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Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Tender Husband; Or, The Accomplished Fools

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Cast
Role: Nina Actor: Mrs Bland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Cast
Role: Nina Actor: Mrs Bland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Siege Of Belgrade

Cast
Role: Ghita Actor: Mrs Bland.

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Polonius to Wilson, but "Previous to the play an apology was made by Farren, for the absence of Wilson [see 2 Nov.], and requesting the Audience to accept of Munden in Polonius, which they chearfully assented to, and his performance justified their opinion" (Thespian Magazine, Dec. 1792, p. 153). "Hamlet is perfectly within the scope of [Holman's] powers; but his performance last night did not exhibit one discriminate feature of the character. He 'out Heroded Herod' throughout, with more than his usual perseverance. The praise of the evening rests with Munden, who laudably endeavoured to rescue Polonius from the buffoonery which has hitherto disgraced him" (Morning Herald, 6 Nov.). Afterpiece in place of Oscar and Malvina, advertised on playbill of 3 Nov.] Receipts: #319 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Careless Husband, advertised on playbill of 5 Nov. On the playbill no mention is made of the Epilogue (which is by Miles Peter Andrews), but "Lewis...was obliged to come forth at the unanimous call of the audience to speak the Epilogue" (Thespian Magazine, Dec. 1792, p. 153).] Receipts: #250 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist; Or, Stop Him Who Can

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Dance: End: The Wapping Landlady-Blurton, King, Mrs Watts

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains R. Palmer as Sir H. Lovewit , but he was ill, and Benson "at very short notice [supplied] Palmer's place" (Thespian Magazine, Dec. 1792, p. 150).] Receipts: #164 7s. (110.10; 50.9; 3.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Know Your Own Mind

Cast
Role: Bygrove Actor: Bland

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Cast
Role: Nina Actor: Mrs Bland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Miss Pope as Mrs Larron, but "previous to the play, an apology was made by Palmer for the absence of Miss Pope, who by indisposition was prevented from performing, and requested the audience to accept of Mrs Edwards in the part of Mrs Larron, who, it must be confessed, showed no want of spirit in her performance" (Thespian Magazine, Jan. 1793, p. 169).] Receipts: #195 0s. 6d. (143.16.0; 48.14.0; 2.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Fugitive

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Cast
Role: Nina Actor: Mrs Bland
Event Comment: Mainpiece: In Four Acts. The Music by Dr Arne and Giardini. Books of the Lyric Part of the Drama to be had at the Theatre. [Mrs Pollock is identified in European Magazine, Dec. 1792, p. 456. "Candour and impartiality compel us to advise this lady to desist from a pursuit that affords her not the most distant prospect of success. She is deficient in every dramatic requisite, her person alone excepted" (Morning Herald, 26 Nov.).] Receipts: #182 0s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Afterpiece Title: Animal Magnetism

Dance: End: A New Divertisement-Byrn, Holland, Mme Rossi

Song: In: the Principal Vocal Parts-Miss Broadhurst, Mrs Blanchard, Miss Barnett, Mrs Martyr

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Pirates, advertised on playbill of 6 Dec. In mainpiece the playbill retains Miss Farren as Miss Herbert, but she was absent, and "Mrs Powell was her substitute" (Thespian Magazine, Jan. 1793, p. 171).] Receipts: #150 4s. 6d. (105.2.6; 41.10.0; 3.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Fugitive

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Cast
Role: Nina Actor: Mrs Bland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Belle's Stratagem

Performance Comment: Doricourt-Whitfield; Hardy-Baddeley; Sir George Touchwood-Wroughton; Flutter-Bannister Jun.; Saville-Barrymore; Villars-Benson; Courtall-R. Palmer; Silvertongue-Banks; Crowquil-Jones; Gentlemen-Phillimore, Cooke, Caulfield; Mountebank-Hollingsworth; French Servant-Wewitzer; Porter-Alfred; Dick-Burton; Gibson-Lyons; Tradesman-Fawcett; Tom Fool-Bland; Servant-Webb; Letitia Hardy-Mrs Goodall; Mrs Racket-Miss Pope; Lady Touchwood-Mrs Kemble; Miss Ogle-Miss Tidswell.
Cast
Role: Tom Fool Actor: Bland

