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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: Prince Actor: Gardner

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Song: As17880922, but Vocal Parts-Miss Francis

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: Prince Actor: Gardner

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Song: As17881013

Event Comment: The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15 [see 12 May 1789]. Receipts: #191 12s. 6d. (188.2.6; 3.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: Prince Actor: Gardner

Afterpiece Title: Marian

Song: As17881013

Event Comment: [Banks was from the Manchester theatre.] Afterpiece: To conclude with a Representation of the Repulse of the Spaniards before the Rock of Gibraltarv [on 13 Sept. 1782]. Scenes designed by Greenwood; Overture by Baumgarten. Receipts: #173 16s. (152.10; 20.13; 0.13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Prince Edward Actor: Miss Heard

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior or The Magic Cestus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: Prince Actor: Phillimore
Role: Apothecary Actor: Waldron

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

Cast
Role: Theresa Actor: Mrs Booth

Song: As17881117, but Vocal Parts-Dignum, Sedgwick, Miss Collett, Miss Romanzini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: Prince Actor: Gardner

Afterpiece Title: Marian

Song: As17881013

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Prince Edward Actor: Miss Heard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Cast
Role: Prince of Wales Actor: Lewis

Afterpiece Title: Aladin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Cosa Rara

Dance: As17890110

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Cosa Rara

Dance: As17890110

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Cosa Rara

Dance: As17890110

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosina

Cast
Role: Prince Actor: Gardner

Afterpiece Title: The Child of Nature

Afterpiece Title: Aladin

Performance Comment: As17881229, but The Vocal Parts-_Blanchard.

Entertainment: Vaudeville. Sparring Match-Ward, Watson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Cosa Rara

Dance: As17890131

Event Comment: Mr Gallini Respectfully informs the Nobility, Subscribers, and Gentry that he sent a person to Paris on Monday last to engage the best capital Female Dancer that can be got; and if a good Man Dancer is to be procured, he is very ready to engage him, as he shall be happy to do every thing in his power to please the public and will spare no pains or expense for that purpose [see 7 Feb.] Didelot having had the misfortune to hurt his leg the first dance on Saturday last is unable to appear for some days

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Cosa Rara

Dance: End I: New Divertissement, as17890110, but _Didelot; End Opera: Les Fetes Provencales, as17890207, but _Didelot, Mlle _Normand

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Cosa Rara

Dance: As17890214

Song: As17890207

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Cosa Rara

Dance: As17890214

Song: As17890207

Event Comment: Sga Giuliani being very much indisposed, the Comic Opera is unavoidably obliged to be substituted for Il Disertore [advertised in World, 1 May]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Cosa Rara

Dance: End I: Les Jalousies du Serail, as17890317but Mlle Guimard; in which the favourite +Pas de Deux Russe-[See17890507]; End Opera: Admete-[, as17890428

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Siddons (the last Night of her Engagement). [She had 1st acted Juliet at Birmingham, 6 Sept. 1776, and 1st recited the Ode, written by Robert Merry (European Magazine, Apr. 1789, pp. 335-38), at the King's on 21 Apr.] Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes, To prevent Confusion, Ladies are desired to send their Servants by Half past Four o'Clock. Public Advertiser, 29 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Siddons, Gower-street, Bedford Square. "The pouting Scene with the old Nurse was the cleverest thing I ever saw--so pretty, so Babyish, so charming" (Thraliana, II, 748). On this and every Evening for the Remainder of the Season the Doors will not be opened till 5:30, and the Performance will commence exactly at 6:30. Receipts: #320 6s. 6d. (112.12.0; 11.12.0; 1.7.6; tickets: 194.15.0) (charge: #112 13s. 7d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: Prince Actor: Phillimore
Role: Apothecary Actor: Waldron

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Performance Comment: Master of the Toy Shop-Kemble; The other Characters-Suett, R. Palmer, Chaplin, Fawcett, Phillimore, Alfred, Miss Tidswell, Miss Barnes, Mrs Wilson.

Song: As17881117, but Vocal Parts-Miss Hagley, Miss _Collett

Entertainment: Monologue. End afterpiece: An Ode on the Recovery of His Majesty-Mrs Siddons; in the Character of Britannia. Conclude with: God save the King!-

Performance Comment: End afterpiece: An Ode on the Recovery of His Majesty-Mrs Siddons; in the Character of Britannia. Conclude with: God save the King!-.
Event Comment: Benefit for Delpini. 3rd piece: 1st time at that Theatre [1st acted at the Royalty, 13 Aug. 1787]. Delpini's Grand, Tragic, Comic, Pantomimical Entertainment in 2 acts. With new Dresses and Decorations. The Music composed by Gluck, the Airs and Duett by Reeve. Public Advertiser, 9 May: Tickets to be had of Delpini, No. 17, Tavistock-street, Covent-garden. Receipts: #224 11s. (114.2; 7.18; tickets: 102.11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Deserter

Cast
Role: Prince Actor: Gardner

Afterpiece Title: Barataria

Performance Comment: As17881120, but Recorder-Wewitzer; Mary the Buxom-Mrs Delpini.
Cast
Role: Mary the Buxom Actor: Mrs Delpini.

Afterpiece Title: Don Juan or The Libertine Destroyed

Dance: End 1st piece: New Dance by Byrne-; In 3rd piece: Dancing-Byrne, Mrs Ratchford, Mrs Goodwin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham

Performance Comment: As17890811, but Principal Characters-Kemble, in place of _Aickin, Master +Gaudry, _Iliff; Other Vocal Parts-_Lyons, _Hobler.
Related Works
Related Work: The Battle of Hexham; or, Days of Old Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Event Comment: Afterpiece: As now representing in Paris with uncommon Applause. With the original French Music, new Dresses, Scenery, Machinery, and Decorations. Receipts: #229 19s. 6d. (228.13.0; 1.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: Prince Actor: Gardner

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Performance Comment: Cast from text (T. Cadell, 1789), and Parke, I, 115: Terreeobo-Blurton; Pareea-Byrne; Koah-Delpini; Captain Cook-Cranfield; His Lieutenant-Evatt; Priest-Darley; Lieutenant of the Marines-Ratchford; Emai-Miss Francis. Part I. A Nuptial Procession, with the Performance of the Marriage Ceremony according to the Custom observed at O'Whyee. The Manner of Combat between two Natives. Part II. The Arrival of the Resolution. The Disembarkation of the English, with the Ceremonies observed at entering into a Treaty of Peace with the Natives. A Preparation for a Human Sacrifice. The Assassination of Captain Cook. Part III. A Representation of the Naval and Military Honours observed on erecting a Pile to the Memory of Capt. Cook, by the Officers of the Resolution. The Ceremony performed on the same Occasion, according to the Manner of the Natives of O'Whyee. To conclude with a Representation of a Burning Mountain.

Song: As17890914, but Vocal Parts-Lee, W. _Thompson, Miss +MacGeorge, Mrs +Lefevre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: Prince Actor: Gardner

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Cast
Role: The Hunchback Actor: Quick

Song: Juliet's Funeral Procession-; Dirge-; Vocal Parts, as17890914, but W. _Thompson, Duffey, Mrs _Powell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: Prince Actor: Gardner

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Chaplet

Dance: As17891221

Song: As17891109