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Event Comment: "Holman [was sitting] in a Side Box. This should never happen: there an actor should never appear" {Public Advertiser, 17 Mar.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Dance: As17841001

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by half past Four o'clock. Public Advertiser, 12 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Palmer, No. 39, Goodge-street, Rathbone-place. Receipts: #308 1s. (150/16/0; 11/7/6; 0/14/6; tickets: 145/3/0) (charge: #66/1/8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: As17850307athi

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. Public Advertiser, 15 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Charing-cross. [Miss Bannister's 1st appearance at this theatre was on 28 Apr. 1784.] Receipts: #321 9s. (118/6; 22/18; 2/4; tickets: 178/1) (charge: #113 7s. 3d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Rosin A

Dance: As17850307athi

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick. Public Advertiser, 5 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Quick, No. 99, High Holbourn. Mainpiece: Not acted these 20 years [not acted since 15 Apr. 1763]. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Frederick Pilon]: Altered from [The Comical History of Don Quixote, Part II, by Thomas] D'Urfey. In Act I A Grand Baratarian Procession of Sancho to his Government. The Characters all dressed in the Habits of the Times

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple; Or, A Trip To The Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: Barataria; or, Sancho Turn'd Governor

Dance: As17841201

Monologue: 1785 03 29 Preceding the mainpiece Mother Shipton's Review of the Audience (Written by the late D. Garrick, Esq.) [speaker not listed, but probably Quick]

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kennedy. Public Advertiser, 16 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Kennedy at her house in Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: As17841001

Event Comment: Benefit for Kemble [who had 1st acted Macbeth at Hull, 30 Oct. 1778]. Public Advertiser, 17 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Kemble, No. 2, Leicester Court, Castle-street, Leicester Fields. [In mainpiece the playbill retains R. Palmer as Malcolm, but "Preceding the play there was an apology, on its appearance evidently exciting doubt and trepidation in the audience [probably for fear that Mrs Siddons would be unable to appear]; but Palmer's fourth word broke the spell. R. Palmer was suddenly prevented attending the house:--what could the house do, but laugh?--Laugh they did;--'and Barrymore will read his part.' The house laughed again. And so Britannia was delivered" (Morning Chronicle, 1 Apr.). The name of R. Palmer's substitute in the afterpiece is not given.] Receipts: #293 3s. (175/2; 9/16; 0/5; tickets: 108/0) (charge: #115 10s. 3d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Related Works
Related Work: All the World's a Stage Author(s): Isaac Jackman
Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wrighten. Public Advertiser, 29 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Wrighten, Kennington-lane, near Vauxhall. Afterpiece: Not acted these 20 years [acted 13 Apr. 1773]. Receipts: #277 18s. (70/15; 8/18; 0/8; tickets: 197/17) (charge: (#106 16s. 1d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece a Hunting Cantata; In afterpiece A Soldier for Me, both by Mrs Wrighten

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pope. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by half past Four o'clock. Public Advertiser, 17 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Miss Pope, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Receipts: #236 13s. (56/19; 30/9; 0/13; tickets: 148/12) (charge: #113 14s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Dance: As17850307athi

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. Public Advertiser, 2 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bensley, No. 32, Gerrard-street, Soho. [In mainpiece the playbill retains Packer as Belmour, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Hull.] Receipts: #296 5s. 6d. (165/3/0; 17/7/6; 0/10/0; tickets: 113/5/0) (charge: #106)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Event Comment: Benefit for Edwin. Public Advertiser, 29 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Edwin, No. 19, Piazza, Covent Garden. Mainpiece: Altered from Beaumont and Fletcher [i.e. from Fletcher alone]. Afterpiece: Not acted these 6 years [acted 28 May 1782]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Women Pleas'd

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: In Act IV of mainpiece a song by Mrs Martyr; End of Mainpiece Four and Twenty Fidlers all on a Row by Edwin

Monologue: 1785 04 11 End of Act II of mainpiece A Description of the Curiosities of the Tower of London by Edwin

Event Comment: Benefit for Brereton. Public Advertiser, 26 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Brereton, Charles-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #262 7s. 6d. (129/3/0; 18/13/0; 0/10/6; tickets: 114/1/0) (charge: #106 7s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2, by William Pearce. MS: Larpent 696; not published; synopsis of plot in Universal Magazine, Apr. 1785, p. 209]: With new Scenes and Dresses. The Overture and Airs composed by Shield. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. "The Nunnery [is] ... a most powerful narcotic. The Performers--in friendly sympathy--had totally forgotten their parts--and passed the evening in a conversation with the prompter" (Public Advertiser, 15 Apr.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Performance Comment: Sciolto-Henderson; Lothario-Holman(1st appearance in that character); Altamont-Farren; Rossano-Davies; Horatio-Pope (1st appearance in that character); Lavinia-Mrs Inchbald; Lucilla-Mrs Morton; Calista-Mrs Crawford (last appearance this season) .

Afterpiece Title: The Nunnery

Event Comment: Benefit for Farren. Public Advertiser, 11 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Farren at his house in Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: Barataria

Dance: As17841116

Event Comment: Benefit for Brett. Public Advertiser, 2 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Brett, No. 73, Longacre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: As17850409

Song: As17850405

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Under the Direction of Delpini. 1st piece: With a Kitchen Scene. [The new pantomime is identified in Public Advertiser, 16 Apr. The same newspaper on 2 Apr. states that it was the same as that produced at DL for Delpini's benefit in 1782 [10 May].]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Pantomime [don Juan]

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. 1st piece [1st time; M. INT I, compiler unknown]. 2nd piece: In 3 acts. 3rd piece [1st time; ENT I, author unknown. MS: Larpent 695, not published]. Public Advertiser, 2 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 29, Bow-street, Covent-garden. Receipts: #276 16s. (162/11; 12/18; 0/11; tickets: 100/16) (charge: #110 14s. iod.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sons Of Anacreon

Afterpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Afterpiece Title: An Author on the Wheel; or, A Piece cut in the Green-Room

Afterpiece Title: ROSINA

Song: In 2nd piece the Sheep-sbearing Song by Miss Phillips. imitations. In 3rd piece, by Bannister Jun

Event Comment: [Opera in place of La Finta Principessa, announced in Public Advertiser, 18 Apr.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaserse

Dance: As17850405 throughout

Event Comment: Benefit for Suett and R. Palmer. Public Advertiser, 19 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Suett, No. 14, Broad-street, Bloomsbury; of R. Palmer, No. 23, Cecil-street, Strand. 1st piece: Never performed there. 3rd piece: Never acted there. Receipts: #247 13s. 6d. (40/15/0; 19/1/0; 0/13/6; tickets: 187/4/0) (charge: #106 4s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: The Way of the World

Afterpiece Title: The Taylors

Performances

Mainpiece Title: [a New Pantomime And The Deserter

Performance Comment: Announced, but "deferred . . . on account of the Indisposition of a principal Performer" (Public Advertiser, 20 Apr.).] hathi.
Event Comment: Benefit for Hull. Public Advertiser, 12 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Hull at his house in Duke's Court, near Dean's Yard, Westminster

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus (1st time)-Farren; Spirit-Thompson; Brothers-Kennedy, Helme; Bacchanals-Brett, Darley, Davies; Sabrina-Mrs Morton; The Lady-Mrs Bates; Principal Bacchant and Euphrasyne (with Sweet Echo, accompanied on the oboe by W. Parke)-Mrs Martyr; Pastoral Nymph (with Noon-tide Air)-Mrs Pinto, formerly Miss Brent (1st appearance on this stage these 10 years [recte 14, i.e. not since 6 Apr. 1771.] And see HAY 26 Apr.) .recte 14, i.e. not since 6 Apr. 1771.] And see HAY 26 Apr.) .

Song: As17850405

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Ward. Public Advertiser, 22 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Ward, No. 44, corner of Broad-court, Drury-lane. Receipts: #218 2s. 6d. (50/14/0; 32/11/0; 0/9/6; tickets: 134/8/0) (charge: #105 15s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant; Or, The Sick Lady's Cure

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Song: End of 1st piece Stand to your guns, my hearts of oak by Bannister

Monologue: 1785 04 25 End of Act IV of 1st piece, as 11 Apr

Event Comment: Benefit for Chapman and Wright. Public Advertiser, 2 May: Tickets to be had of Chapman, No. 47, Carey-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields; of Wright, No. 21, Berner-street, Westminster. Receipts: #224 18s. 6d. (33/19/0; 10/11/0; 0/8/6; tickets: 180/0/0) (charge: #113 9s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Convivial Coterie [i

Afterpiece Title: Rule a Wife and Have a Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Caldron

Dance: End of Act II of 2nd piece The Slave in Chains by Hamoir

Event Comment: Benefit for Williames and Staunton. Public Advertiser, 3 May: Tickets to be had of Williames, No. 22, Gerrard Street; of Staunton, No. 9, St. Martin's Street. Receipts: #192 8s. 6d. (23/10/0; 11/9/0; 0/11/6; tickets: 156/18/0) (charge: #110 18s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamesters

Afterpiece Title: The Sons of Anacreon

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: Benefit for Wild [prompter]. Public Advertiser, 7 May: Tickets to be had of Wild, No. 17, Bow-street, Covent Garden. The unfortunate circumstance of breaking his leg . . . has prevented his attending the theatre the whole season [and see 18 Apr.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lawyers' Panic

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Event Comment: Morigi's sudden Indisposition, together with Mlle Dorival's Illness, makes it necessary to postpone the Comic Opera [I Viaggiatori Felici, announced in Public Advertiser, 23 May] and Dances, advertised for this Evening

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orfeo

Dance: As17850512, but performers not listed