24 April 1762
Event Information
Theatre:
Covent Garden
Theatrical Season:
1761-1762
Volume:
4
Comments:
Benefit for Hull. Mainpiece: Hull's "Alteration with Additions" to Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors. Not acted these 30 years. [See 9 Oct. 1734, according to Genest, IV, 653.] No Building on Stage. [This alteration acted but once, not printed. Done again 1779, and printed in 8vo 1793 under title Comedy of Errors. [See Hogan, II, 151.)
Performance List
Mainpiece
Comments:
The characters of the play-Shuter, Dunstall, Gibson, Hull, Davis, Anderson, Wignell, Tindal, Perry, R. Smith, Holtom, Buck, Mrs Vincent, Mrs Lessingham, Mrs Stephens, Mrs Ward; A New Prologue-Smith; A New Epilogue-Mrs Ward.
The characters of the play-Shuter, Dunstall, Gibson, Hull, Davis, Anderson, Wignell, Tindal, Perry, R. Smith, Holtom, Buck, Mrs Vincent, Mrs Lessingham, Mrs Stephens, Mrs Ward; A New Prologue-Smith; A New Epilogue-Mrs Ward.
Cast:
- Role: The characters of the play Actor: Shuter, Dunstall, Gibson, Hull, Davis, Anderson, Wignell, Tindal, Perry, R. Smith, Holtom, Buck, Mrs Vincent, Mrs Lessingham, Mrs Stephens, Mrs Ward
- Role: A New Prologue Actor: Smith
- Role: A New Epilogue Actor: Mrs Ward.
Afterpiece
Title:
Lethe
Comments:
As17611111, but Frenchman-Hull, first time.
As17611111, but Frenchman-Hull, first time.
Cast:
- Role: Frenchman Actor: Hull, first time.
- Role: Fine Lady Actor: Mrs Green.
- Role: Fine Gentleman Actor: Dyer
- Role: Chalkstone Actor: Shuter
- Role: Drunk Man Actor: Dunstall
Song
Comment:
II: Let not the Rage, from the opera Artaxerxes, by Particular Desire,-Miss Brent
Dance
Comment:
After the Epilogue: The Taylors, as17620107