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Event Comment: [Mainpeice in place of The Fugitive; afterpiece of All the World's a Stage, both advertised on playbill of 17 Apr.] Receipts: #154 14s. 6d. (119.12.6; 26.1.0; 9.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. [1st piece: Epilogue by Miles Peter Andrews.] 3rd piece [1st time; F 2, by Eliza Parsons, based on Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, by Moliere]. Morning Herald, 27 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Mattocks, No. 8, Great Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #269 11s. 6d. (174.14.0; 4.16.6; tickets: 90.1.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Afterpiece Title: The Soldiers Festival or The Night before the Battle

Afterpiece Title: The Intrigues of a Morning or An Hour in Paris

Afterpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. Morning Herald, 2 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Charing-cross. Receipts: #340 0s. 6d. (114.14.0; 40.4.0; 2.4.0; tickets: 182.18.6) (charge: #164 16s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Festive Board i

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Joseph Richardson, based on The Coxcomb, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. Prologue by Richard Tickell. Epilogue by John Burgoyne (see text)]: With new Dresses, Decorations, &c. Morning Herald, 1 May 1792: This Day is published The Fugitive (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #315 7s. 6d. (275.0.0; 39.2.0; 1.5.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fugitive

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Ovation, Procession as 31 Mar. Receipts: #269 11s. (216.1; 43.9; 5.5; tickets not come in: 4.16)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnstone. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by William Macready, based partly on the anonymous The Intriguing Footman]. Morning Herald, 30 Mar. 1793: This day is published The Irishman in London (1s.). Ibid, 29 Mar. 1792: Tickets to be had of Johnstone, No. 19, Piazza, Covent Garden. Receipts: #389 14s. (155.15; 5.5; tickets: 228.14) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London or The Happy African

Dance: I: a Fair Scene-; Statute Dance-; End: As17920410

Song: In afterpiece: a Planxty, descriptive of Ireland If you travel the wide world all over (Morning Herald, 23 Apr.)-Johnstone in Character

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Martyr. Morning Chronicle, 10 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Martyr, No. 16, Martlett-court, Bow-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #334 4s. 6d. (163.4.0; 4.19.6; tickets: 166.1.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Dance: End II: Negro Dance, as17911102; End: A Divertisement, as17920410

Song: End I: Charmante Petite Fille-Incledon; II: Sweet Bird, as17920228

Event Comment: Benefit for a Fund for the Relief of those whose Infirmities oblige them to retire from the Stage. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same for rest of season]. Receipts: #372 1s. (224.10; 44.7; 1.10; tickets: 101.14) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same for rest of season]. Receipts: #183 3s. 6d. (177.13.6; 5.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: Zelma

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Goodall. [In mainpiece the playbill retains King as Trappanti, but "King being indisposed, Trappanti...was represented by Benson" (unidentified clipping on playbill of 27 Apr., BM: Harris, Vol. III).] Morning Herald, 9 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Goodall, No. 13, Great Russell-street, Covent-garden. Receipts: #364 8s. 6d. (125.13.6; 36.15.0; 4.7.0; tickets: 197.13.0) (charge: #157 11s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Dance: End: a Dance-

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill. In mainpiece the playbill retains King, but "Mr King being ill I acted his Part to-night" (Kemble Mem.).]. Account-Book, 12 May: Author's Charge 3rd night of Fugitive enter'd short by error #12 16s. Receipts: #408 5s. (365.1; 41.0; 2.4; tickets: none listed) (charge: #147)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fugitive

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Event Comment: [Mrs Siddons's 1st appearance as Mrs Oakly was at Manchester, 21 Mar. 1777.] Receipts: #241 14s. 6d. (199.1.6; 39.17.0; 2.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wells. [New Address by Edward Topham (European Magazine, May 1792, p. 389, which also identifies the speaker).] Receipts: #202 19s. (137.12.6; 6.3.0; tickets: 59.4.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Notoriety

Afterpiece Title: Robin Hood

Entertainment: Monologues Preceding: [a New Address, She Couldn't Help It-[by Harley]; End: Collins's Ode on the Passions-Mrs Esten; [Imitations End II: Dramatic Imitations [Comic, Vocal and Tragic,-Mrs Wells

Event Comment: Hughes [see 31 Dec. 1791] to pay for all the Tickets he sends in on this Night above #40. Receipts: #322 (263.10.6; 53.18.0; 4.11.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Event Comment: Paid Poor Rate for the Theatre #21 16s.; Macleish, printer [of the playbills], to 7th Inst. #67 1s. Receipts: #210 13s. 6d. (207.17.0; 2.16.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: Oscar and Malvina

Music: As17920125

Event Comment: Benefit for Suett. Morning Herald, 21 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Suett, No. 21, King-street, Bloomsbury-square. Receipts: #406 9s. 6d. (106.10.0; 42.14.0; 6.14.0; tickets: 250.11.0) (charge: #166 17s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Song: for this Night only a new Song by Suett-Mrs Jordan In Character of Viola; accompaniments for the Oboe and Grand Piano Forte-; End: a favourite Song by Dibdin-Suett

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Rock, Follett will be admitted. Receipts: #215 13s. 6d. (126.10.0; 6.4.0; tickets: 82.19.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: Lovers Quarrels

Event Comment: Benefit for Farren. Morning Herald, 14 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Farren, No. 85, Gower-street, Bedford-square. Receipts: #361 9s. 6d. (102.5.0; 3.16.6; tickets: 255.8.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Dance: As17920420

Song: As17920421

Event Comment: Benefit for Barrymore. Morning Herald, 25 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Barrymore, No. 11, Bedford-street, Bedford-row. Receipts: #393 19s. 6d. (86.13.0; 37.14.6; 4.2.0; tickets: 265.10.0) (charge: #159 5s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: As17911210

Event Comment: The Last time of Mrs Siddons's Performance this Season. Receipts: #363 13s. 6d. (316.11.6; 44.1.0; 3.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Event Comment: Benefit for Blanchard. Morning Herald, 2 May: Tickets to be had of Blanchard, No. 11, Beaufort's-buildings, Strand. Receipts: #254 18s. 6d. (103.14.6; 3.3.0; tickets: 148. .0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man Or The Fops Fortune

Afterpiece Title: Lincos Travels

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Song: End IV: Wine cannot cure the Pain I endure, as17920412

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill]. Paid Wrighten, prompter, from beginning of season to 29th April #43 16s. 2d. Receipts: #350 8s. (308.19; 39.9; 2.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #168 10s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fugitive

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bland and Mrs Powell. Morning Herald, 17 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Bland, St. Alban's-street, Pall-mall; of Mrs Powell, No. 12, Little Russell-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #369 9s. (125.15.0; 52.0.6; 3.5.0; tickets: 188.8.6) (charge: #164 4s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Spoild Child

Song: Vocal Parts, as17911109, but _Sedgwick, Mrs _Crouch; Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite, as17911125

Event Comment: Benefit for Wilson. Wilson's most violent and sudden Indisposition will prevent his having the honor of appearing before the Public and his Friends this Evening, and sincerely hopes the Pieces he is under the necessity of substituting will meet their approbation. [2nd piece in place of Hail Fellow Well Met; 3rd piece of The Rights of Woman, both advertised on playbill of 7 May. A 4th (and new) play, The Point of Honor, by John Peter Roberdeau, was also advertised on playbill of 7 May. It was never acted. Hail Fellows [sic] Well Met and The Rights of Women [sic] were 1st acted, for Wilson's benefit, at the hay, 9 Aug. 1792.] Morning Herald, 24 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Wilson at his house, Park-lane, Church-lane, Chelsea. Receipts: #285 5s. (93.17; 1.14; tickets: 189.14) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fashionable Levities

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Afterpiece Title: Modern Antiques

Event Comment: Benefit for Incledon. [Afterpiece in place of The Positive Man, advertised on playbill of 8 May.] Morning Herald, 20 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Incledon, No. 5, Bow-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #399 6s. (170.15.6; 3.15.6; tickets: 224.15.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Dance: In III: a Hornpipe-Byrne

Song: End: Black Eyed Susan-Incledon