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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal; Or, The Humours Of The Navy

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Performance Comment: As17420205, but Peasants-Picq, Mlle Auguste.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Imprisonment of Harlequin

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Rosoman; Father-Julian; Beau-Peterson; Colombine-Mrs Dunstall; Shepherds, Peasants-Carney, Mlle Roland, Lapierre, Pelling, Granier, Miss Story, the Misses Scotts; Dwarf spirits-two Masters Granier, Miss Naylor; Clown-Dove; Concluding with a Representation of three Automations-; Being three mechanical Figures invented by the ingenious and celebrated Mr Vaucanson. Being three mechanical Figures invented by the ingenious and celebrated Mr Vaucanson.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone

Cast
Role: Peregrine Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace; or, Merlin's Cave

Performance Comment: Chasseur Royale-Salway; Merlin-Leveridge; Diana-Miss Hillyard; Aerial spirits-Villeneuve, Mlle Auguste; Jupiter in character of Harlequin-Woodward; Mercury-Reinhold; Doctor-Bencraft; Colombine-Mrs Kilby; Pluto (Punch)-Dumont; Neptune (Pantaloon)-Dupre; Pan (Scaramouche)-Destrade; Hercules (Brighella)-Delagarde; Apollo (Mezzitin)-Villeneuve; Mars (Leander)-Richardson; Pierrot-LaLauze.

Dance: PPantaloon and his Enamorata, as17421215; Tambourine-Cooke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Woodward; Aerial Spirits-Villeneuve, Mlle Auguste; Colombine-Mrs Kilby; Doctor-Bencraft; Pierot-Lalauze.

Dance: Cooke, the Aurettis

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A-la-mode

Performance Comment: Lord Hardy-Hale; Brumpton-Gibson; Camply-Woodward; Sable-Hippisley; Trusty-Bridgwater; Cabinet-Ridout; Trim-Chapman; Puzzle-Rosco; Tom-James; Lady Harriet-Mrs Vincent; Charlotte-Mrs Stevens; Mlle D'Epingle-Mrs Mullart; Mrs Farthingale-Miss Hillyard; Tattleaid-Mrs Martin; Kate Matchlock-Stoppelaer; Lady Brompton-Mrs Horton.
Cast
Role: Mlle D'Epingle Actor: Mrs Mullart

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Hayman
Role: James Actor: Anderson

Dance: As17431003

Event Comment: [The 1 Feb. note about nonadmission of persons behind the scenes continues to appear on all bills for nights of this afterpiece, as from now on, occurs the note: Nothing under Full Price will be taken during the time of the performance. These will not be copied out further.] We hear the new Pantomime Entertainment that was perform'd last night at Drury Lane, was receiv'd with great applause; the Scenes, Deceptions, and Decorations, all being in an entire new taste

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Cast
Role: Tom Errand Actor: Green.
Role: Standard Actor: Delane

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Goddess

Performance Comment: As17440201, but Fantastic Sprights-Mlle Auguste.
Event Comment: We hear the new Pantomime Entertainment that was perform'd last night at Drury Lane was receiv'd with great applause, the Scenes, Deceptions, and Decorations all being in an entire new taste.--Daily Advertiser. [This "puff" worded identically with that appearing the day before in the London Daily Post and General Advertiser.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Goddess

Performance Comment: As17440202, but Harlequin's Child-Miss Yates; a Fairy-a Lilliputian woman; Fantastic Sprights-_; Shepherds-Muilment, Desse, Liviez, Baudouin; Shepherdesses-Mrs Walter, Mrs Thomson, The Miss Scotts, Mlle Auguste.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Performance Comment: Sir William Belfond-Phillips (from the Theatre Royal Dublin); Squire-Chapman; Sir Edward Belfond-Bridgwater; Belfond Jun-Hale; Lolpoop-Hippisley; Truman-Cashell; Attorney-Ridout; Scrapeall-James; Capt Hack'em-Marten; Cheatly-Rosco; Shamwell-Gibson; Termagant-Anderson; Teresia-Mrs Hale; Isabella-Mrs Vincent; Lucia-Miss Hippisley; Mrs Hack'em-Stoppelaer; Ruth-Mrs Martin; Mrs Termagant-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Termagant Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performance Comment: As17440213, but Columbine-Mlle Bonneval.
Cast
Role: Columbine Actor: Mlle Bonneval.
Role: Colombine Actor: Mlle Bonneval

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 2 Henry Iv

Cast
Role: Westmorland Actor: Gibson
Role: Gower Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: 2 Orpheus and Eurydice

Performance Comment: As17440214, but Colombine-Mlle Bonneval.
Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mlle Bonneval.
Role: Nymph Actor: Cooke, Mlle Bonneval

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian

Cast
Role: Muley Zeydan Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performance Comment: As17440228, but Aerial Spirits-Villeneuve, _Picq, Mrs +Delagarde, Mlle _Domitilla.
Cast
Role: Aerial Spirits Actor: Villeneuve, _Picq, Mrs +Delagarde, Mlle _Domitilla.
Role: Columbine Actor: Mlle Bonneval.
Role: Colombine Actor: Mlle Bonneval

Song: (BBy Desire) To Arms, Britons Strike Home-Leveridge, Beard, Reinhold

Related Works
Related Work: The Genoese Pirate; or, Black-Beard Author(s): James Sanderson
Event Comment: Benefit Ridout, Dupre, Goodall, and Mlle Fabres

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Cast
Role: Gobbo Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Music: Concerto on German Flute (by Desire)-Lawson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A La Mode

Performance Comment: Lady Brumpton-Gentlewoman who never performed before; Lord Hardy-Kennedy; Campley-Cushing; Trusty-Furnival; Sable-Morgan; Puzzle-Paget; Kate Matchlock-W. Hallam; Trim-L. Hallam; Harriet-Mrs Cushing; Mlle D'Epingle-Mrs Kennedy; Tattleaid-Mrs Phillips; Charlotte-Mrs Hallam.
Cast
Role: Mlle D'Epingle Actor: Mrs Kennedy

Afterpiece Title: The Debauchees

Event Comment: HHussey's Booth, George Inn Yard, Smithfield. A concert etc. 2s. 6d., 1s., 6d. Noon to 10 p.m. Note, the Booth is very large and Commodious [repeated in each bill. According to a note in the news of the Daily Advertiser, 25 Aug., the piece was performed and]: Shakespear followed justly. [Notice repeated 25, 26, 27 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Historical Piece Written By shakespear

Afterpiece Title: The Schemes of Harlequin; or, Mons Le Saxe's Disappointment

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Rayner; Colombine-Mlle Boneway; Clown-Davis; Father-Allen; M. Le Saxe-Bennett.
Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mlle Boneway

Song: Chorus in praise of the valiant hero the Duke of Cumberland-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Performance Comment: Sir John-a Gentleman for his benefit; Constant-Cushing; Heartfree-Wignell; Lord Rake-Paget; Razor-L. Hallam; Justice-Furnival; Bully-Lee; Taylor-Shuter; Constable-Dove; Lady Fanciful-Mrs Cushing; Belinda-Mrs Wignell; Mlle-Miss Moreau; Lady Brute-Mrs Hallam.
Cast
Role: Mlle Actor: Miss Moreau

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: As17461124

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Delane; Brothers-Havard, Mozeen; 1st spirit-Sparks; Lady-Mrs Cibber; Euphrosyne-Mrs Clive; Sabrina-Mrs Mozeen; 2nd spirit-Usher; Bacchanal-Lowe; Song of Sweet Echo-Mrs Clive; Dances-Cooke, Mlle Janeton Auretti, Mathews, Mrs Addison, Leviez, Shawford, Royer, Pelling, Mrs Shawford, Miss Cole, Miss Thompson.

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest; Or, The Enchanted Island

Performance Comment: Prospero-Berry; Ferdinand-Lee; Caliban-I. Sparks; Trincalo-Macklin; Stephano-Arthur; Gonzalo-Burton; Antonio-Mozeen; Mustachio-Blakes; Ventoso-Ray; Hippolita-Mrs Woffington; Ariel (with Proper Songs)-Mrs Clive; Dorinda-Mrs Green; Miranda-Mrs Mozeen; Sycorax-Taswell; Alonzo-Winstone; Clerk-Vaughan; Dance of Aerial Spirits-Mlle Janeton Auretti; Dance of Winds-Cooke; Grand Dance of Fantastic Spirits in grotesque characters-Mathews; Concluded with the Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite-; the original Waterman's Dance-with proper Scenes, Machines,.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A-la-mode

Performance Comment: Lady Brumpton-Mrs Horton; Lord Brumpton-Gibson; Hardy-Ridout; Camply-Giffard; Trusty-Bridgwater; Cabinet-Storer; Sable-Morris; Puzzle-Rosco; Trim-Cibber; Tom-James; Lady Sharlot-Mrs Hale; Mlle D'Epingle-Miss Morrison; Tattleaid-Mrs James; Mrs Fardingale-Mrs Dunstall; Kate Matchlock-Stoppelaer; Lady Harriet-Mrs Giffard.
Cast
Role: Mlle D'Epingle Actor: Miss Morrison

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Pan Actor: Vandersluys
Event Comment: Benefit for Dupre, Froment, and Oates

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song: I: Ellen a Roon-Mrs Storer

Dance: II: Dance-Oates; III: Minuet and Louvre-Froment, Madem. Dumont; IV: Peasant-Oates; End: A Pantomime Dance call'd Pigmalion-; Pigmalion-Froment; Statue-Mlle Dumont

Performance Comment: Dumont; IV: Peasant-Oates; End: A Pantomime Dance call'd Pigmalion-; Pigmalion-Froment; Statue-Mlle Dumont.
Cast
Role: Statue Actor: Mlle Dumont.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: As17480920, but Ben advertised with a song and dance in character; Sir Sampson-Bridges; Foresight-Taswell; Nurse-Mrs James.
Cast
Role: Scandal Actor: Mills
Role: Trapland Actor: Ray

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: II: A Grand Ballet call'd L'Entree de Flore-Anne Auretti, Cooke, Janeton Auretti

Ballet: End: A Grand Ballet call'd Vertumnus and Pomona. Vertumnus-Cooke; Vertumnus' followers-Leviez, Pelling, Harvey, Shawford; Pomona-Anne Auretti; Pomona's followers-Mrs Addison, Miss Cole, Mlle Lafont, Mrs Annesly; Pan-Matthews; Pan's followers-Vaughan, Shawford, Master Harrison, Master Yates

Performance Comment: Vertumnus-Cooke; Vertumnus' followers-Leviez, Pelling, Harvey, Shawford; Pomona-Anne Auretti; Pomona's followers-Mrs Addison, Miss Cole, Mlle Lafont, Mrs Annesly; Pan-Matthews; Pan's followers-Vaughan, Shawford, Master Harrison, Master Yates.
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 10 Years. Afterpiece: Not acted these 20 years. Music, Dances and Other Decorations for afterpiece entirely new. [In a letter to John Gilbert-Cooper, the actor Charles Adams states that "the Prompter gave me a little Part in the Emperor of the Moon...I appear'd in it thrice." He was "paid Twenty Shilling Pr Week." See Theatre Notebook, XI (1957), p. 136. The only male parts left were Baliardo's servant Peter and the figures in the tableau of the final scene.] Receipts: #160 (Cross); #158 11s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Emperour of the Moon

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Woodward; Scaramouch-Yates; Charmante-Palmer; Cinthio-King; Bellemante-Miss Murgetroyd; Mopsophil-Mrs Green; Elaria-Miss Cole; Dr Baliardo-Winstone; Vocal Parts-Beard, Reinhold; Dances-Cooke, Mlle Janeton Auretti, Mathews, Mathews' scholar a child of 5 years old; Mrs Addison. Mrs Addison.
Cast
Role: Dances Actor: Cooke, Mlle Janeton Auretti, Mathews, Mathews' scholar a child of 5 years old

Music: A Piece of Music-the Child

Dance: TThe Sailors Revels-Mathews

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A-la-mode

Performance Comment: Lady Brumpton-Mrs Pritchard; Hardy-Sowdon; Campley-Woodward; Brumpton-Winstone; Trusty-Berry; Trim-Yates; Sable-Neale; Puzzle-Bridges; Lady Charlotte-Mrs Elmy; Mrs Fardingale-Mrs Green; Tattleaid-Mrs Bridges; Mlle D'Epingle-Mrs Cross; Lady Harriot-Young Gentlewoman her first appearance on any stage [Miss Thurmond-Cross]..
Cast
Role: Mlle D'Epingle Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Event Comment: Benefit for Mlle Anne Auretti. Five rows of the Pit will be laid into the boxes, &c. [as on 7 March]. Tickets to be had at Mlle Auretti's at the second House on the left hand, the corner of Panton St., Leicester Fields, and of Hobson at the stage door. Receipts: #180 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: I: L'Entree de Flore, as17481027; II: Scotch Dance, as17490118; III: A Harlequin Dance-Matthews, Anne Auretti; V: Louvre and Minuet-Cooke, Anne Auretti

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A Dramatic Masque reviv'd. With proper Decorations, particularly a Grand Scene of Comus's Palace. The Music composed by Mr Arne. Receipts: #90 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Havard; Elder Brother-Usher; Younger Brother-King; First Spirit-Mills; Second Spirit-Master Mattocks; Bacchanal-Beard; Euphrosyne-Mrs Clive; Lady-Mrs Elmy; Sabrina-Miss Norris (with the song of Sweet Echo) her 1st appearance on that stage; The Dances-Matthews, Mlle Contri (her 1st time of appearing on that stage), Pelling, Shawford, Yates, Macclean, Mrs Addison, Miss Baker, Mrs Shawford, Mrs L'Font, Miss Shawford.
Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Matthews, Mlle Contri

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Event Comment: Paid Blandford (Tallow Chandler) #12 11s. 2d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #60 (Cross); #78 6s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A La Mode

Performance Comment: Lady Brumpton-Mrs Pritchard; Lord Hardy-Sowdon; Camply-Woodward; Lord Brumpton-Winstone; Trusty-Berry; Trim-Yates; Sable-Neale; Puzzle-Bridges; Lady Sharlot-Mrs Elmy; Mrs Fardingale-Mrs Green; Tattleaid-Mrs James; Mlle D'Epingle-Mrs Cross; Lady Harriet-Mrs Clive 1st time.
Cast
Role: Mlle D'Epingle Actor: Mrs Cross

Song: Master Mattocks

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A New Musical Entertainment in Two Interludes. The words to be sold at the theatre (General Advertiser). Some Gentlemen crowding behind ye Scenes, ye Audience resented it & ye farce was stop'd for half an hour--I drew lines with chalk, but Miss Norris applying publickly to Capt. Johnson, desiring he wou'd retire, He did & ye farce went on with great Applause. The words of this piece were by Mr Mendez, & set by Dr Boyce (Cross). Added to salary list, Mr Campioni. Paid him for cloaths #21, and for 51 days work, #42 10s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #140 (Cross); #142 13s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Performance Comment: Damon-Beard; Palamon-Master Mattocks; Pastora-Mrs Clive; Laura-Miss Norris (1750 ed.); To conclude with a Rural Dance-Grandchamps, Matthews, Miss Baker, Pelling, Macneale, Harrison, Master Shawford, Miss Cole, Mrs L'Font, Mlle Mariet, Mrs Pit. (General Advertiser) .