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Event Comment: Benefit for the British Lying-In Hospital for Married Women in Brownlow St. Tickets deliver'd out for The Country Lasses will be taken this night. Tickets and places to be had of Mr Crudge at the stage Door; Tickets may also be had at the Hospital in Brownlow St., Longacre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: As17561127, but Dorinda-Miss Condill, 1st time, and her third appearance on any stage.
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Related Work: The Stratagem Author(s): George Farquhar

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Dance: Granier, Miss Hillyard

Event Comment: [Pantomime new by Woodward] Went off with great Applause. ye Cyclops Dance encored (Cross). New Habits, Scenes, and Decorations. Full Prices. As the performance greatly depends upon the Music and Machinery, no gentleman can possibly be admitted into the Orchestra or behind the Scenes. [This prohibition repeated in all subsequent performances, will not be further noted here.] N.B. The Play of the Revenge oblig'd to be deferred on account of Mossop's indisposition. Receipts: #210 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

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Related Work: The Recruiting Officer Author(s): George Farquhar

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Performance Comment: As17561203, but Procession and Sacrifice reappear in Bill.
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Related Work: Merope Author(s): George Jeffreys

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant Or The Way To Win Him

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Related Work: The Inconstant: or, The Way to Win Him Author(s): George Farquhar

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

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Related Work: The Stratagem Author(s): George Farquhar

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Event Comment: None admitted behind the Scenes. No after money returned after the Curtain is drawn up. [Repeated during the run of this piece.] A new Farce of 2 acts wrote by Dr Smolet-went off wth Great App: (Cross). [See Theatrical Review for the Year 1757 and the beginning of 1758, for contemporary comment.] Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

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Related Work: Merope Author(s): George Jeffreys

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal or The Tars of Old England

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Cast
Role: Dugard Actor: Anderson
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Related Work: The Inconstant: or, The Way to Win Him Author(s): George Farquhar

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Performance Comment: Elder Wou'dbe-Clarke Being his 1st appearance in Comedy; Young Wou'dbe-Dyer; Balderdash-Marten; Clearaccount-Collins; Fairbank-Anderson; Comic-Cushing; Trueman-Smith; Richmore-Ridout; Subtleman-Dunstall; Constable-Bennet; Captain-Stoppelaer; Frisure-Holtam; Alderman-Arthur; Teague-Barrington; Mrs Midnight-Mrs Copin; Mrs Clearaccount-Miss Ferguson; Constance-Mrs Vincent; Aurelia-Mrs Woffington.
Cast
Role: Fairbank Actor: Anderson
Related Works
Related Work: The Twin-Rivals Author(s): George Farquhar

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Dance: Granier, Leppie

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

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Related Work: Merope Author(s): George Jeffreys

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Cast
Role: Fairbank Actor: Anderson
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Related Work: The Twin-Rivals Author(s): George Farquhar

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Cast
Role: Fairbank Actor: Anderson
Related Works
Related Work: The Twin-Rivals Author(s): George Farquhar

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

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Related Work: The Stratagem Author(s): George Farquhar

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: Benefit for Havard. Tickets to be had of Havard in Broad Court, Bow Street; at Tom's Coffee House in Russel St.; at the Bedford, Covent Garden, and at the Stage door of the Theatre. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

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Related Work: The Stratagem Author(s): George Farquhar

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Entertainment: I: The Ode in Commemoration of Shakespeare, written by Havard, set to music by Dr Boyce.-Beard, Champnes

Dance: II: A Dance-Mrs Vernon; IV: A Minuet by Desire-Miss Macklin

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Hilliard. Tickets to be had at Mr Pervil's Auctioneer in Bow St., Covent Garden, and of Crudge at the stage door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Cast
Role: Kite Actor: Anderson
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Related Work: The Recruiting Officer Author(s): George Farquhar

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Cast
Role: Barberino Actor: Anderson

Dance: I: Hornpipe-Poitier Jr; II: Old Scotch Dance-Leppie, Miss Hilliard; III: Fingalian Revels, as17570329 V: Louvre and Minuet-Leppie, Miss Hilliard

Song: IV: A song-Mrs Chambers

Event Comment: Benefit for Carmichael, Prompter, Holtom, Miss Condill, and Miss Helm. Tickets deliver'd out by Mlle Vivier, Mlle Jansolin, &c. will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Related Works
Related Work: The Stratagem Author(s): George Farquhar

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Conjuror Actor: Anderson

Dance: Poitier, Mlle Capdeville, unspecified

Event Comment: Benefit for Rooker and Mrs Cowper. Afterpiece: By Desire. Tickets of Varney at the stage door. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

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Related Work: The Inconstant: or, The Way to Win Him Author(s): George Farquhar

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal

Song: I: Miss Young; IV: Beard

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-Walker

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunstall and Mrs Dunstall. Afterpiece: Not acted these two years. Tickets sold at the Door will not be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Cast
Role: Fairbank Actor: Anderson
Related Works
Related Work: The Twin-Rivals Author(s): George Farquhar

Afterpiece Title: Flora or Hob in the Well

Song: II: A Solo on the Broomstick-Skeggs, his 1st appearance on that stage; V: A Mock Italian and English Cantata-Skeggs

Dance: III: The Lamplighters, as17570429

Event Comment: Benefit for Rainton, Hawksby, Peacop &c. Tickets (Cross) Tickets delivered for The Fair Quaker will be taken, and those deliver'd by Mrs Bradshaw, Miss Farquhar, and Miss Smith (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #90 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Related Works
Related Work: Merope Author(s): George Jeffreys

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Event Comment: Benefit for Foley, Mortimer, and Saunderson. Receipts. #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Related Works
Related Work: The Recruiting Officer Author(s): George Farquhar

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Dance: II: A Comic Dance-Mrs Vernon; V: A Hornpipe-Walker

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Related Works
Related Work: The Rehearsal Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Related Works
Related Work: The Stratagem Author(s): George Farquhar

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Event Comment: [The customary notice refusing admittance of Gentlemen to the Orchestre-see 7 Oct.-appears in connection with all subsequent performances and will not be noted further this season.] We are assured the report industriously spread of Mr Barry's having quitted the English Stage, and being engaged this winter in Dublin, is entirely groundless. Receipts: #80 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Related Works
Related Work: The Recruiting Officer Author(s): George Farquhar

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Performance Comment: Elder Wou'dbe-Clarke; Young Wou'dbe-Dyer; Balderdash-Marten; Clearaccount-Collins; Fairbank-Anderson; Comic-Cushing; Trueman-Smith; Richmore-Ridout; Subtleman-Dunstall; Constable-Bennet; Captain-Stoppelaer; Fristure-Holtom; Alderman-Arthur; Teague-Barrington; Mrs Midnight-Mrs Copin; Mrs Clearaccount-Miss Ferguson; Constance-Mrs Vincent; Aurelia-Mrs Hamilton.
Cast
Role: Fairbank Actor: Anderson
Related Works
Related Work: The Twin-Rivals Author(s): George Farquhar

Afterpiece Title: Merlin Harlequin Skeleton

Event Comment: MMr Foote Play'd (Cross). Receipts: #120 (Cross). [The Theatrical Review, 1757-58, p. 48, comments on the afterpiece]: I read the farce before I could see it performed; the judgment I then passed on it was not in its favor, and the exhibition did not make any material alteration in my way of thinking. I laughed indeed much more than I had done in reading it, but on recollection I was not a little displeased to find that I was laughing at an individual not at a species

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Performance Comment: Dorilas-Holland; Ismene-Miss Hippisley; High Priest-Bransby; Polyphontes-Havard; Narbas-Berry; Merope-Mrs Pritchard; Euricles-Blakes; Erox-Burton. With a Procession and a Sacrifice.
Related Works
Related Work: Merope Author(s): George Jeffreys

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Event Comment: By Command of Prince of Wales (Winston MS 8). Prince of Wales & 4 more (Cross). Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Related Works
Related Work: The Rehearsal Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

Afterpiece Title: The Author