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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Werter

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Boyce; Clown-Delpini; Pantaloon-Ratchford; Lover-Farley; Barber (with A Twiggle and a Friz)-Edwin; Farmer (with Come Roger and Nell)-Bannister; Shepherd, Shepherdess (with Cast my Love, thine Eyes around)-Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain; Lawyers-Davies, Reeve, Cubitt; Serjeant-W. Powel; 1st Recruit-C. Powell; 2nd Recruit-Cubitt; Artist-Letteney; Carpenter-Lee; Bricklayers-Thompson, Evatt; Doctor-Jackson; Woodcutter-Rock; Monkey-Rayner; Peacock-Sloper; Principal Witches-Darley, Duffey, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Martyr; Fishwomen-Mrs Gray, Mrs Lefevre, Mrs Masters, Mrs White; Colombine-Miss L. Simonet.

Dance: In afterpiece: Byrne, the two Miss Simonets

Song: In III: Epithalamium. Vocal Parts-Darley, Cubitt, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Martyr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

Performance Comment: [and see17891221] Harlequin-Boyce; Clown-Delpini; Pantaloon-Ratchford; Lover-Farley; Farmer (with Come Roger and Nell)-Bannister; Shepherd, Shepherdess (with Cast my Love, thine Eyes around)-Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain; Serjeant-W. Powel; Recruit-C. Powell; Bricklayers-Letteney, Thompson; Carpenter-Lee; Gardener-Ledger; Woodcutter-Rock; Lover's Servant-Platt; Monkey-Rayner; Peacock-Sloper; Principal Witches-Darley, Duffey, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Martyr; Fishwomen-Mrs Gray, Mrs Lefevre, Mrs Masters, Mrs White; Colombine-Mrs Watts.

Dance: As17891231

Event Comment: Principal Instrumental Performers are G. Ashley, leader of the band; C. Ashley, W. Parke, Boyce, Barret, R. Ashley, Parkinson, Woodham, Jenkinson, M'Arthur, the Munros, Purney, Cantelo, Taylor, M'Intosh, Gwilliam, Nicks, Cobham, Leffler, Betts, Flack, Dressler, Cornish, I. Sharp, W. Sharp, M. Sharp, J. Sharp, Ware, J. Ware, Wood, G. Jones, Moorehead, Slezack, Francis, Jackson, Vial, White, &c. Organ by J. Ashley. The Band and Chorusses will be numerous and complete, and assisted by the Trombones and Double Drums, used at Handel's Commemoration at Westminster Abbey [in 1784]. The whole under the direction of Ashley Sen. Places for the Boxes to be had of Brandon at the stage door. The Doors to be opened at 6:00, and the Performance to begin at 7:00 precisely [same throughout oratorio season]. Half Price will be taken at 9:00. Boxes 6s. Pit 3s. 6d. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Books of the Performance to be had at the Theatre (6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Grand Selection 0 Of Sacred Music, From The Works Of handel

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

Music: End II: concerto on the grand piano@forte-Master Neate

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Damaseiles A La Mode

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: III: The Merry Sailors, as17731007; IV: The Highland Reel, as17731112

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: End I: concerto on the violin-Master Pinto (aged Eleven Years, Grandson to the celebrated Performer of that Name [ThomasPinto])

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Citizen

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Dance: Entertainments of Dancing-Master Rogie, Miss Capitani

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Redemption

Music: End of Part I concerto on the violoncello by Mason

Event Comment: Charles II to Madame, 10 Dec. 1663: I am just now going to see a new play (C. H. Hartmann, Charles II and Madame[1934], p. 89). The Duke's Company. W. J. Lawrence, in a review of Boswell, The Restoration Court Stage, in Modern Language Review, XXVIII (1933), 103, suggests that it was The Step-Mother which was given on this occasion. The edition of 1664 lists: The Prologue to the King at the Cockpit at White-Hall. The Epilogue to the King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Step Mother

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: By coach to White Hall, thinking to have met at a Committee of Tangier, but nobody being there but my Lord Rutherford, he would needs carry me and another Scotch Lord to a play, and so we saw, coming late, part of The Generall, my Lord Orrery's (Broghill) second play; but, Lord! to see how no more either in words, sense, or design, it is to his Harry the 5th is not imaginable, and so poorly acted, though in finer clothes, is strange. And here I must confess breach of a vowe in appearance, but I not desiring it, but against my will, and my oathe being to go neither at my own charge nor at another's, as I had done by becoming liable to give them another, as I am to Sir W. Pen and Mr Creed; but here I neither know which of them paid for me, nor, If I did, am I obliged ever to return the like

