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Event Comment: Places for Boxes to be taken of Fosbrooke at the Stage Door. Paid salary list #626 16s. 6d.; Miss Robins in full of #16 13s. 4d. Receipts: #191 5s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: II: The Savage Hunters, as17751118

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. The Comedy of Old City Manners oblig'd to be deferr'd. On 31 Dec. (Sunday) died Th. Weston of Drury Lane Theatre (Winston MS 11). [See Memoirs of Thomas Weston that Celebrated Comedian (London, 1776, 59 pp). This year appeared A Serious Disuasion from Frequenting the Playhouse, by Jacob Orton (22 pp. pub. in Shrewsbury). His text is taken from Bulstrode's charge to the Grand Jury of Middlesex, 21 April 1718. "One Playhouse ruin'd more souls than fifty churches are able to save."] Paid Mr Grist on acct per Mr D. G. #20; Three extra trumpets 6 nights #6 15s. Supernumeraries for the Jubilee continued to cost 14s. 10d. during its run. Receipts: #219 12s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Event Comment: Signor Martini danc'd for first time tolerable (Hopkins Diary). Paid Mr Park 1 boy 18 nights #6 15s.; Pryor (turner) #3 6d.; Mr Blanchard (tallow chandler) #43 17s. 2d. Receipts: #156 3s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Dance: I: A New Comic Dance call'd The Gardeners-Sg Martini, first appearance on the English Stage, and Sga Paccini

Event Comment: The New Comedy of The Runaway oblig'd to be deferr'd till Tuesday, on account of Mrs Hopkins' sudden illness. Paid Mr Machin, Chorus, 24 nights, #6; Tallow Chandler's Bill #49 6s. 8d.; additional flutes #1; Mr Landall for sashes #6 14s. Receipts: #195 18s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Braganza

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Dance: I: The Savage Hunters, as17760210

Event Comment: House (Mr Aickin's Night Bought by Managers) (Hopkins Diary). N.B. On 25 April the treasurer paid Mr Aickin in lieu of Benefit #60. Receipts: #269 6s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Spleen

Event Comment: Selima and Azor [announced on playbill of 13 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred on Account of Dodd's Illness. Paid Prompter's Bill #23 17s. 6d. Receipts: #233 13s. (210.2; 22.8; 1.3)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years [not acted since 26 Dec. 1776. Mrs Robinson, who was from the Portsmouth theatre, is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill]. Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2, by Frances Brooke, based on Les Moissonneurs, by Charles Simon Favart]: The new Music and overture composed, and the Selected Airs compiled [from Paxton and Sacchini], by Shield. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Account-Book, 30 June 1784: Paid Shield for composing Rosina #100. Receipts: #158 18s. 6d. (154/5/6; 4/13/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Second; Or, The Fall Of Rosamond

Performance Comment: King Henry-Aickin; Abbot-Clarice; Prince Henry-Wroughton; Salisbury-Davies; Leicester-Fearon; Verulam-Thompson; Clifford-Hull; Queen Eleanor-Mrs Hunter; Ethelinda-Mrs Morton; Rosamond-A Lady (1st appearance on this stage [Mrs Robinson]) .Mrs Robinson]) .

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: End of mainpiece new Dance, composed by Harris, Damon and Musidora, by Harris, Miss Besford, and others

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Paid One-half Yrs. Land Tax on the Theatre #52 10s., and One-half Yrs. Window Lights [tax] for Theatre #6 12s. 6d. Receipts: #327 14s. (323/19; 3/15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17831001; Afterpiece to conclude as17840306athi

Event Comment: Afterpiece: To conclude with the Representation of an Engagement between the English and Spaniards, and the Storming of Fort Omoa, on the Spanish Main. Account-Book: Paid Chorus to 11th Inclusive #7 10s.; Poor Rate 1@2 Year #45 17s. 10d.; Thompson on Acct. Supernumeraries #10. Receipts: #212 3s. 6d. (179.13.0; 30.13.6; 1.17.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. 1st piece: In 3 Acts [i.e. abridged from the original 5]. Morning Herald, 19 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Lewis, Bow-street. Receipts: #347 5s. 6d. (234.1.0; 4.14.6; tickets: 108.10.0) (charge: #105). Pencilled in the Account-Book. 234.1.0-money [taken at the doors] 4.14.6-after money [taken at the doors] 238.15.6 105-charge 133.15.6-owing Lewis [on 18 Apr. he was paid 133.14.0] [The amount of his tickets, 108.10.0, he retained; hence his profit on this night was #242 4s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fashionable Levities

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain; or, The New Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Robin Hood

Event Comment: Mainpiece: To conclude with a Grand Procession of the Hundred Knights of Chivalry, and the Representation of an Ancient Tournament, under the direction of Dubois. [These were included in all subsequent performances.] With a new Overture and new Additional Musick, by Storace, Shaw, and other Eminent Masters. And new Dresses, Decorations and Machinery. [Miss Redhead is identified in Kemble Mem.] Account-Book, 20 Dec. 1792: Paid Kemble to purchase horses for Cymon #180 14s. 6d. (223.11.6; 55.4.0; 3.19.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Cymon

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; MD 2, by James Boaden. Larpent MS 970; not published]: The Music principally composed by Attwood, with Airs selected from the works of Giornovichi and the late Mozart. Account-Book, 28 June: Paid Boaden for Ozmyn and Daraxa #100. Receipts: #270 1s. 6d. (196.6.6; 67.19.0; 5.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At king's She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: Ozmyn and Daraxa

Dance: In afterpiece: Miss Menage, the Miss D'Egvilles

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection 0

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wheel Of Fortune

Performance Comment: Characters by R. Palmer, King, Kemble, Whitfield, Palmer, C. Kemble, Suett, Waldron, Phillimore, Bland, Maddocks, Banks, Trueman, Webb, Lyons, Evans, Fisher, Mrs Powell, Miss Farren, Mrs Maddocks, Miss Tidswell. [Cast from text (C. Dilly, 1795): Sir David Daw-R. Palmer; Tempest-King; Penruddock-Kemble; Woodville-Whitfield; Sydenham-Palmer; Henry Woodville-C. Kemble; Weazel-Suett; Woodville's Servant-Waldron; Attendant-Phillimore; Jenkins-Bland; Servants of Sir George Penruddock-Maddocks, Banks, Evans, Fisher, Lyons; Livery Servant-Trueman; Servant to Tempest-Webb; Mrs Woodville-Mrs Powell; Emily Tempest-Miss Farren; Dame Dunckley-Mrs Maddocks; Maid of the Lodging-Miss Tidswell; Prologue-Palmer; Epilogue-Miss Farren. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 9 performances only (see17950328] .These were spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 9 performances only (see17950328] .

Afterpiece Title: Alexander the Great

Event Comment: Benefit for Vernon. Rec'd Mrs Johnston's rent 1 year to Lady Day #6. Paid Powney (stationer) #7 2s. 6d.; Ray (linen draper) #25 6s. 6d.; Vaughan (haberdasher) #4 10s. 6d.; Norfolk (glazier) #2 3s.; Barrow and Co. Oil #54 15s. 6d.; Pryer (turner) #5 18s. 6d.; Carter (scowerer) #9 8s. 6d.; Evans for Spermacetti Candles #5; Watch Rate half year #18 15s.; Cubit (tinman) #2 6d. Receipts: #160 10s. Charges: #66 16s. Profits to Vernon: #93 14s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: End Opera: The Grand Garland Dance, as17760311

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. Paid Quin #142 (Account Books, Egerton 2268). Receipts: #110 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

Performance Comment: Henry-Quin; Wolsey-Ryan; Buckingham-Havard; Cranmer-Bridgwater; Norfolk-Cashell; Suffolk-Arthur; Surry-Gibson; Gardiner-Hippisley; Lord Chamberlain-Rosco; Cromwell-Ridout; Campeius-Chapman; Sands-Woodward; Surveyor-Marten; Abergavenny-Anderson; Butts-Stoppelaer; Ann Bullen-Mrs Horton; Old Lady-Mrs James; Queen Katherine-Mrs Pritchard; With the Representation of the Coronation of Anne Bullen-; Vocal parts-Leveridge, Beard, Roberts, Thompson, Mrs Dunstall, Mrs Lampe, Miss Young; Also the Military Ceremony of the Champion in Westminster Hall- and all other decorations proper to the play.-General Advertiser.
Event Comment: [In afterpiece the playbill retains Barrymore and C. Kemble as on 9 June, but "Barrymore being ill, C. Kemble play'd Kera Khan, and Cooke Kajah. Messrs Tett, Horsfall, Pilbrow, Bardeauleau absent from the first Chorus this Evening" (Powell).] Powell: New Ballet [Glorious First of June] rehearsed at 12. Receipts: #158 17s. (96/19; 54/11; 7/7)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Natural Son

Afterpiece Title: LODOISKA

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Flitch Of Bacon

Afterpiece Title: The Magick Banner; or, Two Wives in a House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosina

Afterpiece Title: The Heir at Law

Performances

Mainpiece Title: First Faults

Afterpiece Title: Katharine and Petruchio

Dance: End: Minuet de la Cour-Miss DeCamp, Mlle Parisot

Event Comment: This date of performance is not a certainty; for the evidence, see Spencer, Shakespeare Improved, p. 94. Neither is Shadwell's authorship of the alterations a certainty, for the contributions of other playwrights have never been fully determined. (See Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 43.) The instrumental music was composed by Matthew Lock, with new vocal music by James? Hart and Pietro Reggio. See Songs Set by Signior Pietro Reggio, 1680. And differing versions of the second Prologue and the second Epilogue are in BM Egerton MS. 2623, ff. 54-55. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, pp. 34-35): The Year after in 1673. The Tempest, or the Inchanted Island, made into an Opera by Mr Shadwell, having all New in it; as Scenes, Machines; particularly, one Scene Painted with Myriads of Ariel Spirits; and another flying away, with a Table Furnisht out with Fruits, Sweetmeats and all sorts of Viands; just when Duke Trinculo and his Companions, were going to Dinner; all things Perform'd in it so Admirably well, that not any succeeding Opera got more Money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest; Or, The Enchanted Island

Event Comment: Written by Mr C. Cibber. [For a letter on the affairs of dl, see Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 13 Jan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Music: For the Second Musick, the First Concerto of the 2d Opera of Geminiani. For the Third Musick, the Overture to Esther. I: Concerto for Hautboys by Geminiani

Dance: II: Pierrots by Nivelon and Lalauze. III: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. IV: Polonese by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c. V: Russian Sailor by Denoyer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Cast
Role: Cynthia Actor: Miss Holliday

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Music: As17351018

Dance: II: A new Grand Serious Ballet by Denoyer and others. IV: By Mlle Roland. End Afterpiece: Le Chasseur Royal by Denoyer, Mlle Roland, &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. Revellers by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c