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Event Comment: Benefit for Dickinson, pit office-keeper, and Carleton Jun., box lobby door-keeper. [Afterpiece in place of The Irish Widow, announced on playbill of 25 May.] Morning Chronicle, 18 May: Tickets to be had of Dickinson, No. 5, Wild-court, Wild-street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields [Carleton not listed]. Receipts: #280 3s. 6d. (26.1.0; 6.9.0; 0.18.6; tickets: 246.5.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: End: Hornpipe, as17790521

Event Comment: Benefit for Watson, Carleton Jun., Wilson & Hicks. Tickets delivered by Master Benson, Barrett, McDonald and Boroughs will be taken. Receipts: #256 14s. (18.1; 10.17; 0.13; tickets: 227.3) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: Who's The Dupe

Dance: As17791215

Entertainment: Monologue. End: Bucks have at ye all-Master Benson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Critic; or, A Tragedy Rehearsed

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by King, Dodd, Palmer, Parsons, Baddeley; Mrs Hopkins. Principal Tragedians: Farren, Waldron, Burton, Packer, Lamash, Bannister Jun.; Miss Pope. [For assignment of parts see17811012].

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The True Briton

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece a Hornpipe, as17820314mitations. End of mainpiece, by Bannister Jun

Performance Comment: End of mainpiece, by Bannister Jun .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'eroe Cinese

Dance: End of Act I an entire new Ballet (composed by Gardel Sen.), Mirsa (Taken from an American Anecdote), by Gardel, Mlle Baccelli, Nivelon, Mlle Theodore, Sga Crespi, Mons and Mme Simonet, in which a Minuet and Gavet: composed by Gardel Jun. who, in the Concert Scene, will execute a concerto on the violin [Scenario (Paris, 1779) lists the parts: Mondor, Son Epouse, Mirsa, Lindor, Officier Corsaire, Gouvernante de Mirsa, Officiers Americains, Creoles, Officiers Francais, Negres]; End of Act II Apollon et les Muses, as17820502, but Slingsby in place of Nivelon; End of Opera Adela of Pontbieu, as17820411

Performance Comment: ), Mirsa (Taken from an American Anecdote), by Gardel, Mlle Baccelli, Nivelon, Mlle Theodore, Sga Crespi, Mons and Mme Simonet, in which a Minuet and Gavet: composed by Gardel Jun. who, in the Concert Scene, will execute a concerto on the violin [Scenario (Paris, 1779) lists the parts: Mondor, Son Epouse, Mirsa, Lindor, Officier Corsaire, Gouvernante de Mirsa, Officiers Americains, Creoles, Officiers Francais, Negres]; End of Act II Apollon et les Muses, as17820502, but Slingsby in place of Nivelon; End of Opera Adela of Pontbieu, as17820411.
Event Comment: Benefit for Watson, Carleton Jun., Wilson, Hicks & Palmer Sen. Receipts: #267 3s (14/17; 7/6; 0/14; tickets: 244/6) (charge: #105 8s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Foundling

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: As17830505

Event Comment: Benefit for Vestris [Jun.]. Tickets, half a guinea each, to be had of Vestris, No. 37, Great Pulteney-street, Golden-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Rivali Delusi

Dance: End of Act I Le Reveil du Bonheur, as17840203; End of Opera an entirely new ballet in the Rural Stile, composed by D'Auberval, founded on the much admired Burletta of the celebrated Favart, Le Coca du Pillage; ou, La Lotterie Ingenieuse, in which a Pastoral Minuet, never exhibited but at the Opera in Paris, by Vestris fJun.J and Mme Theodore, the other parts by Blake, Slingsby, Mme Rossi, Miss De Camp, Mme Simonet. The Music selected from Sacchini, Piccinni, and other eminent Performers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: [entertainments Of Music And Dancing] A Grand Symphony By The Celebrated Band Of The Opera House

Performance Comment: The Peasant Metamorphosed, as17840430 Hornpipe, as17840430 A Grand Instrumental Concert. The Country Squabble, as17840430 New Pastoral Pas de Deux by Duquesney Jun. and Mlle Constance (from the Theatre Royal, Paris). The Rival Clowns, as17840430, but added: Mrs Dagville; in which Orpheo, as17840430.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: A Beggar on Horseback

Performance Comment: Principal Parts by Parsons, Baddeley, Bannister Jun., R. Palmer, Edwin; Mrs Wells, Mrs Webb. [For assignment of parts see17860612].

Dance: As17860609

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never acted at this Theatre. By Beaumont and Fletcher, with Alterations [by Thomas Harris (Boaden, Kemble, I, 378)]. Public Advertiser, 15 Jan.: The alterations consisted of many curtailments, the last scene of Act IV being entirely omitted. [Prologue by Henry Sampson Woodfall Jun. (European Magazine, Dec. 1787, p. 503; Feb. 1788, p. 105).] Receipts: #150 2s. (146.18; 3.4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King And No King

Afterpiece Title: The Dumb Cake

Song: II: a Grand Chorus-Johnstone, Davies, Darley, Cubitt, Blurton, Janson, Bonville, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart, Mrs Watts, Mrs Byrne, Miss Rowson, Miss Francis, Miss Paye, Miss Blower, Mrs Kennedy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection 0 From The Works Of Handel

Performance Comment: Principal Vocal Parts-Spence (1st appearance in public), Dignum, Bellamy Jun. (1st appearance), Miss Broadhurst (1st appearance in Oratorios), Miss Hagley, Miss Cecilia Davies, detta Inglesina (1st appearance in Oratorios); Conductor-Linley; 1st Violin-Shaw; Part I Overture-(Ariadne); He smote all the First@born of Egypt-Chorus (Israel in Egypt); Honour and Arms-Bellamy (Samson); No more shall Edom's Sons-Miss Hagley (Israel in Babylon); Hear us O Lord-Chorus (Judas Maccabeaus); O magnify the Lord-Miss Broadhurst (Chandos Anthems); Total Eclipse-Spence; O first created Beam-Chorus; Let the bright Seraphim-Miss Cecilia Davies (Samson); Zadok the Priest-Chorus (Coronation Anthems).

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With Additions [by John Philip Kemble] from Dryden. The Music by Purcell and Dr Arne. With new Airs and Chorusses by Linley Jun. Receipts: #225 8s. 6d. (188.14.6; 34.19.0; 1.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest; Or, The Enchanted Island

Afterpiece Title: Don Juan

Dance: See17911105 [i.e. not listed on playbill]

Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts-Kelly, Dignum, Sedgwick, Danby, Mrs Crouch, Mrs Bland, Miss Hagley, Mrs Edwards; V: the Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite-Neptune Sedgwick,; Amphitrite Mrs Edwards

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Song: the favouriteair from Idalide-Mme Mara [in her Character; accompanied upon the Harp-. [BUC, 57, identifies this as Ah! could Mandane yield her breath for thee!, and the harpist as Meyer Jun.

Performance Comment: [BUC, 57, identifies this as Ah! could Mandane yield her breath for thee!, and the harpist as Meyer Jun.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Song: As17921102

Dance: As17921102; In afterpiece: Dances-the D'Egvilles, Menage, Chatterley, Webb, Melvin, Phillips, Bourk, Bidotti, Whitmell, Walker, Nokes, Keys, Miss Menage, the Miss D'Egvilles, Miss Phillips, Miss A. DeCamp, Miss Menage Jun., Miss Smith, Miss Haskey, Miss Whitmell, Mrs Brooker, Mrs Haskey, Mrs Brigg, Mrs Harris, Mrs Barrett, Mrs Bourk

Performance Comment: DeCamp, Miss Menage Jun., Miss Smith, Miss Haskey, Miss Whitmell, Mrs Brooker, Mrs Haskey, Mrs Brigg, Mrs Harris, Mrs Barrett, Mrs Bourk.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosina

Afterpiece Title: MY GRANDMOTHER

Performance Comment: Characters by Bannister Jun., Suett, Bland, Benson, Maddocks, Caulfield//Mrs Bland, Sga Storace. [And see17931216.] hathi.

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection Of Sacred Music From The Works Of Handel

Performance Comment: Principal Vocal Performers as17940319but added: Miss Mason (1st appearance in public). Leader as17940312ART I. Overture (ATALANTA). Shall I in Mamre's? by Meredith; For all these Mercies by Chorus (JOSHUA). Come ever smiling liberty by Miss Leak (JUDAS MACCABAEUS). Together let us range by Harrison and Sga Storace (Boyce). How vain is man by Dignum (JUDAS MACCABAEUS). O Baal by Chorus (DEBORAH). Let the bright Seraphim by Sga Storace; Let their celestial Concerts all unite by Chorus (SAMSON). PART II. From L'ALLEGRO IL PENSEROSO. Hence! loathed melancholy by Harrison. Hence! vain deluding joys by Mrs Crouch. Come thou, goddess fair by Harrison. Come rather goddess, sage by Mrs Crouch. Haste thee nymph by Kelly and Chorus. Come and trip it by Mrs Bland and Chorus. Come pensive nun and Come, but keep thy wonted state by Mrs Bland. Join with thee calm peace and quiet by Chorus. Hence loathed melancholy and Mirth admit me of thy crew by Miss Leak. First and Chief and Sweet Bird, accompanied on the flute by Ashe, by Mrs Crouch. If I give thee honour due and Mirth admit me of thy crew by Meredith. Oft on a plat by Harrison. If I give thee honour and Let me wander by Master Welsh. And young and old by Chorus. PART III. The depths have covered them by Chorus (ISRAEL IN EGYPT). Ye men of Gaza by Mrs Crouch (SAMSON). 'Twas at the Royal Feast by Kelly; Happy, happy pair by Kelly and Chorus (ALEXANDER'S FEAST). Hope told a flattering tale by Miss Mason, accompanied on the harp by Meyer Jun. [Paisiello]. Pour forth by Meredith (JEPHTHA). When warlike Ensigns by Master Welsh (OCCASIONAL ORATORIO). From the Censer by Chorus (SOLOMON) .

