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At the old Theatre near the Capitol, by the Virginia Company of Comedians, on Friday, being the 15th instant (April) will be presented a tragedy, called The Orphan, or The Unhappy Marriage ... [10 lines listing performance information] ... after the play a comic dance, called the Bedlamites ... [3 lines listing performance information] ... To which will be added (the second night) a pantomime entertainment, in which will be introduced a new scene, not before presented, called Harlequin Skeleton, or The Burgomaster Trick'd ... [8 lines listing performance information]

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At the old Theatre near the Capitol, by the Virginia Company of Comedians, on Friday, being the 15th instant (April) will be presented a tragedy, called The Orphan, or The Unhappy Marriage ... [10 lines listing performance information] ... after the play a comic dance, called the Bedlamites ... [3 lines listing performance information] ... To which will be added (the second night) a pantomime entertainment, in which will be introduced a new scene, not before presented, called Harlequin Skeleton, or The Burgomaster Trick'd ... [8 lines listing performance information]

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1 sheet ([1] page) ; 31.2 x 19.6 cm

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[Williamsburg, Virginia : William Rind?, 1768].

At head of title: "By Permission of the Worshipful the Mayor of Williamsburg",

These performances were advertised in William Rind's Virginia Gazette for April 14, 1768.

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Johnson, Odai and William J. Burling. The Colonial American Stage : a Documentary Calendar. Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, ©2001, page 309
Hummel, Ray Orvin. Southeastern Broadsides Before 1877 : a Bibliography. Richmond : Virginia State Library, 1971. Entry 2992.

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Virginia Company of Comedians, “At the old Theatre near the Capitol, by the Virginia Company of Comedians, on Friday, being the 15th instant (April) will be presented a tragedy, called The Orphan, or The Unhappy Marriage ... [10 lines listing performance information] ... after the play a comic dance, called the Bedlamites ... [3 lines listing performance information] ... To which will be added (the second night) a pantomime entertainment, in which will be introduced a new scene, not before presented, called Harlequin Skeleton, or The Burgomaster Trick'd ... [8 lines listing performance information],” Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, accessed March 28, 2024, https://cwfjdrlsc.omeka.net/items/show/577.
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