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Event Comment: Paid Wilford for 10 nights Renters Money #100 (Account Book). [Duly noted in Account Book as third night for the comedy, but no indication of any fee to the author on this occasion. The following verse tribute to Miss Wilford appeared this day in the Public Advertiser: @"Strike the loud Harp and raise the tuneful Song;@On all your wings, Wind, bear her Fame along!@Her eyes are rolling suns, which dart a ray,@Bright as the splendor of a Summer Day;@Her arms are as the foam of Ocean white,@Like waves her Breasts heave slowly to the sight.@Her breath is sweeter than the vernal gale,@Which Zephyr wafts o'er Tempe's flowry vale;@Her cheaks are painted only by that hand@Which scatters roses through the blooming land;@And every ringlet of her glossy hair@Is trusted to some Love's peculiar care.@Her speech the songs of other Nymphs excels,@And on her lips persuasion blushing dwells;@Her smiles are as the streaming pow'rs of Light,@Which cheer and gild the rugged Front of Night.@To the quick Pipe and Tabor's lively sounds,@High as the Hind or Mountain Roe, she bounds;@And if to solemn Notes the cadence flow,@Stately she moves, majestically slow.@Deaf the prais'd ear-yet Modesty must own@The Female Archer by these Marks is known."@ Miss Wilford was the Female Archer.] Receipts: #151 13s. 6d.(Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Perplexities

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Favour

Dance: End: The Gallant Peasants, as17670113

Event Comment: Paid Fisher for tunes and use of the organ in Love in the City #1 (Account Book). Could not get into the Pit, 2s. Gallery or the slips at Covent Garden (Neville MS Diary). Receipts: #228 19s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Event Comment: Rec'd of Bickerstaff for a fair copy for the prompter for Love in the City #1 1s. Paid Bickerstaff the balance of his night 24 Feb., #6 6s. (Account Book). Receipts: #224 17s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Performance Comment: As17670427, but without the Ballet Rural Love as conclusion%.
Related Works
Related Work: Harlequin's Chaplet Author(s): James Wild

Dance: III: The Village Romps, as17661008; End: Double Hornpipe, as17670427

Ballet: End: The Wapping Landlady. As17670427

Event Comment: Benefit for Redman, Miss Besford, Dumay, Mrs Naylor, Curtat. Tickets deliver'd for All for Love will be taken. [The Account Book has crossed out The Jovial Crew and indicated the performance of The Beggar's Opera.] Charges #64 10s. Deficit to the 5 beneficiaries #7 4s. 7 1!2d. apiece, covered by income from tickets: Redman #32 11s. (Box 38; Pit 83; Gallery 106); Besford #18 1s. (Box 23; Pit 42; Gallery 60); Dumay #62 9s. (Box 165; Pit 88; Gallery 80); Mrs Naylor #30 17s. (Box 39; Pit 90; Gallery 76); Curtat #18 16s. (Box 12; Pit 68; Gallery 56). Sarjant and Condell paid up their deficiencies. Receipts: #28 7s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Cast
Role: Springlove Actor: Hull
Related Works
Related Work: The Ladies' Frolic Author(s): James Love

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: II: A Minuet-Dumay, Miss Besford

Ballet: End Opera: The Wapping Landlady, Double Hornpipe,. As17700420

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Entertainment: End: Bucks Have at Ye All-Richards

Monologue: II: Teague's Rambles to London. Capt. O'Brallaghan (with the favorite song in Love a La Mode)-Broderick; Terence O'Droghida-Youngs; the Knife Grinder (By Particular Desire)-Broderick

Performance Comment: Capt. O'Brallaghan (with the favorite song in Love a La Mode)-Broderick; Terence O'Droghida-Youngs; the Knife Grinder (By Particular Desire)-Broderick.

Performances

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies' Frolick

Performance Comment: As17701120, but Love_; Beggars-Mrs Smith.
Event Comment: Paid Cipriani (painter) as per bill #42. Paid McMillen (Shoemaker) #18 2s., and Love & Lewis (woolen drapers) #11 7s. (Account Book). [Cipriani possibly painted new scenes for Elfrida.] Receipts: #152 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Event Comment: The Comic Opera Love in a Village oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of indisposition of Miss Catley. Tomorrow a new Comedy (never performed) call'd The Duellist. The subject of the new Comedy advertised for Performance Tomorrow, as far as we can guess, from the Title, is remarkably well timed. There is at this Day no predominant Passion carried to such a ridiculous extreme as Duelling. We can be laughed out of our Follies on the Stage when we defy the Power of pulpit Oratory and serious Argument. Let us hope therefore, that the comic Satirist of Tomorrow Evening may have exercised his Pen with some Ability on a very important subject (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #134 6s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Event Comment: [The plays, according to the Account Book were alter'd to Love in a Village and The Commissary.] Receipts: #106 6s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Business

Afterpiece Title: Achilles in Petticoats

Performance Comment: As17731216, but Principal Characters-_Miss Catley, Miss Jameson.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cozeners

Performance Comment: As17740715 but Characters-Mrs Love.
Cast
Role: Characters Actor: Mrs Love.

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: As17740613

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jephtha; Alexander's Feast, And The Coronation Anthems

Performance Comment: As17760301 but Parts were: Jephtha-; Zebul (his brother)-; Storage (his wife)-; Iphis (his Daughter)-; Hamor (in love with Iphis)-; Chorus of Israelites-(Larpent MS); Principal Singers-Dine.

Music: End I: Organ Concerto-Stanley; II: Violin Concerto-Linley Jr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cozeners

Performance Comment: Parts-Foote, Edwin (first time that stage), Aickin, Bannister, Griffith, Stephens, Parsons, Baddeley, Burton, Jackson, Miss Sherry, Miss Platt, Mrs Love, Mrs Jewell.

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: The Merry Lasses-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Capuchin

Performance Comment: Parts by: Foote, Baddeley, Parsons, Palmer, R. Palmer, L'Estrange, Bannister, Edwin, Griffiths, Stephens, Walters, Pierce, Mrs Gardner, Miss Sherry, Mrs Love, Mrs W. Palmer, Mrs Jewell. Prologue-Foote; Capuchin-Foote; Sir Harry Hamper-Parsons; Dr Viper-Palmer; Minnikin-Edwin; Kit Codling-Bannister; Dick Drugget-R. Palmer; Tromfort-Baddeley; Colonel-L'Estrange; Mrs Minnikin-Miss Sherry; Mrs Clack-Miss Platt; Jenny Minnikin-Mrs Jewell (Genest, V, 529).

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Cast
Role: James Actor: Walters
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Love.

Dance: The Venetian Regatta-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Capuchin

Afterpiece Title: The Metamorphoses

Performance Comment: Parts by: Bannister, Dibdin, Jackson, Griffith, Lloyd, A Gentleman first appearance, Mrs Love, Mrs Jewell. Don Pedro-Wilson; Lysander-Bret; Fabio-Bannister; Perez-Weston (?); Marcella-Mrs Jewell; Juletta-Mrs Weston (Edition of 1776).

Dance: The Venetian Regatta-

Event Comment: All for Love is obliged to be deferred. Receipts: #237 7s. 6d. (236.16.6; 0.11.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; burl 2, by Charles Dibdin, based on The Loves of Mars and Venus, by Peter Anthony Motteux]: With New Scenes and Dresses. The Music chiefly composed by Dibdin. [Dr Arne and Dr Arnold each wrote one air.] Books of the Burletta to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 5 Feb. 1778: This Day at Noon is published Poor Vulcan! (1s.). [The playbill lists Reinhold in place of Mahon, but on the Kemble playbill his name is deleted and a MS annotation substitutes Mahon's.] Receipts: #232 5s. 6d. (230.2.6; 2.3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Percy

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Brown. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Midas [announced on playbill ff 24 Apr.] cannot be performed on account of Wilson's sudden illness. Tickets delivered for Love Finds the Way will be admitted, that Opera being unavoidably postponed on account of Mrs Farrell's Indisposition. Public Advertiser, 3 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Brown, No. 10, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #150 18s. 6d. (89.17.6; tickets: 61.1.0) (charge: #67 7s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Related Works
Related Work: Ramah Droog; or, Wine does Wonders Author(s): James Cobb
Related Work: The Bird in a Cage; or, Money Works Wonders! Author(s): James Shirley

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17780424

Event Comment: Benefit for Aldridge. Tickets delivered for Love in a Village [announced on playbill of 1 May] will be admitted. Public Advertiser, 27 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Aldridge at the Carpet Warehouse, Piazza, Covent Garden. Receipts: #199 16s. [132.2; tickets: 67.14) [charge: #67 5s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Cast
Role: Young Loveit Actor: Whitfield
Role: Mrs Loveit Actor: Mrs Pitt

Dance: End I: a new Comic Dance-Langrish, Master Jackson, Miss Parish, Miss Lings (pupils of Aldridge); End II: [The Cricket@Match [sic]The Cricketters, as17780128; [in which part of the celebrated Tambourine Dance-Aldridge[, originally composed and danced by him; III: Hornpipe, as17771017

Ballet: End: a new, Grand Marine Pantomimical Dance, suited to the times, The Sailors' Revels at Portsmouth; or, British Glory. in which an accurate view of the Isle of Wight and the Fleet now riding at Spithead. Principal Characters: Bobby Flip the Boatswain-Aldridge; Powder Monkey-Master Jackson; Mat Mizen-Langrish; Molly Topknot-Miss Besford; Susan Constant-Miss Valois; with variety of other Characters, and Hornpipe Dancing-in an entire new stile

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Smith, Bowles, Ledger, Mrs Morris, Miss Bassan and Miss Matthews for Love in a Village will be admitted this Evening. Receipts: #165 16s. 6d. (124.9.6; 0.12.0; tickets: 40.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Dance: As17770926

Event Comment: [This was the last performance ever held in this theatre. On 27 June the Morning Chronicle published the playbill for that same evening: Love in a Village and Comical Courtship, but on 29 June the same newspaper reported that on "Friday [26 June] (soon after the performances of the evening were finished at China Hall, Rotherhithe) the theatre was discovered to be on fire. The flames increased so rapidly that in a short time the whole building, with all the scenes, stage, cloaths, &c. were consumed...There is no doubt but the theatre was wilfully set on fire." During the course of the summer it was rebuilt, but "Yesterday morning the play-house at China-hall, Rotherhithe, was blown down by the violence of the wind. The said play-house was burnt down last summer, but it being insured was rebuilt by contract, and the tiling of it completely finished last week" (Gazetteer, 26 Nov. 1778). And see 30 July.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost

Dance: As17780601

Song: As17780529

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of Love Makes a Man, announced on playbill of 12 Nov.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Event Comment: Macklin being taken ill, The Merchant of Venice and Love a-la-Mode [both announced on playbill of 23 Feb.] are obliged to be postponed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Liverpool Prize

Dance: End: The Humours of Leixlip-Aldridge, Master Jackson, Miss Besford

Event Comment: The Merchant Of Venice and Love a-la-Mode [both announced on playbill of 26 Nov.] are obliged to be deferred on account of Macklin's Indisposition. Receipts: #57 8s. (55.7; 2.1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: William And Nanny

Dance: As17791123

Event Comment: By Permission of the Right Hon. the Lord Chamberlain. Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, based on Le Dissipateur, by Philippe Nericault, dit Destouches. Authors of Prologue and Epilogue, and speaker of Epilogue, unknown]: Written by the late Samuel Foote Esq. [The attribution to Foote is dubious.] Afterpiece [1st time in London; MF-2. See CG, 28 Mar. 1778]: Now acting in Dublin with applause; written by [i.e. altered from, by T. A. Lloyd] the author of Love in a Village, &c. &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spendthrift; Or, The Female Conspiracy

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Reilly, Dutton, Moss, Horwell, Lloyd, Mendez, Swords; Miss Villiers, Miss Blaney, Miss Wood, Miss Carne, Mrs Read, Mrs Hyam. [Text, in The Comic Theatre, Vol. I (Dryden Leach, 1762), lists the parts: Cleon, Moneylove, The Baron, Count Raveline, The Marquis, Justice Florid, Picquet, Pasquin; Julia, Belinda, Arsinoe, Araminta, Belisa, Finesse.] Occasional Prologue spoken by Davis and a Lady in the character of Taste. New Epilogue .

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Song: End of Acts II and in of mainpiece two favourite airs by Mrs Cox (1st appearance.)

Monologue: 1781 11 12 End of Act IV of mainpiece Shuter's Post Haste Observations on his Journey to Paris by Dutton