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Event Comment: Benefit for Burton and Harwood, prompter. King continuing so ill that it is impossible for him to perform this Evening, Waldron has kindly undertaken the Part of Sir Peter Teazle at a very short notice, and most humbly hopes for the indulgence of the Public. Receipts: #209 15s. 6d. (35/3/0; 15/10/6; 0/5/0; tickets: 158/17/0) (charge: #106 13s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Performance Comment: As17830403, but Sir Peter Teazle-Waldron .

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Cast
Role: Sir James Elliot Actor: R. Palmer

Dance: As17830505

Song: As17830514

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Wroughton as Lord Morelove and Henderson as Sir Charles Easy, but "an apology was made for the Illness of [Henderson], and Wroughton became his substitute, Wroughton's Place in Lord Morelove being supplied by Williamson from the Haymarket" {Public Advertiser 13 Feb.). Afterpiece in place of Rosina, announced on playbill of 10 Feb.] Receipts: #277 6s. (269/9; 7/17)

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Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Performance Comment: As17840123, but Lord Morelove-Williamson; Sir Charles Easy-Wroughton .
Cast
Role: Sir Charles Easy Actor: Wroughton
Role: Servant Actor: Thompson
Event Comment: Afterpiece: Altered from Sir John Vanbrugh's The Relapse. Never perform'd here. [Miss Christian is identified in Public Advertiser, 9 Aug.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Cast
Role: Sir James Juniper Actor: Wilson

Afterpiece Title: The Man of Quality

Performance Comment: Lord Foppington-Palmer; Young Fashion-Williamson; Lory-Egan; Sir Tunbelly Clumsey-Wilson; Nurse-Mrs Love; Miss Hoyden-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [Miss Christian]) .Miss Christian]) .
Cast
Role: Sir Tunbelly Clumsey Actor: Wilson

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece, as17840528; End of mainpiece, as17840713

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5]: Altered from Beaumont and Fletcher, by Dryden [by Thomas King. The original alteration, 1700, was by Sir John Vanbrugh, not by Dryden. The present alteration has been attributed to John Philip Kemble, but in his copy of the play, now in the Huntington Library (K-D 95), he has written "by Thomas King"]. Public Advertiser, 22 Nov. 1787: This Day is published, as now revived with material Additions, The Pilgrim (1s.). Receipts: #85 9s. 6d. (72.5.0; 13.4.6; 0.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Related Works
Related Work: The Pilgrim Author(s): Thomas King

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Performance Comment: As17870920, but Sir Gilbert Pumpkin-Waldron.
Cast
Role: Sir Gilbert Pumpkin Actor: Waldron.

Dance: End I: a New Dance-Hamoir, Ferrere, the Miss Stageldoirs; End III: The Capricious Lovers, as17870920; End IV: another New Dance-Hamoir, Ferrere, the Miss Stageldoirs

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Sir Richard Steele's Comedy. Never acted at this theatre [acted 17 Mar. 1760, and advertised for performance on 10 Apr. 1764]. Receipts: #229 8s. 6d. (213.19.6; 15.9.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband; Or, The Accomplished Fools

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Lewis, Quick, Edwin, Farren, Wewitzer, Fearon, Helme, Mrs Mattocks, Mrs Webb, Mrs Bernard, Miss Brangin, Mrs Abington. [Cast from playbill of 28 Jan. 1789: Capt. Clerimont-Lewis; Sir Harry Gubbin-Quick; Humphrey Gubbin-Edwin; Clerimont Sen.-Farren; Tipkin-Wewitzer; Pounce-Fearon; Servant-Helme; Mrs Clerimont-Mrs Mattocks; Aunt-Mrs Webb; Fainlove-Mrs Bernard; Jenny-Miss Brangin; Biddy Tipkin-Mrs Abington.]
Cast
Role: Sir Harry Gubbin Actor: Quick

Dance: As17871029

Event Comment: Mainpiece: by Sir Richard Steele. Receipts: #230 2s. (213.7; 16.15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband; Or, The Accomplished Fools

Performance Comment: Capt. Clerimont-Lewis; Sir Harry Gubbin-Quick; Humphrey Gubbin-Edwin; Clerimont Sen.-Farren; Tipkin-Wewitzer; Pounce-Fearon; Servant-Evatt; Mrs Clerimont-Mrs Mattocks; Aunt-Mrs Webb; Fainlove-Mrs Bernard; Jenny-Miss Brangin; Biddy Tipkin-Mrs Abington.
Cast
Role: Sir Harry Gubbin Actor: Quick

Afterpiece Title: Aladin

Cast
Role: Sir Philip Modelove Actor: Bernard
Role: Tradelove Actor: Thompson

Entertainment: Vaudeville As17890127

Event Comment: [Playbill of 2 Dec. states, correctly, that mainpiece was "2nd time these 16 years." In it the playbill assigns Sir John Melvil to Farren, but "Macready was the substitute for Farren" (World, 28 Nov.).] Receipts: #192 8s. 6d. (189.12.6; 2.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Performance Comment: Lord Ogleby-King; Lovewell-Holman; Sir John Melvil-Macready; Canton-C. Powell; Brush-Bernard; Serjeant Flower-Powel; Traverse-Thompson; Trueman-Evatt; Sterling-Quick; Miss Sterling-Mrs Mattocks; Fanny-Miss Brunton; Betty-Mrs Wells; Chambermaid-Mrs Rock; Mrs Heidelberg-Mrs Webb.
Cast
Role: Sir John Melvil Actor: Macready
Role: Traverse Actor: Thompson

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Event Comment: ["The Lord Ogleby of (The Clandestine Marriage) raised Mr King to the summit of comic excellence, which his more recent great character, Sir Peter Teazle in The School for Scandal, has established him in the unrivalled possession of" (Johnson, ed. Waldron, 169).] Receipts: #245 (211.9; 33.6; 0.5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Performance Comment: Lord Ogleby-King (1st appearance on that stage these 3 years); Sir John Melvil-Whitfield; Sterling-Parsons; Lovewell-Barrymore; Canton-Baddeley; Brush-Palmer; Serjeant Flower-Packer; Traverse-Phillimore; Trueman-Benson; Mrs Heidelberg-Mrs Hopkins; Miss Sterling-Miss Pope; Fanny-Mrs Kemble; Betty-Miss Tidswell; Chambermaid-Mrs Williames; Trusty-Mrs Booth.
Cast
Role: Sir John Melvil Actor: Whitfield

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Related Works
Related Work: Love for Money; or, The Boarding School Author(s): Thomas D'Urfey
Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Sir Richard Steel. Receipts: #122 6s. 6d. (112.3.6; 10.3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband; Or, The Accomplished Fools

Performance Comment: Capt. Clerimont-Lewis; Sir Harry Gubbin-Quick; Humphrey Gubbin-Fawcett; Clerimont Sen.-Farren; Tipkin-Wilson; Pounce-Powel; Servant-Evatt; Mrs Clerimont-Mrs Mattocks; Aunt-Mrs Webb; Fainlove-Miss Chapman; Biddy Tipkin-Mrs Esten.
Cast
Role: Sir Harry Gubbin Actor: Quick

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Cast
Role: Fairly Actor: Thompson
Event Comment: Powell: [In afterpiece] Sir John Buck Cooke, Phillimore Ill; Classic Benson, Packer Ill. Beggar's Opera rehearsed at 10; New Ballet at 10 and at 12. Receipts: #148 3s. 6d. (103.5.0; 40.6.6; 4.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cherokee

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Performance Comment: See17950102, but Sir John Buck-Cooke; Classic-Benson.
Cast
Role: Sir John Buck Actor: Cooke
Event Comment: Benefit for Johnstone. 3rd piece [1st time; F 2, by Thomas Knight; incidental music by William Reeve]: Partly taken from The Committee [by Sir Robert Howard]. Morning Herald, 21 June 1797: This Day is published [by G. Cawthorn] The Honest Thieves (1s.). True Briton, 25 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Johnstone, No. 19, Piazza, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #434 7s. 6d. (210.4.0; 11.18.0; tickets: 212.5.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Performance Comment: Inkle-Johnstone; Sir Christopher Curry-Quick; Campley (with additional songs, and for that night only)-Incledon; Medium-Powel; Mate (with an additional song)-Townsend; Trudge-Fawcett; Wowski-Mrs Martyr; Narcissa-Mrs Mountain; Patty-Mrs Fawcett; Yarico (for that Night only, with additional Songs, Hope told a flattering tale, accompanied on the Harp by Weippert)-Mrs Ferguson.
Cast
Role: Sir Christopher Curry Actor: Quick

Afterpiece Title: British Fortitude; or, An Escape from France

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Thieves; or, The Faithful Irishman

Performance Comment: Teague (with a Planxty in character, The Tight Irish Boy)-Johnstone; Abel-Knight; Colonel Careless-Macready; Capt. Manly-Middleton; Justice Day-Powel; Mr Story-Claremont; Servant-Abbot; Bailiffs-Wilde, Hawtin [in text: Thompson]; Obadiah-Munden; Coachman-Ledger [added by text]; Ruth-Mrs Knight; Arabella-Miss Mansel; Mrs Day-Mrs Davenport.
Related Works
Related Work: The Honest Thieves; or, The Faithful Irishman Author(s): Thomas Knight
Related Work: The Committee; or, The Faithful Irishman Author(s): Sir Robert Howard

Song: In course 2nd piece: I was call'd knowing Joey-Munden; At dawn of Life our Vows were plighted-Mrs Mountain; The Storm-Incledon; The turban'd Turk who scorns the World-; Hospitality; or, The Land of Potatoes-Johnstone; End 2nd piece: Old Towler-Incledon

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Powell. 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT 1, author unknown. MS not in Larpent MS; not published]: Founded on a recent fortunate Event [the escape of Sir William Sidney Smith from The Temple, Paris, on 24 Apr. 1798 (European Magazine, June 1798, p. 395)]. With appropriate Scenery, and Machinery. [3rd piece in place of The Children in the Wood, advertised on playbill of 19 May.] Times, 15 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Powell, No. 43, Craven-street, Strand. Receipts: #548 17s. (233.4.6; 61.4.6; 0.17.0; tickets: 253.11.0) (charge: #214 12s. 1d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

Performance Comment: As17980409, but added; Mrs Powell [the only time her name is in the playbill of this play (and see17971214)]; Wentworth_; Gibbon_; Original Epilogue-Mrs Jordan; (for that night only) a new Additional Dialogue[, written by M. G. Lewis, Esq., Author of the Play,-Mrs Jordan, Mrs Powell.

Afterpiece Title: The Escape

Performance Comment: Characters-Palmer, Caulfield, Trueman, Maddocks, Hollingsworth, Roffey, Male; Vocal Parts-Sedgwick, Dignum; Principal Dancer-Sga Bossi DelCaro. [Cast not known, except for Sir Sidney Smith-Palmer (Monthly Mirror, June 1798, p. 368.]

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Event Comment: 2nd piece: Altered from The Committee; or, The Faithful Irishman [by Sir Robert Howard]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Performance Comment: Count Almaviva-Barrymore; Doctor Bartholo-Suett; Basil-Aickin; Tallboy-R. Palmer; Argus-Caulfield; Notary-Abbot; Alcade-Waldron Jun.; Lazarillo-Wathen; Rosina-Miss DeCamp.
Cast
Role: Doctor Bartholo Actor: Suett

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Thieves

Related Works
Related Work: The Honest Thieves; or, The Faithful Irishman Author(s): Thomas Knight

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Performance Comment: Vapour-C. Kemble; Gossip-Suett; Souffrance-Caulfield; Sir Mathew Medley-Davenport; Woodley-Trueman; Waiter-Waldron Jun.; Servant-Lyons; Charlotte-Mrs Edward; Florella-Miss Griffiths (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Sir Mathew Medley Actor: Davenport
Event Comment: The Lord Mayor's Show. London Intelligencer, 31 Oct.: London, Octob. 29. This day the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of the City of London (Sir John Lawrence) was sworn into the said Office...After which...he return'd into the City, where the Solemnity of the day was perform'd with great Magnificence and in exceldent Order. Evelyn, Diary: Was the most magnificent triumph by Water & Land of the Ld: Major

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Mainpiece Title: London's Triumphs Celebrated The 29th Of October, 1664

Performance Comment: In Honour To the pruely Deserver of Honour Sir John Lawrence Knight, Lord Major of the Honourable City of London: and Performed at the Costs and Charges of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Salomon; Or, The Cautious Coxcomb

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 359: The Rivall Queene. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 346. That this is the premiere is indicated by a letter from the Marquis of Worcester to the Marchioness, 17 March 1676@7: Sir Charles Sedley's Cleopatra has been acted often, and to-day a new play of the death of Alexander, but I have not been to see either, living a mighty drudging life (HMC, 12th Report, Appendix, Beaufort MSS., IX, 66). Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 11), has a cast which agrees (except for omissions) with that in the edition of 1677. Downes adds (p. 16): [Hart in] Alexander, towards the latter End of his Acting; if he Acted in any one of these but once in a Fortnight, the House was fill'd as at a New Play, especially Alexander, he Acting that with such Grandeur and Agreeable Majesty, That one of the Court was pleas'd to Honour him with this Commendation; That Hart might Teach any King on Earth how to Comport himself

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens; Or, The Death Of Alexander The Great

Performance Comment: Edition of 1677: Prologue to Alexander by Sir Char. Scroop, Baronet-; Epilogue-; Alexander-Hart; Clytus-Mohun; Lysimachus-Griffin; Hephestion-Clarke; Cassander-Kenaston; Polyperchon-Goodman; Philip-Powell; Thessalus-Wiltshire; Perdiccas-Lydall; Eumenes-Watson; Meleager-Perin; Aristander-Coysh; Sysigambis-Mrs Corey; Statira-Mrs Boutell; Roxana-Mrs Marshall; Parisatis-Mrs Baker.
Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Queens; or, Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden Author(s): Thomas Holcroft
Event Comment: The Lord Mayor's Show. By Thomas Jordan. Luttrell (A Brief Relation, I, 285-86): The 29th, sir Henry Tulse...was sworn before the barons of the exchequer at Westminster, whither he went by water, accompanied by the late lord mayor, the new recorder, aldermen, and sheriffs, and attended by diverse of the companies in their barges; their majesties and the duke of York being upon the leads at Whitehall when they passed by: being come back, they passed from the place where they landed, with the usual solemnity, to Grocers Hall, where the lords of the councill, severall of the nobility, judges, and other persons of quality dined

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of London

Performance Comment: Performed on Monday, October XXIX 1683. For the Entertainment of the Right Honourable, and truly Noble Pattern of Prudence and Loyalty, Sir Henry Tulse, Knight, Lord Mayor of the City of London. Containing A Description of the whole Solemnity. With Two new Songs set to Musick.
Related Works
Related Work: The Triumphs of London: Performed on Monday, October XXIX Author(s): Thomas Jordan

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Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

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Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

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Mainpiece Title: Sir Martin Marall; Or, The Feign'd Innocence

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice; Or, It Cannot Be

Event Comment: Newdigate newsletters (Folger Shakespeare Library), 22 Oct. 1687: There are to be 5 Pageants on the Ld Mayors day one representing Liberty by a Beautifull young Lady attended with Riches Plenty and ffreedom &c. (transcribed by Professor John Harold Wilson). Luttrell (A Brief Relation, I, 418): The 29th was the anniversary of the lord mayors show, the new one, sir John Shorter, now entring on his office; the shew was splendid and the entertainment great, according to custome: his majestie, with the prince of Denmark, did the citty the honour to dine with them at Guildhall, as also the nobility, foreign ministers, amongst which was the popes nuncio (who was invited particularly by some of the aldermen): the streets were new gravell'd all that morning on one side of the way, from Charing-crosse to the citty, for his majesties passage. His majestie was well satisfied with the whole entertainment. The Duke of Beaufort to the Duchess, 29 Oct. 1687 [a summary, apparently]: Has just come from the greatest entertainment he ever saw at a Lord Mayor's feast in the city, and the best ordered, though there was the greatest concourse there and in the streets that was ever known, and the greatest acclamations, all through the city as the King passed. The Queen did not dare venture, remembering that the Bristol entertainment had put her out of order, but all the nobility in town, and the foreign ministers were there. The Pope's Nuncio in particular was invited by the Lord Mayor and nobly entertained (HMC, 12th Report, Appendix, Beaufort MSS., Part IX, pp. 90-91)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: London's Triumph; Or, The Goldsmith's Jubilee

Performance Comment: Performed on Saturday, October XXIX. 1687. For the Confirmation and Entertainment of the Right Honourable Sir John Shorter, Kt. Lord Mayor of the City of London. Containing A Description of the several Pageants and Speeches, made proper for the Occasion. Together with a Song, for the Entertainment of His Majesty, who with His Royal Consort; the Queen Dowager; their Royal Highnesses, the Prince and Princess of Denmark, and the whole Court, honour his Lordship, this Year, with their Presence. All set forth at the proper Costs and Charges of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. By Mr Taubman.
Related Works
Related Work: The Goldsmiths Jubilee; or, London's Triumph: Containing, A Description of the several Pageants: On which are Represented, Emblematical Figures, Artful Pieces of Architecture, and Rural Dancing: with the Speeches Spoken on each Pageant. Author(s): Thomas Jordan

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Event Comment: Luttrell, A Brief Relation, II, 437: This being the queen s birth day, a new ode was sung before her upon the occasion: the nobility and gentry, with the lord mayor and aldermen of this citty, attended to compliment thereon. Gentleman's Journal, May 1692: The 30th of April, being Her Majesties Birth-day, was observ'd with all the usual Solemnity. I design'd to have sent you an Attempt of mine in Verse, on that noble Subject: But having happily obtain'd a Copy of those writ by Sir Charles Sidley, it would have been an unpardonable Crime, to have joyn'd my weak Essay to a Piece by so great a Master. [The Ode, Love's Goddess Sure, the music by Henry Purcell, is in Purcell's Works, Purcell Society, XXIV (1926), i.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Performance Comment: An Anniversary Ode sung before Her Majesty...the Words by Sir Charles Sidley: Set by Mr Henry Purcell-.