Event Comment: Account-Book: Tickets delivered by
Ledger,
Claremont,
Goostree.
Mrs Dick,
Mrs Egan will be admitted. 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT 1, by
Richard Cumberland.
Larpent MS 1111; not published]: To conclude with an
Illumination, Transparency, and a Rural
Procession.
The Music partly selected, and partly composed, by
Shield.
The Harp by
Weippert.
The Bells by
Lawrence. With appropriate Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations. [Written in honour of
the Royal Marriage" [see
dl, 13 May] (
Morning Herald, 19 May). "If we are to have
these repeated Congratulations, let
them be written by men of spirit and invention.
The public are miserably placed, in cases like
the present: between a respect for
their
King and a respect for
their own understandings,
they know not how to act" (
Monthly Visitor, May 1797, pp. 454-55, which also includes a brief synopsis of
the plot). Receipts: #254 9s. 6d. (84.0.0; 11.2.6; tickets: 159.7.0)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: Wives As They Were, And Maids As They Are
Afterpiece Title: The Village Fete
Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Quick, Incledon, Munden, Townsend, Bowden, Haymes, Linton, Street, Gray, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Clendining, Mrs Martyr. [Cast from Larpent MS: Sir Martin Marygold-Quick; Fairlove-Incledon; Nicholas-Munden; Peter the Preacher-Townsend [in MS: Fawcett]; Kate-Mrs Mountain [in MS: Mrs Henley]; Peggy-Mrs Clendining; Lady Marygold-Mrs Martyr [in MS: Mrs Gilbert]; unassigned-Bowden, Haymes, Linton, Street, Gray.Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom
Song: 2nd piece: Chorusses-Blurton, Abbot, Simmons, Hawtin, Curties, Lee, Little, Sawyer, Tett, J. Linton, Wilde, Thomas, Oddwell, Cranfield, Mrs Castelle, Mrs Masters, Mrs Watts, Miss Leserve, Mrs Norton, Mrs Lloyd, Mrs Follett, Miss Walcup, Mrs Henley, Miss Owen, Miss Gray