The wheel of fortune
Contributors: Cumberland, Richard, 1732-1811; Kotzebue, August von, 1761-1819; Goodspeed's Book Shop (Boston, Mass.); Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1930
Language: eng
Other titles: Horse and the widow.
Description: United States Theatre, City of Washington, on Friday evening, Aug. 29th, 1800 will be presented a celebrated comedy, called "The Wheel of Fortune," written by Richard Cumberland, Esq., author of the West Indian, Jew, &c, and performed at the Theatre, Drury-Lane, London, with unbounded applause. To which will be added, a favorite farce, called "The Horse and the Widow," altered from the German from F. Von Kotzebue ... by Mr. Dibdin
Notes: Page 21-22 of unidentified issue of Goodspeed's Month, ca. 1930 with reproduction of 1800 playbill.

United States Theatre, City of Washington, on Friday evening, Aug. 29th, 1800.

Title devised by Library staff.

Cast for Wheel of Fortune: Mr. Francis, Mr. Bernard, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Warren, Mr. Wignell, Mr. Cain, Mr. Hopkins, Mr. Milbourne, Mr. Wood, Master Harris, Mrs. Francis, Miss Westray, Mrs. Salmon, Mrs. Stuart.

Cast for The Horse and the Widow: Mr. Wood, Mr. Hopkins, Mr. Bernard, Mr. Francis, Mr. Mulbarus, Mrs. Francis.

LC copy has handwritten note in ink, "At Goodspeed's "N.Y. with Mr. & Mrs. Hillon Brown".

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries. (Library of Congress).