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Event Comment: The Heiress [announced on playbill of 6 Mar.] is obliged to be deferred, on Account of the Indisposition of Smith. Receipts: #99 14s. (80/12/0; 17/4/6; 1/0/0; tickets not come in: 0/17/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: As17851017

Event Comment: Receipts: #157 14s. (129/8; 26/12; 1/9; tickets not come in: 0/5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Captives

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Song: As17860309athi

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. "The Captives were set at liberty last night, amidst roars of laughter. I see the doctor [i.e. the author] publishes it this week . . . Cadell bought this sublime piece before it appeared, for fifty pounds, agreeing to make it a hundred on its third representation. It has been played three times, and I dare say old Sanctimony will have no remorse in taking the other fifty." J. P. Kemble to Edmond Malone (Life of Edmond Malone, by Sir James Prior, i860, p. 126). Receipts: #138 13s. 6d. (91/19/0; 40/18/0; 5/16/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Captives

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: As17860223

Song: As17860309athi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces The Distress'd Mother, but it was not acted on account of Mrs Siddons's illness. Its substitute is listed in the Account-Book. Public Advertiser, 17 Mar., announces that "Macbeth (see 18 Mar.) is obliged to be deferred on account of the Indisposition of Mrs Siddons."] Receipts: #163 19s. 6d. (132/12/0; 29/12/0; 1/0/6; tickets not come in: 0/15/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Sestini. A Comic Opera; the Music by Anfossi. Tickets, 10s. 6d. each, to be had of Sga Sestini, No. 38, Mount-street, Berkeleysquare

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Viaggiatori Felici Or The Happy Travellers

Dance: End of Act I New Divertissement, as17860311but omitted: Mlle Mozon, Fabiani; End of Opera Divertissement Villageois, as17860218, but omitted: Mlle Mozon

Song: Sga Sestini will introduce some favourite songs

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of Macbeth, announced on playbill of 16 Mar., q.v.] Receipts: #162 13s. (135/1/0; 26/9/6; 0/10/0; tickets not come in: 0/12/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Strangers At Home

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: End of mainpiece The Lucky Return, as17860105

Event Comment: She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not [announced on playbill of 18 Mar.] is postponed on account of the Indisposition of Parsons. Mainpiece: Procession, as 6 Jan. Receipts: #93 12s. 6d. (66/16/0; 24/8/0; 1/13/6; tickets not come in: 0/15/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: In mainpiece, as17860106; In afterpiece, as17860116

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #217 7s. (210/9; 6/18; tickets: none listed) (charge #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Peruvian

Afterpiece Title: The Fool

Event Comment: Benefit for Vestris. Tickets, 10s. 6d. each, to be had of Vestris, No. 8, Great Suffolk-street, Charing-cross. 2nd ballet: With a great Variety of magnificent Scenery and Decorations executed by Gaetano Marinari. [Synopsis of action in Morning Post, 23 Mar.] "Vestris and Baccelli, tho' incomparable in some parts of the art, are far inferior as actors to Lepicq and Rossi... One evident amendment of the Ballet may be compression and curtailment. As it was, the curtain did not drop till twelve o'clock" (Public Advertiser, 25 Mar.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Viaggiatori Felici

Dance: End of Act I Divertissement Villageois, as17860218, but Sga Angiolini in place of Sga Carolina; End of Opera a Grand Pantomime Ballet in 3 acts, Le Premier Navigateur; ou, La Force de I'Amour (originally composed by Gardel Sen., and acted at the Opera House in Paris with uncommon Applause, and now got up at this Theatre under the immediate Inspection of Vestris). Melide-Mlle Baccelli (1st appearance these 4 years); Semite, Mother to Me'lide-Mlle Mozon; Venus-Sga Angiolini; Daphnis-Vestris; Faun-Fabiani; Old Cottager-D'Egville; Lovers of Melody-Henry, Marseilles, Duquesney [Jun].; Morpheus and Priest of Hymen-Marseilles; Cupid-Miss De Camp. With a Pas de Quatre by Rozier Jun., Marseilles, Spozzi, Giorgi

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years. Receipts: #178 2s. (153/13/0; 22/11/6; 1/2/6; tickets not come in: 0/15/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not Or The Kind Impostor

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by half past Four o'clock. Afterpiece: Never performed there. Receipts: #313 15s. (160/14; 17/6; 1/0; tickets: 134/15)(charge: #67 2s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: The Nabob

Dance: As17860318athi

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #171 16s. 6d. (167/6/6; 4/10/0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Peruvian

Afterpiece Title: Barataria

Event Comment: Receipts: #269 15s. (251/14/0; 16/19/6; 0/14/0; tickets not come in: 0/7/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Ferrarese del Bene. A Serious Opera [1st time; SER 2, by Pietro Giovannini]; the Music entirely new by Cherubini. Tickets, 10s. 6d. each, to be had of Sga Ferrarese del Bene, No. 232, Piccadilly

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Giulio Sabino

Dance: As17860311hroughout

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Event Comment: Benefit for Wroughton. Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years [not acted since 17 Feb. 1772]. Afterpiece: Not acted these 7 years. [Miss Brunton's 1st appearance as Palmira was at Bath, 24 May 1785.] "By the inattention of those behind the scenes, the interest of the play was three or four times injured and interrupted by persons crossing the stage in sight of the audience" (Public Advertiser, 5 Apr.). Receipts: #228 12s. (164/2; 6/8; tickets: 58/2) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet

Afterpiece Title: The Two Misers

Dance: AS 12 Nov. I785

Event Comment: Benefit for Mme Mara. Tickets to be had of Mme Mara, No. 24, Henrietta-street, Cavendish-square. Opera: With the last Scene new

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Didone Abbandonata

Dance: End of Act I New Divertissement, as17860311End of Opera L'Amour Jardinier, as17860401, but added: Miss Hervey, and L'Amour-Miss De Camp

Song: In the beginning of the 2nd act a Bravura Song by Mme Mara

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. Mainpiece: Never performed at this Theatre. Receipts: #265 2s. (190/18/6; 8/12/6; tickets: 65/11/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Foundling

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Dance: As17851103

Event Comment: Benefit for Dodd. Receipts: #302 15s. 6d. (110/1/0; 16/16/6; 1/7/0; tickets: 174/11/0) (charge: #106 11s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Dance: After the Monologue The Lucky Return, as17860105

Monologue: 1786 04 17 End of mainpiece The Cockney Hunt; or, Easter-monday's Chace through Epping Forest by Dodd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece The Lucky Return, as17860105, but Mills in place of Williamson; End of Act IV Minuet de la Cour, as17860116

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Event Comment: Benefit for Mlle Mozon. Tickets, iox. 6d. each, to be had of Mlle Mozon, No. 234, Piccadilly

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Scuola De Gelosi

Dance: End of Act I L'Amour Jardinier, as17860406, but added: With an additional Pas Seul by Mlle Mozon; End of Opera an entirely new Ballet, composed by D'Egville, La Fife Marine, in which La Provencale by Mlle Mozon; also a Pas de Trois to the favourite tune of Bon Andre taken from the French Comic Opera L'Epreuve Villageoise, the music by Gretry, performed by Vestris, Duquesney Jun., Mlle Baccelli; and to conclude with the Pas de SLuatre, so much admired in Paris, in the Opera called Pamrge, and got up here under the direction of Vestris, and performed by Vestris, Mlle Baccelli, Fabiani, Mlle Mozon. [In a review Morning Herald, 1 May, adds: Sequedilla by Miss De Camp and Master D'Egville.]

Event Comment: Benefit for Fosbrook, Box-Book and House-Keeper. Mainpiece: Not acted these 8 years. Receipts: #320 14s. (30/14; 9/4; 1/15; tickets: 279/1) (charge: #106 17s. 3d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: End of Act IV of mainpiece The Lucky Return, as17860420

Event Comment: Benefit for a Fund for the Relief of those who from their Infirmities shall be obliged to retire from the Stage. Receipts: #211 6s. 6d. (95/19/0; 25/12/0; 1/5/6; tickets: 88/10/0) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: The Romp