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Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Cure For Dotage

Song: Miss Catley

Event Comment: Mrs Smith Polly (first time) very well (Hopkins Diary). Paid Salary list #513 17s. 6d.; Miss Mansell and Mr Dimon 5 guineas each per order, #10 10s.; Mr Clinch ditt, #5 5s.; Rec'd stopages #20 13s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #141 2s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17721023; II: Minuet, Allemande-Mas. Holland, Miss Armstrong, Scholars of Daigville

Performance Comment: Holland, Miss Armstrong, Scholars of Daigville.
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 9 years. [Miss Smith is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

Cast
Role: Rose Actor: Miss Brown.

Afterpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Performance Comment: Elder Wou'dbe-Wroughton; Young Wou'dbe-Lee Lewes; Richmore-Whitefield; Teague-Egan; Alderman-Dunstall; Fairbank-Fearon; Clearaccount-L'Estrange; Poet-Jones; Subtleman-Wewitzer; Balderdash-Booth; Trueman-Lewis; Constance-Mrs Jackson; Mrs Clearaccount-Mrs Poussin; Mrs Midnight-Mrs Pitt; Aurelia-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [Miss Smith]).Miss Smith]).

Afterpiece Title: Annette and Lubin

Cast
Role: Emily Actor: Miss Ambrose
Event Comment: Benefit for Mattocks. [Mrs Sage is identified in Morning Chronicle, 27 Apr.] On account of Miss Catley's Indisposition Comus [announced on playbill of 26 Apr.] is obliged to be deferred. Paid Atkins, coal merchant, #33 12s. 6d. Public Advertiser, 7 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mattocks, Great Russel Street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #193 5s. 6d. (153.13.6; tickets: 39.12.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

Afterpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Siege Of Gibraltar

Song: As17791018Vocal Parts-Reinhold, Doyle, J. Wilson, Baker, Miss Valois, Mrs Morton, Mrs Willems

Performance Comment: Wilson, Baker, Miss Valois, Mrs Morton, Mrs Willems.
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Books of the Songs, with Miss Harper's Additional Airs, to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber; Or, The Fruitless Precaution

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Palmer, Parsons, Massey, Wewitzer, R. Palmer, Egan, Stevens, Edwin; Miss Harper (with several additional airs). [For assignment of parts sec 27 Aug.] hathi.

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17820606

Event Comment: Tickets to be had and Places [for the boxes] to be taken of Fosbrook, at the Stage Door of the Theatre. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season]. Books of the Performance to be had at the Theatre. New Lady's Magazine, Mar 1786, p. 110: performance under the direction of Dr Arnold, who conducted from the organ. I know that my redeemer liveth sung by Miss George; He was despised and rejected by Master Pring; How beautiful are the feet by Mrs Forster

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Performance Comment: Principal Vocal Parts by Bellamy, Arrowsmith, Carter, Master Pring; Mrs Forster, Miss George .
Event Comment: Benefit for Browne. [Miss Eccles, who was from the York theatre, is identified in European Magazine, July 1787, p. 64.] Public Advertiser, 16 July: Tickets to be had of Browne, No. 13, King-street, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Performance Comment: Jaffier-Browne; Priuli-Aickin; Renault-Gardner; Bedamar-R. Palmer; Duke-Usher; Spinosa-Lawrence; Elliot-Swords; Officer-Johnson; Pierre-Bensley; Belvidera-A Young Lady (1st appearance [Miss Eccles]).Miss Eccles]).

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Entertainment: Monologue End: a monody, The Shadows of Shakespeare; or, Shakespeare's Characters doing Homage to Garrick (written by Samuel Jackson? Pratt)-Browne

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Goodwin. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. Tickets delivered for Yesterday the 28th will be admitted. [The Satiric print, The Prince's Bow, had 1st appeared on 17 Mar. 1788; it was not by Bunbury, but by Frederick George Byron (Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires...in the British Museum, 1938, VI, 557).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

Dance: End IV: Double Hornpipe-Mr and Miss Bourk

Song: End I: Crazy Kate-Chambers; End III: song-Arrowsmith

Entertainment: End II: Imitations-a Gentleman [unidentified]

Monologue: Vaudeville. End: Bunbury's Representation of the Prince's Bow. Teacher-Delpini; in which he will introduce a song, Woman turn us round about-Delpini

Event Comment: By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. 3rd piece: Written by A. Murphy, Esq. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. Tickets to be had at the Shakespeare, Covent-garden; the Chapter Coffee-house, Paternoster-row; the Horn Tavern, Doctors Commons; the Theatre, where Places for the Boxes may be taken; and at Abbott's Academy, Bridges-street, Westminster

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Miss In Her Teens

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle; or, A Wife at her Wit's End

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: Young Philpot-Death; Wilding-Cooper; Sir Jasper Wilding-Gaudry; Beaufort-Smith; Quildrive-Grace; Dapper-Watts; Servant-Abbott; Old Philpot-Follett [Sen.]; Corinna-Miss Dancer; Maria-Mrs Bolton.
Cast
Role: Corinna Actor: Miss Dancer

Entertainment: Monologue. End 1st piece: Scrubb's Trip to the Jubilee (as altered by the late David Garrick, Esq., in character,)-Death; Vaudeville. End 2nd piece: a new favourite song-Birkett; Dance-the Miss Simonets; A Pantomimical Interlude: Harlequin (with the celebrated Dying Scene)-Follett Jun., Clown- Follett Sen.; +A martial song-Birkett

Performance Comment: End 1st piece: Scrubb's Trip to the Jubilee (as altered by the late David Garrick, Esq., in character,)-Death; Vaudeville. End 2nd piece: a new favourite song-Birkett; Dance-the Miss Simonets; A Pantomimical Interlude: Harlequin (with the celebrated Dying Scene)-Follett Jun., Clown- Follett Sen.; +A martial song-Birkett.
Cast
Role: Dance Actor: the Miss Simonets
Event Comment: [In afterpiece the playbill retains Farley and Mlle St.Amand, but they "being indisposed, the hero and heroine were submitted to other hands" (Morning Herald, 26 Jan); probably to King and Miss Francis (see 28 Jan.).] Receipts: #247 10s. (233.15; 13.15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Notoriety

Afterpiece Title: Oscar and Malvina

Performance Comment: As17911027, but King; Miss Francis; Byrne_.

Music: In afterpiece: As17911219

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Gibbs. Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years [acted 22 June 1790. Miss Logan is identified in MS list, in hay playbills now at Harvard, of new performers for the 1795 season. Mrs Kemble's 1st recorded appearance as Portia was at Edinburgh, 26 Jan. 1795]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: Shylock-Bannister Jun. (1st and only appearance in that character); Anthonio-Bensley; Gratiano-Fawcett (1st appearance in that character); Old Gobbo-Wathen (1st appearance in that character); Tubal-Waldron; Lorenzo (with songs)-Davies; Launcelot-Suett; Duke-Benson; Salanio-Caulfield; Solarino-C. Kemble; Leonardo-Lyons; Balthazar-Ledger; Bassanio-Barrymore (1st appearance in that character); Jessica (with a song)-Mrs Bland; Nerissa-A Young Gentlewoman (1st appearance on any stage [Miss Logan]); Portia-Mrs Kemble (1st appearance in that character [in London]).in London]).

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 20 years [acted 4 Dec. 1786]. With new Dresses, Decorations, &c. [Miss Allingham is identified in playbill of 24 Nov.] Receipts: #200 5s. 6d. (196.2.0; 4.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Performance Comment: Mahomet (1st time)-Pope; Alcanor-Murray; Pharon-Macready; Mirvan-Toms; Ali-Davenport; Ammon-Lee; Hercides-Cranfield; Citizens-Blurton, Abbot, Wilde, Thompson; Zaphna-Hargrave; Palmira-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [Miss Allingham]).Miss Allingham]).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Le Menuet & La Marie-D'Vallois, Mrs Bullock, being particularly desired; II: La Payzane Mantaignez (new)-D'Vallois, D'Blainville, Pollet in Wooden Shoes; III: Two Pierrots-D'Vallois, Delagarde; IV: English Peasant-D'Vallois, Madam D'Vallois

Ballet: V: La Provansalle (newly composed by D'Vallois). Two Provansals-D'Vallois, Mrs Bullock; Other parts-Holt, Mrs D'Vallois, J. Delagarde, Miss Wherrit, Sandham, Mrs Haughton, Evans, Miss Sandham

Performance Comment: Two Provansals-D'Vallois, Mrs Bullock; Other parts-Holt, Mrs D'Vallois, J. Delagarde, Miss Wherrit, Sandham, Mrs Haughton, Evans, Miss Sandham.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

Dance: I: A new Saraband by Dupre-Mrs Wall; II: Fingalian Dance-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; III: Chacone-Dupre, Mrs Walls; IV: Tollet's Ground-Newhouse, Mrs Legare

Music: II: Concerto on small Flute-Mr John Jones

Ballet: V: Grand Dance in the following Characters:. Two Harlequins-Dupre, Salle; Two Punches-Newhouse, Pelling; Two Scaramouches-Lanyon, Dupre Jr; Harlequin Woman-Mrs Wall

Performance Comment: Two Harlequins-Dupre, Salle; Two Punches-Newhouse, Pelling; Two Scaramouches-Lanyon, Dupre Jr; Harlequin Woman-Mrs Wall.
Event Comment: Two days ago a Letter [price 1s.] came out to Miss Nossiter in which Mrs Cibber is abu'd & tother greatly extoll'd. The Author has also fell foul upon Mr Murphy author of Gray's Inn Journal. It is wrote by one Morgan an Irish Gent: High words has pass'd at ye Bedford Coff. H. between him and Murphy & 'tis thought a Duel will be ye Consequence (Cross). [See The Authorship of a Letter to Miss Nossiter, Shakespeare Quarterly, January 1952, p. 69.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Event Comment: Tickets at half a guinea. Gallery 5s. N.B. As part of the Serenata must be performed in the upper Gallery, it is humbly hoped the Nobility and Gentry will not take it amiss that servants cannot be admitted this night. The last night of performing this season. Sga Mattei humbly desires Subscribers for the ensuing season to pay their subscription money to Mess. Andrew Drummond and Co., Bankers, at Charing Cross; or to Mr Crawford, Agent and Treasurer of said Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arianna E Teseo

Performance Comment: Two acts performed with the dances, and to conclude with a grand Serenata of one act, in honour of His Majesty's birthday. Exhibited with two orchestras, a great number of vocal and instrumental performers, with the same grandeur as it was performed last year on the same occasion.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Dance: Swedish Dal Karl by De la Garde and Mrs Ogden. Two Pierrots by Poitier and Pelling. Fingalian by Newhouse and Mrs Ogden

Performance Comment: Two Pierrots by Poitier and Pelling. Fingalian by Newhouse and Mrs Ogden .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Dance: English Maggot by Lally and Mrs Walter. Two Pierrots by Poitier and Nivelon. Revellers, as17340319 Grand Dance in Momus

Performance Comment: Two Pierrots by Poitier and Nivelon. Revellers, as17340319 Grand Dance in Momus .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Performance Comment: Townly-Cross; Lady Townly-Mrs Pritchard; Lady Grace-Mrs Cross; Lady Wronghead-Mrs Cantrell; Manly-Woodburn; Basset-Este; Sir Francis-Jones; Richard-Master Green; Myrtilla-Mrs Davenport; Jenny-Miss Brunette; Trusty-Miss Jones; Mrs Motherly-Mrs Miller .
Cast
Role: Jenny Actor: Miss Brunette
Role: Trusty Actor: Miss Jones

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Music: As17350715

Dance: Louvre and Minuet by Vallois and Mrs Anderson. Two Pierrots by Vallois and Davenport. Scotch Dance by Mr and Mrs Davenport

Performance Comment: Two Pierrots by Vallois and Davenport. Scotch Dance by Mr and Mrs Davenport .

Song: English Cantata by a Scholar of Carey's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Performance Comment: Elder Woudbe-Este; Young Woudbe-Cross; Trueman-Turbutt; Richmore-Woodburn; Subtleman-Cole; Alderman-Salway; Clear-account-Wright; Fairbank-Dove; Teague-Jones; Jack-Leigh; Constable-Gray; Mrs Midnight-Topham; Aurelia-Mrs Pritchard; Constance-Mrs Cantrell; Steward's Wife-Mrs Cross; Maid-Miss Jones .
Cast
Role: Maid Actor: Miss Jones

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Music: As17350715

Dance: French Peasant by Vallois and Mrs Woodward. Two Pierrots by Vallois and Davenport. Le Gout Anglois by Mr and Mrs Davenport

Performance Comment: Two Pierrots by Vallois and Davenport. Le Gout Anglois by Mr and Mrs Davenport .

Song: As17350718

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Performance Comment: two Cantatas in English by Millico-Millico; in which he will sing several songs accompanied on Hautboy-Fisher; Harp-Millico.

Dance: End Opera: A Grand Ballet-Mlle Heinel, Slingsby, Fierville

Event Comment: Two to One [announced on playbill of 1 July] is still oblig'd to be deferr'd on Account of the Absence of a Principal Performer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fox

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Event Comment: [Miss Harper was taken ill; The Irish Widow was thereupon substituted and begun, but the audience was clamorous, and insisted on The Son-in-Law. A long delay ensued until the proper acters had been brought back to the theatre and until they were dressed. Mrs Jewell read Miss Harper's part. While trying to find out what the audience wanted, Bannister retorted sharply from the stage to one of the noisiest of the objectors. This action caused several letters to be written to various newspapers debating the right of a "servant of the public" to reprimand a member of the audience even when that member might be in the wrong (Morning Chronicle, 16 Sept., et seq.).] The last Night of the Season

Performances

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple; Or, A Trip To The Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Performance Comment: Miss Lucy-Miss Scott; Blister-Bridges; Quaver-Anderson; Coupee-Yates; Goodwill-Taswell; Wormwood-Cross.
Cast
Role: Miss Lucy Actor: Miss Scott

Song: I: Sullivan

Dance: III: A New Dance-Desse, Mrs Walter, Leviez, Shawford, Miss Scott