Citation - New York Gazette & Weekly Post Boy: 1768.05.23

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Index Entry Actor, Cheer, Miss, to play Alicia in Jane Shore [t] 
Location New York 
Citation
NYGWPB.768.058
23 May 1768:32 (1325)
By permission of his Excellency the Governor. [Not acted
here these seven years.] For the benefit of Mrs. Douglass.
Being the last night but two of acting here for this season.
By the American Company. At the Theatre in John-Street, this
evening, being Monday the 23d of May, 1768, will be reviv'd,
an historical tragedy, called, 
Jane Shore.
Hastings, by Mr. Hallam.  Dumont, by Mr. Douglass,  Gloster,
by Mr. Morris,  Bellmour, by Mr. Wall,  Catesby, by Mr.
Tomlinson,  Ratcliff, by Mr. Wools,  Darby, by Mr. Greville, 
Alicia, by Miss Cheer,  Jane Shore, by Mrs. Douglass. With
entertainments of singing, viz. 
After the play, a cantata, call'd, 
Lydia from Sappho, by Mr. Wools. 
End of the first act of the fa[r]ce, 'Twas when the Seas
were roaring, by Miss Hallam. 
To which will be added (by particular desire) a farce,
call'd, 
Miss in her Teens, or The Medley of Lovers. 
Fribble, by Miss M. Storer,  Flash, by Miss F. Storer, 
Capt. Loveit, by Mr. Wall,  Puff, by Mr. Morris,  Jasper, by
Mr. Woolls,  Tag, by Miss Wainwright,  Miss Biddy, by Miss
Hallam. 
To begin exactly at  half after six. Vivant Rex & Regina.
Tickets to be had at the usual places, and of Mrs. Douglass,
opposite the Theatre.


Generic Title New York Gazette & Weekly Post Boy 
Date 1768.05.23 
Publisher Parker, James 
City, State New York, NY 
Year 1768 
Bibliography B0027040
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