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We found 6691 matches on Roles/Actors, 1726 matches on Performance Comments, 226 matches on Event Comments, 21 matches on Performance Title, and 5 matches on Author.
Event Comment: Benefit for Barrymore. Mainpiece: In Act II a Masquerade Scene. Morning Herald, 16 May: Tickets to be had of Barrymore, No. 20, Judd-place West, New-road, St. Pancras. Receipts: #155 9s. (97.9.6; 51.12.6; 4.10.6; tickets: none listed; odd money: 1.16.6) (charge: #217 5s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: As17960425, but Escalus-Trueman; Balthazar-_; Sampson-_; Gregory-_; Abram-_; Peter-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Performance Comment: As17960512.

Song: As17960428

Event Comment: Receipts: #175 18s. 6d. (125.15.6; 46.11.6; 3.11.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: As17960503, but Faukland-Whitfield; David-Hollingsworth; added: Servants-Banks, Webb, Evans.

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Performance Comment: As17951230, but Vapour-C. Kemble.
Event Comment: Receipts: #146 12s. 6d. (102.17.6; 43.3.0; 0.0.0; tickets not come in: 0.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not

Performance Comment: As17960222.

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Performance Comment: As17960310but Lenitive-Wathen; Mr Caddy-Maddocks.
Event Comment: Benefit for Sedgwick. Morning Herald, 20 May: Tickets to be had of Sedgwick at Mr Gibson's, jeweller, Charlotte-street, Rathbone-place. Receipts: #156 17s. (100.16; 54.4; 1.17; tickets: none listed) (charge: #212 16s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17960512, but Hamlet (for this night only)-Holman (of cg); Gertrude-Mrs Powell; Marcellus-_; Players-_; Actress-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Phoenix or Anacreontics Renovated i

Performance Comment: e. The Sons of Anacreon]. Consisting of Songs, Catches, Glees-Sedgwick, Master Welsh, Bannister, Suett, Dignum, Wathen.

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Performance Comment: Mr Belville (1st time, with Why swells my wavy burnish'd grain, from The Mariners, composed by Mozart)-Sedgwick; Captain Belville-Dignum; William (1st time)-Miss DeCamp; Rustick-Cooke; Irishman-Caulfield; Rosina-Miss Leak; Dorcas-Mrs Booth; Phebe-Mrs Bland.

Entertainment: In 2nd piece: Imitations-Caulfield

Event Comment: Benefit for Fosbrook, box-book and housekeeper. Receipts: #142 15s. 6d. (84.0.6; 46.15.0; 6.12.6; tickets: none listed; odd money: 5.7.6) (charge: #211 5s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Performance Comment: As17960513, but Flutter (1st time)-Russell; Villers-Caulfield; Lady Touchwood (1st time)-Miss Miller; Miss Ogle-_; Kitty Willis-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Performance Comment: As17960512, but Count Almaviva (1st time)-Palmer.

Afterpiece Title: The Purse

Performance Comment: As17951230, but Will Steady (1st time)-Wathen.

Song: In IV of 1st piece: a Masquerade Scene, in which Ally Croker-Miss Leak, Master Welsh; Listen to the Voice of Love-Master Welsh

Event Comment: Benefit for Whitfield. 1st piece: Written by the late Mr Benson [see 9 June]. Morning Herald, 21 May: Tickets to be had of Whitfield, No. 19, Piazza, Covent Garden. Receipts: #127 15s. (79.11.0; 40.5.6; 3.12.6; tickets: none listed; odd money: 4.6.0) (charge: #223 3s. 5d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Money

Performance Comment: As17960513, but Characters-_Benson, Wewitzer, Miss _Leak, Mrs +Pritchard (1st appearance on any stage).

Afterpiece Title: First Love

Performance Comment: As17960505, but David Mowbray (1st time)-Whitfield.

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Performance Comment: As17960524.
Event Comment: Benefit for Dignum. Morning Herald, 20 May: Tickets to be had of Dignum, No. 23, New North-street, Red-lion-square. Receipts: #148 10s. 6d. (81.10.0; 57.6.6; 2.3.0; tickets: none listed; odd money: 7.11.0) (charge: #214 1s. 7d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Performance Comment: As17950926, but Snake-Phillimore; Maria (1st time)-Miss Heard; Maid-_.

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Performance Comment: As17960408, but Robin-Wathen.

Afterpiece Title: A Musical Olio

Performance Comment: As17960521, but added: The Town and Country (by permission of Captain Morris)-Dignum; the Catches and Glees-Bannister, Sedgwick, Wathen, Dignum.

Song: End II: The Little Waist- (composed by Hook); End IV: The Sailor's Journal (composed by Dibdin)-Dignum

Event Comment: [On this evening the following performers appeared both at dl and at the hay: Suett, Palmer, Miss DeCamp, Miss Heard.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mock Doctor Or The Dumb Lady Cured

Performance Comment: Gregory (The Mock Doctor)-Palmer (1st appearance in that character); Sir Jasper-Waldron; Leander-Caulfield; Dr Hellebore-Burton; Davy-Waldron Jun.; James-Palmer Jun.; Harry-Abbot; Sq. Robert-Lyons; Charlotte-Miss Heard; Maid-Mrs Jones; Dorcas-Mrs Harlowe.

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Performance Comment: Lingo-Fawcett; Sir Felix Friendly-Suett; Compton-Bannister; Eugene-Davies; Chicane-Usher; Thomas-Burton; John-Trueman; Cudden-Waldron Jun.; Stump-Ledger; Laura-Miss Leak; Mrs Cheshire-Mrs Booth; Fringe-Miss DeCamp; Cowslip-Mrs Kemble.

Afterpiece Title: Bannian Day

Performance Comment: As17960613.
Event Comment: [On this evening the following performers appeared both at dl and the hay: Suett, Caulfield, Trueman, Miss Menage, Miss Leak.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Purse Or Benevolent Tar

Performance Comment: William-Wathen; Edward-Davies; Baron-Caulfield; Theodore-Palmer Jun.; Page-Miss Menage; Sally-Mrs Bland.

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Performance Comment: As17960611.

Afterpiece Title: Bannian Day

Performance Comment: As17960613.
Event Comment: [Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Appleby, Bennett, Calkin, Chumbley, Caton, Cawston, Dale Jun.; Fosbrook (door-keeper), Gray, Faux, Humphries, Hough, Massingham Sen., Massingham Jun., Pilsbury, Perry, Powell, Ross, Thompson, Tice, Waterer will be admitted.] The Last Time of the Company's Performing this Season. Receipts: #106 16s. (59.1.0; 28.6.6; 11.18.6; tickets: none listed; odd money: 7.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahmoud

Performance Comment: As17960610.

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Performance Comment: As17960611.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: As17960616.

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Performance Comment: As17960614.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Magick Banner

Performance Comment: As17960622.

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

Performance Comment: As17960613.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Magick Banner

Performance Comment: As17960622.

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Performance Comment: As17960611 but Crazy-Suett; Emma-Miss DeCamp.
Event Comment: [1st piece in place of The Purse; 2nd piece of Bannian Day, both advertised on playbill of 25 June.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gretna Green

Performance Comment: As17960618.

Afterpiece Title: All in Good Humour

Performance Comment: As17960620 but Robin-_; Crop-_; Mrs Chagrin-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Performance Comment: As17960620.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mountaineers

Performance Comment: As17960625.

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performance Comment: As17960614 but Charlotte-Miss DeCamp.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mountaineers

Performance Comment: As17960625.

Afterpiece Title: Gretna Green

Performance Comment: As17960618 but added: Maria-Miss Leak.
Event Comment: [1st piece in place of Half an Hour after Supper, advertised on playbill of 1 July.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Performance Comment: As17960629.

Afterpiece Title: The Jew

Performance Comment: As17960630.

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Performance Comment: Belville-Bannister; Capt. Belville-Davies; Rustic-Trueman; Irishmen-Caulfield, Abbot; William-Mrs Harlowe; Phoebe-Mrs Bland; Dorcas-Mrs Booth; Rosina-Miss Leak.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Purse

Performance Comment: As17960617.

Afterpiece Title: The London Hermit

Performance Comment: As17960617 but added: Bite-Caulfield; Poz-Abbot; Skip-Lyons; Coachman-Ledger.

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Performance Comment: As17960624.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prisoner At Large

Performance Comment: As17960617.

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performance Comment: As17960628 but Gregory-Bannister Jun.

Afterpiece Title: Bannian Day

Performance Comment: As17960613.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ways And Means

Performance Comment: As17960707 but Young Random-Palmer.

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Performance Comment: As17960707.

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Performance Comment: As17960614.
Event Comment: [1st piece in place of Bannian Day, advertised on playbill of 16 July.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: As17960706.

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

Performance Comment: As17960611 but Old Wilding-Aickin.

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Performance Comment: As17960711 but added: Label-Suett.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In Good Humour

Performance Comment: As17960620.

Afterpiece Title: A Bold Stroke for a Wife

Performance Comment: As17960709 but Stockbrokers-_Burton.

Afterpiece Title: The Purse

Performance Comment: As17960615.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Performance Comment: As17960629.

Afterpiece Title: The Battle of Hexham

Performance Comment: As17960629 but Gregory Gubbins-Bannister Jun.

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Performance Comment: As17960624.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Performance Comment: Inkle-Palmer; Sir Christopher Curry-Aickin; Medium-Wathen (1st appearance in that character); Campley-Davies; Mate-Trueman; Waiter-Waldron Jun.; Planters-Usher, Burton, Abbot; Sailors-Ledger, Lyons; Trudge-Fawcett; Narcissa-Miss DeCamp; Wowski-Mrs Bland; Patty-Mrs Gibbs; Yarico-Mrs Kemble.

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

Performance Comment: As17960705 but Helen-Miss Heard.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surrender Of Calais

Performance Comment: As17960715 but O'Carrol-Caulfield; Citizens-_Caulfield.

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Performance Comment: As17960706.

Song: As17960715