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Event Comment: MMrs Cibber to Garrick, 26 Feb. 1746: I despise your vanity when you imagine my danger was as great from Mrs Copin, as yours from Perkin Warbeck; my rival met with disgrace the first night of her appearance; and my not naming her when I writ you about Perkin Jan. 1746] was a piece of generosity scarcely to be met with in the female sex, for my rival was then dismissed the house.--Boaden, Private Correspondence of Garrick, I, 39

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: Kite-I. Sparks; Balance-Bridges; Bullock-Taswell; Melinda-Miss Copin, 1st appearance; Plume-Mills; Brazen-Macklin; Worthy-Havard; Welch Collier-Blakes; Recruits-Neale, Ray; Rose-Mrs Ridout; Lucy-Mrs Bennet; Sylvia-Mrs Woffington.
Cast
Role: Rose Actor: Mrs Ridout
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Sylvia Actor: Mrs Woffington.

Song: I: Lowe; IV: Colin and Phebe-Lowe, Mrs Arne

Dance: II: Grand Serious Dance-M and Mlle Mitchel (lately arrived from Paris); V: A New Grand Comic Dance-M and Mlle Mechel

Event Comment: Benefit for Cooke. [The Devil to Pay was advertised in today's bill, but "Mrs Clive was taken ill, the Anatomist was Play'd" (Cross). Stage and Pit arranged as of 7 March.] Tickets and places to be had of Cooke at Mr Clarke's an Upholsterer in James St., Covent Garden. Receipts. #200 (Cross); charges, #60 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: I: Pastoral Dance-Cooke, Anne Auretti; II: New Scotch Dance, as17490118; III: The Gondoliers-Cooke; V: Louvre and Minuet-Cooke, Anne Auretti

Event Comment: By Particular Desire. Paid to Mrs Lycia Pecke her bill #50 4s.; to Mr Russel 1!2 year's rent to Xmas #30; Arne in full for bill #7 7s.; Norton 5 chorus #1 5s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #100 (Cross); #93 17s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Cast
Role: Second Woman Actor: Mrs Yates
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Prudentia Actor: Miss Murgetroyd

Dance: III: New Comic Dance, as17491228

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Beard. Afterpiece: By Desire. Tickets of Beard at Mrs Coleman's in East St., near Red Lyon Square, and at the Stage Door. Receipts: #300 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Performance Comment: Fribble-Yates; Flash-Woodward; Tag-Mrs Bennet; Miss Biddy-Miss Minors.
Cast
Role: Tag Actor: Mrs Bennet

Song: II: A New Cantata-Beard; III: Hooly and Fairly by Desire-Beard; V: Rule Britannia-Beard, chorus; Britons Strike Home sung in Character-Beard, accompanied with a chorus

Music: IV: A Piece upon the Harp-Parry

Dance: ll concluding with% Hornpipe-Mathews

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cibber. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire, being the last time of performing it this Season. Part of Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Boxes and Stage 5s. Ladies desired to send servants by three o'clock. Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Cast
Role: Sigismunda Actor: Mrs Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: The Last New Sailor's Dance, as17560217

Event Comment: Afterpiece from ye Village Opera (Cross). Benefit for Mrs Pritchard. Tickets at her house in York St., and at Pritchard's Warehouse in Tavistock St. Receipts: #240 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: Dorinda Actor: Mrs Davies
Role: Lady Bountiful Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Mrs Sullen Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: The Villagers

Performance Comment: Principal parts-Palmer, Beard, Yates, Blakes, Vaughan, Burton, Mrs Cross, Mrs Clive, Miss Minors; To Conclude with a Dance-the Villagers.

Dance: IV: New Sailor's Dance, as17560217

Event Comment: Wth Shakespear's ode (by Havard). Mrs Cibber ill, she came tho', and went thro' Ye two first Acts & then Miss Haughton finish'd the Part (Cross). For bt. of Ross, but Ross did not act. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Cast
Role: Jane Shore Actor: Mrs Pritchard

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Performance Comment: As17560121, but Epilogue-Mrs Clive, in the Character of Catherine, containing a hint to the Ladies for the taming of a Husband.

Dance: IV: New Dance-

Song: Anniversary Ode in Commemoration of Shakespeare, as17560401

Event Comment: A Gratis Play. This is put for ye Benefit of Mrs Horton, an old Actress who has left ye Stage some Years, but Mr Morgan (an old Actor) is to have a third of it (Cross). No building on Stage. None behind Scenes. No money returned after Curtain is up. Receipts: #89 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: See17551201. Valentine-Havard; Scandal-Davies; Sir Sampson Legend-Berry; Tattle-Palmer; Foresight-Taswell; Jeremy-Blakes; Ben-Yates (with a song and dance in character); Angelica-Miss Haughton; Mrs Foresight-Mrs Bennet; Nurse-Mrs Bradshaw; Miss Prue-Miss Macklin; Mrs Frail-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Role: Mrs Frail Actor: Mrs Clive.

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: The last New Comic Dance,The Indian Peasants, as17560515

Song: Beard

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cibber. Part of Pit will be laid into Boxes, where servants will be allowed to keep places, and on the stage, which will be formed into an Amphitheatre. Receipts: #253 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: Hastings-Garrick; Shore-Mossop; Jane Shore-Mrs Pritchard; Alicia-Mrs Cibber; Catesby-Mozeen; Ratcliffe-Jefferson; Gloster-Davies; Belmour-Blakes; Darby-Walker.
Cast
Role: Jane Shore Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Alicia Actor: Mrs Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: IV: A New Comic Dance-. [Dancers unspecified.

Event Comment: Benefit for a Widow Gentlewoman. Tickets given out for yesterday the 19th will be taken this night. Receipts: #89 2s. plus #34 1s. from tickets (Box 67; Pit 72; Gallery 65). [Profits to Mrs Belissen, the widow Gentlewoman #39 3s.] Paid Mr Pattinson, the Tallow Chandler sundry bills from 22 Oct. #77 6s. (Account Book). Charges: #84. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Elmy
Role: Mrs Frail Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Miss Prue Actor: Mrs Green
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Angelica Actor: Mrs Hamilton.

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Dance: II: Les Charboniers, as17601216; End: A New Rural Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Vincent. No Building on Stage. Tickets deliver'd out for the Merry Wives of Windsor will be taken. Receipts: #51 4s. plus #88 7s. from tickets (Box 142; Pit 239; Gallery 170) (Account Book). Charges: #64 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wifes Relief

Performance Comment: As17610326 but Cynthia-Mrs Vincent.
Cast
Role: Cynthia Actor: Mrs Vincent.
Role: Aurelia Actor: Mrs Lee
Role: Arabella Actor: Mrs Hamilton.

Afterpiece Title: Florizel and Perdita

Entertainment: After the Farce:(this night only) the Origin, Nature, and Progress of the: Order of British Bucks, with the Whimsical Behavior of Choice Spirits and M. Thurot's Trip to Carrickfergus-Mr Shuter. See17610326

Dance: The Last New Comic Dance-Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Kennedy. Tickets deliver'd for The Mistake will be taken. Last Time of Garrick's Performing Scrub this season. No Building on Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: Mrs Sullen Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Dorinda Actor: Mrs Davies
Role: Lady Bountiful Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Gipsey Actor: Mrs Simson.

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Cast
Role: Miss Harlowe Actor: Mrs Kennedy
Role: Mrs Harlowe Actor: Miss Haughton
Role: Trifle Actor: Mrs Hippisley.

Dance: IV: New Hornpipe-Miss Baker

Event Comment: Benefit for Costollo, Mrs Pitt, Stede. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. No Building on Stage. Tickets sold at the door will not be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Cast
Role: Miss Grantham Actor: Mrs Bellamy
Role: Miss Godfrey Actor: Mrs Burden
Role: Kitty Actor: Mrs Abegg

Afterpiece Title: Marplot in Lisbon

Cast
Role: Isabinda Actor: Mrs Burden
Role: Margaritta Actor: Mrs Younger

Dance: II: New Comic Dance, The Woodcutters-Leppie, a young gentlewoman his scholar; IV: The Taylors, as17620107

Entertainment: After: Hippisley's Drunken Man-Shuter (This Night only)

Event Comment: Benefit for Miles, Mrs Green, and Miss Miller. No Building on Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: As17630406 but Isabinda-Miss Miller, 1st time; Patch-Mrs Green.
Cast
Role: Patch Actor: Mrs Green.
Role: Scentwell Actor: Mrs Ferguson

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Statue or The Jealous Farmer Outwitted

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Miles; Farmer-Buck; Clown-Weller; Country Girl (with a Song in character)-Miss Miller; Colombine-Mrs Dyer; To conclude with a Country Dance-.
Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Dyer

Dance: II: The Drunken Peasant-Miles, Bennet (Peasant-Miles; +Clown-Bennet); IV: A New +Comic Dance, as17630224

Event Comment: Benefit for Costollo, Mrs Pitt, Stede. Mainpiece: For the Last Time this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Cast
Role: Termagant Actor: Mrs Green.

Dance: DDouble Hornpipe (This night only)-Walker (from Drury Lane), Miss Pitt; End III: New Comic Dance-Duquesney, Miss Pitt; End: Venus Reveng'd, as17631222

Event Comment: Benefit for Grimaldi and Aldridge. Tickets deliver'd by Tassoni will be taken. Mr Yates being ill Mrs Ward was borrow'd to play Belvidera (Hopkins). Receipts: #53 18s. (MacMillan); charges: #64 4s. [Deficit to Grimaldi and Aldridge: #10 6s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Performance Comment: As17640313 but Belvidera-Mrs Ward from cg.
Cast
Role: Belvidera Actor: Mrs Ward from cg.

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: II: By desire, a Hornpipe-Miss Rogers; III: A New Dance call'd the Running Footman-Aldridge, Miss Baker; End: The Cow@Keepers-Grimaldi, Miss Rogers

Event Comment: Benefit for Duquesney, Mrs Stephens, Miss Helme

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: As17640127, but Rose-Miss Cokayne; Melinda-Mrs Stephens; Lucy-Miss Helme. The Public Advertiser lists Melinda as Mrs Dyer and as Mrs Stephens. [The former a misprint.]The former a misprint.]

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Cast
Role: Mrs Subtle Actor: Mrs Pitt.

Dance: II: The Cudgell'd Husband, as17640502; III: A Hornpipe-Miss Pitt; IV: The Dutch Skippers-Duquesney, Miss Valois; V: A New Tambourine Dance-Duquesney

Event Comment: AAlexander deferred. Mrs Pritchard Ill

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Millwood Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: a Song Actor: Mrs Vincent.

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Maid Actor: Mrs Bradshaw

Dance: III: New Tambourine, as17640929

Event Comment: Benefit for Hopkins, prompter, and Mrs Hopkins

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Performance Comment: As17650223, but Roxana-Mrs Hopkins, 1st time.
Cast
Role: Roxana Actor: Mrs Hopkins, 1st time.
Role: Statira Actor: Mrs Palmer
Role: Sysigambis Actor: Mrs Bennet

Afterpiece Title: The Capricious Lovers

Dance: III: The Medley, as17641120; I of Farce: Tambourine, as17650427

Entertainment: V: A New Epilogue-Miss Hopkins

Event Comment: Benefit for Hussey, Curtet, Mrs Viviez, Miss Daw. Mainpiece acted but once these 8 years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Cast
Role: Charmion Actor: Mrs Stephens
Role: Iris Actor: Mrs Godwin
Role: Octavia Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Cleopatra Actor: Mrs Bellamy.

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Cast
Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Green.

Dance: II: A New Dance-Hussey, Miss Pitt; III: A Hornpipe-Miss Daw; IV: Blind Man's Buff, as17641003; End: Minuet-Curtet, Miss Barrowby

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Abington

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Performance Comment: As17651203, but Margaretta-Mrs Hopkins; Old Woman-Baddeley; Estifania-Mrs Abington; In Act II Duet-Vernon, Mrs Abington; accompanied by two Guitars-.
Cast
Role: Margaretta Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Estifania Actor: Mrs Abington
Role: In Act II Duet Actor: Vernon, Mrs Abington
Role: Margaritta Actor: Mrs Lee
Role: Altea Actor: Mrs Bennet

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: III: New Tambourine, as17660123

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Plym, and Miss Ford. Tickets diliver'd by Mrs Lee will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Performance Comment: As17660409 but Eumenes-Keen; Sysigambis-Mrs Lee.
Cast
Role: Sysigambis Actor: Mrs Lee.
Role: Statira Actor: Mrs Palmer
Role: Roxana Actor: Mrs Fitzhenry

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: Pinchwife-Lee; Sparkish-Dodd, first time; Margery-Miss Plym, first time; Dorilant-Packer; Harcourt-Aickin; Alithea-Mrs Lee.
Cast
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Lee.

Dance: I: A Comic Dance-Miss Ford; End: The Irish Milk Maids=, as17651209

Entertainment: End: A New Epilogue-Miss Ford

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Simson, Mrs Cross, Tassoni. Tickets deliver'd to Rogier will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Cast
Role: Palmira Actor: Mrs Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Lady Loverule Actor: Mrs Bennet

Dance: End: New Comic Dance-Tassoni, Sga Giorgi; End Farce: A Minuet-Rogier, Miss Rogers (scholar to Noverre)

Event Comment: PPortia, 1st time, by Mrs Abington--very well.--Mr and Miss Hamoir were advertised to dance at the end of the first act, being their first appearance.--At practice this morning Mr Hamoir sprained his leg so bad, he was not able to perform--An apology was made by Mr King; and another dance got ready, and all was quiet (Hopkins Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: As17680930, but Portia-Mrs Abington, 1st time; Add Gobbo-Parsons; Salarino-Hurst; Solanio-Fawcett; Duke-Bransby; Balthazar-Ackman; Tubal-Messink.
Cast
Role: Portia Actor: Mrs Abington, 1st time
Role: Jessica Actor: Mrs Baddeley
Role: Nerissa Actor: Mrs Jeffries.

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leonora Actor: Mrs Arne.
Role: Ursula Actor: Mrs Dorman

Dance: I: A New Comic Dance-Hamoir, Miss Hamoir (their 1st appearance this stage); III: The Piedmontese Mountaineer, as17681103

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Barry. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Afterpiece: By Desire. Last time of performing till the Holidays. Tickets for Isabella will be taken. Part of pit laid into boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Performance Comment: Horatio-Barry; Lothario-Holland; Sciolto-Aickin; Altamont-Packer; Rossano-Ackman; Lucilla-Mrs Johnston; Lavinia-Mrs Stephens; Calista-Mrs Barry.
Cast
Role: Lucilla Actor: Mrs Johnston
Role: Lavinia Actor: Mrs Stephens
Role: Calista Actor: Mrs Barry.

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Cast
Role: Rhodope Actor: Mrs Baddeley.
Role: Sweepers Actor: Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Love
Role: Lady Fuz Actor: Mrs Clive.

Dance: V: New Comic Dance, as17681210