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Performances

Mainpiece Title: All's Well That Ends Well

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Dance: LLa Petite Bergere-Miss Lalauze; a Hornpipe, 1st time-Miss Lalauze (Music by Dr Arne); A Ball Dance, call'd the Louvre, ending with a Minuet-a Young scholar of Mr Lalauze, Miss Lalauze. Being the last time of their appearing on the stage. These Dances By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Englishman Return'd From Paris

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: I: The Venetian Gardeners-Rogier, Miss Street; II: The Provincial Dance-Master Clayton, Miss Street (Apprentices to Mr Gerhardi)

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Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Entertainment: II: King, as Mr Prattle, will (for this night only) open a Packet of News-King; End: King, by Desire" will repeat a Comic Paraphrase on the Seven Ages of Shakespear-King

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-Miss Baker; End Comic Paraphrase: The Irish Lilt, as17630922

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Mainpiece Title: The Beaux Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Vintner Tricked

Entertainment: IV: Tragical Imitations-Miss Rose (By Particular Desire); End of Play: Imitations of Mr and Mrs Cadwallader-Mas. Frank, Miss Rose; Between the Acts of the Farce: The Picture of a Playhouse; or, Bucks have at ye all-Death

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Music: First Violin-Mr Barthelemon; Concerto on Organ-Stanley; Solo on Violincello-Duport

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: Tamerlane-a Young Gentleman, 1st appearance [Owenson]; Bajazet-Smith; Axalla-Hull; Dervise-Gardner; Moneses-Wroughton; Omar-Morris; Stratocles-Fox; Hali-Thompson; Prince of Tanais-R. Smith; Selima-Mrs Mattocks; Arpasia-Miss Miller; [The Original song To Thee, O gentle Sleep-DuBellamy; [The Usual Prologue-Wroughton.
Cast
Role: O gentle Sleep Actor: DuBellamy

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Performance Comment: As17711018, but Arabella-Mrs Dyer.
Cast
Role: Arabella Actor: Mrs Dyer.
Role: Sprightly Actor: DuBellamy

Dance: End: A New Comic Dance, call'd The Jovial Gardners-Sga Manesiere, Miss Hamoir, Mr Drouville[, being his 1st appearance. [See17630312.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All's Well That Ends Well

Performance Comment: Parolles-Woodward; King-Hull; Lafeu-Clarke; Bertram-Lewes; Clown-Shuter; Duke-DuBellamy; Steward-Fearon; Lords-Cushing, Davis; Interpreter-Thompson; Diana-Mrs Mattocks; Widow-Miss Pearce; Countess-Mrs Hull; Helena-Miss Macklin.
Cast
Role: Duke Actor: DuBellamy

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Performance Comment: Squire-Mattocks; Sailor-DuBellamy; Dorcas-Mrs Baker; Sally-Mrs Mattocks.
Cast
Role: Sailor Actor: DuBellamy

Dance: End: A Comic Dance, The Italian Gardeners-Mr and Miss West (Late pupils of Sg Grimaldi) [their first appearance on this stage. [See dl 9 Dec. 1760.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus

Music: End Part I: Organ Concerto-Stanley; Part II: Violin Concerto-Barthelemon; After the Second Song in Part III: a Concerto on the Hautboy-Mr ThomasVincent (who has not performed in Public for several years)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Performance Comment: Col. Tamper-Wroughton; Prattle-Lewes; Maj Belford-DuBellamy; Madam Florival-Mrs Lessingham; Bell-Bulkley; Emily-Mrs Mattocks.
Cast
Role: Maj Belford Actor: DuBellamy
Role: Bell Actor: Bulkley

Dance: End: The Fingalian Dance with Double Hornpipe-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford

Monologue: Preceded: New Occasional Prelude. The Principal characters-Dyer, Kniveton, Younger, Davis, Cushing, Wignell, Saunders, Fox, a Young Lady Miss Barsanti her first appearance on any stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Performance Comment: Teague (with song)-Moody; Col. Careless-Jefferson; Col. Blunt-Aickin; Lieut. Story-Fawcett; Mr Day-Baddeley; Obadiah-Parsons; Abel-Burton; Committee@Men-Waldron; Mrs Day-Mrs Bradshaw; Arabella-Miss Jarratt; Ruth-Miss Pope; Edition of 1792 (John Bell) adds: Tavern@boy-Everard; Bailiff-Griffiths; Soldier-Blanchard; Chairman-Heath; Gaol@keeper-Kear; Bookseller-Carpenter; Porter-Wrighten; Mrs Chat-Mrs Cartwright.
Cast
Role: Arabella Actor: Miss Jarratt

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tyrannic Love; Or, The Royal Martyr

