*p1786 05 11 cg The Bird in a Cage. ^As17860424^, but omitted: Guards, Mardona, Fidelia. Epilogue ^as17860424^.hathi.*a1786 05 11 cg Small Talk; or, The Westminster Boy. Principal Parts by Quick, Booth, Palmer, Brown, Wewitzer, Fearon, Davies, Edwin; Mrs Webb, Miss Brangin, Mrs Wells. Cast not known. Prologue spoken by Holman .hathi.*d1786 05 11 cg In Act III of mainpiece a Grand Dance, ^as17860424^; End of Act I of afterpiece Leap Year, ^as17860227^.hathi.*c1786 05 11 cg Benefit for Mrs Wells. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Edward Topham, with incidental music by Shield. MS not in Larpent; not published. Prologue by George Colman, the younger (European Magazine, May 1786, p. 370)]. "An old and established rule among the youth of Westminster [School will] not permit any exhibition on the stage reflecting upon their body ... In the second act Mrs Wells made her appearance in the dress of a Westminster scholar, when a general uproar [instigated by the scholars] took place, and the [rest of the] piece was prevented from being heard" (Town and Country Magazine, May 1786, p. 235). Public Advertiser, 8 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Wells, No. 188, Oxford-street. Receipts: #282 17s. (166/0/6; 21/19/6; tickets: 94/17/0) (charge: #105) .hathi.