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Event Comment: Benefit for Lee, at the Particular Desire of His Excellency Chevalier Morosini, the Venetian Ambassador. Tickets deliver'd for Oroonoko will be taken. Mainpiece for the last time this season. Afterpiece: By Desire, not acted these 3 years. [See 23 Nov. 1761.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: Ross Actor: Lee

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Performance Comment: Guardian-Lee; Sir Charles Clackit-Yates; Young Clackit-O'Brien; Lucy-Mrs Clive; Miss Harriet-Mrs Palmer.
Cast
Role: Guardian Actor: Lee

Song: End: A Duet-Vernon, Miss Young

Event Comment: MMr Lee play'd Majr Belford. Mr Packer being ill (very bad) (Hopkins). Very bad indeed (Hopkins Diary-MacMillan). Mainpiece: Not acted in two years. [See 5 May 1762.] The Mistake oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of the indisposition of a Principal Performer. Receipts: #123 10s. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Performance Comment: As17631217, but Major Belford-Lee.
Cast
Role: Major Belford Actor: Lee.

Dance: End: The Provancalle, as17631014

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pope. Mr Lee-Young Belmont (Hopkins). No Building on Stage; The Deuce is in Him oblig'd to be deferr'd. The Foundling not in 16 years. [See 26 March 1750.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Foundling

Performance Comment: Young Belmont-Lee; Fadle-King; Sir Charles Raymond-Powell; Sir Roger Belmont-Yates; Col. Raymond-Packer; Villiard-Bransby; Rosetta-Miss Pope; Fidelia-Mrs Palmer.
Cast
Role: Young Belmont Actor: Lee

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb

Dance: II: The Shepherdesses, as17631014; End: The Irish Lilt, as17630922

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Lee and Phillips. Charges: #64 4s. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Performance Comment: As17640327 but Horatia-Mrs Palmer; Valeria-Mrs Lee, first time; Citizens-Ackman, Fox.
Cast
Role: Valeria Actor: Mrs Lee, first time

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

Dance: The Irish Lilt, as17630922

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Lee & Mr Evans [sub-treasurer]. Tickets sold at doors will not be taken. Charges: #64 4s. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Performance Comment: As17640425 but Aboan-Lee; Imoinda-Mrs Palmer; Hotman-Baddeley.
Cast
Role: Aboan Actor: Lee

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petrucio

Dance: II: Dance of Slaves, as17640425 The Cow@Keepers, as17640504

Song: I: The Song of Sweet Bird-Mrs Vincent; accompanied on violin-Pinto as17640427

Entertainment: II: King as Mr Prattle, will open a Packet of News (for that night only), as17640403

Event Comment: Benefit for Bowers, Veal, and Broad. Mr Lee read Lord Trinket (Hopkins Diary-MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Performance Comment: As17640225, but Harriet-Mrs Palmer; Trinket-Lee; Toilet-Mrs Hippisley.
Cast
Role: Trinket Actor: Lee

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: End: Double Hornpipe, as17640514

Event Comment: Benefit for Philips and Mrs Lee. Tickets deliver'd by Miss Williams and Miss Berkeley will be admitted. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire, and Dress'd in the Habits of the Times

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17641113, but Queen-Mrs Lee, 1st time; Lord Mayor-Philips.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Lee, 1st time
Role: Buckingham Actor: Lee

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Cast
Role: Sir Harry's Serv't Actor: Lee

Dance: End: The Medley, as17641120

Event Comment: Benefit for Aickin and Mrs Lee. House Charges #33 8s. Rec'd stopages #2 13s. (Treasurer's Book). Tickets deliver'd by Sg Giorgi and Miss Berkley will be admitted. Neville MS Diary: Went to ye Pit to see 2nd part of Henry IV. [Comments on performances of individual characters in general.] Falstaff very well by Love. This last uses his eyes with great propriety in this and many other characters....Pistol by Baddeley (King should have played it)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part Ii

Performance Comment: King-Powell; Prince of Wales-Aickin, 1st time; Prince John-J. Palmer; Moldy-Moody; Pistol-King; Gloster-J. Burton; Doll Tearsheet-Mrs Lee; Achbp York-Havard; Clarence-Mas. Cape; Chief Justice-Bransby; Westmorland-Burton; Hastings-Ackman; Lord Bardolph-Fawcett; Feeble-Weston; Justice Shallow-Yates; Justice Silence-Rooker; Poins-Packer; Page-Miss Rogers; Hostess-Mrs Bradshaw; Falstaff-Love [Public Advertiser assigns Pistol-$Baddeley.]
Cast
Role: Doll Tearsheet Actor: Mrs Lee

Afterpiece Title: The Capricious Lovers

Cast
Role: Emily Actor: Mrs Lee

Dance: End: A Minuet-Miss Giorgi, Miss Collett Scholars to Sg Giorgi; End I of the Farce: Hearts of Oak, as17670212, but-Grimaldi, Mrs King

Event Comment: By Special License from the Lord Chamberlain, For One Night Only. Benefit for Lee. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. To begin at 6:00 p.m. Both pieces By Particular Desire. Present, the King of Denmark. Receipts: #244 7s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Bayes-Lee; Johnson-Young Gentleman, first appearance on any stage; Smith-Casey; Prince Volscius-Keasberry, from the Theatre Royal in Bath; Prince Prettyman-Loveman; Gentleman Usher-Vandermere; Physician-Graham; Drawcansir-Hamilton; Tom Thimble-Brownsmith; Chloris-Mrs Graham; also a Grand Battle-Mr Bayes new rais'd Regiment of Horse.
Cast
Role: Bayes Actor: Lee

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Event Comment: Benefit for Lee. Last Performance but two before the Holidays. Afterpiece: Never acted there. In the comic scenes will be introduced (as they were sung in Masqued and other Characters) the favorite songs, Ye Warwickshire Lads and Lasses, Sweet Willy O, The Mulberry Tree, and the Roundelay of Sisters of the Tuneful Strain. In the second act, a Statue of Shakespeare will be erected, and the ode on Dedicating a Temple to that great poet recited, with proper Airs and Chorusses-Particularly Sweetest Bard that Ever Sung, Tho' Crimes from Death and Torture Fly, the Characteristic Song on Falstaff, More Gentle than the Southern Gale, and Thou Soft-Flowing Avon. Part of Pit laid into boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee at Stratford upon avon

Performance Comment: Drunken Man, Steward of the Jubilee-Lee; Principal vocal parts (comic and serious)-Reinhold, Mattocks, Mrs Baker, DuBellamy, Miss Brown, Miss Dayes, Mrs Mattocks (playbill).
Cast
Role: Steward of the Jubilee Actor: Lee

Dance: End I Afterpiece: The Vintage Festival, as17741007

Event Comment: Benefit for Lee. Mainpiece: With the characters for the time in old English Dresses, By Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: As17760222, but Lear-Lee; Edgar-Lewis; Burgandy-Booth; Arante-Mrs Masters; Cordelia-a Young Gentlewoman, first appearance on any stage.
Cast
Role: Lear Actor: Lee

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: End: The Italian Gamesters, as17760305

Event Comment: Afterpiece: In 2 acts, taken from Wycherley [by John Lee (Public Advertiser, 14 Dec.)]. Paid Pattinson, Tallow Chandler, #41 19s. Receipts: #167 18s. (166.9.6; 1.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caractacus

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: Pinchwife-Lee; The Country Wife (1st time)-Mrs Wilson. see17761221 .
Cast
Role: Pinchwife Actor: Lee
Related Works
Related Work: The Country Wife Author(s): John Lee
Event Comment: [In afterpiece the playbill retains Incledon as Paris. but "An apology was made for Incledon, and his part was sustained by Mrs Lee" (Morning Herald, 11 Nov.).] Receipts: #211 9s. 6d. (202.10.6; 8.19.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fortune's Fool

Afterpiece Title: Olympus in an Uproar

Performance Comment: As17961108, but Paris-Mrs Lee.
Cast
Role: Paris Actor: Mrs Lee.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite; Or, The Earl Of Essex

Performance Comment: Lee, Yeates (parts unspecified).

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song: Cunningham, Adams, Miss Lincoln, Mrs Bullock

Dance: Cunningham, Adams, Miss Lincoln, Mrs Bullock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jeptha's Rash Vow; Or, The Virgin Sacrific'd

Music: The Original Musick- as performed by Mrs Lee, with universal applause, about 15 years since

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Perdiccas Actor: Lee
Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Queens; or, The Death of Alexander the Great Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: Alexander Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: Alexander the Great Author(s): Nathaniel Lee

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Perdiccas Actor: Lee
Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Queens; or, The Death of Alexander the Great Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: Alexander Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: Alexander the Great Author(s): Nathaniel Lee

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Perdiccas Actor: Lee
Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Queens; or, The Death of Alexander the Great Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: Alexander Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: Alexander the Great Author(s): Nathaniel Lee

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Perdiccas Actor: Lee
Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Queens; or, The Death of Alexander the Great Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: Alexander Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: Alexander the Great Author(s): Nathaniel Lee

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

Dance: II: A Double Hornpipe-Mas. Cape, Miss Rogers; III: The Gypsies-Mas. Clinton, Miss Street (Gerhardi's Scholars); V: A Minuet-the two Miss Rogers's (Mr Noverre's Scholars); End: A Dance call'd The Carpenters and the Fruit Dealers-Miss Street, Mas. Gherardy, first appearance on English Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Perdiccas Actor: Lee
Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Queens; or, The Death of Alexander the Great Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: Alexander Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: Alexander the Great Author(s): Nathaniel Lee

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Perdiccas Actor: Lee
Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Queens; or, The Death of Alexander the Great Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: Alexander Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: Alexander the Great Author(s): Nathaniel Lee

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Perdiccas Actor: Lee
Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Queens; or, The Death of Alexander the Great Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: Alexander Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: Alexander the Great Author(s): Nathaniel Lee

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Perdiccas Actor: Lee.
Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Queens; or, The Death of Alexander the Great Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: Alexander Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: Alexander the Great Author(s): Nathaniel Lee

Afterpiece Title: The Capricious Lovers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Perdiccas Actor: Lee.
Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Queens; or, The Death of Alexander the Great Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: Alexander Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: Alexander the Great Author(s): Nathaniel Lee

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

Dance: I: A New Dance call'd The Irish Milkmaids-Miss Ford; End: The Medley, as17641120

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

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

Song: End IV: Juliet's Funeral Procession-; with the Solemn Dirge-; Vocal Parts-Bannister, Johnstone, Cubitt, Darley, Bonville, Lee, Rock, Janson, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain, Miss Stuart, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Watts, Mrs Gray, Miss Rowson, Miss Paye, Mrs Byrne, Mrs Kennedy

Related Works
Related Work: The Tragedy of Nero, Emperour of Rome Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: Sophonisba; or, Hannibal's Overthrow Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: Gloriana; or, the Court of Augustus Caesar Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: The Rival Queens; or, The Death of Alexander the Great Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: Mithridates, King of Pontus Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: Oedipus Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: Caesar Borgia, Son of Pope Alexander the Sixth Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: The Princess of Cleve Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: Theodosius; or, The Force of Love Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: Lucius Junius Brutus, Father of His Country Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: Oedipus, King of Thebes Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: The Duke of Guise Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: Constantine the Great Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: The Massacre of Paris Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: The Duke of Guise; or, The Massacre of Paris Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: Alexander Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: The Patriot, or The Italian Conspiracy Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: Junius Brutus Author(s): Nathaniel Lee