Event Comment: Third night, For the Author. Paid salary list #624 6s. 6d.; Mr Moody's extra salary from Xmas last #6 10s. Charges: #73 10s. (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 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: Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years [acted 28 Dec. 1787. Toms is identified in Morning Herald, 22 Sept. 1795: A Mr Toms made a probationary essay last night in the character of Romeo. The bills erroneously announced it as his first appearance on this stage [cg]; for his unsuccessful attempt in Young Norval [i.e. Douglas], about five years ago, on the same boards, is perfectly within our recollection. London Chronicle, 22 Sept. 1795, also refers to Toms as Douglas. European Magazine, Oct. 1790, p. 305, gives the name as Turner, but in Oct. 1795, p. 273, states that Toms performed on one night only "a few years since."]. Afterpiece [1st time; BALL. P 2 (?), by James Byrne, based partly on his Nootka Sound, and in May 1793 agin altered as The Shipwreck; or, French Ingratitude. Not in Larpent MS; not published; synopsis of action in Diary, 5 Oct.]: A Ballet Pantomime, with new Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations. The Overture and Music compiled by Byrne, from Haydn, Rochefort, Pleyel, Gyrowetz, Reeve, Pieltain, Dibdin. The new Music by Shield. On account of some Scenes which are introduced from the Entertainment of Nootka Sound (performed last Season [on 4 June 1790]) Half Price will be taken. [This alludes to the custom of not llowing half-price during the run of entirely new pantomimes.] Paid Brodie, for Stoves for the Theatre, #19 8s. Receipts: #207 8s. 6d. (201.16.0; 5.12.6)

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 10 years [acted 18 Feb. 1789]. With new Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations. Musick by late Mr Linley. The Scenery of First Part by Greenwood and his assistants, of Second Part by Marinari and his assistants. The Machinery and Decorations by Cabanel, Johnston, Jacobs. The Dresses by Johnston, Gay, Miss Rein. [Synopsis of plot (T. Becket, 1797).] Account-Book, 24 Dec.: Parrot bought and Cage for Robinson Crusoe #3 5s. 6d.; Paid Hunt, fireworker #2 3s. Receipts: #326 9s. (257.1; 62.13; 6.15)

Event Comment: Gentlemen are particularly entreated to observe that in consequence of the displeasure expressed by the Subscribers, as well as the Public, at the frequent interruption of the business of the Representation, by the pressure of people on the Stage, the Company will hereafter be admitted behind the Scenes, before and after the Opera, and during the intervals between the Opera and Ballets only; but while the Curtain is up, Gentlemen are earnestly entreated to withdraw from the Stage; otherwise the request of the Nobility and Gentry, in conformity also to the public opinion, of shutting entirely the doors between the audience part of the Theatre and the Stage, must at last be compiled with. Those persons entitled to Admissions previous to the year 1789, who may not have an opportunity of sending their Securities to be registered before the opening of the Theatre, are requested to produce them at the Door, as they pass. The Public are entreated to observe that Ladies dressed in Bonnets, and Gentlemen in Boots, cannot be admitted into the Pit of the Opera. Pit 10s. 6d. Gallery 5s. No Money to be returned. The Doors to be opened at 6:30. To begin at 7:30 [same throughout opera season]. The Nobility are entreated to give direction to their Servants to set down and take up at the Theatre with the Horse's head toward Pall Mall. On account of the abuses practised in the names of the Subscribers, it is become necessary to require the production of the Subscription Ticket at the Doors and the Boxes. At the Chair-door in Market-Lane, Subscribers only will be admitted. "Braham sustained his part so well that we trust he will give us an example that shall induce us to chace from an English stage the degrading and distusting form of a Castrato" (Morning Chronicle, 28 Nov.). [The playbill omits Rovedino, but his performance is reviewed in True Briton, 28 Nov. The only other male part in the opera is that of Sandro. And see 14 Feb. 1797.

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