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Event Comment: Benefit Coker, Price, Mrs Elsam. Written by the late Mr Farquhar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Performance Comment: See17191120, but Mandrake-Pack.
Cast
Role: Mandrake Actor: Pack.

Dance: Topham Jr, Pelling, Sandham's Son, Miss Bullock, Miss Francis; Scaramouch-a Gentleman for his Diversion; Drunken Man-Harper

Song: Four and Twenty Stock Jobbers-Harper

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Sarah Ottey. Receipts: money #53 13s.; tickets #84 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Music: With several Pieces of Musick to be perform'd on Harpsicord Bass@Viol Violin-Mrs Ottey

Event Comment: Benefit Harper and Mrs Brett

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: As17211024, but Appletree-Penkethman; Kite-Harper; Rose-Mrs Brett.
Cast
Role: Appletree Actor: Penkethman
Role: Rose Actor: Mrs Brett.
Role: Silvia Actor: Mrs Bicknell
Role: Melinda Actor: Mrs Horton

Dance: Harper's Drunken Man-Harper

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Booth. No Person to be admitted behind the Scenes, or into the Boxes, but by printed Tickets at 5s. Two Benches of the Pit to be rail'd in at the same Price. N.B. To prevent the Ladies from coming too early, Servants will be admitted to keep Places open on the Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Buchanan. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Rowe. Receipts: money#44 1s. 6d.; tickets #137 19s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Performance Comment: Fair Penitent-Mrs Buchanan; Sciolto-Chapman; Horatio-Quin; Lothario-Walker; Altamont-Milward; Rossano-Aston; Lavinia-Mrs Younger; Lucinda-Mrs Templer.
Cast
Role: Fair Penitent Actor: Mrs Buchanan
Role: Sciolto Actor: Chapman
Role: Lavinia Actor: Mrs Younger
Role: Lucinda Actor: Mrs Templer.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: Comic Dance, as17330416 IV: Scottish Dance, as17330329 Hippisley's Medley; or, Drunken Man (By Desire)-

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Giffard. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Part of the Stage will be formed into Side-Boxes. [Tickets at Giffard's Lodgings (Mr Bolney's) in Great Queen Street, near Lincoln's Inn Fields.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Indiana-Mrs Giffard; Bevil Jr-Quin; Sealand-Milward; Phillis-Mrs Clive; Sir John-Wright; Myrtle-Mills; Humphrey-Shepard; Daniel-Leigh; Cimberton-Taswell; Lucinda-Mrs Mills; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Marshall; Isabella-Mrs Pritchard; Tom-Giffard.
Cast
Role: Indiana Actor: Mrs Giffard
Role: Phillis Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Lucinda Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Marshall
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Pritchard

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Nell Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Lady Loverule Actor: Mrs Pritchard

Dance: III: Muilment; La Matelote, as17400324

Song: I: Would You Taste the Noon@Tide (Comus)-Miss Edwards; II: Nel Pugnar-Beard; V: Beard in the Character of a Captain of an English Man of War upon the taking Porto Bello

Event Comment: Benefit Cibber. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by George Duke of Buckingham. Afterpiece: With Additions, the Words and Musick by Mr Carey. 6:30 p.m. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 6 June: Yesterday Morning died Mrs Hallam

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: See17391031, but Bayes-Cibber; Johnson-Ryan; Smith-Bridgwater; other parts-Hippisley, Rosco, Hallam, Hale, Gibson, Stephens, Roberts, Arthur, James, Neale, Mullart, Bencraft, Mrs Cross, Miss Burgess, Miss Brunette; With the Original Prologue-; With an Additional Re-inforcement of Mr Bayes's new rais'd Troops-; Vocals-Leveridge, Salway, Bencraft, Mrs Lampe, Miss Young.

Afterpiece Title: The Parting Lovers

Performance Comment: See17400318 but Nancy's Father-Leveridge; Truelove-Salway; Lieutenant-Bencraft; Nancy-Mrs Lampe; In which will be a Hornpipe-a Gentleman in the Character of a Sailor; With an Epilogue by Jo. Haines, Comedian, of Facetious Memory, -Cibber, riding on an Ass.

Dance: I: Peasants-the French Boy and Girl; II: Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; III: Swiss Dance-French Boy and Girl; IV: Grecian Sailors-Glover; V: Hippisley's Drunken Man-

Event Comment: At the Great Tiled Booth, Bowling Green. Mainpiece: An Historical Play presented by Warner and the Widow Yeates's Company of Comedians, during the time of the Fair. The Scenes and Cloaths are entirely New, and the Droll the same that was performed by Mrs Lee, twenty Years ago, with Great Applause. [Repeated.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unnatural Parents; Or, The Fair Maid Of The West

Afterpiece Title: The Comical Humours and Adventures of Trusty, her Father's Man, and Three Witches

Entertainment: Kettle Drums-Jos. Woodbridge. A Good Band is provided consisting of Kettle Drums, Trumpets, French Horns, Violins, Hautboys, Bassoons

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 16 Years. [See 27 Dec. 1746.] Benefit for Shuter. Receipts: #173 16s. 6d. Tickets #150 13s. (boxes 272; pit 551). Charges: #63 (Account Book), [#325 9s. 6d. marks the largest house in money value this season. Shuter advertised his benefit early, then on 28 March inserted this puff in the Public Advertiser: [Mrs Centlivre's Comedies have a vein of pleasantry in them that will always be relish'd. She knew the Genius of this nation, and she wrote up to the spirit of it; her Bold Stroke for a Wife, was a masterpiece that much increased her reputation: it establish'd that of Kit Bullock, a smart sprightly actor. His performance of Col. Feignwell was greatly applauded. Shuter has judiciously chosen to play to at his own benefit, and everyone that knows his powers, knows he will play it at least with drollery and justice equal to him."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Performance Comment: Feignwell-Shuter; Modelove-Dyer; Perriainckle-Arthur; Obadiah-Gibson; Tradelove-Dunstall; Freeman-Clarke; Sackbut-Marten; Simon Pure-Costollo; Aminidab-Bennet; Mrs Prim-Mrs Pitt; Betty-Mrs Green; Ann Lovely-Mrs Hamilton.
Cast
Role: Freeman Actor: Clarke
Role: Mrs Prim Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Betty Actor: Mrs Green
Role: Ann Lovely Actor: Mrs Hamilton.

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Performance Comment: Bernard-Marten; Marquis-Dyer; Luca-Arthur; Le Noble-R. Smith; La Plume-White; La Tour-Cushing; Le Baron-Holtom; Soldier-Bencraft; Margo-Dunstall; Janno-Shuter; Madame Bernard-Mrs Vincent; Clariana-Miss Condill; La Jupe-Mrs Pitt; Miss Maukin-Mrs Green.
Cast
Role: Madame Bernard Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: La Jupe Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Miss Maukin Actor: Mrs Green.

Dance: SSicilian Peasants, as17571217; Fingalian Dance, as17571013

Entertainment: (BBy Desire,) End of Play: Hippisley's Drunken Man-Shuter; (By Desire,) End of Farce: Cries of London-Shuter

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Vincent. No Building on Stage. Afterpiece: Never perform'd there before, from a Comedy of Durfey's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Cast
Role: Meriel Actor: Mrs Vincent

Afterpiece Title: The Counterfeit Heiress; or, The Boarding School

Performance Comment: Sir Amorous Rakehell-Bennet; Amorous-Cushing; Young Meriton-Hull; Old Meriton-Anderson; Le Prate-Holtom; Jilt All-Mrs Burden; Myrtilla-Mrs Vincent; Miss Sprightly-A young Gentlewoman who never appear'd before; In which will be introduc'd a Minuet-A young Gentlewoman who never appear'd before, Sg Sodi.

Dance: TThe Taylors, as17620107

Entertainment: After Comedy: Mr Hippisley's Drunken Man-Shuter

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

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 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 Hussey, Curtet, Mrs Viviez, Miss Daw. Mainpiece acted but once these 8 years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Cast
Role: Myris Actor: Redman
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 Mr and Mrs Hopkins. Paid Tallow Chandler's 7th bill #23 10s. 8d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #169 2s. Charges: #74 14s. Profits to the Hopkins: #94 8s.(Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Performance Comment: As17711226, but Obadiah-Parsons; Abel-Weston; Mrs Day-Mrs Hopkins, 1st time; Ruth-Mrs Abington, 1st time.
Cast
Role: Mrs Day Actor: Mrs Hopkins, 1st time
Role: Ruth Actor: Mrs Abington, 1st time.

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

Cast
Role: Clown Actor: Ackman
Role: Bridemaids Actor: Mrs Scott, Mrs Dorman
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs King

Entertainment: IV: By Particular Desire, Description of a Man of War and Sea Fight-Moody; IV: Scrub's Trip to the Jubilee-Weston; End: (1st time) Cupid's Remonstranceto the Town-Miss Hopkins

Monologue: I: Linco's Travels. As 24 March

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Performance Comment: Oakly-Reddish; Charles-Cautherly; Lord Trinket-Dodd; Sir Harry Beagle-Palmer; Williams-Wrighten; Russett-Bransby; Major Oakly, first time-Hurst; O'Cutter-Moody; Tom-Ackman; Paris-Baddeley; Lady Freelove-Mrs Hopkins; Harriet, first time-Miss Jarratt; Toilet-Mrs Millidge; Mrs Oakly-Miss Pope; With a New Occasional Epilogue-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Tom Actor: Ackman
Role: Lady Freelove Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Toilet Actor: Mrs Millidge
Role: Mrs Oakly Actor: Miss Pope
Related Works
Related Work: The Jealous Wife Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Like Master Like Man

Performance Comment: King, Cautherly, Baddeley, Mrs Egerton, Miss Pope.

Dance: End: New Dance, as17730327 Quadrille, as17730327

Event Comment: Benefit for Weston. Tickets delivered for 7 April taken. It is agreed this day between Mrs Abington and Mr Garrick that the former shall be engag'd to him and Mr Lacy, Patentees of the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, for three years from this date, or three acting seasons, at the sum of twelve pounds a week, with a Benefit, and sixty pounds for cloaths--the above agreement to be put into Articles according to the usual form. s@ Frances Abington, D. Garrick for himself and Mr Lacy (Folger Library, Garrickiana 962 MS [Cage, p. 154).] Receipts: #205 14s. 6d. Charges: #66 5s. Profits to Weston: #139 9s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Pantheonites

Related Works
Related Work: The Pantheonites Author(s): Francis Gentleman

Entertainment: End II: Imitations vocal and rhetorical-Bannister; End III: Hippisley's Drunken Man-Weston; End V: (For that night only) Judge Tycho's sentence-Weston riding on a rhinoceros

Dance: After Judge Tycho's Sentence: The Taylors, as17740428

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Mrs Farrer. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Afterpiece: Never acted here. The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. 2nd Gallery 1s. Tickets delivered for Wednesday, Dec. 18, will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane The Great; Or, The Fall Of Bajazet, Emperor Of The Turks

Performance Comment: Tamerlane-Simpson; Moneses-Curtis; Axalla-Chambers; Prince of Tanais-Jackson; Dervise-Lewis; Hali-Webb; Omar-Follett Sen.; Zama-Jefferson; Mirvan-Follett Jun.; Bajazet-L'Estrange; Selima-Mrs Hemley; Arpasia-Mrs Farrer (1st appearance on any stage).
Cast
Role: Selima Actor: Mrs Hemley
Role: Arpasia Actor: Mrs Farrer
Related Works
Related Work: Ibrahim, the Thirteenth Emperour of the Turks Author(s): Mary Pix

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Performance Comment: Doiley-Follett? Sen.; Granger-Chambers; Sandford-Brooke; Gradus-Simpson; Miss Doiley-Mrs Day; Charlotte-Mrs Hemley.
Cast
Role: Miss Doiley Actor: Mrs Day
Role: Charlotte Actor: Mrs Hemley.

Song: IV: To Thee O Gentle Sleep-a Young Lady (1st appearance in public [unidentified])

Entertainment: Monologue End: Hippisley's Drunken Man-Jackson

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: My Lord Brouncker and I to the Duke of the York's playhouse, and there saw the latter part of The Master and the Man

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man's The Master

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Performance Comment: Epilogue to Every Man in His Humour, by Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset.
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This play is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 216. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 348. The date on the list seems to be "3," but as this is a Sunday, it is more likely "9." This performance may well be the one to which Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 31) refers: Note, Mr Cademan in this Play [The Man's the Master], not long after our Company began in Dorset-Garden; his Part being to Fight with Mr Harris, was Unfortunately, with a sharp Foil pierc'd near the Eye, which so Maim'd both the Hand and his Speech, that he can make little use of either; for which Mischance, he has receiv'd a Pension ever since 1673, being 35 Years a goe. [For a discussion of this accident, see William VanLennep, Henry Harris, Actor, Friend of Pepys, Studies in English Theatre History (London, 1952), p. 16, and the entry under 20 Aug. 1673.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man's The Master

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@142, p. 81: At the Man of Mode and Box for the Mayds of Honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 348

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Performance Comment: See17181006, but First Interlude given end Act II of Love Makes a Man-; Second Interlude end III-.

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Cast
Role: Venus Actor: Mrs Barbier

Dance: As17181024

Event Comment: The Orphan announced, but by special Command Love Makes a Man was played. His Majesty present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A new Burlesque Entertainment of Dancing. Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 30 March: The Managers of Drury-lane Theatre observing how successful Lincoln's-Inn-Fields has been in several Entertainments, in which the Character of a Harlequin has the principal Part, were resolv'd to cut them out, and therefore prepared...Blind Man's Bluff, to be perform'd by no less than eight Harlequins; for, in their Way of Reasoning, eight Harlequins must divert much better than one; the Thing was so ridiculous there was no Musick to be heard but Hissing. [For an essay on the improvement of the stage, see Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 16 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: As17230122, but Prue-Mrs Younger; Mrs Foresight-Mrs Horton.
Cast
Role: Prue Actor: Mrs Younger
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Horton.
Role: Angleica Actor: Mrs Thurmond
Role: Mrs Frail Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Willis.

Afterpiece Title: Blind Man's Bluff

Event Comment: For a letter on The Man of Taste, see Daily Advertiser, 8 March

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Taste

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Orpheus