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Event Comment: Creditors of Mr Taylor are requested to meet the Trustees this Day, at One o'clock, at the Bedford Arms, Covent Garden. The Proprietor having, upon a certain Ground, granted the use of the House for the Benefit of the Performers, during the Remainder of the Season, there will be an Opera on Thursday next. [It was cancelled.] Several Persons of Fashion having generously raised a new Subscription for the Relief of the Performers, they take this opportunity of returning them their most cordial thanks. The Price of the new Subscription is Five Guineas each Subscriber, for 12 Benefit Nights, the Money to be paid into the hands of Mr Drummond, Banker, at Charing-Cross. [On 27 May a concert was held at the Pantheon for the benefit of the singers and dancers who had lately belonged to the King's Theatre, in which they all participated.]

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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: As17820927

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece The Huntsman's sweet Hollo!, as17830516; End of Dance ThomasDay. Goody Cramp-Bannister; Goody Rheum-Brett; Goody Twitch-Edwin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Cast
Role: Theodore Actor: Levis

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Song: End of Act iv of mainpiece Tally Ho!, as17830516

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece, as17830604

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement Or An Adventure At Margate

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Dance: End of Act I of Mainpiece, as17830531

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague or The Giants Causeway

Dance: Afterpiece to conclude with a Grand Ballet in Spanish Characters by Giorgi, Byrn, Miss Byrn, Sga Dagueville and others. [This was danced, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]

Song: In Act I of mainpiece a song in character by Miss Hooke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Song: In Act II of mainpiece song by Miss Field

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Related Works
Related Work: Patie and Peggy; or, The Fair Foundling Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece a New Dance by Second and Miss M. Stageldoir

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lord Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Metamorphosis

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece, as17831018; End of mainpiece, as17831204

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17831204

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Word To The Wise

Afterpiece Title: The Talisman

Song: End of mainpiece a song by Brett

Monologue: 1784 01 21 End of Act III of mainpiece a Masonic Address by a Brother [unidentified]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: Afterpiece to conclude with a Grand Dance. Chief of the Bostanges-Harris; Principal Female Dancers-Mrs Ratchford, Miss Besford

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17831001; Afterpiece to conclude as17840306athi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: As17840311athi

Song: End of Act II of mainpicce Auld Robin Grey, as17840426 imitations. After the Dancing, various Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical by Bannister Jun

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Knights

Afterpiece Title: Rose and Colin

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece a Dramatic Romance, Adelaide de Brabant; or, The Triumph of Virtue. Principal Characters by Bithmere, Le Boeuf, Mme Bithmere. ["An infant son of Grimaldi (i.e. Joseph, aged 6) performs in an astonishing manner" (Gazetteer, 12 May).] End of Act IV an Allemande and Dance, called Malbrough (composed by Vestris Jun.) by Le Boeuf and Mme Bithmere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Cast
Role: Mr Doiley Actor: Parsons

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

Cast
Role: General Worry Actor: Parsons

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Noble Peasant

Cast
Role: Earl Egbert Actor: Parsons

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Song: As17840730

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17841022; Afterpiece to conclude with a Grand Dana. Chief of the Bostanges-Harris; Principal Female Dancers-Mrs Ratchford, Miss Besford

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Clowns

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Peasant Metamorphosis

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: In 1st ballet, by Duquesney and the two Miss Simonets; After the Singing, Hornpipe by Baptist and a Comic Dance by Delpini

Song: End of 1st ballet a Serio-Comic Italian Song by Delpini. imitations. After the Dancing, as17850207

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Israelites or The Pamperd Nabob

Dance: As17841116

Song: Preceding afterpiece a Trio, composed by an English composer in 1540 [unidentified], by Davies, Darley, Brett. The new Words by Holcroft, the new Accompaniments by Shield

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fashionable Levities

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Cavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: tis Well Its No Worse

Afterpiece Title: The Diversions of the Morning

Afterpiece Title: Lethe AEsop Old Man Mercury Drunken Man Charon Bowman Snip Fine Gentleman Frenchman Lord Chalkstone to be performed for that night only by a Society of Gentleman Mrs Riot Mrs Dore

Monologue: 1785 04 25 Preceding the 1st piece an Address spoken by Brown