2190

20 March 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Cast

Role: Sir Matthew Medley Actor: Maddocks
Role: Prince Lupauski Actor: Aickin
Role: Princess Lodoiska Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: The Horde Actor: Wentworth, Maddocks, Welsh, Evans, Annereau.

Ballet: The Scotch Ghost. As17961221

2191

21 March 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Cast

Role: Prince Lupauski Actor: Aickin
Role: Princess Lodoiska Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: The Horde Actor: Wentworth, Maddocks, Welsh, Evans, Annereau.

Song: As17960927

2192

23 March 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Cape St

Cast

Role: Sir Matthew Medley Actor: Maddocks
Role: Prince Lupauski Actor: Aickin
Role: Princess Lodoiska Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: The Horde Actor: Wentworth, Maddocks, Welsh, Evans, Annereau.

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

2193

25 March 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Cast

Role: Prince of Tanais Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Cast

Role: Prince Lupauski Actor: Aickin
Role: Princess Lodoiska Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: The Horde Actor: Wentworth, Maddocks, Welsh, Evans, Annereau.

Song: As17970307

2194

27 March 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Cast

Role: Sir Matthew Medley Actor: Maddocks
Role: Prince Lupauski Actor: Aickin
Role: Princess Lodoiska Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: The Horde Actor: Wentworth, Maddocks, Welsh, Evans, Annereau.

Ballet: The Scotch Ghost. As17970104

2195

17 April 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Cast

Role: Prince Lupauski Actor: Aickin
Role: Princess Lodoiska Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: The Horde Actor: Wentworth, Maddocks, Welsh, Evans, Annereau.

Ballet: The Scotch Ghost. As17961221

2196

18 April 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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.

Cast

Role: The Horde Actor: Phillimore, _Annereau.
Role: Prince Lupauski Actor: Aickin
Role: Princess Lodoiska Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: The Horde Actor: Wentworth, Maddocks, Welsh, Evans, Annereau.

2197

19 April 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Cast

Role: Prince Lupauski Actor: Aickin
Role: Princess Lodoiska Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: The Horde Actor: Wentworth, Maddocks, Welsh, Evans, Annereau.

Ballet: The Scotch Ghost. As17961221

2198

26 April 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Will

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Cast

Role: Prince Lupauski Actor: Aickin
Role: Princess Lodoiska Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: The Horde Actor: Wentworth, Maddocks, Welsh, Evans, Annereau.

Ballet: The Scotch Ghost. As17961221

2199

29 April 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Will

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

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

Cast

Role: Prince Lupauski Actor: Aickin
Role: Princess Lodoiska Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: The Horde Actor: Wentworth, Maddocks, Welsh, Evans, Annereau.

2200

08 May 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. 1st piece [1st time; C 5, by Richard Cumberland. Text 1st published in his Posthumous Dramatic Works, Vol. II (G. and W. Nicol, 1813); it assigns no parts, but adds George Ivey and David Duncan, acted by Caulfield and Packer. Genest erroneously assigns Sir Adam to Wewitzer and Beau Tiffany to R. Palmer. Prologue and Epilogue by the author (True Briton, 9 May). Songs by Michael Kelly, in Act I harmonized by Sir William Parsons.] True Briton, 25 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 65, Gower-street, Bedford-square. Receipts: #581 15s. (294.18.6; 72.7.0; 3.17.6; tickets: 210.12.0) (charge: #213 6s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Last Of The Family

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Dowton, Wewitzer, Bannister Jun., C. Kemble, R. Palmer, Suett, Caulfield, Packer, Miss Pope, Mrs Jordan, Miss Tidswell. [Cast from Monthly Visitor, May 1797, p. 450, and suggested by Genest, VII, 293: Sir John Manfred-Dowton; Sir Adam ap Origen-Bannister Jun.; Squire Abel-Wewitzer; Peregrine-C. Kemble; Beau Tiffany-Suett; Ned Flexible-R. Palmer; Lady Manfred-Miss Pope; Letitia Manfred-Mrs Jordan; Lucy-Miss Tidswell; unassigned-Caulfield, Packer; [but see below. Address [as Prologue]-Bannister Jun. (in the character of Sheva) [in The Jew]; Epilogue-Mrs Jordan.

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Cast

Role: Prince Lupauski Actor: Aickin
Role: Princess Lodoiska Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: The Horde Actor: Wentworth, Maddocks, Welsh, Evans, Annereau.

Related Works

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

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

Cast

Role: Prince Lupauski Actor: Aickin
Role: Princess Lodoiska Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: The Horde Actor: Wentworth, Maddocks, Welsh, Evans, Annereau.

Song: In I: The Song [Blest were the hours], Song incidental to the Epilogue-Mrs Jordan