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Event Comment: The Young Quaker [announced on playbill of 18 Aug.] is obliged to be deferred on Account of the Indisposition of Miss George

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Cast
Role: Lord Falbridge Actor: Williamson

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Event Comment: Benefit for Edwin. 2nd piece [1st time; F 2, by George Colman, elder, based of L'Avocat Patelin, by David Augustin de Brueys. This is usually ascribed to William Macready. But on the title-page of his copy (K-D 295 in Huntington Library) J. P. Kemble has written "This Piece was not written by Mr Macready." Public Advertiser, 29 Aug. states that "Colman...presented Edwin upon this occasion with a new Farce, taken from a celebrated French Play." World, 15 Oct. 1787 refers to Colman's dislike of L'Avocat Patelin, but adds, "When [he] came to translate it himself, he found reason to alter his opinion."]. Public Advertiser, 25 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Edwin, No. 19, Piazza, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir John Cockle, At Court

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost; or, The Man Bewitch'd

Song: End 2nd piece: the new Four@and@twenty Fiddlers all on a Row-Edwin

Entertainment: Monologue End: Lingo's Opinions on Men and Manners (a Comical, Whimsical, Operatical, Farcical Rhapsody)-Edwin

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Brunton. Mainpiece: Written by Sheridan. Public Advertiser, 13 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Miss Brunton, No. 5, George-street, York-buildings. Receipts: #260 18s. 6d. (156.12.0; 7.1.6; tickets: 87.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Related Works
Related Work: The Twin-Rivals Author(s): George Farquhar

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt-Mr and Mrs Ratchford

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bannister. 2nd piece [1st time; INT I, by George Colman, elder]: A much admired Scene from The Genius of Nonsensev. Public Advertiser, 18 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Bannister, No. 2, Frith-street, Soho

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Cast
Role: Lord Random Actor: R. Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Blade Bone; or, Agreeable Companion

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Bannister Jun.; Landlord-Usher; Agreeable Companion-Moss.
Cast
Role: Landlord Actor: Usher
Related Works
Related Work: The Blade Bone Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: A Quarter of an Hour before Dinner

Cast
Role: Lord Simper Actor: R. Palmer

Entertainment: Monologue Preceeding 1st piece: A Touch of the Times; or, The Humours of London-Bannister Jun

Event Comment: [The singing of the national anthem had reference to the mental breakdown which had recently afficted George III.] Receipts: #145 8s. 6d. (136.17.0; 8.11.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophet

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Song: End: God save the King-Bannister, Johnstone, Blanchard, Davies, Darley, Cubitt, Rock, Bonville, Janson, Lee

Event Comment: Benefit for Edwin. Tickets delivered for Wednesday last, the 15th inst., will be admitted. Public Advertiser, 4 Apr.: Tickets [for 15 Apr.] to be had of Edwin, No. 19, Piazza, Covent-Garden. Mainpiece: Written by Dr Goldsmith. Afterpiece: By Permission of [George Colman elder, owner of the copyright]. Receipts: #326 1s. 6d. (228.6.6; 9.13.0; tickets: 88.2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Good-natured Man

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Song: End: a new comic song, Four@and@Twenty Periwigs all on a Row-Edwin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: The Blade-Bone; or, Harlequin's Frolic

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Bannister Jun.; Landlord-Phillimore; Leaden Mercury-Alfred; Agreeable Companion-Baddeley.
Cast
Role: Landlord Actor: Phillimore
Related Works
Related Work: The Blade Bone Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Entertainment: Monologue Preceding: British Loyalty[; or, A Squeeze for St. Paul's by George Colman ynger]-Bannister Jun

Performance Comment: Paul's by George Colman ynger]-Bannister Jun.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sheep Shearing; Or, Florizel And Perdita

Related Works
Related Work: The Sheep-Shearing Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Lovers' Quarrels

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Cast
Role: Lord Minikin Actor: Bernard

Dance: End 1st piece: Tamborine Dance, as17891021

Song: In II 1st piece: Come come my good Shepherds-; and trio, Get you hence!-

Entertainment: Monologue. After dancing: A Paraphrase of Shakespeare's Seven Ages (Written by the late George Alexander Stevens)-King

Performance Comment: After dancing: A Paraphrase of Shakespeare's Seven Ages (Written by the late George Alexander Stevens)-King.
Event Comment: Benefit for the General Lying-in Hospital, St. George's Row, near Tyburn Turnpike. Receipts: #212 12s. (79.11; 23.2; 3.16; tickets: 106.3) (charge: #116 10s. 1d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: As17900210

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, Cameron, Percey, George, Woollams. Receipts: #272 12s. (13.4.0; 7.11.6; 2.6.6; tickets: 249.10.0) (charge: #105 19s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: As17900308

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bannister. 2nd piece [1st time; SAT 1, author unknown. Larpent MS 877; not published. Author of Prologue unknown]. [Monologue by George Colman, ynger (European Magazine, Aug. 1790, p. 151.] Gazetteer, 7 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Bannister, No. 2, Frith-street, Soho

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Related Works
Related Work: The Spanish Barber; or, The Fruitless Precaution Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Taste and Feeling: A Dramatic Caricature

Performance Comment: !! Characters by Bannister Jun., Davies, Cubitt, Iliff, Chapman, Barrett, Evatt, Abbott, Farley, Baddeley, Mrs Webb, Mrs Edwards, Mrs Powell, Mrs Brooks. Cast adjusted from London Chronicle, 8 July 1791: Mr Robert Gout-Bannister Jun.; Ned Howard-Iliff; Landlord-Chapman; William-Barrett; Mr Gout-Baddeley; Lady Anecdote-Mrs Webb; Lucy-Mrs Edwards; Mrs Gout-Mrs Powell; Harriet-Mrs Brooks; Prologue-Bannister Jun.
Cast
Role: Landlord Actor: Chapman

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

Entertainment: Monologue. End I 3rd piece: Liberty; or, Two Sides of the Water-Bannister Jun

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. End I afterpiece: A Grand Representation of Mount Vesuvius, at the Time of an Eruption. Oracle, 28 Feb: Tickets to be had of Palmer, No. 3, London Road, St. George's Fields. Receipts: #340 5s. 6d. (144.1.0; 22.0.0; 4.4.6; tickets: 170.0.0) (charge: #126 4s. 11d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Cast
Role: Lord William Actor: Kelly

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter of Naples

Entertainment: Monologue. A Lecture on Oratory: The Pulpit the Senate the Bar and the Stage with a Specimen of Scotch Elocution, written by the late Samuel Foote, Esq.-Palmer

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, Percey, Cameron, Wilson, George, Woollams. Kemble Mem.: Benefit for the Boxkeepers. A New Edition of the [mainpiece] to be had at the Theatre. "Went to play. Mrs Jordan in 'Rosalind.' I am still of opinion, there is more in her person and natural manners than in her acting. Her merit lies out of her part. The words set down by the author she does not repeat with great propriety of tone, emphasis, or gesture, than others. But she has of these, certain peculiarities, which indicate dispositions, such as take strong hold of the affections, at least of the male part of her audience; and therefore, when the part is of a sort to admit a large portion of these, she produces a great effect. The true acting of the part may, in many instances, not require what she throws into it, but it may admit it; and if the expression so thrown in is of the sort described, the effect of the whole will be improved, though the part is thereby neither better nor worse acted" (Windham Diary, 28 May 1791, 227). Receipts: #363 4s. 6d. (33.5.0; 9.5.6; 2.13.0; tickets: 318.1.0) (charge: #117 1s. 7d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Song: As17901027

Event Comment: Mainpiece: In 5 Acts, altered from the Dramatic Romance by David Garrick, Esq. With a new Overture and new additional Musick by Storace [on 2 Jan. 1792 and thereafter, added: Shaw] and other Eminent Masters. Entirely new Scenery by Greenwood, and new Dresses, Decorations and Machinery. To conclude with a Grand Procession of the Hundred Knights of Chivalry, and the Representation of an Ancient Tournament. [These were included in all subsequent performances.] Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Morning Post, 3 Jan. 1792, prints a full description of the Procession of over 100 persons: 1st, Anglo-Saxon Knights and banners; then ancient British knights, Norman knights, Indians, Turks, Scythians, Romans, a dwarf, a giant; at end, "soldiers drawing a superb picture of St. George, knights in chain mail, a cupid leading a knight covered with a silver net, Hymen, piping fauns, bands of cupids drawing an altar--flame burning, cupids hovering over it, and others feeding doves below, a troop of Arcadian shepherds drawing the car of Cymon and Sylvia, characters of the drama, and chorus." "At the conclusion of the procession, a tournament took place of both horse and foot, between several combatants in armour, who fought with lances, swords and battle-axes: three of Hughes' horses [from the Royal Circus] were introduced, and managed with much dexterity; the Prince of Wales' Highlander made one of the procession, and entered the lists as a champion, fighting with an enormous club; against him a small female warrior was opposed, by whom he was subdued. It was by far the grandest spectacle ever seen upon the stage. Many of the characters were taken from Sir Philip Sydney's Arcadia, in which the scene of the piece was laid; and the dresses of the knights, armour, &c. from the drawings and descriptions of the best antiquarians" (Oulton, 1796, II, 215). [This was Edmund Kean's 1st appearance on the stage; he was about four years old. He personated a cupid lying in Cymon and Sylvia's car (Kelly, Reminiscences, II, 21-22).] Account-Book, 13 Jan. 1792: Paid Hughes for his Horses #16 19s. 10d.; 23 Jan.: Paid Gough for his Greyhounds in Cymon #5 19s. 6d. Receipts: #420 6s. (385.0; 35.5; 0.1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Afterpiece [1st time; P 3, author unknown. "Founded on the Tale of Inkle & Yarico" (Kemble Mem.), by Sir Richard Steele, in The Spectator, No. II, 13 March 1710-11. Not in Larpent MS; not published]: The Music by Gluck and Martini [i.e. Martin y Soler]. Morning Herald, 9 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Palmer, No. 3, London-road, St. George's Fields. Receipts: #452 16s. (169.17; 47.13; 2.11; tickets: 232.15) (charge: #169 5s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Related Works
Related Work: The Twin-Rivals Author(s): George Farquhar

Afterpiece Title: The American Heroine; or, Ingratitude Punished

Dance: In afterpiece: the Dances (composed by Hamoir,)-Hamoir, Bidotti, Keys, Nicolini, Walker, Whitmill, Mrs Barrett, Mrs Bourk, Mrs Brooker, Mrs Davis, Mrs Harris, Mrs Haskey, Miss Jacobs, Miss DeCamp

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, Percey, Cameron, Wilson, George, Woollams. Kemble Mem.: Bt. the box-keepers. Receipts: #98 6s. (59.6.6; 26.0.6; 12.19.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #147 12s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Event Comment: 1st piece [1st time; PREL 1, by George Colman, ynger. Larpent MS 951; synopsis of plot in Diary, 16 June. This piece is stated to have been published in 1792]. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. 2nd Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be had of Rice, at the Theatre. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00 [same throughout season]. In 1st piece "Parsons was highly entertaining in affecting to speak in an under tone scarcely audible, that the feebleness of his voice might correspond with the smallness of the House, compared with the enormous [new] Theatre over the way; and his broken, unintelligible mode of announcing the Performance to the Audience as a specimen, was truly whimsical" (Morning Herald, 16 June)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Poor Old Hay-market; Or, Two Sides Of The Gutter

Related Works
Related Work: Poor Old Haymarket; or, Two Sides of the Gutter!!! Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bannister, being her Last Appearance on the Stage. [Address by George Colman, ynger (Thespian Magazine, Oct. 1792, p. 102.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Mogul Tale

