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Event Comment: Benefit for Fosbrook, box-book and housekeeper. Receipts: #291 10s. (20/5; 14/11; 0/3; tickets: 256/11) (charge: #107 4s. 3d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: End of Act iv of mainpiece The Butterfly, as17830426

Event Comment: There will be no Play this Evening [The Grecian Daughter, also Belphegor had been announced on playbill of 16 May], on Account of the Indisposition of Mrs Siddons. The Money received for Tickets issued for this Night will be returned at Fosbrook's Office

Performances

Event Comment: Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook at the stage-door. The Doors will be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 13 Oct.]. [No playbill this season lists the various prices of admission; they were probably, as usual: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Lee Lewes was from CG.] Receipts: #190 (153/7/0; 36/1/6; 0/11/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Tickets to be had and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook, at the Stage Door, for Half a Guinea each. Pit 5s. 1st Gallery 3s. 6d. 2nd Gallery 2s. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'allegro Il Penseroso

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation Anthems

Event Comment: Benefit for Fosbrook, box-book and housekeeper. Mainpiece: Not acted these 10 years. Receipts: #185 19s. 6d. (17/19/0; 5/12/6; 0/6/0; tickets: 162/2/0) (charge: #106 3s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon; Or, The Two Sosias

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Song: dl

Dance: Plutus-Staunton; Wit-Miss George; the Dance by Mr and Miss Hamoir. End of Act I of mainpiece New Hornpipe by Master Butler (Scholar of Miller); End of Act III The Soldier Tir'd, as17840414; End of mainpiece The Minuet de la Cour and Allemande by the Miss Stageldoirs

Song: In mainpiece an Interlude of

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for the Author. Play [1st time; T 5]: Written by the Rev. [Thomas] Stratford. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Tickets to be had of Dr Stratford, No. 5, Cecil-street, Strand, and of Fosbrook at the Theatre. Dr Stratford, in the overflowing of a grateful heart, is happy indeed in returning thanks to the Ladies and Gentlemen who, with equal benignity and humanity, have so generously exerted themselves in bringing forward his tragedy of Russel. Above the mean manoeuvres that have been practised by persons he had the least reason to expect such a conduct from, and which have detained him almost three years in London, at a ruinous expense, he went with a party of his friends, on Wednesday last, to the Hay-market, in support of the other Lord Russel, penned by superior genius. As he never injured an individual, he trusts every intention to defeat the success of his play will be disappointed by a generous London audience who, he still presumes to hope, will be actuated by the same noble spirit and principle that first induced the Lady and Gentleman to undertake so arduous a task as appearing on a public theatre. As many parts of the play will be expunged and altered, he begs leave to mention that it cannot be again represented till Wednesday next, when the characters of Lord Howard and Hubert will be performed by two other Gentlemen, who have generously undertaken their parts, and an entire new address will be spoken by the Gentleman who performs Lord Russel, wrote by himself. "The performers ... rendered the Doctor's Tragedy one of the most laughable farces at which we were ever present. [It] has much Calimanco in it, and where we could hear a sentence compleat (which was seldom indeed) it abounded with Fustian" (Public Advertiser, 21 Aug.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lord Russel

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Fulmer to Baddeley, but in the Kemble playbill his name is deleted; the substitute name has been cut by the binder.] Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. 2nd Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook at the Theatre. The Doors will be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 8 Nov.]. Receipts: #131 10s. 6d. (91/18/0; 39/12/6; 0/0/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: ATrip to Scotland

Dance: End of mainpiece The Sportsmen's Return by Mr and Miss Hamoir; Afterpiece: With a Postillion Dance (performers not listed)

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Tickets to be had and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook, at the Stage Door of the Theatre, at half a guinea each. Pit 51. 1st Gallery 3;. 6d. 2nd Gallery is. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Music That Was Selected For The Commemoration Of Handel, In Westminster Abbey And The Pantheon, The 26th And 27th Of May, 1784

Event Comment: Benefit for Fosbrook, box-book and house-keeper. Receipts: #298 6s. (48/12; 11/13; 0/10; tickets: 237/11) (charge: #108 18s. 5d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sons Of Anacreon

Afterpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook at the Theatre. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 16 Nov.] . Orders and Free #24 11s. Receipts : #280 16s. 6d. (257/11/0 ; 23/0/6 ; 0/5/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello-kemble ; Roderigo-dodd ; Cassio-bannister Jun

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Event Comment: Tickets to be had and Places [for the boxes] to be taken of Fosbrook, at the Stage Door of the Theatre. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season]. Books of the Performance to be had at the Theatre. New Lady's Magazine, Mar 1786, p. 110: performance under the direction of Dr Arnold, who conducted from the organ. I know that my redeemer liveth sung by Miss George; He was despised and rejected by Master Pring; How beautiful are the feet by Mrs Forster

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

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 Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

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

Event Comment: Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook, at the Theatre. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 14 Nov.]. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. In drinking health to the King at the supper table in the farce, Baddeley introduced very appositely an allusion to his Majesty's late fortunate escape [on 2 Aug., when Margaret Nicholson attempted to assassinate him], which was received with three plaudits" (London Chronicle, 19 Sept.). Receipts: #260 13s. (224.2; 36.6; 0.5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Song: III: Song-Williames [This was sung, as here assigned,in all subsequent performances, except on 19 Jan. 1787, q.v.]

