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Event Comment: IImogen, for 1st time, Mrs Baddeley, pretty well, --but an indifferent figure in Breeches.--Mrs Johnston hissed in the Queen (Hopkins MS Notes)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Performance Comment: Posthumus-Reddish, 1st time; Iachimo-Holland; Cymbeline-Hurst; Cloten-King; Belarius-Havard; Arviragus-J. Palmer; Guiderius-Aickin; Lucius-Bransby; Cornelius-Burton; Pisanio-Packer; Queen-Mrs Johnson; Imogen-Mrs Baddeley, 1st time; In Act II a Masquerade Scene-; with dancing-Grimaldi, Sg and Sga Giorgi; Singing-Miss Young.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Johnson

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Performance Comment: Moody-Holland; Harcourt-Palmer; Sparkish (with Song)-Dodd; Belville-Cautherly; Alithea-Mrs Palmer; Lucy-Miss Pope; Country Girl-Mrs Abington (1st time); With an address to the Audience, by way of Epilogue-Mrs Abington.
Cast
Role: Belville Actor: Cautherly
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Palmer

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Queen Mab Actor: Miss Collett

Dance: II: A New Comic Dance-Grimaldi, Duquesney, Rollet, Mrs King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Queen Mab Actor: Miss Collett

Dance: II: The Wake, as17680220; IV: The Medley, as17680416

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years. [See 11 May 1762.] Douglas by a Young Gent, first Appearance. Mr Anon (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Queen Mab Actor: Miss Collett

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Queen Mab Actor: Miss Collett

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Queen Mab Actor: Miss Collett

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Related Works
Related Work: The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub Author(s): Sir George Etherege

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Queen Mab Actor: Miss Collett

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Cast
Role: Charles Actor: Cautherly
Related Works
Related Work: Tartuffe; or, The French Puritan Author(s): Matthew Medbourne

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Queen Mab Actor: Miss Collett

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Cast
Role: Charles Actor: Cautherly
Related Works
Related Work: Tartuffe; or, The French Puritan Author(s): Matthew Medbourne

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Queen Mab Actor: Miss Collett

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Cast
Role: Charles Actor: Cautherly
Related Works
Related Work: Tartuffe; or, The French Puritan Author(s): Matthew Medbourne

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Queen Mab Actor: Miss Collett
Event Comment: [This evening] a cause came on to be tried in the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster, in which Mr William Bates, Music Master, was Plaintiff and Spranger Barry, Esq the celebrated tragedian, defendent, upon a demand made by the plaintiff for a large sum of money due to him from the Defendent, for the performance of Miss Slack, the Plaintiff's apprentice, at the Theatre in Cork...After a short hearing a verdict was given in favour of the Plaintiff (Lloyd's Evening Post, 25-28 Nov.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Queen Mab Actor: Miss Collett

Dance: I: A New Pantomime Dance, as17681116

Event Comment: JJane Shore for the 1st time by Miss Younge--so, so--spoke much too low.--Mrs Barry was very well in Alicia (Hopkins Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Queen Mab Actor: Miss Collett

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Cast
Role: Charles Actor: Cautherly
Related Works
Related Work: Tartuffe; or, The French Puritan Author(s): Matthew Medbourne

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Queen Mab Actor: Miss Collett
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Dress'd in the Habits of the Time

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Queen Mab Actor: Miss Collett

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Performance Comment: As17681115, with additions to the Masquerade.
Cast
Role: Queen Mab Actor: Miss Collett
Event Comment: MMiss Burton made her first apperaranc on this stage in the part ofthe Country Girl. She is a pretty, genteel figure; Played the part well, and was much Applauded (Hopkins Diary). Country Girl, Young Gentlewoman, first Appearance (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Performance Comment: Moody-Holland; Harcourt-Palmer; Sparkish-Dodd; Belville-Cautherly; Lucy-Miss Pope; Alithea-Mrs Jeffries, 1st time; Country Girl-A young Gentlewoman[, 1st appearance [Miss Burton]., 1st appearance [Miss Burton].
Cast
Role: Belville Actor: Cautherly
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Jeffries, 1st time

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Queen Mab Actor: Miss Collett

Dance: II: A New Dance called The Hunters-Hamoir, Miss Hamoir

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Afterpiece: To conclude with a grand View of Greenwich Hospital designed by DeLoutherbourg. [This was included in all subsequent performances; notice of the two New Scenes (see 1 Jan.) is omitted. Henderson, under his stage name of Courtney, had 1st acted Capt. Bobadil at Bath, 21 Nov. 1772.] Receipts: #230 1s. 6d. (204.9.0; 25.0.6; 0.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Performance Comment: Kitely-Smith; Old Knowell-Aickin; Young Knowell-Brereton; Wellbred-Farren; Master Stephen-Dodd; Brainworm-Baddeley; Justice Clement-Parsons; Downright-Hurst; Cob-Moody; Master Mathew-Burton; Cash-R. Palmer; Capt. Bobadil-Henderson (1st appearance in that character [in London]); Bridget-Miss P. Hopkins; Tib-Mrs Bradshaw; Mrs Kitely-Mrs Baddeley.
Cast
Role: Master Mathew Actor: Burton

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Queen Mab Actor: Miss Abrams

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Queen Mab Actor: Miss Abrams

Dance: As17771018

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Queen Mab Actor: Miss Abrams

Song: In: the original Music by Matthew Locke, with full Chorusses and Additional Accompaniments,-Bannister, Gaudry, Legg, Edwards, Chaplin, Carpenter, Holcroft, Miss Abrams, Mrs Love, Mrs Pitt, Mrs Smith, Miss Collett

Event Comment: The School for Fathers [announced on playbill of 5 Jan.] is deferred till Thursday, on account of Mrs Wrighten's Hoarseness. Receipts: #108 18s. (86.0.0; 21.14.6; 1.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Queen Mab Actor: Miss Abrams

Dance: IV: Rural Grace, as17771002

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years [acted 3 May 1774]. Receipts: #181 14s. 6d. (148.17.0; 32.9.0; 0.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A School For Fathers

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Queen Mab Actor: Miss Abrams

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Runaway

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Queen Mab Actor: Miss Abrams
Event Comment: The School for Fathers [announced on playbill of 10 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred till Wednesday next on account of Mrs Wrighten's Illness. Receipts: #151 7s. 6d. (125.13.0; 25.11.0; 0.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Queen Mab Actor: Miss Abrams

Song: As17780105

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A School For Fathers

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Queen Mab Actor: Miss Abrams

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A School For Fathers

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Queen Mab Actor: Miss Abrams