Event Comment: [
Miss Brown is identified by MS annotation on
Kemble playbill. "Notwithstanding
the bills...[she acted]
the summer before last, on
the boards of
the Richmond theatre" (
Monthly Mirror, Nov. 1798, p. 308). In afterpiece
the playbill retains
Mrs Roffey as
Nelly, but she "who usually performed
the part of
the Servant Maid, [was] suddenly taken ill; her substitute [was]
Miss Tidswell" (
Morning Herald, 12 Nov.).] Account-Book: Received of
Hammersley & Co., lent to pay
the Company #500; paid
Lowndes, printer, #10; Chorus #6;
Rablus, tallow candles, #10. Receipts: #203 12s. (126.3.6; 76.7.6; 1.1.0)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Rivals
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Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper
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Related Work: No Song No Supper Author(s): Prince Hoare