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Event Comment: LLee-Hallam Booth on the Bowling Green at the Bottom of Ax@and@Battle@Yard, behind the Marshalsea. By the celebrated Company from Bartholomew Fair; 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. Presumably performed from Wednesday 7 through Thursday 15

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All Alive And Merry

Dance: Jano, Baudouin, Peters, Thompson, Mlle DeFrano, Mlle LeRoy, Mrs Dancey; The Italian Shadows-the best Masters from Italy; A Humorous Ballet Dance between a Soldier a Sailor a Tinker a Tailor and Buxom Joan of Deptford-

Music: a B Band of Musick

Event Comment: After the play on Saturday Night Mr Yates sent me the part of Bottom in the Fairy Tale & Said he would play it no more the part was given to Mr Baddeley & he play'd it to Night (Hopkins). Mr Yates sent me the part of Bottom, and said I must give it to somebody else, for he would do it no more.-Mr Baddeley Played it tonight, and very well (Hopkins Diary-MacMillan). Songs in the Entertainment given at the theatre. Receipts: #124 6d. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

Performance Comment: As17631126, but Bottom-Baddeley; Flute-Castle.
Cast
Role: Bottom Actor: Baddeley

Dance: The Irish Lilt, as17630922

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sheep-shearing

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

Performance Comment: Bottom-Parsons; Quince-Edwin; Snout-Kenny; Starveling-Peirce; Snug-Bannister; Puck-The Admiral of Lilliput [Master Edwin]; Fairies-The rest of the Lilliputians see17770515], Miss Morris, Master Harrison, Miss Twist; [Edition of 1777 (G. Kearsly) adds: Flute-Blissett; [and identifies: Oberon-Miss Morris; Fairies-Master Harrison, Miss Twist; Titania-Miss P. Farren; [and The Admiral of Lilliput. With a Fairy Epilogue-. [This was spoken at all subsequent performances.]This was spoken at all subsequent performances.]
Cast
Role: Bottom Actor: Parsons

Dance: With aPastoral Dance (incident to the [main]piece)-; End: As17770707

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe, Lyon, Moonshine, and Wall

Performance Comment: Edition of 1716 lists: Peter Quince-Bullock Sr; Bottom-Spiller; Flute-H. Bullock; Starveling-Cocker; Semibreve-Knap; Crotchet-H. Bullock; Gamut-Cocker; Prologue-Leveridge; Pyramus-Leveridge; Wall-Randal; Lyon-Cook; Moonshine-Reading; Thisbe-Pack; Epilogue-Leveridge, Pack.
Cast
Role: Bottom Actor: Spiller

Music: With all New Musick (for that Night) both Vocal and Instrumental Musick-

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cibber. Afterpiece: A Dramatic piece of one act taken from the French. Never perform'd before. The characters in it to be newdress'd. Pit and boxes laid together and amphitheatre on stage. Tickets deliver'd for 3 March will be taken. [See, 20 March. The note in Have at you all; or, The Drury Lane Journal (19 March) seems to comment on this performance: Those heroic full-bottomed perukes, whose bushy expanse is spread over the whole back of the wearer, have lately been exploded on the stage, and a more natural, I mean a less enormous covering for the head substituted in its stead. Unfortunately Mr Barry this night chose to appear in one of the most curiously frizzled out and of the fullest tragical flow I ever saw: When in the last act it was our heroes turn to be kill'd, honest Ryan being eager to dispatch him, just as he was to plump down upon the carpet, entangled his hand in the vast profusion of Macbeth's hair; and by jerking back his sword after the concluding stab, away came poor periwig along with it, while our hero was left expos'd, in the last agonies of death-bare headed. Ryan in the meanwhile with some confuconfusion contemplated Full-Bottom, which he held dangling in his hand, but sadly tumbled out of curl; at length he good naturedly adjusted it on the bald pate of the tyrant, who was then enabled to make his dying speech with proper regularity and decorum."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Oracle

Dance: GGrand Comic Ballet, as17511216

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Performance Comment: Characters-Vernon, Bransby, W. Palmer, Burton, Parsons, Hopkins, Yates, Love, Baddeley, Ackman, Clough, Mrs Vincent, Miss Young. Fairies-Miss Rogers, Miss Ford, Miss Wright, Mas. Cape, Mas. Raworth. Theseus-Bransby; Egeus-Burton; Lysander-Vernon; Demetrius-W. Palmer; Quince-Love; Bottom-Yates; Flute-Baddeley; Starveling-Parsons; Hippolita-Mrs Hopkins; Hermia-Miss Young; Helena-Mrs Vincent; Snout-Ackman; Snug-Clough; Oberon-Miss Rogers; Titania-Miss Ford; Puck-Mas. Cape; Fairies-Miss Wright, Mas. Raworth; (Edition of 1763) Characters-Hopkins; In Act V, a Fairy Dance-Mas. Clinton, Miss Street, Miss Rogers, Miss Ford, others; Overture, Airs- by the most eminent English Masters.
Cast
Role: Bottom Actor: Yates

