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Event Comment: NNeville MS Diary: At 8 in the evening went into the Pit at dl saw the last two acts of Cymbeline--Imogen by a Miss Young being her second appearance on any stage. Her person is good, her action proper and her voice excellent, but her face is ordinary

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Cast
Role: Forge Actor: Burton

Dance: III: The Wake, as17680929

Event Comment: FFelix-Mrs Garrick (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Event Comment: [N.B. The Cross Diary lists Wit's Last Stake as afterpiece, but playbill seems to be correct in listing The Padlock.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zingis

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Vernon
Event Comment: [The playbill notes the eighth day for Tom Jones. See cancellation of a performance on 24 Jan.] Neville MS Diary: In the forenoon skaited on the Canal in St James's Park. In the evening went to see "The Intriguing Chambermaid" at Covent Garden. Receipts: #201 8s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tom Jones

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: End Opera: The Irish Lilt, as17680930

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Event Comment: By Command. K. & Q. (Cross Diary)
Event Comment: MMr Holland Dyed this Morning (Cross Diary). [Born 1733 came to dl 1755 (Winston MS 10).
Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. K. & Q. (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Cast
Role: Mrs Heidelberg Actor: Mrs Hopkins.

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Dance: I: The Rabbit Sellers-Daigville, Sga Vidini

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A Pantomine not acted these two years. [See 22 Sept. 1768.] Alterations to The Elopement (Cross Diary). [The Rejoicing Night Scene described in Town and Country Magazine (from Theatre No XXI) as representing Ludgate Street and St Paul's with Houses illuminated.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Foundling

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Event Comment: Mrs Sullen-$Mrs Roberts (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Dance: IV: Comic Dance, as17701025

Event Comment: For the Author (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: tis Well Its No Worse

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Vernon

Dance: II: Comic Dance, as17701025

Event Comment: For the Author (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Almida

Afterpiece Title: Trip to Scotland

Event Comment: For the Author (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Almida

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Event Comment: For the Author (Cross Diary). The West Indian publish'd at 1s. 6d

Performances

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Loverule Actor: Vernon
Event Comment: For the Author (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Almida

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Vernon

Dance: End: A New Dance call'd Cunning Love-Daigville, Sga Vidini, Miss Ross

Event Comment: For the Author (Cross Diary)
Event Comment: A drunken man and a livery servant were both very troublesome in the first gallery [according to an account in the Morning Chronicle, 11 Dec., which continued]: It is a very great insult to respectable citizens and gentlemen of moderate fortunes, who from principles of economy choose to sit in the first gallery, that they admit too men in liveries. Their prices of admission have been raised within these thirty years, and every art practised for interest of the managers; and in these times, when every necessary and convenience of life is considerably enhanced, it is a matter of prudence in persons of the middle rank of life to prefer the gallery to the pit. But this is no reason why livery servants should be allowed to place themselves by the wives and daughters of private gentlemen and reputable tradesmen, to whom they often behave with great insolence and indecency. [It is desirable] to know why a constable does not make his appearance in the back row of the first, as well as the second, gallery, being frequently as much wanted in the one as the other (John Hampden Diary, p. 122)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Druids

Cast
Role: Dances Actor: Miss Besford.
Event Comment: Windham Diary (30 Jan. 1784), 41: On the Wednesday 1 went to see Mrs Crawford in 'Belvidera', and found her much as I expected, though her disparity was very great. I can perhaps better conceive the delusion that, aided by a little prejudice [in favor of Mrs Siddons] and the recollection of Mrs C. in better times, could hesitate about the preference. The chief faults that I should find would be, that her articulation was cramped and timid, her tones sometimes colloquial and vulgar, her action confined, and her countenance inexpressive. A new man of the name of Pope performed; I pronounced him in my own judgment as inferior, upon the whole, to Brereton. [Henderson's 1st appearance as Pierre was at Bath, 14 Oct. 1773.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Performance Comment: Jaffier-Pope (1st appearance in that character, and 3rd on any stage [see17850108 and 10 Jan.]); Priuli-Hull; Renault-Clarke; Bedamar-Davies; Duke-Thompson; Spinosa-Cubitt; Elliot-Fearon; Officer-Booth; Pierre-Henderson (1st appearance in that character [in London]); Belvidera-Mrs Crawford .
Cast
Role: Belvidera Actor: Mrs Crawford

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Cavern

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of Daphne and Amintor, announced on playbill of 6 June.] Windham Diary (7 June 1786), p. 79: Mrs Siddons did 'Rosalind' much better than the first time, but not equal to her tragedy: there is a want of hilarity in it; it is just, but not easy. The highest praise that can be given to her comedy is, that it is the perfection of art; but her tragedy is the perfection of nature. Receipts: #219 16s. 6d. (192/1/0; 26/2/6; 1/13/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece The Lucky Return, as17860522

Song: As17860218

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Palmer; Spirit-R. Palmer; Brothers-Johnson, Lyons; Bacchanals-Bannister, Davies, Matthews, Chapman; The Lady (with Sweet Echo, accompanied on the hautboy by Forster)-Mrs Bannister; Sabrina-Miss Cranford; Pastoral Nymph-Mrs Forster; Bacchants-Mrs Edwards; Euphrosyne, 1st Bacchant-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [Mrs Plomer]).Mrs Plomer]).
Cast
Role: Sabrina Actor: Miss Cranford
Role: Pastoral Nymph Actor: Mrs Forster
Event Comment: Windham Diary (26 Feb. 1789), 164-65: Play incomparably well acted throughout; no part, in my opinion, better than Miss Pope's. Receipts: #211 2s. (182.4; 28.3; 0.15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 5 years [not acted since 4 May 1782. Miss Raymond is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill; Diary, 6 Apr., states she had acted two or three nights at Bath]. Receipts: #244 11s. (227.10; 16.6; 0.15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mary Queen Of Scots

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

Event Comment: Mainpiece [C 5, by the Hon. Henry Seymour Conway, adapted from Les Dehors Trompeurs; ou, L'Homme du Jour, by Louis de Boissy; incidental music by Michael Kelly. Prologue by the author. Epilogue by John Burgoyne (see text)]: 1st time at a public theatre. With new Scenes and Dresses. [This was 1st acted on 31 May 1788 at the private theatre in the town house of the Duke of Richmond, which was situated on what is now Richmond Terrace, Whitehall. It was demolished in 1819.] Diary, 16 June 1789: This Day is published False Appearances (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #138 3s. (114.15.0; 22.5.6; 1.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False Appearances

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

Song: V: song in character-Mrs Crouch. [This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Performance Comment: [This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]
Event Comment: [In afterpiece the assignment of Captain Cook is from Diary, 27 Apr., which does not state who performed Koah.] Receipts: #234 3s. (222.14; 11.9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Dance: As17890101

Event Comment: [For this night Kemble Mem. lists The Pannel. The playbill and the Account-Book announce The Farm House. "M. 1 June. At Drury Lane. Saw The Country Girl and The Farm House" (Reed, Diaries, 167).] Receipts: #171 0s. 6d. (139.9.0; 30.3.0; 1.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Farm House