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An Evening's Lounge; Or, Antidote for the Spleen. Mr. & Mrs. Henderson (From the Theatre Charleston) Will perform several pieces ...On Wooden Heads; Connoisseur; Companion to ditto; Female Quaker; On Good Temper; Laughing Philosopher; Crying Philosopher; With Dibdin's Sound Argument; Or, Let us all be unhappy together. A Free Mason's Wife. On Oratory; Scotch Orator; Irish Orator; Favorite Song, called Lucky Escape. Polite Woman; Good Sort of a Woman; Mighty Good Sort of a Woman; What a Gentleman should be. Song, Dear Nancy I've sail'd &c.; Illustration on Law, or, Bullum versus Boatum. Selected Pieces from The School for Scandal. Comic Song John Bull's Expedition to Church ... The Country Girl; Hippisley's Drunken Man. The whole to conclude with a Piece called The Whimsical Courtship, or, The Cit Outwitted.

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An Evening's Lounge; Or, Antidote for the Spleen. Mr. & Mrs. Henderson (From the Theatre Charleston) Will perform several pieces ...On Wooden Heads; Connoisseur; Companion to ditto; Female Quaker; On Good Temper; Laughing Philosopher; Crying Philosopher; With Dibdin's Sound Argument; Or, Let us all be unhappy together. A Free Mason's Wife. On Oratory; Scotch Orator; Irish Orator; Favorite Song, called Lucky Escape. Polite Woman; Good Sort of a Woman; Mighty Good Sort of a Woman; What a Gentleman should be. Song, Dear Nancy I've sail'd &c.; Illustration on Law, or, Bullum versus Boatum. Selected Pieces from The School for Scandal. Comic Song John Bull's Expedition to Church ... The Country Girl; Hippisley's Drunken Man. The whole to conclude with a Piece called The Whimsical Courtship, or, The Cit Outwitted.

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"Possitively the last Night."-- at head of title.

"Theatre at Fayetteville, Decr. 31st. 1795." -- written in a contemporary hand above the title.

Some pieces have been crossed out and others added by a contemporary hand.

The locations for the purchase of tickets has been left blank.

"The Doors will be opened at half past Five, and the Performance begin at half past Six."-- at bottom of the bill.

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Theatre at Fayetteville, December. 31st: 1795.

Possitively the last Night.

An
Evening's Lounge :
OR,
Antidote for the Spleen.

Mr. & Mrs. Henderson,
[From the Theatre Charleston]
Will Perform several PIECES selected and comprised in several Parts, where the Follies of Life are exposed
in Laughable and striking Colours,
Being a Satirical, Whimsical, Humorous, Moral, and Illustrative Dissertation and Display of the
PASSIONS, HUMOURS, WHIMS, and ODDITIES, in SONG and DIALOGUE.
On Wooden Heads - Connosisseur - Companion to ditto - Female Quaker - on Good Temper -
Laughing Philosopher - Crying Philosopher -
With Dibdin's 'Sound Argument ; or, Let us all be unhappy together.
A FREE MASON'S WIFE.
On Oratory - Scotch Orator Irish Orator Daniel against Dishelous[?] - Favorite Song, called "LUCKY ESCAPE." Murder in Irish
Polite Woman - Good Sort of a Woman - Mighty Good Sort of a Woman - What a Gentleman should be.
Song, "Dear Nancy I've sail'd, &c."
Illustration on Law - or, Bullum versus Boatum.
Spanking Jack Select Pieces from
THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL.
Comic Song - John Bull's Expedition to Church.
After which, a Piece in Dialogue, called 'The Country Yankey Jonathans girl.'
Murder in Irish - Hippisley's Drunken Man.
The whole to conclude with a Piece called
The WHIMSICAL COURTSHIP ; or, The Cit Outwitted.

TICKETS

On Genius The Doors will be opened at half past Five, and the Performance begin at half past Six.

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Ink on paper.

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“An Evening's Lounge; Or, Antidote for the Spleen. Mr. & Mrs. Henderson (From the Theatre Charleston) Will perform several pieces ...On Wooden Heads; Connoisseur; Companion to ditto; Female Quaker; On Good Temper; Laughing Philosopher; Crying Philosopher; With Dibdin's Sound Argument; Or, Let us all be unhappy together. A Free Mason's Wife. On Oratory; Scotch Orator; Irish Orator; Favorite Song, called Lucky Escape. Polite Woman; Good Sort of a Woman; Mighty Good Sort of a Woman; What a Gentleman should be. Song, Dear Nancy I've sail'd &c.; Illustration on Law, or, Bullum versus Boatum. Selected Pieces from The School for Scandal. Comic Song John Bull's Expedition to Church ... The Country Girl; Hippisley's Drunken Man. The whole to conclude with a Piece called The Whimsical Courtship, or, The Cit Outwitted.,” Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, accessed May 11, 2024, https://cwfjdrlsc.omeka.net/items/show/584.
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