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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: Annette and Lubin

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach or Inn in an Uproar

Entertainment: Monologue Before: Mother Shipton's Review of the Audience (Written By D. Garrick, Esq., with Alterations and Additions) (for that night only)-Quick

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fontainbleau

Performance Comment: As17861201, but Col. Epaulette (1st time)-Cubitt; two airs by Shield and Sacchini-Mrs Billington.

Afterpiece Title: Nina

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Performance Comment: As17870327but Oldcastle-Wewitzer; Valentine-_; Slap-_.
Cast
Role: 870327but Oldcastle Actor: Wewitzer

Song: Between acts 1st piece: an entire new song, The Nymph's Refusal-Mrs Martyr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Bonds without Judgement or The Loves of Bengal

Dance: As17870217

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Performance Comment: As17860926, but Col. Townly-Staunton; Lory-R. Palmer; Miss Hoyden-Mrs Forster.

Afterpiece Title: Box Lobby Loungers

Afterpiece Title: Too Civil by Half

Cast
Role: Butler Actor: Baddeley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Harvest Home

Dance: II: a Masquerade Scene-; with Dancing-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ill Tell You What

Afterpiece Title: Harvest Home

Entertainment: Monologue Occasional Address (with Alterations), as17870516

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Attorney

Afterpiece Title: Harvest Home

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Performance Comment: As17870525, but Benedick-King (of dl); Don Pedro-Davies; Borachio-Johnson; Margaret-Miss Brangin; Beatrice-Miss Farren (1st appearance in that character); Town Clerk-Baddeley; Friar-Gardner.

Afterpiece Title: The Test of Love

Dance: In II: a Masquerade Dance-Byrn, the two Simonets, young D'Egville, Miss DeCamp

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All On A Summers Day

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Dumb Cake or The Regions of Fancy

Dance: [not listed on playbill]. "A dance based on a print entitled The Long Minuet (by H. W. Bunbury) was well attempted" (World, 27 Dec.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17871029, but Hamlet-A Gentleman (1st appearance on that stage [Seymour]).Seymour]).

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

Song: End IV: a Funeral Procession to Monument of Capulets-; In which a Dirge by Linley? Sen-; Vocal Parts-Dignum, Sedgwick, Danby, Wilson, Alfred, Lyons, Cox, Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Miss Barnes, Mrs Shaw, Miss Stageldoir, Miss Collett, Miss Romanzini

Event Comment: [In afterpiece the playbill retains Edwin as Nicholas, but he "was taken ill [seemingly at the conclusion of the mainpiece]; Rock was his substitute in Nicholas" (MS annotation of BM playbill: cg, Vol. VI). Afterpiece in place of Animal Magnetism, advertised on playbill of 15 Nov.] Receipts: #231 16s. (222.1; 9.15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Performance Comment: As17881007, but Nicholas-Rock.

Dance: As17881025

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophet

Afterpiece Title: Duke and No Duke

Performance Comment: As17881201, but Puritan-Milburne.

Dance: End: a New Dance, as17881107, but Mrs _Ratchford

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: As17881101, but Phillis-Mrs Abington.

Afterpiece Title: Hide and Seek

Song: As17881101

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mary Queen Of Scots

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marian

Performance Comment: As17890214, but Peggy-Mrs Mountain; Oliver-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Pharo Table

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Performance Comment: As17881208, but The Characters-_Aickin.

Song: In 1st piece: Sweet Bird, as17890126

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winters Tale

Afterpiece Title: The British Sailor or The Fourth of June

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Performance Comment: As17890506, but Lubin-Davies.

Entertainment: Monologue End 2nd piece: Ned Shuter's Observations in a Post Haste Journey to Paris-Bernard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood

Performance Comment: As17881021, but Allen o'Dale (for that night only)-Mrs Mountain; Fitzherbert-Fearon; Annette-Miss Stuart; Outlaws-_Doyle.

Afterpiece Title: Perseverance or The Third Time the Best

Entertainment: Monologue. End: As17890514

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Afterpiece Title: The Swop

Event Comment: [The playbill announces The Beggar's Opera (in place of The Maid of the Mill, advertised on playbill of 3 Dec., but "deferred on account of the Indisposition of Johnstone") and The Touchstone. But "Mrs Billington was taken ill & The Merry Wives of Windsor with The Deserter & Devil on Two Sticks were substituted for B. Opera & Touchstone" (MS annotation on BM bill: cg, Vol. VII). World, 5 Dec., states that The Mayor of Garratt was the afterpiece, but the Account-Book lists The Devil upon Two Sticks.] Receipts: #126 18s. (115.0.6; 11.17.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Devil upon Two Sticks

Dance: The Deserter-[, See17891113

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: Trick upon Trick

Dance: As17891204

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; P 2 (?), author unknown. Not in Larpent MS; not published]: Consisting of the most Approved Scenes of the following Pantomimes: The Witches, The Cauldron, The Genii, Fortunatus, Queen Mab, The Elopement, &c. The Music from Eminent Masters. The Scenes by Greenwood. [This is not the same as the pantomime of the same name acted at cg, 26 Dec. 1776.] [In mainpiece the playbill retains Barrymore as Claudio, but "Benson [was] the substitute of Barrymore in Claudio" (London Chronicle, 28 Dec.). Dubois, in the afterpiece, was from Sadler's Wells.] Receipts: #217 4s. 6d. (186.9.0; 28.16.6; 1.19.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Performance Comment: As17891209, but Claudio-Benson.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Frolicks or The Power of Witchcraft

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Banks; Pantaloon-Burton; Macaroni-Lamash; Valet-Fairbrother; Farmer-Hollingsworth; Butcher-Alfred; Pedlar-Jones; Clown-Dubois (1st appearance on that stage); Colombine-Miss Stageldoir; The other Characters-Maddocks, Webb, Lyons, Bourk, Keen, Bidotti, Whittow, Kirk, the 3 young Grimaldis, Master Gregson, Master Chatterley; Vocal Parts-Dignum, Sedgwick, Phillimore, Fawcett, Haymes, Danby, Reynoldson, Mrs Fox, Miss Barnes, Mrs Butler, Mrs Edwin, Mrs Shaw, Mrs Davies, Mrs Edwards, Miss Hagley.

Dance: In II: As17891209; Afterpiece conclude: Grand Ballet-the young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp [which was included, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances]

Song: As17891209

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Crusade

Afterpiece Title: The Miser