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326
11 October 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Cast

Role: Colombine Actor: Miss M. Stageldoir. Playbill of 10 Nov. 1788 lists the other parts: Harlequin, German Officer, French Gentleman, Valet, Miller, Landlord, Cook, Daemon, Taylor

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13 November 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Dance: As17841008

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01 November 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The playbill lists Wilson as Justice Shallow in mainpiece, and as Father Luke in afterpiece. On the Kemble playbill his name is deleted, but the substitute name has been cut by the binder. "It is necessary to inform those who may have read a long criticism on Wilson's performance of Justice Shallow, on Tuesday evening [in Public Advertiser, 2 Nov.], that Wilson did not perform that or any other character, as he is laid up, or rather down, with a violent fit of the gout" (General Advertiser, 3 Nov.). For Fearon as Justice Shallow see 30 Apr. 1785, 29 Nov. 1786; for Booth as Father Luke see 25 Nov. 1785.] Receipts: #139 6s. (134/5; 5/1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

329
29 November 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

330
27 March 1787 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Bevil-Holman; Myrtle-Farren; Sealand-Aickin; Sir John Bevil-Fearon; Cimberton-Quick; Humphry-Thompson; Daniel-Kennedy; Tom (for that night only)-Ryder; Phillis-Mrs Mattocks; Lucinda-Miss Wilkinson; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Webb; Isabella-Miss Platt; Indiana-Mrs Pope.

Cast

Role: Sealand Actor: Aickin
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Webb

Afterpiece Title: Lady Pentweazle in Town

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Song: II: a song-King

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17 September 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 13 Nov.]. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Brandon at the Theatre. [No playbill this season lists the various prices of admission; they were probably, as usual: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s.] Receipts: #213 6s. 6d. (208.10.0; 4.16.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

332
21 May 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Fosbrook, box book and house keeper. Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years. Receipts: #297 12s. 6d. (37.17.0; 7.17.6; 0.17.0; tickets: 251.1.0) (charge: #109 2s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

333
27 September 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist; or, Who's Who

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12 November 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Cast

Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Platt

Dance: End: Divertissement-[see17881001]

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09 October 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

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13 October 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Robin Hood

337
27 April 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Don Juan

Cast

Role: Don Ferdinand Actor: Dignum
Role: Perez Actor: Bland
Role: Viletta Actor: Mrs Bland
Role: Vocal Parts Actor: Dignum, Sedgwick, Mrs Bland, Mrs Edwards, Miss Hagley

338
08 November 1791 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Cast

Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Bland

339
14 March 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Performance Comment: Duke's Servant (for that night only)-Lewis; Lovell-Munden; Sir Harry's Servant (with a Mock Minuet)-Knight; Philip-Davenport; Freeman-Macready; Tom-Rees; Robert-Thompson; Coachman-Powel; Lady Charlotte-Miss Logan; Cook-Mrs Norton; Lady Bab-Mrs Davenport; Kitty (with a song and Mock Minuet, for that night only)-Mrs Pope.

Entertainment: Monologue.End: Collins's Ode on the Passions (1st and only time)-Mrs Pope

Performance Comment: End: Collins's Ode on the Passions (1st and only time)-Mrs Pope.

Song: After the monologue: My Mother had a Maid called Barbara (words by Shakespeare, music by Shield)-Incledon, Bowden, Townsend, Linton, Mrs Clendining; The Minstrel's Song [Where is that tow'ring spirit fled?] from The Days of Yore-Mrs Clendining; [accompanied on the harp-Weippert; O why to be happy (music by Shield)-Incledon, Linton, Bowden; Ye Gentlemen of England-Incledon, Bowden, Townsend, Linton

Performance Comment: ] from The Days of Yore-Mrs Clendining; [accompanied on the harp-Weippert; O why to be happy (music by Shield)-Incledon, Linton, Bowden; Ye Gentlemen of England-Incledon, Bowden, Townsend, Linton.

Cast

Role: Ye Gentlemen of England Actor: Incledon, Bowden, Townsend, Linton.

340
27 May 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Richardson and Mrs Davenport. 1st piece: Not acted these 20 years [acted 9 Oct. 1778], and compressed into one Act. [Miss Hay, whose 1st appearance on the stage was at Richmond, 15 Sept. 1792, is identified in Thespian Dictionary, 1805, under Mrs Litchfield.] Receipts: #234 5s. (69.1.6; 2.6.6; tickets: 162.17, of which Richardson sold 84.0, and Mrs Davenport 78.17)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Maid

Afterpiece Title: Every One has His Fault

Cast

Afterpiece Title: Cymon

Cast

Role: Urganda Actor: Mrs Fawcett

Dance: Conclude 3rd piece: Dance-

Song: End: Black@Ey'd Susan-Incledon; End 2nd piece: The Group of Lovers-Munden

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07 November 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15, and so continue for the remainder of the Season [see 23 Mar. 1797]. Receipts: #254 7s. 6d. (244.19.6; 9.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Olympus in an Uproar

Cast

Role: Leda Actor: Mlle St.Amand. The Hesperean Dragon spouting Fire, pursuing Erynnis to recover the Golden Pippin. A Celestial Palace, with a Magnificent Temple, and the Peacock of Juno in Transparency. ACT II. A Plain in Phoenicia, in which Jupiter descends from the Heavens on an Eagle, and Momus on a Goose. A Procession to a Sacrifice. Jupiter in the form of a Bull, bearing Europa, attended by a train of Priests, Virgins, Nymphs, Shepherds. The Sea, with a distant View of the Isle of Crete. Jupiter bearing Europa across the Sea. A View of Mount Idav The Decree of Paris, and the Ascent and Descent of the Deities: Vulcan, Apollo, Mars, Hercules, Bacchus, Pan, Ceres, Diana, Cybele, Flora, Pomona, Proserpine, Hebe. Mercury descends on a Cloud, and Iris on a Rainbow. Pluto rises from the Infernal Regions in a Chariot drawn by Dragons

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09 September 1797 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Aickin and Miss DeCamp, but "This was a singularly disastrous evening. Mrs Gibbs read Miss DeCamp's character...Aickin was taken suddenly ill after the first act, and the remainder of his part was read by Davenport." In afterpiece "Palmer, having gone through a scene of the Guardian, made an apology to the audience, and read the remainder of Heartly" (Monthly Mirror, Sept. 1797, p. 182). Miss Stuart was from dl.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Italian Monk

Cast

Role: Margaritone Actor: Miss Andrews in place of Mrs Edward.

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Related Works

Related Work: L'Honorata Poverta di Rinaldo: viz, The honourable Poverty of Rinaldo, false accused by the Maganzesians: With Harlequing Guardian to his Master's Family and Defender of his Castle Author(s): Giacinto Andrea Cicognini

Song: As17970816

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27 September 1797 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Castle of Andalusia; afterpiece of The Honest Thieves, both advertised on playbill of 25 Sept.] Receipts: #236 (226.4.6; 9.15.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

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27 August 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False And True

Cast

Role: Janetta Actor: Mrs Bland.

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Related Works

Related Work: L'Honorata Poverta di Rinaldo: viz, The honourable Poverty of Rinaldo, false accused by the Maganzesians: With Harlequing Guardian to his Master's Family and Defender of his Castle Author(s): Giacinto Andrea Cicognini

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Cast

Role: Sally Shamrock Actor: Mrs Bland
Role: Marguerite sic] Actor: Mrs Bland.

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15 August 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: What A Blunder

Cast

Role: Captain of the Banditti Actor: Sawyer

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Related Works

Related Work: L'Honorata Poverta di Rinaldo: viz, The honourable Poverty of Rinaldo, false accused by the Maganzesians: With Harlequing Guardian to his Master's Family and Defender of his Castle Author(s): Giacinto Andrea Cicognini

346
13 January 1696 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

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23 April 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Polite Conversation: Morning, or Tea-chat; Noon, or Table-Talk a-la-mode

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05 March 1747 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

349
21 April 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: A Will and No Will

Dance: II: Tambourine-Anne Auretti; III: Comic Dance, as17480314 III: Dutch Dance, as17471128

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08 January 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mr Berry dy'd (Cross). Receipts: #170 (Cross). British Chronicle; 8 Jan. 1760. (Winston MS 8): Died Mr Edward Berry in Russel St., Covent Garden, 53 years one of the comedians of tr dl. On this Sunday the body was interr'd in the Cemetery of St Martin's Church. The loss of so worthy a man was expressed by those present. His only daugher is to [....] with the following inscription to his memory, to whom he has left his fortune worth about #1000: @Epitaph@Here lies the remains of@Edward Berry@Who lived@With public applause and private esteem@The former he acquired as@An Excellent Comedian, the latter as an@Honest Man. 8 Jan 1760 Aet 5s.@Light lie the turf, what tho' no breathing Bust@Of mimic Marble dignifie thy dust?@Yet filial sorrow pays the Dudeous Tear@And heartworn Friendship heaves a Sigh sincere.@Pleas'd may thy shade these humble rites receive@The last sad tribute gratitude can give@

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion