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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Percy

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Wroughton; Bacchanals-Kelly, Dignum; Spirit-Barrymore; Brothers-Whitfield, Benson; The Lady-Mrs Brereton; Pastoral Nymph-Mrs Forster; Sabrina-Miss Romanzini; Bacchants-Miss Collett, Miss Stageldoir; Euphrosyne (with Sweet Echo, accompanied by Forster)-Mrs Crouch.
Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Whitfield, Benson
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Brereton
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Whitfield, Benson
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Brereton
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella Or The Fatal Marriage

Related Works
Related Work: The Fatal Marriage; or, The Innocent Adultery Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Whitfield, Benson
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Brereton
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne

Song: III: Epithalamium Vocal Parts-Mrs Forster, Miss Stageldoir

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Cast
Role: Widow Belmour Actor: Miss Farren.

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Whitfield, Benson
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Brereton
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Whitfield, Benson
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Brereton
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne

Song: II: song in character-Mrs Crouch. [This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Whitfield, Benson
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Brereton
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Cast
Role: of the Madhouse Actor: Chaplin

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Whitfield, Benson
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Brereton
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne

Dance: End I: As17870920 End IV: New Dance, as17871026

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Cast
Role: of the Madhouse Actor: Chaplin

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Whitfield, Benson
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Brereton
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne

Dance: End IV: a New Dance, as17871026

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Whitfield, Benson
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Brereton
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Whitfield, Benson
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Brereton
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Performance Comment: Lord Townly-Smith; Manly-Bensley; Count Basset-R. Palmer; John Moody-Moody [sic]; Squire Richard-Suett; Sir Francis Wronghead-Parsons; Lady Grace-Mrs Ward; Lady Wronghead-Mrs Hopkins; Miss Jenny (with songs)-Mrs Forster; Trusty-Mrs Heard; Myrtilla-Miss Barnes; Mrs Motherly-Mrs Love; Lady Townly-Miss Farren.
Cast
Role: Myrtilla Actor: Miss Barnes
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Love

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Whitfield, Benson
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Brereton
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #145 8s. 6d. (114.0.0; 30.17.6; 0.8.6; ticket not come in: 0.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: King Richard-Smith; Richmond-Wroughton; Buckingham-Aickin; Tressel-Whitfield; Lord Stanley-Staunton; Norfolk-Fawcett; Catesby-Packer; Lieut. of the Tower-Benson; Ratcliff-Phillimore; Lord Mayor-Chaplin; Prince Edward-Miss Heard; Duke of York-Miss Gaudry; King Henry-Bensley; Lady Anne-Mrs Kemble; Duchess of York-Miss Tidswell; Queen-Mrs Taylor.
Cast
Role: of the Tower Actor: Benson

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: As17871201, but The Lady-Mrs Kemble [i.e. formerly Mrs Brereton].i.e. formerly Mrs Brereton].
Cast
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Kemble
Role: Brothers Actor: Whitfield, Benson
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Kemble
Role: Brothers Actor: Whitfield, Benson
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne

Dance: End III: The Capricious Lovers, as17870920

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Cast
Role: Myrtilla Actor: Miss Barnes
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Love

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Kemble
Role: Brothers Actor: Whitfield, Benson
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fate Of Sparta

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Kemble
Role: Brothers Actor: Whitfield, Benson
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus (with the principal Bacchanal's songs)-Bowden; Brothers-Macready, Evatt; Spirit-Thompson; Bacchanals-Darley, Cubitt, Bonville; The Lady-Mrs Wells; Principal Bacchant-Mrs Kennedy; Pastoral Nymph-Mrs Mountain; Sabrina-Mrs Morton; Euphrosyne-Mrs Martyr.
Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Macready, Evatt
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Wells
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne

Dance: As17880129

Song: In afterpiece: Sweet Echo-Mrs Ambrose (1st time); accompanied on the hautboy-W. Parke; II: the celebrated Laughing Song from L'Allegro il Penseroso-Bowden

Performance Comment: Parke; II: the celebrated Laughing Song from L'Allegro il Penseroso-Bowden.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fate Of Sparta

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Kemble
Role: Brothers Actor: Whitfield, Benson
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: As17880205, but The Lady (for that night only)-Mrs Pope.
Cast
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Pope.
Role: Brothers Actor: Macready, Evatt
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne

Dance: As17880301

Song: In afterpiece: Sweet Echo-Mrs Billington; accompanied on the hautboy-W. Parke

Entertainment: Monologue. End: an Occasional Epilogue-Mrs Pope

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Kemble
Role: Brothers Actor: Whitfield, Benson
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne
Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Martyr. [1st piece in place of Look before You Leap, advertised on playbill of 10 Apr. This new farce was withdrawn from cg, and 1st acted at the hay, 22 Aug. 1788.] 2nd piece: In 3 acts. General Advertiser, 5 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Martyr, No. 28, Great Pultney-street. Receipts: #260 17s. (152.9; 3.17; tickets: 104.11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Afterpiece Title: The Winters Tale

Related Works
Related Work: The Sheepshearing; or, Florizel and Perdita Author(s): Thomas Arne
Related Work: The Sheep-Shearing Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Related Works
Related Work: The Opera of Operas; or Tom Thumb the Great Author(s): Thomas Arne

Song: End: The new Four@and@Twenty Fidlers-Edwin; In II 2nd piece: Come come my good Shepherds-Mrs Martyr

Entertainment: Monologue. End 2nd piece: A Description of the Curiosities in the Tower-Edwin

Performance Comment: End 2nd piece: A Description of the Curiosities in the Tower-Edwin.
Event Comment: The New Comedy of Animal Magnetism [advertised on playbill of 23 Apr.] is obliged to be deferred till Tuesday next. [1st piece in place of The Guardian, advertised on playbill of 23 Apr.] Receipts: #159 16s. 6d. (154.1.0; 5.15.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Farmer

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Macready, Evatt
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Wells
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne

Afterpiece Title: The Positive Man

Related Works
Related Work: The She Gallant; or, Once a Lover and always a Lover Author(s): Thomas Arne

Song: As17880310

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Taylor. Mainpiece: Not acted these 12 years. Public Advertiser, 9 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Taylor, No. 10, Charles-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #173 (50.17; 23.17; 0.10; tickets: 97.16) (charge: #109 11s. 11d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Kemble
Role: Brothers Actor: Whitfield, Benson
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Afterpiece Title: The Winters Tale

Related Works
Related Work: The Sheepshearing; or, Florizel and Perdita Author(s): Thomas Arne
Related Work: The Sheep-Shearing Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Performance Comment: As17871017, but Norah (with the original song, for that night only)-Mrs Mountain.
Cast
Role: Father Luke Actor: Booth

Song: Come come my good Shepherds, as17880411

Event Comment: Benefit for Marchesi. A new Serious Opera [composed by Cimarosa; 1st performed at Vicenza, 1784]. Under the direction of Mazzinghi. Tickets to be had of Marchesi, No. 37, Upper James-street, Golden-square. There will be no Opera on Saturday on account of Whitsun Eve. Receipts not listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lolimpiade

Related Works
Related Work: L'Olimpiade Author(s): Thomas Arne

Dance: End I: Les Offrandes a l'Amour, as17880417; End Singing: L'Amour et Psiche-[see17880129]

Song: End Opera: Marchesi will return thanks to the Audience in a piece of Music of his own composing, piece of Music-Marchesi

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Ward. The Clandestine Marriage [advertised on playbill of 9 May] is obliged to be deferred, on Account of the Indisposition of Parsons. Receipts: #209 18s. 6d. (36.13.0; 12.11.6; 0.10.0; tickets: 160.4.0) (charge: #109 15s. 9d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: As17880428, but The Lady-Mrs Ward; Bacchants-_.
Cast
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Brothers Actor: Whitfield, Benson
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne

Dance: As17880313