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Event Comment: Benefit for Baddeley. Mainpiece: Not acted these 30 years [not acted since 22 July 1718]. Afterpiece [1st time; C 2, ascribed to Jesse Foot. MS: Larpent 650; not published; synopsis of plot in Gazetteer, 20 Apr. Author of Prologue unknown]. Public Advertiser, 16 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Baddeley, No. 2, Little-Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #216 18s. (73/10; 35/11; 3/10; tickets: 104/7) (charge: #106 8s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Veil

Afterpiece Title: Jewish Education

Afterpiece Title: The Quacks; or, The Credulous Man

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17840311athi

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke. Public Advertiser, 16 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Clarke, Russel-street, Covent Garden. Mainpiece: With Procession, as 27 Mar. Receipts: #191 9s. (89/2; tickets: 102/7) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: End of mainpiece The Rival Nymphs, as17840318athi

Event Comment: Benefit for Edwin. Public Advertiser, 9 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Edwin, No. 19, Piazza, Covent Garden. Mainpiece: Written by Ben Jonson, and altered by George Colman, Esq. Receipts: #349 15s. 6d. (250/15/6; tickets: 99/0/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman

Afterpiece Title: M id as

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece A Description of the Curiosities of the Tower of London; End of mainpiece Four and Twenty Fiddlers all on a Row, both by Edwin

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. Public Advertiser, 17 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 6, Great Russel Street, Covent Garden. Mainpiece: Not acted these 20 years [not acted since 21 Oct. 1760]. Afterpiece: For that night only; never acted here. [Miss Bannister's 1st appearance on the stage was at HAY, 27 Aug. 1783.] Receipts: #206 19s. 6d. (114/1/0; 23/7/6; 1/5/0; tickets: 68/6/0) (charge: #108 14s. 3d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: As17840311athi

Song: End of Act II of mainpicce Auld Robin Grey, as17840426 imitations. After the Dancing, various Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical by Bannister Jun

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wells [whose 1st appearance in tragedy was at this theatre, 30 Apr. 1783]. Public Advertiser, 29 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Wells, No. 5, York-street, Covent-garden. Receipts: #143 17s. (33/4/0; 24/0/6; 0/10/6; tickets: 86/2/0) (charge: #114 8s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Dance: After the Singing, as17840311athi

Song: End of mainpiece a favourite song by Miss George

Monologue: 1784 04 30 Before the mainpiece an occasional Address spoken by Mrs Wells

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wilson. Public Advertiser, 30 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Wilson, No. 20, Tavistock-street, Covent Garden. 3rd piece [1st time; F 1, author unknown. MS: Larpent 656; not published. Author of Prologue unknown]. Receipts: #177 4s. 6d. (113/15/6; tickets: 63/9/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rose And Colin

Afterpiece Title: The Merry Wives of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Bribery on both Sides

Dance: End of mainpiece The Poney Races (performers not listed; see17840428)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

Afterpiece Title: A Medley

Performance Comment: Scene I. A Chamber. As Scene III, 7 May. Scene II. As Scene III, 26 Apr. Scene III. A Garden. As Scene IV, 3 May. Scene IV. Inside of a Playhouse. Bucks have at ye all by Ward. To conclude with The Jovial Sailors, as17840320athi .

Afterpiece Title: Duke and No Duke

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece, as17840311athi

Event Comment: Benefit for Macklin. Gazetteer, 7 May: Tickets to be had of Macklin, Tavistock-row, Covent-garden. Receipts: #194 11s. (116/4; tickets: 78/7) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Rambler

Event Comment: [Extra night] Benefit for Wild. Wild respectfully informs the Public, on account of the Loss he sustained by his former Night [see 17 May], the Managers of Covent Garden and Hay-market Theatres, as well as the several Performers, have granted him their free Assistance. Receipts: none listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece Dance by Byrne and Mrs Goodwin; End of Act IV Dance by Harris and Miss Besford

Song: In afterpiece Sweet Echo, as17840323but accompanied by Foster

Event Comment: [Extra night] Benefit for Bonnor. Afterpiece [1st time; INT 1]: Translated [by Charles Bonnor] from a new Production of Dorvigny, entitled La Fete de Campagne; ou, L'Intendant Comedien malgre Lui, now acting in Paris with uncommon Applause [MS: Larpent 664; not published; in later season occasionally acted under the title of Transformation]. Tickets to be had of Bonnor, No. 19, Piazza, Covent Garden. Bonnor begs leave to inform his Friends and the Public that on account of his Absence at the time his Night was to have been appointed he was induced to decline a Benefit in the course of the Season, but the Manager having obligingly made him an Offer of the Theatre, free of all Expense, and the several Performers kindly engaging to assist him, he has fixed on this Day. Receipts: none listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Afterpiece Title: The Manager an Actor in Spite of Himself

Song: End of mainpiece a favourite song by Mrs Martyr. monologues. End of Act IV of mainpiece The Adventures of a Buck by Bonnor; End of afterpiece a new address, Belles have at ye all! by Mrs Bates

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. Public Advertiser, 24 July: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 6, Great Russel-street, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece, as17840727

Song: In the Temple of Health [in afterpiece] (1st time, and for this night only) a new, shocking Electrical Caleb, set to Medical Music by Dr Arnold, sung by Edwin, Bannister, Davies, Brett. imitations. End of mainpiece Various Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical, by Bannister Jun

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bannister. Afterpiece: Written by [John] O'Keeffe, Author of The Son-in-Law, Agreeable Surprise, Young Quaker, &c &c. Tickets to be had of Mrs Bannister, No. 6, Great Russel-strcet, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

Dance: As17840730

Monologue: 1784 08 20 As 19 Aug. IMITATIONS. As 30 July

Event Comment: Benefit for Edwin. Mainpiece: Written by Dr Goldsmith. Public Advertiser, 20 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Edwin, No. 19, Piazza, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Good-natur'd Man

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Song: End of Act I of afterpiece Four-and-Twenty Fiddlers all on a Row by Edwin

Monologue: 1784 08 24 End of mainpiece A Description of the Curiosities of the Tomer of London by Edwin, in the Character of a Warden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Refugee; Or, The Rival Jews

Afterpiece Title: A Musical Interlude

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Performance Comment: Cadwallader-Jackson; Vamp-Osborne; Young Cape-Edwards; Sprightly-Frederic / Mrs Cadwallader (for that night only)-A Young Lady (Sister to Mr Edwin, of Covent Garden, 1st appearance in this, and 2nd on any stage [Mrs Williams]) .Mrs Williams]) .

Song: End of Act I of 3rd piece How sweet's the love that meets return by Mrs Henley

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bannister. Public Advertiser, 10 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Bannister, No. 29, Bow-street, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. Public Advertiser, 18 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Lewis at his house in Broad Court, Bow-street, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Follies Of A Day

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Event Comment: Benefit for Baddeley. Public Advertiser, 2 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Baddeley, No. 2, Little Russel-street, Covent-garden. [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Ogle to King, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Barrymore.] 2nd piece [1st time: INT I, probably by Robert Baddeley. MS: Larpent 692; not published]. Receipts: #226 3s. 6d. (105/18/0; 30/11/6; 0/16/0; tickets: 88/18/0) (charge: #111 17s. 7d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beau's Duel; Or, A Soldier For The Ladies

Afterpiece Title: The St

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Monologue: 1785 04 11 End of Act I of mainpiece The History of John Gilpin, the Linen Draper by Baddeley

Event Comment: Benefit for Edwin. Public Advertiser, 29 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Edwin, No. 19, Piazza, Covent Garden. Mainpiece: Altered from Beaumont and Fletcher [i.e. from Fletcher alone]. Afterpiece: Not acted these 6 years [acted 28 May 1782]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Women Pleas'd

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: In Act IV of mainpiece a song by Mrs Martyr; End of Mainpiece Four and Twenty Fidlers all on a Row by Edwin

Monologue: 1785 04 11 End of Act II of mainpiece A Description of the Curiosities of the Tower of London by Edwin

Event Comment: Benefit for Brereton. Public Advertiser, 26 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Brereton, Charles-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #262 7s. 6d. (129/3/0; 18/13/0; 0/10/6; tickets: 114/1/0) (charge: #106 7s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. 1st piece [1st time; M. INT I, compiler unknown]. 2nd piece: In 3 acts. 3rd piece [1st time; ENT I, author unknown. MS: Larpent 695, not published]. Public Advertiser, 2 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 29, Bow-street, Covent-garden. Receipts: #276 16s. (162/11; 12/18; 0/11; tickets: 100/16) (charge: #110 14s. iod.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sons Of Anacreon

Afterpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Afterpiece Title: An Author on the Wheel; or, A Piece cut in the Green-Room

Afterpiece Title: ROSINA

Song: In 2nd piece the Sheep-sbearing Song by Miss Phillips. imitations. In 3rd piece, by Bannister Jun

Event Comment: Benefit for Pope. Tickets delivered for March 15 and 31 will be taken. Public Advertiser, 14 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Pope at Mrs Sledge's, Henrietta-street, Covent Garden. "In the prominent display of Iago's jealousy, a material question of the play--slightly handled by the poet, and almost untouched by every preceding player--in this, Henderson's claim to praise is quite unrivalled" {Public Advertiser, 25 Apr.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Martyr. Public Advertiser, 20 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Martyr at Mr Robley's, Bow-street, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: End of mainpiece The fancy Races {performers not listed]

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece Tantivy, the welkin resounds (the Music by Hook); End of Act II a new song, The New Blown Rose (the Words by Mrs Cumyns, the Music by Dale), both by Mrs Martyr

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Mrs Greville. Tickets and places to be had of Mrs Greville, No. 1, Queen's-court, King-street, Covent-garden. [This was Mrs Pinto's last appearance on the stage (but see 12 May 1786).]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Song: End of mainpiece The Soldier tired of War's Alarms by Mrs Pinto

Monologue: 1785 04 26 End of Act II of mainpiece Collins's Ode on the Passions by Mrs Walcot. imitations. End of Act I of afterpiece, as 17 Sept. 1784, but An entire new dialogue in the Shades between Foote and Weston; added: Prospero (in the manner of Mossop); omitted: Prologue to Barbarossa

Event Comment: Benefit for Wild [prompter]. Public Advertiser, 7 May: Tickets to be had of Wild, No. 17, Bow-street, Covent Garden. The unfortunate circumstance of breaking his leg . . . has prevented his attending the theatre the whole season [and see 18 Apr.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lawyers' Panic

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. Public Advertiser, 22 July: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 29, Bow Street, Covent Garden. 1st piece: In 3 acts, altered from Shakespeare [by Frederick Pilon. Prologue by the alterer (European Magazine, Aug. 1785, p. 150)]. 2nd piece: Acted but once [on 27 Aug. 1783]; with Alterations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All's Well That Ends Well

Afterpiece Title: The Green Room; or, Cut and Come Again

Afterpiece Title: Gretna Green