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26
19 May 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for T. Smith, Furkins, Roffe [sic], Miss Stede, Mrs Hartle. Tickets deliver'd by Morgan, Stephenson, Claridge, Bagg, Wilkinson, Whatley, Pullin, Miss Brown, Mrs Griffiths, and Mrs Walters will be taken. No charges. House received 1!2 value of Tickets and the Receipts. @Tickets Box Pit Gallery Value 1!2 Value @T. Smith 10 48 75 #17 4s. #8 12s. @Furkins 10 20 24 #7 18s. #3 19s. @Rose 27 48 29 #6 17s. #8 8s. 6d. @Miss Stede 6 13 50 #8 9s. #4 4s. 6d. @Morgan 3 10 35 #5 15s. #2 17s. 6d. @Mrs Hartle 40 69 104 #30 15s. #15 7s. 6d. @Stephenson 21 66 129 #28 1s. #14 6d. @Claridge 15 16 19 #8 1s. #4 6d. @Bagg 3 4 9 #2 5s. #1 2s. 6d. @Wilkinson 30 13 5 #9 19s. #4 19s. 6d. @Whatley -- 4 33 #3 18s. #1 19s. @Pullen 2 41 64 #13 1s. #6 10s. 6d. @Miss Brown 11 37 31 #11 8s. #5 14s. @Mrs Griffiths -- 25 21 #5 17s. #2 18s. 6d. @Mrs Walters 2 19 83 #11 13s. #5 16s. 6d. @Money Value #48 5s. 6d. @Box 180 Pit 433 Gallery 711 Total House Value #229 6s. 6d. 1!2 Value #90 10s. 6d.@ [The house made no charges, but received the half value from each beneficiary as listed above (Account Book). About 1,324 Tickets given out. Capacity of the house must have been about 1,700 at this time. See 14 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Related Works
Related Work: The Miser Author(s): Thomas Shadwell

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-Miss Stede, scholar to Fishar

27
23 February 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alzuma

Performance Comment: Smith, Bensley, Hull, Gardiner, Perry, Miss Pearce, Mrs Willems, Miss Miller, Mrs Hartley Alzuma-Smith; Don Carlos-Bensley; Pizarro-Hull; Gonzalez-Gardner; Ozmar-Perry; Orazia-Miss Miller; Orellana-Mrs Hartley; Virgins of the Sun-Miss Pearce, Mrs Willems; In Act II, a Procession of the Virgins of the Sun-; principal vocal parts-Miss Wewitzer, Miss Brown (Edition of 1773, which also lists Ezmont-$Thompson, whose name does not appear on the bills).
Cast
Role: principal vocal parts Actor: Miss Wewitzer, Miss Brown
Related Works
Related Work: Alzuma Author(s): Thomas Arne

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

28
19 October 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Mattocks; Spirit-Whitefield; Brothers-Thompson, Harris; The Lady with the Song Sweet Echo-Mrs Mattocks; Pastoral Nymph-Miss Brown; Bacchanals, Bacchants-Reinhold, DuBellamy, Baker, Mrs Baker; Euphrosyne, Sabrina-Miss Catley.
Cast
Role: Pastoral Nymph Actor: Miss Brown
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): Thomas Arne

Dance: III: The Vintage Festival, as17741007

29
05 November 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Ii

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: As17741021, but Sabrina, Pastoral Nymph-Miss Brown.
Cast
Role: Pastoral Nymph Actor: Miss Brown.
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): Thomas Arne

Dance: End tragedy: The Reel, as17741028

30
07 January 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: As17761007, but Pastoral Nymph, Sabrina-Miss Brown; Bacchants-Miss Dayes, others.
Cast
Role: Sabrina Actor: Miss Brown
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): Thomas Arne

Song: In afterpiece: Nor on Beds of fading Flowers-Mrs Farrell

31
25 February 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Mattocks; Spirit-L'Estrange; Brothers-Whitefield, Robson; Bacchanals-Reinhold, Mahon; The Lady-Mrs Jackson; Bacchants-Miss Dayes, Miss Ambrose; Sabrina, Pastoral Nymph-Miss Brown; Euphrosyne-Miss Catley; 2nd Spirit-Mrs Farrell.
Cast
Role: Pastoral Nymph Actor: Miss Brown
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): Thomas Arne

Dance: As17770218

Song: Sweet Echo, as17761007

32
30 October 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Mattocks; 1st Spirit-L'Estrange; Brothers-Whitfield, Robson; Bacchanal-Reinhold; The Lady-Mrs Jackson; Bacchants-Miss Dayes, Miss Ambrose; Sabrina, Pastoral Nymph-Miss Brown; Euphrosyne-Mrs Farrell (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Pastoral Nymph Actor: Miss Brown
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): Thomas Arne

Song: Afterpiece: Sweet Echo-Leoni, Mrs Farrell. [This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

33
22 March 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Mattocks; Spirit-L'Estrange; Bacchanal-Reinhold; The Lady-Mrs Jackson; Bacchants-Mrs Morton, Miss Ambrose; Sabrina, Pastoral Nymph-Miss Brown; Euphrosyne (with Sweet Echo, assisted by Leoni)-Mrs Kennedy.
Cast
Role: Pastoral Nymph Actor: Miss Brown
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): Thomas Arne

34
09 February 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd Or Patie And Roger

Related Works
Related Work: The Gentle Shepherd; or, Patie and Roger Author(s): Thomas Linley Sr.

Afterpiece Title: Wits Last Stake

Performance Comment: Linger-Ryder; Savell [Saville]-Bland; Cavet [Caveat]-Aberdein; Itam [Item]-Brown; Boy-Middleton; Martin Sly-Smith; Mrs Watch [Mrs Watchly]-Mrs Reid; Mira [Myra]-Miss Bouton; Lucata [Lucetta]-Mrs Lefevre .
Cast
Role: Item] Actor: Brown

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece a new composed Reel (performers not listed); In Act IV a Hornpipe by Middleton

Monologue: 1784 02 09 The Edinburgh Buck by a Genleman [unidentified]

35
13 November 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Performance Comment: Scapin-Ryder; Gripe-Wewitzer; Thrifty-Booth; Leander-Davies; Octavian-Macready; Shift-Cubitt; Sly-Brown; Lucia-Mrs Byrne; Clara-Miss Stuart.
Cast
Role: Sly Actor: Brown
Related Works
Related Work: The Cheats of Scapin Author(s): Thomas Otway

36
14 November 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: Hawthorn-Hooke; Young Meadows-King (Their 1st appearance); Sir William Meadows-Fearon; Eustace-Davies; Hodge-Cubitt; Justice Woodcock-Quick; Deborah-Mrs Pitt; Margery-Mrs Brown; Lucinda-Mrs Morton; Rosetta-Mrs Billington.
Cast
Role: Margery Actor: Mrs Brown

Afterpiece Title: Barataria or Sancho Turnd Governor

Performance Comment: Sancho Panco-Quick; Duke-Cubitt; Manuel-Davies; Pedro-Thompson; Recorder-Booth; Don Quixotte-Gardner; Lady Tereza Panca-Mrs Webb; Spanish Lady-Mrs Pitt; Duchess-Miss Stuart; Mary the Buxom-Mrs Brown.
Cast
Role: Mary the Buxom Actor: Mrs Brown.
Related Works
Related Work: The Comical History of Don Quixote, Part II Author(s): Thomas D'Urfey

Dance: End II: a new Dance, Hibernian Dotage Dotage[; or, The Lover's Last Blunder-Byrn, Jackson, Mrs Invill, Mrs Goodwin. [On 16 Nov., and thereafter, this dance was entitled Dotage; or, The Natural Mistake.

37
29 October 1787 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: Barataria or Sancho Turnd Governor

Performance Comment: Sancho Pancha-Quick; Duke-Cubitt; Manuel-Davies; Pedro-Thompson; Recorder-Booth; Don Quixotte-Gardner; Lady Tereza Pancha-Mrs Webb; Spanish Lady-Mrs Pitt; Duchess-Miss Stuart; Mary the Buxom-Mrs Brown.
Cast
Role: Mary the Buxom Actor: Mrs Brown.
Related Works
Related Work: The Comical History of Don Quixote, Part II Author(s): Thomas D'Urfey

Dance: End: Mirth by Moonshine-[see17870928]

38
05 January 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Performance Comment: Scapin-Ryder; Gripe-Wewitzer; Thrifty-Booth; Leander-Davies; Octavian-Macready; Shift-Cubitt; Sly-Brown; Lucia-Miss Brangin; Clara-Miss Stuart.
Cast
Role: Sly Actor: Brown
Related Works
Related Work: The Cheats of Scapin Author(s): Thomas Otway

Dance: As17871029

39
21 January 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Performance Comment: Lovegold-Ryder; Frederick-Farren; Clerimont-Macready; James-Cubitt; Decoy-Thompson; Taylor-Wewitzer; Upholsterer-Helme; Sparkle-Brown; Satin-Blurton; Lawyer-Rock; Ramilie-Lewis; Mariana-Mrs Mattocks; Harriet-Mrs Mountain; Wheedle-Miss Stuart; Mrs Wisely-Mrs Platt; Lappet-Mrs Abington.
Cast
Role: Sparkle Actor: Brown
Related Works
Related Work: The Miser Author(s): Thomas Shadwell

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Dance: End: Mirth by Moonshine, as17870928, but _Ratchford, Mrs _Invill

40
18 October 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Beaux Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Performance Comment: [Characters by Kelly, Dignum, Sedgwick, Suett, Wewitzer, Master Welsh, Mrs Crouch, Miss DeCamp, Mrs Bland, Miss Menage. Cast from text (C. Lowndes [1792]): Marcos-Kelly; Bernardo-Dignum; Pasqual-Sedgwick; Roberto-Suett; Lewis-Wewitzer; Narcisso-Master Welsh; Clara-Mrs Crouch; Theresa-Miss DeCamp; Nina-Mrs Bland; Juliana-Miss Menage; Chorus of Soldiers-Fawcett, Phillimore, Danby, Maddocks, Cooke, Lyons, Alfred, Shaw, Aylmer, Brown, Dorion Jun.
Cast
Role: Chorus of Soldiers Actor: Fawcett, Phillimore, Danby, Maddocks, Cooke, Lyons, Alfred, Shaw, Aylmer, Brown, Dorion Jun.
Related Works
Related Work: The Prisoner Author(s): Thomas Attwood

41
07 March 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At kings She Woud And She Woud Not

Afterpiece Title: Ozmyn and Daraxa

Performance Comment: [Characters by Suett, Sedgwick, Barrymore, Dignum, Bannister Jun., Phillimore, Maddocks, Burton, Mrs Crouch, Miss DeCamp, Mrs Bland. Cast from Songs (C. Lowndes 1793]): Don Pedrilla-Suett; Ferdinand-Sedgwick; Alonzo de Zuniga-Barrymore; Ozmyn-Dignum; Orviedo-Bannister Jun.; Corrigidore-Phillimore; Officer-Maddocks; Vasquez-Burton; Daraxa-Mrs Crouch; Elvira-Miss DeCamp; Laida-Mrs Bland; General Chorus-Danby, Shaw, Welsh, Dorion, Brown, Dorion Jun., Mrs Shaw, Mrs Bramwell, Mrs Edwin, Mrs Butler, Mrs Gaudry.
Cast
Role: General Chorus Actor: Danby, Shaw, Welsh, Dorion, Brown, Dorion Jun., Mrs Shaw, Mrs Bramwell, Mrs Edwin, Mrs Butler, Mrs Gaudry.
Related Works
Related Work: Ozmyn and Daraxa Author(s): Thomas Attwood

Dance: In afterpiece: Miss Menage, the Miss D'Egvilles

42
09 March 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay King Henry The Eighth

Performance Comment: King Henry-Palmer; Cardinal Wolsey-Bensley; Campeius-Packer; Capucius-Phillimore; Cranmer-Aickin; D. of Norfolk-Whitfield; D. of Buckingham-Wroughton; D. of Suffolk-Caulfield; E. of Surry-Barrymore; L. Chancellor-Maddocks; L. Chamberlain-R. Palmer; Gardiner-Suett; Lord Sands-Baddeley; Sir Henry Guilford-Bland; Sir ThomasLovel-Fawcett; Cromwell-Kemble; Doctor Butts-Waldron; Surveyor-Benson; Brandon-Banks; Serjeant-Lyons; Doorkeeper-Jones; Cryer-Alfred; Queen Katharine-Mrs Siddons; Anne Bullen-Mrs Powell; Gentlewoman-Mrs Booth; Patience (with a song)-Mrs Bland; Agatha-Miss Collins.
Cast
Role: Sir ThomasLovel Actor: Fawcett

Afterpiece Title: Ozmyn and Daraxa

Performance Comment: As17930307but General Chorus-_Brown, _Dorion Jun.
Cast
Role: 930307but General Chorus Actor: _Brown, _Dorion Jun.
Role: General Chorus Actor: Danby, Shaw, Welsh, Dorion, Brown, Dorion Jun., Mrs Shaw, Mrs Bramwell, Mrs Edwin, Mrs Butler, Mrs Gaudry.
Related Works
Related Work: Ozmyn and Daraxa Author(s): Thomas Attwood

Dance: As17930307

43
27 August 1794 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: COMUS

Performance Comment: Comus-Palmer; Spirit-Pindar; Brothers-Palmer Jun., Bland; Bacchanals-Bannister, Davies, Sedgwick, Cooke, Linton, Kenrick, Walker, Dorion, Willoughby, Little, Brown, Aylmer, Saunders, Dibble, &c.//1st Bacchant and Pastoral Nymph (with Sweet Echo, accompanied on the hautboy by Foster) (1st time)-Miss Leak; 2nd Bacchant and Sabrina-Miss De Camp; 3rd Bacchant-Mrs Harvey; Euphrosyne (1st time)-Mrs Harlowe; Bacchants-Mrs Norton, Mrs Masters, Mrs Hale, Mrs Butler, Mrs Gaudry, Misses M. and C. Wrighten, Miss Menage; The Lady-Miss Palmer (1st appearance in that character) .
Cast
Role: Bacchanals Actor: Bannister, Davies, Sedgwick, Cooke, Linton, Kenrick, Walker, Dorion, Willoughby, Little, Brown, Aylmer, Saunders, Dibble, &c.1st Bacchant and Pastoral Nymph
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): Thomas Arne

44
13 July 1799 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Blue Devils

Afterpiece Title: Ways and Means

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

Performance Comment: Characters by Fawcett, Johnstone, Suett, Davies, Linton, Abbot, Chippendale, Miss Griffiths, Miss DeCamp. [Cast from text (Cadell and Davies, 1799): Blinval-Fawcett; Governor of Sorrento-Johnstone; Germain-Suett; Count Murville-Davies; Centinel-Linton [unassigned in text; see18000614]; Footman-Abbot; Corporal-Chippendale; Rosina-Miss Griffiths; Widow Belmont-Miss DeCamp; Chorus-Lyons, Kenrick, Little, Willoughby, Dibble, Aylmer, Brown, Caulfield Jun.
Cast
Role: Chorus Actor: Lyons, Kenrick, Little, Willoughby, Dibble, Aylmer, Brown, Caulfield Jun.
Related Works
Related Work: The Castle of Sorrento Author(s): Thomas Attwood

45
16 July 1799 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False And True

Afterpiece Title: Blue Devils

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

Performance Comment: As17990713 but Chorus-_Aylmer, _Brown, _Caulfield Jun.
Cast
Role: Chorus Actor: _Aylmer, _Brown, _Caulfield Jun.
Related Works
Related Work: The Castle of Sorrento Author(s): Thomas Attwood

46
21 August 1799 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seeing Is Believing

Afterpiece Title: The Red Cross Knights

Performance Comment: Characters by Aickin, C. Kemble, Barrymore, Clarke, Palmer, Wathen, Davies, Caulfield, Trueman, Davenport, Abbot, Chippendale, Lyons, Suett, Miss DeCamp, Mrs Bland, Miss Palmer. [Cast from test (Geo. Cawthorn, 1799), and European Magazine, Sept. 1799, p. 187: Count de Ladesma-Aickin; Ferdinand-C. Kemble; Roderic de Froila-Barrymore; Guzman-Clarke; Garcias-Palmer; Lerida-Wathen; Lanusa-Davies; Bertran-Caulfield; Antonio-Trueman; Percy-Davenport; Ripperda-Abbot; Leonardo-Chippendale; Servant-Lyons; Popoli-Suett; Eugenia-Miss DeCamp; Rosa-Mrs Bland; 1st Woman of the Harem-Miss Palmer; Vocal Parts-Trueman, Story, Linton, Brown, Caulfield Jun., Aylmer, Dibble, Willoughby, Little, Kenrick, Ms Bland, Ms Griffiths, Ms Edward, Ms Hale, Ms Menage, Ms Gawdry, Ms Benson, Ms Butler, Ms Leserve, Ms Norton, Ms Masters; Prologue-Trueman. [This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]
Cast
Role: Vocal Parts Actor: Trueman, Story, Linton, Brown, Caulfield Jun., Aylmer, Dibble, Willoughby, Little, Kenrick, Ms Bland, Ms Griffiths, Ms Edward, Ms Hale, Ms Menage, Ms Gawdry, Ms Benson, Ms Butler, Ms Leserve, Ms Norton, Ms Masters
Related Works
Related Work: The Red-Cross Knights Author(s): Thomas Attwood

Afterpiece Title: The Purse

47
23 May 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Ion and Brown

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Related Works
Related Work: The Royal Merchant Author(s): Thomas Hull

Song: Singing in Italian and English-a Gentleman who never perform'd on any Stage before

Dance: Topham Jr, Pelling, Newhouse, Miss Bullock, Sandham's Son, Miss Francis

48
06 May 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Page (Housekeeper), Banks and Duck. See London Daily Post and General Advertiser for arrest and seizure of William Brown, notorious pick-pocket in cg playhouse passage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Related Works
Related Work: The Pilgrim Author(s): Thomas Killigrew

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: TThe Happy Lovers, as17421006; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; Grand Comic Ballet, as17430407

49
15 October 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid Miss Younge, for men's cloaths #15 15s., Mrs Mott for women's Cloaths #10 10s.; Mr French on Acct #25; Mr King, Glassman #8 13s.; Half a year's poor's rate for St Martin's to Midqummer last #25 5s.; Mas. Brown 4 nights (10th inst. incl.) #1 10s.; Mrs Slaughter's bill, #1 (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #147 1s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Related Works
Related Work: The Orphan; or, The Unhappy Marriage Author(s): Thomas Otway

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Dance: V: The Sailors Revels, as17711008

50
18 October 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Benefit for Davis. 1st piece: Altered from [The Soldier's Fortune, by] Otway, by John Brownsmith. [not in Larpent MS; not published.] 2nd piece: A Poetical Interlude altered from Prior's Nut-brown Maid. 3rd piece: Altered to 3 acts. [Prologue by Shatford Jones. Author of Epilogue unknown. For authorship of 1st piece and prologue see Morning Chronicle, 25 Oct.] Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. Tickets delivered for Davis and Wright will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Touchstone Of Invention Or The Soldiers Fortune

Related Works
Related Work: The Soldiers' Fortune Author(s): Thomas Otway
Related Work: The Touchstone of Invention; or, The Soldier's Fortune Author(s): John Brownsmith
Related Work: The Soldier's Fortune Author(s): Thomas Otway

Afterpiece Title: Henry And Emma

Related Works
Related Work: Henry and Emma; or, The Nut Brown Maid Author(s): Thomas Arne

Afterpiece Title: The Busy Body

Dance: 2nd piece: With a Hornpipe-Lonsdale

Song: End I: two part song, Damon and Clora-Leach, Miss Mitchell (1st appearance); End III: My sweet pretty Mogg-Wright