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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prize; Or, 2

Afterpiece Title: The Child of Nature

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: II 3rd piece: Mock Minuet-Palmer, Miss Pope

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Force Of Ridicule

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Kelly

Dance: As17961019

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 9 years. [Mrs Worthington is identified in MS list in Kemble playbills of new performers for this season.] Ballet: 1st time; composed by Giacomo? Gentili. Afterpiece [1st time: ENT 1, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan; acted in place of The Prize, advertised on playbill of 4 Mar. Text (C. Lowndes, 1797)]: Altered from a Dramatick Entertainment performed 1794 [The Glorious First of June]. In the course of which will be introduced a representation of the late Glorious Engagement between the British and Spanish Fleets on the Fourteenth of February [1797, under Sir John Jervis, off Cape St. Vincent]. Receipts: #253 9s. (151.2.6; 100.17.0; 1.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: Cape St

Song: III: a Masquerade Scene-; with Hark! the Lark at Heaven's Gate sings-Sedgwick, Dignum, Welsh, Master Welsh

Ballet: End: The Labyrinth; or, The Country Madcap. Joseph-Gentili; Robert-Grimaldi; Philip-Master Menage; Rosina-Sga Bossi DelCaro; Countess-Mrs Wild; Lauretta-Miss S. DeCamp

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zorinski

Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

Entertainment: Entertainment. Not listed on playbill (see17971016). Morning Herald, 16 Oct.: A representation of the late engagement with the Dutch-; was unexpectedly given after the play. It was followed by some fire@works-, in which was a star, ending after various mutations in a sun, emblematic of British Glory!

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Italian Monk

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cambro-britons

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zorinski

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Song: End: My Mother bids me bind my Hair (by Haydn)-Master Suett (1st appearance in public)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

Afterpiece Title: The Prize; or, 2, 5, 3, 8

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Afterpiece Title: The Embarkation

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pizarro

Related Works
Related Work: Pizarro Author(s): August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts-Sedgwick, Dignum, Danby, Cook, Tett, Caulfield Jun., Sawyer, Danby Jun., Aylmer, Willoughby, Bardoleau, Clark, Mead, Elliot, Ms Crouch, Ms DeCamp, Ms Leak, Ms Arne, Ms Menage, Ms Roffey, Ms Menage Jun., Ms Wentworth, Ms Chippendale, Ms Jacobs, Ms Butler, Ms Saunders, Ms Gawdry, Ms Benson, Ms Coates

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Blue Devils

Afterpiece Title: The Jew

Related Works
Related Work: The Jew Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

Song: 3rd piece: Chorus-Kenrick, Little, Willoughby, Dibble, Aylmer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zorinski

Afterpiece Title: 'Tis All a Farce

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Epsom Wells

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Related Works
Related Work: Flora's Vagaries Author(s): Richard Rhodes

Dance: Two Pierrots by Lalauze and Nivelon. The Peasants by Lalauze, Mlle D'Hervigni, &c. Sailors (from orestes) by Glover, Tench, Desse, Delagarde, Livier, Richardson

Performance Comment: The Peasants by Lalauze, Mlle D'Hervigni, &c. Sailors (from orestes) by Glover, Tench, Desse, Delagarde, Livier, Richardson .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Meraspe O L'olimpiade

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ezio

Dance: End of Act I a Pastoral Dance (composed by Simonet) by Henry, Bournonville, Raymond, Sga Crespi, Mlle Dumont; End of Act II A Divertisement Dance (composed by Noverre) by Gardel, Mlle Baccelli, Nivelon, Mlle Theodore, Henry. Sga Crespi, Bournonville, &c; End of Opera a new Tragi-Pantomime Ballet (composed by Noverre), Les Amans Reunis, by Gardel, Mlle Baccelli, Nivelon, Mlle Theodore, Slingsby, Simonet, Henry, Bournonville, Raymond, Mlle Dumont, Sga Crespi. [Partial cast, with synopsis of action, from Morning Herald, 18 Dec: Alphonso-Gardel; Ines-Mlle Baccelli; Chief of the Island-Slingsby.]

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by Richard Cumberland. Author of Prologue unknown. Epilogue by the author (Public Advertiser, 30 Jan. In 1796 this was acted at CG altered by the author in 4 acts]: With new Dresses, &c. Public Advertiser, 10 Feb. 1783: This Day at Noon will be published The Mysterious Husband (18d.). [Afterpiece in place of Barnaby Brittle, announced on playbill of 27 Jan.] Receipts: #275 9s. (269/14/6; 5/14/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mysterious Husband

Related Works
Related Work: The Mysterious Husband Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: As17820927

Event Comment: Benefit for Waldron. Public Advertiser, 9 May: Tickets to be had of Waldron, No. 19, Martlet-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Mainpiece [1st time in London; C 5, by Francis Godolphin Waldron, 1st acted at Richmond, Aug. 1782, as The Belle's Stratagem; or, The Female Fortune-Hunters, and again at the HAY in 1794 as Heigho for a Husband! Prologue by the author (MacMillan, Larpent Catalogue, 100). Author of Epilogue unknown. MS: Larpent 599; not published]. Afterpiece: Not acted these 8 years. The Indisposition which prevented King from performing last Friday continuing, Palmer has very kindly undertaken and studied the Character King intended to have appeared in this Evening. Receipts: #126 15s. 6d. (34/5/0; 21/18/6; 2/15/0; tickets: 67/17/0) (charge: #106 9s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Imitation; Or, The Female Fortune-hunters

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies' Frolick

Dance: After the Epilogue The Butterfly, as17830426; In Act I of afterpiece the Crutch Dance {performers not listed)

Song: In Act II of mainpiece song on the Knights of St. Patrick, &c. (singer not listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Patriot

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal; or, The Tars of Old England

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by Richard Cumberland. Prologue and Epilogue by the author (see text)]: With new Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations. Public Advertiser, 14 Dec. 1784: This Day is published The Carmelite (1s. 6d.). "We never saw [Kemble] wandering to the audience; he never turned his eye around for applause when he had closed an animated period, nor ever entertained his intervals of silence with glances at the side-boxes, like some of his contemporaries, not to mention the great Palmer, nor Davies, &c." This behavior "he has so happily caught from Mrs Siddons" (Public Advertiser, 22 Dec.). Receipts: #233 17s. (216/15/0; 16/10/6; 0/11/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Carmelite

Related Works
Related Work: The Carmelite Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Rivals

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Richard Cumberland. Prologue by the author. Epilogue by Edward Topham (see text). In 1794 this was altered by the author, and reduced to 4 acts]: With new Scenes and Dresses. Public Advertiser, 25 Jan. 1785: This Day is published The Natural Son (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #175 19s. 6d. (154/12/0; 21/0/0; 0/7/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Natural Son

Related Works
Related Work: The Natural Son Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Related Works
Related Work: The Gentle Shepherd Author(s): Richard Tickell