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Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Siege of Belgrade; afterpiece of High Life Below Stairs, both advertised on playbill of 4 Oct.] Receipts: #260 1s. (191.8; 66.4; 2.9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of Who's the Dupe?, advertised on playbill of 6 Oct.] Receipts: #172 18s. 6d. (141.7.6; 30.19.0; 0.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: All The Worlds A Stage

Event Comment: [Mrs Esten's 1st appearance as Juliet was at Edinburgh, 19 Jan. 1790.] In Act I of mainpiece a Masquerade Scene incident to the Play. Afterpiece: The Overture and the rest of the Music composed new by Baumgarten. Receipts: #340 9s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Blue Beard or The Flight of Harlequin

Dance: In afterpiece: Dancing-Byrn, Platt, Ratchford

Song: End IV: Juliet's Funeral Procession-; with the Solemn Dirge Vocal Parts-Johnstone, Incledon, Darley, Gray, Rock, Lee, Letteney, Mrs Blanchard, Mrs Harlowe, Miss Stuart, Miss Barnett, Mrs Arnold, Mrs Cross, Miss Leserve, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Watts, Mrs Gray, Miss Francis, Mrs Masters, Miss Broadhurst

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Written by the Author of No Song No Supper [Prince Hoare]; the Music composed principally by Storace. Receipts: #145 14s. 6d. (94.1.6; 49.17.0; 1.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Cave of Trophonius

Event Comment: [Miss Grist was from the Newcastle theatre.] Receipts: #294 7s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Woodman, advertised on playbill of 11 Oct.] Receipts: #245 8s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Two Strings to Your Bow

Song: II: a song-Incledon

Event Comment: Paid Street, Woollen Draper, in full #133 18s. 6d.; Chorus to 11th Inst. #8 5s.; Yarroway, Timber Merchant, in full #143 6s. Receipts: #293 2s. 6d. (209.3.6; 82.11.0; 1.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Fugitive

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur De Lion

Dance: In afterpiece: Master L. D'Egville, Miss Menage, Miss S. D'Egville. [Danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Event Comment: [Afterpiece: Prologue by George Colman, elder.] Receipts: #200 14s. (156.9; 44.2; 0.3)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; MD 3, by John Rose, based on Raoul Sire De Crequi, by Jaques Marie Boutet de Monvel]: With new Scenes [by Greenwood (Public Advertiser, 19 Oct.)], Dresses and Decorations. The Music composed principally by Attwood; the rest selected from Mozart and Sarti. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Morning Herald, 20 Dec. 1792: This Day is published The Prisoner (1s.). Receipts: #217 10s. (128.12; 86.10; 2.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Beaux Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Event Comment: Mainpiece: The Music composed by Shield. Receipts: #268 17s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woodman

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 10 years [acted 17 Dec. 1783]. ["The humour of this play is obsolete, for though admirably performed, it received marks of disapprobation at the conclusion" (Thespian Magazine, Dec. 1792, p. 149).] Receipts: #318 8s. 6d. (221.10.6; 92.9.0; 4.9.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Tender Husband Or The Accomplished Fools

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Event Comment: Macbeth [advertised on playbill of 19 Oct.] on account of the indisposition of a principal Performer is obliged to be deferr'd till Monday next. Mainpiece: Masquerade as 8 Oct. Receipts: #364 14s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Blue Beard

Dance: As17921015

Song: Juliet's Funeral Procession-; the Solemn Dirge, as17921008, but Mrs Martyr

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #401 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband Or The Accomplished Fools

Afterpiece Title: Barataria or Sancho Turned Governor

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of afterpiece, who is named in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #200 7s. 6d. (140.6.6; 55.11.0; 4.10.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #153 1s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Fugitive

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Event Comment: Afterpiece: 39th [recte 40th] time [i.e. in continuation of the reckoning for the previous season, when it had been acted 39 times]. The Ballet composed by Byrn. The Music composed, and the Ancient Scots Music selected and adapted, by Shield. The Overture by Reeve. Receipts: #323 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: Oscar and Malvina or The Hall of Fingal

Music: In afterpiece: the Harp and Pipes-Weippert, Courtney

Event Comment: Mainpiece: 24th [recte 25th] time [i.e. in continuation of the reckoning for the previous season, when it had been acted 24 times. Epilogue by Miles Peter Andrews]. Receipts: #262 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Notoriety

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner at Large

Event Comment: Mainpiece: The Overture and all the Music composed by Carter. Words of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. MS annotation on BM playbill (cg, Vol. VIII), 15 Dec. 1792: Mr Hurlstone in full for Just in Time #150. Receipts: #286 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Just In Time

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Dance: II: a Dance-Byrn, Mme Rossi. [Danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Event Comment: [In afterpiece the playbill retains Sedgwick, but he "being ill, his part in the Farce was given to Caulfield" (Thespian Magazine, Dec. 1792, p. 150).] Receipts: #162 1s. (107.11; 52.16; 1.14)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Event Comment: [This was Wilson's last appearance in London; subsequently he acted at Edinburgh, Manchester, &c.] Receipts: #250 10s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Just In Time

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner at Large

Event Comment: [In afterpiece the playbill retains Mrs Goodall as Widow Brady , but as she "was incapable of performing this evening, the Farce should have been changed, for poor Miss Collins was a lamentable Mrs Brady ; before the second act was half over, the greater part of the audience quitted the theatre" (Thespian Magazine, Dec. 1792, p. 150).] Receipts: #169 1s. (129.10; 37.19; 1.12)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2, by William Pearce]: With new Music, Dresses, &c. The Music composed by Haydn, Sacchini, and Shield. The Scenery by Richards. Books of the Songs [W. Woodfall, 1792] to be had at the The Theatre. Public Advertiser, 20 Apr. 1793: This Day is published Hartford Bridge (1s.). Receipts: #294 17s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge or The Skirts of the Camp

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Polonius to Wilson, but "Previous to the play an apology was made by Farren, for the absence of Wilson [see 2 Nov.], and requesting the Audience to accept of Munden in Polonius, which they chearfully assented to, and his performance justified their opinion" (Thespian Magazine, Dec. 1792, p. 153). "Hamlet is perfectly within the scope of [Holman's] powers; but his performance last night did not exhibit one discriminate feature of the character. He 'out Heroded Herod' throughout, with more than his usual perseverance. The praise of the evening rests with Munden, who laudably endeavoured to rescue Polonius from the buffoonery which has hitherto disgraced him" (Morning Herald, 6 Nov.). Afterpiece in place of Oscar and Malvina, advertised on playbill of 3 Nov.] Receipts: #319 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Careless Husband, advertised on playbill of 5 Nov. On the playbill no mention is made of the Epilogue (which is by Miles Peter Andrews), but "Lewis...was obliged to come forth at the unanimous call of the audience to speak the Epilogue" (Thespian Magazine, Dec. 1792, p. 153).] Receipts: #250 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist Or Stop Him Who Can

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Dance: End: The Wapping Landlady-Blurton, King, Mrs Watts

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains R. Palmer as Sir H. Lovewit , but he was ill, and Benson "at very short notice [supplied] Palmer's place" (Thespian Magazine, Dec. 1792, p. 150).] Receipts: #164 7s. (110.10; 50.9; 3.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #431 9s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Two Strings to Your Bow