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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Dance: II: A New Grand Comic Ballad, called the Venetian Gardeners-M Grandchamps, 1st time of his performing in England, Madem Auretti, Pelling, Shawford, Macneal, George Yates, Harrison, Master Shawford, Mrs Addison, Mlle Mariet, Miss Baker, Mrs Shawford, Mrs L'Font, Miss Shawford; IV: Grand Ballet L'Entree de Flore-Mlle Auretti

Song: III: Master Mattocks

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distressd Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Farmer Deceivd or Harlequin Statue

Dance: PPastoral Dance-Miss Toogood (ten Years of age apprentice to LaLauze being the second time of her appearing on the staee); Louvre, Minuet-LaLauze, Miss Toogood

Event Comment: Benefit for Charles Sarjant (Book and house-keeper)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: As17630406 but Isabinda-Miss Hallam; Patch-Mrs Pitt.
Cast
Role: Isabinda Actor: Miss Hallam
Role: Miranda Actor: Miss Macklin.

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantly

Cast
Role: Mauxalinda Actor: Miss Poitier
Role: Margery Actor: Miss Brent.

Dance: II: A Hornpipe-Sga Manesiere, Miss Twist, the Man, 1st time, Sga Manesiere; the Woman-$Miss Twist; V: The French Gardeners, as17630407

Event Comment: Benefit for Sg Daigville & Signa Vidini. [24 April letter signed Ned Shuter dated from his Majesty's Bench of Justice, St Georges Fields: "Theatrical Memoirs giving circumstantial account of my family-Admit my father was a chairman, my mother sold oysters in winter and cucumbers in summer. I was not born in a cellar but in a two pair of stairs front room at one Mrs Merit's an eminent Chimney Sweeper, Vine Street, St Giles" (Winston MS 10). Thomas Weston's apology for the delay of his Benefit. It was owing to his distressed affairs which he had new laid open to the managers. See comment form Edinburg Evening Courant, 29 April.] Paid Renters #88 for Oratorio nights; Mr Dibdin's draft on managers #50; Master Brown 5 nights, #1 17s. 6d.; Rec'd from Messrs Smith and Stanley charges for 11 Oratorio nights at 28# per night, plus candles &c . #342 4s.; Rec'd stopages #9 16s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #151 4s. Charges: #65 11s. Profits to Daigville & Sga Vidini: #85 13s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Cast
Role: Viola Actor: Miss Young

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Cast
Role: Mrs Bruin Actor: Miss Platt
Role: Mrs Sneak Actor: Miss Pope.

Dance: I: The European in America (for 1st time this Season)-Messieurs Daigvilles, Miss Ross, Sga Vidini; II: A Comic Dance, as17720326 V: Psiche, a Grand Historical Ballet (Never performed before)-Daigville, Giorgi, Sga Daigville, Miss Ross, Sga Vidini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Cast
Role: Adelaide Actor: Miss Satchell
Role: Hortensia Actor: Miss Younge.

Afterpiece Title: The Jovial Crew As17811031 but Meriel 1st time Miss Morris

Cast
Role: Amie Actor: Miss Stuart
Role: Rachel Actor: Miss Catley

Dance: After the Epilogue The Arcadian Festival, as17811108

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Dance: duRuel; Miller's Dance-Pinkeman

Entertainment: And performing these several Performances, first an Organ with three Voices, then the Double Curtel, the Flute, the Bells, the Huntsman, the Horn, Pack of Dogs, all with his Mouth-Mr Clinch of Barnet; and an old Woman of Fourscore Years of Age nursing her Grand/Child all which he does open on the Stage-Mr Clinch; Next performing several Mimick Entertainments on the Ladder, first he stands on the top-round with a Bottle in one hand, and a Glass in the other, and drinks a Health; then plays several Tunes on the Violin, with fifteen other surprizing Performances which no man but himself can do-a Gentleman

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: As17230107, but Miranda-Miss Tenoe; Dorinda-Miss Lindar; Ariel-Y. Wetherilt; Hippolito-Mrs Brett.
Cast
Role: Miranda Actor: Miss Tenoe
Role: Dorinda Actor: Miss Lindar

Song: Singing in Italian-Miss Lindar, being the 2d Time of her Singing upon any Stage; Dear Pretty Youth-

Music: Solo on Little Pipe-Baston

Dance: Dancing after the Turkish Manner, as it was perform'd by the Kister Aga and the Eunuchs of the Seraglio, for the Diversion of the Grand Signior at the last Bairam Feast-

Performances

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Contrivance or The Jealous Yeoman Defeated

Performance Comment: Colombine-Mrs Roberts; Harlequin-Young Woodward; Beau Gamester-Bullock; Dame Gigogne-Miss Wherrit; Genius-Excell; Yeoman-a Gentleman; Pierrot-Burney.
Cast
Role: Dame Gigogne Actor: Miss Wherrit

Dance: II: Two Pierrots-John Wade, the only Time of his appearing on this Stage, Burney; III: Sailor's Dance-a Gentleman belonging to the Sea; IV: A new Pastoral Dance-Burney, Miss Wherrit

Song: I: Bacchanalian Song-Excell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Performance Comment: Amanda-Mrs Giffard; Sir Novelty-Bardin; Loveless-Giffard; Elder Worthy-Richardson; Young Worthy-Havard; Sir William-Lyon; Snap-Yates; Sly-Rosco; Narcissa-Mrs Roberts; Hillaria-Mrs Hamilton; Flareit-Mrs Houghton; Mrs Anne-Miss Tollett.
Cast
Role: Mrs Anne Actor: Miss Tollett.

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Cast
Role: Arabella Actor: Miss Wilson.

Song: I: Since Times are so bad (by Purcell)-Stitchbury, Miss Jones; II: A Purcell Dialogue-Masters Hamilton

Music: Between Play and Entertainment: Handel Concerto on the Welsh Harp-Jones

Dance: III: The Princess of Wales (a new Ball Dance), concluding with a Minuet-Vallois, Miss Oates; IV: French Peasant-Mlle Roland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Song: I: The Truth on Both Sides-Roberts, Miss Hillyard; II: Chancon a Boire-Leveridge, Laguerre; III: By Desire, Purcell's Since Times are so bad-Leveridge, Salway; IV: By particular Desire, The Roast Beef of Old England-Leveridge; V: The Praise of Good English Beer (to the Tune of Trade and Navigation)-Leveridge

Dance: II: Je ne scai quoi-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates; III: Two Pierrots-Lalauze, Nivelon; IV: Grand Ballet, as17380318

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #196 13s. 6d. Paid Mr Hildersley a bill for wig #4 19s. 6d. Rec'd from Barrington #3 5s. 11d. being so much stopp'd from his for 6 nights performance lost on the Princess of Orange's death

Performances

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Dance: As17591012; with a New Comic Dance call'd The Irish Turf@Cutters-Poitier Jr, 1st time here in 3 years, Miss Capdeville

Event Comment: Benefit for Wignel, Stoppelaer, Young. No Building on Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17620927, but King-Walker; Polonius-Stamper; Laertes-Young; Pl. King-Wignel; 2nd Gravedigger-Stoppelaer; Player Queen-Miss Helm.
Cast
Role: Player Queen Actor: Miss Helm.
Role: Ophelia Actor: Miss Macklin

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Cast
Role: Charlotte Actor: Miss Davies.

Dance: IV: A Hornpipe, 1st time-Miss Twist

Entertainment: After: (this night only) Shuter will entertain with his Dish of All Sorts-Shuter; and Titbit for everyone, in which will be served up a humorous conversation between himself, an old man, an honest North Briton and a Gentleman of Connaught, including his ever memorable encounter with a Liverpool Sow, and other whimsical occurrences; The whole to End with: an Address to the Audience-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Cast
Role: Portia Actor: Miss Macklin

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Cast
Role: Lady Actor: Miss Macklin.

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-Miss Ford, 1st time; IV: The Merry Sailors, as17671009; V: A New Comic Dance, as17671021

Event Comment: Tomorrow, Never Perform'd before, a COMEDY call'd The Good Natured Man. Receipts: #199 11s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Cast
Role: Toilette Actor: Miss Mills
Role: Chambermaid Actor: Miss Pearce.

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: III: Hornpipe-Miss Ford, 2nd time ; IV: The Irish Lilt, as17670921

Event Comment: Benefit for Bennet and Stede. Every Man in His Humour oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of indisposition of a principal performer. Tickets deliver'd for Every Man will be taken. Charges #64 10s. Deficit to Bennet and Stede #23 13s. covered by #45 17s. to Bennet from his tickets (Box 6; Pit 195; Gallery 151) and by #33 14s. to Stede from his tickets (Box 16; Pit 102; Gallery 144). Receipts: #40 17s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Cast
Role: Miranda Actor: Miss Macklin.
Role: Scentwell Actor: Miss Pearce.

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Dance: IV: A Hornpipe-Miss Stede, 1st time (Scholar to Fishar)

Event Comment: Benefit for Stoppelaer. Tickets for The Way of the World will be taken. Charges: 1!2 charge for House #31 10s.; 1!2 charge for candles 12s. 6d.; 1!2 charge Tabor & Pipe 5s. 3d.; 1!2 value of tickets #57 16s.: Total #90 3s. 9d. minus 1!2 Receipts #20 14s. equals #69 9s. 9d. deficiency to Stoppelaer. Covered by #115 12s. from tickets (168 Box; 370 Pit; 181 Gallery) and #20 14s. from Receipts. Profit to Stoppelaer was #86 16s. 3d. Paid to Mr Shropshire for 20,000 brushes #4 10s. Receipts: #41 8s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Cast
Role: 1st Nymph Actor: Miss Valois
Role: Dwarf Actor: Miss Ford
Role: 2nd Nymph Actor: Miss Valois

Dance: II: A Hornpipe-Miss Besford, 2nd time

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick, Furkins, Wilkinson, Abbott, Symonds, and others. Tickets deliver'd by Pullin, Claridge, Mrs Griffiths, Bagg, Bassan, Stephenson and Constable will be admitted. [Green and Ansell paid up their deficiencies for 2 June.] @Tickets Box Pit Gallery Value 1!2 Value@Quick 1 20 31 #8 18s. #3 9s.@Furkins 12 52 34 #13 6s. #6 13s.@Wilkinson 27 10 16 #10 3s. #5 1s. 6d.@Abbott 5 56 65 #16 12s. #8 6s.@Simmonds 5 36 24 #8 9s. #4 4s. 6d.@Pullen 2 71 46 #14 10s. #7 5s.@Claridge 8 24 1 #4 11s. #2 5s. 6d.@Griffiths 20 27 #6 1s. #3 6d.@Bagg 36 24 #7 4s. #3 12s.@Bassan 5 50 16 #8 13s. #4 6s. 6d.@Stephenson 23 78 45 #20 6d. #10 3s.@Asbury Gallery 22 8 #3 8s. #1 14s.@Total House value #120 1s. plus the receipts.@ Paid Master Harris for his performance this season #4 4s. Receipts: #25 3s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Performance Comment: As17680407 but Freeman-Hull; Aminadab-Besford.
Cast
Role: Aminadab Actor: Besford.
Role: Ann Lovely Actor: Miss Macklin.

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Cast
Role: 1st Nymph Actor: Miss Valois
Role: Dwarf Actor: Miss Ford
Role: 2nd Nymph Actor: Miss Valois

Dance: II: Hornpipe-Miss Stede, 2nd time (scholar of Fishar)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Hopkins. Paid Tallow Chandler's 7th bill #23 10s. 8d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #169 2s. Charges: #74 14s. Profits to the Hopkins: #94 8s.(Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Performance Comment: As17711226, but Obadiah-Parsons; Abel-Weston; Mrs Day-Mrs Hopkins, 1st time; Ruth-Mrs Abington, 1st time.
Cast
Role: Arabella Actor: Miss Ambrose

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

Related Works
Related Work: The Witch of the Wood; or, The Nutting Girls Author(s): Reginald Spofforth

Entertainment: IV: By Particular Desire, Description of a Man of War and Sea Fight-Moody; IV: Scrub's Trip to the Jubilee-Weston; End: (1st time) Cupid's Remonstranceto the Town-Miss Hopkins

Monologue: I: Linco's Travels. As 24 March

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick. Afterpiece: Altered from Fielding; not acted these 17 years [not acted since 10 May 1759]. Public Advertiser, 3 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Quick at Boyes's, Coachmaker, Long-Acre. Receipts: #278 15s. (160.15; tickets: 118.0) (charge: #65 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Afterpiece Title: Don Quixote in England

Performance Comment: Principal Parts-Lee Lewes, Mahon, Robson, Fearon, Booth, Thompson, Jones, Fox, Wewitzer (with a new song), Miss Ambrose; Partial cast suggested by Genest, V, 567: Don Quixote-Lee Lewes; Sancho-Quick; Dorothea-Miss Valois; Mrs Guzzle-Mrs Pitt.
Cast
Role: Dorothea Actor: Miss Valois

Entertainment: IV: an Interlude between Plutus and Wit and a Masque of Singing and DancingPlutus-Reinhold, Wit- Miss Valois; After dance: +Monologue Tony Lumpkin's Adventures in a Trip to London (1st time)-Quick

Dance: End: The Humours of New@Market with the Pony Races-Dagueville (1st appearance this season)

Event Comment: Benefit for R. Palmer, Williames & Mrs Booth. Receipts: #136 17s. 6d. (28/2/0; 11/2/6; 0/0/0; tickets: 97/13/0) (charge: #106 3s. 5d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Performance Comment: As17820917, but Chambermaid-Miss Tidswell .

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Cast
Role: Lady Harriet Actor: Miss Farren

Song: In Act IV of mainpiece Time bas not thinn'd my flowing Hair by Williames and Miss Phillips

Monologue: 1783 05 14 End of mainpiece The Picture of a Playhouse; or, Bucks have at ye all by R. Palmer

Event Comment: The Subscription being at an end for this Season [see 14 June] those Subscribers who wish to retain the use of their Boxes for the following Nights may have them kept by sending their Commands on Tuesdays and Saturdays in the Forenoon to P. MacMahon, No. 77, next door to the Opera House, Haymarket, where Orders (in Writing) for the ensuing Season will be received

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Viaggiatori Felici

Dance: End of Act I an entirely New Divertissement (1st time; composed by Simonet) by Lepicq, Mme Rossi, Sg and Sga Angiolini, Zuchelli, Mme Bithmer, Duquesney, Miss Harvey, Frederic, Nivelon, Mlle Dorival; End of Opera The Deserter, as17850614

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Little Hunchback

Cast
Role: Dora Actor: Miss Rowson
Role: Dora Actor: Miss Rowson

Dance: End II: As17891013; End: The Guardian Outwitted (1st time at this theatre)-Byrne, Boyce, Ratchford, the two Miss Simonets. [This was 1st performed at the king's, 11 Jan. 1783, as Le Tuteur Trompe.

Performance Comment: [This was 1st performed at the king's, 11 Jan. 1783, as Le Tuteur Trompe.]
Event Comment: Benefit for Munden. Morning Chronicle, 30 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Munden, No. 8, Portsmouth-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. Receipts: #334 17s. (157.19.6; 3.11.6; tickets: 173.6.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Woud Be A Soldier

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Cast
Role: Norah Actor: Miss Francis

Song: End IV: The Group of Lovers; or, Beauty at her Levee (1st time at this theatre)-Munden; End: The Pleasures of the Chace-Incledon; after which Say Bonny Lass will you lie in a Garrat-, being a Parody on Say Bonny Lass, will you lie in a Barrack; Timothy Staytape-Munden; Miss Tippet-Mrs Martyr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lancashire Witches Or Teague O Devilly The Irish Priest

Music: several Entertainments of Musick by himself- The FamousSignor Gasperine lately arriv'd from Rome, in Consort with others

Song: Since Times are so Bad-Leveridge, Mrs Lindsey