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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Lun; Genius, &c.-Leveridge, Stoppelaer, Miss Norsa; Fury-Lally; Harlequin Man and Woman-Le Sac, Miss Baston; Pierrots-Duke, De la Garde; Mezzetin-Glover, Miss Rogers; Scaramouch-Dupre, Mrs Ogden; Punch-Boval; Doctor's Man-Hippisley; but see17341002. but see17341002.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-Hulett; Polly-Mrs Hamilton; Lucy-Mrs Roberts; Peachum-Rosco; Locket-Huddy; Filch-Jenkins; Mat-Eyres; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Haughton; Diana-Monlass; Mrs Coaxer-Miss Norman; Mrs Vixen-Miss Tollett; Betty-Miss Sandham; Jenny-Mrs Monlass; Sukey-Mrs Vallois; Molly-Mrs Dove; Mrs Slammekin-Mrs Woodward. hathi.
Cast
Role: Mrs Coaxer Actor: Miss Norman
Role: Mrs Vixen Actor: Miss Tollett
Role: Betty Actor: Miss Sandham

Afterpiece Title: The Chymical Counterfeits

Dance: As17341231

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality and Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady Jane Gray

Cast
Role: Northumberland Actor: Rosco

Afterpiece Title: Jupiter and Io

Performance Comment: As17350306 but Nymphs by Mrs Woodward, Miss M. Hughes, Mrs Vallois, Miss Norman; Courtezan-Lyon .
Event Comment: Benefit Glover. Tickets to be had at Glover's in Chandoisstreet, CG

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry IV Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Dance: Pierrots by Delagarde and Dukes. Grecian Sailors (from orestes) by Glover, Le Sac, S. Lally, Delagarde, Dukes. Ball Dance and Minuet by Glover and Miss Rogers. Grand Ballet of The Faithful Shepherd (from Pastor Fido) by Glover, Le Sac, Dukes, Delagarde, Dupre, Miss Rogers, Mrs Ogden, Mrs Delorme, Miss Baston, Mrs Villepierre. Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers

Performance Comment: Grecian Sailors (from orestes) by Glover, Le Sac, S. Lally, Delagarde, Dukes. Ball Dance and Minuet by Glover and Miss Rogers. Grand Ballet of The Faithful Shepherd (from Pastor Fido) by Glover, Le Sac, Dukes, Delagarde, Dupre, Miss Rogers, Mrs Ogden, Mrs Delorme, Miss Baston, Mrs Villepierre. Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers .
Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By William Popple.] Grub St. Journal, 26 Feb. 1736: It was play'd the first night to about a 30l. house; three parts of which were the Author's friends, who came on purpose, right or wrong, to applaud it: notwithstanding which, little or no applause was given

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Deceit

Performance Comment: Parts by Ryan, the first time of his appearing on the stage since his misfortune, Hippisley, Walker, A. Hallam, Chapman, Neale, Mrs Horton, Miss Norsa, Mrs Buchanan, Mrs Stevens, Mrs Mullart, Mrs Templer, Miss Bincks, but edition of 1736 lists: Sir William Courtlove-Hippisley; Young Courtlove-Walker; Gay life-Hallam; Jerry-Chapman; Frank-Neale; Bellair-Ryan; Harriet-Mrs Horton; Fanny-Miss Bincks; Rose-Mrs Kilby; Jenny-Mrs Templer; Mrs Plyable-Mrs Martyn; Violetta-Mrs Buchanan; Lettice-Mrs Stevens; Widow Lettwell-Mrs Mullart. Prologue written by Aaron Hill and spoken by Mrs Buchanan. Epilogue written by the Author and spoken by Mrs Horton .
Event Comment: Benefit Marshall and James

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Performance Comment: Sir William-Morgan; Sir Edward-Bridgwater; Belfond Sr-James; Belfond Jr-Marshal; Trueman-Hale; Cheatly-Aston; Shamwell-Wignell; Termagant-Houghton; Hackum-Mullart; Lolpoop-Hippisley; Isabella-Miss Bincks; Lucia-Miss Norsa; Teresa-Miss Horsington; Mrs Termagant-Mrs Kilby; Ruth-Mrs Cook; Mrs Hackum-Hallam .
Cast
Role: Isabella Actor: Miss Bincks
Role: Lucia Actor: Miss Norsa
Role: Teresa Actor: Miss Horsington

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Performance Comment: As17350513, but Boy-Miss Bincks; Friar Benedict-James .
Cast
Role: Boy Actor: Miss Bincks
Role: Lettice Actor: Miss Brunette

Dance: Flanderkim by Duke and Mrs Ogden. Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Miss Rogers. Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers, Le Sac, Miss Baston, De la Garde, Mrs De l'Orme. s1Ng1NG. As17350422

Performance Comment: Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Miss Rogers. Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers, Le Sac, Miss Baston, De la Garde, Mrs De l'Orme. s1Ng1NG. As17350422.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Fond Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Lun; Spirits-Leveridge, Stoppelaer, Miss Norsa; 1st Fury-Lally; Harlequin Man and Woman-Le Sac, Miss Baston; Pierrots-Duke, De la Garde; Mezzctin Man and Woman-Glover, Miss Rogers; Scaramouch Man and Woman-Dupre, Mrs Ogden; Punch-Boval; Doctor's Man-Hippisley .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tragedy Of Tragedies Or The Life And Death Of Tom Thumb The Great

Performance Comment: Tom Thumb-Miss Brett; King Arthur-Mullart; Dollalolla-Miss Bennet; Huncamunca-Mrs Mullart; Grizzle-Mrs Charke; Glumdalka-Machen; Noodle-Boothby; Doodle-Turner; Foodle-Whitacre; Ghost-Lacy; Merlin-Aston; 1st Bailiff-Littleton; 2d-Smith; Parson-Walker; Mustacha-Mrs Talbot; Cleora-Miss Mann .
Cast
Role: Tom Thumb Actor: Miss Brett
Role: Dollalolla Actor: Miss Bennet
Role: Cleora Actor: Miss Mann

Afterpiece Title: Squire Basinghall

Cast
Role: Miss Lovemode Actor: Miss Brett

Song:

Dance: As I Aug

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: Archer-Ryan; Aimwell-Walker; Sullen-Bridgwater; Sir Charles-Hale; Bonniface-Mullart; Gibbet-Chapman; Foigard-Neale; Mrs Sullen-Mrs Horton; Dorinda-Miss Norsa; Lady Bountiful-Mrs Martin; Cherry-Miss Bincks; Gipsey-Miss Horsington; Scrub-Hippisley .
Cast
Role: Dorinda Actor: Miss Norsa
Role: Cherry Actor: Miss Bincks
Role: Gipsey Actor: Miss Horsington

Afterpiece Title: The Toyshop

Dance:

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage Or The Innocent Adultery

Performance Comment: Villeroy-Ryan; Biron-Bridgwater; Baldwin-Aston; Carlos-Walker; Frederick-A. Hallam; Fernando-Hippisley; Jaquelin-Chapman; Fabian-Stoppelaer; Belford-Marshall; Sampson-Mullart; Pedro-Paget; Julia-Mrs Buchanan; Victoria-Mrs Stevens; Nurse-Mrs Martin; Isabella-Mrs Hallam .
Cast
Role: Fernando Actor: Hippisley

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Performance Comment: As17351017, but Women Peasants-Mrs Kilby, Miss Horsington, Miss Brunette .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow Or The Wanton Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performance Comment: As17351106, but Colombine-Mrs Kilby; Clodpole omitted; Old Woman-Miss Rogers; Clown-Lalauze .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Cast
Role: Jenny Actor: Miss Bincks

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Performance Comment: As17360101, but Frenchwoman-Miss Sandham; Spanish Woman-Mrs De L'Orme .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Dance: I: Clown by Nivelon. II: Tambourine by Glover and Miss Rogers. III: French Peasants by Lalauze, Mlle D'Hervigni, Tench, Livier, Desse, Dupre, Mrs Ogden, Mlle Delorme, Miss Sandham, Miss Norman. IV: Harlequin by Mlle De L'Isle. V: Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers, Desse, Mrs Ogden, Tench, Mlle Delorme

Performance Comment: II: Tambourine by Glover and Miss Rogers. III: French Peasants by Lalauze, Mlle D'Hervigni, Tench, Livier, Desse, Dupre, Mrs Ogden, Mlle Delorme, Miss Sandham, Miss Norman. IV: Harlequin by Mlle De L'Isle. V: Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers, Desse, Mrs Ogden, Tench, Mlle Delorme .
Event Comment: Benefit Author of the Farce. Mainpiece: Not Acted these Fourteen Years. Written by Dr Young, Author of the Universal Passion. Afterpiece: A New Tragic-Comic-Operatic-Pastoral Farce [By T. Drury]. At Common Prices. [Preface gives a long account of difficulties in getting the Afterpiece on the stage. See Daily Advertiser, 16 and 17 Jan. for puffs of the Afterpiece.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Performance Comment: Zanga-by the Author of the Farce [T. Drury]; Leonora-Miss Atherton; Isabella-Miss Jones. With a New Prologue to the Play, on the Multiplicity of Playhouses and Players .

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Milliners or The Humours of Covent Garden

Performance Comment: Sukey Ogle-Miss Atherton; Pleadwell-Mrs Talbot; Molly Wheedle-Miss Freeman; Mrs Plainstitch-Mrs Egerton; but edition of 1737 adds: Goosequill-Freeman; Fieri Facias-Blastock; Hunks-Jones; Trim-Yates; Stay tape-Richards; and gives Molly Wheedle-Miss Burgess. A New Prologue to the Farce, on the Taste of the Town in their Entertainments, and a new Epilogue .

Dance: I: Irish Trot by Shawford. III: Scot's Dance by Shawford. IV: Hornpipe by Collard. V: Sailor's Dance by Castiglione

Song: II: By Young Cunningham

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performance Comment: As17360123, but Country Lasses-Mrs Forrester, Miss Horsington, Miss Ambrose .
Event Comment: By Their Majesties' Command. Benefit Mrs Porter. Pit and Front Boxes together at 5s. Receipts: money #153 4s. 6d.; tickets #104 15s. [The Duke, Princess Caroline, and two youngest Princesses present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius

Dance: II: Harlequin by Mlle De L'Isle. III: French Peasants by Lalauze, Mlle D'Hervigni, Tench, Livier, Desse, Dupre, Mrs Ogden, Mlle Delorme, Miss Sandham, Miss Norman. IV: Tambourine by Glover and Miss Rogers. V: Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers, Desse, Mrs Ogden, Tench, Mlle Delorme

Performance Comment: III: French Peasants by Lalauze, Mlle D'Hervigni, Tench, Livier, Desse, Dupre, Mrs Ogden, Mlle Delorme, Miss Sandham, Miss Norman. IV: Tambourine by Glover and Miss Rogers. V: Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers, Desse, Mrs Ogden, Tench, Mlle Delorme .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fair Rosamond Representing Her Amours With King Henry And Her Being Poisoned By Queen Eleanor In Woodstock Bower

Performance Comment: King Henry-Boman; Fair Rosamond-Mrs Bambridge; Cardinal Aquinas-Wallis; Cardinal Columbus-Bambridge; Sir Trusty-Clark; Lord Sands-Bencraft; Cupid-Master Brown; Cleora-Mrs Brown; Queen Eleanor-Mrs Mullart .
Cast
Role: Lord Sands Actor: Bencraft

Afterpiece Title: The Modern Pimp or The Doctor Deceivd With the Comical Humours of Crack the Pimp Dr Grey Goose and Sir Nehemiah Nestle Cock

Performance Comment: Crack-Chapman; Grey Goose-Mullart; Sir Nehemiah-Smith; Bellamy-Ray; Captain Strut-Yates; Servant-Littleton; Page-Master Brown; Mrs Grey Goose-Mrs Herle; Miss Grey Goose-Miss Atherton; Betty-Mrs Cantrell .

Dance: I: Two Pierrots by Livier and Mlle Delorme. II: Wooden Shoe Dance by Livier and Janno. End of Afterpiece: Grand Peasant Dance by Livier, Janno, Mlle Delorme, Mrs Woodward

Performance Comment: II: Wooden Shoe Dance by Livier and Janno. End of Afterpiece: Grand Peasant Dance by Livier, Janno, Mlle Delorme, Mrs Woodward .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks Or The Yeoman Of Kent

Afterpiece Title: Britannia

Performance Comment: As17361216, but Attendants on Germanicus-Corfe, Touchbury, Richardson, Kelly, Nichols, Osborne; Attendants on Britannia-Mrs Marshall, Mrs Ware, Mrs M. Giffard, Mrs Dove, Miss Hughes, Miss Tollett.

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Pantomime

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never Acted before, By the Author of...Hurlothrumbo [Samuel Johnson]. The Musick and Epilogue compos'd by Lord Flame [Johnson]. John Byrom, 1 Feb.: They [two Londoners] said the first night Johnson was for fighting with somebody in the pit.-Byrom, Private Journals and Literary Remains, XI, 88

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All Alive And Merry Or Men In Pursuit Of Money

Performance Comment: All@Alive@and@Merry-Lord Flame [Samuel Johnson of Chesire]; others-W. Giffard, Hewitt, Norris, Lyon, Rosco, Penkethman, Mrs Roberts, Mrs Charke, Mrs Chambers, Miss Tollett, Miss Burgess, Mrs M. Giffard; And a new Prologue-Giffard; [With a New Hierogliphical Dancing Epilogue-.

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Pantomime

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: As17370210, but dances-Phillips, +Villeneuve, Mrs +Pelling, Mrs +Anderson, Miss +Mann, Miss +Brett.
Cast
Role: dances Actor:
Role: Ferdinand Actor: Este
Role: Hippolito Actor: Miss Holliday
Role: Miranda Actor: Mrs Walter
Role: Ariel Actor: Miss Cole

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: As17370129, but Kate-Miss Brett.
Cast
Role: Kate Actor: Miss Brett.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Performance Comment: Pyrrhus-Delane; Orestes-Ryan; Pylades-Hale; Phoenix-Aston; Andromache-Mrs Horton; Hermione-Mrs Hallam; Cleone-Mrs Mullart; Cephisa-Mrs Templer.
Cast
Role: Andromache Actor: Mrs Horton

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer or Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Lun; Genius-Leveridge, Laguerre, Salway, Miss Hillyard; Furies-Tench, Villeneuve, Desse, Baudouin, Dupre; Harlequin Man and Woman-Desse, Miss Oates; Pierots-Baudouin, Tench; Mezzetin Man and Woman-Villeneuve, Mrs Moreau; Scaramouch Man and Woman-Dupre, Mrs Cantrell; Miller-Nivelon; Miller's Wife-Miss Norman; Doctor's Man-Hippisley.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks

Performance Comment: Reynard-Hallam; Loveworth-Stevens; Woodcock-Boaman; Squib-Penkethman; Maiden-Clarke; Belinda-Miss Horsington; Mrs Goodfellow-Mrs Marshall; Penelope-Miss Sharpe; Lucy-Miss Dancey; Hillaria-Mrs Vincent.
Cast
Role: Belinda Actor: Miss Horsington
Role: Penelope Actor: Miss Sharpe
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Dancey

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Performance Comment: See17380510, but Rovewell-Salway; Arethusa-Miss Hillyard; Argus-W. Hallam; Robin-Penkethman; Betty-Miss Dancey.
Cast
Role: Arethusa Actor: Miss Hillyard
Role: Betty Actor: Miss Dancey.

Dance:

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performance Comment: As17381030, but Nymphs-Miss Brunette, Miss Dancey.
Event Comment: Benefit Havard and Miss Mann. As 27 Nov. 1738. Tickets The Siege of Damascus also taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreckd

Performance Comment: As17390329 but Grand Ballet-Muilment, Mrs Walter.

Dance: I: Harlequins-Poitier, Mlle Roland; III: Moors Dance-Muilment, Mrs Walter; IV: French Peasants-Poitier, Mlle Roland; V: Minuet-Poitier, Mlle Roland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Sealand Actor: Rosco
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs James

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Performance Comment: See17381009, but Harlequin-Hays; Genius-Leveridge, Salway; Helen-Mrs Lampe; Shade-Miss Young; Furies-Richardson, Villeneuve, Thompson, Desse, Dupre; Harlequin Man and Woman-Desse, Miss Oates; Pierot Man and Woman-Richardson, Thompson; Mezzetin Man and Woman-Villeneuve, Mrs LeBrun; Scaramouch Man and Woman-Dupre, Mlle Ozanne; Miller-Bencraft; siller's Wife-Miss Oates; Doctor's Man-Hippisley.

Dance: By Desire, aHornpipe-Yates