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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. Daily Advertiser, 12 Oct.: The same Day [11 Oct., the Anniversary of His Majesty's Coronation] Mr Giffard...gave a handsome Entertainment, with a Concert of Musick, to the Company of Comedians, and a large Bonfire and Liquor to the Populace, when the Healths of their Majesties, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales; the Duke, and the Princesses, were drank, with the sounding of Kettle Drums and Trumpets, and repeated Acclamations of Joy. Daily Post, 13 Oct.: Mr Fielding the Player (who keeps a Booth...during...Bartholomew Fair) gave to the Populace before his own Door in Hart-street, Bloomsbury, a Butt of the strongest Beer that could be got; also a large Bonfire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Cast
Role: Falstaff Actor: Hulett
Role: Ford Actor: Giffard
Role: Page Actor: Rosco
Role: Shallow Actor: Norris
Role: Evans Actor: Pearce
Role: Slender Actor: Bullock
Role: Caius Actor: Bardin
Role: Host Actor: Huddy
Role: Simple Actor: Young Woodward
Role: Mrs Ford Actor: Mrs Giffard
Role: Mrs Page Actor: Mrs Haughton
Role: Ann Page Actor: Mrs Purden
Role: Mrs Quickly Actor: Mrs Morgan.

Dance: DDutch Skipper-D'Valois, Mrs Bullock; Tambourine-Miss Wherrit; Sailor's Dance-Jones

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the late Mr Congreve. [Prince of Wales and Princess Royal present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Sir Sampson Actor: Shepard
Role: Valentine Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Ben Actor: Cibber
Role: Scandal Actor: W. Mills
Role: Tattle Actor: Cibber Jr
Role: Foresight Actor: Johnson
Role: Trapland Actor: Griffin
Role: Jeremy Actor: Oates
Role: Angelica Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Mrs Frail Actor: Mrs Heron
Role: Prue Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Willis.

Dance: Mrs Booth

Event Comment: Formerly Compos'd by Mr Handel, and now again Revis'd by him. With several Additions, to be perform'd by a great Number of the best Voices and Instruments. There will be no Action on the Stage, but the Scenes will represent (in a Picturesque Manner) a Rural Prospect, with Rocks, Groves, Fountains, and Grottos, amongst which will be disposed a Chorus of Nymphs and Shepherds. The Habits and every other Decoration suited to the Subject. [Prince of Wales and Princess Royal present. See letter from Hill to Handel, in Hill, Works, I, 174-75, and in Deutsch, Handel, p. 299.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 28 March: Their Majesties, together with his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and the Princesses were again...to see Deborah...at which was likewise present one of the most numerous Audiences of Nobility and Persons of Distinction that has been ever seen in any Theatre. Egmont, Diary, I, 345: It was very magnificent, near a hundred performers, among whom about twenty-five singers. [See also Lady A. Irwin to Lord Carlisle, in Deutsch, Handel, pp. 309-10.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deborah

Event Comment: [Prince of Wales and Princess Amelia present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne

Event Comment: [Their Majesties, Prince of Wales, and three eldest Princesses present. Egmont also present. For a satiric pamphlet on opera, see Harmony in an Uproar, dated 12 Feb.; much of it is reprinted in Deutsch, Handel, pp. 344-57.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ariadne [in Creta]

Event Comment: Daily Advertiser, 18 March: And on Friday [Giffard] invited the whole Company to a very grand Entertainment, prepar'd for 'em in the Play-house, where their Majesties, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the Prince and Princess of Orange, the Royal Family, Success to Trade, Prosperity to the City of London, and many other Loyal Healths were drank; during which time the Arches were again illuminated, Fireworks play'd off, and the Night concluded with a Ball

Performances

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Event Comment: Benefit Mlle Salle. By Their Majesties' Command. [Prince of Wales, Prince of Orange, and two young Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv, Part I

Dance: Les Charactres de P Amour by Mlle Salle. Un Pas de Trots by Malter, Houghton, Mlle Salle. Peasant by Malter. Pigmalion, as17340114

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. By Command of His Royal Highness. To which (By Command) will be added, The Coronation of Anna Bullen, with the Military Ceremony of the Champion in Westminster-Hall, for the Entertainment of . . .the Prince of Orange, who accompanies his Royal Highness to the Play. [Prince of Wales, Prince of Orange, Princess Caroline present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv, Part Ii

Cast
Role: King Actor: Mills
Role: Prince Actor: W. Mills
Role: Shallow Actor: Johnson
Role: Silence Actor: Miller
Role: Feeble Actor: Griffin
Role: Falstaff Actor: Harper
Role: Pistol Actor: Cibber
Role: Lancaster Actor: A. Hallam
Role: Gloster Actor: Cross
Role: York Actor: Mil ward
Role: Justice Actor: Boman
Role: Poins Actor: Oates
Role: Bardolph Actor: Shepard
Role: Hostess Actor: Mrs Shireburn
Role: Doll Actor: Miss Mann. A new Prologue upon the Company's Return to the Theatre Royal, spoken by Mills

Song:

Dance:

Event Comment: [Prince of Wales and Princess Amelia present.] Lord Hervey to Henry Fox, 2 Nov.: No place is full but the Opera; and Farinelli is so universally liked, that the crowds there are immense. By way of public spectacles this winter, there are no less than two Italian Operas, one French play house, and three English ones. Heidegger has computed the expense of these shows, and proves in black & white that the undertakers must receive seventy-six thousand odd hundred pounds to bear their charges, before they begin to become gainers. Ilchester, Lord Hervey and his Friends, p. 211

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Event Comment: Daily Advertiser, 6 Nov.: The King, the Prince of Wales and Princess Amelia, were again to . . . Artaxerxes, in which Signor Farnelli continues to sing to a crowded Audience, with all imaginable Applause. Egmont, Diary, II, 132: Went to the opera, where I heard the finest voice that Europe affords, Faranelli, lately come over. Norwich Gazette, 9 Nov.: We hear that both Operas (occasion'd by their dividing) are at a vast expence to entertain the Nobility and Gentry for the ensuing Season; the Opera House in the Haymarket are reckon'd to stand near 12000l. and Mr Handell at near 9000l. for the Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Event Comment: [Text by Paul Rollo. Music by Nicholas Porpora.] A New Opera. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 3 Feb.: On Saturday Their Majesties ...the Prince of Wales, and the Princesses Amelia and Carolina . . . saw the Opera of Polifemo, which was perform'd to one of the greatest Audiences that hath King's been known this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Polifemo

Cast
Role: : Polifemo Actor: Montagnana
Role: Aci Actor: Farinello
Role: Galatea Actor: Signora Cuzzoni
Role: Ulisse Actor: Senesino
Role: Calipso Actor: Signora Bertolli
Role: Nerea Actor: Signora Segatti
Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the Duke, their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Amelia, Carolina, Maria and Louisa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Harlequin Astrologer, Infant, Ch1mney-sweeper, Statue, Parrot, & Skeleton

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Hulla

Music: Select Pieces. Solo on the German Flute by Burk Thumoth

Dance:

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Ben Johnson. By Her Majesty's Command. [The Queen, Prince of Wales, Duke, and Princesses Caroline, Mary, and Louisa present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Cast
Role: Subtle Actor: W. Mills
Role: Face Actor: Mills
Role: Ananias Actor: Johnson
Role: Tribulation Actor: Griffin
Role: Kastril Actor: Miller
Role: Dapper Actor: Leigh
Role: Surly Actor: Oates
Role: Lovewit Actor: Shepard
Role: Doll Common Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Dame Pliant Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Drugger Actor: Cibber
Role: Sir Epicure Actor: Harper
Role: Neighbours Actor: Winstone, Wright, Turbutt, Raftor

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Grand Volgi: Being the Comic Interlude of Cephalus and Procris

Event Comment: With Alterations and Additions. Tickets half a guinea. Gallery 5s. Gallery open at four; Pit and Boxes at 5. 6 P.M. [Their Majesties, Prince of Wales, and Princesses present, as also the Prince of Modena.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Polifemo

Event Comment: [Prince of Wales, Duke, and Princess Amelia present.] Daily Advertiser, 30 Jan.: The Opera oF Mithridates was so full on Tuesday Night, that there were above 440 Ladies and Gentlemen in the Pit and Boxes, besides the Subscribers. Above 50 People were oblig'd to go away for want of Room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mithridates

Event Comment: [Prince and Princess of Wales present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orpheus

Event Comment: In Honour of the Royal Nuptials of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. [Music by Porpora.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Feast Of Hymen

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Pit and Boxes put together. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 6 May: There was an exceeding great Audience, and great Numbers of Quality both in the Boxes and Pit. Their Highnesses' Box was handsomely ornamented with white Damask, adorn'd with Silver Laces and Fringes; over the Canopy was the Figure of Hymen, with a Label on which was this Motto: Concordia Cordium. Daily Journal, 6 May: The House was so full about Five o'Clock, that several Gentlemen and Ladies, unable to go to their Seats, was obliged to depart

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Cast
Role: Henry VIII Actor: Quin
Role: Wolsey Actor: Mills
Role: Buckingham Actor: W. Mills
Role: Surrey Actor: Cibber
Role: Queen Katherine Actor: Mrs Thurmond
Role: Cranmer Actor: Milward
Role: Gardiner Actor: Johnson
Role: Sands Actor: Miller
Role: Anna Bullen Actor: Miss Holliday
Role: Norfolk Actor: Berry
Role: Suffolk Actor: Boman
Role: Chamberlain Actor: Winstone
Role: Abergavenny Actor: Salway
Role: Campeius Actor: Shepard
Role: Cromwell Actor: Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Cast
Role: Turkish Dancers Actor: Delamayne and Mrs Walter
Role: Adonis Actor: Essex
Role: Turkish Dancer Actor: Delamayne
Role: Phoebus Actor: Mrs Cantrell
Role: Phaeton Actor: Cross
Role: Clymene Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Ethiopian Actor: Essex
Role: Turk Actor: Salway
Role: Harlequin Actor: Le Brun
Role: Morocco Servant Actor: Poitier
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Mann
Role: Colombine's Maid Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Harlequin's Good Genius Actor: Miss Cole
Role: Venus Actor: Mlle Anne Roland, but see17360304

Dance: I: Tambourine by Mlle Roland. II: Russian Sailor by Denoyer, &c. IV: French Peasants by Poitier, Mlle Roland, &c

Event Comment: [Their Majesties, Prince and Princess of Wales, and rest of the Royal Family present.] At 7 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Feast Of Hymen

Event Comment: Prince and Princess of Wales expected to attend

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adriano

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales [who were present]. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Cast
Role: Calphurnia Actor: Mrs Butler
Role: Caesar Actor: W. Mills
Role: Octavius Actor: Salway
Role: Brutus Actor: Quin
Role: Cassius Actor: Mills
Role: Antony Actor: Milward
Role: Caska Actor: Cibber
Role: Portia Actor: Mrs Thurmond
Role: Citizens Actor: Johnson, Miller, Harper, Griffin

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Cast
Role: Pierot Actor: Poitier
Role: Harlequin Actor: Le Brun
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Spaniard Actor: Salway
Role: Two Monkeys Actor: Towers, Roberts

Dance: I: By Denoyer's Prentice. II: Grand Serious Ballet by Denoyer, &c. IV: Minuet in Modern Habits by Denoyer and Mlle Anne Roland

Ballet:

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales [who were present]. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat. 6:30 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Cast
Role: Elder Worthy Actor: Este
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Sir Novelty Actor: Cibber
Role: Sir William Actor: Johnson
Role: Loveless Actor: Milward
Role: Young Worthy Actor: W. Mills
Role: Snap Actor: Mechlin
Role: Sly Actor: Miller
Role: Narcissa Actor: Mrs Thurmond
Role: Hillaria Actor: Miss Holliday
Role: Flareit Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Anne Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Cast
Role: Chloe Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Lovemore Actor: Salway
Role: Stocks Actor: Harper
Role: Jack Stocks Actor: Cibber

Dance: III: By Denoyer's Apprentice. IV: By Mlle Anne Roland. V: Revellers by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c