10824
01 August 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Goodall. Morning Herald, 26 July: Tickets to be had of Mrs Goodall, No. 3, Great Russel-street, Covent-garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: Post Boy Actor: Comerford
Role: Beaufort Actor: Evatt

10825
06 August 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kemble. Afterpiece: The [first] and only time of performing it [this season] at this theatre. Morning Herald, 31 July: Tickets to be had of Mrs Kemble, No. 24, corner of Panton-street, Haymarket

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of King Richard The Iii

Performance Comment: Richard (for that night only)-Kemble; King Henry-Bensley; Prince of Wales-Master DeCamp; Duke of York-Miss Menage; Duke of Buckingham-Benson; Earl of Richmond-Barrymore; Duke of Norfolk-Usher; Ratcliffe-Evatt; Tressel-Bland; Sir William Catesby-Davies; Lord Stanley-Aickin; Sir R. Brackenbury-Palmer Jun.; Sir James Blount-Lyons; Sir James Tyrrel-Abbott; Lord Mayor-Burton; Elizabeth-Mrs Whitfield; Lady Anne-Mrs Kemble; Duchess of York-Mrs Powell.

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Performance Comment: Crop (for that night only)-Huttley (from the Theatre Royal, Bath; 1st appearance on this stage); Frederick-Bland; Endless-Suett; Robin-Bannister Jun.; William-Sedgwick (of dl); Dorothy-Miss DeCamp; Louisa-Miss Dall; Nelly-Mrs Hatton; Margaretta-Mrs Kemble (1st appearance in that character).