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Mainpiece Title: Comus

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Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

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Mainpiece Title: Comus

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Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

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Role: Gayless Actor: Anderson
Event Comment: At the Tiled Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark. Benefit for Yeates, Jun will be perform'd a Comedy. Prices: #2s., 1s. 6d., 1s., 6d. Tickets delivered out by Daniel and Sturgess will be taken. This is the last Time of performing there this Season. [No concert formula.

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Mainpiece Title: The Jew Of Venice

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Related Work: The Jew of Venice Author(s): George Granville, Lord Lansdowne

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Quin; Elder Brother-Ryan; Younger Brother-Ridout; 1st Spirit-Sparks; 2nd Spirit-Anderson; Bacchanal-Lowe; Euphrosyne-Miss Norris, 1st appearance on any stage; Sabrina-Miss Falkner; Lady-Mrs Woffington; Attendant Spirits of Comus-Leveridge, Baker, Wilder, Roberts, Miss Young; With Dances proper to the mask-.
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Role: 2nd Spirit Actor: Anderson
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Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: 2nd Spirit Actor: Anderson
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Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

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Role: 2nd Spirit Actor: Anderson
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Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder
Event Comment: To the Printer of the General Advertiser, &c Sir: Imagine a heart satisfy'd beyond its wishes, and overflowing with gratitude; conceive this to be your situation, and then help me to words to empress my feeling. [Tom Harbin inserted a long letter of thanks to the numerous audience wnich appeared at his benefit the night before.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: 2nd Spirit Actor: Anderson
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Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

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Role: 2nd Spirit Actor: Anderson
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Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busie Body

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Role: Sir George Airy Actor: Mills
Role: Miranda Actor: Mrs Clive.

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat

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Related Work: Tit for Tat Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Triumph of Peace

Event Comment: Benefit for Beard. Mrs Cibber first did Ophelia (Cross). Afterpiece: By particular desire. Five rows of Pit laid into Boxes and stage as on 7 March. Tickets and places of Hobson at the stage door. Receipts: #275 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel)

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Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat

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Related Work: Tit for Tat Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Song: Beard

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Related Work: The Genoese Pirate; or, Black-Beard Author(s): James Sanderson
Related Work: Blue-Beard; or, Female Curiosity! Author(s): George Colman, the younger
Event Comment: Benefit for Havard. [Stage arranged as on 7 March.] Tickets and places at Havard's House in Broad Court the upper end of Bow St., and of Hobson at the stage door. The manager of the Smock Alley theatre Dublin in order to support decayed players, has resolved to apply the whole receipts of one night every year towards raising a fund for the purpose, which is to be increased by the players allowing a small portion of their salaries to be deducted weekly. A scheme worthy the imitation of the managers and players of our theatres. -Gentleman's Magazine, March 1749, p. 238

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat

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Related Work: Tit for Tat Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: SSavoyards, as17480920

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat

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Related Work: Tit for Tat Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: II: Savoyards, as17480920; IV: L'Entree de Flore-Anne Auretti

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

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Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Event Comment: The Farce, taken from Beaumont and Fletcher, damn'd (Cross). Acted but once, and not printed (Genest, IV, 290). Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

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Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Curate

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

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Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Event Comment: Benefit for Lowe. Charges #60. Deficiency to Lowe #11 16s. covered by #104 9s. from tickets. [Afterpiece appears under the Shakespearian title in the Account Book. Actually it was James Worsdale's Cure for a Scold taken from Shakespeare's play.] Mainpiece: By particular desire. Tickets to be had of Lowe at his lodgings the corner of Southampton St., Covent Garden, and of Page at the Stage door of the Theatre. Receipts: #48 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Quin; Elder Brother-Ryan; Younger Brother-Ridout; 1st Spirit-Sparks; 2nd Spirit-Anderson; Bacchanal-Lowe; Euphrosyne-Miss Young; Sabrina-Miss Falkner; Lady-Mrs Woffington; Attendant spirits of Comus-Leveridge, Baker, Wilder, Roberts, Mrs Wright; With Dances proper to the Masque-.
Cast
Role: 2nd Spirit Actor: Anderson
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: A Cure for a Scold or The Taming of a Shrew

Event Comment: MMasque with a Prologue, for ye Benefit of Mrs Foster, Grand Daughter to Milton & his only surviving Descendant (Cross). [For Prologue, see Gentleman's Magazine April 1750.] Rec'd cash #76 6s., plus #71 4s. from tickets. Total #147 4s. 6d. Paid for 1!2 year New River Water #1; Paid 1!2 year's scavanger's tax to Lady Day #3 14s. 6d.; Norton 4 Chorus #1 (Treasurer's Book). Tickets deliver'd for the 4th will be taken. Receipts: #150 (Cross); charges, #63 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

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Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Event Comment: Publish'd. The Actor: A Treatise on the Art of Playing, interspers'd with Theatrical Anecdotes, Critical Reflections on Plays, and Occasional Observations on Audiences. Printed for R. Griffith. Receipts: #60 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

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Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Event Comment: Benefit for Simson, Raftor and Miss Pitt. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

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Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Bayes in Petticoats

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

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Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

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Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Song: The Song of Sweet Echo-a young Gentleman who never sung on any stage before

Event Comment: Benefit for Scrase, Mozeen and Hayes. Mainpiece: Acted but twice these two years, and for last time this season. [Hayes was Pit-Office-Keeper]. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

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Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Performance Comment: Oroonoko-Barry; Aboan-Sparks; Blandford-Ridout; Stanmore-Gibson; Governor-Anderson; Driver-Dunstall; Daniel-Collins; Hotman-Wignel; Charlotte-Mrs Bland; Widow-Mrs Pitt; Lucy-Mrs Baker; Imoinda-Mrs Elmy.
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Role: Blandford Actor: Ridout
Role: Governor Actor: Anderson
Role: Charlotte Actor: Mrs Bland

Afterpiece Title: The Sheep Shearing

Performance Comment: As17540325 but Florizel-Smith; Alcon-Anderson; Perdita-Mrs Elmy; Prologue-Smith.
Cast
Role: Alcon Actor: Anderson
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Related Work: The Sheep-Shearing Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: SShepherd and Shepherdess-Granier, Mlle Camargo

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Smith first time; Elder Brother-Ryan; Young Brother-Ridout; First Spirit-Sparks; Second Spirit-Anderson; Bachanal-Lowe; Euphrosyne-Miss Young; Sabrina-Mrs Lampe; Pastoral Nymph-Mrs Chambers; Lady-Mrs Woffington; Attendant Spirits on Comus-Howard, Legg, Baker.
Cast
Role: Second Spirit Actor: Anderson
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Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Gibson
Role: Octavian Actor: Anderson

Dance: Granier and Mrs Granier

Song: RRule Britannia, Britons Strike Home-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Elder Brother Actor: Holland
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke