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Event Comment: The Tragedy of the Roman Father, written by William Whitehead, Esq: the present Poet Laureate, will be reviv'd at Drury Lane soon after the Holidays (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Performance Comment: Beau Mizen-Woodward; Worthy-Havard; Rovewell-Usher; Sir Charles-Palmer; Flip-Yates; Arabella Zeal-Miss Macklin; Belinda-Miss Haughton; Jenny Private-Miss Minors; Fair Quaker-Mrs Davies; Sailors-Beard, Vaughan, Clough, Blakes, Atkins, Mozeen, Ackman; with a Song-Beard in Character.
Cast
Role: Sir Charles Actor: Palmer
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Related Work: The Fair Quaker of Deal, or, The Humours of the Navy Author(s): Charles Shadwell

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Dance: II: The Market, as17571126

Event Comment: [By Charles Shadwell.] Never Acted before. [Tickets given out for this day for Tamerlane as a benefit for Corey and Elrington will be taken on 7 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal; Or, The Humours Of The Navy

Performance Comment: Edition of 1710 lists: Flip-Leigh; Mizen-Pack; Worthy-Booth; Rovewell-Powell; Sir Charles Pleasant-Bickerstaff; Cribidge-Elrington; Easie-Cory; Indent-Knepp; Scruple-Freeman; Arabella Zeal-Mrs Bradshaw; Dorcas Zeal-Mrs Sabtlow; Belinda-Mrs Moor; Jenny Private-Mrs Spillar; Jiltup-Mrs Hunt; Advocate-Mrs Finch; Maid-Mrs Shirburn; Barmaid-Mrs Cox; Prologue-; Epilogue-Mrs Santlow.
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Related Work: The Fair Quaker; or, The Humours of the Navy Author(s): Charles Shadwell
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Related Work: The Deserter Author(s): Charles Dibdin
Event Comment: [By Charles Johnson.] Alter'd from the Comedy call'd As You Like It, Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Forest

Performance Comment: Edition of 1723 lists: Duke Frederick-Williams; Alberto-Booth; Jaques-Cibber; Amiens-Corey; Oliver-Thurmond; Orlando-Wilks; Roberto-Roberts; Adam-Mills; Le Beau-Th. Cibber; Charles-W. Mills; Rosalind-Mrs Booth; Celia-Mrs Thurmond; Hymen-Miss Lindar; Pyramqs-Penkethman; Wall-Norris; Lion-Wilson; Moonshine-Ray; Thisbe-Miller; Prologue-Wilks; Epilogue-Mrs Thurmond.
Cast
Role: Charles Actor: W. Mills
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Related Work: Love in a Forest Author(s): Charles Johnson
Event Comment: [By Charles Johnson.]Receipts: #63 11s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Fortune Teller

Performance Comment: Parts-Ryan, Walker, Quin, Hippisley, Hulett, Hall, Mrs Egleton, Mrs Parker, Mrs Younger, Mrs Moffett, Mrs Vincent, Mrs Morgan; but edition of 1726 lists: Spring-Quin; Ringwood-Rian; Sir Charles Mirmont-Walker; Owen Apwigeon-Hippisley; Mrs Joiner-Mrs Egleton; Frances-Mrs Morgan; Astrea-Mrs Parker; Clarinda-Mrs Mowfet; Scuttle-Mrs Younger; Mrs Apwigeon-Mrs Vincent; Prologue-Ryan; Epilogue-Mrs Younger.
Cast
Role: Sir Charles Mirmont Actor: Walker
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Related Work: The Female Fortune Teller Author(s): Charles Johnson
Event Comment: Mainpiece: [By Charles Molloy.] Never Acted before. Afterpiece: [By John Leigh.] A new Farce...being the Sequel to Country Wake. [The Prince present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Half Pay Officers

Performance Comment: Principal Part-Peg Fryer it being the first time of her Appearing on any Stage since the Reign of King Charles II; [The edition of 1720 adds: Bellayr-Ryan; Fluellin-Griffin; MacMorris-H. Bullock; Culverin-Spiller; Meagre-C. Bullock; Loadham-Harper; Sharp-Egleton; Jaspar-Boheme; Widow Rich-Mrs Vandervelt [Peg Fryer?]; Benedict-Mrs Bullock; Charlotte-Miss Stone; Jane-Mrs Robertson; Prologue-; Epilogue-.
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Related Work: The Half Pay Officers Author(s): Charles Molloy

Afterpiece Title: Hob's Wedding

Dance: Bashful Maid, Irish Trot-Mrs Fryer

Event Comment: Charles II to Madame, 14 July 1664: I am just now come from seeing a new ill play and it is almost midnight (C. H. Hartman, Charles II and Madame [1934], p. 108). W. J. Lawrence, in a review of Boswell, The Restoration Court Stage, in Modern Language Review, XXVIII (1933), 103, stated his belief that this play was acted at court this day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pompey The Great

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Related Work: Pompey the Great Author(s): Sir Charles Sedley Charles Sackville
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the first performance is not known, but Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 32) states: The first new Play Acted there, was King Charles the VIII. of France; it was all new Cloath'd, yet lasted but 6 Days together, but 'twas Acted now and then afterwards. Two songs for this play, Too justly alas, set by James Hart, and O love if e'er thou'lt ease a heart, set by Pelham Humphrey, are in Choice Songs and Ayres, First Book, 1673

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The History Of Charles The Eighth Of France; Or, The Invasion Of Naples Of The French

Performance Comment: Edition of 1672: The Prologue-; Alphonso-Metbourn; Ferdinand-Harris; Prince of Salerne-Smith; Ascanio-Young; Trivultio-Sandford; Gonsalvo-Burford; Ghost-Cademan; Charles the Eighth-Batterton; Lewis-Crosby; Mompensier-Norris; Isabella-Mrs Batterton; Cornelia-Mrs Slaughter; Irene-Mrs Shadwell; Julia-Mrs Dixon; Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: Charles the Eighth Actor: Batterton
Event Comment: Benefit for the Widows and Orphans of the Brave Men who perished, and for those who were wounded, in the Glorious Action on the 14th of February last [off Cape St. Vincent], under Admiral Sir John Jervis. Patrons: His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, His Royal Highness the Duke of York, His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence. Stewards: Duke of Leeds, Duke of Bedford, Earl of Chesterfield, Earl of Cardigan, Earl Spencer, Lord Kinnaird, Charles Grey Esq., Thomas Tyrwhitt Esq., William Lushington Esq., William Manning Esq., John Thomson Esq., John Julius Angerstein Esq.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alceste

Ballet: End Opera: Sapho et Phaon. As17970406

Event Comment: [Extra night] Benefit for the Widows and Orphans of those brave Men who perished, and those who were wounded, in the Glorious Action of the 14th February last [see king's, 18 May.] Patrons: His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, His Royal Highness Duke of York, His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence. Stewards: Duke of Leeds, Duke of Bedford, Earl of Chesterfield, Earl Spencer, Lord Kinnaird, Charles Grey Esq., Thomas Tyrwhitt Esq., Wm. Lushington Esq., Wm. Manning Esq., John Thomson Esq., John Julius Angerstein Esq. Boxes to be taken, and Tickets had at the Office of the Theatre, and at the Bar of Lloyd's Coffee-House. Receipts: none listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Dance: End: Peggy's Love (By permission of the Proprietors of the king's Theatre)-Mme Rose, Didelot, Gentili, Mlle Parisot, Mme Hilligsberg; End afterpiece: Cupid and Psyche-the same.Mme Rose, Didelot, Gentili, Mlle Parisot, Mlle Hilligsberg

Entertainment: Monologue. Preceding 1st ballet: [a favorite Epilogue-Mrs Abington (1st appearance on this stage these 8 [recte 7] years)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil To Pay; Or, The Wives Metamorphos'd

Performance Comment: Sir John Loverule-Stoppelaer; Jobson-Harper; Valentine-Roberts; Ranger-R. Wetherilt; Ananias-Charke; Butler-Berry; Cook-Fielding; Footman-Wright; Coachman-Grey; Doctor-Oates; Father-Wetherilt Jr; Lady Loverule-Mrs Mills; Nell-Miss Raftor; Lucy-Miss Oates; Lettice-Miss Williams; Gaffer Dungfork-Cibber Jr; but edition of 1731 adds: Nadir-Fisher Tench; Abishog-H. Tench; Prologue-Cibber Jr.
Cast
Role: Coachman Actor: Grey
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Dance: new dance %Bartholomew Fair-Fisher Tench, Miss Brett

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performance Comment: As17380421 With a Prologue to the Farce, written by Aaron Hill, Esq-Miss Wright; in Boy's Cloaths. and an Epilogue to the Farce-Miss Wright, as Captain of the Lilliputians, at the Head of her Company.
Cast
Role: Esq Actor: Miss Wright
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Dance: I: Saraband-Miss Wright, Miss Morrison; II: French Peasant-Master Ferg, Miss Wright, Scholars to Leviez; AII: La Pieraite-Leviez, Mrs Thompson; IV: Grand Ballet in Comic Characters-the Lilliputians; V: Minuet-Leviez, Mrs Walter

Song: II: Beard

Event Comment: Benefit for Wilson. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. 3rd piece: Written by D. Garrick, Esq., with Additions. 4th piece [1st time; MF 2, by Charles Stuart]: The Overture and Music chiefly new, by Gehot, and Shield, who composed the music to The Flitch of Bacon. Public Advertiser, 3 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Wilson, No. 2, Henrietta-street, Covent Garden. Ibid, 29 Apr. 1779: This Day is published The Cobler of Castlebury (1s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Illumination

Afterpiece Title: The Funeral; or, Grief a-la-Mode

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer's Return from London

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler of Castlebury

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Related Work: The Cobler of Castlebury Author(s): Charles Stuart
Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces the 7th night of A School for Grey-Beards (see 3 Mar. 1787), but "Parsons was in bed so ill as to make it impossible for him to play-the play was in course changed" (Morning Chronicle, 26 Dec.). Its substitute is listed in the Account-Book.] Receipts: #163 16s. 6d. (121.18.0; 39.18.0; 2.0.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

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Related Work: The Jubilee Author(s): Charles Dibdin
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

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Dance: As17331003, but Watteau omitted

Event Comment: Benefit Harper. Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq. [For further discussion of Harper's appearance in Court, see Universal Spectator, 1 Dec; London Evening Post, 29 Nov.; Grub St. Journal, 6 Dec]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

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Dance: Tambourine by Miss Robinson. La Bagatell by Essex and Miss La Tour. La Folette S'cest ravizee by Nivelon and Miss Mann

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd

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Event Comment: Benefit a Family in Distress. For the Entertainment of Che-sazan Outsim, Hindy-Gylesangbier, Charadab-sina, Gulgulachem-Chemaunim, and Tichucbactey Ormophan, Sacheoutzim-Sinadab Caocormin, the Chineze Mandarines, lately arrived in England, on a Tour through Europe, being the only People of that Nation, who have been in England since the Reign of King James I. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Performance Comment: Foppington-Mrs Charke; Morelove-Benson; Sir Charles-Cross; Lady Easy-Mrs Cross; Lady Betty-Miss Binks; Lady Graveairs-Mrs Egerton; Edging-Miss Brett. A New Epilogue addressed to the Town to be spoken by Mrs Charke in the Character of Lord Foppington .
Cast
Role: Sir Charles Actor: Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

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Music: Select Pieces. I: A Minuet in Ariadne. III: Minuet by Geminiani

Dance: V: Minuet by Mrs Charke and Miss Brett. End of Afterpiece: Black Joak by Mrs Charke and Miss Brett

Song: II: Was ever Nymph like Rosamond. IV: Scacciato dal suo nido

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet Laureat. [Prince of Wales present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

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Dance: I: By Mlle Anne Roland. II: Grand Serious Ballet by Denoyer and others. III: Grand Ballet by Mlle Roland, Mlle Anne Roland, and others. IV: Comic Dance by Le Brun and Mrs Anderson. V: Le Badinage de Provence, as17351117

Event Comment: Benefit Taylor, Boxkeeper. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat. [Tickets for Cooper also taken.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

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Dance: I: Scot's Dance by Mr and Mrs Davenport. II: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. III: By Denoyer's Apprentice. IV: Minuet by Villeneuve and Mrs Anderson

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by C. Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat. Egerton 2320: Receipts: #62

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift; Or, The Fool In Fashion

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

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Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales [who were present]. Mainpiece: Written by the late N. Rowe, Esq; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

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Related Work: Tamerlane the Great Author(s): Charles Saunders

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

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Dance: As17371025

Event Comment: As 27 Nov. Mainpiece: Written by N. Rowe, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady Jane Gray

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

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Dance: V: Le Badinage de Provence-Poitier, Mlle Roland

Event Comment: Benefit Sedgwicke, Merchant of London. Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

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Dance: V: Ethiopian Dance-Muilment, Mrs Walter

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentlewoman in Distress. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Performance Comment: Foppington-Cibber; Lady Betty-Mrs Horton; Sir Charles-Ryan; Morelove-Hale; Lady Easy-Mrs Stevens; Lady Graveairs-Mrs Bellamy; Edging-Mrs Vincent.
Cast
Role: Sir Charles Actor: Ryan

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

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Dance: I: Comic Dance-Richardson, Miss Rogers; II: Ballet-Desse, Miss Oates; III: By Desire, Tambourine-Mlle Villeneuve; V: Grecian Sailors-Glover

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

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Dance: As17401205