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Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts: #276 12s. (126.15.0; 10.2.6; 2.17.0; Tickets: 136.17.6) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Semiramis

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performance Comment: Leander-Vernon; Don Diego-Bannister; Mungo-Fawcett; Ursula-Mrs Love; Leonora-Miss Abrams.
Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Vernon
Event Comment: Benefit for Grist, Messink & Blurton. Tickets delivered by Follett will be taken. Receipts: #201 14s. (38.12; 8.14; 0.0; tickets: 154.8) (charge: #65 6s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Performance Comment: As17770509, but Henry-Vernon; Jenny-Mrs Wrighten.
Cast
Role: Henry Actor: Vernon

Dance: End I: The Corn Thrashers, as17770419; End II: a Hornpipe-Master Staples (scholar of Blurton)

Ballet: End: The Wapping Landlady. Jack in Distress-Blurton; Wapping Landlady-Mr Griffiths; Orange Woman-Mrs Sutton

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. Public Advertiser, 23 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister at Starzaker's, the Upper End of Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #246 12s. 6d. [77.0.0; 13.1.6; 0.10.0; tickets: 156.1.0) (charge: #65 17s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: As17771002, but Hawthorn-Bannister; Young Meadows-Webster (1st appearance in that character); Hodge-Vernon (1st appearance in that character); Rosetta-Mrs Baddeley.
Cast
Role: Hodge Actor: Vernon

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Cast
Role: Lubin Actor: Vernon

Dance: End II: The Sailors' Revels-Blurton

Event Comment: Benefit for Dodd. Afterpiece: With Alterations. Not acted these 50 years [acted 31 Dec. 1739]. Public Advertiser, 6 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Dodd at his house, New Ormond-street. Receipts: #272 4s. 6d. (117.4.0; 13.19.0; 2.1.6; tickets: 139.0.0) (charge: #66 15s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Cast
Role: Lady Wishfor't Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: Britons, Strike Home

Performance Comment: ; or, The Sailor's Rehearsal. Principal Characters-Vernon, Aickin, Bannister, Baddeley, Wrighten, Burton, Norris. [Edition of 1739 lists the parts: Captain Briton, Lieutanant Meanwell, Sir John Freehold, Export, Dapperwit, Foremost, Bowsprit, Father Dominique, Capstern, Starboard, Helmaloe, Don Jack, Don Uric, Kitty.]Edition of 1739 lists the parts: Captain Briton, Lieutanant Meanwell, Sir John Freehold, Export, Dapperwit, Foremost, Bowsprit, Father Dominique, Capstern, Starboard, Helmaloe, Don Jack, Don Uric, Kitty.]
Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Farren. Receipts: #145 13s. 6d. (60.11.0; 16.17.6; 1.1.0; tickets: 67.4.0) (charge: #76 18s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Discovery

Cast
Role: Lady Medway Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performance Comment: Sir John Loverule-Vernon; Jobson-Moody; Lady Loverule-Mrs Johnston; Nell-Miss Farren (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Sir John Loverule Actor: Vernon
Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. Public Advertiser, 10 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 8, Air-street, Piccadilly

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry Iv, With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Performance Comment: Hotspur-Wroughton; King-Bensley; Prince of Wales-Bannister Jun. (1st appearance in that character); Westmoreland-Thompson; Sir Walter Blunt-Booth; Sir Richard Vernon-Hull; Worcester-Fearon; Poins-Robson; Bardolph-Egan; Francis-Cushing; Carriers-Wewitzer, Messink; Sir John Falstaff-Henderson; Hostess-Mrs Pitt; Lady Percy-Mrs Hartley.
Cast
Role: Sir Richard Vernon Actor: Hull

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Dance: As17790216

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Colles, the Widow Legg & Miss Kirby. Morning Post, 17 May: Tickets to be had of Miss Kirby, No. 70, Long-acre [others not listed]. Receipts: #225 15s. (37.9.0; 11.11.6; 1.2.6; tickets: 175.120) )charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry Iv

