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Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By George Granville.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The British Enchanters; Or, No Magick Like Love

Cast
Role: Caelius Actor: Betterton
Role: Constantius Actor: Booth
Role: Amadis Actor: Verbruggen
Role: Florestan Actor: Husbands
Role: Arcalaus Actor: Bowman
Role: Arcabon Actor: Mrs Barry
Role: Oriana Actor: Mrs Bracegirdle
Role: Corisanda Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Urganda Actor: Mrs Bowman
Role: Delia Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: Prologue Actor:
Role: Epilogue Actor: .
Event Comment: Written by the Author of the Recruiting Officer [George Farquhar]. Never Acted before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: Aimwell Actor: Mills
Role: Archer Actor: Wilks
Role: Bellair Actor: Bowman
Role: Sullen Actor: Verbruggen
Role: Freeman Actor: Keen
Role: Foigard Actor: Bowen
Role: Gibbet Actor: Cibber
Role: Bonniface Actor: Bullock
Role: Scrub Actor: Norris
Role: Lady Bountiful Actor: Mrs Powell
Role: Dorinda Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Role: Mrs Sullen Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Gipsey Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Cherry Actor: Mrs Bicknell
Role: Prologue Actor: Wilks.
Related Works
Related Work: The Stratagem Author(s): George Farquhar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Fourth: With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Performance Comment: Advertised but not acted because of the death of Prince George of Denmark.
Event Comment: Not Acted these Four Years. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by Sir George Etheridge

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge, Or, Love In A Tub

Related Works
Related Work: The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub Author(s): Sir George Etherege
Event Comment: At Penkethman's Great Booth, above Bird-Cage Alley, over against St. George's Church. Mainpiece: a celebrated Droll

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore: With The Comical Humours Of Sir Anthony Noodle And His Man Waspe

Cast
Role: Noodle Actor: Egleton
Role: King Actor: Huddy
Role: Shore Actor: Oates
Role: Blunderbuss Actor: Orfeur
Role: Sir Robert Brackenbury Actor: Chapman
Role: Jane Shore Actor: Mrs Orfeur
Role: Mrs Blake Actor: Mrs Middleton
Role: Mrs Airs Actor: Mrs Egleton.

Entertainment: Tumbling-. The Company which did so well at bf

Event Comment: At Mr Penkethman's Great Booth, above Bird-Cage Alley, over against St. George's Church

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Valentine And Orson

Cast
Role: Orson Actor: Bridgewater
Role: King Actor: Huddy
Role: Alphonso Actor: Williams
Role: Valentine Actor: Roberts
Role: Athelia Actor: Mrs Morgan
Role: Cleora Actor: Mrs Butcher
Role: Countrywoman Actor: Mrs Willis
Role: Peter Pitiful Actor: Butcher.

Song: Mrs Willis

Dance: Mrs Willis

Entertainment: Tumbling-

Event Comment: At Penkethman's and Norris's Great Theatrical Booth in the George Inn Yard, Smithfield. An excellent new Droll

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Famous History Of Semiramis, Queen Of Babylon: Or, The Woman Wears The Breeches, Containing The Distressful Loves Of The Prince Alexis An Ulamia; The Pleasant Adventures Of Sir Solomon Gundy And His Man Spider; And The Comical Humours Of Alderman Doodle, His Wife, And Daughter Hoyden

Cast
Role: King Ninus Actor: Huddy
Role: Semiramus Actor: Mrs Plommer
Role: Alexis Actor: Cibber Jr
Role: Alderman Doodle Actor: Williams
Role: Captain Actor: Roberts
Role: Ulamia Actor: Mrs Houghton
Role: Madame Doodle Actor: Mrs Cook
Role: Sir Solomon Gundy Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Spider Actor: Norris
Role: Hoyden Doodle Actor: Mrs Willis.
Related Works
Related Work: A Very Good Wife Author(s): George Powell

Song: Platt

Dance: Houghton, Mrs Houghton

Event Comment: A New Ballad Opera, [By George Lillo.] Receipts: #91 9s. 6d. Daily Courant, 12 Nov.: On Tuesday Night...Sylvia...was perform'd for the first Time...where there appeared a Set of People, who seem'd inclined to damn the whole Performance (if it had been in their Power)by their continual Hissing and Cat-Calls; notwithstanding which, the same was perform'd with Applause, by the general Approbation of the Pit and Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sylvia; Or, The Country Burial

Related Works
Related Work: Silvia; or, The Country Burial Author(s): George Lillo
Event Comment: Benefit Hen. Duncalfe. 7 p.m. At the George and Vulture Tavern, Cornhill

