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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Martin

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: Two Misses Scott; Scholars of Nivelon. Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Lalauze; Glover's Scot's Dance-

Performance Comment: Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Lalauze; Glover's Scot's Dance-.
Cast
Role: Two Pierrots Actor: Nivelon, Lalauze
Event Comment: Morning Chronicle, 7 June: Foote caught cold on Wednesday last...Unwilling to disappoint the public [last night] he determined to play his part in The Devil upon Two Sticks, but, after he had ended the second act, was so much worse that he was obliged to retire...An apology was made to the audience, and Palmer undertook to read the remainder of Foote's part

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Upon Two Sticks

Performance Comment: Principal Parts by Foote, Jackson, R. Palmer, Fearon, Griffiths, Egan, Massey. T. Davis, Kenny, Hitchcock, Walker, Parsons, Mrs Jewell, Mrs Gardner. Cast adjusted from text (T. Cadell, 1778), and playbill of 13 Aug. 1779: Devil-Foote (1st two acts; 3rd act read by Palmer); Apozem-Jackson; Invoice-R. Palmer; Camphire-Fearon; Julep-Griffiths; Sligo-Egan; Sir ThomasMaxwell-Massey; Osasafras-T. Davis; Fingerfee-Kenny; Broadbrim-Hitchcock; Macpherson-Walker; Dr Last-Parsons; Harriet-Mrs Jewell; Margaret-Mrs Gardner. Prologue as17770515.
Cast
Role: Amelia Actor: Mrs Armstead. Edition of 1767 lists the other parts: +Sir William Douglas, Owen, La France, Officer, Servants.

Afterpiece Title: Lilliput

Event Comment: An Oratorio composed by Sg Gio. Adol. Hasse, With Additions by Sg Giardini. End of the first Act a Concerto on the Organ by Mr Burton, In Act the third a Hautboy Concerto by the two Signori Besozzi, lately come from abroad. Pit and boxes 10s. 6d. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr Varney, at the stage-door of the Theatre. The profits of this performance will be given to A Public Charity. [No receipts recorded by Cross.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Pellegrini

Performance Comment: The vocal parts-Signora Mingotti, Signora Passerini, Ricciarelli, Pazzagli, Cox, others; First violin, a solo-Giardini.
Event Comment: 2nd piece: Never [previously] acted in this Kingdom [by Robert Jephson, altered by the author from his The Hotel; or, The Servant with Two Masters, which was based on Il Servitore di due Padroni, by Carlo Goldoni, and on Arlequin Valet de deux Maitres, by Jean Pierre de Ours de Mandajors, and 1st acted at Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, 8 May 1783]. Oracle, 18 Mar. 1791: This Day is published Two Strings to Your Bow (1s). Receipts: #210 3s. 6d. (205.17.0; 4.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Malabar

Afterpiece Title: Two Strings to Your Bow

Dance: As17901123

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Barbier. Two rows of the Pit will be rail'd in at the same Price of the Boxes. Receipts: money #38 3s.; tickets #43 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Song: Mrs Barbier, Mrs Chambers, Leveridge

Music: Two Concertos-Master Clegg, a Boy of Nine Years old

Event Comment: New Dresses and Decorations for the dances (General Advertiser). [See commentary on the two Dances, 22 Jan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Last Stake

Dance: Two Entertainments-Salomon, Mlle Violette, Muilment, Sga Padouana, Cook, 1st appearance that stage

Event Comment: Tickets one guinea. The Pit will be cover'd, and there will be Instruments in two Places. At 7:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ridotto

Related Works
Related Work: The Harlot's Progress; or, The Ridotto Al' Fresco: With a Grand Masque call'd, The Judgment of Paris; or, The Triumph of Beauty Author(s): Theophilus Cibber
Related Work: Ridotto al Fresco Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Music: Consisting of several Songs chosen out of the last new Operas, some new Cantatas by Signor Bononcini-Signor Francisco Bernardi Senesino, Signor Benedetto Baldassari, Mrs Anastasia Robinson, Signora Salvai

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince George, and the Lady Augusta. Benefit the last Editor of Shakespear. Written Originally by Shakespear. Revised and adapted to the Stage by Mrs Theobald, with the last new Prologue and the Original Epilogue. Receipts: #100. Rylands MS.: Prince up, but did not come

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Double Falshood

Performance Comment: As17401213, but Citizen-Harrington; Violante-Mrs Hale; With the last new Prologue-; the Original Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: With the last new Prologue Actor:
Role: the Original Epilogue Actor: .

Opera: End II and IV: of the Play will be performed an Interlude in two Comick Scenes in Musick. betwixt Signor Capoccio, a Director from the Canary Islands, and Signora Dorinna, a Virtuosa; Capoccio-Waltz; Dorinna-Miss Hillier

Performance Comment: betwixt Signor Capoccio, a Director from the Canary Islands, and Signora Dorinna, a Virtuosa; Capoccio-Waltz; Dorinna-Miss Hillier.

Dance: I: Muzette, Tambourine-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; III: Les Niaise-Mechell, Mlle Mechell

Event Comment: The Late Wells, the bottom of Lemon St., Goodman's Fields. A Concert of Vocal and Instrumental Musick. Divided into two Parts. The Concert to conclude with the Chorus of Long Live the King. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit or First Gallery 1s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. Between the two Parts of the Concert will be exhibited Gratis, and not acted these 50 years, an Historical Play...written by the celebrated Mr Lee. And founded on Facts which happened in France, in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. Shewing the unparalleled Dissimulations, Imprecations, and Perjuries of Charles the 9th of France, the Queen Mother, and Cardinal Lorrain, to draw the Hugonot Party into their snares, by which means the Death of the Queen Navarre was effected by Poison, and most of the Protestant Princes of the Blood destroyed. Chastillon, the famous Admiral of France, with his Wife, Children, Commanders, and Followers, all put to Death, with the King's Consent, bx the cruel and Revengeful Duke of Guise, and his Adherents. After which the Massacre becoming general over the Kingdom, near near 100,000 Protestants were destroyed in the most barbarous and inhuman manner. The Concert will begin every Evening Positively at Six of the Clock, and the Whole be concluded by Half an Hour after Nine, the Wdlls being appointed (after the Entertainment is over) for the Main Guard of the Militia of the Tower Hamlets

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Massacre At Paris

Performance Comment: Charles IX-Cushing; Chastellion-Furnival; Cardinal-L. Hallam; Duke of Guise-Paget; Navarre-Shepherd; Conde-Lee; Anjou-Blakey; Alberto-Julian; Rochfacault-Burt; Langoiran-Blogg; Columbiere-Barlow; Chavagnes-Dove; Queen Mother-Mrs Bambridge; Antramont-Mrs Hallam; Queen of Navarre-Mrs Williamson; Margaret-Gentlewoman; the two last never appear'd on the stage before. With the Prologue-; Epilogue- written at the late happy Revolution.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Song: Blogg, Barlow, Waters, Mrs Phillips, Mrs Williamson, Mrs Cushing

Dance: the two Mhe two Masters, Miss Granier

Event Comment: No persons to be admitted behind the scenes nor any money to be returned after the Curtain is drawn up. [A customary notice throughout the remainder of the season until benefit time.] Tomorrow (not acted these two years) Jane Shore. The part of Alicia to be attempted by Miss Jane Cibber, being her first time of appearing upon that stage these two years. Receipts: #40 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Entertainment: EEpilogue upon Two Prologues-Mrs Clive

Event Comment: [The playbill announces The Beggar's Opera (in place of The Maid of the Mill, advertised on playbill of 3 Dec., but "deferred on account of the Indisposition of Johnstone") and The Touchstone. But "Mrs Billington was taken ill & The Merry Wives of Windsor with The Deserter & Devil on Two Sticks were substituted for B. Opera & Touchstone" (MS annotation on BM bill: cg, Vol. VII). World, 5 Dec., states that The Mayor of Garratt was the afterpiece, but the Account-Book lists The Devil upon Two Sticks.] Receipts: #126 18s. (115.0.6; 11.17.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Devil upon Two Sticks

Dance: The Deserter-[, See17891113

Event Comment: Ode: Written in Honour of St. Cecilia, by Dryden, and set to Music by Handel. Among the Instrumental Performers are G. Ashley, leader of the band, Mara, Sarjant, C. Ashley, Boyce, Bridgetower, Harvey, Parkinson, Taylor, Nix, two Flacks, Dresler, Gwilliam, Shutze, Price, I. Sharp, W. Sharp, M. Sharp, J. Sharp, Archer, Cobham, two Munros, Wood, Cornish, Purney, Leffler, Woodham, Cantelo, Skillern, Franki, Simpson, Jenkinson, &c. Organ-J. Ashley. Double Drums (used at Westminster Abbey)-R. Ashley. The Chorusses will be numerous and complete. The Whole under the Direction of Ashley. Boxes 6s. Pit 3s. 6d. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be had of Brandon at the Office in Hart-street. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00 [same throughout oratorio season]. Books of the Performance (with the Imprimatur of H. Macleish) to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast Or, the Power Of Music; Grand Selection 0

Afterpiece Title: Alexander's Feast 3

Performance Comment: [i.e. the ode being in 2 parts.] The Music- [by Handel--that was performed by Command of his Majesty, at St. James's on the late Marriage of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales (on 8 Apr. 1795); composed by Handel, to celebrate the Nuptials (in Apr. 1736) of his late Royal Highness Frederick, Prince of Wales, with the Princess of Saxe-Gotha; [To conclude with the Coronation Anthem, Zadock the Priest-.
Cast
Role: The Music Actor:
Role: Zadock the Priest Actor: .

Music: End Part I: concerto on the harp-Mme Delaval; Beginning Part II: concerto for two violins and violoncello obligato-, as originally composed for this Ode, by Handel and performed in the year 1736; End Part II: concerto on the Grand Piano Forte-Dussek

Event Comment: At the Great Booth by the Hospital Gate

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

Dance: Dancing on the Ropes , after the French and Italian Fashion-a Company of the finest Performers that ever yet have been seen in the whole World; For in the same Booth will be seen the two Famous French Maidens , so much admir'd in all Places and Countries where ever they come, (especially in May-Fair last) where they gain'd the highest Applause from all the Nobility and Gentry, for their wonderful Performance on the Rope, both with and without a Pole....To which is added; Vaulting on the High/Rope-; Tumbling on the Stage-; As also Vaulting on two Horses, on the great Stage, at once-

Performance Comment: ...To which is added; Vaulting on the High/Rope-; Tumbling on the Stage-; As also Vaulting on two Horses, on the great Stage, at once-.
Cast
Role: Vaulting on the HighRope Actor:
Role: Tumbling on the Stage Actor:
Event Comment: Benefit delaGarde's Two Sons. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Pit and Boxes laid together at 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Woman's A Riddle

Dance: Dutch Skipper-delaGarde, Mrs Bullock; A new Scotch Highlander-delaGarde's Two Sons

Event Comment: Benefit delaGarde's Two Sons. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Pit and Boxes together at 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats

Dance: Sultan and Sultaness-delaGarde's Two Sons

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: With a new Grotesque Part. See Fog's, 15 March, for an essay on Drury Lane and Cibber

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

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

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda: With The Devil Upon Two Sticks

Performance Comment: Don Cleophas Leandro (Spanish Gallant)-Cibber Jr; Scaramouch (a Magician)-Thurmond; Asmodeo (Devil upon Two Sticks)-Miss Brett; Pierot (Servant to the Magician)-Roger; Harlequin (Servant to Cleophas)-Surel; Donna Clara (in love with Cleophas)-Mrs Walter.
Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Egleton. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: a new Ballad Opera of two Acts. Written by Mrs Egleton. [Apparently not published.] Receipts: money #28 12s. 6d.; tickets #102 3s. (or #102 5s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Afterpiece Title: The Maggot

Dance: new Hornpipe in the Character of a Sailor and his Wife-Jones, Mrs Ogden; Two Pierrots-Poitier, Pelling

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Charke. Mainpiece: Alter'd from Shakespear by Mrs Betterton. Afterpiece: a new Pastoral of two Acts. [Apparently not printed. Nicoll, Early Eighteenth Century Drama, p. 369, states that it was ascribed to T. Cibber.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Daphne

Related Works
Related Work: Damon and Daphne Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: In I of Afterpiece: Les Bergeries-Essex, Haughton, Miss Robinson

Ballet: In II: A Comic Rural Ballad called The Country Revels. Colin-Essex; Phoebe-Mrs Booth; Yeomen-Lally, Haughton; Yeomen's Wives-Miss Mears, Mrs Walter; Peasants-Lally Jr, F. Tench, Davenport; Peasant Women-Mrs Delorme, Miss Mann, Miss Price

Music: Concerto on the Violin-Charke; Music for two Vox Humanes, a new Invented Instrument-

Event Comment: Benefit the Two Misses Scott, Scholars of Nivelon. [Tickets at Mr Scott's, in Tavistock Street, cg.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Royal Slave Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Dance: I: A Serious Dance-the eldest Miss Scott; II: Comic Dance-eldest Miss Scott's Sister; III: French Peasant-Lalauze; accompanied-others; IV: A new dance-two Misses Scott; V: A new Comic Dance-Nivelon, the Misses Scott

Event Comment: Benefit Beard, Two Rows of the Pit will be laid into the boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance: (IIn Daily Advertiser) I: Two Pierrots-Lalauze, Nivelon; III: Clown-Nivelon; V: Grecian Sailors-Glover

Song: (IIn Daily Advertiser)II: A new Cantata-Beard; In III: Chacon a Boire-Leveridge, Salway; IV: Beard; End I Afterpiece: Since Times are so bad (Purcell)-Leveridge, Salway

Event Comment: Benefit Two Citizens in Distress

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Performance Comment: Hamlet-Giffard; King-Johnson; Ghost-Rosco; Polonius-Lyon; Laertes-Wright; Horatio-Havard; Ostric-Woodward; Queen-Mrs Roberts; Ophelia-Mrs Hamilton; Gravediggers-Penkethman, Wetherilt.

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Song: II: Miss Jones

Dance: V: Two Pierrots-Vallois, Delagarde

Event Comment: Benefit Vallois and the two Misses Scot, Scholars to Vallois. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: I: Comic Dance-younger Miss Scot; II: By Desire of several Ladies of Quality, Minuet, with new Ball Dance called The Princess of Saxe Gotha-Vallois, Miss Scot; III: Two Pierrots-Vallois, Pelling; IV: French Peasant-Vallois, Leviez, Mrs Thompson, Rector, Miss Brett, Pelling, Mrs Vallois

Event Comment: Benefit Michael Lally. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Two Rows of the Pit will be laid into Boxes. [Tickets at Lally's House in Southampton-Row, Bloomsbury.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: I: Tambourine-Mlle Roland; II: Two Pierots-Lalauze, Desse; III: By particular Desire, a Ball Dance, concluding with a Minuet-Lally, Mlle Roland; IV: Comic Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; V: Glover, Mlle Roland

Event Comment: For the Benefit and Increase of a Fund established for the Support of Decayed Musicians and their Families. Boxes half a guinea. Pit 5s. Galleries 3s. and 2s. Each Subscriber's Ticket will admit one into the Boxes or Pit, or two into the Gallery. 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Music: With the two new Concertos-; performed in the same this Season, for several Instruments. Also the last new Ode- of Mr Dryden's; And the Concerto on the Organ, that was by Mr Handel- on the same Occasion this Season

Performance Comment: Also the last new Ode- of Mr Dryden's; And the Concerto on the Organ, that was by Mr Handel- on the same Occasion this Season.
Event Comment: Benefit Beckham, the Prompter. Tickets at Beckham's Toy Shop, in Cornhill; George's Coffeehouse, Temple Bar, Tom's Coffeehouse, Russel St., Covent Garden; Dodsley's Bookseller, at Tulley's Head; and at Gloucester Tavern, Pall Mall. Tickets deliver'd out by Mrs Steel, Mrs E. Hippisley, the two Masters Granier, and Mr Ravenscroft, will be taken...Servants will be allow'd to keep Places upon the Stage, which (for the better Accommodation of the Ladies) will be enclos'd, and form'd into an Amphitheatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Royal Slave Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Performance Comment: School Boy-Garrick, being Positively the last time of his performing it this season.

Song: Concert Air from Alexander's Feast: War he sung is Toil and Trouble-Mrs Bishop; III: Can Love be controul'd by Advice-Miss Medina

Music: V: Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Jo. Woodbridge; who never perform'd on that Stage before ending with Handel's celebrated Water Musick-; And to conclude: the Concert, the Coronation Anthem Long Live the King (never perform'd there before) by Mr Handel-an Additional Band

Performance Comment: Woodbridge; who never perform'd on that Stage before ending with Handel's celebrated Water Musick-; And to conclude: the Concert, the Coronation Anthem Long Live the King (never perform'd there before) by Mr Handel-an Additional Band.

Dance: I: David apShenkin; II: Welsh Buffoon, as17420406 IV: Two Millers and Courtezan, as17420315 End I Afterpiece: New Scots Dance-Master and Miss Granier