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Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never Acted before, By the Author of...Hurlothrumbo [Samuel Johnson]. The Musick and Epilogue compos'd by Lord Flame [Johnson]. John Byrom, 1 Feb.: They [two Londoners] said the first night Johnson was for fighting with somebody in the pit.-Byrom, Private Journals and Literary Remains, XI, 88

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Mainpiece Title: All Alive And Merry; Or, Men In Pursuit Of Money

Performance Comment: All@Alive@and@Merry-Lord Flame [Samuel Johnson of Chesire]; others-W. Giffard, Hewitt, Norris, Lyon, Rosco, Penkethman, Mrs Roberts, Mrs Charke, Mrs Chambers, Miss Tollett, Miss Burgess, Mrs M. Giffard; And a new Prologue-Giffard; [With a New Hierogliphical Dancing Epilogue-.
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Related Work: All Alive and Merry; or, Men in Pursuit of Money Author(s): Samuel Johnson

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Pantomime

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Mainpiece Title: Hurlothrumbo

Performance Comment: Lord Flame-the Author Samuel Johnson of Chesire.
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Related Work: Hurlothrumbo; or, News from Terra Australis Incognita: With the Whimsical Flights of My Lord Flame Author(s): Samuel Johnson
Event Comment: [By Samuel Madden.] Receipts: #114 2s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 146 paid and 16 orders; stage, 2 paid; pit, 287 paid and 1 order; slips, 62 paid; first gallery, 209 paid and 3 orders; second gallery, 170 paid. Preface to 1729 edition: Yet, with all its Faults, I did not think this Piece deserv'd so severe Treatment, as to be peremptorily refused, after the most earnest and early Sollicitations, at the Old House for two Winters together; which however, I have the less Reason to complain of, since Mr Rich's great Civility, and the agreeable Action of most of his Company, have prevailed on all the unprejudiced Part of the Town, to have every Day a better Opinion of this Piece

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Mainpiece Title: Themistocles, The Lover Of His Country

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Related Work: Themistocles, the Lover of His Country Author(s): Samuel Madden
Event Comment: [Music by Handel. Translation by Samuel Humphreys.] Wherein the Cloaths and Scenes are all entirely New. Colman's Opera Register: But did not draw much Company

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Mainpiece Title: Aetius

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Related Work: Aetius Author(s): Samuel Humphreys
Event Comment: Benefit for the Author Tickets to be had as 9 and 14 Feb. [The Gentleman's Magazine this month gave a nine-column article to the Plan and Specimens of Irene a Tragedy by Mr Samuel Johnsin acted at Drury Lane from 6-20 February inclusive." In it plot was first retold, then excerpts from speeches were given which illustrated the beautiful expression of the moral values contained in the play: "To instance every moral which is inculcated in this performance, would be to transcribe the whole; but, however difficult I shall select a few." No comments are made upon the stage presentation, all is presented upon the basis of examination of the text. William Shenstone thought not much of it as a play. See Letter to Lady Luxborough 22 March.] Receipts: #110 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel)

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Mainpiece Title: Mahomet And Irene

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Related Work: Mahomet and Irene Author(s): Samuel Johnson

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: SSavoyards, as17480920

Event Comment: Benefit for Macklin. Afterpiece: A Comedy in 2 acts written by Foote, with Prologue and Epilogue by him. Miss Macklin did Calista and a part in the farce,-all went well (Cross). A Comedy in answer to the French Farce A Frenchman in London, with a Dialogue Prologue, spoken by Macklin & his wife. Epilogue spoken by Miss Macklin. All by Foote. Part of Pit laid into the boxes, with an amphitheatre on stage, all at 5s. Full Prices (Winston MS 8). The Englishman at Paris has been better recev'd that I expected. Garrick, &c., &c....say kinder things of it than modesty will permit me to repeat. Upon the whole it was damnably acted, Macklin miserably imperfect in the words and in the character (a stain to Comedy). You might have seen what I meant,--an English Buck, by the power of dulness instantaneously transformed into an Irish chairman. Miss Roach, accompany'd by some frippery French woman occupy'd, to the no small scandal of the whole house, the Prince's box, whilst the duchess of Bedford &c., &c. were oblig'd to take up with seats upon the stage. The piece will be printed the 25th instant, which I will enclose to you (Samuel Foote to Mr Delaval, MS in Folger Shakespeare Library, written either 24 March, or, perhaps more likely, 24 April, since Foote states later in the letter he is leaving for foreign parts the first of May)

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Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

