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Event Comment: Benefit for Waldron. Public Advertiser, 9 May: Tickets to be had of Waldron, No. 19, Martlet-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Mainpiece [1st time in London; C 5, by Francis Godolphin Waldron, 1st acted at Richmond, Aug. 1782, as The Belle's Stratagem; or, The Female Fortune-Hunters, and again at the HAY in 1794 as Heigho for a Husband! Prologue by the author (MacMillan, Larpent Catalogue, 100). Author of Epilogue unknown. MS: Larpent 599; not published]. Afterpiece: Not acted these 8 years. The Indisposition which prevented King from performing last Friday continuing, Palmer has very kindly undertaken and studied the Character King intended to have appeared in this Evening. Receipts: #126 15s. 6d. (34/5/0; 21/18/6; 2/15/0; tickets: 67/17/0) (charge: #106 9s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Imitation; Or, The Female Fortune-hunters

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies' Frolick

Dance: After the Epilogue The Butterfly, as17830426; In Act I of afterpiece the Crutch Dance {performers not listed)

Song: In Act II of mainpiece song on the Knights of St. Patrick, &c. (singer not listed)

Event Comment: [Browne was from the Richmond theatre; Mrs Kemble from the Edinburgh theatre.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Harvest Home

Entertainment: Monologue As17870516

Event Comment: Received of the Proprietor of the Richmond Theatre for [permission to act] The Little Hunchback #10. Receipts: #170 1s. 6d. (166.18.0; 3.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood; Or, Sherwood Forest

Afterpiece Title: The Little Hunchback

Event Comment: By Desiire of the Cherokee Chiefs [see 12 Nov.]. Afterpiece: Not acted these 7 years. [European Magazine, Dec. 1790, p. 468, says that this was Mrs Ferguson's 1st appearance in London; she was from the Richmond theatre.] Receipts: #205 5s. (202.8.6; 2.16.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: End II: The Irish Lilt, as17901020

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: Taste; or, Diversion in the Morning

Performance Comment: Carmine-Martin (1st appearance on any stage [see above]); Brush-A Gentleman (from the Theatre Royal, Richmond [unidentified]); Novice-Scott; Lord Dupe-Holiday; Alderman Pentweazel-Well; Caleb-Johnson; Boy-Sharp; Puff-Wilkinson; Lady Pentweazel-Mr Berry (2nd appearance on any stage).

Dance: I afterpiece: Mock Minuet-Alderman, Lady Pentweazel

Song: End: The Tobacco Box-Johnson, Miss Chatterley

Entertainment: Monologues After Singing: British Loyalty[; or, A Squeeze to St. Paul's-Wilkinson; End II afterpiece: Bucks have at Ye All-a Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified])

Music: Between Acts: several pieces of Martial Music-his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester's Band(, in full uniform, by Permission)

Event Comment: [Richardson was from the Richmond theatre.) Receipts: #200 8s. 6d. (191/14/0; 8/14/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: THE MAID OF THE OAKS

Dance: End of mainpiece The Drunken Swiss, as17931015; In Act I of afterpiece a Dance by Holland and Mlle St. Amand

Event Comment: By Desiire of the Cherokee Chiefs [see 12 Nov.]. Afterpiece: Not acted these 7 years. [European Magazine, Dec. 1790, p. 468, says that this was Mrs Ferguson's 1st appearance in London; she was from the Richmond theatre.] Receipts: #205 5s. (202.8.6; 2.16.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: End II: The Irish Lilt, as17931020

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham; Or, Days Of Old

Afterpiece Title: A Gallimaufry

Performance Comment: Consisting of the most approved Songs given at Freemason's Hall and the Theatres. The Waiter-Fawcett; Richmond Primrose Girl-Incledon; The Land of Potatoes-Johnstone; The Storm-Incledon; The days we now possess-Munden.

Afterpiece Title: Crotchet Lodge

Entertainment: Monologue.End: Monsieur Tonson (founded on fact, and recited at Freemason's Hall)-Fawcett

Event Comment: Benefit for King. [Mrs Siddons's 1st appearance as Gertrude was at Liverpool, 23 July 1777; Mrs Jordan's as Ophelia at Richmond, 19 Aug. 1795.] Morning Herald, 28 Apr.: Tackets to be had of King, No. 56, Store-street, Bedford-square; 30 Apr.: The dresses [in Hamlet] were all modern. Receipts: #498 17s. 6d. (284.11.6; 55.9.0; 2.5.0; tickets: 156.12.0) (charge: #232 7s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

Entertainment: Monologue.End: a Serio-Comic, Poetic, Prosaic Paraphrase on Shakespeare's Seven Ages-King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Deserted Daughter

Afterpiece Title: A Melocosmiotes

Performance Comment: Scene I. A Valley. The Primrose Girl (near bowery Richmond's) by Spofforth-Mrs Clendining; Scene II. A Kitchen. Fat Dolly the Cook-Munden; Scene III. A Landscape and Cottage. The Sportsman's snug little Cot (At the dawn of Aurora) by Shield-Incledon; Scene IV. A View in Ireland. The Heart of Steel (from The Lad of the Hills) by Shield-Bowden; Scene V. A Cathedral, with the Statue of Shakespeare. An Ode selected from Ben Jonson, in honor of Shakespeare, composed for Two Choirs by Shield expressly for the Evening's Performance,-Incledon, Bowden, Townsend, Richardson, Linton, Spofforth, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Clendining, Mrs Serres, Chorus; To conclude with The Barber's Petition-Fawcett; Wigs-Fawcett, as17960506.

Afterpiece Title: Oscar and Malvina

Song: End II of 1st piece: The Sea Storm-Incledon; In 3rd piece: I am a jolly gay Pedlar-Townsend; Come every jovial Fellow-Rees, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain; O ever in my bosom live-Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain

Event Comment: Benefit for Richardson and Mrs Davenport. 1st piece: Not acted these 20 years [acted 9 Oct. 1778], and compressed into one Act. [Miss Hay, whose 1st appearance on the stage was at Richmond, 15 Sept. 1792, is identified in Thespian Dictionary, 1805, under Mrs Litchfield.] Receipts: #234 5s. (69.1.6; 2.6.6; tickets: 162.17, of which Richardson sold 84.0, and Mrs Davenport 78.17)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Maid

Afterpiece Title: Every One has His Fault

Afterpiece Title: Cymon

Dance: Conclude 3rd piece: Dance-

Song: End: Black@Ey'd Susan-Incledon; End 2nd piece: The Group of Lovers-Munden

Event Comment: [Miss Molini is identified in MS list in Kemble playbills of new performers for this season.] "Mrs Jordan...has taken considerable pains with a young lady of the name of Moline [sic], who, under her tuition, has frequently performed at Richmond theatre" (Monthly Visitor, Feb. 1798, p. 175). Receipts: #209 (120.15.6; 85.1.6; 3.3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

Event Comment: [Miss Brown is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill. "Notwithstanding the bills...[she acted] the summer before last, on the boards of the Richmond theatre" (Monthly Mirror, Nov. 1798, p. 308). In afterpiece the playbill retains Mrs Roffey as Nelly, but she "who usually performed the part of the Servant Maid, [was] suddenly taken ill; her substitute [was] Miss Tidswell" (Morning Herald, 12 Nov.).] Account-Book: Received of Hammersley & Co., lent to pay the Company #500; paid Lowndes, printer, #10; Chorus #6; Rablus, tallow candles, #10. Receipts: #203 12s. (126.3.6; 76.7.6; 1.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Event Comment: [Mrs Higginson, who is identified in European Magazine, Nov. 1799, p. 328, had, as Mrs Cussans, acted previously at Richmond and elsewhere.] 2nd piece: In one act [and in place of The Flitch of Bacon, advertised on playbill of 9 Nov.]. 3rd piece: Representation of the Battle, as 9 Nov. Receipts: #293 17s. 6d. (286.17.6; 7.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mysteries Of The Castle

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Afterpiece Title: The Mouth of the Nile