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We found 2783 matches on Roles/Actors, 876 matches on Performance Comments, 447 matches on Event Comments, 94 matches on Performance Title, and 12 matches on Author.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Performance Comment: As17691201.

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Performance Comment: As17700203.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Performance Comment: As17700118.

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Performance Comment: As17700203.

Dance: III: Comic Dance, as17690926

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Fathers

Performance Comment: As17700208.

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Performance Comment: As17700203.
Event Comment: Last time of performing the afterpiece before the Benefits. A duel with pistols between George? Garrick and Baddeley on account of G. Garrick remon[stratin]g with Baddeley on [receiving] his wife's salary. Baddeley fir'd then G. G. fir'd in the air, and a reconciliation took place (Winston MS 10, from Dr Burney's News Clippings). [See full and humorous acct Town and Country Magazine, March, pp. 157-58 with woodcut of duel.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: As17691220, but Emilia-Mrs Hopkins.

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Performance Comment: As17700203.
Event Comment: OOde, Mr Garrick (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Performance Comment: As17700222.

Afterpiece Title: The Ode

Performance Comment: As17690930.
Event Comment: For the House. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zenobia

Performance Comment: As17700326.

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Performance Comment: As17700203, but The Vocal Parts-Mrs Scott, Mrs _Baddeley.
Event Comment: For the House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Fathers

Performance Comment: As17700208, but Diana-Mrs Wrighten; Clarissa-Miss Weller (for Mrs Baddeley) first time in this opera (playbill).

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Performance Comment: As17700405 but The Vocal Parts-_Vernon.
Event Comment: For the House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: As17700317.

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Performance Comment: As17700418.
Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Miss Ross years later married M LeTexier (Hopkins MS Notes; MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Slave

Performance Comment: As17691128, but Aboan-a Young Gentleman, first appearance on any stage.

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: As17700426.

Dance: II: By Particular Desire, for the first time, a Minuet, Allemande-Sieur Daigville, Miss Ross (his apprentice of 4 months); IV: The English Gardeners, as17691206

Entertainment: End: Bucks Have At Ye All-Palmer

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Jeffries and Mrs Wrighten. Tickets deliver'd for Woman is a Riddle will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Performance Comment: As17700222, but Phaedra-Mrs Jeffries.

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Performance Comment: As17700322 but Rhodope-Mrs Wrighten.

Song: I: A Cantata call'd Queen Mab or the Fairies' Jubilee-Mrs Wrighten

Dance: V: Minuet, Allemande-Daigueville, Miss Ross [as17700427

Event Comment: Benefit for Champnes and Mrs W. Barry (playbill). [N.B. Winston suggests Cymbeline this night, but all extant playbill evidence favors Cymon. "Sir Joshua Reynolds purchased portrait of Garrick as Abel Drugger by Zoffany for #100" (Winston MS 10, from Burney News Clippings).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Performance Comment: As17700329.

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: As17700426.

Dance: III: As17700428

Event Comment: For the House. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. [Sometime after May, and during 1770 was published Paul Hiffernan's Dramatic Genius in Five Books, dedicated to Garrick (with a 2nd edn., 1772). Book I, delineates a plan for a permanent Temple to be erected to the memory of Shakespeare, in classical taste; Book II, details the invention of the drama, its rise to perfection, and gives a "candid disquisition of the rules laid down by the critics"; Book III, a treatise on the art of acting; Book IV, requisites for dramatic genius, in composition, and in acting; Book V, an essay on Architecture, Painting and the other arts as they relate to theatrical representation. Contains flattering comments on theatrical managers.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zenobia

Performance Comment: As17700326.

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Performance Comment: As17700418.
Event Comment: Benefit for Messrs Grimaldi, Messink and Giorgi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17691028, but Hamlet-Cautherly; Polonius-Love, first time; Laertes-Brereton, first time; Ophelia-Miss Radley, first time; Osric-Dodd; Gravediggers-Parsons, Messink.

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Performance Comment: As17690926, but the Allemande in the concluding Masquerade performed-Mas. and Miss West, pupils of Grimaldi.

Dance: II: The Wake-Sg and Sga Giorgi; IV: (By Desire) a Minuet-Sg Giorgi, Mrs King

Event Comment: Benefit for Brereton. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: As17691002, but Romeo-Brereton, first time; Apothecary-Waldron; Lady Capulet-Mrs Smith; Vocal Parts-Bannister, +Dibdin, Mrs _Baddeley.

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performance Comment: As17700503, but Mungo-Dibdin.
Event Comment: Benefit for Wolf, Waldron and Atkins. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Performance Comment: Ogilby-King; Sir John Melville-Wolf, first time; Sterling-Love; Lovewell-Cautherly; Sergeant Flower-Hartry; Traverse-Hurst; Freeman-Fawcett; Brush-Palmer; Canton-Waldron; Miss Sterling-Miss Pope; Fanny-Mrs W. Barry; Betty-Mrs Love; Chambermaid-Mrs Jeffries; Mrs Heidelberg-Mrs Hopkins. [See17700425] .See17700425] .

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: As17700426 but Richard Wealthy-Wrighten.

Dance: I: The English Gardeners, as17691206

Entertainment: End: Bucks have at ye all-Palmer

Ballet: IV: A New Medley Dance (1st time) call'd the May Day Garland. Tinker-Atkins; Housemaid-Mrs King

Performance Comment: Tinker-Atkins; Housemaid-Mrs King.
Event Comment: Benefit for W. Palmer, Booth and Kear. Tickets deliver'd by Jacobs and Costin will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Performance Comment: As17700301 but Leon-Reddish, first time; Old Woman-Booth; Maid-W. Palmer.

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Performance Comment: As17700504.

Song: End: A Hunting Song-Kear

Ballet: IV: The May Day Garland. As17700517

Performance Comment: As17700517.
Event Comment: Benefit for Dickinson (1st Gallery office-keeper)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: As17691213, but Hastings-Aickin; Alicia-Mrs W. Barry.

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: As17700517, but Richard Wealthy-Burton; Dick-Jacobs; Transfer-Parsons.

Dance: IV: A Hornpipe-Walker

Entertainment: V: (By Desire) the Picture of the Playhouse, or Bucks have at ye all-Dodd

Event Comment: Benefit for Clough and Wheeler, Mrs Cross and Mrs Millidge. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire Being positively the last time of performing it this season. Tickets deliver'd for The Way to Keep Him will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Performance Comment: As17700512, but Shepherdesses-Mrs Millidge, Miss Burton.

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Performance Comment: As17700308 but Papillion-Weston.
Event Comment: Benefit for House. Tickets Miss Platt, &c. (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: As17691026, but Duke-Wright; Tubal-Messink; Gratiano-Dodd; Jessica (with a song)-Miss Radley.

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Performance Comment: As17700526.
Event Comment: Benefit for Gridland, Foley, Robinson, Carlton Jr, and Watson, &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Performance Comment: As17700515, but Second Gentleman-Wright; Captain-Keen.

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: As17700221.

Dance: III: The Wake-the Giorgis

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Performance Comment: As17701008 [2nd appearance Inchbald] Almeria-Mrs W. Barry.

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Performance Comment: As17701005.
Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Desire. Garrick return'd last night from Bath (Dr Burney's News Clippings-Winston MS 10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: As17701029, but Capulet-Burton; Juliet-Mrs Morland (2nd appearance); the Vocal Parts-Kear, _Bannister, _Dibdin, _Davies, Miss _Radley.

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Performance Comment: As17701023.
Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: As17701105, but Original Prologue-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Performance Comment: As17701103.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: As17701103 Young Gentlewoman's, Mrs Roberts, 3rd appearance on the stage.

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Performance Comment: As17701023.

Dance: IV: The Rabbit Sellers, as17701010

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Performance Comment: As17701201, but Imogen-Mrs Baddeley.

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Performance Comment: As17701205.

Dance: III: Comic Dance, as17701025