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Cast
Role: Antonio Actor: Mrs Bland
Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces The School for Scandal, but "The Public is most respectfully informed that, in consequence of the sudden indisposition of King, The School for Scandal is unavoidably postponed. This Evening [will be acted] The Heiress" (printed slip attached to BM playbill (Burney 937.c.II)). Thespian Magazine, Feb. 1793, p. 193, also notes this change.] Receipts: #131 15s. (82.15; 45.8; 3.12)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Cast
Role: Antonio Actor: Mrs Bland

Song: Probably as17921016

Event Comment: ["In the enchanted Island We were presented with a view of an elegant modern built house -so much for propriety!" (Thespian Magazine, Feb. 1793, p. 194.] Receipts: #229 2s. (190.10; 35.1; 3.11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Tempest

Performance Comment: As17921213, but Caliban-Bannister; Miranda-Mrs Crouch; Dorinda-Miss Farren.
Cast
Role: Miranda Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: Ferdinand Actor: Kelly
Role: Ariel Actor: Mrs Bland

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Dance: In afterpiece: Dances, as17921227

Song: Vocal Parts, as17921213, but Sedgwick, Mrs +Crouch

Opera: Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite. As17921213, but Neptune-Sedgwick

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Madge to Mrs Wells, but "We cannot quit this article without noticing the Margery [sic] of Mrs Davis, who gave all the innocent simplicity of the character without 'o'er stepping the modesty of nature'" (Thespian Magazine, Mar. 1793, p. 220. And see 28 Dec. 1792.] Receipts: #237 6s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Museum

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Cast
Role: Antonio Actor: Mrs Bland
Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Quick, but "an apology was made for the non-appearance of Quick, stating his being violently indisposed, and entreating the audience to accept of Fawcett...[who] made a very respectable substitute" (Thespian Magazine, Mar. 1793, p. 221).] Receipts: #315 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Columbus

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Museum

Event Comment: Mainpiece: In Act II an Ovation; or, Entry of Coriolanus into Rome. ["The grand triumphant entry would have disgraced a barn; The displeasure of the audience was loudly manifested to it" (Thespian Magazine, Apr. 1793, p. 242).] In Act V a Procession of Roman Matrons to the Volscian Camp. [Afterpiece in place of The Mayor of Garratt, advertised on playbill of 21 Feb.] Receipts: #149 19s. (145.8; 4.11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay Coriolanus

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah; Grand Selection 0

Cast
Role: Leader of the Band Actor: G. Ashley

Song: End oratorio: Captivity [see17930220]-Incledon

Music: End Part II: the favourite concerto of Geminiani on the violin-G. Ashley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Performance Comment: Osmyn-Pope; King-Farren; Garcia-Macready; Gonsalez-Harley; Selim-Evatt; Alonzo-Powel; Hali-Davies; Perez-Thompson; Almeria-Mrs Pope; Leonora-Mrs Platt; Zara-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage, and the only night of her performing this season [Miss Edge]).Miss Edge]).

Afterpiece Title: Oscar and Malvina

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Jessica to Mrs Bland, but "an apology was made stating the indisposition of Mrs Bland, and requesting that Miss Heard might be permitted to perform Jessica, which was agreed to" (Thespian Magazine, Apr. 1793, p. 243). In afterpiece the playbill assigns Mrs Matadore to Mrs Hopkins, but "Benson informed the audience that owing to a mistake in the bills, Mrs Hopkins's Name had been inserted instead of Mrs Booth's (ibid).] Receipts: #139 11s. (136.12; 2.19)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; Ball. P 2(?), by James Byrn. Not in Larpent MS; not published. Synopsis of action in Public Advertiser, 11 Mar.]: The Music selected from Shield, Haydn, Dibdin, Pleyel, Reeve, and other eminent Composers. The Pantomime composed by Byrn. The Scenery entirely new, by Hodgins, Pugh, Walmsley. With new Dresses and other Decorations. Receipts: #250 12s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every One Has His Fault

Cast
Role: Lord Norland Actor: Farren

Afterpiece Title: The Governor; or, The Creolian Insurrection

Performance Comment: European Officer-Byrn; Henriquez (the Governor)-Follett; Insurgent Chief-Farley; Blacks, Creolians-Holland, Platt, Ratchford, King, Jackson, Blurton; Creolian Insurgents-Rayner, Wilde, Allen, Powers, Gaurion; Spanish Officers-Evatt, Lee, Rowson, Coombs; Natives of the Island-Jones, Richardson, Dodimear [the playbill erroneously calls each one of the Natives 'Miss'; see17930316 Notaries-Hill, Smith; The Grandchild-Master Menage; Creolian Girl-Miss Smith; Creolian Women-Mrs Ratchford, Mrs Bayzand; Black Women-Mrs Watts, Miss Francis, Mrs Crowe, Mrs Cranfield; Donna Juliana (Daughter to the Governor)-Mme Rossi.
Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Siddons. Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by Arthur Murphy. Prologue by John Philip Kemble (see text). Author of Epilogue unknown; European Magazine, Apr. 1793, p. 306, prints two Epilogues: the one spoken by Mrs Siddons, and the one "as originally written by Thomas? Vaughan"]. Morning Herald, 20 Mar. 1793: This day is published The Rival Sisters (1s. 6d.). Morning Herald, 25 Feb.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Siddons, No. 49, Great Marlborough-street. Receipts: #451 6s. 6d. (243.1.0; 21.18.0; 1.18.0; tickets: 184.9.6) (charge: #154 9s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Rival Sisters

Performance Comment: [Principal Characters by Wroughton, Palmer, Kemble, Packer, Caulfield, Phillimore, Mrs Siddons, Mrs Powell. Cast from text John Bell, 1793): Periander-Wroughton; Theseus-Palmer; Perithous-Kemble; Archon-Packer; Aletes-Caulfield; Officer-Phillimore; Ariadne-Mrs Siddons; Phaedra-Mrs Powell; Prologue-Wroughton; Epilogue-Mrs Siddons. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances, except on 13 Apr.]These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances, except on 13 Apr.]
Cast
Role: Periander Actor: Wroughton

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Cast
Role: Nina Actor: Mrs Bland
Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT 1, arranged by Thomas Goodwin. Monologue by Miles Peter Andrews (Yale, Folio Pamphlets No. 10, p. 157)]. Morning Herald, 19 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Lewis, Bow-street. Receipts: #466 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: The Relief of Williamstadt; or, The Return from Victory

Performance Comment: Vocal Parts-Incledon, Darley, Gray, Linton, Mrs Clendining; SCENE I. A Camp. How stands the glass around-Incledon; Good subjects with jolly full bottle-Incledon, Darley, Gray; Scene II. A View of the Scheldt. Gentle Soldier oft you've told me (composed by Dr Arne)-Incledon, Mrs Clendining; Scene III. The French Troops preparing for the Siege. With a View of the Fort. Scene IV. The Storming of the Fort by Figures in Perspective; and the Repulse of the Enemy. Oh what a charming thing's battle-Incledon (1st time); Scene V. The Temple of Mars, with the Return from Victory. Great Britain still her charter boasts-(composed by Shield).

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Dance: In 2nd piece: Byrn, Holland, Mrs Watts, Mme Rossi

Entertainment: Monologue. A new Occasional Address in the character of Goldfinch ,-Lewis

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by Richard Cumberland; music ascribed to Capt. Warner. Larpent MS 976; not published]: With entire new Music, new Scenes and Dresses. Books of the Songs [C. Dilly,1793] to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #224 0s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Armourer

Related Works
Related Work: The Armourer Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Afterpiece Title: Lovers' Quarrels

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. [In afterpiece the playbill assings Lazarillo to R. Palmer, but "Bland appeared in Lazarillo instead of R. Palmer" (Thespian Magazine, May 1793, p. 266).] Morning Herald, 2 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bensley, No. 21, Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury. Receipts: #201 10s. (93.4; 16.1; tickets: 92.5) (charge: #94 19s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

Performance Comment: Don Guzman-Hollingsworth; Don Ferdinand-Barrymore; Don Carlos-Whitfield; Don Pedro-Benson; Octavio-Caulfield; Muskato-Bannister Jun.; Lazarillo-Bland; Lawyer-Maddocks; Notary-Fawcett; Marcella-Mrs Goodall; Aurora-Mrs Kemble; Beatrice-Mrs Jordan; Leonarda-Mrs Booth.
Cast
Role: Don Ferdinand Actor: Barrymore
Role: Lazarillo Actor: Bland