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Event Comment: Paid salary list 4 days #377 4s.; J. French on acct #5 5s.; Tallow chandler's 7th bill #39 9s. 7d. Receipts: #184 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Braganza

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Jacket

Event Comment: Paid Gardiner (shoemaker) #18 18s. 6d. Receipts: #181 7s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Performance Comment: As17751101, but Davy-Parsons (playbill); but Waldron in The Public Advertiser. but Waldron in The Public Advertiser.
Event Comment: Paid half year's land tax to Mich. last #27 4s. 6d.; Ditto Window lights #13 18s. 1d.; Hopkins, Prompter's bill for last season #7 19s.; Mrs Whitlock, sundry bills #26 8s. 9d. Receipts: #98 12s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Old City Manners

Performance Comment: As17751109, but Prologue-Palmer.

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Performance Comment: As17751111, but Parts-Messink, _Cubitt.

Dance: II: The Savage Hunters, as17751020

Event Comment: Paid for suit of men's cloathes by order #9. Receipts: #270 12s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Performance Comment: As17751205, but Old Woman-Baddeley.

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: V: The Sailors Revels-Blurton

Event Comment: Paid salary list #630 1s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Tuesday Next, not acted these 2 years. George Barnwell, to which will be added, first time these 6 years, The Jubilee, in honor of Shakespeare. Receipts: #247 17s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: As17751201, but Scrub-Dodd, first time.

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performance Comment: As17751207, but Leander-Vernon.

Dance: IV: The Irish Fair, as17751003

Event Comment: Paid bill for Portugal Dishes #3. Receipts: #217 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Event Comment: Paid 5 days salary list #525 1s. 3d.; Supernumeraries for the Jubilee #71 7s.; Ditto for the Jubilee this night #14 8s.; Tallow Chandler's 4th bill #50 13s. 1d. (Treasurer's Book). [N.B. at a rate of 2s. 6d. for walking in a pageant the Jubilee would seem to have required 115 supernumeraries this evening.] Receipts: #194 4s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Event Comment: Paid 2 additional flutes 10s. Receipts: #279 6s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Discovery

Performance Comment: As17760120, but advertised with an Address to the Ladies-Sir Anthony Branville.

Afterpiece Title: May Day

Event Comment: Paid Xmas Boxes to sundries (as Usual) #17 14s. Receipts: #217 1s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Discovery

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Performance Comment: As17751127, but Henry-Vernon.

Dance: As17760126

Event Comment: Paid salary list #624 6s. 6d.; Abrahams (Jew) #30. Receipts: #163 7s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella Or The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Performance Comment: As17751206, but to avoid confusion parts listed again: King, Dodd, Parsons, Brereton, Lamash, Mrs King, Mrs Abington; Prologue-King.

Dance: II: The Savage Hunters, as17751118, but _Blurton

Event Comment: Paid Mrs Parks boy 4 nights #1 10s. Receipts: #276 5s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Performance Comment: As17751116, but to avoid confusion cast listed again here: Benedict-Garrick; Leonato-Jefferson; Don Pedro-Packer; Claudio-Brereton; Balthazar (with song)-Burton; Don John-Aickin; Antonio-Hurst; Dogberry-Parsons; Boracchio-Usher; Verges-Carpenter; Conrade-Griffiths; Town Clerk-Baddeley; Messenger-Lamash; Sexton-Wrighten; Friar-Wright; Hero-Miss Hopkins; Margaret-Mrs Bradshaw; Ursula-Mrs Millidge; Beatrice-Mrs Abington; in II, a Masquerade Dance proper to the play-; to conclude with a Country Dance-.

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

Event Comment: Paid salary list #621 16s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: whitson Eve

Event Comment: Paid Music 23rd Inst. #7 4s.; Properties 12s. Receipts: #217 12s. 6d. (217.3.0; 0.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: News From Parnassus

Afterpiece Title: She Stoops to Conquer

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Event Comment: Paid Wardrobe 3 nights #4 0s. 6d. [Ward was from the Birmingham theatre.] Receipts: #302 17s. 6d. (302.10.0; 0.7.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: I: a Masquerade Scene-incident to the Play; a Minuet-Dumay, Mrs Jackson

Song: End IV: Funeral Procession of Juliet, with the Solemn Dirge-Mattocks, Reinhold, Baker, Fox, Miss Dayes, Miss Valois, Mrs Willems; [The Masquerade, Minuet, and Dirge, as here assigned, are the same in all subsequent performances.] In afterpiece: Sweet Echo-Leoni, Miss Catley. [This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Event Comment: Paid Chorus Singers #3 17s. 6d. Receipts: #257 2s. (256.11; 0.11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

Event Comment: Paid Mountford [master carpenter] for Scene Men #15 19s. 3d. Receipts: #276 3s. 6d. (275.14.6; 0.9.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

Dance: End: As17761009

Event Comment: Paid Dall, painter, on account of Salary #60. Receipts: #125 15s. 6d. (124.12.0; 1.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: End I: As17761015; In V: a Dance of Foresters-Harris

Event Comment: Paid Harris for his Trouble and Expenses in half a year's superintendence of the Business of the Theatre #250. Receipts: #181 11s. 6d. (181.2.0; 0.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caractacus

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Frolicks

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors, as17761106; In afterpiece: Rural Dance, as17761226

Event Comment: Paid Hewetson & Co., Lacemen. #140 16s. 6d. Receipts: #210 11s. 6d. (185.13.0; 24.18.6; 0.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: As17770116, but Capt. Absolute-Smith (1st appearance in that character); The Original Epilogue-_.

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

Dance: As17770102

Event Comment: Paid Woodfall in full for his 2 nights #150 [see 6 Feb.]. Receipts: #226 7s. 6d. (223.6.0; 3.1.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Thomas Overbury

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Song: As17770107

Event Comment: Paid Hatsell, Mercer, #280 7s. Receipts: #149 13s. 6d. (131.10.0; 15.19.0; 2.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Performance Comment: As17770224, but The other parts-Baker. +Prologue as17770224 .

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Dance: End III: As17761024

Event Comment: Paid Lee in lieu of a benefit #120. Receipts: #278 5s. (277.0.6; 1.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Dance: End: New Dance-; in which the Minuet de la Cour-Bishop, Sga Tinte

Event Comment: Paid Mrs Hartley in lieu of a benefit #105. Receipts: #145 13s. (144.9; 1.4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: As17770218

Event Comment: Paid Music 22nd Inst. #7 9s. 6d. Receipts: #146 15s. (144.14.6; 2.0.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Thomas Overbury

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Dance: End: The Shepherd's Wedding-Harris, Miss Matthews

Event Comment: Paid Properties 3rd Inst. #1 15s. 4d.; Wardrobe to date #4 1s. 6d. Receipts: #203 9s. 6d. (202.11.6; 0.18.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Dance: As17771001