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Event Comment: Mainpiece: The Overture, Chorusses and new Musick by Dr Arnold, The Dresses, Scenes and Decorations entirely new. The Scenes painted by Greenwood, Marinari, and their Assistants. Powell: Mountaineers rehearsed at 10; Wedding Day at 12. [Fialon and Aumer were from king's.] Receipts: #185 (131.17.6; 49.16.0; 3.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mountaineers

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Related Work: The Mountaineers Author(s): Samuel Arnold

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Dance: End II: a New Dance by J. D'Egville, in which-Fialon, Aumer will make their 1st appearance on this stage

Event Comment: 2nd piece [1st time; MD 3, by Thomas Morton]: With new Scenery, Dresses and Decorations. The Overture, Chorusses, and new Musick by Dr Arnold. The new Scenery by Rooker, Marinari, &c. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Morning Chronicle, 1 July 1795: This Day is published Zorinski (2s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Afterpiece Title: Zorinski

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Related Work: Zorinski Author(s): Samuel Arnold
Event Comment: 2nd piece: The Overture, Chorusses and new Musick by Dr Arnold. The Scenery by Rooker

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Afterpiece Title: The Mountaineers

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Related Work: The Mountaineers Author(s): Samuel Arnold

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner at Large

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kemble. 1st piece: Not acted these 7 years. 2nd piece [1st time; MF 1, by Robert Benson]: The Musick selected, with new Accompaniments and a Scottish Overture, by Dr Arnold. Morning Chronicle, 25 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Kemble, No. 9, Haymarket,

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Love and Money or The Fair Caledonian

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Related Work: Love and Money; or, The Fair Caledonian Author(s): Samuel Arnold

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Entertainment: Monologue End 2nd piece: Monsieur Tonson-Fawcett

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Waldron, prompter. Mainpiece [1st time; TC 5, by Francis Godolphin Waldron. Larpent MS 1094; not published]: Founded on Shakespeare and Fletcher's Two Noble Kinsmen, by the Continuator of Ben Jonson's Sad Shepherd. With new Music composed by Dr Arnold. Copies of the Songs will be delivered gratis at the Theatre. Afterpiece [1st time; C 3, by Francis Godolphin Waldron, abridged from his The Maid of Kent. Larpent MS 1095; not published]: Written by the Author of Heigho for a Husband. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be had of Waldron, No. 54, Drury-lane, and of Rice, at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Madness

Related Works
Related Work: Love and Madness! Author(s): Samuel Arnold

Afterpiece Title: Tis a Wise Child Knows its Father

Event Comment: Mainpiece: The Overture, Chorusses and new Music by Dr Arnold. Receipts: #310 6s. (230.19; 74.8; 4.19)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mountaineers

Related Works
Related Work: The Mountaineers Author(s): Samuel Arnold

Afterpiece Title: The Spoild Child

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Leak. 1st piece: Never performed here. The Musick selected, with new Accompaniments and a Scottish Overture, by Dr Arnold. [Miss Andrews is identified in MS list in Kemble playbills of new performers for this season.] Morning Herald, 30 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Leak, Upper Mews Gate, Castle-street, Leicester-square. Receipts: #155 11s. 6d. (84.2.0; 66.10.0; 0.17.0; tickets: none listed; odd money: 4.2.6) (charge: #213 0s. 7d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Money

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Related Work: Love and Money; or, The Fair Caledonian Author(s): Samuel Arnold

Afterpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Song: In: Thro the Wood Laddie-Miss Leak; In Masquerade Scene 2nd piece: Ally Croker-Miss Leak, Master Welsh

Event Comment: 3rd piece [1st time; MF 2, by George Brewer]: The Musick by Dr Arnold. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Morning Herald; 6 July 1796: This Day is published Bannian Day (1s.). Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. 2nd Gallery 1s. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00 [same throughout season]. Places for the Boxes to be had of Rice, at the Theatre. [On this evening the following performers appeared both at dl and at the hay: Suett, Caulfield, Trueman, R. Palmer, Burton, Miss Leak, Miss Heard

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Mainpiece Title: Peeping Tom

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Related Work: Peeping Tom Author(s): Samuel Arnold

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

Afterpiece Title: Bannian Day

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Related Work: Bannian Day Author(s): Samuel Arnold
Event Comment: Mainpiece: The Overture, Chorusses and new Musick by Dr Arnold. The Scenery by Rooker. Afterpiece: The Musick by Storace. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mountaineers

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Related Work: The Mountaineers Author(s): Samuel Arnold

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnstone. 1st piece: The Overture, Chorusses and new Musick by Dr Arnold. The new Scenery by Rooker, Marinari, &c. 2nd [1st time; MF 1, author unknown. Not in Larpent MS; not published]: Overture and new Music by Reeve, and selected Songs by Dibdin. [3rd piece in place of The Prize, advertised on playbill of 31 Aug. C. Kemble had 1st appeared as Zorinski at the hay on 31 Aug. and 7 Sept. 1795.] Morning Herald, 27 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Johnstone, No. 19, Piazza, Covent-Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zorinski

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Related Work: Zorinski Author(s): Samuel Arnold

Afterpiece Title: The Married Un Married or The Widowd Wife

Afterpiece Title: A Mogul Tale

Event Comment: Mainpiece: The Overture, Chorusses and new Musick by Dr Arnold. Receipts: #162 12s. 6d. (103.17.0; 56.7.6; 2.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mountaineers

Related Works
Related Work: The Mountaineers Author(s): Samuel Arnold

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Leak. 3rd piece [1st time: BO 2, author unknown. Larpent MS 1170; not published]: The Overture and Musick entirely new, by Dr Arnold, Composer to His Majesty. True Briton, 20 May: Tickets to be had of Miss Leak, Upper Mews-Gate, Castle-street, Leicester-Fields. Receipts: #364 6s. 6d. (65.9.0; 59.13.0; 2.6.0; tickets: 236.18.6; (charge: #213 10s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosina

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scarborough

Afterpiece Title: The Hovel

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Related Work: The Hovel Author(s): Samuel Arnold

Song: In: Sweet Echo-Miss Leak; the Echo-Master Welsh

Event Comment: Mainpiece: The Overture, Chorusses, and new Musick by Dr Arnold. The Scenery by Rooker, Marinari, &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zorinski

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Related Work: Zorinski Author(s): Samuel Arnold

Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key

Event Comment: 2nd piece [1st time; MD 3, by James Boaden]: With new Musick, Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations. The Overture and Musick by Dr Arnold. The Scenery by Marinari, Rooker, &c. Morning Herald, 26 Aug. 1797: This Day is published The Italian Monk (2s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Afterpiece Title: The Italian Monk

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Related Work: The Italian Monk Author(s): Samuel Arnold

Song: 2nd piece: General Chorus [of Assassins and Nuns (text)]-Linton, Brown, Lyons, Aylmer, Little, Willoughby, Dibble, Kenrick, Caulfield Jun., Mrs Andrews, Miss Menage, Mrs Butler, Mrs Brown, Mrs Benson, Mrs Masters, Mrs Norton, Mrs Gaudry, Miss Leserve

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Overture, Chorusses, and new Musick by Dr Arnold. Scenery by Rooker, Marinari, &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zorinski

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Related Work: Zorinski Author(s): Samuel Arnold

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Overture and Musick by Dr Arnold. Scenery by Marinari, Rooker, &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Italian Monk

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Related Work: The Italian Monk Author(s): Samuel Arnold

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2, by Henry Lee. Larpent MS 1221; not published in this form, but altered by the author in 3 acts, as Caleb Quotem and His Wife!; or, Paint, Poetry, and Putty (J. Roach, 1809)]: The Musick by Dr Arnold. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. "Suett was, as he always is on a first night, most shamefully imperfect" (Monthly Mirror, July 1798, p. 52). [For Lee's accusing Colman, in his The Review, of plagiarism, see Genest, VII, 387-90. And see 1 Sept. 1800.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham

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Related Work: The Battle of Hexham; or, Days of Old Author(s): Samuel Arnold

Afterpiece Title: Throw Physick to the Dogs

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Related Work: Throw Physick to the Dogs! Author(s): Samuel Arnold
Event Comment: 2nd piece [1st time; MD 3, by James Boaden; some of the songs written by George Colman, ynger]: With new Musick, Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations. The new Musick by Dr Arnold. With an appropriate Overture, accompanied by two Pedal Harps and the Union Pipes, by Weippert, C. Jones, and Murphy. The Scenery by Marinari. The Dresses and Decorations designed by A. Johnston, and executed by him and Mrs Egan. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. "Any exertion of impartial criticism to check the prevalent taste for the marvellous and the horrific which so wantonly conjures up the spirit (it was once thought had been for ever laid) of gross superstition and Gothic barbarism must, we fear, prove at present unavailing" (Times, 23 July). Morning Chronicle, 30 July 1798: This Day is published Cambro-Britons (2s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Afterpiece Title: Cambro Britons

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Related Work: Cambro-Britons Author(s): Samuel Arnold
Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; MD 3, by George Moultrie]: The Overture and Musick by Dr Arnold. Books of the Songs, &c. to be had at the Theatre. Morning Herald, 25 Aug. 1798: This Day is published False and True (2s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False And True

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Related Work: False and True Author(s): Samuel Arnold

Afterpiece Title: Two Strings to Your Bow

Song: In: Chorusses-Linton, Aylmer, Brown, Dibble, Kenrick, Little, Caulfield Jun., Walker, Willoughby, Ms Edward, Ms Menage, Ms Hale, Ms Gawdry, Ms Butler, Ms Masters, Ms Norton, Ms Benson, Ms Leserve

Event Comment: Mainpiece: The Overture and Musick by Dr Arnold. The Scenery by Marinari, Rooker

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Italian Monk

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Related Work: The Italian Monk Author(s): Samuel Arnold

Afterpiece Title: Fortunes Frolick

Event Comment: [For Story see 28 June, 1 and 24 July.] 1st piece: The Overture and Musick by Dr Arnold. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. [2nd piece in place of All in Good Humour, advertised on playbill of 15 July.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False And True

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Related Work: False and True Author(s): Samuel Arnold

Afterpiece Title: Blue Devils

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

Event Comment: Mainpiece: The new Musick with an appropriate Overture by Dr Arnold. The Scenery by Marinari. Books of the Songs, &c., to he had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cambro britons

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Related Work: Cambro-Britons Author(s): Samuel Arnold

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss DeCamp. Mainpiece: The Overture, Chorusses, and new Musick by Dr Arnold. The Scenery by Rooker, Marinari, &c. Morning Chronicle, 9 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Miss DeCamp, No. 14, Tottenham Court Road, near Bedford-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zorinski

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Related Work: Zorinski Author(s): Samuel Arnold

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Song: End: My Mother bids me bind my Hair (by Haydn)-Master Suett (1st appearance in public)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: The Overture, Chorusses and New Musick by Dr Arnold. The Scenery by Rooker, Marinari, &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zorinski

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Related Work: Zorinski Author(s): Samuel Arnold

Afterpiece Title: Tis All a Farce

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2, by the younger George Colman]: To conclude with a View of the Camp near Windsorv. A Military Overture, and the New Musick composed by Dr Arnold. The Scenery painted by S. Whitmore. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. [For Colman's borrowing of the character of Caleb Quotem, see 6 July 1798.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Point Of Honour

Afterpiece Title: The Review or The Wags of Windsor

Related Works
Related Work: The Review; or, The Wags of Windsor Author(s): Samuel Arnold