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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Albion And Albanius

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur; Or, The British Worthy

Related Works
Related Work: King Arthur; or, The British Worthy Author(s): Thomas Arne
Related Work: Arthur and Emmeline Author(s): Thomas ArneThomas Linley Sr.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cleomenes, The Spartan Heroe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Very Good Wife

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Younger Brother; Or, The Amorous Jilt

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Bride; Or, The Merry Cuckold

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's A Jest

Performance Comment: Edition of 1696: Prologue-Mr Bowen in a Riding-Dress; The Epilogue-Underhil, Bowen; Gypsies-Mr Mynns; Lord Lovewel-Hodgson; Sir ThomasGaymood-Freeman; Sam Gaymood-Bowen; Railmore-Betterton; Airy-Bowman; Sir Topewel Clownish-Underhil; Squire Illbred-Trefusis; Humphrey Doddipole-Trout; Humdrum-Eldred; Major Buff-Harris; Plot-Bright; Frankly-Bailey; Lady Single-Mrs Barry; Kitty-Mrs Howard; Francilia-Mrs Bowtell; Christina-Mrs Bracegirdle; Doll Hoyden-Mrs Perrin.
Cast
Role: Sir ThomasGaymood Actor: Freeman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Iphigenia

Related Works
Related Work: Iphigenia; or, The Victim Author(s): Thomas Hull
Event Comment: Benefit R. Williams. Mainpiece: Not Acted these Twenty Years. On this day the Lord Mayor and the Court of Aldermen of the City presented a petition to the King seeking the suppression of the theatre in Goodman's Fields. Thomas Odell, Master of the Theatre, also appeared before His Majesty and sought royal leave to continue acting.--See Grub St. Journal, 7 May, for a summary of the events, but see also Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer and London Journal, 2 May

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man's Bewitch'd; Or, The Devil To Do About Her

Performance Comment: Faithful-Giffard; Captain Constant-W. Williams; Lovely-Huddy; Manage-W. Giffard; Trusty-Bardin; Sir David Watchum-Penkethman; Clinch-Collet; Roger-R. Williams; Slouch-Pearce; Old Constant-Mynns; Squire Num-W. Bullock; Belinda-Mrs Haughton; Laura-Mrs Seal; Maria-Mrs Mountfort; Dorothy-Mrs Palmer; Lucy-Mrs Thomas.
Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Thomas.
Related Works
Related Work: The Devil of a Wife; or, A Comical Transformation Author(s): Thomas Jevon
Related Work: A Devil of a Lover Author(s): Thomas Attwood

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Turn'd Dancing-Master

Dance: TThe White Joke (new)-Eaton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Le Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; In IV: Muilment; V: Ballet-Denoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf

Song: III: Would You Taste the Noon@Tide Air (Comus)-Miss Edwards

Event Comment: MMiss Thomas sung for ye first time in ye Chaplet-very well (Cross). Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Performance Comment: As17520923, but Laura-Miss Thomas. first appearance on any stage.
Related Works
Related Work: Harlequin's Chaplet Author(s): Thomas Shaw

Dance: Mlle Auretti

Event Comment: Benefit for my Self & Wife, Miss Thomas had Tickets (Cross). Last time for mainpiece this season. Tickets of Cross at his house in Crown Court, Little Russel St., Covent Garden. Receipts: #195(Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Shepherd's Lottery

Performance Comment: Collin-Beard; Thyrsis-Master Vernon; Dorylas-Wilder; Phillis(first time)-Miss Thomas; Daphne-Mrs Clive;To conclude with a Pastoral Dance-Piettro, Mad Janeton Auretti.
Cast
Role: Phillis Actor: Miss Thomas

Dance: CCountry Amusements, as17530412

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Madrigal And Truletta

Afterpiece Title: Sir ThomasCallico; or, The Mock Nabob

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Afterpiece Title: The Diversions of the Morning

Entertainment: S+Specialty.II: An Ode in Honour of the Anti@Gallicans written by Mr Boyce-Beard

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted this season. Benefit for Johnston (housekeeper). No Building on Stage. Tickets deliver'd for This Night will be taken. [The playbill lists this night as the first appearance of Vernon and Champness in the characters of Squire and Thomas, but see 9 April, where they had appeared in them.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Performance Comment: As17630503, but Squire-Vernon; Thomas-Champness.
Cast
Role: Thomas Actor: Champness.

Dance: II: The Irish Lilt, as17621023

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by James Cobb. Text: T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1800. Miss Waters is identified in the Songs]: The Scenes, Music, Machinery, Dresses, and Decorations are all entirely new. The Music composed by Mazzinghi and Reeve. The Scenery painted by Richards, Phillips, Lupino, Hollogan, Backmore, &c. [based on drawings of Indian scenery by Thomas Daniell]. The Machinery and Decorations by Cresswell, Sloper, Goostree, &c. The Dresses by Dick and Mrs Egan. Books of the Songs, also describing the Scenes and Spectacle of the Return from the Tiger Hunt, to be had at the Theatre, price six pence. "The whole [forms] an exhibition of the utmost grandeur...The expense attending the decoration must have been immense...The dailogue is certainly not of the first description of writing, but it forms, on the whole, a very safe vehicle for some of the best music the English stage has for some time been able to boast"(Morning Herald, 13 Nov.). Account-Book, 27 Dec.: Paid Cuthbert for Wheels, &c. for the Elephants #13 18s. Receipts: #364 7s. 6d. (363.19.6; 0.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ramah Droog; Or, Wine Does Wonders

Performance Comment: Europeans- Incledon, Johnstone, Bologna Jun., Claremont, Clarke, Wilde, Gray, Curties, Whitmore, Blurton, Silvester,Little, Fairclough, Linton Jun., Smith, Hitchcock, Sawyer, Master Little, Master Ramage, Master Bernard, Master Platt [Miss Mitchell, Mrs Mills; Indians- [H. Johnson, Munden, Townsend, Emery, Hill, Farley, Klanert, Abbot, Thompson, Street, Russel, Tett, Linton, Everett, Oddwell, ThomasKenrick, Master Sawyer, Master Speare, Master Slape, Master Goodwin, Master Standen [Mrs Chapman, Miss Sims, Miss Gray, Miss Wheatley, Miss Walcup, Mrs Wybrow, Mrs Watts, Mrs Bologna, Mrs Iliff, Mrs Castelle, Miss Leserve, Mrs Masters, Mrs Norton, Mrs Gilbert, Mrs Whitmore, Mrs Lloyd, Miss Burnett, Mrs Blurton, A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [Miss Waters]); [Cast from Songs (T. Rickaby, 1798), and playbill of 24 Oct. 1799: [Europeans. Sidney-Incledon; Liffey-Johnstone; Officers-Bologna Jun., Clarke, Curties, Whitmore, Blurton, Silvester; English Prisoners-Claremont, Wilde, Gray; Eliza-Miss Mitchell; Margaret-Mrs Mills; [Indians. Zemaun-H. Johnston; Chellingoe-Munden; Holkar-Townsend; Rajah-Emery; Govinda-Hill; Officer-Farley; Guards and Attendants-Klanert, Abbot, Thompson; Soldiers-Street, Russel, Tett, Everett, Oddwell, Thomas; Indian Officer-Linton; Alminah-Mrs Chapman; Agra-Miss Sims; Orsana-Miss Gray; Women of the Zenana-Miss Wheatley, Miss Walcup, Mrs Wybrow, Mrs Watts, Mrs Bologna, Mrs Iliff, Mrs Castelle, Miss Leserve, Mrs Masters, Mrs Norton, Mrs Gilbert, Mrs Whitmore, Mrs Lloyd, Miss Burnett, Mrs Blurton; Zelma-Miss Waters. [Little-Master Platt, Kenrick-Master Standen are unassigned.]

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost

Entertainment: Procession. End II: A Return from a Tiger Hunt- [, to the Rajah's Palace, representing the Rajah on an Elephant, returning from Hunting the Tiger, preceded by his Hircarrahs, or military Messengers, and his State Palanquin-the Vizier on another Elephant-the Princess in a Gaurie, drawn by Buffaloes-the Rajah is attended by his Fakeer, or Soothsayer, his Officers of State, and by an Ambassador from Tippoo Sultaun in a Palanquin; also by Nairs (or Soldiers from the South of India), Poligars (or Inhabitants of the Hilly Districts), with their Hunting-dogs, other Indians carrying a dead Tiger, and young Tigers in a Cage; a number of Seapoys-Musicians on Camels and on Foot-Dancing Girls. [This was included in all subsequent performances.

Event Comment: 2nd piece [1st time; F 1, by Thomas John Dibdin; incidental music by John Moorehead]: Altered from [Die Witwe und das Reitpferd, This Day is published The Horse and the Widow (1s.). 3rd piece: Altered into Two acts. Receipts: #187 17s. 6d. (180.6.6; 7.11.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Birth Day

Afterpiece Title: The Horse and the Widow

Afterpiece Title: Albert and Adelaide

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Incledon, Emery, Clarke, Betterton, Townsend, Miss Gilbert, Simmons, Claremont, Mrs Atkins, Miss Walcup, Mrs Whitmore, Mrs Chapman; Chorus of Soldiers and Followers in the Black Forest-Oddwell, Clarke, Sawyer, Curties, Little, Thomas, Everett, J. Linton, Smith, Lee; Chorus of Guards in the Castle-Linton, Street, Abbot, Kenrick, Silvester, Jones, Fairclough, Tett, Russel. [And see17981211.]And see17981211.]
Related Works
Related Work: Albert and Adelaide; or, The Victim of Constancy Author(s): Thomas Attwood

Dance: In 3rd piece: Procession and Dance of Swabian Peasants, as17981211, but Miss _Gray

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Distress'd Innocence; Or, The Princess Of Persia

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rape; Or, The Innocent Impostors

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Married Beau; Or, The Curious Impertinent

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift; Or, The Fool In Fashion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Novelty 0

Afterpiece Title: The Novelty 1; Thyrsis, A Pastoral

Afterpiece Title: The Novelty 2; All Without Money

Afterpiece Title: The Novelty 3; Hercules [By Peter Motteux

Afterpiece Title: The Novelty 4; The Unfortunate Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Novelty 5; Natural Magick