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

Performance Comment: Characters by Yates, Baddeley, Clough, Love, Parsons, Ackman. Fairies-Miss Ford, Miss Wright, Mas. Raworth, Miss Rogers, Mas. Cape; To conclude with a Fairy Dance-Mas. Clinton, Miss Street, Miss Rogers, Miss Ford; Bottom-Yates; Quince-Love; Flute-Baddeley; Starveling-Parsons; Snug-Clough; Snout-Ackman (deduced from text).
Cast
Role: Bottom Actor: Yates

Dance: TThe Italian Gardiners, as17631119

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: So back to the Cockpitt [Whitehall], and there, by the favour of one Mr Bowman, he [Creed] and I got in, and there saw the King, and Duke of York and his Duchess (which is a plain woman, and like her mother, my Lady Chancellor). And so saw The Humersome Lieutenant acted before the King, but not very well done. But my pleasure was great to see the manner of it, and so many great beauties, but above all Mrs Palmer, with whom the King do discover a great deal of familiarity. Sometime before the Coronation of Charles II, on 23 April 1661, there may have been acted The Merry Conceited Humours of Bottom the Weaver. An edition of 1661 refers to its being "often publikely acted by some of his Majesties Comedians" and the Dedication suggests that it would make a good entertainment at the mirthful time of the Coronation. The edition lists no actors' names, no prologue, no epilogue

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

Event Comment: [See Minutes of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in Secretan, p. 107: "1703. Dec. 16: Also that at the bottom of the said paper a query might be put, whether acting the 'Tempest' upon the next Wednesday after the late dreadful storm, at the new play-house in Little Lincoln's Inn Fields, was proper or reasonable." See also The Terrible Stormy Wind and Tempest (1705), p. 24.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Event Comment: At the Old Playhouse, the Bottom of Mermaid-Court. 10 a.m. to 9 P.M. [Advertised 7, 10, 13, 14 Sept.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Innocent Wife; Or, The Merry Cuckolds

Event Comment: At Hallam's Booth, at the Bottom of Mermaid-Court. 10 a.m. to 11 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man's Bewitched

Dance: A comic peasant Dance-DelaGrange, Mlle DelaGrange, LeBrune, Mlle LeBrun, Bencraft, Mrs Lax

Music:

Event Comment: Benefit Carney. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit and First Gallery 1s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. Tickets at Carney's Lodgings at Mrs Comer's the bottom of Lemon St.; at the Taphouse of the Wells. As Mr Carney's long Illness has prevented him from waiting on his Friends in a proper manner, he humbly hopes that Gentlemen and Ladies will continue their Favours to him, without any further Application

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: The two Masters Granier, Miss Granier

Event Comment: GGeneral Advertiser, 28 Sept.: We hear that Mr Lacy, Master of his Majesty's company of Comedians at D.L. has applied for leave to raise 200 men in defence of his Majesty's person and government, in which the whole company of players are willing to engage. [See 7 Oct.] On Saturday Night the Audience at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane were agreeably surpris'd by the Gentlemen belonging to that House performing the Anthem of God Save our Noble King. The Universal Applause it met with being encored with repeated Huzzas suffciently denoted in how just an abhorrence they hold the arbitrary schemes of our invidious enemies and detest the despotic attempts of Papal Power. [See also Daily Advertiser, 30 Sept. The newspapers at this time run a three phrase slogan in bold face type vertically in the margins: No Pretender. No Popery. No Slavery, accompanied by two more phrases staring boldly from the bottom margin: No Wooden Shoes! No Arbitrary Power!]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Song: I: Lowe; IV: Colin and Phebe-Lowe, Mrs Arne; God Save our Noble King by Arne-Mrs Cibber, Beard, Reinhold (Deutsch, Handel, p. 623)

