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30 March 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Live Lumber; Or, Unburied Dead

Afterpiece Title: The Lie of the Day

Cast

Role: The Building Scene and Falling Scaffold Actor:

Afterpiece Title: The Way to Get Un-Married

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Dance: End of 3rd piece: The Lucky Escape, as17951008

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31 March 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Get Married

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 0

Cast

Role: The Building Scene and Falling Scaffold Actor:

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 1

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Role: The Building Scene and Falling Scaffold Actor:

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 2

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02 April 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lie Of The Day

Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 0

Cast

Role: The Building Scene and Falling Scaffold Actor:

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 1

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Role: The Building Scene and Falling Scaffold Actor:

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 2

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04 April 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 0

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Role: The Building Scene and Falling Scaffold Actor:

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 1

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Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 2

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06 April 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Get Married

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 0

Cast

Role: The Building Scene and Falling Scaffold Actor:

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 1

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Role: The Building Scene and Falling Scaffold Actor:

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 2

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07 April 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lie Of The Day

Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key

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Role: The Building Scene and Falling Scaffold Actor:

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 0

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Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 1

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Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 2

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11 April 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lad Of The Hills

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 0

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Role: The Building Scene and Falling Scaffold Actor:

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 1

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Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 2

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18 April 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, First Part

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 0

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Role: The Building Scene and Falling Scaffold Actor:

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 1

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Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 2

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02 May 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Malabar

Afterpiece Title: The Doldrum

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 0

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Role: The Building Scene and Falling Scaffold Actor:

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 1

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Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 2

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03 May 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petruchio

Cast

Role: The Building Scene and Falling Scaffold Actor:

Afterpiece Title: The Point at Herqui

Dance: III: Hornpipe-Byrn; 3rd piece: Dance, as17960415

Song: In: Old Towler-Incledon; 3rd piece: Tippy Bob, as17960415; The Waiter, as17960415; Irish Song, as17960415; New Loyal Song, as17960415; Ye Gentlemen of England, as17960415; Rule Britannia, as17960415; Admiral Benbow-Incledon; Rondo-Mrs Serres

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06 May 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mask'd Friend

Afterpiece Title: The Way to Get Un-Married

Cast

Role: The Building Scene and Falling Scaffold Actor:

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Song: In 2nd piece: The Sportman's snug little Cot-Incledon

Entertainment: Monologues, with Songs.End: The Barber's Petition-Fawcett (1st time); [with a song in character, Wigs [including His Own Wig, The Lover's Wig, Doctor's Wig, Coachman's Wig, Counsellor's Wig-Fawcett; End 2nd piece: A Ramble to Bath (1st time) [with a descriptive song in the character of Jacob Gawkey [in The Chapter of Accidents]-Knight

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07 May 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zorinski

Afterpiece Title: The Doldrum

Cast

Role: The Building Scene and Falling Scaffold Actor:

Song: Mainpiece: As17960426

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09 May 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, First Part

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 0

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Role: The Building Scene and Falling Scaffold Actor:

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 1

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Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 2

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11 May 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Get Un-married

Afterpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Doldrum

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Role: The Building Scene and Falling Scaffold Actor:

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16 May 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Deserted Daughter

Afterpiece Title: A Melocosmiotes

Cast

Role: The Building Scene and Falling Scaffold Actor:

Afterpiece Title: Oscar and Malvina

Song: End II of 1st piece: The Sea Storm-Incledon; In 3rd piece: I am a jolly gay Pedlar-Townsend; Come every jovial Fellow-Rees, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain; O ever in my bosom live-Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain

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19 May 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Get Married

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 0

Cast

Role: The Building Scene and Falling Scaffold Actor:

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 1

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Role: The Building Scene and Falling Scaffold Actor:

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 2

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Song: End: An Ode, selected from Ben Jonson, as17960516

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23 May 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 0

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Role: The Building Scene and Falling Scaffold Actor:

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 1

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Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 2

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24 May 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick And Margaret Of Anjou

Afterpiece Title: The Lie of the Day

Cast

Role: The Building Scene and Falling Scaffold Actor:

Afterpiece Title: Sprigs of Laurel

Song: In Course Evening: The Waiter-Fawcett; Master Thedy Shemus O'Shaughnessey O'Finnegin Delaney's History of Himself-Johnstone; Mad Bess (in character)-Mrs Clendining; The Sportman's snug little Cot, Admiral Benbow-Incledon

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25 May 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Cast

Role: The Building Scene and Falling Scaffold Actor:

Afterpiece Title: The Doldrum

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Role: The Building Scene and Falling Scaffold Actor:

Song: In 1st piece: Sweet Echo (1st time)-Mme Mara; accompanied on the hautboy-W. Parke; End I 1st piece: Mad Bess (in character)-Mme Mara (1st time); In 2nd piece: a new song [High rolling seas that bear afar]-Mme Mara [written for the Occasion, and set to music by Herself

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01 June 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Point At Herqui

Afterpiece Title: The Dramatist

Afterpiece Title: Oscar and Malvina

Cast

Role: The Building Scene and Falling Scaffold Actor:

Dance: In: a new incidental Dance, as17960415

Song: In: songs as17960503; End 2nd piece: The Sea Storm-Incledon; In 3rd piece: songs The Sea Storm, as17960516; I am a jolly gay Pedlar, as17960516; Come every jovial Fellow, as17960516; O ever in my bosom live, as17960516

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07 June 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Get Married

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 0

Cast

Role: The Building Scene and Falling Scaffold Actor:

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 1

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Role: The Building Scene and Falling Scaffold Actor:

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure 2

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Entertainment: MonologueEnd: The Barber's Petition, as17960506; with Wigs, as17960506

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02 July 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: A Tragedy for Warm Weather. Written after the manner of the Worst, as well as the Best of the English Poets, containing amongst a Variety of Particulars, curious, entertaining, and pathetic, the Rebellion of the Journeymen Taylors on the Score of Wages, etc. Neville MS Diary: Half past Six went to ye Haymarket Theatre but could not get into ye Pit or first Gallery, so stood on ye last row of the shilling Gallery, tho' I could see little, to see how ye Taylors, a new tragedy for warm weather, would go off, being the first night of its performance. 3rd Act hiss'd-ye Gods in ye shilling Gallery called for ye Builder's Prologue-hissed off ye part of ye Old Maid twice and Davies who came to make an excuse. The Gentlemen, many of whom were there, cried No Prologue" but to no purpose. At last Foote said if he knew their demands he would be ready to comply with them. The noise ceasing, after some time he was told the Builder's Prologue was desired. He said he had done all in his power to get the performers, having seen them. After some time he came and informed them he had got the performers together, and if the House would be pleased to accept of ye Prologue in our dresses as we are you shall have it." This was followed by great clapping which shows the Genius of our English mobility ever generous after victory. Left ye House after ye Farce began. [Flints were journeymen tailors who refused to comply with the masters' terms and the regulations of the magistrate, in contradistinction to those who submitted and were in derision stiled Dungs. The term dates from 1764-OED. An extract from the Occasional Prologue (the Builder's Prologue) in prose on the opening of the Theatre Royal in the Haymarket, by Foote published in the London Magazine July 1767, p. 351. Foote, Scaffold, and Prompter are the three participants. Foote tells Scaffold he will be paid by the audience. Scaffold notes that the audience must in that case be pleased at all times. Foote promises no long processions [will] crowd my narrow scenes." He assumes that any of the reforms he plans will but echo the public voice. The Prompter then calls the actors on.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Taylors

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

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12 September 1682 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: Domestick Intelligence, 11-14 Sept. 1682: Southwark 12--This day the Scaffold of a Booth fell down, with several Actors, Men and Women on it, and falling upon a Child that stood underneath, crushed it to death

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24 October 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Treasure; or, Jewels New Set

Performance Comment: Pantomimic Characters. Persian Merchant and Lover-Farley; Harlequin-Simpson; Clown-Follett; Pantaloon-Hawtin; Fop's Servant-Simmons; Punch-Rayner; Cooper-Blurton; Lemon Merchant-Wilde; Landlord-Thompson; Cook-Mrs Henley; Columbine-Mlle St.Amand; [Vocal Characters. Gamblers-Bowden, Townsend, Haymes, Philipps; Pleasure-Mrs Martyr; Virtue-Mrs Mountain; Arabian Girl-Mrs Clendining; Glees and Chorusses-Linton, Street, Gray; [Part I A View of Desarts of Arabia, with passing of Caravan. The Banditti (from The Magic Cavern, painted by Richards, the music by Shield); A Garden@song-Mrs Clendining; [composed by Shield. The Hotel (from The Choice of Harlequin), with Views of Temple of Virtue and Pleasure Painted by Richards, Dall, and Smirk; the music by Michael Arne. The Building Scene and Falling Scaffold (from The Sorcerer) invented by Rich. The Outside of Pantaloon's House-the Mandarine-the Inside-the Magic Candles-Harlequin from the Tea Urn, invented by Messink and Martinelli. The Dog Kennel and Pigeon House invented by Rich. The Hazard Club (from The Choice of Harlequin) Come pass the Box(, composed by [M.] Arne) -Bowden, Townsend, Haymes, Philipps, Linton, Street, Gray; [Prison Scene-with a Hornpipe in Fetters-Blurton; [Part II. An exact Representation of the Telegraphev. in which is shewn the manner of conveying Intelligence, demanding Questions, and receiving Answers. A View of Doverv. with the Fleet prepared for Sea-The arrival of an Express from an Admiralty by the Telegraphe-the Sailing of the Fleet, with Rule Britannia-Townsend, Chorus [Park Wall, changes to a Public House. The Trick Tea Chest, Harlequin's Leap and Transformation. The Kitchen Scenev by Messink. Harlequin changes to a Lobster. A Landscapev painted by Lambert, which changes to the Wash-House Scenev (from The Sorcerer) invented by Rich. Pantaloon's House and Garden Wall-a Venetian Window changes to a Ladder-with the Clown's Disaster in the Horse Trough. Outside of a Pantaloon's House-the art of making Punch-the Transformation of Punch to a Wheel-Barrow invented by Rich. The Statuary Yard invented by Messink-Harlequin Gladiator. A Dark Wood-Harlequin and Columbine, guarded by Virtue. are shewn the Cavern of Vice, in which are personified Intemperance, Deceit, Avarice, Gaming, Drunkenness, Lust, and Murder. To conclude with a Representation of the Temple of Virtuevv, in which the Vices give place to Prudence, Justice, Temperance, Fortitude, and Charity. And Harlequin and Columbine are united at the Altar of Hymen.