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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marian

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Afterpiece Title: Hob in the Well

Performance Comment: Hob-Ryder; Sir ThomasTesty-Thompson; Dick-Farley; Old Hob-C. Powell; Friendly-Davies; Hob's Mother-Mrs Pitt; Betty-Miss Stuart; Flora-Mrs Martyr.
Cast
Role: Old Hob Actor: C. Powell
Related Works
Related Work: Hob; or, The Country Wake Author(s): Colley Cibber

Dance: As17891021

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Performance Comment: Captain Meadows-R. Palmer; Canteen-Lamash; Young Wrongward-Haymes; Robert-Burton; Groom-Fawcett; Sternhold-Maddocks; William-Alfred; Old Wrongward-Waldron; Sophia-Miss Collins; Chambermaid-Miss Tidswell; Betsey Blossom-Miss Romanzini; song-Miss Romanzini.
Cast
Role: Sternhold Actor: Maddocks
Role: Old Wrongward Actor: Waldron

Dance: As17891204

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Cast
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mr Quick

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

Performance Comment: Hurry-C. Powell; Dupely-Bernard; Old Groveby-Ryder; Oldworth-Thompson; Sir Harry Groveby-Davies; Maria (with the original song)-Mrs Mountain; Lady Bab Lardoon-Mrs Abington; The Musical Characters-Cubitt, Miss Stuart, Miss Rowson.
Cast
Role: Old Groveby Actor: Ryder
Role: Oldworth Actor: Thompson

Dance: End: The Deserter, as17891113; In I afterpiece: Dance-Byrne, Mrs Ratchford, Mrs Goodwin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection From The Works Of handel 0; Messiah

Cast
Role: Conductor Actor: Dr Arnold.

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Performance Comment: Overture (Esther)-; Oft on a plat of rising ground-Cizo (L'Allegro); For unto us a Child is born-Chorus (The Messiah); Ye sacred Priests, Farewell ye limpid springs and floods-Sga Storace (Jephtha); Fallen is the foe-Chorus; Thus we view-Miss Hagley; Disdainful of danger-Dignum, Miss Romanzini, Reinhold (Judas Maccabaeus); Tyrants would in impious throngs-Sga Storace; Tyrants ye in vain conspire-Chorus (Athalia).

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Performance Comment: Let me wander not unseen-Sga Storace; Or let the merry bells ring round-Sga Storace; accompanied with the Carillon-; And young and old come forth-Chorus (L'Allegro); Concerto violin (1st time)-Weichsel; The Smiling dawn-Miss Romanzini (Jephtha); Wretched lovers-Chorus; I rage! I melt! I burn!, O! ruddier than the cherry-Reinhold; Oh! didst thou know the pains, As when the Dove-Miss Hagley (Acis and Galatea); What though I trace-Cizo (Solomon); We worship God-Chorus (Judas Maccabaeus).

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

Performance Comment: Fourth Hautboy Concerto-; Venus laughing from the skies-Chorus (Theodora); Ask if yon damask rose be sweet-Miss Romanzini (Susanna); My arms against this Gorgias, Arm arm ye brave=-Reinhold; We come in bright array-Chorus (Judas Maccabaeus); Hence loathed melancholy, Come thou goddess fair and free-Cizo (L'Allegro); From mighty kings-Miss Hagley (Judas Maccabaeus); To sing and dance, Fix'd in his everlasting seat-Grand Chorus (Samson).
Cast
Role: Arm arm ye brave Actor: Reinhold

Music: End II: concerto on the violin-Weichsel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In Many Masks

Cast
Role: Soldier Actor: Alfred

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Performance Comment: Young Cockney-Dodd; Barnacle-Suett; Old Cockney-Fawcett; Captain Sightly-Dignum; Priscilla Tomboy-Mrs Jordan; Penelope-Miss Hagley; Miss La Blonde-Miss Barnes.
Cast
Role: Old Cockney Actor: Fawcett
Related Works
Related Work: Love and Money; or, The Fair Caledonian Author(s): Samuel Arnold

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

Performance Comment: Little Pickle (with songs)-Mrs Jordan; Old Pickle-Suett; Tagg-R. Palmer; John-Burton; Miss Pickle-Mrs Hopkins; Maria-Miss Heard; Margery-Mrs Booth; Susan-Mrs Edwards; Prologue-Mrs Jordan.
Cast
Role: Old Pickle Actor: Suett

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Performance Comment: Glib (for that night only)-Lewis; Sir Toby Fuz-Powel; Sir Macaroni Virtu-Bernard; Patent-Thompson; Wilson-Macready; Mervin-Evatt; Prompter-Farley; Carpenter-Rock; Miss Fuz-Mrs Lewis; Sweepers-Mrs Powell, Mrs Davenett; Lady Fuz-Mrs Webb; Characters in the Burletta: Orpheus-Davies; Shepherds-Darley, Reeve, Blurton, Lee, Cubitt; Old Shepherd-Blanchard; Rhodope-Mrs Martyr.
Cast
Role: Old Shepherd Actor: Blanchard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Cast
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mr Quick

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: End: The Wapping Landlady; or, The Sailor in Distress-

Entertainment: Monologue. After Dancing: fable, The Old Man Son and Ass-Ryder; End afterpiece: Bucks have at ye All-Ryder

Performance Comment: After Dancing: fable, The Old Man Son and Ass-Ryder; End afterpiece: Bucks have at ye All-Ryder.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tit For Tat

Performance Comment: Villamour-Bannister Jun.; Old Meanwell-Packer; Young Meanwell-Whitfield; Skipwell-R. Palmer; Florinda-Mrs Goodall (1st appearance in that character); Letty-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Old Meanwell Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: Arthur and Emmeline

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Buck's Lodge

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Performance Comment: Sir James Elliot-R. Palmer; Old Wilding-Aickin; Young Wilding-Palmer; Papillion-Burton; Miss Grantham-Mrs Kemble; Miss Godfrey-Miss Barnes; Kitty-Miss Tidswell.
Cast
Role: Old Wilding Actor: Aickin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Cast
Role: Old Mirabel Actor: Aickin

Afterpiece Title: The Court of Apollo [i

Performance Comment: e. The Sons of Anacreon]. President-R. Palmer; In which (for that night only) The Anacreontic Song-Sedgwick; [following glees: Now is the Month of Maying (Morley), Could a Man be Secure (Goodwin)-Dignum, Sedgwick; Sigh no more Ladies (Stevens), Poor Jack (Dibdin)-Dignum; Welcome the Covert (Mellish), Here's a Health to all good Lasses, Wake Sons of Odin (Stevens)-Sedgwick; Sing Old Rose and Burn the Bellows-.

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love; Or, The World Well Lost

Related Works
Related Work: Love's Last Shift; or, The Fool in Fashion Author(s): Colley Cibber
Related Work: Love Makes A Man: or, The Fop's Fortune Author(s): Colley Cibber

Afterpiece Title: An Harmonic Festival

Performance Comment: In which the Performers of the Concert of Ancient Music have obligingly offered their Assistance. The Wooden Walls of Old England (composed by Reeve)-Darley; As I saw fair Clora-Johnstone, Bannister; September 13th; or, The Siege of Gibraltar-Bannister; Poor Thomas Day-Edwin, Blanchard, Bannister; How stands the glass around-Johnstone; Bless the true Church and save the King- (composed by Handel).

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Cast
Role: Old Shepherd Actor: Blanchard

Song: End II: a Nicketerotion at the Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra-; Vocal Parts-Bannister, Johnstone, Darley, Duffey, Mrs Warrell, Mrs Masters, Mrs Gray, Mrs Mountain

Dance: With Grand Dance-Byrne, the two Miss Simonets

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seeing Is Believing

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: Young Philpot-Bannister Jun.; Young Wilding-R. Palmer; Sir Jasper Wilding-Burton; Beaufort-Evatt; Old Philpot-Moss; Corinna-Miss Palmer; Maria-Mrs Goodall.
Cast
Role: Old Philpot Actor: Moss

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Entertainment: Monologue. End 2nd piece: As17900614

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Afterpiece Title: Ways and Means; or, A Trip to Dover

Performance Comment: Sir David Dunder-Bannister Jun.; Random-Williamson; Scruple-Davies; Old Random-Aickin; Carney-Barrett; Tiptoe-R. Palmer; Peery-Usher; Roundfee-Cubitt; Quick-Moss; Lady Dunder-Mrs Webb; Harriet-Mrs Kemble; Kitty-Miss Prideaux; Mrs Peery-Mrs Powell.
Cast
Role: Old Random Actor: Aickin

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Entertainment: Monologue. End 1st piece: As17900614

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: Shylock-Ryder (1st appearance on this stage); Anthonio-Aickin; Gratiano-R. Palmer; Old Gobbo-Barrett; Tubal-Chapman; Lorenzo (with songs)-Davies; Launcelot-Moss; Duke-Usher; Solanio-Evatt; Solarino-Iliff; Bassanio-Bensley; Jessica (with a song)-Mrs Taylor; Nerissa-Miss Fontenelle; Portia (1st time)-Miss Ryder (2nd appearance on any stage).
Cast
Role: Old Gobbo Actor: Barrett

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: End IV: As17900619

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tit For Tat

Performance Comment: Villamour-Williamson; Old Meanwell-Kemble; Young Meanwell-Iliff; Servant-Abbott; Skipwell-R. Palmer; Letty-Mrs Wells; Florinda-Mrs Brooks.
Cast
Role: Old Meanwell Actor: Kemble

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Afterpiece Title: The Manager in Distress

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: Old Philpot Actor: Moss

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Half An Hour After Supper

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

Performance Comment: Young Wilding-Palmer (1st appearance on this stage these 2 years); Sir James Elliot-R. Palmer; Papillon-Burton; Old Wilding-Aickin; Miss Godfrey-Miss Heard; Kitty-Miss Hale; Miss Grantham-Mrs Brooks.
Cast
Role: Old Wilding Actor: Aickin

Afterpiece Title: A Quarter of an Hour before Dinner

Cast
Role: Old Random Actor: Aickin

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

Performance Comment: Sir James Elliot-R. Palmer; Old Wilding-Aickin; Young Wilding-Palmer; Papillion-Burton; Miss Grantham-Mrs Kemble; Miss Godfrey-Miss Barnes; Kitty-Miss Tidswell.
Cast
Role: Old Wilding Actor: Aickin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

Performance Comment: Little Pickle (with songs)-Mrs Jordan; Old Pickle-Suett; Tagg-R. Palmer; John-Burton; Miss Pickle-Mrs Hopkins; Maria-Miss Heard; Margery-Mrs Booth; Susan-Mrs Edwards.
Cast
Role: Old Pickle Actor: Suett

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer; Or, The Mistakes Of A Night

Related Works
Related Work: She Stoops to Conquer; or, The Mistakes of a Night Author(s): Oliver Goldsmith

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Performance Comment: Watty Cockney-Raymond; Capt. Sightly-Diamond; Old Cockney-Silvester; Barnacle-Clarke; Penelope-Miss Pennington; Miss La Blond-Miss Simmonds; Priscilla Tomboy (the Romp)-A Young Lady (1st appearance [unidentified]).unidentified]).
Cast
Role: Old Cockney Actor: Silvester
Related Works
Related Work: Love and Money; or, The Fair Caledonian Author(s): Samuel Arnold

Entertainment: Monologues. Preceding: [Collins's Ode on the Passions-a Young Lady [unidentified]; End: [Hippisley's Drunken Man=-Harper

Music: End III: concerto on the violin-Hindmarsh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Performance Comment: Douglas-A Young Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [Toms]); Randolph-Farren; Glenalvon-Macready; Officer-Thompson; Old Norval-Aickin; Anna-Mrs Rock; Lady Randolph-Mrs Pope.
Cast
Role: Old Norval Actor: Aickin

Afterpiece Title: The Provocation

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth; Or, The Conquest Of France

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Performance Comment: Young Cockney-Dodd; Barnacle-Suett; Old Cockney-Fawcett; Captain Sightly-Dignum; Priscilla Tomboy-Mrs Jordan; Penelope-Miss Hagley; Miss La Blonde-Miss Barnes.
Cast
Role: Old Cockney Actor: Fawcett
Related Works
Related Work: Love and Money; or, The Fair Caledonian Author(s): Samuel Arnold

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Performance Comment: Harlequin-R. Palmer; Gasconade-Maddocks; Simon-Moody; Snip-Suett; Corporal Bounce-Phillimore; Abram-Waldron; Forge-Burton; Mercury-Dignum; Old Woman-Mr Fawcett; Mrs Snip-Mrs Hopkins; Dolly Snip-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mr Fawcett

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

Performance Comment: Hurry-Quick; Dupely-Bernard; Old Groveby-Ryder; Oldworth-Thompson; Sir Harry Groveby-Davies; Musical Characters-Cubitt, Miss Stuart, Miss Francis; Maria (with the original song)-Mrs Mountain; Lady Bab Lardoon-Mrs Esten (1st appearance in that character [in London]).in London]).
Cast
Role: Old Groveby Actor: Ryder
Role: Oldworth Actor: Thompson

Dance: I afterpiece: a Dance-

Song: As17901023

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Performance Comment: Evander-Bensley; Philotas-Whitfield; Melanthon-Packer; Phocion-Barrymore; Dionysius-Palmer; Arcas-Williames; Greek Herald-Benson; Calippus-Fox; Greek Soldier-Phillimore; Euphrasia-Mrs Siddons; Erixene-Miss Tidswell.
Cast
Role: Greek Soldier Actor: Phillimore

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Performance Comment: Meadows-R. Palmer; Young Wrongward-Haymes; Old Wrongward-Waldron; John-Burton; Canteen-Benson; Sternhold-Maddocks; Groom-Fawcett; Thomas[recte] William-Alfred; Sophia-Miss Collins; Betsey Blossom-Mrs Bland; Maid-Miss Tidswell.
Cast
Role: Old Wrongward Actor: Waldron
Role: Sternhold Actor: Maddocks