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Event Comment: The last night of the Subscription of this Season. N.B. By particular desire many of the Nobility and Gentry who are engag'd to Drury Lane Theatre on Tuesday next for the benefit of decay'd actors, the last serious opera of Demetrio (Music entirely new, Composed by Guglielmi) is deferred till Wednesday next when Mlle Heinel is to dance for the last time of her engagement in England

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaserse

Dance: As17720519

Event Comment: Last time of company's performing this season. Benefit for Bowers and Widow Veal. Tickets deliver'd by Berrisford, Hodges, and Burroughs will be taken. Thus Ends the Season-63 different plays-36 different Farces-186 Nights in all (Hopkins Diary). Paid Watch, Rector, Cleansing, &c., cg to Lady Day last #5 18s. 4d. (Treasurer's Book). After Season Receipts: 11 June: Box Office Keeper's cash #25; Condill's 3rd and last payment for Fruit Office #20. 16 June: Candles, Oyl and Lampmen of Theatrical Fund Night 2nd inst. #3 18s. 6d. 23 June: Mr Johnston for Candle ends sold to sundry #11 7s. 6d.; Ditto for Lace burnt form the Wardrobe #205 8s. 26 June: Harrison's rent 1 yr to Lady Day last #46 but with #12 5s. in taxes deducted amount rec'd #33 15s.; Williams rent ditto (#48 with #8 6s. 8d. taxes deducted) #39 13s. 4d.; From Public Advertiser this season #50; From Daily Gazetteer #50. 3 July: Remainder of Sinking Fund #160 2s. 6d. 6 July. Mr Rowland 1 yrs rent to Lady Day last with #3 8s. in taxes deducted, #139 12s.; Mr Pope 1 yrs rent to ditto with #3 11s. 2d. taxes deducted #26 8s. 10d. 10 July: Benefit deficiencies cleared and Cash taken up by Evans as per acct. #89 7s. (Treasurer's Book). After Season expenditures: 11 June: Hopkins, Prompters Bill #8 15s.; Miss Hopkins 18 Nights full #2 5s. 13 June: 2 days salary list at #72 6s. 5d. per diem #144 12s. 10d.; S. French 6 days #1 10s. 16 June: Davies on note #7 6s.; Printer's 2 bills #11 14s.; Mas. Thomson 3 nights in full 15s.; Mrs Mann on note #2 2s.; Tallow chandler's 9th bill (#30 14s. 4d. with a discount of #26 15s. 6d. on all bills for season) #3 18s. 10d. 19 June: Miss Berkley on note #5 5s. 3 July: J. Stevens 2 weeks as usual #1 16s; Sandys & Co. for Colours #10 4s. Dorman for Coals #20 10s. and for attending practices of dances, as usual #10 10s.; Cole (turner) #14 3s.; Bibb (sword cutler) #3 12s.; Barret (wax chandler) #20 6s. 6d.; Blakes, (hatter), #5 12s.; Lowe and Co (glaziers) #16 6d.; Cropley, (linen draper) #14 7s. 6d.; Chamberlain & Co. (ironmongers), #25; Carter (scowerer) #14 12s.; Jennings (glover and furrier) #18 6d.; Scott (copper laceman), #51 19s.; Carpue, (silk dyer) #9 1s. 6d.; Mrs Chitty (coals) #28; Carver's bill #2 1s.; Chettell (timber) #14 9s.; Cubitt (Tinman) #18 2s. 6d.; Waller (hosier) #24 19s. 6d.; Barrow & Co. (only) #118; Vaughan (haberdasher) #3 6s.; Hatsell (mercer) #28 2s.; Thomson (smith) #10 15s. 6 July: B. Lyon, Wardrobe & Carp Bills #10 10s. 6d.; Stephens (manson) #6 4s.; Pope (peruke maker) #29 6s. and #3 16s. for 38 extra nights dressing &c.; Mrs Slaughter's Bill #9 2s. 6d.; Roberts (shoemaker) #3 12s. 6d.; D. Richards, 30 weeks 5 days extra salary in full for this season #30 16s. 8d.; Hewetson (laceman) #17 6s.; Mr Page in full of #25 this season #1 17s. 6d. 8 July: J. Johnston's Music Bill #37 13s. 6d.; Powney & Co., (stationers) #3 14s.; Landall for Mrs Cape's Funeral per order #4 7s. 6d.; Kirkman, (harpsichord maker) #18 14s.; John French, painter's bill #5 3s. 10 July: Palmer for Spermacetti Candles #255 8s.; Miss Collett's schooling #2 8s. 10d.; Stafford (glassman) #4 19s.; A. Johnston's bill for feathers &c. #15 6s. 6d.; Ditto four Housekeeping Bills #10 1s. 4d.; Chapman (Jubilee horsekeeping) #3 13s. 6d.; Victor 2 weeks salary as usual #5; Victor gratuity as usual #30; Evans 2 weeks salary as usual #3 and #42 in lieu of a Benefit. Books Closed 10 July. Total income #32,538 6s. 1d. Total outgo #26,410 8s. 8d. Profit #6,127 17s. 5d. paid To Managers #5,040 To Clutterbuck #1,087 17s. 5d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: End: Hornpipe-Walker

Event Comment: By Permission. Positively the last Night of Performing this Season. Benefit for Dancer, Mrs Fearon, and VanRymsdyck. Tickets delivered by Lloyd and Vowell will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: Y. Meadows-Payne (from the Theatre Royal in Norwich); Hawthorn-Fearon; Hodge-Griffiths; Eustace-Dancer; Sir William-Farrel; Footman-Smith; Carter-Lloyd; Woodcock-Parsons; Lucinda-Mrs Payne; Madge-Mrs Fearon; Deborah-Mrs Parsons; Housemaid-Mrs Smith; Cook-Mrs White; Rosetta-Mrs Greville; With Dances- incidental to the piece.
Cast
Role: Eustace Actor: Dancer
Role: With Dances Actor: incidental to the piece.

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Cast
Role: Gargle Actor: Dancer

Entertainment: A Variety of Imitations-a Young Gentleman [Stokes]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: Romeo-Young Gentleman, first appearance on any stage. [Mr Diamond]; Mercutio-Dodd; Friar Lawrence-Packer; Benvolio-Davies; Capulet-Inchbald; Tybalt-J. Aickin; Peter-Burton; Lady Capulet-Mrs Johnston; Nurse-Mrs Cross; Juliet-Miss Mansell; Apothecary-Castle; Paris-Fawcett; Prince-Keen; Balthazar-Wheeler; [With the Funeral Procession-; the Vocal Parts-Champnes, Davies, Kear, Mrs Scott, Mrs Wrighten, Mrs Hunt; [In Act I, a Masquerade-; a Dance-.
Cast
Role: a Dance Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: a Dance Actor: .

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

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Rooker; Pantaloon-Grimaldi; Old Miser-Jacob; Colombine-Miss Watkins; Clown-Ackman; Miser's Servant-Messink; First Witch-Vernon; Second Witch-Johnston; Bridemaids-Mrs Scott, Mrs Wrighten; The Dances-Daigville, Atkins, Giorgi, Sga Vidini, Sga Giorgi.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Lewes; Ballad Singer-Quick; other characters-Rayner, Cushing, Morris, Baker, Banks, Miss Twist; The Dances-Fishar, Sga Manesiere. [See17720131 and 8 Feb.]See17720131 and 8 Feb.]
Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Sga Manesiere.

Dance: IV: The Dutch Milkmaid, as17720925

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Principal Characters- Mattocks, Reinhold, Hull, Mrs Mattocks, Miss Catley,DuBellamy, Perry, Mas. Harris, Mrs Baker, Miss Twist; With Dance incidental to the piece-; Genest, V, 360, suggests Comus-Mattocks; 1st Spirit-Hull; 1st Bacchanal-Reinhold; Lady-Mrs Mattocks; Euphrosyne-Miss Catley.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Performance Comment: Amintor-Mattocks; Mindora-Mrs Baker; Daphne-a Young Lady[, first appearance any stage Miss Wewitzer]; [With a Dance [incident to the piece-Mas. Harris, Mas. Blurton, Miss Twist, Miss Valois.

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors, as17721012

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur; Or, The British Worthy

Performance Comment: Oswald-Jefferson; Aurelius-Keen; Conon-Packer; Albanacht-Bransby; Merlin-Aickin; Grimbald-Bannister; Osmond-Palmer; Guillamar-Wheeler; King Arthur-Reddish; Philadel-Miss Venables, first appearance on any stage; Cupid-Miss Collett; Matilda-Miss Platt; Emmeline-Miss Younge; with a New Epilogue-, first time; Vocals-Vernon, Champness, Fawcett, Kear, Mrs Scott, Mrs Hunt; The Dances-Daigville, Giorgi, Atkins, Sga Vidini, Sga Giorgi, Sga Daigville.

Afterpiece Title: Wits Last Stake

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Performance Comment: Ranger-Garrick; Strictland-Love; Frankly-Aickin; Bellamy-Packer; Jack Meggot-Dodd; Tester-J. Burton; Servant-Ackman; Mrs Strictland-Mrs Egerton; Milliner-Mrs Davies; Landlady-Mrs Bradshaw; Jacintha-Miss Younge; Clarinda-Miss Pope; Lucetta-Mrs Love; To Conclude with a Country Dance-.

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamesters

Afterpiece Title: The Rose

Performance Comment: Parts by Vernon, Bannister, Dodd, Dibdin, Kear, Fawcett, Wright, Ackman, Miss Weller, Mrs Davies, Mrs Love, Miss Platt, Miss Hopkins, Miss Collett, Mrs Smith. With a Dance in Act I, incidental to the piece-Atkins, Sga Giorgi; Lord Gainlove-Vernon; Jack Rattle-Dodd; Sir Humphrey Carbuncle-Bannister; Buckskin-Dibdin; Town Crier-Kear; Mr Violet-Wright; Letland-Ackman; Servant(?)-Fawcett; Billy Viodet-Miss Collett; Millclack-Miss Weller; Miss Clara Violet-Mrs Davies; Mrs Violet-Mrs Love; Lady Willmore-Miss Platt; Kitty Willmore-Miss Hopkins; Miss Serina Violet-Mrs Smith (Genest, V, 342, MacMillan, and Edition of 1773.).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Pigmy Revels; or, Harlequin Foundling

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Rooker; Colombine-Mrs Sutton; Others-Messink, Grimaldi, Ackman, Keen, Wright, Burton, Kear, Waldron, W. Palmer, Wrighten, Jacobs, Griffith, Jones, Master Cape, Lings, Watkins, Mrs Wrighten, Mrs Bradshaw, Miss Lings, Miss Platt, Mrs Millidge, Miss Collett, Mrs S. Smith; Dances-Daigville, Atkins, Giorgi, Sga Vidini, Sga Giorgi.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Lewes; Pantaloon-Morris; Clown-Cushing; Colombine-Miss Twist; The Witches-Mattocks, Miss Wewitzer, Legg, Baker, Owenson, Fox, Miss Valois, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Jones; Shepherd-DuBellamy; Shepherdess-Miss Wewitzer; Pluto-Reinhold; Proserpine-Mrs Baker; The Dances-Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Performance Comment: As17721226, but to conclude with additional scenes of action, a representation of the Pantheon-; Dances-_.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Performance Comment: Jupiter-Reddish; Mercury-Jefferson; Amphitryon-J. Aickin; Gripus-Parsons; Sosia-King; Phaedra-Miss Pope; Bromia-Mrs Bradshaw; Night-Miss Platt; Alcmena-Miss Younge; In Which will be Introduced an Interlude of Singing, Dancing-; Plutus-Champnes; Wit-Mrs Scott; The Dance-Sg Daigville, Sga Vidini.

Afterpiece Title: The Pigmy Revels

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Performance Comment: Laura-Mrs Smith; first time, and for that night only; Damon-Vernon; Palaemon-Davies; Pastora-Mrs Wrighten; To conclude with a Dance-.
Cast
Role: To conclude with a Dance Actor: .

Entertainment: End: (For the last time this season) The Wishing Cap-King. [See17730323]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens; Or, The Death Of Mary Queen Of Scots

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Performance Comment: Griskin-Shuter; Sotherton-Owenson; Jemmy Twinkle-Lewes; Chamberlain-Thompson; Cupid-Miss Brown; Landlady-Mrs Pitt; Miss Flack-Mrs Willems; Filagree-Mrs Green; Mrs Griskin-Mrs Bulkley; With Dances incident to the piece-.

Entertainment: Epilogue End: (By Particular Desire) New Occasional Epilogue-Mrs Bulkley

Dance: Minuet-Aldridge, Mrs Bulkley (playbill) Fisher, Mrs Bulkley (Public Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Country Madcap

Monologue: Interlude.End: True Blue; or, The Press Gang. Principal Parts-Mattocks, Reinhold, Baker, Mrs Mattocks; Dance-Aldridge

Performance Comment: End: True Blue; or, The Press Gang. Principal Parts-Mattocks, Reinhold, Baker, Mrs Mattocks; Dance-Aldridge.
Cast
Role: Dance Actor: Aldridge.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-Vernon; Peachum-Moody; Ben Budge-Ackman; Lockit-Bransby; Filch-Parsons; Beggar-Waldron; Player-Wheeler; Lucy-Mrs Wrighten; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Love; Diana Trapes-Mrs Bradshaw; Polly-Mrs Smith; In III, a Hornpipe-Atkins; To Conclude with a Country Dance-.

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: II: The Irish Fair-Atkins, Mrs Sutton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamesters

Afterpiece Title: The Pigmy Revels

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Rooker; Colombine-Mrs Sutton; Other characters-Messink, Grimaldi, Ackman, Keen, Wright, Burton, Kear, Waldron, W. Palmer, Wrighten, Jacobs, Griffiths, Jones, Master Cape, Lings, Watkins, Mrs Wrighten, Mrs Bradshaw, Miss Platt, Mrs Millidge, Miss Collet, Miss Lings, Mrs S. Smith; The Dances-Daigville, Atkins, Giorgi, Sga Vidini.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alfred

Performance Comment: Alfred-Reddish; Earl of Devon-Jefferson; Hermit-J. Aickin; Corin-Bannister; Danish King-Palmer; 1st Dane-Brereton; 2nd Dane-J. Bannister; Eltruda-Miss Younge; Edwin-Wright; Attendant-Miss Platt; Vocal Parts-Vernon, Bannister, Champness, Fawcett, Kear, Mrs Wrighten, Mrs Scott, Mrs Hunt, Mrs Smith; The Dances-Como, Grimaldi, Giorgi, Atkins, Mrs Sutton, Sga Giorgi, Sga Crespi; To conclude with a Grand Occasional Scene-; Edition of 1773 adds Emma-Mrs Smith; Edith-Mrs Wrighten.

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Mattocks; Spirit-Hull; Brothers-Thompson, Harris; Lady-Miss Miller; Sabrina, and the Pastoral Nymph-Miss Twist; Bacchanals, Bacchants-Reinhold, DuBellamy, Baker, Mrs Baker; Euphrosyne-Miss Catley; Sweet Echo-Miss Catley; With Dances-incident to the piece.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Performance Comment: Ranger-Garrick; Strictland-Jefferson, first time; Mrs Strictland-Mrs Jefferson, first time; Frankly-Aickin; Bellamy-Packer; Jack Meggot-Dodd; Landlady-Mrs Bradshaw; Jacintha-Miss Younge; Clarinda-Miss Pope; Tester-Burton; Lucetta-Mrs Love; Milliner-Mrs Davies; Ranger's Servant-Ackman; To conclude with a Country Dance-.

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Event Comment: The proprietors of the Opera House think it is their duty to lay before the Nobility and Gentry to whose patronage they are highly endebted a list of the engagements made for the ensuing season. [No attention or expense spared to make the operas brilliant. Gordon spent two months in Italy, and made two trips to Paris to select the best singers and dancers.] The ill health of Sg Carabaldi having prevented his setting out in time and made it impossible for him to be here at the opening of the theatre. Sg Scheroli, the Tenor who has played the first Buffo with the greatest reputation in Italy, has kindly undertaken to play the part until his arrival. Company: Serious Opera-Millico, Mrs Davies, Scheroli (Tenor), Sga Galli, Sga Lodi. Comic Opera-Carabaldi, Scheroli, Sga Marchetti, Sga Galli, Fochetti, Sga Lodi, Sga Gardi. Poet-Sg Badini. Master of the Dances-Petro. Principal Dancers-Fierville, Pico, Vicenzo Lorenzo, Bocchini, Mariottini, Sga Mimi Faviere, Sga Mazzoni, Sga Nina Faviere, Colomba (from Milan), Mr Canter. Book-Boxkeeper-Yates. [Requests nobility and subscribers to pay up their subscriptions.

Performances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Lewes, Banks, Cushing, Hamilton, Owenson, Harris, Fox, Holtom, Bates, Wignell, Thompson, Mrs Pitt, Miss Twist; The other characters-the rest of the Comedians; The Dances-Fishar, Miss Valois, Miss Capon.