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Event Comment: Benefit for Wroughton. Public Advertiser, 13 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Wroughton at his house, No. 18, Broad-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: As17790218

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pope. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by James Cobb, based on La Fausse Suivante; ou, Le Fourbe Puni, by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux. Prologue by the author (Knapp, 117). Larpent MS 476; not published. In 1780 this was acted at the hay as The Female Captain]. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Public Advertiser, 15 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Miss Pope, Little Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #202 10s. (54.14; 17.6; 1.12; tickets: 128.18) (charge: #65 17s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Contract or The Female Captain

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years [not acted since 19 Apr. 1773]. Public Advertiser, 17 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Lewis at his house, Broad-court

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Performance Comment: Warwick-Lewis (1st appearance in that character); Suffolk-Hull; Pembroke-Whitfield; Officer-Robson; Buckingham-Stevens; King Edward-Wroughton (1st appearance in that character); Lady Eliz. Grey-Miss Leeson; Lady Clifford-Mrs Poussin; Margaret of Anjou (for this night only)-Mrs Yates; With the original Epilogue, written by Garrick,-Mrs Yates.

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Afterpiece Title: The Liverpool Prize

Dance: In 2nd piece: Aldridge

Event Comment: Benefit for Webster. Public Advertiser, 9 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Webster, No. 35, Upper Charlotte-street, Rathbone-place. Receipts: #203 7s. (73.12; 15.13; 1.15; tickets: 112.7) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: III: Hornpipe, as17790129

Song: Sweet Echo-Mrs Kennedy, Leoni [i.e. formerly Mrs Farrell]

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years [acted 16 Feb. 1778]. Mrs Mattocks' Benefit has been unavoidably obliged to be deferred till this Day. Tickets delivered for Tuesday the 23d of March will be admitted. Public Advertiser, 27 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Mattocks at her house in Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: As17790405

Event Comment: Benefit for Brereton. Public Advertiser, 27 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Brereton, No. 11, Tavistock-street. Receipts: #188 10s. 6d. (84.2.0; 19.16.0; 2.6.6; tickets: 82.6.0) (charge: #71 18s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Song: original Music , as17780924, but _Legg, _Carpenter

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kennedy. Tickets delivered for Love Finds the Way will be taken. Public Advertiser, 20 Mar.: Tickets to be had at the late Dr Arne's, No. 5, Bow-street, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rose And Colin

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Village

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years [acted 17 Apr. 1777]. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Hannah Cowley, based partly on The Stolen Heiress, by Susannah Centlivre]. Public Advertiser, 30 Apr. 1779: This Day at Noon is published Who's the Dupe? (price not listed). Receipts: #193 3s. 6d. (151.2.0; 39.12.6; 2.9.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: A Monody

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Event Comment: Benefit for Leoni. Public Advertiser, 24 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Leoni, No. 34, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: As17790218

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. Mainpiece: With the grand Triumphal Entryv. Public Advertiser, 27 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Bensley, Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury. Receipts: #215 2s. 6d. (135.6.0; 21.4.0; 5.13.6; tickets: 52.19.0) (charge: #82 5s. 3d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great Or The Rival Queens

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Event Comment: Benefit for Lee Lewes. 1st piece [1st time; PREL I, by Frederick Pilon. Author of Epilogue unknown. This Prelude had reference to the illuminations held on 11 Feb. 1779 in honor of the acquittal, on a charge of misconduct in the naval operations off Brest, of Admiral Augustus Keppel. In 1780 it was acted at this theatre, with alterations, as A Gazette Extraordinary]. Tickets delivered for The Distress'd Mother will be received. Public Advertiser, 30 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Lee Lewes at his house in Bow-street, Covent Garden. Ibid, 4 May 1779: This Day is published Illumination (1s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Illumination Or The Glaziers Conspiracy

Performance Comment: Skylight-Lee Lewes; Dip-Wilson; Quillet-Brunsdon; Parchment-Thompson; Dick-Fearon; Mob-Bates, Mahon, Wewitzer; Miss Skylight-Miss Green; Mrs Skylight-Mrs Pitt; Epilogue-Wilson, Lee Lewes. [This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]

Afterpiece Title: Elfrida

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wrighten. Public Advertiser, 9 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Wrighten, No. 56, Drury-Lane. Receipts: #273 11s. 6d. (64.13.0; 7.9.6; 1.1.0; tickets: 200.8.0) (charge: #68 18s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Song: Between the acts: Tally ho!-Mrs Wrighten; In afterpiece: Sweet Echo-Mrs Wrighten; accompanied-Parke

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Robinson. Public Advertiser, 10 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Robinson, Great Piazza, the corner of Russel Street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #210 14s. (75.0.0: 21.2.6; 0.17.6; tickets: 113.14.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Event Comment: Benefit for Aickin. Tickets delivered for The Earl of Warwick will be taken. Public Advertiser, 8 Apr.: Tickets to be had ff Aickin at his house, Bow-street, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rose And Colin

Afterpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Liverpool Prize

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Walpole. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Public Advertiser, 26 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Miss Walpole, No. 15, Henrietta-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #203 19s. 6d. (100.2.0; 15.10.0; 3.15.6; tickets: 84.12.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple Or A Trip To The Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Dance: End: a Dance-Miss Walpole

Event Comment: Benefit for Reinhold. Tickets delivered for The Comedy of Errors will be admitted. Books of the Catches and Glees to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 8 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Reinhold, No. 90, Charlotte-street, Rathbone-place

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Song: End II: several of the newest and most approved Catches and Glees (selected from the invaluable Collection of the Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Catch-Club)-Reinhold, Vernon, Champness, R.? Smith, Webb, Reynoldson, Simpkinson, Leoni, assisted by several other of the most eminent Performers

Event Comment: Benefit for Hopkins, prompter, and Mrs Hopkins. Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years [acted 18 Feb. 1773]. Afterpiece: A Dramatic Entertainment (in 2 parts) of Singing, Dancing and Dialogue. In Honour of Shakespeare. In which will be introduced a Pageant. The Music by Dibdin. Public Advertiser, 27 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Hopkins, No. 7, Little Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #229 9s. (129.14; 30.18; 2.10; tickets: 66.7) (charge: #64 4s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant Or The Sick Ladys Cure

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Event Comment: Benefit for Mattocks. [Mrs Dawes is identified in Kentish Gazette, 19 June and 3 July 1779.] Public Advertiser, 14 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mattocks at his house in Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Annette And Lubin

Afterpiece Title: Romeo and Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Dance: I: As17781026, but Minuet-Dagueville, Miss Armstrong

Song: Solemn Dirge, as17781026, but Fox, Mrs _Willems

Event Comment: Benefit for Daly. Public Advertiser, 14 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Daly, No. 8, George-street, York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. Public Advertiser, 10 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 8, Air-street, Piccadilly

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry Iv With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Dance: As17790216

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick. Afterpiece: Never acted here. Public Advertiser, 17 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Quick, No. 151, Drury-lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rose And Colin

Afterpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Dr Last in his Chariot

Event Comment: Benefit for Wilson. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. 3rd piece: Written by D. Garrick, Esq., with Additions. 4th piece [1st time; MF 2, by Charles Stuart]: The Overture and Music chiefly new, by Gehot, and Shield, who composed the music to The Flitch of Bacon. Public Advertiser, 3 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Wilson, No. 2, Henrietta-street, Covent Garden. Ibid, 29 Apr. 1779: This Day is published The Cobler of Castlebury (1s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Illumination

Afterpiece Title: The Funeral or Grief a la Mode

Afterpiece Title: The Farmers Return from London

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler of Castlebury

Event Comment: Benefit for Aldridge. Public Advertiser, 10 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Aldridge at the Carpet Warehouse, Covent Garden Piazza

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: to conclude with: Country Dance-the characters; End I: new Comic Dance-Langrish, Jackson, Miss Parish, Miss Lings; End II: a Minuet-Aldridge, Mrs Bulkley; In III: Hornpipe, as17781212; End I afterpiece: a new Pantomimical Dance, The Sports of the Green-Aldridge, Langrish, Jackson, Miss Besford, Miss Parish, Miss Valois; in which his celebrated Tambourine Dance-Aldridge

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Jackson. 3rd piece [1st time in London; F 2, by James Solas Dodd, based on Le Naufrage, by Joseph de laFont, and 1st acted at Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, 1772, as The Funeral Pile. "The performers were exceedingly correct, which is unusual in benefit piece" Oulton, 1796,1,81). Prologue by the author (Town and Country Magazine, May 1779, p.270)]: With an Indian Processionv. Public Advertiser, 24 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Jackson in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Farmers Return from London

Afterpiece Title: Gallic Gratitude or The Frenchman in India

Song: In 3rd piece: the Vocal Parts-Reinhold, Miss Thornton, Mrs Wrighten

Event Comment: Benefit for Farren and Miss Sherry. Tickets delivered by Bidwell, Mrs Pulley, and for The Way of the World will be taken. Public Advertiser, 29 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Farren, No. 14, Catherine Street, Strand; of Miss Sherry, No. 2, Little Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #214 13s. (39.8.0; 15.17.6; 0.12.6; tickets: 158.15.0) (charge: #69 3s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Song: End IV: Tally ho!, as17790413; In afterpiece: Sweet Echo, as17790413