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Event Comment: Benefit for Miller, Longley, Shuter, Robson, Colley, and Stephenson. Tickets deliver'd by Varley, Walker, Robinson, Brereton, Baker, Mrs Hitchcock, Smallwood, and W. Ansell will be taken this night. Doors open half past 5. To begin at half past 6 o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Cast
Role: Lady Rusport Actor: Mrs Green
Role: Louisa Actor: Mrs Bulkley
Role: Mrs Fulmer Actor: Mrs Booth

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Ursala Actor: Mrs Green
Related Works
Related Work: The Padlock Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Dance: End: The Pilgrim, as17750927

Performances

Mainpiece Title: News From Parnassus

Afterpiece Title: She Stoops to Conquer

Performance Comment: Hardcastle-Wilson; Tony Lumpkin-Quick; Marlow-Lee Lewes; Hastings-Whitefield; Sir Charles Marlow-Fearon; Mrs Hardcastle-Mrs Green; Miss Neville-Mrs Lessingham; Miss Hardcastle-Mrs Bulkley.

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performance Comment: Don Diego-Reinhold; Leander-Mahon; Mungo-Quick; Ursula-Mrs Green; Leonora-Miss Brown.
Cast
Role: Ursula Actor: Mrs Green
Related Works
Related Work: The Padlock Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth-Macklin; Macduff-Clarke; Duncan-Hull; Malcolm-Ward; Banquo-Aickin; Lenox-L'Estrange; Seyton-Thompson; Seyward-Davis; Doctor-Fearon; Hecate-Reinhold; Witches-Dunstall, Mrs Pitt, Quick; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Hartley.
Cast
Role: Witches Actor: Dunstall, Mrs Pitt, Quick
Role: Lady Macbeth Actor: Mrs Hartley.

Afterpiece Title: The Two Misers

Performance Comment: Lively-Mattocks; Hunks-Reinhold; Gripe-Quick; Osman-Dunstall; Mustapha-Fox; Ali-Baker; Jenny-Mrs Mattocks; Harriet-Miss Brown.
Cast
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Related Works
Related Work: The Two Misers Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts-Mattocks, Baker, Fox, Miss Brown, Miss Dayes, Miss Valois, Mrs Willems

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Semiramis

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performance Comment: Leander-Vernon; Don Diego-Bannister; Mungo-Fawcett; Ursula-Mrs Love; Leonora-Miss Abrams.
Cast
Role: Ursula Actor: Mrs Love
Related Works
Related Work: The Padlock Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: Capt. Plume-Lewis; Justice Balance-Hull; Worthy-Whitefield [beginning with 15 Oct. the name is spelled "Whitfield"]; Scale-Thompson; Scruple-Cushing; Serjeant Kite-Fearon; Bullock-Dunstall; Recruits-Quick, Jones; Capt. Brazen-Lee Lewes; Melinda-Miss Ambrose; Rose-Miss Dayes; Lucy-Mrs Pitt; Sylvia-Mrs Lessingham; New Occasional Prologue[, not listed on playbill-Lewis (see17770924).
Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Sylvia Actor: Mrs Lessingham

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performance Comment: Don Diego-Reinhold; Leander-Bowles?; Mungo-Quick; Ursula-Mrs Green; Leonora-Miss Brown.
Cast
Role: Ursula Actor: Mrs Green
Related Works
Related Work: The Padlock Author(s): Charles Dibdin
Event Comment: Paid Mrs Yates 9 Days Cloaths #10 10s. 10d.; Renters' Interest #8 [this paid daily throughout season]. Receipts: #250 9s. 6d. (221.17.0; 26.5.0; 2.7.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Cast
Role: Lady Anne Actor: Mrs Robinson
Role: Dutchess of York Actor: Mrs Johnston
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Hopkins.

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Cast
Role: Cicely Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Floretta Actor: Mrs Wrighten.
Related Works
Related Work: The Quaker Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Mrs Candour Actor: Miss Pope
Role: Lady Teazle Actor: Mrs Abington

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performance Comment: Leander-Vernon; Don Diego-Bannister; Mungo-Holcroft; Ursula-Mrs Love; Leonora-Miss Abrams.
Cast
Role: Ursula Actor: Mrs Love
Related Works
Related Work: The Padlock Author(s): Charles Dibdin
Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Barry. Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, as altered by Thomas Hull]. Translated from [Iphigenie en aulide, by] Racine by Boyer. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Ladies are desired to send their Servants by Four o'Clock. Public Advertiser, 18 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Barry, No. 26, Henrietta-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #273 19s. 6d. (157.18.6; tickets: 116.1.0) (charge: #70 17s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Iphigenia Or The Victim

Performance Comment: Achilles-Lewis; Ulysses-Fearon; Calchas-L'Estrange; Arcas-Robson; Eurybates-Thompson; Agamemnon-Hull; Eriphile-Mrs Mattocks; Clytemnestra-Mrs Jackson; Doris-Miss Leeson; Aegina-Mrs Whitfield; Iphigenia-Mrs Barry.
Cast
Role: Eriphile Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: Clytemnestra Actor: Mrs Jackson
Role: Aegina Actor: Mrs Whitfield
Role: Iphigenia Actor: Mrs Barry.

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Related Works
Related Work: Poor Vulcan! Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Dance: As17771222

Song: V: will be introduced a Sacrifice-;, with new Music by Fisher-; the vocal parts and chorus-Miss Brown, others

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Performance Comment: As17780319but Lady Mary Oldboy-Mrs Pitt.
Related Works
Related Work: Lionel and Clarissa Author(s): Charles Dibdin
Related Work: Lionel and Clarissa; or, The School for Fathers Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Performance Comment: . Characters by Quick, Mattocks, Reinhold, Robson, Leoni, Mrs Morton, Miss Brown. Cast from text (G. Kearsly, 1778): Vulcan, Crump-Quick; Jupiter, Stud-Mattocks; Mars, Pike-Reinhold; Apollo, Wiseman-Robson; Adonis, Joe-Leoni; Grace-Miss Dayes [i.e. later Mrs Morton]; Venus, Maudlin-Miss Brown [all the characters, except Grace, are alternately Gods and mortals].all the characters, except Grace, are alternately Gods and mortals].
Related Works
Related Work: Poor Vulcan! Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Second Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Performance Comment: Falstaff-Henderson; King Henry-Bensley; Prince of Wales-Palmer; Chief Justice-Aickin; Archbishop of York-Packer; Prince John-Lamash; Gloster-Mrs Colles; Clarence-Miss Collett; Westmoreland-Farren; Mowbray-Hurst; Hastings-Wrighten; Justice Silence-Parsons; Pistol-Baddeley; Poins-R. Palmer; Bardolph-Wright; Davy-Waldron; Page-Master Pulley; Justice Shallow-Yates; Hostess-Mrs Bradshaw; Doll Tearsheet-Mrs Davies.
Cast
Role: Gloster Actor: Mrs Colles
Role: Hostess Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Role: Doll Tearsheet Actor: Mrs Davies.

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performance Comment: Leander-Vernon; Don Diego-Bannister; Mungo-Quick (of cg); Ursula-Mrs Love; Leonora-Miss Brown (of cg).
Cast
Role: Ursula Actor: Mrs Love
Related Works
Related Work: The Padlock Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Dance: End IV: The Irish Fair-the Miss Stageldoirs

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comedy Of Errors

Cast
Role: Adriana Actor: Mrs Jackson
Role: Luciana Actor: Mrs Lessingham
Role: Abbess Actor: Mrs Hartley.

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Performance Comment: As17790129, but Mrs Keefe [recte O'Keeffe] ; Miss Morris_.
Cast
Role: Feridon Actor: Mrs Kennedy
Related Works
Related Work: The Touchstone; or, Harlequin Traveller Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Song: As17790127

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bulkley. Mainpiece: With a Medley Overture of favourite Sea Tunes. To conclude with a Representation of the grand Naval Review at Portsmouthv

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Annette And Lubin

Cast
Role: Lubin Actor: Mrs Farrell
Related Works
Related Work: Annette and Lubin Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Afterpiece Title: The Fair Quaker or The Humours of the Navy

Performance Comment: Captain Mizen-Dodd (of dl); Captain Worthy-Wroughton; Sir Charles Pleasant-Whitfield; Lieut. Cribbage-Booth; Lieut. Easy-Fearon; Binnacle-Wilson; Hatchway (with songs)-Mahon; Commodore Flip-Lee Lewes; Arabella-Miss Ambrose; Belinda-Miss Leeson; Jenny Private-Miss Platt; Jiltup-Mrs White; Dorcas Zeal-Mrs Bulkley.
Cast
Role: Jiltup Actor: Mrs White
Role: Dorcas Zeal Actor: Mrs Bulkley.
Related Works
Related Work: The Deserter Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Performance Comment: Cadwallader (1st time)-Dodd; Young Cape-Whitfield; Sprightly-Robson; Vamp-Wilson; Governor Cape-Fearon; Arabella-Miss Ambrose; Mrs Cadwallader (1st time)-Mrs Bulkley.
Cast
Role: Mrs Cadwallader Actor: Mrs Bulkley.

Dance: In Naval Review: Dance of Sailors-Aldridge, others

Song: End Dance: the Air [in The Comedy of Errors see17790122]-Mrs Kennedy

Event Comment: Benefit for Harwood, Thompson & Miss Wright [who had 1st appeared as a singer in the oratorios, 19 Feb.]. Public Advertiser, 3 May: Tickets to be had of Harwood at Mrs Powel's, New Nelson-street; of Thompson, No.7, Great Marlborough-street; of Miss Wright, No. 136, Drury-lane. Receipts: #267 4s. (69.5.0; 19.2.6; 0.6.6; tickets: 178.10.0) (charge: #105). The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same for rest of season]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Performance Comment: As17781021, but Fanny-Mrs Brereton.
Cast
Role: Fanny Actor: Mrs Brereton.
Role: Chambermaid Actor: Mrs Davies
Role: Betty Actor: Mrs Love
Role: Mrs Heidelberg Actor: Mrs Hopkins.

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Ursula Actor: Mrs Love
Related Works
Related Work: The Padlock Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Song: As17790503

Cast
Role: i> Actor: Mrs Wrighten
Role: Sweet Echo Actor: Mrs Wrighten

Entertainment: End: Imitations-Bannister Jun

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: Tattle-King; Valentine-Farren; Sir Sampson Legend-Moody; Scandal-Bensley; Foresight-Waldron; Jeremy-Baddeley; Trapland-Burton; Ben-Yates; Angelica-Miss Farren (1st appearance in that character); Mrs Frail-Miss Pope; Mrs Foresight-Miss Sherry; Miss Prue-Mrs Abington.
Cast
Role: Mrs Frail Actor: Miss Pope
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Miss Sherry
Role: Miss Prue Actor: Mrs Abington.

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performance Comment: Leander-Vernon; Don Diego (1st time)-Gaudry; Mungo-Jennings (from the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh; 1st appearance upon this stage); Ursula-Mrs Love; Leonora-Miss Wright.
Cast
Role: Ursula Actor: Mrs Love
Related Works
Related Work: The Padlock Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: Witches Actor: Quick, Mrs Pitt, Brunsdon
Role: Lady Macbeth Actor: Mrs Hartley.

Afterpiece Title: Plymouth In An Uproar

Performance Comment: As17791020, but Miss Freeman-Mrs Willems.
Cast
Role: Miss Freeman Actor: Mrs Willems.
Role: Sukey Actor: Mrs Kennedy
Related Works
Related Work: Plymouth in an Uproar Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Song: As17791018

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Caelia Actor: Mrs Morton
Role: Audrey Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Phoebe Actor: Mrs Whitfield

Afterpiece Title: The Two Misers

Performance Comment: Lively-Davies; Hunks-Reinhold; Gripe-Quick; Osman-Booth; Mustapha-Fox; Ali-Baker; Jenny-Mrs Morton; Harriet-Miss Brown.
Cast
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Morton
Related Works
Related Work: The Two Misers Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Dance: End I: The Dockyard, as17791204; V: a Dance of Foresters-Dagueville

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Womans A Riddle Or The Way To Win A Widow

Performance Comment: Colonel Manly-Wroughton; Courtwell-Lewis; Aspin-Quick; Mr Vulture-Wilson; Sir Amorous Vainwit-Lee Lewes; Miranda-Mrs Mattocks; Necessary-Mrs Lewis; Betty-Mrs Wilson; Clarinda-Mrs Whitfield; Lady Outside-Miss Younge.
Cast
Role: Miranda Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: Necessary Actor: Mrs Lewis
Role: Betty Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: Clarinda Actor: Mrs Whitfield

Afterpiece Title: The Spaniards Dismayed

Cast
Role: Characters Actor: Reinhold, Robson, Baker, Mrs Morton.
Role: Nancy Actor: Mrs Morton.
Role: Feridon Actor: Mrs Kennedy

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Performance Comment: Vulcan-Quick; The Squire-Mattocks; Serjeant-Reinhold; Joe-Leoni; Grace-Mrs Morton; Maudlin-Miss Brown.
Cast
Role: Grace Actor: Mrs Morton
Related Works
Related Work: Poor Vulcan! Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Dance: As17800401

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Performance Comment: Don Felix-Smith; Colonel Briton-Brereton; Don Lopez-Baddeley; Don Pedro-Parsons; Frederick-Packer; Gibby-Moody; Alguazile-Wrighten; Vasquez-R. Palmer; Lissardo-King; Flora-Miss Pope; Isabella-Mrs Sharp; Inis-Miss Kirby; Violante-Mrs Crawford.
Cast
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Sharp
Role: Violante Actor: Mrs Crawford.

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performance Comment: Don Diego-Bannister; Mungo-Suett; Leander-Du-Bellamy; Ursula-Mrs Love; Leonora-Miss Wright.
Cast
Role: Ursula Actor: Mrs Love
Related Works
Related Work: The Padlock Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And A Bottle

Performance Comment: Roebuck-Hayes; Lovewell-Briggs; Squire Mockmode-Benson; Pamphlet-Maddin; Club-Randall; Brush-Powell; Cripple-James; Officer-Cowcher; Porter-Jones; Servant-Williams; Rigadoon-Lyon; Nimblewrist-Brown; Lyrick-Turner; Leanthe-Miss Hurst (1st appearance); Bullfinch-Mrs Harley; Trudge-Miss Jackson; Masked lady-Miss Simmons; Pindress-Miss Maddin; Lucinda-Miss Carne.
Cast
Role: Bullfinch Actor: Mrs Harley

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performance Comment: Don Diego-J. Fox (1st appearance); Mungo (for that night only)-Dighton; Leander-W. Fox (1st appearance); Ursula-Mrs Kingham; Leonora-Miss Harris.
Cast
Role: Ursula Actor: Mrs Kingham
Related Works
Related Work: The Padlock Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Dance: End: Minuet de la Cour, Allemande-Master Byrne, Miss Byrne

Song: End I, IV: a variety of select Catches and Glees-

Event Comment: Tickets delivered (for Thursday April 26) by Messink, Cubitt, Jones, Ledger, Newton, Painter, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Sharpe will be admitted this evening. Receipts: #213 (72.16; 3.9; tickets: 136.15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Cast
Role: Hero Actor: Mrs Lessingham
Role: Margaret Actor: Mrs Whitfield
Role: Ursula Actor: Mrs Poussin

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Free Mason

Related Works
Related Work: Harlequin Free-Mason Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Cast
Role: Lady Easy Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: Mrs Graveairs Actor: Mrs Whitfield
Role: Edging Actor: Mrs Wilson

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Cast
Role: Venus Actor: Mrs Morton
Role: Auld Robin Grey Actor: Mrs Kennedy
Role: Huncamunca Actor: Mrs Kennedy
Role: Glumdalca Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Grace Actor: Mrs Morton
Role: Maudlin Actor: Mrs Martyr

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Performance Comment: See17801115, but Harlequin-W. Bates; Ferridon-Mrs Kennedy. [The other Characters as usual.]The other Characters as usual.]
Cast
Role: Ferridon Actor: Mrs Kennedy.
Related Works
Related Work: The Touchstone; or, Harlequin Traveller Author(s): Charles Dibdin
Event Comment: [The playbill assigns Rosetta to Miss Harper, but "Last night Miss Harper was indisposed, in consequence of which Mrs Martyr was obliged to play Rosetta" (Morning Chronicle, 8 Nov.).] Receipts: #95 10s. (94/15; 0/15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: Young Meadows-Leoni; Justice Woodcock-Wilson; Sir William Meadows-Fearon; Eustace-Robson; Hodge-Doyle; Hawthorn-Reinhold; Lucinda-Mrs Morton; Margery-Mrs Wilson; Aunt Deborah-Mrs Pitt; Rosetta-Mrs Martyr .
Cast
Role: Lucinda Actor: Mrs Morton
Role: Margery Actor: Mrs Wilson
Role: Aunt Deborah Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Rosetta Actor: Mrs Martyr

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: Feridon Actor: Mrs Kennedy.
Related Works
Related Work: The Touchstone; or, Harlequin Traveller Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece, as17810928

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: Lady Capulet Actor: Mrs Poussin
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Pitt

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Performance Comment: Vulcan-Quick; The Squire-Mattocks; Serjeant-Reinhold; Joe-Leoni; Grace-Mrs Morton; Maudlin-Miss Morris (1st appearance in that character) .
Cast
Role: Grace Actor: Mrs Morton
Related Works
Related Work: Poor Vulcan! Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Song: As17810924, but omitted: Simpkinson, Mrs Martyr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spendthrift Or The Female Conspiracy

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Reilly, Dutton, Moss, Horwell, Lloyd, Mendez, Swords; Miss Villiers, Miss Blaney, Miss Wood, Miss Carne, Mrs Read, Mrs Hyam. [Text, in The Comic Theatre, Vol. I (Dryden Leach, 1762), lists the parts: Cleon, Moneylove, The Baron, Count Raveline, The Marquis, Justice Florid, Picquet, Pasquin; Julia, Belinda, Arsinoe, Araminta, Belisa, Finesse.] Occasional Prologue spoken by Davis and a Lady in the character of Taste. New Epilogue .

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Performance Comment: Priscilla Tomboy (the Romp)-Mrs Cox; the other Characters by those who perform in the Comedy . the other Characters by those who perform in the Comedy .
Cast
Role: Priscilla Tomboy Actor: Mrs Cox
Related Works
Related Work: The Romp Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Song: End of Acts II and in of mainpiece two favourite airs by Mrs Cox (1st appearance.)

Monologue: 1781 11 12 End of Act IV of mainpiece Shuter's Post Haste Observations on his Journey to Paris by Dutton