Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Webb

Event Comment: The Maid of the Mill [advertised in Public Advertiser, 19 Sept.] is obliged to be deferred on account of the Indisposition of Mrs Crouch. Paid Booth tailor, #4 6s. 6d.; Scenemen #5 4s.; Carpenters #3 16s.; Renters' Income #30 [this last paid daily]. Receipts: #111 8s. 6d. (71.11.0; 39.4.0; 0.13.6)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 20 years [not acted since 2 Nov. 1761]. With new Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations. In Act I a Grand Banquetv. In Act II the Trial of Queen Katharinev. In V a Procession to the Christening of Princess Elizabethv. [These were included in all subsequent performances.] Mrs Siddons's Queen Katharine was "too laboured -particularly the Trial Scene, where the words came so slow and measured that they seemed to be distilled" (Public Advertiser, 29 Nov.). Receipts: #260 11s. (248.12; 11.6; 0.13)

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 by Half past Four o'Clock. Afterpiece: Not acted these 10 years. Public Advertiser, 12 Dec.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Jordan, Gower-street, Bedford-square. Receipts: #282 6s. (143.1.0; 22.19.6; 0.10:6; tickets: 115.15.0) (charge: #107 9s. 7d.)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Some of the Airs compiled from the best Masters. The rest of the Music, the Overture, Accompanimedts, &c. by Linley? Sen. [Mrs Edwards was from the hay.] Receipts: #197 16s. 6d. (169.19.0; 26.14.6; 1.3.0)

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett and Mrs Hedges. Receipts: #218 7s. (22.17.0; 16.9.6; 1.0.6; tickets: 178.0.0) (charge: #106 18s. 11d.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Webb. Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years

Event Comment: [This was Mrs Inchbald's last appearance on the stage.

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Miss Brunton as Lady Anne, but she "who attended, and was dressed for her character...was suddenly taken ill...The part was read by Mrs Rock" (Public Advertiser, 24 Oct.).] Receipts: #197 1s. (195.15; 1.6)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Goodall. Gazetteer, 28 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Goodall, No. 26, Villers-street, York Buildings. Receipts: #237 7s. (65.19; 35.11; 5.19; tickets: 129.18) (charge: #114 19s. 7d.)

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.)

Event Comment: [Extra night] Benefit for the Widow Fearon, and her Eight Orphan Children. Tickets to be had of Mrs Fearon, No. 6, Spur-street, Leicester-Fields; and of Brandon, at the Theatre, where Places for the Boxes may be taken. [Fearon had died 30 Sept. 1789.] Receipts: none listed

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years. Afterpiece [1st time: CO 2, by John O'Keeffe; altered by the author from his The Czar. Larpent MS 881; not published]: In which will be introduced a few Scenes and Songs from The Czar, performed last season [on 8 Mar. 1790]. The Music composed and compiled by Shield. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. [Mrs Harlowe was from Sadler's Wells.] Receipts: #194 11s. 6d. (181.18.6; 12.13.0)

Event Comment: Benefit for a Fund for the Relief of those whose Infirmities oblige them to retire from the Stage. The whole Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Those Ladies and Gentlemen who have seats in the Pit are earnestly requested to be early at the Theatre, and Servants are desired to attend at half past Four o'Clock to keep Places. "The fine tragic powers of [Mrs Siddons] and Kemble were but wasted on the turgid trumpery of the play...But Kemble in this scene [end of Act III] was so impassioned and transcendent that it killed all the rest of the piece. The scorn of Mrs Siddons at his dissimulation--her haughty bearing and marking emphasis, with the piercing powers of her eye, are all treasured where they should be" (Oracle, 16 May). Receipts: #117 14s. (107.11.0; 9.12.6; 0.10.6; tickets: none listed, but Oracle, 17 May, reports that tickets were purchased for as much as one guinea and a half) (charge: free)

Event Comment: Benefit for Marshall, Miss Williams & Mrs Warrell. Oracle, 3 June: Tickets to be had of Marshall, No. 11, York-street, York-buildings; of Miss Williams, No. 14, Martlett-court, Bow-street, Covent-Garden; of Mrs Warrell, No. 48, Carey-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. Receipts: #147 9s. 6d. (14.16.6; 4.1.0; tickets: 128.12.0)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bannister. Public Advertiser, 21 July: Tickets to be had of Mrs Bannister, Frith-street, Soho. Receipts: #250 (Gazetteer, 5 Sept.)

Event Comment: In consequence of the Indisposition of a principal Performer [Mrs Goodall (Diary, 29 July)] The Battle of Hexham [advertised on playbill of 27 July] is unavoidably postponed

Event Comment: The Duenna [advertised on playbill of 7 Dec.] is obliged to be deferred on account of the Indispoaition of Quick. [In mainpiece the playbill retains Mrs Martyr as Lucy, but she "had kibes, and accordingly Mrs Harlowe was drawn out in Lucy" (Oracle, 9 Dec.). Afterpiece in place of Two Strings to Your Bow, advertised on playbill of 7 Dec.] Receipts: #193 9s. 6d. (188.14.6; 4.15.0)

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Mrs Crouch as Urganda, but "Owing to the sudden indisposition of Mrs Crouch [the] part of Urganda was read by Mrs Powell" (Morning Herald,27 Jan.).] Receipts: #334 0s. 6d. (286.14.6; 44.1.0; 3.5.0)

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Mrs Churton. The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Tickets to be had of Mrs Churton, No. 33, New-Bond-street; of Wye, Masquerade Warehouse, Panton-street; and of Rice, at the Theatre, where Places for the Boxes may be taken

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Crouch. Morning Herald, 5 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Crouch, No. 4, Pall-Mall. Receipts: #455 1s. 6d. (166.0.0; 45.2.6; 3.11.6; tickets: 240.7.6) (charge: #175 7s. 6d. )

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Mrs Goodall as the Queen, but she "being indisposed, Mrs Whitfield performed, or rather attempted the Queen" (Thespian Magazine, Aug. 1792, p. 53).

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years [not acted since 21 Apr. 1784. Mrs Bateman is identified in Kemble Mem.]. Receipts: #201 1s. 6d. (156.7.6; 41.11.0; 3.3.0)

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Packer as Melanthon and Mrs Siddon as Euphrasia , but "Mrs Powell was the substitute for Mrs Siddons, and acquitted herself very ably. Melanthon was read by Maddocks [which part can be doubled with Greek Herald ]" (Thespian Magazine, June 1793, p. 3).] Receipts: #109 5s. (101.0; 8.5)

Event Comment: Benefit for the Orphan Daughters of the late Mr Wrighten, prompter. [In mainpiece the playbill retains Mrs Kemble as Charlotte, but "Mrs Ward read Charlotte " (Thespian Magazine, June 1793, p. 3).] Receipts: #548 12s. 6d. (137.4.6; 32.11.0; 2.17.0; tickets: 376.0;0) (charge: #147 11s. 6d.)