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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Frolicks

Dance: End II: Mirth and Jollity, as17761015; In afterpiece: Rural Dance, as17761226

Event Comment: Mainpiece: by Shakespeare, in 5 acts. With New Music, Scenes, Dresses and Decorations. Public Advertiser, 6 Jan.: The Shipwreck, which opened the Piece, was designed and executed under the Direction of DeLoutherbourg. The new Airs and Chorusses are composed by Linley Jun. The Musical Instrument (played behind the Scenes) is the Invention of Merlin. Morning Chronicle, 6 Jan.: Caliban is by much the best performed character in the piece... The dresses were rich, but to our amazement those of Ferdinand, Sebastian, &c. were in the Spanish taste. [Ibid., 8 Jan., remarks that the entire omission of I. i is to be regretted. Miss Field and Mrs Cuyler are identified by MS annotations on Kemble playbill.] Receipts: #231 9s. 6d. (211.19.0; 17.5.6; 2.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: Prospero-Bensley; Stephano-Moody; Trincalo-Baddeley; Caliban-Bannister; with songs-Bannister; Gonzalez-Aickin; Alonzo-Bransby; Sebastian-Farren; Francisco-Norris; Boatswain-Carpenter; Antonio-Hurst; Master of the Ship-Wrighten; Ferdinand-Vernon; Ariel-A Young Lady (A Scholar of Linley; 1st appearance upon any stage [Miss Field]); Miranda-A Young Lady (1st appearance upon any stage [Mrs Cuyler]); Chorus of Spirits-Gaudry, Legg, Fawcett, Kear, Carpenter, Chaplin, Holcroft, Follett, Mrs Scott, Miss Abrams, Miss Collett, Miss Jarratt, Miss Boyd, Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Mrs Pitt, Mrs Smith.
Cast
Role: with songs Actor: Bannister
Role: Ferdinand Actor: Vernon
Role: Miranda Actor: A Young Lady

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Dance: I: a Dance of Spirits (composed by Gallet)-Mlle Dupre; III: [a Fantastic Dance-Grimaldi; [Both these dances, as here assigned, except on 14, 25 Apr. and 0 May, were included in all subsequent performances.] End IV: The Double Festival, as17761107, but Giorgi, +Blurton

Performance Comment: and 0 May, were included in all subsequent performances.] End IV: The Double Festival, as17761107, but Giorgi, +Blurton.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: As17770104, but Caliban's songs-_.
Cast
Role: with songs Actor: Bannister
Role: Ferdinand Actor: Vernon
Role: Miranda Actor: A Young Lady

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Dance: In IV: The Double Festival, as17770104

Event Comment: [The playbill lists this as Delpini's 2nd appearance (see 26 and 27 Dec. 1776)]. Receipts: #258 3s. 6d. (257.16.0; 0.7.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Frolicks

Dance: As17761226

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Oaks

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Dance: In II: The Double Festival, as17770210, but Slingsby; In V: +The Triumph of Love, as17761107

Song: As17770210

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Geloso In Cimento

Performance Comment: As17770204, but a new Duet-Sga Sestini; Songs-Sga Sestini.
Cast
Role: Songs Actor: Sga Sestini.
Event Comment: Benefit for Rauzzini. Opera: With Alterations, New Songs, and grand Chorusses. The Music by Rauzzini. Public Advertiser, 15 Feb.: Tickets to be had of Rauzzini, No. 5, Great Suffolk-street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'ali D'amore

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea; Prodigal Son

Afterpiece Title: A Miscellaneous Concert

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: [A Favourite Scene from the end of Act II of] The Register Office [and see17770422]

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Dance: As17761128

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Afterpiece Title: Don Quixote in England

Entertainment: IV: an Interlude between Plutus and Wit and a Masque of Singing and DancingPlutus-Reinhold, Wit- Miss Valois; After dance: +Monologue Tony Lumpkin's Adventures in a Trip to London (1st time)-Quick

Dance: End: The Humours of New@Market with the Pony Races-Dagueville (1st appearance this season)

Event Comment: [This was Mrs Hitchcock's 1st appearance in London. Miss Farren was from the Manchester theatre. Miss Twist is identified in playbill of 14 July.] Because of Foote's acting scarcely anything but his own plays "a relaxation of discipline has been fallen into at the Haymarket... The audience last night, however, were not less surprized than pleased at the very regular manner in which the Comedy and the Burletta were exhibited. All the business of the stage perfect, all the little parts smoothly given, and the whole rather superior than inferior to a performance at either of the Winter Theatres" (Morning Chronicle, 10 June)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Performance Comment: Young Marlow-Palmer; Hastings (with a song)-DuBellamy; Sir Charles Marlow-Fearon; Diggory-Massey; Landlord-Griffiths; Tony Lumpkin-Jackson; Hardcastle-Edwin; Miss Neville-Mrs Hitchcock [from the Theatre Royal, Bath (on playbill of 6 June)]; Mrs Hardcastle-Mrs Gardner; Betty-Mrs Poussin; Miss Hardcastle-Miss Farren (1st appearance in London).
Cast
Role: Landlord Actor: Griffiths

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Performances

Mainpiece Title: K

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Performance Comment: Cardinal Wolsey-Digges; Buckingham-Palmer; Cranmer-Younger; Surry-Davies; Cromwell-R. Palmer; Gardiner-Parsons; Lord Sands-Jackson; Lord Chamberlain-Egan; Norfolk-T. Davis; Suffolk-Fearon; King Henry-A Gentleman (from the Theatre Royal, Dublin; 1st appearance in London [Fotteral]); Anne Bullen-Mrs Colles; Patience (with a song)-Miss Twist; Queen Catherine-Mrs Massey (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Lord Sands Actor: Jackson

Afterpiece Title: The Portrait

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Bannister
Event Comment: [Extra night] By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Benefit for Griffiths and Fearon. Tickets delivered for Hamlet and a Comedy will be admitted. Tickets to be had of Griffiths and of Fearon at Clay's, Cabinet-maker, Princess-street, Soho

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Event Comment: [For Henderson as King Richard see hay, 7 Aug. 1777.] Afterpiece: The Music composed by Dibdin. With New Scenes and Dresses. Books of the Songs, &c. to be had at the Theatre. [The text erroneously assigns: Gillian-$Mrs Wrighten; Floretta-$Miss Walpole, but see Public Advertiser, 8 Oct., which in a review, gives the correct assignment; see also 6 Oct. 1778.] Receipts: #260 7s. (241.14; 17.17; 0.16)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Quick's "Dogberry was true to the text, and not a caricature. In fact it was comedy, and not buffoonery" (Morning Chronicle, 16 Oct.). Receipts: #178 12s. (176.2; 2.10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Two Misers

Dance: II: Masquerade Dance proper to the Play-; to conclude with: Country Dance-the Characters

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath (with additional songs)-Mrs Farrell (1st appearance in that character); Peachum-Wilson; Lockit-Dunstall; Filch-Wewitzer; Mat o' the Mint-Baker; Lucy-Mrs Mattocks; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Pitt; Mrs Slammekin-Mrs Green; Polly-Miss Brown; To conclude with a New Scene-. [This was included in all subsequent performances, although notice of it is omitted from the playbills of 8 and 15 Dec., 2 and 14 May 1778.]This was included in all subsequent performances, although notice of it is omitted from the playbills of 8 and 15 Dec., 2 and 14 May 1778.]

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Dance: End: As17771008; III: a Hornpipe-Miss Besford

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 12 years. [The playbill retains Wilson as Maclaymore, but "At the close of the Play Hull came forward and made an Apology for Wilson's not playing Maclaymore...on Account of his being taken suddenly ill with an Ague, and begged their Acceptance of Fearon in the Part, which was accepted with that good Nature which distinguishes a British Audience" (Morning Chronicle, 24 Oct.).] Receipts: #100 15s. 6d. (100.11.0; 0.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal

Dance: As17771016

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal

Dance: Hornpipe, as17771017

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: St

Dance: Hornpipe, as17771017; End II: La Soiree a@la@Mode-Dagueville, Harris, Master Holland, Sga Tinte

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years [acted 6 May 1776]. With Accompaniments to the Airs composed by Thomas? Linley Sen?.. Public Advertiser, 10 Nov.: "Jenny Diver forgot her song...and continued inflexibly silent till a Wag behind the Scenes assumed her Voice, and sung the Song for her"; ibid, 15 Nov., identifies this wag as Bannister, who sang "in a feigned voice." [Webster was from the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin.] Receipts: #192 6s. 6d. (167.2.0; 24.16.0; 0.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Dance: III: a Hornpipe-Blurton. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Of China

Cast
Role: Mandane Actor: Mrs Barry.

Afterpiece Title: St

Dance: As17771104

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Cast
Role: Ferdinand Actor: Davies
Role: Miranda Actor: Mrs Cuyler

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: IV: Rural Grace, as17771002 II afterpiece: a Mock Minuet-Palmer, Miss Pope. [This was danced, as here assigned, in both subsequent performances.

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by Thomas Hull, altered from The School for Guardians by Arthur Murphy. Not in Larpent MS; synopsis of plot in Public Advertiser 19 Nov.]: With New Dresses, &c. The Music chiefly compiled; the rest composed by Dr Arne, Sacchini and Fisher. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 18 Nov. 1777: This Day is published the Airs in Love Finds the Way (6d.). [Miss Courtenay is identified in the Airs.] Receipts: #233 8s. 6d. (232.5.0; 1.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Finds The Way

Performance Comment: [Principal Characters by Mattocks, Quick, Wilson, Wewitzer, Fearon, Mrs Farrell, Miss Brown, Mrs Wilson, A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage Miss Courtenay]). [Cast from Airs (J. Bell, 1777) and Public Advertiser, 19 Nov.: Young Brumpton-Mattocks; Oldcastle-Quick; Lovibond-Wilson; Peter-Wewitzer; Sir Theodore Brumpton-Fearon; Bellford-Mrs Farrell; Mary@Ann-Miss Brown; Bridget-Mrs Wilson; Harriet-Miss Courtenay.

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: End II: The Minuet de la Cour, as17771111; End: The Enchantress, as17771104