23 January 1740
Event Information
Theatre:
Drury Lane Theatre
Theatrical Season:
1739-1740
Volume:
3
Comments:
At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Daily Advertiser, 25 Jan.: On Wednesday night last a Disturbance happen'd at Drury-Lane Playhouse, occasion'd by one of the principal Dancers not being there to dance at the end of the Entertainment, and after most of the People in the Pit and Galleries were gone, several Gentlemen in the Boxes pull'd up the Seats and Flooring of the same, tore down the Hangings, broke down the Partitions, all the Glasses and Sconces, the King's Arm over the middle front Box was pull'd down and broke to Pieces; they also destroy'd the Harpsichord, Bass Viol, and other Instruments in the Orchestra; the Curtain they cut to pieces with their Swords, forc'd their way into the lesser Green-Room, where they broke the Glasses, &c. and after destroying every thing they could well get asunder, to the amount of about three or four hundred Pounds Damage, left the House in a very ruinous Condition. [See also London Magazine, IX (1740), 47-48, 100.
Performance List
Mainpiece
Title:
Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark
Comments:
As17390901.
As17390901.
Afterpiece
Title:
The Fortune Tellers
Comments:
As17400116.
As17400116.
Cast:
- Role: Gipsies Actor: _Vaughan, Peploe.
- Role: Harlequin Actor: Woodward
- Role: Queen of Gipsies Actor: Miss Jones
- Role: Young Rustick Actor: Liviez
- Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Walter
- Role: Colombine's Father Actor: Pelling
- Role: Mittimus Actor: Usher
- Role: Goaler Actor: Reed
- Role: Mother Actor: Yates
- Role: Maid Actor: Mrs Woodward
- Role: Magician Actor: Rheinhold
- Role: Pierrot Actor: Lalauze.
Ballet
Comment:
AA Voyage to the Land of Cytherea. As17400115