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Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Dr Arne the balance of his night for Achilles the 30 Dec. last #86 18s. 6d. Receipts: #209 9s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: As17740103, but Belmour-Hull; Gloster-Clarke (playbill). [and same casting in the Public Advertiser.]and same casting in the Public Advertiser.]

Afterpiece Title: The Sylphs

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; P 2, author unknown. MS not in Larpent; synopsis of action in Public Advertiser, 8 and 9 Jan.]: With new Scenes, Dresses and Decorations. To conclude with a Representation of the Repulse of the Spaniards before the Rock of Gibraltar [on 13 Sept. 1782; this was included in all subsequent performances]. The Music partly new [by William Shield, with overture by Carl Friedrich Baumgarten] and partly compiled from the best Masters. The Scenes designed and executed by Greenwood. Nothing under Full Price will be taken. Books of the Pantomime to be had at the Theatre. Account-Book, 4 June: Paid the Author of Harlequin Junior a Compliment on the Success #30. Receipts: #261 5s. 6d. (257/10/0; 3/8/0; tickets not come in: 0/7/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior; or, The Magis Cestus

Performance Comment: Characters by Wright, Williamson, Burton, Staunton, Williames, R. Palmer, Waldron, Chaplin, Phillimore, Wilson, Alfred, Spencer, Kenny, Grimaldi; Mrs Burnett, Miss Burnett, Miss Tidswell, Miss Barnes, Miss Cranford, Miss M. Stageldoir. [Partial cast from Parker's General Advertiser, 8 Jan.: Old Harlequin-Wright; Magician-Staunton; Sailor-Williames; Clown-Grimaldi; Spirit-Miss Cranford; Colombine-Miss M. Stagedoir. Playbill of 10 Nov. 1788 lists the other parts: Harlequin, German Officer, French Gentleman, Valet, Miller, Landlord, Cook, Daemon, Taylor; Old Colombine, French Ladies.] hathi. Old Colombine, French Ladies.] hathi.

Song: In Act II of mainpiece a song by Miss Phillips

Event Comment: Benefit for Dodd. Paid Mr Weston per Mr G. G's note #4 16s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #230 3s. 6d. Charges: #64 13s. Profits to Dodd: #165 10s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petruchio

Performance Comment: Petruchio-Dodd, first time; Grumio-Baddeley; Baptista-Wright; Hortensio-J. Bannister; Pedro-Griffith; Tailor-J. Burton; Bianca-Miss Platt; Catharine-Miss Pope; Biondello-Hartry; Music Master-Fawcett; Curtis-Mrs Bradshaw.
Cast
Role: Hortensio Actor: J. Bannister

Dance: V: A New Dance call'd The Surprize-Master Holland, Miss Ross, Miss Armstrong, others, scholars of Daigville

Event Comment: Places may be taken at the Theatre. To begin at one o'clock. [The notice is placed as (and continues hereafter to run as) a news item, rather than in the customary form for advertisements in the Public Advertiser.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Morning Lectures

Event Comment: Benefit for Henderson. Public Advertiser, 19 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Henderson, No. 21, Maiden-lane, Covent Garden. [Henderson's 1st appearance as Bayes was at Bath, 28 Nov. 1772.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

Cast
Role: Snug Actor: Bannister
Event Comment: Benefit for Kennedy and King. Public Advertiser, 9 May: Tickets to be had of Mr and Mrs Kennedy, No. 49, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields; and of King, No. 54, Fleet-street. Receipts: #222 14s. (64.18.6; 4.19.6; tickets: 152.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Dance: End: The Wapping Landlady-[see17870131]

Event Comment: Benefit for Wrighten, prompter. 2nd piece [1st time; M.INT I]. Public Advertiser, 1 May: Tickets to be had of Wrighten, New Buildings, Hemming's Row, St. Martin's Lane. Receipts: #250 6s. (38.14; 19.15; 1.7; tickets: 190.10) (charge: #109 8s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Le Matin, Midi, et le Soir

Afterpiece Title: Too Civil by Half

Dance: End 2nd piece: The Conjugal Frolick, as17880221

Event Comment: 2nd piece [1st time; F 1, by John Rose; in Town and Country Magazine, Aug. 1788, p. 374, said to be translated from a French farce]. "Edwin was too ill to sing, but went through the part [in Peeping Tom; see 16 Aug.]" (Public Advertiser, 4 Aug.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ways And Means

Cast
Role: Sir David Dunder Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Roundfee Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: A Quarter of an Hour before Dinner; or, Quality Binding

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Event Comment: Benefit for Farren. Public Advertiser, 6 May: Tickets to be had of Farren, No. 73, Gower-street. Account-Book, 16 May: Received Farren's benefit deficiency #33 7s. 6d. [Reckoned as follows: Farren disposed of #209 12s. in tickets; this sum he kept. Money [i.e. tickets sold at the doors of the theatre] amounted to #71 12s. 6d. From this money he was obliged to meet the house charge of #105, and hence owed the treasury the amount stated above.] Receipts: #281 4s. 6d. (69.".0; 2.10.6; tickets: 209.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The Feast of Anacreon

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Entertainment: Monologue. End IV: A Comic Description of the Curiosities in the Tower of London-Edwin

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Norsa. Tickets at her Lodgings, Nassau Street, near Gerrard Street. Receipts: money #12 14s. 6d.; tickets #101 9s. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 29 April: We hear Mr Handel has compos'd a new Opera, on the Occasion of his Royal Highness's Marriage to the Prince[S] of Saxe Gotha, and as the Wedding was solemnized sooner than was expected, great Numbers of Artificers, as Carpenters, Painters, Engineers, &c. are employed to forward the same

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: Two Pierrots by Lalauze and Nivelon. The Peasants by Lalauze, Mlle D'Hervigni, &c. Sailors (from orestes) by Glover, Tench, Desse, Delagarde, Livier, Richardson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Cast
Role: Merlin Actor: Bannister

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Performance Comment: As17720331 but Major Sturgeon-Love; Roger-Burton?[but Burton died the week before (Public Advertiser)].but Burton died the week before (Public Advertiser)].

Entertainment: V: Scrub's Trip, as17720427

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Moody. Paid Mr S. French 6 days #1 10s.; Master Thomson, 13 nights #3 5s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #246 6s. Charges: #64 12s. Profits to Moody: #181 14s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Dance: II: A Hornpipe-aYoung Gentlewoman, 1st appearance; V: The Sailors Revels, as17711008

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Performance Comment: As17540112, but Don John-Bransby; Verges-Vernon; Dogberry-Yates (playbill). [Don John-$Davies (Public Advertiser).]

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: II: Masquerade Dance-; Devisse, Mad Auretti

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Cast
Role: Servant Actor: Ackman

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Performance Comment: As17681109 (Public Advertiser). [The playbill is shortened by omission of Puck and Queen Mab. Silvio-Wright instead of Baddeley.]
Cast
Role: Clod Actor: Ackman
Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Orphan, announced on playbill of 31 Dec. 1776. Public Advertiser assigns the Ghost to Farren.] Afterpiece: With Additions and Alterations, New Music, Scenes [by Greenwood, Leroy and French Jun. (Morning Post, 4 Jan.)], Dresses, and Decorations. Receipts: #175 1s. 6d. (137.1.0; 34.17.0; 3.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Event Comment: Benefit for Whitefield and Wewitzer. Mainpiece: Written by the late Hugh Kelly, Esq., Never acted there. Public Advertiser, 26 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Whitefield, Crown-court, Bow-street; of Wewitzer. Great Hart-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #137 4s. 6d. (55.14.6; tickets: 81.10.0) (charge: #85 12s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Word To The Wise

Afterpiece Title: True-Blue

Performance Comment: As17761223, but Principal Parts-Miss Wewitzer, Miss _Dayes.

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: End III: As17761123; In interlude: Langrish

Song: End I: a favourite air (composed by Dr Arne)-Mrs Farrell

Event Comment: Benefit for Green and Ansell, box-keepers. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. Public Advertiser, 8 May: Tickets to be had of Green, the corner of Norris-street, St. James's, Haymarket; of Ansell, Davies-street, Berkeley-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer's Return from London

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. Public Advertiser, 14 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Bensley, Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury. Receipts: #191 2s. (76.0.0; 27.5.6; 1.3.6; tickets: 86.13.0) (charge: #67 14s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Selima And Azor

Cast
Role: Scander Actor: Bannister.

Dance: To conclude: Country Dance-

Event Comment: Benefit for Peile. Public Advertiser, 20 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Peile at his house, North-street, Westminster. Receipts: #190 4s. 6d. (95.11.6; tickets: 94.13.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Volunteers

Afterpiece Title: The Merry Wives of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Event Comment: Benefit for Burton, Williames & Harwood, prompter. Public Advertiser, 7 May: Tickets to be had of Harwood, Blackmoor Street, Clare-market [others not listed]. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. [The playbill assigns the song in Act II to Williames, but a MS annotation on the Kemble playbill substitutes Du-Bellamy.] Receipts: #252 19s. (66/15; 34/7; 0/11; tickets: 151/6) (charge: #106 9s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Linco's Travels

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: End of Act IV of mainpicce a Minuet and Gavot by Zuchelli and Miss M. Stageldoir

Song: In Act II of mainpiece a song by Du-Bellamy; End of Act III The Soldier tir'd of War's Alarms, as17820420

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 7 years [not acted since 17 May 1774]. "Bensley, whose Sense and Sensibility are always apparent, though not perhaps always successful, fell far short of Henderson in Old Norval" (Public Advertiser, 13 Feb.). Receipts: #274 15s. (258/5/0; 15/8/6; 1/1/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Neck or Nothing

Dance: As17831213

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by King, Yates, Dodd, Palmer, Parsons, Baddeley, Aickin, Packer, Farren, Lamash, Gaudry, R. Palmer, Norris, Chaplin, Smith, Miss Pope,Miss P. Hopkins, Miss Sherry, Mrs Abington. [Cast from Public Advertiser, 9 May: Sir Peter Teazle-King; Sir Oliver Surface-Yates; Sir Benjamin Backbite-Dodd; Joseph Surface-Palmer; Crabtree-Parsons; Moses-Baddeley; Rowley-Aickin; Snake-Packer; Careless-Farren; Trip-Lamash; Sir Harry Bumper-Gaudry; Gentlemen-R. Palmer, Norris, Chaplin; Charles Surface-Smith; Mrs Candour-Miss Pope; Maria-Miss P. Hopkins; Lady Sneerwell-Miss Sherry; Lady Teazle-Mrs Abington; Prologue-King; Epilogue-Mrs Abington. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Cast
Role: Major Sturgeon Actor: Bannister
Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 3, by Sarah Gardner. Prologue by the author (London Chronicle, 11 Aug.). Larpent MS 435; not published; synopsis of plot in London Magazine, Aug. 1777, p. 433. For a description of the difficulties attending the reception of this play, from a recently discovered MS by Mrs Gardner, see Theatre Notebook, VII, 76-81]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Advertisement; Or, A Bold Stroke For A Husband

Performance Comment: Principal Parts by Parsons, Egan, Jackson, R. Palmer, Fearon, Blissett, Walker, Edwin, Mrs Colles, Miss Hale, Miss Platt, Mrs Love, Mrs Gardner. Cast from Public Advertiser, 12 Aug.: Doctor Obstetric-Parsons; Capt. O'Cannon-Egan; Jack Steerage-Jackson; George Wydham-R. Palmer; Sir William Wydham-Fearon; Careful-Blissett; MacLocust-Walker; Snap-Edwin; Mrs Epigram-Mrs Colles; La Bronze-Miss Hale; Lydia Fanlove-Miss Platt; Landlady-Mrs Love; Widow Holdfast-Mrs Gardner; Prologue-Mrs Gardner.

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; P 2 (?), author unknown, based on the anonymous Harlequin's Jacket. MS not in Larpent; not published; synopsis of action in Public Advertiser, 4 Jan.]: With New Scenes, Dresses and Decorations. Half Price will be taken as usual. Receipts: #220 18s. (182/16/0; 37/19/6; 0/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Circassian

Afterpiece Title: Lun's Ghost; or, The New Year's Gift

Dance: In afterpiece by Zuchelli, Miss M. Stageldoir, &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medonte

Dance: End of Act I New Divertisement, as17821130; End of Opera a new grand Ballet, composed by Lepicq, Il Ratto delle Sabine; or, The Rape of the Sabines, by Lepicq, Henry, Zuchelli, Degville Sen., Slingsby, Mlle Theodore, Sga Crespi, Mme Rossi. [Partial cast from Public Advertiser, 14 Dec: Romolo-Lepicq; Acronte-Zuchelli; Erfilia-Mme Rossi.]

Performance Comment: , Slingsby, Mlle Theodore, Sga Crespi, Mme Rossi. [Partial cast from Public Advertiser, 14 Dec: Romolo-Lepicq; Acronte-Zuchelli; Erfilia-Mme Rossi.] hathi. hathi.