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Event Comment: A humorous and diverting Droll. Hippisley and Chapman's Booth, George Inn Yard, Smithfield. [Repeated 24, 25, 26 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The French Doctor Outwitted; With The Comical Humours Of Sly Boots The Sham Physician

Song: Bencraft, Davis; an entire new Ballad-Mr Bencraft, in the character of the valiant Dragoon who retook the Standard at the Battle of Dettingen

Dance: I: Austrian Dance-Bencraft, Adams; II: Highland Dance-Bencraft, Adams

Event Comment: Benefit Cibber Jun. Tickets and places to be had of Hobson at the stage door. Tickets deliver'd out by Mr Moore, and tickets deliver'd out for the Distress'd Wife dated 16 March will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode; Or, Sir Fopling Flutter

Performance Comment: Sir Fopling Flutter-Cibber Jun; Dorimant-Mills; Young Bellair-Blakes; Mrs Loveit-Mrs Woffington; Belinda-Mrs Elmy; Pert-Mrs Macklin; Medley-Bridges; Old Bellair-Taswell; Shoemaker-Neale; Handy-Usher; Smirk-Simpson; Page-Master Wilks; Harriet-Mrs Mills; Emilia-Mrs Ridout; Lady Townly-Mrs Bennet; Lady Woodly-Mrs Cross; Busy-Miss Minors; Orange Woman-Mrs Bridges; New Epilogue-Mrs Woffington in Man's Cloaths, and address'd to the Young Gentlemen who call themselves the Town.
Related Works
Related Work: The Man of Mode; or, Sir Fopling Flutter Author(s): Sir George Etherege

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Song: I: Mrs Mozeen; III: Lowe

Dance: II: The Mechels; IV: Muilment; V: Salomon, Sga Padouana, Salomon's son

Event Comment: For one night only. Never acted before. By particular desire. An Historical Play, taken from Holinshead's Chronicles, and written by the late Mr Lillo, Author of George Barnwell. Tickets for Boxes and Pit to be had of Mr Cross, at his House in Crown Court, Russel St., Covent Garden; and of Mr Varney at the Stage Door. 7 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arden Of Feversham

Performance Comment: Mayor-Burton; Arden-Havard; Franklin-Scrase; Michael-Wignell; Green-Packer; Moseby-Bransby; Bradshaw-Johnston; Black Will-Phillips; George Shadebag-Vaughan; Alicia-Young Gentlewoman, who never appeared on any stage; Maria-Miss Barton.
Cast
Role: George Shadebag Actor: Vaughan
Related Works
Related Work: Arden of Feversham Author(s): George LilloJoseph George Holman

Dance: II: A New Dutch Dance, as17590515; End: The Threshers-Master Settree, Master Blagdon, Miss Twist; with a Prologue-; Epilogue-

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Catley and Hull. Afterpiece: By Desire, but for last time this season. No Building on Stage (playbill). [The Briton" song is Larpent MS 203, high praise of George III, as a truly British king.] Such as please to send for tickets shall have the words of the Ode gratis

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Song: I: A New Ode, call'd A Briton the Son of a Briton- set to music by Bates. Vocal parts: Mattocks, Miss Catley; in IV: Nymphs and Shepherds-Miss Catley

Dance: A New Comic Dance, as17630224

Event Comment: Benefit for Dibdin. Paid Duke of Bedford half year's rent to Lady Day last (#182 10s. Taxes allowed #25 7s.) #157 3s.; Subscription to St George's Hospital 1 year to Lady Day, #10 10s.; Mr Calthorpe's 2nd and last payment #157 10s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #134 2s. Charges: #68 15s. Profits to Dibdin: #65 12s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Cast
Role: Sebastian Actor: Cautherly

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Song: End: Several Catches and Glees, part of which will be entirely New, Composed-Dibdin, for that evening, and Part selected from the most admired Composers

Dance: The Sailors Revels, as17711008

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By desire. Last time of the company's performing this season. [The Epilogue recites the mock burial of this King of Brentford reviewing certain high points of his management. A mock heroic written by Colman and printed in the Gentleman's Magazine for June 1774 (p. 280). He sold his share for #20,000, which was #5,000 more than he paid for it. (See Page, George Colman, The Elder.) Rec'd half value of ticket returns from 13 servants amounting to #98 3s. 6d. Receipts: #124 8s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Entertainment: After Opera: the Last New Occasional Epilogue, on the Departure of the Manager,-Miss Barsanti

Event Comment: A sacred Oratorio selected from the works of $George Frederick Handel, Esq.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Omnipotence; Judas Maccabaeus

Music: End Part First: A New Concerto on 3 Chromatic French Horns-(being their first performance); After Part Second: a Concerto on the Violin-Lamotte

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Sharp and Mrs Brereton. [Afterpiece: Prologue by George Colman elder.] Receipts: #175 18s. (64.12; 34.2; 0.17; tickets:76.7) (charge: #65 0s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton; or, High Life above Stairs

Performance Comment: Sir J. Trotley (with the original Prologue)-King; Col. Tivy-Brereton; Davy-Parsons; Jessamy-Lamash; Lord Minikin-Dodd; Lady Minikin-Miss Pope; Gymp-Mrs Colles; Miss Tittup-Mrs Brereton (1st appearance in that character).

Dance: End: New Dance-the Miss Stageldoirs

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick. 1st piece: Never acted here; with Alterations. 3rd piece [1st time; F 2, author unknown, based on George Dandin, by Moliere, and on The Amorous Widow, by Thomas Betterton, and on the anonymous No Wit Like a Woman's. Text 1st published by S. Bladon, 1788.]. Receipts: #283 8s. 6d. (186.11.6; tickets: 96.17.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle; or, A Wife at her Wit's End

Event Comment: Benefit for Whitfield. 2nd piece: Written by George Colman, Esq. Not acted these 10 years [acted 20 Dec. 1777]. After which, a Grand Procession of the principal Characters of Shakespeare, as exhibited at the Jubilee at Stratford upon Avon [in Sept. 1769]. Public Advertiser, 5 May: Tickets to be had of Whitfield at his house, Leicester Court, Castle Street, Leicester Fields. Receipts: #114 4s. (45/18; tickets: 68/6) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Performance Comment: Marcourt-Whitfield; Kitchen-Thompson; Frankly-Davies; Cross-Fearon; Charlotte-Mrs Whitfield; Sally-A Very Young Lady, the same that performed it in the Haymarket [on 18 June 1783] (1st appearance on this stage [Miss Logan]); Landlady-Mrs Davenett; Lettice-Mrs Morton; Mrs Cross-Mrs Webb .

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Dance: End of 2nd piece The Poney Races, as17840504

Song: Procession to conclude with a new Theatrical Glee, composed by Shield, by Reinhold, Brett, Johnstone

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Martyr. 2nd piece [1st time; O 1, by John Wolcot. Larpent MS 770; not published]: Being a Translation from the French Opera of that name [Nina; ou, La Folle par Amour, by Benoit Joseph Marsollier des Vivetieres], now performing at Paris with universal applause. With the original Music [by Nicolas Dalayrac, adapted by William Shield and William Thomas Parke. Two other versions of this opera, both unacted, were published this year: one anonymous, and one by George Monck Berkeley]. Receipts: #300 8s. 6d. (150.0.0; 2.18.0; tickets: 147.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fontainbleau

Afterpiece Title: Nina

Performance Comment: [Principal Characters-Brown, Hull, Thompson, Darley, Miss Wilkinson, Mrs Martyr. Cast adjusted from score (Longmans and Broderip [1787]), and playbill of 28 Nov. 1793: Germueil-Brown; Count-Hull; Villager-Thompson; George-Darley; Eliza-Miss Wilkinson; Nina-Mrs Martyr.
Cast
Role: George Actor: Darley

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Song: Between acts 1st piece: an entire new song, The Nymph's Refusal-Mrs Martyr

Event Comment: [Afterpiece: Prologue by George Colman, elder.] Paid Danby for Chorus #10 10s. Receipts: #174 5s. 6d. (146.12.0; 27.8.6; 0.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton; or, High Life above Stairs

Performance Comment: Sir John Trotley-King; (with the original) Prologue-King; Colonel Tivy-Barrymore; Davy-Suett; Jessamy-Lamash; Lord Minikin-R. Palmer; Lady Minikin-Miss Pope; Gymp-Miss Tidswell; Miss Tittup-Miss Farren.

Dance: End I: a New Dance, as17871026

Song: V: song-Mrs Forster

Event Comment: Benefit for Edwin. Tickets delivered for Wednesday last, the 15th inst., will be admitted. Public Advertiser, 4 Apr.: Tickets [for 15 Apr.] to be had of Edwin, No. 19, Piazza, Covent-Garden. Mainpiece: Written by Dr Goldsmith. Afterpiece: By Permission of [George Colman elder, owner of the copyright]. Receipts: #326 1s. 6d. (228.6.6; 9.13.0; tickets: 88.2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Good-natured Man

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Song: End: a new comic song, Four@and@Twenty Periwigs all on a Row-Edwin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Abroad And At Home

Performance Comment: Harcourt (with the Battle Song, from The Italian Villagers, composed by Shield)-Incledon; Sir Simon Flourish (1st time)-Emery; Captain O'Neill-Johnstone; Old Testy-Munden; Young Flourish-Fawcett; Young Testy-Knight; Bluff-Townsend; Snare-Claremont; Tipstaff-Simmons; Kitty-Mrs Martyr; Lady Flourish-Mrs Litchfield; Miss Hartley-Miss Poole; (for that night only; a New Obligato Song-Miss Poole;, accompanied on the violin-Mountain.
Related Works
Related Work: Abroad and at Home Author(s): Joseph George Holman

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner at Large

Performance Comment: Muns-Fawcett; Jack Connor-Betterton; Lord Edmond-Mansel; Father Frank-Waddy; Frill-Farley; Tough-Rees; Dowdle-Munden; Rachael-Miss Sims; Mary-Mrs Gibbs; Adelaide-Miss Chapman.
Cast
Role: Father Frank Actor: Waddy

Afterpiece Title: Fun and Frolic; or, Sailors' Revels

Performance Comment: Vocal Parts-Johnstone, Munden, Fawcett, Incledon, Townsend, Linton, Street; With a jolly full bottle- [see17990528]; Boxing the Compass-Fawcett; Young William-, the melody by Incledon [and see17990606; Four and Twenty Fidlers-Munden; Brave Betty was a maiden Queen-Johnstone; Song-Townsend; The New Mariners-Chorus.

Song: In course Evening: The Storm-Incledon; Black Ey'd Susan-Incledon; Mad Tom of Bedlam (in character)-Incledon; Together let us range (composed by Boyce)-Incledon, Miss Poole

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is in the L. C. list, 5@139, p. 125: Love in a Tub. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge; Or, Love In A Tub

Related Works
Related Work: The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub Author(s): Sir George Etherege
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This play is on the L. C. list, 5@139, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge; Or, Love In A Tub

Related Works
Related Work: The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub Author(s): Sir George Etherege
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@139, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Would If She Could

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@139, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Would If She Could

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@139, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Would If She Could

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This play is on the L. C. list, 5@139, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347. Pepys, Diary, 31 May: At the play at court the other night, Mrs Davis was there; and when she was to come to dance her jigg, the Queene would not stay to see it, which people do think it was out of displeasure at her being the King's whore, that she could not bear it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Would If She Could

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This play is on the L. C. list at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 14

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge; Or, Love In A Tub

Related Works
Related Work: The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub Author(s): Sir George Etherege
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage", p. 15

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Would If She Could

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. lists at Harvard. See VanLennep, "Plays on the English Stage," p. 18: Love in a Tubb. Downes, Roscius Anglicanus, p. 32: [After Sir Martin Marall] Next was Acted Love in a Tub, it was perform'd 2 Days together to a full Audience

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge; Or, Love In A Tub

Related Works
Related Work: The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub Author(s): Sir George Etherege
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 2: Loue in a Tubb. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge; Or, Love In A Tub

Related Works
Related Work: The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub Author(s): Sir George Etherege
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 216.See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 348

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Would If She Could