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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: Afterpiece to conclude with a Grand Dance. Chief of the Bostanges-Harris; Principal Female Dancers-Mrs Ratchford, Miss Besford

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17831001; Afterpiece to conclude as17840306athi

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. Public Advertiser, 17 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 6, Great Russel Street, Covent Garden. Mainpiece: Not acted these 20 years [not acted since 21 Oct. 1760]. Afterpiece: For that night only; never acted here. [Miss Bannister's 1st appearance on the stage was at HAY, 27 Aug. 1783.] Receipts: #206 19s. 6d. (114/1/0; 23/7/6; 1/5/0; tickets: 68/6/0) (charge: #108 14s. 3d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: As17840311athi

Song: End of Act II of mainpicce Auld Robin Grey, as17840426 imitations. After the Dancing, various Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical by Bannister Jun

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Knights

Afterpiece Title: Rose and Colin

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece a Dramatic Romance, Adelaide de Brabant; or, The Triumph of Virtue. Principal Characters by Bithmere, Le Boeuf, Mme Bithmere. ["An infant son of Grimaldi (i.e. Joseph, aged 6) performs in an astonishing manner" (Gazetteer, 12 May).] End of Act IV an Allemande and Dance, called Malbrough (composed by Vestris Jun.) by Le Boeuf and Mme Bithmere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

Cast
Role: Gardeners Actor: Chaplin, Phillimore, Alfred

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Noble Peasant

Performance Comment: As17840802, but Usher in place of Gardner .
Cast
Role: AnlafF Actor: Gardner

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Song: As17840730

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17841022; Afterpiece to conclude with a Grand Dana. Chief of the Bostanges-Harris; Principal Female Dancers-Mrs Ratchford, Miss Besford

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Rivals

Song: In Act II of mainpiece a song by Miss Stageldoir

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Clowns

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Peasant Metamorphosis

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: In 1st ballet, by Duquesney and the two Miss Simonets; After the Singing, Hornpipe by Baptist and a Comic Dance by Delpini

Song: End of 1st ballet a Serio-Comic Italian Song by Delpini. imitations. After the Dancing, as17850207

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Israelites; or, The Pamper'd Nabob

Dance: As17841116

Song: Preceding afterpiece a Trio, composed by an English composer in 1540 [unidentified], by Davies, Darley, Brett. The new Words by Holcroft, the new Accompaniments by Shield

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fashionable Levities

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Cavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 'tis Well It's No Worse

Afterpiece Title: The Diversions of the Morning

Afterpiece Title: Lethe, -AEsop, Old Man, Mercury, Drunken Man, Charon, Bowman, Snip, Fine Gentleman, Frenchman, Lord Chalkstone to be performed, for that night only, by a Society of Gentleman; Mrs Riot-Mrs Dore

Monologue: 1785 04 25 Preceding the 1st piece an Address spoken by Brown

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Mrs Greville. Tickets and places to be had of Mrs Greville, No. 1, Queen's-court, King-street, Covent-garden. [This was Mrs Pinto's last appearance on the stage (but see 12 May 1786).]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Song: End of mainpiece The Soldier tired of War's Alarms by Mrs Pinto

Monologue: 1785 04 26 End of Act II of mainpiece Collins's Ode on the Passions by Mrs Walcot. imitations. End of Act I of afterpiece, as 17 Sept. 1784, but An entire new dialogue in the Shades between Foote and Weston; added: Prospero (in the manner of Mossop); omitted: Prologue to Barbarossa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: As17840918

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece Bright Phoebus has mounted the Chariot of Day by Dignum

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber; Or, The Fruitless Precaution

Performance Comment: Count Almaviva-Palmer; Don Bartholo-Parsons; Basil (with songs)-Bannister; Argus-Brett; Tall Boy-R. Palmer; Alguazile-Gardner; Notary-Stevens; Lazarillo-Edwin; Rosina-Mrs Bannister .
Cast
Role: Alguazile Actor: Gardner

Afterpiece Title: Hunt the Slipper

Dance: As17850601

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Dance: End of mainpiece The Wapping Landlady; or Jack in Distress. Jack (with a Hornpipe)-Wright; Wapping Landlady-Mr Kerridge; Sailors and Ladies-The rest of the Company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Two To One

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Dance: End of mainpiece The Deserter. The Deserter-Mme Dageville; Skirmish-Miss Simonet; Louisa-Mr Delpini; and with Byrne and Miss L. Simonet

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bannister. Public Advertiser, 16 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Bannister, No. 29, Bow-street, Covent Garden. 3rd piece: An Original, Whimsical, Operatical, Pantomimical, Farcical, Electrical, Naval, Military, Temporary, Local Extravaganza

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sons Of Anacreon

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Song: In 1st piece capital Catches and Glees, selected from the most eminent Masters, with the celebrated Anacreontic Song by Bannister. imitations. End of 2nd piece, as17850726

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Cast
Role: Northumberland Actor: Gardner

Afterpiece Title: Appearance is against Them

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Appearance is against Them

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: End of Act IV of mainpiece The Merry Sailors, as17850919; End of mainpiece The Piping Pedlar, as17851112; In afterpiece, as17851123

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comedy Of Errors

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Gardner

Afterpiece Title: Omai

Dance: End of mainpiece The Deserter. The Deserter-Byrn; Skirmish-Mrs Goodwin; Louisa-Mr Delpini