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17569 results for: Keyword - Mr Vernon</i>-much Applause (<i>Hopkins Diary</i>). Benefit for Vernon. Paid $Mr Barthelemon
We found 15926 matches on Event Comments, 2665 matches on Performance Comments, 704 matches on Performance Title, 131 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

12501
05 October 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #41 13s. 6d. Paid J. Powell 6 nights Renters to instant: #72 6s.; Guards 6 nights #4 4s.; Mrs Rich 6 nights to instant #31 10s.; C. Rich ditto #6; J. Rich #20; Mr Gum for Scenemen #6 9s. 3d.; Performers 5 nights #185 11s. 6d.; Servants 6 nights #23 13s. [The expenditures for renters (100) at 2s. 4d. each per acting night, is a weekly constant. The amount for Mrs Rich of #5 5s. each acting night as well as that of #1 for C. Rich each acting night, is a constant. These will not be further recorded, nor will the nightly constant of 13s. for the guards, and 5s. 4d. nigthly for the barber.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: Comic Dance,The Threshers-Leppie, Granier, Mlle Capdeville

12502
13 October 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #109 15s. 6d. Bill setter's bill paid, #3 15s. 6d. [Miss Brent enter'd the 8th ins. at 13s. 4d. per night. Mr and Mrs Tariot enter'd ditto at 5s. each per night. Mrs Stephens advanc'd to 5s. per night.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: As17591012; The Threshers, as17591005

12503
15 October 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #196 13s. 6d. Paid Mr Hildersley a bill for wig #4 19s. 6d. Rec'd from Barrington #3 5s. 11d. being so much stopp'd from his for 6 nights performance lost on the Princess of Orange's death

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Dance: As17591012; with a New Comic Dance call'd The Irish Turf@Cutters-Poitier Jr, 1st time here in 3 years, Miss Capdeville

12504
09 November 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #111 5s. 6d. Paid Mr Patterson [Tallow chandler] four bills from 24 Sept. 1759: #56 13s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: As17591102

12505
08 January 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #184 18s. Paid Mr Kemp for lamps 13 nights from 1-13 Dec. 1759 at #1 12s. per night, #20 16s.; Ditto from 15 Dec.-5 Jan.: #25 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: HHornpipe-Miss Dawson; Country Dance-Characters in the Play; End II: A Comic Dance-Granier, Miss Hilliard

12506
08 March 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #184 7s. Paid Kemp #6 8s.; Meares 15s.; Richards (painter) a bill #5s; Mr Bedcot (wax chandler) #5; Hewetson (laceman) #65 7s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Spirit of Contradiction

12507
11 April 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #118 14s. Mr Poitier Sr had tickets. Received #50 9s. (Boxes 133; Pit 78; Gallery 55). Owed to the House 1!2 value of these, or #15 4s. 6d. Paid Pattinson (tallow chandler) 5 bills amounting to #60

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Daemons Actor: Poitier Jr, Granier, Leppie, Rochford, Desse, Dumay, Terrier

Dance: I: A Shepherdess-Miss Wilford , Scholar to Poitier Sr; II: The Pygmalion Dance-Poitier Jr, Miss Wilford; End: A Minuet-Poitier Jr, Miss Wilford

12508
15 April 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts; #62 12s. Paid Mr Dallon on acct of his salary #1 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

12509
25 November 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Boxes #18 10s. Bought of Mr Ledley 10 doz. candles at 31s. per-#15 10s. Paid 12 months subscription to St George's Hospital #5 5s. (Account Book). Receipts: #123 14s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: As17601014

12510
27 December 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Boxes #17 2s. 6d. Paid Mr Younger a Bill for writing Parts #3 1s. 7d. (Account Book). Receipts: #153 1s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Followers of Ceres Actor: Mlle Capdeville, Mrs Viviez, Mrs Jansolin, Mrs White, Mrs Granier, Mrs Leppie, Mrs Belfort
Role: Daemons Actor: Poitier Jr, Granier, Leppie, Rochford, Desse, Dumay, Gosley
Role: Country Lads and Lasses Actor: Dumay, Gosley, Rochford, Miss Helm, Miss Mullart, Mrs White

12511
07 January 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Box #43 17s. 6d. Paid Mr Blackmore a Bill for sundries and expenses in taking the inventory of the Men's Wardrobe #26 2s. 6d. Bought three men's outfits #68. Gave the King's footmen and Chairmen #4 4s., and Prince of Wales' Footmen and Chairmen #2 2s. Gave the Porters of the several Inns #3 14s. (Account Book). [The Gentlewoman who played Bertha was Miss Fielding. See notation of payment to her for acting this part, 10 Jan.] Receipts: #176 16s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant Or The Beggars Bush

Performance Comment: Florez-Ross; Clause-Ridout; Woolfort-Sparks; Hubert-Clarke; Orator Higgen-Dunstall; Vandunck-Marten; Prince Prigg-Shuter; Boor-Collins; Sailor-Bennet; Jaqueline-Mrs Dyer; Bertha-A Gentlewoman who never appeared on any stage before.
Cast
Role: Woolfort Actor: Sparks
Role: Bertha Actor: A Gentlewoman who never appeared on any stage before.

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Followers of Ceres Actor: Mlle Capdeville, Mrs Viviez, Mrs Jansolin, Mrs White, Mrs Granier, Mrs Leppie, Mrs Belfort
Role: Daemons Actor: Poitier Jr, Granier, Leppie, Rochford, Desse, Dumay, Gosley
Role: Country Lads and Lasses Actor: Dumay, Gosley, Rochford, Miss Helm, Miss Mullart, Mrs White

12512
23 February 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Boxes #78 7s. 6d. Paid Mr Leverton, bricklayer, in full of a bill #30 15s. (Account Book). Receipts: #216 16s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Followers of Ceres Actor: Miss Daw, Mrs _Belfort.
Role: Country Lads and Lasses Actor: Dumay, Gosley, Rochford, Miss Helm, Miss Mullart, Mrs White

12513
04 March 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Music composed by Mr Smith.@112 Tickets at 10s. 6d. #58 16s.@126 Tickets at 5s. #31 10s.@140 Tickets at 3s. 6d. #24 10s.@378 present.@Receipts: #114 16s.@ Paid renters #10 (Account Book). Charges: #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rebecca

Music: As17610206

12514
29 September 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Income from Boxes #44 15s. Advanced to Mr Blackmore #50; Paid for a crimson velvet coat #12 12s.; a side drum #1 1s. Receipts: #117 9s. (Winston Theatrical Record)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: lasses Actor: Dumay, Gosley, Rochford, Miss Helm, Miss Mullart, Mrs White

12515
04 November 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these two years. [George II's death had closed the theatres on 4 Nov. the previous year.] Income from Boxes #14 15s. Paid Mr Powell for two years att[endin]g Office & pass [?] Ac[count]. #100. Advanced to Hull #20. Receipts: #64 16s. (Winston Theatrical Record)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

12516
13 November 1762 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera, music by several celebrated Composers. With new Cloaths, new Decorations, and new Dances. Pit and Boxes put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered that Day, at half a Guinea each. Gallery 5s. By Their Majesties Command no Persons whatsoever to be admitted behind the Scenes, nor into the Orchestra. Gallery, Pit and Boxes will be opened at Five; To begin at 6:30. [Prices, terms of admission, and time repeated in subsequent bills.] Subscription Money to be paid to Andrew Drummond and Co. Bankers, or to Mr Crawford, Treasurer, for Silver t ickets. Signor Giardini the principal serious singer has arrived, and serious opera will begin as soon as possible (Public Advertiser). [Signora Mattei was again the promoter of Operas this season; Crawford the Treasurer.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Tutore E La Pupilla

