By the American Company. At the Theatre in Williamsburg, this present Wednesday (the 20th June) The Clandestine Marriage ... [14 lines of performance information] ... To which will be added a Musical Entertainment, called Thomas & Sally: Or, The Sailor's Return. [4 lines of performance information].
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By the American Company. At the Theatre in Williamsburg, this present Wednesday (the 20th June) The Clandestine Marriage ... [14 lines of performance information] ... To which will be added a Musical Entertainment, called Thomas & Sally: Or, The Sailor's Return. [4 lines of performance information].
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[2] pages : crest ; 33.3 x 21.2 cm
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"By Authority"-- at head of title.
The Doors will be opened at 6, and the Play being precisely at 7 o'Clock.
Tickets to be had at the Post Office, or Mr. Patrick Galt, near the Capitol, and of Mr. James Russell, at Doctor Anderson's Shop.
"Boxes 7s. 6d. Pit and Gallery 5s."
"N.B. No Person can, on any Pretence whatsoever, be admitted at the Stage Door".
Printed in red and black.
Royal crest at head of playbill.
Printer's ornaments.
Thomas Jefferson records his attendance at this performance in his (Memorandum Books, 1:205). Washington recorded in his Diaries 2:248 that he attended a play on the same day as this performance.
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Johnson, Odai and William J. Burling. The Colonial American Stage : a Documentary Calendar. Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, ©2001, page 367.
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Old American Company, “By the American Company. At the Theatre in Williamsburg, this present Wednesday (the 20th June) The Clandestine Marriage ... [14 lines of performance information] ... To which will be added a Musical Entertainment, called Thomas & Sally: Or, The Sailor's Return. [4 lines of performance information].,” Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, accessed May 2, 2024, https://cwfjdrlsc.omeka.net/items/show/580.
