Event Comment: Benefit for
Mrs Mattocks. 1st piece [1st time; INT 1, by
John Cartwright Cross.
Larpent MS 1213; not published].
Genest, VII 365, states that the
Epilogue Address "was in all probability the Epilogue to
Alonzo [by
David Garrick]." 3rd piece: conclude with a Rural
Procession: Four Lads bearing Streamers-Plough decorated with Flowers-Four Countrymen bearing a May-day Garland-Four Lasses Bearing Implements of Husbandry-Country Girls leading a Lamb, decorated with Flowers-Four Lasses bearing a Garland-a Chorus and Finale. Tickets delivered for
Every One has His Fault will be admitted.
Times, 17 Apr.: Tickets to be had of
Mrs Mattocks, No. 8,
Great Russell-street,
Covent-garden. Receipts: #259 16s. 6d. (124.7.0; 2.13.0; tickets: 132.16.6)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: They've Bit The Old One; Or, The Scheming Butler
Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Wife
Related Works
Related Work: The Jealous Wife Author(s): George Colman, the elder
Afterpiece Title: May-Day; or, The Little Gipsey
Related Works
Related Work: May Day; or, The Little Gipsy Author(s): David Garrick
Entertainment: Monologue. End 2nd piece: an Epilogue Address portraying the Characteristic Jealousies of the Spaniard, the Italian, the Dutchman, the Frenchman, & the Englishman,-Mrs Mattocks