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Event Comment: TThe School for Rakes deferr'd. Mrs Baddeley ill. Play to begin at 6 o'clock. [190th and last night.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Ursula Actor: Mrs Dorman

Dance: III: The Wake, as17690518

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Performance Comment: As17681201, but Country Girl-Miss Burton.
Cast
Role: Country Girl Actor: Miss Burton.
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Jeffries, 1st time

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: III: New Comic Dance, as17681210

Event Comment: [For this night Kemble Mem. lists The Pannel. The playbill and the Account-Book announce The Farm House. "M. 1 June. At Drury Lane. Saw The Country Girl and The Farm House" (Reed, Diaries, 167).] Receipts: #171 0s. 6d. (139.9.0; 30.3.0; 1.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Cast
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: The Country Girl Actor: Mrs Jordan.

Afterpiece Title: The Farm House

Event Comment: Benefit Rogers, Mrs Williamson, Mrs Hanson. Receipts: money #9 1s.; tickets #147 16s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Performance Comment: Maskwell-Quin; Touchwood-Boheme; Mellefont-Walker; Careless-Ryan; Froth-Spiller; Sir Paul-Hippisley; Brisk-Egleton; Lady Touchwood-Mrs Egleton; Lady Froth-Mrs Cross; Lady Pliant-Mrs Knight; Cynthia-Mrs Cantrell.
Cast
Role: Lady Touchwood Actor: Mrs Egleton
Role: Lady Froth Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Lady Pliant Actor: Mrs Knight
Role: Cynthia Actor: Mrs Cantrell.

Dance: Country Girl-Mrs Brett; Chacone-Mrs Wall; Peasant-Lanyon, Mrs Ogden; Tollet's Grounds-Newhouse, Mrs Rogier

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: As17861117, but Madge [i.e. Margery ] (1st time at this theatre)-Mrs Wells.
Cast
Role: Actor: Mrs Wells.
Role: Deborah Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Margery Actor: Mrs Brown
Role: Lucinda Actor: Mrs Morton
Role: Rosetta Actor: Mrs Billington.

Afterpiece Title: The Girl in Style

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Edwin, Johnstone, Quick, Mrs Brown, Mrs Webb, Mrs Martyr. Cast from Town and Country Magazine, Dec. 1786, p. 648: Joseph-Edwin; Belmont-Johnstone; Tabby-Quick; Betty-Mrs Brown; Lady Hectic-Mrs Webb; Arabella-Mrs Martyr; Prologue-Holman.

Dance: As17861117

Event Comment: [Benefit on one-half value of tickets basis to nine ticket holders. The General Advertiser notice lists beneficiaries as Harrington (Prompter); Stede, Carr, Mrs Bland, Mrs Rowley.] Tickets deliver'd by Mrs Daniel, Mrs Dumont, &c will be taken. /For Box Pit Gallery Value Half-Value/Harrington 7 29 22 #8 6s. #4 3s./Stede 7 52 59 #15 9s. #7 14s. 6d./Carr 6 53 46 #14 1s. #7 0s. 6d./Mrs Rowley 27 77 44 #22 14s. #11 7s./Mrs Dumont 36 31 32 #16 17s. #8 8s. 6d./Mrs Bland 9 56 91 #19 15s. #9 17s. 6d./Mrs Dupre 5 33 42 #10 8s. #5 4s./Mrs Daniel .. 45 109 #17 13s. #8 16s. 6d./Mrs Hitchcock 34 58 31 #20 6s. ........./Totals 131 434 476 #145 9s. #62 11s. 6d./ [Mrs Hitchcock seems to have received the full value of her tickets.] This Day is Publish'd A Treatis on the Passions so far as they regard the stage, with a critical inquiry into the Theatrical Merit of Mr G k, Mr Q n, and Mr B y, the first considered in the part of Lear, the last two oppos'd in Othello. By S. Foote, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Performance Comment: As17461017, but Day-Arthur; Obadiah-Morgan; Mrs Day-Mrs Bland; Arabella-Mrs Rowley; Mrs Chat-Mrs Daniel.
Cast
Role: Mrs Day Actor: Mrs Bland
Role: Arabella Actor: Mrs Rowley
Role: Mrs Chat Actor: Mrs Daniel.
Role: Ruth Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Arbella Actor: Mrs Hale

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Cast
Role: Phebe Actor: Mrs Dunstall

Dance: The English Boy, English Girl

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surrender Of Calais

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Tar or Which is the Girl

Performance Comment: Characters-Johnstone, Davies, Trueman, Suett, Mrs Davenport, Miss DeCamp. [Cast from London Chronicle, 25 Aug.: Pat Casey-Johnstone; Captain Steady-Davies; Ben-Trueman; Jerry-Suett; Mrs Bustle-Mrs Davenport; Nancy-Miss DeCamp.]

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Cast
Role: Mrs Maggs Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Kitty Barleycorn Actor: Mrs Gibbs.
Role: Charlotte Actor: Mrs Edward
Role: Sheba Actor: Mrs Harlowe
Role: Zapphira Actor: Mrs Edward
Role: Fanny Actor: Mrs Gibbs.
Role: Mayoress Actor: Mrs Davenport
Role: Lady Godina Actor: Mrs Cuyler
Role: Maud Actor: Mrs Harlowe.
Role: Mrs Cheshire Actor: Mrs Davenport
Role: Cowslip Actor: Mrs Gibbs
Role: Bianca Actor: Mrs Jones
Role: Curtis Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Katharine Actor: Mrs Gibbs.

Song: 1st piece: Vocal Parts, as17970623 but _Caulfield Jun., _Walker, _Willoughby, Mrs _Butler, Mrs _Masters, Mrs _Norton, Miss _Menage, Mrs _Wall, Mrs _Benson, Miss _Leserve

Performance Comment: , _Walker, _Willoughby, Mrs _Butler, Mrs _Masters, Mrs _Norton, Miss _Menage, Mrs _Wall, Mrs _Benson, Miss _Leserve.
Event Comment: Benefit Arthur and Mrs Woodward. Tickets for Miss Burgess, Mrs LeBrun, and Miss Morrison taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Performance Comment: Wanton Wife-Mrs Horton; Barnaby-Hippisley; Sir Peter-Rosco; Lovemore-Hallam; Cunningham-Gibson; Merryman-James; Clodpole-Arthur; Philadelphia-Miss Burgess; Lady Laycock-Mrs Woodward; Lady Pride-Mrs Cook; Damaris-Mrs Vincent; Prudence-Mrs Mullart.
Cast
Role: Wanton Wife Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Lady Laycock Actor: Mrs Woodward
Role: Lady Pride Actor: Mrs Cook
Role: Damaris Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Prudence Actor: Mrs Mullart.

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Cast
Role: Manlove Actor: Mrs Martin.

Dance: I: Tambourine-the French Girl; II: Comic Dance-Richardson, Mrs LeBrun; III: Miss Morrison; IV: A new Serious Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; V: Grecian Sailors-Glover

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Performance Comment: Moody-Bensley; Harcourt-Barrymore; Sparkish-Dodd; Belville-Whitfield; Footman-Spencer; Countryman-Jones; Alithea-Mrs Ward; Miss Peggy-Mrs Jordan; Lucy-Mrs Wilson.
Cast
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Miss Peggy Actor: Mrs Jordan
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Wilson.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Performance Comment: Moody-Bensley; Harcourt-Palmer; Sparkish (with a song)-Dodd; Belville-Whitfield; Footman-Spencer; Countryman-Jones; Alithea-Mrs Ward; Miss Peggy-Mrs Jordan; Lucy-Mrs Williames.
Cast
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Miss Peggy Actor: Mrs Jordan
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Williames.

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

Performance Comment: Sir James Elliot-R. Palmer; Old Wilding-Aickin; Young Wilding-Palmer; Papillion-Burton; Miss Grantham-Mrs Kemble; Miss Godfrey-Miss Barnes; Kitty-Miss Tidswell.
Cast
Role: Miss Grantham Actor: Mrs Kemble

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Poor Old Drury

Performance Comment: !! As17911004, but Muses-Mrs _Goodall.
Cast
Role: Muses Actor: Mrs _Goodall.
Role: Melpomene Actor: Mrs Powell
Role: Thalia Actor: Mrs Goodall

Afterpiece Title: The Country Girl

Performance Comment: Moody-King; Harcourt-Palmer; Belville-Whitfield; Sparkish (with a song)-Dodd; Footman-Webb; Countryman-Jones; William-Alfred; Alithea-Mrs Ward; Miss Peggy-Mrs Jordan; Lucy-Mrs Edwards.
Cast
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Miss Peggy Actor: Mrs Jordan
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Edwards.

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Cast
Role: Lady Sneerwell Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Mrs Candour Actor: Miss Pope
Role: Maria Actor: Mrs Kemble.
Role: Dorothy Actor: Mrs Edwards
Role: Louisa Actor: Mrs Crouch

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Country Girl

Performance Comment: Moody-King; Harcourt-Palmer; Sparkish (with a song)-Dodd; Belville-Whitfield; Footman-Webb; Countryman-Jones; Alithea-Mrs Ward; Miss Peggy-Mrs Jordan; Lucy-Mrs Edwards.
Cast
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Miss Peggy Actor: Mrs Jordan
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Edwards.

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Cast
Role: Antonio Actor: Mrs Bland
Role: Matilda Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Edwin
Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Bullock. By Command of His Royal Highness the Duke. Afterpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: money #73 5s. 6d.; tickets #72 9s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fond Husband

Cast
Role: Leonora Actor: Mrs Younger
Role: Camillo Actor: Mrs Bullock
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Hallam
Role: Jacinta Actor: Mrs Egleton.

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance: A new Dance (in the Footing Manner) between a Sailor and a Country Girl by Jones-; the Sailor-Jones, the +Country Lass- Mrs Ogden

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Purden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Performance Comment: As17311108, but Sailors-Rosco, Excel; Belinda-Mrs Purden; Jiltup-Mrs Norris.
Cast
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Purden
Role: Jiltup Actor: Mrs Norris.
Role: Fair Quaker Actor: Mrs Giffard
Role: Arabella Actor: Mrs Roberts
Role: Barmaid Actor: Mrs Morgan.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performance Comment: See17320426 but Jobson-Miller; Sir John-Jenkins; Nell-Mrs Roberts; Lady Loverule-Mrs Palmer.
Cast
Role: Nell Actor: Mrs Roberts
Role: Lady Loverule Actor: Mrs Palmer.

Song: SSmug Upon Tuesday in the Character of a Country Girl-Mrs Roberts

Dance: FFrench Peasant-Burny, Miss Wherrit

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Ward. Oracle, 22 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Ward, No. 6, York-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #82 19s. (56.7.0; 22.18.6; 3.13.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #115 2s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Cast
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Miss Peggy Actor: Mrs Jordan
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Williames.

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: End: As17910429

Song: End II: song-Sedgwick

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Jordan. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Simon, based partly on La Bonne Mere, by Jean Pierre Claris deFlorian; incidental music by Johann Gottlieb Nicolai. Larpent MS 940; not published]: To conclude with a Rural Breakfast [a representation of that given by the Countess of Buckinghamshire for the Prince of Wales at her villa near London (Genest, VII, 53)], and a Dance by the Characters. Morning Herald, 31 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Jordan, No. 14, Somerset-street, Portman-square. Receipts: #548 9s. 6d. (216.8.6; 30.2.0; 5.9.0; tickets: 296.10.0) (charge: #153 5s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

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

Afterpiece Title: The Village Coquette

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Bannister Jun., Suett, Maddocks, Caulfield, Cooke, Master Gregson, Mrs Ward, Mrs Jordan, Miss DeCamp, Mrs Bramwell. [Larpent MS lists only four parts: Rubin, Pertinent, Agnes, Sallinet.]Larpent MS lists only four parts: Rubin, Pertinent, Agnes, Sallinet.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Performance Comment: Moody-King; Harcourt-Palmer; Sparkish-Dodd; song-Dodd; Belville-C. Kemble; Alithea-Mrs Kemble; Miss Peggy-Mrs Jordan (1st appearance this season); Lucy-Miss Heard.
Cast
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Kemble
Role: Miss Peggy Actor: Mrs Jordan

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Performance Comment: As17941006, but The Horde-_Bourk, Roffey; Captives-Miss _Menage, Miss _Stageldoir, Miss _Chatterley, Miss _Gawdry, Mrs _Butler.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Performance Comment: Moody-King; Harcourt-Palmer; Sparkish-Dodd; Belville-C. Kemble; Countryman-Jones; Servant-Webb; Alithea-Mrs Kemble; Miss Peggy-Mrs Jordan; Lucy-Miss Heard.
Cast
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Kemble
Role: Miss Peggy Actor: Mrs Jordan

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Cast
Role: Dorothy Actor: Mrs Bland
Role: Nelly Actor: Mrs Bramwell.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Performance Comment: Moody-King; Harcourt-Palmer; Sparkish-Bannister Jun.; Belville-C. Kemble; William-Maddocks; Countryman-Hollingsworth; Servant-Webb; Alithea-Mrs Goodall; Miss Peggy-Mrs Jordan; Lucy-Miss Heard.
Cast
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Goodall
Role: Miss Peggy Actor: Mrs Jordan

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Ballet: End: The Triumph of Love. Corida-Mlle Parisot (by permission of the Proprietor of the king's Theatre); Olympio-Gentili; Aristea-Sga Bossi? DelCaro; Cupid-Master Menage; Discord-Master Chatterley; Nymphs-Mrs Brooker, Mrs Brigg, Mrs Haskey, Mrs Barrett, Miss Bourk, Miss Daniels, Mrs Byrne, Mrs Thompson; Shepherds-Roffey, Whitmell, Thompson, Wells, Banks, Garman, Butler, Nicolini

Performance Comment: Corida-Mlle Parisot (by permission of the Proprietor of the king's Theatre); Olympio-Gentili; Aristea-Sga Bossi? DelCaro; Cupid-Master Menage; Discord-Master Chatterley; Nymphs-Mrs Brooker, Mrs Brigg, Mrs Haskey, Mrs Barrett, Miss Bourk, Miss Daniels, Mrs Byrne, Mrs Thompson; Shepherds-Roffey, Whitmell, Thompson, Wells, Banks, Garman, Butler, Nicolini.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Performance Comment: Moody-King; Harcourt-Palmer; Sparkish-Russell; Belville-C. Kemble; Countryman-Hollingsworth; William-Maddocks; Servants-Webb, Evans; Alithea-Mrs Goodall; Miss Peggy-Mrs Jordan; Lucy-Miss Heard.
Cast
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Goodall
Role: Miss Peggy Actor: Mrs Jordan

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Performance Comment: Crop-Dignum; Frederick-Kelly; Endless-Suett; Robin-Bannister Jun.; William-Sedgwick; Servant-Webb; Dorothy-Mrs Bland; Louisa-Miss Wentworth; Margaretta-Miss Leak; Nelly-Mrs Roffey.
Cast
Role: Dorothy Actor: Mrs Bland
Role: Nelly Actor: Mrs Roffey.
Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Stevens and Mrs Vincent. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Cast
Role: Lady Betty Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Lady Easy Actor: Mrs Stevens
Role: Lady Graveairs Actor: Mrs Bellamy
Role: Edging Actor: Mrs Vincent.

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performance Comment: As17400418 but Hellebore-Gibson; Robert-Harrington; Dorcas-Mrs Vincent.
Cast
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Vincent.

Dance: II: Minuet-Master Gillier, Miss Morrison; IV: Swiss Dance-the French Boy and Girl; V: Scotch Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland

Event Comment: paid Baid +Ben Johnson's Head a bill #1 9s. 10d. Paid for coffeepot #2 15s. 6d. and for Mrs Abington's cloaths #27 7s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #128 17s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Cast
Role: Bell Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Event Comment: [As afterpiece the playbill announces Katharine and Petruchio, in place of Richard Coeur de Lion, advertised on playbill of 21 Jan., but "On Acct. of the sudden Indisposition of Mrs Goodall Katharine & Petruchio was put off and The Apprentice substituted in its stead" (MS annotation on Kemble playbill).] Receipts: #236 5s. (189.8; 45.1; 1.16)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

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

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Event Comment: [Miss Molini is identified in MS list in Kemble playbills of new performers for this season.] "Mrs Jordan...has taken considerable pains with a young lady of the name of Moline [sic], who, under her tuition, has frequently performed at Richmond theatre" (Monthly Visitor, Feb. 1798, p. 175). Receipts: #209 (120.15.6; 85.1.6; 3.3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Cast
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Goodall

Afterpiece Title: Blue Beard

Cast
Role: Fatima Actor: Mrs Crouch
Event Comment: Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Dale Sen., Palmer Jun., Stokes, Chippendale, Wentworth, Gibbon, Miss Tidswell. Mrs Phillimore will be admitted. 4th piece: To conclude as 11 May. Receipts: #441 13s. (21.1; 35.8; 0.12; tickets: 384.12)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Cast
Role: Miss Peggy Actor: Mrs Jordan

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Cast
Role: Mary Actor: Mrs Bland
Role: Mrs Cockney Actor: Mrs Walcot
Role: Mrs Buckram Actor: Miss Tidswell.
Role: Miss Lucy Actor: Mrs Bland.

Afterpiece Title: Don Juan

Cast
Role: Mary Actor: Mrs Bland
Role: Mrs Cockney Actor: Mrs Walcot
Role: Mrs Buckram Actor: Miss Tidswell.
Role: Miss Lucy Actor: Mrs Bland.
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Coates
Role: Inis Actor: Mrs Jones