Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. [MacMillan notes from Kemble: "The Spleen, or Islington Spa was not acted tonight. The Jubilee was perform'd instead of it." The Spleen, tho' advertised was deferred on account of King's illness.] Paid 4 days salary list at #104 1s. 1d. per diem #416 4s. 4d.; Mr Short for attending Jubilee 17 nights #4 5s. Receipts: #212 14s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. Tickets deliver'd for The Siege of Damascus (for that night) will be taken. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid 8 extra trumpets #3; Mr Cook's singing boys, 17 nights #25 10s. Receipts: #187 15s. 6d. Charges: #78 16s. 6d. Profits to Bensley: #99 19s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: House Pacini's Night Bought by the Managers (Hopkins Diary). The last time of performing till Easter. Paid salary #416 4s. 4d.; Mr Smith for Abrams [sic] the Jew #21; Miss Abrahams [sic] #10 10s. Receipts: #262 8s. 6d

Event Comment: House (Hopkins Diary). The new Comedy of The Runaway is unavoidably oblig'd to be deferred till Saturday. Rec'd Mr Stanley's Oratorio Account, 11 nights, #327 5s. Paid Lawrence (paper hanger) #13 7s.; Renters (for 11 Oratorio nights) #88; Cubit (tinman) #7 14s. 6d.; Gardner (shoemaker) #25; Chettle (timber merchant) #22 14s. 6d.; Mist andCo. (brazier) #10 8s.; Thomson (smith) #5 16s. 6d. Barrow andCo. (oil) #106 5s.; Tallow Chandler's 8th Bill #26 12s.; Palmer's Bill of Bath for Spermacetti Candles #162 10s. (Treasurer's Book). [MacMillan quotes from Kemble's note on the playbill, a Garrick interpolation in Drugger 's last speech (IV, vii): "Abel: Did you never see me play the Fool? Face: Yes. Abel: But the wise ones say I have played the Fool long enough; So I am going to leave it off and grow melancholy." [This note does not appear in the Hopkins Diary in the Folger Library.] Receipts: #265 17s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Hurst and Webb. Afterpiece: By Desire. Rec'd from Sinking Fund #504; from Stopages #11 9s. 6d. Paid Tallow Chandler's 9th bill #30 9s.; 1!2 year's land and window tax to Lady Day last #41 2s. 7.; Mr Wegg 1!2 year's rent to Lady Day last #57. Receipts: #32 16s. 6d. Charges: #66 11s. 6d. Deficit to Hurst and Webb: #33 15s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Whitfield and Miss Sharp. Tickets deliver'd by Mrs Siddons will be taken. Paid 2 Flutes 2 nights #1. Receipts: #69 4s. Charges: #68 15s. Profits to Miss Sharp and Mr Whitfield: 9s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: The Characters will be dressed in the Habits of the Times. The Musick of Macbeth had a proper Attention paid to it in the getting up by Mr Linley (who composed the Additional Accompaniments) and went off with great Applause. Mrs Melmoth, who came out at Covent Garden [on 26 Feb. 1774], made her first Appearance upon this Stage in Lady Macbeth, was very wild in the Part, met with some Applause. The Play was dressed in the Habits of the Times. [Note added by J. P. Kemble: I have seen some of these Habits, and very paltry and very improper they were] (Hopkins Diary). [Mrs Melmoth was from the Edinburgh theatre.] Receipts: #191 1s. 6d

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by James Cobb. Text 1st published (unauthorized), Dublin, 1792]: The Scenes entirely new, designed and executed by Greenwood. With new Dresses and Decorations. The Musick composed principally by Storace, with a few Pieces selected from [Una Cosa Rara, by] Martini [i.e. Martin y Soler], Salieri, and Paisiello. "The Siege of Belgrade is a very pleasing vehicle for the music, which in a modern opera is all that is expected from the poet" (Universal Magazine, Jan. 1791, p. 66). "The battle between Palmer and Kelly ought to be shortened. It is almost as ludicrous as that between Don Whiskerandos and Beefeater, in Mr Puff's Tragedy [in The Critic]" (Gazetteer, 4 Jan. 1791). Account-Book, 24 May 1791: Paid Cobb for Copyright of Siege of Belgrade of #210. Receipts: #267 9s. 6d. (242.0.0; 23.9.6; 2.0.0)

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera; the music by Cimarosa, under the direction of Federici. The music of both dances by Miller. With entirely new Dresses, Scenes and Decorations, both in the Theatre itself, and in the Representations. Pit 10s. 6d. 1st Gallery 5s. 2nd Gallery 3s. No Money to be returned. The Subscribers are respectfully entreated to observe that they are to produce their Tickets at the doors. The Doors to be opened at 6:30. To begin at 7:30 [same throughout season, except on 15 May). The Ladies at the Head of the Boxes arc respectfully reminded that such Boxes as shall not be paid for at the opening of the Theatre become then vacant, and may be claimed by any of the old Subscribers. No one to be admitted behind the scenes. For the greater Safety of the Company in coming and going out of the Theatre Mr Townsend has taken charge of the Peace Officers, and will himself attend every night of Performance. [Morning Herald, 12 Jan., notes than the original gallery is now divided into two, a lower and an upper, and that the chief colors used in the repainting of the auditorium are blue, white and gold. Ibid, 13 Jan.: The scenes [in the opera], which were entirely new, have never been exceeded in splendour of general effect...One, representing the hall of an Italian villa, shews a ceiling designed like that of the theatre itself [which the same newspaper, 4 Jan., describes as being Apollo and the Muses, in a cove enriched with allegorical figures, flowers, and medals, in chiaroscuro].]

