12 February 1750
Event Information
Theatre:
Drury Lane Theatre
Theatrical Season:
1749-1750
Volume:
4
Comments:
[Receipts missing from Treasurer's Book. Expenditure page present.] Paid Mr Wallis rent on 100 nights #11 13s. 4d.; Paid Young Cross for dancing in the Tempest 5s., and Shawford's youngest son for same 5s.; Norton 3 chorus 15s. (Treasurer's Book). Second edition of Merope "As it was acted last season and as it is now acting, with great applause, at Drury Lane." Printed for A. Miller, apposite Katherine St., Strand. Price 1s. 6d. Receipts: #100 (Cross)
Performance List
Mainpiece
Title:
The Tempest
Comments:
As17500119, but the whole to conclude with the Grand Entertainment of Acis & Galatea, as17491130. The Comic Dance-_.
As17500119, but the whole to conclude with the Grand Entertainment of Acis & Galatea, as17491130. The Comic Dance-_.
Cast:
- Role: Prospero Actor: Berry
- Role: Miranda Actor: Miss Cole
- Role: Dorinda Actor: Mrs Green
- Role: To Conclude with a Comic Dance Actor: Mathews, Mrs Addison.
- Role: Ferdinand Actor: King
- Role: Trincalo Actor: Yates
- Role: Hippolito Actor: Mrs Willoughby
- Role: Caliban Actor: Blakes
- Role: Stephano Actor: Shuter
- Role: Mustachio Actor: James
- Role: Ventoso Actor: Ray
- Role: Sycorax Actor: Taswell
- Role: Ariel Actor: Mrs Clive
- Role: With Decorations Actor:
- Role: A Dance of Aerial Spirits Actor: Mlle Mariet, Miss Baker, Mrs Shawford, Mrs L'Font
- Role: A Dance of Winds Actor: Macneale, Shawford, Pelling, Master Shawford
- Role: A Grand Dance of Fantastic Spirits Actor: in the shapes of four Demons, four Monsters, and four Pigmies
- Role: Infernals Actor: Reinhold, Bennet
- Role: The whole to conclude with the Masque of Neptun Actor:
- Role: Neptune Actor: Beard
- Role: Amphitrite Actor: Miss Norris.