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Event Comment: Oratorio written by the late Mr Brown. Benefit for and Increase of a Fund established for the Support of decay'd Musicians and their Families. Pit and Boxes half a guinea. First Gallery 5s. Upper gallery 3s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cure Of Saul

Music: I: Concerto on Hautboy-Giustinelli; II: Solo on Violin-Pinto (first violin)

Event Comment: Full Prices. Hopkins MS Memorandum Book: By the Manager's order I ask'd Mr Joseph? Reed what he had a benefit for the next night. His answer was The Managers give it him for his withdrawing Dido and on account of The Register Office and to clear them from all demands he had upon them whatever

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False Delicacy

Cast
Role: Rivers Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Published Animadversions on Mr Colman's True State etc., with some remarks on his little serious piece, The Oxonian in Town (20 pp.). [Criticizes the play as having a bad influence on the young, with its characters of whores, bawds and pickpockets. Did our author flatter himself that he could wipe out these rooted impressions with a cold moral sentence uttered by the mouth of a woman of pleasure, and perhaps never reaching the ears of one half of the audience from the variety of noises which accompany the finishing speech of every play?" Concludes: "The reputation of our Universities is a national concern of the highest and most sacred importance....I blush when I see academical characters brought upon the stage, but I burn when I see them lampooned."] House Charges: #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Music: As17680219

Event Comment: Benefit for Woodward. With two New Scenes in the Afterpiece painted by Richards and Dahl. Mr Woodward, at the particular request of several persons of Quality has changed from the Fair Quaker to The Busy Body. Tickets deliver'd for Fair Quaker will be admitted. House charges with candles and extras #65 15s. Balance to Woodward #102 7s. plus #58 5s. for 233 Box tickets (Account Book). [Public Advertiser, 12 Dec. 1767: "Speedily will be published the Battle of the Wigs, an additional canto to Dr Garth's poem The Dispensary. Occasioned by the Disputes between the Fellows and licentiates of the College of Physicians in London. By B. T. and M. B."] Receipts: #168 2s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Cast
Role: Miranda Actor: Miss Macklin.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus (With a New Additional Scene)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Abimelech

Music: VViolin Solo-Barthelemon; Concerto on Hautboy-Simpson

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Baddeley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Entertainment: End: A Search After Scrubs-Baddeley

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs DuBellamy. Charges #64 00s. Deficit to the DuBellamys #26 10s., covered by #60 6s. from tickets (Box 93; Pit 205; Gallery 63). Receipts: #37 18s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not; Or, The Kind Imposter

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Song: I: Angelic Fair, a new song-DuBellamy; IV: By Particular Desire, the Cantata of Cymon and Iphigenia-DuBellamy

Ballet: End: The Wapping Landlady. As17680416

Cast
Role: Landlady Actor: Miles
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

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

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Sarjant and Son (book and box-keeper). Tickets deliver'd for the 16th will be taken. Charges #81 15s. 6d. Deficit to Sarjant #57 4s. covered by #167 2s. from tickets (Box 450; Pit 272; Gallery 138) (Account Book). Rec'd the 1!2 value of tickets for 28th inst. from Doe, Reed, Robson, Rose, Pilfold, Roberts, Dixon, and Wooley (Account Book). Receipts: #57 4s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Dance: II: The Highland Reel, as17680307

Event Comment: A new comedy of three acts. Places to be taken of Mr Jewell at the Theatre. No Admittance behind the Scenes. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. No money to be returned after the Curtain is drawn up. Pit and Galleries to be open at 5:30 p.m.; Boxes at 6 p.m. To begin exactly at seven. Vivant Rex et Regina. [Repeated in the bills.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Upon Two Sticks

Performance Comment: Parts by- Foote, Weston, Morgan, Castle, Keen, Casey, Lloyd, Pearce, Jacobs, Mahoon, Aickin, Gardner, Strange, Vandemire, Jackson, Graham, Walker, Mrs Gardner, and a Young Gentlewoman, 1st appearance. Devil-Foote; Dr Last-Weston; Margaret-Mrs Gardner; Harriet-Miss Edwards , her first appearance (Edition of 1768).

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: Between the acts: Duquesnay, Miss Street, scholars of Gherardi

Event Comment: Being desir'd by many Persons of Quality, for ONE NIGHT ONLY, and By Permission of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of the Catch-Club, at the Thatch'd House in St Jame's St., will be perform'd the Favourite Catches and Glees which were exhibited Last Summer at Ranelagh-House, With TWO DESIR'D ALTERATIONS. After the 2nd Act, a Concerto on the Violin, by Barthelemon. A Considerable number of the Best Vocal and Instrumental Performers are engag'd on this occasion. Books for the Performance to be had at the theatre. Great care will be taken to keep the Theatre Cool. Ladies and Gentlemen send servants before the opening of the doors, which will be at Half-past 4. No persons can possibly be admitted behind the scenes. To Begin at exactly Seven o'clock. Tickets to be had and places to be taken (ONLY) of Mr Johnston at the stage Door (playbill)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Catches And Glees

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orators

Afterpiece Title: The Judgment of Paris

Performance Comment: Parts by Mahoon, Bannister, Vandermere, Mrs Barthelemon, Mrs Saunders, Miss Ogilvie, Miss Edwards. Paris-Mahoon; Mercury-Bannister; Palaemon-Vandermere; Oenone-Mrs Barthelemon; Venus-Miss Edwards; Pallas, Discord-Mrs Saunders; Juno-Miss Ogilvie (Edition of 1768).
Cast
Role: Palaemon Actor: Vandermere

Dance: As17680530

Event Comment: Two glass branches added to the Stage Boxes, and look well (Hopkins MS Notes). Places may be had of Mr Johnston at the Stage Door. Doors open half past 4 o'clock. Play to begin exactly at 6 o'clock. Vivat Rex et Regina. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: Hamlet-Holland; Claudius-Love; Ghost-Bransby; Horatio-Packer; Polonius-Baddeley; Laertes-Aickin; Osric-Dodd; Rosencraus-Strange; Guildenstern-Fawcett; Bernardo-Marr; Marcellus-Ackman; Player King-Burton; Player Queen-Mrs Johnston; Lucianus-Hartry; Grave Diggers-Parsons, Castle; Ophelia-Mrs Baddeley; Gertrude-Mrs Hopkins.
Cast
Role: Hamlet Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: Flora; or, Hob in the Well

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Dance: TThe Lilliputian Camp-

Event Comment: AAlexander by Mr Reddish-Very Bad (Hopkins Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens; Or, The Death Of Alexander The Great

Performance Comment: Alexander-Reddish, 1st time; Clytus-Jefferson, 1st time; Perdiccas-Ackman; Thessalus-Aickin; Cassander-Palmer; Polyperchon-Bransby; Eumenes-Keen; Hephestion-Packer; Lysimachus-Hurst; Roxana-Mrs Hopkins; Parisatis-Mrs Reddish; Sysigambis-Mrs Johnston; Statira-Mrs W. Barry; With the Triumphal Entry-.
Cast
Role: Alexander Actor: Reddish, 1st time
Role: Cassander Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Event Comment: This comic opera of two acts [Padlock] was written by Mr Bickerstaffe and is a very compleat, pretty piece,--the music very striking.--Mrs Dorman was hissed at first, but the piece went off very well, and much applauded (Hopkins Diary). New Scenes, Dresses, Music and other Decorations. Doors opened at half past 4. Play to begin exactly at 6 o'clock. [A three column retelling of the plot of the padlock appeared in Lloyd's Evening Post, for Oct. 5-7.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Performance Comment: Earl of Warwick-Holland; King Edward-Reddish; Earl of Suffolk-Packer; Earl of Pembroke-Aickin; Lady Eliz Gray-Mrs W. Barry; Lady Clifford-Mrs Reddish; Margaret of Anjou-Mrs Hopkins.
Cast
Role: Earl of Warwick Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performance Comment: Parts by Vernon, Bannister, Dibdin, Fawcett, J. Burton, Mrs Dorman, Mrs Arne. Mungo-Dibdin; Don Diego-Bannister; Leander-Vernon; Leonora-Mrs Arne; Ursula-Mrs Dorman; Scholars-Fawcett, J. Burton (Edition of 1768). Original casting (Larpent MS 285) suggested Mungo-Moody.
Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Vernon
Event Comment: To begin at 6 o'clock. Doors open at 5 o'clock. Send servants at 4 o'clock. King of Denmark. Ranger-Mr Garrick (Cross Diary). Both pieces By Command of Their Majesties

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Performance Comment: Ranger-Garrick; Strictland-Love; Frankly-Aickin; Bellamy-Packer; Meggot-Dodd; Tester-J. Burton; Mrs Strictland-Mrs W. Barry; Jacintha-Mrs Jeffries; Lucetta-Mrs Love; Milliner-Mrs Millidge; Clarinda-Miss Pope; to conclude with a Country Dance-.
Cast
Role: Strictland Actor: Love
Role: Mrs Strictland Actor: Mrs W. Barry

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Vernon
Event Comment: HHamlet, Mr Garrick (Cross Diary). Hamlet-Holland (Winston MS 10 and playbill). The Revenge deferred. Reddish ill

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Hamlet Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Vernon
Event Comment: MMr Barry's 1st appearance this season.--A quarrel in the Green Room between Mrs Barry and Mr Aickin (Hopkins Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Countess Of Salisbury

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: End: The Wake, as17680929

Event Comment: Mainpiece: An English Opera composed and directed by Dr Arne. In this opera two new performers appeared,--Mr Rathom who played Artaxerxes, a bad figure, extreamly aukward, and much hissed--the other Mrs Forbes, who played Arbaces, a small figure a good voice, was well received, and went decently through the part (Hopkins Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Performance Comment: Artaxerxes-Rathom; Arbaces-Mrs Forbes, their first appearance; Rimenes-Fawcett; Artabanes-Vernon; Semira-Miss Young; Mandani-Mrs Arne.
Cast
Role: Mandani Actor: Mrs Arne.

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Dance: M Daguville, 1st appearance, Mrs King

Event Comment: MMr Aickin hissed for being imperfect.--This night was introduced at the end of the Pantomime a Grand Masquerade in imitation of that given by the King of Denmark at the Opera House, and lighted up after the same manner--Every performer belonging to the House was on, even Mr Garrick and his brother.--The dresses were very elegant, and the whole very striking,--and gave pleasure to the Audience (Hopkins Diary). [The masquerade remained a part of Queen Mab and was also attached to Fortunatus. It evoked the following verse in Lloyd's Evening Post, Nov. 21-23]: One night last week a merry blade,@Who'd seen the Royal Masquerade,@And paid ten guineas for admission,@Began to damn the imposition;@His friend reply'd, "You may complain,@For I last Night at Drury Lane,@Saw full as much for eighteen pence,@As you got at such vast expence."-- G.S. C y

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Cast
Role: Earl of Warwick Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Performance Comment: Douglas-A young Gentleman, 1st appearance [Brereton]; Lord Randolph-Jefferson; Glenalvon-Palmer; Officer-Keen; Servant-Ackman; Norval-Packer; Anna-Mrs Reddish; Lady Randolph-Mrs Barry.
Cast
Role: Lord Randolph Actor: Jefferson
Role: Lady Randolph Actor: Mrs Barry.

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Event Comment: Comedy from Moliere and Cibber. Hopkins Diary: This comedy [Hypocrite] is the Non Juror altered, and two new characters introduced,--went off very well,--some few hisses,--but the play will do.--The alterations are by Mr Bickerstaffe. [Full account of the mainpiece, but without critical observation, appeared in the Lloyd's Evening Post, Nov. 18-21.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Event Comment: [This evening] a cause came on to be tried in the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster, in which Mr William Bates, Music Master, was Plaintiff and Spranger Barry, Esq the celebrated tragedian, defendent, upon a demand made by the plaintiff for a large sum of money due to him from the Defendent, for the performance of Miss Slack, the Plaintiff's apprentice, at the Theatre in Cork...After a short hearing a verdict was given in favour of the Plaintiff (Lloyd's Evening Post, 25-28 Nov.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Cast
Role: Mandani Actor: Mrs Arne.

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: I: A New Pantomime Dance, as17681116