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Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Receipts: #232 14s. (226.3.6; 6.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Dance: V: Minuet-Mrs Achmet, Mrs Goodwin

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years. [Keating is identified in Kemble Mem.] Receipts: #120 1s. 6d. (95.4.0; 23.6.0; 1.11.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko; Or, The Royal Slave

Related Works
Related Work: The Royal Slave Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Related Works
Related Work: The Humourists Author(s): Theophilus Cibber
Event Comment: Afterpiece: Taken from Soliman the Magnificent of Marmontel. Receipts: #218 18s. 6d. (202.16.6; 16.2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: End: As17891113; Afterpiece to conclude: Grand Dance. Chief of the Bostanges-Byrne, Principal Female Dancers-Mrs Ratchford, Mrs Goodwin

Performance Comment: Chief of the Bostanges-Byrne, Principal Female Dancers-Mrs Ratchford, Mrs Goodwin.
Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Island of St. Marguerite, advertised on playbill of 12 Dec.] Receipts: #131 6s. 6d. (106.9.0; 22.13.6; 2.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of Sir Walter Ralegh

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 4 years [not acted since 9 May 1785]. Receipts: #236 5s. 6d. (200.5.0; 35.1.6; 0.19.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Dance: As17891204

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

Event Comment: [The playbill retains Mrs Crouch, but "Though [her] indisposition occasioned some disappointment, the loss was felt the less, as her place was supplied by the pleasing and unaffected Miss Hagley" (Public Advertiser, 12 Mar.).

Performances

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

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).
Cast
Role: Fallen is the foe Actor: Chorus

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).

Music: End II: concerto on the violin-Weichsel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Toy; Or, Hampton-court Frolics

Performance Comment: Aircourt-Lewis; Alibi-Quick; Metheglen-Edwin; Sir Carrol O'Donovan-Aickin; Larry Kavanagh-Blanchard; Nol Pros-Powel; Young O'Donovan-Holman (1st appearance in that character); Sophia-Mrs Martyr (1st appearance in that character); Kitty Kavanagh-Mrs Webb; Lady Arable-Mrs Bernard; Fib-Miss Stuart; Lady Jane-Miss Brunton.
Cast
Role: Metheglen Actor: Edwin

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection Of Sacred Music 0

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Performance Comment: From the censer-Chorus as17900224; Come thou Goddess-Saville; +Hush ye pretty warbling choir-Miss Mahon; Kings shall be thy nursing fathers-Grand Chorus; Softly rise-Harrison; Ye southern breezes-Chorus; What though I trace-Miss Poole all as17900317 Venus laughing from the skies-Chorus (Theodora); Let the bright Seraphim-Miss Cantelo; Let their celestial Concerts all unite-Chorus.

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Performance Comment: First Grand Concerto-; 'Twas at the Royal Feast-Harrison; Happy Pair-Harrison, Chorus; With ravish'd ears-Miss Mahon; Bacchus ever young and fair-Griffiths; Baccahus' blessings are a treasure-Chorus (Alexander's Feast); Consider fond shepherd-Miss Dall (Acis and Galatea); Disdainful of danger-Saville, Harrison, Sale; Pious Orgies-Miss Cantelo (Judas Maccabaeus); No more to Ammon's God-Chorus as17900317 The Prince unable-Miss Poole as17900319 The Horse and his Rider-Double Chorus as17900224.

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3 Entirely selected from The Messiah

Performance Comment: Overture-; Comfort ye my people, Every valley-Harrison; And the glory of the Lord-Chorus; Behold a virgin shall conceive-Saville; O thou that tellest good tidings-Saville, Chorus; For behold! darkness shall cover the earth, The people that walked-Sale; He was cut off, But thou didst not leave his soul-Miss Dall; Life up your heads O ye gates-Chorus; I know that my Redeemer liveth-Miss Cantelo; Hallelujah! for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth-Grand Chorus.

Music: As17900219

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Easter Pastimes

Performance Comment: SCENE I. Epping Forest. Sunrise. Turning out of the Stag. Bright Phoebus-Dignum; SCENE II. A Village. Noon. Nimrod dismounted. There's no pleasing all-Bannister Jun.; SCENE III Greenwich park Evening. Lads and Lasses Sporting. A song-Miss Romanzini; a dance-the young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp.

Afterpiece Title: The Heiress

Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Benson, Banks
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Ward

Afterpiece Title: The Island of St

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tit For Tat

Related Works
Related Work: Tit for Tat Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Arthur and Emmeline

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Brunton. 1st piece [1st time; T 3, by Mariana Starke, based on La Veuve du Malabar, by Antoine Marin LeMierre. Prologue by William Thomas Fitzgerald. Epilogue by Richard John Hughes Starke (see text)]: With new Scenes and Dresses. And a Procession representing the Ceremonies attending the Sacrifice of an Indian Woman on the Funeral Pile of her deceased Hqsband. 2nd piece: Not acted these 18 years [acted 4 May 1776. Miss E. Brunton was from the Norwich theatre]. Morning Chronicle, 1 Feb. 1791: This Day is published The Widow of Malabar (1s. 6d.). Public Advertiser, 21 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Brunton, No. 35, Gerrard-street, Soho. [The mainpiece is sometimes stated to have been 1st acted at Mrs Crespigny's private@theatre@in@Camberwell, 1790, but "'The Widow of Malabar' was not first produced at Mrs Crespigny's Theatre. The Tragedy performed there is called 'The British Orphan' (also by Mariana Starke)" (Gazetteer, 24 Jan. 1791).] Receipts: #338 13s. (208.7; 2.8; tickets: 127.18)
Event Comment: Benefit for Blanchard. 2nd piece: Not acted these 4 years [not acted since 6 May 1776]. Gazetteer, 3 May: Tickets to be had of Blanchard, No. 29, Bow-Street, Covent-garden. Receipts: #302 18s. (82.0.6; 14.2.6; tickets: 206.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: The Recruiting Serjeant

Performance Comment: Serjeant-Bannister; with Oh, what a charming Thing's a Battle!-Bannister; Countryman-Blanchard; Mother-Mrs Davenett; Wife-Mrs Mountain.
Cast
Role: Mother Actor: Mrs Davenett

Afterpiece Title: Rose and Colin

Entertainment: Monologue. End 2nd piece: A Dissertation on Macaronyism-Bernard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Performance Comment: Mr Strickland-Bensley; Frankly-Wroughton; Bellamy-Barrymore; Ranger-Palmer (the only time he will appear this season); Jack Meggot-R. Palmer; Mrs Strickland-Mrs Kemble; Clarinda-Miss Farren; Jacintha-Mrs Goodall; Lucetta-Mrs Wilson; Landlady-Mrs Booth.

Afterpiece Title: The Buck's Lodge

Performance Comment: Most Noble Grand-R. Palmer; Senior Vice Grand-Bannister Jun.; Junior Vice Grand-Suett; Noble Bucks-Barrymore, Dignum, Sedgwick, Williames, Haymes, Danby; Secretary-Benson; Brothers-Phillimore, Hollingsworth, Banks, Burton, Fawcett, Lyons, Maddocks, Webb.

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: Taste; or, Frolicks of Fancy

Performance Comment: Prologue [to Barbarossa] (as a Country Boy, from D. Garrick, Esq.)-Bannister Jun.; The Lark at Heaven's Gate-Dignum, Williames, Danby, Miss Romanzini; A Dance-the young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp.

Afterpiece Title: Arthur and Emmeline

Entertainment: Monologue. Previous: British Loyalty, as17900423; to conclude with: God save the King-Dignum, Williames, Danby

Performance Comment: Previous: British Loyalty, as17900423; to conclude with: God save the King-Dignum, Williames, Danby.
Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Henry. [As afterpiece the playbill announces Arthur and Emmeline, but it was not acted. Kemble Mem. lists the substitute play.] Diary, 24 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Henry, Bruton-street, Berkeley-square. Receipts: #153 12s. (38.6; 21.2; 0.19; tickets: 93.5) (charge: #111 13s. 9d.)

Performances

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

Performance Comment: Sir Charles Marlow-Packer; Young Marlow-Kemble; Hardcastle-Suett; Hastings-Barrymore; Tony Lumpkin-Bannister Jun.; Mrs Hardcastle-Mrs Hopkins; Miss Hardcastle-Mrs Henry; Miss Nevil-Mrs Powell; Maid-Mrs Shaw Edition of 1799 (For the Proprietors) adds: Diggory-$Burton.

Afterpiece Title: The Island of St

Dance: End II: As17900308

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tit For Tat

Related Works
Related Work: Tit for Tat Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Afterpiece Title: The Manager in Distress

Related Works
Related Work: The Manager in Distress Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not; Or, The Kind Impostor

Afterpiece Title: A Merry Sketch of Folly and Fashion

Performance Comment: Lee Lewes. In which will be exhibited Characters and Caricatures, many of them entirely new, and others selcted from Subjects of the most approved Wit and Humour. Two very astonishing figures will be introduced, of the late King of Prussia, and his General Ziethen; also the Propagation of a Lie, in Characters as large as life, with several whimsical Paintings in Transparency. The whole prepared for the East Indies, at a prodigious expense. The above two figures cost at Berlin 275 guineas.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Performance Comment: Moody-Bensley; Harcourt-Palmer; Sparkish (with a song)-Dodd; Belville-Whitfield; Footman-Spencer; Countryman-Jones; Alithea-Mrs Ward; Miss Peggy-Mrs Jordan; Lucy-Mrs Williames.
Cast
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Ward

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. The Orchestra under the Direction of Hindmarsh. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s

Performances

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

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]).

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

Performance Comment: 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: A Trip To Scarborough

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Oriana to Mrs Goodall, but she "being indisposed, Miss Collins appeared as her substitute" (Diary, 5 Nov.).] Receipts: #207 (145.3; 60.6; 1.11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant; Or, The Way To Win Him

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Cast
Role: Grandmother Actor: Mrs Booth.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Toy; Or, Hampton Court Frolics

Performance Comment: Aircourt-Lewis; Alibi-Quick; Methegen (1st time)-Wilson; Sir Carrol O'Donovan-Aickin; Larry Kavanagh-Blanchard; Nol Pros-Powel; Young O'Donovan-Holman; Sophia (1st time)-Mrs Harlowe; Kitty Kavanagh-Mrs Webb; Lady Arable-Mrs Bernard; Fib-Miss Stuart; Lady Jane-Miss Brunton.
Cast
Role: Methegen Actor: Wilson

Dance: As17901123

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Account-Book: Paid House & Window tax 1@2 year #56 13s. 8d. Receipts: #297 6s. 6d. (274.19.0; 18.19.6; 3.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover