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Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Lee. Afterpiece: Never acted there, altered from Fielding. Full prices. No building on Stage.Tickets at Mr Reynolds Crane Co., Little Russell St. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: As17511102, but Lear-Lee; Bastard-Sowdon; Cordelia-Mrs Ward; Physician-Simpson.
Cast
Role: Lear Actor: Lee

Afterpiece Title: Don Quixote in England

Performance Comment: Don Quixote-Lee; Squire Badger-Shuter; Sancho-Costollo; Jezebel-Miss Minors; Guzzle-Taswell; Fairlove-Ackman; Loveland-Simpson; Dorothea-Mrs Bennet.
Cast
Role: Don Quixote Actor: Lee
Event Comment: [Lee Lewes's 1st recorded appearance as Falstaff was at Manchester, 19 Dec. 1777. Miss Farren's 1st appearance as Mrs Ford was at the HAY, 24 Aug. 1781.] Receipts: #277 2s. (273/15; 3/2; ticket not come in: 0/5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: Mr Ford-Smith; Sir Hugh Evans-Parsons; Dr Caius-Baddeley; Mr Page-Packer; Host of the Garter-Moody; Justice Shallow-Waldron; Fenton-Phillimore; Simple-Burton; Bardolph-Wright; Pistol-Alfred; Nym-Wilson; Slender-Dodd; Falstaff-[Lee] Lewes (1st appearance in that character [in London]); Mrs Page-Miss Pope; Ann Page-Miss Wheeler; Mrs Quickly-Mrs Hopkins; Mrs Ford-Miss Farren(1st appearance in that character [at this theatre]) .at this theatre]) .

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Event Comment: The Late Wells, the bottom of Lemon St., Goodman's Fields. A Concert of Vocal and Instrumental Musick. Divided into two Parts. The Concert to conclude with the Chorus of Long Live the King. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit or First Gallery 1s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. Between the two Parts of the Concert will be exhibited Gratis, and not acted these 50 years, an Historical Play...written by the celebrated Mr Lee. And founded on Facts which happened in France, in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. Shewing the unparalleled Dissimulations, Imprecations, and Perjuries of Charles the 9th of France, the Queen Mother, and Cardinal Lorrain, to draw the Hugonot Party into their snares, by which means the Death of the Queen Navarre was effected by Poison, and most of the Protestant Princes of the Blood destroyed. Chastillon, the famous Admiral of France, with his Wife, Children, Commanders, and Followers, all put to Death, with the King's Consent, bx the cruel and Revengeful Duke of Guise, and his Adherents. After which the Massacre becoming general over the Kingdom, near near 100,000 Protestants were destroyed in the most barbarous and inhuman manner. The Concert will begin every Evening Positively at Six of the Clock, and the Whole be concluded by Half an Hour after Nine, the Wdlls being appointed (after the Entertainment is over) for the Main Guard of the Militia of the Tower Hamlets

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Massacre At Paris

Performance Comment: Charles IX-Cushing; Chastellion-Furnival; Cardinal-L. Hallam; Duke of Guise-Paget; Navarre-Shepherd; Conde-Lee; Anjou-Blakey; Alberto-Julian; Rochfacault-Burt; Langoiran-Blogg; Columbiere-Barlow; Chavagnes-Dove; Queen Mother-Mrs Bambridge; Antramont-Mrs Hallam; Queen of Navarre-Mrs Williamson; Margaret-Gentlewoman; the two last never appear'd on the stage before. With the Prologue-; Epilogue- written at the late happy Revolution.
Cast
Role: Conde Actor: Lee
Related Works
Related Work: The Massacre of Paris Author(s): Nathaniel Lee
Related Work: The Duke of Guise; or, The Massacre of Paris Author(s): Nathaniel Lee

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: Blogg, Barlow, Waters, Mrs Phillips, Mrs Williamson, Mrs Cushing

Dance: the two Mhe two Masters, Miss Granier

Event Comment: Benefit Mr Lee. [Prices 3s., 2s., 1s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Performance Comment: See17470129, but Hamlet-Lee; Polonius-Shuter; Ophelia-Miss Budgell; rest omitted. rest omitted.
Cast
Role: Hamlet Actor: Lee

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Performance Comment: Fribble-Shuter; Flash-Lee.
Cast
Role: Flash Actor: Lee.

Dance: As17461124

Song: Brett

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pope. Mr Lee-Young Belmont (Hopkins). No Building on Stage; The Deuce is in Him oblig'd to be deferr'd. The Foundling not in 16 years. [See 26 March 1750.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Foundling

Performance Comment: Young Belmont-Lee; Fadle-King; Sir Charles Raymond-Powell; Sir Roger Belmont-Yates; Col. Raymond-Packer; Villiard-Bransby; Rosetta-Miss Pope; Fidelia-Mrs Palmer.
Cast
Role: Young Belmont Actor: Lee

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb

Dance: II: The Shepherdesses, as17631014; End: The Irish Lilt, as17630922

Event Comment: Benefit for Bowers, Veal, and Broad. Mr Lee read Lord Trinket (Hopkins Diary-MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Performance Comment: As17640225, but Harriet-Mrs Palmer; Trinket-Lee; Toilet-Mrs Hippisley.
Cast
Role: Trinket Actor: Lee

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: End: Double Hornpipe, as17640514

Event Comment: The United Company. The date of the premiere is not known, although a reference in the text to 1690 suggests that the play may have been produced in that year; but the fact that it was not advertised in the London Gazette until 6-9 April and not entered in the Term Catalogues until May 1691 suggest that it posaibly appeared early in 1691. This play was discussed in Wit for Money, or Poet Stutter; A Dialogue between Smith, Johnson, and Poet Stutter; containing Reflections on some late Plays, and particularly on Love for Money, or The Boarding School. The British Museum copy of this pamphlet has a manuscript date of 23 April 1691. Downes, Roscius Anglicanus, p. 42: The Boarding School; Wrote by Mr Durfy, it took well being justly Acted. Earl of Ailesbury, mid-January 1690@1: My Lady Fenwick was a great intriguer, and had always castles in the air in her imagination to that degree, that I was present at a play where she was brought in. If I mistake not it was The Boarding School, and the famous comic, Mr Lee, in woman's clothes represented her to the life, and so exactly had her features and complexion that one could hardly have distinguished one from the other (Memoirs, [London, 1890], II, 390-91)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Money; Or, The Boarding School

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mr Anthony

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mr Turbulent; Or, The Melanchollicks

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Mr Abell; having had the Honour lately, to Sing to the Nobility and Gentry of Richmond and the Neighbouring Towns, thinks himself bound in Gratitude...to return his most Humble Thanks with a Performance of New Musick, in English, Latin, Italian, French-Mr Abell; &c....being Honour'd and Accompany'd-the Greatest Masters of Europe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Afterpiece Title: Britain's Happiness

Song: Singing in Italian and English-Mrs Tofts

Dance: l'Abbe, duRuel, Cherrier, Mrs Elford, Mrs Campion, Mrs Mayers, Devonshire Girl

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mad Tom Of Bedlam; Or, The Distress'd Lovers: With The Comical Humours Of squire Numscul

Song: Mr Corse, age 12

Dance: DDutch Skipper-Sandham; Drunken Man-Wilcox; (On 8 Aug. and there after:) Mad Dance, Pierrot-Le Sieur Labisle, from France

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Shepherd

Dance: I: A New Dance call'd The Hunters-Mas. Clinton, Miss Street, Miss Ford; II: The Faggot Binders-Aldridge, Miss Baker; End Opera: A Dance-Grimaldi, Lauchery, Miss Baker

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Shepherd

Dance: I: The Sheep Shearers, as17640308 II: The Shepherdesses, as17640113; End Opera: Dance, as17640301

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Afterpiece Title: La Guinquette; or, Harlequin Turned Tapster

Dance: An Entertainment of Mimick Dancing, call'd, La Caprice-Harlequin (in Imitation of Mlle Provost, the Famous Dancer in the Opera at Paris)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Connoisseur; Or, Every Man In His Folly

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Shepherd

Dance: I: The Hunters, as17640224; The Faggot Binders, as17640224; End Opera: A Dance, as17640224

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Shepherd

Dance: II: The Faggot Binders, as17640224; End Opera: A Dance, as17640224

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Shepherd

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: I: The Sheep Shearers-Lauchery, Miss Baker; II: The Faggot Binders, as17640224; End Opera: A Dance, as17640319

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Dance: As17981211

Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts-Incledon, Johnstone, Townsend, Hill, Linton, Blurton, Street, Gray, Little, Lee, Sawyer, Tett, Dyke, Mrs Chapman, Miss Mitchell, Miss Wheatley, Mrs Iliff, Miss Sims, Mrs Whitmore, Mrs Watts, Mrs Follett, Miss Leserve, Mrs Castelle, Mrs Norton, Mrs Gilbert, Mrs Masters, Mrs Lloyd, Mrs Blurton, Miss Walcup, Miss Gray, Miss Burnett, Mrs Martyr

Event Comment: Account-Book, 21 Oct.: Paid Lee Lewes on cancelling his engagement #21. [Lee Lewes acted on the night of his benefit, 9 May 1785, but not again this season.] Receipts: #104 0s. 6d. (78/7/0; 25/12/0; 0/1/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: Mr Ford-Smith; Sir Hugh Evans-Parsons; Dr Caius-Baddeley; Mr Page-Packer; Host of the Garter-Moody; Justice Shallow-Waldron; Fenton-Phillimore; Simple-Burton; Bardolph-Wright; Pistol-Alfred; Nym-Wilson; Slender-Dodd; Falstaff-[Lee] Lewes; Mrs Page-Miss Pope; Anne Page-Miss Field; Mrs Quickly-Mrs Hopkins; Mrs Ford-Miss Farren .

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father (with Alterations)

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Performance Comment: As17751124, but Harlequin-Lee Lewes (playbill); Harlequin-Rayner (Public Advertiser).
Cast
Role: Harlequin Actor: Lee Lewes
Event Comment: [Extra night] Benefit for Lee Lewes. [Mrs Saunders is identified in Diary, 19 Nov. 1790.] Receipts: none listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not; Or, The Kind Impostor

Performance Comment: Don Manuel-Waldron; Don Philip-Benson; Octavio-Bland; Soto-Rock; Trappanti-Lee Lewes; Flora-Mrs Collins; Rosa-Mrs Rock; Viletta-Mrs Lee Lewes; Hyppolita-A Young Lady (1st appearance in London [Mrs Saunders]).Mrs Saunders]).
Cast
Role: Trappanti Actor: Lee Lewes
Role: Viletta Actor: Mrs Lee Lewes

Afterpiece Title: A Merry Sketch of Folly and Fashion

Performance Comment: Lee Lewes. In which will be exhibited Characters and Caricatures, many of them entirely new, and others selcted from Subjects of the most approved Wit and Humour. Two very astonishing figures will be introduced, of the late King of Prussia, and his General Ziethen; also the Propagation of a Lie, in Characters as large as life, with several whimsical Paintings in Transparency. The whole prepared for the East Indies, at a prodigious expense. The above two figures cost at Berlin 275 guineas.
Event Comment: [Lee is identified in Monthly Mirror, June 1799, p. 366.] Receipts: #176 13s. 6d. (171.3.0; 5.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Performance Comment: King Richard-A Young Gentleman (1st appearance [Lee]); King Henry-Murray; Buckingham-Clarke; Stanley-Hull; Tressel-Mansel; Prince Edward-Miss Sims; Duke of York-Miss Gilbert; Lieutenant-Waddy; Catesby-Claremont; Ratcliffe-Klanert; Lord Mayor-Thompson; Terrel-Abbot; Norfolk-Davenport; Richmond-Pope; Lady Anne-Mrs Litchfield; Duchess of York-Mrs Platt; Queen-Miss Chapman.

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Oak

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: V: A Comic Dance-Daigville, Sga Vidini