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Event Comment: Benefit for Hopkins, Prompter, and Mrs Hopkins. By Particular Desire. Tickets deliver'd for Mary Queen of Scots will be taken (playbill). Miss Hopkins made her first appearance upon the stage in Celia in As You Like It. Was rec'd with great applause (Hopkins Diary). House charges: #74 14s.; Profit to beneficiaries: #165 2s. Receipts: #239 16s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Touchstone Actor: King
Role: Orlando Actor: Brereton

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Performance Comment: As17721106, but Abram-Jacobs; Grand Chorus-Mrs Wrighten, Mrs _Scott.

Dance: I: A Dance-Daigville's scholars

Entertainment: End: (First time) an Address to the Town-Miss P. Hopkins

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Command of their Majesties. This Comedy is reviv'd with great Alterations by Mr G. by particular desire of the Queen. The play went off vastly well Mr G. Play'd with great Spirit & much Applauded the Alterations are vastly lik'd it will now be a living Play (Hopkins Diary). Doors open half past five. Play to begin promptly at six. House (Hopkins Diary). Receipts: #156 12s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performance Comment: Don John-Garrick; Don Frederick-Jefferson; Antonio-Parsons; Petruchio-J. Aickin; 1st Constantia-Miss Younge; 2nd Constantia-Mrs Abington; Mother-Mrs Hopkins; Landlady-Mrs Bradshaw; Kinswoman-Miss Platt; Nurse-Mrs Love; Francisco-Wright; Surgeon-Wrighten; Peter-W. Palmer; Duke-Packer; Antony-Wheeler; Edition of 1774 adds Duke's Party-J. Bannister, Yates; Petruchio's Party-Fawcett, Griffith; Attorney-Burton.
Cast
Role: Mother Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pitt, Mrs Dyer, and Stoppelaer. Tickets deliver'd for The Albion Queens will be taken. Receipts: #41 (Account Book). Charges: #64 10s. Deficit to each beneficary #7 16s. 8d., cover'd by income from tickets (Account Book): @Tickets Box Pit Gallery Value@Mrs Pitt 32 195 138 #51 6s.@Mrs Dyer 55 97 91 #37 8s.@Stoppelaer 107 238 164 #78 17s.@Total 194 530 393 #167 11s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Matthew Actor: Cushing

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: DuBellamy.

Dance: III: The Merry Sailors, as17721012; End: A Minuet-Aldridge, Mrs Bulkley

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wilks. Tickets to be had of Mrs Wilks, at Jones's, Upper Queen-street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko; Or, The Royal Slave

Performance Comment: Oroonoko-Comerford; Aboan-Smith; Hotman-Johnson; Captain Driver-Saul; Blandford-Newport; Stanmore-A Gentleman [unidentified]; Jack Stanmore-Dancer; Daniel-Kenny; Governor-A Gentleman (1st appearance on this stage [unidentified]); Imoinda-A Young Lady of Rotherhithe [unidentified]; Widow Lackit-Mrs Ross; Lucy Weldon-Miss Taylor; Charlotte Weldon-Mrs Wilks.
Related Works
Related Work: The Royal Slave Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Performance Comment: Jemmy Twinkle-A Young Gentleman [unidentified]; Griskin-Massey; Sotherton-Smith; Chamberlain-Johnson; Cupid-Master Russell; Fillagree-Mrs Ross; Landlady-Mrs West; Miss Flack-Miss Taylor; Miss Griskin-Mrs Wilks.
Cast
Role: Sotherton Actor: Smith
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs West

Song: As17760925

Entertainment: Monologue.Before: Bucks have at ye all-Master Russell; Imitations, as17760930

Event Comment: Benefit for Leoni. Public Advertiser, 31 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Leoni at Basire's No. 34, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Receipts: #231 6s. 6d. (118.8.6; tickets: 112.18.0) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caractacus

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: As17761107

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Macklin [and her last appearance on the stage]. Public Advertiser, 3 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Macklin, No. 59, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Receipts: #191 16s. (151.6; tickets: 40.10) (charge: #64 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: End I: Minuet-Aldridge, Miss Macklin; End III: The Shepherd's Wedding, as17770215; End IV: The Frolick, as17761120

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunstall. Public Advertiser, 3 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Dunstall, Little Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Receipts: #282 10s. 6d. (70.17.6 tickets: 211.13.0) (charge: #64 5s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performance Comment: Sir John Loverule (with The Early Horn)-Mattocks; Jobson-Dunstall; Lady Loverule-Mrs Pitt; Nell-Mrs Hunt (1st appearance in that character).
Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: End: As17761109

Event Comment: Benefit for Leoni. Public Advertiser, 19 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Leoni, No. 34, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. Receipts: #234 8s. 6d. (174.19.6; tickets: 59.9.0) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: As17771222

Event Comment: Benefit for Dodd. Public Advertiser, 21 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Dodd at his house in New Ormond-street, Queen's-square. Receipts: #245 7s. 6d. (102.15.0; 19.9.0; 0.7.6; tickets: 122.16.0) (charge: #68 19s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: As17780305but Ben (with song, The Storm)-Dodd [1st appearance in that character].1st appearance in that character].
Cast
Role: Scandal Actor: Bensley
Role: Trapland Actor: Waldron
Role: Tattle Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

Cast
Role: Scander Actor: Bannister
Event Comment: Benefit for Webster. Public Advertiser, 19 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Webster, No. 74, Great Queen-street. Receipts: #227 17s. 6d. (120.10.0; 22.0.6; 0.0.0; tickets: 85.7.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Cast
Role: Urganda Actor: Mrs Baddeley

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Song: Several newairs (never performed) by Michael Arne-for the characters of Cymon and Sylvia, on this occasion

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunstall. Morning Chronicle, 4 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Dunstall, Little Queen-street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Receipts: #237 3s. 6d. (79.15.6; tickets: 157.8.0) [charge: #64 5s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: End: The Poney Races, as17780421; In afterpiece: Minuet, as17771121

Event Comment: Benefit for Leoni. Public Advertiser, 24 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Leoni, No. 34, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Performance Comment: Arbaces-Leoni; Artabanes-Reinhold; Rimenes-Mahon; Artaxeres-Mrs Kennedy; Semira-Mrs Morton; Mandane-Miss Brown.
Cast
Role: Mandane Actor: Miss Brown.

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: As17790218

Event Comment: Opera: The music by several Eminent Masters [chiefly Bertoni, with additions by Paisiello and Gluck]; under the Direction of Bertoni. Benefit for Pacchierotti. Tickets to be had of Pacchierotti, No. 20, Queen Ann Street, Westminster

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'olimpiade

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Pacchierotti, Trebbi, Manzoletto, Micheli, Sga Pozzi, Mme LeBrun. [Libretto (H. Reynell, 1783) lists the parts: Clistene, Megacle, Licida, Aminta, Aristea, Argene.]Libretto (H. Reynell, 1783) lists the parts: Clistene, Megacle, Licida, Aminta, Aristea, Argene.]

Dance: End I: Grand Serious Ballet, as17800208; End II: La Bergere Coquete, as17800122; End Opera: Serious Ballet, as17800122; Grand Chaconne, as17800122

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kennedy. Public Advertiser, 16 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Kennedy at her house, No. 36, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. Receipts: #231 12s. 6d. (150.16.6; tickets: 80.17.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Cast
Role: Mandane Actor: Miss Brown.

Afterpiece Title: The Spaniards Dismayed

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Dance: End 2nd piece: Dance of Sailors-Langrish, others

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Farren. Public Advertiser, 30 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Miss Farren, No. 50, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. Receipts: #206 2s. 6d. (107.3.0; 29.17.6; 0.11.0; tickets: 68.11.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Sir Peter Teazle Actor: King
Role: Mrs Candour Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Event Comment: Benefit for Farren. Morning Chronicle, 15 Apr.: Tickets to be of Farren, No. 41, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Receipts: #132 14s. 6d. (42.6.0; 21.10.6; 1.5.0; tickets: 67.13.0) (charge: #64 17s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: As17800222, but Faulkland-Farren; Julia-Mrs Farren (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Faulkland Actor: Farren
Role: Sir Anthony Absolute Actor: King
Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Modes Author(s): James Moore Smythe

Afterpiece Title: Who's The Dupe

Cast
Role: Sandford Actor: Aickin

Dance: As17791215

Event Comment: Opera: Performed in the Manner of an Oratorio. The music by Bertoni. Tickets to be had of Bertoni, No. 20, Queen Ann-street, Westminster

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orfeo

Performance Comment: Part I. Overture-; songs-Sga Pozzi, Trebbi, Mme LeBrun; who will be accompanied-Cramer; solo oboe-Fischer; Part II. The Representation of the Opera, with Grand Chorusses, accompanied by such a Band as may render it most worthy of an English Audience. Orfeo-Pacchierotti; Hymen-Trebbi; Euridice-Mme LeBrun.
Event Comment: Mainpiece: With the Grand Triumphal Entryv. Receipts: #156 5s. 6d. (117.0.0; 37.19.0; 1.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Performance Comment: or, The Rival Queens. Alexander-Smith; Cassander-Farren; Lysimachus-Brereton; Hephestian-R. Palmer; Polyperchon-Phillimore; Thessalus-Wright; Perdiccas-Chaplin; Eumenes-Norris; Aristander-Wrighten; Clytus-Bensley; Roxana-Mrs Ward; Parisatis-Mrs Sharp; Sisigambis-Mrs Johnston; Statira-Mrs Crawford.
Cast
Role: Alexander Actor: Smith
Role: Cassander Actor: Farren
Role: Thessalus Actor: Wright
Role: Aristander Actor: Wrighten

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Event Comment: Benefit for Du-Bellamy. Public Advertiser, 21 Apr.: Tickets to be had of DuBellamy, No. 6, Queen's Buildings, Brompton. Receipts: #170 17s. 6d. (60.4.0; 18.4.6; 2.1.0; tickets: 90.8.0) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Cast
Role: Lissardo Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Farren, R. Palmer
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Sharp
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: End: The Irish Fair, as17800930

Song: End II: Kate of Aberdeen-; End IV: Bessy Bell, Mary Gray-DuBellamy

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Mrs Greville and Williams. Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years. Tickets delivered for the 17th of December will be admitted. Tickets and places to be had of Williams at Mr Spoke's, Tottenham Court; Mr White, Auctioneer, Queen street, Westminster; Messrs Ellis and Scott, Old Bond-street; Mr Hewitt, New Bond-street; Mr Cowcieroy, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury; and at the Excise Office Coffee-House, Old Bond-street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple; Or, A Trip To The Jubilee

Performance Comment: Sir Harry Wildair-Mrs Greville (of DL); Colonel Standard-Brinsley; Young Clincher-Swords (from the Theatre Royal, Dublin); Vizard-Cotton; Alderman Smuggler-Barrett; Tom Errand-Forrest; Beau Clincher-A Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified]); Wife-Mr Pressley; Angelica-Miss Read; Parley-Miss Plain; Lady Darling-Mrs Fowler; Lady Lurewell-Mrs Child .
Cast
Role: Colonel Standard Actor: Brinsley
Role: Tom Errand Actor: Forrest

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Performance Comment: Whittle-Barrett; Sir Patrick O'Neale-Lloyd; Bates-Booth; Kecksey-Pressley; Nephew-Forrest; Thomas-Swords; Widow Brady (with the Epilogue Song)-Mrs Greville .

Song: End of Act I of afterpiece Horn sweet are the Woodlands by Forrest and Groves. imitations. End of mainpiece, Vocal and Rhetorical, by the Gentleman who performs Beau Clincher

Performance Comment: imitations. End of mainpiece, Vocal and Rhetorical, by the Gentleman who performs Beau Clincher .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Viaggiatori Felici

Dance: End of Act I Pastoral Dance [see17811117] by Henry, Bournonville, Raymond, with a Pas Seul by Mlle Simonet, and to conclude with the Dances introduced in the Masquerade [held at this theatre, 24 Jan.: The Prince of Wales's Minuet, The Emperor's Cossac, The Queen's Allemande, Quadrilles] (composed by Noverre) by Gardel and Mme Simonet, Nivelon, Mlle Theodore, Simonet, Sga Crespi, Slingsby, Mlle Baccelli; End of Act II Le Triomphe de 1'Amour Conjugal, as17820110

Performance Comment: : The Prince of Wales's Minuet, The Emperor's Cossac, The Queen's Allemande, Quadrilles] (composed by Noverre) by Gardel and Mme Simonet, Nivelon, Mlle Theodore, Simonet, Sga Crespi, Slingsby, Mlle Baccelli; End of Act II Le Triomphe de 1'Amour Conjugal, as17820110.
Cast
Role: Hebe Actor: Mlle Theodore
Role: Chief of the Island Actor: Slingsby.
Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pope. Public Advertiser, 9 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Miss Pope, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Receipts: #115 8s. (100/15/0; 14/5/6; 0/7/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #115 0s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Cast
Role: Witwou'd Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece, as17820223

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Allegranti. Tickets, half a guinea each, to be had of Sga Allegranti, No. 23, Queen-street, Golden-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Viaggiatori Felici

Dance: As17820219 throughout

Song: In Act II two new songs by Sga Allegranti, one of which composed by Giardini

Event Comment: Benefit for Du-Bellamy. Public Advertiser, 18 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Du-Bellamy at his house, No. 6, Queen's Buildings, Brompton. Receipts: #241 16s. (108/6/0; 27/13/6; 0/8/6; tickets: 105/8/0) (charge: #106 9s. 9d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Cast
Role: Lord Ogleby Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Related Works
Related Work: The Gentle Shepherd Author(s): Cornelius Vandertop

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece Thou hast stole awa' from me, Mary; End of Act IV Kate of Aberdeen, both by Du-Bellamy

Event Comment: Benefit for Suett and Wright. Morning Herald, 3 May: Tickets to be had of Suett at his house, No. 20, Gloucester-street, Queen's-square, Bloomsbury; of Wright at his house, No. 21, Bennett-street, Westminster. [Afterpiece: Prologue by David Garrick.] Receipts: #232 10s. (67/13/0; 30/16/6; 0/12/6; tickets: 133/8/0) (charge: #115 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Runaway

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Performance Comment: Harlequin (with the original Prologue)-Wright; Snip-Parsons; Simon-Moody; Gasconade-Baddcley; Mercury-Fawcett; Corporal Bounce-Chaplin; Abram-Waldron; Justice-Wrighten; Forge-Burton; Bogg-Phillimore; TafTy-R. Palmer; Old Woman-Mr Suett; Mrs Snip-Mrs Love; Sukey Chitterlin-Miss Collett; Dolly Snip-Miss Pope .

Dance: As17820318athi