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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.

10101
10 September 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Jewell, treasurer. Public Advertiser, 3 Sept.: Tickets to be had of Jewell, No. 26, Suffolk-street, Charing Cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surrender Of Calais

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

10102
25 October 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of afterpiece, who is named in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #200 7s. 6d. (140.6.6; 55.11.0; 4.10.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #153 1s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Fugitive

Cast
Role: Lord Dartford Actor: Dodd
Role: Mr Welford Actor: Barrymore

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

10103
23 November 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #183 6s. 6d. (153.18.0; 29.6.0; 0.2.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #166 12s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Pirates

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: Beaufort Actor: Bland

10104
27 November 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #225 0s. 6d. (193.10.6; 30.12.0; 0.18.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #166 12s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Pirates

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

10105
30 November 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #212 14s. 6d. (181.17.6; 28.9.0; 2.8.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #166 12s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Pirates

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

10106
01 February 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in MS annotation on BM playbill (see 6 Feb.), but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #292 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every One Has His Fault

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Cast
Role: Sir Gregory Forester Actor: Quick
Role: Peregrine Forester Actor: Munden
Role: Captain Forester Actor: Macready

Dance: As17921116

10107
06 February 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in MS annotation on BM playbill (cg, Vol. VIII): "Authors second night" (see 1 Feb.), but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #303 14s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every One Has His Fault

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Museum

10108
09 February 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in MS annotation on BM playbill (cg, Vol. VIII)]. Receipts: #322 18s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every One Has His Fault

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Museum

10109
11 March 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Storace. Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2, by Prince Hoare]: The Musick by Storace. Morning Herald, 27 Feb.: Tickets to be had of Sga Storace, No. 36, Howland-street, Rathbone-place. Account-Book, 4 July: Paid Hoare for Prize #210. ["Sga Storace's person (is) clumsy; her face coarse and ordinary; and yet there is so much enchanting vivacity...that she always delights whenever she appears" (Candid Strictures, 41).] Receipts: #388 12s. 6d. (196.11.6; 38.5.0; 3.10.0; tickets: 150.6.0) (charge: #157 1s. 3d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Pirates

Afterpiece Title: The Prize or 2

10110
18 March 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Siddons. Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by Arthur Murphy. Prologue by John Philip Kemble (see text). Author of Epilogue unknown; European Magazine, Apr. 1793, p. 306, prints two Epilogues: the one spoken by Mrs Siddons, and the one "as originally written by Thomas? Vaughan"]. Morning Herald, 20 Mar. 1793: This day is published The Rival Sisters (1s. 6d.). Morning Herald, 25 Feb.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Siddons, No. 49, Great Marlborough-street. Receipts: #451 6s. 6d. (243.1.0; 21.18.0; 1.18.0; tickets: 184.9.6) (charge: #154 9s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Rival Sisters

Performance Comment: [Principal Characters by Wroughton, Palmer, Kemble, Packer, Caulfield, Phillimore, Mrs Siddons, Mrs Powell. Cast from text John Bell, 1793): Periander-Wroughton; Theseus-Palmer; Perithous-Kemble; Archon-Packer; Aletes-Caulfield; Officer-Phillimore; Ariadne-Mrs Siddons; Phaedra-Mrs Powell; Prologue-Wroughton; Epilogue-Mrs Siddons. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances, except on 13 Apr.]These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances, except on 13 Apr.]

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

10111
23 March 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT 1, arranged by Thomas Goodwin. Monologue by Miles Peter Andrews (Yale, Folio Pamphlets No. 10, p. 157)]. Morning Herald, 19 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Lewis, Bow-street. Receipts: #466 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: The Relief of Williamstadt or The Return from Victory

Performance Comment: Vocal Parts-Incledon, Darley, Gray, Linton, Mrs Clendining; SCENE I. A Camp. How stands the glass around-Incledon; Good subjects with jolly full bottle-Incledon, Darley, Gray; Scene II. A View of the Scheldt. Gentle Soldier oft you've told me (composed by Dr Arne)-Incledon, Mrs Clendining; Scene III. The French Troops preparing for the Siege. With a View of the Fort. Scene IV. The Storming of the Fort by Figures in Perspective; and the Repulse of the Enemy. Oh what a charming thing's battle-Incledon (1st time); Scene V. The Temple of Mars, with the Return from Victory. Great Britain still her charter boasts-(composed by Shield).

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Cast
Role: Sir Gregory Forester Actor: Quick
Role: Peregrine Forester Actor: Munden
Role: Captain Forester Actor: Macready

Dance: In 2nd piece: Byrn, Holland, Mrs Watts, Mme Rossi

Entertainment: Monologue. A new Occasional Address in the character of Goldfinch ,-Lewis

10112
01 April 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. [Afterpiece in place of The Devil to Pay, advertised on playbill of 23 Mar.] Receipts: #401 17s. (206.14.6; 36.0.0; 2.3.0; tickets: 156.19.6) (charge: #180 10s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

10113
08 April 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. Afterpiece: By permission of G. Colman@Jun. Esq. [i.e. the holder of the copyright]. Morning Herald, 3 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 2, Frith-street, Soho. Receipts: #486 17s. (227.2.6; 43.2.0; 2.2.0; tickets: 214.10.6) (charge: #126 0s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Pirates

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Dance: As17921121, but The Dances-Miss _Prevot

Song: In the course of the Evening The Little Farthing Rushlight-Bannister Jun

10114
09 April 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. [In afterpiece the playbill assings Lazarillo to R. Palmer, but "Bland appeared in Lazarillo instead of R. Palmer" (Thespian Magazine, May 1793, p. 266).] Morning Herald, 2 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bensley, No. 21, Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury. Receipts: #201 10s. (93.4; 16.1; tickets: 92.5) (charge: #94 19s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

10115
11 April 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Holman. 2nd piece: Not acted these 6 years [not acted since 10 May 1786]. Morning Herald, 27 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Holman, No. 14, John-street, Adelphi. Receipts: #273 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus (for that night only)-Holman; Principal Bacchanal (with the celebrated Laughing Song, Haste thee, Nymph)-Incledon; Bacchanal-Darley; Spirit-Thompson; Brothers-Macready, Evatt; The Lady (1st time)-Miss Chapman; Principal Bacchant (1st time)-Mrs Clendining; Bacchants-Mrs Blanchard, Miss Stuart; Sabrina-Miss Barnett; Pastoral Nymph-Miss Broadhurst; Euphrosyne-Mrs Martyr.

Dance: In 2nd piece: a Hornpipe-Blurton

Song: In 3rd piece: Sweet Echo-Miss Broadhurst; accompanied on the hautboy-W. Parke; Nor on beds of fading flowers-Incledon

10116
15 April 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, whose name is listed in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill]. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same for rest of season]. Receipts: #170 15s. (128.13; 31.1; 11.1; tickets: none listed) (charge: #157 11s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings False Colours

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

10117
17 April 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Esten. Morning Herald, 28 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Esten, No. 5, Nassau-street, Soho. Receipts: #251 7s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: In 3rd piece: As17921003; In 2nd piece: Hornpipe, as17930411

Entertainment: Monologue End 2nd piece: Collins's Ode on the Passions-Mrs Esten

10118
22 April 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Author [of mainpiece, who is named in MS annotation on BM playbill (cg, Vol. VIII). "Mrs Pope was taken ill in the course of the performance, and the remainder of the part was read by Miss Chapman" (Thespian Magazine, June 1793, p. 5)]. Receipts: #321 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: How To Grow Rich

Cast
Role: Warford Actor: Pope
Role: Formal Actor: Thompson

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Wanderers

Cast
Role: Sir Gregory Forester Actor: Quick
Role: Peregrine Forester Actor: Munden
Role: Captain Forester Actor: Macready

Dance: As17930418

10119
22 April 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Jordan. Morning Herald, 22 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Jordan, No. 14, Somerset-street, Portman-square. Receipts: #461 8s. (195.17.6; 30.16.0; 5.6.0; tickets: 229.8.6) (charge: #158 13s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings All In The Wrong

Performance Comment: Sir John Restless-King; Beverley-Kemble; Sir William Belmont-Maddocks; Belmont-Barrymore; Blandford-Packer; Robert-Waldron; Brush-Benson; Footman-Webb; Servants-Alfred, Lyons; Lady Restless-Mrs Jordan (1st appearance in that character); Belinda-Miss Farren; Clarissa-Miss Collins; Tattle-Miss Heard; Tippit-Mrs Edwards; Marmalet-Miss Tidswell.
Cast
Role: Blandford Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

10120
24 April 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. [Epilogue by Miles Peter Andrews.] 3rd piece: Not acted these 20 years [acted 15 Feb. 1779]. Morning Herald, 19 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Mattocks, No. 8, Great Russell-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #318 5s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Such Things Are

Performance Comment: Twineall-Lewis; Sir Luke Tremor-Quick; Elvirus-Holman; Haswell-Pope; Sultan-Farren; Lord Flint-Davies; Meanwright-Macready; Zadan-Powel; 1st Keeper-Cubitt; Prisoner-Thompson; Lady Tremor-Mrs Mattocks; Aurelia-Miss Grist; Female Prisoner (for that night only)-Mrs Powell (of king's); Original Epilogue-Mrs Mattocks.

Afterpiece Title: The Soldiers Festival or The Night before the Battle

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal or The Tars of Old England

Song: In the course of 3rd piece: The Mid Watch, Rule Britannia-Incledon; and to conclude with God save the King in Full Chorus-

10121
25 April 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Suett and Barrymore. [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Valentine to Barrymore and Scandal to Bensley, but "previous to the play an apology was made for the appearance of Whitfield in Valentine, as Barrymore had undertaken Scandal, in consequence of Bensley's being afflicted with a violent hoarseness" (Thespian Magazine, June 1793, p. 2).] Morning Herald, 25 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Suett, No. 21, King-street, Bloomsbury; of Barrymore, No. 11, Bedford-street, Bedford-row. Receipts: #447 10s. (95.19; 43.16; 6.1; tickets: 301.14). (charge: #159 0s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings Love For Love

Performance Comment: Sir Sampson Legend-Moody; Valentine-Whitfield; Scandal-Barrymore; Tattle-Dodd; Ben-Bannister Jun.; Foresight-Suett; Jeremy-Benson; Trapland-Waldron; Buckram-Maddocks; Snap-Fawcett; Angelica-Miss Farren; Mrs Foresight-Mrs Ward; Mrs Frail-Miss Pope; Miss Prue-Mrs Jordan.
Cast
Role: Foresight Actor: Suett
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Ward

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

10122
25 April 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnstone. Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2. Larpent MS 980; not published]: By a Gentleman of the Bar [Horatio Edgar Robson]. The Story partly founded on the celebrated old Scotch Ballad of the Heir of Lynne. The Irish, Scotch, Italian and French Airs selected, and the new Music and Medley Overture composed by Reeve. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Morning Herald, 24 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Johnstone, No. 19, Piazza, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #488 9s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: Money at a Pinch or The Irishmans Frolicks

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors-

Song: In afterpiece: the following songs (incidental to the Piece) The Row, The Land of Potatoes, My sweetest Honoria (to a favorite air of Carolan's)-Johnstone

10123
27 April 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in MS annotation on BM playbill (cg, Vol. VIII)]. Receipts: #324 15s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: How To Grow Rich

Cast
Role: Warford Actor: Pope
Role: Formal Actor: Thompson

Afterpiece Title: The Invasion

Cast
Role: Sir Gregory Forester Actor: Quick
Role: Peregrine Forester Actor: Munden
Role: Captain Forester Actor: Macready
Role: Beaufort Actor: Davies
Role: Women Bathers Actor: Mrs Powell, Mrs Ratchford, Mrs Lloyd.

Dance: As17930418

10124
02 May 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #168 14s. (114.2; 39.1; 15.11; tickets: none listed) (charge: #158 17s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings False Colours

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

10125
02 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Pope. Mrs Pope not being sufficiently recovered from her Indisposition to perform to-night, Mrs Mattocks has kindly undertaken the part of Lydia Languish , and Margaret of Anjou [advertised on playbill of 1 May] is unavoidably obliged to be changed to The Soldier's Festival. Morning Herald, 8 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Pope at his house, Half-moon-street, Piccadilly. Receipts: #216 16s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Soldiers Festival

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Cast
Role: Beaufort Actor: Davies
Role: Women Bathers Actor: Mrs Powell, Mrs Ratchford, Mrs Lloyd.