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Event Comment: Love in a Village [advertised on playbill of 18 Mar.] is obliged to be deferr'd on Account of a Principal Performer's Indisposition. Receipts: #153 9s. 6d. (147.0.6; 6.9.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Mrs Ward, but "An apology was made for Mrs Wilson's reading the part of Angelica, vice Mrs Ward, who was suddenly taken ill" (Diary, 22 Mar.). Afterpiece in place of The Pannel, advertised on playbill of 18 Mar.] Receipts: #234 3s. 6d. (188.12.0; 44.1.6. 1.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In Many Masks

Afterpiece Title: The Adventurers

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Jordan. Part of the Pit [9 rows (World, 23 Mar.)] to be laid into the Boxes. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, probably by Isaac Bickerstaffe, but also ascribed to Mrs Jordan and to Richard Ford. Text 1st published (unauthorized), Dublin, 1799]. Kemble Mem.: The Farce is written by Mr Bickerstaffe. World, 29 Apr. 1790: The Spoil'd Child was sent to Mrs Jordan from Bickerstaffe in Italy, where her fame had reached. Public Advertiser, 13 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Jordan at her house, No. 14, Somerset-street, Portman-square. Receipts: #352 18s. 6d. (137.13.0; 12.4.6; 1.7.0; tickets: 201.14.0) (charge: #111 6s. 11d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Spoild Child

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pope. Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years. [When still Miss Younge Mrs Pope had 1st acted Fatima at the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin, 4 Mar. 1771.] Public Advertiser, 9 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Pope at her house, Half-moon Street. Receipts: #343 10s. 6d. (230.3.6; 8.3.0; tickets: 105.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Afterpiece Title: Cymon

Dance: End: Tamborine Dance- [See17891021]; Afterpiece conclude: Dance-Byrne, Mrs Goodwin

Event Comment: Benefit for Wroughton. Public Advertiser, 20 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Wroughton at his house, Sadler's Wells. Receipts: #249 10s. 6d. (133.6.0; 22.7.0; 0.16.6; tickets: 93.1.0) (charge: #115 9s. 7d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Dance: End: The Treble Hornpipe-the young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet

Song: End II: Poor Jack; or, the Sweet Little Cherub-Dignum

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Selection Of Sacred Music 0

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 1

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 2

Afterpiece Title: Grand Selection 3 Entirely selected from The Messiah

Music: As17900219

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. 1st piece: In 3 Acts. Not acted these 4 years. 3rd piece: Never acted at this Theatre. Public Advertiser, 22 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Lewis, in Bow-street. Receipts: #346 0s. 6d. (254.19.6; 3.8.0; tickets: 87.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Crouch. 1st piece [1st time]: A Prelude consisting of Song, Dance and Monologue. Gazetteer, 3 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Crouch at her house, No. 26, Bridges-street. Receipts: #295 2s. 6d. (138.2.0; 16.3.6; 0.19.0; tickets: 139.18.0) (charge: #110 19s. 9d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Easter Pastimes

Afterpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The Island of St

Event Comment: Benefit for Dodd. Gazetteer, 3 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Dodd, Gray's-Inn. Receipts: #331 16s. (115.11.0; 11.12.6; 1.10.0; tickets: 203.3.0) (charge: #115 17s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Dance: After Singing: As17900405

Song: End: Poor Jack, as17900323

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick. "Quick, in July 1777, played Richard III at Bristol" (Anthony Pasquin [pseud. for John Williams], Poems [1789], II, 244). "Most people expected from Quick a comic representation of Richard the Third--but strange to tell he was earnest in the attempt, and succeeded tolerably. The audience, however, were not disposed to be very serious, and named him 'Little Dicky'" (Public Advertiser, 8 Apr.). [Address by Robert Merry (European Magazine, Apr. 1790, p. 307.] Gazetteer, 1 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Quick, Broad-court, Bow-street. Receipts: #430 17s. 6d. (265.5.6; 4.15.0; tickets: 160.17.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: After Singing: As17891021

Song: End: A Laugh and a Cry (composed by Blewitt)-Darley, Blanchard

Entertainment: Monologue. Preceding: an Introductory Address-Ryder

Event Comment: Benefit for Edwin. Gazetteer, 5 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Edwin, No. 17, Bedford-street, Covent-garden. Receipts: #366 8s. (282.17; 2.14; tickets: 80.17)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comedy Of Errors

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Song: End I 2nd piece: The Old Four and Twenty Fiddlers all on a Row-Edwin

Entertainment: Monologues. End: a Comical, Whimsical, Operatical, Farcical Rhapsody, Lingo the Butler's Opinion on Men and Manners-Edwin; End 2nd piece: a Dissertation upon Law (from the Lecture on Heads)-Lee Lewes

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pope. [In 2nd piece the playbill retains Kemble as Doricourt, and Whitfield as Villers, but "I was ill; Whitfield played my Part" (Kemble Mem.). For Phillimore as Villers see 27 May.] Gazetteer, 7 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Pope, Great Queen-street. Receipts: #262 9s. 6d. (108.2.0; 20.11.6; 0.15.0; tickets: 133.1.0) (charge: #116 6s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Easter Pastimes

Afterpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. Gazetteer, 6 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bensley at his house, No. 21, Charlotte-street, Bedford-square. Receipts: #204 2s. (85.6.0; 13.12.6; 0.13.6; tickets: 104.10.0) (charge: #116 14s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: [Afterpiece, which Public Advertiser erroneously announces as The Farm House, in place of The Romp, advertised on playbill of 10 Apr.] Receipts: #148 9s. 6d. (118.0.0; 26.14.6; 3.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. [Mrs Wells had 1st acted Macheath at the hay, 14 Sept. 1781; Bannister had acted Polly at the same theatre, 16 Sept. 1785.] Gazetteer, 3 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Haymarket. "There is now a most vehement rage of innovation in language, government, religion, and everything else...On the British stage, with infinite applause, young and beautiful actresses perform sometimes the Parts of highwaymen; and some singing actors squall in an affected voice resembling, and intended to imitate, that of women; the most humourous dramatic pieces are frittered away into songs; and I should not be surprised to hear that henceforth Miranda and Juliet are to be personated by grim-visaged grenadiers seven feet high, and Falstaff by a slender miss just entered her teens" (Universal Magazine, Mar. 1795, p. 171). Receipts: #285 14s. (162.4.6; 5.9.6; tickets: 118.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: As17891024

Song: In course of Evening: The Wolf-Bannister

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. Part of the Pit [5 rows (World, 15 Apr.)] will be laid into the Boxes. Gazetteer, 3 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 2, Frith-street, Soho. Receipts: #360 0s. 6d. (152.12.0; 14.7.6; 1.6.0; tickets: 191.15.0) (charge: #115 15s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

Dance: As17900323

Event Comment: Benefit for Holman. 1st piec : Written by George? Lillo, reduced into Three Acts with material Alterations [by Joseph George Holman (World, 15 Apr.)]. [Prologue by Robert Merry (World, 16 Apr.).] Gazetteer, 2 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Holman, No. 2, Tavistock-row, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #278 11s. (185.2.6; 1.8.6; tickets: 92.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arden Of Feversham

Afterpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: Afterpiece: As17891128.; End: Tamborine Dance, as17891021

Event Comment: Benefit for Ryder. Gazetteer, 8 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Ryder at his house, No. 5, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #242 19s. (118.8; 13.8; tickets: 111.3)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: End: The Wapping Landlady; or, The Sailor in Distress-

Entertainment: Monologue. After Dancing: fable, The Old Man Son and Ass-Ryder; End afterpiece: Bucks have at ye All-Ryder

Event Comment: Benefit for Kelly. Afterpiece [1st time, MF 2, by Prince Hoare]: The Music chiefly composed by Storace; the Rest selected from Pleyel, Harington, Giordani, Gluck, &c. [text adds Gretry]. Account-Book, 16 Dec. 1790: Paid P. Hoare for the Copyright of No Song No Supper #63. Gazetteer, 2 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Kelly, No. 27, James-street, Covent-garden. Receipts: #273 5s. (125.19; 38.18, 2.2; tickets: 106.6) (charge: #109 19s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Dance: III: Hornpipe-Bourk

Event Comment: Paid Miss Farren's benefit Allowance [i.e. the sum paid her in lieu of a benefit] #300. Receipts: #190 16s. 6d. (141.8.0; 45.12.0; 3.16.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In Many Masks

Afterpiece Title: The Spoild Child

Dance: As17900308

Event Comment: Benefit for Baddeley. 2nd piece [1st time; INT 1, probably by Robert Baddeley. Larpent MS 865; not published]. Public Advertiser, 20 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Baddeley, No. 10, New Store-street, Bedford Square. Receipts: #320 9s. 6d. (94.18.0; 16.5.0; 0.12.6; tickets: 208.14.0) (charge: #117 10s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Afterpiece Title: Mordecais Beard

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Dance: End I: As17900323

Song: End II: a new Masonic Song-Dignum

Entertainment: Monologue. End: The Picture of a Play@House; or, Bucks have at ye all-Bannister Jun

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. Receipts: #210 8s. 6d. (138.2.0; 7.10.6; tickets: 64.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Song: Stand to your Guns my Hearts of Oak-Bannister

Opera: In course Evening: The Tobacco Box; or, The Soldier's Farewell. Thomas-Mrs Martyr; Kate-Mrs Mountain

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of afterpiece, who is named in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #187 3s. 6d. (148.11.0; 35.4.6; 3.8.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #115)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Adventurers

Dance: As17900210

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnstone. 2nd piece: Taken from Mrs Centlivre's Gamesters [recte: Gamester]. 3rd piece [1st time; M.INT 1]: The Accompaniments by Shield. Gazetteer 14 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Johnstone, No. 10, Great Russell-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #296 11s. (153.2.6; 3.4.6; tickets:140.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Annette And Lubin

Afterpiece Title: The Pharo Table

Afterpiece Title: The Soldiers Festival

Afterpiece Title: Patrick in Prussia i

Event Comment: [Boyes was from the Worcester theatre.] Receipts: #206 19s. (178.12.0; 25.16.6; 2.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Dance: As17891204