Performance Comment: . Edition of 1670: Prologue-; Maximin-Mohun; Porphyrius-Hart; Charinus-Harris; Placidius-Kynaston; Valerius-Lydall; Albinus-Littlewood; Nigrinus-Beeston; Amariel-Bell; Berenice-Mrs Rebecca? Marshall; Valeria-Mrs Ellen Guyn; St Catharine-Mrs Hughes; Felicia-Mrs Knepp; Erotion-Mrs Uphill; Cydnon-Mrs Eastland; Epilogue-Mrs Ellen [when she was to be carried off Dead by the Bearers; [Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 10) omits some of these roles, adds Damilcar-Mrs James [and lists Mrs Boutel [who later played the role; see the edition of 1695] for St Catharine. The edition of 1686 adds: Apollonius-$Cartwright.
Cast
Role: Amariel Actor: Bell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conquest Of Granada By The Spaniards

Performance Comment: Almanzor and Almahide; or, The Conquest of Granada. The Second Part. Edition of 1672: Prologue to the First Part-Mrs Ellen Gwyn in a broad brim'd hat, and was belt; Mahomet Boabdelin-Kynaston; Prince Abdalla-Lydall; Abdelmelech-Mohun; Zulema-Harris; Abenamar-Cartwright; Selin-Wintershall; Ozmyn-Beeston; Hamet-Watson; Gomel-Powell; Almanzor-Hart; Ferdinand-Littlewood; Duke of Arcos-Bell; Almahide-Mrs Ellen Gwyn; Lyndaraxa-Mrs Marshall; Benzayda-Mrs Bowtell; Esperanza-Mrs Reeve; Halyma-Mrs Eastland; Isabella-Mrs James; Epilogue-Charles Hart?; Prologue to the Second Part of the Conquest of Granada-Michael Mohun?; Epilogue to the Second Part-.
Cast
Role: Duke of Arcos Actor: Bell
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs James

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Cast
Role: Lady Graveairs Actor: Mrs Bellamy

Afterpiece Title: The Sham Conjurer

Performance Comment: Dick Shamwell-Leveridge; Tom Dingle-Salway; Jamey Dingle-Bencraft; Innkeeper-Mullart; Bell Banter-Mrs Lampe; With Chorus of Singers-; Dancers-; in the Masque Les Matelots-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; Concluding with a new Country Dance-.
Cast
Role: Bell Banter Actor: Mrs Lampe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Performance Comment: Principal Parts-Obrien, King, Packer, Mrs Hopkins, Miss Plym, Miss Pope; Prologue-; Col. Tamper-Obrien; Prattle-King; Major Belford-Packer; Emily-Miss Pope; Bell-Mrs Hopkins; Mademoiselle Florival-Miss Plym; Servant-Strange (Genest, V, 39; MacMillan). MacMillan).
Cast
Role: Bell Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Johnston

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Performance Comment: Col. Tampler-J. Palmer, 1st time; Mlle Florival-Mrs Jeffries; Bell-Mrs Reddish; Prattle-King; Belford-Packer; Emily-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Bell Actor: Mrs Reddish

Dance: End: Hearts of Oak, as17671022

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Performance Comment: Col. Tamper-Palmer; Prattle-King; Mlle Florival-Miss Rogers, 1st time; Major Belford-Packer; Bell-Mrs Reddish; Emily-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Bell Actor: Mrs Reddish

Dance: I: The Sailors Revels, as17711008; V: Comic Dance, as17711021

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Which Is The Man

Performance Comment: Beauchamp-Lewis; Fitzherbert-Aickin; Belville-A Young Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified]); Lord Sparkle-Bernard; Bobby Pendragon-Quick; Miss Pendragon-Mrs Mattocks; Julia Manners-Mrs Bernard; Clarinda-Mrs Rock; Kitty-Mrs Lewis; Tiffany-Mrs Davenett; Lady Bell Bloomer-Mrs Pope.
Cast
Role: Lady Bell Bloomer Actor: Mrs Pope.

Afterpiece Title: Primrose Green; or, Love in the Country

Dance: After Monologue: The Jockies, as17910507

Song: End II: Black Eyed Susan-Incledon

Entertainment: Monologue. End: Dissertation on Hobby@Horses: The Statesman's Hobby; The Soldier's Hobby; The Beau's Hobby; The Lady's Hobby; The Fidler's Hobby; Mrs Mountain's Hobby; The Manager's Hobby; and His Own Hobby-Bernard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Richmond Heiress; Or, A Woman Once In The Right

Performance Comment: Edition of 1693: Sir Charles Romance-Freeman; Sir Quibble Quere-Bright; Tom Romance-Powel; Dr Guiacum-Sandford; Frederick-Williams; Rice ap Shinken-Bowman; Dick Stockjobb-Underhill; Hotspur-Hudson [Hodgson]; Quickwit-Dogget; Cummington-Bowen; Fulvia-Mrs Bracegirdle; Sophronia-Mrs Barry; Mrs Stockjobb-Mrs Bowman; Madam Squeamish-Mrs Knight; Marmalette-Mrs Lee; Prologue-Mr Dogget [with a Fools Cap with Bells on his Head; Epilogue-.

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Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: Hamlet-Garrick; King-Jefferson; Ghost-Bransby; Horatio-Packer; Polonius-Baddeley; Laertes-J. Aickin; Rosencraus-Davies; Guildenstern-Fawcett; Marcellus-Ackman; Player King-Keen; Queen-Mrs Hopkins; Player Queen-Mrs Johnston; Ophelia-Mrs Smith, first time; Bernardo-Wrighten; Francisco-Griffith-Hogan, from Bell edition 1773.

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pope. [Mrs Jordan's 1st appearance as Lady Bell was at this theatre, 21 Apr. 1789.] 3rd piece: To conclude with a Prospect of the Infernal Regions, and a Rain of Fire. Times, 4 May: Tickets to be had of Miss Pope, No. 63, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Receipts: #318 11s. 6d. (78.0.6; 84.18.0; 4.12.6; tickets: 151.0.6) (charge: #216 8s. 1d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Performance Comment: Millamour-Wroughton; Dashwould-Bannister Jun.; Malvil-R. Palmer; Bygrove-Aickin; Captain Bygrove-C. Kemble; Sir John Millamour-Packer; Sir Harry Lovewit-Holland; Charles-Wewitzer; Lady Bell (with a song)-Mrs Jordan (2nd appearance in that character); Lady Jane-Mrs Powell; Mrs Bromley-Miss Pope; Miss Neville-Miss Miller; Madame La Rouge-Miss Tidswell.
Cast
Role: Lady Bell Actor: Mrs Jordan

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Cast
Role: Donald Campbell Actor: Dignum

Afterpiece Title: Don Juan; or, The Libertine Destroyed

Performance Comment: Don Antonio-Caulfield; Don Ferdinand-Dignum; Don Juan-Palmer; Scaramouch (1st time)-Grimaldi; Boatswain (with a song)-Sedgwick; Donna Anna-Miss Heard; Isabella-Mrs Coates; Inis-Mrs Jones; Katharina-Miss Arne; Viletta-Mrs Roffey.
Cast
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Coates

Dance: In 3rd piece: Pas Seul, incidental to the piece-Sga Bossi DelCaro

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Catiline's Conspiracy

Performance Comment: Edition of 1669: Catiline?-Hart; Cethegus?-Mohun; Cicero?-Burt; Beeston; Kynaston; Reeves; Wintershall; Cartwright; Gradwell; Bell; Sempronia-Mrs Corey?; A Prologue to Catiline To be Merrily spoke-Mrs Nell Gwyn? (in an Amazonian Habit); The Epilogue-Mrs Nell Gwyn?.
Event Comment: Journal of the Earl of Anglesey, 25 Jan. 1671@2: At eight of the clock The King's playhouse took fire, and most of that side of Russell Street and many other houses thereabout were burnt down, and we in Drury Lane and all about in great danger; but the Lord had mercy, and by great industry and blowing up houses the fire was overcome: I had no rest, but sat up almost all night, even till six in the morning. The Lord pardon sin, which brings judgements (HMC, 13th Report, Part VI [London, 1893], p. 270. The Bulstrode Papers (I, 217): About 8 hapened a sad and violent fire, which begun in the King's Theater, and in a few howers burnt down that...severall were hurt and killed, amongst which was Mr Bell, one of the actors in that house. For a poem, On the Unhappy Conflagration of the Theatre Royal, January 25th, 1672, see Fitzgerald, A New History of the English Stage, I, 137

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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Performance Comment: As17720919, but Iachimo-Jefferson, first time; Claudio_; 1st British Gentleman-Ackman; 2nd British Gentleman-Wheeler; Bell Edition, 1773, adds Cornelius-Wrighten; Helen-Mrs T. Smith.

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Ring

Dance: III: Comic Dance, as17720922

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

Performance Comment: Characters by Barrymore, Wroughton, Kemble, Palmer, Bannister Jun, Aickin, Dowton, Trueman, Davis, Wentworth, Gibbon, Packer, Wathen, Mrs Jordan, Mrs Walcot. [Cast from text (J. Bell, 1798): Osmond-Barrymore; Reginald-Wroughton; Percy-Kemble; Father Philip-Palmer; Motley-Bannister Jun.; Kenric-Aickin; Hassan-Dowton; Saib-Trueman; Muley-Davis; Alaric-Wentworth; Harold-Gibbon; Allan-Packer; Edric-Wathen; Angela-Mrs Jordan; Alice-Mrs Walcot; Evelina ['s Ghost]-Mrs Powell (see17980521); Prologue-Wroughton; Epilogue-Mrs Jordan. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 9 performances only (see17971228), but Epilogue again on 21 May 1798.]These were spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 9 performances only (see17971228), but Epilogue again on 21 May 1798.]

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Cast
Role: Donald Campbell Actor: Dignum

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Title Unknown