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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Student; or, The Fall of Pantomime: With the Restoration of the Drama

Performance Comment: Harlequin Student-Yates; Colombine-Miss Hippisley; Mons Venterbleau-Peterson; Mynheer Van Grub-Julian; Tenebroso-Touchbury; Old Shepherd-Marr; Nurse-Olbeldiston; 1st Watchman-Dunstall; 2d Watchman-Charles; 1st Countryman-Dunstall; 2d Countryman-Crofts; 3d Countryman-Nelson; 4th Countryman-Naylor; Pierot-Shawford; John Trott-Dove; with a Grotesque Dance between Punch, Pierot and Scaramouch-Shawford, Vaughan, Olbeldiston; the whole to Conclude with a Representation of Shakespear's Monument-, as lately Erected; Jupiter-Crispe; Mars-Touchbury; Mercury-Brett; Cupid-Master Nanfan; Minerva-Miss Jones; Melpomene-Mrs Lamball; Thalia-Miss Medina; Ganymede-Mrs Dunstall.
Cast
Role: Old Shepherd Actor: Marr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Performance Comment: Leon-Delane; Copper Captain-Ryan; Duke-Bridgwater; Cacafogo-Stoppelaer; Margaretta-Mrs Ware; Juan-Hale; Sancho-Arthur; Alonzo-Gibson; Altea-Mrs Mullart; Clara-Miss Horsington; Old Woman-Hippisley; Visiting Ladies-Mrs Cross, Mrs Hale, Miss Burgess; Estifania-Mrs Horton.
Cast
Role: Old Woman Actor: Hippisley

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: II: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg; III: Muzette-Miss Morrison; IV: Matelotes-Mechell, Mlle Mechell

Music: V: Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Master Ferg

Song: End Afterpiece: Arra my Judy (by Desire)-Stoppelaer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Performance Comment: Leon-Bridgwater; Copper Capt.-Ryan; Duke-Rosco; Cacafogo-Mullart; Margaretta-Mrs Stevens; Don Juan-Cashell; Sanchio-Stevens; Alonzo-Gibson; Altea-Mrs Mullart; Clara-Miss Hillyard; Old Woman-Hippisley; Estifania-Mrs Horton.
Cast
Role: Old Woman Actor: Hippisley

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Performance Comment: Leon-Milward; Estifania-Mrs Clive; Old Woman-Macklin; Altea-Miss Bennett; Copper Captain-Mills; Duke-Havard; Cacafogo-Turbutt; Margaretta-Mrs Butler; Don Juan-Winstone; Sancho-Ridout; Alonzo-Ray; Clara-Miss Horsington.
Cast
Role: Old Woman Actor: Macklin

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: As17410926

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Performance Comment: Polixenes-Ryan; Leontes-Stephens; Florizel-Hale; Camillo-Bridgwater; Antigonus-Rosco; Autolicus-Chapman; Diocles-Cashell; Cleomines-Goodall; Dion-Stevens; 1st Gentleman-Lassels; 2nd Gentleman-Harrington; Time-Gibson; Old Shepherd-Marten; Clown-Hippisley; Queen-Mrs Horton; Perdita-Mrs Hale; Emilia-Mrs Mullart; Paulina-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Old Shepherd Actor: Marten

Dance: Dubisson, Mlle Bonneval, being the 1st time of their appearing since their arrival from Paris

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Performance Comment: Captain-Giffard; Leon-Marshall; Duke-Paget; Cacafogo-Dunstall; Margaretta-Mrs Bambridge; Don Juan-W. Giffard; Sancho-Crofts; Alonzo-Naylor; Alithea-Mrs Dunstall; Clara-Mrs Yates; Old Woman-Yates; Estifania-Mrs Giffard.
Cast
Role: Old Woman Actor: Yates

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Performance Comment: Pilgrim-Ryan; Alphonso-Hippisley; Roderigo-Bridgwater; Curio-Cashell; Seberto-Gibson; Governor-Lascelles; Old Pilgrim-Roberts; Mad Scholar-Hale; Mad Englishman-Rosco; Mad Welchman-James; Mad Priest-Bencraft; Mad Taylor-Woodward; Master of Mad House-Marten; Lopez-Mullart; Jaques-Stevens; Alinda-Mrs Vincent; Fool-Miss Ferguson; Juletta-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Old Pilgrim Actor: Roberts

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Dance: LLa Provencale, as17411215

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist; Or, The Sham-doctor

Performance Comment: Crispin-Yates; Doctor-Paget; Old Gerald-Julian; Y. Gerald-Balkes; Martin-Peterson; Simon-Dunstall; Angelica-Miss Medina; Wife-Mrs Bishop; Woman-Mrs Dunstall; Beatrice-Miss Hippisley.
Cast
Role: Old Gerald Actor: Julian

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: As17420115

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Cast
Role: Old Shepherd Actor: Marten

Ballet: nd in which will be introduc'd a New Grand Ballet call'd the% Rural Assembly. Chasseur-Desnoyer; Pastors-Richardson, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade, Bencraft; Shepherdesses-Mrs Wright, Mlle Fabres, Mrs LeBrun, Mlle Rhenos, Mlle Maudet; Nymph of the Plain-Sga Barberina; Old Herdsman-Villeneuve; Cottage Nymph-Sga Domitilla; Two Nymphs of the Vale, a Sylvan-Picq, Mlle Bonneval, Mlle Auguste

Performance Comment: Chasseur-Desnoyer; Pastors-Richardson, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade, Bencraft; Shepherdesses-Mrs Wright, Mlle Fabres, Mrs LeBrun, Mlle Rhenos, Mlle Maudet; Nymph of the Plain-Sga Barberina; Old Herdsman-Villeneuve; Cottage Nymph-Sga Domitilla; Two Nymphs of the Vale, a Sylvan-Picq, Mlle Bonneval, Mlle Auguste.
Cast
Role: Old Herdsman Actor: Villeneuve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Performance Comment: As17411222, but Old Pilgrim-Harrington.
Cast
Role: Old Pilgrim Actor: Harrington.

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Dance: TTambourine-Mlle Auguste; Tyrolean Dance, as17420206

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode; Or, Sir Fopling Flutter

Performance Comment: Sir Fopling-Cibber Jun.; Dorimant-Mills; Medley-Delane; Old Bellair-Shepard; Young Bellair-Havard; Handy-Green; Mrs Loveit-Mrs Clive; Belinda-Mrs Woffington; Harriet-Mrs Mills; Pert-Mrs Macklin; Shoemaker-Raftor; Emilia-Mrs Butler; Lady Woodville-Mrs Cross; Lady Townly-Mrs Bennet; Pert-Miss Macklin; Busy-Miss Brunette.
Cast
Role: Old Bellair Actor: Shepard

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Song: I: Sweet Bird, from Milton,-Mrs Arne; III: The celebrated Irish Ballad Elin a Roon-Mrs Clive in Irish, as she perform'd it at the Theatre Royal in Dublin; IV: Singing in Italian and English-Miss Edwards

Dance: II: The Italian Peasants, as17411205; IV: A Ballet-Desse, Baudouin, Leviez

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: A Modern Midnight Conversation

Performance Comment: Taken from Hogarth's Celebrated Print, in which will be introduced Drunken Man-Hippisley; with a comic tale- of what really Passed between himself and his old Aunt at her house in Mendip Hills in Somesetshire.

Dance: TTambourine-Picq, Mlle Auguste; Les Maquignons, as17420309 The Peasants-Picq, Mlle Auguste

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Performance Comment: Duretete-Garrick; Y Mirabel-Giffard; Bisarre-Mrs Giffard; Oriana-Mrs Yates; Old Mirabel-Yates.
Cast
Role: Old Mirabel Actor: Yates.

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: David and Winifred apShenkin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: Lear-Garrick; Gloster-Marshall; Edgar-Giffard; Kent-Paget; Bastard-W. Giffard; Usher-Yates; Albany-Peterson; Cornwall-Blakes; Goneril-Mrs Bambridge; Regan-Mrs Yates; Burgundy-Marr; Physician-Dunstall; Old Man-Julian; Arante-Miss Hippisley; Cordelia-Mrs Giffard.
Cast
Role: Old Man Actor: Julian

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment of Harlequin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

Performance Comment: Henry-Berry; Wolsey-Mills; Buckingham-Winstone; Gardiner-Johnson; Cranmer-Turbutt; Norfolk-Havard; Suffolk-Ridout; Lord Chamberlain-Woodburn; Campeius-Shepard; Abergavenny-Raftor; Cromwell-Cross; Lord Sands-Neale; Surveyor-Taswell; Lovel-Ray; Old Lady-Mrs Egerton; Anna Bullen-Mrs Ridout; Queen Katherine-Mrs Roberts.
Cast
Role: Old Lady Actor: Mrs Egerton

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: I: A Concerto, as17420105; II: The Drunken Peasant, as17411029; III: Le Boufon, as17420325

Song: IV: A Ballad-Lowe; V: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant; Or, The Sick Lady's Cure

Performance Comment: As17420119, but Wishwell-Mrs Hale; Old Atall-Harrington; Strut-Stoppelaer; Situp-Miss Davies.
Cast
Role: Old Atall Actor: Harrington
Role: Old Wilful Actor: Mullart

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: II: As17420510; IV: Pantaloon and Enamorata, as17420420

Song: AArrah my Judy-Stoppelaer

Entertainment: CCries of London-Salway

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Performance Comment: Leon-Delane; Copper Captain-Mills; Estifania-Mrs Clive; Margarita-Mrs Pritchard; Old Woman-Mrs Yates; Cacafogo-Turbutt; Duke-Havard; Don Juan-Winstone; Alonzo-Ray; Sancho-Blakes; Altea-Mrs Bennet; Clara-Mrs Horsington.
Cast
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mrs Yates

Afterpiece Title: Miss Lucy in Town

Dance: II: Les Matelotes, as17421009; V: Turkish Seraglio, as17421027

Music: III: Concerto-Veracini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Performance Comment: Pilgrim-Ryan; Alphonso-Hippisley; Roderigo-Bridgwater; Mad Scholar-Hale; Curio-Cashell; Seberto-Gibson; Old Pilgrim-Harrington; Verdugo-Goodall; Mad Englishman-Rosco; Mad Welchman-James; Mad Priest-Bencraft; Mad Taylor-Woodward; Master of Madhouse-Marten; Lopez-Carr; Jaques-Anderson; Fool-Miss Ferguson; Alinda-Mrs Vincent; Juletta-Miss Hippisley.
Cast
Role: Old Pilgrim Actor: Harrington

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance: TTambourine-Cooke; La Villageoise, as17421006; The Happy Lovers, as17421006; Characters of Dancing, as17421025

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wedding Day

Performance Comment: Millamour-Garrick; Stedfast-Macklin; Heartfort-Delane; Old Mutable-Taswell; Young Mutable-Neale; Brazen-Yates; Clarinda-Mrs Pritchard; Charlotte-Mrs Woffington; Mrs Useful-Mrs Macklin; Lucina-Mrs Bennet; Mrs Plotwell-Mrs Cross; Squeeze Purse-Morgan; Dr Crisis-Turbutt; Prologue writ and-Macklin; Epilogue by a Friend-Mrs Woffington [from edition of 1743].from edition of 1743].
Cast
Role: Old Mutable Actor: Taswell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Flora; or, Hob in the Well

Performance Comment: Hob-Legar; Testy-Boaman; Friendly-Bencraft; Old Hob-Mr Dunstall; Dick-Vaughan; Flora-Mrs Dunstall; Hob's Mother-Mrs Mullart; Betty-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Old Hob Actor: Mr Dunstall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: Toyshop

Performance Comment: Master-Chapman; Old Fumble-Hippisley; Beau-Woodward.
Cast
Role: Old Fumble Actor: Hippisley

Dance: As17430314

Event Comment: MMrs Tame (see 15 April hay) had announced for her benefit this night The Old Batchelor, with Cibber as Fondlewife, Giffard as the Old Batchelor, and Mrs Giffard as Laetitia, to be followed by Tom Thumb, with Mrs Tame playing Tom Thumb, but a notice of 11 April states that Mrs Tame was ill and the performance had to be deferr'd

Performances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of King Lear, And His Three Daughters

Performance Comment: Lear-Delane; Edgar-Giffard; Gloster-Bridges; Bastard-W. Giffard; Kent-Winstone; Cornwall-Blakes; Albany-Cross; Burgundy-Ray; Gentleman Usher-Neale; Old Man-Taswell; Goneril-Mrs Bennet; Regan-Mrs Cross; Arante-Miss Horsington; Cordelia-Mrs Giffard.
Cast
Role: Old Man Actor: Taswell

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Song: I, III: Sullivan

Dance: As17431022

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved; Or, A Plot Discovered

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist; or, The Sham Doctor

Performance Comment: M Le Medicin-Blakes; Crispin-Yates; Old Gerald-Taswell; Young Gerald-Green; Martin-Morgan; Simon-Turbutt; Angelica-Mrs Ridout; Beatrice-Mrs Bennet; Doctor's Wife-Mrs Egerton; Waiting Woman-Miss Cole.
Cast
Role: Old Gerald Actor: Taswell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of King Lear, And His Three Daughters

Performance Comment: As17431025, but Lear-Garrick; Bastard-Mills; Albany-Turbutt; Old Man-_; Arante-_.
Cast
Role: Old Man Actor: Taswell

Afterpiece Title: The Lawyer's Feast