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Event Comment: 3rd piece [1st time; F 2, author unknown, based on Der Postzug; oder, Die nobeln Passionen, by Cornelius Hermann von Ayrenhoff. Larpent MS 834; not published. Prologue by George Colman elder (Public Advertiser, 19 June)]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Performance Comment: Peeping Tom-Edwin; Mayor-Moss (1st appearance in that character); Crazy-Barrett; Earl of Mercia-Gardner; Count Louis-Lyons; Harold-Davies; Maud-Mrs Kemble; Mayoress-Mrs Webb; Lady Godina [sic]-Miss Brangin; Emma-Mrs Bannister.
Cast
Role: Emma Actor: Mrs Bannister.

Afterpiece Title: The Swop

Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces King Henry the Fifth, but it was not acted "on account of the indisposition of Kemble" (Public Advertiser, 8 Dec.). Kemble Mem. lists the substitute play.] Receipts: #167 5s. 6d. (106.4.0; 58.0.6; 3.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Performance Comment: This was the only performance of this play this season.

Afterpiece Title: The Island of St

Performance Comment: Marguerite. Principal Characters-Kelly, Barrymore, Suett, Waldron, Sedgwick, Bannister Jun., Miss Romanzini, Mrs Edwards, Miss Hagley, Mrs Fox, Mrs Crouch. [For assignment of parts see17891113] Prologue omitted [and thereafter.]For assignment of parts see17891113] Prologue omitted [and thereafter.]
Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pope. Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years. [When still Miss Younge Mrs Pope had 1st acted Fatima at the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin, 4 Mar. 1771.] Public Advertiser, 9 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Pope at her house, Half-moon Street. Receipts: #343 10s. 6d. (230.3.6; 8.3.0; tickets: 105.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Afterpiece Title: Cymon

Performance Comment: Cymon-Blanchard (1st appearance in that character); Dorus-Quick; Merlin-Bannister; Daemon of Revenge-Darley; Shepherds-Egan, Evatt; Linco-Edwin; Urganda-Mrs Martyr; Fatima-Mrs Pope (1st appearance in that character [in London]); Dorcas-Mrs Pitt; Shepherdesses-Miss Rowson, Miss Stuart; Sylvia-Mrs Mountain.
Cast
Role: Merlin Actor: Bannister

Dance: End: Tamborine Dance- [See17891021]; Afterpiece conclude: Dance-Byrne, Mrs Goodwin

Event Comment: Benefit for Baddeley. 2nd piece [1st time; INT 1, probably by Robert Baddeley. Larpent MS 865; not published]. Public Advertiser, 20 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Baddeley, No. 10, New Store-street, Bedford Square. Receipts: #320 9s. 6d. (94.18.0; 16.5.0; 0.12.6; tickets: 208.14.0) (charge: #117 10s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Cast
Role: Young Fashion Actor: Bannister Jun.

Afterpiece Title: Mordecais Beard

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Dance: End I: As17900323

Song: End II: a new Masonic Song-Dignum

Entertainment: Monologue. End: The Picture of a Play@House; or, Bucks have at ye all-Bannister Jun

Performance Comment: End: The Picture of a Play@House; or, Bucks have at ye all-Bannister Jun.
Event Comment: Benefit for Holman. Ode: The music by Dr Arne. Afterpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [acted 16 June 1790]. Public Advertiser, 28 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Holman, No. 2, Tavistock-row, Covent Garden. Receipts: #217 2s. 6d. (121.11.0; 6.15.6; tickets: 88.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Performance Comment: Steady-Bannister; Lubin-Incledon (1st appearance in that character); Easy-Thompson; Solomon-Quick; Floretta-Miss Williams (1st appearance in that character); Cicely-Mrs Davenett; Gillian-Mrs Mountain.
Cast
Role: Steady Actor: Bannister

Entertainment: Duologue. End: Garrick's Ode on Shakespeare-Holman, Miss Brunton; Principal Vocal Parts-Incledon, Blanchard, Williamson, Cubitt, Gray, Miss Broadhurst, Miss Williams, Mrs Martyr

Event Comment: 3rd piece [1st time; F 2, by Charles Stuart, "from the Spanish"; on 2 Sept. reduced to 1 act. Prologue by the author (see text)]. "The Piece, we understand, was originally founded on some topics that have of late engrossed the conversation of much of the fashionable world...The Lord Chamberlain thought [it] too delicate a nature to appear with the allusions and title it then bore, She would be a Duchess. The consequence was that the offensive bits were expunged and the piece re-christened...It would be unfair to make any observations...in the mutilated stage it was presented" (Public Advertiser, 15 Aug.). "Some part of the plot was supposed to allude to the late occurrences in the family of General John? Gunning, who was indulged with the privilege of erasing [from the MS] that which he disliked, and who reduced it to its present feeble and unconnected form" (Gazetteer, 15 Aug.). [The reference in the original title is to the simultaneous flirtation of Miss Elizabeth Gunning, the General's daughter, with the eldest sons of the Dukes of Marlborough and Argyll (see dnb, under Susannah Gunning). She would be a Duchess: in Larpent MS 915.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Next Door Neighbours

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performance Comment: Don Diego-Bannister; Leander-Davies; Mungo-Cornellys; Scholars-Evatt, Farley; Leonora-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified]); Ursula-Mrs Webb.
Cast
Role: Don Diego Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in Spain

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. [Duquesney not listed as a Demon in Public Advertiser.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine with the Birth and Adventures of Harlequin

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Altered from [The Scornful Lady, by] Beaumont and Fletcher [1st time; c 5, by William Cooke; incidental music by Michael Arne. Prologue by the alterer. Epilogue by George Colman, the elder (see text)]. Public Advertiser, 27 Jan. 1783: Wednesday Morning [29 Jan.] will be published The Capricious Lady (price not listed). "The costume of James's reign was strictly attended to in the dresses of the characters; and I remember the enjoyment of Mrs Abington, in a high ruff and a rich silver silk edged with black velvet" (Boaden, Siddom, I, 371). Receipts: #228 4s. 6d. (218/10/6; 9/14/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Capricious Lady

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Cast
Role: : Mr Belville Actor: Bannister
Role: Rosina Actor: Mrs Bannister

Dance: As17820927

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [Mrs Siddons's 1st appearance as the Countess of Salisbury was at Bath, 25 Nov. 1778.] "So thoroughly wretched, so utterly destitute of all Requisites is this Tragedy ... that it excites with Wonder not a little Indignation that the unexampled Genius of such an actress [as Mrs Siddons] should be wasted on Dullness if possible yet more unexampled" {Public Advertiser, 8 Mar.). Receipts: #275 0s. 6d. (256/7/0; 16/19/6; 1/9/0; ticket not come in: 0/5/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Countess Of Salisbury

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick. Mainpiece: Altered from Shirley. Never acted here. With proper Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations. [Epilogue by Edward Topham (European Magazine, May 1786, p. 368).] Afterpiece: In 2 Acts; written by Addison. Public Advertiser, 29 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Quick, No. 99, High Holborn. Receipts: #281 17s. 6d. (153/14/6; 4/4/0; tickets: 123/19/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bird In A Cage Or Money Works Wonders

Afterpiece Title: The Drummer or The Haunted House

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece a Grand Dana of Ladies [performers not listed]; End of mainpiece The Drunken Sailor Reclaim'd [performers not listed, but see17860304

Event Comment: [The playbill lists Mrs Clendining as singing As when the dove, but "An apology was made for the absence of Mrs Clendining...Master Pring was allowed to sing her song" (Public Advertiser, 21 Mar.).

Performances

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

Music: End Part II: a trio for violin viola and violoncello-G. and R. and C. Ashley

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Dr Arne the balance of his night for Achilles the 30 Dec. last #86 18s. 6d. Receipts: #209 9s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: As17740103, but Belmour-Hull; Gloster-Clarke (playbill). [and same casting in the Public Advertiser.]and same casting in the Public Advertiser.]

Afterpiece Title: The Sylphs

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; P 2, author unknown. MS not in Larpent; synopsis of action in Public Advertiser, 8 and 9 Jan.]: With new Scenes, Dresses and Decorations. To conclude with a Representation of the Repulse of the Spaniards before the Rock of Gibraltar [on 13 Sept. 1782; this was included in all subsequent performances]. The Music partly new [by William Shield, with overture by Carl Friedrich Baumgarten] and partly compiled from the best Masters. The Scenes designed and executed by Greenwood. Nothing under Full Price will be taken. Books of the Pantomime to be had at the Theatre. Account-Book, 4 June: Paid the Author of Harlequin Junior a Compliment on the Success #30. Receipts: #261 5s. 6d. (257/10/0; 3/8/0; tickets not come in: 0/7/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior or The Magis Cestus

Performance Comment: Characters by Wright, Williamson, Burton, Staunton, Williames, R. Palmer, Waldron, Chaplin, Phillimore, Wilson, Alfred, Spencer, Kenny, Grimaldi; Mrs Burnett, Miss Burnett, Miss Tidswell, Miss Barnes, Miss Cranford, Miss M. Stageldoir. [Partial cast from Parker's General Advertiser, 8 Jan.: Old Harlequin-Wright; Magician-Staunton; Sailor-Williames; Clown-Grimaldi; Spirit-Miss Cranford; Colombine-Miss M. Stagedoir. Playbill of 10 Nov. 1788 lists the other parts: Harlequin, German Officer, French Gentleman, Valet, Miller, Landlord, Cook, Daemon, Taylor; Old Colombine, French Ladies.] hathi. Old Colombine, French Ladies.] hathi.

Song: In Act II of mainpiece a song by Miss Phillips

Event Comment: Benefit for Dodd. Paid Mr Weston per Mr G. G's note #4 16s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #230 3s. 6d. Charges: #64 13s. Profits to Dodd: #165 10s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petruchio

Performance Comment: Petruchio-Dodd, first time; Grumio-Baddeley; Baptista-Wright; Hortensio-J. Bannister; Pedro-Griffith; Tailor-J. Burton; Bianca-Miss Platt; Catharine-Miss Pope; Biondello-Hartry; Music Master-Fawcett; Curtis-Mrs Bradshaw.
Cast
Role: Hortensio Actor: J. Bannister

Dance: V: A New Dance call'd The Surprize-Master Holland, Miss Ross, Miss Armstrong, others, scholars of Daigville

Event Comment: Places may be taken at the Theatre. To begin at one o'clock. [The notice is placed as (and continues hereafter to run as) a news item, rather than in the customary form for advertisements in the Public Advertiser.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Morning Lectures

Event Comment: Benefit for Henderson. Public Advertiser, 19 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Henderson, No. 21, Maiden-lane, Covent Garden. [Henderson's 1st appearance as Bayes was at Bath, 28 Nov. 1772.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

Cast
Role: Snug Actor: Bannister
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)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Dance: End: The Wapping Landlady-[see17870131]

Event Comment: Benefit for Wrighten, prompter. 2nd piece [1st time; M.INT I]. Public Advertiser, 1 May: Tickets to be had of Wrighten, New Buildings, Hemming's Row, St. Martin's Lane. Receipts: #250 6s. (38.14; 19.15; 1.7; tickets: 190.10) (charge: #109 8s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Le Matin Midi et le Soir

Afterpiece Title: Too Civil by Half

Dance: End 2nd piece: The Conjugal Frolick, as17880221

Event Comment: 2nd piece [1st time; F 1, by John Rose; in Town and Country Magazine, Aug. 1788, p. 374, said to be translated from a French farce]. "Edwin was too ill to sing, but went through the part [in Peeping Tom; see 16 Aug.]" (Public Advertiser, 4 Aug.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ways And Means

Cast
Role: Sir David Dunder Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Roundfee Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: A Quarter of an Hour before Dinner or Quality Binding

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Event Comment: Benefit for Farren. Public Advertiser, 6 May: Tickets to be had of Farren, No. 73, Gower-street. Account-Book, 16 May: Received Farren's benefit deficiency #33 7s. 6d. [Reckoned as follows: Farren disposed of #209 12s. in tickets; this sum he kept. Money [i.e. tickets sold at the doors of the theatre] amounted to #71 12s. 6d. From this money he was obliged to meet the house charge of #105, and hence owed the treasury the amount stated above.] Receipts: #281 4s. 6d. (69.".0; 2.10.6; tickets: 209.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The Feast of Anacreon

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Entertainment: Monologue. End IV: A Comic Description of the Curiosities in the Tower of London-Edwin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Cast
Role: Merlin Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Performance Comment: As17720331 but Major Sturgeon-Love; Roger-Burton?[but Burton died the week before (Public Advertiser)].but Burton died the week before (Public Advertiser)].

Entertainment: V: Scrub's Trip, as17720427

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Moody. Paid Mr S. French 6 days #1 10s.; Master Thomson, 13 nights #3 5s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #246 6s. Charges: #64 12s. Profits to Moody: #181 14s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

Dance: II: A Hornpipe-aYoung Gentlewoman, 1st appearance; V: The Sailors Revels, as17711008

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Performance Comment: As17540112, but Don John-Bransby; Verges-Vernon; Dogberry-Yates (playbill). [Don John-$Davies (Public Advertiser).]

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: II: Masquerade Dance-; Devisse, Mad Auretti

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Cast
Role: Servant Actor: Ackman

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Performance Comment: As17681109 (Public Advertiser). [The playbill is shortened by omission of Puck and Queen Mab. Silvio-Wright instead of Baddeley.]
Cast
Role: Clod Actor: Ackman
Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Orphan, announced on playbill of 31 Dec. 1776. Public Advertiser assigns the Ghost to Farren.] Afterpiece: With Additions and Alterations, New Music, Scenes [by Greenwood, Leroy and French Jun. (Morning Post, 4 Jan.)], Dresses, and Decorations. Receipts: #175 1s. 6d. (137.1.0; 34.17.0; 3.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion