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16776
10 October 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Cast
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Marshall.
Role: Foppington Actor: Cibber
Role: Loveless Actor: Milward
Role: Worthy Actor: Mills
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Butler
Role: Hoyden Actor: Mrs Cliver
Role: Sir Tunbelly Actor: Harper
Role: Young Fashion Actor: Wright
Role: Coupler Actor: Johnson
Role: Surgeon Actor: Griffin
Role: Shoemaker Actor: Cross
Role: Lory Actor: Macklin
Role: Berinthia Actor: Mrs Giffard.
Related Works
Related Work: The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd; or, Taste a la mode

Cast
Role: Flash Actor: Livier
Role: Longbibb Actor: Beard
Role: Trot Actor: Hough
Role: Harlequin Actor: Philips
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Mann
Role: Milkmaids Actor: Mrs Walter

16777
23 November 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Cast
Role: Foppington Actor: Hallam
Role: Loveless Actor: Ryan
Role: Worthy Actor: Delane
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Hallam
Role: Hoyden Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Sir Tunbelly Actor: Mullart
Role: Young Fashion Actor: Walker
Role: Coupler Actor: Hippisley
Role: Surgeon Actor: James
Role: Lory Actor: Chapman
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Mullart
Role: Berinthia Actor: Mrs Horton.
Related Works
Related Work: The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Countrymen and Lasses Actor: Miss Brunette, Miss Dancey, Miss Horsington.
Role: Old Woman Actor: Miss Oates.
Role: Ceres Actor: Mrs Wright
Role: Proserpine Actor: Mrs Chambers
Role: Jupiter Actor: Roberts
Role: Harlequin Actor: Lun
Role: Mercury Actor: Laguerre
Role: Sylvans Actor: Mlle Roland, Mrs Bullock, Miss Cantrell, Miss Norman, Mrs LeBrun
Role: Pluto Actor: Leveridge
Role: Furies Actor: Lalauze, Villeneuve, Desse, Richardson, Dupre
Role: Yeoman Actor: Bencraft
Role: Clodpole Actor: Hippisley
Role: Old Man Actor: Smith
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Kilby
Role: Savoyard Actor: Salway
Role: Gardeners Actor: Thompson, Dupre
Role: Earth Actor: Richardson
Role: Air Actor: Villeneuve
Role: Fire Actor: Haughton
Role: Water Actor: Glover
Role: Females Actor: Mrs Bullock, Miss Oates, Miss Cantrel, Mlle Roland.

16778
04 January 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Afterpiece: Taken from the French of Moliere. Lady Stafford to Lord Wentworth, 4 Jan.: I hear their will be a vast riot to night at the Play, for young Cibber is to act and the Templars are resolved to hiss him off the stage. 6 Jan.: Young Cibber was vastly hiss'd a Thursday, but his old friend Impudence kept him from being either out of countenance or in the least disturb'd at the noise.-Wentworth Papers, p. 541

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Cast
Role: Sir Tunbelly Actor: Shepard
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Marshall.
Role: Foppington Actor: Cibber
Role: Loveless Actor: Milward
Role: Worthy Actor: Mills
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Butler
Role: Hoyden Actor: Mrs Cliver
Role: Young Fashion Actor: Wright
Role: Coupler Actor: Johnson
Role: Surgeon Actor: Griffin
Role: Shoemaker Actor: Cross
Role: Lory Actor: Macklin
Role: Berinthia Actor: Mrs Giffard.
Related Works
Related Work: The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Cast
Role: Sir Jasper Actor: Shepard
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Leander Actor: Beard
Role: James Actor: Winstone
Role: Harry Actor: Leigh
Role: Davy Actor: Macklin
Role: Hellebore Actor: Cole
Role: Charlotte Actor: Miss Mann.
Role: Doctor Actor: Cibber Jr.

Dance: V: Moors Dance-Muilment, Mrs Walter

16779
06 February 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 7 Feb.: Last Night as one John Sommerford, a Sawyer (who came into the Upper Gallery at [cg] at the latter End of the Play), was pressing forward, in order to get a better Place, he was push'd by a Person, who took disgust at his standing before him, which occasion'd the Sawyer to lose his Footing, and he tumbled over into the Pit (the depth of 30 Feet) between two Rows of the Audience, without receiving any Damage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Cast
Role: Loveless Actor: Ryan
Role: Sir Novelty Actor: Chapman
Role: Sir William Actor: Hippisley
Role: Elder Worthy Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Young Worthy Actor: Hale
Role: Sly Actor: Mullart
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Hallam
Role: Hillaria Actor: Mrs Stevens
Role: Narcissa Actor: Mrs Bellamy
Role: Flareit Actor: Mrs Kilby
Role: Snap Actor: Penkethman.

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Cast
Role: Infernals Actor: Haughton.
Role: Perseus Actor: Salway
Role: Cepheus Actor: Leveridge
Role: Aethiopian Actor: Thompson
Role: Cassiope Actor: Mrs Wright
Role: Andromeda Actor: Mrs Chambers
Role: Mercury Actor: Vincent
Role: Amazons Actor: Mrs James, Miss Oates, Mrs Bullock, Mlle Ozanne, Miss Norman, Mrs LeBrun, Miss Dancey
Role: Hussar Actor: Bencraft
Role: Harlequin Actor: Lun
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Kilby
Role: Hussar's Servant Actor: Hippisley
Role: Valet Actor: James
Role: Petit Maitre Actor: Lalauze
Role: a Fawn Actor: Glover.
Related Works
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda: With the Rape of Colombine; or, The Flying Lovers Author(s): John Weaver

16780
10 March 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: A Pastoral Opera. [Composed by John Baptist Pescetti.] Pit and Boxes at half a guinea. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 2s. 6d. 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Angelica And Medoro

Cast
Role: Angelica Actor: Signora Lucia Panichi called la Moscovita
Role: Medoro Actor: Signora Antonia Marchesina called la Lucchesini
Role: Licori Actor: Mrs Cecilia Arne
Role: Tirsi Actor: Rochetti
Role: Orlando Actor: Waltz
Role: Titiro Actor: Reinhold.

16781
02 August 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Jenny and Miss Betty Cibber?, Two Infant Daughters of the late Mrs Jane Cibber. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Afterpiece: Taken from Moliere, and Intermixed with Songs. At 6:45 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Cast
Role: Foppington Actor: Cibber, being the first time of his appearance on that stage
Role: Berinthia Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Loveless Actor: Hallam
Role: Worthy Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Young Fashion Actor: Walker
Role: Sir Tunbelly Actor: Marten
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Stevens
Role: Hoyden Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Coupler Actor: Arthur
Role: Bull Actor: Littleton
Role: Shoemaker Actor: Clark
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Martin
Role: Seringe and Lory Actor: Chapman.
Related Works
Related Work: The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Cibber
Role: by particular Desire, Actor: the young Captain in his Regimentals, Riding on an Ass.

Dance: Master Oates, Phillips from dl, Miss Oates, Master Ferg

16782
31 August 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the Sir John Vanbrugh. Afterpiece: Being the Sequel to the Dragon of Wantley. [It is difficult to determine whether this is the concluding performance of 1738-39 or the opening one of 1739-40.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Cast
Role: Loveless Actor: Ryan
Role: Young Fashion Actor: A. Hallam
Role: Sir Tunbelly Actor: Mullart
Role: Coupler Actor: Arthur
Role: Lory Actor: James
Role: Surgeon Actor: Marten
Role: Shoemarker Actor: Bencraft
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Mullart
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Hallam
Role: Foppington Actor: Cibber
Role: Berinthia Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Hoyden Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Worthy Actor: Bridgwater.
Related Works
Related Work: The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: Margery

Cast
Role: More Actor: Salway
Role: Margery Actor: Mrs Lampe
Role: Gubbins Actor: Laguerre
Role: Mauxalinda Actor: Miss Young.

16783
15 November 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit John Peele, A West-India Merchant, reduc'd by Great Losses in Trade. By particular Desire of several Eminent Merchants

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Cast
Role: Sir Novelty Actor: Cibber
Role: Sir William Actor: Hippisley
Role: Loveless Actor: Ryan
Role: Elder Worthy Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Young Worthy Actor: Hale
Role: Snap Actor: James
Role: Sly Actor: Mullart
Role: Hillaria Actor: Mrs Stevens
Role: Narcissa Actor: Mrs Bellamy
Role: Flareit Actor: Mrs Kilby
Role: Mrs Anne Actor: Miss Horsington
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Hallam.

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Cast
Role: Gaylove Actor: Salway
Role: Sapskull Actor: Rosco
Role: Muckworm Actor: Hippisley
Role: Slango Actor: Neale
Role: Blunder Actor: Mullart
Role: Arbella Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Combrush Actor: Mrs James.

Dance: I: Faithful Lovers-Desse, Miss Oates; III: Le Badinage de Province-Poitier, Mlle Roland; V: Kilkenny-Glover, Mlle Roland Ynger

16784
12 January 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh, and Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Townly Actor: Ryan
Role: Lady Townly Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Manly Actor: Hale
Role: Lady Grace Actor: Mrs Stevens
Role: Basset Actor: Neale
Role: Richard Actor: James
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Martin
Role: Lady Wronghead Actor: Mrs Kilby
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Myrtilla Actor: Mrs Hale
Role: Trusty Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Sir Francis Actor: Hippisley.
Related Works
Related Work: The Provok'd Husband; or, A Journey to London Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Cast
Role: Perseus Actor: Salway
Role: Petit Maitre Actor: Laguerre
Role: Amazons Actor: Mrs _Rogers.
Role: Cepheus Actor: Leveridge
Role: Ethiopian Actor: Thompson
Role: Cassiope Actor: Mrs Wright
Role: Andromache Actor: Mrs Chambers
Role: Mercury Actor: Laguerre
Role: Infernals Actor: Leveridge, Villeneuve, Dupre, Richardson, Delagarde, Desse, Fromont
Role: Hussar Actor: Bencraft
Role: Harlequin Actor: Lun
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Kilby
Role: Hussar's Servant Actor: Hippisley
Role: Valet Actor: James
Related Works
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda: With the Rape of Colombine; or, The Flying Lovers Author(s): John Weaver

Dance: TTambourine-French Girl; Miller and His Wife-French Boy and Girl

Ballet: GGrand Dance in Momus. As17400110

Cast
Role: Country Lasses Actor: Mrs _Rogers, Miss Dancy.
Role: Fawns Actor: Richardson, Dupre, Desse, Delagarde
Role: Country Lasses Actor: Mrs Rogers, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs Ozanne
Role: and Sailor's Dance Actor: Villeneuve, Miss Oates.

16785
17 January 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh, and C. Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat. Receipts: #59 14s. (Account Book); #80 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Lady Grace Actor: Mrs Bellamy.
Role: Townly Actor: Ryan
Role: Lady Townly Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Manly Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Sir Frances Actor: Hippisley
Role: Basset Actor: Neale
Role: Richard Actor: James
Role: Lady Wronghead Actor: Mrs Kilby
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Martin
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Myrtilla Actor: Mrs Hale
Role: Trusty Actor: Mrs Mullart.
Related Works
Related Work: The Provok'd Husband; or, A Journey to London Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Dance: MMars and Venus-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini; Tyrolean Dance, as17410108; The Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell

16786
05 February 1741 @ Hickford's Room

Event Comment: Benefit John Lyne. 7 p.m. 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: The Overture of Saul, the Dead March-; Solo on the Violin-Collett; Trumpet Piece-Snow; Lesson on the Harpsichord-Gladwin

16787
24 February 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman who has wrote for the Stage. [Professor John B. Shipley of the University of Colorado has called to my attention a letter written by James Ralph to Thomas Birch, dated 14 February 1741, in which he states that this benefit is to be for Ralph. See B.M. Add. MSS. 4317, fol. 94.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Performance Comment: As17401219, but Octavius-Havard; Caska-Winstone; Trebonius-_; Citizens-Johnson, Macklin, Chapman, Vaughan, Marten, Hough.
Cast
Role: Octavius Actor: Havard
Role: Caska Actor: Winstone
Role: Citizens Actor: Johnson, Macklin, Chapman, Vaughan, Marten, Hough.
Role: Octavius Caesar Actor: Woodward
Role: Decius Actor: Cashel
Role: Julius Caesar Actor: Mills
Role: Brutus Actor: Quin
Role: Cassius Actor: Milward
Role: Antony Actor: Wright
Role: Messala Actor: Cashel
Role: Ligarius Actor: Taswell
Role: Artemidorus Actor: Shepard
Role: Trebonius Actor: Winstone
Role: Metellus Cimber Actor: Turbutt
Role: Cinna Actor: Ridout
Role: Portia Actor: Mrs Roberts
Role: Calphurnia Actor: Mrs Butler

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: Joe Actor: Raftor.
Role: Peggy Actor: Mrs Wright.
Role: King Actor: Winstone
Role: Miller Actor: Shepard

Dance: LLa Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; Shepherds and Shepherdesses-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf

16788
17 April 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Major John Triquet (late of Spittal-Fields) under Misfortune

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Cast
Role: Falstaff Actor: Paget
Role: Ford Actor: Giffard
Role: Sir Hugh Actor: Yates
Role: Mrs Quickly Actor: Mrs Yates
Related Works
Related Work: The Comical Gallant: or, The Amours of Sir John Falstaffe Author(s): John Dennis

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Cast
Role: Goodwill Actor: Julian
Role: Blister Actor: Dunstall
Role: Coupee Actor: Yates
Role: Quaver Actor: Hemskirk
Role: Wormwood Actor: Vaughan
Role: Thomas Actor: Crofts.
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Hippisley.

16789
23 April 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Laguerre, Prisoner in the King's Bench. [Tickets of Laguerre at John's Coffee-House, next door the King's-Bench, Southwark. In the London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 22 April, Laguerre expressed his thanks to Giffard for giving him this benefit and added that, it being term-time, he had "by the common Licence of a Day Rule," liberty to act on 23 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Related Works
Related Work: The Provok'd Husband; or, A Journey to London Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Cast
Role: Hob Actor: Laguerre.
Related Works
Related Work: Sequel to the Opera of Flora; or, Hob's Wedding Author(s): John Hippisley
Related Work: Hob's Opera Author(s): John Hippisley

16790
24 October 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: a New Dramatic Entertainment of Dancing combin'd With a New Pantomime in Grotesque Characters. [Author unknown. Apparently not printed.] Mainpiece: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake; Or, The Lover's Quarrel

Cast
Role: Carlos Actor: Ryan
Role: Lorenzo Actor: Hale
Role: Leonora Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Alvarez Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Felix Actor: Mullart
Role: Metaphrastus Actor: Rosco
Role: Sancho Actor: Hippisley
Role: Toledo Actor: James
Role: Camillo Actor: Mrs Stevens
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Mullart
Role: Jacinta Actor: Mrs Kilby
Role: Lopez Actor: Chapman.
Related Works
Related Work: Lovers' Quarrels Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: The Mistake Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: Like Master Like Man Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: The Wrangling Lovers Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice: with Metamorphoses of Harlequin

Cast
Role: Orpheus Actor: Salway
Role: Rhodope Actor: Mrs Lampe
Role: Eurydice Actor: Miss Young
Role: Nymph Actor: Sga Barbarini
Role: 2nd Nymph Actor: Sga Domitella
Role: 3rd Nymph Actor: Mrs Wright
Role: 4th Nymph Actor: Mrs LeBrun
Role: 5th Nymph Actor: Mrs Villeneuve
Role: Pluto Actor: Leveridge
Role: Ascalax Actor: Roberts
Role: Demons Actor: Villeneuve, Delagarde, Richardson
Role: Harlequin Actor: Lun
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Kilby
Role: Pantalon Actor: Grimaldi
Role: Squire Gawky Actor: Bencraft
Role: Mrs Mannerly Actor: Mrs Martin
Role: Goody Gurton Actor: James
Role: Drudge Actor: Hippisley
Role: Woman Dwarf Actor: a French Boy
Role: Country Lads Actor: Villeneuve, Delagarde, Richardson, Dupre
Role: Country Lasses Actor: Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Villeneuve, Miss Davies, Miss Short.

Dance: TThe Italian Peasants-Lalauze, Sga Barberini, accompanied by Villeneuve, Delagarde, Richardson, Dupre, Sga Domitella, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Wright, Mrs Villeneuve; Villagers-Waltz, Thompson, Roberts, Smith, Davis, Stoppelaer, Miss Davis, Miss Dodson

Related Works
Related Work: Cytherea; or, The Enamouring Girdle Author(s): John Smith
Related Work: The Enchanter; or, Love and Magic Author(s): John Christopher Smith
Related Work: The Fairies Author(s): John Christopher Smith
Related Work: Teraminta Author(s): John Christopher Smith
Related Work: The Sirens Author(s): John A. Fisher

16791
20 April 1742 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera [a pasticcio, Metastasio text altered by Rolli, form Pergolesi's Olimpiade, 1735 (Loewenberg, Annals of Opera, I, 183)]. Music by Pergolesi, Scarlatti, Lampugnani. L. Leo, F. Leo [libretto in L. C.]. Two of the principal Performers being greatly indispos'd, the Dancers are oblig'd to be deferr'd. Thomas Gray to John Chute, 24 May: Our fifth Opera was the Olimpiade, in which they retain'd most of Pergolesi's Songs & yet 'tis gone already, as if it had been a poor thing of Galuppi's. Two nights did I enjoy it all alone, snugg in a Nook in the Gallery, but found no one in those regions had ever heard of Pergolesi, nay, I heard several affirm it was a Composition of Pescetti's.-Gray, Correspondence, I, 203

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Meraspe O L'olimpiade

16792
03 December 1742 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Cast
Role: Foppington Actor: Cibber
Role: Loveless Actor: Giffard
Role: Worthy Actor: W. Giffard
Role: Sir Tunbelly Actor: Dunstall
Role: Lory Actor: Peterson
Role: Coupler Actor: Julian
Role: Young Fashion Actor: a Gentleman, first appearance on any stage
Role: Bull Actor: Buckeley
Role: Shoemaker Actor: Freeman
Role: Seringe Actor: Dove
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Butler
Role: Berinthia Actor: Mrs Giffard
Role: Hoyden Actor: Mrs Dunstall
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Bambridge
Role: Prologue Actor: Cibber
Role: Epilogue Actor: nobody, as17421124.
Role: Easy Actor: Giffard
Role: Morelove Actor: W. Giffard
Role: Lady Betty Actor: Mrs Giffard
Role: Lady Easy Actor: Mrs Butler
Role: Lady Graveairs Actor: Mrs E. Giffard
Role: Edging Actor: Miss Brunette
Related Works
Related Work: The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Scott
Role: Goodwill Actor: Julian
Role: Blister Actor: Dunstall
Role: Quaker Actor: Hemskirk
Role: Coupee Actor: Peterson
Role: Wormwood Actor: Dighton
Role: Thomas Actor: Freeman.

Dance: CComic Ballet-Granier, Carney, Mrs Roland, LaPierre, Pelling, Mrs Saintquinot, Miss Story, Mrs Vallois; Welsh Boufon-two Masters Granier; Comic Dance-two Masters Granier, Miss Granier

16793
07 May 1743 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: JJohn Branson, Steward, to John, Duke of Bedford: The Opera is a bankrupt. The Directors have run out #1600 and called this General Meeting to get the consent of the subscribers to take this debt upon themselves. This I opposed.--Deutsch, Handel, pp. 569-70

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sirbace

16794
19 November 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh. Afterpiece: By Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake; Or, The Lover's Quarrel

Cast
Role: Carlos Actor: Ryan
Role: Lorenzo Actor: Hale
Role: Sancho Actor: Hippisley
Role: Lopez Actor: Chapman
Role: Alvarez Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Felix Actor: Marten
Role: Metaphrastus Actor: Gibson
Role: Camillo Actor: Mrs Bland
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs James
Role: Jacinta Actor: Mrs Havard
Role: Leonora Actor: Mrs Horton.
Related Works
Related Work: Lovers' Quarrels Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: The Mistake Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: Like Master Like Man Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: The Wrangling Lovers Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

Cast
Role: Dances Actor: Cooke, Picq, Villeneuve.
Role: Pyramus Actor: Beard
Role: Lion Actor: Reinhold
Role: Wall Actor: Laguerre
Role: Moonshine Actor: Roberts
Role: Thisbe Actor: Mrs Lampe.

16795
28 August 1747 @ Shepherd's Market, Mayfair

Event Comment: A Concert etc. Pit and Upp?r Boxes 2s. Gallery 1s. 6 p.m. Afterpiece: The new farce now performingG in Dublin, [by John Cunningham]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Tragical History Of George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Mist

16796
28 April 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Macklin. Mainpiece [by John Ford]: Reviv'd not acted these Hundred years. Afterpiece: A New Farce never acted before by Charles Macklin. Note: Tickets deliver'd out for 22 April will be taken. Tickets to be had of Mrs Macklin in Bow St., and of Hobson at the Stage door. Cross: The play lik'd--farce not. Receipts: #93 (Cross); house charges, #60 (Powel); cash, #80 19s. 6d.; tickets, #12 15s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lover's Melancholy

Cast
Role: Principal Parts Actor: Barry, Sparks, Berry, Winstone, Macklin, Blakes, Delane, Havard, Neale, Mrs Macklin, Mrs Green, Mrs Bennet, Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: The Club of Fortune Hunters; or, The Widow Bewitch'd

Cast
Role: Principal parts Actor: Macklin, Winstone, Taswell, I. Sparks, Usher, Blakes, Mrs Bennet, Miss Cole, Mrs Macklin.
Related Works
Related Work: The Widow Bewitch'd Author(s): John Mottley

Dance: III: Savoyards, as17471215; V: Pastoral Dance, as17480326

16797
10 December 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Adapted to the stage, as alter'd [by Dr John Dalton] from Milton's Masque at Ludlow Castle

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Comus Actor: Quin
Role: Elder Brother Actor: Ryan
Role: Younger Brother Actor: Ridout
Role: 1st Spirit Actor: Sparks
Role: 2nd Spirit Actor: Anderson
Role: Bacchanal Actor: Lowe
Role: Euphrosyne Actor: Miss Norris, 1st appearance on any stage
Role: Sabrina Actor: Miss Falkner
Role: Lady Actor: Mrs Woffington
Role: Attendant Spirits of Comus Actor: Leveridge, Baker, Wilder, Roberts, Miss Young
Role: With Dances proper to the mask Actor: .
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): John DaltonJohn Milton

16798
23 December 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [G$Garrick] promised me the Part of Tressel; when the Play was given out, and I prepar'd for it, I saw in the Bills next Morn, another Person's Name [Blakes].-Charles Adams to John Gilbert-Cooper, quodet in Theatre Notebook, XI (1957) p. 136. Receipts: #180 (Cross); #182 9s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Buckingham Actor: Bridges
Role: Blunt Actor: Barnet
Role: Duchess of York Actor: Mrs Bennet.
Role: King Richard Actor: Garrick
Role: King Henry Actor: Berry
Role: Richmond Actor: Havard
Role: Stanley Actor: Winstone
Role: Tressel Actor: Blakes
Role: Catesby Actor: Usher
Role: Lieutenant Actor: Ray
Role: Edward V Actor: Miss Cole
Role: Duke of York Actor: Miss Yates
Role: Ratcliff Actor: Simpson
Role: Lord Mayor Actor: Taswell
Role: Oxford Actor: Bransby
Role: Dutchess of York Actor: Mrs James
Role: Lady Anne Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Cast
Role: Drunken Colonel Actor: Woodward
Role: Lettice Actor: Mrs Clive.

16799
26 December 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 10 Years. Afterpiece: Not acted these 20 years. Music, Dances and Other Decorations for afterpiece entirely new. [In a letter to John Gilbert-Cooper, the actor Charles Adams states that "the Prompter gave me a little Part in the Emperor of the Moon...I appear'd in it thrice." He was "paid Twenty Shilling Pr Week." See Theatre Notebook, XI (1957), p. 136. The only male parts left were Baliardo's servant Peter and the figures in the tableau of the final scene.] Receipts: #160 (Cross); #158 11s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Cast
Role: Feignwell Actor: Woodward
Role: Sir Philip Modelove Actor: Neale
Role: Obadiah Prim Actor: Taswell
Role: Tradelove Actor: Barnet
Role: Perriwinkle Actor: James
Role: Freeman Actor: Palmer
Role: Sackbut Actor: Winstone
Role: Simon Pure Actor: Usher
Role: Mrs Prim Actor: Mrs James
Role: Betty Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Lady Actor: Miss Cole
Role: Anne Lovely Actor: Mrs Clive.

Afterpiece Title: The Emperour of the Moon

Cast
Role: Harlequin Actor: Woodward
Role: Scaramouch Actor: Yates
Role: Charmante Actor: Palmer
Role: Cinthio Actor: King
Role: Bellemante Actor: Miss Murgetroyd
Role: Mopsophil Actor: Mrs Green
Role: Elaria Actor: Miss Cole
Role: Dr Baliardo Actor: Winstone
Role: Vocal Parts Actor: Beard, Reinhold
Role: Dances Actor: Cooke, Mlle Janeton Auretti, Mathews, Mathews' scholar a child of 5 years old

Music: A Piece of Music-the Child

Dance: TThe Sailors Revels-Mathews

16800
17 January 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By particular Desire. ["We have in Rehearsal a new Tragedy call'd Irene--Author, as yet, unknown."--Charles Adams to John Gilbert-Cooper, Theatre Notebook, XI (1957), pp. 138-39.] Receipts: #130 (Cross); #143 16s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: Archer Actor: Garrick
Role: Aimwell Actor: Havard
Role: Sullen Actor: Winstone
Role: Scrub Actor: Woodward
Role: Gibbet Actor: Neale
Role: Bonniface Actor: Berry
Role: Foigard Actor: James
Role: Sir Charles Actor: Blakes
Role: Dorinda Actor: Mrs Elmy
Role: Lady Bountiful Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Cherry Actor: Mrs Green
Role: Mrs Sullen Actor: Mrs Cibber first time in this character.

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Cast
Role: Old Gerald Actor: James.
Role: Doctor Actor: Blakes
Role: Crispin Actor: Yates
Role: Beatrice Actor: Mrs Bennet.

Dance: IV: Dutch Dance, as17481203