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Performances

Mainpiece Title: False And True

Afterpiece Title: Two Strings to Your Bow

Song: In: Chorusses-Linton, Aylmer, Brown, Dibble, Kenrick, Little, Caulfield Jun., Walker, Willoughby, Ms Edward, Ms Menage, Ms Hale, Ms Gawdry, Ms Butler, Ms Masters, Ms Norton, Ms Benson, Ms Leserve

Performance Comment: , Walker, Willoughby, Ms Edward, Ms Menage, Ms Hale, Ms Gawdry, Ms Butler, Ms Masters, Ms Norton, Ms Benson, Ms Leserve.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Performance Comment: Falstaff-Hulett, from lif, the first Time of his appearing on this Stage; Hotspur-Delane; King Henry-Huddy; Prince-Giffard; Worcester-W. Giffard; Mortimer-Havard; Westmoreland-Smith; Vernon-Bardin; Douglass-Winston; Blunt-Rosco; Bardolph-Collet; Carriers-Morgan, Bullock; Francis-Norris; Lady Piercy-Miss Vaughan; Hostess-Mrs Morgan; A new Prologue-; Epilogue to the Town-.
Cast
Role: Douglass Actor: Winston

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Performance Comment: Lothario-Cibber; Calista-Mrs Heron; Altamont-A. Hallam; Rossano-Winston; Sciolto-Milward; Horatio-Mills; Lavinia-Mrs Butler; Lucilla-Mrs Charke .
Cast
Role: Rossano Actor: Winston
Role: Lavinia Actor: Mrs Butler

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Performance Comment: Janno-Cibber; Bernard-Mullart; Erastus-Cross; Dorant-Berry; Marquis-Mecklin; Baron-Richardson; Colin-Miller; Griffard-Paget; La Tour-Turbutt; Cook-Jones; Soldier-H. Tench; Charly-Miss Robinson; Mrs Bernard-Mrs Grace; Mawkin-Mrs Charke; Mariamne-Miss Oates; Lesetta-Mrs Shireburn .
Cast
Role: La Tour Actor: Turbutt

Music: A Comic Medley Overture composed by Charke

Dance: I: A new Maggot by Le Brun. In II: Polonese, as17340325 V: Pierrots by Poitier and Nivelon. End I of Afterpiece: English Maggot by Lally and Mrs Walter. End Afterpiece: Grand Dance in Momus, as17340316

Song: III: Was ever Nymph like Rosamond by Miss Arne. IV: Bella Sorge L'Esperanza (from Ariadne) by Miss Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Performance Comment: Subtle-W. Mills; Face-Mills; Abel-Cibber; Sir Epicure-Harper; Ananias-Johnson; Tribulation-Griffin; Kastril-Miller; Dapper-Master Arne; Surly-Oates; Lovewit-Shepard; Doll Common-Mrs Charke; Dame Pliant-Mrs Shireburn; Neighbors-Winston, Wright, Jones, Leigh .
Cast
Role: Neighbors Actor: Winston, Wright, Jones, Leigh

Afterpiece Title: A Burgo Master Trickd

Dance: I: The Black Joke. II: Revellers. III: Pierots. IV: Les Bergeries. By Poitier, Nivelon, Essex, Pelling, Chose, Davenport, Janno, Mrs Walter, Mrs Pelling, Miss Mann, Miss Brett

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: As17400925, but Sylvia-Mrs Wright; Lucy-Mrs Macklin.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreckd

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Woodward; Sea God-Desse; Trytons-Leviez, Carney, Nivelon, LaPierre; Pantaloon-Winston; Colombine-Miss Mann; Peasants-Weeks, Carney, Leigh, Mrs Penkethman, Miss Woodman, Miss Story; Clown-Macklin; with Ballet of Shepherds and Shepherdesses-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf.
Cast
Role: Pantaloon Actor: Winston

Dance: III: Comic Ballet-Muilment, Essex, Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: Grand Ballet-Maltere, Mlle Maltere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Performance Comment: Capt Clerimont-Mills; Clerimont Sen.-Winston; Tipkin-Taswell; Sir Harry Gubbin-Turbutt; Numps-Macklin; Pounce-Shepard; Mrs Clerimont-Mrs Mills; Mrs Bersheba Tipkin-Mrs Macklin; Mrs Fainlove-Miss Woodman; Jenny-Miss Brunette; Biddy-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Clerimont Sen. Actor: Winston
Role: Sir Harry Gubbin Actor: Turbutt

Dance: V: Le Genereux Corsaire, as17411021

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: As17971124, but Sir Lucius O'Trigger-R. Palmer; Fag-Russell; David-_; Coachman-_; Servants-_.

Afterpiece Title: Blue Beard

Dance: Two Pas Seulsincidental to the Ballet-Mlle Favre Guiardele (for that night only); In afterpiece: a new Pas Seul-Mlle Parisot

Ballet: End II: a New Ballet (for that night only), Kitty and Jemmy. Jemmy-Mlle Parisot; Kitty-Sga Bossi DelCaro; the Other Characters-Fialon (for that night only), Master Menage, Miss Menage, Roffey, Whitmell, Wells, Male, Garman, W. Banks, Ms Brooker, Ms Daniels, Ms Brigg, Ms Haskey, Ms Illingham, Ms Byrne, Ms Willis, Ms Vining

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wise Man Of The East

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: In II afterpiece: a Dance by Naiads-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Last Of The Family

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Festival

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Performance Comment: As17970216, but Captives-_; Tamuri-_; Camazin-_; The Horde-_.

Dance: In 2nd piece: Dances incidental to the Piece, composed by Gentili. Principal Dancers-Gentili, Master Menage, Sga Bossi DelCaro, Mrs Wild

Performances

Mainpiece Title: First Love

Performance Comment: As17961004, but David Mowbray-Russell; Lady Ruby-A Young Lady (1st appearance on this stage [Miss Dorell]); Servants-_; Waiting@woman-_.

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Performance Comment: As17971122, but Moody-Wroughton; Countryman-Grimaldi; Miss Peggy-A Young Lady (1st appearance on the [recte this] stage [Miss Molini]).recte this] stage [Miss Molini]).

Afterpiece Title: Blue Beard

Event Comment: Benefit the Author of Sir Roger DeCoverley [Joseph Dorman]. Receipts: money #38 8s. 6d.; tickets #120 3s. (Account Book); #170 (Rylands MS.). [On 19 Nov. Dorman paid the Treasurer #15.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performance Comment: As17401008, but Charlotte-Mrs Hale; Dorcas-Mrs Dodson, the first time of her appearing upon any stage.

Dance: W Wooden Shoe-Mechel; Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Drunken Peasant-Phillips

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cibber (Cross). And the Stage (for the better Accommodation of the Ladies) will be form'd into Front and Side Boxes, where Servants will be allow'd to keep Places, as well as in the Boxes and the Pit. Ladies are desired to send Servants to keep Places by 3 o'clock. Tickets to be had of Mrs Cibber, at her house in Thrift St, Soho, and of Hobson, at the Stage Door of the Theatre, where Places may be taken. Tomorrow The Foundling (being the 13th Night). Receipts: #250 (Cross); house charges, #60 (Powel); cash, #81 17s.; tickets, #187 5s. 6d. (Clay MS). This charge was also set down that the principle [sic] treasurer should not know to the contrary, because it was told him that Mrs Cibber paid for her benefit, and if he had imagin'd otherwise, he perhaps would have insisted upon the same terms for his wife (Mrs Pr-h-d). I must therefore subtract it with Mr G-k's Benefit, it standing in their Books exactly in the same manner as his (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Winstone

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: Cooke, Anne Auretti

Event Comment: [Benefit for Berry and Mrs Green. Stage form'd into Front and Side Boxes. Tickets of Hobson at stage door; or Berry at his lodgings in Little Bridges St., Covent Garden; and Mrs Green at her Lodgings at the Green Canister in Great Shier Lane, Carey St., Lincolns Inn. [This day one B. B. (presumably Macklin) inserted a letter to the author of the General Advertiser in that paper framing the historical background for the Lover's Melancholy, to be performed as benefit for his wife on 22 April. It gave a short account of the author (John Ford), his works in general, and of that dramatic piece in particular, and sought to align Ford as an intimate and profess'd admirer of Shakespeare. See comment for 23 April]. Receipts: #207 (Cross); house charges, #63 N.B.: Mr Berry paid, but at the rate o 60 pounds for his benefit, therefore I must make a draw back of #1 10s. for his half (Powel); cash, #88 9s. tickets, #118 12s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Performance Comment: As17480312 but Epilogue-_; Strictland-Berry; Valet-Leigh; Country Dance-.

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: [II: Savoyards, as17471215; V: Gondoliers-Cooke

Event Comment: Benefit for Burton, Raftor, I. Sparks (Cross). Last week Mr Garrick Paid to Mr Belchier, Banker in Lombard St., #208 1s., being the whole money receiv'd at the Benefit Play of King Lear, which he most generously gave for the relief of the unhappy sufferers by the late most dredful fire in Cornhill, &c., whithout deducting any charges whatsoever. [See note, 3 May] Receipts: #180 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel); cash, #56 19s. tickets, #128 10s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17480328 but Beggar-Burton; add Player-Bransby; Mrs Slammekin-Mrs Green; Sukey Tawdry-Mrs Yates; Jenny Diver-Miss Royer; Moll Brazen-Miss Minors.

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Savoyards, as17471215

Event Comment: By Ye King's Command but not (by order) in ye Bills (Cross). Present His Majesty, 2nd time this season. [The George Garrick Drury Lane MS Treasurer's Book makes its first entry Mon. 30 Oct. 1749, indicating an expenditure to date of #1,733 2s. 7d. as against an income of #3,455 6s. 6d. and that Mon. was the twenty-ninth night of performance. The Treasurer's Book carries full entries until the 165th night, Sat. 28 April 1750. First itemizing of expenditures begins Wed. 1 Nov. 1749 as follows: Paid to Pipe & Tabor to Sat., 10s. 6d.; to 2 French Horns and a Kettle Drum, 15s.; to 12 1!2 lbs. Wax Candles, #1 11s. 3d.; To Properties and King's servants, #3 2s. 5d. [N.B. The use of extra musical instruments (horns, flutes, cymbols, kettle drum) averaged 6s. per night for the 165 nights. The season extended to 174 nights; so the approximate total cost for instruments came to #52 4s. Properties expense averaged 5s. per night. The approximate total cost was #43 11s. No further itemization of these will be made.] This month was publish'd The Rosciad; a Poem, by Charles Churchill (Gentleman's Magazine, Register of Books). Receipts: #70 (Cross); #73 2s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Dance: Entertainments-Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti, Matthews, Mrs Addison

Event Comment: By Particular Desire. Paid Mr Pope for a wig for Lear, ditto for Grandchamps #1 19s. (Treasurer's Book). [This wigmaker was Miss Pope's father, according to a MS note in the Treasurer's Book make presumably by W. H. Oxberry, 1848. Pope, the wig-maker, also rented space from dl annually, for his shop.] Receipts: #120 (Cross); #112 8s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Performance Comment: As17491005, but Masquerade Dance-Miss Baker, Mrs _Addison.
Cast
Role: Don John Actor: Winstone

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Performance Comment: As17491103, but add Lovemore-Beard; Stocks-Blakes.
Event Comment: Both pieces by His Majesty's command. [John Pringle wrote to Blayney Townley on 14 Nov.: Great are the disputes at present between the rival theatres, vieing with each other in different characters which afford unusual entertainment to all frequenting the stage. His Majesty on Saturday night paid his first visit to Covent Garden in perference to the opera at Drury Lane, when Lady Townley by Pegg Woffington gave him great pleasure, with the addition of unusual huzzas in a part of the Miller of Mansfield." -Historical MS Commission, 10th Report, Appendix, Part IV (London 1887), p. 257.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Performance Comment: As17541009, but Peggy-Mrs Baker.
Event Comment: Mon: 29 Sept. Mr Rich open'd wth ye Nonjuror. Mr Smith not coming to town, Mr Palmer, from Drury Lane, play'd Frankly wth great Applause (Cross). Jno. Rich paid to Charlotte Lane for the Theatre for Mr Sparks in Dr Wolfe for a superfine full trim'd black cloth coat and breeches, 14s. Sewing silk & twist 4s. 6d. Buckram stays 2s. 6d. Frilly sleeve lining, pockets, & interlining Cuffs 2s. 6d. Hair Cloth, wadding & Poll Davy 5s. Dimety lining, leather pockets, & silk garters 6s. 6d. 4 doz 2 Coat Death's Head Buttons at 14d.-4s. 11d. 12 breast ditto at 7d.-7s. 7d. 5 yds fine black shaloon at 2s. 2d.-10s. 10d. Making a Camblet Surtout Coat, 7s. 6d. Sewing silk, twist, buckram & stays, 4s. Velvet to line the collar, 1s. 17 Coat, 1 breast black basket buttons, 1s. 8d. (MS list Folger Library, Davies, Life of Garrick, Extra Illustrated, II, 322)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Non Juror

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Event Comment: Benefit for furnishing the new Wards in the Middlesex Hospital. Paid Charlotte Lane for altering a cloth coat, and green corded silk waistcoat lac'd with silver for Mr Wm. Smith, 5s. 6d.; shalloos back & bod lining to coat & stiffening, 3s. (MS list in Davies, Life of Garrick II, 332). [The Occasional Prologue, written by Mr Boyce was publish'd in the Public Advertiser 19 Dec. 1755]: @And, Britons, Godlike charity is yours...@'Tis yours to silence Misry's plaintive moan@And make the grief of others all your own...@Give balm to Nature's accidental woes,@And sooth th'impovrish'd matron's pregnant throes...@ [The Epilogue, written by C. Smart, and spoken by Shuter in the character of a Man-midwife, was published in the same paper: Shuter enters with a child]: @Whoe'er begot thee has no cause to blush:@Thou'rt a brave chopping boy (child cries) nay, hush, hush, hush.@.......................@Nay if you once begin to puke and cough@Go to the nurse. Within, here, take him off.@Well Heav'n be prais'd, it is a peopling age,@Thanks to the Bar, the Army, and the Stage...

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: Mrs Roland; and "By Desire" the Fingalian Dance, as17551126

Song: Lowe

Event Comment: Benefit for Shuter. Mainpiece: Not acted in 20 years. Receipts: #171 15s. 6d. plus #112 17s. from tickets (Box 272; Pit 299). Paid Hughes and Batten for 4 1!2 yds muslin for sleeves for women dancers 18s. 9d. (Account Book). [Shuter's Interlude is Larpent MS 188, a verse monologue with songs, giving the geneology of Bucks from Nimrod's heirs-hunters who now seek ladies in Boxes rather than foxes. A patriotic song on successes at Minden, Quebec, Cape Breton, &c. ending]: @We wish as we ought that Great Britain may thrive@That freedom and friendship may faction survive@On sea and on shore, as we have may we shine@And this year sixty-one equal fam'd forty-nine.@ Charges: #63 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wifes Relief Or The Husbands Cure

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: II: (By Desire) Hornpipe-Poitier Jr

Entertainment: End: A Comic Lecture; or, Tea a-la-Mode, in the manner of Foote-Wilkinson; The Cries of London-Shuter; End Afterpiece: the Origin, Nature, and Progress of the Order of British Bucks-Mr Shuter; with the whimsical behaviour of Choice Spirits, and Mons Thurot's Trip to Carrickfergus-

Event Comment: EEvery Man in His Humour deferr'd on account of Indisposition of Dunstall (playbill). T. Lownds paid #23 10s. for a one-eighth share of the copyright for Bickerstaff's Maid of the Mill (BM Add. MS 38730 fol. 104b) in anticipation of its stage success. [It was first performed at cg 31 Jan. 1765.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Performance Comment: Feignwell-Woodward; Modelove-Dyer; Obadiah-Gibson; Perriwinkle-Shuter; Tradelove-Anderson; Freeman-Clarke; Sackbut-Buck; Simon Pure-Costollo; Aminadab-Mas. Morgan; Mrs Prim-Mrs Pitt; Ann Lovely-Miss Macklin.
Cast
Role: Sackbut Actor: Buck

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Dance: II: A Tambourine, as17641015; End: La Femme Maitresse, as17641004

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Rec'd stopages #1 8s.; from John Palmer in part of his bond #70; Paid 5 days salary list #367 13s. 4d. Receipts: #173 16s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Went to the 2 shilling Gallery to see the new tragedy, with its musical entertainment The Cunning Man, a sort of translation of Rousseau's Devin du Village. Holland, Powell and Bensley played Warwick, Edward and Pembroke very well. Mrs Yates did great justice to Queen Margaret. Mrs Palmer did Elizabeth. The Prologue was spoken by Bensley, the Epilogue by Mrs Yates. The characters were very richly dressed in the dresses of the time. The improper use of ridiculous modern dresses on the stage often offends me (Diary of Sylas Neville, unpublished MS portion)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Performance Comment: As17661213, but Lady Clifford-Mrs Leefor Miss Plym.

Afterpiece Title: The Cunning Man

Event Comment: Comedy (by Colman) never before acted. [Prologue is Larpent MS 265, super patriotism.] Rec'd stopages #3 13s. 6d.; Paid salary list #441 4s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #235 3s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Dance: After Epilogue: The Vintage, as17661011

Event Comment: Benefit for Shuter. Tickets to be had of Shuter at Number 2, in Martlet Court, Bow St. Covent Garden; and of Mr Sarjant, Book-Keeper. Charges: #65 2s. [Profits to Shuter #150 6d., plus #70 11s. from tickets (Box 233; Pit 82).] Paid Miss Elliott the balance of her two nights Jan. 13 and Feb. 18, #90 13s. 6d. and gave her as a present from the managers by deducting the charge of the Farce for her 2nd night, Feb. 18th, #21 (Account Book). Receipts: #215 2s. 6d. (Account Book). About 5 with great difficulty got into the Pit at Covent Garden to see...the benefit for Mr Shuter. Stood all night at the bottom of the Pit in a most disagreeable situation, though I saw very well and heard too, unless when prevented by the noise on occasion of which Shuter very smartly applied the Passage, But if we all speak together, how shall we hear one another," and again when a great noise was made about someone in the Gallery, he cried 'Give him a knock o' the head and make him quiet,' and another bawling Silence," he cried Silence, Silence why don't you be quiet.'At the end of Act II, the Cries of London', with additions by Shuter. In going off he shook his head on hearing it encored, but was oblig'd to comply by repeating the greater part. End of Opera Shuter entertained us with his Serious, Comic Post-Haste Observations in his Journey to Paris, to hear which was a principal reason of my not dining at Holliss's. The Barber in the Upholsterer inimitably played by Woodward (Neville MS Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17661220, but Hornpipe-Miss Daw.

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Performance Comment: As17661015, but Harriet-Miss Vincent (playbill) [but she remains Mrs Baker in The Public Advertiser].but she remains Mrs Baker in The Public Advertiser].

Dance: TThe Female Archer, as17661215