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12 February 1795 @ Covent Garden

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Mainpiece Title: The Mysteries Of The Castle

Afterpiece Title: Mago and Dago

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16 February 1795 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mysteries Of The Castle

Afterpiece Title: Mago and Dago

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23 February 1795 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: England Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: Mago and Dago

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02 March 1795 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: England Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: Mago and Dago

Cast

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12 January 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Richards (scene painter) as per Bill #25 4s. Paid Mr Gard for performing 14 nights in the Ostrich to 11th inst. inclusive, #1 15s. (Account Book). [Richards possibly Painted the new scene of the Pantheonv added to Harlequin Sorcerer on 6 Jan. Mr Gard continued to receive the standard wage of 2s. 6d. per naght for performing this bird each time Harlequin Sorcerer was put on. No further notation of his payments as they occur in the account books will be made. He was paid usually after about every 12 of 14 performances.] Receipts: #166 6s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

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08 October 1767 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: RRomeo and Juliet oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of Indisposition of Powell. Paid Jos. Besford for performing the Lyon two nights in Perseus 5s.; Paid Wm Gard for performing on the Horse and in the Lyon two nights in Perseus 7s. (Account Book). [See Perseus and Andromeda 19 and 25 Sept.] Receipts: #103 7s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: II: Pantomime Dance, as17670926

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10 February 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Wm Gard for performing in the Lyon 12 Nights #1 10s. Paid Thomas Singleton for the same #1 10s.; Paid Henry Williams for performing the Bells 4 nights #1 10s. (Account Book). [Epilogue is Larpent MS 306.] Receipts: #194 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Cast

Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Gardner

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jubilee

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15 February 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: LLalauze stated he had been 42 years an inhabitant of this country,--retained by Rich 32 years, who promis'd him an annuity of #50 a year whenever he was incapable of performing. This was not in his Will but the Executors allowed it him 3 years. Having sold the property they discontinued it; The new parties engag'd him last year but they would not this season. So Foote gave him the House of 14 Feb. at Haymarket gratis (Winston MS 10). Paid Henry Williams for performing the Bells 4 nights #1 10s. Paid Wm Gard 4 nights in the Lyon 10s.--and Thos Singleton for same 10s. (Account Book). Receipts: #188 13s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Cast

Role: Provost Actor: Gardner

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jubilee

Dance: IV: Dutch Dance, [The Dutch Milk Maid] as17691111

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20 February 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The usual payments to Williams, Gard, and Singleton for 4 nights' work. See 15 Feb.] Receipts: #157 11s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Cast

Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Gardner

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jubilee

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24 February 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A tragedy [by John Hoole] never performed. Paid Williams for performing the Bells 3 nights #1 2s. 6d.; Paid Gard and Singleton each 7s. 6d. for performing 3 nights in the Lyon (Account Book). [Mainpiece reviewed in the Freeholder's Magazine, March.] Receipts: #227 6s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timanthes

Performance Comment: Parts-Smith, Bensley, Clarke, Wroughton, Gardner, Davis, R. Smith, Mrs Bulkley, Mrs Yates. Prologue and Epilogue in Act III a Procession. The Vocal parts-Reinhold, Mrs Baker, Mrs DuBellamy, Baker, Fox. Timanthes-Smith; Demaphoon-Bensley; Mathusius-Clarke; Cherinthus-Wroughton; Adrastus-Gardner; Orcanes-Davis; Cephisa-Mrs Bulkley; Ismena-Mrs Yates; playbill matched with 1770 Edn. The 1770 Edn. includes Olinthus-;,a child but specifies no actor. Playbill includes R. Smith; but assigns no part. In Act III, a Procession-; the Vocal Parts-Reinhold, Mrs Baker, DuBellamy, Baker, Fox; Prologue-Bensley; Epilogue-Mrs Bulkley.

Cast

Role: Parts Actor: Smith, Bensley, Clarke, Wroughton, Gardner, Davis, R. Smith, Mrs Bulkley, Mrs Yates. Prologue and Epilogue in Act III a Procession. The Vocal parts-Reinhold, Mrs Baker, Mrs DuBellamy, Baker, Fox. Timanthes-Smith
Role: Adrastus Actor: Gardner

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Entertainment: II: Concert on Hautboy-Simpson

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20 March 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Woodward. Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years. [See 7 May 1766.] Charges #74 4s. Balance to Woodward #82 7s. plus income from 190 Box tickets, #47 10s.; Paid Williams 3 nights performing the Bells, #1 2s. 6d., and Gard & Singleton 3 nights for perfoming in the Lyon 7s. 6d. each (Account Book). Receipts: #156 11s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse; Or, Virtue In Danger

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jubilee

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03 May 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miles. Charges #73 16s. Balance to Miles #47 14s. plus #119 7s. from tickets (Box 226; Pit 331; Gallery 132). Williams, Gard & Singleton rec'd customary Pay for performing the Bell and the lion in the Pantomime [see 15 Feb.] (Account Book). Receipts: #121 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jubilee

