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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: Romeo-Cautherly; Juliet-Mrs Barry; Mercutio-Dodd; Benvolio-Ackman; Peter-Weston; Capulet-Burton; Escalus-Bransby; Montague-Hurst; Friar@Lawrence-Love; Paris-Fawcett; Nurse-Mrs Bradshaw; Lady Capulet-Mrs Johnston; With Funeral Procession-; Vocal Parts-Vernon, Champness, Mrs Scott, Mrs Baddeley, Mrs Dorman; In Act I, a Masquerade Dance-Sg and Sga Giorgi.

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Dance: TThe Wake, as17680929

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Radley and Miss Rogers. [It is uncertain from the make-up of the playbill whether the dancing of the Minuet and Louvre came between the acts, or was included in the dances incidental to the Tempest.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: MMinuet and LouvreBy Particular Desire,-Noverre, Miss Rogers his scholar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Performance Comment: Aimworth-Mattocks; Sir Harry-Shuter; Giles-Barnshaw; Mervin-DuBellamy; Fairfield-Gibson; Ralph-Dyer; Lady Sycamore-Mrs Pitt; Theodosia-Mrs Baker; Fanny-Mrs Thompson; Patty-Mrs Pinto; with a Dance Incidental to the Opera,-Fishar, Arnauld, Sga Manesiere, Miss Valois.

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: Romeo-Cautherly; Mercutio-Dodd; Fryar Lawrence-Love; Benvolio-Packer; Capulet-Burton; Tibalt-J. Aickin; Prince-Keen; Paris-Fawcett; Peter-J. Burton; Nurse-Mrs Cross; Lady Capulet-Mrs Johnston; Juliet-Miss Younge, first time; With the Funeral Procession-; Vocal Parts-Vernon, Champnes, Mrs Scott, Mrs Baddeley, Miss Radley, Mrs Dorman; In Act I, a Masquerade-; a Dance-Giorgi.
Cast
Role: a Dance Actor: Giorgi.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Performance Comment: Cymon-Vernon; Merlin-Bannister; Dorus-Parsons; Daemon of Revenge-Champnes; Linco-King; Urganda-Mrs Baddeley; Fatima-Mrs Abington; Shepherdesses-Mrs Jefferies, Miss Burton; Dorcas-Mrs Bradshaw; Sylvia-Miss Radley, first time; Dances-Grimaldi, Giorgi, Leppie, Mrs King, Sga Dagueville, Miss Rogers, Miss West, Miss Collet; With a Grand Procession of the Knights of the Different Orders of Chivalry-.

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-Vernon; Peachum-Moody; Lockit-Bransby; Filch-Parsons; Mat@o@Mint-Kear; Beggar-Burton; Player-Wheeler; Lucy-Miss Pope; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Love; Diana Trapes-Mrs Bradshaw; Polly-Mrs Baddeley; To Conclude with a Country Dance-; In Act III, a Hornpipe-Mrs King.

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Event Comment: The Jubilee consists of Dialogue Singing & Dancing. This Entertainment was written & compil'd by Mr G.-and it was receiv'd with bursts of Applause the Procession of Shakespear's Characters &c. is the most Superb that ever was Exhibited or I believe ever will. There never was an Entertainment produc'd that gave so much pleasure to all Degrees Boxes pit and Gallery (Hopkins Diary). The Music by Dibdin. With New Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations. [On all subsequent bills, though some are shortened, the PAGEANT is advertised in large capitals. Larpent MS 298, includes descriptive notes and stage directions, p. 24: "Here follows the Pageant, with Bells ringing, Fifes playing, Drums beating, and Cannons firing. In The Procession every scene in the different plays represents some capital part of it in action...The last Scene is a magnificent Transparent one in which the Capital characters of Shakespeare are exhibited at full length with Shakespeare's Statue in the middle crowned by Tragedy and Comedy, fairies and Cupids surrounding him and all the banners waving at the upper end. Then enter the dancers." The Pageant appeared at the top of the stage and came forward, Reviewed in Freeholder's Magazine, Oct.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Rakes

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Performance Comment: Parts-King, Moody, Parsons, Ackman, Hurst, Waldron, Castle, Wheeler, W. Palmer, Wright, Keen, Hartry, Mesink, Clough, Booth, J. Burton, Mas. Cape, Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Lowe. The Vocal Parts-Vernon, Dibdin, Bannister, Champnes, Fawcett, Kear, Miss Radley, Mrs Baddeley; The Dances-Dagueville, Mrs King, Sga Vidini, Miss Rogers; In which will be introduced The Pageant as it was intended for Stratford-Upon-Avon; Ralph-King; Irishman-Moody; Ballad Singer-Vernon; Ostler-Parsons; Country Girls-Mrs Baddeley, Miss Radley; Margery Jervis-Mrs Love; Female Ballad Singer-Dibdin; Prologue-King; Characters in the pageant: Benedict-Garrick; Beatrice-Miss Pope; Touchstone-King; Richard III-Holland; Romeo-Brereton; Hamlet-Cautherly; Falstaff-Love; Lear-Reddish; Antony-Aikin; Portia-Mrs W. Barry; Apollo-Vernon; Tragic Muse-Mrs Barry; Comic Muse-Mrs Abington; Also: Hurst, Wheeler, Castle, Waldron, Wright, Keen, Clough, Hartry, Messink, Booth, J. Burton, Master Cape, Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Love; Dancing-; Singing- New Dresses, Scenes; Music by Dibdin (Genest, V, 256, and Winston MS 10). See Three Plays by David Garrick, Elisabeth P. Stein (New York, 1926). Music by Dibdin (Genest, V, 256, and Winston MS 10). See Three Plays by David Garrick, Elisabeth P. Stein (New York, 1926).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Performance Comment: As17691025, but the Dance in character of the Old Man and Woman-Arnauld, Mrs Thompson; Hornpipe-_.

Dance: III: The Merry Sailors, as17691018; End: Rural Love, as17690925

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine With The Birth and Adventures of Harlequin

Performance Comment: Pluto-Reinhold; Mercury-Baker; Proserpine-Mrs Baker; Ceres-Mrs Thompson; Harlequin-Lewes; Colombine-Mrs Dyer; Yeoman-Morris; Clown-Miles; Other characters-C. Smith, Mrs Pitt, Barnshaw, Banks, Reyner, Holtom; The Dances-Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Arnauld, Miss Valois, Dumay, Hussey, Petro, Merrifield, the Miss Twists, Miss Madan, Miss Garman.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performance Comment: As17691109, but Ceres-Mrs Thompson; Dances-Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Miss Valois.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses Or The Custom Of The Manor

Performance Comment: Sir John English-Shuter; Modely-Dyer; Freehold-Gibson; Heartwell-Hull; Vulture-Cushing; Double Jugg-Dunstall; Carbuncle-Morris; Tim Shacklefigure-Hamilton; Sneak-Holtom; Longbottom-Perry; Lurcher-Davis; Flora-Mrs Lessingham, first time; Aura-Miss Macklin; With a Country Dance incident to the Play, the Original Sheep@shearing Ballad-Mr Baker.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon Or The Two Sosias

Performance Comment: Jupiter-Reddish; Amphitryon-J. Aickin; Mercury-Jefferson; Judge Gripus-Parsons; Phoebus-Hurst; Polidas-Wright; Tranio-Fawcett; Sosia-King; Phaedra-Miss Pope; Bromia-Mrs Bradshaw; Night-Miss Platt; Alcmena-Miss Young; In Which will be introduc'd an Interlude of Dancing and Singing- the Music entirely new; Plutus-Bannister; Wit-Mrs Scott; The Dance-The Daiguevilles, Sga Vidini.

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Performance Comment: As17691102, but Sailor-DuBellamy; Squire-Mattocks; Sally-Mrs Pinto; Ending with Hornpipe-Miss Twist; Dance-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Authors Night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth-Smith, first time; Macduff-Clarke; Lenox-Hull; Malcolm-Perry; Banquo-Bensley; Duncan-Gibson; Seyton-Gardner; Hecate-Reinhold; Witches-Quick, Mrs Pitt, Cushing; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Yates; With a Dance of the Furies-Arnauld.

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Performance Comment: Parts by Parsons, Palmer, Brereton, Booth, Mas. Cape, Miss Platt, Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Love, Miss Burton, Miss Pope. The dances-Giorgi, Atkins, Mrs King; Cupid-Mas. Cape; Griskin-Parsons; Miss Griskin-Miss Pope; Jemmy Twinkle-Brereton; Mrs Filagree-Mrs Bradshaw; Young Couples-Palmer; Miss Burton, et al; Landlady-Mrs Love; Chamberlain-Booth; Chambermaid-Miss Platt (Macmillan, p. 335).
Cast
Role: The dances Actor: Giorgi, Atkins, Mrs King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Performance Comment: As17691221, but Phaedra-Miss Pope; Dance-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Event Comment: New Dances. The Music, entirely New by Guglielmi. By Command of their Majesties. New Clothes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ezio

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Performance Comment: As17700112, Gripus-Waldron; Dances-restored to bill.

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Event Comment: One of the new Dances composed by Simonin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ezio

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Performance Comment: As17691004, but Damon-Fawcett; Dorilas-Wheeler; Fatima-Mrs Abington; Original Epilogue=-Mrs Abington; Dances-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Frenchified Lady Never in Paris

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella Or The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer Outwitted

Performance Comment: The New Introduction and Conclusion call'd Cupid's Friendship. Harlequin-Woodward; Farmer-Miles; Cupid-Miss Cockayne; Pierrot-Morris; Colombine-Mrs Dyer; The Dances-Fishar, Sga Manesiere.
Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Sga Manesiere.

Dance: II: The Reel, as17700329

Event Comment: A new comic Opera; Music by Guglielmi. New Dances and Decorations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Costanza Di Rosinella

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Music by Gluck, Bach, Guglielmi. The whole to be New Dressed, New Scenes, with Grand Chorusses and New Dances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orfeo

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17700111, but Vocal Parts-_Mattocks; Dance of the Furies-Fishar.

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: End: The Reel, as17700329

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: As17700326 but Margery-Miss Valois; Rosetta-Mrs Baker, first time; Dance-.
Cast
Role: Dance Actor: .
Role: With a Dance Actor: incidental to the Opera.

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Ballet: II: The Wapping Landlady. Double Hornpipe, As17700420