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Event Comment: Benefit Johnson. Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Cast
Role: Lory Actor: Oates.
Role: Berinthia Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Foppington Actor: Cibber
Role: Loveless Actor: Wilks
Role: Worthy Actor: Mills
Role: Young Fashion Actor: Cibber Jr
Role: Sir Tunbelly Actor: Shepard
Role: Coupler Actor: Johnson
Role: Shoemaker Actor: Miller
Role: Surgeon Actor: Norris
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Hoyden Actor: Mrs Mills.
Related Works
Related Work: The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Dance: Roger, Essex, Lally, Boval, Rainton, Mrs Booth, Mrs Mills, Mrs Walter, Mlle Delorme; particularly Myrtillo-

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Related Work: The Unhappy Favourite; or, The Earl of Essex Author(s): John Banks
Event Comment: Benefit Ray, alias Little John. At Lee-Harper Great Booth, on the Bowling-Green, Southwark. At 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: Archer Actor: Chapman
Role: Aimwell Actor: Pitt
Role: Bonniface Actor: Wilcocks
Role: Sir Charles Actor: Macklin
Role: Gibbet Actor: Ayres
Role: Foigard Actor: Eaton
Role: Scrub Actor: Ray
Role: Mrs Sullen Actor: Mrs Miller
Role: Lady Bountiful Actor: Mrs Elsam
Role: Dorinda Actor: Mrs Talbot
Role: Cherry Actor: Mrs Careless.

Song: TThe Bath Teazer (that celebrated Ballad) by Leveridge-Ray

Dance: End II: The White Joke-Eaton; III: A new Dance-Hind, Eaton, Mrs Hill

Event Comment: By Desire. By a Company of Comedians from all the other Theatres. In which the Character of John Moody will be preserved (by Desire)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Related Works
Related Work: The Provok'd Husband; or, A Journey to London Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Song:

Dance:

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With New Habits. Afterpiece: A new Comic Opera. [Author unknown. It may be a reworking of John Mottley's The Craftsman, a farce.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Cast
Role: Pyrrhus Actor: Giffard
Role: Orestes Actor: Rosco
Role: Phaenix Actor: Huddy
Role: Pylades Actor: W. Williams
Role: Hermione Actor: Mrs Giffard
Role: Andromache Actor: Mrs Haughton
Role: Cephisa Actor: Mrs Thomas
Role: Cleone Actor: Miss Smith.

Afterpiece Title: The Craftsman

Related Works
Related Work: The Craftsman; or, The Weekly Journalist Author(s): John Mottley
Event Comment: Benefit John Biggs. Tickets 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By John Hoadley. Apparently not published. For a discussion of this play, see Daily Journal, 30 April,] Receipts: #82 11s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Contrast; A Tragi-comical Rehearsal Of Two Modern Plays: Match Upon Match; Or, No Match At All, And The Tragedy Of Epaminodas

Related Works
Related Work: The Contrast: A Tragi-Comical Rehearsal of Two Modern Plays: Match Upon Match; or, No Match at All, and the Tragedy of Epaminodas Author(s): John Hoadley
Related Work: A Woman's Revenge Author(s): John Marston
Related Work: The Dreamer Awake; or, The Pugilist Matched Author(s): Edmund John Eyre
Event Comment: Benefit John Christian Schickhard, lately arrived from Germany. In the Great Room at the Three Tuns and Bull-Head. 7 p.m. 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Event Comment: A New English Opera (after the Italian Method). [Text by Henry Carey. Music by John Frederick Lampe.] Subscribers' Tickets will not be taken after the first four Nights. Pit and Boxes 6s. Gallery 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amelia

Cast
Role: Osmyn Actor: Waltz
Role: Casimir Actor: Kelly
Role: Rodulpho Actor: Snider
Role: Amelia Actor: Miss Arne
Role: Augusta Actor: Mrs Mason.
Related Works
Related Work: Amelia Author(s): John Frederick Lampe
Event Comment: Benefit Nivelon. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. Afterpiece: Containing Variety of New Songs, to old Ballad-Tunes [By John Hippisley]. Receipts: money #84 2s. 6d.; tickets #53 8s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Sequel to the Opera of Flora; or, Hob's Wedding

Cast
Role: Hob Actor: Laguerre
Role: Sir ThomasTesty Actor: Hippisley
Role: Truelove Actor: Salway
Role: Woodville Actor: Walker
Role: Saywell Actor: Aston
Role: Probe Actor: Houghton
Role: Old Hob Actor: Hall
Role: Young Hob Actor: Laguerre
Role: Lady Testy Actor: Mrs Cantrell
Role: Lucia Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Mary Actor: Mrs Forrester
Role: Betty Actor: Mrs Kilby
Role: Hob's Mother Actor: Mrs Egleton.
Related Works
Related Work: Sequel to the Opera of Flora; or, Hob's Wedding Author(s): John Hippisley
Related Work: Hob's Wedding Author(s): John Leigh

Dance: new Wooden Shoe Dance by Nivelon-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre; Afterpiece:A new Dance-Nivelon for the Afterpiece

Event Comment: Benefit John Festin. 7 p.m. 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Event Comment: Benefit Leveridge. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: money #68 17s. 6d.; tickets #126 12s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Wives Confederacy

Cast
Role: Clarissa Actor: Mrs Bullock
Role: Gripe Actor: Penkethman
Role: Moneytrap Actor: Hippisley
Role: Dick Actor: Walker
Role: Brass Actor: Chapman
Role: Araminta Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Corinna Actor: Mrs Laguerre
Role: Mrs Amlet Actor: Mrs Egleton
Role: Flippanta Actor: Mrs Younger.

Dance: I: Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; III: The Sicilians-Glover, Mrs Pelling; V: Hornpipe-Jones

Song: II: No Kissing At All-Leveridge, Salway; III: Bacchanalian Song-Leveridge; V: Pastoral Dialogue-Leveridge, Mrs Wright

Event Comment: Benefit John Baston. At the Academy in Chancery Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of the Free Masons Ladies. Receipts: #123 19s. 6d Rich's Register: Benefit John Rich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Related Works
Related Work: A Duke and No Duke Author(s): John Thurmond

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Laguerre.
Role: Perseus Actor: Rochetti
Role: Cepheus Actor: Leveridge
Role: Mercury Actor: Laguerre
Role: Cassiope Actor: Mrs Seedo
Role: Andromeda Actor: Mrs Carter
Role: Medusa Actor: Mrs Wright
Role: Stheno Actor: Salway
Role: Euryale Actor: Papillion
Role: 1st Ethiopian Actor: Thompson
Role: 2d Ethiopian Actor: Salway
Role: Cyclops Actor: Hall, Delagarde, DuPre Jr, Smith
Role: Amazons Actor: Mrs Cantrel, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Ogden, Miss LaTour
Role: Infernals Actor: Papillion, Salle, Poitier, DuPre, Pelling, Glover, Newhouse
Role: Hussar Actor: Nivelon
Role: Harlequin Actor: Lun
Role: Petit Maitre Actor: Poitier
Role: Hussar's Servant Actor: Hippisley
Role: Valet Actor: Ray
Related Works
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda: With the Rape of Colombine; or, The Flying Lovers Author(s): John Weaver
Event Comment: On Monday Night last died, at his Lodgings in Richmond, Mr John Ogden, one of the Comedians...in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Daily Journal, 5 July

Performances

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. St. James's Evening Post, 31 Oct.: We are informed, that John Ellys Esq: the eminent painter, succeeds Mr Wilks in the management of Drurylane Play-House; and that Mr Cibber Jr succeeds his father, who has resign'd to him

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Sir Sampson Actor: Shepard
Role: Valentine Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Ben Actor: Cibber
Role: Scandal Actor: W. Mills
Role: Tattle Actor: Cibber Jr
Role: Foresight Actor: Johnson
Role: Trapland Actor: Griffin
Role: Jeremy Actor: Oates
Role: Angelica Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Mrs Frail Actor: Mrs Heron
Role: Prue Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Willis.

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Cast
Role: Rovewell Actor: Stoppelaer
Role: Arethusa Actor: Miss Raftor
Role: Argus Actor: Griffin
Role: Robin Actor: R. Wetherilt.

Dance: Mrs Booth

Event Comment: Benefit the Author of The Mock Doctor. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Afterpiece: By Desire. Done from the French of Moliere (Revised by the Author)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Cast
Role: Berinthia Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Loveless Actor: A. Hallam
Role: Shoemaker Actor: Mullart
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Mullart.
Role: Foppington Actor: Cibber
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Worthy Actor: Mills
Role: Young Fashion Actor: Cibber Jr
Role: Sir Tunbelly Actor: Shepard
Role: Coupler Actor: Johnson
Role: Lory Actor: Oates
Role: Syringe Actor: Griffin
Role: Hoyden Actor: Mrs Mills
Related Works
Related Work: The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Cast
Role: Harry Actor: Leigh
Role: With a new Epilogue Actor: .
Role: Hellebore Actor: Roberts
Role: Doctor Actor: Cibber Jr
Role: Dorcas Actor: Miss Raftor
Role: Sir Jasper Actor: Shepard
Role: Leander Actor: Stoppelaer
Role: Hellebor Actor: Roberts
Role: Welshman Actor: Jones
Role: James Actor: Mullart
Role: Charlotte Actor: Miss Williams
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Mears.

Dance: LLes Bergeries, as17321019

Event Comment: A New English Opera. [Text by Thomas Lediard.] Set to Musick after the Italian Manner by Mr John Frederick Lampe. The Scenes and Cloaths are entirely New. With the Representation of a Transparent Theatre. Curiously Illuminated, and adorn'd with a great Number of Emblems, Mottos, Devices, and Inscriptions; and embellish'd with Machines, in a Manner entirely new. N.B. The Illuminations and other Preparations for this Opera are such, that no Person whatever can be admitted to the Stage. Pit and Boxes put together at 6s. Gallery 3s. 6 p.m. [For a discussion of Lediard and this work, see a series of articles by Ifan Kyrle Fletcher, Sybil Rosenfeld, and Richard Southern in Theatre Notebook, II (1948), 42-54.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Britannia

Cast
Role: Britannia Actor: Miss Cecilia Young
Role: Jupiter Actor: Barret
Role: Neptune Actor: Snider
Role: Mars Actor: Waltz
Role: Phoebus Actor: Mountier
Role: Honour Actor: Waltz
Role: Valour Actor: Baker
Role: Liberty Actor: Snyder
Role: Britannia Actor: Miss Cecilia Young
Role: Publick Virtue Actor: Miss Susanna Mason
Role: Peace Actor: Mrs Seedo
Role: Discord Actor: Comano
Role: Faction Actor: Mynet
Role: a note adds that later it was Phoebus Actor: Barret
Role: Neptune Actor: Mountier
Event Comment: Benefit John Festin. 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Event Comment: FFog's, 24 March: Colley Cibber, Esq; one of the Patentees of [dl], being now possessed of a more commodious Post, has sold his entire Share of the Cloaths, Scenes, and Patent, to John Highmore, Esq; and at the End of this Season he is, we hear, to quit the Stage

Performances

Event Comment: Benefit Mr Thurmond. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality and Distinction. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. [Tickets at Thurmond's House, Haydon Square.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Cast
Role: Berinthia Actor: Mrs Thurmond
Role: Loveless Actor: Giffard
Role: Worthy Actor: Delane
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Giffard
Role: Foppington Actor: Wetherilt
Role: Young Fashion Actor: Bardin
Role: Coupler Actor: Morgan
Role: Surgeon Actor: Norris
Role: Lory Actor: Penkethman
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Wetherilt
Role: Sir Tunbelly Actor: Hulett
Role: Hoyden Actor: Mrs Hamilton.
Related Works
Related Work: The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Ballet: DDifference of Nations. As17330312

Event Comment: Benefit Giles and Williams. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality and Distinction. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. [Tickets at Giles's Coffee House in Pall Mall.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Cast
Role: Foppington Actor: Giles
Role: Taylor Actor: Williams.
Role: Berinthia Actor: Mrs Thurmond
Role: Loveless Actor: Giffard
Role: Worthy Actor: Delane
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Giffard
Role: Young Fashion Actor: Bardin
Role: Coupler Actor: Morgan
Role: Surgeon Actor: Norris
Role: Lory Actor: Penkethman
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Wetherilt
Role: Sir Tunbelly Actor: Hulett
Role: Hoyden Actor: Mrs Hamilton.
Related Works
Related Work: The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Rosco
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Williamson
Role: Epilogue Actor: Miss Cole.

Dance: I: Scotch Dance-Young Weeks, Scholar to Dupre; III: Masquerade Dance-; IV: Shepherd's Dance-Young Weeks

Song: a G Gentleman for his Diversion; A song, called Goodman's Fields Theatre address'd to the Merchants of the City of London-Excell , written by the Author of Bacchus one day gaily striding

Related Works
Related Work: A Song for St Cecilia's Day Author(s): John Dryden
Event Comment: Benefit Allen, the Numberer [Rich's Register adds: the late Mr Wilks' Nephew.] Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Afterpiece: Intermix'd with Songs; taken from Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Cast
Role: Shoemaker Actor: Miller
Role: Foppington Actor: Cibber Jr
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Heron
Role: Young Fashion Actor: W. Mills
Role: Hoyden Actor: Mrs Charke.
Role: Berinthia Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Loveless Actor: A. Hallam
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Mullart.
Role: Worthy Actor: Mills
Role: Sir Tunbelly Actor: Shepard
Role: Coupler Actor: Johnson
Role: Lory Actor: Oates
Role: Syringe Actor: Griffin
Related Works
Related Work: The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Imaginary Cuckolds

Cast
Role: Mrs Fanciful Actor: Miss Raftor
Role: Fanciful Actor: Berry
Role: Meanwell Actor: Jones
Role: Lelius Actor: Stoppelaer
Role: Snap Actor: Mullart
Role: Caelia Actor: Miss Atherton
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Mullart

Dance: I: Drunken Peasant-LeBrun; II: Dutchwoman-Miss Robinson; III: Harlequin-Miss Brett; IV: English Maggot-Haughton, Mrs Walter; V: The Flight-Essex, Miss Robinson

Event Comment: Benefit W. Grove, M.R. by Command of the Honourable Court of Non-Common-Pleas. The Gentlemen of the Society are desir'd to meet at their Court, at Sir John's, at 5 o'Clock exactly, from thence to proceed to the Theatre. 6 p.m. 5s., 4s., 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Related Works
Related Work: Sequel to the Opera of Flora; or, Hob's Wedding Author(s): John Hippisley
Related Work: Hob's Opera Author(s): John Hippisley

Music: I: Trumpet Concerto-Burk Thumoth; II: Concerto-Vivaldi; III: Solo on the German Flute-Thumoth; V: Sonata for the Harpsichord and Violin Harpsichord-Thumoth

Dance: II: Dutch Skipper-Jones Sr, Jones Jr; IV: Sailor's Dance-Jones

Event Comment: Lady Bristol to Lord Bristol, 3 Nov.: I am just come home from a dull empty opera, tho' the second time; the first was full to hear the new man, who I can find out to be an extream good singer; the rest are all scrubbs except old Durastante, that sings as well as ever she did. Letter Books of John Hervey, III, 108

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Semiramis

Event Comment: In Three Acts. Set to Musick after the Italian Manner by Mr John Frederick Lampe. Daily Advertiser, 8 Nov.: The Arrival of his Highness the Prince of Orange, indeed, prevented many Persons of Quality from being there, who had taken Boxes; but 'tis presum'd it cannot fail of Success and Encouragement notwithstanding

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Opera Of Operas

Dance: