Event Comment: Benefit J. Rich. Receipts: #141 15s. 6d

Event Comment: Benefit J. Rich. Receipts: #140 5s

Event Comment: Receipts: #151 18s. Paid Mr Dallon on acct of salary omitted 15th inst. #1 10s. and salary for 22 inst. #1 10s.; Paid Mr Whitefield (assistant in the wardrobe) 3 months salary due 24th inst. #7 10s.; J. Rich on acct #21; Paid Stephen Gom at Uxbridge in full #38 5s

Event Comment: [Music by Handel. Text probably by J. J. Heidegger.] By Subscription, with the Pit and Boxes by ticket only (not to exceed 400). Stage Boxes 15s. Gallery 5s. At 6 p.m. And Whereas there is a great many Scenes and Machines to be mov'd in this Opera, which cannot be done if Persons should stand upon the Stage (where they could not be without Danger) it is therefore hop'd no Body, even the Subscribers, will take it Ill that they must be deny'd Entrance on the Stage

Event Comment: Benefit John Rich. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: #70. Rich's Register: Recd of Lady Rochester 4-0-0

Event Comment: Receipts: #63 12s. [For Rich's operation of both cg and lif simultaneously, see Hughes and Scouten, John Rich and the Holiday Seasons of 1732-33, pp. 46 -52.

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted there before. New Decorations incident to the play (General Advertiser). Advanc'd towards purchasing Mr Smollet's copy of Alceste #100 (Account Book). Handel remov'd to Covent Garden, and entered into some engagements with Rich, the particulars of which are not known, save that in discharge of a debt that he had contracted with him in consequence thereof, he some years after set to music an English opera entitled Alceste, written by Dr Smollet, and for which Rich was at great expense in a set of scenes painted by Servandoni; but it was never performed (Hawkins, General History of Music, V, 324). [For additional information on Alceste, see Deutsch, Handel, pp. 679-81. See also cg 14 Feb. 1749.] Receipts: #155 18s. 6d

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Frederick Reynolds. Prologue by William Thomas Fitzgerald. Epilogue by Miles Peter Andrews (see text)]: With new Scenes and Dresses. [In mainpiece the playbill lists Mrs Esten, but "Previous to the play an apology was made in behalf of Mrs Davis, who had undertaken Mrs Esten's character in consequence of the indisposition of the latter lady. [After considerable objection] Mrs Davis was well received in the part" (Thespian Magazine, June 1793, p. 4).] Public Advertiser, 3 May 1793: This Day is published How to Grow Rich (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #257 17s. 6d

Event Comment: 2nd ballet: With entire new Scenes, Dresses and Decorations, the Scenes designed by Marinari, and executed by himself and others under his direction; the Dresses by Sestini; the Stage Decorations by Johnston of the Theatre-Royal, Drury-lane. "Telemaque is the same as that produced by Dauberval at Bordeaux, as to the management of the story the story on the stage; but the Dances are the composition of Degville. The music is [compiled by D'Egville and Bossi] from Haydn, Pleyel, Sacchini, Gluck, Schulz, Moreau" (Morning Chronicle, 27 Mar.). [Synopsis of action in London Chronicle, 27 Mar.