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Event Comment: Gave the Porters of the Several Inns of Court their Christmas Box #3 11s. 6d. (Account Book). Receipts: #187 6d. (Account Book),

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Prince

Dance: IV: Comic Dance, as17711031

Event Comment: Paid Master Thomson, Chorus, 13 nights #3 5s.; Mr Squire Chorus, 14 nights #3 10s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #193 10s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

Event Comment: Mainpiece (acted but once in 2 years): By Desire. Receipts: #154 8s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Prince

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #136 16s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Dance: After II of Comedy: The Dutch Milkmaid, as17710923

Event Comment: Lethe is reviv'd with Alterations & a New Character-very well receiv'd & great Applause-Mr Garrick play'd with great Spirit & was much Applauded (Hopkins Diary). [MacMillan notes lack of Fribble parts in Larpent MS. Yet Theatrical Review, 11 Jan., describes briefly the alterations, suggesting, The character of the Fine Gentleman in the former Lethe had some strong allusions to the behaviour of Gentlemen behind the scenes at the playhouses, which custom being abolished of late years, the character had lost its importance, on which account it is altered to a Fribble, and consequently entirely new written." A methodist taylor, an Irishman, Mr & Mrs Carbine (originally Mr & Mrs Tatoo) are also new. See account also in Town and Country Magazine (Theatre NO. XXXIII).] Paid Salary list, #502 3s. 6d.; Mrs Abington's cloaths acct #2; Mr S. French 6 days #1 10s.; Rec'd, Stopages. #11 13s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #245 11s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: III: The Amusements of Strasburgh-as17711118, but now By the scholars of Sg Daigville

Event Comment: Paid Mr Wallis on note #1 1s. Receipts: #234 3s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

Event Comment: Paid Mr Elliott (laceman) #7 4s. 6d.; Mr W. Davies on note #50 (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #235 14s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years. [See 8 May 1767.] Receipts: #109 11s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift Or The Fool In Fashion

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Dance: End: A Comic Dance, as17711031

Event Comment: Paid Printer's Bill, #9 6s. Receipts: #269 10s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Event Comment: Sixth Night. For the Author. Charges #68 18s. 6d. Profit to author #97 18s. 6d. Paid Cooper (printer) #41 14s.; Paid Mrs Leverton (mantua maker) #32 6s.; Paid Younger for writing parts #11 3s. 1d. (Account Book). Receipts: #166 17s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zobeide

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Dance: End Comedy: A Comic Dance, as17711031

Event Comment: Books of the Masque, including the words of the additional Scene, to be had at the theatre. Paid Leverton & Co (bricklayers) #32 12s.; Heafford (plaisterer) #12 11s.; Wilford (painter) #15 11s. (Account Book Receipts: #172 10s. (Account Book).)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Prince

Dance: IV: The Merry Sailors, as17711026

Event Comment: Paid Salary List #502 3s. 6d.; Mrs Abington's cloaths acct #2; Mr S. French 6 days #1 15s.; Widow Hunter as usual, per order, #2 2s.; Rec'd stopages #12 6s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #210 2s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Event Comment: The Interlude, True Blue By Particular Desire. Receipts: #103 19s. 6d. [Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zobeide

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Monologue: True Blue. As 14 Dec. 1771, but Principal Parts-Mrs Mattocks, Miss _Potts

Dance: End II of Comedy: A Comic Dance, as17711031

Event Comment: This Comedy was written by Mr Cumberland was very well receiv'd & great Applause but it will not be so Successful as the West Indian was (Hopkins Diary). New Scenes and Dresses for the Mainpiece. [See Theatrical Review, 20 Jan. See also account in Town and Country Magazine (Theatre No. XXXIII). Larpent MS 329 again includes scene description by the author: "Hall in Lord Abberville's Housev with a staircase seen through an arch in the Flat."] Receipts: #248 17s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lover

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Afterpiece: With an Additional Scene painted by Cipriani, Representing the taking of the Bohemian Standard at the Battle of Cressyv. In memory of which, the Princes of Wales have ever since borne three Ostrich Feathers (the Bohemian Standard) as their crest, with the original motto Ich Dien. This scene is pleasingly executed and has a very good effect, and is the work of that celebrated artist Cipriani (Theatrical Review, II, p. 36). Paid Whitefield a Bill for making cloaths #30 8s. 7d. (Account Book). Receipts: #184 8s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Prince

Dance: IV: Comic Dance, as17711031

Event Comment: The Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [See 11 May 1770.] Receipts: #126 19s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zobeide

Afterpiece Title: The Oxonian in Town

Event Comment: Author's Night for Mainpiece. Receipts: #223 18s.; Charges #73 10s.; Profit to Cumberland #150 8s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lover

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Event Comment: Paid Younger #2 2s. for license for An Hour Before Marriage (Account Book). Receipts: #144 9s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Prince

Dance: IV: A Comic Dance, as17711031

Event Comment: Paid Printer's Bill #9 13s. 6d. Receipts: #199 5s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lover

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Banks for Masks, &c. #4 8s. 6d.; Paid Humphries for 130 yds of silver trimming #3 11s. 6d.; Paid Pearce for earthen ware &c. #2 13s. Advanc'd cash to Bensley as per note #200 (Account Book). Receipts: #129 17s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Barbarossa

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Dance: End II of Comedy: A Comic Dance, as17711031

Event Comment: Paid Tallow Chandler's 4th bill #44 7s. 3d.; Christmas Box to sundrys as per partners #19 15s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #198 14s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lover

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Event Comment: Ninth Night. For the Author. Cradock gave the profits to Mrs Yates (Genest, V, 331). Charges #70 7s. Profit to author #59 16s. (Account Book). [The variation in charges to third, sixth, and ninth nights reflects a varying wardrobe charge. See confirmation of gift of profits to Mrs Yates in note for 1 Feb.] Receipts: #130 3s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zobeide

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Monologue: True Blue. As 18 Jan

Event Comment: Author's Night for Mainpiece. Fashionable Lover Published by Cumberland at 1s 6d. Paid Salary List #502 2s. 6d.; Mrs Abington's cloaths acct, #2; Rec'd stopages, #11 11s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #200 19s.; Charges #73 10s. Profit to Cumberland #127 9s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lover

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A New Farce [by a Gentleman from Dublin] never performed. [It was fitted to the stage as an afterpiece, and provided with a Prologue by Colman. Advertisement for the Edition of 1772 indicates that it was "attempted to be acted, "but was damned. Taken principally from Moliere's Marriage Force. See account of damning of Farce, in Town and Country Magazine (Theatre No. XXXIII), before last act was over by a candle being thrown on stage.] Paid one year's ground rent for theatre due Mich. last #100 minus land tax of #16 5s.: Total #83 15s.; Paid ditto for the New Building adjoining the theatre #30, minus Land Tax of #4 17s. 6d.: Total #25 2s. 6d. (Account Book). Receipts: #198 16s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: An Hour Before Marriage

Event Comment: Mr Colman's Night for the Fairy Prince. Charges #84. Profit to Colman #125 15s. 6d. Paid Messrs Schneider & Otto (furriers) #7 3s.; Paid Dr Arne for composing additional Music for the Fairy Prince #1 11s. 6d. (Account Book). Receipts: #209 15s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Prince