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Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Booth. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Cast
Role: Lady Lurewell Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Angelica Actor: Mrs Booth.

Dance: Mrs Booth

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Violante's Daughter and Mr LaFevre, being the only Reward allow'd them for Performing the whole Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Dance: Mrs Violante, Francisco

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Haughton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Performance Comment: Sir Charles-Giffard; Morelove-W. Williams; Foppington-Bullock; Lady Betty-Mrs Haughton; Lady Easy-Mrs Seal; Lady Graveairs-Mrs Thomas; Edgin-Mrs Kirk.
Cast
Role: Lady Betty Actor: Mrs Haughton
Role: Lady Easy Actor: Mrs Seal
Role: Lady Graveairs Actor: Mrs Thomas
Role: Edgin Actor: Mrs Kirk.

Song: Mrs Mountfort, Miss Thornowets

Dance: PPierrots, Fawns-

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Oldfield. By Thier Majesties' Command. Tickets for Sophonisba will be taken. [The King, Queen, Prince of Wales, and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Performance Comment: As17300219, but Sciolto-Williams; Altamont-Wilks; Horatio-Mills; Calista-Mrs Oldfield; Lavinia-Mrs Horton; Lucilla-Mrs Cibber.
Cast
Role: Calista Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Lavinia Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Lucilla Actor: Mrs Cibber.

Dance: Mrs Booth

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Their Majesties' Command. [The King, Queen, and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Performance Comment: As17291125, but Torrismond-a Gentleman; Queen-Mrs Porter; Raymond-Boman; Gomez-Griffith; from Dublin; Elvira-Mrs Oldfield.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Elvira Actor: Mrs Oldfield.

Dance: Mrs Booth

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Booth. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. Afterpiece: Being particularly desired

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Cast
Role: Millamant Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Mrs Marwood Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Mrs Fainall Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Lady Wishfort Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Foible Actor: Mrs Shireburn.

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Wedding

Dance: Mrs Booth

Event Comment: Benefit Cibber Jr and Mrs Cibber. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: [By Theophilus Cibber.] A New Scotch Ballad Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Performance Comment: See17300119, but Biddy-Mrs Oldfield.
Cast
Role: Biddy Actor: Mrs Oldfield.

Afterpiece Title: Patie and Peggy; or, The Fair Foundling

Performance Comment: Edition of 1730 lists: Sir William Worthy-Williams; Patie-Mrs Roberts; Roger-Cibber Jr; Glaud-Roscoe; Symon-Berry; Peggy-Miss Raftor; Jenny-Mrs Grace; Margery-Mrs Shireburn; Prologue-Cibber Jr; Epilogue-Mrs Cibber Dress'd like a Petit Maitre.

Dance: Mrs Booth, Miss Robinson

Event Comment: By Their Majesties' Command. Benefit Mrs Porter. [King, Queen, and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Last Stake

Dance: Mrs Booth

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Butler

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

Cast
Role: Loveit Actor: Mrs Heron
Role: Harriet Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Emilia Actor: Mrs Butler
Role: Lady Townly Actor: Mrs Grace
Role: Pert Actor: Mrs Mills.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Lady Loverule Actor: Mrs Grace

Dance: Mrs Booth

Event Comment: New Theatre, James Street, near the Haymarket. Benefit Mrs King. [Designation of New Theatre repeated in remaining bills.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: Mrs Sullen-Mrs Baxter; Dorinda-Miss Billoe; Cherry-Mrs Careless.
Cast
Role: Mrs Sullen Actor: Mrs Baxter
Role: Cherry Actor: Mrs Careless.

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performance Comment: Dorcas-Mrs King.
Cast
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs King.

Dance: Mrs Careless, Volage

Event Comment: Benefit Peterson, Mr and Mrs Dunstall. Tickets deliver'd out for Dighton, Pattendon, Bulkely, and Ravenscroft will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice; Or, It Cannot Be

Performance Comment: Crack-Cibber; Surly-Dunstall; Violante-Mrs Dunstall; Sir Courtly Nice-Peterson.
Cast
Role: Violante Actor: Mrs Dunstall

Afterpiece Title: Bickerstaff's Unburied Dead

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Dunstall

Song: Mrs Dunstall

Event Comment: For one Night Only Concert. Prices: 4s., 2s. 6d., after which will be perform'd (Gratis) a new Farce of Three Acts. To begin at 7 p.m. Tickets to be had of Mrs Hooper. [A new play by Mrs Hooper.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cyclopedia

Related Works
Related Work: The Cyclopedia Author(s): Mrs. Hooper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Queen Tragedy Restored

Performance Comment: Principal part-Mrs Hoper.
Cast
Role: Principal part Actor: Mrs Hoper.
Related Works
Related Work: Queen Tragedy Restored Author(s): Mrs. Hooper
Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Hoper. The Second Night. Mrs Hoper's Prologue to the Town, By a Friend: @Tonight a Female author heads the stage@Warm'd by the grand productions of the age;@To shine among the modern Bards aspires,@As the Moon glisters midst the lesser fires:@Pants to be rank'd with Sapho, Phillips, Behn@And prove that women write as well as Men.@Bold in the drama's cause, attacks the fashion@Where Novelty appears the reigning passion,@With drooping spirits draws the Tragic Queen@Like your fine ladies troubled with the spleen:@Nor trusts her meaning to the strolling Elf@But represents the character herself.@ [Suggests her friends reproved her for turning player, but she thought it more honorable than going into debt.] @The Stage is innocent and brings no shame@Unless the players are themselves to blame@'Twas meant as Virtue's School;--Tis no disgrace@To act a virtuous part, in any Place.@ [Closes with appeal to audience to be charitable to "this firstling of her quill, to support her generously with applause. See Daily Advertiser.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Queen Tragedy Restored

Related Works
Related Work: Queen Tragedy Restored Author(s): Mrs. Hooper
Event Comment: At the New Wells, London Spa, Clerkenwell. A concert, etc. For one Night only...By desire...Benefit for Mrs Yeates. Boxes 2s. Pit or Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: Mrs Smith, Brown

Dance: Mrs Smith, Brown

Event Comment: [Mrs Esten's 1st appearance as Juliet was at Edinburgh, 19 Jan. 1790.] In Act I of mainpiece a Masquerade Scene incident to the Play. Afterpiece: The Overture and the rest of the Music composed new by Baumgarten. Receipts: #340 9s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: Romeo-Holman; Capulet-Powel; Benvolio-Davies; Friar Lawrence-Hull; Prince-Macready; Tibalt-Cubitt; Paris-Marshall; Balthazar-Evatt; Mercutio-Lewis; Lady Capulet-Mrs Platt; Nurse-Mrs Powell; Juliet (1st time [in London])-Mrs Esten.
Cast
Role: Lady Capulet Actor: Mrs Platt
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Powell
Role: Juliet Actor: Mrs Esten.

Afterpiece Title: Blue Beard; or, The Flight of Harlequin

Performance Comment: Blue Beard-Darley; Harlequin-Bayzand; Clown-Follett; Brothers to Colombine-Farley, Letteney; Assassins-Rowson, Powers; Haggard-Gray; Waiter-Cross; Little Old Man-Master Webb; Sailor-Rees; Footboy-Simmons; Tippy Bob-Munden; Sister Ann-Miss Leserve; Miss Common-Mrs Rock; Mrs Hoplove-Mrs Cross; Widow Giggle-Mrs Gray; Colombine-Mrs Watts; Daemons of Revenge-Mt Ratchford, Mt Platt, Mt Rayner, Mt Jackson, Mt Wilde; Aerial Spirits-Mrs Arnold, Mrs Masters, Miss Francis, Mrs Ratchford, Miss Rowson, Mrs Bayzand, Miss Broadhurst.

Dance: In afterpiece: Dancing-Byrn, Platt, Ratchford

Song: End IV: Juliet's Funeral Procession-; with the Solemn Dirge Vocal Parts-Johnstone, Incledon, Darley, Gray, Rock, Lee, Letteney, Mrs Blanchard, Mrs Harlowe, Miss Stuart, Miss Barnett, Mrs Arnold, Mrs Cross, Miss Leserve, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Watts, Mrs Gray, Miss Francis, Mrs Masters, Miss Broadhurst

Event Comment: [Mrs Gordon is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill. Her 1st appearance on the stage was at the HAY, 30 May 1781, as Miss Lyon.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth-Henderson; Macduff-Clarke; Banquo-Farren; Duncan-Hull; Malcolm-Davies; Hecate-Darley; Lenox-Cubitt; Seyton-Thompson; Doctor-Fearon; Witches-Booth, Mrs Pitt, Kennedy; Gentlewoman-Mrs Poussin; Lady Macbeth-A Lady (1st appearance [on this stage: Mrs Gordon]) .on this stage: Mrs Gordon]) .
Cast
Role: Witches Actor: Booth, Mrs Pitt, Kennedy
Role: Gentlewoman Actor: Mrs Poussin

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Rambler

Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts by Johnstone, Brett, Gaudry, Doyle, Lloyd; Mrs Kennedy, Miss Wheeler, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Morton, Mrs Chalmers, Mrs Davenett, Miss Stuart, Mrs Bannister

Event Comment: Mrs King was put in the Bills in the following manner: Rosalind By Command by Mrs King. A Circumstance I never knew before, nor do I know by what accident it happened. I'm Sure it's a particular Honour, which her acting cannot deserve (Hopkins Diary). By Command. [Macmillan's note form Kemble comments on Hopkins' astonishment at the command procedure: "This circumstance was a contrivance of Mr Garrick's in order to mortify Mrs Yates, Mrs Abington, and Miss Younge."] Paid Mr Loutherbourg on acct. #31 13s. 4d. (Treasurer's Book). [This payment occured monthly, and was made up to #261 10s. 4d. by a final payment of #8 on 29 June 1776. No further itemization of it will be made.] Receipts: #260 12s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Rosalind Actor: Mrs King
Role: Audrey Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Role: Phoebe Actor: Mrs Davies
Role: and a Song Actor: Mrs Scott.

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Tragedy Actor: Mrs Smith
Role: Comedy Actor: Mrs Wrighten.
Role: Widow Brady Actor: Mrs Greville.

Dance: End I: A New Dance call'd The Merry Peasants-M Fontaine (from the Opera at Paris), Mrs Sutton, Others; End I Afterpiece: The Irish Fair, as17751003

Event Comment: Mrs King being to Quit the Stage at the end of this Season Mr G. kindly play'd for her Benefit great Applause (Hopkins Diary). Benefit for King. Pit and Boxes laid together. Paid salary list #494 18s. 6d.; Mrs Abington's Cloaths acct #2; Mr S. French, 6 days #1 10s. Receipts: #287 6s. Charges: #64 4s. Profits to Mrs King: #223 2s. [Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Cast
Role: Violante Actor: Mrs Barry
Role: Inis Actor: Mrs Bradshaw

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Dance: V: A Minuet-Giorgi, Mrs King

Event Comment: Mrs Crawford continuing hoarse, The Grecian Daughter [announced on playbill of 7 Feb.] is unavoidably postponed. Receipts: #156 11s. (153/10; 3/1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: Witches Actor: Booth, Mrs Pitt, Stevens
Role: Gentlewoman Actor: Mrs Poussin
Role: Lady Macbeth Actor: Mrs Bates

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Rambler

Cast
Role: Abbess Actor: Mrs Templeton
Role: Mother Actor: Mrs White

Song: As17831218, but omitted: Mrs Bannister, Mrs Johnstone

Event Comment: [Mrs Mosse may well have been the dancer advertised in 1703-4 as the Devonshire Girl.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Taming Of The Shrew; Or, Sawny The Scot

Dance: Country Farmer's Daughter, Highland Lilt-Mrs Mosse; Whip of Dunboyn, an Irish Humour-Claxton, her Master

Event Comment: Mrs Abington being ill with a cold, The Sultan is oblig'd to be deferr'd a Day or two. Receipts: #83 17s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Performance Comment: Gamester-Reddish; Stukely-Palmer; Jarvis-Aickin; Bates-Packer; Dawson-Usher; Lewson-Brereton, first time; Cbarlotte-Miss Hopkins; Lucy-Miss Platt; Mrs Beverley-Miss Younge.
Cast
Role: Mrs Beverley Actor: Miss Younge.

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Sutton

Dance: II: A Comic Dance-LaRiviere, Fontaine, Sga Crespi, Mrs Sutton

Event Comment: "[Mrs Billington] possessed not the feeling to give touching expression, even when she sung with the utmost delicacy and consummate skill. Her face was handsome, and her countenance full of good humour, but it was incapable of change, and she was no actress" (Mount-Edgcumbe, 93-94). Receipts: #223 5s. 6d. (221.18.6; 1.7.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Performance Comment: Ferdinand-Johnstone; Isaac-Quick; Don Jerome-Wilson; Anthonio-Marshall; Father Paul-Darley; Lopez-Farley; Carlos-Incledon; The Duenna-Mrs Webb; Louisa-Mrs Martyr; Clara-Mrs Billington (1st appearance these 2 years).
Cast
Role: The Duenna Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Louisa Actor: Mrs Martyr
Role: Clara Actor: Mrs Billington

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Cast
Role: Molly Maybush Actor: Mrs Martyr
Role: Louisa Actor: Mrs Mountain
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Platt
Role: Betty Blackberry Actor: Mrs Mattocks.
Role: Mrs Bruin Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Mrs Sneak Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Event Comment: By His Majesty's Company. At the Theatre Royal in the Haymarket [repeated in all bills] will be performed, by particular Desire, a Comedy...Places to be taken of Mr Jewel, at the Theatre. 7 p.m. [Repeated in the bills.] The house has been altered, as there was formerly but one gallery. [Miss Ogilvie was the young gentlewoman.] Went at 5:30 (before ye doors were open) to Foote's new Theatre in ye Haymarket which was open for ye first time tonight, and is very neatly fitted up. Got a good place in ye Pit...a very humorous Prologue in Prose by J. Palmer as Snarl a writer of Political Letters for the newspapers. Weston as Laconic a newspaper poet--Foote as Manager and Scaffold ye Builder (ye real one of ye house as some said)...in Smirk (Foote) took off Langford to a hair, not forgetting his son's affair with Dr Chauncey. Shift and ye Epilogue as Dr Squintum by Bannister, who took off Holland, Dodd, Moody, and Champneys surprisingly well...The house pretty full. York there awhile (Neville MS Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: Mrs Cole, Smirk-Foote; The Minor-Davis; Shift (with Imitations), Squintum-Bannister; Sir William Wealthy-Castle; Transfer-Weston; Loader-Palmer; Sir Richard Wealthy-Gardner; Dick-Quick; Tally-Pynn; Lucy-a young Gentlewoman, first appearance on any stage; Occasional Prologue in Prose-Laconic-J. Palmer; Scaffold the Builder-Bannister; Snarl-Weston; Manager-Foote-London Magazine.

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Event Comment: [Mrs H. Johnston's 1st appearance as Ophelia was at the hay, 3 Sept. 1798.] Afterpiece: 5th Time i.e. in continuation of the reckoning for the previous season]. Boxes 6s. Second Price 3s. Pit 3s. 6d. Second Price 2s. Gallery 2s. Second Price 1s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be had of Brandon(only) at the Office in Hart-Street. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 19 Nov.]. No Money to be returned. Receipts: #242 5s. 6d. (240.17.6; 1.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: Hamlet-Holman; Ghost-Murray; Polonius-Munden; King-Waddy; Horatio-Betterton; Laertes-Whitfield; Ostrick-Farley; Rosencraus-Clarke; Marcellus-Davenport; Guildenstern-Claremont; Player King-Thompson; Lucianus-Wilde; Grave@Diggers-Powel, Rees; Ophelia-Mrs H. Johnston (1st appearence at this theatre, and 2nd in that character); Player Queen-Mrs Platt; Queen-Miss Chapman.
Cast
Role: Ophelia Actor: Mrs H. Johnston
Role: Player Queen Actor: Mrs Platt

Afterpiece Title: Botheration; or, A Ten Years Blunder

Performance Comment: Jack Hopeful-Knight; Doctor Wisepate-Powel; Varnish-Davenport; Robert-Simmons; Theddy O'Blarney-Johnstone; Lady Apes-Mrs Davenport; Mrs Varnish-Mrs Platt; Rose-Mrs Gibbs.
Cast
Role: Lady Apes Actor: Mrs Davenport
Role: Mrs Varnish Actor: Mrs Platt
Role: Rose Actor: Mrs Gibbs.

Song: In V: a Dirge, set to music by Shield. Vocal Parts-Mrs Martyr, 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, Miss Wheatley, Linton, Street, Gray, Lee, Platt, Dyke, Curties; Incidental to afterpiece: Mr O'Blarney's Description of London (Including his Remarks on St. James's, The Monument, St. Paul's, Wigs and Crops, Debating Clubs, Boarding Schools, Squares, Inns, Gardens, Fields, Soldiers, Sailors, and Volunteers)-Johnstone

Performance Comment: Vocal Parts-Mrs Martyr, 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, Miss Wheatley, Linton, Street, Gray, Lee, Platt, Dyke, Curties; Incidental to afterpiece: Mr O'Blarney's Description of London (Including his Remarks on St. James's, The Monument, St. Paul's, Wigs and Crops, Debating Clubs, Boarding Schools, Squares, Inns, Gardens, Fields, Soldiers, Sailors, and Volunteers)-Johnstone.