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Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By John Vanbrugh.] Downes, p. 48: and all Parts very well Acted: but the Nice Criticks Censure was, it wanted just Decorum, made it flag at last

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Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

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Related Work: The Confederacy Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By John Vanbrugh.

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Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

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Related Work: The Mistake Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By John Vanbrugh.] Never Acted before. Mainpiece: With all the Original Scenes, Machines, and Decorations. To which will be added several new ones, particularly the intire front prospect of Blenheim Castlev. And another Piece alluding to the late glorious Successes of her Majesty's Arms, &c

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Mainpiece Title: The British Enchanters

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Related Work: The British Enchanters: or, No Magick like Love Author(s): John Eccles

Afterpiece Title: The Cuckold in Conceit

Related Works
Related Work: The Cuckold in Conceit Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performance Comment: Duke-Booth; Petruchio-Bickerstaff; Don John-Wilks; Don Frederick-Mills; Antonio-Penkethman; Peter-Norris; Anthony-Cross; Constantia-Mrs Bradshaw; 2d Constantia-Mrs Oldfield.
Cast
Role: Don John Actor: Wilks
Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performance Comment: Duke-Booth; Don John-Wilks; Don Frederick-Mills; Antonio-Penkethman; Petruchio-Bickerstaffe; Anthony-Norris; Constantia-Mrs Bradshaw; 2d Constantia-Mrs Oldfield; Mother-Mrs Powell; Landlady-Mrs Willis.
Cast
Role: Don John Actor: Wilks
Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performance Comment: Antonio-Pinkethman; Duke-Thurmond; Don John-Wilks; Don Frederick-Mills; Petruchio-Bowman; Anthony-Bowen; Peter-Cross; 1st Constantia-Mrs Porter; 2d Constantia-Mrs Oldfield; Mother-Mrs Powell; Landlady-Mrs Willis.
Cast
Role: Don John Actor: Wilks
Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performance Comment: See17091205, but Don John-Wilks; 2d Constantia-Mrs Oldfield.
Cast
Role: Don John Actor: Wilks
Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy or The Comical Rivals

Event Comment: [Text by John Hughes. Music by John Galliard.] Never Performed before. Admission as 24 Nov. 1711, but Benches in the Pit rail'd in at the Price of the Boxes. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Calypso And Telemachus

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Related Work: Calypso and Telemachus Author(s): John HughesJohn Galliard
Event Comment: [Dedication signed by John James Heidegger.] By Subscription. Never Perform'd before. Colman's Opera Register: Monr John James Heidegger managed both this & ye former Opera for ye Singers & ye Subscription was for Six Nights paying 10 Guin for 3 Tickets each Night, they not to give out above 400 Tickets a Night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ernelinda

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Related Work: Ernelinda Author(s): John James Heidegger
Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: #32 6s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Performance Comment: Essex-John Leigh; Southampton-Smith; Burleigh-Keene; Queen-Mrs Knight; Rutland-Mrs Vincent; Nottingham-Mrs Kent.
Cast
Role: Essex Actor: John Leigh
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Related Work: The Unhappy Favourite; or, The Earl of Essex Author(s): John Banks

Dance: As17150106

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Emperor

Performance Comment: Guomar-one who never appear'd on the Stage before; Montezuma-Keene; Odmar-Smith; Orbellan-Corey; Cortez-John Leigh; Vasquez-Husband; Almeria-Mrs Knight; Alibech-Mrs Rogers; Cydaria-Mrs Cross.
Cast
Role: Cortez Actor: John Leigh
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Related Work: The Indian Emperour; or, the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards Author(s): John Dryden
Related Work: The Indian Emperour; or, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards Author(s): John Dryden

Afterpiece Title: The Slip

Dance: duPre, Miss Russell, Miss Schoolding; particularly a Scaramouch-a Gentleman for his Uiversion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performance Comment: Antonio-Penkethman; Duke-Booth; John-Wilks; Frederick-Mills; Antony-Norris; Peter-Cross; 1st Constantia-Mrs Porter; 2d-Mrs Oldfield; Landlady-Mrs Willis.
Cast
Role: John Actor: Wilks
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Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

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Related Work: The What D'Ye Call It Author(s): John Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performance Comment: Duke-Thurmond; John-Wilks; Frederick-Mills; Antonio-Penkethman; Petruchio-Boman; Peter-Norris; Antony-Cross; 1st Constantia-Mrs Porter; 2d Constantia-Mrs Oldfield; Landlady-Mrs Willis.
Cast
Role: John Actor: Wilks
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Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

Afterpiece Title: Hob

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Related Work: Hob's Opera Author(s): John Hippisley

Dance: Thurmond Jr, Topham, Mrs Tenoe, Miss Smith, Miss Lindar

Event Comment: [By John Hughes.] Never Acted before. The Orphan Reviv'd or Powell's Weekly Journal, 20 Feb.: On Wednesday last, the Ingenious Mr John Hughes, Author of the Tragedy call'd the Siege of Damascus, died without seeing it acted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

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Related Work: The Siege of Damascus Author(s): John Hughes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performance Comment: Duke-Thurmond; John-Wilks; Frederick-Mills; Antonio-Penkethman; Petruchio-Boman; Peter-Norris; Antony-Cross; 1st Constantia-Mrs Younger; 2d Constantia-Mrs Booth; Landlady-Mrs Willis.
Cast
Role: John Actor: Wilks
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Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

Dance: Shaw, Mrs Booth, Thurmond Jr, Mrs Bicknell, Miss Tenoe

Event Comment: Benefit John Rich. Afterpiece: As 18 Feb. Receipts: money #58 18s.; tickets #15 6s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cartouche

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

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Related Work: The Country House Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Dance: As17230219

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A New Night Scene. The Scenes being all painted from tne real Place of Action. [By John Thurmond.] Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 5 Dec.: [It] was dismiss'd with a universal hiss.-And, indeed, if Shepherd had been as wretched, and as silly a Rogue in the World, as the ingenious and witty Managers have made him upon the Stage, the lower Gentry, who attended him to Tyburn, wou'd never have pittied him when eh was hang'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

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Related Work: Aesop Author(s): John Vanbrugh
Related Work: Aesop, Part II Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shepard

Event Comment: [By Ebenezer Forrest.] By Command of His Royal Highness. After the Manner of the Beggar's Opera. All the Habits and Scenes entirely New. Receipts: #161 18s. 6d. [For a comment on this performance, see Thomas Edwards to John Clerke, "Unrecorded Comments on John Gay, Henry Travers, and Others", N & Q (August 1953), p. 338.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Momus Turnd Fabulist Or Vulcans Wedding

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Related Work: Momus Turn'd Fabulist; or, Vulcan's Wedding Author(s): John Ozell
Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Benefit John Rich. Receipts: #158 10s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country House

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Related Work: The Country House Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

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Related Work: The Shipwreck; or, Perseus and Andromeda Author(s): John Weaver
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Spaniard Outwitted Author(s): John Galliard
Event Comment: Benefit John Rich. Receipts: #96 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Related Works
Related Work: The False Friend Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Related Works
Related Work: The Shipwreck; or, Perseus and Andromeda Author(s): John Weaver
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Spaniard Outwitted Author(s): John Galliard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performance Comment: See17311109, but John-Wilks; Constantia-Mrs Horton (Burney).
Cast
Role: John Actor: Wilks
Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

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Related Work: The Shipwreck; or, Perseus and Andromeda Author(s): John Weaver
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Spaniard Outwitted Author(s): John Galliard
Event Comment: A New Comedy never acted Before. [By John Stevens.] Formula as 15 April. Prices 2s., 1s. [Published in 1745 by John Stevens, with the announcement As it was acted Gratis, at the New Theatre at the Haymarket, By a Company of Gentlemen for Diversion. No record of such a production has been found.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Modern Wife Or The Virgin Her Own Rival

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Related Work: The Modern Wife; or, The Virgin Her Own Rival Author(s): John Stevens

Dance: As17450415

Event Comment: Benefit for the Widow of the Late Chapman. Tickets deliver'd out by the Widow Johnson and Mrs Wallis will be taken. Yesterday Morning died Mr John Laguerre, an eminent Painter belonging to the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden; a facetious companion, universally esteemed in every Scene of Life! (General Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Related Works
Related Work: The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne Author(s): John Hughes
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, Harlequin Mercury Author(s): John Thurmond
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd Author(s): John Rich
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, Harlequin's Metamorphosis Author(s): John Thurmond
Event Comment: By desire. [N.B. John Potter's letter of 18 Jan. is repeated in the General Advertiser for this day. Also further statements by Potter and Foote concerning the use of Mr Lewis's name (Potter's attorney).] Receipts: #120 (Cross); #103 4s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Cast
Role: Don John Actor: Winstone
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Related Work: The Law Against Lovers Author(s): Sir William Davenant
Related Work: Much Ado about Nothing Author(s): John Philip Kemble

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Beard
Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): John Mottley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performance Comment: Don John-Garrick; Don Frederick-Palmer; Duke-Usher; Petruchio-Blakes; Peter-Philips; Antony-Vaughan; Surgeon-Clough; Francisco-W. Vaughan; Antonio-Yates; First Constania-Miss Macklin; Mother-Mrs Clive; Landlady-Mrs Macklin; Kinswoman-Mrs Hippisley; Second Constantia-Mrs Cibber.
Cast
Role: Don John Actor: Garrick
Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): John Fletcher

Dance: SShepherd's Holiday, as17541008