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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Vernon"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr 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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6189 results for: Keyword - Mr Vernon
We found 4260 matches on Event Comments, 1786 matches on Performance Comments, 603 matches on Performance Title, 31 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1651
12 April 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Amiens Actor: Vernon

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Dance: I: The Sailors Revels, as17751220

Entertainment: A Variety of New Imitations, vocal and rhetorical-Bannister

1652
13 December 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: A ChristmasTale

Cast
Role: Floridor Actor: Vernon

1653
19 February 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Cady of Bagdad

Dance: In II: Masquerade Scene Dancing-Blurton, Henry; End III: The Provincalle, as17780128

Song: Masquerade Scene As17771031

1654
19 March 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Follies Of A Day

Afterpiece Title: Midas

1655
28 December 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Patron

1656
29 January 1793 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every One Has His Fault

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

1657
15 September 1794 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens; Or, Drury-lane And Covent-garden

Afterpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Sprigs of Laurel

1658
22 August 1673 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: On this date, James Vernon, writing to Sir Joseph Williamson, reported: Senior Scaramouchio and his band have begged his Majesty's leave to returne, theire affaires requiring their presence att home (Letters to Sir Joseph Williamson at Cologne, Camden Society, I, 179)

Performances

1659
12 November 1740 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Chymical Counterfeits

Performance Comment: As17401106, but in which will be introduced a Song in Honour of Admiral Vernon's Victories in the West-Indies, as it was performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane-.

Dance: As17401110

1660
28 December 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Performance Comment: As17501226, but now lists Master Vernon, his 3rd appearance upon any stage.

1661
11 May 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Performance Comment: As17510424 but others-Vernon, _Mathews, Mad _Camargo.
Cast
Role: others Actor: Vernon, _Mathews, Mad _Camargo.

1662
19 April 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Last time of performing [the afterpiece] this Season. Tickets deliver'd out by Vernon, Sanderson, &c. for a Bold Stroke for a Wife will be taken this night. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

1663
28 March 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Performance Comment: As17571227, but Sailors-Vernon.
Cast
Role: Sailors Actor: Vernon.

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Ballet: II: The Prussian Camp. As17580131, but Blakes_

Cast
Role: Characters of the Dance Actor: Delatre, Giorgi, Lucchi, Mrs Vernon. New Habits and Decorations for the Dance.

1664
23 May 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Performance Comment: As17580211, but others-Vernon, +Mozeen, +Bransby, +Jefferson.
Cast
Role: others Actor:

Dance: I: The Italian Peasants, as17571004

1665
02 February 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Performance Comment: Principal parts: Beard, Tenducci, Peretti, Mattocks, Miss Thomas, Miss Brent. Artabanes-Beard; Arabaces-Tenducci; Rimenes-Mattocks; Artaxerxes-Peretti, first appearance on English stage; Mandane-Miss Brent, Edition of 1762; Semira-Miss Thomas. (Genest, IV, 650) mistakenly assigns the part to Mrs Vernon.

Ballet: II: A New Ballet call'd The Statue Animated. Pygmalion-Maranesi; Scaramouch-Sodi; Inchantress-Miss Valois; Statue-Miss Wilford

Dance: End Opera: A New Dutch Dance-Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville

1666
03 September 1762 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Trial Scenes Of The Cock Lane Ghost

Afterpiece Title: Tars of Old England

Entertainment: Exhortation of the Little Lilliputian Squire Hum, a child of five years old. TheGrand Hornpipical Balletin the taste and after the manner of Mrs Vernon and Miss Nancy Dawson,-a young lady

Performance Comment: TheGrand Hornpipical Balletin the taste and after the manner of Mrs Vernon and Miss Nancy Dawson,-a young lady.

1667
27 April 1771 @ The Chapel at the Foundling's Hospital, or at the Lock Hospital, Hyde Park Corner

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ruth

Performance Comment: Cast: Guadagni, Vernon, Reinhold, Mrs Mattocks, Mrs Weichsel.

Music: First Violin-Giardini; After Part II: a Concerto Violin-Sga Sirmen

1668
26 February 1773 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Performance Comment: Parts-Mrs Smith, Miss Harper, Sga Galli (first performance her in 16 years), Vernon, Meredith (who never performed in public).

Music: Solo on the Violin-Agus Jr (scholar of Nardini) lately arriv'd from Italy; Concerto on Clarinet-Mahoon

1669
22 April 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. Mainpiece: By Desire. Rec'd stopages #12 7s. Paid salary list #566 6s.; J. French on acct #5 5s. (Treasurer's Book). Mrs Smith's Benefit for 2 May advertised as Cymbeline and a new Comic Opera (in 2 Acts) call'd the Wish. The Music entirely new, the principal characters by Vernon, Bannister, Davies, Mrs Wrighten and Mrs Smith. With a New Occasional Prologue spoken by King. [But this was changed on 27 April.] Receipts: #212 1s. Charges: #66 3s. Profits to Bannister #145 18s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: II: A New Dance, call'd The Pirates-Como, Sga Crespi. [See17730422.

Entertainment: End Opera: (By particular Desire) Imitations Vocal and Rhetorical-Bannister

1670
15 December 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Oaks

Performance Comment: As17751204, but the Vocal Parts-Vernon, _Fawcett.
Cast
Role: the Vocal Parts Actor: Vernon, _Fawcett.

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

1671
19 May 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Holcroft, Miss Field & Miss Simson. The Rival Candidates [announced on playbill of 18 May] is obliged to be deferred on account of Vernon's illness. Tickets delivered for Oroonoko by Philimore, Nash, Hulet, Master Pulley and Dale will be taken. Receipts: #211 11s. 6d. (28.1.0; 10.3.0; 0.12.6; tickets: 172.15.0) [charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Entertainment: Monologue. End: Bucks have at ye All; or, The Picture of a Playhouse-Master Pulley

1672
21 November 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Lady of the Manor [announced on playbill of 20 Nov.] is (on account of Vernon's Indisposition) deferred till Monday next

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

Afterpiece Title: The Invasion

1673
09 October 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [This was Vernon's last appearance on the stage.] The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15 [same for rest of season]. Receipts: #220 3s. 6d. (172/12/0; 47/4/6; 0/7/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Song: As17810927

1674
24 August 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

1675
16 December 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cutter Of Coleman Street

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