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Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: As17731025, but Juliet-Miss Miller; Vocal Parts in Solemn Dirge-Mattocks, Reinhold, DuBellamy, Baker, Owenson, Fox, Mrs Thompson, Mrs Baker, Miss Valois, Miss Twist, Miss Brown, Mrs Willems, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Jones.
Related Works
Related Work: Romeo and Juliet Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Performance Comment: Leontes-Smith; Polixines-Bensley; Florizel-Lewis; Camillo-Hull; Autolicus-Quick; Old Shepherd-Kniveton; Clown-Woodward; Perdita (with Sheep Shearing Ballad)-Miss Dayes; Paulina-Mrs P. Green; Hermione-Mrs Hartley; The Vocal Parts-Fox, Mrs Thompson, Mrs Baker; In Act II, a Dance-Aldridge, Miss Twist (playbill). [The Public Advertiser lists Reinhold instead of Fox as vocalist.]The Public Advertiser lists Reinhold instead of Fox as vocalist.]
Related Works
Related Work: The Winters Tale Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Afterpiece Title: The Sylphs

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).

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Mainpiece Title: Lecture On King Henry Iv, Part I

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard III

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Entertainment: End: Imitations vocal and rhetorical-Bannister

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: As17750925, but vocal parts-Mrs _Masterson.
Cast
Role: vocal parts Actor: Mrs _Masterson.
Related Works
Related Work: Romeo and Juliet Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: St Patrick's Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth-Macklin; Macduff-Clarke; Duncan-Hull; Malcolm-Wroughton; Banquo-Aickin; Lenox-L'Estrange; Seyton-Thompson; Hecate-Reinhold; The Witches-Dunstall, Mrs Pitt, Quick; the Vocal parts-Mattocks, DuBellamy, Baker, Fox, Miss Brown, Miss Dayes, Miss Valois, Mrs Willems, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Jones.
Related Works
Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: St Patrick's Day

Event Comment: [The playbill announces The Tender Husband, and Three Weeks after Marriage, but the former "was last night obliged to be deferred on account of the real or feigned Indisposition of Mrs Abington, of which was sent to the Theatre at Two o'clock. The Merry Wives of Windsor was substituted...Mrs Wells, to whom the part of Mrs Page belongs, could not or would not play...Mrs Bernard read the part. Bernard also supplied the place of Cubitt in Slender. The Farmer was substituted for Three Weeks after Marriage" (Public Advertiser, 27 Nov.).] Receipts: #158 18s. (151.8.6; 7.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Related Works
Related Work: The Merry Wives of Windsor Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard III

Cast
Role: Catesby Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

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

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of Fortune's Fool, advertised on playbill of 12 Nov.] Receipts: #140 5s. 6d. (135.12.6; 4.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17960926, but added: Ross-Toms; Macbeth's Servant-_; Murderers-J. _Lee omitted: Vocal Parts.
Related Works
Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: Olympus in an Uproar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Related Works
Related Work: Twelfth Night Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Related Works
Related Work: King John Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Related Works
Related Work: The Merchant of Venice Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: I: A New Comic Dance-Hamoir, Miss Hamoir (their 1st appearance this stage); III: The Piedmontese Mountaineer, as17681103

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Oliver Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Dance: I: The Sailors Revels, as17711008

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

Cast
Role: Flavius Actor: Packer
Related Works
Related Work: Timon of Athens Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Crib Actor: Castle
Event Comment: The Characters in Mainpiece "New Dress'd" (playbill). Rec'd Mr C. Roberts half year's rent to Mich. Last, #5; Paid Mr C. Roberts (shoemaker) #11 6s. 10d.; Mr G. Garrick on Acct #100; Master Thomson 13 nights (12th incl.) #3 5s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #211 17s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Related Works
Related Work: Twelfth Night Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Institution of the Garter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Related Works
Related Work: Romeo and Juliet Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Witches; or, A Trip to Naples

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Related Works
Related Work: Romeo and Juliet Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Institution of the Garter

Performance Comment: King Edward-Aickin; Genius of England-Reddish; Sir Dingle-King; Nat Needle-Parsons; Roger-Weston (Winston MS 10). The playbill lists the play, noting accompaniment of "proper Music, Habits, Scenes, Machines, and Decorations."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Pigmy Revels

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Cast
Role: Don Pedro Actor: Packer
Related Works
Related Work: Much Ado About Nothing Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: II: The Merry Peasants, as17751018

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespeare. Receipts: #73 4s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 68 paid and 18 orders; pit, 193 paid and 17 orders; slips, 17 paid and 3 orders; first gallery, 145 paid and 7 orders; second gallery, 164 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Related Works
Related Work: Measure for Measure Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Song: Mrs Wright, her first on this stage

Event Comment: Benefit Hulett and Penkethman. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespeare. Receipts: money #22 0s. 6d.tickets #153 12s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Cast
Role: Horatio Actor: Milward
Related Works
Related Work: Hamlet Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies

Dance: SScottish Dance-Mrs Bullock; Hornpipe-Jones, Mrs Ogden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Devisse, Mad Auretti, Mathews, Mad Camargo, the Little Swiss

Song: A Cantata set by Dr Boyce-Beard

Entertainment: End Cantata: the Parody of Shakespeare's Stages of Life-Garrick

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. Mainpiece: For last time this Season. Part of Pit rail'd into Boxes. No Building on Stage. Tickets sold at the doors will not be admitted (playbill). [See 6 April 1763. Smith's Skit is Larpent MS 222, in which each of the seven ages is acted out and accompanied with generalized comment.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Entertainment: After: The Humours of the Age Imitation of Shakespeare's Stages-Smith

Dance: TThe Jealous Woodcutter, as17621023

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Cast
Role: Dudley Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Entertainment: I: (for the last time) A Comic Paraphrase or Shakespeare's Seven Ages-King

Monologue: End: By Particular Desire, Linco's Travels. with his particular remarks on London (a favourite Interlude not performed these 2 years) Linco-King; Old Woman-Mrs Bradshaw