Event Comment: Mainpiece: A New Comedy of 3 Acts [by
George Colman] never performed. [In
the Shakespearean Pageant, with figures from seventeen of his plays,
the chief effectiveness lay with
the Musicians who ushered in each group with appropriate music:
Martial Music-
The Roman Characters of
Coriolanus and
Julius Caesar;
Soft Music-
Antony and
Cleopatra;
Grand Music, Old
English Characters-
King John,
Richard III,
Henry VIII:
Magical Music, "above, about, underneath" for
Prospero;
Macbeth's Music;
Fairy Music-
Oberon and
Titania;
Solemn Music for Tragic Muse accompanied by
Othello,
Hamlet,
the Ghost, Mad
Ophelia and
Lear with
Cordelia; Dead March in
Saul-
Juliet's Bier with attendants;
Allegro for
the Comic Muse-
Falstaff,
Touchstone,
Launcelot,
Malvolio;
Andante-
Florizel and
Perdita,
Portia Antonio and
Bassanio;
Flourish-for Car drawn by
the muses carrying
Shakespeare's Bust;
Final Song by
Mrs Mattocks, "
Sweetest Bard that Ever Sung, Nature's glory, Fancy's Child--."
The Prelude is, in print, entirely favorable to
Garrick's effort at
Stratford. But it could be rendered in a mercilessly ironical manner if
the three participating actors so chose. Mainpiece reviewed in
the Freeholder's Magazine, Oct.] Receipts: #224 10s
Performances
Mainpiece Title: Man And Wife Or The Shakespeare Jubilee
Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida
Related Works
Related Work: Love in a Riddle Author(s): Colley Cibber
Entertainment: End II: Pageant exhibiting the characters of Shakespeare-; End III: Representation of the Amphitheatre at Stratford Upon Avon-; with a Masquerade-