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Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Mainpiece: By Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Entertainment: End: The Cries of London (In which will be introduced the Tombs of Westminster Abbey)-Vernon

Event Comment: Benefit for Grimaldi and Aldridge. Afterpiece: By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17660113, but Horatio-Packer; Queen-Mrs Hopkins.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Hopkins.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Sir John Loverule Actor: Vernon

Dance: IV: The Irish Lilt, as17651004; Following the Entertainment: a New Tambourine Dance, as17660123

Entertainment: End: The Cries of London, Tombs of Westminster Abbey-Vernon

Event Comment: Benefit for Ackman and Mrs Bradshaw. Tickets for This Night will be taken. Mainpiece for the last time this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Entertainment: End: The Cries of London, Tombs of Westminster-Vernon

Dance: V: The Irish Lilt, as17651004

Event Comment: Benefit for Dickinson (first gallery office-keeper)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: Mrs Strictland Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Cast
Role: Major Belford Actor: Packer
Role: Bell Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Dance: II: The Irish Lilt, as17651004

Entertainment: End: The Cries of London, Tombs of Westminster Abbey-Vernon

Event Comment: Benefit for Champnes and Mrs Scott

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Performance Comment: As17710304 but Philario-Wright; in II, A New Song composed by Barthelemon to be sung-Mrs Scott.

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Song: End: (By Particular Desire, and by Permission of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of the Catch Club) some favourite Catches and Glees-Vernon, Champnes, Mrs Scott, Mrs Weichsel

Event Comment: Benefit for J. Aickin. Receipts: #201 15s. Charges: #65 2s. Profit to J. Aickin: #136 13s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phaedra And Hippolitus

Performance Comment: As17740421; Mrs Barry's last time of performing the part of Phaedra this season%.

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Entertainment: II: (By Particular Desire) Hippsley's Drunken Man-Weston; IV: An Ode on Masonry-Vernon, Dodd, Bannister; End: (1st and only time this season) Imitations with several new characters-Bannister

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17730918

Event Comment: Benefit for Reinhold. Tickets delivered for The Comedy of Errors will be admitted. Books of the Catches and Glees to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 8 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Reinhold, No. 90, Charlotte-street, Rathbone-place

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Song: End II: several of the newest and most approved Catches and Glees (selected from the invaluable Collection of the Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Catch-Club)-Reinhold, Vernon, Champness, R.? Smith, Webb, Reynoldson, Simpkinson, Leoni, assisted by several other of the most eminent Performers

Performance Comment: ? Smith, Webb, Reynoldson, Simpkinson, Leoni, assisted by several other of the most eminent Performers.
Event Comment: Benefit for Reinhold. Tickets delivered for Friday the 14th will be admitted. Public Advertiser, 7 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Reinhold at his house in Charlotte Street, Rathbone Place. Receipts: #246 13s. 6d. (112.18.6; tickets: 133.15.0) (charge: #66 15s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Song: End II: several of the newest and most favourite Catches and Glees-Reinhold, Vernon, Champness, Leoni, assisted by several of the most eminent performers; End: Mad Tom, in character, as17800410

Event Comment: Benefit for Dodd. Mainpiece: Not acted these 11 years. 2nd piece: An Interlude, written by the late D. Garrick, Esq. Receipts: #246 13s. 6d. (110/11/0; 21/16/6; 0/18/0; tickets: 113/8/0) (charge: #105 4s. 11d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Foundling

Afterpiece Title: Lincos Travels

Afterpiece Title: The Alchymist

Performance Comment: Abel Drugger-Dodd; Subtle-Aickin; Sir Epicure Mammon-Griffiths; Surly-Wrighten; Kastril-Burton; Lovewit-Packer; Face-Palmer; Dame Pliant-Miss Simson; Doll Common-Mrs Hopkins .
Cast
Role: Doll Common Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Farren. Receipts: #111 11s. (76/3; 35/3; 0/5; tickets: none listed) (charge: #109 2s. 7d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lord Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: Lincos Travels

Cast
Role: Doll Common Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: End of 2nd piece the Minuet de la Cour, as17820104

Event Comment: Benefit for Burton, Williames & Harwood, prompter. Public Advertiser, 7 May: Tickets to be had of Harwood, Blackmoor Street, Clare-market [others not listed]. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. [The playbill assigns the song in Act II to Williames, but a MS annotation on the Kemble playbill substitutes Du-Bellamy.] Receipts: #252 19s. (66/15; 34/7; 0/11; tickets: 151/6) (charge: #106 9s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Lincos Travels

Cast
Role: Doll Common Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: End of Act IV of mainpicce a Minuet and Gavot by Zuchelli and Miss M. Stageldoir

Song: In Act II of mainpiece a song by Du-Bellamy; End of Act III The Soldier tir'd of War's Alarms, as17820420

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett and Butler. Morning Herald, 27 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Fawcett, Craven-buildings, Drury-lane; of Butler, next door to the stage-door, Little Russel-street, Covent-garden. Receipts: #281 16s. 6d. (43/0/0; 8/1/6; 0/8/0; tickets: 230/7/0) (charge: #109 2s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lord Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: Lincos Travels

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Cast
Role: Mrs Annaseed Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece a Hornpipe by Master Butler (Scholar of Miller)

Event Comment: Benefit for Phillimore, Spencer, Mrs Pulley & Miss Armstrong. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Receipts: #298 19s. (34/8; 8/10; 0/11; tickets: 255/10) (charge: #115 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performance Comment: Don John-Palmer (1st appearance in that character); Duke-Packer; Petruchio-Aickin; Antonio-Parsons; Peter-Burton; Antony-Phillimore; Francisco-Wright; Surgeon-Wrighten; Frederick-Brereton; 1st Constantia-Mrs Sharp; Mother-Mrs Hopkins; Landlady-Mrs Love; Nurse-Mrs Booth; 2nd Constantia-Miss Farren .
Cast
Role: Mother Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: Lincos Travels

Cast
Role: Mrs Annaseed Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece a Hornpipe (for that night only) by Miss Watkins

Event Comment: Benefit for Blanchard. Receipts: #262 9s. 6d. (107.7.6; 11.9.0; tickets: 143.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Woud Be A Soldier

Afterpiece Title: Lincos Travels

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Event Comment: Benefit for Macready and Miss Tweedale. Receipts: #167 15s. (51.3.6; 7.6.6; tickets: 109.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Lincos Travels

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Event Comment: Benefit for Gardner, Rock, Besford & Mrs Watts. The Caledonian Wedding [a dance, advertised on playbill of 2 June] cannot be performed on Account of the Indisposition of a Principal Performer. [3rd piece in place of The Country Mad-Cap, advertised on playbill of 2 June.] Receipts: #177 6d. (48.1.6; 7.16.0; tickets: 121.7.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Follies Of A Day

Afterpiece Title: Lincos Travels

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Song: End II 1st piece: The Soldier tir'd of War's Alarms (for this Night only)-Master Braham

Entertainment: Monologue End III 1st piece: A Description of the Tombs in Westminster Abbey-Edwin

Event Comment: Benefit for Blanchard. Morning Herald, 2 May: Tickets to be had of Blanchard, No. 11, Beaufort's-buildings, Strand. Receipts: #254 18s. 6d. (103.14.6; 3.3.0; tickets: 148. .0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man Or The Fops Fortune

Afterpiece Title: Lincos Travels

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Song: End IV: Wine cannot cure the Pain I endure, as17920412

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Yates. Pit and Boxes laid together where servants will be allowed to keep places. Those Ladies and Gentlemen who have taken places in the Pit, are humbly desired to come as early as posible, for their own conveniency, and to prevent trouble in getting to their seats. Charges #66 5s. Balance to Mrs Yates #39 18s., plus income from 713 Box & Pit seats (laid together for price purposes) #178 5s. Paid Miss Atkinson and Miss Pope for walking 12 nights in Man & Wife; 26 Nights in Harlequin's Jubilee; 12 Nights in Timanthes #6 5s. each. Paid Mrs Warwell for walking 12 nights in Man & Wife #1 10s.; Paid Miss Lawrence and Mrs Bates 5s. each for walking 2 nights in Harlequin's Jubilee (Account Book). Receipts: #106 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Performance Comment: Warwick-Smith; King Edward-Bensley; Pembroke-Perry; Suffolk-Gardner; Buckingham-Wignell; Lady Elizabeth Grey-Mrs Mattocks; Lady Clifford-Miss Pearce; Margaret of Anjou-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Lady Clifford Actor: Miss Pearce

Afterpiece Title: Edgar and Emmeline

Performance Comment: Edgar-Lewes, first time; Florimond-Yates; Elfina-Miss Besford; Grotilla-Miss Cockayne; Emmeline-Mrs Yates (playbill).
Cast
Role: Elfina Actor: Miss Besford

Dance: End: The Tartars, as17691207

Entertainment: End: By Particular Desire, The Epilogue[Spoken Last Year;-Mrs Yates [as17690313, the New Epilogue for Mrs Yates's Benefit, after Orestes]

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Twistleton. Mainpiece: Masquerade as 7 Oct. 1793. Morning Chronicle, 9 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Twistleton, No. 2, James-street, Adelphi. Receipts: #262 10s. 6d. (167/13/0; 4/7/0; tickets: 90/10/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: PATRICK IN PRUSSIA i

Dance: As17931022

Song: As17931007, but added: Townsend, Richardson//Miss Hopkins, Miss Kirton; omitted: Williamson, Gray, Mrs Watts, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Masters

Event Comment: Benefit Gioseppe Olzi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the best Masters; the Vocal Part,several Italian songs-Signior Gioseppe Olzi, who sings several Italian Songs with the Trumpet and other Instruments; accompany'd-Mr Dupare; Likewise several Sonatas for a Flute and Violin-Signior Gasperini, Mr Paisible; Sonata for two Flutes-Mr Paisible, Mr Banister; With variety of other Sonatas for the Violin, compos'd by Mr Corbett.

Event Comment: Benefit Dean, Manship, and Ridgely. At 8 p.m. Tickets 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and instrumental Music, all entirely new,-the best Masters; in which several Songs in Italian and English-Mr Holcomb; and likewise two Solos-Mr Dean, one being of his own composing; with several other Songs and Pieces of Musick-Mr Teno, Mr Laurence, Mr Cook, others

Event Comment: Benefit Hughes. At 4 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; particularly a Song-[Hughes] [before Her Majesty, in Congratulation of Her Majesty's Happy Accession to the Crown; [Also several Entertainments-Mr Dean, Signior Francisco; [And three New Songs [never perform'd anywhere-Mr Hughs; [And that much celebrated Song for the Trumpet[, perform'd originally-Mr Pate [in The Island Princess, beginning Rouse ye Gods of the Main; [Also a Sonata for two Trumpets-; [and positively there will be perform'd an Extraordinary Entertainment on the Arch/Lutes-an Eminent Master [who never perform'd there before; accompanied-Mr Dean, others

Event Comment: Benefit Twiselton, Trumpet to his Excellency the Duke of Aumont

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; With a new Dialogue between Honour Faction and Peace; by Mr Weldon;-Mr Leveridge, Mr Twiselton, a Gentlewoman, that never sung in Publick; Likewise several Pieces of Musick proper for the Trumpet-; particularly a Sonata- by Signior Corelli, on purpose for Mr Twiselton when he was at Rome

Event Comment: Benefit Master Ferg, who performs the Punch and Burgomaster, Scholar to Mons Livier. 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s. 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Consisting of several Select Pieces by Mr Handel and other Eminent Masters, and taken from the most favourite Operas-; The Vocal Parts-Mr Beard, Mrs Clive; being several Favourite Songs in Italian and English-Mr Beard, Mrs Clive; A Preamble on the Kettle@Drums-Master Ferg; with two New Minuets-; Chorus out of Atalanta for French@Horns and Trumpets-, the two French-Horns two little Negro-Boys (Scholars to Mr Charles, who never perform'd before); Concluding with the Anthem, God save the King-

Dance: WWooden Shoe Dance-Master Ferg; Shepherd's Mount (a ballet)-

Event Comment: Benefit Oates. For the Entertainment of the Grand Master and the rest of the Brethren belonging to the...Masons. [Tickets at Oates', King's Arms Tavern, Great Wild Street.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Cast
Role: Lady Wishfort Actor: Mrs Mullart

Song: nd the added Songs in Masonry as usual,% I: Come let us prepare-Mr Oates; III: On on my dear Brethren-Mr Oates; IV: Let Masonry be now my Theme-Mr Oates; V: Ye Brethren of the Ancient Craft-Mr Oates

Dance: I: Serious Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; III: Peasant Dance-Master and Miss Oates; IV: Je ne scai quoi-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates; V: Grecian Sailors-Glover

Music: II: Solo on the Violin-Master Oates