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We found 1014 matches on Roles/Actors, 284 matches on Performance Comments, 32 matches on Event Comments, 22 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Author.
Event Comment: [H$Hogan and MacMillan list Mrs Bradshaw. Mrs Havard according to the Public Advertiser.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [See 12 May 1760.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: Sir George Airy-Palmer; Sir Francis Gripe-Yates; Sir Jealous Traffic-Philips; Charles-Packer; Whisper-Vaughan; Scentwell-Mrs Bradshaw; Isabinda-Mrs Davies; Patch-Mrs Clive; Miranda-Miss Haughton; Marplot-O'Brien,first time; with (at end of play) an Epilogue-in Character by the Busy Body.

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Mainpiece Title: Barbarossa , With Original prologue

Performance Comment: As17611121, but Prologue in the Character of a Country Boy-O'Brien.
Event Comment: [The Singing, a Musical Interlude by G. A. Stevens, comprising a song and dance of sailors. Popular on Declaration of war with Spain (Biographia Dramatica).] Mainpiece: Not performed in two years. [See 29 April 1760.

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Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Last Stake

Song: IV: A New Comic Interlude of Singing and Dancing, call'd Hearts of Oak The Characters-Lowe, Stevens, Fox, Vincent, Miss E. Young, Miss Baker

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Song: HHearts of Oak, as17620115

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Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: As17620111, but Epiloguein Character by the Busy Body-_.

Song: HHearts of Oak, as17620115

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Performance Comment: Miser-Yates; Frederick-Havard; Clerimont-Packer; Ramilie-Palmer; James-Clough; Harriet-Mrs Davies; Lappet-Mrs Clive with a song, The Life of a Beau; Wheedle-Mrs Bennet; Mrs Wisely-Mrs Cross; Mariana-Miss Bride.

Song: II: Hearts of Oak, as17620115

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties

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Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Song: IV: Hearts of Oak, as17620115

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Song: IV: Hearts of Oak, as17620115

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Related Works
Related Work: The Jealous Wife Author(s): George Colman, the elder
Event Comment: Not acted in 5 years. [See 4 Feb. 1758.] The Drummer was revived at this period at both theatres...to take advantage of the reigning weakness of the people, who went in crowds many days and nights to an Haunted House, by what was called the Cock-Lane Ghost-a delusion set on foot, and very ingeniously carried on by a girl of 12 years of age, daughter of a clerk of St Sepulchre's Church, who resided in Cock Lane near Smithfield. [The Ghost was supposed to be that of one Fanny, a gentleman's mistress buried in the church. By knockings and scratchings she supposedly haunted the girl intimating foul practices concerning her death.] It would be incredible to relate the numbers of persons of distinction that attended this delusion! many of whom treated it as a serious and most important affair...at last the girl's father and three or four others were tried in the King's Bench, found guilty' Pillioried and imprisoned. This most effectively laid the Ghost; and is the best and properest cure for every ghost that may arise hereafter. (Victor, History of the Theatres, III, 18 ff). [The theme exploited again by Garrick in The Farmer's Return from London, dl 20 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer; Or, The Haunted House

Song: II: Hearts of Oak, as17620115; End: An Occasional Ballad by Way of Epilogue, in the Character of Abigail,-Mrs Clive

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Song: HHearts of Oak, as17620115, but _Fox, Miss E. _Young

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [See 17 Nov. 1759.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon; Or, The Two Sosias

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Song: I: Hearts of Oak-as17620209 but no cast listed