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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Vernon much Applause Hopkins Diary Benefit for Vernon "/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Vernon much Applause Hopkins Diary Benefit for Vernon ")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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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.

9151
23 May 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Curteen, Condell & Colborne, box-keepers. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. Receipts: #203 4s. (54.5; tickets: 148.19) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: The Farmers Return from London

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: As17810426

9152
24 May 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Watson, Carleton Jun., Wilson, Hicks & R. Palmer? Sen.. Receipts: #289 16s. 6d. (30.16.0; 7.7.6; 0.11.0; tickets: 251.2.0) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Vernon

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

9153
25 May 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mortimer, Tomlinson, Shade, Bayne & Carleton Sen. Receipts: #269 14s. (30.13; 15.6; 0.16; tickets: 222.19) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Vernon

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

Cast
Role: Byron Actor: Vernon

Dance: End IV: Hornpipe-Miss J. Stageldoir

9154
25 May 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for T. Ansell, Pilfold, Marks & Furkins. Tickets delivered by Clarridge, Doe, Wells, Roberts, Walker, Whittington, Abbott, R. Ledger, Sarjent, Seymour [Account-Book adds Wewitzer] will be taken. Receipts: #271 (22.5.6; 1.7.6; tickets: 247.7)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Dance: As17810426

9155
26 May 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, Percey, Cameron, Enoe & Morris. Receipts: #305 19s. (23.16.6; 3.4.6; 0.2.0; tickets: 278.16.0) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Cast
Role: Lady Sycamore Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Cast
Role: Miss Bridget Actor: Mrs Hopkins.

Dance: End I: Hornpipe, as17810525; End: The Devonshire Minuet, as17810517

9156
26 May 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Brereton, Longley, Colley & Robson, pit door-keeper. Tickets delivered by Stephenson, Robinson, Varley, W. Ansell, Smallwood, Shuter, Pilbrow will be taken. Receipts: #226 17s. 6d. (25.15.6; 3.4.0; tickets: 197.18.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: St

9157
28 May 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for a Fund, for the Relief of those who from their Infirmities shall be obliged to retire from the Stage. Receipts: #138 13s. (95.8; 0.0; tickets: 43.5) (charge: free)

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

9158
21 June 1781 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Rauzzini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Piramo E Tisbe

Dance: As17810329throughout.

Ballet: Medee et Jason. As17810329

9159
27 June 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Farce

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

Cast
Role: Edward Sandford Actor: Wood
Role: Caroline Sandford Actor: Miss Harper

9160
11 July 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. [Certain members of the audience took objection to The Baron. Palmer came forward and said that the author "finding a strenuous opposition" would withdraw it. He then pointed "to several apples which some humane person or other...had thrown at the performers, and which lay on the stage" (London Chronicle, 12 July).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Baron Kinkvervankotsdorsprakengatchdern

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: As17810612

9161
07 August 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Digges. Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School Of Shakespeare Or Humours And Passions

Performance Comment: [Given in a regular Representation of several of his most favourite and capital Scenes. With Dresses and Scenery suited to the Characters and their Situations. The inimitable Scenes of the Poet, selected for the Purpose, and digested into Five Acts, will exemplify, in the strongest Colours of our immortal Bard, Vanity, Parental Tenderness, Cruelty, Filial Piety, and Ambition. ACT I. Vanity, in the First Part of Henry IV parts of II. i and iv]. Sir John Falstaff-Digges; Francis-Edwin; Poins-R. Palmer; Peto-Painter; Bardolph-Massey; Gadshill-Ledger [Public Advertiser: Kenny]; Carriers-Stevens, Barrett; Prince of Wales-Palmer; Hostess-Mrs Love; [ACT II. Parental Tenderness, in the Second Part of Henry IV [parts of IV. iv and v, and parts of v. ii]. King Henry-Bensley; Clarence-Miss Wood; Prince John-Miss Francis; Gloster-Miss Painter; Chief Justice-Gardner; Westmoreland-Davis; Attendant-Painter; Prince of Wales-Palmer; [ACT III. Cruelty, in The Merchant of Venice [IV. i]. Shylock-Digges; Antonio-Gardner; Bassanio-Staunton; Duke-Usher; Gratiano-Lamash; Salanio-Davis; Nerissa-Mrs Wilson; Portia-Mrs Massey; [ACT IV. Filial Piety, in the Closet Scene in Hamlet [III. iii and iv]. Hamlet-Bannister Jun.; King-Gardner; Polonius-Wilson; Ghost-Staunton; Queen-Miss Sherry; [ACT V. Ambition, in Henry VIII [III. ii]. Cardinal Wolsey-Digges; Surry-Aickin; Suffolk-Lamash; Lord Chamberlain-Egan; Norfolk-Davis; Cromwell-R. Palmer; King Henry-Usher.

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman or The First of August

Dance: As17810620

Entertainment: Before the Curtain draws up: the celebrated Cento (written by Richard? Berenger, in honor of Shakespeare)-Bannister Jun

9162
15 August 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Webb. Mainpiece: Never performed Here. [Miss Stuart was from cg.] Tickets to be had of Mrs Webb, No. 15, Bedford-street, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: End: The Italian Peasants-Master Byrn, Miss Byrn

9163
17 August 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School Of Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Young Actor

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Entertainment: Cento, as17810807

Song: End I of 1st piece: Admiral Benbow (in the character of a Sailor)-Bannister; End III: Moderation and Alteration-Edwin

9164
21 August 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Jewell, treasurer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Entertainment: Imitations End II: Vocal Imitations-Bannister Sen.; End: Rhetorical Imitations-Bannister Jun

9165
24 August 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Edwin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: Falstaff-Henderson (1st appearance here these 4 years); Sir Hugh Evans-Edwin; Justice Shallow-Wilson; Doctor Caius-Baddeley; Host-Bannister; Page-Staunton; Slender-R. Palmer; Fenton-Wood; Bardolph-Massey; Pistol-Egan; Simple-Blissett; Robin-Master Edwin; Ford-Palmer; Mrs Quickly-Mrs Edwin; Mrs Page-Mrs Hitchcock; Ann Page-Miss Wewitzer; Mrs Ford-Miss Farren (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Ford Actor: Palmer
Role: Mrs Ford Actor: Miss Farren

Afterpiece Title: Kensington Gardens

Afterpiece Title: Ripe Fruit

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Song: In 2nd piece: As17810822; End of 3rd piece: Moderation and Alteration, as17810817

9166
29 August 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. 3rd piece [1st time; INT I, by Charles Stuart. Larpent MS 570; not published. Prologue by the author (London Chronicle, 1 Sept.)]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Preludio

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Damnation or The Play House Hissing Hot

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Entertainment: In 3rd piece: Singing, Howling, Crying, Bellowing, Hissing, Groaning, Braying, Grinding, Barking-

9167
31 August 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Kensington Gardens

Cast
Role: Ford Actor: Palmer
Role: Mrs Ford Actor: Miss Farren

Afterpiece Title: The Chapter of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: The Hodge Podge

Song: In 1st piece: As17810822; End III 2nd piece: Admiral Benbow, as17810817; In 3rd piece: an Italian Laughing Song-Delpini; Moderation and Alteration, as17810817

9168
19 October 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts: none listed (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duplicity

Afterpiece Title: Midas

9169
03 November 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Tickell and Linley [who are named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #198 12s. 6d. (154/1/0; 44/0/0; 0/11/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Cast
Role: Mrs Heidelberg Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

9170
19 November 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of afterpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #193 19s. 6d. (127/13/0; 42/12/6; 1/4/0; tickets: 22/10/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Cast
Role: Mrs Annaseed Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Dance: As17811117

9171
20 November 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts: none listed (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

9172
23 November 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: none listed (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Afterpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

Dance: After the Epilogue, as17811101

9173
27 November 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: none listed (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

9174
29 November 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author. Mainpiece: The scenery designed by De Loutherbourg, and executed under his direction. Receipts: #151 4s. 6d. (123/7/0; 27/12/6; 0/5/0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Circassian

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Music: In Act III of mainpiece an Epithalamium [performers not listed; music by ThomasLinley Sen. (see text). This was included in all subsequent performances]

Performance Comment: (see text). This was included in all subsequent performances] .

9175
03 December 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: #207 (164/6/0; 42/11/6; 0/2/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Circassian

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd