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Event Comment: 1st piece [1st time; INT 1 by Francis Godolphin Waldron): Altered from THE FATAL EXTRAVAGANCE of [Joseph] Mitchell and Aaron Hill. "I went on Monday evening with Mrs Darner to the Little Haymarket, to see The Children in the Wood, having heard so much of my favourite, young Bannister, in that new piece; which, by the way, is well arranged, and near being fine. He more than answered my expectation, and all I had heard of him. It was one of the most admirable performances I ever saw: his transports of despair and joy are incomparable, and his various countenances would be adequate to the pencil of Salvator Rosa. He made me shed as many tears as I suppose the original old ballad did when I was six years old. Bannister's merit was the more striking, as, before The Children in the Wood, he had been playing the sailor in No Song No Supper, with equal nature" (Walpole [4 Dec. 1793], XV, 266-67)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prodigal

Afterpiece Title: NO SONG NO SUPPER

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Vertue Betray'd; Or, Anna Bullen

Song: Leveridge, Ramondon, Mrs Lindsey, the Boy

Dance: As17051227

Event Comment: At 3 p.m. and 6 p.m., by reason of the Children's Playing twice a Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Thyrsis; Or, The Lost Shepherdess

Performance Comment: To be perform'd by little Children; A Prologue-a child, age four; a Comical Epilogue by way of Dialogue-a boy, girl.

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Event Comment: [P$Potter reprinted his letter of 18 Jan., and added the footnote: "The person who took the House was a man of genteel appearance, said his name was William Nicholls, and directed letters to be left for him at the Bedford Coffee House, Covent Garden."] [The Prologue and Epilogue spoken by the children of the Prince of Wales on their performing Cato at Leicester House, printed in the General Advertiser.] [This day published] A Letter to Mr G-k, relative to his treble Capacity of Manager, Actor, and Author; with some remarks upon Lethe. All Three! All three! Gay. Sold by W. Reeve in Fleet St.; and A. Dodd, at the Peacock opposite St. Clements Church in the Strand (General Advertiser). [This day published] Lethe, A Dramatick Satire, by David Garrick as it is perform'd at Drury Lane. Printed for P. Vaillant, facing Southampton Street in the Strand. Receipts: #140 (Cross); #144 17s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Foundling

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Music: I: By Desire, a piece of Music-the Child

Dance: II: Savoyards, as17480920; V: New Scotch Dance, as17490118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Prince, with Installation of Knights of the Garter

Performance Comment: Parts-Mattocks, DuBellamy, Phillips, Reinhold, Baker, Fox, Two Children (1st time on any stage), Mrs Baker, a Gentlewoman; Dances-Fishar, Aldridge, Sga Manesiere. Silenus-Reinhold; +1st Satyr-Mattocks; +2nd Satyr, Echo-DuBellamy; +3rd Satyr-Phillips; +4th Satyr-Baker; +5th Satyr-Fox; +Sylvan-Owenson; +Principal Fairies-Mas. Wood, Miss Brown (two children, their 1st appearance on any stage); +Nymphs-Mrs Baker, a Gentlewoman ($Mrs Woodman); The Dances-Fisher, Aldridge, Sga Manesiere (Edition in Colman's Works, IV, London, 1777).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Afterpiece Title: A Bold Stroke for a Wife

Dance: As17880924

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nunnery

Afterpiece Title: The Child of Nature

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: THE VIRGIN UNMASK'D

Song: Mainpiece: With the original Music of Matthew Locke, and Accompaniments by Dr Arne and Linley. Chorus of Witches and Spirits by Mrs Crouch, Mrs Bland, Miss Leak, Miss Arne, Miss Menage, Miss Granger, Miss Chatterley, Miss Redhead, Miss Gawdry, Mrs Bramwell, Mrs Butler, Kelly, Master Welsh, Sedgwick, Dignum, Cooke, Biggs, Trueman, Evans, Lyons, Maddocks, Welsh, Danby. C0MMENT. Mainpiece [with alterations by John Philip Kemble. Prologue by the Rt. Hon. Richard Fitzpa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: THE VIRGIN UNMASK'D

