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Event Comment: Benefit fo Ackman and Mrs Bradshaw. House charges #64 4s. [Deficit to actors #24 8s.] Tickets deliver'd for the Comedy and The Plain Dealer will be admitted. Paid Cooper for 6 nights in Cymon #3 3s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #39 16s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Cast
Role: Hob's Mother Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Role: Betty Actor: Mrs Lee

Dance: I: The Louvre, Minuet-Giorgi, Miss Simson, as17670512; V: A Double Hornpipe-Walker, Miss Tetley, as17670511; After which by Particular Desire Linco's Travels-Mr King. Being positively the last time of performing it

Event Comment: marly Benefit for Hook. Price 3s. Vocals in Concert by Mas. Cheney, Two Young Ladies who never appeared in public, and Mrs Barthelemon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

Music: marly First Violin and Solo by Fisher; Concerto on Organ by Hook ; Concerto on French Horn by the celebrated Mr Cohen, musician to the Stadtholder, being the 1st time of his performing since his arriving in England

Event Comment: p Comic Opera; the music by Paisiello. 2nd ballet: Originally composed by D'Auberval, and brought out with new Episodes and Dances by D'Egville [with music by Bossi], The Doors to be opened at 6:15. To begin at 7:15 [same throughout opera season]. Single tickets for the night, for pit or gallery, to be had at the office of the Theatre. [Sga Bolla was from the opera, Milan. Sga Clara's name is not in the playbill, but "The second comic opera singer, Sga Clara, was also new...There is much sweetness and delicacy in her voice, and perhaps it may be owing to her evident timidity that it did not seem to possess strength and compass in proportion" (Monthly Visitor, Jan. 1800, p. 71). Deshayes was from the Opera, Madrid.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Zingari In Fiera

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Viganoni, Rovedino, Morelli, Sga Bolla (1st appearance in this country) [Sga Clara (1st appearance)]. Parts from libretto (J. Hammond [1793]): [Pandolfo, Eleuterio, Perillo, Scevola, Calandrino, Frappa, Lucrezia, Stellidaura, Cecca.]Sga Clara (1st appearance)]. Parts from libretto (J. Hammond [1793]): [Pandolfo, Eleuterio, Perillo, Scevola, Calandrino, Frappa, Lucrezia, Stellidaura, Cecca.]

Dance: End I: A New Divertisement (composed by D'Egville)-Didelot, Mme Rose Didelot, Mr Laborie, Mme Laborie, Mme Hilligsberg, Deshayes (1st appearance in this country), Mlle Parisot (1st appearance at this theatre these 2 years); End Opera: a new Anacreontic Ballet, in 2 parts, Les Jeux d'Egle-Deshayes, Laborie, D'Egville, Didelot, Mme Hilligsberg, Mlle Parisot, Mme Laborie, Mlle J. Hilligsberg, Mrs D'Egville, Mme Rose Didelot

Performance Comment: Hilligsberg, Mrs D'Egville, Mme Rose Didelot.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Dance: I: new Scottish Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre, Dupre, Mrs Pelling, Legarde, Mrs Ogden; II: Two Pierrots-Poitier, Nivelon; III: new Comic Dance-Nivelon, Pelling, Newhouse, Legarde, Lesac, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs Pelling, Miss Latour, Mrs Ogden, Miss Baston; V: The Judgment of Paris-Poitier, Glover, Pelling, Newhouse, Lesac, Legarde, Mrs Laguerre, Miss Latour, Miss Rogers

Music: IV: (at the Desire of several Persons of Quality) Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Poitier

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. With new Dresses and Decorations. The Characters dressed in the Habits of the Times. [Palmer Jun. was from the hay.] "It is necessary to remind both Macbeth and his Lady that there is a measured declamation, of which the natural utterance of passion knows nothing, and that words and syllables may be divided and subdivided till the fatigue of the ear overcome every other feeling...Between the first and second acts Ca ira was loudly called for from the pit and gallery. The clamour, after preventing the first part of the second act from being heard, subsided as unaccountably as it rose. The performers, in compliance with an admonition from the pit, began the act again, and proceeded without further interruption" (Morning Chronicle, 20 Feb.). "In Macbeth there was too much that was not Shakespeare, too much bad taste and shabbiness in the costumes of the witches, and all in all too much claptrap. He found it insufferable that Banquo should take the part of his own ghost and felt that the audience should behold the specter only in Macbeth's terror, as was the case with the banquet guests. 'Mr Kemble has desired on several occasions to suppress the ghost,' Meister says, 'but has never had the courage to do so.'" (J. H. Meister quoted in J. A. Kelly, 134). For Kemble's eventual courage in this matter see dl, 21 Apr. 1794.] Receipts: #425 6s. (383.2; 40.4; 2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Duncan-Packer; Malcolm-Palmer Jun. (1st appearance on that stage); Donalbain-Bland; Macbeth-Kemble; Banquo-Bensley; Lenox-Whitfield; Macduff-Wroughton; Rosse-Barrymore; Fleance-Master Gregson; Seward-Fawcett; Seyton-Phillimore; Doctor-Jones; Captain-Benson; Messenger-Banks; Murderer-Webb; Hecate-Bannister; Witches-Aickin, Moody, Burton; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Siddons; Gentlewoman-Miss Tidswell.
Cast
Role: Donalbain Actor: Bland
Role: Lady Macbeth Actor: Mrs Siddons

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Cast
Role: Miss Lucy Actor: Mrs Bland.

Song: In: The original Music by Matthew Locke, with full Chorusses and additional Accompaniments-Bannister, Sedgwick, Dignum, Danby, Maddocks, Caulfield, Cooke, Alfred, Shaw, Lyons, Mrs Bland, Mrs Edwards, Miss Hagley, Miss DeCamp, Mrs Shaw, Mrs Edwin, Mrs Butler, Mrs Bramwell, Mrs Gawdry, Miss Kirton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Performance Comment: See lif 27 Dec. 1732, but Jaffier-Milward; Pierre-Quin; Duke-Paget; Bedamar-Walker; Priuli-Chapman; Renault-Aston; Spinosa-Houghton; Elliot-Hale; Antonio-Hippisley; Belvidera-Mrs Hallam.
Cast
Role: Belvidera Actor: Mrs Hallam.

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Cast
Role: Hob's Mother Actor: Mrs Egleton.
Role: Betty Actor: Mrs Kilby

Dance: II: Tambourine-Miss Rogers; IV: Mock Minuet-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre, introduced by Pelling, Mrs Pelling, Newhouse, Miss LaTour, Delagarde, Mrs Ogden, Lesac, Miss Baston; End I of Afterpiece: Scottish Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre, Dupre, Mrs Pelling, Delagarde, Mrs Ogden

Event Comment: Benefit Ward and Mrs Haughton. By Mr Bullock's and Spiller's Company of Comedians At their great Theatrical Booth in Bird-Cage Alley. With all the Scenes, Machines, and other Decorations proper to the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus, King Of Thebes

Performance Comment: Oedipus-Ward; Creon-Ogden; Adrastus-Miller; Haemon-Buck; Tiresias-Browme; Phorbas-Merrivale; Diocles-Buchanan; Jocasta-Mrs Haughton; Eurydice-Mrs Plomer; Manto-Miss Edward; Comic Parts-Bullock, Spiller, Penkethman, Willcox.
Cast
Role: Jocasta Actor: Mrs Haughton
Role: Eurydice Actor: Mrs Plomer

Dance: Haughton, Mrs Ogden, James, Mrs Haughton; End II: particulary Tollet's Grounds-Mrs Haughton, Mrs Ogden; End IV: French Peasant-; End V: Swedish Dale Karl-Haughton, Mrs Ogden

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Thurmond. Written by Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: Zara Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Almeria Actor: Mrs Thurmond.

Dance: End II: Pierrot's Dance-Roger, Mrs Brett; III: Polonese-Young Rainton, Miss Robinson; IV: The Grand Flower Dance call'd La Badinage Champetre-Roger, Mrs Booth, Lally, Miss Tenoe, Boval, Mrs Walter, Haughton, Mrs Brett, Duplessis, Mrs Young

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bondman

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Turn'd Judge

Dance: Weaver, Shaw, Thurmond Jr, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Younger, Mrs Tenoe; Tollet's Ground-Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Younger

Event Comment: Benefit Widow of Keene, Mrs Orfeur, Mrs Taylor. Written by Mr Congreve. Receipts: money #11 16s. 6d.; tickets #92 13s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: As17240323 but Sir Joseph-Will. Bullock; Sharper-Orfeur; Lucy-Mrs Taylor.
Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Taylor.
Role: Araminta Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Sterling
Role: Laetitia Actor: Mrs Cantrell

Dance: End I: Saraband-Mrs Brett; II: Louvre-Mrs Wall; III: Tollet's Grounds-Newhouse, Mrs Rogier; IV: Entry-Glover; V: Peasant-Lanyon, Mrs Ogden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Smith; Elder Brother-Clarke; Younger Brother-Dyer; 1st Spirit-Ross; 2nd Spirit-Mattocks; Lady-Mrs Ward; Bacchanals-Beard, Baker; Bacchants-Miss Brent, Mrs Vernon; Chorusses-Legg, Whitaker, Roberts, Ryley, Dibdin, Courts, Mrs Lampe, Miss Young, Miss Davis, Miss Sledge; Euphrosyne-Mrs Vernon; Sabrina, the Pastoral Nymph, and the song of Sweet Echo-Miss Brent.

Dance: The Dances incident to the masque-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville, Granier, Leppie, Desse, Rochford, Dumai, Gosley, Hussey, Balthazar, Mrs Granier, Mrs Jansolin, Mrs Mariane, Mrs Crawford, Mrs Welch, Miss Daw

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Parker. Written oy Mr Dryden. Receipts: money #20 13s.; tickets #64 15s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian, King Of Portugal

Performance Comment: Sebastian-Walker; Dorax-Quin; Muley Moluch-Boheme; Benducar-Ogden; Mufty-Bullock; Antonio-Egleton; Mustapha-Spiller; Alvarez-Hulett; Almeyda-Mrs Parker; Morayma-Mrs Bullock; Johayma-Mrs Egleton.
Cast
Role: Almeyda Actor: Mrs Parker
Role: Morayma Actor: Mrs Bullock
Role: Johayma Actor: Mrs Egleton.

Dance: SScot Dance-Mrs Bullock; Flag Dance-Nivelon; Myrtillo-DuPre, Glover, Pelling, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs Wall, Mrs Ogden

Song: Salway

Event Comment: Benefit Lacy, Pitt, Mrs Rice. Written by Mr Farquhar. Receipts: money #4 10s.; tickets #87 11s. Probable attendance: boxes, 3 by money and 76 by tickets; stage, 4 by money; pit, 4 by money and 261 by tickets; first gallery, 4 by money and 294 by tickets; second gallery, 18 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And A Bottle

Performance Comment: As17280406 but Club-Bullock; Brush-Pitt; Rigadoon-Lacy; Pamphlet-Chapman; Beggar-Giffard; Pindress-Mrs Rice; Bulfinch-Mrs Cook.

Dance: SScottish Dance-Mrs Bullock; Grand Dance of Moors-Glover, Newhouse, Pelling, Lanyon, Mrs Ogden, Mrs Anderson, Miss LaTour; Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden

Event Comment: Benefit Lovelace and Taylor, Boxkeepers. Written by the late Mr Otway. Receipts: money #13 17s.; tickets #99 7s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Soldier's Fortune

Performance Comment: As17230205, but Bloody Bones-Hall; Lady Dunce-Mrs Boheme.
Cast
Role: Lady Dunce Actor: Mrs Boheme.
Role: Silvia Actor: Mrs Bullock

Dance: The Galliard-Lally, Mrs Cross; Two Punches and Harlequin-; Dutch Skipper-Pelling, Mrs Bullock; Lally, Lally Jr, Newhouse, Pelling, Mrs Cross, Mrs Bullock

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Brett and Mrs Campbell. Written by Mr Shadwell, late Poet Laureat. Daily Journal, 25 May: Yesterday Morning died Mrs Bicknell (an eminent Actress in the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane) of a Consumption. Her Parts will be very well supply'd by her Sister Mrs Younger, a Person of a very promising Genius

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Performance Comment: As17230124, but Teresia-Mrs Campbell; Isabella-Mrs Horton; Lucia-Mrs Brett.
Cast
Role: Teresia Actor: Mrs Campbell
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Lucia Actor: Mrs Brett.
Role: Mrs Termagent Actor: Mrs Thurmond.

Dance: Shaw, Mrs Booth, Mrs Younger

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Heartwell-Quin; Belmour-Walker; Vainlove-Ryan; Sir Joseph-Bullock Sr; Bluff-Hall; Sharper-Leigh; Fondlewife-Hippisley; Setter-Spiller; Araminta-Mrs Cross; Belinda-Mrs Sterling; Laetitia-Mrs Cantrell; Sylvia-Miss Purden; Lucy-Mrs Egleton.
Cast
Role: Araminta Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Sterling
Role: Laetitia Actor: Mrs Cantrell
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Egleton.

Song: Leveridge, Mrs Chambers; particularly The Tipling Philosophers-Leveridge

Dance: Dupre, Nivelon Sr, Nivelon Jr, Glover, Newhouse, Mrs Ogden, Mrs Rogeir, Mrs Wall; particularly Two Pierrots-the Nivelons; Running Footman's Dance-Nivelon Sr, Mrs Rogeir; Flag Dance-Nivelon Sr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Soldier's Fortune

Cast
Role: Silvia Actor: Mrs Sterling
Role: Lady Dunce Actor: Mrs Vincent.

Dance: End I: Saraband-Mrs Brett; II: Peasant-Lanyon, Mrs Ogden; III: Louvre-Mrs Wall; IV: Tollet's Ground-Newhouse, Mrs Rogier; V: Myrtillo-

Event Comment: Benefit Morgan, Mrs Cook, Mrs Butcher. Written by Mr Congreve. Receipts: money #9 0s. 6d.; tickets #98 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: As17250104, but Sir Joseph-Morgan; Sharper-Egleton; Araminta-Mrs Moffet.
Cast
Role: Araminta Actor: Mrs Moffet.
Role: Laetitia Actor: Mrs Bullock
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Butcher
Role: Sylvia Actor: Mrs Legar
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Egleton.

Dance: CChacone-Mrs Bullock; Irish Dance-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; Pastoral-Lally, Mrs Wall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Performance Comment: See17320124, but Othello-Quin; Iago-Ryan; Cassio-Walker; Desdemona-Mrs Younger.
Cast
Role: Desdemona Actor: Mrs Younger.

Dance: I: Pastoral-Vallois, lately arrived from the Opera at Paris, the first Time of his dancing in England; a Scholar to M Marcelle; II: Wooden Shoe Dance-Poitier; Serious Dance-Poitier, Mrs Laguerre; III: Sicilian Dance-Glover, Mrs Pelling; (at Desire) Two Pierrots-Poitier, Pelling; IV: Highlander and his Mistress-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; V: A new Peasant Dance-Poitier, Mrs Laguerre

Music: Grand Concert of Water Musick by Mr Randal [Handel?]-; [in which Poitier will beat the Kettle@Drums-Poitier

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 22 Jan.: Last Saturday Night his Majesty, his Royal Highness the Duke, the Princesses, with several Foreign Ministers and their Ladies, were at [cg]: So great a Concourse of People came in order to see his Majesty there, as has scarcely been seen; many Persons who came to the Play-House at Four o'Clock, offering any Price, if they could possibly be admitted. In the Fury Dance of Macbeth, Mr Haughton had the misfortune to dislocate his Ankle-Bone, and fell down upon the Stage, and was obliged to be carried off; upon which his Majesty was graciously Pleased to send him Ten Guineas instantly, and to order him to be taken Care of

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: Lady Macbeth Actor: Mrs Hallam
Role: Lady Macduff Actor: Mrs Stevens

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Cheats of Harlequin

Performance Comment: Perseus-Salway; Cepheus-Leveridge; Aethiopian-Thompson; Cassiope-Mrs Wright; Andromeda-Mrs Chambers; Mercury-Vincent; Amazons-Mrs James, Miss Oates, Mrs Bullock, Mlle Ozanne, Miss Norman, Mrs LeBrun, Miss Dancey; Infernals-Leveridge, Haughton, Villeneuve, Dupre, Richardson, Delagarde, Thompson; Hussar-Bencraft; Harlequin-Lun; Colombine-Mrs Kilby; Hussar's Servant-Hippisley; Valet-James; Petit Maitre-Lalauze; Concluding with the Grand Dance in Momus, a Fawn-Glover.

Music: Vocal Parts [for Macbeth]-Leveridge, Salway, Roberts, Thompson, Stoppelaer, Mrs James, Mrs Wright, Mrs Vincent, Mrs Kilby

Related Works
Related Work: The Stranger Author(s): August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue
Event Comment: Benefit Chetwood and Mrs Moor. Written by the late Mr Wycherley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Music: A New Solo on the Stage-Bitty

Song: As17180414

Dance: Shaw, Wade, Mrs Santlow, Mrs Tenoe, Miss Lindar; Harlequin-Mrs Santlow

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Saunders.Written by Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Performance Comment: Fainall-Booth; Mirabel-Wilks; Witwoud-Cibber; Petulant-Boman; Sir Wilful-Miller; Waitwell-Shepard; Lady Wishfort-Mrs Saunders; Millamant-Mrs Oldfield; Marwood-Mrs Porter; Mrs Fainall-Mrs Horton; Foible-Mrs Willis.
Cast
Role: Lady Wishfort Actor: Mrs Saunders
Role: Millamant Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Marwood Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Mrs Fainall Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Foible Actor: Mrs Willis.

Dance: Shaw, Desnoyer, Thurmond Jr, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Younger; Myrtillo-

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs White, the Boxkeeper's Widow. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by Mr Congreve. Receipts: money #9 19s. 6d.; tickets #54 13s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Cast
Role: Lady Touchwood Actor: Mrs Seymour
Role: Lady Froth Actor: Mrs Bullock
Role: Lady Plyant Actor: Mrs Egleton
Role: Cynthia Actor: Mrs Rogier.

Dance: Lally, Pelling, Newhouse, Mrs Rogier, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Hutton; particularly a Hornpipe-Jones

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Buchanan. Not Acted these Eight Years. Writtan by the late Mr Dryden. Receipts: money #33 15s.; tickets #127 17s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian, King Of Portugal

Performance Comment: Sebastian-Walker; Almeyda-Mrs Buchanan; Dorax-Quin; Muley Moluch-Milward; Muley Zeydan-Lacy; Benducar-Ogden; Antonio-Chapman; Alvarez-Hulett; Mufti-Bullock Sr; Johayma-Mrs Egleton; Morayma-Mrs Bullock; Mustapha-Penkethman.
Cast
Role: Almeyda Actor: Mrs Buchanan
Role: Johayma Actor: Mrs Egleton
Role: Morayma Actor: Mrs Bullock

Dance: I: Hornpipe-Jones, Mrs Pelling; III: Scots Dance-Mrs Bullock; IV: Two Pierrots-Poitier, Pelling; V: The Baulk-Salle, Mrs Laguerre

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Cibber and her sister, daughters of Mr Cibber by the late Mrs Jane Cibber. Mainpiece: At the Particular desire of several Persons of Quality. Tickets to be had of Bradshaw, &c., and of Miss Cibber and her Sister, at Mrs Brett's (their Aunt)in Berwick St., near Soho. Tickets deliver'd out by Mrs Boultby will be taken. Receipts: #78

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Performance Comment: Acasto-Winstone; Castalio-Havard; Polydore-Mills; Chamont-Delane; Ernesto-Ridout; Chaplain-Raftor; Monimia-Mrs Mills; Serina-Mrs Ridout; Florella-Mrs Bennet; Cordelio-Miss Cibber.
Cast
Role: Monimia Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Serina Actor: Mrs Ridout
Role: Florella Actor: Mrs Bennet

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Song: I: Song with French Horns-Beard; II: Sweet Bird from Milton-Mrs Arne; III: A Ballad-Lowe; IV: War he sung was Toil and Trouble-Mrs Clive

Dance: V: A New Running Footman's Dance-Phillips