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: the best Mhe best Masters

Event Comment: At Fielding-Hippisley Booth at the George Inn in West Smithfield. A new Dramatick Entertainment. Done from the French of Moliere, and intermix'd with Variety of Songs to old Ballad Tunes and Country Dances. All the Characters to be entirely new Dressed. [Advertised 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31 Aug.; 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 Sept.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Envious Statesman; Or, The Fall Of Essex; With The Humours Of The Forc'd Physician

Dance: Mons D'Ferrou Ville , lately arrived from Paris, Miss Brett, Miss Mears

Music: A Band , including Burk Thumoth

Entertainment: Before the Opera: Postures-Phillips

Event Comment: At Fielding-Hippisley Booth, in the George-Inn-Yard. Mainpiece: A Dramatic Entertainment. Afterpiece: A Ballad Opera. Done from the French of Moliere. Intermix'd With Variety of Songs set to old Ballad Tunes, and Country Dances. 1 to 11 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Jealousy; Or, The Downfall Of Alexander The Great

Cast
Role: Alexander Actor: Rosco
Role: Clytus Actor: Huddy
Role: Hephestion Actor: Houghton
Role: Lysimachus Actor: Mullart
Role: Roxana Actor: Mrs Mullart
Role: Statira Actor: Mrs Haughton.

Afterpiece Title: A Cure for Covetousness; or, The Cheats of Scapin

Cast
Role: Scapin Actor: Hippisley
Role: Old Gripe Actor: Penkethman
Role: Sly Actor: Salway
Role: Octavian Actor: Jenkins
Role: Shift Actor: Hewson
Role: Lucia Actor: Miss Binks
Role: Loveit Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Medlar Actor: Mrs Martin.

Dance: FFooting Dance-LeBrun, Mrs Ogden; Fisher Tench, Mlle D'Lorme

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction. Egmont, Diary, I, 472: I went... to see the famous moving tragedy, called George Barnwell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Cast
Role: Barnwell Actor: Cibber
Role: Thorowgood Actor: Milward
Role: Barnwell Sr Actor: Berry
Role: Trueman Actor: W. Mills
Role: Blunt Actor: Winstone
Role: Milwood Actor: Mrs Butler
Role: Maria Actor: Miss Mann
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Charke
Related Works
Related Work: The Merchant; or, The True History of George Barnwell Author(s): George Lillo

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance:

Event Comment: A Serenata. Being an Essay of several different Sorts of Harmony.[Music by Handel. Done into English by George Oldmixon.] Daily Advertiser, 14 March: Last Night Mr Handell's new Serenata, in Honour of the Princess Royal's Nuptials with the Prince of Orange, was perform'd before their Majesties, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, the Prince of Orange, and all the Royal Family, and was received with the greatest Applause; the Piece containing the most exquisite Harmony ever furnish'd from the Stage, and the Disposition of the Performers being contriv'd in a very grand and magnificent Manner. [The marriage of the Prince of Orange and Royal Princess occurred on Thursday, 14 March.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Parnasso In Festa; Or, Apollo And The Muses Celebrating The Nuptials Of Thetis And Peleus

Cast
Role: : Apollo Actor: Carestini
Role: Orfeo Actor: Scalzi
Role: Clio Actor: Signora Strada
Role: Calliope Actor: Signora Durastanti
Role: Cloride Actor: Signora Maria Caterina Negri
Role: Euterpe Actor: Signora Rosa Negri
Role: Proteo Actor: Waltz
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Sir George Etheridge

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Shireburn
Role: Old Batchelor Actor: Quin
Role: Sir Joseph Actor: Miller
Role: Fondlewife Actor: Griffin
Role: Bluff Actor: Johnson
Role: Belmour Actor: W. Mills
Role: Vainlove Actor: Salway
Role: Sharper Actor: Milward
Role: Setter Actor: Oates
Role: Laetitia Actor: Mrs Thurmond
Role: Belinda Actor: Miss Holliday
Role: Araminta Actor: Mrs Cantrel
Role: Sylvia Actor: Mrs Pritchard

Afterpiece Title: Merlin

Cast
Role: Merlin Actor: Laguerre
Role: Spirits Actor: Mrs Cibber, Mrs Clive
Role: Ghost of Faustus Actor: Salway
Role: Harlequin Faustulus Actor: Le Brun
Role: Harlequin's Servant Actor: Nivelon
Role: Italian Actor: Lalauze
Role: Fanner Actor: Mechlin
Role: Italian Lady Actor: Cibber
Role: Country Lass Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Italian Lady's Servant Actor: Mrs Laguerre
Role: Shepherds Actor: Pelling, Davenport
Role: Shepherdesses Actor: Mrs Pelling, Mrs Davenport
Role: Pluto Actor: Denoyer
Role: Furies Actor: Livier, Villeneuve, Pelling, Davenport
Role: Merlin Actor: Laguerre
Role: Ghost of Faustus Actor: Salway
Role: Spirits Actor: Mrs Cibber, Mrs Clive
Role: Mountebank's Zany Actor: Salway
Role: Country Girl Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Time Actor: Salway

