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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.
Event Comment: Receipts: #185 13s. 6d. (178.7.6; 7.6.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wives As They Were, And Maids As They Are

Performance Comment: As17970418.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Oberon

Performance Comment: As17970417.
Event Comment: Receipts: #202 0s. 6d. (193.10.0; 8.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Cure For The Heart Ache

Performance Comment: As17970128.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Oberon

Performance Comment: As17970417.
Event Comment: Receipts: #170 2s. (163.16; 6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: British Fortitude

Performance Comment: As17970510.

Afterpiece Title: Wives as they Were, and Maids as they Are

Performance Comment: As17970418, but Mr Bronzely-Knight in place of Lewis.

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Thieves

Performance Comment: As17970509.
Event Comment: Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Waddy, Simmons, Mrs Watts, Atkins, Miss Leserve, Simpson will be admitted. Afterpiece: In the course of the Pantomime a Rural Nuptial Procession (Taken from The Village Fete [see 18 May]). Receipts: #248 15s. 6d. (62.5.6; 9.10.0; tickets: 177.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Performance Comment: As17970516.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Oberon

Performance Comment: As17970306but added to Principal Pantomime Characters-Findlay, +Goostree, T. +Cranfield, +Dyke, _Delpini, _Powers, _Lewiss, _Davies; Lover-_.
Event Comment: Receipts: #223 19s. 6d. (210.9.0; 13.0.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Votary Of Wealth

Performance Comment: As17990112.

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Oak

Performance Comment: As17990211.

Music: As17990205

Event Comment: Receipts: #299 17s. (287.7.6; 12.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lover's Vows

Performance Comment: As17981101.

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Oak

Performance Comment: As17990211.
Event Comment: Receipts: #266 17s. 6d. (258.9.6; 8.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Votary Of Wealth

Performance Comment: As17990112.

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Oak

Performance Comment: As17990211.
Event Comment: Receipts: #259 2s. (246.11; 12.11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lover's Vows

Performance Comment: As17981101.

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Oak

Performance Comment: As17990211.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Hermit; Or, Rambles In Dorsetshire

Performance Comment: Young Pranks-Fawcett; Whimmy-Suett; Old Pranks-Aickin; Peregrine-Trueman; Barleycorn-Palmer; Bite-Caulfield; Barebones-Abbot; Poz-Clarke; Tully-Johnstone; Natty Maggs-Palmer Jun.; Carter-Ledger; Toby Thatch-Wathen; Diana-Miss Heard; Mrs Maggs-Mrs Davenport; Kitty Barleycorn-Mrs Gibbs.

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Performance Comment: As17990615.

Afterpiece Title: Fortune's Frolick

Performance Comment: As17990620.
Event Comment: [Story is identified in MS list, in hay playbills now at Harvard, of new performers for the 1799 season.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosina

Performance Comment: Belville-A Young Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [Story]); Capt. Belville-Davies; Rustic-Clarke; Irishmen-Waddy, Abbot; William-Mrs Harlowe; Phoebe-Mrs Bland; Dorcas-Mrs Davenport; Rosina-Miss Griffiths.

Afterpiece Title: The London Hermit

Performance Comment: As17990621.

Afterpiece Title: Fortune's Frolick

Performance Comment: As17990620.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Performance Comment: As17990624 but Henry Moreland-C. Kemble.

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Performance Comment: As17990628 but Irishmen-_Waddy, Caulfield.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Performance Comment: As17990629.

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Performance Comment: As17990617.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Children In The Wood

Performance Comment: As17990618 but Gabriel-Palmer; Helen-Miss DeCamp; added: Apathy-Suett.

Afterpiece Title: The Jew and the Doctor

Performance Comment: As17990627.

Afterpiece Title: Fortune's Frolick

Performance Comment: As17990620.
Event Comment: 2nd piece: Not acted these 2 years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Purse

Performance Comment: As17990619 but The Baron-Caulfield; Page-Master Chatterley; Edmund-_; Theodore-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Jew

Performance Comment: Sheva-Fawcett (1st appearance in that character); Sir Stephen Bertram-Aickin; Charles Ratcliffe-Barrymore; Jabal-Suett; Saunders-Trueman; Waiter-Lyons; Frederick-C. Kemble; Mrs Ratcliffe-Mrs Davenport; Dorcas-Mrs Harlowe; Mrs Goodison-Mrs Hale; Eliza-Mrs Gibbs (1st appearance in that character).

Afterpiece Title: Fortune's Frolick

Performance Comment: As17990620.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Performance Comment: As17990701 but Dick Dowlas-Barrymore; Caroline Dormer-Miss DeCamp.

