Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, whose name is listed in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill]. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same for rest of season]. Receipts: #170 15s. (128.13; 31.1; 11.1; tickets: none listed) (charge: #157 11s. 6d.)

Event Comment: Powell: Beaux Stratagem rehearsed at 10 (Barrymore three scenes; Aickin one scene; Miss Collins one scene; Mrs Kemble one scene); Lodoiska at 12 (Hamoir one scene; Sedgwick two choruses). Receipts: #209 7s. (126/11/6; 78/14/0; 4/1/6)

Event Comment: [In 3rd piece the playbill lists Barrymore in place of Bannister Jun., but "Barrymore continuing ill C. Kemble play'd the part of Vapour in My Grandmother" (Powell).] Powell: My Grandmother rehearsed at 11 (Vapour's Scenes); New Ballet [Glorious First of June] at 12. Receipts: #135 7s. (84/13/6; 49/9/0; 1/4/6)

Event Comment: Powell, 8 Oct.: Isabella rehearsed at 10 (Barrymore 1 scene, Mrs Siddons 2 scenes, R. Palmer 1 scene); 9 Oct.: Jane Shore rehearsed at 10 (for Kemble, Caulfield, Bensley & Mrs Siddons); Emilia Galotti at 12. Receipts: #463 16s. 6d. (364.2.0; 92.13.0; 7.1.6)

Event Comment: Powell: Love for Love rehearsed at 10 (for Miss Farren and Kemble). Receipts: #284 15s. (227.17; 53.11; 3.7)

Event Comment: A new Edition of Measure for Measure [altered by John Philip Kemble] to be had in the Theatre. Powell: Miss Leak absent from this Evening's Performance, Ill. New Ballet rehearsed at 12. Receipts: #248 8s. 6d. (193.2.6; 53.18.0; 1.8.0)

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Mrs Jordan as Corinna, but "The Public are respectfully informed that Mrs Jordan being suddenly taken ill, she cannot have the honour of appearing before them this Evening. The Part of Corinna will be performed by Miss Collins" (printed slip attached to Kemble playbill).] Powell: New Ballet rehearsed at 12. Receipts: #214 18s. (156.1; 50.19; 7.18)

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)

Event Comment: She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not [advertised on playbill of 17 Apr.] is obliged to be deferred on account of the indisposition of C. Kemble. [Afterpiece in place of Of Age To-morrow, also advertised as above.] Receipts: #243 12s. (168.2.6; 71.18.6; 3.11.0)

Event Comment: Benefit for Brereton. Music of the Afterpiece (entirely new) composed by Dibdin. Mr Brereton-Jaffier, Much Applause. The Quaker is Mr Dibdins Production he has sold it to Mr Brereton. The Music is pretty & Novel it was very badly perform'd--when it is properly Cast & got up with care it will do very well (Hopkins Diary). [MacMillan's note from Kemble differs slightly in wording.] [The Reviewer for the Westminster Magazine for May gave a paragraph to Dibdin's afterpiece: "The words will not add to Mr Dibdin's reputation as a writer, nor Will the music increase his fame as a composer, the latter, however, possessed more merit than the former. The Finale was in new stile and pleased. Upon the whole this piece, like the rest of Mr Dibdin's performances, proves that this would-be author, is resolv'd in spite. Of Nature and the Stars, to write."] Receipts: #105 19s. 6d. Charges: #69 18s. Profits to Brereton: #36 1s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: [Bingham is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill.] Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2, by Miles Peter Andrews, based on Le Bucheron; ou, Les Trois Souhaits, by Jean Francois Guichard. Music by Francois Hippolyte Barthelemon]: With New Scenes, Dresses and Decorations. Books of the Songs, Chorusses, &c. to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 17 Mar, 1778: This Day is published the Songs in Belphegor (6d.). [Text 1st published in Dublin: For the Booksellers, 1788.] Receipts: #196 0s. 6d. (156.5.0; 38.13.6; 1.2.0)

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. Morning Chronicle, 15 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Lewis at his house, Broad-Court. Mainpiece: Not acted these 20 years [not acted since 2 May 1758]. 2nd piece [1st time in London; INT I: ascribed to John Philip Kemble, 1st acted at York, 27 Mar. 1779]. Receipts: #230 5s. (192.9; tickets: 37.16) (charge: #105)

Event Comment: Benefit for the Authors [who are named in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #197 4s. (155.16; 37.10; 3.18; tickets: none listed) (charge: #115)

Event Comment: Benefit for R. Palmer and Russell. [Miss Dorell is identified in MS list in Kemble playbill of new performers for this season.] True Briton, 31 May: Tickets to be had of R. Palmer, No. 28, Lower Eaton-street, Pimlico; of Russell, No. 46, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury. Receipts: #290 13s. (65.13.0; 52.7.6; 4.3.0; tickets: 168.9.6, of which R. Palmer sold 107.9.6, and Russell 61.0.0) (charge: #225 9s. 3d.)

Event Comment: A new short Introductory Piece before a play [The Meeting of the Company]. This new Prelude call'd The Meeting of the Company or Bayes' Art of Acting by D. G. Esq--it is full of fine Satyr & an Excellent Lesson to all performers, it was receiv'd with very great Applause (Hopkins Diary). [MacMillan's note from Kemble differs slightly in the wording. The salaries this season were #94 7s. 8d. per day; #566 6s. per week. Kemble's note as to total receipts is short by 8 pence.] Prices: Box 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. [Unfavorable review of Meeting of the Company in The Westminster Magazine (Sept., p. 472). The actor Aickin referred to this season is J. Aickin. Francis Aickin left dl before the beginning of this season. He was dismissed by Garrick in May. See Booden, Private Correspondence of David Garrick, I, 651-55.] Paid Renters #8; Advanced Mr Watson (box office keeper) #10; Ditto to Mr Mortimer (box office keeper) #15 (Treasurer's Book). [The funds to the box office keepers was operating cash which was returned 29 May 1775. Payment to Renters was same for each acting night until the eighty-eighth night (9 Jan. 1775) when it dropped to #4 nightly, since half of the stock holders (the Old Renters) were paid up by that time. The remaining 100 nights of the season plus 11 Oratorio nights yielded #448 to the Renters. No further mention of this item of expense will be made this season.] Total to Renters #1,152. Receipts: #212 14s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)