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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Next Door Neighbours

Performance Comment: Sir George Splendorville-Williamson; Manly (1st time)-Davies; Blackman-Baddeley; Lucre-R. Palmer; Lord Hazard-Evatt; Wilford-Aickin; Henry-Palmer Jun.; Bluntley-Bannister Jun.; Servants-Ledger, Abbott; Shopman-Johnson; Lady Caroline Seymour-Mrs Brooks; Lady Bridget Squander-Miss Heard; Mrs Evans-Mrs Taylor; Eleanor-Mrs Kemble.

Afterpiece Title: All in Good Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Performance Comment: As17920619 but Kate (1st time)-Mrs Powell.
Cast
Role: Duke of Somerset Actor: Bland
Event Comment: 2nd piece [1st time; M 3, by--Francis. Perhaps the same as a piece performed under this title at Bath, 20 Nov. 1785]: With new Musick, Scenes, Dresses and Decorations. The new Musick and Overture by Dr Arnold. The Scenery by Rooker. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Half An Hour After Supper

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Wood

Dance: In 2nd piece: the Dances (under direction of D'Egville,)-Whitmell, Keys, George D'Egville, Lewis D'Egville, Master Whitmell, Master Chatterley, Master Menage, Master Webb, Mrs Haskey, Miss DeCamp, Miss E. Menage, Miss F?. D'Egville, Miss Jacobs, Miss Haskey, Miss Standen, Miss Menage

Performance Comment: Menage, Miss F?. D'Egville, Miss Jacobs, Miss Haskey, Miss Standen, Miss Menage.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Performance Comment: As17920703 but Mate-Cubitt; Planters-_Burton, Johnson; Patty (1st time)-Mrs Taylor.

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Cast
Role: Duke of Somerset Actor: Bland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Enchanted Wood

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Performance Comment: As17920615 but Arionelli (1st time)-Bland.

Dance: As17920725

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Mrs Bland as Madelon, but "Mrs Bland has just presented her husband with two fair daughters...In consequence Miss DeCamp, last night, assumed the part of Madelon" (Morning Herald, 15 Aug.).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surrender Of Calais

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Performance Comment: As17920619 but Mrs Scout (1st time)-Mrs Powell.
Cast
Role: Duke of Somerset Actor: Bland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seeing Is Believing

Afterpiece Title: Next Door Neighbours

Performance Comment: As17920716 but Lady Caroline Seymour (1st time)-Mrs Whitfield.

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Cast
Role: Duke of Somerset Actor: Bland
Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, ascribed variously to Elizabeth Inchbald and to Miss Griffiths, based on L'Amour Use, by Philippe Nericault, dit Destouches. Prologue and Epilogue by George Colman, ynger (see text)]. Morning Herald, 4 Sept. 1792: This Day is published Cross Partners (1s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In Good Humour

Afterpiece Title: Cross Partners

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; C 3, author unknown. Not in Larpent MS; not published]: Taken from Amphitryon, as altered by Garrick from Plautus and Moliere [recte from John Hawkesworth's alteration of Amphitryon, by John Dryden]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham

Afterpiece Title: The Two Socias

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by John Rose. Larpent MS 956; not published; synopsis of plot in Morning Herald, 7 Sept. Author of Prologue unknown.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cross Partners

Afterpiece Title: The Family Compact

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: Romeo-Holman; Capulet-Powel; Benvolio-Davies; Friar Lawrence-Hull; Prince-Macready; Tibalt-Cubitt; Paris-Marshall; Balthazar-Evatt; Mercutio-Lewis; Lady Capulet-Mrs Platt; Nurse-Mrs Powell; Juliet (1st time [in London])-Mrs Esten.

Afterpiece Title: Blue Beard or The Flight of Harlequin

Dance: In afterpiece: Dancing-Byrn, Platt, Ratchford

Song: End IV: Juliet's Funeral Procession-; with the Solemn Dirge Vocal Parts-Johnstone, Incledon, Darley, Gray, Rock, Lee, Letteney, Mrs Blanchard, Mrs Harlowe, Miss Stuart, Miss Barnett, Mrs Arnold, Mrs Cross, Miss Leserve, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Watts, Mrs Gray, Miss Francis, Mrs Masters, Miss Broadhurst

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; MD 3, by John Rose, based on Raoul Sire De Crequi, by Jaques Marie Boutet de Monvel]: With new Scenes [by Greenwood (Public Advertiser, 19 Oct.)], Dresses and Decorations. The Music composed principally by Attwood; the rest selected from Mozart and Sarti. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Morning Herald, 20 Dec. 1792: This Day is published The Prisoner (1s.). Receipts: #217 10s. (128.12; 86.10; 2.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Beaux Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2, by William Pearce]: With new Music, Dresses, &c. The Music composed by Haydn, Sacchini, and Shield. The Scenery by Richards. Books of the Songs [W. Woodfall, 1792] to be had at the The Theatre. Public Advertiser, 20 Apr. 1793: This Day is published Hartford Bridge (1s.). Receipts: #294 17s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge or The Skirts of the Camp

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Performance Comment: As17921122, but Clara-Miss Broadhurst (1st time) in place of Mrs Clendining.

Dance: As17921116

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

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Performance Comment: As17920921, but Sir Francis Wronghead (1st time)-Munden; Miss Jenny-Mrs Davis.

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Dance: As17921116

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Performance Comment: Belville-Johnstone; Captain Belville-Marshall; William-Blanchard; Rustic-Davies; Irish Haymaker-Rees [Public Advertiser: Rock]; Phoebe-Mrs Martyr; Dorcas-Mrs Powell; Rosina (1st time)-Mrs Clendining.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Performance Comment: As17920919, but Don Jerome-Munden (1st appearance in that character); Anthonio (1st time)-Gray; Louisa-Mrs Martyr; Clara-Mrs Clendining (1st appearance in that character).

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Museum

Event Comment: Mainpiece: The Characters Dressed in the Habits of the Time. Receipts: #315 4s. 6d. (281.14.6; 32.3.0; 1.7.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Song: The Original Music by Matthew Locke, with full Chorusses, and additional Accompaniments-Bannister, Sedgwick, Dignum, Welsh, Danby, Caulfield, Maddocks Cooke, Alfred, Shaw, Lyons, Mrs Bland, Mrs Edwards, Miss DeCamp, Mrs Shaw, Mrs Edwin, Mrs Butler, Mrs Bramwell, Mrs Gaudry, Miss Kirton

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Elizabeth Inchbald. Prologue by the Rev. Robert Nares. Epilogue by Miles Peter Andrews (see text)]. Public Advertiser, 16 Feb. 1793: This Day is published Every One has His Fault (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #306 19s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every One Has His Fault

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Cast
Role: Molly Maybush Actor: Mrs Harlowe
Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Catherine? Cuthbertson. Authors of Prologue and Epilogue unknown. Larpent MS 969; not published]: With new Dresses and Decorations. "The [new] piece possessing nothing like a plot, and being perfectly uninteresting, was much disapproved of...Palmer contributed to its bad reception by being absent when he was most wanted on the stage, and occasioning thereby an aukward chasm, which put the audience out of humour. He was otherwise highly reprehensible for his imperfections in his part" (Public Advertiser, 26 Feb.). Receipts: #375 16s. 6d. (342.13.6; 31.7.0; 1.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At kings Anna

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection 0 Of Music

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Performance Comment: Fifth Grand Concerto-; Pleasure my former ways resigning-Kelly (Time and Truth); Tyrants would-Mme Mara; Tyrants ye in vain-Chorus (Athalia); Wise men flattering-Mrs Crouch (Judas Maccabaeus); It must be so, Pour forth no more-Bartleman; No more to Ammon's God-Chorus (Jephtha); O worse than death, Angels ever bright and fair-Mme Mara (Theodora); O God who in thy heavenly hand-Chorus [Joseph].Joseph].

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

Song: In Part III: Captivity-Mrs Crouch [, as17930220

Music: End Part I: concerto on the violoncello-C. Ashley

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; MD 2, by James Boaden. Larpent MS 970; not published]: The Music principally composed by Attwood, with Airs selected from the works of Giornovichi and the late Mozart. Account-Book, 28 June: Paid Boaden for Ozmyn and Daraxa #100. Receipts: #270 1s. 6d. (196.6.6; 67.19.0; 5.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At kings She Woud And She Woud Not

Afterpiece Title: Ozmyn and Daraxa

Dance: In afterpiece: Miss Menage, the Miss D'Egvilles

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Storace. Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2, by Prince Hoare]: The Musick by Storace. Morning Herald, 27 Feb.: Tickets to be had of Sga Storace, No. 36, Howland-street, Rathbone-place. Account-Book, 4 July: Paid Hoare for Prize #210. ["Sga Storace's person (is) clumsy; her face coarse and ordinary; and yet there is so much enchanting vivacity...that she always delights whenever she appears" (Candid Strictures, 41).] Receipts: #388 12s. 6d. (196.11.6; 38.5.0; 3.10.0; tickets: 150.6.0) (charge: #157 1s. 3d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Pirates

Afterpiece Title: The Prize or 2

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; Ball. P 2(?), by James Byrn. Not in Larpent MS; not published. Synopsis of action in Public Advertiser, 11 Mar.]: The Music selected from Shield, Haydn, Dibdin, Pleyel, Reeve, and other eminent Composers. The Pantomime composed by Byrn. The Scenery entirely new, by Hodgins, Pugh, Walmsley. With new Dresses and other Decorations. Receipts: #250 12s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every One Has His Fault

Afterpiece Title: The Governor or The Creolian Insurrection