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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady Jane Gray

Song: As17321026

Dance: DDutch Skipper-Valois, Mrs Bullock; Merry Lass-Miss Wherrit; Sailor's Dance-Jones

Event Comment: Benefit for Poitier Jr. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [See 1 May 1758.] Receipts: #47 in cash. Deficit to Poitier Jr #17 5s., covered by #39 7s. from tickets (Boxes 79; Pit 92; Gallery 50). Total income #86 7s. Charges #64 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth-Ross, 1st time; Macduff-Dyer; Duncan-Gibson; Banquo-Sparks; Lenox-Ridout; Hecate-Wignel; Witches-Collins, Dunstall, Costollo; Lady Macduff-Mrs Barrington; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Hamilton, 1st time; With the Original Music-Lowe, Mattocks, Legg, Baker, Roberts, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Abegg, Miss Young; The Dances-Leppie, Gosley, Dumay, Desse, Rochford. And Decorations incident to the play.

Dance: I: A new Comic Dance, The Knife Grinders-Poitier, Mlle Capdeville; II: A Shepherdess-Miss Wilford, as17600324 III: The Peasants-Miss Wilford, Miss Valois; IV: The Pygmalion Dance-Poitier, Miss Wilford; End: A Minuet , By Desire,-Poitier, Miss Wilford

Event Comment: Benefit for Aldridge. Public Advertiser, 14 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Aldridge, No. 2, Great Maddox-street, Hanover-square. Receipts: #189 9s. (123.4; tickets: 66.5) (charge: #64 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: The Country Mad-Cap

Dance: End II: New Comic Dance-Master Jackson, Miss Parish (A pupil of Aldridge; 1st appearanae on the stage); End III: a new characteristic Irish Dance, The Humours of Leixlip; or, A Jaunt to the Salmon-Leap, in which an Irish Jigg,-Aldridge, Miss Besford; End IV: a new Comic Dance, The Coopers-Langrish, Master Jackson, Miss Nicols (Scholar to Aldridge; 1st appearance also); End: a new pantomimical Naval Dance, All in the Downs ; or, Farewell to Deal,-Aldridge, Jackson, Besford, Miss Besford, Miss Valois

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Performance Comment: As17790922, but The Duenna-Mrs Pitt.
Cast
Role: The Duenna Actor: Mrs Pitt.
Role: Carlos Actor: Mrs Kennedy
Role: Clara Actor: Miss Brown
Role: Louisa Actor: Mrs Mattocks

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Performance Comment: Dick-Lewis; Wingate-Fearon; Gargle-Thompson; Simon-Cushing; Charlotte-Mrs Morton.
Cast
Role: Charlotte Actor: Mrs Morton.

Dance: End: new dance, The Coquette Quaker; or, The Husband Deceived-Dagueville, Jackson, Harris, Holland, Miss Ross, Miss Matthews, Miss Lings, Miss Valois

Event Comment: Benefit for Aldridge. Charges #64 5s. Profit to Aldridge #22 12s. plus #46 15s. from tickets (Box 90; Pit 125; Gallery 55). Receipts: #86 17s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Cast
Role: Alicia Actor: Miss Miller
Role: Jane Shore Actor: Mrs Yates.

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Cast
Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Green.

Dance: II: By Particular Desire, a Minuet-Aldridge, Mrs Bulkley; III: (Not done these 3 years) [a Dance call'd A Tambourine-Aldridge, Sga Manesiere [see17700501]; End I Farce: [a Hornpipe-Miss Matthews

Ballet: End: (For That Night Only) a New Grand Pantomimical Dance call'd The Recruits. Recruiting Captain-Aldridge; Drummer-Mas. Harris; Serjeant-Hussey; Soldiers, recruits-Petre, King, Settree, Merrifield, Holloway; Captain's Lady-Sga Manesiere; Landlady-Mrs White; Landlady's Daughter-Miss Twist; Soldiers, wives, country girls-Mrs Willems, Mrs Hartle, Mrs Invill, Miss Stede, Miss Lawrence

Performance Comment: Recruiting Captain-Aldridge; Drummer-Mas. Harris; Serjeant-Hussey; Soldiers, recruits-Petre, King, Settree, Merrifield, Holloway; Captain's Lady-Sga Manesiere; Landlady-Mrs White; Landlady's Daughter-Miss Twist; Soldiers, wives, country girls-Mrs Willems, Mrs Hartle, Mrs Invill, Miss Stede, Miss Lawrence.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Performance Comment: As17610911, but Lappet-Mrs Green; Mariana-Mrs Hamilton.
Cast
Role: Lappet Actor: Mrs Green
Role: Mariana Actor: Mrs Hamilton.
Role: Mrs Wisely Actor: Mrs Copin
Role: Wheedle Actor: Mrs Ferguson
Role: Harriet Actor: Mrs Vincent

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Cast
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Vernon
Role: Sally Actor: Miss Brent
Role: the Dancing Actor: Sodi, Maranesi, Mrs Vernon.

Dance: WWooden Shoe Dance-Sg Maranesi, Miss Wilford, Miss Valois; and a New Comic Pantomime Ballet, call'd The French Country Gentleman or the Female Metamorphoses-Sodi, Sga Manesiere (Being her first appearance on the English stage), Miss Wilford

Event Comment: Benefit for Woodward. Mainpiece: For last time this season. Afterpiece: A New Farce in 2 Acts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Cast
Role: Miranda Actor: Miss Macklin.
Role: Scentwell Actor: Mrs Ferguson
Role: Isabinda Actor: Miss Hallam
Role: Patch Actor: Mrs Pitt

Afterpiece Title: False Concord

Performance Comment: Principal characters-Woodward, Shuter, Dunstall, R. Smith, Mas. Morgan, Cushing, Mrs Pitt, Miss Hallam, Miss Elliot; With a Prologue [to the Farce-Woodward. [Larpent MS 236 lists the parts: Sudley; Raymond; Lord Lavender; Trimmer; Master Edward; Jasper; Footboy; Mrs Sudley; Miss Sudley; Miss Johnson; Servants.]Larpent MS 236 lists the parts: Sudley; Raymond; Lord Lavender; Trimmer; Master Edward; Jasper; Footboy; Mrs Sudley; Miss Sudley; Miss Johnson; Servants.]

Dance: II: A New Grand Ballet-Gallini, Miss Wilford, Sga Manesiere; End: A Grand Dance, call'd Hymen's Triumph-Gallini, Duquesney, Master Rogers, Miss Valois, Miss Wilford, Sga Manesiere

Event Comment: Benefit for Gallini. Two rows of Pit will be railed into the Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Performance Comment: As17631216, but Edging-Mrs Green.
Cast
Role: Edging Actor: Mrs Green.
Role: Lady Easy Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Lady Graveairs Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Lady Betty Actor: Miss Macklin.

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Performance Comment: As17640324 but Short Bill: Barber-Woodward; Quidnunc-Dunstall; Pamphlet-Shuter; Termagant-Mrs Green.
Cast
Role: Termagant Actor: Mrs Green.
Role: Maid Actor: Miss Cockayne.
Role: Harriet Actor: Miss Miller

Dance: II: By Particular Desire a Minuet-Gallini, Sga Manesiere; III: A Dance The Judgment of Paris-Gallini, Miss Wilford, Miss Pitt, Miss Valois, Mas. Rogers; End: A Dance Love Triumphant-Gallini, Sga Manesiere, Mas. Rogers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Cast
Role: Jessica Actor: Miss Dayes
Role: Nerissa Actor: Mrs Lessingham
Role: Portia Actor: Mrs Barry

Afterpiece Title: The Two Misers

Cast
Role: Jenny Actor: Miss Dayes
Role: Harriet Actor: Miss Brown.

Dance: End III: The Garden of Love-Dagueville, Sga Tinte; End IV: a new Dance, The Cricketters-Aldridge, Langrish, Master Jackson, Miss Besford, Miss Nichols, Miss Valois

Event Comment: Benefit for Dumay, Holloway & Harris. Tickets delivered for Know Your Own Mind will be taken. Public Advertiser, 9 May: Tickets to be had of Dumay, Sand-hill, Lamb's Conduit Fields, behind the Foundling Hospital; of Holloway, Great Maddox-street, Hanover-square; of Harris, No. 12, Duke's-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #251 15s. (56.11; tickets: 195.4) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Performance Comment: As17771205, but Marlow-Wroughton; Mrs Hardcastle (1st time)-Mrs Pitt; Miss Neville-Miss Leeson.

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Cast
Role: Grace Actor: Miss Dayes
Role: Maudlin Actor: Miss Brown

Dance: End II: New Dance-; in which the Minuet de la Cour, Gavot-Harris, Miss Valois; End IV: Le Minuet a Quatre-Dumay, Holloway, Miss Matthews, Miss Ross; with a variety of new Quadrilles-

Ballet: End: The Sailors' Revels at Portsmouth. As17780502

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady Of The Manor

Cast
Role: Mrs Townly Actor: Miss Brown
Role: Cicely Actor: Mrs Farrell
Role: Lady Lucy Actor: Mrs Mattocks

Afterpiece Title: The Invasion

Cast
Role: Beaufort Actor: Mahon
Role: Brussels Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Emily Actor: Mrs Morton
Role: Maid Actor: Mrs Willems
Role: Lady Catherine Rouge Actor: Mrs Green

Dance: End II: The Embarkment for Cytherea-Dagueville, Harris, Master Holland, Master Dagueville, Miss Matthews, Miss Besford, Miss Valois

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Cast
Role: Carlos Actor: Mrs Kennedy
Role: Clara Actor: Miss Brown
Role: Louisa Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: The Duenna Actor: Mrs Green.

Afterpiece Title: Plymouth In An Uproar

Cast
Role: Emilia Actor: Miss Brown
Role: Miss Freeman Actor: Mrs Whitfield
Role: Sukey Actor: Mrs Kennedy

Dance: End: The Embarkment for Cythera-Dagueville, Harris, Master Holland, Langrish, Miss Matthews, Miss Besford, Miss Valois

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: Young Meadows-Leoni; Hawthorn-Reinhold; Sir William Meadows-Fearon; Eustace-Robson; Hodge-Doyle; Justice Woodcock-Wilson; Deborah-Mrs Pitt; Margery-Mrs Wilson; Lucinda (1st time)-Mrs Willems; Rosetta-Miss Brown.
Cast
Role: Deborah Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Margery Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: Lucinda Actor: Mrs Willems
Role: Rosetta Actor: Miss Brown.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Every-where

Cast
Role: Ceres Actor: Mrs Kennedy
Role: Little Girl Actor: Miss Morris
Role: Prude Actor: Mrs Poussin
Role: Sicilians Actor: Mrs Willems, Miss Green
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Brown

Dance: End II: The Coquette Quaker-Dagueville, Ratchford, Langrish, Miss Ross, Miss Matthews, Miss Valois

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Macbeth, for Mattocks' Benefit, is necessarily postponed to Monday next 24th Instant. Receipts: #273 11s. 6d. (270.4.6; 3.7.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Performance Comment: As17791106, but Clarinda-Mrs Bulkley.
Cast
Role: Clarinda Actor: Mrs Bulkley.
Role: Mrs Strictland Actor: Mrs Jackson
Role: Jacintha Actor: Mrs Lessingham
Role: Lucetta Actor: Mrs Green

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: Miss Neville Actor: Mrs Hartley
Role: Mrs Bromley Actor: Mrs Jackson
Role: Lady Jane Actor: Mrs Morton
Role: La Rouge Actor: Miss Ambrose
Role: Lady Bell Actor: Mrs Mattocks.

Dance: End: new dance, Cupid Recruiting; or, The Female Volunteers,-Dagueville, Harris, Ratchford, Miss Matthews, Miss Lings, Miss Valois

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Cast
Role: Carlos Actor: Mrs Kennedy
Role: The Duenna Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Louisa Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: Clara Actor: Miss Catley

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Dance: End: The Humours of Leixlip-Aldridge, Langrish, Miss Besford; Afterpiece: Dancing, as17800925, but Miss _Matthews, Miss Valois

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Cast
Role: Lady Scrape Actor: Miss Pearce
Role: Laundress Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Musical Lady Actor: Miss Barsanti.

Dance: II: The Irish Lilt-, as17731005, but Miss _Twist, Miss Valois; End: +New Dance, as17731021

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: I: A New Comic Dance-Granier, Miss Valois, as17630224; II: A New Dance call'd The French Gardeners-Duquesney, Miss Wilford

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Formal Actor: Costollo
Role: Cob's Wife Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Bridget Actor: Miss Miller
Role: Dame Kitely Actor: Mrs Ward.

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Cast
Role: Mrs Subtle Actor: Mrs Pitt.

Dance: II: A Grand Ballet, call'd Venus Reveng'd-Sg Gallini (first appearance here in 6 years), Sga Mansiere, Miss Wilford, Miss Valois; End: A Grand Comic Ballet, call'd the The Calabrian Peasants-Gallini, Sga Manesiere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Patron

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Performance Comment: To conclude with a dance-the performers.

Dance: I: Sicilian Peasants-Master Rogier, Miss Valois; End: A new comic Dance, The Carpenter and the Fruit Dealer-Gherardi Jr, Master Clinton, Miss Street

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. [No performance indicated in Public Advertiser. This is an advance Bill.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Cast
Role: Scentwell Actor: Mrs Ferguson
Role: Isabinda Actor: Miss Miller
Role: Patch Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Miranda Actor: Miss Macklin.

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: Beaufort Actor: Baker
Role: Corinna Actor: Miss Cockayne
Role: Maria Actor: Miss Elliot.

Dance: I: The Sicilian Peasants, as17641001; III: A New Grand Pantomime Ballet, call'd La Femme Maitresse-Fichar, 1st appearance on English Stage, Miss Wilford, Arnauld, Miss Valois; End: New Grand Comic Ballet, Les Mattelots Provencals-Fichar, Sga Manesiere

Event Comment: Benefit for Duquesney and Sga Manesiere. None admitted behind the Scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: As17650110, but Dorinda-Mrs Mattocks.
Cast
Role: Dorinda Actor: Mrs Mattocks.
Role: Lady Bountiful Actor: Mrs Ferguson
Role: Cherry Actor: Miss Vincent
Role: Mrs Sullen Actor: Mrs Ward.

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Cast
Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Green.

Dance: II: A New Pastoral Dance-Duquesney, a Young Gentlewoman, his scholar, who never appeared before; III: A Hornpipe-Sga Manesiere; IV: A Minuet-Duquesney, Sga Manesiere; End: A New Grand Ballet, call'd Les Caprices de Galatee-Duquesney, Leppie, Sga Manesiere, Miss Wilford, Miss Valois

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Dance: III: A New Ballet-Mr Asselin, his first appearance in this kingdom, Miss Valois, Miss Twist

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Performance Comment: Posthumus-Lewis, his first appearance in tragedy; Jachimo-Smith; Pisanio-Hull; Cloten-Lewes; Cymbeline-Gardner; Bellarius-Clarke; Guiderius-Wroughton; Arviragus-R. Smith; Queen-Mrs P. Green; Imogen-Mrs Lessingham; In II, a Masquerade Scene-; Singing-Mrs Thompson.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs P. Green
Role: Imogen Actor: Mrs Lessingham
Role: Singing Actor: Mrs Thompson.

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Ursula Actor: Mrs Green
Role: Leonora Actor: Miss Catley.

Dance: III: The Highland Reel-Aldridge, Miss Valois, Miss Besford. [See17730519.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Catley
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: Diana Trapes Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Polly Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: Hornpipe Actor: Miss Besford

Afterpiece Title: No One's Enemy but His Own

Dance: II: The Reel-Aldridge, Miss Valois, Miss Besford. [See17711030.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Cast
Role: Clara Actor: Miss Brown
Role: The Duenna Actor: Mrs Green
Role: Louisa Actor: Mrs Mattocks.

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Performance Comment: Young Wilding-Lee Lewes; Old Wilding-Fearon; Sir James Elliot-Whitefield; Papillon-Quick; Miss Godfrey-Miss Ambrose; Miss Grantham-Mrs Bulkley.

Dance: End: The Frolick-Aldridge, Miss Besford, Miss Valois