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We found 1488 matches on Roles/Actors, 330 matches on Performance Title, 312 matches on Performance Comments, 180 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All The World's A Stage

Afterpiece Title: WAYS AND MEANS

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Menage
Related Works
Related Work: Ways and Means; or, A Trip to Dover Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: THE PRIZE

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In Good Humour

Afterpiece Title: WIVES IN PLENTY

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Menage

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Menage

Song: As17931123

Event Comment: 1st piece [1st time; INT 1 by Francis Godolphin Waldron): Altered from THE FATAL EXTRAVAGANCE of [Joseph] Mitchell and Aaron Hill. "I went on Monday evening with Mrs Darner to the Little Haymarket, to see The Children in the Wood, having heard so much of my favourite, young Bannister, in that new piece; which, by the way, is well arranged, and near being fine. He more than answered my expectation, and all I had heard of him. It was one of the most admirable performances I ever saw: his transports of despair and joy are incomparable, and his various countenances would be adequate to the pencil of Salvator Rosa. He made me shed as many tears as I suppose the original old ballad did when I was six years old. Bannister's merit was the more striking, as, before The Children in the Wood, he had been playing the sailor in No Song No Supper, with equal nature" (Walpole [4 Dec. 1793], XV, 266-67)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prodigal

Afterpiece Title: NO SONG NO SUPPER

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Menage

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Menage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mariners

Afterpiece Title: THE PRODIGAL

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Menage

Afterpiece Title: THE PRIZE

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prodigal

Afterpiece Title: WAYS AND MEANS

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Menage
Related Works
Related Work: Ways and Means; or, A Trip to Dover Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Menage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prodigal

Afterpiece Title: THE PRIZE

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Menage
Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of THE CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS, advertised on playbill of 7 Dec.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Related Works
Related Work: Inkle and Yarico Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: NO SONG NO SUPPER

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Menage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prodigal

Afterpiece Title: THE MOCK DOCTOR; or, The Dumb Lady Cured

Performance Comment: Gregory-Bannister Jun. (1st appearance in that character); Sir Jasper-Waldron; Leander-Caulfield; Squire Robert-Cooke; James-Benson; Harry-Bland; Davy-Wewitzer; Dr Helebore-Burton//Charlotte-Miss De Camp; Dorcas (with a song)-Mrs Bland (Their 1st appearance in those characters) .

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Menage
Event Comment: [1st and 2nd pieces in place of THE CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS; 3rd piece of THE PRIZE, both advertised on playbill of 10 Dec.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Afterpiece Title: THE MOCK DOCTOR

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Menage

Afterpiece Title: NO SONG NO SUPPER

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Menage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prodigal

Afterpiece Title: WAYS AND MEANS

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Menage
Related Works
Related Work: Ways and Means; or, A Trip to Dover Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Menage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Flitch Of Bacon

Afterpiece Title: THE MOCK DOCTOR

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Menage

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Menage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prodigal

Afterpiece Title: WAYS AND MEANS

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Menage
Related Works
Related Work: Ways and Means; or, A Trip to Dover Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: MY GRANDMOTHER

Cast
Role: Sir Matthew Medley Actor: Waldron

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Divorce

Afterpiece Title: THE MARINERS

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Menage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: THE MOCK DOCTOR

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Menage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Cast
Role: Goatherds Actor: Barrett, Palmer Jun., Waldron, Waldron Jun.
Role: Floranthe Actor: Mrs Goodall

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Menage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Menage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Menage
Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Bannister Jun. as Edward, but he "was so ill as to be incapable of performing-his part of Lord Edward was read by Bland" (Thespian Magaune, Jan. 1794, p. 30). Afterpiece in place of HARLEQUIN PEASANT, advertised on playbill of 2 Jan.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: THE DIVORCE

Event Comment: On account of the Indisposition of Parsons, HEIGHO FOR A HUSBAND! [advertised on playbill of 6 Jan.] is obliged to be postponed till Saturday next. [In 1st piece the playbill retains Mrs Bland, but she "being indisposed her part in The Mariners was given to Miss De Camp" (Thespian Magazine, Jan. 1794, p. 30). It is not stated who took Miss De Camp's place.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mariners

Afterpiece Title: WAYS AND MEANS

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Menage
Related Works
Related Work: Ways and Means; or, A Trip to Dover Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: HARLEQUIN PEASANT

Performances

Mainpiece Title: My Grandmother

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Menage

Afterpiece Title: HARLEQUIN PEASANT

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Menage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: Goatherds Actor: Barrett, Palmer Jun., Waldron, Waldron Jun.
Role: Floranthe Actor: Mrs Goodall

Afterpiece Title: THE PRIZE

Afterpiece Title: HARLEQUIN PEASANT

Performance Comment: As17940107, but Colombine [without the songs)-Miss Heard .
Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Menage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: My Grandmother

Afterpiece Title: WAYS AND MEANS

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Menage
Related Works
Related Work: Ways and Means; or, A Trip to Dover Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: THE PRIZE

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Menage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Menage
Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Miss De Camp as Lady Elinor, but an "apology was made by Caulfield, stating . . . that Miss De Camp was extremely hoarse . . . and that Miss Heard would perform Lady Elinor" (Thespian Magazine, Jan. 1794, p. 31).]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: HARLEQUIN PEASANT

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Menage
Event Comment: 2nd piece [1st time; C 4, by Francis Godolphin Waldron, altered by the author from his IMITATION, 1st acted at DL, 1 2 May 1783. Prologue by the author. Epilogue by George Colman, the younger (see text). Mrs Harlowe was from CG.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Afterpiece Title: HEIGHO FOR A HUSBAND

Performance Comment: Characters by Bannister Jun., Barrymore, Suett, Aickin, Benson, Waldron Jun., Wewitzer//Mrs Gibbs, Mrs Powell, Mrs Hopkins, Miss Tidswell, Mrs Harlowe (1st appearance on that stage). [Cast from text (T. Arrowsmith, 1794): Frank-Bannister Jun.; Squire Edward-Barrymore; Justice Rackrent-Suett; General Fairlove-Aickin; Player-Benson; William-Waldron Jun.; Timothy-Wewitzer//Maria-Mrs Gibbs; Charlotte-Mrs Powell; Mrs Millclack-Mrs Hopkins; Chambermaid-Miss Tidswell; Dorothy-Mrs Harlowe.] Prologue spoken by Barrymore. Epilogue spoken by Bannister Jun. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 9 performances only (see17940208).] hathi. Prologue spoken by Barrymore. Epilogue spoken by Bannister Jun. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 9 performances only (see17940208).] hathi.

Afterpiece Title: THE MOCK DOCTOR

Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Master Menage