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Event Comment: Mainpiece: In Act I a Masquerade Scene incident to the Play. Receipts: #130 6s. (128.0; 2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Mago and Dago

Song: As17950105

Event Comment: [Wathen was from the Richmond theatre. Afterpiece in place of Lodoiska, advertised on playbill of 24 Jan.] Powell: Mountaineers rehearsed at 11; New Ballet at 12. Receipts: #171 6s. (125.7; 41.2; 4.17)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mountaineers

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of Measure for Measure, advertised on playbill of 26 Jan.] Receipts: #107 7s. 6d. (61.15.6; 41.19.6; 3.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Sedgwick as singer, but "Dignum sang the Song in Act III, Sedgwick being Ill. Surface's Servant Evans for Banks" (Powell).] Powell: New Ballet rehearsed at 12. Receipts: #145 2s. (96.15.6; 45.13.6; 2.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

Song: III: song-Dignum

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of Mago and Dago, advertised on playbill of 27 Jan.] Paid Messrs Marteneni and Polleti in full for artificial flowers #33 14s. Receipts: #90 8s. 6d. (83.0.6; 7.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rage

Afterpiece Title: Netley Abbey

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Hypocrite; afterpiece of The Quaker, both advertised on playbill of 28 Jan.] Powell: New Ballet rehearsed at 12. Receipts: #245 5s. 6d. (188.9.0; 52.9.6; 4.7.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Event Comment: [Miss Mellon, who was from the Stafford theatre, is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill. In afterpiece the playbill retains Dignum as Ithorak, but "Ithorak Cooke, Dignum Ill; Michael [omitted from playbill] Trueman, Bland Ill; the Speech of the 1st Page Master Gregson, Master Welsh Ill" (Powell).] Powell, 30 Jan.: Rivals rehearsed at 11; New Ballet at 2 and at 6; 31 Jan.: Prize rehearsed at 12; New Ballet at 2. Receipts: #215 6s. 6d. (149.0.6; 63.9.6; 2.16.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; MD 3, by Miles Peter Andrews and Frederick Reynolds. Prologue by Edward Topham; Epilogue by Miles Peter Andrews (Crouch, II, 229)]: With new Scenes, Dresses and Decorations. The new Music composed, and the rest selected by Shield. Morning Chronicle, 25 Feb. 1795: This Day is published The Mysteries of the Castle (2s.). [Mrs Cornelys was from the Crow Street Theatre Dublin.] Receipts: #243 12s. (241.19; 1.13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mysteries Of The Castle

Afterpiece Title: Two Strings to Your Bow

Event Comment: Powell, 1 Feb.: New Ballet rehearsed at 6; 2 Feb.: Prize rehearsed at 11; New Ballet at 12. Receipts: #178 6s. 6d. (120.12.0; 52.10.0; 5.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mountaineers

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Event Comment: Powell: Servant to Miss Alscrip, Evans [in mainpiece]; Michael doubled With Gustavus by Trueman, Bland Ill [in afterpiece]. New Ballet rehearsed at 12. Receipts: #165 8s. 6d. (110.4.0; 51.3.6; 4.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Event Comment: Powell: Beggar's Opera rehearsed at 10; New Ballet at 12 [and for afterpiece same note as on 3 Feb.]. Receipts: #170 9s. (120.19.6; 37.9.0; 12.0.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Midnight Hour, advertised on playbill of 3 Feb.] Receipts: #191 2s. (187.7; 315)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mysteries Of The Castle

Afterpiece Title: He Woud be a Soldier

Event Comment: Powell: [In afterpiece] Sir John Buck Cooke, Phillimore Ill; Classic Benson, Packer Ill. Beggar's Opera rehearsed at 10; New Ballet at 10 and at 12. Receipts: #148 3s. 6d. (103.5.0; 40.6.6; 4.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cherokee

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Event Comment: [Miss Arne, who is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill, had previously appeared as a chorus singer; see 27 Oct. 1794. In mainpiece the playbill assigns Mrs Peachum to Mrs Hopkins, Suky Tawdry to Mrs Maddocks, Mrs Coaxer to Miss Stageldoir, but "Mrs Hopkins being ill, Mrs Maddocks play'd Mrs Peachum; Mrs Hedges Suky Tawdry for Mrs Maddocks; Miss Stageldoir Ill, Mrs Jones play'd Mrs Coaxer. [In afterpiece] Jones Ill, Lyons Snuffle; Evans 4th Mob for Lyons [both these characters omitted from playbill]" (Powell).] Powell: Mayor of Garratt rehearsed at 12; New Ballet at 12. Receipts: #174 10s. (121.14; 51.2; 1.14)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: In III: Hornpipe-G. D'Egville

Event Comment: Powell: Sedgwick not coming to the Theatre, his 1st Scene in My Grandmother was oblig'd to be omitted. The above Neglect Mr Sedgwick is too often guilty of. New Ballet rehearsed at 12. [Mainpiece in place of The Clandestine Marriage, advertised on playbill of 6 Feb.] Receipts: #103 7s. 6d. (65.12.6; 31.14.0; 6.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Song: As17941029

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Midnight Hour, advertised on playbill of 6 Feb.] Receipts: #146 2s. (137.14; 8.8),

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mysteries Of The Castle

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Citizen, advertised on playbill of 7 Feb.] Powell, 8 Feb.: New Ballet rehearsed at 6; 9 Feb.: New Ballet rehearsed at 12. Receipts: #127 7s. 6d. (85.6.6; 37.9.6; 4.11.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cherokee

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Event Comment: [In mainpiece "Evans Lady Sneerwell's Servant for Maddocks"; in afterpiece the playbill retains Mrs Bramwell as Nelly, but "Mrs Bramwell being Ill Miss Tidswell play'd the part of Nelly, and Miss DeCamp sang the Trio" (Powell).] Powell: New Ballet rehearsed at 12. Receipts: #139 1s. 6d. (93.1.0; 40.2.0; 5.18.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Song: As17941112

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; P 3 (except for 1st two performances, which were 2), by James Harvey D'Egville. Synopsis of action (C. Lowndes [1795])]: A Representation calculated to shew the extent and powers of the New Stage, and which has been in preparation during the whole of the Season (notice on playbill of 10 Feb.). The Musick composed by Krazinsky Miller. The Scenes, Machinery, Dresses and Decorations are entirely new. The Scenery designed and executed by Marinari, and his Assistants. The Machinery designed by Cabanel, and executed by him and Jacobs. The Dresses and Decorations by Johnston and Miss Rein. Powell: [The pantomime] was astonishingly well received, except the chorus of 'Happy Pair' at the end, which was so shamefully managed that the performers met with, what they much deserved, great disapprobation. The acting of the piece was in general well conducted, but the Processionv [The Piece will conclude with the Entry of Alexander into Babylonv, and his Marriage with Statirav (playbill)], for want of room to arrange behind, was unavoidably sent on in a very confused manner...Alexander's car could not be sent on this evening, not being yet complete. [These difficulties are somewhat surprising, in view of the fact that the pantomime had had 54 rehearsals. And see 13 Feb.] 11 Feb.: Chorusses to New Ballet rehearsed at 10; Natural Son at 11; New Ballet at 11; New Ballet (full rehearsal) at 6; 12 Feb.: New Ballet rehearsed at 12. Receipts: #504 3s. 6d. (417.2.0; 83.16.6; 3.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Natural Son

Afterpiece Title: Alexander the Great or The Conquest of Persia

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Highland Reel, advertised on playbill of 12 Feb.] Receipts: #62 19s. 6d. (60.3.6; 2.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mysteries Of The Castle

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Foundling, advertised on playbill of 12 Feb.] Powell: Alexander 's car was completed, and drawn by two elephants, and accompanied by Darius ' car, drawn by three white horses, and another car laden with trophies, drawn by soldiers all of which [were] totally covered with burnished gold and silver...The Procession was still but indifferently conducted. New Ballet rehearsed at 12. Morning Chronicle, 18 Oct. 1794: Two hundred soldiers are to be employed in the spectacle; each of their dresses is estimated at #5. Account-Book: Paid Miller in full for music in Alexander the Great #30. Receipts: #263 11s. (173.16.6; 86.13.0; 3.1.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: Alexander the Great

Event Comment: On account of the Engagements of some of the principal Performers at the Opera House it is absolutely impossible to give Alexander the Great this Evening; the third night will be on Monday next, and every Accomodations is making for an Arrangement that will prevent any future interruption of this Representation. Powell: New Comedy [The Wheel of Fortune] read at 12. Receipts: #143 19s. 6d. (87.5.6; 48.16.6; 7.17.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Thomas Hurlstone. Prologue by Robert Houlton (see text)]. Morning Chronicle, 23 Mar. 1795: This Day is published Crotchet Lodge (1s.). Receipts: #179 16s. 6d. (172.14.6; 7.2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mysteries Of The Castle

Afterpiece Title: Crotchet Lodge

Event Comment: Powell, 15 Feb.: Alexander the Great rehearsed at 11; 2nd Scene of D & Procession at 6; 16 Feb.: New Comedy rehearsed at 11. Receipts: #407 5s. (308.0.0; 94.3.6; 5.1.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Alexander the Great

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #382 18s. 6d. (380.14.6; 2.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mysteries Of The Castle

Afterpiece Title: Mago and Dago