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7824 results for: Keyword - Mr Vernon</i>-much Applause (<i>Hopkins Diary</i>). <span class=
We found 5377 matches on Event Comments, 2595 matches on Performance Comments, 628 matches on Performance Title, 35 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3776
15 February 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Egmont, Diary, III, 23: In the evening I went to...Mustapha...the language of it is lofty but not bombast, the sentiments fine and justly expressed, the characters kept up to, and the principles of honour and virtue inculcated; in a word, to one of our best modern tragedies

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mustapha

3777
02 March 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Music by Handel; libretto by James Miller. See Earl of Egmont's Diary, III, 290, where he speaks of attending on 1 March, probably a rehearsal

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Joseph And His Brethren

Music: Concerto on the Organ-

3778
03 March 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: With New Additions and Alterations. [On 1 March (Baker, Diary, p. 106) went to Handel's and heard the rehearsal by "Frasi, Miss Young als [alias], Miss Scott, Cassandra Frederick, Beard, Champness, Baildon."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus

3779
10 March 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [John Baker, Diary, p. 106: "Went apres midi con Uxor in chariot to 'Messiah', could not get seat in Upper Gallery, sat in lower."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

3780
10 January 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. I slept [?] at Drury Lane before the play & was at my Office, it was a cold frostly night (Hailey, "Brietzcke Diary," Vol. 197, p. 69). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

3781
12 January 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. I was at Drury Lane Gallery to see Everyman in his Humour and the Pantomime farce of Harlequin's Invasion which was a medley of nonsense. See George (as usual) there and Capt. Stevens (Hailey "Brietzcke Diary," Vol. 197, p. 69). Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

3782
25 February 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author. (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Aquileia

3783
01 March 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #212 7s. Paid Kemp for lamps #6 8s.; Meares, 5s. I slept in at the Play Houses but did not see him [his brother George] there. I met Miss Smith going into the Gallery at Covent Garden. I think it is a fortnight tomorrow that her sister has been buried (Hailey Brietzcke Diary, p. 147)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

3784
10 March 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For the Author. By Command of the Prince of Wales. The Prince of Wales was at Drury Lane to see the new tragedy of Aquileia. I went there at 9, but it was all over and done & met Miss Smith coming from thence with Capt. Johnston. I think it very unnatural for her to be going to plays when her sister is but just laid in the Grave (Hailey, Brietzcke Diary, Vol. 197, p. 142)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Aquileia

3785
12 March 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Set by Stanley. Oratorio published at 1s. for R. Griffith. Charges #35. Slept in at the Upper Gallery tonight, where I see Fuller and Hastings, then went to the Bedford (Hailey, Brietzcke Diary, Vol. 197, p. 142)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zimri

Music: As17600229

3786
28 March 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Being the last time of performing it this season. Charges #35. I slept in at the Oratorio & met Schutz in the Gallery (Hailey, Brietzcke Diary, Vol. 197, p. 210)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: As17600229

3787
29 July 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman who has written for the Stage. Tickets delivered by Sansom, and for The Conscious Lovers will be taken. For ye Bricklayers Benefit. (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The King and The Miller

Dance: DDutch Dance, as17600619

3788
02 October 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: I slept [sic. q: step?] in at Drury Lane before the Play began, which was the first time of being in the Play House this season. Miss Allen was there & Pocock with some girls (Hailey, Brietzcke Diary, N & Q, Vol, 199, p. 260)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

3789
13 October 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Larpent...called upon me at Somerset House & went to Drury Lane & see Richard 3rd & Harlequin's Invasion & sat in the front Boxes. It was the first play I have seen this winter & I think I shan't be in a hurry to go again till there is better Co[mpany]y in the Boxes. It was not over till 11, went to the Turk's Head & home (Hailey, Brietzcke Diary, N & Q, Vol. 199, p. 260)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

3790
06 September 1762 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orators

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb

3791
30 September 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. King and Queen (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

3792
07 October 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Jackson did Oroonoko for the first time (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

3793
14 October 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. King & Queen (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: By CommandSga Fiorentini. [The name of the dance unspecified.

3794
21 October 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Both pieces By Command of their Majesties. King & Queen (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

3795
12 November 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: KKing & Queen (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Dance: II: The Bavarian Shoemakers, as17621009

3796
15 December 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for a Public Charity, The Lock Hospital (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: IV: Comic Dance, as17621210

3797
16 December 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. King & Queen (Cros s Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

3798
18 December 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMr Garrick Richard. The Play dress'd in the habits of the times (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

3799
13 January 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. King & Queen (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Cast
Role: Clarissa Actor: Mrs Hopkins.

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Dance: III: The Irish Lilt, as17621023

3800
21 January 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author. A fire in the Strand hurt the house (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elvira

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid