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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-Mrs Kennedy; Peachum-Wilson; Lockit-Booth; Filch (1st time)-Doyle; Mat o' the Mint-Robson; Lucy-Miss Catley; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Pitt; Jenny Diver-Mrs Poussin; Mrs Coaxer-Mrs Whitfield; Diana Trapes-Mrs White; Polly-Miss Brown.
Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Robson

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Dance: III: Hornpipe-Miss Besford. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Robson

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Robson

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Every where

Event Comment: The Hypocrite [announced on playbill of 22 Apr.] is obliged to be deferred on account of Mrs Abington's Illness. Receipts: #151 2s. (108.3.0; 42.0.6; 0.18.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Related Works
Related Work: London's Great Jubilee Author(s): Matthew Taubman
Related Work: The Constant Couple; or, A Trip to the Jubilee Author(s): George Farquhar
Related Work: Sir Harry Wildair: Being the Sequel of the Trip to the Jubilee Author(s): George Farquhar

Dance: I: Dance of Spirits, as17791103; III: Dance of Fantastic Spirits, as17791103; IV: Dance, as17791103, but Delpini, Miss +Armstrong

Event Comment: [Mrs Arne was from the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin.] Receipts: #137 19s. (136.13; 1.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Robson

Afterpiece Title: The Siege Of Gibraltar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: [The playbill for 7 June announces The Beggar's Opera, but on this night the theatre was dark- perhaps because of the riots referred to above.]
Event Comment: Mainpiece: With accompaniments to the Airs composed by Thomas? Linley? Sen. Receipts: #77 1s. (53.18; 22.11; 0.12)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-Vernon (1st appearance in that character these 6 years); Peachum-Moody; Filch-Parsons; Lockit-Baddeley; Mat o' th' Mint-Gaudry; Ben Budge-Burton; Player-Wrighten; Beggar-Waldron; Lucy-Miss Collett; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Hopkins; Jenny Diver-Miss Kirby; Diana Trapes-Mrs Love; Polly-Mrs Cargill (late Miss Brown; 1st appearance this season). 1st appearance this season).

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: End II: The Butterfly-the Miss Stageldoirs; III: a Hornpipe-Walker; End: Country Dance-the Characters

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-Mrs Kennedy; Peachum-Wilson; Lockit-Booth; Filch-W. Bates; Mat o' the Mint-Robson; Polly-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [Miss Satchell]); Mrs Peachum-Mrs Webb; Jenny Diver-Mrs Poussin; Mrs Coaxer-Mrs Whitfield; Diana Trapes-Mrs Pitt; Lucy-Miss Catley.
Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Robson

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: End II: As17800920; III: Hornpipe-Miss Besford. [The Hornpipe was omitted on 24 Apr. 1781, but was otherwise danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Performance Comment: [The Hornpipe was omitted on 24 Apr. 1781, but was otherwise danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Robson

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: As17800921

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Paid Billstickers #4 1s.; Tailor #3 16s. 11d. Receipts: #144 9s. 6d. (97.4.0; 45.12.6; 1.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Dance: I: Dance of Spirits-Miss Armstrong; III: a Dance of Fantastic Spirits-; IV: a Dance-Henry, Miss Armstrong

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The First Part of King Henry the Fourth, announced on playbill of 22 Sept.] Afterpiece: The Overture and the rest of the music composed by Dr Fisher. Paid Music 22nd Inst. #7 15s. 4d.; Properties 22nd Inst. 9s. 8d.; Wardrobe #6 11s. 6d.; Supernumeraries #1 19s.; Chorus Singers #1 5s.; Guard [master carpenter] for Scene Men #10 19s. 5d. Receipts: #194 13s. 6d. (193.18.0; 0.15.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Robson

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Performance Comment: Harlequin-W. Bates; Justice-Messink; Gypsies-Baker, Simpkinson, Mrs Morton; Clown-Stevens; Justice's Wife-Miss Platt; Maid - Mrs Sharpe; Pierrot's Wife [in all subsequent bills: Clown's Wife]-Miss Matthews; Colombine-Mrs Ratchford.
Cast
Role: Clown's Wife] Actor: Miss Matthews

Dance: As17800921; Afterpiece: Dancing-Harris, Langrish, Miss Besford, Miss Matthews

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Robson

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Dance: As17800921

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Robson

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Cast
Role: Clown's Wife] Actor: Miss Matthews

Dance: End II: The Villagers, as17801011; Afterpiece: Dancing, as17800927

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Farce [who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: none listed (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Robson

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of an Election

Cast
Role: George Actor: Quick

Dance: End II: Rural Merriment-Aldridge, Miss Besford

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A Dramatic Entertainment of Singing, Dancing, and Dialogue in Honour of Shakespeare; in which will be introduced a grand Pageant, the music by Dibdin. Receipts: #184 11s. 6d. (142.7.0; 41.8.0; 0.16.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Related Works
Related Work: London's Great Jubilee Author(s): Matthew Taubman
Related Work: The Constant Couple; or, A Trip to the Jubilee Author(s): George Farquhar
Related Work: Sir Harry Wildair: Being the Sequel of the Trip to the Jubilee Author(s): George Farquhar

Dance: I: Dance of Spirits, as17800923; III: Dance of Fantastic Spirits, as17800923; IV: a Dance-the Miss Stageldoirs

Event Comment: Miss Farren still continuing ill, The Lord of the Manor [announced on playbill of 2 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred till further notice. [As afterpiece the playbill announces Catherine and Petruchio, but it was not acted. Its substitute is listed in the Account-Book.] Receipts: #86 18s. (55.5.0; 30.3.6; 1.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Dance: As17800923

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Robson

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Free Mason

Dance: As17801025

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Robson

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: As17801115

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Performance Comment: As17810425, but in SCENE THE LAST The Butterfly-Miss Stageldoirs, as17800921; A Dance of Shepherds and Shepherdesses-_; and following the song A Scene from The Election-Bannister, Gaudry, Mrs Love; Blow high-; Dance of Sailors-from SCENE III names of the dancers, from SCENE IV; Dance of Anticks-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: In III of 1st piece: a Hornpipe, as17800921; Scene the Last: The Butterfly, as17800921

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With Accompaniments to the Airs composed by [Thomas] Linley [Sen.]. Receipts: #147 13s. 6d. (107/15/0; 39/18/6; 0/0/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: Captain Macheath-Mrs Cargill; Peachum-Moody; Filch-Parsons; Lockit-Baddeley; Mat o' th' Mint-Williams; Ben Budge-Burton; Player-Wrighten; Beggar-Waldron; Lucy-Mrs Wrighten; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Hopkins; Jenny Diver-Miss Collett; Diana Trapes-Mrs Love; Polly-Miss Wheeler (from the Theatre Royal, Bath; 1st appearance on this stage). hathi. 1st appearance on this stage). hathi.

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece, as17811004; In Act III a Hornpipe by Walker

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Way to Keep Him, announced on playbill of 15 Oct.] Paid Supernumeraries #9 8s.; Printer [of playbills] #10. Receipts: #72 11s. 6d. (51/15/0; 20/14/6; 0/2/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece, as17811004; In Act III a Hornpipe as17811015

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece, as17811004; In Act III a Hornpipe, as17811015

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Miss Morris

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Free Mason

Dance: As17811016

Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces the 8th night of King Arthur and as afterpiece the 8th night of The Divorce, but they were not acted. The substitute plays are listed in the Account-Book. King Arthur, "The Eight Night," was next acted on 11 Dec; The Divorce, "The 8th Night," on 17 Dec] Account-Book, 1 Dec.: Paid Billstickers, Change of Play, 1s. 6d. Receipts: #118 4s. (82/17; 34/12; 0/15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Dance: End of mainpiece The Devonshire Minuet, as17810915