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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Performance Comment: Castalio-Giffard; Acasto-W. Williams; Polydore-Collet; Chamont-W. Giffard; Chaplain-R. Williams; Serina-Mrs Thomas; Page-Mrs Mountfort; Monimia-Mrs Giffard from the Theatre Royal in Dublin, being the first Time of her Appearance on the English Stage.
Cast
Role: Serina Actor: Mrs Thomas
Related Works
Related Work: The Orphan; or, The Unhappy Marriage Author(s): Thomas Otway

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks; Or, The Yeoman Of Kent

Performance Comment: Reynard-Giffard; Woodcock-Hallam; Loveworth-W. Williams; Squib-Collett; Maiden-R. Williams; Hillaria-Mrs Haughton; Belinda-Mrs Purden; Mrs Goodfellow-Mrs Palmer; Penelope-Mrs Mountfort; Lucy-Mrs Thomas.
Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Thomas.
Related Works
Related Work: Tunbridge-Walks: or, The Yeoman of Kent Author(s): Thomas Baker

Dance:

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Performance Comment: See17300321 but Oroonoko-Giffard; Aboan-Smith; Governor-W. Giffard; Blandford-R. Williams; Stanmore-Bardin; Jack Stanmore-Pearce; Driver-W. Williams; Hotman-Machen; Daniel-Collet; Imoinda-Mrs Giffard; Charlot-Mrs Thomas; Lucy-Mrs Mountfort; Widow Lackit-Mrs Haughton.
Cast
Role: Charlot Actor: Mrs Thomas
Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Royal Slave Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Cast
Role: Sir Thomas Actor: W. Williams
Role: Friendly Actor: Mrs Thomas
Related Works
Related Work: Hob; or, The Country Wake Author(s): Thomas Doggett

Song: A Youth of Thirteen Years of Age

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Performance Comment: Oroonoko-Smith; Aboan-Giffard; Governor-W. Giffard; Blandford-R. Williams; Stanmore-Bardin; Jack Stanmore-Pearce; Driver-W. Williams; Daniel-Collet; Imoinda-Mrs Giffard; Widow Lackit-Mrs Haughton; Charlot-Mrs Thomas; Lucy-Mrs Mountfort.
Cast
Role: Charlot Actor: Mrs Thomas
Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Royal Slave Author(s): Thomas Southerne

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Dance:

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Of A Wife

Performance Comment: As17301005, but Jobson-Morgan; Lovemore-Rosco; Father-Bardin; Doctor-Havard; Spirits-Peterson, Woodward; Lady Lovemore-Mrs Thomas.
Cast
Role: Lady Lovemore Actor: Mrs Thomas.
Related Works
Related Work: The Devil of a Wife; or, A Comical Transformation Author(s): Thomas Jevon

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Performance Comment: Castalio-Smith; Polydor-Bardin; Acasto-W. Williams; Chamont-W. Giffard; Chaplain-R. Williams; Page-Master Woodward; Monimia-Mrs Haughton; Serina-Mrs Thomas.
Cast
Role: Serina Actor: Mrs Thomas.
Related Works
Related Work: The Orphan; or, The Unhappy Marriage Author(s): Thomas Otway

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Hob; or, The Country Wake

Performance Comment: Hob-Cibber Jr; Sir Thomas-Shepard; Friendly-Oates; Flora-Mrs Grace; Betty-Mrs Shireburn.
Cast
Role: Sir Thomas Actor: Shepard
Related Works
Related Work: Hob; or, The Country Wake Author(s): Thomas Doggett

Music: Select Pieces-

Song: As17310427

Dance: EEnglish Maggot-Rainton, Mrs Walter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks

Performance Comment: Reynard-Giffard; Woodcock-W. Giffard; Loveworth-W. Williams; Squib-Morgan; Maiden-Bullock; Hillaria-Mrs Haughton; Belinda-Mrs Morgan; Mrs Goodfellow-Mrs Palmer; Penelope-Mrs Plomer; Lucy-Mrs Thomas.
Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Thomas.
Related Works
Related Work: Tunbridge-Walks: or, The Yeoman of Kent Author(s): Thomas Baker

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song: I: Mad Tom-a Gentleman for his Diversion

Music: V: Welch Harp-a Gentleman for his Diversion

Dance: II: Dutch Skipper-; III: Scaramouch-Smith; V: Scaramouch and Harlequin-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Performance Comment: See17310505, but Castalio-Smith; Polydore-Havard; Monimia-Mrs Morgan; Serina-Mrs Thomas; Page-Master Woodward.
Cast
Role: Serina Actor: Mrs Thomas
Related Works
Related Work: The Orphan; or, The Unhappy Marriage Author(s): Thomas Otway

Song: Singing in Italian and English-the Misses Hambleton

Music: M$Mr Handel's famous Water@Musick-, with Trumpets and French Horns; accompany'd with a Preamble on the Kettle@Drums- the ingeniousMr Joab Baker

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast

Afterpiece Title: Beauty and Virtue

Performance Comment: Larpent MS 207 lists cast: Wisdom-Tenducci; Beauty-Miss Brent; Virtue-Miss Thomas; Love-Master Johnson; Eloquence-Aynscombe; Might-Champness; Chorus of Heavenly Spirits-.
Cast
Role: Virtue Actor: Miss Thomas
Related Works
Related Work: Beauty and Virtue Author(s): Thomas Arne

Music: I: Concerto on Violincello-Siprutini; II: Concerto on German Flute-Florio

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never performed. Founded [by Thomas Hull] on a Play wrote by the late Sir Samuel Tuke [Adventures of Five Hours]. The Afterpiece: A Masque (perform'd but once) [by Thomas Hull], With New Music, Dresses and Scenery. The Music by Mr Bach. Books of the Masque to be had at the Theatre. Paid for The Perplexities #2 2s. (Account Book). Receipts: #226 16s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Perplexities

Related Works
Related Work: The Perplexities Author(s): Thomas Hull

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Favour

Related Works
Related Work: The Fairy Favour Author(s): Thomas Hull

Dance: End: The Gallant Peasants, as17670113

Event Comment: Never Perform'd. Founded on Beaumont and Fletcher. Music by Thomas Linley. A Comic Opera the Music entirely new. [By Thomas Hull altered from The Royal Merchant; or the Beggar's Bush (Biographia Dramatica). See 19 Dec. 1767 for further note on Music.] Paid Mr Horne for 4 Tambourines #1 10s. (Account Book). Went into the Pit to see the opera founded on Beaumont and Fletcher, performed for the first time....The music may be good, but the piece is trifling and childish, barren of incident and character except that of Clause played by Bensley and the frightened peasant. The performers are in the Flemish dresses of the times, and do the piece much justice. At the beginning of the 2nd act some fellows in the 2s. Gallery began a disturbance, but were turn'd out and carried before Sir John Fielding, where they confessed that they were hired to disturb this performance by a publican, but refused to say whom....Stood in the well (Neville MS Diary). Receipts: #225 1s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Related Works
Related Work: The Royal Merchant Author(s): Thomas Hull

Dance: I: A New Comic Dance, as17671021; II: A Grand Ballet The Garland-Fishar, Mrs Bulkley. [See17651003.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Afterpiece Title: The Country Madcap in London

Performance Comment: Ballad-Mattocks; Cantileno-Palmer; Zorobabel-Quick; Lord Bawble-Lewes; Thomas-Gardner; Goodwill-Wignell; Mrs Midnight-Mrs Pitt; Tawdry-Miss Pearce; the Madcap-Mrs Mattocks.
Cast
Role: Thomas Actor: Gardner
Related Works
Related Work: The Country Madcap in London Author(s): Thomas Arne

Dance: End: New Pantomime Dance, as17701129

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sot

Performance Comment: Fairlove-Young Gentlewoman, first appearance; Clarinda-Young Gentlewoman, first appearance; Pert-Young Gentlewoman, fifth appearance; Sir Thomas-young Gentleman, first appearance.
Related Works
Related Work: Squire Badger Author(s): Thomas Arne

Song: Catches and Glees-; Diana's Chace-Miss Jameson

Music: After Comic piece: two Ariettas on the Octave Flute in the Polonese taste-a new performer from that country; After Part II Catches and Glees: Concerto on Clarinet with variations on the Wanton God-Mahon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sot

Performance Comment: As17750216, but Clarinda-Miss Donadieu; Fairlove-Mrs Farrel; Pert-Miss Weller; Sir Thomas-A Gentleman; Squire Savage-a Gentleman.
Cast
Role: Sir Thomas Actor: A Gentleman
Related Works
Related Work: Squire Badger Author(s): Thomas Arne

Song: Catches and Glees-; Cymon and Iphigenia-a Gentleman; a Capital Trumpet Song-Miss Jameson

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; P 2 (?), by Thomas King. MS not in Larpent; not published; synopsis of action in Public Advertiser, 27 Dec.]: With Variety of new Scenes, Dresses and Decorations. With a Grand View of the Cumberland Fleet sailing for the Cup, and a Song and Chorus in Honour of the Institution. To conclude with a Pageant Rural and Pantomimical. [These were included in all subsequent performances.] The Music partly new and partly compiled [by Thomas Linley Sen.] from the best Masters. The Paintings by Greenwood and other eminent Artists. Nothing under Full Price will be taken. Account-Book, 17 Feb. 1783: Paid King in full for Harlequin's Wedding #47 1s. Receipts: #231 (225/10; 5/10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Related Works
Related Work: The Orphan; or, The Unhappy Marriage Author(s): Thomas Otway

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth; or, Harlequin's Wedding

Related Works
Related Work: The Triumph of Mirth; or, Harlequin's Wedding Author(s): Thomas KingThomas Linley Sr.
Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Thomas Holcroft, based on Le Mariage de Figaro, by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais; incidental music by William Shield. In 1789 reduced to an afterpiece of 3 acts. Prologue by the author (Europaen Magazine, Dec. 1784, p. 467)]: With new Dresses, Decorations, &c. Public Advertiser, 10 Mar. 1785: This Day is published The Follies of A Day (1s. 6d.). [For an account of Holcroft's shorthand transcription of the original, taken down during a performance in Paris, and the hasty rehearsals of it in London, see Elbridge Colby, A Bibliography of Thomas Holcroft, 1922, pp. 48-50.]

Performances

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

Related Works
Related Work: The Follies of a Day; or, The Marriage of Figaro Author(s): Thomas Holcroft
Related Work: The Follies of a Day Author(s): Thomas Holcroft

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

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

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 [1st time; MD 5, by Thomas Morton. Prologue by William Thomas Fitzgerald. Epilogue by Miles Peter Andrews (see text)]: The Scenes, principally new, designed and painted by Richards, Hodgins, Pugh, Walmsley, and assistants. With entire new Dresses and Decorations. "The management of the earthquake in which the Temple of the Sun is destroyed was a very fine piece of stage mechanism; the effect of which was considerably heightened by the improved performance of the Bold Thunder, and that also of his Electrical Harbinger. The gradations and cadences of the first were superior to anything of the kind we remember within the walls of the theatre...The scene of the rising sun was uncommonly dingy" (Public Advertiser, 3 Dec.). "Mr Morton in full for Columbus #214 10s. 6d." [MS annotation on BM playbill, 26 Dec. 1792 (cg, Vol. VIII)]. Morning Herald, 14 Dec. 1792: This day at noon will be published Columbus (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #301 8s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Columbus; Or, A World Discovered

Related Works
Related Work: Columbus; or, A World Discovered Author(s): Thomas Morton

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With Alterations [by Thomas Hull]. Afterpiece: Compressed into 3 Acts by the author of the Road to Ruin [Thomas Holcroft]. Receipts: #232 6s. (204.16; 27.10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comedy Of Errors

Related Works
Related Work: The Twins; or, A Comedy of Errors Author(s): Thomas Hull
Related Work: The Comedy of Errors Author(s): Thomas Hull

Afterpiece Title: The School for Arrogance

Related Works
Related Work: The School for Arrogance Author(s): Thomas Holcroft

Song: In III: a song (in character)-Mrs Clendining

Entertainment: As17931004

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Thomas Morton. Prologue by William Thomas Fitzgerald; Epilogue by Miles Peter Andrews (see text)]: With new Scenes and Dresses. True Briton, 19 Jan.: Morton was paid #400, and #150 "for the Copy-right, which Harris has purchased." Ibid., 27 Mar.: This Day was published A Cure for the Heart Ache (2s.). Receipts: #237 15s. (236.0; 1.15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Cure For The Heart Ache

Related Works
Related Work: A Cure for the Heart Ache Author(s): Thomas Morton

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): Thomas Arne
Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Thomas Morton. Prologue by William Thomas Fitzgerald (his Miscellaneous Poems, 1801, p. 88). Epilogue by Miles Peter Andrews (London Chronicle, 12 Jan.)]: With new Scenes and Dresses. Morning Herald, 14 Apr. 1798: This Day is published Secrets Worth Knowing (2s.). Receipts: #311 6s. (307.9; 3.17)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secrets Worth Knowing

Related Works
Related Work: Secrets Worth Knowing Author(s): Thomas Morton
Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; D 5, by Thomas Holcroft, based on Diego und Leonore, by Johann Christoph Unzer. Prologue and Epilogue by Francis Godolphin Waldron (Thomas Holcroft, Life, ed. Elbridge Colby, 1925, II, 125)]: With new Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations. The Scenery by Marinari. [Johnston was from cg.] Times, 12 July 1798: This Day is published The Inquisitor (2s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inquisitor

Related Works
Related Work: The Inquisitor Author(s): Thomas Holcroft

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Five Thousand A Year

Afterpiece Title: The Old Cloathsman

Performance Comment: As17990402, but Peasants and Servants-Lee, Mrs +Norton, Mrs +Gilbert, Mrs +Burnett, Mrs +Walcup, Mrs +Whitmore, Mrs +Lloyd, _Tett, _Oddwell, _Thomas.
Cast
Role: Peasants and Servants Actor: Lee, Mrs +Norton, Mrs +Gilbert, Mrs +Burnett, Mrs +Walcup, Mrs +Whitmore, Mrs +Lloyd, _Tett, _Oddwell, _Thomas.
Related Works
Related Work: The Old Cloathsman Author(s): Thomas HolcroftThomas Attwood

Afterpiece Title: The Mouth of the Nile

Related Works
Related Work: The Mouth of the Nile Author(s): Thomas Attwood

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Brilliants

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Holman; Principal Bacchanal-Hill; Bacchanals-Townsend, Linton, Street, Thomas, Oddwell; 1st Spirit-Thompson; Brothers-Farley, Claremont; 2nd Spirit (with a song)-Miss Sims; The Lady-Miss Chapman; Principal Bacchant-Mrs Chapman; Bacchants-Ms Wheatley, Ms Follett, Ms Castelle, Ms Leserve, Ms Norton; Sabrina=-Mrs Atkins; Pastoral Nymph-Mrs Atkins; Sweet Echo-Mrs Atkins; accompanied on the oboe-W. Parke; Euphrosyne-Mrs Martyr.
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): Thomas Arne

Dance: In II 3rd piece: a Dance-Naiads

Song: In: Maria; or, The Beggar Girl-Mrs Atkins; Young William-Incledon; a new song, The Negro Boy (written by Rees, and composed by Attwood)-Miss Sims (in character)