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Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. 3rd piece [1st time; F 1, by Horatio Edgar Robson, based on La Bonne Mere, by Jean Pierre Claris de Florian]: Now reading with universal Applause by Mons. LeTexier. Public Advertiser, 9 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street. Ibid., 8 Oct. 1788: This Day is published Look before You Leap (1s.)

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Mainpiece Title: The Catch Club i

Afterpiece Title: Gretna Green

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Role: Serjeant Actor: Davies

Afterpiece Title: Look before You Leap

Related Works
Related Work: La Bonne Mère Author(s): Jean Pierre Claris de Florian

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Entertainment: Monologue End 1st piece: George Alexander Stevens's Original Lecture on Heads (Head of Alexander the Great, Head of a Cherokee Chief, Head of a Quack-Doctor, Cuckold's Head, Nobody's Head, The laughing and crying Philosophers' Heads, Head of Flattery, A fine Lady's Head, Head of an Old Maid, Cleopatra's Head, Plain Moll's Head, Head of a Married Lady)-Palmer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: Look before You Leap

Related Works
Related Work: La Bonne Mère Author(s): Jean Pierre Claris de Florian

Afterpiece Title: Such Things Have Been

Song: End 3rd piece: Paddy's Ramble from Dublin to Londonwritten and to be sung-Ryder

Entertainment: Monologue. In course of Entertainments: Bucks have at Ye All-Ryder

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Jordan. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Simon, based partly on La Bonne Mere, by Jean Pierre Claris deFlorian; incidental music by Johann Gottlieb Nicolai. Larpent MS 940; not published]: To conclude with a Rural Breakfast [a representation of that given by the Countess of Buckinghamshire for the Prince of Wales at her villa near London (Genest, VII, 53)], and a Dance by the Characters. Morning Herald, 31 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Jordan, No. 14, Somerset-street, Portman-square. Receipts: #548 9s. 6d. (216.8.6; 30.2.0; 5.9.0; tickets: 296.10.0) (charge: #153 5s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Village Coquette

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by George Colman elder, based on Le Barbier de Seville; ou, La Precaution Inutile, by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais; music by Samuel Arnold and, by attribution, Pierre Alexandre Monsigny. Prologue by the author (Collection...of English Prologues and Epilogues, II, 209). Epilogue by David Garrick (Garrick's Poetical Works, II, 340). Larpent MS 436; not published; synopsis of plot in London Magazine, Sept. 1777, pp. 467-69]: With New Dresses and Scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber Or The Fruitless Precaution

Related Works
Related Work: Le Barbier de Séville; or, La Précaution Inutile Author(s): Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: End: Dance-. [This was included in all subsequent performances.

Event Comment: 2nd piece [1st time; ball. P 3, adapted by Sir George Collier from La Mort du Capitaine Cook a son Troisieme Voyage au Nouveau Monde, by Jean Francois Mussot, dit Arnould. For a detailed synopsis of the action, see 13 Apr.]: As now representing in Paris with uncommon Applause. With the original French Music. New Dresses, Scenery, Machinery and Decorations. Books, containing a description of the Ballet [by James Byrne (World, 23 Mar.)], to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #257 16s. 6d. (247.16.0; 10.0.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comedy Of Errors

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Related Works
Related Work: La Mort du Capitaine Cook à son Troisième Voyage au Noveau Monde Author(s): Jean François Mussot

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Thomas Holcroft, based on Le Mariage de Figaro, by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais; incidental music by William Shield. In 1789 reduced to an afterpiece of 3 acts. Prologue by the author (Europaen Magazine, Dec. 1784, p. 467)]: With new Dresses, Decorations, &c. Public Advertiser, 10 Mar. 1785: This Day is published The Follies of A Day (1s. 6d.). [For an account of Holcroft's shorthand transcription of the original, taken down during a performance in Paris, and the hasty rehearsals of it in London, see Elbridge Colby, A Bibliography of Thomas Holcroft, 1922, pp. 48-50.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Follies Of A Day Or The Marriage Of Figaro

Related Works
Related Work: Le Marriage de Figaro Author(s): Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Event Comment: GGenest, IV, 248, suggests Sowdon for the Gentleman who played Pierre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved Or A Plot Discovered

Performance Comment: Pierre-a Gentleman who never appear'd on any stage before; Jaffier-Ryan; Priuli-Bridges; Duke-Rosco; Bedamar-Gibson; Renault-Paget; Elliot-Ridout; Belvidera-Mrs Giffard.