Music: End of Part II concerto on the violin by Giornovichi

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Revised and Altered [reduced from 5 acts to 4] by the Author [Richard Cumberland; MS of this version: Larpent 1026]. [In afterpiece the playbill retains Bannister Jun. as Robin, but he "being ill, Benson play'd Robin" (Powell).] Powell: Natural Son rehearsed at 11 (Miss Farren absent, Miss Tidswell one scene). Receipts: #149 9s. 6d. (106/6/6; 34/13/0; 8/10/ 0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Natural Son

Afterpiece Title: NO SONG NO SUPPER

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of COMUS, advertised on playbill of 11 June.) Powell: Clandestine Marriage rehearsed at 10 (King ill; Barrymore one scene); Lodoiska at 12 (Bannister Sen. not call'd; Danby, Denman, Reynoldson, Hobler, Horsfall, Dorion Jun., G. D'Egville, Hamoir absent). Receipts: #114 2s. 6d. (74/19/0; 33/10/6; 5/13/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: THOMAS AND SALLY

Event Comment: [Palmer's 1st appearance as Capt. Duretete was at Liverpool, 18 Aug. 1773. As afterpiece the playbill announces The Prize, but "The Public are respectfully informed that on Account of the sudden Indisposition of Bannister Jun. The Prize cannot be performed. This Evening will be presented Tit for Tat" (printed slip attached to Kemble playbill). In it "Barrymore being Ill, Benson play'd Villamour" (Powell).] Powell: New Ballet rehearsed at 12. Receipts: #117 12s. (71.0.6; 41.13.6; 4.18.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant; Or, The Way To Win Him

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Cast
Role: Vapour Actor: Bannister Jun.

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Performance Comment: As17941027, but Ismene (with new songs, one of which will be accompanied on the harp by Meyer Jun.)-Miss Leak.
Related Works
Related Work: The Sultan; or, A Peep into the Seraglio Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Song: End 2nd piece: a favourite song-Mrs Ferguson (1st appearance on that stage)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mountain. 2nd piece [1st time: CO 2, by James Hook Jun. Larpent MS 1172; not published]: With appropriate Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations. The Overture and Music by James Hook? Sen.. True Briton, 16 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Mountain, No. 28, Maiden-lane, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #287 3s. (86.4.6; 14.6.0; tickets: 186.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: Diamond Cut Diamond; or, Venetian Revels

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Song: In: Ma chere Amie-Incledon; End Act I 2nd piece: to conclude with a Grand Serenade-, by Moonlight, on the Water, representing a View in the Bay of Venice, with distant Illuminations; A Madrigal-Incledon, Gray, Linton, which is echoed from various Gondolas, as they pass and repass, sounding their Oars to the Time of the Singers; The Storm-Incledon

Event Comment: Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Calkin, Edmonds, Gorman, Gooding, Humphries, Henderson, Jacobs, Marks, Massingham Jun., Perry, Ross, Scott, Waterer will be admitted. Receipts: #40 7s. (18.11.0; 19.11.6; 2.4.6; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: First Love

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for $Palmer Jun.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: Two Strings to Your Bow

Entertainment: Imitations of Mrs Siddons in Isabella-Mrs Sumbel; Imitations of Mrs Jordan, Mrs Crawford and Mrs Martyr-Mrs Sumbel

Event Comment: [Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Appleby, Bennett, Butler, Calkin, Dale Jun., Fosbrook, Gooding, Henderson, Humphries, Jacobs, Marks, Powell, Perry, Gaudry, Phillimore, Ryder, Scott, Tice, Williams, Wooldridge will be admitted.] Receipts: #58 10s. 6d. (28.15.6; 18.2.6; 0.0.0; odd money: 11.12.6; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: As17980920