*p1774 10 08 dl Alexander the Great; or, The Rival Queens. Alexander-a Young Gentleman, first appearance on this stage; Clytus-Jefferson; Lysimachus-Brereton; Cassander-Palmer; Hephestion-Davies; Thessalus-Wright; Perdiccas-Wheeler; Parisatis-Miss Hopkins; Polyperchon-Bransby; Eumenes-Keen; Sysigambis-Mrs Johnston; Statira-Mrs Baddeley, first time; Roxana-Miss Young; With the Triumphal Entry-; and an <i>Occasional Prologue</i>-King.*a1774 10 08 dl The Miller of Mansfield. King-J. Aickin; Miller-Moody; Richard-Palmer; Joe (with <i>Song</i>)-Kear; Kate-Mrs Millidge; Margery-Mrs Bradshaw; Peggy-Miss Platt; Lord Lurewell-Lamash.*c1774 10 08 dl Mr Lacy a Proprietor of this Theatre made his first appearance upon the Stage in the part of <i>Alexander</i>r. He is very Tall, & Thin, a good Voice but His Fright took away from it's power--he was rec'ed with Applause. $Mr Garrick= wrote a <i>New Occasional Prologue</i> to introduce him, which was Spoken by $Mr King= & rec'ed with great Applause (<i>Hopkins Diary</i>). Paid 4 days list at #91 8s. 10d. per diem #365 15s. 4d.; $Mr J. French= on Acct #10 10s. (Treasurer's Book). [<i>The Westminster Magazine</i> commented on $Willoughby Lacy='s performance (Oct. 1774): "His performance was far from answering the expectations we had been taught to form from a friend and pupil of our <i>English Roscius</i>. Indeed Mr Lacy is a very young man: therefore we ought not to draw the line of our expectation. His figure is at present lank, awkward, and unengaging; his voice distinctly powerful, but inharmonious; his action outre, vulgar and forced: his attitudes unnatural, affected and disgustful; and his delivery a continued rant, without proper change, a pleasing variety, or a just discrimination of the necessary difference of tone demanded by the different passions. These...capital defects...are not unsurmountable...The play was prefaced by a new <i>Prologue</i>, evidently the production of Mr Garrick. It had some humor and was well received. The purport of it was to beg favor for the hero of the evening, whom it compared to a young swimmer, who had tried to float in two shallow streams, and was now about to venture himself in the great deep. This image is certainly an apt one, though, it is no great compliment to the audiences of <i>Norwich</i> and <i>Birmingham</i>."] Receipts: #248 19s. (Treasurer's Book).