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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beaux Stratagem

Cast
Role: Scrub Actor: Shuter
Role: Aimwell Actor: a Gentlemen
Role: Sir Charles Actor: R. Palmer
Role: Foigard Actor: Jackson
Role: Gibbet Actor: Brown
Role: Boniface Actor: Griffiths
Role: Sullen Actor: Lloyd
Role: Archer Actor: Palmer
Role: Cherry Actor: Miss Essex
Role: Lady Bountiful Actor: Mrs Palmer
Role: Gipsey Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Dorinda Actor: Miss J. Essex
Role: Mrs Sullen Actor: Mrs Gardner
Role: Epilogue Actor: Shuter.

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Cast
Role: Major Sturgeon Actor: Bannister
Role: Jerry Sneak Actor: Parsons
Role: Sir Jacob Actor: Lloyd
Role: Crispin Actor: Jackson
Role: Bruin Actor: Griffiths
Role: Mrs Bruin Actor: Mrs Palmer
Role: Mrs Sneak Actor: Mrs Gardner.

Entertainment: End II: The Cries of London-Shuter; II: Imitations-Master Russell; IV: Scene of Lady Pentweazle (from Taste) Lady Pentweazle -Mas. Russell; End: Interlude from the Register Office-Lloyd, Miss Francis, Mrs Gardner

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Cast
Role: Phocyas Actor: Wroughton
Role: Eumenes Actor: Hull
Role: Abudah Actor: Clarke
Role: Herbis Actor: Fearon
Role: Artamon Actor: Peile
Role: Daran Actor: L'Estrange
Role: Sergius Actor: R. Smith
Role: Officers Actor: Thompson, J. Wilson, Egan
Role: Caled Actor: Aickin
Role: Eudocia Actor: Mrs Hartley.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Every-where

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Cranfield.
Role: Jupiter Actor: Robson
Role: Pluto Actor: Baker
Role: Minos Actor: L'Estrange
Role: Belphegor Actor: Reinhold
Role: Astorath Actor: Doyle
Role: Cryer of Minos' Court Actor: Thompson
Role: Poor Spirit Actor: Brundson
Role: 3 Antipodeans Actor:
Role: Mercury Actor: J. Wilson
Role: Harlequin Actor: W. Bates
Role: Punch Actor: Edwin
Role: Lieutenant Actor: Booth
Role: Sailor Actor: Fearon
Role: Ceres Actor: Mrs Kennedy
Role: Little Girl Actor: Miss Morris
Role: Prude Actor: Mrs Poussin
Role: Sicilians Actor: Mrs Willems, Miss Green

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection 0 Main Of Sacred Music, From The Works Of handel

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Cast
Role: Zadock the Priest Actor: Chorus
Role: Overture Actor:
Role: The Dettingen te Deum Actor:
Role: in which Holy Holy Lord Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

Cast
Role: Second Oboe Concerto Actor:
Role: Happy Iphis Actor:
Role: We hear Actor: Chorus
Role: Chandos Anthems] Actor:
Role: Hear Jacob's God Actor: Chorus
Role: What's sweeter than the new@blown rose Actor:
Role: I feel the Deity within Actor:
Role: Arm arm ye brave Actor:
Role: We come Actor: Chorus
Role: From mighty Kings Actor: Miss Parke
Role: Gloria Patri Actor: Chorus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast Or, the Power Of Music; Grand Selection 0

Afterpiece Title: Alexander's Feast 3

Cast
Role: The Music Actor:
Role: Princess of Saxe Actor: Gotha
Role: Zadock the Priest Actor: .

Music: End Part I: concerto on the harp-Mme Delaval; Beginning Part II: concerto for two violins and violoncello obligato-, as originally composed for this Ode, by Handel and performed in the year 1736; End Part II: concerto on the Grand Piano Forte-Dussek

Performances

Music: End I: concerto on the violin-Master Pinto (aged Eleven Years, Grandson to the celebrated Performer of that Name [ThomasPinto])

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection 0 Of Sacred Music, From The Works Of handel

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Cast
Role: Overture Actor:
Role: The Dettingen Te Deum Actor:
Role: Holy Holy Lord Actor: Mme Mara.

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Creusa

Cast
Role: Aletes Actor: Mossop
Role: Phorbas Actor: Davies
Role: Xuthus Actor: Berry
Role: Ilyssus Actor: Miss Macklin
Role: Pythia Actor: Miss Haughton
Role: Lycea Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Creusa Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: II: The Italian Peasants, as17571004

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Semiramis

Cast
Role: Ninias Actor: Smith
Role: Assures Actor: Bensley
Role: Mithranes Actor: Grist
Role: Otanes Actor: Farren
Role: Ghost of Ninus Actor: Hurst
Role: Cedarus Actor: Chaplin
Role: Oroes Actor: Reddish
Role: Azema Actor: Mrs Reddish
Role: Semiramis Actor: Mrs Yates
Role: Prologue Actor: Reddish
Role: Epilogue Actor: Mrs Yates.

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Whittle Actor: Parsons
Role: Kecksey Actor: Dodd
Role: Sir Patrick O'Neale Actor: Moody
Role: Bates Actor: Baddeley
Role: Nephew Actor: Davies
Role: Thomas Actor: Burton
Role: Widow Brady Actor: Mrs Greville.

Dance: End I afterpiece: The Irish Fair, as17761031

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Cast
Role: Don John Actor: Henderson
Role: Petruchio Actor: Aickin
Role: Duke Actor: Fearon
Role: Peter Actor: Blissett
Role: Anthony Actor: Massey
Role: Francisco Actor: Jackson
Role: Surgeon Actor: Griffiths
Role: Antonio Actor: Parsons
Role: Don Frederick Actor: Davies
Role: 1st Constantia Actor: Mrs Hunter
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs W. Palmer
Role: Kinswoman Actor: Miss Hale
Role: Mother Actor: Miss Platt
Role: 2nd Constantia Actor: Miss Barsanti.

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Cast
Role: Young Wilding Actor: Palmer
Role: Old Wilding Actor: Fearon
Role: Elliot Actor: R. Palmer
Role: Papillion Actor: Parsons
Role: Miss Godfrey Actor: Miss Platt
Role: Kitty Actor: Mrs Poussin
Role: Miss Grantham Actor: Mrs Davies.

Dance: End Monologue: a Dance-

Entertainment: MonologueEnd: The Picture of a Playhouse or Bucks have at Ye All-Palmer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Hamlet Actor:
Role: King Actor: Packer
Role: Horatio Actor: Farren
Role: Polonius Actor: Baddeley
Role: Laertes Actor: Barrymore
Role: Ostrick Actor: R. Palmer
Role: Rosencraus Actor: Phillimore
Role: Guildenstern Actor: Williames
Role: Player King Actor: Chaplin
Role: Marcellus Actor: Wrighten
Role: Lucianus Actor: Waldron
Role: Gravediggers Actor: Suett, Burton
Role: Ghost Actor: Bensley
Role: Ophelia Actor: Miss Field
Role: Player Queen Actor: Mrs Hedges
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Cast
Role: Solomon Actor: probably Fawcett
Role: Lubin Actor: Suett
Role: Easy Actor: Wrighten
Role: Steady Actor: Staunton
Role: Gillian Actor: Miss Field
Role: Cicely Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Floretta Actor: Mrs Wrighten

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Cast
Role: Merlin Actor: Bannister
Role: Cymon Actor: Kelly
Role: Dorus Actor: Parsons
Role: Linco Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Damon Actor: Dignum
Role: Dorilas Actor: Cooke
Role: Cupid Actor: Master Gregson
Role: Daemon of Revenge Actor: Sedgwick
Role: Urganda Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: Sylvia Actor: Miss Hagley
Role: Fatima Actor: Mrs Jordan
Role: Phebe Actor: Miss DeCamp
Role: Daphne Actor: Mrs Bland
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mr Suett
Role: Spirits Actor: Master D'Egville, Miss D'Egville, Miss Gawdry, Miss Edwin
Role: Knights Actor: Duranci
Role: Queen of the Amazons Actor: Miss Blanchet.

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Cast
Role: Mr Grub Actor: Hollingsworth
Role: Consol Actor: Suett
Role: Bevil Actor: Benson
Role: Bevil Actor: Bland
Role: Bevil Actor: Whitfield
Role: Chapeau Actor: R. Palmer
Role: Robin Actor: Burton
Role: Mrs Grub Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Emily Actor: Miss Collins
Role: Housemaid Actor: Mrs Edwards.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Know Your Own Mind

Cast
Role: Millamour Actor: Wroughton
Role: Dashwould Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Malvil Actor: Whitfield
Role: Bygrove Actor: Aickin
Role: Bygrove Actor: Bland
Role: Millamour Actor: Packer
Role: Lovewit Actor: R. Palmer
Role: Charles Actor: Wewitzer
Role: Lady Bell Actor: Miss Farren
Role: Lady Jane Actor: Mrs Powell
Role: Mrs Bromley Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Miss Neville Actor: Mrs Kemble
Role: Madame Le Rouge Actor: Mrs Heard.

