*p1776 02 01 dl Matilda. ^As17751202^.*a1776 02 01 dl The Blackamoor Wash'd White. Parts by King, Parsons, Davies, Burton, Legg, Kear, Cubitt, Fawcett, Carpenter, Garland, Vernon, Mrs Siddons, Mrs Bradshaw, and Mrs Wrighten. Jerry-King; Sir Oliver Oddfish-Parsons; Grenville-Davies; Robert-Burton; Frederick-Vernon; Julia-Mrs Siddons; Dame Dowset-Mrs Bradshaw; Lady Oddfish-Mrs Wrightn; Servants-Legg, Kear, Cubitt, Carpenter, Garland ($Genest=, V, 488).*c1776 02 01 dl A New Comic Opera of Two Acts written by $Mr Bate=--Much hissing and Crying out no more no more!--$Mr Reddish= was desired to give out the Play as soon as <i>Matilda</i> was over--but he with his usual politeness ran up and undress'd himself as fast as he could so that the play was not given out till the End of the Farce as soon as the <i>Blackamoor</i> was given out for the next Night they kept a great Noise and call'd for another Farce to be given out--at length they began to be more appeas'd and went away vowing Vengeance on it the next Night (<i>Hopkins Diary</i>). The <i>Overture</i> and Music of the afterpiece entirely New. Books of the Songs &c. to be had at the Theatre. New Scenes, Dresses, &c. [This is <i>Larpent MS 400</i>. <i>Sir Oliver Oddfish</i>r distrusts his servants and is about to replace them with blacks, giving his nephew the chance to introduce <i>Frederick</i>r , his daughter <i>Julia</i>r 's lover, in disguise as a blackamoor, and to effect an elopement. Act I criticizes $Londoners= and concludes with the comment, "O that I should ever live to see the day when white $Englishmen= must give place to foreign blacks." $MacMillan='s note from $Kemble= differs slightly.] Paid the late $Mr Johnston='s bill to his executors #44 18s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). [Afterpiece reviewed in three columns in the <i>Westminster Magazine</i> for Feb. Reviewer thought it had been produced well in all departments, music, scenery, costume, and acting, but concluded it a theatrical trifle giving not much credit to its author.] Receipts: #166 13s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book).