Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; C 3, by James Wild]: Reduced [from the same by Henry Fielding] into 3 Acts. Receipts: #287 8s. 6d. (282.2.6; 5.6.0)

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Opera, and there saw Romeo and Juliet, the first time it was ever acted; but it is a play of itself the worst that ever I heard in my life, and the worst acted that ever I saw these people do, and I am resolved to go no more to see the first time of acting, for they were all of them out more or less. Downes (p. 22): Note, There being a Fight and Scuffle in this Play, between the House of Capulet, and House of Paris; Mrs Holden Acting his Wife, enter'd in a Hurry, Crying, O my Dear Count! She Inadvertently left out, O, in the pronuntiation of the Word Count! giving it a Vehement Accent, put the House into such a Laughter, that London Bridge at low-water was silence to it. This Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, was made some time after into a Tragi-comedy, by Mr James Howard, he preserving Romeo and Juliet alive; so that when the Tragedy was Reviv'd again, twas Play'd Alternately, Tragical one Day, and Tragicomical another; for several Days together. [No specific notices are known which would indicate when Howard's version appeared.

Event Comment: Powell: King Lear rehearsed at 10 [see Powell, 5 Dec.]; Cherokee (music) at 12. Receipts: #239 16s. (183.17; 54.0; 1.19)

Event Comment: Powell: Jack of Newbury (music) rehearsed at 10; Welch Heiress read at 12. [With this entry Powell's notes come to an end.] Receipts: #413 10s. (353.0.6; 56.8.0; 4.1.6)

Event Comment: Powell: Kemble being indisposed from a violent Bruise in his Arm (during the several times of his playing the Part of Macbeth) so as to render him incapable of attending the Theatre this evening, an Apology was made by Wroughton, and the Prologue was omitted. [The playbill retains Miss Menage in afterpiece, but she] being at the Italian Opera this Evening, Master Chatterley play'd her part in the Children in the Wood. Henry VIII rehearsed at 10 (for Banks and Dignum; Packer ill); The Jew at 12 (for Miss Farren and Miss Tidswell). Receipts: #322 5s. 6d. (248/0/0; 67/15/0; 6/14/6; tickets not come in: 0/6/0)

Event Comment: Powell: Whitfield absent 1st Act of Macbeth (leave from the Manager), Barrymore spoke the Part. The Quaker rehearsed at 10 (for Dignum); The Jew at 11 (for Miss Farren); Lodoiska read at 1. Receipts: #569 2s. (491/6/0; 72/9/6; 3/19/6; tickets not come in: 1/7/0)

Event Comment: Powell: In Consequence of Palmer not coming in time to the Theatre, the Audience were kept in waiting and the Play, which was ordered by Mr Sheridan to begin 5 minutes before the usual time [6:30], could not be begun till within Ten minutes of Seven o'Clock. Benson being lame Fisher went on as Casimir and Caulfield doubled the Part with his own. Roman Actor read at 10 [this Play not acted this season; see Powell, 18 Oct.]; Douglas rehearsed at 12 (for Mrs Siddons and Palmer). Receipts: #412 16s. (325.17.6; 80.18.6; 6.0.0)

Event Comment: Powell: Macbeth rehearsed at 10 (for Kelly and Mrs Crouch); at 12 (for the Soldiers). Receipts: #235 0s. 6d. (161.0.0; 72.2.0; 1.18.6)

Event Comment: Powell: Rivals rehearsed at 10; All's Well at 12. Receipts: #182 19s. (138.19.6; 37.10.6; 6.9.0)

Event Comment: Powell: New Ballet rehearsed at 10; Cherokee at 12. Receipts: #193 17s. (144.10.0; 44.19.6; 4.7.6)

Event Comment: Powell, 15 Feb.: Alexander the Great rehearsed at 11; 2nd Scene of D & Procession at 6; 16 Feb.: New Comedy rehearsed at 11. Receipts: #407 5s. (308.0.0; 94.3.6; 5.1.6)

Event Comment: Powell: New Comedy rehearsed at 11. Receipts: #290 18s. (197.8.0; 87.10.6; 5.19.6)

Event Comment: Powell: New Comedy rehearsed at 11. Receipts: #361 3s. 6d. (278.16.0; 79.18.6; 2.9.0)

Event Comment: Powell: Miss Davies, Mrs Bramwell, G. D'Egville, Caulfield absent [from afterpiece], all Ill [their substitutes are not listed]; Miss Leak, Messrs Annereau, Bardoleau, Dorion Sen., Horsfall absent from the chorus. Receipts: #254 17s. (177.10; 73.7; 4.0)

Event Comment: Powell: Wheel of Fortune rehearsed at 10; Fair Penitent at 11. Receipts: #344 3s. 6d. (275.10.0; 66.10.0; 2.3.6)

Event Comment: Powell, 4 Mar.: Edwy and Elgiva rehearsed at 11. Receipts: #471 19s. (401.3.6; 66.18.0; 3.17.6)

Event Comment: Powell, 6 Mar.: Edwy and Elgiva rehearsed at 11. Receipts: #348 14s. 6d. (277.6.0; 70.9.6; 0.19.0)

Event Comment: Powell: Edwy and Elgiva rehearsed at 11; Wheel of Fortune at 1. Receipts: #342 (293.16.6; 43.18.6; 4.5.0)

Event Comment: Powell: Jack of Newbury rehearsed at 11. Receipts: #261 1s. 6d. (209.3.0; 51.4.6; 0.14.0)

Event Comment: Powell, 18 Mar.: Edwy and Elgiva rehearsed at 10; 19 Mar.: Edwy and Elgiva rehearsed at 10. Receipts: #484 11s. 6d. (420.2.6; 59.19.0; 4.10.0)

Event Comment: Powell: This Evening the Band beginning the Overture to the Farce without any notice by Bell or otherwise, caus'd a considerabledelay, it being over before the stage could be got in readiness for beginning the Farce. God save the King was call'd for, and sung. The Jew rehearsed at 10. Receipts: #396 5s. 6d. (338/9/6; 53/19/0; 2/7/0; tickets not come in: 1/10/0)