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Cast
Role: Crop Actor: Dignum
Role: Frederick Actor: Kelly
Role: Endless Actor: Suett
Role: Robin Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: William Actor: Sedgwick
Role: Servant Actor: Alfred
Role: Dorothy Actor: Mrs Bland
Role: Louisa Actor: Miss Barclay
Role: Margaretta Actor: Sga Storace
Role: Nelly Actor: Miss DeCamp.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Clandestine Marriage

Cast
Role: Lord Ogleby Actor: King
Role: Melvil Actor: Whitfield
Role: Sterling Actor: Aickin
Role: Lovewell Actor: Barrymore
Role: Canton Actor: Baddeley
Role: Brush Actor: R. Palmer
Role: Serjeant Flower Actor: Packer
Role: Mrs Heidelberg Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Miss Sterling Actor: Miss Pope
Role: Fanny Actor: Mrs Kemble
Role: Betty Actor: Miss Tidswell
Role: Chambermaid Actor: Miss Heard
Role: Trusty Actor: Mrs Booth.

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Comus Actor: Palmer
Role: Spirit Actor: Benson
Role: Brothers Actor: Banks, Bland
Role: Chief Bacchanals Actor: Kelly, Dignum, Sedgwick
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Euphrosyne Actor: Mrs Bland
Role: Bacchants Actor: Mrs Bland
Role: Sabrina Actor: Mrs Bland
Role: Pastoral Nymph Actor: Miss Barclay.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Cast
Role: Millamour Actor: Wroughton
Role: Dashwould Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Malvil Actor: Whitfield
Role: Bygrove Actor: Aickin
Role: Bygrove Actor: C. Kemble
Role: Millamour Actor: Packer
Role: Lovewit Actor: R. Palmer
Role: Charles Actor: Wewitzer
Role: Lady Bell Actor: Miss Farren
Role: Lady Jane Actor: Mrs Gibbs
Role: Mrs Bromley Actor: Miss Pope
Role: Miss Neville Actor: Miss Miller.
Event Comment: John Dryden to Jacob Tonson, ca. August 1684: I desire to know whether the Dukes house are makeing cloaths & putting things in a readiness for the singing opera [The Tempest?], to be playd immediately after Michaelmasse: for the Actors in the two plays, which are to be acted of mine, this winter [All for Love and The Conquest of Granada], I had spoken with Mr Betterton by chance at the Coffee house the afternoon before I came away: & I believe that the persons were all agreed on, to be just the same you mentioned. Only Octavia was to be Mrs Buttler, in case Mrs Cooke were not on the Stage. And I know not whether Mrs Percivall who is a Comedian, will do so well for Benzayda (Letters of John Dryden, ed. Ward, pp. 23-24)

Performances

Event Comment: Betterton's Company. The date of the premiere is not known. The Dedication to the play, written in Rome, is dated 20 Aug. 1695 N.S., and advertisement of the play in the London Gazette, No 3200, 9-13 July 1696, represent the limits on its production. In a letter, dated (probably) November 1695, Dryden refers to the forthcoming appearance of his son's play, and on 26 May 1696 he negotiates with Tonson for its publication (Letters of John Dryden, pp. 79, 82). Probably the play appeared early in 1696, and certainly not much later than April 1696. John Barnard, The Dates of Six Dryden Letters, Philological Quarterly, XLII (1963), 400-401, believes that Dryden's letter was written ca. 26 May 1695 and that the play was probably acted in late 1695

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Husband His Own Cuckold

Event Comment: John Dryden to Jacob Tonson: I have broken off my Studies from The Conquest of China (Letters of John Dryden, p. 97)

Performances

Event Comment: A Brief Relation, IV, 379, 12 May 1698: The justice of Middlesex did not only present the playhouses, but also Mr Congreve, for writing the Double Dealer; Durfey, for Don Quixot; and Tonson and Brisco, booksellers, for printing them: and that women frequenting the playhouses in masks tended much to debauchery and immorality

Performances

Event Comment: John Vanbrugh to Jacob Tonson (Vanbrugh, Works, IV, 125): The Opera will begin about the 10th of March under the Academy of Musick. It will be a very good one this year, and a better the next. They having engag'd the best Singers in Italy, at a great Price. Such as I believe will bring the Expences to about twice as much as the Receipts. But the fund Subscribed being about #20000, may probably Support it, till Musick takes such root, as to Subsist with less aid. The King gives a #1000 a year to it

Performances

Event Comment: Benefit for ye Author (Cross). Tickets to be had of Messrs Tonson and Draper, Booksellers in the Strand, and at the Stage Door. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virginia

Cast
Role: Virginius Actor: Garrick
Role: Icilius Actor: Ross
Role: Appius Actor: Mossop
Role: Claudius Actor: Davies
Role: Virginia Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Marcia Actor: Mrs Graham
Role: Plautia Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Rufus Actor: Mozeen
Role: Caius Actor: Blakes
Event Comment: Benefit for the Author (Cross). Tickets at Tonson and Draper, Booksellers in the Strand, and at the Stage Door. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virginia

Cast
Role: Virginius Actor: Garrick
Role: Icilius Actor: Ross
Role: Appius Actor: Mossop
Role: Claudius Actor: Davies
Role: Virginia Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Marcia Actor: Mrs Graham
Role: Plautia Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Rufus Actor: Mozeen
Role: Caius Actor: Blakes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham; Or, Days Of Old

Cast
Role: Gondibert Actor: Holman
Role: Fool Actor: Munden
Role: Gregory Gubbins Actor: Fawcett
Role: Robbers Actor: Richardson, Davies, Haymes, Linton, Street, Spofforth
Role: Barton Actor: Harley
Role: La Varenne Actor: Macready
Role: Corporal Actor: Burton
Role: Drummer Actor: Townsend
Role: Fifer Actor: Simmons
Role: Marquis of Montague Actor: Powel
Role: Duke of Somerset Actor: Claremont
Role: Egbert Actor: Davenport
Role: Prince of Wales Actor: Miss Standen
Role: Villagers Actor: Mrs Martyr, Mrs Clendining, Miss Walcup, Miss Stuart
Role: Adeline Actor: Mrs Fawcett
Role: Queen Margaret Actor: Mrs Pope.

Afterpiece Title: A Gallimaufry

Entertainment: Monologue.End: Monsieur Tonson (founded on fact, and recited at Freemason's Hall)-Fawcett

Performance Comment: End: Monsieur Tonson (founded on fact, and recited at Freemason's Hall)-Fawcett.
Cast
Role: Monsieur Tonson Actor: Fawcett.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bank Note

Cast
Role: Epilogue Belles have at ye all Actor: Mrs Mattocks.
Role: Mr Hale Actor: Davenport in place of Quick
Role: Sally Flounce Actor: Mrs Mountain
Role: Sir Charles Leslie Actor: Holman
Role: Killeavy Actor: Johnstone
Role: Ned Dash Actor: Fawcett
Role: Mr Bloomfield Actor: Middleton
Role: Father Actor: Hull
Role: Tim Actor: Townsend
Role: Lieutenant Selby Actor: Macready
Role: Careful Actor: Powel
Role: Young Bloomfield Actor: Miss Standen
Role: Mr Bloomfield's Servant Actor: Abbot
Role: Porter Actor: Coombs
Role: Gentleman Actor: Platt
Role: Cook Actor: Ledger
Role: Butler Actor: Williamson
Role: Mrs Bloomfield Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: Miss Emma Hale Actor: Miss Hopkins
Role: Lady Supple Actor: Mrs Davenport
Role: Maid Actor: Mrs Norton
Role: Miss Russel Actor: Miss Wallis
Role: Gentlewoman Actor: Mrs Follett

Dance: As17941029

Song: Incidental: The Irishman's Peep at the Continent-Johnstone; In the course of the entertainments: Old Towler, The Storm-Incledon

Entertainment: Monologue. End: Monsieur Tonson, as17950514

Performance Comment: End: Monsieur Tonson, as17950514.
Cast
Role: Monsieur Tonson Actor: Fawcett.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Cure For The Heart Ache

Cast
Role: Frank Oatland Actor: Fawcett
Role: Ellen Actor: Miss Chapman
Role: Miss Vortex Actor: Mrs Mattocks.
Role: Young Rapid Actor: Lewis
Role: Vortex Actor: Waddy
Role: Charles Stanley Actor: Pope
Role: Old Rapid Actor: Munden
Role: Sir Hubert Stanley Actor: Murray
Role: Heartley Actor: Hull
Role: Bronze Actor: Farley
Role: Farmer Oatland Actor: Thompson
Role: Landlord Actor: Whitmore
Role: Jessy Oatland Actor: Mrs Gibbs

Afterpiece Title: A Gallimaufry

Performance Comment: Being the intermediate part of the Night's Entertainment. End I of the Play John Appleby (1st time)-Fawcett; End II Black Ey'd Susan-; End III Poor Tom; or, Sailor's Epitaph-Incledon; Here a sheer hulk-Incledon; End IV Pull Away; or, Howe, St. Vincent, Duncan & Nelson-Fawcett; End Play Monsieur Tonson (Founded on Fact, and read at Freemason's Hall, in the Winter of 1795)-Fawcett.

Afterpiece Title: The Princess of Georgia