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Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

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Role: Sylvia Actor: Miss Rogers

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Song: I: A Cantata, Queen Mab; or the Fairies Jubilee-Mrs Wrighten

Dance: End: The Sailors Revels, as17711008

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Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

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Role: Miranda Actor: Miss Rogers

Afterpiece Title: The Absent Man

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Role: Flavia Actor: Miss Rogers.

Dance: V: The Drunken Peasant-Philips, the original

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Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

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Role: Louisa Dudley Actor: Miss Rogers

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: End: Hornpipe-Walker

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Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

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Role: Prince Edward Actor: Miss Rogers

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Monologue: V: Linco's Travels. As 24 March

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Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

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Role: Celia Actor: Miss Rogers

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: I: The Sailors Revels, as17711008

Entertainment: Bucks Have at Ye All-Mas. Palmer

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The What DYe Call It

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Role: Sir Roger Actor: Dunstall

Dance: I: The Country Macaroni Assembly, as17750512; With Minuet, as17750512; End Opera: The British Bacchanalian, as17750512; with Wooden Shoe Dance, as17750512

Ballet: II: Boadicea Queen of Britain. As17750512, but in addition are Twenty@three Combatants-, dressed after the manner of the ancient Britons and Romans

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Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth Or The Conquest Of France

Related Works
Related Work: The History of Henry the Fifth Author(s): Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

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Role: Sir Roger Actor: Booth

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Harlequin

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Mainpiece Title: The Foundling

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Role: Sir Roger Belmont Actor: Parsons

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth

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Mainpiece Title: The Foundling

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Role: Sir Roger Belmont Actor: Parsons

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: As17830505

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Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Foote Weston and Shuter in the Shades

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Role: Sir Roger Actor: Usher

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Song: As17840730

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Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Foote Weston and Shuter in the Shades

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Role: Sir Roger Actor: Usher

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Song: As17840730

Monologue: 1784 08 19 Preceding mainpiece A Looking Glass for the Times; or, The Charms of Money by Parsons in the Character of a distress'd Poet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Foote Weston and Shuter in the Shades

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Role: Sir Roger Actor: Usher

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Dance: In Act III of 2nd piece Hornpipe by Byrne

Monologue: 1784 08 26 As 10 Aug

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Two Connoisseurs

Afterpiece Title: Foote Weston and Shuter in the Shades

Cast
Role: Sir Roger Actor: Usher

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Turk And No Turk

Cast
Role: Sir Roger Ramble Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: A Beggar on Horseback

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Turk And No Turk

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Role: Sir Roger Ramble Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

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Mainpiece Title: Turk And No Turk

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Role: Sir Roger Ramble Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: As17850706

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Mainpiece Title: Turk And No Turk

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Role: Sir Roger Ramble Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Dance: As17850706

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Mainpiece Title: Turk And No Turk

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Role: Sir Roger Ramble Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Turk And No Turk

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Role: Sir Roger Ramble Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Turk And No Turk

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Role: Sir Roger Ramble Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Foundling

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Role: Sir Roger Belmont Actor: Baddeley

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Dance: End: New Comic Dance, as17930607 but Miss _Phillips

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry IV Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Dance: Pierrots by Delagarde and Dukes. Grecian Sailors (from orestes) by Glover, Le Sac, S. Lally, Delagarde, Dukes. Ball Dance and Minuet by Glover and Miss Rogers. Grand Ballet of The Faithful Shepherd (from Pastor Fido) by Glover, Le Sac, Dukes, Delagarde, Dupre, Miss Rogers, Mrs Ogden, Mrs Delorme, Miss Baston, Mrs Villepierre. Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers

Performance Comment: Grecian Sailors (from orestes) by Glover, Le Sac, S. Lally, Delagarde, Dukes. Ball Dance and Minuet by Glover and Miss Rogers. Grand Ballet of The Faithful Shepherd (from Pastor Fido) by Glover, Le Sac, Dukes, Delagarde, Dupre, Miss Rogers, Mrs Ogden, Mrs Delorme, Miss Baston, Mrs Villepierre. Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers .
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 216. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 348. There is considerable uncertainty as to when the first performance occurred, but it appears to have been acted first at court. See Boswell, Restoration Court Stage, pp. 131-34. The first Prologue, written by Lord Mulgrove, and the second, written by Lord Rochester, are in A Collection of Poems Written upon several Occasions by several Persons (1673). Roger North: And now we turne to the Publik theatres. It had bin strange if they had not observed this promiscuous tendency to musick, and not have taken it into their scenes and profited by it. The first proffer of theirs, as I take it, was in a play of the thick-sculd-poetaster Elkanah Settle, called The Empress of Morocco; which had a sort of masque poem of Orfeus and Euridice, set by Mr M. Lock, but scandalously performed. It begins The Groans of Ghosts, &c. and may be had in print (Roger North on Music, ed. John Wilson [London, 1959], p. 306)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Empress Of Morocco

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 68: The King and Queene & a Box for ye Maydes of Honor at the Opera. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350, and 1 Jan. 1684@5. The opera was certainly given on 3 June, probably on 10 June, and probably on 13 June, the day that the news of the Duke of Monmouth's landing reached London; as Downes states that it was acted six times, there were three additional performances between 3 and 13 June 1685. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 40): In Anno 1685. The Opera of Albion and Albanius was perform'd; wrote by Mr Dryden, and Compos'd by Monsieur Grabue: This being perform'd on a very Unlucky Day, being the Day the Duke of Monmouth, Landed in the West: The Nation being in a great Consternation, it was perform'd but Six times, which not Answering half the Charge they were at, Involv'd the Company very much in Debt. Roger North: The first full opera that was made and prepared for the stage, was the Albanio of Mr Grabue, in English, but of a French genius. It is printed in full score, but proved the ruin of the poor man, for the King's death supplanted all his hopes, and so it dyed (Roger North on Music, ed. John Wilson [London, 1959], p. 311). The Prologue and Epilogue, published separately, are reprinted in Wiley, Rare Prologues and Epilogues, pp. 244-46. The score and the libretto were published in 1687 (licensing date of 15 March 1686@7): Albion and Albanius; An Opera; Or, Representation in Musick. Set by Lewis Grabu, Esq; Master of His late Majesty's Musick

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Albion And Albanius

Event Comment: The United Company. The date of the first performance is not known, but it very probably occurred not later than May 1691, as the play was advertised in the London Gazette, 4-8 June 1691. For discussions of it, see E. W. White, Early Performances of Purcell's Operas, Theatre Notebook, XIII (1958-59), 44-45, and R. E. Moore, Henry Purcell and the Restoration Theatre, Chapter III. Downes, Roscius Anglicanus, p. 42: King Arthur an Opera, wrote by Mr Dryden: it was Excellently Adorn'd with Scenes and Machines: The Musical Part set by Famous Mr Henry Purcel; and Dances made by Mr Jo. Priest: The Play and Musick pleas'd the Court and City, and being well perform'd, twas very Gainful to the Company. Roger North: I remember in Purcell's excellent opera of King Arthur, when Mrs Butler, in the person of Cupid, was to call up Genius, she had the liberty to turne her face to the scean, and ner back to the theater. She was in no concerne for her face, but sang a recitativo of calling towards the place where Genius was to rise, and performed it admirably, even beyond any thing I ever heard upon the English stage....And I could ascribe it to nothing so much as the liberty she had of concealing her face, which she could not endure should be so contorted as is necessary to sound well, before her gallants, or at least her envious sex. There was so much of admirable musick in that opera, that it's no wonder it's lost; for the English have no care of what's good, and therefore deserve it not (Roger North on Music, ed. John Wilson [London, 1959], p. 217-18)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur Or The British Worthy