Event Comment: Benefit for
Fawcett. 1st piece: Not acted some years [acted 30 Oct. 1790]. 2nd piece [1st time: ENT 1]. 3rd piece: By Permission of
George Colman, Esq.,
and for that Night only. Tickets
and Places to be had of Fawcett at his house, No. 10,
Golden Square,
and of
Brandon, at the Theatre. "To the Public, May 16, 1797. In consequence of repeated Forgeries of Tickets on Benefit Nights, particularly those of
Miss Wallis,
Mr Incledon,
Mr Holman,
and Mrs Mattocks, it has been found necessary to offer a large Reward for the Discovery of the Person or Persons concerned in this unjust
and cruel Practice. Mr Fawcett, therefore, thinks it his Duty to warn his Friends
and the Public from purchasing Tickets for his Night of Strangers, especially those Persons who sell them in the Avenues of the Theatre, as all such will be stopt at the Doors,
and if forged the Persons offering them for Admittance will be drawn into a disagreeable dilemma" (printed slip attached to
Kemble playbill). Receipts: #462 5s. (189.12; 8.13; tickets: 264.0)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World
Performance Comment: Sir Pertinax Macsycophant-Fawcett (1st appearance in that character); Egerton-Holman; Sidney-Murray; Melville-Hull; Lord Lumbercourt-Thompson; Counsellor Plausible-Waddy; Serjeant Eitherside-Macready; Sam-Ledger; John-Wilde; Tomkins-Abbot; Betty Hint-Mrs Martyr; Constantia-Miss Mansel (Their 1st appearance in those characters); Lady Macsycophant-Mrs Platt; Nanny-Mrs Norton; Lady Rodolpha Lumbercourt-Mrs Mattocks (1st appearance in that character).Afterpiece Title: An Entremets
Performance Comment: Sally in our Alley-Incledon; The Story of Lord Hoppergollop's Cook and Gardener's Ghost-Munden; A favorite Irish Song-Johnstone; The Barber's Petition, with a song in character, Wigs, including His Own Wig, The Lover's Wig, Doctor's Wig, Coachman's Wig, Counsellor's Wig-Fawcett.Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom