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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.

2401
01 April 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mlle Chateauneuf. [Tickets at her Lodgings, Mr Farnel's, Bridges Street.] The Stage enclosed and formed into Side and Front Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: I: La Terpsichore (new)-Mlle Chateauneuf; II: Muilment; III: La Sabotiere-Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: L'Allemande-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf; V: A new Tambourine-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf

2402
04 April 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mr Gordon. Receipts: money #65 4s.; seals #66 12s. (Account Book); #120 Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

2403
09 April 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Maltere and Mlle Maltere. Tickets at Maltere's Lodgings, Mr Farnel's, in Bridges Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Dance: LLe Paisan-LaPierre; II: La Provan Sale (Sailor's Dance)-Maltere, Mlle Maltere; III: Indian Dance (never in England before)-Maltere, Mlle Maltere; IV: Les Caprices des Rebelles-Mlle Maltere; V: La Rose Boree and Ziphirs-Maltere, Mlle Maltere

2404
10 April 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Steele. With proper Scenes, Habits, and Decorations. [Tickets for Mr and Mrs Dunstall taken.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winters Tale

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Song: lso the Sheep@shearing Song, the Songs in As You Like It-Mrs Dunstall

2405
18 April 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Lampe and Miss Young. Afterpiece: A new Comic-Masque of Speaking, Singing, and Dancing. The Musick composed by Mr Lampe. Receipts: money #39 8s. 6d.; seals #69 16s. (Account Book); #130 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Sham Conjurer

2406
15 February 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Servants will be allowed to keep places on the Stage, which (for the better accommodation of the Ladies) will be enclosed, and formed into an amphitheatre. Ladies are desired to send their servants by 3 o'clock. Tickets to be had and places to be taken of Mr Page at the stage door; none to be admitted Without printed Tickets. Part of the Pit will be rail'd in and added to the Frodt Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite Or Earl Of Essex

Dance: TThe Peasants, as17420210; Chacone, as17411230; La Provencale, as17420212

2407
22 March 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Yates. The Stage will be form'd into an Amphitheatre, where Servants will be allow'd to keep Places. Tickets 4s., 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d. Mr Yates humbly hopes those Ladies, who are not yet provided with Tickets, will to prevent Mistakes, be pleas'd to send their Servants for them to the Theatre, where Attendance will be given; and also to send their Servants to keep their Places by Four o'Clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: David and Winifred apShenkin

2408
19 April 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Yates and Miss Medina. Tickets at Yates's, No. 6, near the Playhouse in Ayliff St., Goodman's Fields. Garrick to Peter Garrick: Mr Littleton...said I was only born to act what Shakespear writ--Little, Pineapples, pp. 30-31

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: Miss Medina

Dance: David and Winifred apShenkin

2409
19 April 1742 @ James Street

Event Comment: Benefit Page. 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d., 1s. Tickets at Mr Edward Pinchbeck's@Toyshop in Fleet Street. Places for the Boxes to be taken at the Lancashire Witch opposite the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

2410
28 April 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Cibber and her sister, daughters of Mr Cibber by the late Mrs Jane Cibber. Mainpiece: At the Particular desire of several Persons of Quality. Tickets to be had of Bradshaw, &c., and of Miss Cibber and her Sister, at Mrs Brett's (their Aunt)in Berwick St., near Soho. Tickets deliver'd out by Mrs Boultby will be taken. Receipts: #78

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Song: I: Song with French Horns-Beard; II: Sweet Bird from Milton-Mrs Arne; III: A Ballad-Lowe; IV: War he sung was Toil and Trouble-Mrs Clive

Dance: V: A New Running Footman's Dance-Phillips

2411
29 April 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Neale and Desse. Tickets to be had of Neale, a Silk Dyer in David St., Moor's in the Playhouse Passage; and at Mr Desse'd, at Gresham's, Shoemaker, in York St., Covent Garden. London Daily Post and General Advertiser announced Chrononhotonthologos as afterpiece by Rylands has The King and Miller, Receipts: #140

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: By particular desire, a Chacone-Desse; III: Running Footman's Dance, as17420428

Song: IV: Song-Lowe

2412
11 May 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Verhuyck, Naylor, Duck, Banks (Pit and Gallery Doorkeepers). Tickets deliver'd out by Mlle Fabres. Miss Dodson, Miss Short, and Mr. Bowcher will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Cast
Role: Wolfort Actor: Rosco

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: CComic Dance, as17420510; Rigadone Provencale, as17420226; Minuet-Villeneuve, Mlle Fabres

2413
18 May 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mr Bradshaw (Box-Keeper and Box Book-Keeper). Receipts: #100

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Performance Comment: As17420325 but Carlos-a Gentleman for his Diversion, who never appeared on any stage before; Clodio-Neale.
Cast
Role: Carlos Actor: a Gentleman for his Diversion, who never appeared on any stage before

Afterpiece Title: TThe Virgin Unmasked

Song: III: let me wander not unseen-Beard; V: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard

Dance: I: Running Footman's Dance, as17420428 II: A Concerto, as17420105; IV: The Swiss, as17410926

2414
25 November 1742 @ James Street

Event Comment: Benefit Paget, Now unhappily confin'd in the Fleet Prison. The Audience may depend upon the Entertainments being conducted in regular manner; and the Place is commodious, handsome, and Theatrical. Tickets to be had of Mr Paget, in the Fleet Prison, who has no other Method of getting Subsistence in his confinement

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

2415
03 March 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Garrick. By Command of Prince and Princess of Wales. [Winston MS. from Dyer MS.: A prodigious audience] Farce never acted there. Seven rows of the Pit will be rail'd into the Boxes. Stage to be form'd into side boxes where servants may keep places. Tickets of Mr Valliant, Bookseller, Strand; or at Garrick's, Bow St., Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: IV: Beard

2416
24 March 1743 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Peterson, Mr and Mrs Dunstall. Tickets deliver'd out for Dighton, Pattendon, Bulkely, and Ravenscroft will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice Or It Cannot Be

Afterpiece Title: Bickerstaffs Unburied Dead

Song: Mrs Dunstall

2417
05 April 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mr. Essex

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Dance: TTambourine-Cooke; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; La Provencale, as17421105

2418
06 April 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Anne Auretti. By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Tickets to be had of Anne Auretti at Mr Chisholm's, the Golden Head in Great Newport St., near Long Acre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Dance: I: Scotch Dance-Delamain, Anne Auretti; II: Tambourine-Anne Auretti; III: Characters of Dancing, as17421025; IV: Un Pas de Deux-Anne and Janneton Auretti; V: L'Aimable Vainqueur, Minuet-Picq, Anne Auretti

2419
09 April 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Berry. As Mr Berry has labour'd under an ill state of health for some time, he hopes those Gentlemen and Ladies who used to honour him with their company on this occasion, and whom his indisposition will not permit him to wait on, will excuse his personal application and be pleased to send for tickets to his lodgings, the corner of Crown-Court in Russel St., Covent Garden (Daily Advertiser). Tickets deliver'd out by Woodburn will be taken this night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Music: II: Concerto on German Flute-Burk Thumoth

Song: IV: Stella and Flavia-Beard

2420
18 April 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Havard. Tickets to be had at Mr Hobson's (Stage Door-Keeper); at the King's Arms in Russel Street; at Gregg's Coffee House in York Street; and at the Bedford Coffee-House, Covent Garden. Tickets delivered out by Winstone and Leigh will be taken this day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: As17430413

Music: As17430416

2421
27 April 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Cashell. Mainpiece At the Desire of Several Persons of Quality. Tickets and places to be had of Cashell at his lodgings, at the Dial in Little Wild St; or of Page at the stage Door. No Tickets will be admitted that are sold about the playhouse Passage. Mr Cashell begs the favour of those Ladies who have taken Boxes of Places to send for tickets, and likewise to send their servants by four o'clock to keep their places

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: The Toyshop

Dance: I: Dutch Skipper, as17421025; III: Peasants, as17421230; V: Le Rendezvous Gallant, as17421217

2422
04 May 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Walter and Miss Bennett. Tickets to be had of Mrs Walter at the Three Queens in New-Street, Covent Garden, and places for the boxes of Mr Hobson at the stage door of the theatre. Tickets of Miss Bennett opposite Salisbury St., Strand. Tickets deliver'd out by Rector and Mlle Gondou will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: I: A French Peasant-Froment, Mlle Gondeau; III: A New Serious Dance-Desse, Mrs Walter; V: La Florana, as17430408

Song: II: Stella and Flavia-Beard; IV: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard, Lowe

2423
18 May 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Taylor (Box-Keeper). Mainpiece At the Desire of Several Ladies of Quality. As Mr Taylor's long and violent illness has prevented his personal application, he humbly hopes those Gentlemen and Ladies who us'd to honour him with their Company, will continue their favour, and send for tickets to his house in Greek Street, Soho

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: III: Song-Lowe

Dance: II: Tyrolean Dance, as17421129; IV: Sicilian Peasant, as17430310

2424
07 January 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for a Gentlewoman under Misfortunes. None to be admitted without Ticket, which may be had, and places taken of Mr Page at the stage door. And for the better accommodation of the Ladies, the Stage will be enclos'd and form'd into an amphitheatre, where servants will be allow'd to keep places. Ladies send servants by three o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Old Man Taught Wisdom

2425
25 February 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author [Havard]. Tickets to be had at his lodgings, the Corner of the Great Piazza, in James St, Covent Garden; at the Bedford Coffee House, and of Mr Hobson at the stage door of the theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Regulus