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Generall

Event Comment: [T$Theophilus Cibber opened the theatre this one night. Mainpiece, a Mock Tragedy by Joseph Reed. Afterpiece, anonymous.] Tickets to be had at the Swan, Westminster Bridge; Forest's Coffee House and Cannon Tavern, Charing Cross; the Tuns in the Borough, Southwark; the Rainbow Coffee House, near the Royal Exchange; and the Bedford Coffee House, Covent Garden. N.B. Tickets for the Author to be had at Mr Briscall's at Parliament-Street Coffee House; the Bedford Head, Southampton St.; Mr Wells at the Crown and W in Russel Court, Covent Garden; Mr Long's in Little Britain; the Union Coffee House in Cornhill; the White Lion in Talbot Court; and the Sun Tavern, Shadwell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Madrigal And Truletta

Afterpiece Title: Sir ThomasCallico; or, The Mock Nabob

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Lessingham. Mainpiece: A Tragedy altered from Dryden [Aureng-Zebe] by Mr W. Addington, never performed before. Afterpiece: Not acted these 4 years. [See 16 May 1770.] Charges #71 2s. Profit to Mrs Lessingham #38 7s. 6d., plus #92 12s. from tickets (Box 186; Pit 146; Gallery 242). Paid Cooper (printer) #36 2s.; Paid Mrs Witaker for a woman's white & silver flower'd suit #10 10s.; Paid John Doe for sticking black bills #6 6s. Receipts: #109 9s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prince Of Agra

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantly

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17731005

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Town-fopp; Or, Sir Timothy Tawdry

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: The Country Revels

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Betty

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caelia; Or, The Perjur'd Lover

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius; Or, The Force Of Love

Afterpiece Title: The Livery Rake; or, The Intriguing Servants

Dance: I: Drunken Peasant-LeBrun; II: Saraband, Minuet-Lally Jr, Miss Mears; IV: English Maggot-Haughton, Mrs Walter; V: The Watteau-Miss Robinson; End of Afterpiece: Bartholomew Fair-F. Tench, Mrs Delorme

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Daphne

Dance: In I of Afterpiece: Les Bergeries-Essex, Haughton, Miss Robinson

Ballet: In II: A Comic Rural Ballad called The Country Revels. Colin-Essex; Phoebe-Mrs Booth; Yeomen-Lally, Haughton; Yeomen's Wives-Miss Mears, Mrs Walter; Peasants-Lally Jr, F. Tench, Davenport; Peasant Women-Mrs Delorme, Miss Mann, Miss Price

Music: Concerto on the Violin-Charke; Music for two Vox Humanes, a new Invented Instrument-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Venus, Cupid, and Hymen

Music: Between the Acts: Trumpets, Kettle Drums, French Horns-; With a new Overture (to the Masque) for two Vox Humanes- , a new invented Instrument

Song: II: Mrs Seedo, who never appeared on the stage before; III: (At the particular Request of Seedo's Friends) Signora Margherita (who has not performed on any theatre these 14 years)

Dance: I: Drunken Peasant-LeBrun; IV: The Watteau-Miss Robinson; End Afterpiece: Les Bergeries-Essex, Haughton, Miss Robinson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore; With The Comical And Diverting Humours Of Sir Anthony Noodle And His Man Weazle

Afterpiece Title: The Gardens of Venus; or, The Truimphs of Love

Dance: I: La Brone and La Blonde-Vallois and Mlle Vallois; II: Hornpipe-Jones Sr, Jones Jr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: The Vocal part-Mrs Arne; late Miss Cecilia Young. With select Songs and Pieces of Musick; compos'd by Mr Arne, particularly, a New Ov e rture-; a new Concerto for Hautboys-; the March in Zara-; with a Comic Medley Overture-; two new Songs in English-; (by particular Desire) a Ballad Air call'd, Come and Listen to my Ditty-Mr Arne on the Violin, with many Variations; Also variety of Pieces by other Authors-; particularly the first and eighth Concertosof Corelli-; two Italian Songs-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: As17410928

Song: As17410928

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: As17420115