Dance: III: A Minuet-King, Miss Twist; IV: The Tartars, as17691207

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17 May 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: CCymbeline cannot be performed on account of Indisposition of Mrs Yates. Tickets delivered by Stoppelaer and Mas. Harris, will be taken. Charges: half house-charges, plus half-value of tickets #89 15s., minus half value of receipts left a deficit to Stoppelaer of #54 8s., covered by income from Tickets of #105 19s. (Box 144; Pit 335; Gallery 197). [Harris seems to have had no charges and to have cleared #38 12s. from tickets (Box 97; Pit 51; Gallery 67). William Gard and Singleton performed as usual in Harlequin's Jubilee and received customary pay. See 15 Feb.] (Account Book.) Receipts: #70 14s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jubilee

Dance: II: The Dutch Dance, as17691111

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24 May 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tickets deliver'd by Saunders will be taken. Half House charge, plus half extras and half value of tickets came to #63 9s. 6d. [This minus half the receipts left a deficit to Saunders of #37 11s. 9d., just covered by] income from tickets #53 17s. (Box 89; Pit 158; Gallery 79); William Gard and Singleton rec'd usual pay [see 15 Feb.] (Account Book). Receipts: #51 14s. Half value of tickets received from Ellis, Stephenson, Bushell and Francis

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Cast

Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Gardner

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jubilee

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28 May 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Last time of performing this season. Williams for performing the Bells 7s. 6d.; Gard and Singleton 2s. 6d. each for performing in the lion. LeLewes and Quick paid up deficiencies for last season, and Ansell and Green theirs for the 26th inst. (Account Book). Receipts: #155 17s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timanthes

Cast

Role: Parts Actor: Smith, Bensley, Clarke, Wroughton, Gardner, Davis, R. Smith, Mrs Bulkley, Mrs Yates. Prologue and Epilogue in Act III a Procession. The Vocal parts-Reinhold, Mrs Baker, Mrs DuBellamy, Baker, Fox. Timanthes-Smith
Role: Adrastus Actor: Gardner

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jubilee

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27 February 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Mrs Baks for walking 13 nights in King Henry VIII to 15th Inst.: #3 5s. (Account Book). [Mrs Baks as a walking super seems to have done better in salary at 4s. 1d. per night than did the men (Gard &c.) who perform'd as Ostriches, Asses, Hogs &c. in the afterpieces at 2s. 6d. per night. The difference may have depended upon whether one was a mute in a mainpiece or an afterpiece.] Receipts: #159 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: As17730218, but Foigard-Saunders.

Cast

Role: Foigard Actor: Saunders.
Role: Foigard Actor: Fox
Role: Gibbet Actor: Gardner

Afterpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

Cast

Role: Mrs Macklin Actor: Mrs Gardner.

Dance: IV: The Fingalian Dance with Double Hornpipe, as17720921; End: New Dance, as17730206

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16 December 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A Comic Opera altered [by Colman] from Gay. The Music entirely new by Dr Arne. Now acted for the first time in 2 Acts. [The 1776 Edition in Bell's British Theatre lists: Achilles-Mattocks; Peripas-$Reinhold; Lycomedes-$DuBellamy; Diphilus-$Dyer; Ajax-$Dunstall; Ulysses-$Owenson; Diomedes-$Fox; Argytes-$Baker; Deidamia-$Mrs Mattocks; Artemona-$Miss Brown; Philoe-$Miss Valois; Thetis-$Miss Catley. [$Miss Pearce may have played Lesbia).] Paid Banks for the Head of a Figure used in The Fair #1 1s.; Paid Mr Gard for performing 5 nights in the Fair and 3 in the Sorcerer #1. Paid Joseph Besford for performing 5 nights in the Fair 12s. 6d. (Account Book). [Afterpiece unfavorably reviewed in the Westminster Magazine.] Receipts: #149 18s. 6d. (Account Book)

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Mainpiece Title: England Preserv'd

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Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

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Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: II: Pantomime Dance, as17670926

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Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jubilee

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Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jubilee

Dance: IV: Dutch Dance, [The Dutch Milk Maid] as17691111

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Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jubilee

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Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Entertainment: II: Concert on Hautboy-Simpson

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Mainpiece Title: The Relapse; Or, Virtue In Danger

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jubilee

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Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jubilee

Dance: III: A Minuet-King, Miss Twist; IV: The Tartars, as17691207

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Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jubilee

Dance: II: The Dutch Dance, as17691111

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Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

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Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jubilee

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Mainpiece Title: Timanthes

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Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jubilee

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Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

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Afterpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

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Dance: IV: The Fingalian Dance with Double Hornpipe, as17720921; End: New Dance, as17730206

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Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: Achilles in Petticoats