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26
28 November 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Old Batchelor-Bridgwater; Fondlewife-Hippisley; Belmour-Walker; Vainlove-Ryan; Sir Joseph-Neale; Bluff-Mullart; Sharper-Hale; Setter-Chapman; Belinda-Mrs Bellamy; Laetitia-Mrs Horton; Sylvia-Mrs Vincent; Lucy-Mrs Mullart.
Cast
Role: Old Batchelor Actor: Bridgwater

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Old Woman Actor: Miss Oates.
Role: Old Man Actor: Smith

27
25 September 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Old Batchelor-Quin; Bellmour-Mills; Bluff-Johnson; Fondlewife-Macklin; Sir Joseph-Woodward; Vainlove-Havard; Sharper-Wright; Setter-Chapman; Belinda-Mrs Mills; Araminta-Mrs Pritchard; Laetitia-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Old Batchelor Actor: Quin

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: In III: Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf

28
21 October 1740 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Old Batchelor-Pagett; Bellmour-Giffard; Vainlove-Crofts; Sharper-Blakes; Bluff-Dunstall; Fondlewife-Julian; Setter-Lowder; Sir Joseph-Yates; Belinda-Mrs Middleton; Laetitia-Mrs Giffard.
Cast
Role: Old Batchelor Actor: Pagett

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

29
18 February 1746 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Old Batchelor-Furnival; Fondlewife-Morgan.
Cast
Role: Old Batchelor Actor: Furnival

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Song: Between the Acts: (By particular Desire) Behold the sweet Flowers-; Come Rosalind O Come and See-; Blow ye Bleak Winds around-; Musick by Arne-Miss Medina

30
17 October 1753 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Old Batchelor-Bridgwater; Bellmour-Ryan; Belinda-Mrs Elmy; Sharper-Ridout; Vainlove-Usher; Araminta-Mrs Barrington; Sylvia-Mrs Vincent; Sir Joseph-Cushing; Setter-Bencraft; Bluff-Dunstall; Barnaby-Paddick; Lucy-Mrs Pitt; Betty-Miss Allen; Fondlewife-Arthur; Laetitia-Mrs Bland.
Cast
Role: Old Batchelor Actor: Bridgwater

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

31
16 October 1764 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Performance Comment: Old Maid-Mrs Walker; Harlow-Davis; Young Clerimont-White; Capt. Cape-Lewis; Heartwell-Gardner; Mrs Harlow-Miss Elliot.
Cast
Role: Old Maid Actor: Mrs Walker

Dance: II: A Tambourine, as17641015; End: La Femme Maitresse, as17641004

32
20 December 1765 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Performance Comment: Old Maid-Mrs Walker; Young Clerimont-Perry; Captain Cape-Lewis; Harlow-Davis; Heartwell-Gardner; Mrs Harlow-Miss Wilford, first time.
Cast
Role: Old Maid Actor: Mrs Walker

Dance: II: The Village Romps, as17651019

33
02 December 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: 1 Written by Shakespear. Benefit Powell, Howard, and others; by particular Desire. Afterpiece: Never acted there before. [The Debauchees; or, The Jesuit Caught, originally issued as The Old Debauchees by Henry Fielding, 1 June 1732, dl. Concluding the program with the National Anthem now omitted from the advertisements.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 1 Henry Iv

Afterpiece Title: 1 The Debauchees

Performance Comment: Old Laroon-Morgan; Isabel-Mrs Phillips; Father Martin-Paget; Young Laroon-Kennedy; Old Jourdain-Cushing; Beatrice-Mrs Cushing.
Cast
Role: Old Laroon Actor: Morgan
Role: Old Jourdain Actor: Cushing

Song: 1 Brett

Dance: 1 As17451028

34
22 September 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr Sarjant at the Stage Door of the Theatre. [Only sagnificant changes from this regular notice will be recorded hereafter.] Paid Mrs Margaret Lamb 6 months interest on #315 due 8 Sept. #7 10s. (Account Book). Receipts: #155 15s. (Account Book). Estimate of a Constant@N.B. The Ground Rent and Taxes is calculated to be Paid in 150 Days.@Per Annum Per Day@To 50 Old Shares at 2s. --- #5@To 50 New Ditto at 2s. --- #5@T 50 New Ditto at 2s. --- #5@To Ground Rent for the Theatre #100@To Ditto for Buildings in Harte St. #30@To Ditto for Mr Thurmond's House in Bow Street Passage #25@ #155 #1 0s. 8d.@ #11 0s. 8d.@Taxes (Viz)@To Land and Window Taxes for Theatre #98 2s.@To Do for a House in Bow St. Passage #5 15s 6d.@To Poor's Rate for the Theatre #20@To Do for a House in Bow St. Passage #1 10s.@To Watch rate for the Theatre #8 6s. 8d@To Do for a House in Bow St. Passage 10s. 6d.@To Rector's rate for the Theatre #6 13s. 4d.@To Do for a House in Bow St. Passage 8s. 4d.@To Scavenger's Rate for the Theatre #6 17s. 4d.@To Do for a House in Bow St. Passage 6s. 4d.@To Water for the Theatre #4@ #152 10s.@ #1 4d.@To Renters, Ground Rent & Taxes #12 1s.@To Gawrds [sic] per Day 14s.@To Barbers Do 5s. 4d.@To Scenemen Do #2 10s.@To Music as Per List #4 9s 2d.@For 150 Days To Candles #3 3s.@Do To Coales 10s 10s.@Passages, Stage Etc. To Lamps #1 12s.@To Bills #1 7s.@To Advertisements 5s.@To Billsetters 4s. 6d.@#16 6s. Sallery [sic] #14 6s. Estimate To Wardrobe bill about #1 11s.@#2 Sallery #5 Estimate To Property Bill Do 7s.@To Chorus Singers Do 10s.@To Mr J. Rich #5 5s.@To Mr C. Rich #1@ #36 1s.@Nightly Charge@Musick List@Messrs Wood 5s.@Gillier 5s.@Miller 5s.@Chapman@ 3s. 4d.@Goodman 3s. 4d.@Woodson 5s.@Ward 6s. 8d.@Rolland 5s.@Rawlings 3s. 4d.@Vincent 6s. 8d.@Wrexell 5s.@Beale 5s.@Jones 4s. 2d.@Biche 3s. 4d.@Heron 4s. 2d.@Stockdon 3s. 4d.@Scovell 3s. 4d.@Lampe 3s. 4d.@Smart 3s. 4d.@Assistant Writer 10d.@Harpsicord 5s.@#4 9s. 2d.@Men Dressers Charg'd in the Wardrobe Bills@Messrs Mearns 2s. 6d.@Cason 2s.@Esbury 1s.@Fenwick 1s.@Winterton 1s.@Besford 1s.@Francis 1s.@Cawder 1s.@Hays 1s.@Hollingsworth 1s.@Cabell 1s.@Nicholls 1s.@Norris 1s.@Cole 1s.@16s. 6d.@Billstickers as per List@Messrs Abbott 2s.@Mislebrook 2s.@Dymuck 2s@Tidd 2s.@Gale 2s.@Cole 1s. 6d.@11s. 6d.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew; Or, The Merry Beggars

Performance Comment: Old Rents-Sparks; Hearty-Beard; Springlove-Clarke; Randal-Dunstall; Oliver-Dyer; Justice Clack-Shuter; Hilliard-Baker; Vincent-Mattocks; Meriel-Mrs Vincent; Rachel-Miss Brent, with dances incident to the Opera.
Cast
Role: Old Rents Actor: Sparks

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

35
06 July 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Particular Desire. [The BM Playbill lists Mercury-Bannister.] Half past six went into ye Pit to see $Barry do Hastings and Mrs Dancer Jane Shore. Before ye play began, ended reading ye parts of Hastings, Jane Shore and Dumont. When ye Gods called for ye Prologue, York beckoned to be quiet. What authority these fellows assume! T. Barry did Dumont, but he will never be equal to his father. The Entertainment was Lethe. Old Man and Lord Chalkstone by Shuter. Garrick, who sat near me, laughed at his understanding ye character of Lord Chalkstone so little, as to say--"She married for money, and I for a title." Drunken man pretty well by Weston (Neville MS Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Performance Comment: Old Man, Lord Chalkstone-Shuter; Aesop-Newton; Charon-Brownsmith; Drunken Man-Weston; Mercury-Jefferies; Fine Gentleman-Palmer; Frenchman-Quick; Bowman-Smith; the fine Lady-Mrs Gardner.

36
01 June 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Debauchees

Performance Comment: Father Martin-Cibber Jr; Isabel-Miss Raftor; Old Laroon-Shepard; Young Laroon-W. Mills; Old Jourdain-J. Roberts; Beatrice-Miss Williams; edition of 1731 adds: Prologue-William Mills.
Cast
Role: Old Laroon Actor: Shepard
Role: Old Jourdain Actor: J. Roberts

Afterpiece Title: The Covent Garden Tragedy

Dance:

37
27 April 1767 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: I: A New Tambourine Dance-Master Blurton (apprentice to Fishar, eleven years old, 1st appearance any stage); End I: Rural Love, as17661120; II: A Serious Dance-Miss Capon (Apprentice to Fishar, sixteen years old, 1st appearance any stage); III: A New Pantomime Ballet-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford (Apprentice to Fishar, ten years old, 1st appearance any stage as a dancer); IV: A Minuet-Fishar, Miss Capon; Double Hornpipe-Fishar, Sga Manesiere

Performance Comment: Blurton, Miss Besford (Apprentice to Fishar, ten years old, 1st appearance any stage as a dancer); IV: A Minuet-Fishar, Miss Capon; Double Hornpipe-Fishar, Sga Manesiere.

Ballet: End: A New Grand Ballet call'd The Wapping Landlady. Jack (in Distress)-Fishar; the other Sailors-Petro, Hussey, Martin, Reynald, Curtat, King; Landlady-Miles; Milk Woman-Sga Manesiere; other women-Miss D. Twist, Miss S. Twist, Miss Barrowby, Miss Hilliard, Miss Daw, Mrs Viviez

38
12 April 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: He Would if He Could; or, An Old Fool Worse than Any

Performance Comment: Parts by Vernon, Bannister, Dibdin in the character of an Old Lady, Mrs Baddeley. Simon-Vernon; Betty-Mrs Baddeley; Old Lady-Dibdin; Goosecap-Bannister (Edition of 1771).
Cast
Role: Old Lady Actor: Dibdin

Dance: V: A Comic Dance, as17701025

39
13 May 1712 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: As17111024, but Old Batchelor-_; Laetitia-_; Belinda-_; Araminta-_; Silvia-_; Lucy-_; Bluff-Johnson.
Cast
Role: Old Batchelor Actor: Keene
Role: Laetitia Actor: Mrs Oldfield

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: Dancing Proper to the Play-

40
15 October 1728 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Metamorphosis; Or, The Old Lover Outwitted

Performance Comment: Sir Credulous Mammon-Reynolds; Old Traffick-Giffard; Young Traffick-Adams; Lovemore-Withers; Crafty-Nicholls; Trickwell-Symonds; Nickum-Hill; Cheatley-Turner; Sly-Pearce; Roger-Williams; Carolina-Mrs Taylor; Emilia-Miss Man; Martina-Mrs Elsam.
Cast
Role: Sir Credulous Mammon Actor: Reynolds
Role: Old Traffick Actor: Giffard

Afterpiece Title: The Craftsman; or, The Weekly Journalist

Dance: Cleveland, Turner, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Turner

41
06 June 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Post, 5 June: We were partly misinform'd as to the Reception of the two Pieces play'd on Thursday Night...We are assured the Comedy call'd The Old Debauchees, did meet with universal Applause; but The Covent Garden Tragedy will be Acted no more, both the Author and the Actors being unwilling to continue any Piece contrary to the Opinion of the Town

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Debauchees

Cast
Role: Old Laroon Actor: Shepard
Role: Old Jourdain Actor: J. Roberts

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Pieraite-Holt, Mrs Walter; II: Harlequin-Miss Brett; III: English Maggot-Lally Jr, Mrs Walter; End Farce: Midsummer Whim-Lally Jr, Mrs Walter, Holt, Mrs D'Lorme

42
17 September 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Laetitia-Mrs Thurmond; Old Batchelor-Hyde; Belmour-Giffard; Sir Joseph-R. Wetherilt; Vainlove-Rosco; Sharper-Havard; Setter-Collett; Bluff-Morgan; Fondlewife-Norris; Belinda-Mrs Giffard; Araminta-Mrs Haughton; Sylvia-Mrs Hamilton; Lucy-Mrs Morgan .
Cast
Role: Old Batchelor Actor: Hyde

Dance: Dutch Skipper by d'Vallois and Mrs Bullock. Pierrot and Pierraite, as17330912

43
28 January 1734 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: As17330917, but Old Batchelor-W. Giffard; Setter-Woodward; Bluff-Huddy; Fondlewife-Penkethman; Lucy-Mrs Wetherilt .
Cast
Role: Old Batchelor Actor: W. Giffard

Dance: The Whin by Miss Wherrit and Miss Sandham. Chacone by Mrs Bullock. Two Pierrots by Vailois and J. Delagarde. Milk Pail Dance by Delagarde, Sandham, Mrs Evans, Woodward, Miss Wherrit, Miss Sandham, Mrs Vallois, Mrs Dove

44
17 September 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Bellmour-Gibson; the first time of his performance on a public theatre: Old Batchelor-Bridgwater; Vainlove-Ryan; Sharper-Hale; Sir Joseph-Neale; Bluff-Rosco; Barnaby-Bencraft; Setter-James; Belinda-Mrs Bellamy; Araminta-Mrs Cross; Silvia-Mrs Vincent; Lucy-Mrs Mullart; Fondlewife-Hippisley; Laetitia-Mrs Horton.
Cast
Role: Old Batchelor Actor: Bridgwater

Afterpiece Title: (BBy Desire)The Mock Doctor

Dance: III: A Ballet-Desse, Miss Oates; V: Grecian Sailors-Glover; End of Afterpiece: Tambourine-Miss Villeneuve, not lately arrived from Paris

45
30 December 1742 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Fondlewife-Cibber; Old Batchelor-Giffard; Belmour-W. Giffard; Vainlove-Dighton; Sharper-Mozeen; Wittol-Peterson; Setter-Julian; Bluff-Dunstall; Sylvia-Mrs E. Giffard; Araminta-Mrs Dunstall; Lucy-Mrs Chetwood; Belinda-Mrs Butler; Laetitia-Mrs Giffard.
Cast
Role: Old Batchelor Actor: Giffard

Afterpiece Title: Imprisonment of Harlequin

46
09 May 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: As17430422 but Fondlewife-Macklin; Bluff-Morgan; Old Batchelor-Bridges.
Cast
Role: Old Batchelor Actor: Bridges.

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Song: As17430120

Dance: II: Tyrolean Dance, as17421129; IV: New Serious Ballet, as17430425

47
03 December 1751 @ Castle Tavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory; Or, Henley In Petticoats

Performance Comment: Concerto on the Cermona Staccato , vulgarly call'd the Salt-Box-Antonio Ambrosiano; a Great Creature on a very uncommon Instrument-; a solo on the Viol d'Amore-; Candles snuffed to soft Musick-Claudio Molipitano; Oration in Favour of Matrimony-; solo on Violincello-; Song- to tune of The Roast Beef of Old England to which all the good Company are desir'd to join in chorus.
Cast
Role: Song Actor: to tune of The Roast Beef of Old England to which all the good Company are desir'd to join in chorus.

48
27 December 1751 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory

Performance Comment: Prologue-Mrs Midnight; Act I. I. A grand Piece with Kettle@Drums and Trumpets-; 2. The Inauguration Speech-Mrs Midnight; 3. Overture by Handel-; 4. Declamatory Piece on Jew's Harp-a Casuist; Act II. I. The Speech of Mrs Midnight in Defence of her Existence-; 2. Overture to Ariadne-; 3. Solo on the Viol d'Amor-; 4. Oration on the salt@Box-a Rationalist; 5. March in Judas Macchabeus-; , with the Side Drum-; Act III. I. The Speech of Old Time to the Good People of Britain-. 2.; Solo on the Violoncello-Cupid; 3. Song-Mrs Midnight; 4. Solo-Master Hallett; Overture to Alexander-; Epilogue-Master Hallett.
Cast
Role: The Speech of Old Time to the Good People of Brita Actor: . 2.

49
05 May 1752 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Positively the last Night. [Intended as satire on the Reverend John Henley's Oratory (eccentric preacher, 1692-1756) and as a puff for The Midwife or Old Woman's Magazine, edited by Christopher Smart and John Newberry, 1751-53. The Old Woman's Oratory written and produced by Smart. See the Gentleman's Magazine, 1752, p. 43; and Horace Walpole's letter to Montagu 12 May 1752, as follows: It appeared the lowest buffoonery in the world, even to me who am used to my uncle Horace. There is a bad oration to ridicule, what is too like, Orator Henley; all the rest is perverted music. There is a man who plays so nimbly on the kettle drums, that he has reduced that noisy instrument to be an object of sight; for if you don't see the tricks with his hands, it is no better than ordinary. Another play on a violin and trumpet together; another mimics a bagpipe with a German flute, and makes it full if disagreeable. There is an admired dulcimer, a favourite saltbox and a really curious Jew's Harp. Two or three men intend to persuade you that they play on a broomstick, which is drolly brought in, carefully shrouded in a case, so as to be mistaken for a bassoon or bass viol, but they succeed in nothing but the action. The last fellow imitates farting and curtseying to a French horn. There are twenty medley overtures, and a man who speaks a prologue and epilogue, in which he counterfeits all the actors and singers upon earth' (The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, IX, p. 131). [See 3 Dec. 1751.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory

50
07 December 1752 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory

Performance Comment: Mrs Midnight's Concert-; to which will be added, and given gratis, The Old Woman's Oratory-; When the Oration on the Salt@Box-a Rationalist will be introduced as usual, with several new Performances of a very extraordinary Nature; particularly a Piece-Signor Spoonatissimo on an Instrument dug out of the Ruins of Herculaneumv, much used by the Ancient Romans, and celebrated by Virgil in his Georgics; To conclude with a Grand Dance- in the ancient British Taste.
Cast
Role: The Old Woman's Oratory Actor: