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Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. Daily Journal, 8 March: On Friday Night last died Mrs Mary Heron, a celebrated Actress belonging to Drury-lane Playhouse

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Cast
Role: Venus Actor: Mlle Anne Roland
Event Comment: [M+Midwife, No II (at about this date) includes a Letter from Mary Midnight to David Garrick, Esq praising him as actor and even as manager, but asking why he neglects Fletcher's plays: "What is the reason that the public patience is so largely try'd, and the human understanding so shamefully insulted as it is, by a perpetual repetition of the Duke and No Duke, the Anatomist, and twenty things of like nature?" Concludes by remarking that the London Cuckolds is a scandal to virtue.] Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: I: Hornpipe-Mathews, the Little Swiss; III: Running Footman's Dance, as17501020 Play to conclude with a dance call'd The City Revels-the characters of the play

Event Comment: A Concert, etc. At the Great Room, Castle Tavern. [See Comment, 5 May 1752.] To be conducted by Mrs Mary Midnight, author of the Midwife, and his Family. No admittance without Tickets, which are to be had at the Bedford Coffee House, Covent Garden. The Room will be lighted by Wax Candles. To begin at 7 p.m. Price 2s. 6d. [Time and price repeated thus for subsequent performances at the Castle Tavern.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory; Or, Henley In Petticoats

Performance Comment: Concerto on the Cermona Staccato , vulgarly call'd the Salt-Box-Antonio Ambrosiano; a Great Creature on a very uncommon Instrument-; a solo on the Viol d'Amore-; Candles snuffed to soft Musick-Claudio Molipitano; Oration in Favour of Matrimony-; solo on Violincello-; Song- to tune of The Roast Beef of Old England to which all the good Company are desir'd to join in chorus.
Event Comment: A Concert, &c. To be concluded by Mrs Mary Midnight and her Family. The Concert to begin at Twelve. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. [Repeated in subsequent bills.] Second time of performing

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory

Performance Comment: Prologue-Mrs Midnight; Act I. I. A grand Piece with Kettle@Drums and Trumpets-; 2. The Inauguration Speech-Mrs Midnight; 3. Overture by Handel-; 4. Declamatory Piece on Jew's Harp-a Casuist; Act II. I. The Speech of Mrs Midnight in Defence of her Existence-; 2. Overture to Ariadne-; 3. Solo on the Viol d'Amor-; 4. Oration on the salt@Box-a Rationalist; 5. March in Judas Macchabeus-; , with the Side Drum-; Act III. I. The Speech of Old Time to the Good People of Britain-. 2.; Solo on the Violoncello-Cupid; 3. Song-Mrs Midnight; 4. Solo-Master Hallett; Overture to Alexander-; Epilogue-Master Hallett.
Event Comment: On Wednesday next in the Evening Mrs Midnight's Concert and Oratory will again be performed...at the Haymarket. The last time this Entertainment was performed, the House was crowded, that many Hundreds could not get admittance, and persons of Quality and Distinction found Satisfaction...My Service to Sister Henley. Mary Midnight (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Event Comment: Receipts: #157 15s. [The Account Book lists the payment of 2s. per acting night to each shareholder: @Shareholder Mrs Martha Bedwell No. Share 1@No. Nights 36@Payment #3 12s.@Shareholder Mrs Creighton No. Shares 1@No. Nights 36@Payment #3 12s.@Shareholder Mr Francis Bedwell No. Shares 1@No. Nights 37@Payment #3 14s.@Shareholder Mr Robert Griffin No. Share 1@No. Nights 37@Payment #3 14s.@Shareholder Mr John Mitchell No. Shares 1@No. Nights 87@Payment #8 14s.@Shareholder Mrs Mary Michell No. Shares 1@No. Nights 87@Payment #8 14s.@Shareholder Mr John Walsh No. Shares 1@No. Nights 86@Payment #8 12s.@Shareholder Mr Lucuss No. Shares 1@No. Nights 54@Payment #5 8s.@Shareholder Col. Wade No. Shares 1@No. Nights 8@Payment 16s.@Shareholder Sir Arthur Croft No Shares 1@No. Nights 8@Payment 16s.@Shareholder Mr John White No. Shares 1@No. Nights 5@Payment 10s.@Shareholder Mr John Croft, Esq No. Shares 1@No. Nights 5@Payment 10s.@Shareholder Mr Rubin Adolphus No. Shares 1@No. Nights 5@Payment 10s.@Shareholder Mr Henry Woodfall No. Shares 1@No. Nights 3@Payment 6s.@Total No. Shares 14@No. Nights 494@Payment #49 8s.@ Winston MS 8 notes that on 1 Feb. dl had only 20 renters at 2s. a night.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess

Cast
Role: Camurius Actor: Anderson
Event Comment: Receipts:#66 4s. 6d. Hutchison Mure came in as a New Renter for 2 shares, and Mary Mure for 1 share commencing this night (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Dance: NewComic Dance, as17580417

Event Comment: Receipts: #143 12s. 6d. Paid Mary Mattley for a woman's black velvet suit #4 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Player Actor: Anderson
Role: Fairbank Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Cast
Role: Gayless Actor: Anderson

Dance: As17591023

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A New Comedy of 3 Acts [by George Colman] never performed. [In the Shakespearean Pageant, with figures from seventeen of his plays, the chief effectiveness lay with the Musicians who ushered in each group with appropriate music: Martial Music-The Roman Characters of Coriolanus and Julius Caesar; Soft Music-Antony and Cleopatra; Grand Music, Old English Characters-King John, Richard III, Henry VIII: Magical Music, "above, about, underneath" for Prospero; Macbeth's Music; Fairy Music-Oberon and Titania; Solemn Music for Tragic Muse accompanied by Othello, Hamlet, the Ghost, Mad Ophelia and Lear with Cordelia; Dead March in Saul-Juliet's Bier with attendants; Allegro for the Comic Muse-Falstaff, Touchstone, Launcelot, Malvolio; Andante-Florizel and Perdita, Portia Antonio and Bassanio; Flourish-for Car drawn by the muses carrying Shakespeare's Bust; Final Song by Mrs Mattocks, "Sweetest Bard that Ever Sung, Nature's glory, Fancy's Child--." The Prelude is, in print, entirely favorable to Garrick's effort at Stratford. But it could be rendered in a mercilessly ironical manner if the three participating actors so chose. Mainpiece reviewed in the Freeholder's Magazine, Oct.] Receipts: #224 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Man And Wife; Or, The Shakespeare Jubilee

Performance Comment: Parts-Woodward, Shuter, Morris, Lewes, R. Smith, Davis, Dunstall, Perry, Quick, Wignell, Fox, Herbert, Mrs Green, Mrs Gardner, A Young Gentlewoman, who never appeared on any stage, Mrs Mattocks, Mrs Bulkley. With a Prelude-; Marcourt-Woodward; Cross-Shuter; Landlord-Morris; Luke-Lewes; Fleece-R. Smith; Buck-Davis; Kitchen-Dunstall; Col. Frankly-Perry; Ostler-Quick; Snarl-Wignell; Passengers-Fox, Herbert; Mrs Cross-Mrs Green; Landlady-Mrs Gardner; Sally-A Young Gentlewoman who never appeared on any stage; Miss Mary Linley, afterwards Mrs Tickell (Winston MS 10); Lettice-Mrs Mattocks; Charlotte-Mrs Bulkley; Passengers-Miss Pearce, Mrs Copin; With a Prelude, Dapperwit-Dyer; Jenkins-Hull; Townly-Wroughton (Edition of 1770).
Cast
Role: Landlord Actor: Morris
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Gardner

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Entertainment: End II: Pageant exhibiting the characters of Shakespeare-; End III: Representation of the Amphitheatre at Stratford Upon Avon-; with a Masquerade-

Event Comment: Benefit for Hull. Mainpiece: Not acted this season. Charges #65 17s. Deficit to Hull #17, covered by #121 3s. from tickets (Box 233; Pit 280; Gallery 209). Paid Hull for The Garland, The Spanish Lady and Altering the Comedy of Errors #50. Paid Miss Mary Twist and Miss Charlotte Twist for walking 12 nights in Man and Wife #1 10s. apiece (Account Book). Receipts: #48 17s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Song: II: The Blackbirds, a Cantata-Miss Potts

Dance: End: The Reel, as17700329

Event Comment: Benefit for Barry. Tickets deliver'd for King Arthur will be taken. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Ladies send servants by 4 o'clock. Paid Supers, Kettle Drum, & practices to King Arthur #2 16s.; Printer's Bill #8 12s. (Treasurer's Book). Mary Martin to J. M. Rebow, 6 April (MS correspondence in Washington State University Library): There has not been any mention of Barry's Benefit in ye Papers till to Day when it is advertis'd for ye 23rd of this Month, & ye Play. After...ye Constant Couple, which I imagine is no very desirable thing to see so late in ye Season, therefore pray tell me if I must send ye Tickets back directly, or may keep them till you are in Town again, which I hope you certainly will be before that time; I find we are not ye only unfortunates that Mr Johnson disappoints of Places, for that it is his Constant Practice not to let a single Place, till all his Five Guinea Chaps are serv'd even if you are at ye Play House, & apply ye Instant ye Play is given out, for which reason Mr Garrick has desir'd Gentlemen will Write to him upon such Occasions, & it is now very commonly done. Receipts: #264 11s. 6d. Charges: #67. Profits to Barry: #197 11s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Cast
Role: Standard Actor: Aickin
Role: Tom Errand Actor: Ackman

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: End: Comic Dance, as17720326

Event Comment: Benefit for Hopkins, Prompter, and Mrs Hopkins. By Particular Desire. Tickets deliver'd for Mary Queen of Scots will be taken (playbill). Miss Hopkins made her first appearance upon the stage in Celia in As You Like It. Was rec'd with great applause (Hopkins Diary). House charges: #74 14s.; Profit to beneficiaries: #165 2s. Receipts: #239 16s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Orlando Actor: Brereton

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Performance Comment: As17721106, but Abram-Jacobs; Grand Chorus-Mrs Wrighten, Mrs _Scott.

Dance: I: A Dance-Daigville's scholars

Entertainment: End: (First time) an Address to the Town-Miss P. Hopkins

Event Comment: Benefit for Dodd. Afterpiece: Not acted these 9 years. [See 26 March 1763.] Married at Marylebone Church-W. Lacy, Esq one of managers of Drury Lane to Miss Orpen, daughter of an eminent hatter (Winston MS 10). Married: Willoughby Lacy, Esq to Miss Orpen of St Mary-le-bon (Gentleman's Magazine, 1744, p. 141). Receipts: #166 16s. Charges: #64 12s. Profits to Dodd: #102 4s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Related Works
Related Work: The Beau Defeated; or, The Lucky Younger Brother Author(s): Mary Pix
Related Work: Fatal Love; or, The Degenerate Brother Author(s): Osborne Sidney Wandesford
Related Work: The Brothers Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Entertainment: Bucks Have at ye All-Dodd

Event Comment: [The formula for Mary-le-bone this season is Entertainment in three parts, into which skits seem to be inserted.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fragmentary ]dramatic Entertainments

Event Comment: Juliet by Mrs Robinson--a genteel Figure--a very tolerable first Appearance, and may do in time. [Note added by J. P. Kemble: Mrs Mary Robinson, whose maiden name was Darby, died Dec. 26, 1800 at Englefield Green. See her Life, of which the first part, namely as far as to her Acquaintance with the Prince of Wales, was written by herself] (Hopkins Diary). Receipts: #170 8s. (133.15; 31.15; 4.18)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

Cast
Role: Scander Actor: Bannister

Dance: In I: Masquerade-; Dance-Giorgi, Blurton, Mrs Sutton. [This was included, as here assigned, in all subsequent perfomances.

Related Works
Related Work: The Wandering Jew; or, Love's Masquerade Author(s): Andrew Franklin

Song: Mainpiece: with the Funeral Procession. Vocal Parts-Gaudry, Legg, Kear, Fawcett, Brown, Carpenter, Follett, Chaplin, Miss Abrams, Miss Collett, Mrs Scott, Mrs Greville, Mrs Davies, Miss Jarratt, Miss Boyd, Mrs Booth, Mrs Pitt

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Performance Comment: scene I. Hornpipe, as17840517; Poor ThomasDay by Chapman, Wilson, Barry more, scene III. Thou hast gone awa' from me Mary by Miss Phillips. scene III. As scene III, 26 Apr., but added: Wilson. scene IV. An Italian Air, as17840412 To conclude with a Dance [probably The Sportsmen's Return] by Mr and Miss Hamoir .
Cast
Role: Sandford Actor: R. Palmer
Related Works
Related Work: The Village Fete Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Wilkinson. [For Miss Thompson see DNB, under Mary Anne Clarke.] Tickets to be had of Wilkinson, No. 33, Warwick-street, Golden-square. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: Marplot-Wilkinson; Sir F. Gripe-Gull; Isabinda-Mrs Churton; Miranda-The Young Lady.
Cast
Role: Miranda Actor: The Young Lady.

Song: End: a favourite song-Tanner

Entertainment: Monologue. End III: a Comic Sketch of the Times-Ryder

Event Comment: The Proprietor of this Theatre having informed us that a report has been recently circulated, highly injurious to this Building; we, in consequence of his request, beg leave to asure the Public that such report is unfounded. John Johnson, Mary-le-bone; James Paine, Northend, Hammersmith; Thomas Hardwicke, Rathbone Place; Robert Brettingham, Berkley-Square. Architects

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Giuochi D'agrigento

Related Works
Related Work: I Giuochi d'Agrigento Author(s): Alessandro Pepoli

Dance: As17930216

Event Comment: Benefit for Hull and Macready. 1st piece: In Act I a Grand Banquet. With the Procession [in Act IV] from the Abbey at the Coronation of Anne Bullen . To conclude with the Ceremonial of a Royal Christening. [In 2nd piece the scenes, as listed on 10 May, are indicated.] Morning Herald, 20 May: Tickets to be had of Hull, No. 7, Duke's-court, Westminster; Diary, 21 May: of Macready, No. 3, Mary-street, Charles-street, Tottenham-Court-Road. Receipts: #282 14s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Performance Comment: King Henry-Holman (1st and only appearance in that character); Duke of Buckingham-Farren; Cranmer-Hull; Cromwell-Davies; Lord Chamberlain-Cubitt; Bishop of Winchester-Quick; Surrey-Macready; Duke of Norfold-Harley; Duke of Suffolk-Marshall; Cardinal Wolsey-Pope; Anne Bullen-Miss Chapman; Queen Catherine-Mrs Pope.

Afterpiece Title: The Sailor's Festival

Performance Comment: As17930510, but in Scene I We be three poor Mariners-_Gray; [Scene II. The Disconsolate Sailor, When my Money was gone-Mrs Martyr (in character); When daisies mead-Miss Barnett [both in place of songs by Mrs Martyr and Johnstone]; [In Scene III added: Irish Song-Johnstone; Comic Song-Munden; [To conclude with a Representation of the Grand Fleet at Anchor in Portsmouth Harbour-.

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of A Day

Song: III: a song-Mrs Clendining

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: HARTFORD BRIDGE

Dance: In 3rd piece The Lucky Escape, as17930916

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Wilkinson. Mainpiece [T 3, by John Penn, 1st acted at Richmond, Feb. 1796. Prologue by the author (see text)]: A New Historical Play in 3 Acts (with songs [by John Wall Callcott]). Morning Herald, 11 Apr.: This Day is published The Battle of Eddington, as acted at the Haymarket and at Richmond (1s. 6d.). Tickets to be had of Wilkinson, No. 14, Mary-le-bone-street, Golden-square. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Eddington; Or, British Liberty

Performance Comment: Partial cast from Morning Herald, 30 Mar.: Alfred-Clifford; Ceoluph-Wilkinson; Queen-Mrs Sidney; [Text (Elmsley [et al], 1796) lists the parts: Alfred King of England; Mervin, his dependent, Prince of South Wales; Ethelred, General of the English; Ceoluph, English Nobleman; Danish Captain of Auxiliaries; Ceoluph's Vassal; Edmund, Son and Heir of Alfred then very young; Elsitha, Queen of England; Editha, an Old Woman inhabiting the Cottage. Prologue-Wilkinson.

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Entertainment: Monologue.End: Collins's Ode on the Passions-Wilkinson

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of Mary Queen of Scots, advertised on playbill of 27 Dec.] Receipts: #210 16s. (163.12; 44.13; 2.11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: King of Scotland Actor: Aickin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Divertisement

Performance Comment: As17990327but Let Bards elate-_; Of the ancients its speaking-_; I went to Sea-_; Abergavenny is fine-_; The moment Aurora-_; Dear Mary adieu-_; The Midnight Watch-_; Poor Orra come from distant shore-_; A sailor's life's a life of woe-_; Sure an't the World a Masquerade-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Birth Day

Cast
Role: Dear Mary adieu Actor: Incledon
Related Works
Related Work: The Birth Day Author(s): August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue

Afterpiece Title: Raymond and Agnes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sighs

Afterpiece Title: Tars at Torbay; or, Sailors on Saturday Night

Performance Comment: Tack and Half Tack (1st time)-Fawcett; Nongtongpaw-Johnstone; Around the Old Oak right Jolly and Gay-Suett, Bannister, Wathen; Ben and Mary-Trueman; Midst of the Sea-Fawcett; Ye Gentlemen of England-Johnstone, Linton, Suett; Rule Britannia-Fawcett, Johnstone, Suett, Bannister, Wathen, Trueman, Davies, Story, Linton, Brown, Caulfield Jun., Aylmer, Dibble, Willoughby, Little, Kenrick.

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

Cast
Role: Young Random Actor: Barrymore
Role: Old Random Actor: Aickin

Song: End 1st piece: Crazy Jane (composed by Miss Abrahams [recte Abrams])-Mrs Bland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Performance Comment: As17110201, but Antonio-_; Sancho-_; Angelina-_; Louisa-_; With an Epilogue (intended to be Humourous)-Mr Cibber upon all Mankind being Actors.