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Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief

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Related Work: The Wife's Relief; or, the husband's cure Author(s): Charles Johnson
Related Work: The Wife's Relief; or, The Husband's Cure Author(s): Charles Johnson
Related Work: The Wife's Relief Author(s): Charles Johnson

Afterpiece Title: The Country Mad-Cap

Dance: End of Catches and Glees, as17811101

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece Auld Robin Grey, as17820409; End of mainpiece several much admired Catches and Glees by the most Eminent Performers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: As17820411, but Rosalind-A Young Lady (1st appearance any stage [Miss Blower]); added: Corin-Waldron; Charles-Wrighten; Silvius-R. Palmer; Jaques de Bois-Lamash; William-Burton; LeBeu-Phillimore; Lord-Norris; Phoebe-Miss Barnes .
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Role: Charles Actor: Wrighten
Role: Orlando Actor: Brereton

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

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Related Work: The Fair Quaker; or, The Humours of the Navy Author(s): Charles ShadwellEdward Thompson
Related Work: The Quaker Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece Hornpipe, as17820314End of Act III The Devonshire Minuet, as17810915, but added: Duprez

Song: In Act v of mainpiece song, as17820411

Event Comment: Benefit for W. Bates and Miss Ambrose. Mainpiece: Not acted here these 5 years. Receipts: #228 10s. (90/0; tickets: 138/10) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Performance Comment: Harlequin-W. Bates. The other characters by Delpini (of DL), Doyle, Booth, L'Estrange, Baker, Robson, Stevens, J. Bates, J. Wilson, Davies; Miss Morris, Miss Langrish, Mrs Kennedy. [And see17811102.] hathi. Miss Morris, Miss Langrish, Mrs Kennedy. [And see17811102.] hathi.
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Related Work: The Touchstone; or, Harlequin Traveller Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17820401, but omitted: Holloway

Song: End of Act IV of mainpiece Tally ho, as17820427

Event Comment: Retaliation [announced on playbill of 13 May] is obliged to be deferred on account of Quick's and Edwin's Illness. Receipts: #182 5s. 6d. (179/18/0; 2/7/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

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Related Work: The Man of the World Author(s): Charles Macklin

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

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Related Work: The Touchstone; or, Harlequin Traveller Author(s): Charles Dibdin
Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Mrs Green and the Performers in the Orchestra will be admitted this Evening. Receipts: #208 5s. (84/4/6; 4/13/6; tickets: 119/7/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Cast
Role: Ferdinand Actor: Mattocks

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

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Related Work: The Touchstone; or, Harlequin Traveller Author(s): Charles Dibdin
Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by Frederick Pilon; probably a rewriting of an opera with the same title, 1st acted at Crow Street Theatre, Dublin, 20 May 1771, at which time Pilon was acting in Dublin]: With new Dresses, and entirely new Music and an Overture by Carter. [In mainpiece the playbill lists Dodd, but "Suett, who undertook at a few minutes' notice the part assigned to Dodd, went through the reading as though he had studied the character" (Morning Herald, 21 May).] [On this night, Whitsun Eve, the theatre was customarily closed.] Receipts: #152 4s. 6d. (134/15/0; 17/6/0; 0/3/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair American

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Palmer, Suett, Parsons, Du-Bellamy, Wright, Burton, Griffiths, Chaplin, Phillimore, Helme, Bannister; Mrs Wrighten, Miss Wheeler, Mrs Hopkins, Miss Sherry, Miss Simson, Miss Phillips. [Cast from text (J. Almon, 1785), and Public Advertiser, 20 May: Colonel Montford-Palmer; Carbine-Suett; Bale-Parsons; Summers-Du-Bellamy; Splinter-Wright; Swiss-Burton; Coachman-Griffiths; Boreas-Chaplin; Servants-Phillimore, Helme; Admiral Dreadnought-Bannister; Rachel-Mrs Wrighten; Charlotte-Miss Wheeler; Kitty Dreadnought-Mrs Hopkins; Mrs Wilmot-Miss Sherry; Miss Melcomb-Miss Simson; Angelica-Miss Phillips.] hathi. hathi.
Related Works
Related Work: The Fair American Author(s): Charles Thomas Carter

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair American

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Related Work: The Fair American Author(s): Charles Thomas Carter

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair American

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Related Work: The Fair American Author(s): Charles Thomas Carter

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

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Related Work: Phaeton; or, The Fatal Divorce Author(s): Charles Gildon

Dance: As17820302athi

Event Comment: Benefit for Fearon, L'Estrange, Thompson & Guard. Tickets for a Comedy, and The School for Wives will be taken. [In mainpiece the playbill retains Fearon as Justice Shallow, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Waldron.] Receipts: #251 2s. 6d. (75/6/6; tickets: 175/16/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

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Related Work: The Touchstone; or, Harlequin Traveller Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Dance: As17820503

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair American

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Related Work: The Fair American Author(s): Charles Thomas Carter

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair American

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Related Work: The Fair American Author(s): Charles Thomas Carter

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: As17820302athi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief

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Related Work: The Wife's Relief; or, the husband's cure Author(s): Charles Johnson
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Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair American

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Related Work: The Fair American Author(s): Charles Thomas Carter

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fatal Curiosity

Cast
Role: Randal Actor: Bannister Jun.

Afterpiece Title: None are so Blind as Those Who Won't See

Related Works
Related Work: None Are So Blind as Those Who Won't See Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suicide

Afterpiece Title: None are so Blind as Those Who Won't See

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Related Work: None Are So Blind as Those Who Won't See Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Separate Maintenance

Afterpiece Title: None are so Blind as Those Who Won't See

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Related Work: None Are So Blind as Those Who Won't See Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Dance: As17820620

Song: As17820620

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The East Indian

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Palmer, Bannister Jun., R. Palmer, Gardner, Wilson, Webb, Usher, Staunton, Egan, Swords, Bensley; Miss Sherry, Miss Morris, Mrs Inchbald, Mrs Poussin, Mrs Bulkley. [Cast from European Magazine, July 1782, p. 67: Colonel Errwood-Palmer; Edmonds-Bannister Jun.; Young Johnson-R. Palmer; Johnson-Gardner; Cecil-Wilson; Landlord-Webb; Simpson-Usher; Danford-Staunton; Chairman-Egan; Savage-Bensley; Mrs Cecil-Miss Sherry; Nancy Johnson-Miss Morris; Emma Cecil-Mrs Inchbald; Mrs Johnson-Mrs Poussin; Harriet Sidney-Mrs Bulkley. Swords is unassigned.] New Prologue spoken by Palmer. [This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.] hathi. New Prologue spoken by Palmer. [This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.] hathi.
Cast
Role: Landlord Actor: Webb

Afterpiece Title: None are so Blind as Those Who Won't See

Related Works
Related Work: None Are So Blind as Those Who Won't See Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Dance: As17820613

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The East Indian

Cast
Role: Landlord Actor: Webb

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman; or, The First of August

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Related Work: The Waterman; or, The First of August Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Cast
Role: Edward Actor: Wood

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: Rose and Colin

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Related Work: Rose and Colin Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

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Related Work: The Man of the World Author(s): Charles Macklin

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love A-LA-Mode

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

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece, as17821009; End of Act iv, as17820925

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

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Related Work: The Man of the World Author(s): Charles Macklin

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

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

Dance: As17821029

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; T 4, but published in 5, by Richard Bentley. The assignments of Fearon, Booth, Mahon (who are not listed in the text) are my own conjecture. Prologue and Epilogue by Richard Bentley Jun. (Public Advertiser, 18 Dec.)]: New Dresses, &c. Words of the Epithalamium will be given at the Box Doors. Public Advertiser, 11 Jan. 1783: This Day is published Philodamus (1s. 6d.). Afterpiece: Never performed at this Theatre. Receipts: #203 2s. (198/16/6; 4/5/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Philodamus

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

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Related Work: The Fair Quaker; or, The Humours of the Navy Author(s): Charles ShadwellEdward Thompson
Related Work: The Quaker Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Dance: End of mainpiece Diversion a-la-Mode, as17821211 in which The Devonshire Minuet, as17821129

Song: In Act III of mainpiece an Epithalamium by Mrs Kennedy and Mrs Martyr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

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Related Work: The Quaker Author(s): Charles Dibdin