Event Comment: Tickets to be had and Places for the Boxes to taken of Fosbrook, at the Stage Door of the Theatre. Boxes 10s. 6d. Pit 5s. 1st Gallery 3s. 6d. 2nd Gallery 2s. Books of the Performance to be had at the Theatre only. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Redemption 0 (selected From The Great And Favourite Works Of handel That Were Performed At His commemoration In Westminster Abbeyv And At The pantheon [on 26 And 27 May 1784])

Afterpiece Title: Redemption 1

Event Comment: Benefit for Fosbrook, box-book and house-keeper. Receipts: #302 1s. (29.1; 11.6; 1.0; tickets: 260.14) (charge: #105 2s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Dance: End: A Highland Reel, as17860928, but _Mills, Ferrere

Event Comment: "Palmer and Bannister having withdrawn from the theatre, The School for Scandal and The Quaker, which were intended for the opening pieces, were changed" (Town and Country Magazine, Oct. 1787, p. 445). [These two actors thought themselves ill-used because of the refusal of the dl management to acknowledge their right to open the Royalty (see 20 June 1787). Oulton, 1796, II, 1-8, prints an exchange of letters between Palmer, Bannister, and King (the dl acting manager) relating to this situation.] "Some twenty of thirty bars of Handel, on the approach of the court to the play [in III. ii of mainpiece]...made a fine preparation for the scene which followed" (World, 19 Sept.). Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook at the Theatre. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 13 Nov.]. Receipts: #186 5s. 6d. (151.0.0; 35.4.6; 0.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Event Comment: Tickets to be had, and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook, at the Stage Door of the Theatre. Books of the Performance to be had at the Theatre. Boxes 10s. 6d. Pit 5s. 1st Gallery 3s. 6d. 2nd Gallery 2s. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Redemption 0 (selected From The Great And Favoprite Works Of handel That Were Performed At His commemoration In Westminster Abbeyv, And At The pantheon [on 26 And 27 May 1784])

Afterpiece Title: Redemption 1

Music: End II: a new concerto on the hautboy-Parke

Event Comment: Benefit for Fosbrook, box book and house keeper. Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years. Receipts: #297 12s. 6d. (37.17.0; 7.17.6; 0.17.0; tickets: 251.1.0) (charge: #109 2s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Event Comment: Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook, at the Theatre. The Doors to be opened at 5.30. To begin at 6:30 [see 3 Nov.]. [No playbill this season lists the various prices of admission; they were probably, as usual: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s.] Afterpiece: To conclude with a Grand Representation of Regattav. Kemble Mem.: No Manager [i.e. King had resigned as acting manager; but see 23 Sept.]. Ivory Tickets introduced. [These tickets, also called "bones," were for the use of actors and other members of the company in gaining admission for themselves or their friends to the front of the house. They replaced paper orders (World, 18 Oct. 1788).] Receipts: #112 3s. 6d. (75.6.0; 35.10.0; 1.7.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Event Comment: The Band, both Focal and instrumental, are considerably augmented, with the addition of the Boys from his Majesty's@Chapels@Royal, The Choirs of St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey. Tickets to be had, and places for the Boxes to be taken, of Fosbrook, at the stage-door of the Theatre. Boxes 10s. 6d. Pit 5s. 1st Gallery 3s. 6d. 2nd Gallery 2s. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Prelude, On The Happy Recovery Of His Majesty

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Truth 0

Event Comment: Benefit for Fosbrook, box-book and housekeeper. Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #291 (44.1; 10.13; 0.10; tickets: 235.16) (charge: #115 6s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: End: The Irish Bird@Catchers, as17890519

Event Comment: No Money to be returned. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook, at the Theatre. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 4 Nov.]. [No playbill this season lists the various prices of admission; they were probably, as usual: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s.] Receipts: #159 6s. 6d. (119.17.0; 38.6.0; 1.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Event Comment: Books of the Performance to be had at the Theatre. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook at the Stage Door. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. 2nd Gallery 1s. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season]. No Money to be returned

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah, Preceded By god Save The King(coronation Anthems)

Music: End II: concerto on the violin-Master Bridgtower, Son to the African Prince

Event Comment: Benefit for Fosbrook, box-book and house-keeper. Receipts: #320 17s. (45.3; 15.5; 1.7; tickets: 259.2) (charge: #117 10s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: As17900308

Event Comment: No Money to be returned. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook, at the Theatre. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 2 Nov.]. [No playbill this season lists the various prices of admission; they were probably, as usual: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s.] Mainpiece: The Sixtieth Night [but in the previous season (its 1st) the play had been acted 56 nights. On this evening Bannister Jun. acted in the mainpiece at dl and in the 3rd piece at the hay.]. Account-Book, 16 Nov.: Paid Jarvis for 4,000 Songs of Haunted Tower #28 4s. Receipts: #256 2s. 6d. (214.12.0; 40.10.6; 1.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him