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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Song: End of mainpiece song by Price

Event Comment: 2nd piece [1st time; C 3, by Elizabeth Inchbald, said to be translated from a French comedy. Prologue by Henry Sampson Woodfall (World, 30 Apr.). Text 1st published, Dublin: C. Lewis, 1789; it assigns no parts]. [3rd piece in place of The Guardian, advertised on playbill of 28 Apr.] Receipts: #158 0s. 6d. (149.14.6; 8.6.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosina

Afterpiece Title: Animal Magnetism

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Quick, Edwin, Pope, Blanchard, Cubitt, Mrs Wells, Mrs Mattocks. [Cast adjusted from playbill of 27 Nov. 1788: Doctor-Quick; La Fleur-Edwin; Marquis D'Lancy-Pope; Jeff'ry-Blanchard; Picard-Cubitt; Constance-Mrs Wells; Lisette-Mrs Mattocks; Prologue-Pope. [This was spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 8 performances only (see17880605.]This was spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 8 performances only (see17880605.]

Afterpiece Title: Omai

Event Comment: Mainpiece: In I a Masquerade Scene incident to the Play. [This was included in all subsequent performances.] No Money to be returned. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Brandon at the Theatre. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 2 Nov.]. [No playbill this season lists the various prices of admission; they were probably, as usual: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s.] Receipts: #255 6s. (253.11.6; 1.14.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: Romeo-Holman (1st appearance at this theatre these 2 years); Capulet-Powel; Benvolio-Davies; Friar Lawrence-Hull; Paris-Macready; Tibalt-Cubitt; Prince-Gardner; Peter-C. Powell; Mercutio-Lewis; Lady Capulet-Mrs Platt; Nurse-Mrs Pitt; Juliet-Mrs Achmet (from the Theatre Royal Crow Street, Dublin]; 1st appearance on this stage).; 1st appearance on this stage).

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Song: End IV: Juliet's Funeral Procession-; With Dirge-; Vocal Parts-Bannister, Johnstone, Cubitt, Darley, Rock, Letteney, Reeve, W. Thompson, Mrs Mountain, Miss Stuart, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Watts, Mrs Gray, Miss Rowson, Miss Francis, Mrs Masters, Mrs Powell, Mrs Byrne, Mrs Martyr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Performance Comment: King Richard-Harley (from the Theatre Royal, Norwich; 1st appearance on this stage); King Henry-Aickin; Buckingham-Farren; Stanley-Powel; Tressel-Egan; Pr. Edw.-Mrs Byrne; D. of York-Master Simmons; Norfolk-Macready; Lieut.-Cubitt; Catesby-Davies; Ratcliffe-Thompson; Lord Mayor-Gardner; Oxford-Evatt; Richmond-Holman; Lady Anne-Miss Brunton; Duchess of York-Mrs Platt; Queen-Mrs Pope. [Playbill of 23 Sept.: Holman's, Miss Brunton's, Mrs Pope's 1st appearance in those characters.]Playbill of 23 Sept.: Holman's, Miss Brunton's, Mrs Pope's 1st appearance in those characters.]

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Receipts: #232 14s. (226.3.6; 6.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Performance Comment: Sir Harry Wildair-Mrs Achmet; Alderman Smuggler-Quick; Beau Clincher-Ryder; Young Clincher-Blanchard; Vizard-Macready; Dicky-C. Powell; Tim@Errand-Cubitt; Constable-Thompson; Col. Standard-Farren; Angelica-Miss M'George; Lady Darling-Mrs Platt; Parley-Miss Stuart; Lady Lurewell-Miss Chapman.
Cast
Role: Angelica Actor: Miss M'George
Related Works
Related Work: The Constant Couple; or, A Trip to the Jubilee Author(s): George Farquhar

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Dance: V: Minuet-Mrs Achmet, Mrs Goodwin

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Constant Couple, advertised on playbill of 7 Oct.] Paid Hawks for 26 1@4 Coal delivered at the Theatre from the Pool #47 12s. 6d. Receipts: #201 1s. 6d. (190.1.6; 11.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: Mr Ford-Farren; Sir Hugh Evans-Edwin; Mr Page-Hull; Doctor Caius-C. Powell; Host of the Garter-Thompson; Fenton-Macready; Justice Shallow-Powel; Simple-Milburne; Bardolph-Rock; Pistol-Evatt; Slender-Cubitt; Falstaff-Ryder; Mrs Page-Mrs Bernard; Ann Page-Mrs Lewis; Mrs Quickly-Mrs Pitt; Mrs Ford-Mrs Pope.
Cast
Role: Host of the Garter Actor: Thompson

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Miser

Dance: End II: Tamborine Dance, as17891021

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: Animal Magnetism

Event Comment: [Playbill of 2 Dec. states, correctly, that mainpiece was "2nd time these 16 years." In it the playbill assigns Sir John Melvil to Farren, but "Macready was the substitute for Farren" (World, 28 Nov.).] Receipts: #192 8s. 6d. (189.12.6; 2.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Henry Mackenzie, based on La Fausse Inconstance; ou, Le Triomphe de l'Honnetete, by Fanny de Beauharnais. Larpent MS 852; text 1st published in Mackenzie's Works, Vol. VIII (Edinburgh, 1808), as False Shame; or, The White Hypocrite; it assigns no parts. Prologue and Epilogue by the author (see text)]. [Afterpiece in place of Love and War, advertised on playbill of 4 Dec.] Receipts: #202 13s. 6d. (191.3.6; 11.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Force Of Fashion

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: As17891021

Event Comment: [In afterpiece the playbill assigns Hurry to Edwin, but "Powell as a substitute for Edwin (suddenly called upon) acquitted himself very creditably" (Diary, 5 Feb.).] Receipts: #257 5s. (238.10.0; 18.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

Performance Comment: Hurry-C. Powell; Dupely-Bernard; Old Groveby-Ryder; Oldworth-Thompson; Sir Harry Groveby-Davies; Maria (with the original song)-Mrs Mountain; Lady Bab Lardoon-Mrs Abington; The Musical Characters-Cubitt, Miss Stuart, Miss Rowson.

Dance: End: The Deserter, as17891113; In I afterpiece: Dance-Byrne, Mrs Ratchford, Mrs Goodwin

Event Comment: Among the Instrumental Performers are G. Ashley (leader of the Band), Sperati, Sarjant, Patria, Reinagle, C. Ashley, Boyce, Mahon, Mountain, Holmes, Lyon, Schram, Kaye, the Leanders, &c. Double Drums by J. Ashley. The Organ on Fridays by Knyvett, and on Wednesdays by Greatorex. The whole conducted by Harrison and Ashley. The Band will consist of 150 Performers. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Brandon, at the Stage Door. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. 2nd Gallery 1s. No Money to be returned. Places may be taken in the Theatrical Orchestra at 5s. each [i.e. at the oratorios the instrumentalists sat on the stage]. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season]. Books of the Performances, with the names of the performers to their respective songs, to be had at the Theatre. And to prevent imposition in the Streets, the Managers have directed that they should be sold in the Theatre, at 6d. each

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah Preceded By god Save The Kingcoronation Anthems

Performance Comment: Principal Singers-Harrison, Sale, Griffiths, Champness, Gore, Webb, Reynoldson, Saville, Miss Poole, Miss Mahon, Miss Dall (1st appearance), Miss Cantelo, with the Choristers of His Majesty's Chapel-Royal and Westminster-Abbey.

Music: End II: a concerto on the violin-Mme Gautherot (from Paris)

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #185 12s. 6d. (178.13.6; 6.19.0; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Czar

Cast
Role: The Czar Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Performance Comment: Petruchio-Lewis; Baptista-Thompson; Hortensio-Egan; Biondello-Rock; Pedro-Evatt; Taylor-Bernard; Music@master-C. Powell; Grumio-Quick; Bianca-Miss Brangin; Curtis-Mrs White; Catherine-Mrs Mattocks.
Cast
Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Mattocks.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comedy Of Errors

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Song: End I 2nd piece: The Old Four and Twenty Fiddlers all on a Row-Edwin

Entertainment: Monologues. End: a Comical, Whimsical, Operatical, Farcical Rhapsody, Lingo the Butler's Opinion on Men and Manners-Edwin; End 2nd piece: a Dissertation upon Law (from the Lecture on Heads)-Lee Lewes

Performance Comment: End: a Comical, Whimsical, Operatical, Farcical Rhapsody, Lingo the Butler's Opinion on Men and Manners-Edwin; End 2nd piece: a Dissertation upon Law (from the Lecture on Heads)-Lee Lewes.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Song: Stand to your Guns my Hearts of Oak-Bannister

Opera: In course Evening: The Tobacco Box; or, The Soldier's Farewell. Thomas-Mrs Martyr; Kate-Mrs Mountain

Event Comment: The Dramatist [advertised on playbill of 27 Apr.] is obliged to be deferred, on account of the Insisposition of a principal Performer. [Afterpiece in place of The Farmer, advertised as above.] Receipts: #131 14s. 6d. (114.19.6; 16.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Event Comment: The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 2 Nov.]. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Brandon at the Theatre. No Money to be returned. No playbill this season lists the various prices of admission; they were probably, as usual: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s.] Mainpiece: In I a Masquerade Scene [incident to the Play. Receipts: #216 9s. 6d. (213.11.0; 2.18.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Song: End IV: Juliet's Funeral Procession-; with Solemn Dirge, Vocal Parts-Bannister, Johnstone, Cubitt, Reeve, Rock, Lee, Letteney, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Warrell, Miss Stuart, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Watts, Mrs Gray, Miss Rowson, Miss Francis, Mrs Masters, Mrs Byrne, Mrs Lloyd, Mrs Martyr

Event Comment: "Although [Mrs Esten] is rather under-hung, her face may fairly be pronounced pretty, and her figure engaging. Her voice, in the pathetic tones, resembles that of Mrs Siddons, but is more clear and articulate' (Diary, 21 Oct.). Receipts: #182 14s. 6d. (180.12.0; 2.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: Touchstone-Quick; Orlando-Holman; Amiens (with songs)-Johnstone; Adam-Hull; Duke Senior-Powel; Corin-Cross; William-C. Powell; Le Beu-Macready; Sylvius-Evatt; Oliver-Davies; Duke Frederick-Thompson; Charles-Cubitt; Jaques-Aickin; Caelia-Mrs Mountain; Audrey-Mrs Rock; Phoebe-Miss Stuart; Rosalind (with the Cuckoo Song)-Mrs Esten (from the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh; 1st appearance on this stage). 1st appearance on this stage).

Afterpiece Title: The Provocation

Dance: End I: The Irish Lilt-Mr Ratchford, Mrs Ratchford; In V: Dance of Forresters-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man Or The Fops Fortune

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Chaplet

Event Comment: 2nd piece: Not acted these 8 years [acted 1 Dec. 1784]. With some Alterations and Additions by the Author [Arthur Murphy]. Receipts: #241 1s. 6d. (237.8.6; 3.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Malabar

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Second Grand Selection 0 Of Sacred Music From The Works Of Handel

Performance Comment: As17910311but Principal Vocal Performers-_Sale; PART I. Overture-(Berenice); Come ever smiling Liberty-Mrs Piele (Judas Maccabaeus); He measureth the waters, He layeth the beams-Griffith (Redemption); O God! who in thy heavenly hand-Griffith (Joseph); Great Jehovah's awful word-Miss Poole (Israel in Egypt); Daughter of Gods-Harrison (Hercules); Hail! mighty Joshua-Harrison (Joshua); Where e'er you walk-Mrs Billington (Semele); He rebuked the Red Sea He led them through the deep, But the waters overwhelmed-Double Chorus (Israel in Egypt).

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Performance Comment: PART II. Overture and Dead March-(Saul); In sweetest harmony-Mrs Billington, Chorus (Saul); Gentle Airs-Harrison; [accompanied on the violoncello-C. Ashley (Athalia); The smiling dawn-Miss Poole (Jephtha); Fallen is the foe-Chorus (Judas Maccabaeus); Blooming virgins-Incledon (Athalia); He smote all the First@born-Chorus (Israel in Egypt); O magnify the Lord-Mrs Billington ([Chandos] Anthems); Kings shall be thy nursing fathers-Chorus (Coronation Anthems).

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

Performance Comment: PART III. Eleventh Grand Concerto-; Pleasure my former ways resigning-Harrison (Time and Truth); No more shall Edom's sons-Miss Poole (Israel in Babylon); O Baal monarch of the skies-Chorus (Deborah); His hideous love, Love sounds the alarm-Incledon (Acis and Galatea); O Father whose Almighty power-Chorus; O let eternal honours, From mighty Kings-Mrs Billington (Judas Maccabaeus); Fix'd in his everlasting seat-Chorus (Samson).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fontainbleau

Performance Comment: As17901015, but Sir John Bull-Powel; Col. Epaulette's new song-_; New Epilogue Address-Mrs Mattocks.

Afterpiece Title: The Soldiers Festival or The Night before the Battle

Performance Comment: General Wolfe-Cranfield; Brigadier Moncton-Macready; Brigadier Townshend-King; Brigadier Murray-Ratchford; Adjutant-Lee; Surgeon Adair-Thompson; Aid@de@Camp-Farley; Grenadier-Evatt; Indian Chief-Follett; General Wolfe's favourite song, How stands the Glass around-Incledon; Irish Drinking Song [Of the ancients its speaking]-Johnstone; How merrily we live that Soldiers be-Bannister, Incledon, Johnstone; To arms! Britons strike home-Bannister, Incledon, Follett, Blurton, Lee, Letteney, Reeve, Rees; [Conclude with an exact Representation of the Siege of Quebec-; the Death of General Wolfe-.

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Event Comment: Benefit for Whitfield. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2] Translated from the French [La Nuit aux Aventures; on, Les Deux Morts Vivants, by Antoine Jean Bourlin, dit Dumaniant] by Mrs Inchbald, the Author of I'll Tell You What, Such Things Are, A Simple Story, &c. [Larpent MS 900; not published. In 1797 altered by J. C. Cross as An Escape into Prison. "In January 1788 Mrs Inchbald was translating an unnamed French play, acted three years later as The Hue and Cry" (James Boaden, Memoirs of Mrs Inchbald, 1833, I, 255-56). "Mrs Inchbald is now adapting La Nuit aux Aventures, by Dumaniant" (World, 26 Jan. 1788). In the text of Dumaniant's play the dramatis personae is the same as that in the Larpent MS. Author of Prologue unknown.] Morning Chronicle, 30 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Whitfield, No. 19, Great Piazza, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #263 13s. (68.19.0; 31.7.6; 3.13.6; tickets: 159.13.0) (charge: #116 4s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Hue and Cry

Performance Comment: Characters-Whitfield Hollingsworth, Bland, Bannister Jun., Burton, Suett, Phillimore, Williames, Maddocks, Lyons, Alfred, Webb, Miss Collins, Mrs Williames; Larpent MS lists the parts: Count Abeville, Don Lewis, Don Juan, Perroquet, Fabio, Sanchez, Corregidore, Jailor, Grim, Donna Leonora, Inis. Prologue-Bannister Jun.
Related Works
Related Work: The Chimera; or, An Hue and Cry to Change Alley Author(s): Thomas Odell