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Event Comment: [By Charles Goring.] Never Acted before. Preface: I am sensible...that Irene appear'd to the greatest Disadvantage on the Stage, strip'd of Her Ornaments of Musick by a Superior Order; and in many of Her Characters suffering very much in the Action

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Mainpiece Title: Irene Or The Fair Greek

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Related Work: Irene; or, The Fair Greek Author(s): Charles Goring
Event Comment: [By Charles Johnson]. Never Acted before

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Mainpiece Title: The Force Of Friendship

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Related Work: The Force of Friendship Author(s): Charles Johnson
Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By Charles Johnson Premiere.] Benefit the Author. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: The Force Of Friendship

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Related Work: The Force of Friendship Author(s): Charles Johnson

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Chest

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Related Work: Love in a Chest Author(s): Charles Johnson
Event Comment: [By Charles Johnson.] Never Acted before

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Mainpiece Title: The Generous Husband Or The Coffee House Politician

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Related Work: The Generous Husband; or, The Coffee House Politician Author(s): Charles Johnson
Event Comment: [By Charles Johnson.] Never acted before. The Whole Play being new dress'd

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Mainpiece Title: The Wifes Relief Or The Husbands Cure

Event Comment: [By Charles Johnson.] Never Acted before

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Mainpiece Title: The Successful Pyrate

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Related Work: The Successful Pyrate Author(s): Charles Johnson
Event Comment: [By Charles Shadwell.] Never Acted before

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Mainpiece Title: The Humours Of The Army

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Related Work: The Humours of the Army Author(s): Charles Shadwell
Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By Charles Shadwell. Apparently not printed.] Written by the Author of the Humours of the Navy

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Mainpiece Title: Epsom Wells

Afterpiece Title: The Merry Wives of Broad Street

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Related Work: The Merry Wives of Broad Street Author(s): Charles Shadwell

Dance: Prince, Mrs Bicknell

Event Comment: [By Charles Johnson.] Never Acted before

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Mainpiece Title: The Victim

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Related Work: Love's Victim: or, the Queen of Wales Author(s): Charles Gildon
Related Work: The Victim Author(s): Charles Johnson
Event Comment: [By Charles Johnson.] Never Acted before

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Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses Or The Custom Of The Manor

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Related Work: The Country Lasses: or, The Custom of the Manor Author(s): Charles Johnson
Event Comment: Mainpiece: [By Charles Knipe.] Never Acted before. Benefit the Author. Receipts: #114 7s

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Mainpiece Title: The City Ramble Or The Humours Of The Comptors

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Related Work: A City Ramble: or, The Humours of the Compter Author(s): Charles Knipe

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Dance: As17150512

Event Comment: [By Charles Johnson.] Never Acted before

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Mainpiece Title: The Sultaness

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Related Work: The Sultaness Author(s): Charles Johnson
Event Comment: [By Charles Beckingham.] Never Acted before. With Habits for all the Characters entirely New. Preface: [The play] was twice deferr'd by reason of a Principal Actor's Indisposition;...and even, when brought on the Stage, appear'd to less Advantage: The Principal Character of the Play being read the First Night, and the next Principal Character the Second

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Mainpiece Title: Scipio Africanus

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Related Work: Scipio Africanus Author(s): Charles Beckingham
Event Comment: [By Charles Molloy.] A New Comedy

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Mainpiece Title: The Coquet

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Related Work: The Coquet: or, The English Chevalier Author(s): Charles Molloy
Event Comment: [By Charles Johnson.] Never Acted before

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Mainpiece Title: The Masquerade

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Related Work: The Masquerade Author(s): Charles Johnson
Event Comment: [By Charles Beckingham.] Never Acted before. [The Prince expected to attend.

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Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth Of France

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Related Work: The Tragedy of King Henry IV of France Author(s): Charles Beckingham
Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Fryar, who has played but once since the days of King Charles, and taught three Queens to Dance

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Mainpiece Title: The Half Pay Officers

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Related Work: The Half Pay Officers Author(s): Charles Molloy

Afterpiece Title: Hobs Wedding

Dance: The Bashful Country Maid, Irish Trot-Peggy Fryar

Event Comment: [By Charles Coffey.] Never Acted before. Consisting of Variety of English, Scotch, and Irish Ballads. To which will be acted several comic and diverting French Pieces, to be perform'd by Monsieur Morrell

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Wedding

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Related Work: The Beggar's Wedding Author(s): Charles Coffey
Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. [The Prince, attended by Lord Charles Cavendish and Colonel Townshend, and Princess Caroline, attended by the Countess of Suffolk, present.

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Mainpiece Title: Cato

Performance Comment: As17291027, but Marcia-Mrs Oldfield; Sempronius-W. Mills; Portius-Williams; Marcus-Bridgwater; Lucius-Corey; Decius-Boman, .
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Role: Portius Actor: Williams

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Wedding

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Related Work: The Beggar's Wedding Author(s): Charles Coffey
Event Comment: Mainpiece: [By Charles Coffey.] A New Farcial Ballad Opera. Afterpiece: By Desire. Tickets delivered for the Author's Benefit will be taken

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Mainpiece Title: The Female Parson Or Beau In The Suds

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Related Work: The Female Parson; or, Beau in the Suds Author(s): Charles Coffey

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [by Charles Johnson.] With New Habits. [See Preface for an account of the noisy reception of the play, and Lord Hervey and his Friends, p. 61, for Hervey's amusing account of the first night.

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Mainpiece Title: Medea

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Related Work: Medea Author(s): Charles Johnson
Event Comment: Benefit Jones, Mrs Bland, Mrs Gondou, Miss Ferguson, Miss Morrison (General Advertiser). Benefit Charles Jones, son of the late Jere Jones who formerly kept the Selectation Tavern at Billingsgate (Daily Advertiser)

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Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

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Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Charles Coffey

Dance: Cooke, Sga Campioni; also Scotch Dance, as17441012

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

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Mainpiece Title: Massacre At Paris

Performance Comment: Charles IX-Cushing; Chastellion-Furnival; Cardinal-L. Hallam; Duke of Guise-Paget; Navarre-Shepherd; Conde-Lee; Anjou-Blakey; Alberto-Julian; Rochfacault-Burt; Langoiran-Blogg; Columbiere-Barlow; Chavagnes-Dove; Queen Mother-Mrs Bambridge; Antramont-Mrs Hallam; Queen of Navarre-Mrs Williamson; Margaret-Gentlewoman; the two last never appear'd on the stage before. With the Prologue-; Epilogue- written at the late happy Revolution.
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Role: Charles IX Actor: Cushing
Role: Queen of Navarre Actor: Mrs Williamson

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

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Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Charles Coffey

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

Dance: the two Mhe two Masters, Miss Granier

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Macklin. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [See 27 Jan. 1770.] Afterpiece: For this night only this season (playbill). Charges #64 5s. Profit to Miss Macklin #19 4s., plus #43 from 172 Box tickets. Paid Whitefield one fourth year's salary due Lady Day last #25. Paid Mr Barber for a suit of regimentals embroider'd with gold, #12 12s. Paid Lowe and Lucas (linnen drapers) #13 19s.; Paid Evans for Spermecita candles as per bill #12. Paid Barrett (wax chandler) #3 4s. (Account Book). [Miss Macklin considered this a poor benefit, and on 6 May 1772 wrote to her father about the troubles she met in getting it underway. Woodward would not play in the farce since it did not belong to the theatre and since he had not be asked before she put his name in the bills. Kniveton labored hard and did quite well as Sir Archy. Ann Pitt so ill she could not do Lady Wrangle, but Mrs Hull sat up two nights, learned the part and acted it creditably (Harvard, Memoirs of Charles Macklin, Vol. II, pt. 2, after p. 55).] Receipts: #83 9s. (Account Book)

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Mainpiece Title: The Refusal Or The Ladys Philosophy

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

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Related Work: Love a-la-mode Author(s): Charles Macklin

Dance: End: A Dance in which will be an Allemande,-Hamoir, Miss Hamoir

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; burl 2, by Charles Dibdin, based on The Loves of Mars and Venus, by Peter Anthony Motteux]: With New Scenes and Dresses. The Music chiefly composed by Dibdin. [Dr Arne and Dr Arnold each wrote one air.] Books of the Burletta to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 5 Feb. 1778: This Day at Noon is published Poor Vulcan! (1s.). [The playbill lists Reinhold in place of Mahon, but on the Kemble playbill his name is deleted and a MS annotation substitutes Mahon's.] Receipts: #232 5s. 6d. (230.2.6; 2.3.0)

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Mainpiece Title: Percy

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

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Related Work: Poor Vulcan! Author(s): Charles Dibdin