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Mainpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Elder Brother Actor: Ryan
Role: Younger Brother Actor: Ridout
Role: With Dances proper to the mask Actor: .
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Elder Brother Actor: Ryan
Role: Younger Brother Actor: Ridout
Role: With Dances proper to the mask Actor: .
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne
Event Comment: To the Printer of the General Advertiser, &c Sir: Imagine a heart satisfy'd beyond its wishes, and overflowing with gratitude; conceive this to be your situation, and then help me to words to empress my feeling. [Tom Harbin inserted a long letter of thanks to the numerous audience wnich appeared at his benefit the night before.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Elder Brother Actor: Ryan
Role: Younger Brother Actor: Ridout
Role: With Dances proper to the mask Actor: .
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Elder Brother Actor: Ryan
Role: Younger Brother Actor: Ridout
Role: With Dances proper to the mask Actor: .
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne
Event Comment: This day is publish'd, at 6d. A Criticism on Mahomet and Irene in a Letter to the Author. Printed and sold by W. Reeve. Receipts: #130 (Cross); #126 14s. (Powel)

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Mainpiece Title: The Busie Body

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Peace

Performance Comment: As17490221, but Shepherdesses-Mrs Mathews, Miss _Medina; Dutch Character-Mrs Shawford; Spaniard-Miss +Cole.
Related Works
Related Work: The Triumph of Peace Author(s): Thomas Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Peace

Related Works
Related Work: The Triumph of Peace Author(s): Thomas Arne
Event Comment: This day is publish'd written by Henry Fielding, Esq. the 4th edn. of An Old Man taught Wisdom; or the Virgin Unmask'd, a Farce, as it is now acting at Drury Lane. With the Music prefix'd to each song. Printed for I. Watts. Receipts: #170 (Cross); #171 12s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Peace

Related Works
Related Work: The Triumph of Peace Author(s): Thomas Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Peace

Related Works
Related Work: The Triumph of Peace Author(s): Thomas Arne

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Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Peace

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Related Work: The Triumph of Peace Author(s): Thomas Arne
Event Comment: Supposed for Mr Garrick (Cross). Receipts: #190 (Cross); #187 6s. (Powel). N.B.: This Play was for benefit of Mr G-k, clear of all charges as before, which must be subtracted from the Account (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Blunt Actor: Barnet

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Peace

Related Works
Related Work: The Triumph of Peace Author(s): Thomas Arne
Event Comment: N.B. Being last time of performing the Mainpiece this season. Last time of performing the Afterpiece before the Benefits (General Advertiser). Receipts: #120 (Cross); #131 7s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Peace

Related Works
Related Work: The Triumph of Peace Author(s): Thomas Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Cast
Role: Tradelove Actor: Barnet

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Peace

Related Works
Related Work: The Triumph of Peace Author(s): Thomas Arne

Music: I: A piece of Music-the Child

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: As17491011, but The Dances-G. Yates, _Yates.
Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: G. Yates, _Yates.
Role: Elder Brother Actor: Usher
Role: Younger Brother Actor: King
Role: The Dances Actor: Matthews, Mlle Contri
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Event Comment: The Farce, taken from Beaumont and Fletcher, damn'd (Cross). Acted but once, and not printed (Genest, IV, 290). Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: G. Yates, _Yates.
Role: Elder Brother Actor: Usher
Role: Younger Brother Actor: King
Role: The Dances Actor: Matthews, Mlle Contri
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Curate

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: As17491012, but The Dances-Master Malter, Miss +Forcad.
Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Master Malter, Miss +Forcad.
Role: Elder Brother Actor: Usher
Role: Younger Brother Actor: King
Role: The Dances Actor: Matthews, Mlle Contri
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Event Comment: Benefit for Lowe. Charges #60. Deficiency to Lowe #11 16s. covered by #104 9s. from tickets. [Afterpiece appears under the Shakespearian title in the Account Book. Actually it was James Worsdale's Cure for a Scold taken from Shakespeare's play.] Mainpiece: By particular desire. Tickets to be had of Lowe at his lodgings the corner of Southampton St., Covent Garden, and of Page at the Stage door of the Theatre. Receipts: #48 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Quin; Elder Brother-Ryan; Younger Brother-Ridout; 1st Spirit-Sparks; 2nd Spirit-Anderson; Bacchanal-Lowe; Euphrosyne-Miss Young; Sabrina-Miss Falkner; Lady-Mrs Woffington; Attendant spirits of Comus-Leveridge, Baker, Wilder, Roberts, Mrs Wright; With Dances proper to the Masque-.
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne

Afterpiece Title: A Cure for a Scold or The Taming of a Shrew

Event Comment: Publish'd. The Actor: A Treatise on the Art of Playing, interspers'd with Theatrical Anecdotes, Critical Reflections on Plays, and Occasional Observations on Audiences. Printed for R. Griffith. Receipts: #60 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Havard; Elder Brother-Sowdon; Younger Brother-Mozeen; First Spirit-Gentleman who perform'd Barnwell [Griffith]; Second Spirit-Master Mattocks; Bacchanal-Beard; Euphrosyne-Mrs Clive; Sabrina-Miss Norris (with the song of Sweet Eccho); Lady-Mrs Pritchard; The Dances-Mathews, Mad Cupis Camargo; With a New Epilogue upon the Two Occasional Prologues-Mrs Clive.
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: As17501013, but Comus-Bridges; Younger Brother-Simpson; First Spirit-Scrase; The Dances-Harvey, _Mathews.
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne

Afterpiece Title: Bayes in Petticoats

Performance Comment: As17510319, but the only principals listed are Mrs Clive, Beard, Miss Norris, Mrs Bennet, Miss Pitt%.
Related Works
Related Work: The Rehearsal; or, Bayes in Petticoats Author(s): Katherine Clive
Event Comment: Mainpiece: A Dramatic Masque not acted these two years. Receipts: #70 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Mossop; Brothers-Dexter, Lacey; First Spirit-Ross; Bacchanal-Beard; Lady-Mrs Davies; Euphrosyne-Mrs Clive; Second Spirit-Mozeen; Second Bacchanal-Master Vernon; Nymph-Mrs Price; The Dances-Devisse, Mad Auretti, Ferrere, Mad Auguste, Piettro, Mad. Janeton Auretti, Mrs Preston, Miss Rayner; With Proper Decorations. With Proper Decorations.
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne

Song: The Song of Sweet Echo-a young Gentleman who never sung on any stage before

Event Comment: Benefit for Scrase, Mozeen and Hayes. Mainpiece: Acted but twice these two years, and for last time this season. [Hayes was Pit-Office-Keeper]. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: As17521128, but Younger Brother-Mozeen; First Spirit-Scrase; Second Spirit-Mas. Cross; The Dances-Mrs _Preston, Miss _Rayner.
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Performance Comment: Oroonoko-Barry; Aboan-Sparks; Blandford-Ridout; Stanmore-Gibson; Governor-Anderson; Driver-Dunstall; Daniel-Collins; Hotman-Wignel; Charlotte-Mrs Bland; Widow-Mrs Pitt; Lucy-Mrs Baker; Imoinda-Mrs Elmy.
Cast
Role: Widow Actor: Mrs Pitt
Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: The Sheep Shearing

Related Works
Related Work: The Sheep-Shearing Author(s): George Colman, the elder
Related Work: The Sheepshearing; or, Florizel and Perdita Author(s): Thomas Arne

Dance: SShepherd and Shepherdess-Granier, Mlle Camargo

Event Comment: Benefit for Lowe. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Not acted these 6 years. [See 27 March 1750.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Smith first time; Elder Brother-Ryan; Young Brother-Ridout; First Spirit-Sparks; Second Spirit-Anderson; Bachanal-Lowe; Euphrosyne-Miss Young; Sabrina-Mrs Lampe; Pastoral Nymph-Mrs Chambers; Lady-Mrs Woffington; Attendant Spirits on Comus-Howard, Legg, Baker.
Cast
Role: Elder Brother Actor: Ryan
Role: Young Brother Actor: Ridout
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elderThomas Arne

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: Granier and Mrs Granier

Song: RRule Britannia, Britons Strike Home-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lolimpiade

Related Works
Related Work: L'Olimpiade Author(s): Thomas Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lolimpiade

Related Works
Related Work: L'Olimpiade Author(s): Thomas Arne