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Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Performance Comment: Sir Peter Teazle-Munden; Sir Oliver Surface-Murray; Sir Benjamin Backbite-Knight; Joseph Surface-Pope; Charles Surface-Lewis; Crabtree-Quick; Careless-Clarke; Rowley-Davenport; Moses-Fawcett; Trip-Farley; Snake-Powel; Mrs Candour-Mrs Mattocks; Lady Sneerwell-Miss Chapman; Maria-Miss Mansel; Lady Teazle-Mrs Abington.
Cast
Role: Sir Benjamin Backbite Actor: Knight

Afterpiece Title: The Raft; or, Both Sides of the Water

Afterpiece Title: Lovers' Quarrels

Song: In III 1st piece: a song-Incledon

Event Comment: The King's Company. The date of the premiere is not known, but a licensing date of 28 March 1678 suggests a first performance not later than February 1678. One song, One night while all the village slept, with music by Louis Grabu and words by Sir Car Scroop, is in Choice Ayres and Songs, The Third Book, 1681. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 17): Major Mohun...[in] Mithridates, &c. An Eminent Poet seeing him Act this last, vented suddenly this Saying: Oh Mohun, Mohun! Thou little Man of Mettle, if I should write a 100 Plays, I'd Write a Part for thy Mouth; in short, in all his Parts, he was most Accurate and Correct. [Downes, p. 12, gives an identical cast except for omissions.] Princess Anne apparently played Ziphares and Frances Apsley played Semandra in a production of this drama, probably at St James's Palace or at Sir Allen Apsley's house in St James's Square, between January 1677@8 and August 1679. See Benjamin Bathurst, Letters of Two Queens (London, 1924), p. 61

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Mainpiece Title: Mithridates, King Of Pontus

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Dodd as Sir Benjamin Backbite, but he "being taken suddenly ill Yesterday Evening, his character in The School for Scandal was obliged to be supplied by Burton" (Public Advertiser, 1 Jan. 1782).] Receipts: #217 15s. (187/8; 30/7; 0/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Performance Comment: As17810927, but Sir Benjamin Backbite-Burton .
Cast
Role: Sir Benjamin Backbite Actor: Burton

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Event Comment: "The only fault we observed was [Miss Biggs's] mode of turning away at the close of every speech, and retiring towards the back of the stage, as if the character was of no consequence when the speech was ended" (True Briton, 18 Oct.). MS annotation on Kemble playbill: Rehearsals--Cheap Living at 10; Sir Benjamin Backbite's scenes at 11; Irish Widow at 12; Adela'rs scenes, Haunted Tower at 1. Receipts: #247 16s. 6d. (162.0.0; 82.12.6; 3.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Performance Comment: As17970919, but Sir Benjamin Backbite-Russell; Snake-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Song: As17970919

Entertainment: Entertainment.As17971016

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocals by Miss Cecilia Young, Miss Isabella Young, Miss Esther Young. First Violin by Festing. Concerto on French Horn by Charles. Solo on German Flute by Balicourt. Handel's Water Piece. Preamble on Kettle Drums by Benjamin Baker

Performance Comment: First Violin by Festing. Concerto on French Horn by Charles. Solo on German Flute by Balicourt. Handel's Water Piece. Preamble on Kettle Drums by Benjamin Baker .
Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 19 Feb. Yesterday died of an Astmatick Disorder, at his Chambers in Clement's Inn, Mr Benjamin Griffin, a celebrated Comedian, belonging to Drury-Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

Dance: I: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg; In II: Pierots-Lalauze, Pelling; III: La Matelote-Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: Le Gout de Anglois-Master Matthews, Miss Wright

Ballet: A Voyage to the Land of Cytherea. As17400115

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Transformation

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Sack

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Related Work: Love in a Sack Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

Dance: Dutch Skipper-Thurmond Jr, Mrs Cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Transformation

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Sack

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Dance: As17150705

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Mainpiece Title: The Devil Of A Wife; Or, The Comical Transformation

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Sack

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Dance: As17150705 Spanish Entry, Punch-Shaw

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Sack

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Song: Proud Woman, I Scorn You-Pack, Cook

Dance: Scaramouch-Thurmond Jr; Dutch Skipper-Thurmond Jr, Mrs Cross; Miller's Dance, as17150810

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Of A Wife; Or, A Comical Transformation

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Sack

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Related Work: Love in a Sack Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

Dance: As17150823

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busie Body

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Sack

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Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of Purgatory

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Related Work: The Humours of Purgatory Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

Dance: As17151028

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of Purgatory

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Related Work: The Humours of Purgatory Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

Dance: Moreau, Shaw, Thurmond Jr, Tully, Mrs Schoolding, Mrs Cross

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Mainpiece Title: Whig And Tory

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Related Work: Whig and Tory Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

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Mainpiece Title: Whig And Tory

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Mainpiece Title: Whig And Tory

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Afterpiece Title: Hob's Wedding

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Mainpiece Title: Whig And Tory

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Related Work: Whig and Tory Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

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Mainpiece Title: Whig And Tory

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Related Work: Whig and Tory Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

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Mainpiece Title: Whig And Tory

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Related Work: Whig and Tory Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

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Mainpiece Title: Whig And Tory

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Mainpiece Title: Whig And Tory

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Related Work: Whig and Tory Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

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Mainpiece Title: Whig And Tory

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Afterpiece Title: The Cheats; or, The Tavern Bilkers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Whig And Tory

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Related Work: Whig and Tory Author(s): Benjamin Griffin

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Mainpiece Title: Whig And Tory

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Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Music: Between Play and Opera: a Piece of Musick on the Violin-Clarke; accompany'd Harpsichord-Magnes; Also a Voluntary-Magnes alone, being the first Time of his Performance in Publick