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Event Comment: [MS annotation on playbill in Harvard Theatre Collection: "Mrs Cargill run away this day with Colman Jun. James? Winston?." And see 11 Sept.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Preludio

Related Works
Related Work: A Preludio Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Event Comment: [Trew's 1st appearance on the stage was at this theatre, 24 Nov. 1780.] Paid Properties 4s. 4d.; Wardrobe #5; Supernumeraries #1 11s. 6d.; Guard [master carpenter] for Scene Men #11 6s. 4d. Receipts: #208 8s. (207/6/6; 1/1/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: Romeo-A Gentleman (2nd appearance on any stage [Trew]); Capulet-Clarke; Friar Lawrence-Hull; Benvolio-Booth; Escalus-Fearon; Paris-J. Bates; Tibalt-L'Estrange; Peter-Jones; Montague-Thompson; Apothecary-Stevens; Friar John-Bates; Mercutio-Lewis; Lady Capulet-Mrs Poussin; Nurse-Mrs Pitt; Juliet-Miss Satchell (1st appearance in that character) .
Cast
Role: Apothecary Actor: Stevens

Afterpiece Title: The Marriage Act

Cast
Role: Dorothea Actor: Mrs Webb

Dance: In Act I of mainpiece a Masquerade Scene incident to the Play and a Minuet by Aldridge and Miss Besford. [These were included, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

Performance Comment: [These were included, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.] hathi.

Song: End of Act iv of mainpiece Juliet's Funeral Procession with the Solemn Dirge. Vocal Parts by Mattocks, Reinhold, Davies, Robson, J. Wilson, Baker, Darley, Doyle, Simpkinson; Miss Harper, Mrs Martyr, Miss Morris, Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart, Mrs Kennedy

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As originally written by Shakespeare. Afterpiece: To conclude with a perspective Representation of the Grand Camp at Cox-Heath [see 15 Oct. 1778]. Receipts: #170 8s. (121/10/0; 48/15/6; 0/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: THE CAMP

Performance Comment: Sir Harry Bouquet-Dodd; Gage-Parsons; O'Daub-Moody; Mons. Bluard-Baddeley; William-Du-Bellamy; Serjeant Drill-Bannister; Nancy-Mrs Wells (from the Theatre Royal, Haymarket; 1st appearance on this stage); Nell-Mrs Wrighten. The other Characters by Burton, Wrighten, Wright, Chaplin, Holcroft, Fawcett, Phillimore, Norris, Griffiths, Nash, &c.; Miss Wright, Miss Simson, Miss Collett . Miss Wright, Miss Simson, Miss Collett .
Event Comment: Mainpiece: With Accompaniments to the Airs composed by [Thomas] Linley [Sen.]. Receipts: #147 13s. 6d. (107/15/0; 39/18/6; 0/0/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: Captain Macheath-Mrs Cargill; Peachum-Moody; Filch-Parsons; Lockit-Baddeley; Mat o' th' Mint-Williams; Ben Budge-Burton; Player-Wrighten; Beggar-Waldron; Lucy-Mrs Wrighten; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Hopkins; Jenny Diver-Miss Collett; Diana Trapes-Mrs Love; Polly-Miss Wheeler (from the Theatre Royal, Bath; 1st appearance on this stage). hathi. 1st appearance on this stage). hathi.

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece, as17811004; In Act III a Hornpipe by Walker

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Wilson, but "Last night the Audience of Covent Garden Theatre were detained above Half an Hour waiting for Wilson, who never appeared to play his character in Duplicity. At last an apology was made for his absence, and his Brother was permitted to read his part" (Morning Chronicle, 29 Dec.).] Receipts: #220 4s. (215/0; 5/4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duplicity

Cast
Role: Servants Actor: J. Wilson, Newton, Joules
Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Public Advertiser, 18 Feb., refers to the Overture to Rodelinda, which opened the performance, and to Street Bird, sung by Miss Linley, accompanied on the organ by Stanley; Oft on a plat of rising ground by Miss Prudom; Hide me from day's garish eye by Miss Linley; Horn and Morn by Reinhold.] 2nd piece: Set to Music by Handel. Tickets to be had and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook at the Stage Door of the Theatre, at half a guinea each. Pit 5s. 1st Gallery 3s. 6d. 2ndGallery 2s. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lallegro Ii Penseroso

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Hercules

Music: End of Part I of oratorio concerto on the violoncello by Crosdill; End of Part II concerto on the hautboy by Parke

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Mrs Lefevre. [Author ofPrologue unknown.] Afterpiece: Never performed here [acted 5 Apr. 1734]. Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15. Tickets and places to be had of Mrs Lefevre, No. 25, Frith Street, Soho, and of Rice at the Theatre. Tickets delivered by Holland will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Don Quixote in England or The Humours of Sancho Pancha

Performance Comment: Don Quixote-Johnson; Guzzle-Rogers; Sir T. Loveland-Knapp; Mayor-Buxton; Squire Badger-Holland; Fairlove-Thompson; Brief-Eden; Dr Drench-Bateman; Drawer-Henry; Sancho Pancha-Fitzgerald; Mrs Guzzle-Mrs Fowler; Jezabel-Mrs Liddel; Dorothea-Miss Williams .
Cast
Role: Dorothea Actor: Miss Williams

Monologue: 1782 03 04 End of mainpiece Bucks have at ye all by Benson. vaudeville. End of Act I of afterpiece The Manual Exercise by Mrs Lefevre

Performance Comment: vaudeville. End of Act I of afterpiece The Manual Exercise by Mrs Lefevre .
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years [acted 15 Mar. 1779]. [Trew is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill. Afterpiece in place of The Positive Man, announced on playbill of 12 Mar.] Paid one-half years Land Tax for the Theatre #61 5s. Receipts: #167 4s. (161/14; 5/10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distressd Mother

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Related Works
Related Work: The Opera of Operas; or Tom Thumb the Great Author(s): Eliza Haywood
Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. Afterpiece: As performed at the Theatre Royal in the Haymarket [beginning 6 Aug. 1779]; by the Author of the Son-in-Law, the Agreeable Surprise, &c. [John O'Keeffe]. [Prologue by George Colman, the elder.] Receipts: #195 9s. 6d. (161/11/6; tickets: 33/18/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Tony Lumpkin in Town

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Quick, Robson, Fearon, Booth, Stevens, Egan, Bates, Newton, Painter, Edwin; Mrs Davenett, Mrs Lewis. Cast not known. Prologue spoken by Whitfield .

Dance: End of mainpiece The Humours of Newmarket; with the Poney Races. Jockies-Harris, Langrish, Ratchford, Holloway; Ladies-Mrs Ratchford, Miss Francis, Miss Matthews

Performance Comment: Jockies-Harris, Langrish, Ratchford, Holloway; Ladies-Mrs Ratchford, Miss Francis, Miss Matthews .
Event Comment: [Miss Glassington's 1st appearance on the stage was at the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin, 15 Mar. 1781, also as Rosalind (Hibernian Magazine, Mar. 1781, p. 146).] Receipts: #103 12s. (73/6/0; 30/1/6; 0/4/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: Touchstone-King; Orlando-Brereton; Amiens (with songs')-Du-Bellamy; Duke Senior-Aickin; Adam-Moody; Oliver-Packer; Duke Frederick-Chaplin; Jaques-Palmer; Caelia (1st time, with the Cuckow song)-Miss Wheeler; Audrey-Mrs Wrighten; Rosalind-A Young Lady (1st appearance on the [London] stage [Miss Glassington]) .London] stage [Miss Glassington]) .

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece, as17820223

Song: In Act V of mainpiece song by Miss Field

Performances

Mainpiece Title: No Performance

Performance Comment: Morning Herald, 29 May: The Influenza spares neither native [see DL, 27 and 28 May] nor foreigners; the opera heros and heroines are all laidup, and the King's Theatre was obliged to be shut up yesterday evening .
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Being the Sequel to The Beggar's Opera, written by Gay. Books of the Opera to be had at the Theatre. [Miss Hooke is identified on playbill of 18 June.] Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Polly

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Parsons, Egan, Massey, Staunton, Davis, Kenny, Wood, Webb, Usher, Bannister; Mrs Wilson, Mrs Poussin, Miss Hale, Mrs Webb, Mrs Love, A Young Gentlewoman (1st appearance on any stage [Miss Hooke]). Characters of the Introduction by Gardner, Davis, Stevens; Mrs Lefevrc. [Cast adjusted from text (T. Evans, 1777): Ducat-Parsons; Hacker-Egan; Vanderbluff-Massey; Culverin-Staunton; Pohetohee-Davis; Laguerre-Kenny; Cawwawkee-Wood; Capstan-Usher; Morano-Bannister; Jenny Diver-Mrs Wilson; Flimzy-Mrs Poussin; Damaris-Miss Hale; Trapes-Mrs Webb; Mrs Ducat-Mrs Love; Polly-Miss Hooke. In Introduction: Poet-Gardner; Players-Davis, Stevens; Signora Crotchetta-Mrs Lefevre.] hathi. hathi.
Related Works
Related Work: Polly Author(s): George Colman, the elder
Related Work: Polly Honeycomb Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail A Dramatic Proverb

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece a Dance of Pirates; In Act III a Dance of Indians {performers not listed for either dance)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Books of the Songs, with Miss Harper's Additional Airs, to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber Or The Fruitless Precaution

Related Works
Related Work: The Spanish Barber; or, The Fruitless Precaution Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17820606

Event Comment: [2nd piece in place of The Spanish Barber; 3rd piece of The Son-in-Law, both announced on playbill of 15 June.] Public Advertiser, 18 June: The Spanish Barber will be repeated as soon as Miss Harper is sufficiently recovered to return to the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Preludio

Related Works
Related Work: A Preludio Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Preludio

Related Works
Related Work: A Preludio Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17820605 but Macheath-Miss Kirby (from the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh; 1st appearance on this stage). hathi. 1st appearance on this stage). hathi.

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bulkley. 2nd piece: Never acted here. 4th piece: 1st time at this Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of Common Sense

Afterpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Performance Comment: Sir Andrew Ague-Cheek-Edwin (1st appearance in that character); Malvolio-Bensley; Duke-Staunton; Sebastian-R. Palmer; Clown (with the Epilogue Song)-Parsons; Fabian-Stevens; Sir Toby Belch-Palmer; Olivia (with a song)-Miss Harper (1st appearance in that character); Maria-Miss Kirby; Viola-Mrs Bulkley (1st appearance in that character) .

Afterpiece Title: The Tobacco Box

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

Dance: In Act II of 4th piece (for that night only) the Minuet de la Cour by Giorgi and Mrs Bulkley

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; P 1, by John O'Keeffe and George Colman, the elder. Synopsis of action in Public Advertiser, 20 Aug.]: The Music by Dr Arnold. The Scenes by Rooker. Books of the Songs [T. Cadell] to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The East Indian

Related Works
Related Work: The East Indian Author(s): Matthew Gregory Lewis

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague or The Giants Causeway

Performance Comment: Harlequin Teague-Egan; Teague Harlequin-Spencer; Italian Merchant-Massey; Pierrot (his Man)-Delpini; Old Woman and Dr Caterpillar-Wewitzer; Mr Dripping-Webb; Mrs Dripping-Mrs Webb; Lieutenant of Press Gang (with Fal de ral tit)-Edwin; Farmer Furrow-Gardner; Dame Furrow-Miss Hale; Landlord of the Horns at Highgate-Wilson; Catcall-Wood; Sailor-R. Palmer; Man with two Heads (with a solo duet in character)-Bannister; Giant of the Causeway-Master Brett; Genius of Ireland-Brett; Various other Characters by Stevens, Usher, Swords, Painter, Davis, Barrett, Kenny, Darley, J. Bates, Mrs Love, Mrs Lefevre, Miss Francis, &c; Anchor Smiths (with Smiths are good Fellows)-Darley, Dorion, Burton, Brett; Colombine-Miss Morris. With a Ranelagh Masquerade. Characters out of character: Fighting Quakers-Barrett, Kenny; Disinterested Lawyer-Gardner; Humane Scalper-R. Palmer; Harlequin with one Leg-Spencer; Fainting Butcher-Painter; Reviving Death-Collins .
Related Works
Related Work: Harlequin Teague; or, The Giant's Causeway Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: Afterpiece to conclude with a Grand Ballet, in Spanish Characters, by Giorgi, Byrn, Miss Byrn, Sga Vidini, and others

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [This was Mrs Bulkley's 1st appearance as a member of the DL company. As from CG, she had acted at this theatre on 9 Apr. 1778, and on other occasions.] Receipts: #144 11s. (109/3/0; 35/5/6; 0/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Performance Comment: Sir Andrew Ague-Cheek-Dodd; Sir Toby Belch-Palmer; Orsino-Brereton; Sebastian-Bannister Jun. (1st appearance in that character); Fabian-Lamash; Antonio-Wrighten; Clown (with the original Epilogue Song)-Parsons; Malvolio-Bensley; Viola-Mrs Bulkley (1st appearance on this stage); Maria-Mrs Brereton; Olivia (with a song)-Miss Farren .

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: Afterpiece to conclude with a Dance by Williamson, the Miss Stageldoirs, &c

Monologue: 1782 09 21 As 17 Sept

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of Tom Thumb, announced on playbill of 3 Oct.] "Covent Garden Theatre. As personal allusions and party views have been attributed to the dramatic satire, called The Wishes, the author thinks he cannot so effectively disclaim them as by entirely withdrawing the piece" (Unidentified clipping, dated 5 Oct. 1782, The Tale Edition of Horace Walpoles Correspondence, cd. W. S. Lewis, 1955, xxix, 219). Paid Guard for Scene Men from 8 June to 21 Sept., on 9 occasions, approximately #900. Paid Music #7 14s.; properties 9s. [both being an average payment throughout the season per night]. Receipts: #221 8s. 6d. (218/11/0; 2/17/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Walloons

Afterpiece Title: The Wishes

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. "There was, in my early days, such a permanent property as a stage-door in our theatres, and the proscenium beyond it; so that when [Jane] Shore was pushed from the door, she was turned round and staggered till supported by the firm projection behind her. Here was a terrific picture full in the eye of the pit, and this most picturesque of women knew the amazing value of it" (Boaden, Siddons, I, 326). Receipts: #232 (209/8; 21/18; 0/14)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Dance: As17820917

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Gardner. Afterpiece: From The Devil upon Two Sticks, written by the late Samuel Foote, Esq. [Mrs Mills is identified in Morning Chronicle, 1 Jan. 1783. For remarks on this night's performance, including references to Dunstan by Charles Lamb, see Theatre Notebook, VIII, 5.] Gardner having unavoidably been obliged to postpone his night from the 26th to the 30th, he thinks it his duty to inform his friends that tickets delivered for the 26th will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Performance Comment: Lothario-A Gentleman (1st appearance on the stage [unidentified]); Sciolto-Gardner; Altamont-Wetherhead; Rossano-Spencer; Horatio-Usher; Lavinia-Miss King; Lucilla-Miss Painter; Calista-A Lady (1st appearance on the stage [Mrs Mills]) .Mrs Mills]) .
Cast
Role: Altamont Actor: Wetherhead

Afterpiece Title: The Fourth Act of The Merchant of Venice

Performance Comment: Antonio-Usher; Bassanio-The Gentleman who plays Lothario; Duke-Roberts; Gratiano-Wetherhead; Shylock-Gardner; Nerissa-Miss Painter; Portia-The Lady who plays Calista .

Afterpiece Title: Dr Lastss Examination BEFORE THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS

Performance Comment: The Devil-Wetherhead; Secretary-Roberts; Dr Calomel-Cooke; Dr Camphire-Corne; Dr Last-Sir Jeffery Dunstan, the present Worthy Mayor of Garrat (1st appearance on any stage) .
Event Comment: [Miss Kemble was from the York theatre.] Receipts: #277 11s. 6d. (271/4/0; 5/17/6; 0/10/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Performance Comment: Arbaces-Sga Sestini (1st appearance in Serious Opera [at this theatre; see17821102]); Artabanes-Reinhold; Rimines-Davies; Artaxerxes-Mrs Kennedy; Semira-Mrs Morton; Mandane-Miss Harper (1st appearance in that character) .
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [Mrs Mills was from the Edinburgh theatre.] Receipts: #173 6s. 6d. (140/13/0; 32/11/0; 0/0/0; ticket not come in: 0/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: In Act II of mainpiece a Masquerade Scene, with Dancing by Williamson and Miss M. Stageldoir; End of Act III, as17820917

Song: In Masquerade, by Miss Romanzini

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Miss Linley still continuing so ill [see 7 Mar.] as not to be able to perform this Evening, Mrs Bannister has been so kind as to undertake to supply her Place. Tickets to be had and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook at the Stage Door of the Theatre, at half a guinea each. Pit 5s. 1st Gallery 3s. 6d. 2nd Gallery 2s. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation Anthems

Music: End of Part II of oratorio concerto on the organ by Stanley