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Event Comment: Benefit for Mme Perignon. Tickets, half a guinea each, to be had of Mme Perignon, in the Court, No. 83, Pall-mall. Receipts: not listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virginia

Dance: End I: a new Divertissement in the Pastoral Style, La Jardiniere-; in which a new Pas de Trois-Goyon, Mlle Mozon, Mme Perignon; End Opera: an entirely new ballet, composed by Hus, Sylvie-Goyon, Gricourt, Laborie, Mlle Mozon, the two Miss Simonets, Mme Perignon

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #199 13s. 6d. (174.17.0; 21.7.6; 3.9.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seduction

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pope. Mainpiece: In Act I Banquetv. [In Act IV] the Procession from the Abbeyv, at the Coronation of Anne Bullen . To conclude with the Ceremonial of a Royal Christeningv. Public Advertiser, 9 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Pope at her house in Half-moon-street, Piccadilly. Receipts: #289 8s. (202.6; 2.1; tickets: 85.1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Song: III: song-Mrs Kennedy

Event Comment: Benefit for Sidney. Pit 1s. Gallery 6d. To begin at 7:00 precisely. Tickets to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: Old Philpot-Sidney; Young Wilding-Russel; Sir Jasper Wilding-Young; Beaufort-Wilson; Young Philpot-Sterne; Corinna-Mrs Marriot; Maria-Mrs Sterne.
Cast
Role: Beaufort Actor: Wilson

Song: End: The Wedding Day-Wilson

Entertainment: Monologue. Afterpiece to conclude: with an Occasional Address of Thanks-Sidney

Event Comment: Benefit for Wilson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Or The Unhappy Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Song: End I: The Wedding Day-Wilson; End III: Ma chere amie-Wilson; End Monologue: The Old Woman of 80-Wilson

Entertainment: Monologue. End: The Picture of a Playhouse; or, Bucks have ye all-Marriot

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion, Ladies are desired to send their Servants at half past Four o'Clock. Public Advertiser, 10 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Palmer, Kentish Town. Receipts #322 8s. 6d. (151.11.0; 8.2.0; 0.3.6; tickets: 162.12.0) (charge: #66 4s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Cast
Role: Belford Actor: R. Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Performance Comment: As17870215, but Solyman (for this night only)-Palmer.
Event Comment: Benefit for Mme Mara. Tickets to be had of Mme Mara, No. 39, Suffolk-street, Charing-cross. Receipts not listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Didone Abbandonata

Dance: End I: Divertissement, as17870116; End Opera: La Fete Provencale, as17870308

Event Comment: Benefit for Kemble. Tickets delivered for The Careless Husband will be taken. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion, Ladies are desired to send their Servants at half past Four o'Clock. [Mrs Siddons's 1st appearance as Lady Restless was at Manchester, 17 Feb. 1777.] Public Advertiser, 12 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Kemble, No. 16, Charles-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #293 12s. 6d. (148.16.0; 15.3.0; 0.7.6; tickets: 129.10.0) (charge: #105 11s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Performance Comment: Sir John Restless-King; Belmont-Barrymore; Blandford-Packer; Sir William Belmont-Staunton; Robert-Waldron; Brush-Burton; Footman-Spencer; Servant-Alfred; Beverley (for this night)-Kemble; Lady Restless-Mrs Siddons (1st appearance in that character [in London]); Clarissa-Miss Collins; Tattle-Mrs Wilson; Tippet-Miss Barnes; Marmalet-Miss Tidswell; Belinda-Miss Farren.
Cast
Role: Blandford Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Event Comment: Benefit for Sterne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beaux Stratagem Or Humours Of The Litchfield Landlord

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd or An Old Man Taught Wisdom

Song: As17870326

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. Receipts: #310 12s. (213.3.6; 6.16.6; tickets: 90.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Farren; Brothers-Macready, Helme; Spirit-Thompson; Principal Bacchanal-Johnstone; Bacchanals-Darley, King, Cubitt, Gaudry, Kenrick, Blurton, Davies; The Spirit (for that night only)-Leoni; The Lady-Mrs Wells; Principal Bacchant-Mrs Kennedy; Pastoral Nymph-Miss Wilkinson; Sabrina-Mrs Morton; Euphrosyne-Mrs Martyr.

Song: In afterpiece: Sweet Echo-Mrs Billington; accompanied on the hautboy-W. Parke

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. Receipts: #302 (123.4; 22.19; 1.6; tickets: 154.11) (charge: #109 16s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Sons of Anacreon

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Performance Comment: Steady-Bannister; Solomon-Parsons; Easy-Burton; Lubin (1st time)-Dignum; Gillian-Mrs Forster; Cicely-Mrs Love; Floretta-Mrs Wilson.
Cast
Role: Gillian Actor: Mrs Forster
Event Comment: Benefit for Edwin. Public Advertiser, 28 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Edwin, No. 19, Piazza, Covent Garden. Receipts: #323 19s. (232.13.6; 2.11.6; tickets: 88.14.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Woud Be A Soldier

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Song: In: the new Four@and@Twenty Fidlers all on a Row-Edwin

Entertainment: Monologues. End: Lingo's Opinions on Men and Manners-(A Comical, Whimsical, Operatical, Farcical Rhapsody [with incidental music by William Shield]) Edwin; End I afterpiece: A Description of the Curiosities of the Tower of London-Edwin

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pope. Receipts: #282 15s. (110.11; 18.1; 1.3; tickets: 152.19) (charge: #111 14s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Cast
Role: Clifford Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Cast
Role: Forge Actor: Burton
Role: Mrs Snip Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Brunton. Afterpiece: Written by Garrick; Not acted these 12 years [acted 2 Mar. 1776]. Public Advertiser, 26 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Miss Brunton, No. 5, George-street, York-buildings. Receipts: #197 17s. 6d. (123.18.6; 5.16.0; tickets: 68.3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Dance: II: a Masquerade Dance-incident to the Play; End: The Indian's Ransom, as17870217

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Jordan. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion, Ladies are desired to send their Servants at half past Four o'Clock. Receipts: #304 2s. (110.18.0; 11.6.6; 2.2.6; tickets: 179.15.0) (charge: #107 14s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: End: As17870113; End I: The Minuet de la Cour, as17861125

Song: V: song-Miss Romanzini

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of afterpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts; #120 1s. 6d. (113.18.6; 6.3.0; tickets; none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Cast
Role: Mr Ford Actor: Farren
Role: Mrs Ford Actor: Mrs Pope.

Afterpiece Title: Love and War

Event Comment: Benefit for Holman. Public Advertiser, 28 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Holman, No. 24, Bedford-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #241 8s. (126.17; 7.9; tickets: 107.2)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distressd Mother

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: As17870331but Comus (for that night only)-Holman; Spirit-_.

Song: As17870331

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick. 3rd piece [1st time; F 1, author unknown. Not in Larpent MS; not published]: Altered from [the same by] Farquhar. Public Advertiser, 6 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Quick, No. 99, High Holbourn. Receipts: #324 1s. (156.4; 2.17; tickets: 165.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: Annette and Lubin

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach or Inn in an Uproar

Entertainment: Monologue Before: Mother Shipton's Review of the Audience (Written By D. Garrick, Esq., with Alterations and Additions) (for that night only)-Quick

Performance Comment: Garrick, Esq.=, with Alterations and Additions) (for that night only)-Quick.
Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. Public Advertiser, 4 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Mattocks, No. 29, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #228 1s. (137.0.6; 5.2.6; tickets: 85.18.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: After Monologue: The Wapping Landlady, as17870131

Entertainment: Monologue End: Lingo's Opinions on Men and Manners, as17870410

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion, Ladies are desired to send their Servants at half past Four o'Clock. The Romp [announced on playbill of 16 Apr.] cannot be performed on Account of the Indisposition of Mrs Jordan. Public Advertiser, 31 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Bensley at his house, No. 21, Charlotte-street, Bedford-square. Receipts: #285 12s. (126.18.0; 13.17.6; 2.16.6; ticket2: 140.0.0;) (charge: #107 8s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Cast
Role: Sandford Actor: R. Palmer
Event Comment: Benefit for Aickin. Public Advertiser, 14 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Aickin, No. 26, Great Tichfield-street. Receipts: #190 8s. 6d. (92.19.6; 11.5.0; tickets: 85.14.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Woud Be A Soldier

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: As17870217

Event Comment: Benefit for Leoni. World, 17 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Leoni, No. 1, Wellclose-square. Receipts: #278 (159.16; 2.16; tickets: 115.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Song: End I: The Soldier tir'd of War's Alarms-Master Braham; End I afterpiece: Ma chere amie-Master Braham (, pupil of Leoni) (1st appearance on any stage)

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. [Author of 1st Prologue unknown. 2nd Prologue by James Cobb.] Public Advertiser, 31 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., Frith-street, Soho. Receipts: #297 1s. 6d. (162.4.0; 13.13.6; 0.6.0; tickets: 120.18.0) (charge: #109 3s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Transformation Or The Manager An Actor In Spite Of Himself

Afterpiece Title: The Strangers at Home

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Cast
Role: Mrs Matadore Actor: Mrs Hopkins.

Song: End 2nd piece: Stand to your Guns-Bannister

Entertainment: After Singing: various Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical, -Bannister Jun

Event Comment: Benefit for Farren. Mainpiece: Written by Richard Cumberland, Esq. Not acted these 10 years [acted 15 Jan. 1778]. Public Advertiser, 11 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Farren at his House in Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. Receipts: #303 7s. (90.8.6; 5.14.6; tickets: 207.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Related Works
Related Work: Fatal Love; or, The Degenerate Brother Author(s): Osborne Sidney Wandesford

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Dance: End: Leap Year-[see17861006]

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Sestini. Tickets, half a guinea each, to be had of Sga Sestini, No. 36, Mount-street, Grosvenor-square. Receipts not listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gli Schiavi Per Amore

Dance: As17870329