Event Comment: Powell: New Ballet rehearsed at 12. Receipts: #284 2s. (218.19; 62.2; 3.1)

Event Comment: Powell: New Ballet rehearsed at 12 [and for afterpiece same note as on 3 Jan.]. Receipts: #228 19s. 6d. (180.13.6; 46.9.0; 1.17.0)

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Mrs Jordan as Corinna, but "The Public are respectfully informed that Mrs Jordan being suddenly taken ill, she cannot have the honour of appearing before them this Evening. The Part of Corinna will be performed by Miss Collins" (printed slip attached to Kemble playbill).] Powell: New Ballet rehearsed at 12. Receipts: #214 18s. (156.1; 50.19; 7.18)

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Devil to Pay, advertised on playbill of 15 Jan.] Powell: New Ballet rehearsed at 12. Receipts: #189 17s. (134.1.6; 53.14.0; 2.1.6)

Event Comment: Powell: Know your own Mind rehearsed at 11 [but this play was not acted this season]; New Ballet at 12 [and for afterpiece same note as on 12 Jan.]. Receipts: #206 14s. (152.16.6; 45.8.6; 8.9.0)

Event Comment: [This was Parsons's last appearance on the stage. He died on 3 Feb. 1795.] Powell: Miss DeCamp absent [from afterpiece], Miss Stageldoir Italian Girl. Inconstant rehearsed at 11; New Ballet at 12. Receipts: #262 14s. 6d. (185.16.6; 72.2.6; 2.15.6)

Event Comment: [Palmer's 1st appearance as Capt. Duretete was at Liverpool, 18 Aug. 1773. As afterpiece the playbill announces The Prize, but "The Public are respectfully informed that on Account of the sudden Indisposition of Bannister Jun. The Prize cannot be performed. This Evening will be presented Tit for Tat" (printed slip attached to Kemble playbill). In it "Barrymore being Ill, Benson play'd Villamour" (Powell).] Powell: New Ballet rehearsed at 12. Receipts: #117 12s. (71.0.6; 41.13.6; 4.18.0)

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Cherokee; afterpiece of All the World's a Stage, both announced on playbill of 20 Jan. In mainpiece the playbill retains C. Kemble as Jaques de Bois and Barrymore as Orlando, but "Orlando C. Kemble, Barrymore Ill; Jaques de Bois Benson for C. Kemble"; in afterpiece the playbill retains Barrymore as Kera Khan and C. Kemble as Kajah, but "Kera Khan C. Kemble for Barrymore Ill, Kajah Cooke for C. Kemble. Miss Leak, Miss Redhead, Miss Gawdry absent from this Evening's Performance" (Powell).] Powell: School for Scandal rehearsed at 10; Miss in her Teens at 11; New Ballet at 12. Receipts: #149 12s. (95.7.0; 42.1.6; 12.3.6)

Event Comment: [Russell was from the Margate theatre; he had 1st acted in London at the China Hall Theatre in 1776. In mainpiece the playbill assigns Careless to Barrymore, but "Careless Dignum, Barrymore Ill; Surface's Servant Evans for Banks" (Powell).] Powell: School for Scandal rehearsed at 11; Miss in her Teens at 12; New Ballet at 12. Receipts: #186 4s. (130.18.6; 53.13.6; 1.12.0)

Event Comment: Powell: New Ballet rehearsed at 12 [and for afterpiece same note as on 5 Jan.]. Receipts: #134 7s. (88.7; 40.7; 5.13)

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Jones as Alguazile, but "Alguazile Maddocks, Jones Ill. Bannister absent from this Evening's Performance [of afterpiece]; Cooke D, Ill" (Powell).] Powell: New Ballet rehearsdd at 12. Receipts: #153 11s. (92.19.6; 53.17.0; 6.14.6)

Event Comment: [Wathen was from the Richmond theatre. Afterpiece in place of Lodoiska, advertised on playbill of 24 Jan.] Powell: Mountaineers rehearsed at 11; New Ballet at 12. Receipts: #171 6s. (125.7; 41.2; 4.17)

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Sedgwick as singer, but "Dignum sang the Song in Act III, Sedgwick being Ill. Surface's Servant Evans for Banks" (Powell).] Powell: New Ballet rehearsed at 12. Receipts: #145 2s. (96.15.6; 45.13.6; 2.13.0)

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Hypocrite; afterpiece of The Quaker, both advertised on playbill of 28 Jan.] Powell: New Ballet rehearsed at 12. Receipts: #245 5s. 6d. (188.9.0; 52.9.6; 4.7.0)

Event Comment: Powell: Servant to Miss Alscrip, Evans [in mainpiece]; Michael doubled With Gustavus by Trueman, Bland Ill [in afterpiece]. New Ballet rehearsed at 12. Receipts: #165 8s. 6d. (110.4.0; 51.3.6; 4.1.0)

Event Comment: Powell: Beggar's Opera rehearsed at 10; New Ballet at 12 [and for afterpiece same note as on 3 Feb.]. Receipts: #170 9s. (120.19.6; 37.9.0; 12.0.6)

Event Comment: Powell: [In afterpiece] Sir John Buck Cooke, Phillimore Ill; Classic Benson, Packer Ill. Beggar's Opera rehearsed at 10; New Ballet at 10 and at 12. Receipts: #148 3s. 6d. (103.5.0; 40.6.6; 4.12.0)

Event Comment: [Miss Arne, who is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill, had previously appeared as a chorus singer; see 27 Oct. 1794. In mainpiece the playbill assigns Mrs Peachum to Mrs Hopkins, Suky Tawdry to Mrs Maddocks, Mrs Coaxer to Miss Stageldoir, but "Mrs Hopkins being ill, Mrs Maddocks play'd Mrs Peachum; Mrs Hedges Suky Tawdry for Mrs Maddocks; Miss Stageldoir Ill, Mrs Jones play'd Mrs Coaxer. [In afterpiece] Jones Ill, Lyons Snuffle; Evans 4th Mob for Lyons [both these characters omitted from playbill]" (Powell).] Powell: Mayor of Garratt rehearsed at 12; New Ballet at 12. Receipts: #174 10s. (121.14; 51.2; 1.14)

Event Comment: Powell: Sedgwick not coming to the Theatre, his 1st Scene in My Grandmother was oblig'd to be omitted. The above Neglect Mr Sedgwick is too often guilty of. New Ballet rehearsed at 12. [Mainpiece in place of The Clandestine Marriage, advertised on playbill of 6 Feb.] Receipts: #103 7s. 6d. (65.12.6; 31.14.0; 6.1.0)

Event Comment: [In mainpiece "Evans Lady Sneerwell's Servant for Maddocks"; in afterpiece the playbill retains Mrs Bramwell as Nelly, but "Mrs Bramwell being Ill Miss Tidswell play'd the part of Nelly, and Miss DeCamp sang the Trio" (Powell).] Powell: New Ballet rehearsed at 12. Receipts: #139 1s. 6d. (93.1.0; 40.2.0; 5.18.6)

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Foundling, advertised on playbill of 12 Feb.] Powell: Alexander 's car was completed, and drawn by two elephants, and accompanied by Darius ' car, drawn by three white horses, and another car laden with trophies, drawn by soldiers all of which [were] totally covered with burnished gold and silver...The Procession was still but indifferently conducted. New Ballet rehearsed at 12. Morning Chronicle, 18 Oct. 1794: Two hundred soldiers are to be employed in the spectacle; each of their dresses is estimated at #5. Account-Book: Paid Miller in full for music in Alexander the Great #30. Receipts: #263 11s. (173.16.6; 86.13.0; 3.1.6)

Event Comment: On account of the Engagements of some of the principal Performers at the Opera House it is absolutely impossible to give Alexander the Great this Evening; the third night will be on Monday next, and every Accomodations is making for an Arrangement that will prevent any future interruption of this Representation. Powell: New Comedy [The Wheel of Fortune] read at 12. Receipts: #143 19s. 6d. (87.5.6; 48.16.6; 7.17.6)

Event Comment: Powell, 15 Feb.: Alexander the Great rehearsed at 11; 2nd Scene of D & Procession at 6; 16 Feb.: New Comedy rehearsed at 11. Receipts: #407 5s. (308.0.0; 94.3.6; 5.1.6)

Event Comment: Powell: New Comedy rehearsed at 11. Receipts: #390 19s. 6d. (316.2.0; 67.11.0; 7.6.6)

Event Comment: Principal Instrumental Performers-C. Ashley, Bridgtower, Archer, Harvey, Sarjant, Mahon, Boyce, Cantelo, Parkinson, Taylor, J. Sharp, Lavenu, Napier, Simpson, the Flacks, Purney, Seutze, Gwilliam, Monro, Wood, Warren, Woodham, Francis, M. Sharp, &c. Organ by J. Ashley. Double Drums by R. Ashley. The Chorusses will be numerous and compleat, and the Orchestra will consist of upwards of Two Hundred Performers. The whole under the Direction of Ashley. Boxes 6s. Pit 3s. 6d. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places to be taken, and Tickets for the Boxes may be had of Brandon at the Office in Hart-street. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season]. [This performance was originally advertised to take place at the Pantheon, Oxford-street, but "The routed Host of Harmonists, driven from their new works in Oxford-road, hastily encamped last night [at Covent Garden]. Their performance...went off as might be expected from a scanty band, thus collected, without any previous rehearsal" (Morning Herald, 21 Feb.). The Pantheon had been destroyed by fire in January 1792. Work on its reconstruction had only recently been begun, and Was still not completed. It was reopened with a masquerade on 9 April 1795, the "usual licenses being now fully renewed and established" (Morning Herald, 9 Apr.).