*p1779 03 11 dl The West Indian. ^As17781008^.*a1779 03 11 dl A Monody. [on the Death of $Garrick=] Mrs Yates; With Vocal and Instrumental Music. Principal Vocal Parts-Webster, Gaudry, A Young Lady [$Miss Wright=], Mrs Wrighten.*a1779 03 11 dl Polly Honeycomb. Mr Honeycomb-Parsons; Scribble-Dodd; Ledger-Wrighten; Mrs Honeycomb-Mrs Johnston; Nurse-Mrs Bradshaw; Polly Honeycomb-Miss Pope.*c1779 03 11 dl [Mainpiece in place of <i>A Trip to Scarborough</i>, announced on playbill of 9 Mar.] 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT I, by $Richard Brinsley Sheridan=]: With a new Scene invented and designed by $DeLoutherbourg= for the occasion. [Music composed by $Thomas Linley Sen=. $Miss Wright= is identified on playbill of 24 May; and see 19 Feb.] <i>Public Advertiser</i>, 27 Mar. 1779: This Afternoon at Four is published <i>A Monody</i> (1s. 6d.). Afterpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Receipts: #213 10s. 6d. (180.18.0; 32.6.0; 0.6.6). "Some of the verses [of the <i>Monody</i>] were responded [to] by the principal vocalists, accompanied by the band, who occupied an orchestra built on the stage, as at the oratorios. The whole of the performers [were] requested to appear in black clothes" ($Parke=, I, 17).