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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.

9351
14 June 1783 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Singers and Dancers. Opera: A Comic Opera in 2 acts; the Music entirely new by Anfossi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lavaro

Dance: End of Act I La Begueule, as17830531; End of Act II Le Tuteur Trompe, as17830111, but omitted: Slingsby, Mlle Theodore

9352
19 June 1783 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Servants, above Seventy in Number

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medonte

Dance: End of Act I La Begueule, as17830531, but omitted Slingsby, and with a Minuet, as17830313End of Opera Le Tuteur Trompe, as17830614

9353
11 July 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of 1st two pieces]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Son in law

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

9354
29 July 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

9355
30 July 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss George

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: Comus

9356
05 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague

9357
08 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Webb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece, as17830531; End of mainpiece, as17830702

9358
11 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Dance: As17830702

9359
15 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wells

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: The Recruiting Serjeant

Afterpiece Title: The Receipt Tax

Song: End of Act III of mainpiece a favorite song by Miss George. vaudeville. In 2nd piece The Manual Exercise, with the Officer's Salute, &c, by Mrs Wells

9360
19 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bulkley. 2nd piece [1st time; c 2, by James Brown Williamson. MS: Larpent 630; not published. Prologue probably by the author; Epilogue by the author; speakers' names (Public Advertiser, 3 Sept.)]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumph Of Honour

Afterpiece Title: The Lawyer

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

Afterpiece Title: Chrononhotonthologos

9361
20 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bannister. Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years [not acted since 18 July 1777]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sheep Shearing Or Florizel And Perdita

Afterpiece Title: The Receipt Tax

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Monologue: 1783 08 20 As 13 Aug. imitations. After the Monologue a Variety of Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical, by Bannister Jun

9362
22 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Jewell, treasurer. 3rd piece [1st time; F 1, by Richard Paul Jodrell. Text 1st published (with cast for later season) by W. Lowndes and J. Barker, 1786]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Afterpiece Title: Seeing is Believing A Dramatic Proverb

Dance: As17830610

9363
25 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of 1st piece]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Birth Day

Afterpiece Title: Seeing is Believing

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

9364
26 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Edwin. Public Advertiser, 21 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Edwin, No. 2, Piazza, Covent Garden. Mainpiece: Never acted here. Afterpiece: Not acted these 3 years [acted 15 Aug. 1781]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Good natured Man

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Song: End of mainpiece Four-and-Twenty Fidlers all on a Row, by Edwin

Monologue: 1783 08 26 End of Act I of afterpiece A Description of the Tombs in Westminster Abbey, by Edwin

9365
27 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. Public Advertiser, 22 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Charing-cross. 1st piece [1st time; prel i, by William Finney. MS: Larpent 635; not published]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Green Room

Performance Comment: Characters by Wilson, Wewitzer, Egan, Blissett, Stevens, Williamson; Miss Morris. [Larpent MS lists certain performers as appearing in this piece in their own persons, but their names do not correspond with the names printed on the playbill.] hathi.

Afterpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Sheep Shearing

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece a favourite song by Miss George; End of Act IV Admiral Benbow by Bannister

Monologue: 1783 08 27 As 13 Aug. IMITATIONS. As 20 Aug

9366
29 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Public Advertiser, 26 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Palmer, No. 39, Goodge-street, Rathbone-place. Afterpiece: 1st time at that theatre. With a Sea Fight

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: The Critic or A Tragedy Rehearsd

Dance: As17830603

Song: End of afterpiece Stand to your Guns, as17830801

9367
09 September 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Sestini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: Gretna Green

Song: End of Act III of mainpiece Water parted from the Sea by Sga Sestini; End of Act I of afterpiece Edwin's favourite song in The Castle of Andalusia, A Master I have and I am his Man, by Master Sestini

9368
02 December 1783 @ 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 Magic Picture

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Song: As17831121

9369
09 December 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Composer [of mainpiece]. Receipts: #72 9s. (51/7/0; 19/17/6; 0/2/0; tickets not come in: 1/2/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Metamorphosis

Cast
Role: Mrs Neville Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: Beaufort Actor: Phillimore

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece, as17831018; End of mainpiece, as17831204

9370
09 December 1783 @ 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: More Ways Than One

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

9371
13 December 1783 @ 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: More Ways Than One

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

9372
19 December 1783 @ 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: More Ways Than One

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

9373
22 December 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Siddons. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by half past Four o'clock. [Mrs Siddons's 1st appearance as Lady Randolph was at Manchester, 5 Feb. 1777.] "The Siddons, younger and more rich in natural Gifts, certainly offers much to the Mind, and yet much more to the Eye. The Crawford, by some means or other, offers more to the Heart" (Public Advertiser, 24 Dec). Receipts: #303 8s. 6d. (156/2/0; 10/13/0; 0/13/6; tickets: 136/0/0) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: As17831020

9374
17 February 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #112 14s. (85/8/0; 26/17/6; 0/8/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Reparation

Cast
Role: Miss Penelope Zodiac Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

9375
23 February 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #164 13s. 6d. (162/11/0; 2/2/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Reparation

Cast
Role: Miss Penelope Zodiac Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior