Citation - New York Gazette & Weekly Post Boy: 1768.04.18

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Index Entry Actor, Cheer, Miss, to play Aura in Country Lasses [t] 
Location New York 
Citation
NYGWPB.768.037
18 Apr 1768:32 (1320) 
By permission. For the benefit of Miss Wainwright. By the
American Company At the Theatre in John-Street, this
evening, being the 18th of April, 1768, will be presented a
comedy, (never acted here) called, 
The Country Lasses: or The Custom of the Manor.
Heartwell, by Mr. Douglass,  Modely, by Mr. Hallam.  Sir
John English, by Mr. Tomlinson.  Freehold, by Mr. Morris. 
Lurcher, by Mr. Wall.  Carbuncle, by Mr. Henry.  Long
Bottom, by Mr.  Woolls.  Timothy Shacklefigure, by Mr.
Roberts.  Sneak, by Mr. Raworth.  Vulture, by Mr. Greville. 
Flora, by Miss Wainwright.  Aura, by Miss Cheer.  With
entertainments, viz.  End of Act 1. The British Fair, sung
by Miss Wainwright.  Act 2. The Arcadian Nuptials, a
Pastoral Dialogue, composed on the marriage of the Prince
and Princess of Brunswick, by Mr. Woolls and  Miss
Wainwright.  Act 3. A song by Miss Wainwright, accompanied
by Mr. Wall, on the guittar.  Act 4. A song by Mr. Woolls.
End of the play, God Save the King, by Mr.Woolls, and Miss
Wainwright. 
To which will be added, a farce, called, 
The Citizen. 
The Citizen, by Mr. Wall.  Young Wilding, by Mr. Henry.  Old
Philpot, by Mr. Morris.  Sir Jasper, by Mr. Tomlinson. 
Beaufort, by Mr. Woolls.  Quildrive, by Mr. Malone.  Dapper,
by Mr. Greville.  Corinna, by Mrs. Tomlinson.  Maria, by
Miss Wainwright.  The epilogue, between Mr. Wall and Mr.
Morris. 
After the farce, an epilogue addressed to Every Body, not
aimed at Any Body, spoken by Some Body, in the character of
No Body. 
To begin exactly at half after six. Vivant Rex & Regina.
Tickets to be had at the usual places, and of Miss
Wainwright, at Mr. Jones's. Places in the boxes may be taken
of Mr. Broadbelt, at the stage-door. Boxes 8s. Pit 5s.
Gallery 3s.


Generic Title New York Gazette & Weekly Post Boy 
Date 1768.04.18 
Publisher Parker, James 
City, State New York, NY 
Year 1768 
Bibliography B0027033
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