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Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, The History Of George Barnwell

Performance Comment: George Barnwell-Holland, first time; Blunt-Mozeen; Thorogood-Berry; Trueman-Blakes; Uncle-Simson; Maria-Mrs Davies; Millwood-Mrs Pritchard; Lucy-Miss Minors.
Related Works
Related Work: The Merchant; or, The True History of George Barnwell Author(s): George Lillo

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, The History Of George Barnwell

Performance Comment: George Barnwell-Holland; Milwood-Miss Haughton; Uncle-Walker; Lucy-Miss Minors; Thorowgood-Berry; Truman-Blakes; Blunt-Mozeen; Maria-Mrs Davies; In Act I, Singing-Vernon.
Cast
Role: George Barnwell Actor: Holland
Related Works
Related Work: The Merchant; or, The True History of George Barnwell Author(s): George Lillo

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, The History Of George Barnwell

Performance Comment: George Barnwell-Holland; Thorogood-Berry; Trueman-Blakes; Uncle-Burton; Blunt-Mozeen; Maria-Mrs Davies; Lucy-Mrs Bennet; Millwood-Miss Haughton.
Cast
Role: George Barnwell Actor: Holland
Related Works
Related Work: The Merchant; or, The True History of George Barnwell Author(s): George Lillo

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Song: I: Beard

Related Works
Related Work: Blue-Beard; or, Female Curiosity! Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, The History Of George Barnwell

Performance Comment: George Barnwell-Holland; Thorowgood-Davies; Truman-Austin; Maria-Mrs Davies; Millwood-Miss Haughton.
Cast
Role: George Barnwell Actor: Holland
Related Works
Related Work: The Merchant; or, The True History of George Barnwell Author(s): George Lillo

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion; or, A ChristmasGambol

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, The History Of George Barnwell

Performance Comment: George-Holland; Thorowgood-Davies; Truman-Austin; Uncle-Burton; Blunt-Mozeen; Maria-Mrs Davies; Lucy-Mrs Bennet; Millwood-Miss Haughton.
Cast
Role: George Actor: Holland
Related Works
Related Work: The Merchant; or, The True History of George Barnwell Author(s): George Lillo

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: IV: A Hornpipe-the Sailor, lately belonging to the Royal Sovereign

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, The History Of George Barnwell

Performance Comment: George Barnwell-Holland; Thorogood-Davies; Blunt-Fox; Trueman-Packer; Uncle-Burton; Maria-Mrs Davies; Lucy-Mrs Bennet; Millwood-Miss Haughton.
Cast
Role: George Barnwell Actor: Holland
Related Works
Related Work: The Merchant; or, The True History of George Barnwell Author(s): George Lillo

Afterpiece Title: Arcadia

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or The History Of George Barnwell

Performance Comment: George Barnwell-J. Palmer, 1st time; Thorowgood-Love; Blunt-Mozeen; Truman-Packer; Uncle-Burton; Maria-Mrs Davies; Lucy-Mrs Bennet; Milwood-Miss Haughton.
Related Works
Related Work: The Merchant; or, The True History of George Barnwell Author(s): George Lillo

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Song: End: Vernon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, The History Of George Barnwell

Performance Comment: George Barnwell-Reddish, 1st time; Thorowgood-Havard; Trueman-Packer; Uncle-Burton; Blunt-Ackman; Maria-Mrs Palmer; Lucy-Mrs Jeffries, 1st time; Millwood-Mrs Hopkins; In Act I a Song-Miss Young.
Cast
Role: George Barnwell Actor: Reddish, 1st time
Related Works
Related Work: The Merchant; or, The True History of George Barnwell Author(s): George Lillo

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain; or, The New Rehearsal

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, The History Of George Barnwell

Performance Comment: George-Cautherly; Thorowgood-Havard; Trueman-Packer; Uncle-Burton; Blunt-Ackman; Maria-Mrs W. Barry; Lucy-Mrs Jeffries; Millwood-Mrs Hopkins.
Cast
Role: George Actor: Cautherly
Related Works
Related Work: The Merchant; or, The True History of George Barnwell Author(s): George Lillo

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, The History Of George Barnwell

Performance Comment: George Barnwell-Cautherly; Thorogood-Hurst; Trueman-Packer; Uncle-Burton; Blunt-Ackman; Maria-Miss Younge, first time; Lucy-Mrs Jeffries; Millwood-Mrs Hopkins.
Cast
Role: George Barnwell Actor: Cautherly
Related Works
Related Work: The Merchant; or, The True History of George Barnwell Author(s): George Lillo

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Related Works
Related Work: The Constant Couple; or, A Trip to the Jubilee Author(s): George Farquhar
Related Work: Sir Harry Wildair: Being the Sequel of the Trip to the Jubilee Author(s): George Farquhar

Song: In Act I: A Song-Mrs Scott

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, The History Of George Barnwell

Performance Comment: George Barnwell-Cautherly; Thorogood-Hurst; Trueman-Brereton; Uncle-Wright; Blunt-Ackman; Maria-Miss Mansell; Lucy-Mrs Egerton; Milwood-Mrs Hopkins; In Act I, a Song-Mrs Scott.
Cast
Role: George Barnwell Actor: Cautherly
Related Works
Related Work: The Merchant; or, The True History of George Barnwell Author(s): George Lillo

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, The History Of George Barnwell

Performance Comment: George Barnwell-Russell; Thoroughgood-Lewis; Trueman-Johnson; Blunt-Smith; Constable-Dancer; Uncle-Comerford; Millwood-Mrs Russell; Lucy-Miss Taylor; Maria-Mrs Wilks.
Cast
Role: George Barnwell Actor: Russell
Related Works
Related Work: The Merchant; or, The True History of George Barnwell Author(s): George Lillo

Afterpiece Title: The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, George Barnwell

Performance Comment: George Barnwell-Holman; Thoroughgood-Murray; Trueman-Toms; Uncle-Powel; Blunt-Farley; Servant-Curties; Jailor-Abbot; Maria-Miss Mansel; Lucy-Mrs Davenport; Milwood-Miss Morris.
Cast
Role: George Barnwell Actor: Holman
Related Works
Related Work: The Merchant; or, The True History of George Barnwell Author(s): George Lillo

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Oberon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Catch Club [i

Afterpiece Title: Gretna Green

Afterpiece Title: Look before You Leap

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Entertainment: Monologue End 1st piece: George Alexander Stevens's Original Lecture on Heads (Head of Alexander the Great, Head of a Cherokee Chief, Head of a Quack-Doctor, Cuckold's Head, Nobody's Head, The laughing and crying Philosophers' Heads, Head of Flattery, A fine Lady's Head, Head of an Old Maid, Cleopatra's Head, Plain Moll's Head, Head of a Married Lady)-Palmer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Performance Comment: Aboan-Palmer; Governor-Usher; Stanmore-Davies; Hotman-Hurst; Blandford-Jefferson; Capt. Driver-Bransby; Imoinda-Miss Younge; Oroonoko-the Young Gentleman who Performed Alexander; Planters-Wright, Griffiths, Carpenter, Blanchard, Mrs Bradshaw; Slaves-Keen, Wheeler, Wrighten, Norris; I: a Dance of Slaves-Atkins, Como, Giorgi.

Afterpiece Title: The Election

Related Works
Related Work: The Election of Managers Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: V: The Sailors Revels, as17740920

Event Comment: [Miss Stephens is identified in MS list in Kemble playbill s of new performers for this season. Afterpiece in place of The Liar, advertised on playbill of 28 Nov.] Receipts: #102 17s. 7d. (27.8.1; 74.15.6; 0.14.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: Mr Peachum-Dowton; Lockit-Hollingsworth; Captain Macheath-Kelly; Filch-Suett; Jemmy Twitcher-Wentworth; Crook@finger'd Jack-Fisher; Wat Dreary-Evans; Robin of Badshot-Chippendale; Nimming Ned-Sparks; Harry Paddington-Ryder; Mat o' the Mint-Trueman; Ben Budge-Maddocks; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Walcot; Polly Peachum-A Young Lady (1st appearance [Miss Stephens]); Lucy Lockit-Miss DeCamp; Diana Trapes-Mrs Sparks; Mrs Coaxer-Mrs Jones; Dolly Trull-Mrs Benson; Mrs Vixen-Mrs Cuyler; Betty Doxy-Mrs Mills; Jenny Diver-Mrs Roffey; Mrs Slammekin-Miss Tidswell; Suky Tawdry-Mrs Maddocks; Molly Brazen-Mrs Coates.

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Dance: III: Hornpipe-Garman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Lecture On Heads

Performance Comment: George Alexander Stevens. In five parts; concluding with an Experiment upon the Human Face, with two Wigs.
Event Comment: Benefit for Signora Galli. Composed by Handel. Signora Galli will sing the Part of Alexander, with all the original songs of Senesino. [As Senesino created this role in 1726, the piece performed tonight may be Handel's, not Lampugnani's; see kings, 15 Nov. 1743 and Deutsch, Handel, p. 647.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Roxana

Performance Comment: Alexander-Signora Galli.
Cast
Role: Alexander Actor: Signora Galli.
Event Comment: Mainpiece: An English Opera [from Rolt's The Royal Shepherd]. Never perform'd there. The Music selected from the best composers, and adapted by Tenducci. Books of Opera to be had at theatre. [Argument from Edition of 1769: Among the most celebrated actions ascribed to Alexander the Great, may be well ranked that of delivering the Kingdom of Sidon from the tyrant Strato; and instead of taking the dominion himself, restoring the crown to the next lawful heir, who, ignorant of his pretensions to it, lived as a shepherd in the country near Sidon, of which a more particular account may be found in Quintus Curtius, Book IV, Chap. 10. The superstructure of the fable raised on this historical foundation, will be seen in the course of the drama." The Plot sketched out in a review in the Freeholder's Magazine, Dec.] Receipts: #137 14s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amintas

Performance Comment: Alexander-Reinhold; Amintas-Tenducci, first appearance that stage these 4 years; Agenor-Mattocks; Eliza-Mrs Mattocks; Thamiris-Mrs Baker (playbill matched with Edition of 1769).
Cast
Role: Alexander Actor: Reinhold

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: I: A New Pastoral Dance-Fishar, Sga Manesiere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Performance Comment: George Barnwell-Giffard; Thorogood-Rosco; Uncle-W. Giffard; Trueman-Bardin; Blunt-Woodward; Maria-Mrs Giffard; Lucy-Miss Tollett; Millwood-Mrs Roberts .
Cast
Role: George Barnwell Actor: Giffard
Related Works
Related Work: The Merchant; or, The True History of George Barnwell Author(s): George Lillo

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: As17351006

Event Comment: Benefit for Whitfield. 2nd piece: Written by George Colman, Esq. Not acted these 10 years [acted 20 Dec. 1777]. After which, a Grand Procession of the principal Characters of Shakespeare, as exhibited at the Jubilee at Stratford upon Avon [in Sept. 1769]. Public Advertiser, 5 May: Tickets to be had of Whitfield at his house, Leicester Court, Castle Street, Leicester Fields. Receipts: #114 4s. (45/18; tickets: 68/6) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Dance: End of 2nd piece The Poney Races, as17840504

Song: Procession to conclude with a new Theatrical Glee, composed by Shield, by Reinhold, Brett, Johnstone

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never acted here. [The playbill lists R. Palmer as Rodolpho in mainpiece, and as Young Clackit in afterpiece, but he "was prevented appearing either in the tragedy or entertainment, having had the misfortune to break his arm" Chondon Magazine, July 1784, p. 75). For Egan and Riley as his substitutes see 14 July. Miss Woollery is identified on playbill of 24 July. Prologue by George Colman, the elder (Colman, Prose, III, 254). Miss Kemble was from DL.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. 2nd Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Rice at the Theatre. The Doors to be opened at 6:00, and begin at 7:00 [same throughout season]. [Address by George Colman, ynger (London Chronicle, 21 June).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Married Man

Afterpiece Title: Half an Hour after Supper

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Entertainment: Monologue. Before: Occasional Address-Bensley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion