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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.

10426
06 June 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Sloper and Mrs Watts. 2nd piece: The Machinery of the Peacock by Sloper. 3rd piece: The following are a part of the Scenes: The Ancient Temple dedicated to Bel, the God of Fire, with the Flactaga, or sacred Fire burning; The Dargle, where the Irish Druids consulted their Oracle; A View near Wicklow; The Salmon Leap; Entrance of a Subterraneous Pass; Maon's Cavern; Cemetery and Dungeon, appertaining to the Round Tower, Moated Castle, &c. The Overture and Music principally new, with a Selection of some novel Irish Airs, by Reeve. The Harp by Weippert. The machinery by Cresswell, Sloper and Goostree. The Dresses by Dick and Mrs Egan. Receipts: #319 16s. 6d. (70.19.0; 8.13.0; tickets: 240.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Abroad And At Home

Afterpiece Title: An Egeirophadron

Afterpiece Title: The Round Tower or The Chieftains of Ireland

Song: In: Together let us range-Incledon, Mrs Atkins

10427
07 June 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Hill, Rees and Miss Sims. Morning Chronicle, 6 June: Tickets to be had of Hill, No. 24, Bow-street, opposite the Pit Door. [Others not listed.] 2nd piece [1st time: M. INT 1]. Receipts: #287 7s. (50.17.6; 4.0.6; tickets: 232.9.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: Shylock (for that night only)-Rees; Bassanio-Pope; Launcelot-Munden; Gratiano-Knight; Lorenzo (with songs; 1st time)-Hill; Solarino-Claremont; Salanio-Klanert; Old Gobbo-Wilde; Duke-Davenport; Tubal-Thompson; Balthazar-Curties; Antonio-Holman; Jessica (with a song; 1st time)-Mrs Atkins; Nerissa (1st time)-Miss Sims; Portia-Miss Betterton.

Afterpiece Title: The Brilliants

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: In II 3rd piece: a Dance-Naiads

Song: In: Maria; or, The Beggar Girl-Mrs Atkins; Young William-Incledon; a new song, The Negro Boy (written by Rees, and composed by Attwood)-Miss Sims (in character)

10428
04 July 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Portal, Stevenson, Percey, George, Bowley, Woollams, Massingham, Edwards and Chumbley [box-keepers]. Mainpiece: In II a Masquerade. Receipts: #61 3s. (26.4.0; 24.4.0; 0.12.6; odd money: 10.2.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #211 17s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

10429
05 July 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Box and Box-door-keepers. The Last Time of the Company's Performing this Season. Receipts: #63 7s. 6d. (33.1.0; 19.7.0; 0.0.6; odd money: 10.19.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #201 5s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

Dance: As17981129

10430
05 August 1799 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Gibbs. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Andrew Franklin. Larpent MS 1264; not published; synopsis of plot in Morning Post, 6 Aug.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Afterpiece Title: Gander Hall

10431
10 August 1799 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. Morning Chronicle, 9 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Charing Cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Fortunes Frolick

Dance: In III: Hornpipe in character-a Young Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified])

10432
13 August 1799 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss DeCamp. Mainpiece: The Overture, Chorusses, and new Musick by Dr Arnold. The Scenery by Rooker, Marinari, &c. Morning Chronicle, 9 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Miss DeCamp, No. 14, Tottenham Court Road, near Bedford-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zorinski

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Song: End: My Mother bids me bind my Hair (by Haydn)-Master Suett (1st appearance in public)

10433
15 August 1799 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for C. Kemble. [Liston is identified in MS list, in hay playbills now at Harvard, of new performers for the 1799 season.] A Spurious Copy of Sighs having been advertized as performing at this Theatre, the Public is respectfully in formed that the True Copy is this day published by M. Stace, Princes-street, Leicester-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew And The Doctor

Afterpiece Title: The Iron Chest

10434
20 August 1799 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Barrymore. [Afterpiece in place of Fortune's Frolick, advertised on playbill of 19 Aug.] Morning Chronicle, 19 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Barrymore, No. 20, Judd-place, Somers Town

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mountaineers

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

10435
22 August 1799 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Suett. [Faulkner's 1st appearance at this theatre was on 9 Feb. 1797.] Morning Chronicle, 20 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Suett, No. 21, King-street, Bloomsbury-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Iron Chest

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Cast
Role: Lord Alford Actor: Davies

Song: End: Jack and his Charming Fanny (composed by Suett)-Trueman

10436
24 August 1799 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bland. Morning Chronicle, 20 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Bland, No. 8, Cockspur-street, Charing-cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surrender Of Calais

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

Cast
Role: Lord Alford Actor: Davies

Song: End II: Crazy Jane-Mrs Bland; In the character of Josephine in afterpiece 'Twas in the solemn mid@night hour-Mrs Bland the Ballad in Sighs; End I afterpiece: Little Taffline ; or, The Silken Sash-Mrs Bland

10437
02 September 1799 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett. 2nd piece [1st time: M. INT 1]. Morning Chronicle, 30 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Fawcett, No. 3, Tanfield-court, Temple

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sighs

Afterpiece Title: Tars at Torbay or Sailors on Saturday Night

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

Song: End 1st piece: Crazy Jane (composed by Miss Abrahams [recte Abrams])-Mrs Bland

10438
09 September 1799 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Jewell, treasurer. Morning Chronicle, 31 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Jewell, No. 26, Suffolk-street, Charing Cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sighs

Afterpiece Title: Tars at Torbay

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

Song: End 1st piece: Crazy Jane-Mrs Bland

10439
05 April 1800 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. 3rd piece [1st time; M. INT 1, by Thomas John Dibdin. Larpent MS 1288; not published]: Founded on a late Glorious Naval Achievement [the recapture by Capt. Edward Hamilton, on 25 Oct. 1799, of the British frigate Hermione, from the Spaniards]. The Music selected and composed by Attwood. Morning Chronicle, 1 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Lewis, No. 52, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Receipts: #361 17s. (263.2.0; 33.5.6; tickets: 65.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: How To Grow Rich

Performance Comment: Pave-Lewis; Warford-Pope; Sir ThomasRoundhead-Munden; Latitat-Fawcett; Smalltrade-Emery; Sir Charles Dazzle-Betterton; Hippy-Townsend; Nab-Farley; Plainly-Claremont; Servants-Curties, Blurton, Platt, Wilde, Rees; Robert-Simmons; Formal-Thompson; Miss Dazzle-Miss Chapman; Rosa-Miss Murray; Betty-Miss Leserve; Visitors-Ms Watts, Ms Follett, Ms Norton, Ms Gilbert; Lady Henrietta-the Late Miss Betterton [i.e. now Mrs Glover].i.e. now Mrs Glover].
Cast
Role: Warford Actor: Pope
Role: Formal Actor: Thompson

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain or An Opera Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Hermione or Valours Triumph

10440
15 April 1800 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Incledon. 1st piece: Not acted these 4 years [acted 20 May 1797]. Receipts: #579 13s. (303.7.6; 3.6.0; tickets: 272.19.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woodman

Performance Comment: Sir Walter Waring-Munden (1st appearance in that character); Captain O'Donnel-Johnstone; Fairlop-Townsend; Medley-Hill; Bob-Emery (Their 1st appearance in those characters); Ralph-Linton; Wilford-Incledon; Dolly-Mrs Martyr; Miss Di Clackit-Mrs Davenport; Polly (1st time)-Miss Sims; Bridget-Mrs Watts; Emily-Mrs Atkins (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Wilford Actor: Incledon

Afterpiece Title: The Rendezvous

Afterpiece Title: The Jew and the Doctor

Song: End I: The Storm (by G. A. Stevens)-Incledon; In course Evening: an entire new Glee, composed by King, The Witches[, the Words from the First Scene of Shakspeare's Macbeth, -Incledon, Townsend, Linton, Chorus; [Also Black Ey'd Susan-; Old Towler- [Incledon]

10441
17 April 1800 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Holman. Morning Chronicle, 9 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Holman, No. 73, New-street, Hanover-square. Receipts: #195 7s. (105.13.6; 14.19.6; tickets: 74.14.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Votary Of Wealth

Performance Comment: As17990925, but Drooply (for that night only)-Holman; Caroline-the Late Miss Betterton [i.e. now Mrs Glover]; Servant-_; Waiter-_; Simpson-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Rendezvous

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

10442
19 April 1800 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Pope. Morning Chronicle, 14 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Pope, No. 5, Half-moon-street, Piccadilly. Receipts: #303 19s. 6d. (182.9.0; 10.18.0; tickets: 110.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lovers Vows

Afterpiece Title: Saturday Night at Sea

Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key

Entertainment: Monologue End: Collins's Ode on the Passions-Mrs Pope

10443
22 April 1800 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Munden. 1st piece: Not acted these 12 years [acted 20 Apr. 1789]. 2nd piece: By Permission of the Proprietors of the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. Never Performed at this Theatre. With the Original Overture, Songs, Trios, Duets and Chorusses. To conclude with a Perspective Representation of a Grand Camp. Morning Chronicle, 1 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Munden, No. 16, Clement's Inn. Receipts: #565 0s. 6d. (202.9.0; 10.10.0; tickets: 352.1.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Good natured Man

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Afterpiece Title: The Hermione

Song: End: A Chapter of Fashions (never performed; written by T. Dibdin Jun.)-Munden; The Tight Little Lads of the Ocean (never performed; written by the Author of The Bundle of Proverbs)-Fawcett

Performance Comment: Dibdin Jun.=)-Munden; The Tight Little Lads of the Ocean (never performed; written by the Author of The Bundle of Proverbs)-Fawcett.

10444
23 April 1800 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Murray. 2nd piece: Compressed into Two Acts by the Author [Elizabeth Inchbald. Epilogue by Miles Peter Andrews]. Morning Chronicle, 8 Apr: Tickets to be had of Miss Murray, No. 77, Long Acre. Receipts: #393 9s. 6d. (159.5.6; 24.14.6; tickets: 209.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Child of Nature

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Munden, Murray, Betterton, Whitfield, Thompson, Atkins, Whitmore, Miss Murray, Mrs Mattocks; [For assignment of parts see18000523.] Original Epilogue-Mrs Mattocks.

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

Dance: In II: Negro Dance-Bologna, King, Platt, Blurton

Song: End: The Tight Little Island-Townsend

10445
26 April 1800 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett. 1st piece: By Permission of the Proprietor of the Theatre Royal, Hay-Market. 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT 1]. 3rd piece: Never acted here; by Permission of the Proprietor of the Theatre Royal, Hay-Market. With appropriate Scenes, Dresses & Decorations. The Music composed & selected by Attwood. Morning Chronicle, 15 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Fawcett, No. 3, Tanfield-court, Temple. Receipts: #535 6s. (233.2; 7.3; tickets: 295.1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Afterpiece Title: The Social Songsters

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

10446
28 April 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. 2nd piece [1st time; MF 2, by Prince Hoare, Larpent MS 1289; not published; synopsis of plot in Morning Herald, 29 Apr, Author of Prologue unknown]: The new Musick composed by Kelly. Morning Chronicle, 16 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 65, Gower-street, Bedford-square. Receipts: #360 8s. 6d. (272.17.6; 80.9.6; 7.1.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #213 3s. 7d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not

Afterpiece Title: The Children or Give Them their Way

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

10447
30 April 1800 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Knight. Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years [acted 3 Nov. 1795]. Afterpiece: To conclude with a Grand Sea Fightv. Morning Chronicle, 15 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Knight, No. 38, King-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #433 2s. (185.11.0; 6.14.6; tickets: 240.16.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rage

Afterpiece Title: The Critic or A Tragedy Rehearsd

Song: End IV: Sally in our Alley-Incledon; End: Black Ey'd Susan-Incledon; Afterpiece conclude: Rule Britannia-Incledon, Townsend, Hill, Chorus

10448
05 May 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Siddons. Receipts: #296 8s. (139.6; 44.15; 1.10; tickets: 110.17) (charge: #207 14s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: De Montfort

Cast
Role: De Montfort Actor: Kemble
Role: Jane De Montfort Actor: Mrs Siddons

Afterpiece Title: Of Age To morrow

Song: As18000503

10449
06 May 1800 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnstone. Morning Chronicle, 21 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Johnstone, No. 19, Piazza, Covent Garden. Receipts: #406 9s. (102.2.6; 6.9.0; tickets: 297.17.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Afterpiece Title: The Revivd Anacreontics i

Performance Comment: e. The Sons of Anacreon]. President (with the Anacreontic Song)-Incledon; The Tight Little Island-Townsend; From Night till Morn I take my Glass-Johnstone, Incledon; A Favorite Comic Song-Fawcett; The Red Cross Knight-Incledon, Linton, Denman; The Awkward Recruit (never performed)-Munden; Beviamo-Incledon, Johnstone, Townsend, Linton.

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

Song: End II 1st piece: The Witches, as18000415, but added: Denman, +Street

10450
07 May 1800 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Martyr. [In 1st piece the playbill retains Mrs Martyr as Dolly, but "Dolly was undertaken at a short notice, by Mrs Chapman, upon the sudden indisposition of Mrs Martyr" (Monthly Mirror, June 1800, p. 366). "In consequence of Mrs Martyr's accouchement...the part of Dolly was sustained by Miss Sims" (Dramatic Censor, II, 140).] 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT 1, author unknown. Not in Larpent MS; not published]: To conclude with a Representation of the Storming the City of Acrev by the French [17 Mar.-20 May 1799], and the Heroic Defence made by the Turkish Troops led on by the British Sailors [under the command of Sir Sidney Smith]. Morning Chronicle, 23 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Martyr, No. 16, Martlett-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #333 4s. 6d. (118.3.6; 11.16.6; tickets: 203.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woodman

Cast
Role: Wilford Actor: Incledon

Afterpiece Title: The Siege of Acre

Afterpiece Title: The Jew and the Doctor

Song: End I 1st piece: The Last Shilling (composed by Dibdin)-Incledon; (in the Course of the Evening) Old Towler-Incledon; In Scene I 2nd piece: by Permission of Dibdin, his following popular songs: The Sailor's Journal-Incledon; The Anchor Smiths-Townsend; All Hands to the Anchor-Fawcett; Jacky and the Cow-Munden; The Advantage of Toping-Townsend; A Comic Irish Song-Johnstone