Event Comment: Benefit for Johnstone. 1st piece: By permission of
G. Colman, Esq.; never performed here. [
Bannister Jun.'s 1st appearance at this
theatre was on 2 Feb. 1779.] 3rd piece: Not performed here
these 3 years. [No play of this title had been hi
therto acted anywhere. But it appears to be
the same as
The Sailor's Prize, for which see
cg, 1 May 1795.]
Morning Chronicle, 22 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Johnstone, No. 19,
Piazza,
Covent Garden. Receipts: #478 (208.6.6; 13.17.6; tickets: 255.16.0)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: False And True
Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law
Performance Comment: Bowkit (By Permission of the Proprietors of Drury-Lane Theatre)-Bannister Jun. (1st appearance on this stage); Cranky-Munden; Vinegar-Emery; Orator Mum-Knight (Their 1st apappearance in those characters); Bouquet-Hill; Idle-Farley; Signor Arionelli-Incledon; Cecilia-Mrs Atkins.Afterpiece Title: The Paradox; or, Maid, Wife and Widow
Song: In course Evening: a new Sea Ballad, composed for his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Tomorrow[; or, the Mars, Capt. Connor (the words by the Author of the Castle Spectre [Matthew Gregory Lewis]; the music by Kelly)-Incledon; A Touch at old Times-Munden; In my Father's Mud Cabin-Johnstone
Performance Comment: Connor (the words by the Author of the Castle Spectre [Matthew Gregory Lewis]; the music by Kelly)-Incledon; A Touch at old Times-Munden; In my Father's Mud Cabin-Johnstone.