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Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Mrs Cuyler. [Kean is identified on HAY playbill of 26 Aug. 1784.] 1st and 2nd pieces: Both written by George Colman, Esq. 3rd piece: Written by the late David Garrick. Not acted these 12 years. Tickets to be had of Mrs Cuyler, No. 7, St. Alban's-street; at the bar of George's Coffee-house; and of Rice, at the Theatre, where places for the boxes may be taken. Tickets delivered for the 15th will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: The English Merchant

Performance Comment: Spatter-Williamson; Sir William Douglas-Gardner; La France-Gaudry (all of the Theatre Royal, Hay-market); Lord Falbridge-Smith; Owen-Hunter; Frecport-Calvert (from the Theatre-Royal [Smock Alley], Dublin; 1st appearance in London); Amelia-Mrs Cuyler; Molly-Mrs Lefevre; Lady Alton-Mrs Lloyd (all of the Theatre Royal, Hay-market); Mrs Goodman-Mrs Bolton .
Cast
Role: Hay Actor: market
Role: Hay Actor: market

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Monologue: 1784 03 22 End of 2nd piece Shuter's Post-haste Observations on his Journey to Paris by Dutton

Event Comment: hay Benefit for Miss Hayward

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Cast
Role: Monimia Actor: Miss Hayward,

Afterpiece Title: hay The Wrangling Lovers

Dance: hay End of Play: The Cowkeeper, as17700521

Event Comment: hay Benefit for Mrs Burton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Afterpiece Title: hay Miss in Her Teens

Dance: hay End of Play: The Cowkeeper, as17700521

Event Comment: hay Benefit for Jewell, Treasurer. September 1770

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: hay The Citizen

Dance: hay End of Play: The Cowkeeper, as17700521

Song: hay II: A favorite song from The Captive; III: An Italian Song-Mrs Jewell

Event Comment: hay Benefit for Fleetwood. Tickets for Venice Preserved will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Performance Comment: As17700709 but Lothario-A Gentleman, identified as Fleetwood; Lavinia-Miss Hamilton; Calista-Miss Hayward .
Cast
Role: Calista Actor: Miss Hayward

Afterpiece Title: hay The Vintner Trick'd

Dance: hay End of Play: The Cowkeeper, as17700521

Event Comment: hay Benefit for Sheridan. Mainpiece: As written by Mr Brooke, not acted these eight years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Performance Comment: Essex-Sheridan; Southampton-Aickin; Cecil-Gardner; Raleigh-Dancer; Lieutenant-Griffiths; Queen Elizabeth-Mrs Burton; Nottingham-Mrs Jefferies; Rutland-Miss Hayward .
Cast
Role: Rutland Actor: Miss Hayward

Afterpiece Title: hay The Author

Dance: hay IV: The Nosegay, as17700611

Song: hay IV: By Mrs Jewell

Event Comment: hay The last night of performing this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Upon Two Sticks

Afterpiece Title: hay The Padlock

Dance: hay End of Play: The Cowkeeper, as17700521

Event Comment: hay By Permission. Benefit for DuBellamy. To begin at 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: hay The Vintner Tricked

Music: hay End of Opera: A Favourite Concerto on Harpsichord by Hook

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Performance Comment: See17371007, but Harlequin-Hays (the first time of his appearing on that stage).
Cast
Role: Harlequin Actor: Hays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Performance Comment: As17371007, but Harlequin-Hays.
Cast
Role: Harlequin Actor: Hays.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man's Bewitch'd; Or, The Devil To Do About Her

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Hays; Colombine-Mrs Dove; Don Furioso-Bencraft; Diego-Penkethman; Friends of Don Furioso-DelaGrange, LeBrune, Belguard, Mlle DelaGrange, Mlle LeBrune, Mrs Penkethman.
Cast
Role: Harlequin Actor: Hays

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wedding; or, The Roving Shepherd

Dance: CComic Ballet for Bride-Men and Bride-Maids-DelaGrange, Mlle DelaGrange, LeBrune, Mlle LeBrune, Bencraft, Mrs Penkethman

Music: An extraordinary Band

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift; Or, The Fool In Fashion

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer; or, Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Hays; Geniuses-Leveridge, Laguerre, Salway; Helen-Miss Young; Furies-Haughton, Villeneuve, Desse, Richardson, Dupre; Harlequin Man and Woman-Desse, Miss Oates; Pierot Man and Woman-Richardson, Thompson; Mezzetin Man and Woman-Villeneuve, Mrs Bullock; Scaramouch Man and Woman-Dupre, Miss Cantrell; Miller-Bencraft; Miller's Wife-Miss Norman; Doctor's Man-Hippisley.
Cast
Role: Harlequin Actor: Hays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Performance Comment: See17381009, but Harlequin-Hays; Genius-Leveridge, Salway; Helen-Mrs Lampe; Shade-Miss Young; Furies-Richardson, Villeneuve, Thompson, Desse, Dupre; Harlequin Man and Woman-Desse, Miss Oates; Pierot Man and Woman-Richardson, Thompson; Mezzetin Man and Woman-Villeneuve, Mrs LeBrun; Scaramouch Man and Woman-Dupre, Mlle Ozanne; Miller-Bencraft; siller's Wife-Miss Oates; Doctor's Man-Hippisley.
Cast
Role: Harlequin Actor: Hays

Dance: By Desire, aHornpipe-Yates

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Harlequin Turn'd Philosopher; Or, The Country Squire Outwitted

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Hays; Colombine-Mrs Dove; Country Squire-Bencraft; Clodpole-Dove.
Cast
Role: Harlequin Actor: Hays

Afterpiece Title: The Sailor's Wedding; or, The Wapping Landlady

Performance Comment: Wapping Landlady-Mrs Coker; Sailors-Dove, Nichols, Granier, Olbeldiston, Littleton; The Whole to conclude with a Grand Scene of Neptune's Palace: Neptune-Granier; Tritons-Thompson, Olbeldiston, Littleton; Sea Nymphs-Mrs Phillips, Miss Hayes, Miss Gerrard.

Dance: TThe Milk@Maids-; or, The Merry Morrice Dances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert Of Vocal And Instrumental Music

Performance Comment: Part I, Overture in Artaserse-(Giordani); Songs-Savoi, Sga Carara, Ristorini; Concerto on the Basson-Richter, first time of performing publicly in England; Part II, Songs-Savoi, Sga Girelli, Ristorini, Millico; Concerto on the German Flute-Tacet; Concerto on the Violincello-Crosdill; Concerto on the French Horn-Spandau; Part III, Songs-Sga Carara, Sga Girelli, Millico; Concerto on the Hautboy-Fischar; Solo on the Violin-Hay; a favourite overture for two orchestras composed by Bach. a favourite overture for two orchestras composed by Bach.
Cast
Role: Solo on the Violin Actor: Hay

Performances

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

Performance Comment: Polixenes-Bensley; Florizel - HAY Bannister Jun.; Leontes-Williamson; Camillo-Usher; Old Shepherd-Massey; Clown-Wilson; Autolicus (with songs)-Edwin; Paulina-Mrs Poussin; Dorcas-Miss Hale; Mopsa-Miss Morris; Pcrdita (with songs)-Mrs Bannister .
Cast
Role: Florizel Actor: HAY Bannister Jun.

Afterpiece Title: The Receipt Tax

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Monologue: 1783 08 20 As 13 Aug. imitations. After the Monologue a Variety of Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical, by Bannister Jun

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Two To One

Related Works
Related Work: The Two Connoisseurs Author(s): William Hayley

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Performance Comment: Heartly-Williamson; HAY Young Clackit-R. Palmer; Old Clackit-Parsons / Lucy-Mrs Lloyd; Harriet-Miss Woollery (1st appearance in that character) .
Cast
Role: HAY Young Clackit Actor: R. Palmer

Dance: End of mainpiece The Deserter. The Deserter-Mme Dageville; Skirmish-Miss Simonet; Louisa-Mr Delpini; and with Byrne and Miss L. Simonet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Performance Comment: Oakly-Bensley; Major Oaldy-Baddeley; Charles-HAY Bannister Jun.; Russet-Aickin; Sir Harry Beagle-R. Palmer; Captain O'Cutter-Booth; Paris-Wewitzer; Tom-Burton; Lord Trinket (with a song in character)-Sga Sestini; Lady Freelove-Mrs Bates; Harriet-Miss Woollery; Mrs Oakly-Miss Farren .
Cast
Role: Charles Actor: HAY Bannister Jun.

Afterpiece Title: Here, and There, and Every Where

Dance: In afterpiece, by Byrn, Rochfort, Giorgi Jun., the two Miss Simonets

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Performance Comment: Inkle-Johnstone; Sir Christopher Curry-Aickin; HAY Medium-Baddeley; Campley-Davies; Mate-Sedgwick; Waiter-Waldron Jun.; Planters-Usher, Abbot, Pindar, &c.; Sailors-Ledger, Lyons, &c.; Trudge-Fawcett//Narcissa-Miss De Camp; Wowski-Mrs Bland; Patty-Mrs Gibbs; Yarico-Mrs Kemble .
Cast
Role: HAY Medium Actor: Baddeley

Afterpiece Title: A MOGUL TALE; or, The Descent of the Balloon

Event Comment: The King's Theatre having been rented to the Proprietors of Drury-Lane House, with a reserve of the Nights for the Italian Opera to be carried on there for the Opera Trust, the Drury-Land Patent will in future be moved on Tuesdays and Saturdays to the Theatre Royal, Hay-Market, where all old and new Renters, claiming under the Drury-Lane Patent, will be entitled to Free Admission, and to their Rights for each Night of Performance. Half Price not being taken at this Theatre, the Performances will be reduced to the old established Prices. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes in the Theatre Royal, Hay-Market, to be taken at Fosbrook's Office at the King's Theatre as usual. [Mainpiece in place of Cymon; afterpiece of The Patron, both advertised on playbill of 25 Jan.] Receipts: #140 11s. (139.0; 1.11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. 1st piece [1st time; MD 2, by Samuel Birch]: The Musick by Attwood. Books of the Songs to be had in the Theatre. 2nd piece [1st time; INT 1, by George Colman, ynger. This was the 1st scene from Colman's New Hay at the Old Market, slightly revised; in subsequent seasons it was acted under the title of Sylvester Daggerwood]: By Permission of the Proprietor of the Theatre Royal Hay-Market. 3rd piece: With a Sea Fight. [The playbill assigns Sneer to Palmer, but "The Public are most respectfully informed that Palmer being too ill to perform this Evening, the character of Sneer will be attempted by Benson, who humbly hopes for their usual indulgence" (printed slip attached to Kemble playbill).] Oracle, 4 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 65, Gower-street, Bedford Square. Receipts: #613 12s. (332.0.6; 45.19.6; 4.3.0; tickets: 231.9.0) (charge: #221 19s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Smugglers

Afterpiece Title: A Favourite Scene from New Hay [Sylvester Daggerwood]

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

Event Comment: Benefit for Caulfield, Miss DeCamp, Miss Tidswell & Miss Heard. [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Mr Worthy to Benson but "an apology was made for the absence of Benson...His part of Worthy was read by Whitfield" (Thespian Magazine, July 1793, p. 50).] Tickets delivered for the 8th of June will be admitted. Morning Herald, 24 May: Tickets to be had of Caulfield, No. 8, Dartmouth-street, Westminster; of Miss DeCamp, No. 70, Tottenham-Court-Road; of Miss Tidswell, No. 3, Little Charles-street, St. James's-square; of Miss Heard, No. 13, Panton-street, Hay-market. Receipts: #182 3s. (28.17; 3.5; tickets: 150.1) (charge: #86 8s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Mariners

Event Comment: 2nd piece [1st time; PREL 1, by George Colman, ynger. In 1796 the 1st scene was acted as Sylvester Daggerwood]. Morning Chronicle, 3 July 1795: This Day is published New Hay at the Old Market (1s.). Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. 2nd Gallery 1s. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00 [same throughout season]. Places for the Boxes to be had of Rice at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mayor Of Garratt

Afterpiece Title: New Hay at the Old Market

Afterpiece Title: The Battle of Hexham; or, Days of Old

Event Comment: Books of New Hay at the Old Market are now published, and may be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prisoner At Large

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Afterpiece Title: New Hay at the Old Market

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Example

Performance Comment: Sir Charles-Leigh; Sir Rice-Griffin; Whimsey-Spiller; Springlove-Bullock Jr; Symons-Pack; Fancy-Bullock Sr; Florinda-Mrs Thurmond; Lucia-Mrs Bullock; Flora-Mrs Spiller; Mrs Whimsey-Mrs Rogers; Mrs Furnish-Mrs Kent; Mrs Fancy-Mrs Hays.
Cast
Role: Mrs Fancy Actor: Mrs Hays.

Song: Mrs Barbier; particularly Joys Immortal-

Dance: As17171022