Song: As17940421

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Permssion of the Manager of the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. The Overture and Music by Dr Arnold. Powell: Children in the Wood rehearsed at 10 (Bannister, Dignum, Mrs Powell, Mrs Bland absent); No Song No Supper at 11 (for Starace, Kelly, Leak, Dignum, Sedgwick); Distressed Mother at 12. Receipts: #385 7s. (310/1/6; 64/10/6; 10/15/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

Song: In Act V of mainpiece a song by Mrs Bland

Event Comment: Powell: Kemble being indisposed from a violent Bruise in his Arm (during the several times of his playing the Part of Macbeth) so as to render him incapable of attending the Theatre this evening, an Apology was made by Wroughton, and the Prologue was omitted. [The playbill retains Miss Menage in afterpiece, but she] being at the Italian Opera this Evening, Master Chatterley play'd her part in the Children in the Wood. Henry VIII rehearsed at 10 (for Banks and Dignum; Packer ill); The Jew at 12 (for Miss Farren and Miss Tidswell). Receipts: #322 5s. 6d. (248/0/0; 67/15/0; 6/14/6; tickets not come in: 0/6/0)

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew

Afterpiece Title: The Adopted Child

Song: End IV: a favourite song (unaccompanied)-Master Welsh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surrender Of Calais

Afterpiece Title: The Adopted Child

Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts-Danby, Fisher, Maddocks, Trueman, Welsh, Master DeCamp, Master Gregson, Annereau, Atkins, Aylmer, Boyce, Bardoleau, Brown, Cook, Denman, Dixon, Dibble, Caulfield Jun., [J.] Fisher, Gallot, Tett, Walker, Willoughby, Miss Leak, Miss DeCamp, Miss Arne, Mrs Boimaison, Mrs Bramwell, Miss Chatterley, Miss Granger, Miss Jackson, Mrs Maddocks, Miss Menage, Miss Mellon, Mrs Butler, Miss Stuart

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Mrs Yates, and her Infant Children. [Mr and Mrs Litchfield, with Mrs Litchfield as Little Pickle, are identified in Morning Chronicle, 10 Feb. Address by Thomas Roberts (European Magazine. Feb. 1797, p. 121).] Tickets to be had of Mrs Yates, No. 26, Great Pultney-street, Golden-square; and of Rice at the Theatre, where Places for the Boxes may be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

Entertainment: MonologueEnd: Address (written for the Occasion)-Mrs Yates

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lover's Vows

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

Event Comment: [For the naming of the characters in mainpiece, as they were called originally, see 23 Feb. 1792. As afterpiece the playbill announces Blue-Beard, but "The Public are most respectfully informed that on account of the very sudden indisposition of Mrs Crouch, Blue-Beard cannot be performed. This evening will be presented The Children in the Wood" (printed slip attached to Kemble playbill).] Receipts: #165 15s. (120.7.6; 43.16.6; 1.11.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Novelty 0

Afterpiece Title: The Novelty 1; Thyrsis, A Pastoral

Afterpiece Title: The Novelty 2; All Without Money

Afterpiece Title: The Novelty 3; Hercules [By Peter Motteux

Performance Comment: ]. A Masque; Set to Musick- [by Mr John Eccles; Hercules-Redding; Omphale-Mrs Boman; Dejanira-Mrs Willis; Two of Hercules' Children-Miss Bradshaw, Jemmy Laroche; Nesica-Mrs Perrin.

Afterpiece Title: The Novelty 4; The Unfortunate Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Novelty 5; Natural Magick

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Vertue Betray'd; Or, Anna Bullen

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Song: A Dialogue-Renton, Mrs Willis

Dance: Mrs Santlow, Wade, Prince, others

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Carlos, Prince Of Spain

Song: Miss Booth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bonduca; Or, The British Worthy

Music: With the Addition of that Celebrated Musick by the late Mr Henry Purcell-Randal, Renton, Teno, Burkhead, Mrs Willis, Mrs Mills, Miss Booth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bonduca; Or, The British General

Dance: Dancing Proper to the Play-; particularly, Dancing-Girl of Six years of Age, for her Diversion, Scholar to Mr Roussau; being the first Time she ever appeared on the Stage