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Event Comment: A New Serious Opera. Music by Perez with New Cloaths and Dances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Didone Abbandonata

Event Comment: Benefit for author of the Farce. Full prices. Last time of performing the Farce this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Womans A Riddle

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Performance Comment: As17610425 but a New Character Margery-Mrs Kennedy.
Event Comment: At the large Theatrical Booth at the bottom of the Bowling Green. A new Comedy Written on the plan of a gentleman whose abilities have long received the sanction of public approbation. Interspersed with a variety of Entertainments infinitely superior to what have been generally given at the Fairs. The Songs will be new and spirited. The Dances lively and characteristic. By a company of Comedians from both Theatres. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Whimsical Battle Of The Greybeards Or The Humourous History Of A Covent Garden Adventure Containing The Ridiculous Behaviour Of shela Oflannegan The First Irish Woman Introduced At Any Fair The Odd Resentment Of col

Performance Comment: Crackcrown and his whimsical Duel with the purblind Major Blinko, the Marriage of Sawney MacGregor, a Scotch Footman, and Shela O'Flannegan; with the fortunate conclusion by a Methodist Cobbler; The whole to conclude with a congratulatory poem; by way of Epithalamium, on the auspicious nuptials of our Illustrious Patriot King, and the Illustrious Princess Charlotte of Mecklenberg-Strelitz-.

Dance: CComic Dance-Signora Florentina, a capital performer from the Opera House at Turin

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not perform'd these two Years. [See 26 May 1760.] Income from Boxes #25 15s. Nightly expenses #37 2s. 1d. plus the following items: Chorus singers in the Fair (Dibdin, Warren, Court, Roberts and Whiteaker) at 5s. each-#1 5s.; Two side Drums 10s.; Fife 5s.; Two Fire-eaters 15s.; Merry Andrew 5s.; Fidder 2s. 6d.; Loveman 2s. 6d. Receipts: #131 (Winston Theatrical Record)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: Othello-Ross; Iago-Sparks; Cassio-Hull; Brabantio-Gibson; Roderigo-Dyer; Lodovico-Anderson; Gratiano-Redman; Duke-Marten; Montano-Davis; Emilia-Mrs Hamilton; Desdemona-Mrs Bellamy.
Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Ross

Afterpiece Title: The Fair A Grotesque Pantomime Entertainment

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Miles; Pantaloon-Bencraft; Wife to Pantaloon-Mrs Pitt; Colombine-Sga Maranesi, first time; Pierrot-Lalauze; Constable-Redman; Porter-Holtom; In which will be introduc'd a Recruiting Lieutenant, the Lieutenant-Shuter; With a new Song-Beard in the character of a Sailor; Midshipman-Young; Drummer-Tatoo; Recruits-Mattocks, Baker, Legg; The Equilibrist on the Wire-Matthews; Andrew to Yates's Parade-Jonathan; Andrew to Puppet Shew-Collins; Tiddee Doll-Dunstall; Butcher-Perry; Slaughtermen-Holtom, Buck; Spectators attending the Fair-the Comedians; To conclude with a Bohemian Dance-Leppie, Mlle Capdeville, Granier, Mrs Granier.
Event Comment: A new comic Opera, with new Clothes, Decorations and Dances. By Their Majesties Command. [Repeated in subsequent bills.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Mercato Di Malmantile

Dance: Director of Dances-Gallini; Dancers-Gallini, Mlle Asselin, Binetti, Sga Binetti

Music: Domenico Fischetti

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 8 years. [See 8 Dec. 1752.] Afterpiece: Not perform'd these 10 years. [See 3 Jan. 1753.] No persons can POSSIBLY be admitted behind the scenes or into the orchestra. FULL prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer Or The Haunted House

Performance Comment: Sir George Truman-Smith; Tinsel-Dyer; Vellum-Shuter; Fantome-R. Smith; Coachman-Dunstall; Butler-Marten; Gardner-Cushing; Abigail-Mrs Pitt; Lady Truman-Mrs Ward; Occasional Prologue-Smith.
Cast
Role: Sir George Truman Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne or The Burgomaster Trickd

Performance Comment: Apollo-Sodi; Daphne-Sga Manesiere; Followers of Daphne-Mlle Marianne, Mrs Leppie, Mrs Viviez, Mad Jansolin, Mrs Welsh, Miss Daw; Morpheus-Legg; Mystery-Baker; Silence-Mattocks; Harlequin-Miles; Burgomaster-Shuter; Boor Servant-Lalauze; Scaramouche-Gosley; Colombine-Sga Maranesi; Huntsmen-Beard, Mattocks, Legg, Baker, Dibdin, Courts; Venus-Miss Miller; Silenus-Beard; Bacchus-Mattocks; Pan-Legg; Diana-Mrs Vernon; To Conclude with a Grand Ballet-Sodi, Sga Manesiere. Characters new Dress'd.
Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne Author(s): Theophilus Cibber
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Event Comment: A new comic Opera. Music by Galuppi. New Cloaths, Decorations, and Dances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Nozze Di Dorina

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral Or Grief A la mode

Performance Comment: Lord Hardy-Ross; Lord Brumpton-Anderson; Campley-Dyer; Trusty-Gibson; Sable-Collins; Trim-Shuter (in which will be introduc'd, by desire, the Cries of London); Corporal-Barrington; Tatter-Buck; Rag-Bennett; Bumpkin-R. Smith; Matchlock-Redman; Kate Matchlock-Wignel; Lady Charlotte-Mrs Ward; Mrs Fardingale-Mrs Green; Mademoiselle-Miss Sledge; Lady Harriet-Mrs Vincent; Lady Brumpton-Mrs Hamilton.

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Performance Comment: As17620218 but here the New Occasional Scene of Action is detailed as Representing the escape of Harlequin thro' the Haunted House in Cock Lanev .
Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne Author(s): Theophilus Cibber
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Cast
Role: Sir George Truman Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Performance Comment: As17620222 [but no mention is made of the New Occasional Scene in the Bills].
Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne Author(s): Theophilus Cibber
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Event Comment: Benefit for Hull. Mainpiece: Hull's "Alteration with Additions" to Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors. Not acted these 30 years. [See 9 Oct. 1734, according to Genest, IV, 653.] No Building on Stage. [This alteration acted but once, not printed. Done again 1779, and printed in 8vo 1793 under title Comedy of Errors. [See Hogan, II, 151.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twins Or A Comedy Of Errors

Performance Comment: The characters of the play-Shuter, Dunstall, Gibson, Hull, Davis, Anderson, Wignell, Tindal, Perry, R. Smith, Holtom, Buck, Mrs Vincent, Mrs Lessingham, Mrs Stephens, Mrs Ward; A New Prologue-Smith; A New Epilogue-Mrs Ward.
Related Works
Related Work: The Twins; or, Is It He, or his Brother? Author(s): Matthew Gregory Lewis
Related Work: The Twin-Rivals Author(s): George Farquhar

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Song: II: Let not the Rage, from the opera Artaxerxes, by Particular Desire,-Miss Brent

Dance: After the Epilogue: The Taylors, as17620107

Event Comment: I Went With Mallet to breakfast with Garrick; and from thence to Drury-Lane house, where I assisted at a very Private rehearsal, in the Green-room, of a new tragedy of Mallet's, called Elvira. As I have since seen it acted, I shall defer my opinion of it till then; but I can't help mentioning here the surprising versatility of Mrs Pritchard's talents, who rehearsed, almost at the same time, the part of a furious Queen in the Green-room, and that of a Coquette on the stage; and passed several times from one to the other with the utmost ease and happiness. I dined with Darrel, saw The Way of the World afterward (Edward Gibbon's Journal, ed. D. M. Lowe (New York, n.d.) pp. 185-86). [Apparently Mrs Pritchard rehearsed Millamant in the morning.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of Ye World

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

Song: III: A Cantata-Miss Young

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never acted there. Taken from Shakespear, with a New Overture and New Music between the acts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Two Gentlemen Of Verona

Performance Comment: Protheus-Holland; Valentine-O'Brien; Duke-Havard; Thurio-Vernon; Eglamour-Packer; Antonio-Burton; Host-Moody; Panthion-Stevens; Outlaws-Ackman, Fox, Marr, Watkins; Speed-King; Launce-Yates; Sylvia-Miss Bride; Lucetta-Miss Pope; Julia-Mrs Yates; In Act IV will be introduc'd a Serenade-Vernon.
Cast
Role: Protheus Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

Event Comment: Benefit for Woodward. [Both pieces advertised as for the last time this season.] Afterpiece: By particular Desire. N.B. That the Cabin may be convenient, and in regard that he would not be too popular, and too generally visited, the Captain will have No Building upon the stage. [See 13 April 1763. The Prologue is Larpent MS 221, wherein Woodward requests smiles of approval as he takes off himself.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Performance Comment: As17621025, but new occasional Prologue-.

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: II: The Garland, or the +Milk-Maid's Holiday-Miss Poitier; [see17590421] [in which will be introduced a Hornpipe; End: The Jealous Woodcutter, as17621023

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cleonice

Performance Comment: As17631126, but to which will be added several new airs-.
Event Comment: [The words of The Pastoral Dialogue as sung by Beard and Miss Hallam are printed in the Public Advertiser this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda and the Arcadian Nuptials

Performance Comment: As17640116, but concluding with a New Masque-; Colin-Beard; Phillis-Miss Hallam; Thyrsus-Duquesney; Daphne-Sga Manesiere; Cupid-Mas. Rogers; The Graces-Miss Wilford, Miss Valois, Miss Pitt; Hymen-Gallini. [New Cloaths and Scenes. [See17640119 for Pastoral Dialogue.]New Cloaths and Scenes. [See17640119 for Pastoral Dialogue.]
Event Comment: This Night a New Song was Introduc'd in the Pantomime upon the Prs Augusta's leaving England (well receiv'd) (Hopkins). New occasional Song in the Pant (Cross Diary). Receipts: #208 11s. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Rites of Hecate

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Hopkins, Mrs Hopkins. The Distressed Mother was oblig'd to be deferred on account of the death of Mr Holland's father (Hopkins Diary-MacMillan). Tickets deliver'd for that play will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: As17640414 but Iago-Havard; Roderigo-King; Desdemona-Mrs Yates; Montano-Fox; End of Play, a New Epilogue-Miss Hopkins, the Fairy Page.

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

Dance: II: Double Hornpipe-Mas. Cape, Miss Rogers; IV: The Carpenters and the Fruit Dealers, as17640523

Performance Comment: Cape, Miss Rogers; IV: The Carpenters and the Fruit Dealers, as17640523.
Event Comment: Benefit for Hull. Books of the afterpiece to be had at the Theatre. Afterpiece: Founded on the plan of the old Ballad of that name. The songs adapted to old English, Irish and Scotch tunes. [Shuter's Prologue is Larpent MS 218, wherein he enters in character of a Ballad singer, interrupting the music as the overture comes to a close. He sings snatches from some ten old ballads, stopping in the midst of each to comment on the superiority of modern circumstances which parallel those referred to in the old ballads. As the bell rings he introduces the afterpiece.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Lady

Performance Comment: Worthy (the English Officer)-Mattocks; Sea Lieutenant-Dunstall; Major Hearty-Perry; Ensign-R. Smith; Soldiers, Sailors-Buck, Weller, Murden; Anna-Miss Valois, 1st time in a singing character; Duenna-Mrs White; Elvira (the Spanish Lady)-Mrs Mattocks; New Prologue-Shuter.
Cast
Role: New Prologue Actor: Shuter.

Dance: IV: The Jealous Woodcutter, as17641101

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Performance Comment: As17641030, but Lord Rake-R. Smith; Lady Fanciful-Mrs Bellamy; Belinda-[under her new neme] Mrs Mattocks.under her new neme] Mrs Mattocks.

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-Miss Pitt; End of Play: Rural Love, as17641212

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not

Performance Comment: As17650118, but Soto-Bennet; Rosara-[under her new name] Mrs Mattocks.under her new name] Mrs Mattocks.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: II: The Drunken Peasant, as17650429 IV: a Hornpipe-Miss Pitt; End: A Grand Pantomime Ballet, call'd La Femme Maitresse, as17641004

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Performance Comment: As17641211, but Isabella-[under her new name] Mrs Mattocks; New Occasional Prologue-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Cast
Role: a New Dance Actor: Miss Wilford.

Dance: II: Hornpipe-Miss Pitt; End: The Jealous Woodcutter, as17641101

Event Comment: [R$Ross this month wrote to Colman (Harvard Theatre Collection A.L.S.) inquiring about an intended new theatre at Bath, and opened his heart as follows: "My present situation is most irksome to me and must be to any gentleman or man of merit in his profession to have such an ignorant and now ill-bred fellow as Beard? presume to conduct the business of a theatre Royal, of which he is totally ignorant, and oblig'd to apply to the great Gibson, who naturally wishes to lower every man to his own standard, while the other despises every degree of merit that is not compris'd in Sol fa and wishes the theatre only to substitute as an Opera house." Ross wanted to be nominated for the manager's postition in the new theatre at Bath. N.B. He had already acted 23 times this season in his best parts.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not Or The Kind Imposter

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Related Works
Related Work: The Merchant; or, The True History of George Barnwell Author(s): George Lillo

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Performance Comment: As17651223, but a new additional scene-.
Event Comment: This Week a Patent passed the Great Seal for the Establishment of a new Theatre, to Samuel Foote, Esq. only (Public Advertiser, London notes, p. 2, col. 3). Mr Barry and Mrs Dancer from Dublin are said to be engaged for this summer at the Theatre Royal in the Haymarket (Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, London notes, p. 2, col. 2, which corroborates the Foote patent)

Performances

Event Comment: TThe Country Girl published at 1s. 6d. Paid B. Johnsons Head a bill #1 3s. 9d.; Paid Lawrence and Keel paper bill #7 2s. 6d. (Treasuerer's Book). Receipts: #134 7s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Performance Comment: As17661025, but in Act III, will be introduc'd a New Song-.

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: II: A Pamtomime Dance The Italian Bakers, as17661011