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Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail

Dance: End: The Merry Lasses, as17780529

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

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Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: Buxom Joan

Cast
Role: Mother Actor: Mrs Brett

Dance: End II: As17780624 End: The Gardeners (see17780618

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17780608 but Mat o'the Mint-Griffin.
Cast
Role: Mat o'the Mint Actor: Griffin.
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Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail

Dance: End II: As17780624

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-Mrs Farrell; Peachum-Wilson; Lockit-Dunstall; Filch-Wewitzer; Mat o' the Mint-Baker; Lucy (1st time)-Miss Weller; Diana Trapes-Mrs White; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Pitt; Mrs Slammekin-Mrs Green; Polly-Miss Brown.
Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Baker
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Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Dance: III: a hornpipe-Miss Matthews

Event Comment: The Duenna [announced on playbill of 4 Nov.] is unavoidably postponed on account of Leoni's Illness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Baker
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Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Invasion

Performance Comment: As17781104, but Prologue-Lee Lewes [and thereafter].and thereafter].

Dance: As17781017

Event Comment: The new Tragedy [Buthred, announced on playbill of 11 Dec.] is obliged to be deferred on account of Wroughton's Hoarseness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Baker
Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: III: a Hornpipe-Miss Besford; Afterpiece: a Minuet-Dagueville, Mrs Mattocks

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With Accompaniments to the Airs composed by Thomas Linley? Sen.. Receipts: #191 10s. (190.1; 1.9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

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Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Wonders of Derbyshire

Dance: End II: Minuet de la Cour, as17780919; Allemande, as17780919; III: a Hornpipe-Blurton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Farren, Lamash
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Sharp
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: III: Hornpipe, as17790129

Song: Sweet Echo-Mrs Kennedy, Leoni [i.e. formerly Mrs Farrell]

Event Comment: Benefit for Aldridge. Public Advertiser, 10 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Aldridge at the Carpet Warehouse, Covent Garden Piazza

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Baker
Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: to conclude with: Country Dance-the characters; End I: new Comic Dance-Langrish, Jackson, Miss Parish, Miss Lings; End II: a Minuet-Aldridge, Mrs Bulkley; In III: Hornpipe, as17781212; End I afterpiece: a new Pantomimical Dance, The Sports of the Green-Aldridge, Langrish, Jackson, Miss Besford, Miss Parish, Miss Valois; in which his celebrated Tambourine Dance-Aldridge

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

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Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Dance: End II: The Country Wake, as17790609 In III: a Hornpipe-Master Byrn

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With accompaniments to the Airs composed by Thomas? Linley? Sen. [Miss Wright's 1st appearance, as an actress, was at this theatre on 7 May 1779.] Afterpiece: With Alterations and Additions; To conclude with a Grand View of Greenwich Hospital, designed by DeLoutherbourg. Paid Land Tax 3rd & 4th Qtrs. to Lady Day #41 16s. Receipts: #187 3s. 6d. (151.3.0; 35.15.6; 0.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: III: Hornpipe-Walker. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Cast
Role: Master of the Horse Actor: Kenny
Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Gamester, announced on playbill of 12 Nov.] Receipts: #122 18s. 6d. (80.4.0; 30.10.0; 2.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

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Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Event Comment: Benefit for the Welsh Charity School, over against the Foundling Hospital. Receipts: #239 2s. (85.15; 17.11; 0.0; tickets: 135.16) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Related Works
Related Work: The Deuce is in Him Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-Mrs Kennedy; Peachum-Wilson; Lockit-Booth; Filch (1st time)-Doyle; Mat o' the Mint-Robson; Lucy-Miss Catley; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Pitt; Jenny Diver-Mrs Poussin; Mrs Coaxer-Mrs Whitfield; Diana Trapes-Mrs White; Polly-Miss Brown.
Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Robson
Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Dance: III: Hornpipe-Miss Besford. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Robson
Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Robson
Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Every where

Event Comment: [Mrs Arne was from the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin.] Receipts: #137 19s. (136.13; 1.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Robson
Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Siege Of Gibraltar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Related Works
Related Work: The Manager in Distress Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

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Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

Dance: End I 2nd piece: As17800530; III: a Hornpipe-Master Byrne. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: [The playbill for 7 June announces The Beggar's Opera, but on this night the theatre was dark- perhaps because of the riots referred to above.]
Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Related Works
Related Work: The Manager in Distress Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail

Dance: As17800603

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Related Works
Related Work: The Manager in Distress Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

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Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Performance Comment: Butler-Edwin; The Squire-Lamash; Mrs Candy-Mrs Love; Polly Pattens-Mrs Jewell.
Cast
Role: The Squire Actor: Lamash

Dance: As17800603

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Lamash, Wood
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: End: As17800530

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With accompaniments to the Airs composed by Thomas? Linley? Sen. Receipts: #77 1s. (53.18; 22.11; 0.12)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-Vernon (1st appearance in that character these 6 years); Peachum-Moody; Filch-Parsons; Lockit-Baddeley; Mat o' th' Mint-Gaudry; Ben Budge-Burton; Player-Wrighten; Beggar-Waldron; Lucy-Miss Collett; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Hopkins; Jenny Diver-Miss Kirby; Diana Trapes-Mrs Love; Polly-Mrs Cargill (late Miss Brown; 1st appearance this season). 1st appearance this season).
Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: End II: The Butterfly-the Miss Stageldoirs; III: a Hornpipe-Walker; End: Country Dance-the Characters

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-Mrs Kennedy; Peachum-Wilson; Lockit-Booth; Filch-W. Bates; Mat o' the Mint-Robson; Polly-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [Miss Satchell]); Mrs Peachum-Mrs Webb; Jenny Diver-Mrs Poussin; Mrs Coaxer-Mrs Whitfield; Diana Trapes-Mrs Pitt; Lucy-Miss Catley.
Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Robson
Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: End II: As17800920; III: Hornpipe-Miss Besford. [The Hornpipe was omitted on 24 Apr. 1781, but was otherwise danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Performance Comment: [The Hornpipe was omitted on 24 Apr. 1781, but was otherwise danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]