22 December 1779
Event Information
Theatre:
Covent Garden
Theatrical Season:
1779-1780
Volume:
5
Comments:
Benefit for the Dispensary for the Infant Poor in Soho-Square. Tickets delivered for As You Like It will be admitted. [Author of Prologue unknown.] Receipts: #193 18s. (117.4; tickets: 76.14) (charge: #105)
Performance List
Mainpiece
Title:
The Merry Wives Of Windsor
Comments:
As17791207, but Mrs Page-Mrs Bulkley; New Occasional Prologue-Hull.
As17791207, but Mrs Page-Mrs Bulkley; New Occasional Prologue-Hull.
Cast:
- Role: Mrs Page Actor: Mrs Bulkley
- Role: New Occasional Prologue Actor: Hull.
- Role: Doctor Caius Actor: Whitfield
- Role: Fenton Actor: Robson
- Role: Page Actor: Miss Langrish.
- Role: Mr Ford Actor: Wroughton
- Role: Sir Hugh Evans Actor: Edwin
- Role: Mr Page Actor: Hull
- Role: Host of the Garter Actor: Booth
- Role: Justice Shallow Actor: Wilson
- Role: Simple Actor: W. Bates
- Role: Bardolph Actor: Baker
- Role: Pistol Actor: Cushing
- Role: Slender Actor: Quick
- Role: Falstaff Actor: Henderson
- Role: Ann Page Actor: Mrs Lewis
- Role: Mrs Quickly Actor: Mrs Pitt
- Role: Mrs Ford Actor: Miss Younge.
Afterpiece
Title:
William And Nanny
Comments:
As17791112, but William-Wordsworth.
As17791112, but William-Wordsworth.
Cast:
- Role: William Actor: Wordsworth.
- Role: Hearty Actor: Wilson
- Role: Murtagh Mulrooney Actor: Moody
- Role: Dame Hearty Actor: Mrs Webb
- Role: Old Woman Actor: Mrs Pitt
- Role: Nanny Actor: Miss Brown.
Song
Comment:
End II: As17790927; End II: Song in The Milesian, being a description of a Sea Fight [Stand to your guns, my hearts of oak]-Bannister