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Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb

Performance Comment: Honeycomb-Waldron; Mrs Honeycomb-Mrs Johnston; Nurse-Mrs Bradshaw; Polly-Miss Pope; Scribble-Dodd; Ledger-Bransby.
Cast
Role: Ledger Actor: Bransby.

Dance: I: The Pirates, as17750422

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: Prometheus

Performance Comment: As17760105, but The Principal Characters-_Ledger, Jones; The Dances-_.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Man of Quality

Performance Comment: Foppington-Woodward; Young Fashion-Lee Lewes; Sir John Friendly-Young; Bull-Booth; Lory-Cushing; Coupler-Thompson; Porter-Fearon; Shoemaker-Jones; La Varole-Wewitzer; Taylor-Bates; Mendlegs-Ledger; Sir Tunbelly Clumsy-Wilson; Nurse-Mrs Pitt; Sempstress-Mrs White; Miss Hoyden (with a Song)-Mrs Wilson , first appearance that stage.
Cast
Role: Mendlegs Actor: Ledger

Dance: End: Mirth and Jollity, as17760102

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Tickets deliver'd by Mrs Lampe, and Mrs Jones, Mrs Masters (formerly Miss Lalauze), Besford, Miss Cranfield, Bates, Widow Wise, Widow Emery, and Ledger, and those deliver'd for She Stoops to Conquer will be taken. Doors open half past 5. To begin at half past 6 o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Man of Quality

Cast
Role: Mendlegs Actor: Ledger

Dance: I: A Minuet-Holloway, Miss Cranfield; II: A Minuet-Dagueville, Mrs Masters (Daughter of the late Mr Lalauze)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Oaks

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb

Performance Comment: Mr Honeycomb-Parsons; Scribble-Dodd; Ledger-Bransby; Mrs Honeycomb-Mrs Johnston; Nurse-Mrs Bradshaw; Polly Honeycomb-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Ledger Actor: Bransby

Dance: In II: [but postponed until end of Act III (see following note)]a new grand Ballet, Demie Caractere, composed by Gallet, The Double Festival-Gallet, Mlle Dupre (their 1st appearance upon the English stage), Helme, Slingsby, Sga Vidini, Sga Crespi, Sga Ricci; In V: [a new grand serious Ballet, composed by Gallet, The Triumph of Love-Gallet, Helme, Sga Crespi, Miss Armstrong, Mlle Dupre

Song: In: a Fete Champetre[. The vocal parts-Vernon, Davies, Miss Abrams, Mrs Scott, Mrs Wrighten. [This was included, as here assigned (except on 20 Feb. 1777), in all subsequent performances.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Performance Comment: Mr Honeycombe-Quick; Scribble-Lee Lewes; Ledger-Booth; Mrs Honeycombe-Mrs Pitt; Nurse-Mrs Poussin; Polly Honeycombe (1st time)-Mrs Wilson.
Cast
Role: Ledger Actor: Booth

Dance: As17761031

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Performance Comment: Mr Honeycombe-Parsons; Scribble-R. Palmer; Ledger-Griffiths; Mrs Honeycombe-Mrs Gardner; Nurse-Mrs Love; Polly Honeycombe-Mrs Hitchcock.
Cast
Role: Ledger Actor: Griffiths

Dance: As17770611

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Performance Comment: Honeycombe-Graham; Scribble-G. Graham; Ledger-Henry; Mrs Honeycombe-Mrs Russell; Nurse-Mr Graham; Polly Honeycombe-Miss Essex.
Cast
Role: Ledger Actor: Henry

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry Iv

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Performance Comment: As17770616 but Scribble-_; Ledger-_.
Cast
Role: Ledger Actor: Griffiths

Dance: As17770728

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Performance Comment: Mr Honeycombe-Parsons; Scribble-R. Palmer; Ledger-Gardner; Mrs Honeycombe-Miss Platt; Nurse-Mrs Love; Polly Honeycombe-Mrs Hitchcock.
Cast
Role: Ledger Actor: Gardner

Dance: As17780529

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Annette And Lubin

Afterpiece Title: King Richard the Third

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Performance Comment: Mr Honeycombe-Quick; Scribble-Lee Lewes; Ledger-Booth; Mrs Honeycombe-Mrs Pitt; Nurse-Mrs Poussin; Polly Honeycombe-Mrs Wilson.
Cast
Role: Ledger Actor: Booth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: A Monody

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb

Performance Comment: Mr Honeycomb-Parsons; Scribble-Dodd; Ledger-Wrighten; Mrs Honeycomb-Mrs Johnston; Nurse-Mrs Bradshaw; Polly Honeycomb-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Ledger Actor: Wrighten

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Illumination

Afterpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: Chrononhotonthologos

Performance Comment: Chrononhotonthologos, King of Queerummania-Wilson; Bombardinion-Robson; Aldiborontiphoscophornio-Booth; Captain of the Guards-Bates; Herald-Thompson; Doctor-Ledger; Cook-Stevens; Rigdum Funnidos-Lee Lewes; Fadladinida, Queen of Queerummania-Miss Platt; Venus-Miss Green; Tatlanthe-Mrs Pitt.
Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Ledger

Ballet: End: The Humours of Newmarket; with the Poney Races. Jockeys-Dagueville, Harris, Master Dagueville, Master Holland; Ladies-Miss Ross, Sga Tinte

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Performance Comment: Mr Honeycombe-Parsons; Scribble-R. Palmer; Ledger-Gardner; Mrs Honeycombe-Mrs Webb; Nurse-Mrs Love; Polly Honeycombe-Mrs Hitchcock.
Cast
Role: Ledger Actor: Gardner

Dance: WithTwo New Dances-Master and Miss Byrn. [These were danced, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Performance Comment: Mr Honeycombe-Wilson; Scribble-R. Palmer; Ledger-Gardner; Mrs Honeycombe-Mrs Webb; Nurse-Mrs Love; Polly Honeycombe-Mrs Hitchcock.
Cast
Role: Ledger Actor: Gardner

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Performance Comment: Don Felix-Lewis; Col. Briton-Wroughton; Don Lopez-Fearon; Don Pedro-Quick; Lissardo-Lee Lewes; Frederick-Booth; Soldier-Ledger; Alguazil-Jones; Gibby-Wilson; Isabella-Mrs Lewis; Flora-Mrs Pitt; Inis-Mrs Davenett; Violante-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Soldier Actor: Ledger

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Free-Mason

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School Of Shakespeare; Or, Humours And Passions

Performance Comment: [Given in a regular Representation of several of his most favourite and capital Scenes. With Dresses and Scenery suited to the Characters and their Situations. The inimitable Scenes of the Poet, selected for the Purpose, and digested into Five Acts, will exemplify, in the strongest Colours of our immortal Bard, Vanity, Parental Tenderness, Cruelty, Filial Piety, and Ambition. ACT I. Vanity, in the First Part of Henry IV parts of II. i and iv]. Sir John Falstaff-Digges; Francis-Edwin; Poins-R. Palmer; Peto-Painter; Bardolph-Massey; Gadshill-Ledger [Public Advertiser: Kenny]; Carriers-Stevens, Barrett; Prince of Wales-Palmer; Hostess-Mrs Love; [ACT II. Parental Tenderness, in the Second Part of Henry IV [parts of IV. iv and v, and parts of v. ii]. King Henry-Bensley; Clarence-Miss Wood; Prince John-Miss Francis; Gloster-Miss Painter; Chief Justice-Gardner; Westmoreland-Davis; Attendant-Painter; Prince of Wales-Palmer; [ACT III. Cruelty, in The Merchant of Venice [IV. i]. Shylock-Digges; Antonio-Gardner; Bassanio-Staunton; Duke-Usher; Gratiano-Lamash; Salanio-Davis; Nerissa-Mrs Wilson; Portia-Mrs Massey; [ACT IV. Filial Piety, in the Closet Scene in Hamlet [III. iii and iv]. Hamlet-Bannister Jun.; King-Gardner; Polonius-Wilson; Ghost-Staunton; Queen-Miss Sherry; [ACT V. Ambition, in Henry VIII [III. ii]. Cardinal Wolsey-Digges; Surry-Aickin; Suffolk-Lamash; Lord Chamberlain-Egan; Norfolk-Davis; Cromwell-R. Palmer; King Henry-Usher.
Cast
Role: Gadshill Actor: Ledger

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman; or, The First of August

Dance: As17810620

Entertainment: Before the Curtain draws up: the celebrated Cento (written by Richard? Berenger, in honor of Shakespeare)-Bannister Jun

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Performance Comment: Don Jerome-Wilson; Don Isaac-Wewitzer; Father Paul-Bannister; Lopez-Stevens; Ferdinand-Marshall; Antonio-Wood; Lay Brother-Ledger; Carlos-Miss Stuart (1st appearance on this stage); Clara-Mrs Cargill; The Duenna-Mrs Webb; Louisa-Miss Harper (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Lay Brother Actor: Ledger

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: End: The Italian Peasants-Master Byrn, Miss Byrn

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Performance Comment: Lord Lovell-Lewis (1st appearance in that character); Wellborn-Wroughton; Justice Greedy-Quick; Allworth-Whitfield; Marrall-Wilson; Tapwell-Thompson; Furnace-Wewitzer; Order-Jones; Amble-Stevens; Watchall-Painter; Parson Welldo-J. Wilson; Taylor-Newton; Vintner-Ledger; Sir Giles Over-reach-Henderson; Margaret (1st time)-Miss Satchell; Froth-Mrs Pitt; Lady Allworth-Mrs Yates (1st appearance in that character) .
Cast
Role: Vintner Actor: Ledger

Afterpiece Title: The Marriage Act

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Performance Comment: General Savage-Lee Lewes; Torrington-Quick; Conolley-Aickin; Captain Savage-Davies; Leeson-Whitfield; Spruce-W. Bates; Ghastly-Jones; Leach-Fearon; Crow-Thompson; Wolfe-Ledger; Belville-Lewis; Mrs Belville (1st time)-Mrs Barnes; Lady Rachel Mildew-Mrs Pitt; Miss Leeson-Mrs Wilson; Mrs Tempest-Miss Ambrose; Miss Walsingham-Mrs Mattocks .
Cast
Role: Wolfe Actor: Ledger

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17820401, but omitted: Holloway

Song: End of Act IV of mainpiece Tally ho, as17820427

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Performance Comment: Posthumus-Bannister Jun. (1st appearance in that character); Pisanio-Staunton; Bellarius-Aickin; Arviragus-Wood; Guiderius-R. Palmer; Caius Lucius-Usher; Philario-Webb; Cloten-Edwin (1st appearance in that character); Cymbeline-Gardner; Lords-Ledger, Stevens; Frenchman-Davis; Cornelius-Swords; Iachimo-Palmer; Queen-Miss Sherry; Helen-Mrs Poussin; Imogen-Mrs Bulkley .
Cast
Role: Lords Actor: Ledger, Stevens

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: In Act I of mainpiece a Masquerade, in which a Dance by Master and Miss Byrn; End of Act III, as17820606

Song: In Masquerade a Song by Miss Morris. imitations. End of mainpiece, by Bannister Jun

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of Common Sense

Performance Comment: Priest-Wilson; Law-Massey; Physick-Staunton; Ghost of Tragedy-Pierce; Ghost of Comedy-Barrett; Whispering Ghost-Painter; Officer-Ledger; Harlequin-Stevens; Attendant-Kenny; Queen of Common Sense-Mrs Lefevre; Maids of Honour-Miss Morris, Mrs [W.] Palmer; Queen of Ignorance-Mr Wewitzer. Characters in the Introduction: Fustian-Bannister Jun.; Trapwit-R. Palmer; Sneer-Swords; Prompter-Kenny; Player-Davis; Prologue to the Tragedy-Staunton; Dancer-Miss Francis .
Cast
Role: Officer Actor: Ledger

Afterpiece Title: Tunbridge Wells [recte Walks]; or, The Yeoman of Kent

Afterpiece Title: The Tobacco Box; or, The Soldier's Pledge of Love

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: Capt. Machcath-Brett (1st appearance in that character); Peachum-Wilson; Lockit-Booth; Mat o' the Mint-Mahon; Jemmy Twitcher-Webb; Wat Dreary-Jones; Crook finger'd Jack-Doyle; Ben Budge-Ledger; Harry Paddington-Darley; Jailer-Stevens; Drawer-Helme; Filch-Mrs Wilson; Lucy-Mrs Kennedy; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Davenett Diana Trapes-Mrs Pitt; Jenny Diver-Mrs Morton; Mrs Slammekin-Miss Platt Mrs Vixen-Mrs Lewis; Dolly Trull-Miss Morris; Sukey Tawdry-Miss Cleland Mrs Coaxer-Mrs Whitfield; Molly Brazen-Miss Stuart; Betty Doxey-Miss Francis; Polly-Miss Harper. hathi.
Cast
Role: Ben Budge Actor: Ledger

Afterpiece Title: Retaliation

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece a Hornpipe by Miss Matthews

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Mattocks, Reinhold, Quick, Edwin, Wilson, Brett, Fearon, Stevens, Davies, Thompson, Mahon; Miss Harper, Mrs Kennedy, Mrs Wilson, Miss Platt, Sga Sestini (1st appearance on the English stage). [Cast from Songs (T. Cadell, 1782): Don Fernando [in later seasons, usually Ferdinand]-Mattocks; Ramirez [beginning with season of 1787-88 called Don Caesar]-Reinhold; Spado-Quick; Pedrillo-Edwin; Don Scipio-Wilson; Philippo-Brett; Don Juan-Fearon; Vasquez-Stevens; Rapino-Davies; Calvette-Thompson; Sanguino-Mahon; Lopez-Ledger; Don Alphonso-Mrs Kennedy; Victoria-Miss Harper; Catalina-Mrs Wilson; Dame Isabel-Miss Platt; Lorenza-Sga Sestini.] hathi. hathi.
Cast
Role: Lopez Actor: Ledger

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Performance Comment: As17821019, but Sam-Ledger .
Cast
Role: Sam Actor: Ledger

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle