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8503 results for: Keyword - Children of the late Mr Farquhar
We found 5223 matches on Event Comments, 1656 matches on Author, 1411 matches on Performance Comments, 998 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

4026
21 December 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Widow Jona and Her Children

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: As17581111

4027
18 April 1759 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By children not above thirteen years of age. By Authority. Benefit for Miss Valois and Miss Burn. 6:30 p.m. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. The House will be lighted with Wax Candles

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cleone

Song:

Dance: A Minuet-Miss Valois, Miss Burn

4028
23 May 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17590417 but Hamlet-Mossop; Guildenstern-Scrase; Laertes-Austin; Ophelia-Miss Macklin; a new Dramatic Epiloguea Dialogue-Master Simson, Miss Simson; the Prologue-_.

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Performance Comment: By Children, As17590405.
Cast
Role: Tag Actor: Miss Mathews

Dance: II: Louvre, Minuet-Master Simson, Miss Simson

4029
24 May 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Performance Comment: By Children, As17590405.
Cast
Role: Tag Actor: Miss Mathews

Song: III: Miss Young

4030
12 April 1760 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: SSga Asselin being recovered will dance this evening, and both the children are to dance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arminio

4031
22 May 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Pit and Boxes laid together. No admittance to Pit but through the boxes and with tickets. Towards raising a fund for the relief of those who from their infirmities shall be oblig'd to retire from the stage. This fund having been begun by a voluntary contribution among the performers improved by a proportionable weekly deduction on their salaries and intended as a reciprocal provision for them, their widows and children in sickness and infirmity, it is humbly hoped an appeal to the generosity of the public will not be taken amiss &c. (Winston MS 9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humor

Performance Comment: Kitely-Garrick; Old Knowell-Havard; Young Knowell-Lee; Wellbred-Palmer; Cob-Moody; Brainworm-Dunstall; Master Stephen-Dodd; Bobadil-Yates; Mrs Kitely-Mrs Hopkins; Downright-Bransby; Justice Clement-Burton; Cash-Packer; Master Mathew-Vaughan; Bridgit-Miss Plym; Tib-Mrs Bradshaw; An Occasional Prologue-.
Cast
Role: Master Mathew Actor: Vaughan

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

4032
05 February 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Prologue to the Perplexities and Epilogue publish'd in the Public Advertiser.] Saw the Comedy of the Perplexities. Beard spoke the Prologue....Mrs Mattocks spoke the Epilogue. We had a Dance and the new Masque of the Fairy Favour, which is perform'd by children only. The boy who does Puck played on the violin and danced a hornpipe, with great spirit. The scene which represents Kensington Gardens, the canal, &c. by moonlight is very pretty, the moon and stars are very natural (Neville MS Diary). Receipts: #192 5s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Perplexities

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Favour

Cast
Role: Milkah Actor: . The following 11 young persons were paid for performing 8 nights in it on 10 March 1767: Miss Potts, #4 4s.

Dance: End of Play: The Gallant Peasants, as17670113

4033
27 April 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Fishar, Ballet Master and Sga Manesiere. Entertainments by Children for that night only. Charges #64 5s. [Profit to each #21 11s. 9d. plus income from tickets: Fishar #38 14s. (Box 57; Pit 107; Gallery 84); Sga Manesiere, #29 13s. (Box 60; Pit 55; Gallery 64).] Paid Barratt (wax chandler) #201 5s.; Paid Buxtons and Co., (oyl men) #135 16s. (Account Book). Receipts: #107 8s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: I: A New Tambourine Dance-Master Blurton (apprentice to Fishar, eleven years old, 1st appearance any stage); End I: Rural Love, as17661120; II: A Serious Dance-Miss Capon (Apprentice to Fishar, sixteen years old, 1st appearance any stage); III: A New Pantomime Ballet-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford (Apprentice to Fishar, ten years old, 1st appearance any stage as a dancer); IV: A Minuet-Fishar, Miss Capon; Double Hornpipe-Fishar, Sga Manesiere

Ballet: End: A New Grand Ballet call'd The Wapping Landlady. Jack (in Distress)-Fishar; the other Sailors-Petro, Hussey, Martin, Reynald, Curtat, King; Landlady-Miles; Milk Woman-Sga Manesiere; other women-Miss D. Twist, Miss S. Twist, Miss Barrowby, Miss Hilliard, Miss Daw, Mrs Viviez

Performance Comment: Jack (in Distress)-Fishar; the other Sailors-Petro, Hussey, Martin, Reynald, Curtat, King; Landlady-Miles; Milk Woman-Sga Manesiere; other women-Miss D. Twist, Miss S. Twist, Miss Barrowby, Miss Hilliard, Miss Daw, Mrs Viviez.
Cast
Role: the other Sailors Actor: Petro, Hussey, Martin, Reynald, Curtat, King
Role: other women Actor: Miss D. Twist, Miss S. Twist, Miss Barrowby, Miss Hilliard, Miss Daw, Mrs Viviez.

4034
08 June 1767 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: NNeville MS Diary: At 6 went to Marybone Gardens, a place of the kind of Ranelagh-but not so elegant nor frequented by such good company--indeed much indifferent company resort to both. A transparent picture of a Patagonian man, woman and child was exhibited for the first time; went and returned on foot. Marybone fields are much pleasanter than the gardens. Got home about 11

Performances

4035
07 October 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A New Comedy of 3 Acts [by George Colman] never performed. [In the Shakespearean Pageant, with figures from seventeen of his plays, the chief effectiveness lay with the Musicians who ushered in each group with appropriate music: Martial Music-The Roman Characters of Coriolanus and Julius Caesar; Soft Music-Antony and Cleopatra; Grand Music, Old English Characters-King John, Richard III, Henry VIII: Magical Music, "above, about, underneath" for Prospero; Macbeth's Music; Fairy Music-Oberon and Titania; Solemn Music for Tragic Muse accompanied by Othello, Hamlet, the Ghost, Mad Ophelia and Lear with Cordelia; Dead March in Saul-Juliet's Bier with attendants; Allegro for the Comic Muse-Falstaff, Touchstone, Launcelot, Malvolio; Andante-Florizel and Perdita, Portia Antonio and Bassanio; Flourish-for Car drawn by the muses carrying Shakespeare's Bust; Final Song by Mrs Mattocks, "Sweetest Bard that Ever Sung, Nature's glory, Fancy's Child--." The Prelude is, in print, entirely favorable to Garrick's effort at Stratford. But it could be rendered in a mercilessly ironical manner if the three participating actors so chose. Mainpiece reviewed in the Freeholder's Magazine, Oct.] Receipts: #224 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Man And Wife Or The Shakespeare Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Entertainment: End II: Pageant exhibiting the characters of Shakespeare-; End III: Representation of the Amphitheatre at Stratford Upon Avon-; with a Masquerade-

4036
18 December 1769 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Authority and particular Desire for the Benefit of Middlemist and the Widow and child of the deceased Lauder, a Scots Musical Pastoral. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. To begin exactly at 6

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pattie And Roger Or The Gentle Shepherd

Related Works
Related Work: Patie and Peggy; or, The Fair Foundling Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

4037
24 February 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A tragedy [by John Hoole] never performed. Paid Williams for performing the Bells 3 nights #1 2s. 6d.; Paid Gard and Singleton each 7s. 6d. for performing 3 nights in the Lyon (Account Book). [Mainpiece reviewed in the Freeholder's Magazine, March.] Receipts: #227 6s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timanthes

Performance Comment: Parts-Smith, Bensley, Clarke, Wroughton, Gardner, Davis, R. Smith, Mrs Bulkley, Mrs Yates. Prologue and Epilogue in Act III a Procession. The Vocal parts-Reinhold, Mrs Baker, Mrs DuBellamy, Baker, Fox. Timanthes-Smith; Demaphoon-Bensley; Mathusius-Clarke; Cherinthus-Wroughton; Adrastus-Gardner; Orcanes-Davis; Cephisa-Mrs Bulkley; Ismena-Mrs Yates; playbill matched with 1770 Edn. The 1770 Edn. includes Olinthus-;,a child but specifies no actor. Playbill includes R. Smith; but assigns no part. In Act III, a Procession-; the Vocal Parts-Reinhold, Mrs Baker, DuBellamy, Baker, Fox; Prologue-Bensley; Epilogue-Mrs Bulkley.
Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Smith, Bensley, Clarke, Wroughton, Gardner, Davis, R. Smith, Mrs Bulkley, Mrs Yates. Prologue and Epilogue in Act III a Procession. The Vocal parts-Reinhold, Mrs Baker, Mrs DuBellamy, Baker, Fox. Timanthes-Smith
Role: The Vocal parts Actor: Reinhold, Mrs Baker, Mrs DuBellamy, Baker, Fox. Timanthes-Smith
Role: Timanthes Actor: Smith
Role: the Vocal Parts Actor: Reinhold, Mrs Baker, DuBellamy, Baker, Fox

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Entertainment: II: Concert on Hautboy-Simpson

4038
08 September 1773 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Woodman, lately left a widow with a large family of young children and near lying in again

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Dilletante

4039
12 March 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Performance Comment: As17841213. imitations. End of mainpiece the celebrated Musical Child (from the Pantheon) will perform a Musical Oglio, consisting of various Theatrical and Vocal Imitations [of Miss George, Mrs Bannister, Sga Sestini, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Wells, Edwin (Morning Chronicle, 16 Mar., which also states, without further indentification, that the performer was a young girl)] .

4040
18 December 1790 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [2nd piece in place of The Child of Nature, advertised on playbill of 17 Dec. In 3rd piece the playbill retains Wilson, but "Owing to the indisposition of Wilson, Powel supplied his place in The Divertisement" (World, 19 Dec.).] Receipts: #129 10s. 6d. (121.16.0; 7.14.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Farmer

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Cast
Role: Father Luke Actor: Rock
Role: I'm jolly Dick the Lamplighter Actor: Bernard
Role: Let Bards elate Actor: Blanchard
Role: Of the Ancients its speaking Actor: Johnstone
Role: How much I love thee Actor: Wilson
Role: Ben Backstay lov'd the gentle Anna Actor: Bannister
Role: 'Twas in the good ship Rover Actor: Bannister
Role: Sure an't the World a Masquerade Actor: Johnstone, Chorus

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Cast
Role: A Sailor's life's a life of woe Actor: Mrs Harlowe, in place of The Greenwich Pensioner.
Role: I'm jolly Dick the Lamplighter Actor: Bernard
Role: Let Bards elate Actor: Blanchard
Role: Of the Ancients its speaking Actor: Johnstone
Role: How much I love thee Actor: Wilson
Role: Ben Backstay lov'd the gentle Anna Actor: Bannister
Role: 'Twas in the good ship Rover Actor: Bannister
Role: Sure an't the World a Masquerade Actor: Johnstone, Chorus

Dance: As17901123

4041
28 March 1792 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection 0principally From The Works Of handel Redemption 0

Cast
Role: Leader of the Band Actor: Shaw.

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Performance Comment: Overture (Occasional Oratorio)-; O had I Jubal's-Miss Hagley (Joshua); His mighty arm-Kelly (Jephtha); Che vi par-Morelli, Kelly, Mrs Crouch (Sarti); Would you gain-Master Welsh (Acis and Galatea); Wake sons-Sedgwick (R. J. Stevens); Mary's dream-Miss Barclay (Relfe); For unto us a child-Chorus (The Messiah).

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Performance Comment: Hautboy concerto (Handel)-; Blooming virgins-Incledon (Athalia); And in that air Behold! God is my salvation-Reinhold; Therefore with joy-Reinhold; And in that Day-Mrs Bland; Call upon his name-Mrs Bland; Sing unto the Lord-Mrs Crouch, Reinhold; Cry out and shout-Chorus (New Anthem, Shaw); Fair Rosale-Master Welsh (Linley); Let's imitate-Dignum, Miss Hagley (Alexander's Feast); What though I trace-Mrs Crouch (Solomon); Zadock the Priest-Chorus (Coronation Anthems).
Cast
Role: Therefore with joy Actor: Reinhold
Role: Sing unto the Lord Actor: Mrs Crouch, Reinhold
Role: Zadock the Priest Actor: Chorus

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

Performance Comment: Eternal God-Reinhold (Isaac, Giordani); The Prince unable-Mrs Bland (Alexander's Feast); Non piu andrai-Morelli (Paisiello [recte Le Nozze di Figaro, Mozart]); Softly rise-Dignum, Chorus (Solomon, Boyce); Sweet bird-Mrs Crouch (L'Allegro); Every day will I give thanks-Incledon (Chandos Anthems); I know that my Redeemer liveth-Master Welsh; Hallelujah for the Lord God-Chorus (The Messiah).
Cast
Role: The Prince unable Actor: Mrs Bland
Role: Hallelujah for the Lord God Actor: Chorus

4042
20 November 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. "God save the King was several times repeated, and other songs suitable to the circumstances of the night" (World, 21 Nov.). " As the taste of the Royal Family is well known to be equal to the delight they take in encouraging genius, it is, we presume, the Lord Chamberlain that so frequently orders, for their entertainment, a hash of old Pantomimes, which even children cannot relish more than once" (Morning Chronicle, 21 Nov.). Receipts: #521 11s. (514/17; 6/14)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Arroganc E

Afterpiece Title: MODERN ANTIQUES

Afterpiece Title: MOTHER SHIPTON TRIUMPHANT

Dance: As17931119

Song: As17931119

4043
18 December 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [2nd piece in place of The Child of Nature, advertised on playbill of 17 Dec. In 3rd piece the playbill retains Wilson, but "Owing to the indisposition of Wilson, Powel supplied his place in The Divertisement" (World, 19 Dec.).] Receipts: #129 10s. 6d. (121.16.0; 7.14.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Farmer

Cast
Role: the Ballad Actor: singing Pedlar-Blanchard

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Cast
Role: Lieutenant of the Marines Actor: Ratchford
Role: Father Frank Actor: Rees

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Dance: As17931123

4044
26 March 1794 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection Of Sacred Music From The Works Of Handel

Performance Comment: Principal Vocal Performers, Leader, Organ as17940307ART I. Overture (BERENICE). Come ever smiling (JUDAS MACCABAEUS). Tears such as tender (DEBORAH). For unto us a child (THE MESSIAH). Grateful hearts (NABAL). Sweep the strings; Music spread thy Voice (SOLOMON). Every day will I ([CHANDOS] ANTHEMS). For joys so vast; Happy they (JEPHTHA). From the censer (SOLOMO). PART II. Fourth Organ Concerto. Together let us range ([SOLOMON] by Boyce). The trumpet's loud; The double beat (DRYDEN'S ODE). He was eyes [SIROE]. He led tbrm thro' (ISRAEL IN EGYPT). Ye sons of Israel [JOSHUA]. Weep, Israel, weep; Go, baffled coward (SAMSON). For the Lord (THE MESSIAH). PART III. Fifth Grand Concerto. O liberty (JUDAS MACCABAEUS). Let the bright; Awake the trumpets (SAMSON). O beauteous Queen (ESTHER). Mad Bess by Mme Mara (Purcell). How willing (SAMSON). But bright Cecilia; As from; The dead shall live (DRYDEN'S ODE). To conclude with God save Great George our King and Rule Britannia .
Cast
Role: Leader of the Band Actor: G. Ashley. Organ-J. Ashley. PART I. Zadock the Priest
Role: Organ Actor: J. Ashley. PART I. Zadock the Priest
Role: He smote all the first Actor: born by Chorus

Music: End of Part II concerto on the organ by J. Ashley

4045
10 April 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Redemption A Sacred Oratorio Selected From The Great And Favourite Works Of Handel

Performance Comment: Principal Vocal Performers as17940319but added: Fisher. Leader as17940312ART I. Overture (OCCASIONAL ORATORIO). When the Earth by Dignum. O! First created beam by Chorus. He measur'd the waters and He layeth the beams by Meredith. When his loud voice by Chorus. Now heaven in all and Lord what is Man! by Mrs Crouch. How excellent thy name by Chorus. These are thy glorious works and Speak ye who best can tel1 by Kelly. Abraham believed in God and Abraham, enough by Mrs Bland. Now when Joseph was sold and Jehovah is my shield and glory by Miss Leak. When Joseph by Dignum. Blest be the man by Chorus. When Joseph was dead and Pious orgies by Sga Storace. Then sent he Moses by Dignum. He gave them hailstones by Double Chorus. The Lord is a man of war by Fisher and Meredith. Moses and the children of Israel by Sga Storace and Double Chorus. PART II. Now after the death by Dignum. Ye sons of Israel by Chorus. Oh Joshua! and Oh had I Jubal's lyre! by Mrs Bland. When Joshua by Dignum. Now Deborah and Angels ever bright and fair by Master Welsh. Jehovah crown'd by Meredith and Chorus. Now the elders by Dignum. Welcome, welcome mighty King by Chorus. Again the Philistines and In Sweetest harmony by Sga Storace and Chorus. Their bodies are buried in peace by Chorus. Dead March (SAUL). And the men of Judah and Lord remember David by Kelly. Gird on thy Sword by Chorus. Blest be the Lord and The Sword that's drawn by Meredith. When King David by Dignum. Coronation Anthem by Chorus: God save the King. PART III. Now when the fullness of time and Where is this stupendous stranger by Mrs Crouch. In the days of Herod and There beneath a lovely shade by Dignum. And Jesus went about and He was eyes unto the blind by Kelly. When the time drew near by Mrs Bland. Hosannah to the son of David by Chorus. The people of Jerusalem and He was brought as a lamb by Meredith. Behold it is Christ by Dignum. He sitteth at the right hand by Chorus. Holy, holy by Sga Storace. For as much as Christ by Meredith. Glory be to the Father by Chorus .
Cast
Role: . Since by Man by the Principal Singers and Semi Actor: Chorus. By Man came also the Resurrection of the Dead by Chorus. For as in Adam all die by Semi-Chorus. Even so in Christ shall all he made alive by Chorus. Behold! I tell by Meredith. The trumpet shall sound, accompanied on the trumpet by Hyde, and Then shall be brought to pass
Role: For as in Adam all die by Semi Actor: Chorus. Even so in Christ shall all he made alive by Chorus. Behold! I tell by Meredith. The trumpet shall sound, accompanied on the trumpet by Hyde, and Then shall be brought to pass
Role: Leader of the Band Actor: Shaw. PART I. Zadock the Priest

Music: As17940409

4046
18 July 1794 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [1st piece in place of A MOGUL TALE; 2nd piece of THE SON-IN-LAW, and THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD, all advertised on playbill of 17 July.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All The Worlds A Stage

Afterpiece Title: THE BATTLE OF HEXHAM or Days of Old

Related Works
Related Work: The Battle of Hexham; or, Days of Old Author(s): George Colman, the younger

4047
06 May 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by James Hook Jun. Larpent MS 1065; not published; synopsis of plot in Pocket Magazine, May 1795, p. 334]: The Musick composed by Hook? Sen. The Scenes, Dresses, Decorations and Machinery are entirely new. The Scenery of the Opera designed and painted by Greenwood and Capon. The Masque and Decorations by Marinari. The Machinery by Cabanel and Jacobs.The Dresses by Johnston and Miss Rein. Books of the Songs to be had in the Theatre. [Afterpiece in place of The Adopted Child, advertised on playbill of 5 May.] Receipts: #269 8s. (213.0.6; 53.16.0; 2.11.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jack Of Newbury

Performance Comment: Characters by Palmer, Kelly, Dignum, Suett, R. Palmer, Bannister Jun., Master Welsh, Phillimore, Mrs Crouch, Sga Storace, Miss Leak, Mrs Bland. [Cast from Songs (C. Lowndes, 1795), and Larpent MS: Jack of Newbury-Palmer; Sir Murdock O'Connel-Kelly; Edgar-Dignum; Flaw-Suett; Crafts-R. Palmer; Knap-Bannister Jun.; Page-Master Welsh; Rowland-Phillimore; Dame Eleanor-Mrs Crouch; Emma-Sga Storace; Blanche-Miss Leak; Kathlane-Mrs Bland. [To conclude with an Emblematical Masque in Honour of the Royal Nuptials [see cg, 6 Apr.], called .To conclude with an Emblematical Masque in Honour of the Royal Nuptials [see cg, 6 Apr.], called .

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Hymen

Performance Comment: Hymen-Master DeCamp; Cupid-Master Welsh; Mercury-Fialon; Apollo-Aumer; Hercules-G. D'Egville; Castor-Fairbrother; Pollux-Boimaison; Psyche-Miss Granger; Diana-Miss Collins; Zephyrus-Mrs Fialon; Flora-Miss F. D'Egville; Britannia-Mrs Cuyler; Plenty-Mrs Butler; Commerce-Mrs Hedges; Loves, Graces, Chorus-Miss Menage, Miss Wheatley, Miss S. D'Egville, Mrs Beaufort, Mrs Brooker, Mrs Brigg, Miss Bourk, Mrs Bramwell, Miss Redhead, Miss Gawdry, Miss Stageldoir, Miss Chatterley, Cooke, Danby, Evans, Lyons, Maddocks, Welsh, Trueman.
Cast
Role: Castor Actor: Fairbrother

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat

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

4048
19 June 1795 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [2nd piece in place of The Prisoner at Large and of The Children in the Wood, both advertised on playbill of 18 June.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Afterpiece Title: The Surrender of Calais

Related Works
Related Work: The Surrender of Calais Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: New Hay at the Old Market

Related Works
Related Work: New Hay at the Old Market Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Song: As17950613

4049
11 December 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Adopted Child, advertised on playbill of 10 Dec.] Receipts: #199 17s. 6d. (133.11.6; 64.17.0; 1.9.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

4050
25 February 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: 1st piece: With Alterations. [2nd piece in place of The Child of Nature, advertised on playbill of 23 Feb.] Receipts: #259 12s. (250.17.6; 8.14.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Shepherdess Of Cheapside

Performance Comment: As17960220, but Wathen_.
Cast
Role: Probe Actor: Wathen

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Captive

Cast
Role: unassigned Actor: _Wathen, _Russell, _Benson
Role: Sailor Actor: Fairbrother