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Event Comment: The Public is most respectfully informed that The Pirates [advertised on playbill of 19 Feb.] is deferred on account of the Indisposition of Bannister Jun. Receipts: #169 15s. 6d. (123.18.6; 38.9.0; 6.16.0; tickets not come in: 0.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Related Works
Related Work: The Deuce is in Him Author(s): George Colman, the elder
Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Catherine? Cuthbertson. Authors of Prologue and Epilogue unknown. Larpent MS 969; not published]: With new Dresses and Decorations. "The [new] piece possessing nothing like a plot, and being perfectly uninteresting, was much disapproved of...Palmer contributed to its bad reception by being absent when he was most wanted on the stage, and occasioning thereby an aukward chasm, which put the audience out of humour. He was otherwise highly reprehensible for his imperfections in his part" (Public Advertiser, 26 Feb.). Receipts: #375 16s. 6d. (342.13.6; 31.7.0; 1.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At king's Anna

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Storace. Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2, by Prince Hoare]: The Musick by Storace. Morning Herald, 27 Feb.: Tickets to be had of Sga Storace, No. 36, Howland-street, Rathbone-place. Account-Book, 4 July: Paid Hoare for Prize #210. ["Sga Storace's person (is) clumsy; her face coarse and ordinary; and yet there is so much enchanting vivacity...that she always delights whenever she appears" (Candid Strictures, 41).] Receipts: #388 12s. 6d. (196.11.6; 38.5.0; 3.10.0; tickets: 150.6.0) (charge: #157 1s. 3d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Pirates

Afterpiece Title: The Prize; or, 2

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Siddons. Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by Arthur Murphy. Prologue by John Philip Kemble (see text). Author of Epilogue unknown; European Magazine, Apr. 1793, p. 306, prints two Epilogues: the one spoken by Mrs Siddons, and the one "as originally written by Thomas? Vaughan"]. Morning Herald, 20 Mar. 1793: This day is published The Rival Sisters (1s. 6d.). Morning Herald, 25 Feb.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Siddons, No. 49, Great Marlborough-street. Receipts: #451 6s. 6d. (243.1.0; 21.18.0; 1.18.0; tickets: 184.9.6) (charge: #154 9s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Rival Sisters

Performance Comment: [Principal Characters by Wroughton, Palmer, Kemble, Packer, Caulfield, Phillimore, Mrs Siddons, Mrs Powell. Cast from text John Bell, 1793): Periander-Wroughton; Theseus-Palmer; Perithous-Kemble; Archon-Packer; Aletes-Caulfield; Officer-Phillimore; Ariadne-Mrs Siddons; Phaedra-Mrs Powell; Prologue-Wroughton; Epilogue-Mrs Siddons. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances, except on 13 Apr.]These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances, except on 13 Apr.]
Cast
Role: Theseus Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Cast
Role: Theresa Actor: Miss DeCamp

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Belle's Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. [Afterpiece in place of The Devil to Pay, advertised on playbill of 23 Mar.] Receipts: #401 17s. (206.14.6; 36.0.0; 2.3.0; tickets: 156.19.6) (charge: #180 10s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Siege Of Belgrade

Cast
Role: The Seraskier Actor: Kelly

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Rival Sisters

Cast
Role: Theseus Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. Afterpiece: By permission of G. Colman@Jun. Esq. [i.e. the holder of the copyright]. Morning Herald, 3 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 2, Frith-street, Soho. Receipts: #486 17s. (227.2.6; 43.2.0; 2.2.0; tickets: 214.10.6) (charge: #126 0s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Pirates

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Dance: As17921121, but The Dances-Miss _Prevot

Song: In the course of the Evening The Little Farthing Rushlight-Bannister Jun

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Rival Sisters

Cast
Role: Theseus Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's A Trip To Scarborough

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Pirates

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: As17930408

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. [Epilogue by Miles Peter Andrews.] 3rd piece: Not acted these 20 years [acted 15 Feb. 1779]. Morning Herald, 19 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Mattocks, No. 8, Great Russell-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #318 5s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Such Things Are

Performance Comment: Twineall-Lewis; Sir Luke Tremor-Quick; Elvirus-Holman; Haswell-Pope; Sultan-Farren; Lord Flint-Davies; Meanwright-Macready; Zadan-Powel; 1st Keeper-Cubitt; Prisoner-Thompson; Lady Tremor-Mrs Mattocks; Aurelia-Miss Grist; Female Prisoner (for that night only)-Mrs Powell (of king's); Original Epilogue-Mrs Mattocks.

Afterpiece Title: The Soldier's Festival; or, The Night before the Battle

Performance Comment: In which How stands the Glass around? (General Wolfe's favorite Song)-Incledon; Irish Drinking song [Song [Of the ancients it's speaking]-Johnstone; How merrily we live that soldiers be-Darley, Incledon, Johnstone; To arms Britons strike home (composed by Purcell)-Incledon, Darley, Follett, Blurton, Linton, Rees[; The whole to conclude with a View of Quebec, and the Death of General Wolfe .; The whole to conclude with a View of Quebec, and the Death of General Wolfe .

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal; or, The Tars of Old England

Song: In the course of 3rd piece: The Mid Watch, Rule Britannia-Incledon; and to conclude with God save the King in Full Chorus-

Event Comment: Benefit for the Orphan Daughters of the late Mr Wrighten, prompter. [In mainpiece the playbill retains Mrs Kemble as Charlotte, but "Mrs Ward read Charlotte " (Thespian Magazine, June 1793, p. 3).] Receipts: #548 12s. 6d. (137.4.6; 32.11.0; 2.17.0; tickets: 376.0;0) (charge: #147 11s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

Song: As17930416

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Goodall and Mrs Bland. [In mainpiece the playbill retains Kemble as Beverley , but "Kemble being ill, Whitfield played Beverley" (Thespian Magazine, June 1793, P. 3).] Morning Herald, 4 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Goodall, No. 13, Russel-street, Covent-Garden; of Mrs Bland, No. 12, St. Albans-street, Pall-Mall. Receipts: #432 4s. (74.19.0; 40.1.6; 7.8.0; tickets: 309.15.6) (charge: #169 10s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Siege Of Belgrade

Cast
Role: The Seraskier Actor: Kelly

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clendining. The Poetry of the additional Songs [in 1st piece] by Peter Pindar, Esq. [pseud. for John Wolcot]. Morning Herald, 27 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Clendining, No. 19, Martlett-court, Bow-street, Covent-garden. "Mrs Clendining's endeavours to entertain were successful, and Fitzroy by Incledon gave a rich feast to the musical amateur. The air beginning, 'Dear Tom, this brown jug,' had a fine effect by the music being omitted" (Diary, 18 May). Receipts: #273 17s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Performance Comment: As17930425, but Yarico (with a song to the music of Queen Mary's Lamentation, and a celebrated air from Paisiello)-Mrs Clendining (1st appearance in that character).
Related Works
Related Work: Inkle and Yarico Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: The Soldier's Festival

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Cast
Role: Father Luke Actor: Rock

Music: End: a concerto of his own composition, on the Grand Piano Forte-King (1st appearance in public)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Pirates

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: As17930408

Event Comment: Benefit for Whitfield and Mrs Ward. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by-Fernside, for whose authorship see Kemble Mem., based partly on Love's Cure; or, The Martial Maid, probably by Philip Massinger. Incidental music by Richard Suett]. Public Advertiser, 15 May: Tickets to be had of Whitfield, under the Great Piazza; of Mrs Ward; No. 6, York-street, Covent-Garden. Morning Herald, 12 June 1793: This day is published The Female Duellist (1s.). Receipts: #469 13s. 6d. (51.4.0; 33.9.0; 8.4.0; tickets: 376.16.6) (charge: #158 17s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's A Trip To Scarborough

Afterpiece Title: The Female Duellist

Song: End: As on the pleasant banks of Tweed-Master Welsh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

Song: the favourite Harp Song-Mme Mara [Ah che nel petto io sento]; accompanied-Meyer Jun

Event Comment: Benefit for Dignum and Mrs Powell. [Afterpiece in place of The Devil to Pay, advertised on playbill of 23 May.] Morning Herald, 23 May: Tickets to be had of Dignum, No. 25, New North-street; of Mrs Powell, No. 22, Henrietta-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #510 1s. (54.13.6; 26.7.6; 3.17.0; tickets: 425.3.0) (charge: #160 5s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Twelfth Night

Performance Comment: Orsino-Barrymore; Sebastian-Bland; Antonio-Benson; Sir Toby Belch-Moody; Sir Andrew Ague@cheek-Dodd; Sea Captain-Caulfield; Fabian-R. Palmer; Malvolio-Bensley; Clown (with the Epilogue Song)-Suett; Olivia-Mrs Powell; Viola-Mrs Jordan; Maria-Mrs Kemble.

Afterpiece Title: The Mariners

Song: End II: The Lucky Escape-Dignum; End IV: Primroses deck the banks (composed by Linley? Sen.)-Master Welsh; End: Fair Rosale-Master Welsh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Pirates

Afterpiece Title: The Mariners

Dance: As17930408

Song: End II: a New Song composed by Percy-Master Welsh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Siege Of Belgrade

Cast
Role: The Seraskier Actor: Kelly

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Dance: End: Le Pas Russe-Master and Miss Menage; End I afterpiece: Dance-Whitmell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Pirates

Performance Comment: As17930408, but Cosmino-Maddocks in place of Phillimore; Captain of the Ship-Webb of Benson; Fidelia-Miss DeCamp of Mrs Bland; Marietta-Miss Heard of Miss DeCamp.

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Related Works
Related Work: The Humourists Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: As17930408