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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.

9101
02 April 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Receipts: #253 17s. (157.18; 0.15; tickets: 95.4) (charge: #74 14s()

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Collett. For complete list of parts see dl, 26 Dec. 1796. Text of synopsis

Entertainment: Monologue.End: The Picture of a Playhouse; or, Bucks have at ye All-Palmer

9102
02 April 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. 1st piece: With a Representation of the Trial at Westminster Hall. Public Advertiser, 22 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Lewis, Broad-court, Bow-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #205 19s. (183.13; tickets: 22.6) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Charles The First

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Cast
Role: Sir Richard Vernon Actor: Whitfield
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Ratchford.

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: 2nd piece: a Dance of Sailors Sailor's Dance-Aldridge

9103
03 April 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Dodd. Receipts: #195 5s. 6d. (64.2.0; 29.8.6; 0.11.0; tickets: 101.4.0) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Cast
Role: Mrs Malaprop Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: End: The Minuet de la Cour and Allemande-the Miss Stageldoirs

9104
03 April 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Wroughton. 2nd piece: With Alterations. Books of the Fete to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 23 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Wroughton, No. 18, Broad-court, Bow-street. Receipts: #227 1s. 6d. (213.19.6; tickets: 63.2.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Performance Comment: SCENE I. A Forest. The Death of the Stag-; Overture by Dr Arne-; Hunting song, Give round the word-Doyle; Foresters' Dance-; SCENE II. The Cave of Echo; The Vauxhall Echo Catch, They say there is an echo here-Davies, Robson, J. Wilson, Doyle; SCENE III. Mount Ida; Venus and the Graces, to whom she complains of the loss of her son She that will but now discover-; Venus-Mrs Morton; The music by Dr Fisher-; SCENE IV. A Camp Scene, and Dance of Warriors-; SCENE V. A Cottage. Auld Robin Grey-Mrs Kennedy; SCENE VI. The Cavern of Despair. Mad Tom-Reinhold; The music by Purcell-; SCENE VII. A Palace and Banquet. Come honest Friends and jovial Souls-; To conclude Chorus-; Dance-; Attendant Genius-Miss Langrish.
Cast
Role: Foresters' Dance Actor:

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

9105
07 April 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Younger [who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #231 19s. (186.2; 0.3; tickets: 45.14) (charge: #115 10s., i.e. as 13 Mar.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Collett. For complete list of parts see dl, 26 Dec. 1796. Text of synopsis

Song: III: song [see17801014]-Gaudry

9106
07 April 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. Receipts: #278 18s. (232.13; tickets: 46.5) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Cast
Role: Foresters' Dance Actor:

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Cast
Role: Foresters' Dance Actor:

9107
16 April 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pope. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Receipts: #254 18s. (67.5.0; 21.14.6; 1.3.6; tickets: 164.15.0) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Cast
Role: Mrs Heidelberg Actor: Mrs Hopkins.

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Dance: End: The Irish Fair, as17800930

9108
17 April 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. Mainpiece: With the Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Babylon. Receipts: #122 6s. 6d. (64.0.0; 18.15.0; 0.19.6; tickets: 38.12.0) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Cast
Role: Mrs Dangle Actor: Mrs Hopkins

9109
17 April 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kennedy. [For Mrs Kennedy as Carlos in 1st piece, see 20 Sept. 1780] Receipts: #267 2s. 6d. (141.4.6; tickets: 125.18.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Cast
Role: Foresters' Dance Actor:

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Cast
Role: Foresters' Dance Actor:

9110
18 April 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cargill. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years [not acted since 24 Apr. 1776]. Receipts: #195 13s. 6d. (71.11.0; 29.17.0; 1.1.6; tickets: 93.4.0) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: Captain Plume-Crawford (1st appearance in that character); Serjeant Kite-Palmer; Justice Balance-Packer; Worthy-Farren; Bullock-Moody; Recruits-Parsons, Burton; Captain Brazen-King; Melinda (1st time)-Mrs Farren; Rose-Mrs Cargill; Lucy-Miss Hale; Sylvia-Mrs Crawford.
Cast
Role: Captain Plume Actor: Crawford
Role: Sylvia Actor: Mrs Crawford.

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: End II: Hornpipe-Blurton

9111
18 April 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick. 1st piece: Never acted here; with Alterations. 3rd piece [1st time; F 2, author unknown, based on George Dandin, by Moliere, and on The Amorous Widow, by Thomas Betterton, and on the anonymous No Wit Like a Woman's. Text 1st published by S. Bladon, 1788.]. Receipts: #283 8s. 6d. (186.11.6; tickets: 96.17.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Cast
Role: Foresters' Dance Actor:

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle or A Wife at her Wits End

9112
20 April 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Lee Lewes. 2nd piece [1st time; INT I, by B. Walwyn]. Books of the Interlude to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #223 13s, 6d, (98.6.6; tickets: 125.7.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Chit Chat or The Penance of Polygamy

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Dance: End III 1st piece: The Shepherd's Wedding, as17801003; End IV: The Humours of Leixlip-Aldridge, Miss Besford

9113
21 April 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mahon. Receipts: #245 10s. (126.1; tickets: 119.9) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Cast
Role: Foresters' Dance Actor:

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Cast
Role: Foresters' Dance Actor:

9114
23 April 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Farren. 2nd piece: Altered [by Henry Bate] from Prior's Nut Brown Maid, with new Airs and Chorusses composed by Shield. Receipts: #226 5s. (105.1.0; 29.3.6; 1.2.6; tickets: 90.18.0) (charge: #108.14)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lord Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: Henry and Emma

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Cast
Role: Miss Bridget Actor: Mrs Hopkins.

Dance: As17810312

9115
23 April 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke. Public Advertiser, 4 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Clarke, Great Russel Street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #212 9s. (110.17; tickets: 101.12) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Cast
Role: Foresters' Dance Actor:

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Cast
Role: Sir Richard Vernon Actor: Whitfield
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Ratchford.

9116
24 April 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wrighten. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #291 10s. 6d. (84.10.0; 7.2.0; 0.14.6; tickets: 199.4.0) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Dance: End: The Butterfly, as17800921

Song: Between the Acts: Tally Ho!-Mrs Wrighten

9117
24 April 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mattocks. Public Advertiser, 20 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mattocks, Great Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #156 17s. 6d. (127.4.6; tickets 29.13.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Cast
Role: Foresters' Dance Actor:

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Cast
Role: Foresters' Dance Actor:

9118
25 April 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Brereton. Receipts: #241 7s. 6d. (94.1.0; 28.19.0; 0.9.6; tickets: 117.18.0) (charge: #109 9s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Performance Comment: SCENE I. A Church Yard by Moon Light. Poor Thomas Day-Bannister, Gaudry, Suett; [SCENE II. A Forest. Tally ho!-Mrs Wrighten; [SCENE III. A View of the Grand Fleet at Spithead. Blow high-Bannister; [with a Dance of Sailors-Blurton; [SCENE IV. A Venetian Carnival. Beviamo tuttre [recte Beviamo tutti tre] -Delpini, Gaudry, Du-Bellamy; Italian Laughing song-Delpini; [A Dance of Anticks-; [SCDNE THE LAST. A Rural Prospect. A Dance of Shepherds and Shepherdesses-Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Henry, Miss Armstrong; [To conclude with How merrily we live-Bannister, Gaudry, Mrs Cargill; Hecate-Holcroft.

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

9119
25 April 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Reinhold. Receipts: #194 2s. 6d. (107.17.6; tickets: 86.5.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Cast
Role: Mr Ford Actor: Wroughton
Role: Mrs Ford Actor: Miss Younge.

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Performance Comment: As17810403, but SCENE III. A View of the Sea. The Storm-Reinhold; We be three poor Mariners-Davies, Doyle, Simpkinson; To conclude with a Dance-Aldridge, others; SCENE IV as SCENE V on 3 Apr. SCENE V. A Church-Yard. Poor Thomas Day-Edwin, J.? Wilson, Davies; SCENE VI. A Banquet Scene. A Burlesque Italian Medley-Reinhold; To conclude with several Catches and Glees-the most eminent performers; Come honest Friends and jovial Souls-_SCENE VII omitted; Chorus-_; Dance-_; Attendant Genius-_; Venus-_; Dance of Warriors-_; Mad Tom-_; The music-_; She that will but now discover-_.
Cast
Role: To conclude with several Catches and Gle Actor: the most eminent performers
Role: Foresters' Dance Actor:

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Song: End III 1st piece: When Phoebus the tops of the hills did adorn-Leoni, Mrs Kennedy

9120
26 April 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. Public Advertiser, 19 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 8, Air-street, Piccadilly. Receipts: #239 4s. 6d. (82.0.0; 38.16.0; 0.19.6; tickets: 117.9.0) (charge: #69 7s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Macheath Actor: Vernon
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: In III of 1st piece: a Hornpipe, as17800921; Scene the Last: The Butterfly, as17800921

9121
26 April 1781 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mme Simonet. Public Advertiser, 21 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mme Simonet, No. 5, Dover-street, Piccadilly. "[Vestris's] forcible manner of characterising the passions in the part of Jason distinguished him as an actor superior to all his contemporaries. Mme Simonet in Medea, it is said by the judges, is equal to him as an actress" (London Magazine, Apr. 1781, p. 156)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Piramo E Tisbe

Dance: End I: Les Caprices de Galatee, as17810329in which a Minuet, Gavotte-Simonet, ballet-Master, Simonet's Daughter, only 6 years old; and also The Devonshire Minuetas17810327Mme Simonet, Vestris Sen

Ballet: End Opera: Medee et Jason. As17810329

9122
27 April 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #118 12s. 6d. (99.6.0; 18.12.6; 0.14.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dissipation

Cast
Role: Alderman Uniform Actor: Parsons
Role: Miss Uniform Actor: Mrs Cargill

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Cast
Role: Sandford Actor: Aickin

Dance: End: The Irish Fair, as17800930; End I afterpiece: The Minuet de la Cour, as17800919

9123
27 April 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Aickin. Receipts: #159 2s. 6d. (110.13.6; tickets: 48.9.0) (charge: #67 9s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Cast
Role: To conclude with several Catches and Gle Actor: the most eminent performers
Role: Foresters' Dance Actor:

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Song: As17810425

9124
28 April 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Baddeley. Public Advertiser, 21 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Baddeley, No. 2, Little Russell-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #165 14s. 6d. (85.14.0; 25.10.0; 0.3.6; tickets: 54.7.0) (charge: #108 14s. 11d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

9125
28 April 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Wilson. 1st piece [1st time; PREL I, probably by Richard Wilson. Larpent MS 557; not published]. 3rd piece [1st time; F 2, by James Cobb. Larpent MS 556; not published. Author of Prologue unknown]. Receipts: #222 6s. 6d. (122.18.6; tickets: 99.8.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seventeen Hundred And Eighty One Or The Cartel At Philadelphia

Afterpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice or It Cannot Be

Afterpiece Title: Whod have Thought It