Dance: As17341214

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Eminent Citizens. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Lillo. Afterpiece: Taken from the French of Moliere, by H. Fielding, Esq. At Common Prices. 6:30 P.M. [Tickets for Grey, Peploe, Mrs Moor taken. The Doorkeepers are ordered not to take tickets sold by Orange Women.] London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 3 July: The Play of George Barnwell, and the Farce of the Mock Doctor . . . was perform'd to a Crowded Audience, with Great Applause . . . The Revival of the above-mentioned Play seems welltim'd, when so many fine Ladies of Pleasure make their Appearance, with unusual Equipages, and their Gallants run the most extraordinary Lengths, to their own Ruin, and Grief of their Friends

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Cast
Role: Barnwell Actor: Cibber
Role: Thorogood Actor: Milward
Role: Barnwell Sr Actor: W. Mills
Role: Blunt Actor: Cole
Role: Trueman Actor: Cross
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Milwood Actor: Mrs Charke
Role: Maria Actor: Miss Holliday
Related Works
Related Work: The Merchant; or, The True History of George Barnwell Author(s): George Lillo

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Music: Select Pieces. II: A Concerto for two Hautboys performed by Woodbridge and Neale

Dance: I:Jenny come tie me; or, The Neu, Way of Wooing by Davenport and Miss Brett. III: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. V: Pierot by Davenport and Cox. End Afterpiece: A new Comic Dance by Le Brun and Mrs Anderson

Song: IV: As17350603

Event Comment: Benefit Laguerre. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. [Tickets at Laguerre's, over against the King's Arms in George Street, York Buildings.] Receipts: money #13 9s. 6d.; tickets #95 12s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Cast
Role: Mademoiselle Actor: Mrs Laguerre
Role: ; Cornet Actor: Miss Horsington. With
Role: Sir John Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Constant Actor: Walker
Role: Heartfree Actor: Ryan
Role: Razor Actor: Chapman
Role: Lady Brute Actor: Mrs Hallam
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Bullock
Role: Lady Fanciful Actor: Mrs Horton

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Cast
Role: Hob Actor: Laguerre

Dance: Clown by Nivelon. Peasants by Lalauze, Mlle D'Hervigni, &c. Sailors (from Orestes) by Glover, &c

Song: Chancon a Boire by Leveridge and Laguerre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the Author of George Barnwell. Afterpiece: As 26 May

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Guilt Its Own Punishment

Related Works
Related Work: Guilt Its Own Punishment; or, Fatal Curiosity Author(s): George Lillo

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Captains

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 17 March: This is to inform the Publick, that the new Tragi-Comedy, intitled The Free-Thinker; or, The Fox uncas'd, which was last Summer rehearsed and was to have been play'd at [lif], but by Mr Rich's letting that House to Mr Giffard, for that Season, was prevented, will be acted on the 14th of April next [at yb], by Mr Hallam's Company of Comedians. The Play is writ much in the same Stile and Manner of George Barnwell....The Author hopes that the Generous and Judicious will encourage the Performance, tho' the Company of Players are not dropt down from the Clouds, nor does the Play libel the Government. [No further announcement of the performance has been noted before 28 April.

Performances

Event Comment: Benefit J. Roberts. By Desire. For the Entertainment of the Ancient and Honourable Society of Non-Common Pleas, Mainpiece: Written by the Author of George Barnwell. Second and Third Pieces: Both written by the Author of Pasquin. To begin exactly at Half an Hour after Six, and all will be over by Half an Hour after Nine. Tickets (containing the Prologue to the Register, by way of Ode to the New Year, with the Musick engrav'd on a Copper Plate) may be had of Mr Henry Roberts, Engraver, at the Star over-against the Vine Tavern in Holborn, and at the Theatre in the Hay-Market. Daily Advertiser, 2 May: Sir, As at every one of our Theatres this Day there is a Benefit for Persons under Misfortunes, 'tis humbly hop'd that the more humane Pursuers o Pleasure will suspend their Curiosity for Vaux Hall for one Day, (out of a hundred) in Favour of so many Unfortunate, who have but the Chance of one single Night to relieve them from Afflictions which perhaps they have long labour'd under. And, as I have somewhere read, So humane Worth to God like Heights they'll raise, For the Preserver shares the Maker's Praise. I believe it is fully known, without troubling you with farther Particulars, that among the Number above mention'd, is included, Sir, Your very humble Servant, John Roberts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Curiosity