Cast
Role: Sir Richard Vernon Actor: Farren

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

Performance Comment: Byron-Vernon; Sir Harry Muff-Dodd; General Worry-Parsons; Spy-Baddeley; Gardeners-Fawcett, Chaplin, Holcroft; Jenny-Mrs Wrighten; Narcissa-Miss Kirby.
Cast
Role: Byron Actor: Vernon
Event Comment: Benefit for Dodd. Mainpiece: Not acted these 20 years. Public Advertiser, 18 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Dodd, New Ormond-street. Receipts: #192 11s. 6d. (65.11.0; 21.13.6; 0.7.0; tickets: 105.0.0) (charge: #78 4s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant; Or, The Way To Win Him

Afterpiece Title: The ChristmasTale

Performance Comment: Floridor-Vernon; Bonoro-Bannister; Nigromant-Gaudry; Faladel-Burton; Tycho-Dodd; Robinette-Mrs Wrighten; Camilla-Mrs Baddeley.
Cast
Role: Floridor Actor: Vernon

Dance: As17791122

Event Comment: Benefit for Brereton. 2nd piece [1st time; INT I, by Hannah Cowley; not published]. Public Advertiser, 18 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Brereton, No. 11, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #246 14s. 6d. (90.4.0; 26.0.6; 0.0.0; tickets: 130.10.0) (charge: #69 9s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Cast
Role: Mrs Heidelberg Actor: Mrs Hopkins.

Afterpiece Title: The School of Eloquence

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Vernon, Parsons, Moody, Bannister, Baddeley, Bannister Jun., Waldron, Lamash, Burton, [Larpent MS 515 lists the parts: Moderator, Irishman, Member, Scotchman, Frenchman, Welchman, Buck; synopsis of plot in Morning Chronicle, 5 Apr.]Larpent MS 515 lists the parts: Moderator, Irishman, Member, Scotchman, Frenchman, Welchman, Buck; synopsis of plot in Morning Chronicle, 5 Apr.]

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

Cast
Role: Azor Actor: Vernon
Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Sherry and Miss Wright. Tickets delivered by Daglish will be taken. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. Public Advertiser, 22 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Sherry, No. 2, Little Russel Street, Covent Garden; of Miss Wright, No. 54, Drury-lane. Receipts: #257 15s. (48.9.0; 10.8.6; 0.11.6; tickets: 198.6.0) (charge: #89 5s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Selima And Azor

Performance Comment: Azor-Vernon; Ali-Dodd; Scander-Bannister; Fatima-Miss Collett; Lesbia-Miss Abrams; Selima-Miss Wright (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Azor Actor: Vernon

Song: With the original Music composed by Matthew Locke, with full Chorusses and additional accompaniments,-Bannister, Gaudry, Chaplin, Fawcett, Holcroft, Philimore, Kenny, Miss Simson, Miss Abrams, Mrs Love, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Smith, Miss Kirby, Mrs Gaudry, Miss Collett; End I: song-Miss Wright

Event Comment: Benefit for Hurst and Burton. Public Advertiser, 26 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Hurst at More's, pastry cook, the East End of the New Church, Strand; of Burton, No. 149, Fleet-street. Receipts: #111 18s. (27.0.0; 20.19.6; 0.13.6; tickets: 63 .5.0) (charge: #64 11s. 6d.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Performance Comment: As17791124, but Master Stephen (for that night only)-Vernon.
Cast
Role: Master Stephen Actor: Vernon.

Afterpiece Title: Who's The Dupe

Cast
Role: Sandford Actor: Aickin

Dance: As17791215

Song: End IV: As17800411

Event Comment: Benefit for Delpini and Sga Crespi. Morning Chronicle, 22 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Delpini, No. 1, Hay-Market [Sga Crespi not listed]. Afterpiece: With Storming of Fort Omoa, as 12 Jan. Receipts: #163 11s. (42.4.0; 15.10.6; 0.12.6; tickets: 105.4.0) (charge: #89 17s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Amiens Actor: Vernon

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Wright; Clown (for that night)-Delpini; Colombine (for that night)-Sga Crespi; the other Characters-Chaplin, Burton, Wrighten, Philimore, Williams, Norris, Miss Kirby; Principal Sailors [in Storming scene]-Vernon, Gaudry.

Dance: End I: a new Comic Pantomime Dance, The Savoyards-Delpini, Sga Crespi, Henry, Miss Armstrong; End IV: Minuet, Allemande-Delpini, Sga Crespi

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett, Spencer & Chaplin. Receipts: #273 2s. (45.9; 11.13; 0.3; tickets: 215.17) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Hopkins.

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Performance Comment: As17800509, but 1st Principal Sailor-Vernon; Spencer, Chaplin, Fawcett. Spencer, Chaplin, Fawcett.

Entertainment: Vaudeville. Jump through a Tub of Fire, as17800509, but _Wright, Spencer

Event Comment: Benefit for Richard Brinsley Sheridan [who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Afterpiece: With a Sea Fight and Procession. [These were included in all subsequent performances.] The Scenery designed by De Loutherbourg, and executed under his direction. Receipts: #236 3s. 6d. (200.17.0; 35.0.0; 0.6.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #73 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: Touchstone-King (1st appearance this season); Orlando-Brereton; Amiens (with songs)-Vernon; Duke Senior-Aickin; Adam-Moody; Oliver-Packer; Duke Frederick-Chaplin; William-Burton; Corin-Waldron; Jaques de Bois-Lamash; Silvius-R. Palmer; Le Beau-Phillimore; Charles-Wrighten; Jaques-Palmer; Caelia (with the Cuckow song)-Mrs Baddeley; Phoebe-Miss Kirby; Audrey (1st time)-Mrs Wrighten; Rosalind-Mrs Crawford (1st appearance on this stage these 6 years).
Cast
Role: Amiens Actor: Vernon
Role: Rosalind Actor: Mrs Crawford

Afterpiece Title: The Critic; or, A Tragedy Rehears'd

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by King, Dodd, Palmer, Parsons, Baddeley, Mrs Hopkins. Principal Tragedians by Farren, Waldron, Burton, Packer, Lamash, Bannister Sen., Miss Pope. Cast from text (T. Becket, 1781): Puff-King; Dangle-Dodd; Sneer-Palmer; Sir Fretful Plagiary-Parsons; Interpreter-Baddeley; Mrs Dangle-Mrs Hopkins; Tragedians: Earl of Leicester-Farren; Sir Christopher Hatton-Waldron; Sir Walter Raleigh-Burton; Justice-Packer; Son-Lamash; Don Ferolo Whiskerandos-Bannister Sen.; Tilburina-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Mrs Dangle Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Dance: End I: The Butterfly, as17800921

Song: V: song-Miss Field

Event Comment: Benefit for Wright and Butler, carpenter. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. Receipts: #226 3s. (29.16.0; 12.15.6; 0.5.6; tickets: 183.6.0) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A School For Fathers

Performance Comment: As17810421, but Lionel-Vernon.
Cast
Role: Lionel Actor: Vernon.
Role: Lady Mary Oldboy Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: End II: a Hornpipe-Master Butler, scholar to Miller

Song: End: As17810424

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Webb. Morning Chronicle, 17 July: Tickets to be had of Mrs Webb, No. 22, corner of Broad Court, Bow-street, Covent Garden. "Old Jack, instead of appearing with all that easy, flowing, negligent facetiousness which the poet has so inimitably pourtrayed, assumed the part of moral solemnity, and every joke was delivered with a sort of sententious dignity that destroyed its natural impression" (General Advertiser, 22 July)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry Iv, With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Performance Comment: Falstaff (for that night only)-Mrs Webb; Hotspur-A Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified]); King-Bensley; Westmorland-Usher; Sir Walter Blunt-Riley; Prince John-Master Farley; Worcester-Gardner; Poins-R. Palmer; Vernon-Davies; Bardolph-Wewitzer; Francis-Barrett; Carriers-Parsons, Burton; Prince of Wales-Palmer; Hostess-Mrs Love; Lady Percy-Mrs Cuyler .
Cast
Role: Vernon Actor: Davies

Afterpiece Title: Gretna Green

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick, Fox, Hamilton and Bates. Tickets sold at the doors will not be admitted. Charges #65 14s. 6d. Deficit to each actor #5 9s. 1 1!2d., covered by income from tickets: Quick #45 13s. (Box 40; Pit 169; Gallery 103); Fox #54 13s. (Box 60; Pit 219; Gallery 68); Hamilton #28 12s. (Box 40; Pit 72; Gallery 78); Bates #27 3s. (Box 28; Pit 69; Gallery 98). Paid Mr Osborne the Balance due for Benefit of New General Lying in Hospital the 22d Dec. last #10 17s. 6d. Half values from tickets receiv'd from Rose, Wilkinson, Mrs Griffiths, Flight, Roberts, Robson, Norbury, Fransdorf, Miller, and Walker (Account Book). Receipts: #43 18s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petruchio

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors, as17691018

Event Comment: Paid Messrs Cradock & Hughes, Executors to the late Mr Wood for a note with interest & costs. Paid Mr Kent their attorney #96 12s. Receipts: #76 7s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius; Or, The Force Of Love

Related Works
Related Work: The Weathercock Author(s): Theodosius Forrest

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Dance: As17500201

Event Comment: Benefit for Havard. [See Theatrical Review; or, Annals of the Drama, 1 May 1763 for a critique on the afterpiece (pp. 196-99).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Performance Comment: Principals by: Havard, Packer, Lee, Mrs Davies, Miss Haughton, Mrs Hopkins, Miss Pope. Thoughtless-Havard; Sensible-Packer; Lord Loveall-Lee; Lady Candid-Mrs Hopkins; Mrs Thoughtless-Mrs Davies; Pompone-Miss Pope; Miss Thoughtless-Miss Haughton; farce attributed to Havard, not printed (London Magazine, April 1763). farce attributed to Havard, not printed (London Magazine, April 1763).
Cast
Role: Lady Candid Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Event Comment: Benefit for Holland. Farce never before acted. Part of Pit laid into boxes. Farce written by the author of Lionel and Clarissa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Performance Comment: Antony-Barry; Ventidius-Holland; Dolabella-Aickin; Octavia-Mrs Hopkins; Alexas-Packer; Serapion-Bransby; Charmion-Mrs Johnston; Romans-Ackman, Strange; Iras-Mrs Hippisley; Cleopatra-Mrs Dancer; In Act II, a Dance- incident to the play.
Cast
Role: Octavia Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Absent Man

Performance Comment: Parts-King, Palmer, Cautherly, J. Palmer, Hurst, Fawcett, J. Burton, Mrs Barry, Mrs Jeffries, Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Hopkins. With a Prologue-; Shatterbrain-King; Frank-Palmer; Weldon-Cautherly; Dr Gruel-Hurst; Capt. Slang-J. Palmer; Mrs Junket-Mrs Hopkins; Miss Frolick-Mrs Jeffries; Flavia-Mrs W. Barry; Landlady-Mrs Bradshaw; Coxcomb-Fawcett (Genest, V, 167).

Dance: V: The Wake, as17680220

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. The Absent Man published at 1s. [During the Easter Week holidays the text of the afterpiece had been changed. The advance bill in the Public Advertiser (31 March) notes "With Additions" and omits Mrs Hopkins from the list of characters.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Absent Man

Performance Comment: As17680321 but Mrs Junket-Mrs Johnston; Miss Frolick-Miss Reynolds (MacMillan). [Public Advertiser does not list Miss Reynolds, and omits Mrs Hopkins.]Public Advertiser does not list Miss Reynolds, and omits Mrs Hopkins.]

Dance: End: The Wake, as17680220

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Samuel Jackson Pratt. Not in Larpent MS; not published. Prologue printed in Westminster Magazine, Apr. 1778, p.218; author unknown]. Public Advertiser, 2 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bensley, Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury. Receipts: #230 16s. 6d. (131.6.0; 25.4.0; 0.7.6; tickets: 73.19.0) (charge: #66 9s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Joseph Andrews

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Palmer, Parsons, Baddeley, Burton, Lamash, Mrs Hopkins, Mrs Wrighten, Miss Sherry, Mrs Robinson. Cast from Morning Chronicle, 21 Apr.: Joseph Andrews-Palmer; Peter Pounce-Parsons; Captain Wilson-Baddeley; Coupee-Burton; Lord Didapper-Lamash; Slipslop-Mrs Hopkins; Jenny-Mrs Wrighten; Lady Booby-Miss Sherry; Fanny-Mrs Robinson; New Prologue-Bensley.
Cast
Role: Slipslop Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Dance: As17780109

Event Comment: Benefit for Dickinson, pit office-keeper. Public Advertiser, 16 May: Tickets to be had of Dickinson, No. 5, Wild-court, Wild-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Receipts: #276 13s. (48.16; 9.0; 0.14; tickets: 218.3) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Performance Comment: George Barnwell-Brereton; Thorowgood-Hurst; Trueman-Davies; Uncle-Wrighten; Blunt-Burton; Maria-Miss P. Hopkins (1st appearance in that character); Lucy-Mrs Davies; Millwood-Miss Hopkins (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Maria Actor: Miss P. Hopkins
Role: Millwood Actor: Miss Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Dance: End: Hornpipe, as17780518

Song: In I: song-Miss Abrams

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author's [of mainpiece] Heirs. Receipts: #129 13s. (92.11.0; 35.5.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Deception

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Palmer, Aickin, Baddeley, Farren, Lamash, Waldron, Nash, Philimore, Parsons, Miss Pope, Mrs Hopkins, Mrs Brereton, Miss Farren. Cast adjusted from London Chronicle, 30 Apr. 1779: Sir Harry Varnish-Palmer; Fairgrove-Aickin; Rudely-Baddeley; Charles Fairgrove-Farren; Flippant-Lamash; Robin-Waldron; Welford-Parsons; Kitty-Miss Pope; Lady Varnish-Mrs Hopkins; Sophia Welford-Mrs Brereton; Louisa Freemore-Miss Farren; unassigned-Nash, Philimore.

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

Cast
Role: Byron Actor: Vernon
Event Comment: Benefit for Waldron. Public Advertiser, 9 May: Tickets to be had of Waldron, No. 19, Martlet-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Mainpiece [1st time in London; C 5, by Francis Godolphin Waldron, 1st acted at Richmond, Aug. 1782, as The Belle's Stratagem; or, The Female Fortune-Hunters, and again at the HAY in 1794 as Heigho for a Husband! Prologue by the author (MacMillan, Larpent Catalogue, 100). Author of Epilogue unknown. MS: Larpent 599; not published]. Afterpiece: Not acted these 8 years. The Indisposition which prevented King from performing last Friday continuing, Palmer has very kindly undertaken and studied the Character King intended to have appeared in this Evening. Receipts: #126 15s. 6d. (34/5/0; 21/18/6; 2/15/0; tickets: 67/17/0) (charge: #106 9s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Imitation; Or, The Female Fortune-hunters

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Palmer, Brereton, Aickin, Moody, Baddeley, Wrighten, Suett, Chapman, Wright, Alfred, Parsons; Mrs Bulkley, Mrs Wrighten, Mrs Hopkins, Miss Tidswell, Miss Farren. [Cast from European Magazine, May 1783, p. 387: Frank Millclack-Palmer; Young Rackrent-Brereton; General Fairlove-Aickin; O'Sock-Moody; Timothy-Baddeley; Manager-Wrighten; Strolling Players-Suett, Chapman, Wright, Alfred; Old Rackrent-Parsons; Charlotte Fairlove-Mrs Bulkley; Dorothy-Mrs Wrighten; Mrs Millclack-Mrs Hopkins; Chambermaid-Miss Tidwell; Maria-Miss Farren.] Prologue spoken by Bannister Jun. Epilogue spoken by Miss Farren . Prologue spoken by Bannister Jun. Epilogue spoken by Miss Farren .
Cast
Role: Mrs Millclack Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies' Frolick

Dance: After the Epilogue The Butterfly, as17830426; In Act I of afterpiece the Crutch Dance {performers not listed)

Song: In Act II of mainpiece song on the Knights of St. Patrick, &c. (singer not listed)