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Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay The Rival Sisters

Cast
Role: Theseus Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay The Rival Sisters

Cast
Role: Theseus Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay The Rival Sisters

Cast
Role: Theseus Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. [In afterpiece the playbill assings Lazarillo to R. Palmer, but "Bland appeared in Lazarillo instead of R. Palmer" (Thespian Magazine, May 1793, p. 266).] Morning Herald, 2 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bensley, No. 21, Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury. Receipts: #201 10s. (93.4; 16.1; tickets: 92.5) (charge: #94 19s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay The Country Girl

Cast
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Ward

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay The Rival Sisters

Cast
Role: Theseus Actor: Palmer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Song: The Original Music, as17921226, but _Caulfield, _Maddocks, _Alfred, _Lyons

Event Comment: ["We were sorry to see such an actor as Dodd descend into Buffoonery; in the dying scene of Roderigo he reminded us of the death of the Clown in Harlequin Skeleton" (Thespian Magazine, June 1793, p. 1).] Receipts #164 1s. (156.4; 7. 17)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay Othello

Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Kemble

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Horatio to Kemble, but he "being indisposed, Harley was the Horatio" (Thespian Magazine, June 1793, p. 1).] Receipts: #129 7s. (123.0; 6.7)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Packer as Melanthon and Mrs Siddon as Euphrasia , but "Mrs Powell was the substitute for Mrs Siddons, and acquitted herself very ably. Melanthon was read by Maddocks [which part can be doubled with Greek Herald ]" (Thespian Magazine, June 1793, p. 3).] Receipts: #109 5s. (101.0; 8.5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Prize, advertised on playbill of 29 Apr.] Receipts: #81 19s. (75.10; 6.9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay The Country Girl

Cast
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Ward

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay Isabella

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Song: As17921217

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. Under the Patronage of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales. [In mainpiece the playbill retains Mrs Bland as Ariel , but "Ariel was, on account of the sudden indisposition of Mrs Bland, read by Miss Heard" (Diary, 8 May). Miss Heard may also have substituted for Mrs Bland in the afterpiece.] Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by James Cobb, for whose authorship see Kemble Mem. Larpent MS 982; not published]. Public Advertiser, 2 May: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Charing Cross. Receipts: #227 8s. (95.17; 7.5; tickets: 124.6) (charge: #90 2s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Fortune's Wheel

Performance Comment: Characters-Bannister Jun., Caulfield, Suett, Dignum, Bland, Wewitzer, Waldron, Fawcett, Phillimore, Hollingsworth, Maddocks, Alfred, Webb, Lyons, Mrs Hopkins, Mrs Bland, Miss Heard. [Larpent MS lists the parts: Sir Harry Harebrain , Lord George , Mr Curl , Hawser , Papillot , Ishmael , Pillage , Balance , John , Clinker , Scoredouble , Clod , Mrs Curl , Sophia Curl , Miss Broadhem .]Larpent MS lists the parts: Sir Harry Harebrain , Lord George , Mr Curl , Hawser , Papillot , Ishmael , Pillage , Balance , John , Clinker , Scoredouble , Clod , Mrs Curl , Sophia Curl , Miss Broadhem .]

Song: In: Vocal Parts, as17921213, Sedgwick, _Kelly, Mrs +Crouch; Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite, as17930102 In course of Evening: +The Little Farthing Rushlight-Bannister Jun

Related Works
Related Work: Blue-Beard; or, Female Curiosity! Author(s): George Colman, the younger
Related Work: Feudal Times; or, The Banquet Gallery Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Event Comment: Mainpiece: In Act I the Cardinal's Banquet. In Act II the Court for the Trial of Queen Katharine . In Act V a Grand Procession to the Christening of Princess Elizabeth . Receipts: #115 10s. (105.0; 10.10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Song: In IV: a song-Master Welsh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay Coriolanus

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: The Mariners

Event Comment: Benefit for a Fund for the Relief of those whose Infirmities oblige them to retire from the Stage. The Last Time of Mrs Siddons's performing this Season. Receipts: #170 13s. (122.8; 0.0; tickets: 48.5) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

Cast
Role: Little Pickle Actor: Mrs Jordan
Event Comment: Benefit for Burton, Fawcett [his last appearance on the stage] and Phillimore. Receipts: #231 18s. (28.18; 4.3; tickets: 198.17) (charge: #95 0s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: End: Minuet de la Cour and Gavot-Master and Miss D'Egville

Song: As17921030

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

Cast
Role: Little Pickle Actor: Mrs Jordan

Song: End II: When on board our trim vessel (composed by Carter)-Bannister; End: The Waggoner (composed by Dibdin)-Wathen; End I 2nd piece: When Bibo went down-Bannister; End 2nd piece: The Cobler (composed by Reeve)-Wathen; End I 3rd piece: The Ship@wreck'd Sailors (composed by an Amateur for the Thespian Panorama [see hay, 4 Mar.])-Mrs Bland, Master Welsh, Dignum, Suett, Caulfield, Bannister

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Little Thief

Event Comment: The King's Players. The company received the usual fee of #20. See A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, 25

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Night Walker; Or, The Little Thief

Event Comment: This play is not certainly indicated as the one given on this day in A Calendar of Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, 73; but the sequence of performances listed there suggests that this may have been the play offered on Candlemas Day. The actors received the customary fee of #20

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Little French Lawyer

Performance Comment: Acted by the King's Company.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; Singing-a little Girl

Dance: Comick and Serious Dancing-Weaver, Essex, others; a Young Gentlewoman who never perform'd before in Publick; With a Scene between Scaramouch and Harlequin- , entirely New; Vaulting on the Horse-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Music: Italian Sonatas on the Violin-Gasperini; An extraordinary piece of Musick compos'd for a Flute and a Violin-Gasperini, Mr Paisible

Song: Good

Dance: Indian Tambour-the two Devonshire Girls, a little Boy

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens; Or, The Man Hater

Music: A Masque by the late Mr Henry Purcell-; wherein Mr Leveridge performs the Part of Bacchus and a little Girl of Ten Years of Age the Part of Cupid

Dance: Cherrier, Mrs duRuel, Mrs Moss