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3451
17 May 1733 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: As at lif, 18 Nov. 1732, but Isabella-Mrs Hallam; Lucinda-Mrs Templer.
Cast
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Hallam
Role: Lucinda Actor: Mrs Templer.

Dance: I: Hornpipe-Jones; III: Peasant-Nivelon; IV: Dutch Skipper-Jones, Mrs Ogden; V: Scottish Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre, LeSac, Mrs Pelling, Delagarde, Mrs Ogden

Song: II: Kelly

3452
24 May 1733 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Performance Comment: See17330329 but Captain-Ryan; Estifania-Mrs Younger; Leon-Quin; Duke-Milward; Cacafogo-Hall; Margaretta-Mrs Buchanan; Altea-Mrs Stevens; Old Woman-Hippisley.
Cast
Role: Estifania Actor: Mrs Younger
Role: Margaretta Actor: Mrs Buchanan
Role: Altea Actor: Mrs Stevens

Music: Select Pieces-; particularly a new Grand Overture by Dr Pepusch-; V: Handel's celebrated Water Musick-; in which Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Benjamin Baker , accompanyed with Trumpets, French Horns

Dance: I: Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; II: Tambourine-Miss Rogers; IV: Mock Minuet-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre, Pelling, Mrs Pelling, Newhouse, Mrs Ogden, Lesac, Miss Baston

Song: III: A Dialogue in the Scottish Stile-Leveridge, Mrs Wright

3453
10 October 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Cast
Role: Marcia Actor: Mrs Thurmond
Role: Lucia Actor: Mrs Butler

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Performance Comment: Pierot-Poitier; Spaniard-Salway; Harlequin-LeBrun; Bassoon-Rainton; Treblini-Roberts; Quadrille-Este; Plumb-Cross; Colombine-Mrs Clive; Colombine's Maid-Mrs Pritchard; Old Woman-Topham .
Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Colombine's Maid Actor: Mrs Pritchard

Dance: Sleepy Dutchman and his Frow: Dutchman-Nivelon; Frow-Mrs Laguerre; others by Essex, Thurmond, Pelling, Chose, Davenport, Mrs Walter, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Davenport, Miss Anderson

3454
18 January 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Cast
Role: Calphurnia Actor: Mrs Butler
Role: Portia Actor: Mrs Thurmond

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Clive

Dance: By Denoyer, Essex, Nivelon, Lalauze, Mrs Walter, Castiglion, Villeneuve, Livier, Pelling, Davenport, Mrs Pelling, Miss Mann, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Davenport, particularly English Maggot, Russian Sailor, Pierrots, and Polonese

3455
21 January 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Cast
Role: Arpasia Actor: Mrs Thurmond

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Clive

Dance: By Essex, Nivelon, Le Brun, Lalauze, Mrs Walter, Castiglion, Villeneuve, Livier, Pelling, Davenport, Mrs Pelling, Miss Mann, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Davenport, Miss Brett, particularly I: Dutchman and his Frow. II: English Maggot. III: Lively Lad and Lass. IV: Pierots. V: Polonese

3456
22 October 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: Lady Macbeth Actor: Mrs Butler

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restored

Cast
Role: French Company Actor: Davenport, Raftor, Cole, Mrs Cross, Miss Bennet
Role: Milkmaids Actor: Mrs Davenport, Miss Brett, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs Dancey
Role: Countrywoman Actor: Mrs Cantrell
Role: Phebe Actor: Mrs Walter
Role: Country Lasses Actor: Mrs Pelling, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Davenport, Miss Brett

Music: As17351018

Dance: A Grand New Ballet, Le Badinage de Provence, by Poitier, Mlle Roland, Villeneuve, Duke, Pelling, Delemayne, Davenport, Rector, Mrs Walter, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Anderson, Miss Mann, Mrs Davenport, Miss Brett

3457
28 March 1737 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Performance Comment: As17360920, but Juan-Paget; Margareta-Mrs Kilby; Clara-Miss Horsington.
Cast
Role: Margareta Actor: Mrs Kilby
Role: Margarita Actor: Mrs Buchanan
Role: Altea Actor: Mrs Stevens
Role: Estifania Actor: Mrs Horton.

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Performance Comment: Bernard-Mullart; Madam Bernard-Mrs Forrester; Marquis-Chapman; Mawkin-Mrs Kilby; Janno-Hippisley.
Cast
Role: Madam Bernard Actor: Mrs Forrester
Role: Mawkin Actor: Mrs Kilby

Dance: II: Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Lalauze; IV: Comic Dance-Nivelon, Lalauze, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs LeBrun; V: Scot's Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre, Desse, Mrs Ogden, Tench, Mlle Delorme

Song: III: As I saw Fair Clara-Beard, Salway

3458
12 May 1737 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Lawyer

Dance: I: Serious Dance, with Minuet-Misses Scott; II: Comic Dance-Nivelon, Mrs LeBrun; IV: Peasant-Lalauze, Desse, Dupre, Richardson, Baudouin, Mrs Moreau, Mrs Delorme, Miss Norman, Mrs Ogden; V: Nivelon, Misses Scott

Song: II: A Song originally Designed for the play by Sir Richard Steele, -Beard; III: Leveridge; V: Roberts

3459
19 May 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: Lady Macbeth Actor: Mrs Butler.

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: Peggy Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Margery Actor: Mrs Bennet

Music: With theOriginal Musick, carefully reviv'd,-Mrs Clive, Ray, Stoppelaer, Rainton, Este, Raftor, Mrs Pritchard, Mrs Willis, Mrs Marshall

Dance: II: Two Pierrots-Livier, Pelling; III: Punch's Dance-a Child of Six Years old that never performed on the Stage before; V: Wooden Shoe Dance-Livier, Villeneuve

Song: I: The Lady's Lamentation, as17370503

3460
28 January 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Cast
Role: Eudocia Actor: Mrs Cibber.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Grand Volgi

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Walter
Role: Gardeners and Wives Actor: Pelling, Rector, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Woodward

Music: Select Pieces-

Dance: I: Flanderkins, as17380120 II: Drunken Peasant-Philips; III: Grand Polish Dance-Haughton, Mrs Walter, Liviez, Pelling, Vallois, Rector, Mrs Thompson, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Woodward, Miss Brett

3461
13 March 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Cast
Role: Ruth Actor: Mrs Grace
Role: Mrs Hackum Actor: Ray
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Teresa Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Mrs Termagant Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Cast
Role: Phillida Actor: Mrs Clive

Dance: LLa Folie Amoureuse (Comic Ballet)-Denoyer, Mrs Walter, Mrs Thompson, Livier, Pelling; III: Grand Ballet-Denoyer, Haughton, Mrs Thompson; IV: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; V: Minuet in Modern Habits-Denoyer, Mrs Walter

3462
13 May 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Taste; Or, The Guardians

Performance Comment: Man of Taste-Macklin; Sir Humphrey-Harper; Sir Positive-Griffin; Freelove-Mills; Valentine-Milward; Cockade-Miller; Harcourt-Winstone; Horatio-Raftor; Lewis-Cross; Lady Henpeck-Mrs Grace; Maria-Mrs Clive; Dorothea-Mrs Pritchard; Angelica-Mrs Mills; Dorinda-Mrs Butler; Lisetta-Mrs Bennet.
Cast
Role: Lady Henpeck Actor: Mrs Grace
Role: Maria Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Dorothea Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Angelica Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Dorinda Actor: Mrs Butler
Role: Lisetta Actor: Mrs Bennet.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Walter

Song: In: the usual Songs-Mrs Clive, Beard; particularly The Life of a Beau-Mrs Clive, Beard; The Beaux Lamentation-Mrs Clive, Beard for the Loss of Faranelli; The Provident Damsel-Mrs Clive, Beard

Dance: III: Two Pierrots-Pelling, Vallois; IV: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright

3463
20 January 1739 @ Covent Garden

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.
Cast
Role: Cassiope Actor: Mrs Wright
Role: Andromeda Actor: Mrs Chambers
Role: Amazons Actor: Mrs James, Miss Oates, Mrs Bullock, Mlle Ozanne, Miss Norman, Mrs LeBrun, Miss Dancey
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Kilby

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

3464
15 October 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Cast
Role: other parts Actor: Hippisley, Bridgwater, Rosco, Hale, Hallam, Stephens, Roberts, Arthur, James, Neale, Mullart, Bencraft, Mrs Cross, Miss Burgess, Miss Norman
Role: The Vocal Parts Actor: Leveridge, Legar, Salway, Bencraft, Mrs Lampe, Miss Young.d1739 10 10 cg Poitier, Mlle Roland.c1739 10 10 cg Written by George, Duke of Buckingham. With all the Music, Songs, Dances, Scenes, Machines, Habits, and other Decorations proper to the Play.

Dance: I: Grand Ballet-Mlle Roland the Elder, Villeneuve, Desse, Richardson, Delagarde, Mrs Rogers, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Ozanne, Mrs Villeneuve; V: Tambourine Dance called La Badinage de Provence-Poitier, Mlle Roland

Ballet: III: The Reprizal; or, Titt for Tatt. Miller-Poitier; His Wife-Mlle Roland the Elder; Coquette-Miss Oates

3465
26 September 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth-Delane; Macduff-Ryan; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Horton; King-Roberts; Malcolm-Hallam; Banquo-Bridgwater; Lenox-Stephens; Donalbain-Gibson; Seyward-Hale; Seyton-Arthur; Lady Macduff-Mrs Stevens; Hecate-Rosco; Witches-James, Neale, Mullart; Murderer-Hippisley.
Cast
Role: Lady Macbeth Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Lady Macduff Actor: Mrs Stevens

Music: With the Original Musick-; Vocal Parts-Leveridge, Salway, Roberts, Thompson, Stoppelaer, Mrs Lampe, Miss Young, Mrs Chambers, Mrs James, Mrs Vincent

Dance: Dancing-Villeneuve, Richardson, Delagarde, Dupre, Bencraft, Master Oates

3466
29 September 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Beville Jun.-Quin; Myrtle-Ryan; Cimberton-Hippisley; Sir John Beville-Bridgwater; Tom-Chapman; Sealand-Rosco; Humphrey-Marten; Mrs Sealand-Mrs James; Lucinda-Mrs Hale; Isabella-Mrs Mullart; Indiana-Mrs Cibber.
Cast
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs James
Role: Lucinda Actor: Mrs Hale
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Mullart
Role: Indiana Actor: Mrs Cibber.

Dance: Picq, Mlle Auguste, Villeneuve, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade, Mrs Wright, Mrs Jackson, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs Moudet; Also a Drunken Peasant-Duval, 1st time of appearing on this stage

3467
25 October 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv; With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Performance Comment: Falstaff-Quin; King-Stephens; Prince of Wales-Ryan; Hotspur-Hale; Worcester-Rosco; Westmorland-Harrington; Vernon-Gibson; Northumberland-Carr; Dowglass-Anderson; Poins-Anderson; Bardolph-Marten; Blunt-Salway; Kate-Mrs Hale; Hostess-Mrs James; Carriers-Chapman, Woodward; Francis-Hippisley.
Cast
Role: Kate Actor: Mrs Hale
Role: Hostess Actor: Mrs James

Dance: GGrand Ballet-Cooke, Ann Auretti, accompanied Villeneuve, Dumont, Delagarde, Richardson, Mrs Delagarde, Mrs LaFont, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Villeneuve; Characters of Dancing-Janneton Auretti; Tambourine-Cooke; Dutch Skipper-Delamain, Anne Auretti

3468
02 November 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Elvira Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Teresa Actor: Mrs Hale.

Dance: ThePeasants-Grimaldi, Mlle Auguste, Villeneuve, Dumont, Delagarde, Destrade, Mrs Delagarde, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs LaFont, Mrs Villeneuve; Chinese Dance-Grimaldi, Mlle Auguste

3469
03 October 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: Gloster-Ryan; Hastings-Hale; Dumont-Bridgwater; Belmour-Gibson; Ratcliff-Rosco; Catesby-Anderson; Alicia-Mrs Woodward; Jane Shore-Mrs Horton.
Cast
Role: Alicia Actor: Mrs Woodward
Role: Jane Shore Actor: Mrs Horton.

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: II: Serious Ballet-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde; V: New Scotch Dance-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde, Richardson, Delagarde, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs LeFont

3470
10 October 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Performance Comment: Squire-Chapman; Belfond Jun.-Hale; Sir Edward Belfond-Bridgwater; Sir William Belfond-Dunstall; Lolpoop-Hippisley; Trueman-Cashell; Attorney-Ridout; Scrapeall-James; Cheatly-Rosco; Shamwell-Gibson; Capt Hackem-Marten; Termagant-Anderson; Teresia-Mrs Hale; Isabella-Mrs Vincent; Lucia-Miss Hippisley; Ruth-Mrs Martin; Mrs Hackem-Stoppelaer; Mrs Termagant-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Teresia Actor: Mrs Hale
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Ruth Actor: Mrs Martin
Role: Mrs Hackem Actor: Stoppelaer
Role: Mrs Termagant Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Cast
Role: Chloe Actor: Mrs Vincent.

Dance: LLe Gondalier-Cooke, Villeneuve, Delagarde, Rector, Destrade, Mrs Delagarde, Mrs Norman, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Villeneuve; La Provencale-Picq, Mlle Duval

3471
25 August 1772 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Reinhold, Bannister, Mrs Thompson
Related Works
Related Work: He Would if He Could; or, An Old Fool Worse than Any Author(s): Isaac Bickerstaffe

Song: Several songs-Mrs Forbes; Musical Imitations-Bannister; An Odecomposed by Arnold will be sung in the manner of an Oratorio-Reinhold, Bannister, Mrs Forbes, Mrs Cartwright, Mrs Thompson, with a number of the best Chorus Singers

3472
24 September 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: The Lady Actor: Mrs Sharp
Role: Principal Bacchant Actor: Mrs Farrell
Role: Euphrosyne Actor: Mrs Farrell.

Song: Afterpiece: As17780917; With the original Music by Matthew Locke with full Chorusses and Additional Accompaniments,-Bannister, Gaudry, Legg, Chaplin, Fawcett, Carpenter,Holcroft, Philimore, Kenny, Miss Simson, Miss Abrams, Mrs Love, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Smith, Miss Kirby, Mrs Gaudry, Miss Collett

3473
26 April 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth-Smith; Macduff-Brereton; Duncan-Hurst; Ross-Aickin; Malcolm-Davies; Donalbain-Master Benson; Banquo-Packer; Hecate-Bannister; Witches-Parsons, Moody, Baddeley; Lady Macduff-Mrs Sharp; Lady Macbeth-Miss Sherry.
Cast
Role: Lady Macduff Actor: Mrs Sharp

Afterpiece Title: Selima And Azor

Song: With the original Music composed by Matthew Locke, with full Chorusses and additional accompaniments,-Bannister, Gaudry, Chaplin, Fawcett, Holcroft, Philimore, Kenny, Miss Simson, Miss Abrams, Mrs Love, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Smith, Miss Kirby, Mrs Gaudry, Miss Collett; End I: song-Miss Wright

3474
06 December 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth-Smith; Macduff-Brereton; Duncan-Packer; Ross-Aickin; Malcolm-R. Palmer; Donalbain-Master Pulley; Banquo (1st time)-Farren; Hecate-Bannister; Witches-Parsons, Moody, Baddeley; Lady Macduff-Mrs Sharp; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Crawford (1st appearance in that character these 10 years).
Cast
Role: Lady Macduff Actor: Mrs Sharp
Role: Lady Macbeth Actor: Mrs Crawford

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Song: With the original Music composed by Matthew Locke, will full Chorusses and additional Accompaniments, -Bannister, Gaudry, Chaplin, Fawcett, Holcroft, Phillimore, Edwards, Miss Simson, Miss Kirby, Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Mrs Smith, Mrs Gaudry, Miss Collett

3475
23 October 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: Romeo-Holman; Capulet-Fearon; Benvolio-Davies; Friar Lawrence-Hull; Paris-Macready; Tibalt-Cubitt; Prince-Gardner; Montague-Thompson; Apothecary-Swords; Mercutio-Lewis; Lady Capulet-Miss Platt; Nurse-Mrs Pitt; Juliet-Miss Brunton.
Cast
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Pitt

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Cast
Role: Antonio Actor: Mrs Brown
Role: Lauretta Actor: Mrs Martyr
Role: Berengaria Actor: Mrs Billington

Dance: In I: Masquerade Scene-(incident to the mainpiece)

Song: End IV: Juliet's Funeral Procession-; With the Solemn Dirge-; Vocal Parts-Johnstone, Cubitt, Brown, Darley, Pemberton, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart, Mrs Davenett, Miss Cranfield, Mrs Kennedy