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Event Comment: Benefit for Blanchard. Receipts: #262 9s. 6d. (107.7.6; 11.9.0; tickets: 143.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Woud Be A Soldier

Afterpiece Title: Lincos Travels

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Siddons. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion, Ladies are desired to send their servants by Half past Four o'Clock. Mainpiece: Not acted these 8 years. Public Advertiser, 26 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Siddons, Gower-street, Bedford-square. Receipts: #327 3s. (140.12.0; 9.14.6; 0.19.6; tickets: 175.17.0) (charge: #111 1s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love Or The World Well Lost

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: As17880313

Event Comment: Benefit for Wrighten, prompter. 2nd piece [1st time; M.INT I]. Public Advertiser, 1 May: Tickets to be had of Wrighten, New Buildings, Hemming's Row, St. Martin's Lane. Receipts: #250 6s. (38.14; 19.15; 1.7; tickets: 190.10) (charge: #109 8s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Le Matin Midi et le Soir

Afterpiece Title: Too Civil by Half

Dance: End 2nd piece: The Conjugal Frolick, as17880221

Event Comment: Benefit for R. Palmer. 1st, 2nd and 3rd pieces: Never performed there. By Permission of G. Colman, Esq. [owner of the copyrights]. Public Advertiser, 30 Apr.: Tickets to be had of R. Palmer, No. 14, East Place, Lambeth. Receipts: #144 17s. (43.5; 18.13; 0.14; tickets: 82.5) (charge: #105 9s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seeing Is Believing

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Event Comment: Benefit for Fearon. Public Advertiser, 1 May: Tickets to be had of Fearon, No. 1, Broad-court. Receipts: #181 19s. 6d. (80.5.0; 13.8.6; tickets: 88.6.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Such Things Are

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Dance: End: The Wapping Landlady-[See17880401]

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Webb. [The playbill has, as on 26 Apr., Rosa(1st time)-Mrs Mountain. But this may be a misprint.] Receipts: #145 4s. (72.13.6; 9.13.6; tickets: 63.17.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fontainbleau

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Dance: As17871129

Event Comment: Benefit for Dignum. 3rd piece: To conclude with a Grand Representation of a Regatta. [This was included in both subsequent performances.] Public Advertiser, 7 May: Tickets to be had of Dignum, Red Lion-Square, the corner of Leigh-Street. Receipts: #243 16s. 6d. (62.9.0; 17.18.0; 0.9.6; tickets: 163.0.0) (charge: #107 9s. 3d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: Le Matin Midi et le Soir

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Song: End II 1st piece: The Race Horse (composed by Dibdin)-Dignum

Event Comment: Benefit for Marchesi. A new Serious Opera [composed by Cimarosa; 1st performed at Vicenza, 1784]. Under the direction of Mazzinghi. Tickets to be had of Marchesi, No. 37, Upper James-street, Golden-square. There will be no Opera on Saturday on account of Whitsun Eve. Receipts not listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lolimpiade

Dance: End I: Les Offrandes a l'Amour, as17880417; End Singing: L'Amour et Psiche-[see17880129]

Song: End Opera: Marchesi will return thanks to the Audience in a piece of Music of his own composing, piece of Music-Marchesi

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Ward. The Clandestine Marriage [advertised on playbill of 9 May] is obliged to be deferred, on Account of the Indisposition of Parsons. Receipts: #209 18s. 6d. (36.13.0; 12.11.6; 0.10.0; tickets: 160.4.0) (charge: #109 15s. 9d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: As17880313

Event Comment: Benefit for Wild. 1st Piece: 1st Time at this Theatre, and with Permission of G. Colman, Esq. [owner of the copyright]; written by Joseph Atkinson, Esq. [i.e. altered from his The Mutual Deception (see hay, 29 Aug. 1786)]. 2nd piece: Not acted these 2 years. 3rd piece: Not acted these 7 years [acted 23 May 1783]. Receipts: #225 0s. 6d. (113.0.6; 5.5.0; tickets: 106.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tit For Tat

Afterpiece Title: The Nunnery

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace or Harlequin Skeleton

Song: End I 1st piece: Oh say Bonny Lass will you carry a Wallet?-Mrs Kennedy, Mrs Martyr

Entertainment: Monologue. End II 1st piece: A Description of the Curiosities in the Tower-Edwin

Event Comment: Benefit for Booth. Afterpiece: Not acted these 7 years [acted 12 Nov. 1782. Rees is identified in Dram. Reg.]. Public Advertiser, 10 May: Tickets to be had of Booth, No. 18, Broad-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #234 2s. (95.13; 7.1; tickets: 131.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Dance: As17880328

Event Comment: Benefit for Staunton and Lamash. 2nd piece [1st time; INT I, by Charles Stuart. "A speaking Pantomime of ten minutes" (Public Advertiser, 15 May). 3rd piece: Not acted these 4 years. Public Advertiser, 12 May: Tickets to be had of Staunton, Gloucester-street, Queen-square; of Lamash, Queen-court, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Receipts: #271 11s. (37.0; 15.17; 0.14; tickets: 218.0) (charge: #108 7s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Stone Eater

Afterpiece Title: Duke and No Duke

Event Comment: Benefit for a Fund, for the Relief of those who from their Infirmities shall be obliged to retire from the Stage. Receipts: #258 2s. 6d. (161.15.0; 34.1.0; 1.6.6; tickets: 61.0.0) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Event Comment: Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Jackson, Roberts, Young, Painter, Curteen, Pilfold, Bourrelier will be admitted. Receipts: #317 16s. 6d. (27.5.6; 7.2.0; tickets: 283.9.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Foundling

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors-Jackson

Event Comment: Benefit for Morigi. A Comic Opera, the music by Paisiello; under the direction of Mazzinghi. Tickets to be had of Morigi, No. 3, Angel-court, Windmill-street, Hay-market. Miss Harvey's tickets will be admitted for the Opera. Receipts not listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Frascatana

Dance: End I: New Ballet, as17880426; with a Pas de Deux-Miss Harvey, Henry

Song: In opera: the Grand Quintetto (never performed in this Country)-; several beautiful parts of music as performed in the original Opera-

Ballet: End Opera: L'Amour et Psiche. As17880129, but Hymen-Henry in place of Chevalier; Graces Furies and Fates-Mlle _Vedie, Miss Harvey, _Jacolet, _Saulnier, _Sala; Didelot_; Coulon_

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Brown. Mainpiece: With a Grand Processionv, as 21 Sept. 1787. [The Cottagers, a comic opera written by Mrs Brown's daughter, was published in 1788, and 1st acted at the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin, 19 May 1789.] Receipts: #167 7s. (58.2; 7.9; tickets: 101.16)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Song: In afterpiece: a Hunting Song-Darley

Entertainment: Monologue. End afterpiece: an Occasional Epilogue[, in the character of Harlequin] (written by Miss Ross)-Brown

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #184 1s. (168.16.0; 13.18.6; 1.6.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Regent

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Event Comment: Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Green, Longley, Robson, Varley, Egan will be admitted. Receipts: #236 10s. 6d. (43.14.0; 8.10.6; tickets: 184.6.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Event Comment: Benefit for Burton and Bates. Tickets delivered for The Fox will be admitted. Receipts: #203 16s. (38.2.0; 25.7.6; 4.13.6; tickets: 135.13.0) (charge: #105 9s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Entertainment: Monologue. End: Collin's Ode on the Passions-Palmer

Event Comment: Benefit for Brandon, box-book and housekeeper. Mainpiece: Grand Triumphal Entryv, as 22 Oct. 1787, but omitted: Vocal Parts. Receipts: #374 19s. (82.9.6; 8.1.6; tickets: 284.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Entertainment: Monologues. End II: Bucks have at You All, as17880311End IV: A Description of the Curiosities in the Tower-Edwin; End: Shuter's Observations in a Post@haste Journey to Paris-Bernard

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of Animal Magnetism [who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #164 19s. (152.14.6; 12.4.6; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosina

Afterpiece Title: Animal Magnetism

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Event Comment: Benefit for Fosbrook, box book and house keeper. Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years. Receipts: #297 12s. 6d. (37.17.0; 7.17.6; 0.17.0; tickets: 251.1.0) (charge: #109 2s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Event Comment: Benefit for Darley. Receipts: #154 4s. (66.18; 6.9; tickets: 80.17)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Dance: As17880328

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett and Wilson. Receipts: #179 7s. (17.15; 6.17; 0.19; tickets: 153.16) (charge: #107 1s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Stone Eater

Afterpiece Title: Duke and No Duke

Event Comment: 1st piece [1st time; MF 2]: Written by the Author of Rosina [Frances Brooke]. The Music compiled and composed by Shield. With entire New Scenes painted by Richards. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. [Text 1st published by T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1800.] Receipts: #165 9s. 6d. (162.18.0; 2.11.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marian

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

Afterpiece Title: Animal Magnetism

Dance: In I 2nd piece: As17880204