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3389 results for: Keyword - Kemble
We found 4727 matches on Roles/Actors, 965 matches on Performance Comments, 485 matches on Event Comments, 458 matches on Author, and 5 matches on Performance Title.

3301
07 May 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Aickin as Duke Senior but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Staunton.] Receipts: #233 14s. (214/0/0; 18/19/6; 0/14/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Duke Senior Actor: Staunton
Role: Rosalind Actor: Mrs Siddons
Role: Touchstone Actor: King
Role: Orlando Actor: Brereton
Role: Amiens Actor: Williames
Role: Adam Actor: Moody
Role: Oliver Actor: Packer
Role: Duke Frederick Actor: Chaplin
Role: Silvius Actor: R. Palmer
Role: Jaques de Bois Actor: Fawcett
Role: Corin Actor: Waldron
Role: Charles Actor: Wrighten
Role: William Actor: Burton
Role: Le Beu Actor: Phillimore
Role: Jaques Actor: Palmer
Role: Caelia Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: Audrey Actor: Mrs Wrighten
Role: Phoebe Actor: Miss Barnes

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Cast
Role: : Sir Anthony Halfwit Actor: Parsons
Role: Dabble Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Beaumont Actor: Williames
Role: Blunt Actor: Alfred
Role: Frolick Actor: Baddeley
Role: Miss Halfwit Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Mrs Meddle Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: Diana Actor: Miss Tidswell
Role: Jenny Actor: Miss Hale
Role: Mrs Matadore Actor: Mrs Hopkins.

Dance: As17850430

3302
20 May 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Brigg, Pemberton, Bourk, Aberdein, Newbold, Smith, Miss Tidswell, Mrs Haskey, Mrs Heard [Account-Book adds: Mills] will be admitted. [The afterpiece was perhaps changed. On the Kemble playbill it is deleted, but no substitute play is given. The Account-Book lists The Lyar.] Receipts: #220 181. 6d. (43/4/0; 21/0/0; 0/2/6; tickets: 156/12/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Trusty Actor: Mrs Heard
Role: Myrtilla Actor: Miss Tidswell
Role: Lord Townly Actor: Smith
Role: Manly Actor: Bensley
Role: Count Basset Actor: Dodd
Role: John Moody Actor: Moody
Role: Squire Richard Actor: Suett
Role: Sir Francis Wronghead Actor: Parsons
Role: Lady Grace Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Lady Wronghead Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Miss jenny Actor: Miss Field
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Lady Townly Actor: Miss Farren

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Cast
Role: Young Wilding Actor: Palmer
Role: Old Wilding Actor: Aickin
Role: Sir James Elliot Actor: R. Palmer
Role: Papillion Actor: Burton
Role: Miss Godfrey Actor: Miss Barnes
Role: Kitty Actor: Miss Hale
Role: Miss Grantham Actor: Mrs Brereton

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece the Minuet de la Cow by Brigg and Miss Stageldoir; End of Act III Hornpipe by Bourk

3303
01 November 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The playbill lists Wilson as Justice Shallow in mainpiece, and as Father Luke in afterpiece. On the Kemble playbill his name is deleted, but the substitute name has been cut by the binder. "It is necessary to inform those who may have read a long criticism on Wilson's performance of Justice Shallow, on Tuesday evening [in Public Advertiser, 2 Nov.], that Wilson did not perform that or any other character, as he is laid up, or rather down, with a violent fit of the gout" (General Advertiser, 3 Nov.). For Fearon as Justice Shallow see 30 Apr. 1785, 29 Nov. 1786; for Booth as Father Luke see 25 Nov. 1785.] Receipts: #139 6s. (134/5; 5/1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Cast
Role: Mr Ford Actor: Wroughton
Role: Sir Hugh Evans Actor: Edwin
Role: Justice Shallow Actor: probably Fearon
Role: Mr Page Actor: Hull
Role: Slender Actor: Quick
Role: Doctor Caius Actor: Wewitzer
Role: Host of the Garter Actor: Booth
Role: Fenton Actor: Cubitt
Role: Pistol Actor: Thompson
Role: Bardolph Actor: Bates
Role: Simple Actor: Kennedy
Role: Rugby Actor: Stevens
Role: Falstaff Actor: Henderson
Role: Mrs Page Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: Ann Page Actor: Mrs Lewis
Role: Mrs Quickly Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Mrs Ford Actor: Mrs Bates

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Cast
Role: Father Luke Actor: probably Booth
Role: Patrick Actor: Mrs Kennedy
Role: Fitzroy Actor: Davies
Role: Dermot Actor: Johnstone
Role: Bagatelle Actor: Wewitzer
Role: Darby Actor: Edwin
Role: Kathlane Actor: Mrs Martyr
Role: Norah Actor: Mrs Bannister

3304
07 November 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Winter's Tale; afterpiece of The Jubilee, both announced on playbill of 5 Nov. In mainpiece the playbill assigns the Queen to Mrs Hopkins, but on the Kemble playbill her name is deleted. The name of her substitute has not come to light.] Receipts: #91 15s. (69/12; 21/13; 0/10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: King Richard Actor: Smith
Role: Richmond Actor: Palmer
Role: Buckingham Actor: Aickin
Role: Tressel Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Lord Stanley Actor: Chaplin
Role: Norfolk Actor: Fawcett
Role: Catesby Actor: Packer
Role: of the Tower Actor: R. Palmer
Role: Ratcliff Actor: Wright
Role: Lord Mayor Actor: Phillimore
Role: Prince Edward Actor: Miss Stageldoir
Role: Duke of York Actor: Miss Heard
Role: King Henry Actor: Bensley
Role: Lady Anne Actor: Mrs Brereton
Role: Duchess of York Actor: Mrs Hedges
Role: Queen Actor:

Afterpiece Title: The Caldron

Cast
Role: Harlequin Actor: Wright
Role: Clown Actor: Grimaldi
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Stageldoir. The other Principal Characters by Suett, Burton, Fawcett, Chaplin, Wilson, Phillimore, Spencer, Alfred
Role: 1st Singing Witch Actor: Chapman

Dance: In afterpiece, as17851018

3305
11 November 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: "The great powers of Mrs Jordan cannot be better displayed than in the wonderful contrast of her Country Girl and Viola. In one all archness and vivacity; in the other serious, gentle, tender and sentimental" (Public Advertiser, 16 Nov.). [In afterpiece the playbill retains Parsons as Sir Anthony Halfwit, but on the Kemble playbill his name is deleted and a MS annotation substitutes Wilson's. "Parsons was taken suddenly ill & J. Wilson read his part" (MS annotation on British Museum playbill, in Harris, 11).] Receipts: #108 12s. (79/11/0; 28/13/6; 0/7/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Cast
Role: Sir Andrew Ague Actor: cheek-Dodd
Role: cheek Actor: Dodd
Role: Sir Toby Belch Actor: Palmer
Role: Orsino Actor: Staunton
Role: Sebastian Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Fabian Actor: R. Palmer
Role: Antonio Actor: Wrighten
Role: Clown Actor: Suett
Role: Malvolio Actor: Bensley
Role: Viola Actor: Mrs Jordan
Role: Maria Actor: Mrs Brereton
Role: Olivia Actor: Mrs Crouch

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Cast
Role: Sir Anthony Halfwit Actor: read by Wilson
Role: Frolick Actor: Baddeley
Role: Beaumont Actor: Williames
Role: Blunt Actor: Alfred
Role: Dabble Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Diana Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Mrs Meddle Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: Jenny Actor: Miss Tidswell
Role: Mrs Matadore Actor: Mrs Hopkins. Prologue spoken by Bannister Jun

Dance: As17851103

Cast
Role: , entitled The Market Actor: Day

3306
08 December 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Duenna, announced on playbill of 7 Dec. In afterpiece the playbill retains Mrs Morton, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Mrs Inchbald. And see 10 Dec.] Receipts: #85 6s. 6d. (82/16/6; 2/10/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Young Meadows Actor: Johnstone
Role: Hawthorn Actor: Brett
Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Fearon
Role: Eustace Actor: Davies
Role: Hodge Actor: Doyle
Role: Justice Woodcock Actor: Quick
Role: Deborah Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Margery Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: Luanda Actor: Miss Stuart
Role: Rosetta Actor: Mrs Martyr

Afterpiece Title: Appearance is against Them

Cast
Role: : Mr Walmsley Actor: Quick
Role: Lord Lighthead Actor: Palmer
Role: Thompson Actor: Thompson
Role: Clownly Actor: Kennedy
Role: Humphry Actor: Edwin
Role: Servant to Lord Lighthead Actor: Swords
Role: Servant to Lady Mary Actor: Ledger
Role: Lady Mary Magpie Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Lady Loveall Actor: Mrs Bates
Role: Miss Angle Actor: Mrs Morton
Role: Miss Audley Actor: Miss Stuart
Role: Fish Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: Betty Actor: Mrs Davenett.

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece Leap Year, as17851010

3307
09 December 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [In afterpiece the playbill retains Cubitt as Noodle, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Brett.] Receipts: #134 2s. 6d. (124/17/0; 9/5/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Cast
Role: Horatius Actor: Farren
Role: Valerius Actor: Davies
Role: Valeria Actor: Mrs T. Kennedy
Role: Tullus Hostilius Actor: Aickin
Role: Publius Actor: Pope
Role: Horatia Actor: Miss Brunton

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Cast
Role: Noodle Actor: Brett
Role: Tom Thumb Actor: Master Simmons
Role: Grizzel Actor: Edwin
Role: Doodle Actor: Davies
Role: Ghost Actor: Darley
Role: Arthur Actor: Quick
Role: Huncamunca Actor: Mrs Kennedy
Role: Glumdalca Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Dollalolla Actor: Mrs Martyr

3308
10 December 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [Mrs Warren is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill. In afterpiece "Mrs Inchbald had the satisfaction of speaking, vice Mrs Morton, her own neat dialogue" (Public Advertiser, 12 Dec.).] Receipts: #203 16s. 6d. (200/10/6; 3/6/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Percy

Cast
Role: Percy Actor: Lewis
Role: Raby Actor: Aickin
Role: Sir Hubert Actor: Hull
Role: Harcourt Actor: Davies
Role: Edrick Actor: Palmer
Role: Knight Actor: Thompson
Role: Douglas Actor: Wroughton
Role: Birtha Actor: Mrs T. Kennedy
Role: Elwina Actor: A Young Lady

Afterpiece Title: Appearance is against Them

Cast
Role: : Mr Walmsley Actor: Quick
Role: Lord Lighthead Actor: Palmer
Role: Thompson Actor: Thompson
Role: Clownly Actor: Kennedy
Role: Humphry Actor: Edwin
Role: Servant to Lord Lighthead Actor: Swords
Role: Servant to Lady Mary Actor: Ledger
Role: Lady Mary Magpie Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Lady Loveall Actor: Mrs Bates
Role: Miss Angle Actor: Mrs Morton
Role: Miss Audley Actor: Miss Stuart
Role: Fish Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: Betty Actor: Mrs Davenett.

Monologue: 1785 12 10 Before the mainpiece an Occasional Address spoken by Holman

3309
09 May 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Martyr. 1st piece: Never performed here. [Miss Thornton is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill. Address by Horatio Edgar Robson (European Magazine, May 1786, p. 369).] 2nd piece: Not acted these 7 years. 3rd piece: Written by Henry Fielding. Morning Herald, 19 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Martyr, No. 31, Tavistock-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #280 6s. 6d. (138/15/6; 3/6/0; tickets: 138/5/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lover

Cast
Role: Mortimer Actor: Aickin
Role: Tyrrel Actor: Lewis
Role: Aubrey Actor: Wroughton
Role: Doctor Druid Actor: Edwin
Role: Lord Aberville Actor: Davies
Role: Colin Macleod Actor: Fearon
Role: Napthali Actor: Wewitzer
Role: Bridgemore Actor: Booth
Role: Miss Bridgemore Actor: Mrs Bates
Role: Mrs Bridgemore Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Miss Aubrey Actor: A Young Lady

Afterpiece Title: Annette and Lubin

Cast
Role: Lubin Actor: Mrs Martyr
Role: Annette Actor: Mrs Bannister

Afterpiece Title: The Country Mad Cap; or, Miss Lucy in Town

Cast
Role: Zorobabel Actor: Quick
Role: Lord Bawble Actor: Palmer
Role: Signor Cantileno Actor: Darley
Role: Ballad Actor: Brown
Role: Thomas Actor: Cubitt
Role: Mrs Midnight Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Tawdry Actor: Miss Stuart
Role: The Country Madcap Actor: Mrs Martyr

Dance: End of 2nd piece The Drunken Sailor Reclaim'd, as17860424

Song: End of Act II of 1st piece a new song, Toung Henry, by Mrs Martyr

Monologue: 1786 05 09 Before 1st piece a new Occasional Address spoken by Holman

3310
18 September 1786 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Brandon at the Theatre. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 13 Nov.]. [Macready was from the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. In mainpiece the playbill assigns Miss Ogle to Mrs T. Kennedy, but on the Kemble playbill her name is deleted, and a MS annotation substitutes Mrs Lewis's.] "The dress worn by Lewis, with small buttons innumerable, that gave it the air of a Hussar's jacket lengthened, was lately a coat won by the Prince of Wales" (Morning Chronicle, 20 Sept.). Receipts: #242 5s. 6d. (239.19.6; 2.6.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Cast
Role: Doricourt Actor: Lewis
Role: Sir George Touchwood Actor: Farren
Role: Saville Actor: Aickin
Role: Flutter Actor: Macready
Role: Villers Actor: Hull
Role: Courtall Actor: Davies
Role: French Valet Actor: Wewitzer
Role: Porter Actor: Fearon
Role: Hardy Actor: Quick
Role: Mrs Racket Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: Lady Touchwood Actor: Mrs Wells
Role: Miss Ogle Actor: Mrs Lewis
Role: Kitty Willis Actor: Miss Stuart
Role: Letitia Hardy Actor: Mrs Pope.

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp; or, Patrick in Prussia

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Johnstone, Quick, Edwin, Davies, Booth, Cubitt, Brown, Gardner, Mrs Webb, Miss Rowson, Mrs Martyr.

3311
16 April 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [The playbill announces Julia and Richard Coeur de Lion, but "Kemble was so ill that he could not appear...The substituted play was The Fair Penitent" (World, 17 Apr.), and "Harlequin's Invasion [was] substituted" (Morning Herald, 17 Apr.).] Receipts: #171 7s. 6d. (137.11.0; 31.18.0; 1.18.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

3312
24 April 1787 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera; the music by Paisiello. Under the direction of Storace. [Sga Storace was from the Opera, Vienna.] Morelli "was an actor such as the Italian stage has seldom witnessed. He was, I used to think, in his prime, quite upon a par with King of Drury Lane Theatre. Like him, he was distinguished for neat articulation, and an unremitting attention to the business of the whole stage" (Boaden, Kemble, I, 449). Receipts: #165 19s. 6d. [non-subscription]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gli Schiavi Per Amore

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Morelli
Role: Bastiano Ammazzagatte Actor: Morelli
Role: Don Berlicco Actor: Mengozzi
Role: Perruque Actor: Morigi
Role: Mlle Neri Actor: Sga Sestini
Role: Mlle Pate Actor: Sga Schinotti
Role: Glenda Actor: Sga Anna Storace.

Dance: As17870329

3313
07 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Siddons [whose 1st appearance as Alicia was at York, 26 Apr. 1777]. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion, Ladies are desired to send their Servants by half past Four o'Clock. Public Advertiser, 27 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Siddons, Gower-street. [In the interim she changed the play. The Announcement of 27 Apr. advertises Romeo and Juliet, by Kemble and Mrs Siddons, in which play she did not appear until May 1789.] Receipts: #337 16s. 6d. (146.1.0; 8.7.6; 0.14.0; tickets: 182.14.0) (charge: #105 16s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Cast
Role: Hastings Actor: Smith
Role: Gloster Actor: Aickin
Role: Belmour Actor: Packer
Role: Ratcliff Actor: R. Palmer
Role: Catesby Actor: Phillimore
Role: Derby Actor: Chaplin
Role: Shore Actor: Bensley
Role: Jane Shore Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Alicia Actor: Mrs Siddons.

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Cast
Role: Sir John Trotley Actor: King
Role: Colonel Tivy Actor: Barrymore
Role: Davy Actor: Parsons
Role: Jessamy Actor: Burton
Role: Lord Minikin Actor: Dodd
Role: Lady Minikin Actor: Miss Pope
Role: Gymp Actor: Miss Tidswell
Role: Miss Tittup Actor: Miss Farren.

3314
03 December 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Kemble as Hamlet, but for his "indisposition an apology was made, and the audience requested to accept of Wroughton in his place--a request...no sooner asked than had" (World, 4 Dec.).] The Country Girl and Richard Coeur de Lion [both advertised on playbill of 1 Dec.] are obliged to be deferred, on Account of the Indisposition of a principal Performer. Receipts: #105 19s. 6d. (83.2.0; 21.7.6; 1.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Hamlet Actor: Wroughton.
Role: Horatio Actor: Whitfield
Role: Marcellus Actor: Wilson
Role: King Actor: Packer
Role: Polonius Actor: Baddeley
Role: Laertes Actor: Barrymore
Role: Ostrick Actor: R. Palmer
Role: Rosencraus Actor: Phillimore
Role: Guildenstern Actor: Williames
Role: Bernardo Actor: Wilson
Role: Player King Actor: Chaplin
Role: Lucianus Actor: Waldron
Role: Gentleman Actor: Fawcett
Role: Francisco Actor: Spencer
Role: Messenger Actor: Alfred
Role: Sailor Actor: Jones
Role: Gravediggers Actor: Suett, Burton
Role: Ghost Actor: Bensley
Role: Ophelia Actor: Mrs Forster
Role: Player Queen Actor: Miss Tidswell
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Hopkins.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Bog Actor: Alfred
Role: Taffy Actor: Wilson.
Role: Corporal Bounce Actor: Phillimore
Role: Justice Actor: Chaplin.
Role: Harlequin Actor: R. Palmer
Role: Simon Actor: Moody
Role: Gasconade Actor: Baddeley
Role: Mercury Actor: Dignum
Role: Abram Actor: Waldron
Role: Forge Actor: Burton
Role: Snip Actor: Suett
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mr Fawcett
Role: Mrs Snip Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Sukey Chitterlin Actor: Miss Collins
Role: Dolly Snip Actor: Miss Pope.

3315
03 January 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Kemble, but he "did not act. Barrymore...was his substitute for Percy" (World, 4 Jan.).] Receipts: #191 18s. (157.17.0; 32.11.6; 1.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Percy

Cast
Role: Percy Actor: Barrymore
Role: Elwina Actor: Mrs Siddons.
Role: Rabi Actor: Aickin
Role: Sir Hubert Actor: Packer
Role: Edric Actor: Staunton
Role: Harcourt Actor: Phillimore
Role: Messenger Actor: Wilson
Role: Douglas Actor: Wroughton
Role: Birtha Actor: Mrs Ward

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Cast
Role: Old Harlequin Actor: Hamoir
Role: Harlequin Actor: Bates
Role: Magician Actor: Staunton
Role: Officer Actor: Williames
Role: French Gentlemen Actor: Burton, Lamash
Role: Cook Actor: Fawcett
Role: German Officer Actor: Phillimore
Role: Valet Actor: Wilson
Role: Miller Actor: Chaplin
Role: Landlord Actor: Jones
Role: Daemon Actor: Benson
Role: Taylor Actor: Alfred
Role: Clown Actor: Hollingsworth
Role: Old Colombine Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: French Ladies Actor: Miss Barnes, Mrs Cuyler, Miss Tidswell
Role: Fairy Actor: Miss Cranford
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Stageldoir
Role: unassigned Actor: Spencer, Mrs Love.

3316
14 January 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never acted at this Theatre. By Beaumont and Fletcher, with Alterations [by Thomas Harris (Boaden, Kemble, I, 378)]. Public Advertiser, 15 Jan.: The alterations consisted of many curtailments, the last scene of Act IV being entirely omitted. [Prologue by Henry Sampson Woodfall Jun. (European Magazine, Dec. 1787, p. 503; Feb. 1788, p. 105).] Receipts: #150 2s. (146.18; 3.4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King And No King

Cast
Role: Bessus Actor: Ryder
Role: Mardonius Actor: Aickin
Role: Tigranes Actor: Farren
Role: Gobrias Actor: Hull
Role: Swordsmen Actor: Wewitzer, Cubitt
Role: Bacurius Actor: Fearon
Role: Ligones Actor: Thompson
Role: Arbaces Actor: Pope
Role: Spaconia Actor: Mrs Bernard
Role: Queen Mother Actor: Mrs Platt
Role: Panthea Actor: Miss Brunton
Role: Occasional Prologue Actor: Farren.

Afterpiece Title: The Dumb Cake

Cast
Role: Harlequin Actor: Brown
Role: German Baron Actor: Wewitzer
Role: English Father Actor: Fearon
Role: Petit Maitre Actor: A Young Gentleman
Role: Pierrot Actor: Cubitt
Role: Clown Actor: Blanchard
Role: Columbine Actor: Mrs Rock
Role: English Father's Wife Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Barones Actor: Mrs Davenett.

Song: II: a Grand Chorus-Johnstone, Davies, Darley, Cubitt, Blurton, Janson, Bonville, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart, Mrs Watts, Mrs Byrne, Miss Rowson, Miss Francis, Miss Paye, Miss Blower, Mrs Kennedy

3317
25 January 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces The Heiress, but "on the sudden indisposition of Kemble, the play was changed to The Wonder, where Miss Farren, King and Miss Pope had much applause" (World, 26 Jan.).] Receipts: #130 17s. (109.6; 20.17; 0.14)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss J. Stageldoir in place of Miss Stageldoir.
Role: Old Harlequin Actor: Hamoir
Role: Harlequin Actor: Bates
Role: Magician Actor: Staunton
Role: Officer Actor: Williames
Role: French Gentlemen Actor: Burton, Lamash
Role: Cook Actor: Fawcett
Role: German Officer Actor: Phillimore
Role: Valet Actor: Wilson
Role: Miller Actor: Chaplin
Role: Landlord Actor: Jones
Role: Daemon Actor: Benson
Role: Taylor Actor: Alfred
Role: Clown Actor: Hollingsworth
Role: Old Colombine Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: French Ladies Actor: Miss Barnes, Mrs Cuyler, Miss Tidswell
Role: Fairy Actor: Miss Cranford
Role: unassigned Actor: Spencer, Mrs Love.

3318
13 September 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook, at the Theatre. The Doors to be opened at 5.30. To begin at 6:30 [see 3 Nov.]. [No playbill this season lists the various prices of admission; they were probably, as usual: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s.] Afterpiece: To conclude with a Grand Representation of Regattav. Kemble Mem.: No Manager [i.e. King had resigned as acting manager; but see 23 Sept.]. Ivory Tickets introduced. [These tickets, also called "bones," were for the use of actors and other members of the company in gaining admission for themselves or their friends to the front of the house. They replaced paper orders (World, 18 Oct. 1788).] Receipts: #112 3s. 6d. (75.6.0; 35.10.0; 1.7.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Cast
Role: Don John Actor: Palmer
Role: Duke Actor: Packer
Role: Petruchio Actor: Aickin
Role: Antonio Actor: Waldron
Role: Peter Actor: Burton
Role: Antony Actor: Phillimore
Role: Francisco Actor: Chaplin
Role: Surgeon Actor: Jones
Role: Frederick Actor: Barrymore
Role: 1st Constantia Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Mother Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: 2nd Constantia Actor: Miss Farren.
Role: Musician Actor: Spencer
Role: Antonio's Boy Actor: Alfred
Role: Kinswoman Actor: Miss Barnes.

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Cast
Role: Tugg Actor: Dignum
Role: Bundle Actor: Hollinsworth
Role: Robin Actor: Suett
Role: Mrs Bundle Actor: Mrs Shaw
Role: Wilhelmina Actor: Miss Romanzini.

3319
09 January 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [As afterpiece the playbill announces the 7th night of The Pannel, but it was not acted (see 14 Jan.). Kemble Mem. and the Account-Book both list the substitute play.] Receipts: #142 18s. (106.15.0; 32.19.6; 3.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Cast
Role: Brass Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Gripe Actor: Moody
Role: Money@Trap Actor: Parsons
Role: Clip Actor: Benson
Role: Jessamy Actor: Burton
Role: Dick Actor: Palmer
Role: Flippanta Actor: Miss Pope
Role: Corinna Actor: Mrs Jordan
Role: Araminta Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Mrs Amlet Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Mrs Clogget Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Clarissa Actor: Miss Farren.

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

3320
05 February 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in Kemble Mem., but not on playbill]. Receipts: #133 14s. 6d. (103.10.0; 23.13.0; 6.11.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Impostors

Cast
Role: Lord Janus Actor: Palmer
Role: Sir Solomon Sapient Actor: Baddeley
Role: Captain George Sapient Actor: Aickin
Role: Sir Charles Freemantle Actor: Barrymore
Role: Oliver Actor: Suett
Role: Philibert Actor: Lamash
Role: Polycarp Actor: Wroughton
Role: Mrs Dorothy Actor: Miss Pope
Role: Eleanor Actor: Mrs Jordan

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

Cast
Role: Scander Actor: Sedgwick
Role: Ali Actor: Hollingsworth.
Role: Lesbia Actor: Mrs Forster.
Role: Azor Actor: Kelly
Role: Fatima Actor: Miss Romanzini
Role: Selima Actor: Mrs Crouch.

3321
11 February 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in Kemble Mem., but not on playbill]. Receipts: #107 18s. 6d. (86.9.0; 19.15.6; 1.14.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Impostors

Cast
Role: Lord Janus Actor: Palmer
Role: Sir Solomon Sapient Actor: Baddeley
Role: Captain George Sapient Actor: Aickin
Role: Sir Charles Freemantle Actor: Barrymore
Role: Oliver Actor: Suett
Role: Philibert Actor: Lamash
Role: Polycarp Actor: Wroughton
Role: Mrs Dorothy Actor: Miss Pope
Role: Eleanor Actor: Mrs Jordan

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Elder Brother Actor: Benson
Role: Younger Brother Actor: Banks.
Role: Comus Actor: Palmer
Role: Bacchanals Actor: Kelly, Dignum, Sedgwick
Role: Spirit Actor: Lamash
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Pastoral Nymph Actor: Mrs Forster
Role: Sabrina Actor: Miss Romanzini
Role: Bacchant Actor: Miss Collett
Role: Euphrosyne Actor: Mrs Crouch.

3322
10 March 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Gamester [advertised on playbill of 9 Mar.] cannot be acted on Account of Mrs Siddons's Hoarseness. [As afterpiece the playbill announces the 20th night of The Doctor and the Apothecary, but it was not acted (see 14 Mar.). Kemble Mem. lists the substitute play.] Receipts: #25 19s. 6d. (19.5.0; 2.16.0; 2.16.0 [sic]; tickets not come in: 1.2.6). [This sum is the lowest recorded for this theatre between 1776 and 1791, the year of its demolition.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Touchstone Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Orlando Actor: Barrymore
Role: Cuckoo Song Actor: Mrs Goodall
Role: Amiens Actor: Williames
Role: Duke Senior Actor: Aickin
Role: Adam Actor: Moody
Role: Oliver Actor: Packer
Role: Duke Frederick Actor: Chaplin
Role: William Actor: Burton
Role: Le Beu Actor: Lamash
Role: Silvius Actor: Benson
Role: Jaques de Bois Actor: Fawcett
Role: Corin Actor: Waldron
Role: Charles Actor: Phillimore
Role: Jaques Actor: Wroughton
Role: Caelia Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: the Cuckoo Song Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: Audrey Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Phoebe Actor: Miss Barnes
Role: Rosalind Actor: Mrs Goodall

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Song: As17890220

3323
02 April 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. A new and accurate edition of Isabella to be had at the Theatre. [In mainpiece the playbill retains Kemble as Biron, but he being ill on Thursday night, an apology was made for Whitfield's assumption of Biron, on the ground of his having studied the character on two hour's notice" (Diary, 6 Apr.) Public Advertiser, 28 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Palmer, No. 3, London Road, St. George's Fields. Receipts: #274 6s. 6d. (117.4.0; 15.5.6; 3.1.0; tickets: 138.16.0) (charge: #123 13s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Cast
Role: Biron Actor: Whitfield
Role: Villeroy Actor: Wroughton.
Role: Count Baldwin Actor: Packer
Role: Carlos Actor: Barrymore
Role: Belford Actor: R. Palmer
Role: Sampson Actor: Phillimore
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Siddons.

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Cast
Role: Mrs Cole Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Sir William Wealthy Actor: Baddeley
Role: Sir George Wealthy Actor: Whitfield
Role: Loader Actor: R. Palmer
Role: Mr Richard Wealthy Actor: Packer
Role: Dick Actor: Burton
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Collins.

Song: As17881028, but Vocal Parts-Mrs _Forster, Dignum

3324
31 October 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years. [Keating is identified in Kemble Mem.] Receipts: #120 1s. 6d. (95.4.0; 23.6.0; 1.11.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko; Or, The Royal Slave

Cast
Role: Oroonoko Actor: A Young Gentleman
Role: Blandford Actor: Barrymore
Role: Governor Actor: Whitfield
Role: Stanmore Actor: R. Palmer
Role: Captain Driver Actor: Maddocks
Role: Hotman Actor: Williames
Role: Jack Stanmore Actor: Benson
Role: Daniel Actor: Suett
Role: 1st Planter Actor: Fawcett
Role: 2nd Planter Actor: Hollingsworth
Role: 3rd Planter Actor: Wilson
Role: 4th Planter Actor: Jones
Role: Slaves Actor: Phillimore, Banks, Alfred, Webb
Role: Aboan Actor: Bensley
Role: Widow Lackit Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Charlotte Weldon Actor: Mrs Goodall
Role: Lucy Weldon Actor: Miss Collins
Role: Imoinda Actor: Mrs Powell.

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Cast
Role: Dabble Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Frolick Actor: Hollingsworth
Role: Beaumont Actor: Williames
Role: Blunt Actor: Alfred
Role: Servant Actor: Spencer
Role: Sir Anthony Halfwit Actor: Suett
Role: Diana Actor: Miss Collins
Role: Mrs Meddle Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: Mrs Matadore Actor: Mrs Hopkins.

3325
06 November 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Kemble as Valentine, but "he could not play--Whitfield was Valentine" (World, 7 Nov.).] Receipts: #112 16s. 6d. (77.12.0; 32.7.0; 2.17.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Valentine Actor: Whitfield
Role: Foresight Actor: Parsons
Role: Tattle Actor: Dodd
Role: Sir Sampson Legend Actor: Moody
Role: Scandal Actor: Bensley
Role: Jeremy Actor: Baddeley
Role: Trapland Actor: Waldron
Role: Buckram Actor: Phillimore
Role: Snap Actor: Jones
Role: Ben Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Miss Prue Actor: Miss Prideaux
Role: Mrs Frail Actor: Miss Pope
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Jenny Actor: Miss Tidswell
Role: Angelica Actor: Miss Farren.

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Kelly
Role: Blondel Actor: Barrymore
Role: Guillot Actor: Suett
Role: Florestan Actor: Williames
Role: Sir Owen Actor: Dignum
Role: Antonio Actor: Miss Romanzini
Role: Lauretta Actor: Miss Hagley
Role: Julie Actor: Miss DeCamp
Role: Matilda Actor: Mrs Crouch.

Dance: As17891026