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Event Comment: Return'd Mr Thornhill for places he could not get to #1 10s. Receipts: #459 13s. (418.12; 40.5; 0.16)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Poor Old Drury

Afterpiece Title: The School for Scandal

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Song: III 2nd piece: a song-Sedgwick

Event Comment: 2nd piece: The Scenes entirely new, designed and executed by Greenwood. The Music composed principally by Storace, with a few pieces selected from Martini [i.e. Martin y Soler], Salieri, and Paisiello. Receipts: #450 8s. (403.12; 46.12; 0.4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Poor Old Drury

Afterpiece Title: The Siege of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Event Comment: Paid Johnston's bill #7 10s. 6d.; Supernumeraries #6 12s.; Chorus by R. Shaw #10; Mantuamaker #13 5s. 4d.; Foulis for Music Copying #2 8s.; Land Tax 1 Yr. #79 12s. 6d.; Billstickers #3 6s.; Booth, tailor, #14 13s. 1d. "Mrs Jordan has a voice, the tones of which are infinitely more musical and sweet than those of any professional singer we have. There is also an interest about her singing, arising not from what may be called musical feeling, but the impression of the subject. Thus, though sometimes a little untrue, we love her songs, and forbear to weigh them in the diatonic or chromatic scales" (Oracle, 3 Oct.). Receipts: #450 3s. (393.2; 56.3; 0.18)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Poor Old Drury

Afterpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Spoild Child

Event Comment: [In 2nd piece the playbill assigns Orlando to Kemble, but "On account of indisposition, Barrymore last night performed Orlando for Kemble" (Oracle, 4 Oct.).] 3rd piece: To conclude with the Glorious Defeat of the Spanish Armada, and a Grand Procession. "Equal to any actor I ever saw, as far as his line extends, is Mr Parsons; his conception and expression of Sir Fretful Plagiary, in Mr Sheridan's Critic, are as strong and masterly as were Garrick's in Kitely [in Every Man in his Humour]; and his 'laughing without mirth' therein equally admirable" (Jonson, ed. Waldron, 171). Receipts: #251 4s. 6d. (213.6.6; 37.0.0; 0.18.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Poor Old Drury

Afterpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Song: V 2nd piece: song-Miss Hagley

Event Comment: [Mrs Fawcett was from the York theatre.] Afterpiece: 1st Time as an After Piece. With Dresses, Scenes, Machinery, and Decorations. The Music partly selected from Cimarosa, Gluck, Martin, Reeve, and Dr Arne. The rest composed by Shield. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Account-Book, 31 Oct.: Paid Reynolds in full for The Crusade #60. Receipts: #187 13s. (181.16.6; 5.16.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex Or The Unhappy Favourite

Afterpiece Title: The Crusade

Event Comment: [Snow is identified in European Magazine, Oct. 1791, p. 309.] Receipts: #161 5s. 6d. (152.11.6; 8.14.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: As17910912

Event Comment: [3rd piece: Prologue by George Colman, elder.] Paid Printer's bill [for playbills] to 1st Inclusive #21 10s. 6d. Receipts: #242 7s(209.5; 31.8; 1.14)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Poor Old Drury

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scarborough

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton or High Life above Stairs

Event Comment: Mainpiece: 14th Time [i.e. in continuation of the reckoning for the previous season]. With new Scenery, &c. Receipts: #212 10s. (207.18; 4.12)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wild Oats Or The Strolling Gentlemen

Afterpiece Title: Robin Hood

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Sir Richard Steel. Receipts: #122 6s. 6d. (112.3.6; 10.3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband Or The Accomplished Fools

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Written by the Author of No Song No Supper [Prince Hoare]; performed but once [on 3 May 1791]. The Music composed principally by Storace. Receipts: #464 15s. (377.4; 85.15; 1.16)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Cave of Trophonius

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of King Lear, advertised on playbill of 14 Oct.] Receipts: #217 6s. 6d. (215.16.0; 1.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Crusade

Event Comment: [The playbill announces King Henry the Fifth and The Cave of Trophonius, but "The performances at this Theatre were changed last night on account of the indisposition of Kemble. Henry the Fifth gave way to The Siege of Belgrade, and The Cave of Trophonius was also superseded, as it was impossible for the vocal performers to sustain the whole effort of the night" (Morning Post, 18 Oct.). A MS annotation on Kemble playbill gives the name of the substitute afterpiece.] Receipts: #234 8s. (183.1; 49.18; 1.9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Humourist, advertised on playbill of 17 Oct.] Receipts: #285 8s. (223.10; 57.16; 4.2)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not, advertised on playbill of 18 Oct.] Paid Novosielski for Hire of his Boxes #720. Receipts: #365 17s. (307.18; 52.8; 5.11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Spoild Child

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; BALL. P 1, by James Byrne. MS of Songs only: Larpent MS 919; synopsis of action in Universal Magazine, Oct. 1791, p. 308]: Taken from Ossian. With new Music, Airs, Chorusses, new Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations. The Ballet composed by Byrne. The new Music composed, and the Ancient Scots Music selected and adapted by Shield. The Overture by Reeve. The Scenery by Richards, Hodgins, Pugh, &c. &c. The Dresses by Dick. Books of the Songs, &c. to be had at the Theatre. [For Harp and Pipes see 24 Oct.] Account-Book, 22 Nov.: Paid Byrne for Oscar & Malvina #50; 8 Dec.: Paid Mad. St.Amand expenses from Paris to London #14 6s. 8d. Receipts: #182 16s. 6d. (177.13.6; 5.3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Oscar and Malvina or The Hall of Fingal

Song: II: song-Incledon

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #224 18s. (208.13.6; 16.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Oscar and Malvina

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Cave of Trophonius, advertised on playbill of 25 Oct.] Receipts: #196 0s. 6d. (162.13.6; 31.14.0; 1.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: III: a song-Dignum

Event Comment: Oscar and Malvina is unavoidably deferred. [Public Advertiser, 31 Oct.: On Friday night Byrne, exerting himself in one of the last scenes in the Pantomimical Ballet, missing his guard, received a dreadful wound on his arm. (And see 2 Nov.)] Receipts: #146 14s. (142.7.6; 4.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rose And Colin

Afterpiece Title: The Dramatist

Afterpiece Title: Robin Hood

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Cave of Trophonius, advertised on playbill of 27 Oct.] "In one particular there may be praise given [to Comus]: the revellers of the son of Circe were in number fifty, and really produced a fine effect" (Oracle, 31 Oct.). Receipts: #298 9s. (241.15; 52.14; 4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: "The performance of last night boasted some additional impression, by the fine imagination of [Kemble's] starting at the trumpet from the prayer of penitence, and springing up the Hero and the King...[In Act V] the scene with Katharine was as sportive and as easy as possible...Comus followed, vice the Critic, obliged to be postponed from [the] indisposition of Parsons (MS annotation on Kemble playbill)]. Some disapprobation attended the drawing up the curtain. Palmer explained, and then, without 'wiping his lips since he spoke last' began "The Star that bids the Shepherd fold" (Oracle, 1 Nov.). Receipts: #223 5s. 6d. (180.8.6; 41.3.0; 1.14.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: "[Mrs Billington] possessed not the feeling to give touching expression, even when she sung with the utmost delicacy and consummate skill. Her face was handsome, and her countenance full of good humour, but it was incapable of change, and she was no actress" (Mount-Edgcumbe, 93-94). Receipts: #223 5s. 6d. (221.18.6; 1.7.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Event Comment: Afterpiece: To conclude with a Superb Prospect of the Infernal Regions. [This was included in all subsequent performances.] Receipts: #237 17s. (170.15; 65.17; 1.5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: Don Juan or The Libertine Destroyed

Song: II: a song-Mrs Crouch. [This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Frederick Reynolds, based partly on Monsieur Thomas, by John Fletcher. Prologue by Robert Merry. Epilogue by Miles Peter Andrews (see text)]: With new Scenery, Dresses, &c. Public Advertiser, 24 Apr. 1793: This Day is published Notoriety (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #228 8s. (224.0; 4.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Notoriety

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 10 years [not acted since 2 Oct. 1780]. [As afterpiece the playbill announces The Sultan, but "On Account of the Sudden Indisposition of Barrymore [it] was put off and the Devil to Pay substituted in its stead" (MS annotation on Kemble playbill) "The Sultan was changed to The Devil to Pay, and as Jordan remained, the matter was rather mended" (Oracle, 8 Nov.).] Receipts: #195 14s. (168.1; 26.3; 1.10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #205 4s. 6d. (200.15.0; 4.9.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Notoriety

Afterpiece Title: The Crusade