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Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Davenport, Powel, Thompson & Sloper. [For Mrs Litchfield see 17 May.] Receipts: #291 10s. (46.6; 9.17; tickets: 235.7, of which Mrs Davenport sold 55.4, Powel #37.16, Thompson 26.12, Sloper 115.15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Oberon

Song: 2nd piece: with additional songs-

Event Comment: Benefit for Phillimore, Denman, Cooke, Stokes, Miss Tidswell, Miss Heard, Mrs Benson. Morning Herald, 9 June: Tickets to be had of Miss Heard at Mrs Fletcher's, No. 239, Piccadilly; True Briton, 5 June: of Mrs Benson, No. 31, Hart-street, Bloomsbury [no others listed]. Receipts: #78 10s. (35.0.6; 41.2.6; 2.7.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #224 15s. 3d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Spoild Child

Song: End I: When on board our trim Vessel-Cooke (composed by Carter); End IV: Chelsea Quarters (composed by Schroeder)-Cooke

Entertainment: Imitations. End: a Variety of Imitations-Caulfield

Ballet: Following Imitations: The Scotch Ghost. As17961221

Event Comment: Benefit for Haymes. The Last Night of the Company's performing this Season. Account-Book, 28 June: Received for his Majesty's Box 13 nights #130; for the Princess's Box #65; 1 Aug.: Paid half a year's Land, Commutations, Window & House Taxes #193 19s. True Briton 1 June: Tickets to be had of Haymes, No. 8, Duke-street, St. James's. Receipts: #228 18s. 6d. (109.19.0; after-money not listed; tickets: 118.19.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: Valentine-Holman; Tattle-Macready; Scandal-Murray; Sir Sampson Legend-Davenport; Ben-Haymes; Jeremy-Farley; Trapland-Powel; Snap-Thompson; Buckram-Simmons; Foresight-Quick; Miss Prue-Mrs Jordan (of dl); Angelica-Miss Chapman; Mrs Foresight-Mrs Gilbert; Mrs Frail-Mrs Mattocks.
Cast
Role: Foresight Actor: Quick
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Gilbert

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: End II piece: The Storm-Incledon; End: The Beggar-Townsend

Event Comment: Benefit for Portal, Gibson, Percey, George, Bowley, Stevenson, Woollams, Massingham [box-keepers]. In consequence of the Indisposition of two Principal Performers The Fairy Festival [advertised on playbill of 13 June] cannot be performed this Evening. Receipts: #567 17s. 6d. (31.0.6; 30.19.0; 2.14.0; tickets: 503.4.0) (charge: #213 16s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Ballet: End afterpiece: The Scotch Ghost. As17961221

Event Comment: Benefit for Didelot. Tickets to be had of Didelot, No. 8, Hay-market. 2nd ballet: 1st time, composed by Didelot, the Music entirely new by Cesare Bossi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Dance: End I: Le Rendez@vous, as17970513; Minuet de la Cour, as17970406; End Opera: Acis et Galatie- [see17970617

Event Comment: Benefit for Shade, Cameron, Wood, Wilson, Dangerfield, Irish, Nix, Edwards, Wooldridge, Panchaud, Cole, Gray, Hough [box-keepers]. The Last Time of the Company's Performing this Season. Receipts: #85 0s. 6d. (42.0.6; 40.6.6; 2.13.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #204 14s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Cast
Role: Clifford Actor: Wroughton

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: II afterpiece: Mock Minuet, as17960920

Ballet: End: The Scotch Ghost. As17970605

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. True Briton, 1 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Charing-Cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Thieves

Dance: End: Hornpipe-Sga Bossi DelCaro

Music: After Dancing: a favourite concerto by Dussek upon the Grand Piano Forte-Miss Gaudry (1st appearance in public)

Song: End I afterpiece: a favourite song by Webbe-Master Sincock

Entertainment: In the course of the Evening: a Variety of Imitations-Caulfield

Event Comment: Benefit for Munden. Afterpiece: Not acted these 10 years [acted 23 July 1788]. True Briton, 4 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Munden, No. 16, Clement's Inn

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Performance Comment: Young Sadboy-Palmer; Captain Ambush-C. Kemble; Chronicle-Suett; Shadrach (for that night only)-Wewitzer; Spatterdash-R. Palmer; Clod-Munden; Araminta-Mrs Gibbs; Lady Rounceval-Mrs Davenport; Pink-Mrs Harlowe; Dinah Primrose-Miss DeCamp.

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar on Horseback

Song: In course: Four and Twenty Fidlers all on a Row-Munden; The Groupe of Lovers; or, Beauty at her Levee-Munden

Entertainment: Monologue Benjamin Bolus; or, The Newcastle Apothecary-Munden; In the course of the evening: Imitations (including several new ones)-Caulfield

Event Comment: Benefit for Suett. True Briton, 8 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Suett at his chambers, No. 10, Hart-street, Covent-Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Performance Comment: As17970624 but Perriwinkle (for that night only)-Munden; Obadiah Prim (for that night only)-Suett; Simon Pure-_; Aminadab-_; Servant-_; Waiter-_; Stockbrokers-_; Betty-_; Lady-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Song: Between: Little Taffline-Mrs Bland; The Town Crier (composed by Dibdin)-Suett; End: An Old Woman of Eighty-Munden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Gibbs. 1st piece: The Musick composed by Storace

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Iron Chest

Performance Comment: Sir Edward Mortimer-Elliston; Fitzharding-Aickin; Wilford-C. Kemble; Adam Winterton-Fawcett; Rawbold-Palmer; Samson-Suett; Armstrong-Trueman; Orson-R. Palmer; Robbers-Davies, Caulfield, Bannister; Helen-Miss DeCamp; Blanch-Mrs Gibbs; Barbara-Mrs Bland; Judith-Mrs Harlowe.
Cast
Role: Wilford Actor: C. Kemble

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and No Duke

Song: 1st piece: General Chorus-Philipps, Linton, Brown, Aylmer, Little, Walker, Willoughby, Dibble, Caulfield Jun., Ms Edward, Ms Benson, Ms Butler, Ms Gaudry, Ms Hale, Ms Masters, Ms Menage, Ms Norton, Ms Leserve

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Iron Chest

Cast
Role: Wilford Actor: C. Kemble

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Entertainment: Monologue.End: Collins's Ode on the Passions-Palmer; Imitations. Following monologue: a Variety of Imitations-Caulfield

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnstone. 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT 1, but Walley Chamberlain Oulton; music by Thomas Attwood. Larpent MS 1178; not published]. True Briton, 23 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Johnstone, No. 19, Piazza, Covent-Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surrender Of Calais

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Tar or Which is the Girl

Related Works
Related Work: The Witch of the Wood; or, The Nutting Girls Author(s): Reginald Spofforth

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Song: 1st piece: Vocal Parts, as17970623 but _Caulfield Jun., _Walker, _Willoughby, Mrs _Butler, Mrs _Masters, Mrs _Norton, Miss _Menage, Mrs _Wall, Mrs _Benson, Miss _Leserve

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett. 3rd piece: By permission of T. Harris, Esq.; never acted at this theatre. True Briton, 29 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Fawcett at his house, No. 10, Golden-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Event Comment: Benefit for Elliston [whose 1st appearance as Othello was at Bath, 8 July 1797]. Afterpiece: By permission of the Proprietors of the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. True Briton, 30 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Elliston, No. 3, Frith-street, Soho

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Song: End: Sweet Echo, the song-Mrs Bland, the echoMrs Atkins

Event Comment: Benefit for Jewell, treasurer. True Briton, 2 Sept.: Tickets to be had of Jewell, No. 26, Suffolk-street, Charing-Cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Event Comment: Benefit for the Voluntary Contribution now open at the Bank, for the Defence of our Country. Boxes 10s. 6d. Pit 5s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Tickets to be had and Places to be taken of Brandon, at the Stage-Door in Hart-street. Tickets also to be had at the Bar of Lloyd's Coffee-House. [Prologue by William Boscawen (Monthly Mirror, Mar. 1798, p. 178. Author of Address unknown.] "A subscription was set on foot behind the scenes," to which most of the performers contributed #10 apiece (Monthly Mirror, ibid). Account-Book, 12 May: Paid into the Bank of England in aid of the Voluntary Contribution #394 15s. Receipts: #518 8s. (280.9; 12.2; tickets: 225.17) [the difference of #123 13s. appears to have been the house charge]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: England Preservd

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Sailor or Little Bob and Little Ben

Dance: In afterpiece: Triple Hornpipe-Blurton, Mrs Watts, Mlle St.Amand

Song: End: Interlude of Songs, Glees, and Chorusses: With a jolly full Bottle, Great Britain still her Charter boasts, The Wooden Walls, Queen Betty was a famous Queen, To arms to arms-Incledon, Johnstone, Townsend, Linton, Gray, Street, Lee, Curties, Blurton, Wilde

Entertainment: Monologues. Preceding: An Occasional Prologue-Holman; Preceding singing: An Address to the Audience (instead of Epilogue)-Pope

Event Comment: Benefit for the Voluntary Contributions for the Defense of the Country. 1st piece: An entire new Comic Opera [1st performed at Venice, 1791]. 1st ballet: Compressed into a first Dance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Act Of La Sposa In Equivoco

Afterpiece Title: Act II of Semiramide

Dance: End: Le Triomphe de Themis, as17971226; End 2nd piece: an entire new Anacreontic Ballet, composed by Gallet, La Vengeance de l'Amour-; Pas de Quatre of Panurge-Didelot, Laborie, Mme Hilligsberg, Mme Rose

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick. [MS of Exordium: Larpent MS 1204.] Times, 6 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Quick, Little Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Receipts: #297 5s. (120.5.0; 8.11.6; tickets: 168.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wives As They Were And Maids As They Are

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp or Patrick in Prussia

Entertainment: Monologue. End: An Exordium-Quick[, descriptive of the Rise, Progress, and Perfection of that Species of the Antient Drama: The Roman Puppet Show. After which will be given a Specimen of the Characters: Chrononhotonthologos, Aldiborontiphoscophornio, Rigdum@Funidos, Bombardinian, Cook, Doctor, Tatlanthe, Fadladinida, Punch and Joan, who will conclude the Piece with a Modern Dance. [Most of these characters are from Chrononhotonthologos.

Event Comment: Benefit for Holman. 2nd piece [1st time; D 5, by Joseph Trapp, adapted from Siri Brahe; oder, Die Neugierigen, by J. A. Gruttschreiber, itself a translation of Siri Brahe, by Gustavus III. Larpent MS 1206; not published. Prologue and Epilogue by John Taylor (Poems, I, 56-57)]: Written by the Late King of Sweden. Times, 28 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Holman, No. 73, New-street, Hanover-square. Receipts: #231 16s. (138.12.0; 4.10.6; tickets: 88.13.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: British Fortitude Or An Escape From France

Afterpiece Title: Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key

Event Comment: Benefit for Mme Rose Didelot. Semiramide [advertised in Morning Chronicle, 18 Apr.] cannot be given this evening on account of the necessary Machinery in the new Ballet. Tickets to be had of Mme Rose Didelot, No. 8, Hay-Market

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cinna

Dance: End I: A New Divertisement-; Minuet de la Cour-Didelot, Mme Rose; End Opera: a new grand Ballet, composed by Gallet, Enee et Didon-Didelot, Mme Rose, Laborie, Mme Hilligsberg, Miss Hilligsberg, Mme Laborie, St.Pierre

Event Comment: Benefit for Munden. 2nd piece: In one Act. [Taylor had previously sung in concerts at Vauxhall.] Times, 6 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Munden, No. 16, Clement's Inn. Receipts: #408 19s. 6d. (96.6.6; 9.2.6; tickets: 303.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False Impressions

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Afterpiece Title: Retaliation or The Citizen a Soldier

Song: In course: by permission of Dibdin, Old England's tree of Liberty-Taylor; a new Comic Song, Patents all the Rage-Munden

Event Comment: Benefit for Incledon. 1st piece: The Airs (with the exception of When sable Night) new composed for the Occasion. 3rd piece [1st time; M. INT 1]. Morning Herald, 11 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Incledon, No. 15, Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury. Receipts: #528 10s. 6d. (275.9.6; 5.10.0; tickets: 247.11.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Afterpiece Title: Forecastle Fun or Saturday Night at Sea

Song: End 1st piece: All I wish in her obtaining-Mme Mara, Incledon; In the course of the Evening: Black Ey'd Susan, Old Towler, Young William, The Storm-Incledon

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Siddons. [Epilogue by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.] Times, 9 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Siddons, No. 49, Great Marlborough-street. Receipts: #508 8s. 6d. (296.10.0; 58.2.0; 3.12.0; tickets: 150.4.6) (charge: #212 3s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stranger

Cast
Role: Baron Steinfort Actor: Palmer
Related Works
Related Work: The Successful Strangers Author(s): William Mountfort

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Entertainment: Monologue. End: the original Epilogue written for Semiramis-Mrs Siddons

Performance Comment: End: the original Epilogue written for Semiramis-Mrs Siddons.
Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett. 3rd piece [1st time; F 1, by George Colman, ynger, based on L'Anglais; ou, Le Fou Raisonnable, by Joseph Patrat]. Times, 6 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Fawcett, No. 41, Frith-street, Soho, and at Brook-Green, Hammersmith. Receipts: #501 18s. (226.13.0; 3.0.6; tickets: 272.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Afterpiece Title: The Sailors Prize

Afterpiece Title: Blue Devils

Song: In 2nd piece: New Sea Ballad-Incledon; Master Teddy Shemus O'Shaughnessey O'Finnigen Delany's History of Himself-Johnstone; Fat Dolly the Cook-Munden; Soldier's Song-Townsend; New Ballad-Mrs Martyr; To conclude with: Hearts of Oak, Rule Britannia-

Entertainment: Monologue and SingingEnd 1st piece: (for that night only) [an aquatic, historic, romantic, eccentric, sadly comic story, in character, Travels of Trudge, [including Trudge's Exordium on the Quay, [a new song, Under@Ground Lodging, [Trudge's Escape and Voyage; Wowski's Prattle on Shipboard; Mishaps at Barbadoes; a new song, The Marvellous [to Jemmy Linkum Feedle-Fawcett. [This was chiefly based on episodes from Inkle and Yarico.

Event Comment: Benefit for Mme Banti. A Serious Opera, 1st time in this country [1st performed at Naples, 1792]; the Music by Paisiello. Tickets to be had of Mme Banti, No. 3, Hay Market

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Dance: End I: Peggy's Love composed by Didelot [with music by Bossi]-; Pas de Trois-Laborie, Mme Laborie, Mme Hilligsberg; End Opera: La Vengeance de l'Amour, as17980421