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Event Comment: Benefit for Shade, Cameron, Woollams, Wood, Wilson, Dangerfield, Irish, Edwards, Griffiths, Nix, Wooldridge, Panchaud & Cole [box-keepers]. [This was Dodd's last appearance on the stage.] "Dodd was one of the most perfect actors that I have ever seen. He was the fopling of the drama rather than the age. I mean by this, that his own times rarely shewed us anything so highly charged with the vanity of personal exhibition. He was, to be sure, the prince of pink heels, and the soul of empty eminence. As he tottered rather than walked down the stage, in all the protuberance of endless muslin and lace in his cravats and frills, he reminded you of the jutting motion of the pigeon. He took his snuff, or his bergamot, with a delight so beyond all grosser enjoyments that he left you no doubt whatever of the superior happiness of a coxcomb" (Boaden, Kemble, I, 55). Receipts: #580 17s. 6d. (25.17.0; 37.3.6; 11.0.0; tickets: 503.4.0; odd money: 3.13.0) (charge: #211 17s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Katharine And Petruchio

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Performance Comment: As17950919, but Lenitive-Wathen; Mr Caddy-Maddocks.
Cast
Role: Lenitive Actor: Wathen
Related Works
Related Work: The Prize; or, 2.5.3.8 Author(s): Prince Hoare

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Entertainment: MonologueEnd 2nd piece: Monsieur Tonson-Caulfield

Event Comment: By Authority of the Lord Chamberlain. Mainpiece: 2nd Time [see 28 Mar. 1796. Prologue by the author (see text)]. The Music composed by Callcott. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Tickets to be had of Wilkinson, No. 16, Lisle-street, Leicester-square. Books of the Tragedy to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Eddington; Or, British Liberty

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Egerton, Meredith, Morton, Master Sincock, Holmes, Evans, Brent, Wilkinson, Mrs Sincock, Mrs Sidney; [Partial cast adjusted from Morning Herald, 30 Mar. 1796: Alfred-Egerton; Ceoluph-Wilkinson; Elsitha-Mrs Sidney. Text (Emsley [et al], 1796) lists other parts: Mervin (Alfred's dependent, Prince of South Wales), Ethelred (General of the English), Danish Captain of Auxiliaries, Ceoluph's vassal, Edmund (Son and Heir of Alfred, then very young), Editha (An Old Woman inhabiting the Cottage).] Prologue-Wilkinson.

Afterpiece Title: Ways and Means

Related Works
Related Work: Ways and Means; or, A Trip to Dover Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts-Denman, Walker, Willoughby, Master Willoughby, Master Woodham, Mrs Laver, A Young Lady [probably Miss Jones (see17970510)]

Entertainment: Monologue.End: The Picture of a Playhouse ; or, Bucks have at ye all-Meredith

Performance Comment: End: The Picture of a Playhouse ; or, Bucks have at ye all-Meredith.
Event Comment: By Authority of the Lord Chamberlain. Under the Patronage of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence. Benefit for the Unfortunate Sufferers in the Glorious Action between Sir John Jervis, and the Spanish Fleet, off Cape St. Vincent [on 14 Feb. 1797]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Eddington

Afterpiece Title: The Romance of an Hour

Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts, as17970123, but Master _Willoughby, Master Paul, A Young _Lady, Miss +Jones; End: +Ye Gentleman of England-; and the Companion, To all you Ladies now at Land-; A Sea Song, The Muffin Man-Master Sincock

Event Comment: Benefit for the Widows and Orphans of the Brave Men who perished, and for those who were wounded, in the Glorious Action on the 14th of February last [off Cape St. Vincent], under Admiral Sir John Jervis. Patrons: His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, His Royal Highness the Duke of York, His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence. Stewards: Duke of Leeds, Duke of Bedford, Earl of Chesterfield, Earl of Cardigan, Earl Spencer, Lord Kinnaird, Charles Grey Esq., Thomas Tyrwhitt Esq., William Lushington Esq., William Manning Esq., John Thomson Esq., John Julius Angerstein Esq.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alceste

Ballet: End Opera: Sapho et Phaon. As17970406

Event Comment: Under the Patronage of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales, H. R. H. the Duke of York, and H. R. H. the Duke of Clarence. Benefit for a Fund for the Relief of the Wounded Seamen, and also for the Widows and Orphans of the Brave Men who fell in the late Glorious Action, under Admiral Lord Viscount Duncan [see 16 Oct.]. The Tickets for the Boxes are issued under the Direction of a Committee consisting of the following Noblemen and Gentlemen, who have obligingly undertaken to attend to the arrangement of the Evening: The Duke of Leeds, The Duke of Bedford, The Earl of Guildford, The Earl of Thanet, The Right Honorable the Lord Mayor [Brook Watson], Mr Alderman Combe, M. P., Mr Alderman Skinner, John Julius Angerstein, Esq. Tickets and Places for the Boxes not disposed of by the Committee to be had of Fosbrook at the Box Office, Little Russell-Street, and at the Bar of Lloyds Coffee House. Ladies and Gentlemen having Privilege of the Theatre are requested by the Stewards to waive the use of it for this Evening. [Address by Richard Cumberland (European Magazine, Nov. 1797, p. 339). True Briton. 23 Nov. 1797, prints a letter from the Chairman of Committee of Subscribers to the performers of the theatre, thanking them for not "accepting the usual emolument on the night of performance."] Receipts: #631 8s. (357.17.6; 57.4.6; 1.11.0; money extra left at the doors: 2.14.6; tickets: 212.0.6) (charge: #161 0s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Will

Performance Comment: As17970921, but Veritas-Wathen.
Cast
Role: Veritas Actor: Wathen.

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Related Works
Related Work: The Prize; or, 2.5.3.8 Author(s): Prince Hoare

Entertainment: Monologue.As17971016; An Occasional Address-Wroughton

Event Comment: Benefit for Hull, Mrs Litchfield & Waddy. 1st piece [1st time; C 5, by Thomas Hull. Larpent MS 1215; not published]: Altered from [The Bashful Lover, by] Massinger. [In it the playbill assigns Hortensio to Pope, but he was ill, and in his "stead Johnston read the part of Hortensio" (European Magazine, June 1798, p. 396). Prologue by John Taylor Poems (I, 60).] Morning Herald, 29 May: Tickets to be had of Hull, Duke's Court, Dean's-yard, Westminster; of Mrs Litchfield, James-street, Covent-Garden; of Waddy, No. 214, opposite Southampton-street, High Holborn. Receipts: #261 2s. 6d. (53.9.6; 4.16.6; tickets: 202.16.6; of which Hull took #72 7s.; Mrs Litchfield #60 17s., Waddy #69 12s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Disinterested Love

Performance Comment: Hortensio-read by Johnston; Gonzaga (Duke of Mantua)-Murray; Uberti (Prince of Parma)-Toms; Alonzo-Whitfield; Bellario-Clarke; Octavio-Hull; Manfroy-Davenport; Ambassador-Powel; Alberto-Claremont; Bernardo-Thompson; Lorenzo (Duke of Tuscany)-Holman; Ascanio-Mrs Litchfield; Beatrice-Mrs Platt; Gentlewoman-Miss Leserve; Matilda (Princess of Mantua)-Mrs Pope.

Afterpiece Title: Starboard Watch

Performance Comment: The Sailor's Carousal; or, Saturday Night at Sea As17980528, but added: The Medley of Lovers-Munden; Jack at the Windlass-_; Farewell to Old England dear Mary adieu-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Entertainment: Monologue.Preceding 1st piece: a new Occasional Prologue-Holman

Event Comment: Benefit for C. Kemble. [Liston is identified in MS list, in hay playbills now at Harvard, of new performers for the 1799 season.] A Spurious Copy of Sighs having been advertized as performing at this Theatre, the Public is respectfully in formed that the True Copy is this day published by M. Stace, Princes-street, Leicester-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew And The Doctor

Afterpiece Title: The Iron Chest

Related Works
Related Work: The Iron Chest Author(s): George Colman, the younger
Event Comment: Benefit for Kelly. 1st ballet [1st time]: Composed by D'Egville. By permission of the Proprietors of the Opera House. With their [the Peruvians'] Religious Ceremonies, Processions, &c. Morning Chronicle, 2 May: Tickets to be had of Kelly, No. 9, New Lisle-street, Leicester-square. Receipts: #596 2s. 6d. (306.0.6; 51.8.0; 4.15.0; tickets: 233.19.0) (charge: #207 6s. 5d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Dance: End I: Telasco and Amgahi ; or, The Peruvian Nuptials. Principal Characters-Didelot, Laborie, Deshayes, Mlle Parisot, Mme Laborie, Mlle J. Hilligsberg, Mme Hilligsberg; Pas de Quatre-Deshayes, Laborie, Mme Hilligsberg, Mlle Parisot

Ballet: End Opera: Atalante and Hyppomenus; or, The Foot Race. Grecian Princes Hyppomenus-Deshayes; Pelus-Didelot; Adrastus-Laborie; Atalante-Mlle Parisot; Sererine (nymph of the Woods)-Mlle J. Hilligsberg; Zelie (nymph of the Woods)-Mlle J. Hilligsberg; Zelie (nymph of the Woods)-Mme Laborie; Clitie (nymph of the Woods)-Mme Hilligsberg; Shepherdesses Mlles D'Egville, Denis, B.? Denis, Lupini, Cranfield; Nymphs of the Woods, Fauns, Shepherds-The whole corps de Ballet; In which the favourite Skipping@rope Pas de Deux-Didelot, Mme Hilligsberg

Performance Comment: Grecian Princes Hyppomenus-Deshayes; Pelus-Didelot; Adrastus-Laborie; Atalante-Mlle Parisot; Sererine (nymph of the Woods)-Mlle J. Hilligsberg; Zelie (nymph of the Woods)-Mlle J. Hilligsberg; Zelie (nymph of the Woods)-Mme Laborie; Clitie (nymph of the Woods)-Mme Hilligsberg; Shepherdesses Mlles D'Egville, Denis, B.? Denis, Lupini, Cranfield; Nymphs of the Woods, Fauns, Shepherds-The whole corps de Ballet; In which the favourite Skipping@rope Pas de Deux-Didelot, Mme Hilligsberg.
Event Comment: Under the Patronage of their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Duke of York, Duke of Clarence, Duke of Cumberland, and Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York [and] the Duchess of Devonshire and the Duchess of Gordon. Benefit for O'Keeffe, the Unfortunate Author of the following successful Dramatic Pieces: The Son in Law, Agreeable Surprise, Peeping Tom, Dead Alive, Young Quaker, Life's Vagaries, Castle of Andalusia, Czar, Tony Lumpkin in Town, Poor Soldier, Modern Antiques, Basket Maker, Wild Oats, Wicklow Mountains, French Grenadier [never acted], Positive Man, Love in a Camp, Tantara Rara Rogues all, Beggar on Horseback, Toy, London Hermit, Highland Reel, Blacksmith of Antwerp, Man Milliner, Irish Mimic, Little Hunchback, World in a Village, Fontainbleau, Magic Banner, Farmer, Doldrum, Sprigs of Laurel, Birth Day, Prisoner at Large, &c. &c. Tickets delivered for The Belle's Stratagem will be admitted. [O'Keeffe is referred to as being unfortunate because he was totally blind. In delivering his Poetical Composition, which is printed in Dramatic Censor, II, 265-67, the Monthly Mirror, June 1800, p. 367, reports that he was led on and off the stage by Lewis. It also notes that "Mrs Jordan...came from Drury-Lane, where she had performed the Child of Nature, to officiate at Covent-Garden as the handmaid of charity."] The Last Night of the Company's performing this season. Receipts: none listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lie Of The Day

Performance Comment: Aircourt-Lewis; Alibi-Quick (1st appearance on this stage these 3 years); Metheglin-Fawcett; Larry Kavanagh-Knight; Sir Carrol O'Donnovan-Waddy; Young O'Donnovan-Claremont; Lady Arable-Miss Chapman; Katty Kavanagh-Mrs Davenport; Fib-Mrs Watts; Sophia-A Young Lady (2nd appearance [see18000517]).see18000517]).
Cast
Role: Metheglin Actor: Fawcett

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Paul and Virginia

Cast
Role: Theodore Actor: Simmons
Role: Father Ansellum Actor: Whitmore
Role: mother of Agnes Actor: Mrs Watts
Role: Step Actor:

Song: In Course Evening: The Storm-Incledon

Entertainment: Monologue End II: personal address to the Audience in a Poetical Composition-O'Keeffe (written by Himself for the Occasion); End: Imitations-Rees