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We found 775 matches on Event Comments, 359 matches on Roles/Actors, 156 matches on Performance Title, 87 matches on Performance Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Almeyda

Afterpiece Title: The Smugglers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: The Smugglers

Event Comment: Mainpiece: In Act II a Masquerade Scene. "Neither in conception nor in power is [Mrs Jordan] adequate to the character...This play has not often been so ill performed in a London theatre as it was on this evening" (Monthly Mirror, May 1796, p. 50). Receipts: #231 8s. (162.14.6; 67.15.6; 0.18.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: Apothecary Actor: Waldron

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Song: Dirge, as17960425, but Miss _DeCamp

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahmoud

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Performance Comment: As17960310but Lenitive-Wathen; Mr Caddy-Maddocks.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Modes Author(s): James Moore Smythe

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Event Comment: 3rd piece: By permission of the Proprietor of the Thaatre Royal, Hay-Market. Receipts: #209 15s. (122.7; 85.8; 2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Purse

Cast
Role: The Baron Actor: Packer
Role: Theodore Actor: Trueman
Role: Will Steady Actor: Wathen

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Related Works
Related Work: Sylvester Daggerwood Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Song: As17960927

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Related Works
Related Work: Sylvester Daggerwood Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: Cape St

Song: IV: song [as17970206]-Dignum

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cape St

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Related Works
Related Work: Sylvester Daggerwood Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: The Purse

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Performance Comment: As17970302but Baron Lovinski-Whitfield; Pages-_; Captives-_; The Horde-_.

Ballet: End 2nd piece: The Labyrinth. As17970306

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Afterpiece Title: Cape St

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Ballet: End: The Labyrinth. As17970306

Event Comment: [In 1st piece the playbill retains Mrs Siddons as Lady Macbeth, but "The Publick is most respectfully informed that Mrs Siddons, being suddenly taken ill...Lady Macbeth will be performed by Mrs Powell, who having undertaken the part at a very short notice, humbly intreats their indulgence" (printed slip attached to BM playbill, Harris, Vol. V).] 3rd piece: Engagement as 6 Mar. Receipts: #173 18s. 6d. (106.18.6; 62.19.6; 4.0.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Cast
Role: Sir Matthew Medley Actor: Maddocks

Afterpiece Title: Cape St

Song: In 1st piece: as17961010, but Mrs Bland_

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Provok'd Husband, advertised on playbill of 14 Mar.] Afterpiece: Engagement as 6 Mar. Receipts: #165 5s. (94.12; 66.1; 4.12)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: Cape St

Ballet: The Scotch Ghost. As17961219

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Song: Vocal Parts, as17970222, but Miss Granger, Master _Welsh

Monologue: The Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite. As 22 Feb

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Cassio to Barrymore, but "Charles Kemble undertook Cassio at a short notice, and sustained it very creditably" (Monthly Mirror, Apr. 1797, p. 250).] Afterpiece: Engagement as 6 Mar. Receipts: #219 6s. 6d. (158.19.6; 59.6.6; 1.0.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: Duke of Venice-Maddocks; Brabantio-Aickin; Gratiano-Phillimore; Lodovico-Packer; Othello-Kemble; Cassio-C. Kemble; Iago-Palmer; Roderigo-Russell; Montano-Campbell; Julio-Trueman; Antonio-Caulfield; Desdemona-Mrs Siddons; Aemilia-Mrs Powell.
Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Kemble

Afterpiece Title: Cape St

Ballet: The Scotch Ghost. As17961221

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Song: As17960927

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Cape St

Dance: II: Masquerade-; with a Dance, as17970112

Song: Sigh no more Ladies, as17970112, but Miss Leak, Miss +Granger, Master _Welsh, Mrs _Bland

Ballet: End: The Scotch Ghost. As17961221

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Song: As17970307

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Mountaineers; afterpiece of The Follies of a Day, both advertised on playbill of 25 Mar.] Afterpiece: Engagement as 6 Mar. Receipts: #151 3s. 6d. (87.6.6; 60.5.0; 3.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Cast
Role: The Seraskier Actor: Kelly

Afterpiece Title: Cape St

Ballet: The Scotch Ghost. As17970104

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Engagement as 6 Mar., but added: The Whole to conclude with a magnificent Illumination; displaying particularly two Ships of the Line in a most brilliant and superb Fire-Work. Receipts: #233 15s. (189.5.6; 41.2.6; 3.7.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Cape St

Ballet: The Scotch Ghost. As17961221

Event Comment: "Miss Mellon possesses good comic powers, but they are rather of the hoyden cast; and there was a want of judgment in those who assigned this character [one recently acted by Miss Farren] to her" (True Briton, 19 Apr.). Receipts: #195 9s. (143.0.6; 48.15.0; 3.13.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wheel Of Fortune

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Performance Comment: As17970216, but The Horde-Phillimore, _Annereau.
Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Frederick Reynolds. Prologue by John Taylor. Epilogue by Miles Peter Andrews (see text; although Boaden, Jordan, I, 286 says the Epilogue was by Samuel Rogers, being the same as that spoken on 27 Apr. 1795)]: With new Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations. [Afterpiece in place of No Song No Supper, advertised on playbill of 18 Apr.] Morning Herald, 29 Apr. 1797: On Monday [1 May] will be published The Will (2s.). Account-Book: Reynolds to receive #33 6s. 8d. for every night of The Will. Receipts: #413 4s. (344.12.6; 63.16.6; 4.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Will

Performance Comment: Characters by King, Wroughton, Bannister Jun., R. Palmer, Suett, Russell, Packer, Webb, Evans, Mrs Jordan, Miss Tidswell, Mrs Booth, Miss Mellon. Cast from text (G. G. and J. Robinson, 1797): Sir Solomon Cynic-King; Mandeville-Wroughton; Howard-Bannister Jun.; Veritas-R. Palmer; Realize-Suett; Robert-Russell; Old Copsley-Packer; Servants-Webb, Evans; Albina Mandeville-Mrs Jordan; Deborah-Miss Tidswell; Mrs Rigid-Mrs Booth; Cicely Copsley-Miss Mellon; Prologue-R. Palmer; Epilogue-Mrs Jordan. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 9 performances only (see17970502).]These were spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 9 performances only (see17970502).]

Afterpiece Title: The Purse

Ballet: The Scotch Ghost. As17961221

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Will

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Ballet: The Scotch Ghost. As17961221

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Will

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Performance Comment: As17970216, but Count Floreski-Dignum; Ithorak-Cooke; Captives-_; Tamuri-_; Camazin-_; The Horde-_.