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Event Comment: Benefit for Branson, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Jones, and Miss Besford. Tickets deliver'd by Roffe will be taken. Charges #65 12s. 6d. Deficit to beneficiaries #23 1s., divided as follows: Branson #11 10s. 6d.; Mrs Lampe and Mrs Jones combined #5 15s. 3d.; Miss Besford #5 15s. 3d., covered by income from tickets (Account Book). @Tickets Box Pit Gallery Value@Branson 135 224 178 #85 3s.@Mrs Lampe and Mrs Jones 88 109 76 #45 19s.@Miss Besford 23 82 81 #26 3s.@ [No record of Roffe's tickets appears in the Account Book this night.] Receipts: #42 11s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Ophelia Actor: Mrs Mattocks

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Performance Comment: Scribble-Lewes, first time; Honeycombe-Quick; Ledger-Dunstall; Mrs Honeycombe-Mrs Pitt; Nurse-Mrs Copin; Polly (with the Original Epilogue)-Miss Besford, her first appearance as an actress.
Cast
Role: Mrs Honeycombe Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Copin

Dance: I: A New Dance-Langrish, Miss Besford, as17730426 III: A Highland Reel-Aldridge, Sga Manesiere, Miss Besford [see17680307]

Event Comment: Afterpiece a Mock Opera, written by Shakespear. The Music composed by J. F. Lampe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

Performance Comment: Pyramus-Beard; Lyon-Reinhold; Wall-Laguerre; Moonshine-Roberts; Thisbe-Mrs Lampe [edition of 1745]; The Dances-Cooke, LaLauze, Picq, Villeneuve, Delagarde, Mrs Delagarde, Mrs Duval (General Advertiser).
Event Comment: Benefit T. Cibber?. Afterpiece with a variety of songs adapted to the several characters. The Music entirely new, composed by Lampe. The songs are printed and will be deliver'd gratis at the theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Papal Tyranny

Performance Comment: As17450215, but Abbot-Marten; Pandulph-Gibson; Epilogue-Mrs Clive; Prologue-_.
Cast
Role: Pandulph Actor: Gibson
Role: Epilogue Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Arundel Actor: Anderson
Role: Lady Constance Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Blanch Actor: Mrs Bellamy

Afterpiece Title: What DYe Call It

Performance Comment: As17441124, but Filbert-Beard; Kitty-Mrs Lampe; Dorcas-Mrs Dunstall; Justice, Prologue, Ghosts, Countrymen, Soldiers, Constables-Laguerre, Bencraft, Rosco, Marten, Arthur, Carr, Stoppelaer, Hayman, Vaughan, Anderson, Dunstall; Timothy-Cibber; Sir Roger-_; Steward-_.

Dance: Cooke

Event Comment: A Grand Concert. 6 p.m. Boxes 4s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d. Afterwards will be given Gratis...Daily Advertiser, 20 Jan.: Last Night the Musical Entertainment call'd The Queen of Spain, was receiv'd by a numerous Audience with great Approbation. The Artificial Scene hereafter will be omitted, it not being connected with the rest, not any way answering what was promised by the Projector who offered it. Music by J. F. Lampe; words by James Ayres

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Queen Of Spain Or Fairinelli At Madrid

Performance Comment: King-Waltz; Farinelli-Sullivan; Marquis-Messing; English Sailors-Ashpey; Spaniard-Don Diego DiAspino; Queen-Mrs Lampe; concluding with an Artificial Scene-.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Lampe

Music: A new Sonata, in four parts, by Lampe-

Song: New Song The Shepherd's Invitation-Sullivan; A new Song To Sylvia-Miss Young

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Written by Shakespear. Music compos'd by Lampe. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Performance Comment: Brute-Bridgwater; Constant-Hale; Heartfree-Ryan; Col Bully-Beard, (in which character he introduc'd the songs proper to the play); Rake-Gibson; Justice-Marten; Razor-Woodward; Lady Fanciful-Mrs Vincent; Belinda-Mrs Hale; Mademoiselle-Miss Hippisley; Lady Brute-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Lady Fanciful Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Hale
Role: Lady Brute Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

Performance Comment: Pyramus-Beard; Lion-Reinhold; Wall-Laguerre; Moonshine-Roberts; Thisbe-Mrs Lampe.
Cast
Role: Thisbe Actor: Mrs Lampe.
Event Comment: Tickets deliver'd by Mrs Lampe, Mrs Jones, Mrs Morris, Miss Cranfield and Mr Hollingsworth will be admitted. Doors opened at half past 5. To begin at half past 6

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: Archer-Lewis, first time; Aimwell-Whitefield, first time; Scrub-Quick; Gibbet-Booth; Bonniface-Dunstall; Sir Charles Freeman-DuBellamy; Sullen-Thompson; Foigard-Fox; Dorinda-Mrs Mattocks; Cherry-Miss Brown; Lady Bountiful-Mrs Pitt; Mrs Sullen-Mrs Lessingham.
Cast
Role: Dorinda Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: Lady Bountiful Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Mrs Sullen Actor: Mrs Lessingham.

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: I: A Hornpipe-Miss Cranfield; II: The Pilgrim, as17750503

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Drummer

Cast
Role: Fantome Actor: Anderson
Role: Lady Trueman Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Abigail Actor: Mrs Macklin.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer with the Loves of Pluto and Proserpine With Alterations

Performance Comment: Pluto-Howard; Ascalax-Baker; Proserpine-Mrs Storer; Witches-Legge; Mrs Lampe, Mrs Arne, Miss Young; Harlequin- (1752 ed.).
Cast
Role: Proserpine Actor: Mrs Storer
Event Comment: In Three Acts. Set to Musick after the Italian Manner by Mr John Frederick Lampe. Daily Advertiser, 8 Nov.: The Arrival of his Highness the Prince of Orange, indeed, prevented many Persons of Quality from being there, who had taken Boxes; but 'tis presum'd it cannot fail of Success and Encouragement notwithstanding

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Opera Of Operas

Performance Comment: Tom Thumb-Master Kilburn, the first time of his appearance on any stage; King Arthur-Stoppelaer; Dollalolla-Mrs Clive; Merlin-Nichols; Noodle-Mountier; Doodle-Snider; Foodle-Rainton; Parson-Snider; Bailiff-Rainton; Follower-Nichols; Cleora-Miss Atherton; Mustacha-Miss Palms; Grizzle and Ghost of Gaffer Thumb-Waltz; Huncamunca-Mrs Mason; Glumdalca-Topham, who never appeared on any stage before .

Dance:

Event Comment: A New English Opera. [Text by Thomas Lediard.] Set to Musick after the Italian Manner by Mr John Frederick Lampe. The Scenes and Cloaths are entirely New. With the Representation of a Transparent Theatre. Curiously Illuminated, and adorn'd with a great Number of Emblems, Mottos, Devices, and Inscriptions; and embellish'd with Machines, in a Manner entirely new. N.B. The Illuminations and other Preparations for this Opera are such, that no Person whatever can be admitted to the Stage. Pit and Boxes put together at 6s. Gallery 3s. 6 p.m. [For a discussion of Lediard and this work, see a series of articles by Ifan Kyrle Fletcher, Sybil Rosenfeld, and Richard Southern in Theatre Notebook, II (1948), 42-54.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Britannia

Performance Comment: Britannia-Miss Cecilia Young; but edition of 1732 lists: Jupiter-Barret; Neptune-Snider; Mars-Waltz; Phoebus-Mountier; Honour-Waltz; Valour-Baker; Liberty-Snyder; Britannia-Miss Cecilia Young; Publick Virtue-Miss Susanna Mason; Victory, Concord, Peace-Mrs Seedo; Discord-Comano; Faction-Mynet [a note adds that later it was Phoebus-$Barret; Neptune-$Mountier]..
Cast
Role: Peace Actor: Mrs Seedo
Event Comment: GGeneral Advertiser: Last week the celebrated Mr and Mrs Lampe and Mrs Vincent arrived in Dublin from England

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Event Comment: Benefit for Legg, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Jones, Miss Besford

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Cast
Role: Lady Grace Actor: Mrs Bulkley
Role: Lady Wronghead Actor: Mrs Pitt

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: Shade of Helen Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: Lady Relish Actor: Mrs Dyer

Dance: II: Double Hornpipe-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford; V: The Fingalian Dance-Miss Besford. [See17591102.

Music: III: Concerto on Trumpet-Mas. Green (Scholar to Mr Jones)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never acted there. Neville MS Diary: Both theatres opened again with The English Merchant. Went into the Pit of cg. Shuter did Freeport pretty well, but had not that appearance of blunt honesty which Yates has in that character....I like Miss Pope better in Molly than Mrs Mattocks. Mrs Goodman by Mrs Ward, who is a very different figure now from what she was some years ago. Her daughter did Amelia pretty well, but has a stiffiness and an indifferent voice. End Act III, The Irish Lilt-The celebrated dancer Aldridge, Sga Manesiere. Entertainment Harlequin Dr Faustus. I hope this emulation between the 2 Houses will cause exertion. Receipts: #146 8s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Performance Comment: Freeport-Shuter; Spatter-Woodward; Lord Falbridge-Bensley; Owen-Gibson; La France-Quick; Sir Wm. Douglas-Powell; 1st time; Mrs Goodman-Mrs Ward; Molly-Mrs Mattocks; Lady Alton-Mrs Bellamy; Amelia-Miss Ward.
Cast
Role: Mrs Goodman Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Molly Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: Lady Alton Actor: Mrs Bellamy

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Woodward; Others-Legg, Mrs Baker, Morris, Banks, DuBellamy, Wignell, Dibdin, Weller, Holtom, Mrs Copin, Baker, Mrs Lampe, Miss Helm, Mrs Dyer, Mrs Bulkley; Dances-LaRiviere, Arnauld, Miss Valois, Fishar.

Dance: III: The Irish Lilt, as17670921

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke. Mainpiece: Not acted this season. No Building on Stage. Receipts: #53 15s. 6d. plus #99 14s. from tickets (Box 129; Pit 379; Gallery 106) (Account Book). Charges: #65 17s. 6d. (Account Book). [Query: for Mrs Evans, Miss Mullart?. See Comment, 28 Dec. 1761.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth-Ross; Macduff-Clarke; King-Gibson; Malcolm-Anderson; Donalbain-Bennet; Seyton-Redman; Seyward-R. Smith; Macbeth's Gent.-Holtom; Fleance-Mrs Evans; Banquo-Sparks; Lenox-Hull; Hecate-Wignel; Murderers-Bencraft, Marten; Witches-Collins, Dunstall, Costollo; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Hamilton; Lady MacDuff-Mrs Barrington; With the Original Music. Vocal Parts-Beard, Mrs Vernon, Mattocks, Legg, Baker, Roberts, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Abegg, Miss Young; The Dances-Leppie, Dumay, Gosley, Desse, Rochford and Decorations Incident to the Play.

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Cast
Role: Melissa Actor: Mrs Burden
Role: Kitty Pry Actor: Mrs Green.

Dance: LLes Charboniers, as17601215

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Hartley. Charges #69 2s. 6d. Profit to Mrs Hartley #89 12s. 6d., plus #90 14s. from tickets (Box 270; Pit 132; Gallery 34) (Account Book). Receipts: #158 15s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth-Smith; Macduff-Clarke; Lenox-Hull; Malcolm-Perry; Banquo-Bensley; Duncan-Gardner; Seyton-Thompson; Hecate-Reinhold; Witches-Dunstall, Mrs Pitt, Quick; Vocal Parts-Mattocks, Reinhold, DuBellamy, Baker, Owenson, Fox, Mrs Baker, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Jones; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Hartley, first time.

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: DuBellamy.
Role: Ursula Actor: Mrs Green

Dance: End: New Dance, as17730206

Event Comment: Benefit for Wignel and Mrs Abeg. Mainpiece: Not acted this season. No Building on stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth-Ross; Macduff-Dyer; Banquo-Gibson; Hecate-Wignell; Witches-Collins, Dunstall, Costollo; Lady MacDuff-Mrs Barrington; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Hamilton; With original Music. Vocal parts-Legg, Mrs Vernon, Mattocks, Baker, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Abeg, Miss Young; The Dances-Leppi, Miles, Dumai, Hussey, Rochford.

Afterpiece Title: The Merry Counterfeit

Song: IV: By Desire, the Song With Horns and Hounds, in the character of Diana -Mrs Abeg (From Apollo and Daphne)

Entertainment: H$Hippisley's Drunken Man-Shuter (for the last time this Season)

Dance: TThe Pleasures of Spring, as17620212

Event Comment: Benefit for Mattocks, Mrs Pitt, Mrs Chambers. No Building on Stage. Tickets sold at door not taken. Receipts: #50 9s. 6d. Charges #63. Deficit of #4 3s. 6d. apiece convered by income from tickets: Mattocks, #34 3s. (boxes 48; pit 91; gallery 85); Mrs Pitt, #55 15s. (boxes 14; pit 177; gallery 257); Mrs Chambers, #42 18s. (boxes 70; pit 116; gallery 80 ) (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Marcellus Actor: Anderson
Role: Ophelia Actor: Mrs Chambers
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Elmy.

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Performance Comment: Damon-Mattocks; Palemon-Baker; Laura-Mrs Chambers; Pastora-Mrs Lampe.
Cast
Role: Laura Actor: Mrs Chambers
Role: Pastora Actor: Mrs Lampe.

Dance: The Provincial Sailors, as17580408 a Comic Ballet-

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bulkley. Charges #69 1s. 6d. Profit to Mrs Bulkley #78 13s., plus #100 3s. from tickets (BoX 241; Pit 200; Gallery 99) (Account Book). Receipts: #147 14s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timanthes

Performance Comment: As17711111, but the vocal parts-Mrs Lampe, Mrs Jones, Miss Ogilvie, Miss Valois specified in Vocal Parts to the Procession in addition to those listed.

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: As17720324 but Maria-Mrs Bulkley; Epilogue-_.
Cast
Role: Maria Actor: Mrs Bulkley

Dance: End: A New Dance-Aldridge, Mrs Bulkley

Music: A Concerto on the Trumpet-Master Green

Event Comment: Pantomime reviv'd not acted these 8 years. [See 17 May 1765.] Paid Mrs Topsham for Women's cloaths as per bill #24 (Account Book). Receipts: #228 5s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Performance Comment: As17721021, but Mariana-Mrs Bulkley.
Cast
Role: Mariana Actor: Mrs Bulkley.
Role: Harriet Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: Lappet Actor: Mrs Green

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Lewes; Pantaloon-Morris; Clown-Cushing; Colombine-Miss Twist; The Witches-Mattocks, Miss Wewitzer, Legg, Baker, Owenson, Fox, Miss Valois, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Jones; Shepherd-DuBellamy; Shepherdess-Miss Wewitzer; Pluto-Reinhold; Proserpine-Mrs Baker; The Dances-Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford.
Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Higness the Prince of Wales. Afterpiece: A Masque of Musick. Receipts: #69 18s. (Account Book); #100 (Rylands MS.). Rylands MS.: Mrs Barbier sung (hiss'd)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses

Cast
Role: Aura Actor: Mrs Woffington
Role: Flora Actor: Mrs Bellamy.

Afterpiece Title: Pan and Syrinx

Performance Comment: Pan-Rheinhold; Thyrsis-Leveridge; Diana-Mrs Chambers; Mopsa-Mrs Lampe; Syrinx-Mrs Barbier; the first time of her performing upon that stage; with proper dances-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini.
Cast
Role: Diana Actor: Mrs Chambers
Role: Mopsa Actor: Mrs Lampe
Role: Syrinx Actor: Mrs Barbier

Dance: HHarlequin Dance-Mechel, Mlle Mechel

Event Comment: Adapted for the stage, as alter'd from Milton's Masque at Ludlow Castle (General Advertiser). Benefit for Beard. Ready Money #94 15s., plus #102 9s. from tickets. Charges #60. Paid Mrs Lane for Rent of Cowley in full to Michaelmas last #41. (Account Books, Egerton 2268) [Cowley was Rich's estate at Uxbridge. Notice about Amphitheatre (see 23 March) repeated.] Tickets of Beard at his house in Red Lyon Square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Quin; Bacchanal-Beard; Elder Brother-Ryan; Younger Brother-Cashell; 1st Spirit-Havard; 2nd Spirit-Ridout; Euphrosyne-Miss Younge; Sabrina-Mrs Lampe; Lady-Mrs Pritchard; Attendant Spirits of Comus-Leveridge, Roberts, Thompson, Mrs Wright; Dances proper to the masque-Villeneuve, Picq, Sga Campioni.

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Cast
Role: Melissa Actor: Mrs Dunstall
Event Comment: Benefit for Barrington and Mrs Lampe. No building on Stage. Receipts: #24 6s. 6d. in cash. Charges #64 5s. Deficit to each beneficiary, #19 19s. 3d., covered by income from tickets: Barrington #48 9s. (Boxes 66; Pit 188; Gallery 69); Mrs Lampe #40 10s. (Boxes 34; Pit 107; Gallery 128). Total income #113 5s. 6d. [At this point in the benefit season the house shows profitable balance on the books of only #225 5s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

Performance Comment: Coriolanus-Smith; Tullus-Clarke; Volusius-Sparks; Menenius-Shuter; Cominius-Ridout; Galesus-Gibson; Brutus-Davis; Sicinius-Bennet; Plebeians-Dunstall, Barrington, Collins, Costollo, Stoppelaer; Volumnia-Mrs Vincent; Veturia-Mrs Hamilton. In which will be introduc'd a Roman Ovation, after the manner of the ancients.

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: III: Fingalian Dance-Miss Hilliard; End: The Threshers-Leppie, Granier, Mlle Capdeville

Event Comment: Benefit Thompson and Mrs Rowley. Mainpiece written by the late Mrs Centlivre. Tickets deliver'd out by Taylor and Wright will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: As17431021, but Miranda-Mrs Clive; Isabinda-Mrs Rowley.
Cast
Role: Miranda Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Isabinda Actor: Mrs Rowley.
Role: Patch Actor: Mrs Mullart.

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Performance Comment: As17431226, but Shade of Hero-Mrs Lampe; 2nd Fury-Villeneuve.
Cast
Role: Shade of Hero Actor: Mrs Lampe
Role: Shade of Leander Actor: Beard
Role: Miller's Wife Actor: Mrs Delagarde
Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Hilliard, and Mrs Storer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Cast
Role: Selima Actor: Mrs Elmy
Role: Zara Actor: Mrs Cibber.

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantly

Performance Comment: Moor-Lowe; Gubbins-Howard; Dragon-Stoppelaer; Margery-Mrs Lampe; Mauxalinda-Mrs Storer.
Cast
Role: Margery Actor: Mrs Lampe
Role: Mauxalinda Actor: Mrs Storer.

Dance: I: Grand Dutch Dance, as17511021; III: A Grand Scots Ballet, as17511009; V: Louvre, Minuet-Cooke, Miss Hilliard

Song: II: (By Particular Desire) an Irish Song call'd Ellen a@roon-Mrs Storer

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mrs Centlivre. Afterpiece: By Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: Marplot-Chapman; Sir George Airy-Ryan; Sir Francis Gripe-Hippisley; Sir Jealous Traffic-Marten; Charles-Hale; Whisper-James; Miranda-Mrs Vincent; Isabinda-Mrs Stevens; Patch-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Miranda Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Isabinda Actor: Mrs Stevens
Role: Patch Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Performance Comment: More-Salway; Gubbins-Waltz; Margerina-Mrs Lampe; Mauxalinda-Miss Young; Dragon-Signor Bencraftini.
Cast
Role: Margerina Actor: Mrs Lampe
Event Comment: TThe Maid of the Mill oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of Mrs Thompson's Indisposition. Receipts: #175 9s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Cast
Role: Isabinda Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: Patch Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Miranda Actor: Miss Macklin.

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performance Comment: As17691106, but Ceres-Mrs Lampe.