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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Performance Comment: Kitely-Garrick; Old Knowell-Hurst; Young Knowell-J. Aickin; Wellbred-Palmer; Bobadill-King; Downright-Bransby; Brainworm-Baddeley; Justice Clement-Hartry; Cash-Packer; Mas. Matthew-W. Palmer; Cob-Moody; Master Stephen-Weston, 1st time; Bridget-Mr Morland; Tib-Mrs Bradshaw; Dame Kitely-Miss Younge.
Cast
Role: Tib Actor: Mrs Bradshaw

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Performance Comment: Fribble (with song)-Dodd; Flash-Palmer; Capt. Loveit-J. Aickin; Jasper-Ackman; Puff-Moody; Tag-Mrs Love; Biddy-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Tag Actor: Mrs Love

Dance: V: Comic Dance, as17710921

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband; Or, The Accomplish'd Fools

Performance Comment: Capt. Clerimont-Reddish; Humphrey Gubbin-Dodd; Sir Harry Gubbin-Baddeley; Tipkin-Parsons; Clerimont Sen-Packer; Pounce-J. Aickin; Biddy Tipkin-Mrs Barry; 1st time; Mrs Clerimont-Miss Younge; Fainlove-Miss Ambrose; Jenny-Miss Platt; Aunt-Mrs Love; In Act V, Song-Davies.
Cast
Role: Biddy Tipkin Actor: Mrs Barry
Role: Mrs Clerimont Actor: Miss Younge
Role: Aunt Actor: Mrs Love

Afterpiece Title: Marplot in Lisbon

Performance Comment: Marplot-Dodd; Charles-Jefferson; Ravelin-Palmer; Don Perriera-Parsons; Don Lopez-Davies; Lorenzo-J. Burton; Dona Perriera-Miss Platt; Isabinda-Miss Ambrose; Margarita-Mrs Bradshaw.
Cast
Role: Margarita Actor: Mrs Bradshaw.

Dance: End: The Amusements of Strasburgh, as17711118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Performance Comment: Kitely-Garrick; Wellbred-Jefferson; Old Knowell-Hurst; Young Knowell-Aickin; Capt. Bobadill-King; Master Stephen-Weston; Brainworm-Baddeley; Downright-Bransby; Justic Clement-Hurst; Cash-Packer; Matthew-W. Palmer; Cob-Moody; Tib-Mrs Bradshaw; Dame Kitely-Miss Younge; Bridget-Miss Ambrose.
Cast
Role: Tib Actor: Mrs Bradshaw

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Ursula Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Leonora Actor: Mrs Hunt.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Cast
Role: Maria Actor: Mrs Egerton
Role: Olivia Actor: Mrs Abington

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petruchio

Performance Comment: Petruchio-Dodd, first time; Grumio-Baddeley; Baptista-Wright; Hortensio-J. Bannister; Pedro-Griffith; Tailor-J. Burton; Bianca-Miss Platt; Catharine-Miss Pope; Biondello-Hartry; Music Master-Fawcett; Curtis-Mrs Bradshaw.
Cast
Role: Curtis Actor: Mrs Bradshaw.

Dance: V: A New Dance call'd The Surprize-Master Holland, Miss Ross, Miss Armstrong, others, scholars of Daigville

Performances

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petruchio

Performance Comment: Petruchio-King; Grumio-Baddeley; Baptista-Wright; Biondello-Hartry; Music Master-Fawcett; Tailor-Burton; Hortensio-J. Bannister; Pedro-Griffith; Bianca-Miss Platt; Curtis-Mrs Bradshaw; Catharine-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Curtis Actor: Mrs Bradshaw

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Bayes-King; Smith-J. Aickin; Johnson-Jefferson; Others-Weston, Mrs W. Palmer, Miss Collett, Baddeley, Palmer, W. Palmer, Hurst, Parsons, Moody, Jacobs, Bransby, Wheeler, Ackman, Kear, Keen, Fawcett, Johnston, Wrighten, Wright, Rooker, Miss Platt, Mrs Davies; With an Additional Reinforcement of Mr Bayes's New Rais'd Troops-.

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Cast
Role: Mrs Doggerel Actor: Miss Pope
Role: Margery Moorpout Actor: Mrs Love

Dance: The Sailors Revels, as17730928

Monologue: End: Linco's Travels. Linco-King; Old Woman-Mrs Bradshaw

Performance Comment: Linco-King; Old Woman-Mrs Bradshaw.
Cast
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mrs Bradshaw.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Oaks

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petruchio

Performance Comment: Petruchio-King; Grumio-Baddeley; Catherine-Miss Pope; Biondello-Lamash; Hortensio-Wheeler; Baptista-Wright; Tailor-Burton; Bianca-Miss Platt; Curtis-Mrs Bradshaw.
Cast
Role: Curtis Actor: Mrs Bradshaw.
Event Comment: On Account of Mrs Yates's Indisposition A Trip to Scarborough [announced on playbill of 20 Mar.] is obliged to be deferred. [The playbill retains Mrs Abington as Miss Prue, but "Last Saturday night, Mrs Abington being suddenly taken ill, Mrs Mattocks supplied the Part in Love for Love; and though we will not pretend to put her comic Abilities on a Level with those of Mrs Abington, yet her Performance was exceedingly humourous and entertaining" (Gazetteer, 24 Mar.).] Paid Mrs Abington in lieu of a benefit #200. Receipts: #218 8s. (188.0.0; 28.15.6; 1.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: As17761129, but Miss Prue-Mrs Mattocks [of cg].of cg].
Cast
Role: Miss Prue Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: Mrs Frail Actor: Miss Pope
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Miss Sherry
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Bradshaw

Afterpiece Title: The Milesian

Performance Comment: As17770320but Mrs Belfield-_.
Cast
Role: Patty Actor: Mrs Davies
Role: Mrs Belfield Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Caroline O'Gollagher Actor: Mrs Baddeley.

Dance: As17770215

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Sharp and Mrs Brereton. Public Advertiser, 27 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Sharp, No. 10, Bow-street; of Mrs Brereton, No. 11, Tavistock-street. Receipts: #133 9s. 6d. (79.13.0; 25.0.0; 0.8.6; tickets: 28.8.0) (charge: #75 9s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: As17790126, but Mrs Ford-Mrs Brereton (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Mrs Ford Actor: Mrs Brereton
Role: Mrs Page Actor: Miss Pope
Role: Ann Page Actor: Mrs Colles
Role: Mrs Quickly Actor: Mrs Bradshaw

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Song: End IV: Tally ho!, as17790413

Cast
Role: i> Actor: Mrs Wrighten
Role: Sweet Echo Actor: Mrs Wrighten
Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett, Mrs Cross and Mrs Millidge. Last time performing till the Holidays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Performance Comment: As17710417 but Obadiah-Love; Abel-W. Palmer; Ruth-Mrs W. Barry; Story-Fawcett; Col. Blunt-J. Aickin (playbill); In Act III: will introduce a Description of a Man of War and Sea Fight-Moody as Teague.
Cast
Role: Ruth Actor: Mrs W. Barry
Role: Mrs Day Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Role: Arabella Actor: Mrs Reddish.

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Performance Comment: As17710507, but Rhodope-Mrs Fitzgerald; Miss Fuz-Mrs Millidge; Lady Fuz-Mrs Hopkins.

Dance: V: The Shepherds Frolic, as17710406

Event Comment: Benefit for Jacobs, Griffith, Mrs Cross and Mrs Millidge. Paid Master Thomson 11 nights (23rd Inst. incl.) #2 15s.; Black Lyon Bill #3 19s. 2d. (Treasurer's Book). Tickets deliver'd for Benefit of Follett, Mas. Cape, Costin and Miss Berkly will be taken. Receipts: #233 18s. 6d. Charges: #74 14s. Profits to Jacobs, Griffith, Mrs Cross, Mrs Millage: #159 4s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Performance Comment: As17720225, but Sideboard-Jacobs; William-Griffith; Mrs Lovemore-Miss Younge; Muslin-Mrs Millidge.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Sukey Chitterlin Actor: Mrs Davies.
Role: Mrs Snip Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Role: Sukey Actor: Mrs Davies

Song: II: The Soldier Tir'd-Mrs Wrighten

Entertainment: V: Bucks Have at Ye All-Master Cape

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. The Absent Man published at 1s. [During the Easter Week holidays the text of the afterpiece had been changed. The advance bill in the Public Advertiser (31 March) notes "With Additions" and omits Mrs Hopkins from the list of characters.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Ophelia Actor: Mrs Baddeley
Role: Player Queen Actor: Mrs Johnson
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: The Absent Man

Performance Comment: As17680321 but Mrs Junket-Mrs Johnston; Miss Frolick-Miss Reynolds (MacMillan). [Public Advertiser does not list Miss Reynolds, and omits Mrs Hopkins.]Public Advertiser does not list Miss Reynolds, and omits Mrs Hopkins.]

Dance: End: The Wake, as17680220

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Barry. Mrs Barry hopes that those Ladies and Gentlemen who have taken places will be so good as to excuse the Alteration of the Play; as she has given the earliest notice in her power. N.B. Tickets deliver'd for the Countess of Salisbury will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Celia Actor: Mrs Baddeley, 1st time
Role: Audrey Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Role: Rosalind Actor: Mrs Dancer.

Afterpiece Title: The Absent Man

Performance Comment: As17680404 but Mrs Frolick-Mrs Jeffries; Prologue-Mrs Barry.

Dance: I: The Wake, as17680220

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wrighten and Mrs Hunt. Paid Housekeeper's Bill (Rollett 3 Guineas included) #7 14s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #172 16s. Charges: #61 10s. Profits to Mrs Wrighten and Mrs Hunt: #111 4s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Fathers

Performance Comment: As17730109, but Jenny-Mrs Hunt, first time.
Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Jeffries and Mrs Wrighten. Tickets deliver'd for Woman is a Riddle will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Performance Comment: As17700222, but Phaedra-Mrs Jeffries.
Cast
Role: Phaedra Actor: Mrs Jeffries.
Role: Bromia Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Role: Wit Actor: Mrs Scott

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Performance Comment: As17700322 but Rhodope-Mrs Wrighten.
Cast
Role: Rhodope Actor: Mrs Wrighten.
Role: Sweepers Actor: Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Love
Role: Lady Fuz Actor: Mrs Hopkins.

Song: I: A Cantata call'd Queen Mab or the Fairies' Jubilee-Mrs Wrighten

Dance: V: Minuet, Allemande-Daigueville, Miss Ross [as17700427

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By particular Desire. Juliet by Mrs Morland from the Norwich Theater a thin small figure too long a waist--wants power has a small impediment in her Speech she may be useful but never Capital--Pretty well receiv'd (Hopkins Diary). Mrs Morland the late Miss Westray (O. Smith) (Winston MS 10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: Romeo-Cautherly; Juliet-a young gentlewoman, first appearance [Mrs Morland]; Capulet-Moody; Mercutio-Dodd; Tybalt-J. Aickin; Apothecary-Castle; Peter-J. Burton; Nurse-Mrs Cross; Lady Capulet-Mrs Johnston; Friar Lawrence-Love; Benvolio-Packer; Prince-Keen; Paris-Fawcett; [With the Funeral Procession-; the Vocal Parts-Bannister, Dibdin, Champnes, Davies, Mrs Scott, Miss Radley, Mrs Dorman; [In Act I, a Masquerade and Dance-.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Performance Comment: As17700929, but Corporal Bounce-Palmer; Forge-_; Sukey Chitterlin-Mrs Davies.
Cast
Role: Sukey Chitterlin Actor: Mrs Davies.
Role: Mrs Snip Actor: Mrs Bradshaw.
Event Comment: Benefit for Hopkins, Prompter, and Mrs Hopkins. By Particular Desire. Tickets deliver'd for Mary Queen of Scots will be taken (playbill). Miss Hopkins made her first appearance upon the stage in Celia in As You Like It. Was rec'd with great applause (Hopkins Diary). House charges: #74 14s.; Profit to beneficiaries: #165 2s. Receipts: #239 16s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: As17721117, but Jaques-Aickin; Celia-Miss Hopkins, first appearance any stage; Phebe-Mrs Davies; Rosalind with Cuckoo Song-Mrs Barry; In Act V will be introduced a Song-Mrs Hunt.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Performance Comment: As17721106, but Abram-Jacobs; Grand Chorus-Mrs Wrighten, Mrs _Scott.

Dance: I: A Dance-Daigville's scholars

Entertainment: End: (First time) an Address to the Town-Miss P. Hopkins

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Oldfield. Tickets for The Comical Lovers [advertised on 22 Feb. for this day] taken at this play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Performance Comment: As17061207, but Mrs Clerimont-_; Aunt-_; Fainlove-_.
Cast
Role: Mrs Clerimont Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Role: Aunt Actor: Mrs Lee
Role: Biddy Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Fainlove Actor: Mrs Porter.
Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Cross. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. [See also Tatler, 30 April. Genest, II, 418, lists this as a benefit for Cross.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: As17081230, but Bluff-Estcourt; Belinda-Mrs Cross; Sylvia-Mrs Bicknell.
Cast
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Sylvia Actor: Mrs Bicknell.
Role: Araminta Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Role: Silvia Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Laetitia Actor: Mrs Knight
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Saunders.
Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Knight. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Performance Comment: As17110111, but Aunt-Mrs Powell.
Cast
Role: Aunt Actor: Mrs Powell.
Role: Mrs Clerimont Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Role: Biddy Actor: Mrs Oldfield.

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pritchard. Tickets delviered out for The Way to Keep Him and Catherine and Petruchio will be taken. Mainpiece At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Part of Pit will be railed into the Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Cast
Role: Lady Brumpton Actor: Mrs Pritchard

Afterpiece Title: The Way to Keep Him

Performance Comment: As17600124, but Mrs Lovemore-Mrs Pritchard; Servant-_; Pompey-_.
Cast
Role: Mrs Lovemore Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Muslin Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Mignionet Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Glen. Last time of performing the afterpiece this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: As17591108, but Indiana-Mrs Glen, her last on this stage; Daniel-_.
Cast
Role: Indiana Actor: Mrs Glen, her last on this stage
Role: Phillis Actor: Mrs Clive.
Role: Phyllis Actor: Mrs Abington
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Bennet

Afterpiece Title: The Way to Keep Him

Performance Comment: As17600318 but Mrs Lovemore-Mrs Yates; Mignionet-_.
Cast
Role: Mrs Lovemore Actor: Mrs Yates
Role: Muslin Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Mignionet Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Simson. No building on Stage. Mr Blakes died (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Performance Comment: As17630314 but Wishwell-Mrs Simson; Blister-Moody; Rhubarb-Fox; Finder-Parsons; Old Wilful-Burton; Sir Harry Atall-Philips; Supple-Clough; Lady Sadlife-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Wishwell Actor: Mrs Simson
Role: Lady Sadlife Actor: Mrs Clive.
Role: China Woman Actor: Mrs Simson
Role: Situp Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Role: Sylvia Actor: Mrs Palmer
Role: Lady Dainty Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Performance Comment: As17630426 but Tag-Mrs Bennet.
Cast
Role: Tag Actor: Mrs Bennet.

Dance: IV: The Irish Lilt, as17621023

Event Comment: Benefit for Mortimer, Tomlinson, West, Lings. House charges #84. [Deficit to actors #60 4s.] Received Mr Evans and Miss Roger's deficiency #28 18s. 6d. Paid Ann Collett for a gold brocaided silk #10 10s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #23 16s. (Treasurer's Book). Went into ye Pit...Vernon is an excellent MacHeath. I don't like Yates as Peachum so well as Shuter, and Parsons is not so good a Filch as Holborn. Bransby ye Lockit and Mrs Abington Lucy pretty well...Polly-$Mrs Vincent, who is now too old for ye character, and I think wants feeling...One Tomlinson, who had a 4th of the Benefit, spoke an Epilogue in the character of a Beggar, but by one party hissing and a greater clapping, could not hear it.--At Covent Garden a Hurdy-Gurdy man and girl play in the whore's scene, and as the Highwaymen march out, one returns and kisses MacHeath, and Shuter says some things Yates did not, but perhaps they are additions of his own (Neville MS Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: As17661013, but Player-Lings; Epilogue as Beggar-Tomlinson; Polly-Mrs Vincent; Hornpipe-Miss Tetley.
Cast
Role: Polly Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Abington
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Diana Trapes Actor: Mrs Bradshaw

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Cast
Role: Margery Actor: Mrs Love
Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clive, being the last time of her appearing on the Stage. Pit and Boxes laid together. N.B. No tickets have been given out, but to those Ladies and Gentlemen who have their places secured, in the Pit or Boxes, and to prevent any mistakes or confusion, no Box tickets will be admitted into the Gallery; Mrs Clive begs favour of those who have places in the Pit to ba there by half an hour after Five, and to let their servants come to keep them a quarter before Four. [Epilogue is Larpent MS 295.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Performance Comment: As17690106, but Isabella-Mrs Stephens.
Cast
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Stephens.
Role: Flora Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Inis Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Role: Violante Actor: Mrs Barry.

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Performance Comment: Lord Chalkstone (1st time)-King; Aesop-Bransby; Charon-Moody; Bowman-Ackman; Fine Gentleman-Dodd; Drunken Man-Love; Mercury-Vernon; Frenchman-Baddeley; Old Man-Parsons; Fine Lady-Mrs Clive; Epilogue (written by H. Walpole)-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Fine Lady Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Epilogue Actor: Mrs Clive.