Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Dunstone. The Songs at the Request of several of the . . . Free and Accepted Masons

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of NOTORIETY, advertised on playbill of 23 Oct.] Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2 , by Mrs Burke. MS: Larpent 992; not published]: With new Music [by Tommaso Giordani (Morning Herald, 25 Oct.)). Scenery, Dresses and Decorations. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #228 0s. 6d. (206/10/6; 21/10/0)

Event Comment: 3rd piece [Ist time; MF 2, attributed to Mrs Rainsford, for whom see Morning Herald, 9 May; London Chronicle, 23 May, states that it was written by "A Lady," but gives no name. MS: Larpent 1025; not published]: The Music composed by Webbe. Receipts: #118 4s. (109/3; 9/1)

Event Comment: [By Mrs Aubert.] Never Acted before. In Daily Courant, 26 May: Never acted before, being unfortunately prevented on Friday last, by the unexpected Arrest of the Person who was to have played the Doctor

Event Comment: Mrs Abington having sprain'd her leg, the new Comedy Ye School for Wives oblig'd to be deferr'd (Winston MS 10). Paid properties 13s. 6d.; Housekeeper's Bill #9 8s. 6d. Receipts: #254 5s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Benefit Mr Daniel and Mrs Bainbridge; tickets deliver'd out for Love's Last Shift will be taken

Event Comment: Benefit for Foly (Box lobby doorkeekper) and Veal (First Gallery doorkeeper). British Chronicle, 16 May: Yesterday Foulkes, a Beadle of Vere St Clare Market fell from the upper gallery of Drury Lane play house into the pit & expired immediately. The seat on which he fell was broke in half. British Chronicle, 16 May: It is said Mrs Pritchard is appointed Dresser to her intended Majesty for the Royal Wedding

Event Comment: Mrs Mills, a Drury Lane actress, died on this day

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never Acted before. [By James Miller.] Daily Advertiser, 6 March: We hear that Sir John Barnard has offerM a Proposal limiting the Number of Playhouses, and for putting them under the Regulation of Parliament

Event Comment: A new Comedy [By James Miller.]

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By James Miller.] Preface to edition of 1738: Ill-fated Scenes....It was said...by a Gentleman at the Time of this Comedy's being Represented, That he never knew a Play Destroy'd with so much Art; its Enemies suffering those Things to pass without Disturbance which were of an indifferent Nature...but giving no Quarter to the Parts which they thought would entertain

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by James Cobb. Text 1st published (unauthorized), Dublin [1790]. Sga Storace had 1st appeared in concerts from 1774 to 1778, and at king's on 24 Apr. 1787 and thereafter]: With new Scenes, Dresses and Decorations. The new Music composed by Storace, the rest compiled from Linley? Sen., Purcell, Sarti, Paisiello, Martin y Soler?, Pleyel, &c. The Scenes designed and executed by Greenwood. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. "In her own particular line on the stage [Sga Storace] was unrivalled, being an excellent actress, as well as a masterly singer. She settled entirely in England, and after quitting the opera (to which she was frequently recalled in times of distress, as was too often the case), she engaged at Drury Lane, where the English opera was raised to an excellence not known before, by her singing, with that of Mrs Crouch, Mrs Bland, Kelly, and Bannister, and under the direction of her brother Stephen Storace, who composed, or rather compiled, several very pretty operas, of which the Haunted Tower, and the Siege of Belgrade still remain favorites, and are frequently performed" (Mount-Edgcumbe, 65). Account-Book, 4 Jan. 1790: Paid Cobb on Acct. of the Purchase of the Copyright of the Haunted Tower #157 10s.; 27 Feb. 1790: Paid Cobb in full for Copyright #52 10s. Receipts: #219 9s. 6d. (200.13.0; 17.14.6; 1.2.0)

Event Comment: Paid Collings for painting the Flies #8 15s. Mainpiece: The Music composed by Starace. Powell: Miller of Mansfield rehearsed at 11; Siege of Belgrade at 12. Receipts: #473 4s. 6d. (404/3/6; 68/10/0; 0/8/o; ticket not come in: 0/3/0)

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis, Redman, Gardner, Widow Collins. Tickets deliver'd by Rawlins, Mrs Gould, Mrs Griffiths, Mrs Paddic, Mrs Gwinn, a Gentlewoman under Misfortunes, &c. will be taken. Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [See 22 April 1760.

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Pritchard. Tickets at Mrs Pritchard's, Craven Buildings, dl

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mrs Centlivre. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the Toy Shop. N.B. Whereas several Audiences have of late been very much disgusted at the Performances being interrupted by Persons crouding upon the Stage; none for the future can be admitted behind the Scenes, except those who have Annual Silver Tickets

Event Comment: Benefit for Several-Dunbar, Smith, Broad, Mrs Baker

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kemble. "Kemble? Sen. performed the Miller...Here and there we could perceive the liberty of the country performer, by saying more than was set down by the author" (Public Advertiser, 27 Aug.). [Address by John Taylor (European Magazine, Sept. 1788, p. 217).] Public Advertiser, 21 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Kemble, No. 26, Villiers-street, York-buildings, Strand

Event Comment: Benefit Macklin, Mr and Mrs Furnival. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the Toy Shop