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Entertainment: Monologue End 2nd piece: a Serio, Comic, Poetic Paraphrase on Shakespear's Seven Ages-King; End 3rd piece: Occasional Farewell Address-Mrs Bannister

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast; Grand Selection 0

Afterpiece Title: A Grand Miscellaneous Act

Performance Comment: Overture-(Ariadne); Captivity (supposed to be sung by the unfortunate Maria Antoinette, Queen of France, during her confinement in the Tower of the Temple) [composed by Storace]-Mrs Crouch; Jehovah crowned-Incledon; He comes-Chorus (Esther); Mad Bess (composed by Purcell)-Mme Mara; Disdainful of danger-Incledon, Kelly, Reynolds (Judas Maccabaeus); He layeth the beams-Bartleman (Ezio); But bright Cecilia, As from the power-Mme Mara; The dead shall live-Chorus (Dryden's Ode); God save Great George our King, To Arms, Britons strike home-Chorus (Purcell).

Music: End II oratorio: concerto on the violin-Mme Gautherot

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'allegro Ed Il Pensieroso; Grand Selection 0

Afterpiece Title: A Grand Miscellaneous Act

Performance Comment: Overture and March-(Scipione); Tears such as tender fathers shed-Bartleman (Deborah); Go baffled coward-Kelly, Reynolds (Samson); Around let acclamations ring-Chorus (Athalia); O come let us worship-Incledon [Coronation Anthem]; A Bravura Song-Mme Mara; Gloria Patri-Full Chorus [Jubilate]; God save Great George our King, To Arms, Britons strike home-Chorus (Purcell).

Music: As17930220

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah; Grand Selection 0

Performance Comment: As17930215, but Principal Vocal Parts-Mrs _Crouch, Miss Dall; Oratorio to be opened by George our our King, To Arms, Britons strike home-Chorus ($Purcell">Mme Mara; to conclude with God save Great George our our King, To Arms, Britons strike home-Chorus ($Purcell).

Song: End oratorio: Captivity [see17930220]-Incledon

Music: End Part II: the favourite concerto of Geminiani on the violin-G. Ashley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection 0 Of Sacred Music

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

Performance Comment: Eighth Concerto-(Corelli); How willing-Bartleman [Samson]; Hear us O God-Chorus Coronation Anthems]; Deeper and deeper still, Waft her angels to the skies-Kelly [Jephtha]; From harmony-Chorus [Dryden's Ode]; The Captive Kings-Incledon, Chorus [, as17930306 Captivity-Mrs Crouch [, as17930220; Let the Bright seraphim-Mme Dussek; Let their celestial concerts-Chorus [Samson]; God save Great George our King, To Arms, Britons strike home-Chorus (Purcell).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah; Grand Selection 0

Performance Comment: As17930313but Principal Vocal Parts-_Incledon; To conclude with God save Great George our King, To Arms, Britons strike home-Chorus (Purcell).

Music: End Part II: concerto on the Grand Piano Forte-Dussek

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection 0

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

Performance Comment: Overture from Berenice-; The Captive King-Incledon, Chorus; Dead is the dream, Adieu thou partner-Incledon; Go injur'd King-Chorus; Captivity-Mrs Crouch; Jehovah crown'd-Incledon; He comes-Chorus [Esther]; Have mercy upon me-Mrs Crouch, Kelly, Bartleman (Pergolesi); Together let us range-Kelly, Mrs Crouch (Boyce); Mad Bess-Mrs Crouch (Purcell); Gloria Patri-; God save Great George our King, To Arms, Britons strike home-Chorus (Purcell).

Music: End Part II: a trio for violin viola and violoncello-G. and R. and C. Ashley

Event Comment: Benefit for Percey, Cameron, George, Woollams. Kemble Mem.: Benefit for Boxkeepers. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #338 (28.1.6; 13.10.6; 3.15.0; tickets: 292.13.0) (charge: #147 9s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: End: Hornpipe-Keys