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16199 results for: Keyword - Mr Vernon</i>-much Applause (<i>Hopkins Diary</i>). Benefit for Vernon. <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.

6551
12 March 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Woffington. Six rows of the pit will be laid into the Boxes, and Boxes will be built on stage. Tickets of Hobson at the stage door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband Or A Journey To London

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

6552
13 March 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Delane. Tickets at his lodgings in Queen's Court, in King St., Covent Garden; and at the Bedford Coffee House in the Great Piazza. Places for the Boxes to be Taken at the stage door of the theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: Muilment, Mrs Auguste

6553
16 March 1744 @ James Street

Event Comment: Benefit Smith and a Tradesman under Misfortunes. 6 p.m. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s. Tickets at Ed. Pinchbeck's in Fleet St.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses Or Custom Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: The Fond Husband or The Intriguing Wife

Song: Blogg, Mrs Freeman

6554
27 March 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Chapman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

6555
28 March 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Cibber Jun. Tickets for Mrs Chetwood will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: Muilment, Mlle Auguste

6556
28 March 1744 @ James Street

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Charke. 4s., 2s., 1s. Tickets at Mrs Charke's@Stake@and@Soup@House in Drury Lane, near Stuart's Rents

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fair Penitent

Song: Between Acts:

Music: Select Pieces-

6557
28 March 1744 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit and Increase of a Fund establish'd for the support of Decay'd Musicians or their Families

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Musical Entertainment

Music: Concerto on German Flute-Weideman; Concerto on Violoncello-Caporale; Concerto on Hautboy-T. Vincent; Concerto on Bassoon-Miller

6558
29 March 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Giffard. Tickets may be had at her lodgings, James Street, Covent Garden; at the Bedford Coffee House, and places for the boxes may be taken at the Stage Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: Muilment, Mrs Auguste

6559
29 March 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Horton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Performance Comment: As17440207, but Fair Penitent-Mrs Horton; Sciolto-Stephens; Lothario-a Gentleman (formerly Patentee of the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane) [Highmore].Highmore].

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: SScotch Dance, as17431124

Song: TTo Arms, Britons Strike Home-Leveridge, Beard, Reinhold

6560
30 March 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Hippisley. Both pieces By Command of his Royal Highness the Duke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: Song-Beard; To Arms, Britons Strike Home-Leveridge, Reinhold, Bencraft

Dance: SScotch Dance, as17431124; Dance-Cooke

6561
02 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Pritchard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: Old Man Taught Wisdom or The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: SScotch Dance, as17431124; Dance-Cooke

Song: (BBy Desire) To Arms, Britons Strike Home-Leveridge, Beard, Reinhold, Bencraft; Favourite Duette My Faith and Truth, from oratorio Sampson,-Mrs Clive, Miss Edwards

6562
04 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Cooke. Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of Several Ladies of Quality. Amphitheatre on Stage. Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock. Tickets and places to be had at Cooke's in Great Ormond St., near Queen's Square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: I: New Dance-Cooke; III: Grand Ballet-Cooke, Mlle Domitilla; IV: New Serious Dance-Cooke, Mlle Bonneval; V: Ball Dance call'd the Louvre, concluding with a Minuet-Cooke, Mrs Domitilla

6563
04 April 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Russell. 6:30 p.m. Pit, Boxes, and Gallery 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Musical Entertainment

Music: Concerto on Violoncello-Caporale; Concerto on Violin-Festing; Concerto on Hautboy-Vincent; Concerto on Bassoon-Miller

6564
06 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Woodward

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Cast
Role: Ford Actor: Ryan
Role: Mrs Ford Actor: Mrs Horton.

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

6565
07 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Picq and Reinhold. Tickets deliver'd out by the Widow Dupre and Mrs Mather will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Song: AA Bacchanalian Two Part Song-Beard, Reinhold

Dance: MMinuet-Picq, a scholar of his

6566
09 April 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. Tickets at Mills's House, Nassau St., Soho. Stage form'd into an amphitheatre and so enclosed as to prevent the Ladies taking cold. Afterpiece not acted for 15 years [but see 17 March 1732]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: The Jovial Crew or The Merry Beggars

Song: BBritons Strike Home-Moreland

Dance: Muilment, Mlle Auguste; A Dance-Desse, Mrs Walter

6567
09 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Short and Sga Domitilla

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: NNew Serious Dance, as17440404 New Dance, as17440404 Grand Ballet, as17440404 Tambourine-Mlle Domitilla

6568
10 April 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Giffard. Mainpiece not acted these 7 years. Amphitheatre on the stage, so enclosed as to Prevent the Ladies from taking cold. Tickets of Hobson at the stage door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage Or The Innocent Adultery

Performance Comment: Biron-Garrick, 1st time; Villeroy-Giffard; Fernando-Yates; Isabella-Mrs Giffard; Victoria-Mrs Woffington; Count Baldwin-Havard; Carlos-W. Giffard; Frederick-Cross; Fabian-Blakes; Belford-Woodburn; Pedro-Ray; Jaqueline-Collins; Sampson-Turbutt; Julia-Mrs Cross; Child-Miss Yates; Nurse-Mrs Egerton.
Cast
Role: Belford Actor: Woodburn

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: Muilment, Mlle Auguste

6569
12 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Roberts and Mrs Stevens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

Song: Cantata-Beard; To Arms, Britons Strike Home-Leveridge, Beard, Reinhold

Dance: NNew Serious Dance, as17440404

6570
13 April 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman in Confinement

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Performance Comment: As17431112, but Lord Foppington-Gentleman who performed it at the Haymarket [Foote]; Lory-Yates; [With an Epilogue [in the character of Lord Foppington-.
Cast
Role: Lord Foppington Actor: Gentleman who performed it at the Haymarket

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Goddess

Cast
Role: Shepherds Actor: Shawford, _Liviez.

Dance: III: Last New Turkish Dance, as17440406

6571
14 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Destrade and Rawlings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

6572
16 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit LaLauze. At the Desire of several persons of Quality. Tickets to be had of LaLauze at the Widow Gwinn's near the Castle Tavern, Drury Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: Several entertainments-LaLauze (being his first attempt of that kind these two years); particularly: II: The Amorous Swain; or The Rival Nimphs-Lalauze, Mlle Bonneval, Mrs Delagarde; III: Serious Dance-Cooke; IV: Les Jardiniers Suedois-Lalauze, Mlle Domitilla, Cooke, Mlle Bonneval; (By Desire) after Farce:, a Ball Dance call'd The Louvre,concluding with a Minuet-Lalauze, Lalauze's a boy scholar, Mlle Bonneval

Song: V: To Arms, Britons Strike Home-Leveridge, Beard, Reinhold, Bencraft

6573
17 April 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Neale and Turbutt. Mainpiece not acted these 7 years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice Or It Cannot Be

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay or The Wives Metamorphosed

Song: II: Morland

Dance: IV: Mlle Auguste

6574
17 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Leveridge. Tickets to be had at his lodgings in Hanover Street, the third door on the right hand from Long Acre, and of Page at the stage door of the theatre. The Man in the Moon, about nine at night Will wait you all home, with his fullness of light

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Song: I: A new song The Cure for all Grief-Leveridge; III: The Favourite song in Il Penseroso, beginning The Trumpet's Loud Clangor excites us to Arms by $Handel-Beard; IV: The Miser's Passport-Leveridge; V:A New song call'd Advice to all Britons-Leveridge; followed with To Arms, Britons Strike Home-Beard, Reinhold

Dance: II: Serious Dance-Cooke, Mlle Bonneval; V: Grand Ballet, as17440404

6575
18 April 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Havard and Mrs Ridout. Tickets deliver'd for The Orphan will be taken....But if you are for a good sober piece, that has a great deal of good sense in it, and but few absurdities, pray read the play of Regulus. The run of the Town is against it, but whether it is the dulness of the poetry, or the nobleness of the sentiments that makes fine folks dislike it, I am unwilling to determine.--Series of Letters between Mrs Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot (London, 1808), I, 35

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Regulus

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet