Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction. [A letter to the London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 29 Jan., states that the occasion of the riot at dl, 23 Jan., was the failure of Denoyer and Mlle Chateauneuf to dance. The latter had been ill but on 22 Jan., thought that she could dance on the following night, and her name was placed in the bill; on Wednesday a misunderstanding about the absence of her and Denoyer caused the disturbance. A gentleman concerned in the affair sent the manager #100 for his share of the damage.

Event Comment: [The bills for 26 and 27 Feb. had also advertised Dryden's Ode. The Ode is retained in Daily Advertiser, 28 Feb.

Event Comment: Box 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. [A customary announcement on all subsequent bills this season. It will not be noted here further.

Event Comment: New Theatre, James Street, near the Haymarket. Benefit Mrs King. [Designation of New Theatre repeated in remaining bills.

Event Comment: The King's Opera House in the Haymarket. A new Opera...Dances and other Decorations entirely New. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be deliver'd this Day, at the Office in the Haymarket, at Half a Guinea each. Gallery 5s. By His Majesty's Command, no Persons Whatever to be admitted behind the Scenes. The Gallery will be open'd at Four o'Clock. Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at Six o'clock. This Day Attendance will be given at the Opera-Office from Nine to One in order to deliver the Silver Tickets to the Subscribers. Each Subscriber is desir'd to send his printed Receipt, it being necessary for the Delivery of the Tickets [customary notice on the bills throughout the season]. BBurney, History of Music, IV, 445: A pasticcio, music mainly composed by Galuppi, now the resident composer for the Opera House. Edition lists libretto by Francesco Vanneschi

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Never acted there before. With all the decorations proper to the play. By Command of their Royal Highnesses, the Prince and Princess of Wales. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr Page, Housekeeper, at the stage door of the theatre. [This last announcement becomes a customary note on subsequent bills.

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted this season. [Either the play on the 23rd was called off, or (more probably) the compositor forgot to remove the notice of acting from this day's bill.

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. [See Mlle Auguste's letter to the Public in London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 7 Dec., accusing Fleetwood of putting her name in the bills after she had renounced his employment, and had gone over to Rich. For her actual 1st appearance see cg 7 Dec.] Receipts: #90

Event Comment: [Letter from Mlle Auguste to the Public stated that Fleetwood had refused to answer her letter, whence she had withdrawn and engaged with Rich, of which fact she appraised Fleetwood who still kept her name on the bills. Her reason for leaving Fleetwood was her having heard that on 4 Dec. he had read a letter on the stage at dl to her discredit. See London Daily Post and General Advertiser.] Receipts: #80

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa. Rylands MS.: Duke and Princesses present. Receipts: #100. [Winston MS. lists Constant Couple, which had been announced for this day in the previous Bill, but which seems to have been deferr'd on account of this command performance.

Event Comment: RRev. T. Newton to David Garrick, 18 Jan.: I was almost angry with you, to see your name last week in the bills for Costar Pearmain. I am not fond of your acting such parts as Fondlewife, or even Clodio, nor should be of the Lying Valet, if it was not of your own writing. You who are equal to the greatest parts, strangely demean yourself in acting any thing that is low and little; and not only I, but really all who admire you and Wish you well, that is all who know you, are grieved and wonder at it. If I was an actor surely I would rather wish to be a Raphael than a Hogarth; or if I was a poet, I would choose infinitely rather to be a Milton than Hudibras.--Boaden, Private Correspondence of Garrick, I, 5-6. [Morning Herald 28 June 1787 suggests that Yates was Winifred apShenkin.

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa. Rylands MS.: Duke &c attended. [Winston MS. lists Merchant of Venice, which had been advertised on the previous day's bill, but which was supplanted by this command performance.] Receipts: #80

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Wales. Rylands MS.: Prince of Wales present. [Relapse had been in the advance bills.] Receipts: #160

Event Comment: To begin exactly at Six o'clock. Play Written by Shakespear. The Principal Characters new dress.d, and the Theatre New Decorated. None will be admitted into the Boxes but by Printed tickets, which will be deliver'd at the Office in the Lobby at 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. N.B. For the Better Regulation of the stage, it is desired that no persons will take it ill, that they cannot be admitted behind the scenes. [The notice about time and prices remains constant throughout the season and will not again be noted here. The notice about refusal of admission behind the scenes appears on each bill till the benefits begin. It will not be repeated here.

Event Comment: At the Theatre-Royal in Lincoln's Inn Fields, this Day,will be presented a Comedy. Written by Colley Cibber, Esq., Poet Laureat. At Common Prices, viz. Boxes 4s. Pit 2s. 6d. 1st Gallery 1s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. [prices regularly repeated in the bills]. For the better Decorum of the Stage, no Money will be taken behind the Scenes; and 'tis humbly hop'd no Person will desire Admittance there

Event Comment: 1 AAnderson's doubling in the role of Dowglass and Poins on 25 Oct. may well have been a misprint in the bills

Event Comment: At the Great Theatrical Booth, Bowling Green. By Permission. Benefit Laguerre and Boaman. By a Company from the Theatres-Royal, for their Diversion, a Concert...gratis, etc. Boxes 3s. 6d. First Gallery 1s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6 p.m. Daily Advertiser lists Miss Hippisley for Miss Prue in mainpiece and for Kitty in afterpiece, and Mrs Yates for Melissa. In the London Daily Post and General Advertiser bill Mrs Dunstall doubles two roles

Event Comment: The Last Oratorio Night this season. [Quatrain from Daily Advertiser printed in this bill defending oratorios against attacks in Universal Spectator; see Deutsch, Handel, p. 565.

Event Comment: Benefit Destrade and Reinhold. Tickets deliver'd out by Mrs Louch will be taken. No tickets sold at the door will be admitted. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality, for the Benefit of Mrs Middlehurst, from Cheshire, whose name is now Louch; Tickets at Mrs Louch's, three Doors above St James Church, Piccadilly [Folger Bill]

Event Comment: [The statement, Musick compos'd by Mr. Handel is regularly repeated in the bills for this opera.

Event Comment: [The 1 Feb. note about nonadmission of persons behind the scenes continues to appear on all bills for nights of this afterpiece, as from now on, occurs the note: Nothing under Full Price will be taken during the time of the performance. These will not be copied out further.] We hear the new Pantomime Entertainment that was perform'd last night at Drury Lane, was receiv'd with great applause; the Scenes, Deceptions, and Decorations, all being in an entire new taste

Event Comment: Benefit Hale and Mrs Hale. Mainpiece Written by Shakespear, reviv'd by particular desire. Containing the Memorable Battle of Agincourtv, with the total overthrow of the French Army, and many other Historical Passages. In order to preserve a proper decorum, and that this play may not be interrupted in its performance, the Publick may be assured there will not be any building on the stage.-General Advertiser. [In advance bill Nancy; or, The Parting Lovers had been advertised; Tom True Blue-$Beard; Father-$Leveridge; Captain of Press Gang-$Bencraft; Nancy-$Mrs Clive.

Event Comment: *c1702 04 25 js e particular Desire of several True Britons.A Concert. Written by Mr Phillips. Not acted 20 Years [see 3 April 1722]. 6 p.m. There will be no posting Bills

Event Comment: DDaniel and Smith's Great Theatrical Booth will be perform'd a Droll with the Comical Humours of his Squire Pancho, etc....the memorable battle betwixt his Donship and the Windmillv. [Announced for the entire time of May Fair, May 1-15, but no bill after 30 April.] Noon to nine p.m