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these Ten Yeats. Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Afterpiece: A Masque in Two Interludes. Receipts: #76 10s. Probable attendance: boxes, 74 paid and 17 by orders; balcony, 1 paid; pit, 218 paid and 20 by orders; slips, 11 paid and 14 by orders; first gallery, 161 paid and 7 by orders; second gallery, 101 paid. The Prince and Princess of Wales present

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of quality. Receipts: #118 15s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 154 paid and 32 orders; balcony, 1 paid; pit, 279 paid and 9 orders; slips, 21 paid and 16 orders; first gallery, 273 paid and 11 orders; second gallery, 117 paid and 6 orders

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #65 19s. Probable attendance: boxes, 45 paid and 38 orders; balcony, 1 paid; pit, 217 paid and 33 orders; slips, 21 paid and 16 orders; first gallery, 145 paid and 15 orders; second gallery, 82 paid and 2 orders

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of his Excellency Sid Mahomet Ben Ali Abogly, Ambassador from the Emperor of Morocco. Receipts: #80 16s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 33 paid and 29 orders; balcony, 2 paid; pit, 252 paid and 13 orders; slips, 17 paid and 9 orders; first gallery, 239 paid and 3 orders; second gallery, 201 paid

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #73 3s. Probable attendance: boxes, 46 paid and 34 orders; balcony, 1 paid; pit 220 paid and 26 orders; slips, 17 paid and 3 orders; first gallery, 203 paid and 9 orders; second gallery, 97 paid and 2 orders

Event Comment: [By Owen Swiny.] Not Acted these Ten Years. All the Characters new drest. Pit and Boxes to be laid together by tickets only at 5s. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. Receipts: #163 3s. 6d. Probable attendance: p1t and boxes, 464 paid and 14 orders; stage, 2 paid; balcony, 4 paid; slips, 21 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 270 paid and 9 orders; second gallery, 124 paid. [The Prologue was printed in London Journal, 26 Nov.

Event Comment: Receipts: #123 3s. Probable attendance: boxes, 196 paid and 15 orders; stage, 4 paid; pit, 260 paid and 8 orders; slips, 26 paid and 5 orders; first gallery, 255 paid and 11 orders; second gallery, 74 paid

Event Comment: Receipts: #78 0s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 92 paid and 18 orders; stage, 5 paid; pit, 223 paid and 17 orders; slips, 4 paid and 6 orders; first gallery, 159 paid and 21 orders; second gallery, 52 paid

Event Comment: Receipts: #80 18s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 119 paid and 13 orders; stage, 1 paid; pit, 206 paid and 10 orders; slips, 15 paid and 3 orders; first gallery, 132 paid, second gallery, 38 paid. For comments upon theatrical affairs, see Mist's and London Journal, 10 Dec

Event Comment: Receipts: #78 13s. Probable attendance: boxes, 113 paid and 21 orders; stage, 3 paid; Pit, 203 paid and 13 orders; slips, 4 paid and 2 orders; first gallery, 124 paid and 8 orders; second gallery, 61 paid

Event Comment: [By Leonard Welstead.] Receipts: #63 12s. Probable attendance. boxes, 81 paid and 10 orders; balcony, 3 paid; pit, 257 paid and 8 orders; slips, 22 paid; first gallery, 139 paid and 11 orders; second gallery, 70 paid

Event Comment: Receipts: #81 18s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 38 paid and 8 orders; stage, 1 paid; pit, 134 paid and 4 orders; slips, 29 paid and 14 orders; first gallery, 294 paid and 8 orders; second gallery, 264 paid and 2 orders

Event Comment: Receipts: #70 19s. Probable attendance: boxes, 10 paid and 5 orders; stage, 1 paid; Pit, 158 paid and 16 orders; slips, 18 paid and 16 orders; first gallery, 252 paid and 15 orders; second gallery, 235 paid

Event Comment: Receipts: #54. Probable attendance: boxes, 26 paid and 14 orders; stage, 1 paid; pit, 86 paid and 14 orders; slips, 27 paid and 6 orders; first gallery, 215 paid and 14 orders; second gallery, 137 paid and 1 order

Event Comment: Receipts: #38 12s. Probable attendance: boxes, 5 paid and 13 orders; stage, 1 paid; pit, 91 paid and 20 orders; slips, 13 paid and 8 orders; first gallery, 137 paid and 10 orders; second gallery, 106 paid

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. Receipts: #35 13s.Probable attendance: boxes, 18 paid and 5 orders; stage, 1 paid; pit, 100 paid and 36 orders; slips, 6 paid and 8 orders; first gallery, 174 paid and 26 orders; second gallery, 91 paid and 4 orders