06 December 1796
          Event Information
          
            
              
            
          
        
        Theatre:
            Covent Garden          
          Theatrical Season:
            1796-1797          
          Volume:
            5          
          Comments:
            Receipts: #119 14s. (109.11.6; 10.2.6)          
          Performance List
Mainpiece
Title:
                    
                      Fortune's Fool                    
                  
                  Comments:
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Cast:
                                        
                                  - Role: Miss Union Actor: Mrs Fawcett in place of Mrs Mattocks. Prologue as17961029 .
 - Role: Servants Actor: _Blurton. Prologue, Epilogue as17961029 .
 - Role: Ap@Hazard Actor: Lewis
 - Role: Sir Bamber Blackletter Actor: Quick
 - Role: Tom Seymour Actor: Fawcett
 - Role: Sir Charles Danvers Actor: Middleton
 - Role: Orville Actor: Macready
 - Role: Samuel Actor: Abbot
 - Role: Mrs Seymour Actor: Miss Morris
 - Role: Orange Women Actor: Mrs Watts, Mrs Norton, Miss Leserve
 - Role: Lady Danvers Actor: Miss Wallis
 - Role: unassigned Actor: Simmons, Miss Logan
 
Afterpiece
Title:
                    
                      Olympus in an Uproar                    
                  
                  Comments:
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Cast:
                                        
                                  - Role: Paris Actor: Mrs Lee.
 - Role: Jupiter Actor: Munden
 - Role: Mercury Actor: Townsend
 - Role: Momus Actor: Simmons
 - Role: Juno Actor: Mrs Addison
 - Role: Pallas Actor: Mrs Clendining
 - Role: Erynnis Actor: Mr Delpini
 - Role: Iris Actor: Mrs Castelle
 - Role: Venus Actor: Mrs Mountain
 - Role: Leda Actor: Mlle St.Amand. The Hesperean Dragon spouting Fire, pursuing Erynnis to recover the Golden Pippin. A Celestial Palace, with a Magnificent Temple, and the Peacock of Juno in Transparency. ACT II. A Plain in Phoenicia, in which Jupiter descends from the Heavens on an Eagle, and Momus on a Goose. A Procession to a Sacrifice. Jupiter in the form of a Bull, bearing Europa, attended by a train of Priests, Virgins, Nymphs, Shepherds. The Sea, with a distant View of the Isle of Crete. Jupiter bearing Europa across the Sea. A View of Mount Idav The Decree of Paris, and the Ascent and Descent of the Deities: Vulcan, Apollo, Mars, Hercules, Bacchus, Pan, Ceres, Diana, Cybele, Flora, Pomona, Proserpine, Hebe. Mercury descends on a Cloud, and Iris on a Rainbow. Pluto rises from the Infernal Regions in a Chariot drawn by Dragons
 - Role: To conclude with the Re Actor: ascent of Jupiter attended by Flying Cupids.