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Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [For Fanny Burney's pen and ink sketch of the royal box and her written description o it, as it appeared on this evening, see List of illustrations these volumes. Receipts: #261 14s. 6d. (260.14.0; 1.0.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Fox

Dance: As17761015

Event Comment: Paid the Duke of Bedford 1!4 Yrs Rent #78 11s. 6d. Receipts: #120 13s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Song: II: Mrs Scott

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Orphan, announced on playbill of 31 Dec. 1776. Public Advertiser assigns the Ghost to Farren.] Afterpiece: With Additions and Alterations, New Music, Scenes [by Greenwood, Leroy and French Jun. (Morning Post, 4 Jan.)], Dresses, and Decorations. Receipts: #175 1s. 6d. (137.1.0; 34.17.0; 3.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #221 13s. 6d. (200.3.0; 20.17.0; 0.13.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral Or Grief A la mode

Performance Comment: Lord Hardy-Lacy; Campley-Palmer (Their first appearance in those characters); Lord Brumpton-Hurst; Sable-Moody; Puzzle-Baddeley; Trusty-Packer; Tom-Waldron; Cabinet-Norris; Trim-King; Lady Brumpton-Mrs Hopkins; Lady Harriet-Mrs Baddeley (1st appearance in that character); Mademoiselle-Mrs Booth; Farthingale-Mrs Bradshaw; Tattleaid-Mrs Love; Lady Charlotte-Miss Younge; [Edition of 1777 (W. Strahan et al]) adds: Kate Matchlock-Mr Griffiths.

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Related Works
Related Work: London's Great Jubilee Author(s): Matthew Taubman
Related Work: The Constant Couple; or, A Trip to the Jubilee Author(s): George Farquhar
Related Work: Sir Harry Wildair: Being the Sequel of the Trip to the Jubilee Author(s): George Farquhar

Dance: As17770215

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Funeral, announced on playbill of 18 Mar.] Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2, by Isaac Jackman]: The Music composed by Carter. Receipts: #233 11s. (190.1.0; 40.16.6; 2.13.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Performance Comment: As17761105, but Lord Townly-Lacy (1st appearance in that character); Manly-Palmer; Mrs Motherly-Mrs Bradshaw.
Cast
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Bradshaw.

Afterpiece Title: The Milesian

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Lessingham. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. The Characters dressed in the Habits of the Country. Afterpiece [1st time; C 2, ascribed to Charles Stuart. Author of Address unknown]. Public Advertiser, 24 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Lessingham at her House, the corner of Percy-street, Rathbone Place. Receipts: #224 1s. 6d. (151.19.6; tickets: 72.2.0) (charge: #65 13s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: Othello-Peile (the Gentleman who appeared in the character of Dorilas[on 17 Jan.]); Roderigo-Lee Lewes; Cassio-Lewis; Brabantio-Hull; Lodovico-Whitefield; Montano-Davis; Duke-L'Estrange; Gratiano-Fearon; Iago-Macklin; Emilia-Mrs Mattocks; Desdemona-Mrs Lessingham.
Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Peile

Afterpiece Title: The Experiment

Performance Comment: Characters-Wroughton, Lee Lewes, Robson, Fearon, Wewitzer, Booth, Mrs Whitefield, Mrs Lessingham; [Larpent MS 429 lists the parts: Mr Warren, Sir James Middleton, The Hon. Capt. Turner, Mr Green, Robert, Thomas, Miss Warren, Miss Louisa Warren.] Address to the Public-Mrs Lessingham.

Dance: End: Hunting Dance, as17770218; End I afterpiece: The Villagers, as17770122

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Runaway

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: As17761128

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: End I: The Corn Thrashers, as17770419; End II: a Hornpipe-Master Staples (scholar of Blurton)

Ballet: End: The Wapping Landlady. Jack in Distress-Blurton; Wapping Landlady-Mr Griffiths; Orange Woman-Mrs Sutton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: Smirk, Mrs Cole-Foote; The Minor-Aickin; Shift-Bannister; Sir William Wealthy-Egan; Mr Richard Wealthy-Fearon; Loader-T. Davis; Transfer-Jackson; Dick-Stevens; Lucy-Mrs Jewell.
Cast
Role: The Minor Actor: Aickin

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: End: The Merry Lasses, as17770611

Event Comment: Mainpiece: The Characters dressed in Spanish Habits. [Henderson's 1st recorded appearance as Leon was at Bath, 4 Feb. 1777.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Dance: As17770707

Event Comment: [This was Foote's last appearance on the stage. He died on 21 Oct. 1777.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of Bath

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: End: The Venetian Regatta, as17770611

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distressd Mother

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Cast
Role: Father Paul Actor: Mahon
Role: The Duenna Actor: Mrs Green

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: Shift, Smirk, Mrs Cole (with the Original Epilogue)-Wilkinson; Sir George Wealthy-Whitfield; Sir William Wealthy-Wewitzer; Mr Wealthy-L'Estrange; Loader-Fearon; Transfer-Jones; Dick-Stevens; Lucy-Miss Leeson.
Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 6 years [acted 23 May 1774]. Receipts: #199 10s. 6d. (198.12.0; 0.18.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Lee Lewes; Clown-Cushing; Farmer-Messink; Mother Shipton-Mr Baker; Colombine-Sga Tinte; other Characters-Wewitzer, Jones, Smith, Thompson, Stevens, Ledger, Mrs White, Mrs Poussin.
Related Works
Related Work: Mother Shipton Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: In: As17770929; In afterpiece: Langrish, Miss Besford [who danced in all subsequent performances]

Song: End IV: Solemn Dirge, as17770929, but _Reinhold, Battishill

Event Comment: Boxes 10s. 6d. Pit 4s. 1st Gallery 3s. 2nd Gallery 2s. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Sarjant (only) at the Stage Door. Books of the Oratorio to be had at the Theatre. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season. The Account-Book notes that the director of the oratorios this season was James Hook.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Afterpiece Title: Sacred Canons

Performance Comment: A Select Collection, by the most eminent ancient and modern composers; Principal Vocal Parts-Vernon, Meredith, Mrs Wrighten, Mr Weichsel; to conclude with Non Nobis Domine-.

Music: End Part I: concerto on the German flute-Florio; End of Part III: concerto on the piano forte-Miss Weichsel; concerto on the hautboy-LeBrun; concerto on the violin-Master Weichsel

Event Comment: Benefit for Moody. Public Advertiser, 16 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Moody at the New Inn Coffee-house, Wych-street. Receipts: #173 6s. 6d. [98.17.0; 12.18.6; 0.8.0; tickets: 61.3.0) [charge: #66 16s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee Or The Faithful Irishman

Afterpiece Title: Belphegor

Dance: As17780409

Event Comment: By Authority [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Benefit for the Westminster New Lying-In Hospital

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Song: End III: a new Cantata, suitable to the occasion, composed by Barthelemon,-Mrs Barthelemon

Music: End: concerto on the violin-Barthelemon; in which Grammacree with variations-

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Altered from [The Artful Wife, by William? Taverner. [1st time; C 3, by George Colman elder. Not in Larpent MS; not published; synopsis of plot in London Chronicle, 20 May. Public Advertiser, 19 May, notes that the Prologue was the same as that spoken on 15 May 1777. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Servants to keep Places are to be at the door in Suffolk-street by Five o'clock. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00 [same throughout season]. On account of the Performers employed at other Theatres the second Night of Representation cannot be till Thursday, the 21st inst. [On this night, the 18th, Baddeley's name is in the playbills at both dl and hay.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Chevalier

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Palmer, Aickin, Baddeley, R. Palmer, Massey, Davis, Kenny, Silvester, Parsons, Miss Sherry, Mrs Love, Miss Walton, Mrs Greville. Cast from London Chronicle, 20 May: Sir Harry Freelove-Palmer; Ned Winworth-Aickin; Servants-Baddeley, Massey, Davis, Kenny, Silvester; Young Upstart-R. Palmer; Mr Stockwell-Parsons; Mrs Upstart-Miss Sherry; Landlady-Mrs Love; Mademoiselle-Miss Walton; Belinda-Mrs Greville; The occasional Prologue on Opening the Theatre, with Alterations,-Palmer.
Related Works
Related Work: The Female Chevalier Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Performance Comment: Butler-Parsons; The Squire-Lamash; Mrs Candy-Mrs Love; Polly Pattens-Mrs Jewell.
Cast
Role: The Squire Actor: Lamash

Dance: End I: The Merry Lasses-(see17780529); End: Provencalle Dance-Master and Miss Byrn

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant Or George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Performance Comment: Clerimont-Russell; Mr Harlow-Cooke; Captain Cape-West; Servant-Massey; Mrs Harlow-Mrs Burden; Mademoiselle Florival-Mrs West; Miss Harlow (the Old Maid)-Mrs Russell.

Dance: As17780601

Song: As17780608

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lover

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Song: As17780529

Entertainment: Monologue.End: Bucks have at ye All-Middleton (1st appearance on any stage)

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time in London; F 2, by John O'Keeffe, 1st acted at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, 13 Apr. 1774. Prologue by George Colman elder (Prose on Several Occasions, III, 222)]. Public Advertiser, 16 Aug. 1780: This Day is published Tony Lumpkin in Town (1s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Cast
Role: Queen Catherine Actor: Mrs Massey.

Afterpiece Title: Tony Lumpkin in Town or The Dilettante

Dance: As17780623

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: Smirk, Shift, Mrs Cole-Bannister; The Minor-R. Palmer; Sir William Wealthy-Baddeley; Mr Richard Wealthy-Gardner; Loader-Davis; Transfer-Jackson; Dick-Stevens; Lucy-Mrs Jewell.
Cast
Role: The Minor Actor: R. Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Gipsies

Dance: As17780615

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hastings

Performance Comment: Edgar Atheling-Henderson; Earl Edwin-Palmer; Earl Waltheof-Brereton; Earl of Northumberland-Aickin; Earl of Mercia-Norris; Siffric-R. Palmer; Raymond-Wrighten; Reginald-Chaplin; Duncan-Chambers; Harold-Bensley; Matilda-Miss Younge; Sabina-Mrs Colles; Edwina-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Edgar Atheling Actor: Henderson
Role: Earl Waltheof Actor: Brereton

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Annette And Lubin

Cast
Role: Lord of the Manor Actor: Fearon

Afterpiece Title: All in the Wrong

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Dance: As17780925