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner at Large

Performance Comment: As17990619 but Fripon-Caulfield; Adelaide-Miss Heard.
Event Comment: [1st piece in place of Blue Devils, advertised on playbill of 9 July.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Purse

Performance Comment: As17990706.

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Performance Comment: Count Almaviva-Barrymore; Doctor Bartholo-Suett; Basil-Aickin; Tall Boy-Palmer; Argus-Caulfield; Notary-Abbot; Alcade-Ledger; Lazarillo-Wathen; Rosina-Miss DeCamp.

Afterpiece Title: A Mogul Tale

Performance Comment: As17990617 but Zapphira-Miss Menage.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew

Performance Comment: As17990706.

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Performance Comment: As17990705.

Afterpiece Title: Blue Devils

Performance Comment: Megrim-Fawcett; Demisou-Palmer; James-Wathen; Annette-Mrs Gibbs.
Event Comment: 3rd piece [1st time; CO 2, by Henry Heartwell and George Colman, ynger, based on Le Prisonner; or, La Ressemblance, by Alexandre Vincent Pineu Duval]: With new Scenes, Dresses and Decorations. The Musick composed and selected by Attwood. Books of the Songs, &c. to be had at the Theatre. Morning Chronicle, 9 Aug. 1799: This day is published The Castle of Sorrento (1s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Blue Devils

Performance Comment: As17990711.

Afterpiece Title: Ways and Means

Performance Comment: As17990625 but Young Random-Barrymore; Carney-_; Peery-_; English Waiter-_; French Waiter-_; Passengers-_; Mrs Peery-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

Performance Comment: Characters by Fawcett, Johnstone, Suett, Davies, Linton, Abbot, Chippendale, Miss Griffiths, Miss DeCamp. [Cast from text (Cadell and Davies, 1799): Blinval-Fawcett; Governor of Sorrento-Johnstone; Germain-Suett; Count Murville-Davies; Centinel-Linton [unassigned in text; see18000614]; Footman-Abbot; Corporal-Chippendale; Rosina-Miss Griffiths; Widow Belmont-Miss DeCamp; Chorus-Lyons, Kenrick, Little, Willoughby, Dibble, Aylmer, Brown, Caulfield Jun.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Purse

Performance Comment: As17990706.

Afterpiece Title: The Jew

Performance Comment: As17990706 but Waiter-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

Performance Comment: As17990716.
Event Comment: [3rd piece in place of The Castle of Sorrento, advertised on playbill of 20 July.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In Good Humour

Performance Comment: As17990717.

Afterpiece Title: The Heir at Law

Performance Comment: As17990708.

Afterpiece Title: The Purse

Performance Comment: As17990619 but the Baron-Caulfield; Edmund-Trueman; Page-Master Chatterley.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False And True

Performance Comment: As17990716 but Nicolo-Story 's name listed in playbill.

Afterpiece Title: Blue Devils

Performance Comment: As17990711.

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

Performance Comment: As17990716.
Event Comment: 2nd piece [1st time; C 5, by Prince Hoare, adapted from Armuth und Edelsinn, by August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue. Prologue by John Taylor (see text). Epilogue by the author (London Chronicle, 21 Aug. 1799)]. Morning Chronicle, 14 Aug. 1799: This Day is published Sighs (2s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seeing Is Believing

Performance Comment: As17990726.

Afterpiece Title: Sighs; or, The Daughter

Performance Comment: [Characters by Suett, Fawcett, C. Kemble, Barrymore, Chippendale, Palmer, Miss DeCamp, Mrs Gibbs, Mrs Davenport, Mrs Bland. Cast from text (Machell Stace [et al], 1799): Von Snarl-Suett; Tilman Totum-Fawcett; Adelbert-C. Kemble; Leopold-Barrymore; Nicolas-Chippendale; Hans William-Palmer; Josephine-Miss DeCamp; Louisa-Mrs Gibbs; Mrs Rose-Mrs Davenport; Ellen-Mrs Bland; Prologue-C. Kemble; Epilogue-Fawcett, Mrs Gibbs. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances, except on 14 Aug.]These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances, except on 14 Aug.]

Afterpiece Title: The Purse

Performance Comment: As17990722.

Song: not listed in playbill; see17990824: In II 2nd piece: 'Twas in the solemn mid@night hour-Mrs Bland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sighs

Performance Comment: As17990730.

Afterpiece Title: Fortune's Frolick

Performance Comment: As17990620.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sighs

Performance Comment: As17990730.

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Performance Comment: As17990705.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sighs

Performance Comment: As17990730.

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

Performance Comment: As17990716.