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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.

7576
16 May 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Dawson, Mrs Jansolien, Miss Dulies

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: II: A Tambourine, as17590427 IV: The Prussian Rope@Makers, as17590427 End: A Minuet-Delaistre, Miss Rousselet; a Hornpipe-Miss Dawson

7577
17 May 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Dickinson (First Gallery Office Keeper). We borrow'd Mrs Baker for Maria (Cross). Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Song: I: Beard

Dance: II: Hornpipe-Walker; IV: A Comic Dance-Giorgi, Sga Lucchi;

7578
17 May 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Wignell, Stoppelaer, Davis

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: TThe Threshers, as17581016; Hornpipe-Master Cartwright, a Child nine years old

7579
18 May 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Holtom, Redman, Buck, Miss Ferguson, Miss Helm. Tickets deliver'd out by Dumai, Rawlins, Martin, Letsam, Miss Cockayne, Mrs Goold, and others will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: TThe Prussian Rope@Makers, as17590427

7580
19 May 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Verney (Housekeeper). Observations on the Importance of Theatres, with computation of the Sum they might raise by Taxation, published at 1s. Receipts: #300 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: HHornpipe-Walker

7581
21 May 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Desse, Lucas, and Cresswick

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: As17581016

7582
23 May 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Simson & Kids (Cross). Epilogue and Afterpiece By Particular Desire. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: II: Louvre, Minuet-Master Simson, Miss Simson

7583
23 May 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Evans and Condell (Boxkeepers). No Building on Stage. Tickets sold at Doors will not be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Foresight Actor: Collins
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Elmy

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler of Preston

Dance: FFingalian Dance, as17581111; The Threshers, as17581016

7584
24 May 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bride, Dunbarr, Smith, Goodwin. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Cast
Role: Lady Wishfort Actor: Mrs Clive

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: III: Miss Young

7585
24 May 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Vaughan, Green, Potter (Boxkeepers). No Building on Stage. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Cast
Role: Foppingoton Actor: Smith, both for 1st time

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: As17581016

7586
25 May 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Wilford, Ross (Pit Doorkeepers); Mislebrook, Dimmock, and Trott (Lobby Doorkeepers). Tickets deliver'd out by Morgan, Elliot, Derby, Toten, J. Smith, Slater, Barnes, will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: As17581111

7587
30 May 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Foley and Veil. We borrow Ridout for Ld Morelove (Cross). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: HHornpipe-Walker

7588
13 June 1759 @ Ranelagh Gardens

Event Comment: Benefit for Beard. Tickets 5s., Tea and Coffee included. [Poems] of Milton, set to Music by Handel. To begin exactly at seven

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lallegro And Il Penseroso

Music: CConcerto on Organ-Stanly

7589
09 August 1759 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: Benefit for Reinhold. 2s. 6d. [Advance notices had promised a new burletta.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Strataggemma

Song: Signora Saratina, Reinhold; will sing several Songs in the Orchestra with a Concerto on the Organ-Reinhold

Dance: I: Comic Dance-Miss Burn, from Opera House; II: Hornpipe-Summers

7590
16 August 1759 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Glanville and Gaudry. Being the last time of performing that burletta this season. Admittance 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

Dance: Comic Dance-Miss Burn, who performed the part of the young Prince in the Opera of Farnace (by particualr desire); a Hornpipe-Miss Burn, in Sailor's Dress

7591
06 September 1759 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Burn. Tickets 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Strataggemma

Dance: Miss Burn, Master Callois [Cawley]

7592
30 November 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Composer. Afterpiece: Written by Congreve and set to Music by Dr Arne. Receipts: #206 19s. [cash], plus #51 18s. from tickets (Boxes 148; Pit 74; Gallery 38). Total income #258 17s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess Or The History Of Dioclesian

Afterpiece Title: To conclude with the Masque ofThe Sultan

Afterpiece Title: The Judgment of Paris

Music: II: A Concerto on the Violin-Hay; End Opera: A Concerto on the Haut@Bois-Simson

7593
05 December 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for ye Marine Society (Cross). Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Receipts: #200 (Cross). [The Prologue is in Larpent MS 163: @"Ye sons of Freedom view this little Band@They owe their safety to your giving hand@Snatch'd from the paths of vice and branded shame@You ope the door to Honesty and Fame..."@ The Prologue is printed in the British Magazine, Jan., 1760.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette

7594
18 December 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Middlesex Hospital. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Receipts: #230 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

7595
18 December 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for a Widow with a large family in distress. Receipts: #55 10s. 6d. in cash, plus #123 from tickets (Boxes 137; Pit 313; Gallery 418). Total #178 10s. 6d. Charges #84. Profit to Widow Sheark, #94 10s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: Valentine-Ross; Sir Sampson-Dunstall; Scandal-Ridout; Foresight-Collins; Tattle-Dyer; Trapland-Bennet; Jeremy-Barrington; Ben-Shuter; Mrs Foresight-Mrs Elmy; Mrs Frail-Mrs Vincent; Prue-Mrs Green; Nurse-Mrs Pitt; Angelica-Mrs Hamilton.
Cast
Role: Foresight Actor: Collins
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Elmy

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: TThe Dutch Skipper, as17591017; Fingalian Dance, as17591212

7596
21 December 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the General Lying-In Hospital, Duke Street. Receipts: #56, plus #142 6s. from tickets. Total #198 6s. Charges #84. Paid J. Rich on acct, #547 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Dance: As17591218

7597
14 February 1760 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Karver. To be conducted in the same manner as in 1754. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. To begin at seven o'clock. Miss Midnight had no concern in the management of a performance lately exhibited at the Haymarket under the above mentioned name, but was only there as a Performer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mrs Midnights Concert And Oratory

Performance Comment: Bombasto, Signora Tambourina, Miss Karver, Miss Gaudry, a young Gentleman (1st appearance on the stage); Orations-Mrs Midnight; Instrumentals-the best performers With a band of originals, viz. Mynheer Broomsticado; Solo-Sg Twangdillo; and a Rhapsody on the Death of a late Noble Commander-Mrs Midnight.
Cast
Role: Instrumentals Actor: the best performers With a band of originals, viz. Mynheer Broomsticado

Afterpiece Title: The Contest of Love and Glory

7598
25 February 1760 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Signora Mattei. The Poetry of the Cantata sets forth the glories of the British nation both in war and peace, shewing that Great Britain, in the present, as well as in former ages, doth vie with ancient Rome in its highest grandeur

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Clemenza Di Tito

Afterpiece Title: La Gran Brettagna Emula Della Antica Roma

7599
01 March 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Aquileia

7600
03 March 1760 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Tenducci

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Farnace

Dance: New Dances

Song: Three new Airs-Tenducci