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Event Comment: Benefit the Author. With an Addition of a new Scene. [By Susanna Centlivre. Date of premiere unknown. Flying Post, 22 Feb., refers to this performance as the twelfth.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Performance Comment: Edition of 1705 lists: Sir Thos. Valere-Freeman; Dorante-Corey; Young Valere-Verbruggen; Lovewell-Betterton; Marquess of Hazard-Fieldhouse; Hector-Pack; Galoon-Smeaton; Count Cogdie-Dickins; First Gentleman-Weller; 2d Gentleman-Knap; Boxkeeper-Lee; Lady Wealthy-Mrs Barry; Angelica-Mrs Bracegirdle; Betty-Mrs Parsons; Favourite-Mrs Hunt; Mrs Security-Mrs Willis; Mrs Topknot-Mrs Fieldhouse; Prologue [written by Roe-Betterton; Epilogue-Verbruggen [written by Charles Johnson, according to Diverting Post, 3 Feb.].written by Charles Johnson, according to Diverting Post, 3 Feb.].
Cast
Role: First Gentleman Actor: Weller

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Solomon Single Or The Cautious Coxcomb

Performance Comment: Betty-Mrs Mountfort; and an Epilogue-Mrs Mountfort upon her first appearance on this Stage.

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Dance:

Event Comment: For the Encouragement of the Comedians Acting in the Hay-Market, and to enable them to keep the Diversion of Plays under a separate Interest from the Opera. By Subscription. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and none to be admitted but by the Subscription Tickets. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. [Cibber (II, 4-5) states that each subscriber received three tickets for the first day of each of three plays offered by subscription for a payment of three guineas.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens Or The Man hater

Performance Comment: Poet-a Comedian newly arriv'd, being his first Essay upon that Stage; Apemantus-Griffin.

Song: Leveridge, Laurence; particularly some chosen Songs of the Opera-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mackbeth

Performance Comment: Mackbeth-Powell; First Witch-Penkethman; Mackduff-Thurmond; Banquo-Husband; Malcolm-Elrington; Lenox-Cory; Lady Mackbeth-Mrs Baker; Lady Mackduff-Mrs Spillar.
Cast
Role: First Witch Actor: Penkethman

Dance: As17100708

Event Comment: [By John Gay and others.] Never Acted before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Three Hours After Marriage

Performance Comment: Edition of 1717 lists: Fossile-Johnson; Possum-Norris; Nautilus-Lee; Ptisan-Miller; Plotwell-Cibber; Underplot-Penkethman; Sir Tremendous-Bowman; First Player-Walker; 2d Player-Quin; Sailor-Bickerstaff; Mrs Townly-Mrs Oldfield; Mrs Phoebe Clinket-Mrs Bicknell; Sarsnet-Mrs Hunt; Prue-Mrs Willis; Prologue-; Epilogue-Mrs Oldfield.
Cast
Role: First Player Actor: Walker
Event Comment: The first of Twelve Grand Concerts. In Daily Courant, 9 Jan., proposals had been issued for setting up by subscription a monthly concert for the first Wednesday of each month. There were never to be fewer than three of the best singers and nineteen performers in all. Each subscriber was to pay to Trustees John Shipton and Thomas Ives one guinea for a year. The concerts were to begin when there were 350 subscribers. On this date 100 subscriptions had been received

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Performance Comment: See17181006, but First Interlude given end Act II of Love Makes a Man-; Second Interlude end III-.

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Dance: As17181024

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Performance Comment: Alphonso-Griffin; Pilgrim-Ryan; Roderigo-Quin; Mad Englishman-Spiller; Mad Parson-Pack; Mad Welshman-Morgan; Mad Scholar-Egleton; Mad Taylor-Harper; First Outlaw-Bullock Sr; 2d Outlaw-Hall; 3d Outlaw-H. Bullock; Alinda-Mrs Cross; Juletta-Mrs Spiller.
Cast
Role: First Outlaw Actor: Bullock Sr

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Dance:

Event Comment: [Music by Ariosti, Bononcini, Handel. Text by P. A. Rolli.] Admission as 19 Nov. 1720. De Fabrice to Flemming, 21 April (in Deutsch, Handel, p. 126): The Princess of Wales was safely delivered of a son last Saturday. The news was taken to the King by Lord Herbert during...Mutius Scevola, where there was a particularly large audience on account of its being the first performance. The audience celebrated the event with loud applause and huzzas. Each act of this opera is by a different composer, -the first by a certain Pipo, the second by Bononcini, and the third by Hendell, who easily triumphed over the others

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mutius Scaevola

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A King And No King

Performance Comment: Arbaces-Boheme; Mordornis-Ryan; Tigranes-Walker; Bacurius-Diggs; Gobrius-Leigh; Bessus-Quin; First Swordsman-Spiller; Second-H. Bullock; Arane-Mrs Knight; Spaconia-Mrs Parker; Panthea-Mrs Brett.
Cast
Role: First Swordsman Actor: Spiller

Song: End II: Singing in Italian and English-Mrs Chambers; End III: The Tipling Philosophers-Leveridge

Dance: End I: Two Pierrots-Nivelons; End IV: Flag Dance-Nivelon Sr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth-Mills; Macduff-Wilks; Banquo-Booth; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Porter; Witches-Johnson, Norris, Griffin. [Hogan (Shakespeare in the Theatre, p. 277), thinks this bill is misprinted, with Hecate omitted and Johnson assigned Penkethman's usual part of the First Witch .]Hogan (Shakespeare in the Theatre, p. 277), thinks this bill is misprinted, with Hecate omitted and Johnson assigned Penkethman's usual part of the First Witch .]
Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By Lewis Theobald.] The Cloaths, Scenes, Machines, Flyings, and otehr Decorations, Being entirely new. N.B. Tis desir'd that no Persons will take it ill, that they are refus'd Admittance behind the Scenes, it being impossible to perform the necessary Decorations, unless the Passages are kept entirely clear. Receipts: #174 8s. Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 23 Jan.: In which was shewn the boldest Piece of Machinery that ever yet was seen upon the Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin a Sorcerer With The Loves of Pluto and Proserpine

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Lun; Witches-Leveridge, Salway, Harrison, Mrs Chambers; First Bird Catcher-Nivelon; 2d-Spiller; Petit Maitre-Legar; Italian-Rochetti; Pluto-Leveridge; Proserpine-Mrs Barbier; Cerberus-Nivelon; Susiphus-Glover; Prometheus-Newhouse; Ixion-Lanyon; Clotho-Mrs Ogden; Lachesis-Mrs Wall; Atropos-Mrs Legar; Furies-DuPre, Lalley, Pelling.
Cast
Role: First Bird Catcher Actor: Nivelon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer or Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Lun; Good and Evil Genius, an Indifferent Spirit, Charon, Shades of Helen, Hero and Leander-Leveridge, Legar, Mrs Chambers, others; First Fury-Salle; Harlequin Man, Woman-Dupre, Mrs Legar; Pierrot Man, Woman-Pelling, Mrs Bullock; Mezzetin Man, Woman-Lally, Mrs Pelling; Scaramouch Man, Woman-Lanyon, Mrs Ogden; Punch-Nivelon; Miller's Wife-Mrs Legar.
Cast
Role: First Fury Actor: Salle
Related Works
Related Work: The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Author(s): William Mountfort
Related Work: The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Made into a Farce Author(s): William Mountfort

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth-Quin; Macduff-Ryan; Banquo-Boheme; Lenox-Walker; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Parker; Lady Macduff-Mrs Bullock; Hecate-Hall; Witches-Bullock, Hippisley, Morgan; First Murderer-Spiller.
Cast
Role: First Murderer Actor: Spiller.

Music: Incident to the Play: Vocal and Instrumental Musick-; Vocal Parts-Leveridge, Legar, Salway, Mrs Chambers, others

Dance: Dupre, Salle, Nivelon, Lally, Pelling, Newhouse, Lanyon, Dupre Jr

Event Comment: Receipts: #52 9s. Probable attendance: boxes 25 paid and 12 orders; pit, 133 paid and 15 orders; slips, 11 paid and 10 orders; first gallery, 178 paid and 13 orders; second gallery, 157 paid and 5 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Cast
Role: First Fury Actor: Salle
Related Works
Related Work: The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Author(s): William Mountfort
Related Work: The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Made into a Farce Author(s): William Mountfort
Event Comment: [By Owen Swiny.] Not Acted these Ten Years. All the Characters new drest. Pit and Boxes to be laid together by tickets only at 5s. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. Receipts: #163 3s. 6d. Probable attendance: p1t and boxes, 464 paid and 14 orders; stage, 2 paid; balcony, 4 paid; slips, 21 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 270 paid and 9 orders; second gallery, 124 paid. [The Prologue was printed in London Journal, 26 Nov.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Event Comment: All the Characters New Dress'd. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. Receipts: #136 18s. Probable attendance: boxes, 235 paid and 5 orders; stage, 4 paid; balcony, 4 paid; pit, 276 paid and 13 orders; slips, 20 paid and 15 orders; first gallery, 250 paid and 3 orders; second gallery, 90 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #38 15s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 32 paid and 9 orders; pit, 83 paid and 18 orders; slips, 7 paid and 11 orders; first gallery, 112 paid and 9 orders; second gallery, 120 paid and 4 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Cast
Role: First Fury Actor: Salle
Related Works
Related Work: The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Author(s): William Mountfort
Related Work: The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Made into a Farce Author(s): William Mountfort
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #73 3s. Probable attendance: boxes, 62 paid and 5 orders; stage, 2 paid; pit, 174 paid and 45 orders; slips, 6 paid and 5 orders; first gallery, 216 paid and 33 orders; second gallery, 140 paid and 13 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Cast
Role: First Fury Actor: Salle
Related Works
Related Work: The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Author(s): William Mountfort
Related Work: The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Made into a Farce Author(s): William Mountfort
Event Comment: Receipts: #56 5s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 34 paid and 9 orders; balcony, 2 paid; pit, 187 paid and 4 orders; slips, 19 paid; first gallery, 114 paid and 2 orders; second gallery, 102 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of Saguntum

Cast
Role: First Saguntine Actor: Ogden
Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Receipts: money #81 6s. 6d.; tickets #82 16s. Probable attendance: boxes, 69 paid and 221 by tickets; stage, 81 paid; pit, 133 paid and 143 by tickets; slips, 26 paid; first gallery, 148 paid and 61 by tickets; second gallery, 84 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of Saguntum

Cast
Role: First Saguntine Actor: Ogden
Event Comment: Receipts: #46 8s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 44 paid and 12 orders; pit, 121 paid and 4 orders; slips, 6 paid; first gallery, 123 paid and 3 orders; second gallery, 86 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of Saguntum

Cast
Role: First Saguntine Actor: Ogden
Event Comment: Receipts: #50 6s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 44 paid and 13 orders; pit, 143 paid and 8 orders; slips, 14 paid and 2 orders; first gallery, 119 paid and 4 orders; second gallery, 76 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of Saguntum

Cast
Role: First Saguntine Actor: Ogden
Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Receipts: money #77 1s. 6d.; tickets #36 11s. Probable attendance: boxes, 105 paid and 100 by tickets; pit, 175 paid and 57 by tickets; slips, 9 paid; first gallery, 180 paid and 30 by tickets; second gallery, 79 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of Saguntum

Cast
Role: First Saguntine Actor: Ogden