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Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Warrell and Darley. 1st piece: Not acted these 10 years [never previously acted at this theatre. Warrell was from the Bath theatre]. Receipts: #216 12s. (76.18; 4.15; tickets: 134.19)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ladies' Frolick

Afterpiece Title: The Comedy of Errors

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: End I: Crutch Dance-Byrne, Mrs Goodwin

Song: In course: Dr Hayes's New Highland Laddie-Mrs Warrell; Between the acts 2nd piece: Alone by the Light of the Moon-Darley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Performance Comment: Patrick-Johnstone; Fitzroy-Bannister; Dermot-Incledon (from the Theatre Royal, Bath; 1st appearance on this stage); Father Luke-Rock; Bagatelle (with a song in character)-Marshall (from the Theatre, Birmingham; 1st appearance at this theatre); Darby-Ryder; Kathlane-Mrs Martyr; Norah-Mrs Mountain.
Event Comment: [Mrs Esten had 1st acted Lady Bab Lardoon at Bath in the season of 1786-87.] Receipts: #135 5s. 6d. (124.8.6; 10.17.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

Dance: I afterpiece: a Dance-

Song: As17901023

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [acted 21 Jan. 1789. Mrs Esten has 1st acted Belvidera at Bath in the season of 1786-87]. Afterpiece [1st time; M. INT 2, by John Cartwright Cross. Larpent MS 883; not published. Prologue by John Taylor (his Taylor, Poems, I, 43). Rees' 1st appearance at this theatre was on 14 May 1788]: The Overture and the whole of the Music by Dibdin. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. [Most of these songs had originally appeared in Dibdin's "table entertainment," The Oddities, 1st performed at the Lyceum, 7 Dec. 1789.] Receipts: #244 18s. 6d. (234.8.0; 10.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Dance: In afterpiece: Dancing-Byrne, Mrs Goodwin

Event Comment: ["When the Commemoration of King Charles's Death [on 30 Jan.] falls on a Sunday we always act on Monday. "This occurred for the first time, at both dl and cg, on 31 Jan. 1785. Previously, when 30 Jan. was a Sunday, both theatres had observed the commemoration on Monday 31 Jan. In mainpiece the playbill retains Kemble as Faulkland, but "Mr Benson read FaulklandR for me [this because Kemble was detained returning from Bath to London]" (Kemble Mem.).] Receipts: #231 7s. (180.12.0; 50.1.6; 0.13.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Favour

Event Comment: Benefit for Incledon [who had 1st acted Young Meadows at Bath, 24 Oct. 1789]. Oracle, 2 May: Tickets to be had of Incledon, No. 19, Martlet-court, Bow-street. Receipts: #278 0s. 6d. (126.11.0; 3.18.0; tickets: 147.11.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Song: Probably at end: Black Eyed Susan-Incledon; Wine cannot cure the Pain I endure for my Chloe-Johnstone, Incledon

Music: Between Acts afterpiece: the favourite air of Moggy Lauder (on the Union Pipes)-the celebrated Courtney

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Performance Comment: Austin-Harley; Theodore-Bloomfield (from the Theatre Royal, Bath; 1st appearance on this stage); Fabian-Thompson; Officers-Powel, Evatt; Raymond-Farren; Adelaide-Mrs Merry; Jaqueline-Mrs Platt; Countess-Mrs Pope.

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Redemption 0, Selected From The Works Of handel By dr Arnold

Performance Comment: Principal Vocal Parts-Kelly, Reinhold, Incledon, Master Welsh (from Bath), Dignum, Sedgwick, Morelli, Miss Barclay (pupil of Linley; 1st appearance in public), Mrs Bland, Miss Hagley, Mrs Crouch; Leader of the Band-Shaw.

Afterpiece Title: Redemption 1

Afterpiece Title: Redemption 2

Afterpiece Title: Redemption 3

Music: End I: concerto on the bassoon-Parkinson; End II: concerto on the violin-Master Bridgetower

Event Comment: 2nd piece [1st time; M 3, by--Francis. Perhaps the same as a piece performed under this title at Bath, 20 Nov. 1785]: With new Musick, Scenes, Dresses and Decorations. The new Musick and Overture by Dr Arnold. The Scenery by Rooker. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Half An Hour After Supper

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Wood

Dance: In 2nd piece: the Dances (under direction of D'Egville,)-Whitmell, Keys, George D'Egville, Lewis D'Egville, Master Whitmell, Master Chatterley, Master Menage, Master Webb, Mrs Haskey, Miss DeCamp, Miss E. Menage, Miss F?. D'Egville, Miss Jacobs, Miss Haskey, Miss Standen, Miss Menage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of King Richard The Iii

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Performance Comment: Crop (for that night only)-Huttley (from the Theatre Royal, Bath; 1st appearance on this stage); Frederick-Bland; Endless-Suett; Robin-Bannister Jun.; William-Sedgwick (of dl); Dorothy-Miss DeCamp; Louisa-Miss Dall; Nelly-Mrs Hatton; Margaretta-Mrs Kemble (1st appearance in that character).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mountaineers

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Performance Comment: Belville-Bannister; Captain Belville-Davies; William-Bland; Rustic-Cooke; Irishmen-Benson, Waldron Jun.; Phoebe-Miss DeCamp; Dorcas-Mrs Powell; Rosina-Miss Copell [recte Gopell] (from the Theatre Royal, Bath; 1st appearance on this stage); Sweet Echo-Miss Copell; accompanied on the violin-Shaw.

Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts-Kenrick, Walker, Linton, Dorion, Dorion Jun., Miss Dall, Mrs Powell, Mrs Hatton, Mrs Masters, Mrs Bramwell, Mrs Edwin, Mrs Gaudry, Mrs Hale

Event Comment: [Mrs Esten had 1st acted Lady Bab Lardoon at Bath in the season of 1786-87.] Receipts: #135 5s. 6d. (124.8.6; 10.17.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

Dance: I afterpiece: a Dance-

Song: As17931023

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [acted 21 Jan. 1789. Mrs Esten has 1st acted Belvidera at Bath in the season of 1786-87]. Afterpiece [1st time; M. INT 2, by John Cartwright Cross. Larpent MS 883; not published. Prologue by John Taylor (his Taylor, Poems, I, 43). Rees' 1st appearance at this theatre was on 14 May 1788]: The Overture and the whole of the Music by Dibdin. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. [Most of these songs had originally appeared in Dibdin's "table entertainment," The Oddities, 1st performed at the Lyceum, 7 Dec. 1789.] Receipts: #244 18s. 6d. (234.8.0; 10.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Dance: In afterpiece: Dancing-Byrne, Mrs Goodwin

Event Comment: [Litchfield, who is identified in European Magazine, Jan. 1794, p. 50, had made his 1st appearance on the stage at Richmond, 7 Sept. 1793, billed as "A Young Gentleman" (Charles Mathews, Memoirs, 1838-39, I, 70, and Thespian Magazine, Supp. 1793, p. 401). Not. Dram. states that "A person under the name of Litchfield but as I am informed in reality a Mr Holland Nephew to Mr Holland formerly of Drury Lane appeared 1st time at the HM in Richard III." But Holland was at this time acting at Bath, and did not appear in London until 31 Oct. 1796, at Drury Lane.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of King Richard The Iiid

Afterpiece Title: MY GRANDMOTHER

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of King Richard The Iiid

Performance Comment: As17931223, but Richard-Pindar (from the Theatre Royal, Bath; 1st appearance on this stage); Sir James Tyrrel-Waldron Jun.; Lord Mayor-Burton .

Afterpiece Title: MY GRANDMOTHER

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Performance Comment: Posthumus-Holman; Cymbeline-Richardson; Cloten-Bernard; Bellario-Farren; Arviragus-Middleton; Guiderius-Macready; Pisanio-Harley; Caius Lucius-Davies; Lords-Claremont, Davenport; Phillario-Powel; Frenchman-Farley; Iachimo-Pope; Queen-Mrs Fawcett; Helen-Miss Leserve; Imogen-Miss Wallis (from the Theatre Royal Bath).

Afterpiece Title: Robin Hood

Song: II: Hark! Hark! the Lark-Townsend, Linton, Gray, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Clendining, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Henley, Miss Poole

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Performance Comment: Lord Aimworth-Johnstone; Sir Harry Sycamore-Quick; Ralph-Munden; Mervin-Townsend; Fairfield-Richardson; Framer Giles-Haymes (from the Theatre Royal Bath; 1st appearance on this stage); Fanny-Mrs Martyr; Theodosia- Mrs Arnold?; Patty-Mrs Mountain.

Afterpiece Title: Mago and Dago

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Siddons, and the Last Night of her Engagement [see 6 and 16 May]. Mainpiece: Never acted here [1st acted at Bath, 1 Jan. 1788, as Such Things Were. Prologue by Richard Graves (Public Advertiser, 28 Jan. 1788)]. Oracle, 18 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Siddons, No. 49, Great Marlborough-street. Receipts: #590 14s. (292.16.0; 51.13.0; 4.10.0; tickets: 235.6.6; odd money: 6.8.6) (charge: #213 17s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julia; Or, Such Things Were

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mask'd Friend

Afterpiece Title: The Way to Get Un-Married

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Song: In 2nd piece: The Sportman's snug little Cot-Incledon

Entertainment: Monologues, with Songs.End: The Barber's Petition-Fawcett (1st time); [with a song in character, Wigs [including His Own Wig, The Lover's Wig, Doctor's Wig, Coachman's Wig, Counsellor's Wig-Fawcett; End 2nd piece: A Ramble to Bath (1st time) [with a descriptive song in the character of Jacob Gawkey [in The Chapter of Accidents]-Knight

Performance Comment: End: The Barber's Petition-Fawcett (1st time); [with a song in character, Wigs [including His Own Wig, The Lover's Wig, Doctor's Wig, Coachman's Wig, Counsellor's Wig-Fawcett; End 2nd piece: A Ramble to Bath (1st time) [with a descriptive song in the character of Jacob Gawkey [in The Chapter of Accidents]-Knight.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mountaineers

Performance Comment: Octavian-Elliston (from the Theatre Royal, Bath; 1st appearance on this stage); Virolet-C. Kemble; Kilmallock-Johnstone; Roque-Aickin; Muleteers-Bannister, Davies, Trueman, Lyons; Lope Tocho-Suett; Goatherds-Waldron, Burton, Waldron Jun.; Bulcazin Muley-Caulfield; Ganem-Palmer Jun.; Pacha-R. Palmer; Ali Beg-Abbot; Moors-Ledger, Usher; Sadi-Wathen; Zorayda-Mrs Kemble; Floranthe-Miss DeCamp; Agnes-Mrs Bland; Peasants-Miss Leak, Mrs Harlowe, Miss Menage.

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew

Performance Comment: Sheva-Elliston (of the Theatre Royal, Bath; 1st appearance on this stage); Jabel-Knight; Frderic Bertram-Middleton; Sir Stephen Bertram-Hull; Saunders-Powel; Waiter-Curties; Charles Ratcliffe-Holman; Mrs Ratcliffe-Miss Morris; Dorcas-Mrs Davenport; Mrs Goodison-Mrs Platt; Eliza Ratcliffe-Miss Wallis.

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: Shylock-Murray (from the Theatre Royal Bath; 1st appearance on this stage); Antonio-Macready; Bassanio-Pope; Gratiano-Knight; Lorenzo (with songs)-Townsend; Launcelot-Quick; Solarino-Claremont; Salanio-Haymes; Old Gobbo-Powel; Duke-Davenport; Tubal-Thompson; Balthazar-Ledger; Jessica (with a song)-Mrs Mountain; Nerissa-Miss Mansel; Portia-Mrs Pope.

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Event Comment: [The playbill states that Elliston was appearing "by Permission of the Manager of the Theatre Royal Bath, and for the Last Time." But see 12 Oct.] Receipts: #207 18s. 6d. (197.11.6; 10.7.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew

Afterpiece Title: Robin Hood

Event Comment: The high degree of Public favor bestowed on Mr Elliston has induced the Proprietors of the Theatre Royal Bath, obligingly to consent that he shall perform at this Theatre once in every Fortnight thro'out the Season (notice on playbill of 10 Oct.). [But, except for 19 May, Elliston did not act at cg after 24 Nov.] Receipts: #249 14s. (229.12; 20.2)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew

Afterpiece Title: The Wicklow Mountains

Event Comment: [Elliston's 1st appearance as Douglas was at Bath, 6 Nov. 1794.] Receipts: #134 6s. (131.14; 2.12)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Wicklow Mountains