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Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Receipts: #257 19s. 6d. (169.14.0; 86.9.6; 1.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

Performance Comment: Thomaso-Hollingsworth; Sturmwald-Wewitzer; Carlos-Kelly; Juan-Bannister Jun.; Guzman-Sedgwick; Doctor Bilioso-Suett; Perez-Burton; Shopman-Evans; Anna-Mrs Crouch; Isabella-Mrs Bland; Theresa-Mrs Booth.
Cast
Role: Theresa Actor: Mrs Booth.
Event Comment: Ode: Written in Honour of St. Cecilia, by Dryden, and set to Music by Handel. Among the Instrumental Performers are G. Ashley, leader of the band, Mara, Sarjant, C. Ashley, Boyce, Bridgetower, Harvey, Parkinson, Taylor, Nix, two Flacks, Dresler, Gwilliam, Shutze, Price, I. Sharp, W. Sharp, M. Sharp, J. Sharp, Archer, Cobham, two Munros, Wood, Cornish, Purney, Leffler, Woodham, Cantelo, Skillern, Franki, Simpson, Jenkinson, &c. Organ-J. Ashley. Double Drums (used at Westminster Abbey)-R. Ashley. The Chorusses will be numerous and complete. The Whole under the Direction of Ashley. Boxes 6s. Pit 3s. 6d. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be had of Brandon at the Office in Hart-street. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00 [same throughout oratorio season]. Books of the Performance (with the Imprimatur of H. Macleish) to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast Or the Power Of Music Grand Selection 0

Afterpiece Title: Alexanders Feast 3

Performance Comment: [i.e. the ode being in 2 parts.] The Music- [by Handel--that was performed by Command of his Majesty, at St. James's on the late Marriage of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales (on 8 Apr. 1795); composed by Handel, to celebrate the Nuptials (in Apr. 1736) of his late Royal Highness Frederick, Prince of Wales, with the Princess of Saxe-Gotha; [To conclude with the Coronation Anthem, Zadock the Priest-.
Cast
Role: The Music Actor:
Role: Zadock the Priest Actor: .

Music: End Part I: concerto on the harp-Mme Delaval; Beginning Part II: concerto for two violins and violoncello obligato-, as originally composed for this Ode, by Handel and performed in the year 1736; End Part II: concerto on the Grand Piano Forte-Dussek

Performances

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

Performance Comment: As17960302but Principal Vocal Performers-another Miss Fletcher (from +Birmingham).

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Performance Comment: Overture (Samson)-; Honor and Arms-Bartleman [Samson]; Wise men flattering-Miss Leak [Judas Maccabaeus]; Lord of Eternity-Chorus; O Baal-Chorus (Deborah); Hush ye pretty warbling-Miss Parke [Acis and Galatea]; Disdainful of danger-; Pious orgies-Mme Mara (Judas Maccabaeus); From the censer-Chorus (Solomon).
Cast
Role: From the censer Actor: Chorus

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Performance Comment: Fifth Grand Concerto-; Sound an alarm-Kelly (Judas Maccabaeus); How willing-Bartleman (Samson); See the conqu'ring hero-Chorus; March (Judas Maccabaeus)-; What tho' I trace-Miss Parke [Solomon]; O God who in thy heavenly hand-Chorus [Joseph]; Happy Iphis-Master Elliot [Jephtha]; Mad Bess-Mme Mara (Purcell); Kings shall be thy nursing fathers-Chorus [Coronation Anthems].Coronation Anthems].

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

Performance Comment: Overture and Dead March (Saul)-; Joys in gentle strains-the Miss Fletchers [Athalia]; Awful pleasing being-Miss Leak [Joshua]; From harmony-Chorus [Dryden's Ode]; Let the bright Seraphim-Miss Parke [Samson]; O liberty-Kelly; accompanied on the violoncello-C. Ashley (Judas Maccabaeus); The Soldier tir'd-Mme Mara [Dr Arne]; Gloria Patri-Grand Chorus [Jubilate].Jubilate].

Music: End Part I: concerto on the Piano Forte-Miss M'Arthur; End Part II: concerto on the harp-Mme Delaval

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: Escalus-Benson; Paris-C. Kemble; Montague-Phillimore; Capulet-Aickin; Romeo-Barrymore; Mercutio-Dodd; Benvolio-Whitfield; Tybalt-Caulfield; Friar Lawrence-Packer; Friar John-Maddocks; Balthazar-Banks; Sampson-Hollingsworth; Gregory-Evans; Abram-Jones; Peter-Burton; Apothecary-Waldron; Watch-Webb; Page-Miss Menage; Lady Capulet-Miss Tidswell; Juliet (1st time, and for that night only)-Mrs Jordan; Nurse-Mrs Hopkins; Epilogue-Mrs Jordan.
Cast
Role: Apothecary Actor: Waldron

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Performance Comment: Solyman-Barrymore; Osmyn-Dignum; Elmira-Mrs Cuyler; Ismene-Miss Leak; Roxalana-Mrs Jordan; In the dead of the night-Mrs Jordan.

Song: End IV: a Funeral Procession- to the Monument of the Capulets; with a Dirge-by Linley? Sen. Vocal PartsBannister, Sedgwick, Dignum, Master Welsh, Miss Leak, Miss DeCamp

Event Comment: Benefit for King. [Mrs Siddons's 1st appearance as Gertrude was at Liverpool, 23 July 1777; Mrs Jordan's as Ophelia at Richmond, 19 Aug. 1795.] Morning Herald, 28 Apr.: Tackets to be had of King, No. 56, Store-street, Bedford-square; 30 Apr.: The dresses [in Hamlet] were all modern. Receipts: #498 17s. 6d. (284.11.6; 55.9.0; 2.5.0; tickets: 156.12.0) (charge: #232 7s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: Claudius-Packer; Hamlet-Wroughton; Polonius-Dodd (1st appearance in that character); Horatio-Whitfield; Laertes-C. Kemble; Rosencrantz-Caulfield; Guildenstern-Trueman; Osrick (for that night only)-Bannister Jun.; Marcellus-Benson; Bernardo-Phillimore; Ghost of Hamlet's father-Bensley; Players-Maddocks, Hollingsworth; 1st Grave@digger-King (1st appearance in that character); 2nd Grave@digger-Burton; Gertrude-Mrs Siddons (1st appearance in that character [in London]); Ophelia-Mrs Jordan (1st appearance in that character in London]); [in which she will introduce an additional Air by Linley-Mrs Jordan; Actress-Miss Tidswell.

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

Entertainment: Monologue.End: a Serio-Comic, Poetic, Prosaic Paraphrase on Shakespeare's Seven Ages-King

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Kemble, but "The Publick are respectfully informed that Kemble having been attacked in the course of Last Night with a violent Pleurisy, which confines him to his Bed, Charles Kemble has undertaken to read the part of Mahmoud, and hopes for your kind Indulgence" (printed slip attached to BM playbill (Harris, Vol. V)). Afterpiece in place of The First Floor advertised on playbill of 3 May.] Receipts: #315 4s. (252.6.6; 60.19.0; 1.9.6; tickets not come in: 0.9.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahmoud

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahmoud

Afterpiece Title: The Spoild Child

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Related Works
Related Work: The Twin-Rivals Author(s): George Farquhar
Related Work: The Rival Modes Author(s): James Moore Smythe

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Cast
Role: Catchpenny Actor: Wathen
Role: Sir Matthew Medley Actor: Maddocks
Event Comment: Benefit for Wewitzer. Receipts: #198 15s. (72.6.6; 39.10.6; 10.3.6; tickets: 76.11.6; odd money: 0.3.0) [Account-Book: Wewitzer to have to the Amount of #100 in tickets; [although] he brought in [only] #76 11s. 6d., wit upper Gallery tickets.] (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahmoud

Afterpiece Title: Alive and Merry

Event Comment: [Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Wathen and Miss Arne will be admitted.] Receipts: #326 19s. 6d. (128.17.6; 55.0.6; 2.13.6; tickets: 139.17.0, of which Wathen sold 84.6.0, and Miss Arne 55.11.0; odd money: 0.11.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahmoud

Performance Comment: As17960430, but Mahmoud-C. Kemble In place of Kemble; Abdoul Cassan-Wathen in place of Bannister Jun; Desra-Miss DeCamp in place of Mrs Bland; General Chorus-Miss _Arne.