Related Works
Related Work: Fatal Curiosity Author(s): George LilloGeorge Colman, the elder
Related Work: Guilt Its Own Punishment; or, Fatal Curiosity Author(s): George Lillo
Related Work: The Shipwreck Author(s): George Lillo

Afterpiece Title: The Historical Register

Afterpiece Title: Eurydice Hiss'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

Afterpiece Title: Fame; or, Queen Elizabeth's Trumpets; or, Never plead's Hopes of being a Lord Chancellor; or, The Lover turn'd Philosopher; or, The Miser's Resolve upon the Lowering of Interest

Performance Comment: The Characters are, Sir Hardheart Pelf, an Usurer, and Justice of the Peace-; Counsellor Pleadwell, a Man of Honour-; in love with Charlotte, the Miser's Daughter-; Counsellor Neverplead, of Brick-Court in the Temple, an Original-; Fustian turn'd Auctioneer, preparatory to a Presbyterian Parson-; Mr Jamaica, an honest Merchant, sent as a Vagrant to the House of Correction-; Mr Quidnunc, a very deep-headed Man-; a Pack of fashionable Ladies and Beaux-; Famine, the Usurer's Servant-; George, Counsellor Neverplead's chief Clerk-.
Event Comment: TTony Aston from Bath. At the George Tavern at Charing-Cross...exhibits his most Learned, Serious, Comical and Whimcal Extra-Rhapsodical Declamation. 7 p.m. 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Declamation

Event Comment: At Hallam's Booth, in the George-Inn Yard. 1 p.m. to 11 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dragon Of Wantley

Cast
Role: More Actor: Master W. Hamilton
Role: Mauxalinda Actor: Miss Cole
Role: Margerinia Actor: Miss Edwards
Role: Gubbins Actor: Master J. Hamilton
Role: Dragon Actor: Master Ferg.

Dance: I: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; II: Burgomaster's Dance-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; V: Grand Ballet-Lilliputians; Two Pierrots-Master Littleton, Miss Wright; Two Punches-Master Ferg, Miss Morrison; Two Scaramouches-Master Brooks, Miss Ferg; Postures-Rapinere

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Mr Lillo, Author of George Barnwell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Curiosity

Cast
Role: Old Wilmot Actor: Crispe
Role: Young Wilmot Actor: W. Giffard
Role: Eustace Actor: Peterson
Role: Randall Actor: Blakes
Role: Agnes Actor: Mrs Steel
Role: Maria Actor: Miss Medina
Role: Charlot Actor: Mrs Giffard.
Related Works
Related Work: Fatal Curiosity Author(s): George LilloGeorge Colman, the elder
Related Work: Guilt Its Own Punishment; or, Fatal Curiosity Author(s): George Lillo
Related Work: The Shipwreck Author(s): George Lillo

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist; or, The Sham Doctor

Cast
Role: Crispin Actor: Yates
Role: Doctor Actor: Paget
Role: Old Gerald Actor: Julian
Role: Young Gerald Actor: Blakes
Role: Martin Actor: Peterson
Role: Simon Actor: Dunstall
Role: Doctor's Wife Actor: Mrs Jones
Role: Waiting Woman Actor: Mrs Dunstall
Role: Angelica Actor: Miss Medina
Role: Beatrice Actor: Miss Hippisley.

Dance: Shawford, Mrs Bullock

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince George, and Princess Augusta. Receipts: #158 15s. (Account Book); #170 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Cheats of Harlequin

Dance: Desnoyer, Signora Barberini

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses Prince George and the Lady Augusta. Benefit Desnoyer. Receipts: money #116 15s. 6d.; seals #105 17s. (Account Book); #230 (Rylands MS.). [According to the Account Book, Desnoyer received a Free Benefit, i.e., no deduction for the nightly charges.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Cast
Role: Wanton Wife Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Damaris Actor: Mrs Woffington
Role: Lady Laycock Actor: Mrs James
Role: Lovemore Actor: Hallam
Role: Cunningham Actor: Hale
Role: Sir Peter Actor: Rosco
Role: Merryman Actor: James
Role: Clodpole Actor: Arthur
Role: Lady Pride Actor: Mrs Martin
Role: Philadelphia Actor: Mrs Bellamy
Role: Prudence Actor: Mrs Mullart
Role: Jeffery Actor: Oates
Role: Jeremy Actor: Clarke
Role: Barnaby Actor: Hippisley.

Dance: SSerious Dance to Favourite Tunes from the Opera of Lothario-Desnoyer; The Matelots-Mechel, Mlle Mechel; Italian Peasants-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini; By Command, The Comic Dance of the Old Woman-with Pierot in the Basket; Louvre, Minuet-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini