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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: I: Pierrots, proper to the Play, by Lalauze and Nivelon. III: By Desire, The Black Joak by Mr and Mrs Pelling. IV: Dutchman and his Frow by Le Brun and Miss Brett. V: Myrtillo by Denoyer, Mrs Pelling, Pelling, Mrs Walter, Villeneuve, Miss Brett

Song: II: A Mock Italian Air by Roberts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17490127, but Player-Mills; Hornpipe-Roger, _Harvey; Filch-_; Mat@o@Mint-_; Beggar-_; Mrs Slammekin-_; Sukey Tawdry-_; Jenny Diver-_; Molly Brazen-_.
Cast
Role: Player Actor: Mills

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: I: (By Desire) Savoyards, as17480920; II: Dutch Dance, as17481203

Music: Between Play and Afterpiece: a piece of Music-the Child

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Dance: I: New Dance-Cooke, Miss Hillyard; II: Dutch Dance, as17500319 but -Cooke, Miss Hillyard; III: Grand Scotch Ballet, as17500201; End of Play: Louvre, Minuet-Cooke, Miss Hillyard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: III: Dutch Dance, as17500319 End of Play: A Tambourin-Jardin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: III: The Pleasures of Spring, as17620212; End Play: The Taylors, as17620107

Event Comment: Zara first time Miss Younge-very well (Hopkins Diary). Benefit for Miss Younge. Paid Salary List #333 19s.; Mrs Abington's Cloaths acct, #1; Mr S. French 6 days, #1 10s. (Treasurer's Book). Barry Ill (Winston MS 10). Last time of performing till the Holidays (playbill). Receipts: #253 7s. 5d.; Charges: #65 17s. Profits to Miss Younge: #187 13s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: Gonzales Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Monologue: End of Play: Linco's Travels. As 24 March followed by

Dance: The Sailors Revels, as17711008

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: Gonzales Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: As17730501, King By Desire repeating his parts; Bannister playing Shift, but with no mention of his various imitations.

Monologue: 1773 5 11 After the Play: True Blue; or, The Press Gang. True Blue-Davies; Lieut.-Bannister; Careful-Wright; Nancy-Mrs Wrighten; In which will be introduced a Hornpipe-Atkins

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phaedra And Hippolitus

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Performance Comment: Dick-Woodward; Wingate-Dunstall; Gargle-Thompson; Simon-Cushing; Charlotte-Miss Ogilvie (playbill).

Dance: End of Play: The Frolick, as17741214

Event Comment: Benefit Widow and 7 Children of Mr Charles Powel, late Servant to his Majesty and his late Highness the Duke of Gloucester. At the desire of several Persons of Quality. At 8 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music, Composed by the late Famous Mr Henry Purcell for the York-shire Feast-

Event Comment: To all the Nobility, Gentlemen, and Ladies. At 7 p.m. Weekly Journal, 2 July: The Pleasure that our English People of Quality took, in being acquainted, that a Gentleman of ours, the curious Mr Abel, hath brought over hither all the most delicate Entertainments...made them last Thursday, for his Encouragement, flock in abundance to his Concert...among whom were the Princess of Wales, who went Incognito, besides several of the Nobility, and other Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: A Consort of Musick in 14 Languages-Mr Abell (lately arriv'd from Italy); Instrumental accompaniment-a great Number of the best English Masters; with Sicilian Illuminationsv; The Songs are as follows: Greek, Latin, Spanish, Italian, English, Scotch, Irish, French, High-Dutch, Low-Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Lingua Franca, Turkish; The Sea/Compass to be Sung if desired-

Event Comment: Benefit Rochetti. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Compos'd by Mr Handel. [Text by John Gay. See also Deutsch, Handel, pp. 272-73.] Receipts: money #34 10s. 6d.; tickets #34 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Song: Likewise the Song Son Confusa Pastorella-Mr Rochetti, being the Favourite Hornpipe in the Opera of Porus

Event Comment: Benefit Salway. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: money #68 14s.; tickets #90 13s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

Dance: TTambourine-Miss Rogers; Scottish Dance, as17330424 Grand Dance of Fawns, as17330423

Music: The celebrated Water Musick by Mr Handel-; Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Job Baker; accompany'd with Trumpets and French Horns-

Event Comment: Benefit Essex. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. Afterpiece: Taken from Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Music: Select Pieces composed by Mr Handel

Dance: II: Clown by Nivelon. III: Dutchman and his Frow by Le Brun and Miss Brett. IV: Pierrots by Lalauze and Nivelon. V: Shepherd's Mount, as17350218

Event Comment: [The Young Gentleman identified as Owenson by Hopkins MS Notes. Confirmed by Sir Nicholas Nipclose, in The Theatres (2nd. ed. London, 1722, p. 51) speaking of Inchbald's introduction to the London stage with advertisement of "first appearance" though he had been many years an itinerant actor, "this is a trick to gain, from curiosity, what may pay by one night the whole season's pitiful salary of such actors; several mushrooms have vegetated thus; but none more worthless or short lived, than Mr Owenson; brought forward modestly in Tamerlane, some weeks since; without even the requistes of a grown-up school-boy."] Receipts: #180 6s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: End: A New Comic Dance, call'd The Jovial Gardners-Sga Manesiere, Miss Hamoir, Mr Drouville[, being his 1st appearance. [See17630312.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: Duke and no Duke

Song: II: A New Cantata (compos'd by Mr Arne)-Beard; III: Singing-Master Vernon; IV: The Incantation Song in Dryden's Indian Queen (composed by Purcell)-Beard

Event Comment: The composition of the drama with the characters of the King, Prince of Wales, Hotspur, and Falstaff will be particularly illustrated. [This is Kenrick's School of Shakespeare; repeated 9, 16, 20 (Falstaff's Wedding and Merchant of Venice), 29 (Cozeners and Falstaff's Wedding).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lecture On King Henry Iv Part I

Song: To keep my gentle Jessy-DuBellamy; Where the Bee sucks-Miss Wewitzer

Event Comment: Mainpiece [altered by John Philip Kemble]: By Shakespeare, with Additions from Dryden. The Music by Purcell and Dr Arne, with new Airs and Chorusses by the late Linley Jun. [Epilogue by John Burgoyne (Kemble Mem.).] Receipts: #154 13s. 6d. (135.9.0; 19.2.6; 0.2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest Or The Enchanted Island

Performance Comment: Prospero-Bensley; Ferdinand-Kelly; Stephano-Moody; Trincalo-Baddeley; Caliban-Williames; Gonzalez-Aickin; Alonzo-Packer; Antonio-Phillimore; Ariel-Miss Romanzini; Hyppolito-Mrs Goodall; Miranda-Mrs Crouch; Dorinda-Miss Farren; Epilogue-Miss Farren. [This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]
Cast
Role: Alonzo Actor: Packer
Related Works
Related Work: The Tempest Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts-Kelly, Dignum, Sedgwick, Danby, Fawcett, Wilson, Maddocks, Alfred, Lyons, Miss Romanzini, Mrs Edwards, Mrs Fox, Miss Barnes, Miss Stageldoir, Mrs Shaw, Mrs Butler, Mrs Crouch; III: Chorus of Furies-; V: the Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite. Neptune-Sedgwick, Amphitrite-Mrs Edwards

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

Dance: Prince, Mrs Elford, Weaver; And at the Request of several Persons of Quality, there will be performed that delightful Exercise of Vaulting on the Manag'd Horse, according to the Italian manner-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cautious Coxcomb

Music: Together with 3 several New Entertainments of Musick perform'd in Consort upon Hautboys Flutes and German Horns-7 young Men lately brought over by their Master the famous Godfrede Pepusch, Musician in Ordinary to his Majesty the King of Prussia. The Composition being made entirely new for that pupose by his Brother, that Eminent Master Mr John Christopher Pepusch

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and instrumental Music-; with several diverting Dialogues and Comical Dancing-delaHay, Newhouse; Sword Dancing-the Original Mistress in that Art

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Consort of several Sorts of Instruments-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lallegro Il Penseroso Ed Il Moderato

Music: With two new Concertos for several Instruments-; And a New Concerto on the Organ-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Andromaca

Dance: With new Dances- [repeated several times]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Strattaggemma Or The Stratagem

Song: Before the Burletta: Singing-; several songs, a duetto-Signora Saratina, Reinhold

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: Gonzales Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Song: III: Several Catches and Glees, as17720501