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We found 115 matches on Performance Comments, 32 matches on Author, 21 matches on Event Comments, 3 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; P 2(?), by Ralph Wewitzer. Not in Larpent MS; not published; synopsis of action in Public Advertiser, 28 Dec.]: With new Music, Scenery, Dresses, Machinery, and Decorations. The Music composed by Walter? Clagget. The Scenes designed and executed by Richards, Carver, Hodgins and others. Nothing under Full Price will be taken. Receipts: #192 2s. (188.12; 3.10)

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Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Dumb Cake; or, The Regions of Fancy

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Related Work: The Dumb Cake; or, The Regions of Fancy Author(s): Ralph Wewitzer

Dance: [not listed on playbill]. "A dance based on a print entitled The Long Minuet (by H. W. Bunbury) was well attempted" (World, 27 Dec.)

Event Comment: 3rd piece [1st time; P 2(?), by Ralph Wewitzer and --Invill]: With new Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations. The Scenery designed and painted by Rooker. The Music by Dr Arnold. Books of the Songs (T. Cadell [1788]) to be had at the Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: Tit For Tat

Afterpiece Title: A Quarter of an Hour before Dinner

Afterpiece Title: The Gnome; or, Harlequin Underground

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Related Work: The Gnome; or, Harlequin Underground Author(s): Ralph Wewitzer

Dance: End 1st piece: January and May-[see17880627

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Baker. [Ralph's Ramble (Larpent MS 254) seems patterned on the Farmer's Return from London. Ralph returns to the Mill and gives impressions, not all complimentary, of his trip to London. A Monologue in Couplets with a song.

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Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Dance: I: A Dance-Aldridge, Miss Baker; After the Entertainment: A New Dance call'd the Fortune Tellers-Aldridge, Miss Baker

Entertainment: End: King (for that night only) will present the Audience with a New Comic Descriptive Piece call'd Ralph's Ramble Or O'Rare London! (being a short sequel to a comic character in the Maid of the Mill.)-King

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Mainpiece Title: Fryar Bacon; Or, The Country Justice : With The Humours Of tolfree The Miller, And His Son ralph

Performance Comment: A playbill: At Parker's and Doggett's Booth near Hosier-Lane End, in Smithfield, during the Time of Bartholomew-Fair, will be presented a New Droll, called, Fryar Bacon; or, The Country Justice: With the Humours of Tolfree the Miller, and his Son Ralph, Acted by Mr Doggett. With Variety of Scenes, Machines, Songs and Dances. Vivat Rex. (See William VanLennep, Some Early English Playbills, Harvard Library Bulletin, VIII (1954), opposite page 237.) The London Spy, August 1699, describes a visit to Bartholomew Fair, including an account of Doggett's droll and another, Dwarf Comedy, Sir-nam'd a Droll' called The Devil of a Wife. In the Post Man, 15-17 Aug. 1699, is an advance notice of rope dancing and a booth run by Barnes and Appleby between the Crown Tavern and the Hospital Gate, next to Miller's Droll Booth.
Event Comment: A New Tragedy. [By James Ralph.

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Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of The Earl Of Essex

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Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these thirty Years. Taken from the French of Moliere by Sir John Vanbrugh. [This version by James Ralph.] The Songs new set by John Frederick Lampe, and a new Grand Dance, in Grotesque Characters, proper to the Play. Afterpiece: a Farce of two Acts. Alter'd from Beaumont and Fletcher. [Author unknown. Apparently not published.]

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Mainpiece Title: The Cornish Squire

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Afterpiece Title: The Sham Pilgrims

Event Comment: The farce never acted before [by James Ralph]. Two acts taken from The Spanish Curate, by Beaumont and Fletcher. Macklin's Reply to Garrick's Answer published

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Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Lawyer's Feast

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Related Work: The Lawyer's Feast Author(s): James Ralph

Song: II: Song-Morland (his 1st appearance)

Dance: V: Italian Masquerade, as17431126

Event Comment: Never acted before. After the manner of Ben Johnson [by James Ralph]. The Receipts...upon the First Night were but Twenty-One Pounds...and...when the Manager had the Generosity to Risque a Second...he was oblig'd to shut up his Doors for want of an Audience [from Preface to printed edition]

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Mainpiece Title: The Astrologer; Or, The Pretended Transformation

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Related Work: The Astrologer; or, The Pretended Transformation Author(s): James Ralph
Event Comment: Afterpiece: A new Burletta never performed before, composed by Mr Barthelemon. [Text by Ralph Schomberg.

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Mainpiece Title: The Orators

Afterpiece Title: The Judgment of Paris

Dance: As17680530

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Mainpiece Title: The History Of The Famous Fryer Bacon; With The Comical Humours Of Justice Want-brains, Hopper The Miller, And His Son Ralph

Song: Mrs Boman

Dance: Italian Shadows-

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Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady

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Related Work: The Fashionable Lady; or, Harlequin's Opera Author(s): James Ralph

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Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady

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Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady

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Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady

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Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady

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Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady

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Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady

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Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady

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Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady

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Music: SSelarce a Trumpet Solo-Burk Thumoth

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Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady

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Music: SSee@larce A Trumpet Farce-Burk Thumoth; accompanied-the rest of the Musick upon the Stage

Song: new Song, called Myra's Choice , to the Tune of the White Joke,-Mr Russell who sung Hunter at the Hay-Market

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Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady

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Dance: TThe White Joke-Eaton

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Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady

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Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady; Or, Harlequin's Opera

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Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady

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Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of The Earl Of Essex

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