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PJ.773.024
24 Mar 1773:23 (1581)
Theatre. For the benefit of Mr. Byerley and Messrs. Parker
and Johnson. By authority. By the American Company, at the
theatre in Southwark, this evening, the twenty-fourth of
March, a comedy, (not acted these four years, ) call'd
The Recruiting Officer.
Captain Plume by Mr. Hallam, Serjeant Kite by Mr. Douglass,
Justice Balance by Mr. Morris, Mr. Worthy by Mr. Woolls,
Bullock by Mr. Goodman, Justice Scale by Mr. Dermot, First
Recruit by Mr. Wall, Second Recruit by Mr. Roberts,
Melinda by Mrs. Henry, Rose by Miss Hallam, Lucy by Miss
Richardson, Sylvia (by particular desire, ) by Mrs. Morris.
After the play, Mrs. Morris will, by particular desire,
speak a second time the occasional epilogue, addressed to
the ladies and gentlemen.
A hornpipe by Mr. Francis. To which will be added Edgar and
Emmeline. Edgar, son to the Earl of Kent, disguised as a
woman, under the name of Elfrida, by Mr. Hallam, Florimond
by Mr. Wall, Emmeline, daughter to the Earl of
Northumberland, disguised as a man, under the name of
Goudibert, by Miss Hallam.
*Mrs. Morris, in respect to those few ladies and gentlemen,
who through kindness to her, have advised her not to play
the part of Sylvia, begs leave to assure them, that she
performs it now, in compliance with the request of many
friends to the theatre, and with a fixed rule amongst the
performers, to lend each other every help they can, in time
of benefits.
Tickets, without which no person can be admitted, are sold
at the bar of the coffee-house, and at Mr. Thompson's, next
door to Hart's vendue. Boxes 7s. 6d. Pit 5s. Gallery 3s.
The play to begin exactly half after six o'clock.
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