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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every One Has His Fault

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Wanderers

Event Comment: [The playbill retains Mrs Crouch, but "The indisposition of Mrs Crouch was an abatement, for which, though an apology was made, nothing could atone. Miss Dall was her substitute. Captivity was sung by Incledon, 'being his first appearance in the character of Marie? Antoinette'" (Thespian Magazine, Apr. 1793, p. 247).] MS annotation on BM playbill (cg, Vol. VIII), 2 Mar.: "Rec'd 5 nights Oratorio Rent #262 10s. [i.e. #52 12s. a night].

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah Grand Selection 0

Performance Comment: As17930215, but Principal Vocal Parts-Mrs _Crouch, Miss Dall; Oratorio to be opened by Mme Mara; to conclude with God save Great George our our King, To Arms, Britons strike home-Chorus ($Purcell).

Song: End oratorio: Captivity [see17930220]-Incledon

Music: End Part II: the favourite concerto of Geminiani on the violin-G. Ashley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every One Has His Fault

Performance Comment: As17930305but Prologue-_; Epilogue-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Governor or The Creolian Insurrection

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Armourer

Afterpiece Title: Lovers Quarrels

Performances

Mainpiece Title: How To Grow Rich

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Wanderers

Dance: As17930418

Performances

Mainpiece Title: How To Grow Rich

Afterpiece Title: The Invasion

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Role: Butler Actor: Cranfield

Dance: As17930418

Performances

Mainpiece Title: How To Grow Rich

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Performance Comment: As17921103, but Travellers-Farley, _Powel, _Cross, _Rock; Clara-Miss Broadhurst of $Mrs Clendining; Waiter-_; Rees_. Rees_.

Dance: Scotch Divertisement-Byrn, Holland, Mme Rossi; In afterpiece: The Lucky Escape, as17921116

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The School For Scandal

Performance Comment: As17920915, but Joseph Surface-Barrymore; Charles Surface-Wroughton; Snake-Maddocks; Careless-Sedgwick; Trip-Benson; Crabtree-Waldron.

Afterpiece Title: The Mariners

Song: As17921030

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mountaineers

Performance Comment: As17930814, but Characters-Waldron, _Burton.

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb

Song: As17930823

Performances

Mainpiece Title: How To Grow Rich

Performance Comment: As17931002, but added: Plainly-Powel; Nab-Cubitt; Formal-Thompson .

Afterpiece Title: THE WARD OF THE CASTLE

Song: In afterpiece Chorusses by Linton, Tett, Sawyer, Little, Street, Kendrick//Miss Stuart, Mrs Watts, Mrs Follett, Mrs Castelle, Miss Kirton, Mrs Lloyd, Miss Paye, Miss Leserve, Mrs Bayzand, Mrs Blurton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17930930, but added: Fleance-Miss Standen .

Afterpiece Title: HARLEQUINs CHAPLET

Performance Comment: As17931020, but Boyce in place of Simpson//Miss Kirton of Mrs Masters .

Song: As17930930, but Miss Kirton in place of Mrs Masters; added: Miss Hopkins, Mrs Castelle

Entertainment: As17931012

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Dance: In afterpiece: Dancing-Byrne, Mrs Goodwin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Performance Comment: Cast not listed, but see17930928.

Afterpiece Title: WIVES IN PLENTY

Afterpiece Title: THE DEAF LOVER

Performance Comment: As17931008, but Young Wrongward-Caulfield .

Song: 2nd piece: To conclude with a Musical Medley by Bannister Jun. and Sga Storace

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Favour or Harlequin Animated

Dance: Afterpiece conclude: Dance of Fairies and Pantomimic Characters-Hamoir, the young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: HARLEQUIN AND FAUSTUS

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Contadini Bizzarri

Dance: End of Act I Divertisement, as17940111; End of Act II Adelaide, as17940111, but added: Favre Guiardele; omitted: Mme M. L. Hilligsberg Sen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: TRUE BLUE

Afterpiece Title: THE UPHOLSTERER

Dance: In 2nd piece Hornpipe by Blurton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Afterpiece Title: THE FOLLIES OF A DAY

Performance Comment: As17940225, but omitted: Antonio, Bazil, Countess, Marcelina .

Afterpiece Title: LOVE AND HONOR or Britannia in Full Glory at Spithead

Afterpiece Title: THE PRISONER AT LARGE

Performance Comment: Jack Connor-A Young Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [Brown]). No other parts listed, but see17931016 .Brown]). No other parts listed, but see17931016 .

Dance: In 1st piece The Lucky Escape, as17930916, but omitted: Mrs Watts; In 3rd piece, by Byrn, Holland, Mme Rossi, &c

Song: In the course of the Evening Water parted from the Sea by Incledon, after the manner of a celebrated Italian Opera Singer; End of Act I of 4th piece Sally in our Alley by Incledon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Performance Comment: As17940122, but Leeson-Farren//Mrs Belville-Miss Chapman; omitted: Capt. Savage, Conolly, Leech, Crow, Wolfe, Mrs Tempest . omitted: Capt. Savage, Conolly, Leech, Crow, Wolfe, Mrs Tempest .

Afterpiece Title: THE PACKET BOAT or A Peep behind the Veil

Afterpiece Title: BRITISH FORTITUDE AND HIBERNIAN FRIENDSHIP

Monologue: 1794 05 13 End of Act I of 1st piece A Plague on both your Houses; or, A Peep into New Drury and Covent-Garden Theatres, to conclude with a Comic Song, in the Character of an Old Woman of Eighty, by Munden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selec Tion Of Music From The Most Eminent Masters

Afterpiece Title: THE GRAND TE DEUM composed by Paisiello upon the return of his Majesty the King of the Two Sicilies from Vienna to Naples in the summer of 1791

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Death Of Captain Cook

Afterpiece Title: THE SIEGE OF MEAUX

Afterpiece Title: NETLEY ABBEY

Event Comment: 3rd piece [Ist time; MF 2, attributed to Mrs Rainsford, for whom see Morning Herald, 9 May; London Chronicle, 23 May, states that it was written by "A Lady," but gives no name. MS: Larpent 1025; not published]: The Music composed by Webbe. Receipts: #118 4s. (109/3; 9/1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Netley Abbey

Performance Comment: As17940424, but omitted: Cubitt, Powel .

Afterpiece Title: THE SIEGE OF MEAUX

Performance Comment: As17940519, but Claremont in place of Macready; Campbell of Claremont. Prologue, Epilogue as17940519 .

Afterpiece Title: THE SPEECHLESS WIFE

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Revised and Altered [reduced from 5 acts to 4] by the Author [Richard Cumberland; MS of this version: Larpent 1026]. [In afterpiece the playbill retains Bannister Jun. as Robin, but he "being ill, Benson play'd Robin" (Powell).] Powell: Natural Son rehearsed at 11 (Miss Farren absent, Miss Tidswell one scene). Receipts: #149 9s. 6d. (106/6/6; 34/13/0; 8/10/ 0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Natural Son

Afterpiece Title: NO SONG NO SUPPER

Performance Comment: As17940502, but Robin-Benson .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cherokee

Performance Comment: Principal Characters. Europeans: Kelly, Master Welsh, Cooke, Dignum, Hollingsworth, Bannister Jun., Bannister, Suett, Mrs Crouch, Sga Storace, Miss Leak, Mrs Bland. Indian Chiefs: Barrymore, C. Kemble, Sedgwick, Caulfield. Indian Warriors-Phillimore, Dubois, Fairbrother, Boimaison, G. D'Egville, Butler, Keys, Nicolini, Roffey, Whitmell, Wells, Garman, Banks; Chorusses-Danby, Evans, Lyons, Maddocks, Trueman, Welsh, Fisher, Annereau, Atkins, Aylmer, Boyce, Bardoleau, Brown, Cook, Denman, Dixon, Dorion, Dorion Jun., Fisher, Pilbrow, Tett, Walker, Willoughby, Master DeCamp, Mrs Bramwell, Mrs Boimaison, Mrs Butler, Miss Chatterley, Miss Gawdry, Miss Granger, Miss Menage, Miss Redhead, Miss Stageldoir, Mrs Iliff, Miss Davies, Mrs Maddocks, Miss Beaufort, Miss Brooker, Mrs Brigg, Mrs Barrett, Miss Bourk, Mrs Harris, Mrs Haskey, Miss Phillips; Cast from Songs (E. Cox, 1794): Europeans: Col. Blandford-Kelly; Henry-Master Welsh; Officer-Cooke; Ramble-Dignum; Average-Hollingsworth; Jack Average-Bannister Jun.; Ser. Bluster-Bannister; Jeremy-Suett; Zilipha-Mrs Crouch; Eleanor-Sga Storace; Fanny-Miss Leak; Winifred-Mrs Bland; Indian Chiefs: Malooko-Barrymore; Zamorin-C. Kemble; Ontayo-Sedgwick; Patowmac-Caulfield; Indian-Phillimore; Partheca-Mrs Bramwell.

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

Performance Comment: As17941105, but Packer_; C._ Kemble; Miss_ Tidswell; Miss_ Heard.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zenobia In Palmira

Dance: End I: Divertisement-[See17941206]; End II: a new Petit Ballet by Onorati L'Espiegle Soubrette[; ou, Le Tableau Mouvant-Gentili, Lahante, Aumer, Mlle Rosine, Mme DelCaro, Mme Hilligsberg