Dance: II: Grand Serious Dance-; V: Grand Comic Dance, as17450926

Event Comment: The Late Wells, the bottom of Lemon St., Goodman's Fields. A Concert of Vocal and Instrumental Musick. Divided into two Parts. The Concert to conclude with the Chorus of Long Live the King. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit or First Gallery 1s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. Between the two Parts of the Concert will be exhibited Gratis, and not acted these 50 years, an Historical Play...written by the celebrated Mr Lee. And founded on Facts which happened in France, in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. Shewing the unparalleled Dissimulations, Imprecations, and Perjuries of Charles the 9th of France, the Queen Mother, and Cardinal Lorrain, to draw the Hugonot Party into their snares, by which means the Death of the Queen Navarre was effected by Poison, and most of the Protestant Princes of the Blood destroyed. Chastillon, the famous Admiral of France, with his Wife, Children, Commanders, and Followers, all put to Death, with the King's Consent, bx the cruel and Revengeful Duke of Guise, and his Adherents. After which the Massacre becoming general over the Kingdom, near near 100,000 Protestants were destroyed in the most barbarous and inhuman manner. The Concert will begin every Evening Positively at Six of the Clock, and the Whole be concluded by Half an Hour after Nine, the Wdlls being appointed (after the Entertainment is over) for the Main Guard of the Militia of the Tower Hamlets

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Massacre At Paris

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: Blogg, Barlow, Waters, Mrs Phillips, Mrs Williamson, Mrs Cushing

Dance: the two Mhe two Masters, Miss Granier

Event Comment: [With the usual synoptic account.] Benefit Paget. Tickets at Paget's, the Tobacco Roll, in Mill Yard, near the bottom of Lemon St., Goodman's Fields. Tickets delivered out for Lee and Smith will be taken. [Prices as 25 Feb.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Event Comment: At the Late Wells, at the bottom of Lemon St., Goodman's Fields, a Concert, etc. The House is alter'd in a more Theatrical Manner, is made warm, and Front Boxes made at the upper end of the Pit. We shall perform every Night. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit and First Gallery 1s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: II: Peasant Dance-Master Morgan, Miss Baker; III: Scotch Dance-Mr Miles, Mrs Miles; IV: Tambourine-Master Morgan, Miss Baker; V: Drunken Peasant-Miles

Event Comment: At the Theatre, the Bottom of Lemon St., Goodman's Fields. [The terminology is repeated in the bills until 16 Feb. 1747. The concert formula is continued as before.] Afterpiece: By Particular desire. First time at this stage. [On Wednesday The Beggar's Opera and The Anatomist were announced for today.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, The True And Ancient History Of George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist; or, The Sham Doctor

Dance: Mr Miles, Mrs Miles, Master Morgan, Miss Baker

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Daniel who live at No 17, Stewarts Rents, bottom of Great Wild St.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved; Or, A Plot Discovered

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Event Comment: This play was wrote by Mr Moor but as he had some Enemies, came out under ye Name of Mr Spence--went off well, except some few Words & a Song wch are since omitted--Mr Havard not being able to play the part design'd for him The following advertisement was put at ye Bottom of ye Bills for he first 2 Days: N.B. The Managers being engag'd to act two New Plays this Winter, cou'd not longer defer this Tragedy in waiting for Mr Havard's Recovery; Mr Davies at a very short Warning, has willingly undertaken the Character which Mr Havard was to have acted, and humbly hopes for the Indulgence of the Public (Cross). [This N.B. note from the Cross Diary is printed verbatim on the playbill]. Never Acted before. Tis hoped no Gentlemen will desire to be admitted behind the Scenes, this night. Receipts: #217 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Event Comment: [The same notice as that for 7 Feb. concerning Havard's illness, and hoping no gentlemen will desire to be admitted behind scenes, appears on the bottom of the playbill this night.] Went off very well (Cross). Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Event Comment: MMiser & Harl. Sorcerer at ye bottom [of the bill, i.e., was announced for next play] (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Event Comment: While we were at Rehearsal, Mr Aprice, came to Mr Garrick, full of complaints of Mr Foote's taking him off in the Author & a long & high Argument ensu'd, nor was it settled, but a farther meeting appointed at eight that Night at the Rose, where Foote join'd 'em--a great deal of abuse between him & Aprice; I don't know ye particulars, but it was order'd to remain at the bottom for Tuesday, but, as I hear, it is to be done no more (Cross)

Performances

Event Comment: During the short time of the Fair, at a large Commodious Booth at the bottom of the Bowling Green. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 2s. 6d. First Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d. The Company chose to wave [sic] the usual pompous and bombastic stuff generally crowded into Advertisements on these occasions. They early beg leave to say, that they humbly presume, their having been at an uncommon expence, care, and trouble in getting up this comedy, will entitle them to some degree of preference and encouragement above those paltry performances usually exhibited at Fairs. [But see the puff on 19Sept.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Minor

Song: Several New Comic Songs-

Dance: The Dances-the same performers who were with Mr Shuter at Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At the bottom of the Bowling Green. N.B. There is a commodious Coachway within six yards of the Booth, without coming through the Fair at all

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Minor

Dance: As17600918

Event Comment: At the bottom of the Bowling Green. Haymarket Company. The Last Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Minor

Dance: As17600918