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Rose Didelot. Tickets to be had of Mrs Rose Didelot, No. 8, Haymarket. 2nd ballet: 1st time; composed by J. D'Egville. [In all subsequent performances this was billed as Tarare.] "D'Egville, Laborie, and St.Pierre are excellent dancers and fine manly figures. Laborie possesses more elegance than St. Pierre; but the latter greater animation. D'Egville displays much taste and poetical spirit in the invention of ballets...[which] are far richer in naive situations, and possess a more free poetical spirit than those of Paris" (Goede, 265-66)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Dance: End I: Hylas et Temire, as17990418; End Opera: Tarare et Irza-D'Egville, Didelot, Laborie, St.Pierre, Fialon, Mrs Rose Didelot, Mrs Hilligsberg, Mrs Laborie, Mrs D'Egville, Miss J. Hilligsberg

Performance Comment: Pierre, Fialon, Mrs Rose Didelot, Mrs Hilligsberg, Mrs Laborie, Mrs D'Egville, Miss J. Hilligsberg.
Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, ascribed variously to John O'Keeffe and to James Foord; adapted from La Gageure Imprevue, by Michel Jean Sedaine. Text prints a Prologue "Supposed to be written by G. Colman, Esq., and intended to be spoken by Bannister Jun.," but "it arrived, by accident, too late at the theatre to be studied and recited" (London Chronicle, 25 Aug.)]. "A new afterpiece was...attempted to be represented, [but] it was not heard out" (Public Advertiser, 19 Aug.). Public Advertiser, 8 Oct. 1788: This Day is published A Key to the Lock (1s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: A Key to the Lock

Related Works
Related Work: La Gageure Imprévue Author(s): Michel Jean Sedaine

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Laron Juge Et Grand Prevost

Afterpiece Title: La Baguette de Vulcain

Related Works
Related Work: La Baguette de Vulcain Author(s): Jean François Regnard

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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Harlequin Lhomme A Bonne Fortune

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Related Work: Arlequin L'homme a bonne fortune Author(s): Jean François Regnard

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Dance: Dutch Burgher Master and his Frow-delaGarde, Mrs Bullock; Moreau's Grand Comic Wedding Dance-; Tumbling by Harlequin Scaramouch Mezetin Piero-; Scene in Imitation of Elard and his Two Sons-; Les Postures-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Divorce Ou Arlequin Fourbe Et Demi

Related Works
Related Work: Le Divorce; ou, Arlequin Fourbe et Demi Author(s): Jean François Regnard

Entertainment: Carillon-Harlequin, others; Vaulting, Tumbling as usual-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Divorce Ou Harlequin Fourbe Fourbe Et Demi

Related Works
Related Work: Le Divorce; ou, Arlequin Fourbe et Demi Author(s): Jean François Regnard

Entertainment: Vaulting, Tumbling-; A Comick Entertainment of Singing and Dancing call'd Le Carillon-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Esprit Follet

Afterpiece Title: Le Divorce

Related Works
Related Work: Le Divorce; ou, Arlequin Fourbe et Demi Author(s): Jean François Regnard

Entertainment: Dancing and Tumbling-; particularly Dancing-Mr Glover being the first Time of his Performance in publick since his return from the Court of Paris; Salle, Mlle Salle

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Divorce

Related Works
Related Work: Le Divorce; ou, Arlequin Fourbe et Demi Author(s): Jean François Regnard

Afterpiece Title: Le Carillion

Dance: As17200509

Entertainment: Tumbling-

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Mainpiece Title: Le Divorce

Related Works
Related Work: Le Divorce; ou, Arlequin Fourbe et Demi Author(s): Jean François Regnard

Afterpiece Title: Le Deuils

Related Works
Related Work: Le Deuil Author(s): Pierre Corneille

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Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Hulla

Related Works
Related Work: Arlequin Hulla Author(s): Jean-Antoine Romagnezi

Afterpiece Title: LEpreuve Reciprogue

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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Hulla

Related Works
Related Work: Arlequin Hulla Author(s): Jean-Antoine Romagnezi

Afterpiece Title: Les Trois Freres Riveaux

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Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Hulla

Related Works
Related Work: Arlequin Hulla Author(s): Jean-Antoine Romagnezi

Afterpiece Title: Crispin Rival de Son Maitre

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Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Hulla

Related Works
Related Work: Arlequin Hulla Author(s): Jean-Antoine Romagnezi

Afterpiece Title: George Dandin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Hulla

Related Works
Related Work: Arlequin Hulla Author(s): Jean-Antoine Romagnezi

Afterpiece Title: Le Grondeur

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Le Misantrope

Afterpiece Title: Arlequin Hulla

Related Works
Related Work: Arlequin Hulla Author(s): Jean-Antoine Romagnezi

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Mainpiece Title: L Foire De St

Afterpiece Title: La Baguette de Vulcain

Related Works
Related Work: La Baguette de Vulcain Author(s): Jean François Regnard

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Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Fausse Coquette Ou Arlequin Magicien

Afterpiece Title: Arlequin Hulla

Related Works
Related Work: Arlequin Hulla Author(s): Jean-Antoine Romagnezi

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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Astrologue Ramoneur Statue Enfant Perroquet With A New Scene Of Arlequin Skelleton

Afterpiece Title: Arlequin Hulla

Related Works
Related Work: Arlequin Hulla Author(s): Jean-Antoine Romagnezi

Dance: The Caprice by Miss Chateauneuf