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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Dance: End II: Negro Dance, as17911102; End: A Divertisement, as17920410

Song: End I: Charmante Petite Fille-Incledon; II: Sweet Bird, as17920228

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Afterpiece Title: A Masquerade Anticipated

Dance: In: As17911102

Song: In 2nd piece: As17920421; End I: Black Eyed Susan-Incledon; II: Sweet Bird-; III: Can a Lover Pleasure find (composed by Sacchini)-Mrs Billington

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'allegro Ed Il Penseroso [, Part I Only]; Grand Selection 0

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea

Afterpiece Title: A New Grand Selection

Song: In 1st piece: Sweet bird-Mrs Ferguson (her 1st performance); accompanied on the violin-Shaw; End 2nd piece: an Italian Scena-Mrs Ferguson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Point at Herqui; or, British Bravery Triumphant

Dance: II: a Negro Dance-; 3rd piece: a new incidental Dance by Byrn-Mlle St.Amand, Holland, Byrn

Song: End I: Sweet Bird-Mrs Serres; accompanied on the German Flute (for this night only)-Ashe, from the Hanover-Square Concert; In Evening: Admiral Benbow-Incledon; 3rd piece: the following songs: The Mid Watch-Incledon; Tippy Bob-Munden; The Waiter-Fawcett; Irish Song-Johnstone; New Loyal Song-Mrs Martyr; Rondo-Mrs Clendining; Ye Gentlemen of England-Linton, Street, Incledon; Rule Britannia-Incledon, Johnstone, Chorus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Will

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

Song: End II: Ally Croaker-Miss Leak, Master Welsh; End IV: The Black Bird (composed by Hook)-Master Welsh

Music: End: A Lilliputian Performance, As17970518

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin a Sorcerer; With the Loves of Pluto and Proserpine

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Lun; Witches-Leveridge, Papillion, Harrison, Mrs Chambers; 1st Bird Catcher-Pelling; 2d Bird Catcher-Spiller; Petit Maitre-Legar; Italian Italian-Rochetti; Pluto-Leveridge; Proserpine-Mrs Seedo; Sysiphus-Dupre Jr; Prometheus-Newhouse; Ixion-Lanyon; Clotho-Miss LaTour; Lachesis-Mrs Pelling; Atropos-Mrs Ogden; Furies-Dupre, Moreau, Pelling.
Cast
Role: 1st Bird Catcher Actor: Pelling
Role: 2d Bird Catcher Actor: Spiller

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin a Sorcerer; With the Loves of Pluto and Proserpine

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Lun; Clown-Nivelon; Servant-Ray; Colombine-Mrs Laguerre; Witches-Leveridge, Salway, Harrison; 1st Bird Catcher-Hippisley; 2d Bird Catcher-Pelling; Petit Maitre-Legar; Italian-Rochetti; Pluto-Leveridge; Proserpine-Mrs Seedo; Sysiphus-Dupre Jr; Prometheus-Newhouse; Ixion-Delagarde Jr; Clotho-Mrs Ogden; Lachesis-Mrs Pelling; Atropos-Miss LaTour; Furies-Poitier, Dupre, Pelling.
Cast
Role: 1st Bird Catcher Actor: Hippisley
Role: 2d Bird Catcher Actor: Pelling

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Flora's Vagaries

Performance Comment: Edition of 1670: Alberto-Mohun; Lodovico-Beeston; Prospero-Bird; Grimani-Cartwright; Francisco-Burt; Fryer-Loveday; Flora-Mrs Ellen Gwin; Otrante-Mrs Nepp. Edition of 1677 adds: Giacomo-$Shatterel;. See also 3 Nov. 1663.. See also 3 Nov. 1663.
Cast
Role: Prospero Actor: Bird

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Empress Of Morocco

Performance Comment: . Edition of 1674: Prologue-Ghost of Labas, Morena; Muly Labas-Coysh; Muly Hamet-Kew [Cue?]; Grimalhaz-Watson; Hamet Alhaz-Powel; Abdrahaman-Bird; Abdelcador-Carlton; Messenger-Kempton; Eunch-Venner; Laula-Griffin; Mariamne-Goodman; Morena-Harris; Epilogue [being a new Fancy after the old, and most surprising way of Macbeth, perform'd with new and costly Machines...invented and managed by Henry Wright.-Hecate, Three Witches; Hecate-Powel; 1 Witch-Harris; 2 Witch-Adams; 3 Witch-Lyddal; Thunder-Goodman; Lightning-Kew; An Epilogue [an additional one]-.
Cast
Role: Abdrahaman Actor: Bird

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin a Sorcerer; With The Loves of Pluto and Proserpine

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Lun; Witches-Leveridge, Salway, Harrison, Mrs Chambers; First Bird Catcher-Nivelon; 2d-Spiller; Petit Maitre-Legar; Italian-Rochetti; Pluto-Leveridge; Proserpine-Mrs Barbier; Cerberus-Nivelon; Susiphus-Glover; Prometheus-Newhouse; Ixion-Lanyon; Clotho-Mrs Ogden; Lachesis-Mrs Wall; Atropos-Mrs Legar; Furies-DuPre, Lalley, Pelling.
Cast
Role: First Bird Catcher Actor: Nivelon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin a Sorcerer; With the Loves of Pluto and Proserpine

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Lun; Clown-Nivelon; Servant-Ray; Colombine-Mrs Laguerre; Witches-Leveridge, Salway, Papillion; Bird Catchers-Hippisley, Pelling; Petit Maitre-Legar; Italian-Rochetti; Pluto-Leveridge; Proserpine-Mrs Seedo; Sysiphus-Dupre Jr; Prometheus-Glover; Ixion-Delagarde Jr; Clotho-Mrs Ogden; Lachesis-Miss LaTour; Atropos-Mrs Pelling; Furies-Dupre, Newhouse, Pelling.
Cast
Role: Bird Catchers Actor: Hippisley, Pelling

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Damon And Phillida

Performance Comment: Archas-Phoenix; Aegon-Holt; Corydon-Child; Damon-Cross; Simon-Taylor; Mopsus-Bird; Phillida-Miss Yeats.
Cast
Role: Mopsus Actor: Bird

Dance: HHarlequin and Country Man-; Harlequin Turn'd Into a Dog-; Drunken Man-Taylor

Song: Rural Dialogue-a Little Boy, Girl

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Damon And Phillida

Performance Comment: Arcas-Thomas; Corydon-Williams; Damon-Yeates; Simon-Taylor; Mopsus-Bird; Phillida-Miss Yeates.
Cast
Role: Mopsus Actor: Bird

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gardener's Wedd1ng; Or, The Waterman Defeated

Performance Comment: Peartree-Julian; Rako-Warner; Ply-Yeates Jr; Bridemen-Williams, Bird; Razor (French Barber)-Dodson; Margery-Mrs Martin; Margery's Mother-Mrs Choca; Bridemaids-Miss Yeates, Miss Nancy Yeates. Concluding with the Entertainment of Britannia; or the Royal Nuptials of the Prince of Orange . or the Royal Nuptials of the Prince of Orange .
Cast
Role: Bridemen Actor: Williams, Bird

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Harlequin; or, The Indian Chief

Performance Comment: Cast not listed. [Cast from text (no pub., 1782) and Airs (T. Cadell, 1782): Harlequin-W. Bates; Old Lieutenant-Darley; Clown-Stevens; Midshipman-Mrs Kennedy; Bridewell-Keeper-Edwin; Irishman-Egan; Old Beau-Jones; Jailor-Webb; Bailiffs-Thompson, Fearon, &c.; Groom Porter-Doyle; Columbine-Miss Matthews; Her Mother-Mrs Pitt; Virtue-Mrs Martyr; Pleasure-Mrs Morton. Unassigned characters: Master of the Hotel, Waiters, Coachman, Chairmen, Masqueraders, Sailors, Mob, Birds, Beasts, Dancers, Ladies, &c]..

Song: As17811109

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Performance Comment: General Savage-A Gentleman (1st appearance [unidentified]); Conolly-Burtt; Captain Savage-Diamond; Belville-A Gentleman (1st appearance [unidentified]); Spruce-Nugent; Ghastly-Jones; Wolf-Dannell; Crow-Nicholes; Leeson-Powell; Leach-Cross; Torrington-Lloyd; Mrs Belville-Mrs Sydney; Mrs Tempest-Miss Marshall; Miss Leeson-A Young Lady (1st appearance [unidentified]); Lady Rachel Mildew-Mrs Thomson; Betty-Miss Carleton; Miss Walsingham-Miss Bird .
Cast
Role: Miss Walsingham Actor: Miss Bird

Afterpiece Title: The Romance of an Hour

Dance: End of mainpiece a new Comic Dance, The Affrighted Dwarf, with a whimsical Transformation into Mad Moll (performers not listed)

Monologue: 1784 11 16 End of Act IV of mainpiece Bucks have at ye all by Cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 'tis Well It's No Worse

Performance Comment: Don Carlos-Wyatt; Lazarillo-Cross; Don Guzman-Darling; Don Ferdinand-Thome; Octavio-George; Messenger-Green; Alguzill-Purkiss; Drunken Coachman-Ryder; James-Morley; Lawyer-Hall; Don Pedro-Stephens; Muskato-Swords; Aurora-Miss Bird; Marcella-Miss Noel; Leonardo-Mrs Knox; Old Nun-Mrs Barnes; Beatrice-Miss Clarke .
Cast
Role: Aurora Actor: Miss Bird

Afterpiece Title: The Diversions of the Morning

Afterpiece Title: Lethe, -AEsop, Old Man, Mercury, Drunken Man, Charon, Bowman, Snip, Fine Gentleman, Frenchman, Lord Chalkstone to be performed, for that night only, by a Society of Gentleman; Mrs Riot-Mrs Dore

Monologue: 1785 04 25 Preceding the 1st piece an Address spoken by Brown

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder: A Woman Keeps A Secret

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Performance Comment: Sharp-Waldron; Justice Guttle-Wright; Dick-Wellman; Trippit-Stevenson; Gayless-Benson; Kitty Pry-Mrs Wellman; Mrs Gadabout-Mrs Monk; Mrs Trippit-Miss Bird; Melissa-Miss Francis .
Cast
Role: Mrs Trippit Actor: Miss Bird

Song: After the Monologue, by Miss Cranford

Monologue: 1785 06 17 End of mainpiece an Occasional Address to the Audience by Wright

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: Young Meadows-Newbold (1st appearance in a singing character); Hawthorn-Payne; Hodge-Wellman; Sir William Meadows-Wright; Eustace-Kerridge; Justice Woodcock-Waldron; Luanda-Miss Bird; Margery-Mrs Benson; Deborah-Mrs Monk; Rosetta-Miss Cranford .
Cast
Role: Luanda Actor: Miss Bird

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Cast
Role: Mrs Trippit Actor: Miss Bird

Dance: In Act I of mainpiece a Statute Scene with a Dance by the Characters; End of mainpiece Hornpipe by Wright

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Performance Comment: Lord Ogleby-Banister; Sterling-Wellman; Sir John Melville-Payne; Canton-Waldron; Brush-Wright; Serjeant Flower-Kerridge; Truman-Meadow; Traverse-Stevenson; Love well-Benson; Miss Sterling-Mrs Wellman; Mrs Heidelberg-Mrs Monk; Betty-Miss Bird; Chambermaid-Mrs Benson; Fanny-Miss Francis .
Cast
Role: Betty Actor: Miss Bird

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Dance: End of mainpiece The Wapping Landlady; or Jack in Distress. Jack (with a Hornpipe)-Wright; Wapping Landlady-Mr Kerridge; Sailors and Ladies-The rest of the Company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar; Or, The Comical Discovery

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Performance Comment: Midas-Wellman; Jupiter-Harrison; Sileno-Wright; Pan-Kerridge; Damaetas-Payne; Apollo (for that night only)-Miss Cranford; Nysa-Mrs Benson; Mysis-Mrs Monk; Juno-Miss Bird; Daphne-A Lady (1st appearance on this stage [unidentified]) .unidentified]) .
Cast
Role: Juno Actor: Miss Bird

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton; or, Harlequin Gladiator

Song: End of Act II of 1st piece The Pidgeon by Miss Cranford; End of 1st piece Four and Twenty Fidlers all on a Row by Wellman

Monologue: 1785 07 15 End of 2nd song Bucks have at ye all by Benson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost; or, The Dead Man Alive

Performance Comment: Roger-Wright; Sir Jeffery Constant-Wellman; Captain Constant-Kerridge; Clinch-Benson; Trusty-Waldron; Dorothy-Mrs Wellman; Belinda-Miss Bird .
Cast
Role: Belinda Actor: Miss Bird

Dance: End of mainpiece a Double Hornpipe by Wright and a Young Lady (from the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden; 1st appearance on this stage [unidentified]). imitations. After the Dancing Theatrical Imitations by Payne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Follies Of A Day; Or, The Marriage Of Figaro

Performance Comment: Figaro-Benson; Count Almaviva-Thome (2nd appearance on this stage); Don Bartolo-Wright; Don Guzman (the stuttering Counsellor)-Wellman; Basil-Payne; Bounce-Banister; Doublefee-Kerridge; Courier-Meadow; Oyer-Stuart; Servant-Mast. Payne; Anthonio (the drunken Gardener)-Waldron; Page (with the elegant and favorite song, Ah well-a-day, my poor heart)-Miss Cranford; Countess-Miss Bird; Marcelina-Mrs Monk; Agnes-Mrs Benson; Susan-Mrs Wellman .
Cast
Role: Countess Actor: Miss Bird

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer; Or,the Mistakes Of A Night

Performance Comment: Hardcastle-Waldron; Tony Lumpkin-Wellman; Hastings-A Gentleman (1st appearance on this stage [unidentified]); Diggory-Banister; Landlord-Payne; Jeremy-Meadow; Sir Charles Marlow-Wright; Young Marlow-Benson; Miss Hardcastle-Mrs Wellman; Miss Neville-Miss Bird; Mrs Hardcastle-Mrs Monk .
Cast
Role: Miss Neville Actor: Miss Bird

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: End of mainpiece, by Wright; End of afterpiece The Drunken Peasant. Clown-Benson; Drunken Peasant-Wright

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Performance Comment: Lothario-Benson; Horatio-Wellman; Sciolto-Waldron; Rossano-Kerridge; Servant-Payne; Altamont-A Gentleman (2nd appearance on this stage [unidentified]); Lavinia-Mrs Wellman; Lucilla-Miss Bird; Calista-A Young Lady (1st appearance on this stage [unidentified]) .unidentified]) .
Cast
Role: Lucilla Actor: Miss Bird

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe; or, Harlequin Friday

Song: Between the Acts of afterpiece, by Mrs Benson, &c