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performance Comment: Don Diego-Bannister; Leander-Dignum; Scholars-Trueman, Fisher; Mungo-Wathen; Leonora-Miss Leak; Ursula-Mrs Hopkins.
Cast
Role: Mungo Actor: Wathen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahmoud

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: II afterpiece: a Mock Minuet-Palmer, Miss Pope

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Purse

Performance Comment: As17960615 but Baron-_; Theodore-_; Page-_.
Cast
Role: William Actor: Wathen
Role: Theodore Actor: Palmer Jun.

Afterpiece Title: The London Hermit or Rambles in Dorsetshire

Performance Comment: Young Pranks-Fawcett; Whimmy-Suett; Old Pranks-Aickin; Peregrine-C. Kemble (1st appearance in that character); Barleycorn-R. Palmer (1st appearance in that character); Apathy-Trueman; Barebones-Burton; Tully-Johnstone; Natty Maggs-Palmer Jun.; Carter-Waldron Jun.; Toby Thatch-Wathen; Diana-Miss Heard; Mrs Maggs-Mrs Booth; Kitty Barleycorn-Mrs Kemble.
Cast
Role: Toby Thatch Actor: Wathen

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner at Large

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In Good Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Jew

Related Works
Related Work: The Jew of Venice Author(s): George Granville, Lord Lansdowne

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

Performance Comment: Walter-Bannister Jun.; Sir Rowland-C. Kemble; Apathy-Suett; Gabriel (1st time)-R. Palmer; Oliver-Caulfield; Servants-Abbot, Lyons, Chippendale; Lord Alford-Davies; The Children-Master Kemble, Master Chatterley; Helen-Miss DeCamp; Winifred-Mrs Booth; Josephine-Mrs Bland.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Purse

Cast
Role: William Actor: Wathen
Role: Theodore Actor: Palmer Jun.

Afterpiece Title: Heigho for a Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Cast
Role: Jack Hawser Actor: Wathen
Role: Sheepface Actor: Wathen
Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Gibbs. Afterpiece: Not acted these 6 years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Performance Comment: Sir John Brute-Bannister Jun. (1st appearance in that character); Constant-Palmer Jun.; Heartfree-C. Kemble; Colonel Bully (with a song)-Davies; Lord Rake-Trueman; Justice-Waldron; Taylor-Suett; Constable-Caulfield; Watchmen-Ledger, Waldron Jun.; Porter-Abbot; Servants-Lyons, Chippendale; Razor-R. Palmer; Lady Brute-Mrs Kemble; Lady Fanciful-Miss DeCamp; Mademoiselle-Miss Heard; Belinda-Mrs Gibbs (Their 1st appearance in those characters).

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Song: End: a song-Bannister

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett. Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years. Morning Herald, 16 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Fawcett at his house, No. 9, Tottenham-court-road

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth part I

Performance Comment: Sir John Falstaff-Fawcett; Hotspur-C. Kemble (1st appearance in that charaacter); King Henry-Aickin; Prince John of Lancaster-Miss Granger; Worcester-Davies; Douglas-Caulfield; Sir Richard Vernon-Palmer Jun.; Sir Walter Blunt-Trueman; Westmorland-Usher; Northumberland-Abbot; Poins-R. Palmer; Bardolph-Ledger; Peto-Lyons; Gadshill-Chippendale; Francis-Waldron Jun.; Carriers-Suett, Wathen; Prince of Wales (for that night only)-Bannister Jun.; Hostess-Mrs Hopkins; Lady Percy-Miss Logan.
Cast
Role: Carriers Actor: Suett, Wathen

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kemble. 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT 1]. 3rd piece: Not acted these 2 years. Morning Herald, 20 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Kemble, No. 11, Haymarket

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Cast
Role: William Actor: Wathen
Role: Theodore Actor: Palmer Jun.

Afterpiece Title: An Harmonic Pasticcio

Performance Comment: Scene I The Sailor's Journal (composed by Dibdin)-Miss Leak; Scene II Sweet Little Taffine-Mrs Bland; Scene III The Barber's Petition, with a song in Character, Wigs, including His Own Wig, The Lover's Wig, The Counsellor's Wig, The Doctor's Wig, A Man's Wig who will be in the 1s. Gallery,-Fawcett; conclude: Imitations-Caulfield.

Afterpiece Title: A Mogul Tale

Performance Comment: Johnny Atkins-Bannister Jun. (1st appearance in that character); Dr Pedant (1st time)-Wathen; Omar (1st time)-Trueman; The Mogul-C. Kemble; Irene-Miss DeCamp; Sheba (1st time)-Miss Logan; Zapphira-Miss Heard; Fanny-Mrs Kemble.
Cast
Role: Dr Pedant Actor: Wathen
Role: The Mogul Actor: C. Kemble

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School Of Shakespeare Or Humours And Passions

Performance Comment: Given in a regular representation of several of his most favourite and capital Scenes. With Scenery and Dresses suited to the Characters and their situations. The inimitable Scenes of the Poet, selected for the Purpose, and digested into Five Acts, will exemplify in the strongest colours of our immortal Bard, Cruelty, Vanity, Ambition, Rusticity, Tyranny-; [Act I. Cruelty, in The Merchant of Venice [IV. i]. Shylock-Palmer; Anthonio-Aickin; Bassanio-C. Kemble; Gratiano-R. Palmer; Portia-Mrs Kemble; [Act II. Vanity, in the First Part of Henry IV [parts of II. iv]. Sir John Falstaff-Fawcett; Prince of Wales-Palmer Jun.; Francis (for that night only)-Bannister Jun.; [Act III. Ambition, in King Henry the Eighth [parts of III. ii]. Cardinal Wolsey (1st time)-Palmer; King Henry-R. Palmer; [Act IV. Rusticity, in As You Like it [III. iii]. Touchstone-Bannister Jun.; Audrey-Mrs Harlowe; [Act V. Tyranny, in King Richard the Third [parts of I. ii; II. ii; and V]. King Richard (1st time)-Palmer; King Henry-Aickin; Richmond (1st time)-Palmer Jun.; Lady Anne-Miss Logan.

Afterpiece Title: The Hodge Podge or A Receipt to make a Benefit

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Song: In 2nd piece: Mad Bess (in character)-Miss Leak; a Welch Song (in character)-Mrs Bland; The Waiter-Fawcett

Entertainment: In 2nd piece: Imitations-Caulfield

Event Comment: Benefit for Elliston. Mainpiece: The Play will be dressed in characteristick Habits. Morning Herald, 3 Sept.: Tickets to be had of Elliston, No. 3, Frith-street, Soho

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: Romeo-Elliston (1st appearance in that character); Friar Lawrence-Aickin; Capulet-Davies (Their 1st appearance in those characters); Paris-C. Kemble; Benvolio-Palmer Jun.; Tybalt-Caulfield; Prince-Trueman; Peter-Suett (1st appearance in that character); Friar John-Abbot; Montague-Usher; Balthasar-Ledger; Sampson-Lyons; Apothecary-Waldron; Gregory-Waldron Jun.; Mercutio-Bannister Jun. (1st appearance in that character); Nurse-Mrs Hopkins; Lady Capulet-Miss Tidswell; Juliet-Mrs Kemble.
Cast
Role: Apothecary Actor: Waldron

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

Dance: I: a Masquerade Scene, in which a Pas Russe-Master and Miss Menage

Song: End IV: a Funeral Procession to the Monument of the Capulets, with a Solemn Dirge-

Event Comment: "Nothing reduces acting to so miserable a show of mechanism as the constant applause at particular speeches...Mrs Siddons labours under a disadvantage [in dl theatre]. that she is not everywhere heard. To be so she would strain her voice unnaturally. She does not choose to make the sacrifice, and preserves her excellence with the near, whatever she may lose to the remote" (Oracle, 27 Sept.). Receipts: #372 0s. 6d. (280.13.0; 89.18.6; 1.9.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella Or The Fatal Marriage

Related Works
Related Work: The Fatal Marriage; or, The Innocent Adultery Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

Song: In III: Epithalamium. Vocal Parts-Miss Leak, Master Welsh

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With the original Musick of Matthew Locke, and Accompaniments by Dr Arne and Linley? Sen. Receipts: #283 13s. 6d. (229.10.6; 52.17.0; 1.6.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Song: Mainpiece: Chorus of Witches and Spirits-Kelly, Master Welsh, Sedgwick, Dignum, Cooke, Mrs Crouch, Mrs Bland, Miss Leak, Miss DeCamp, Miss Menage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Related Works
Related Work: The Dupes of Fancy; or, Every Man his Hobby Author(s): George Saville Carey

Ballet: The Triumph of Love. As17961001

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Cast
Role: The Seneschal Actor: Phillimore
Role: Guillot Actor: Wathen
Role: Matthew Actor: Maddocks

Dance: As17961019

Song: As17960927