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Related Work: The Englishman in Paris Author(s): Samuel Foote
Event Comment: Afterpiece by Mr Foote (Cross). [Foote advertised that persons in the Author were fictitious, some having said his past friends were introduced. See Theatrical Review, 1757, and Public Advertiser this day: "Whereas it has been represented to the Managers of Drury Lane that Mr Foote in his new Farce call'd the Author, intends introducing the Character of a Gentleaan for whom he has the greatest esteem and regard, he thinks it incumbent upon him to assure the Public, that all the persons in that piece are fictitious and general. Samuel Foote."] Receipts: #200 (Cross)

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Mainpiece Title: Cato

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Related Work: Cato Author(s): Samuel Humphreys

Afterpiece Title: The Author

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Related Work: The Author Author(s): Samuel Foote
Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Last Time of performing it. Receipts: #153 14s. 6d. Barry's 113 of surplus came to #24 11s. 6d. Paid George Lambert (scene painter) 3 months' salary #25. The following additional Renters came in this night at 1 share each: Thomas Fludyer, John Calcraft, Charles Lanoe, and Samuel Berkeley. Richard Vincent Sr bought in at 2 shares (Account Book)

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Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

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Related Work: Herod and Mariamne Author(s): Samuel Pordage

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

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Related Work: The Knights Author(s): Samuel Foote
Related Work: The Cornish Knights Author(s): Samuel Foote

Dance: As17571217

Ballet: TThe Judgment of Paris. As17571217

Event Comment: Benefit for Barry. Mainpiece: By Elijah Fenton (Genest, V, 269). By Samuel Pordage (MacMillan)

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Mainpiece Title: Herod And Mariamne

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Related Work: Herod and Mariamne Author(s): Samuel Pordage

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: IV: Comic Dance, as17690926

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs DuBellamy. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Afterpiece [comedy by Samuel Foote]: never perform'd there

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

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Related Work: The Commissary Author(s): Samuel Foote

Music: II: A Favourite Concerto on the Harpsichord-Hook

Ballet: End Opera: The Wapping Landlady and Double Hornpipe. As17710422

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. Mainpiece: Not acted these 16 years. Part of Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Tragedy by Samuel Pordage. Charges #64 12s. Profit to Smith #62 19s. 6d., plus #110 from tickets (Box 380; Pit 68; Gallery 48) Receipts: #127 11s. 6d. (Account Book)

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Mainpiece Title: Herod And Mariamne

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Related Work: Herod and Mariamne Author(s): Samuel Pordage

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: End: The Old Ground Young, as17740205; with an Allemande, as17740205

Event Comment: A new comedy (by Samuel Foote. This is A Trip to Calais reworked. See 4 and 18 Aug. 1775, Comment.

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Mainpiece Title: The Capuchin

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Related Work: The Capuchin Author(s): Samuel Foote

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: The Venetian Regatta-

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; BURL 3]: Written by the Author of Midas [Kane O'Hara; music by Samuel Arnold]. Books of the Burletta to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 22 Aug.: This Afternoon, at Three, will be published April-Day (1s. 6d.)

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Mainpiece Title: April-day

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Related Work: April-Day Author(s): Samuel Arnold

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: End I: a New Pastoral Dance-see17770611; End II: The Provencalle-see17770611

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by George Colman elder, based on Le Barbier de Seville; ou, La Precaution Inutile, by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais; music by Samuel Arnold and, by attribution, Pierre Alexandre Monsigny. Prologue by the author (Collection...of English Prologues and Epilogues, II, 209). Epilogue by David Garrick (Garrick's Poetical Works, II, 340). Larpent MS 436; not published; synopsis of plot in London Magazine, Sept. 1777, pp. 467-69]: With New Dresses and Scenes

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Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber; Or, The Fruitless Precaution

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Related Work: The Spanish Barber; or, The Fruitless Precaution Author(s): Samuel Arnold

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: End: Dance-. [This was included in all subsequent performances.

Event Comment: Macbeth [announced on playbill of 17 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred on account of Mrs Hartley's Indisposition. [Afterpiece: Epilogue by Samuel Foote.] Receipts: #223 16s. 6d. (222.5.6; 1.11.0)

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Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

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Related Work: The Minor Author(s): Samuel Foote
Event Comment: Benefit for Wilkinson. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [Afterpiece: Prologue by Samuel Foote. For an account of Tea see Tate Wilkinson, The Wandering Patentee, 1795, 1, 282-90.] Receipts: #221 0s. 6d. (217.5.6; tickets: 3.15.0) (charge: #70)

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Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: The Author

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Related Work: The Author Author(s): Samuel Foote

Afterpiece Title: Tea; or, Tragedy a-la-Mode

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Related Work: Tea Author(s): Samuel Foote

Dance: As17780129

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Samuel Jackson Pratt. Not in Larpent MS; not published. Prologue printed in Westminster Magazine, Apr. 1778, p.218; author unknown]. Public Advertiser, 2 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bensley, Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury. Receipts: #230 16s. 6d. (131.6.0; 25.4.0; 0.7.6; tickets: 73.19.0) (charge: #66 9s.)

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Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Joseph Andrews

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Related Work: Joseph Andrews Author(s): Samuel Jackson Pratt

Dance: As17780109

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2, by Charles Dibdin, based on La Bohemienne, by Charles Simon Favart. Music by Samuel Arnold]. Books of both Pieces to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 10 Aug. 1778: This Day is published The Gipsies (price not listed)

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Mainpiece Title: Bonduca

Afterpiece Title: The Gipsies

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Related Work: The Gipsies Author(s): Samuel Arnold
Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by Samuel Jackson Pratt. Author of Prologue unknown. Epilogue attributed to the Hon. Richard Fitzpatrick (Crouch, 1, 125), and to Richard Brinsley Sheridan (I. A. Williams in The London Mercury, Aug. 1924, pp. 412-15)]: With New Scenes (see 29 Nov.), Dresses and Decorations. Public Advertiser, 12 Dec. 1781: This Day is published The Fair Circassian (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #149 19s. (126/19/0; 22/17/6; 0/2/6)

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Mainpiece Title: The Fair Circassian

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Related Work: The Fair Circassian Author(s): Samuel Jackson Pratt

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Music: In Act III of mainpiece an Epitbalamium [not listed in playbill, but see17811129]

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Samuel Jackson Pratt. Prologue and Epilogue probably by the author]. Receipts: #210 7s. (190/11; 19/11; 0/5)

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Mainpiece Title: The School For Vanity

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Related Work: The School for Vanity Author(s): Samuel Jackson Pratt

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2, by Henry Knapp; music by Samuel Arnold. Author of Prologue unknown. London Chronicle, 24 Aug., states that this was based on a French comedy of the same title.]

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Mainpiece Title: Lord Russel

Afterpiece Title: Hunt the Slipper

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Related Work: Hunt the Slipper Author(s): Samuel Arnold
Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Harwood, late prompter of the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. Harwood's respectful compliments to his Friends in particular, and the publick in general, and assures them every effort in his power shall be exerted to render the Evening's Entertainment agreeable, and humbly hopes for their well-known candour and protection on the above occasion. Tickets and Places to be had of Harwood, next door to Drury-Lane Theatre, Little Russel-street, Covent Garden. [Harwood was prompter at dl from 1780 to 1786. Hooke was from cg.] Afterpiece: Written by the late Samuel Foote, Esq

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Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Devil upon Two Sticks

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Related Work: The Devil Upon Two Sticks Author(s): Samuel Foote

Entertainment: End: a variety of Theatrical and Senatorial Imitations-Kean

Event Comment: Benefit for Sedgwick. Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2, by Samuel Birch. Larpent MS 983; not published; synopsis of plot in Universal Magazine, May 1793 p. 389]: The Music principally composed by Attwood, with selections from Mozart, Ferrari, Martin y Soler?, Linley? Sen.. And a new Overture by Shaw. Morning Herald, 25 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Sedgwick at his house, Kennington-Green. Receipts: #379 14s. 6d. (70.18.0; 52.12.0; 3.1.6; tickets: 253.3.0) (charge: #162 5s. 1d.)

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Mainpiece Title: At King's The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Mariners

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Related Work: The Mariners Author(s): Samuel Birch

Song: As17921030

Event Comment: [1st piece in place of THE FLITCH OF BACON, advertised on playbill of 25 July.] 3rd piece [1st time; CO 2, by Samuel James Arnold]: The new musick, with a Scottish Medley Overture, by Dr Arnold. New Scenery by Rooker. New Dresses and Decorations. Morning Chronicle, 28 Aug. 1794: This Day is published AULD ROBIN GRAY (1s)

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Mainpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Afterpiece Title: THE VILLAGE LAWYER

Afterpiece Title: AULD ROBIN GRAY

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Related Work: Auld Robin Gray Author(s): Samuel James ArnoldSamuel Arnold
Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Everard. 1st piece [1st time; PREL 1, by Sarah Gardner. Larpent MS 1101; not published]. 2nd piece: Never acted here [acted 19 Aug. 1784]. [3rd piece: Prologue by Samuel Foote.] Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. The Doors to be opened at 5:00. To begin at 6:15. Tickets to be had at No. 21, Carey-street, Lincoln's-Inn Fields; New Slaughter's Coffee-house, St. Martin's-lane; of Adams, the Duke of Clarence Coffee-house, Haymarket; and of Everard, at Mr Shade's, Woburn-street, near Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mrs Doggrell In Her Altitudes; Or, The Effects Of A West India Ramble

Afterpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Author

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Related Work: The Author Author(s): Samuel Foote