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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.

9876
12 June 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Cubitt, Boyce, Cox & Byrne. 1st piece [1st time; P 1, author unknown]: In which a Grand Tournament, or Mock Fightv. The Music composed and compiled by the younger Master Ware. Receipts: #276 5s. (44.4.6; 11.10.6; tickets: 220.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Giant Defeated Or The Reward Of Valour

Afterpiece Title: The Child of Nature

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Song: End 2nd piece: Poor Thomas Day-Edwin, Davies, Bannister

9877
15 June 1789 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Didelot. Tickets to be had of Didelot, No. 37, Silver-street, Golden-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Barbiere Di Siviglia

Dance: End I: New Divertissement, as17890528; End Opera: Le Tuteur Trompe (not acted these 3 years [not acted since 24 Feb, 1785]; composed by Lepicq)-Didelot, Mlle Guimard, Zuchelli (for that night only); in which Minuet de la Cour-Mlle Guimard, Didelot; [and Les Folies d'Espagne [as originally danced by Lepicq, and now performed-Didelot, Mlle Guimard, Duquesney; accompanied on the harp-Meyer Jun

9878
17 June 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Gardner, Thompson, Macready & Miss Tweedale. Receipts: #177 13s. 6d. (32.1.6; 5.8.0; tickets: 140.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Animal Magnetism

Afterpiece Title: Such Things Have Been

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Song: As17890331

9879
02 July 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Coinde, Ballet-Master. Tickets to be had of Coinde, No. 37, Silver-street, Golden-square. [The above is the playbill in World, 1 July. On 2 July no newspaper carries a playbill for this night. The theatre, therefore, was perhaps dark.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Favourite Opera

Dance: End I: La Nymphe et le Chasseur, as17890319at king's; in which Minuet of Iphigenia, as17890428 at king's; Pas de Deux Anacreontique, as17890428 at king's; End Opera: Le Tuteur Trompe-see17890615; in which Minuet de la Cour, as17890615at king's; Les Folies d'Espagne-see17890615; Pas de Six de la Rosieu, as17890521 at king's

9880
29 July 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Performance Comment: Midas (for that night only)-Mrs Webb; Apollo-Davies; Sileno-Chapman; Dametas-Reeve; Jupiter-Mathews; Pan (for that night only)-Bannister; Daphne-Mrs Taylor; Mysis-Mrs Powell; Nysa-Miss George.

Entertainment: Monologue. As17890617

9881
10 August 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. 2nd piece [1st time; C 3, by Thomas Bellamy; on 24 Aug. and thereafter reduced to 2 acts. MS: Larpent MS 841; not published]. Public Advertiser, 4 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 2, Frith-street, Soho

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Catch Club i

Afterpiece Title: The Comet or How to Come at Her

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Cast
Role: Baron de Fortsheim Actor: Kemble
Role: Baroness de Fortsheim Actor: Mrs Webb

Afterpiece Title: The Benevolent Planters

Dance: As17890805

Entertainment: Monologue As17890617

9882
12 August 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss George. Public Advertiser, 8 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Miss George, No. 8, Panton-street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Cast
Role: Baron de Fortsheim Actor: Kemble
Role: Baroness de Fortsheim Actor: Mrs Webb

Song: End I afterpiece: a song (composed by Giordani)-Miss George

Entertainment: End: Imitations-Rees

9883
25 August 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. 2nd piece [1st time; F I, author unknown. In the Thespian Dictionary (under Moses Kean) this is said to be an "imitation" of Kean, who, before becoming a professional imitator, had been a tailor]. Public Advertiser, 21 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Charing-cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Catch Club

Afterpiece Title: Thimbles Flight from the Shopboard

Afterpiece Title: Gretna Green

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Cast
Role: Baron de Fortsheim Actor: Kemble
Role: Baroness de Fortsheim Actor: Mrs Webb

Entertainment: Monologue End 3rd piece: As17890617

9884
27 August 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Edwin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Wife Well Managed

Afterpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: Duke and No Duke or Trappolins Vagaries

Song: End 2nd piece: Four@and@twenty Perriwigs all on a Row-; In 3rd piece: Quoz-Edwin

9885
31 August 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Jewell, treasurer. Public Advertiser, 25 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Jewell, Suffolk-street, Charing-cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Cast
Role: Baron de Fortsheim Actor: Kemble
Role: Baroness de Fortsheim Actor: Mrs Webb

9886
09 November 1789 @ White Horse Inn, Parsons Green, Fulham

Event Comment: Benefit for Jones. Tickets to be had of Jones at the White Horse, Parson's Green; at the King's Arms, Fulham; Ship, Fulham; and the George, Walham Green. Afterpiece: It is hoped that the greatest Attention will be paid, as it is impossible for the Company to cogitate throughtout the Cogibundity of Cogitations, unless the most profound Profundity of Thought is observed. Pit 2s. Gallery 1s. Good Fires in the Pit

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Performance Comment: Inkle-Blandford; Sir Christopher Curry-Tunstall; Medium-Jones; Campley-Frimbley; Mate-Banks; Planters-Randall, Harris; Trudge-Brooke; Wowski-Miss Brooke; Narcissa-Mrs Banks; Patty-Mrs Taylor; Yarico-Mrs Tunstall.
Cast
Role: Inkle Actor: Blandford

Afterpiece Title: Chrononhotonthologos

Performance Comment: Chrononhotonthologos-Tunstall; Bombardinian-Blandford; Aldiborontiphoscophornio-Jones; Rigdumfunnidos-Frimbley; Captain of the Guards-Randall; Cupid-Brooke; Herald-Banks; Cook-Harris; Doctor-Hatton; King of the Antipodes-Wilson; Amoamassedicianstotowramulantic, King of the Fidlers-George; Fadladinida, Queen of Queerumania-Mrs Tunstall; Lady-Mrs Banks; Venus-Mrs Taylor; Tatlanthe-Miss Brooke.
Cast
Role: Bombardinian Actor: Blandford

Entertainment: Monologue. End: the tale of Edwin and Emma-Jones

9887
11 November 1789 @ White Horse Inn, Parsons Green, Fulham

Event Comment: Benefit for Blandford and Randall. 3rd piece: A Pantomimical Interlude, from Don Juan. First Scene opens with a Tempestuous Sea, and Shipwreck of Don Juan and his man Scaramouch, who is cast on shore from off the Back of a Dolphin on the Island of Martinico. Scene from the pantomimes of The Enchanted Island, Wizard of the Silver Rock, The Witches Frolic, &c. The whole to conclude with a View of the Inside of the Bastille, with the different Gratings, Railings, and Instruments of Death and Torture by which the unfortunate Victims suffered, and the Grand Chorus of God save the King. The Curtain will rise precisely at 6:45

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Foundling Or Virtue Rewarded

Performance Comment: Young Belmont-Blandford; Sir Charles Raymond-Banks; Colonel Belmont-Brooke; Sir Roger Belmont-Jones; Villiard-Frimbley; Faddle-Tunstall; Rosette-Miss Brooke; Fidelia (the Foundling)-Mrs Tunstall.
Cast
Role: Young Belmont Actor: Blandford

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Performance Comment: Colonel Tamper-Tunstall; Major Belford-Brooke; Doctor Prattle-Randall; Madam Cordival [recte Florival]-Mrs Taylor; Bell-Miss Brooke.
Cast
Role: Major Belford Actor: Brooke

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck or Walking Statue

Performance Comment: Don Juan-Blandford; Governor-Banks; Don Ferdindo (with a song)-Brooke; Sailor-Frimbley; Taylor-Jones; Scaramouch-Randall; Cleone-Miss Brooke; Attendant-Mrs Banks.
Cast
Role: Don Juan Actor: Blandford

Dance: End: a comic dance, The Affrighted Dwarf; or, Whimsical Transformation into Mad Moll-Blandford

Entertainment: Monologues. End I: Epilogue-Somebody in the Character of Nobody; End II: British Loyalty; or, A Squeeze for St. Paul's, will be introduced the characters of a Fide Lady? a Beau, an Irishman, a Scotchman, a Welshman, a Jew, an Old Man, and a British Sailor-Randall

Performance Comment: End I: Epilogue-Somebody in the Character of Nobody; End II: British Loyalty; or, A Squeeze for St. Paul's, will be introduced the characters of a Fide Lady? a Beau, an Irishman, a Scotchman, a Welshman, a Jew, an Old Man, and a British Sailor-Randall.

9888
21 November 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Opera [who is named in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill]. [Mrs Henry's 1st appearance was at cg, 25 Jan. 1788.] Receipts: #134 4s. 6d. (79.11.0; 52.9.0; 2.4.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beaux Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Island of St

Dance: End IV: The Minuet de la Cour and Gavot-the young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp

9889
26 November 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #207 5s. 6d. (177.10.0; 28.12.6; 1.3.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: Beaufort Actor: Haymes

9890
03 December 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author and Composer [of mainpiece, who are named in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #161 10s. (141.18.0; 16.16.6; 2.15.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Cast
Role: Monford Actor: Whitfield
Role: Mrs Pattypan Actor: Mrs Hopkins.

9891
08 December 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #201 17s. 6d. (175.18.0; 25.3.0; 0.16.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Cast
Role: Sandford Actor: R. Palmer

Dance: As17891204

9892
01 February 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Storace. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Ladies and Gentlemen are desired to send their Servants by Half past Four o'Clock. Public Advertiser, 26 Jan.: Tickets to be had of Sga Storace, No. 23, Howland-street, Rathbone-place. Receipts: #328 5s. 6d. (177.14.0; 18.6.0; 3.0.6; tickets: 129.5.0) (charge: #112 0s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: Beaufort Actor: Haymes

Dance: As17891204

Song: In Opera: a new song-Sga Storace

9893
02 February 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #345 11s. 6d. (320.16.0; 24.15.6; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist

Cast
Role: Lady Waitfor't Actor: Mrs Webb

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Dance: As17891125

9894
11 February 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for King. 1st piece: Altered [by MacNamara Morgan] from The Winter's Tale. 2nd piece [1st time; C 3, by Thomas King. Not in Larpent MS; not published]: An Alteration, never yet performed, of Sir John Vanburgh's [sic] Mistake. Public Advertiser, 10 Feb.: Tickets to be had of King, at his house in Gerrard-street. Receipts: #321 2s. 6d. (249.14.0; 4.8:6; tickets: 67.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sheep Shearing Or Florizel And Perdita

Afterpiece Title: Lovers Quarrels

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: End 1st piece: Tamborine Dance, as17891021

Song: In II 1st piece: Come come my good Shepherds-; and trio, Get you hence!-

Entertainment: Monologue. After dancing: A Paraphrase of Shakespeare's Seven Ages (Written by the late George Alexander Stevens)-King

9895
08 March 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Billington. Tickets delivered for Monday the 8th of February will be received. Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by John O'Keeffe. Text 1st published in his Dramatic Works, Vol. III (T. Woodfall, 1798). Season of 1790-91 acted as The Fugitive]: With new Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations. The Music selected and composed by Shield, and consists of several Russian Melodies, and compositions of Handel, Sacchini, Pleyel, Rauzzini, Guglielmi, Weichsel, Dalayrac, Callcott, Reeve, Prati and Shield. Receipts: #366 9s. 6d. (255.2.6; 3.5.0; tickets: 108.2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Czar

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Bannister, Quick, Edwin, Blanchard, Darley, Rock, C. Powell, Egan, Johnstone, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Billington. Cast from Airs (T. Cadell, 1790): The Czar-Bannister; Justice Applejack-Quick; Philip-Edwin; Count Couvanski-Blanchard; Commodore Swivel-Darley; Ballybough-Rock; Romadanowski-C. Powell; Slip-Egan; Lefort-Johnstone; Nib-Farley; Ellen-Mrs Martyr; Mrs Applejack-Mrs Mountain; Ottokesa-Mrs Billington.
Cast
Role: Lefort Actor: Johnstone

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Song: III: The Prince unable to conceal his Pain, from Alexander's Feast-Mrs Billington. [This was included, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Performance Comment: [This was included, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

9896
13 March 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #185 12s. 6d. (178.13.6; 6.19.0; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Czar

Cast
Role: Lefort Actor: Johnstone

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

9897
22 March 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pope. Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years. [When still Miss Younge Mrs Pope had 1st acted Fatima at the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin, 4 Mar. 1771.] Public Advertiser, 9 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Pope at her house, Half-moon Street. Receipts: #343 10s. 6d. (230.3.6; 8.3.0; tickets: 105.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Afterpiece Title: Cymon

Dance: End: Tamborine Dance- [See17891021]; Afterpiece conclude: Dance-Byrne, Mrs Goodwin

9898
23 March 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wroughton. Public Advertiser, 20 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Wroughton at his house, Sadler's Wells. Receipts: #249 10s. 6d. (133.6.0; 22.7.0; 0.16.6; tickets: 93.1.0) (charge: #115 9s. 7d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Dance: End: The Treble Hornpipe-the young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet

Song: End II: Poor Jack; or, the Sweet Little Cherub-Dignum

9899
25 March 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mlle Hilligsberg. Tickets to be had of Mlle Hilligsberg, No. 7, Great Suffolk-street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The 1st Act Of La Buona Figliuola

Afterpiece Title: The Last Part of La Villanella Rapita

Dance: End I: an entirely new ballet, Les Caprices-Labourie, Mlle Hilligsberg [and see17900406]; End Opera: [an entirely new ballet, La Jalousie sans Raison-Labourie, Mlle Hilligsberg [and see17900415]

9900
27 March 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. 1st piece: In 3 Acts. Not acted these 4 years. 3rd piece: Never acted at this Theatre. Public Advertiser, 22 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Lewis, in Bow-street. Receipts: #346 0s. 6d. (254.19.6; 3.8.0; tickets: 87.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Cast
Role: Lieutenant of the Marines Actor: Ratchford
Role: Emai Actor: Miss Francis. Part I. A Nuptial Procession, with the Performance of the Marriage Ceremony according to the Custom observed at O'Whyee. The Manner of Combat between two Natives. Part II. The Arrival of the Resolution. The Disembarkation of the English, with the Ceremonies observed at entering into a Treaty of Peace with the Natives. A Preparation for a Human Sacrifice. The Assassination of Captain Cook. Part III. A Representation of the Naval and Military Honours observed on erecting a Pile to the Memory of Capt. Cook, by the Officers of the Resolution. The Ceremony performed on the same Occasion, according to the Manner of the Natives of O'Whyee. To conclude with a Representation of a Burning Mountain.

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Performance Comment: Glib (for that night only)-Lewis; Sir Toby Fuz-Powel; Sir Macaroni Virtu-Bernard; Patent-Thompson; Wilson-Macready; Mervin-Evatt; Prompter-Farley; Carpenter-Rock; Miss Fuz-Mrs Lewis; Sweepers-Mrs Powell, Mrs Davenett; Lady Fuz-Mrs Webb; Characters in the Burletta: Orpheus-Davies; Shepherds-Darley, Reeve, Blurton, Lee, Cubitt; Old Shepherd-Blanchard; Rhodope-Mrs Martyr.