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Event Comment: Benefit for Barrymore. 2nd piece: Written by Dodsley. Gazetteer, 29 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Barrymore, No. 11, Bedford-street, Bedford-row. Receipts: #281 3s. (46.5; 21.8; 3.9; tickets: 210.1) (charge: #108 1s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Song: As17900323

Event Comment: Benefit for Blanchard. 2nd piece: Not acted these 4 years [not acted since 6 May 1776]. Gazetteer, 3 May: Tickets to be had of Blanchard, No. 29, Bow-Street, Covent-garden. Receipts: #302 18s. (82.0.6; 14.2.6; tickets: 206.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Performance Comment: Hardcastle-Ryder; Young Marlow-Bernard; Hastings-Davies; Sir Charles Marlow-Powel; Diggory-Cubitt; Slang-Rock; Landlord-Thompson; Tony Lumpkin (for that night only)-Blanchard; Mrs Hardcastle-Mrs Webb; Miss Neville-Mrs Lewis; Miss Hardcastle-Mrs Mattocks.

Afterpiece Title: The Recruiting Serjeant

Afterpiece Title: Rose and Colin

Entertainment: Monologue. End 2nd piece: A Dissertation on Macaronyism-Bernard

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #209 10s. 6d. (204.3.0; 5.7.6; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Crusade

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wilson and Williames [who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. [The monologue refers to a criminal, Rynwick Williams, popularly known as "The Monster," who with a knife had recently attacked many women on the streets of London (see An Authentic Account of the Barbarities..(S. Bladon, 1790); World, 5 May, et seq.).] Gazetteer, 1 and 6 May : Tickets to be had of Williames and Mrs Wilson, No. 19, Great Piazza, Covent-garden. Receipts: #225 5s. (40.13; 21.14; 2.16; tickets: 160.2) (charge: #108 2s. 3d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: True Blue Or A Bang At The Dons

Afterpiece Title: King Henry the Fifth

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Cast
Role: Marcelina Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Entertainment: Monologue. End 2nd piece: (for this night only) The Monster Discovered-

Performance Comment: End 2nd piece: (for this night only) The Monster Discovered-.
Event Comment: Benefit for Whitfield. 2nd piece: From Samuel? Foote. Gazetteer, 29 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Whitfield, No. 19, Piazza, Covent-garden. Receipts: #220 5s. 6d. (39.0.0; 18.17.6; 2.16.0; tickets: 159.12.0) (charge: #106 19s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Dance: As17891209

Song: As17891209

Event Comment: Benefit for Blake. Tickets to be had of Blake, No. 60, Haymarket. 2nd ballet: With entire new scenery painted by Gaetano Marinari

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Generosita Dalessandro

Dance: End I: Divertisement-Labourie, Mlle Hilligsberg; in which Pas Russe, as17900422; End Opera: [an entire new Pantomimical Dance, The Generous Slave[ Slave (for that night only)-Blake [and see17900527]

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mountain. Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years. Gazetteer, 7 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Mountain, No. 9, Bow-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #251 11s. 6d. (95.12.6; 4.1.0; tickets: 151.18.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa Or The School For Fathers

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Song: In: Sweet Passion of Love-Mrs Mountain; End I afterpiece: Hark the Lark at Heaven's Gate (with accompaniments by Dr Arnold)-Johnstone, Blanchard, Bannister, Mrs Mountain

Music: Mainpiece: With a new Overture (for that night only)-Pleyel; End I: (for that night only) a duet on the violin and tenor-Mme Gautherot, Mountain; End: a concerto on the violin-Mme Gautherot

Event Comment: Benefit for Hull. [Epilogue by Miles Peter Andrews. Monody by Robert Merry (European Magazine, May 1790, p. 390).] Gazetteer, 11 May: Tickets to be had of Hull, No. 31, Bow-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #168 6s. (87.8; 7.9; tickets: 73.9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Such Things Are

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Song: End II: The Memorable 13th of September; or, The Defeat of the Spaniards before Gibraltar-Bannister

Entertainment: Monologue. End: A Monody to the Memory of [that distinguished Philanthropist, John Howard Esquire [on whom the character of Haswell was founded]-Mrs Pope[, in the character of a Female Captive

Event Comment: Benefit for Sedgwick. Public Advertiser, 19 May: Tickets to be had of Sedgwick, No. 66, St. Martin's Lane. Receipts: #218 5s. (47.12.0; 19.19.6; 1.12.6; tickets: 149.1.0) (charge: #110 9s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: The Court of Apollo i

Performance Comment: e. The Sons of Anacreon]. President-R. Palmer; In which (for that night only) The Anacreontic Song-Sedgwick; [following glees: Now is the Month of Maying (Morley), Could a Man be Secure (Goodwin)-Dignum, Sedgwick; Sigh no more Ladies (Stevens), Poor Jack (Dibdin)-Dignum; Welcome the Covert (Mellish), Here's a Health to all good Lasses, Wake Sons of Odin (Stevens)-Sedgwick; Sing Old Rose and Burn the Bellows-.

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: Benefit for Mlle Dorival. Tickets to be had of Mlle Dorival, No. 36, St. Martin's-street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ninetta

Dance: End I: Les Mariages Flamands, as17900213, but Mlle Dorival, in place of Mlle _de'Caro; End Opera: +La Jalousie sans Raison, as17900325

Event Comment: Benefit for a Fund for the Relief of those who, from their Infirmities, shall be obliged to retire from the Stage. [Prologue by Thomas Hull.] Gazetteer, 19 May: Tickets to be had of Hull, Treasurer to the Institution, No. 31, Bow-street, Covent-Garden. The Fund at Covent Garden Theatre was instituted in the Year 1765, and confirmed by Act of Parliament, 1776. It has been almost entirely supported by the weekly Contributions of the respective Members, and no Application has been made ot the Public towards its Increase for the space of 19 Years. Notwithstanding the utmost Oeconomy has been practised to promote the Advancement of this Fund, the whole capital Sum hitherto amassed is now become so inadequate to the unavoidable annual Disbursements that the Committee hold it incumbent on them to solicit the Patronage and Encouragement of the Public, at the within specified Performance. "The capital of this fund, invested in various stocks, amounted to #27,710 in the year 1824" (Brayley, 14). Receipts: #128 11s. (104.15; 15.16; tickets: 8.0)
Event Comment: Benefit for Fosbrook, box-book and house-keeper. Receipts: #320 17s. (45.3; 15.5; 1.7; tickets: 259.2) (charge: #117 10s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Cast
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: As17900308

Event Comment: Benefit for Wild. 1st piece: Not acted these 12 years. [acted 23 Feb. 1784]. 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT 1]. Morning Herald, 20 May: Tickets to be had of Wild, No. 34, Long-acre. Receipts: #274 12s. (149.10; 9.7; tickets: 115.15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love Or The World Well Lost

Performance Comment: Marc Antony (Emperor of Rome)-Holman; Ventidius (the Roman General)-Harley (Their 1st appearance in those characters); Dollabella-Farren; Alexas-Davies; Serapion (Priest of Isis)-Hull; Cleopatra (Queen of Egypt)-Miss Brunton; Octavia (for that night only)-Mrs Pope (Their 1st appearance in those characters).

Afterpiece Title: An Harmonic Festival

Performance Comment: In which the Performers of the Concert of Ancient Music have obligingly offered their Assistance. The Wooden Walls of Old England (composed by Reeve)-Darley; As I saw fair Clora-Johnstone, Bannister; September 13th; or, The Siege of Gibraltar-Bannister; Poor Thomas Day-Edwin, Blanchard, Bannister; How stands the glass around-Johnstone; Bless the true Church and save the King- (composed by Handel).

Song: End II: a Nicketerotion at the Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra-; Vocal Parts-Bannister, Johnstone, Darley, Duffey, Mrs Warrell, Mrs Masters, Mrs Gray, Mrs Mountain

Dance: With Grand Dance-Byrne, the two Miss Simonets

Event Comment: Benefit for Delpini. [Mrs Delpini's 1st appearance at this theatre was on 28 May 1789.] Public Advertiser, 26 May: Tickets to be had of Delpini, No. 17, Tavistock-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #285 2s. (153.2.6; 5.9.6; tickets: 126.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Chaplet

Cast
Role: Pantaloon Actor: Ratchford

Dance: Preceding: As17891113

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Sestini. Opera: Not acted these 3 years [acted 26 June 1788]. A Comic Opera; the Music by Paisiello. Under the direction of Federici. Tickets, 10s. 6d. each, to be had of Sga Sestini, No. 17, Mount-street, Berkley-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gli Schiavi Per Amore

Dance: End I: Divertisement, as17900515; End Opera: The Generous Slave-Blake [see17900513], Duquesney, Labourie, Mlle de'Caro, Mlle Dorival, Mlle Hilligsberg

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett and Mrs Hedges. Receipts: #195 15s. (20.16; 12.2; 1.4; tickets: 161.13) (charge: #109 15s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Cast
Role: Blandford Actor: Barrymore

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

Dance: As17900308

Song: End II: The Greenwich Pensioner-Dignum; End IV: Poor Jack-Dignum

Event Comment: Benefit for Mme Mara. A new Serious Opera. Under the direction of Federici. Tickets to be had of Mme Mara at her house, No. 8, Golden-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Andromache recte andromaca

Performance Comment: Pyrrhus-Marchesi; Andromache-Mme Mara. [For full cast see17900529.]For full cast see17900529.]

Dance: End I: Divertisement, as17900513; End Opera: The Generous Slave-Blake [see17900513], Mlle Hilligsberg

Event Comment: Benefit for Spencer and Nix. 1st piece: Some of the Music compiled from the best Masters. The rest of the Music, the Overture, Accompaniments, &c. by Linley? Sen.. Receipts: #252 4s. 6d. (44.17.0; 27.0.0; 3.11.6; tickets: 176.16.0) (charge: #110 11s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Strangers At Home

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Afterpiece Title: The Adventurers

Song: In course Evening: Rosy Bowers (composed by Purcell)-Mrs Crouch

Event Comment: Benefit for Brandon, box-book and house-keeper. Receipts: #382 16s. 6d. (92.0.0; 11.15.6; tickets: 279.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Chaplet

Cast
Role: Pantaloon Actor: Ratchford

Song: End: As17900407

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Warrell and Darley. 1st piece: Not acted these 10 years [never previously acted at this theatre. Warrell was from the Bath theatre]. Receipts: #216 12s. (76.18; 4.15; tickets: 134.19)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ladies Frolick

Afterpiece Title: The Comedy of Errors

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: End I: Crutch Dance-Byrne, Mrs Goodwin

Song: In course: Dr Hayes's New Highland Laddie-Mrs Warrell; Between the acts 2nd piece: Alone by the Light of the Moon-Darley

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, Cameron, Percey, George, Woollams. Receipts: #272 12s. (13.4.0; 7.11.6; 2.6.6; tickets: 249.10.0) (charge: #105 19s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Cast
Role: Old Lady Lambert Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: As17900308

Event Comment: Benefit for Carleton, Wilson, J. Shade & Gibson. Tickets delivered for Tit for Tat will be admitted. Account-Book, July [et seq.]: Paid 209 Renters #20 6s. apiece. The Last Time of the Company's Performing this Season. Receipts: #253 2s. (20.1.0; 6.10.6; 0.14.6; tickets: 225.16.0) (charge: #106 0s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End I afterpiece: The Irish Bird Catchers, as17900123

Event Comment: Benefit for Cubitt, Macready, Thompson & Boyce. Receipts: #258 13s. (87.6.6; 8.4.6; tickets: 163.2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Nootka Sound

Afterpiece Title: The Comedy of Errors

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Chaplet

Cast
Role: Pantaloon Actor: Ratchford
Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Webb. [Miss Webb's 1st appearance on the stage was at this theatre, 30 July 1788.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Dance: As17900626