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Event Comment: In the notebooks of John Ward, between 1 and 25 Sept. 1662, appears The Alchemist [by Ben Jonson]. See A. L. D. Kennedy-Skipton, "A Footnote to John Ward and Restoration Drama," Shakespeare Quarterly, XII (1961), 353. For an early cast, see Dec. 1660

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: I: Overture out of Ptolomy-; Songs: Dico su questa sponda-; Svenalo traditor-; Sonata by Corelli-; Songs: Ombre piante-; Sgombra dall' Anima-; Solo for German Flute-L. Granom; II: Concerto-Castrucci; Songs: Non lo diro col Labro-; La mia speranza-; Trumpet Piece-Granom; Songs: No no my Heart , from an Italian Song out of Ptolomy-; Si Caro Si-; Concerto for Trumpets-J. Granom, L. Granom

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kennedy. Tickets delivered for Artaxerxes will be taken. Public Advertiser, 6 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Kennedy at her house in Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Receipts: #278 7s. 6d. (166/9/6; tickets: 111/18/0) (charge: #105)

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath (for this night only)-Mrs Kennedy; Peachum-Booth; Lockit (for this night only)-Mrs Webb; Mat o' the Mint-Robson; Filch (for this night only)-Mrs Wilson; Lucy-Miss Catley; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Davenett; Diana Trapes-Mrs Pitt; Polly-Miss Harper. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: End of mainpiece The Gala, as17820402, but omitted: Dumay, Miss Matthews

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece The Early Horn; End of Act I of afterpiece The Lamentation of Mary Queen of Scots; End of Act II Auld Robin Grey, all three sung by Mrs Kennedy

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kennedy. Morning Herald, 12 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Kennedy at her house, No. 36, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Receipts: #257 2s. (113/19; 4/6; tickets: 138/17) (charge: #105)

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Mainpiece Title: Fontainbleau

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Performance Comment: As17851104, but Apollo-Mrs Kennedy .

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece Diana's Chase (composed by Dr Arne); End of Act II How sweet the love that meets return, both by Mrs Kennedy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Which Is The Man

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece When Pboebus the tops of the bills does adorn by Reinhold and Mrs Kennedy; End of Act ni Poor ThomasDay by Edwin, Brett, Bannister; End of Act IV Mad Tom by Reinhold; End of mainpiece Hark! the Lark at Heav'n's Gate sings, and What shall be have who kill'd the Deer?, both by Master Bartleman, Bannister, Brett, Davies, Mrs Kennedy

Performance Comment: the Lark at Heav'n's Gate sings, and What shall be have who kill'd the Deer?, both by Master Bartleman, Bannister, Brett, Davies, Mrs Kennedy .
Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3]: Written by [John] O'Keeffe. The Music by Shield. With a new French Medley Overture, new Dresses, &c. The Words of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. [Mrs T. Kennedy was from the Newcastle theatre.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fontainbleau; Or, Our Way In France

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Lewis, Quick, Edwin, Wilson, Davies, Wewitzer, Egan, Johnstone; Mrs Kennedy, Miss Wheeler, Mrs Martyr, Mrs T. Kennedy [on playbill of ij Nov.: 1st appearance on this stage], Mrs Webb, Mrs Bannister. [Cast from text (Dublin: W. Wilson, 1785), and Gazetteer, 17 Nov.: Lackland-Lewis; Lapoche-Quick; Sir Shenkin ap Griffin-Edwin; Sir John Bull-Wilson; Lord Winlove-Davies; Colonel Epaulette-Wewitzer; Drunken Butler-Egan; Robin-Darley; Henry-Johnstone; French Inn-keeper-Gaudry; Jockey-Kennedy; Postboy-Jones; Waiters-Helme, Thompson; Mrs Casey-Mrs Kennedy; Celia-Miss Wheeler; Nanette-Mrs Martyr; Miss Bull-Mrs T. Kennedy; Lady Bull-Mrs Webb; Rosa-Mrs Bannister.] hathi. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: Young Philpot-Bonnor; Young Wilding-Davies; Beaufort-Cubitt; Sir Jasper Wilding-Thompson; Quildrive-Kennedy; Dapper-Jones; Old Philpot-Quick; Corinna-Miss Stuart; Maria-Mrs T. Kennedy .

Dance: End of mainpiece The Belle of the Village, as17840917

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kennedy. Public Advertiser, 26 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Kennedy at her house in Great Queen-street. [The Jubilee anticipated the official Handel Commemoration held at Westminster Abbey on 26 May.] Receipts: #320 9s. 6d. (213/4/6; tickets: 107/5/0) (charge: #105)

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Mainpiece Title: A Jubilee In Commemoration Of Handel

Performance Comment: Overture from Samson. Scene I. Collins's Ode on the Passions read by Whitfield. In which will be introduced: From the dread scene (from Judas Maccabaeus) by Mrs Kennedy and Mrs Bannister; The smiling dawn (from Jephtha) by Johnstone; Revenge! Timotheus (from Alexander's Feast) by Reinhold; Mirth, admit me of thy crew (from L'Allegro il Penseroso) by Mrs Kennedy; As when the Dove (from Acis and Galatea) by Mrs Bannister. To conclude with the Chorus From Harmony (from Dryden's Ode). Scene II. The Pantheon. To Song and Dance (from Samson) by Chorus; Let's imitate her Notes above (from Alexander's Feast) by Mrs Martyr and Mrs Kennedy. The Muse Euterpe-Mrs Bates .

Afterpiece Title: The Duenna

Performance Comment: As17831021, but Jerome-Edwin; Carlos-Mrs Kennedy .

Afterpiece Title: Rose and Colin

Dance: 1st piece to conclude with a Grand Ballet by Harris, Byrn, Miss Besford, Mrs Goodwin, &c

Event Comment: Benefit for Kennedy and King. Public Advertiser, 9 May: Tickets to be had of Mr and Mrs Kennedy, No. 49, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields; and of King, No. 54, Fleet-street. Receipts: #222 14s. (64.18.6; 4.19.6; tickets: 152.16.0)

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Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Performance Comment: Ranger-Lewis; Mr Strickland-Farren; Bellamy-Davies; Jack Meggot (1st time)-Kennedy; Tester-Stevens; Buckle-Thompson; Frankly (1st time)-Pope; Mrs Strickland-Mrs Inchbald; Jacintha (1st time)-Mrs T. Kennedy; Lucetta-Mrs Brown; Milliner-Miss Stuart; Clarinda-Mrs Pope (1st appearance in that character).

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Dance: End: The Wapping Landlady-[see17870131]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Meraspe O L'olimpiade

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Kennedy. No Building on Stage. Tickets deliver'd for Much Ado and The Wonder will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: As17610406 but Capulet-Kennedy; Nurse-Mrs Kennedy; Vocal Parts-Lowe, Champness, Mrs Vincent, Miss Young.

Afterpiece Title: The New Hippocrates

Entertainment: After:(by Particular Desire) Mimic Comic Opera Song-Mrs Clive

Event Comment: Benefit for Kennedy. Afterpiece: Never performed in this theatre. [No mention of permission.] Mr Kennedy intended having this performance before the Benefits commenced at Drury Lane and Covent Garden Theatres, but having been detained at Bristol, could not pay his respects to his friends sooner

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-DuBellamy (from Covent Garden); Peachum-Kennedy; Lockit-Morris; Filch-Hamilton; Mat-Fearon; Ben Budge-Pitt; Lucy-Miss Atkinson; Polly-Mrs Baker (from Covent Garden); In Act III, Hornpipe-Miss Long.

Afterpiece Title: The King and The Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: King-Kennedy; Miller-Morris; Dick-Pearce.
Event Comment: Mainpiece: 14th Night [i.e. in continuation of the reckoning for the previous season]. With new Music [consisting of 6 new songs (Gazetteer, 2 Oct.)], Scenes and Dresses. The new Music and Accompaniments to the adapted Airs by Shield. The Overture by Baumgarten. The Words of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. [It was "represented in an altered state . . . The second act is almost newly written, and the language of the whole opera amended and pointed with great neatness" {London Magazine, Oct. 1784, p. 315).] "At the end of the first act [of mainpiece], Davies came forward and informed the audience that Mrs Kennedy was of a sudden taken dangerously ill, and hoped that Cubitt might be permitted to read the remainder of her part; a request that was immediately complied with" (London Chronicle, 13 Oct.). [Afterpiece in place of The Positive Man, announced on playbill of 11 Oct.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Johnstone, Davies, Quick, Edwin, Wilson, Brett, Cubitt, Darley, Mrs Kennedy [1st Act only]; Miss Wheeler, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Wilson, Mrs Bannister. [Cast from textQ. Almon, 1784): Edwin-Johnstone; Robin Hood-Davies; Little John-Quick; Ruttekin-Edwin; Baron Fitzherbert-Wilson; Scarlet-Brett; Bowman-Cubitt; Outlaws-Darley, Doyle, Baker, &c.; Allen a Dale-Mrs Kennedy; Stella-Miss Wheeler; Clorinda-Mrs Martyr; Annette-Mrs Wilson; Angelina-Mrs Bannister; Lasses-Mrs Davenett, Miss Brangin, &c]..

Afterpiece Title: St

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kennedy. Public Advertiser, 16 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Kennedy at her house in Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Performance Comment: Ferdinand-Johnstone (1st appearance in that character); Ramirez-Davies; Sanguino-Darley; Spado-Quick; Pedrillo-Edwin; Scipio-Booth; Philippo-Brett; Rapino-Cubitt; Calvetto-Thompson; Vasques-Stevens; Don Juan-Fearon; Alphonso-Mrs Kennedy; Victoria-Miss Wheeler (1st appearance in that character); Catalina-Mrs Wilson; Lorenza-Mrs Martyr .

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: As17841001

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs T. Kennedy. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Many Tickets of Mr Kennedy's having been stolen, he gives public Notice that no Tickets sold at the Doors or Avenues of the Theatre will have Admission this Evening. Morning Chronicle, 19 May: Tickets to be had of Kennedy, No. 44, Great Queen-street. Receipts: #108 4s. 6d. (41/1/6; 5/3/0; tickets: 62/0/0) (charge: #105)

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Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Husband

Performance Comment: Don Julio Lewis; Don Caesar-Quick; Don Vincentio-Edwin; Gasper (1st time)-Kennedy; Don Garcia-Davies; Don Vasques-Fearon; Pedro-Stevens; Don Carlos-Wroughton; Victoria-Mrs Bates; Minette-Mrs Martyr (1st appearance in that character); Laura-Mrs Inchbald; Inis-Miss Platt; Sanchia-Mrs Davenett; Marcella-Miss Rowson; Olivia-Mrs Warren (1st appearance in that character) .

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Dance: As17851112

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Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Song: III: Lowe; IV: New Duet-Mrs Clive, Lowe

Dance: IV: Tambourine-Miss Mechel

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Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A La Mode

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: As17461124

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Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: Flora; or, Hob in the Well

Event Comment: Benefit Kennedy and Miss Smith. [Prices 3s., 2s., 1s.] Tickets at Kennedy's, No. 2 Lambeth St.; at Miss Smith's, next door but One to the Old Playhouse in Ayliffe St.; King Harry's Head, Red Lyon St., and at the Taphouse of the Wells

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: See17460122, but Polly-Miss Smith her first on any stage; Peachum-Paget; Mat-Morgan; Lockit-Dove; Macheath-Kennedy.

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: By Desire,a Hornpipe, Wooden Shoe Dance-Banberry

Event Comment: Benefit for Bencraft and Miss Kennedy. No building on Stage

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Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17531030, but Bernardo-Wignel; Ophelia-Miss Kennedy.

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: IItalian Peasants, as17531120

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Kennedy. Tickets deliver'd for The Mistake will be taken. Last Time of Garrick's Performing Scrub this season. No Building on Stage

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Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: As17620330 but Aimwell-Kennedy; Sir Charles-Packer.

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Dance: IV: New Hornpipe-Miss Baker

Event Comment: By Permission. Benefit for Fearon and Kennedy. Mainpiece: A new Comedy. Afterpiece: A farce altered from Cibber['s comedy of same title]

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Mainpiece Title: The Fair Orphan

Performance Comment: Parts-Kennedy, Fearon, Follett, Owenson, Jacobs, Mrs Brett, Mrs Mitteer, Mrs Nost, Mrs Roachley.

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Fools

Performance Comment: Sir Gregory-Wilson; Sir Oliver-Lloyd; Sam Simple-Kennedy; Cunningham-Fearon; Niece-Mrs Brett; Mirable-Mrs Nost; Governess-Mrs Mitteer.

Entertainment: II: Dissertation on Hobby Horses-Wilson

Song: Scotch Song-Aitkin, first appearance on that stage

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [Mrs Kennedy was from the York theatre.

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Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Performance Comment: Sir William Douglas-Bensley; Freeport-Aickin; Lord Falbridge-Dimond; Owen-Usher; Officer-Egan; Servant-Kenny; La France-Baddeley; Spatter-Palmer; Lady Alton-Miss Sherry; Molly-Mrs Hitchcock; Mrs Goodman-Mrs Poussin; Amelia-Mrs T.? Kennedy (1st appearance in London).

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: As17790610

Event Comment: [On 17 Apr. 1781 the playbill notes that Mrs Kennedy acted Carlos, it being "her 1st appearance in that character this season". This is perhaps a misprint for "2nd"; i.e. on 21 Sept. 1780 the Gazetteer reviews her performance as Carlos.] Receipts: #191 1s. 6d (190.12.6; 0.9.0)

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Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Performance Comment: Ferdinand-Mattocks; Isaac-Quick; Jerome-Wilson; Lopez-W. Bates; Father Paul-Booth; Carlos-Mrs Kennedy; Antonio-Reinhold; The Duenna (1st time)-Mrs Webb; Louisa-Mrs Mattocks; Clara-Miss Catley (1st appearance in that character).

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: End: The Frolick-Aldridge (1st appearance here these 2 years), Miss Besford, Miss Valois

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Brett as Carlos, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Mrs Kennedy.] Receipts: #133 16s. 6d. (132/5/0; 1/11/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Performance Comment: As17821009, but Carlos-Mrs Kennedy .

Afterpiece Title: St

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kennedy. Receipts: #319 8x. (198/16; tickets: 120/12) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: As17821022, but Captain Macheath-Mrs Kennedy; Lockit-Mrs Webb; Lucy-Mrs Morton; Jenny Diver-Miss Morris; Polly-Mr Bannister; Mrs Davenett's name listed in playbill; omitted: Dolly Trull, Betty Doxey. hathi. Mrs Davenett's name listed in playbill; omitted: Dolly Trull, Betty Doxey. hathi.

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace; or, Harlequin Skeleton

Performance Comment: Chasseur Royal (with The early Horn)-Mrs Kennedy; Harlequin Jupiter-W. Bates; Punch-Rayner; Mars-Cranfield; Hercules-Dumay; Leander-Ratchford; Pantaloon-Thompson; Mercury-Davies; Anatomist-Jones; Pierrot-Stevens; Old Woman-Mr Wewitzer; Columbine-Miss Matthews .

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece a Hornpipe by Miss Besford