12517
05 November 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [From The London Evening Post: Married: Michael Arne, music composer and son of Dr Arne, to Miss Wright, a celebrated singer of Drury Lane Theatre."] Paid Mr Evans on Wardrobe acct #10 10s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #133 17s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Miss Ford

Dance: II: The Vintage, as17661011

12518
09 December 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: N.B.: The Cunning Man is oblig'd to be deferr'd. Rec'd Condell's first [fruit concession] payment #20; Paid French on account #20; Mr John Palmer on his note #10. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #127 15s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Miss Ford

12519
16 January 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For the author. No Prologue or Epilogue. Paid Reynolds (oyl) bill #48 11s.; Powney (stationers) #8 17s. 5d.; Inns of Court their Christmas box #3 1s. 6d.; Mr Bibb (sword cutler) 3 bills #13 1s.; Vaughan (Haberdasher) #21 7s.; Mrs Amy Vaughan #1 11s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). [This day at Noon will be publish'd. Price 2s. The Kellyad, or a critical examen into the merits of Thespis. By Louis Stamma. Who steals my purse..." Also publish'd this day The Anti-Thespis; or, a vindication of the principal performers belonging to Drury Lane Theater, from the false criticisms, illiberal abuse, and gross misrepresentations of the Author of Thespis. Players are the abstracts and brief chronicles of the times..."] Receipts: #73 10s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Cast
Role: Lady Clifford Actor: Miss Plym

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

12520
11 February 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Earl of Warwick deferred. Mrs Yates Ill. Paid Mr Wynn for leases #3 13s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). [The lawyer who drew them.] This Day Publish'd The Rational Rosciad, on a more extensive plan than anything of the kind hitherto publish'd Price 1s. 6d. Receipts: #144 3s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Macheath Actor: Vernon

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Miss Ford

12521
24 February 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Third Day. For the Author. [Designated in the Account Book at Mr Bickerstaff's Night.] Charges #67 3s., Balance to Bickerstaff #68 18s. An extra charge this night was paid for the use of the Organ, 2s. 6d. (Account Book). Receipts: #136 1s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In The City

Cast
Role: adapted to the opera Actor: Fishar, LaRiviere, Arnauld, Sga Manesiere, Miss Wilford, Miss Valois.

12522
02 April 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rec'd of Mr Banks 1 year's rent to Lady Day last #3; Paid Gastrill (mercer) 2 Bills #83 3s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #153 5s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dido

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Sir John Loverule Actor: Vernon

Dance: End: The Lilliputian Camp, as17670227

12523
02 April 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Maid of the Mill oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of indisposition of a principal performer. Rec'd of Mr Leverton (bricklayer), for overdrafts on the theatre #67 18s. 6d. and of Sarjant for Timber used at the houses in Bow St. and Hart St., charged to the Theatre account #16 14s. Paid Sarjant for part of a #5 2s. 6d. bill for Ironmonger's work done for the house in Bow Passage #1 12s. (Account Book). Receipts: #148 1s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Performance Comment: As17670101, but short bill for The Dances-Arnauld, Miss Valois, Fishar.
Cast
Role: short bill for The Dances Actor: Arnauld, Miss Valois, Fishar.

12524
27 May 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Mr Martin for copying Music for 2 Dances in Love in the City #1 6s. (Account Book). Receipts: #127 14s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Prince Edward Actor: Mas. Besford
Role: Duke of York Actor: Miss Besford.

Afterpiece Title: Coronation

Dance: II: A New Tambourine-Mas. Blurton, as17670427 III: by Desire, A Serious Dance-Miss Capon, as17670427

12525
23 November 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never acted there. Mr Colman's Night. Paid for Licensing the True Born Irishman #2 2s. (Account Book). [See The Irish Fine Lady 28 Nov.]. Receipts: #230 6s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Philaster

Afterpiece Title: The Oxonian in Town

Dance: II: A Serious Dance, as17670916; III: The Sicilian Peasants-Sga Manesiere, Mrs Bulkley. [See17641001.