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Event Comment: "Mrs Siddons, in most of the Parts she plays, is the best Actress we ever saw. Miss Kemble, in all the Parts she plays, is the very worst Actress we ever saw" {Public Advertiser, 5 May). [Afterpiece in place of The Adventures of a Night, announced on playbill of 2 May.] The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same for rest of season]. Receipts: #263 5s. 6d. (253/11/0; 8/9/6; 1/5/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Cast
Role: Jane Shore Actor: Mrs Siddons

Afterpiece Title: Too Civil by Half

Cast
Role: Lady Treacle Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Event Comment: Mrs Siddons continuing so ill that it is impossible for her to perform on Saturday; her Benefit announced for that Evening is unavoidably postponed till further Notice [see 24 Apr.]. Receipts: #163 11s. (162/1; 1/5; ticket not come in: 0/5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Cast
Role: Froth Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Lady Allworth Actor: Mrs Ward

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Event Comment: "[Mrs Siddons's] Impatience, her impassioned Gestures, during the Narrative of Old Norval--the Towering of her Transports after it--the Transports of Tenderness maternal... were given with an enthusiastic Grace of Truth" (Public Advertiser, 7 May). Receipts: #242 17s. (225/5; 16/13; 0/9; tickets not come in: 0/10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Cast
Role: Lord Randolph Actor: Farren
Role: Lady Randolph Actor: Mrs Siddons

Afterpiece Title: Too Civil by Half

Cast
Role: Lady Treacle Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Dance: As17840311athi

Event Comment: "[Mrs Jordan] plays Miss Hoyden with great effect . . . but the character in her hands is only the Romp in other situations . . . We never saw anything more naturally assumed, or more agreeably wicked, if we may so phrase it, than the whole of [Miss Farren's] deportment in her scenes with Loveless" (Morning Chronicle, 11 Jan.). Receipts: #215 3s. (212/9; 2/14)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Cast
Role: Miss Hoyden Actor: Mrs Jordan
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Brereton
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Love

Afterpiece Title: Hurly Burly

Cast
Role: Angelica Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: Nannette Actor: Mrs Wrighten
Event Comment: Mrs Jordan being very ill, instead of The Impostors[advertised on playbill of 27 Jan.] will be performed The West Indian. Receipts: #125 3s. (62.16.0; 59.18.6; 2.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Related Works
Related Work: The West Indian Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

Cast
Role: Theresa Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Anna Actor: Mrs Crouch.
Event Comment: "Mrs Jordan made an Apology this Night, and all is well again" (MS annotation on Kemble playbill) [see 26 Nov.]. Receipts: #421 3s. 6d. (310.2.6; 108.12.0; 2.9.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Muses Actor: Mrs _Goodall.
Role: Italian Singer Actor: Bland
Role: Melpomene Actor: Mrs Powell
Role: Thalia Actor: Mrs Goodall

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Cast
Role: Elmira Actor: Mrs Cuyler
Role: Ismene Actor: Mrs Bland
Role: Roxalana Actor: Mrs Jordan.

Dance: In afterpiece: Hamoir, Miss DeCamp

Song: As17910927

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Cast
Role: Marchioness Merida Actor: Mrs Goodall
Role: Amanthis Actor: Mrs Jordan
Role: Actor: Mrs Jordan.

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Cast
Role: Mrs Caddy Actor: Mrs Booth

Afterpiece Title: The Spoild Child

Cast
Role: Little Pickle Actor: Mrs Jordan
Role: Miss Pickle Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Margery Actor: Mrs Booth

Song: End II: When on board our trim vessel (composed by Carter)-Bannister; End: The Waggoner (composed by Dibdin)-Wathen; End I 2nd piece: When Bibo went down-Bannister; End 2nd piece: The Cobler (composed by Reeve)-Wathen; End I 3rd piece: The Ship@wreck'd Sailors (composed by an Amateur for the Thespian Panorama [see hay, 4 Mar.])-Mrs Bland, Master Welsh, Dignum, Suett, Caulfield, Bannister

Performance Comment: ])-Mrs Bland, Master Welsh, Dignum, Suett, Caulfield, Bannister.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Italian Monk

Cast
Role: Betsy Blossom Actor: Mrs Harlowe.

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Performance Comment: As17970715 but Rosina-Mrs Atkins (from the Theatre-Royal Bath; 1st appearance on this stage); with The Nightingale-Mrs Atkins; accompanied on the hautboy-Foster; Rustic-_; Irishmen-_.

Song: 1st piece: General Chorus, as17970815, but _Dibble, _Kenrick, _Caulfield Jun., Mrs _Gaudry, Mrs _Brown

Performance Comment: , Mrs _Gaudry, Mrs _Brown.
Event Comment: Mrs Pepys attended a play, but the theatre and the play are not named by Pepys

Performances

Event Comment: Mrs Pepys attended a play, but the theatre and the title of the play are not known

Performances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Dance: deBarques, Mrs Elford, Mlle de Noisy, others; A new Chacone-Mrs Bruce; Scotch Dance-Mrs Bicknell

Song: As17051011.Mrs Hodgson, Cook

Performance Comment: Mrs Hodgson, Cook.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arsinoe Queen Of Cyprus

Performance Comment: Mrs Tofts performing her own part.

Dance: As17060325

Event Comment: Mrs Moore's tickets for 3 March taken this day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Song:

Dance:

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Performance Comment: Mrs Tofts performing her own part, but See17081214.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Two Anthems

Performance Comment: O Sing unto the Lord, My Song shall be Alway-(by Mr Handel).

Afterpiece Title: Davids Lamentation over Saul and Jonathan

Performance Comment: Mrs Arne, Beard, Russel, Rheinhold.
Event Comment: Benefit for Master Benjamin Hallet and Sig Gapatono

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Womans Oratory

Performance Comment: Mrs Midnight's Concert and Oratory. See17530327 but Prologue-Hallet; Epilogue-Miss Midnight on a Jack Ass.

Song: TThe Dust Cart-Toe; accompanied-, Bombasto; Grand Dance in the Old British Taste-; Hornpipe-Timertoe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Womans Oratory

Performance Comment: Mrs Midnight's Concert and Oratory. See17530327.

Song: MMason's song, Several Scots Songs-Lauder

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: Mrs Cole, Smirk, Shift, Squintum-Foote; Baron-Costollo; Loader-Tindal; Sir George-Davis; Transfer-Parsons; Sir Richard-Gardner; Dick-Johnson; Lucy-Miss Reynolds.

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Cast
Role: Tagg Actor: Mrs Granger

Dance: I: The Dutchman, as17650719 End: The English Sailor at Marseilles-Mas. Clinton, Miss Street; New Hornpipe-Mas. Clinton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: Mrs Cole, Smirk-Foote; Sir Wm Wealthy-Castle; Richard Wealthy-Gardner; Minor-Aickin; Dick-Morgan; Shift, Squintum-Bannister; Loader-Davis; Tally-Jacobs; Transfer-Weston.

Afterpiece Title: The Statesman Foild

Dance: As17680530

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: Mrs Cole, Smirk-Foote; Sir William Wealthy-Castle; Richard Wealthy-Aickin; The Minor-Forde (from Dublin, his first appearance on this stage); Dick-Morgan; Shift (with Imitations), Dr Squintum-Bannister; Loader-Davis; Tally-Jacobs; Transfer-Weston; Lucy-Miss Ogilvie.

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Performance Comment: Major Sturgeon-Foote; Heeltap-Davis; Matthew Mugg-Bannister; Jerry Sneak-Weston; Lint-Castle; Bruin-Kearny; Roger-Jacobs; Snuffle-Pierce; Mob-Vandermere, Summers, Sharpless, Wheeler, Farrell; Mrs Sneak-Mrs Gardner; Sir Jacob Jallop-Sowdon.

Dance: As17690515

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Song: Vocal Parts, as17990930, but _Dyke, Whitmore, added: Ms +Litchfield, Ms +Mills, Ms +Dibdin, _Incledon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Several Celebrated Songs and Dialogues, by the late Mr Henry Purcel, other great English Masters-Mr Laurence, Mr Cook, Mr Tenoe; the Symphonys-Mr Dean, Mr Manship; A Song-Mrs Reading, accompany'd with the Trumpet and all the other Instruments; A Solo on the Violin-Mr Dean; A Solo on the Flute A/la/main-Mrs Denby; With variety of full Musick-

Event Comment: [Pasticcio: an opera, cantata, or other composition made up of various pieces from different authors or sources. See H. Walpole to Mann, 1 Nov. 1752, Our Operas begin tomorrow with a pasticcio full of most of my favourite songs." Grove's Dictionary, II, 688: "A species of lyric drama composed of airs, duets and other movements selected from different sources and so grouped as to provide a mixed audience with the greatest possible number of favourite airs in succession." See favorable notice 20 March in the Public Advertiser. The Westminster Magazine remarked of Oratorio season at cg: "They have not possessed so uninterrupted a flow of success, but we remember that they have experienced more barren seasons. The instrumental band is superior to that at the other house, and the vocal not at all inferior. At this house they have produced selections of musical pieces, by the most capital masters, arranged so as to form entire entertainments. In general these are very agreeable." See 20 March.] Charges: #35

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Pasticio With Concertos

Performance Comment: Act I a Pasticcio consisting of select airs and concertos-; Symphony-; Song-Ristorini; Accompanied Recitative and song-Reinhold (composed by Giordani); A new Song-Miss Venables (composed by Mr Arne); Chorus-Mr Nigri; song-Mrs Mattocks (composed by Bach); New Song-Mrs Barthelemon (composed by Mr Barthelemon; accompanied on the French Horn-Sg Spandau; a Song-Miss Catley (composed by Dr Arne); . .

Music: I: Concerto on violin-Barthelmon; II: a Serenata Beauty and Virtue-; translated from Metastasio and composed by Dr Arne; II: Concerto on Organ-Mr Arne; III: (Never Performed) The Thunder Ode written on the Hurricanes of the West Indies, by Mr Arne, Principal singers-Miss Catley, Mrs Mattocks, Miss Venables, Sg Ristorini, Mrs Barthelemon, Mr Reinhold; The concertos-Barthelemon, Spandau, Mr Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Entirely new, composed by Mr Keller,the best Hands; With several Sonatas on the Violin-Signior Gasperini; And a piece of Musick composed for Flutes-Mr Paisible, Mr Banister; And a piece for Hautboy and Violin-Mrs Hodgson, Mr Cook

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; Several new Songs-Mrs Hudson, Mr Elford accompany'd with the Lute; Also particular Performances-Mr Paisible, Mr Banister; concluding with a Song made upon St. Cecilia's Day, but never yet perform'd-