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Event Comment: Benefit for Cubitt, Macready, Thompson & Cox. Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years [acted 24 Mar. 1788]. Receipts: #326 6s. (85.7.6; 5.2.6; tickets: 235.16.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko Or The Royal Slave

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Dance: II: a Negro Dance-

Song: In afterpiece: As17920421; End: The Group of Lovers; or, Beauty at her Levee-Munden

Entertainment: Monologue End IV: Jeu D'Esprit, as17920516; Little Pig lays without any Straw-Fawcett

Event Comment: Benefit for Burton, Fawcett, Phillimore, Miss Tidswell & Miss Hagley. Receipts: #516 6s. 6d. (57.19.0; 16.11.0; 4.2.0; tickets: 437.14.6) (charge: #159 1s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

Song: End II: a favourite Duett(composed by Florio Jun.)-Miss Hagley, Mrs Bland

Event Comment: [In afterpiece the playbill retains Courtney, but "Oscar and Malvina, May 31, went off remarkably well, though Courtney, the piper, was not present. Weippert, with his harp, undertook the whole piece by himself, with wonderful execution and taste" (Morning Herald, 2 June).] Receipts: #238 11s. (235.11.6; 2.19.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: Oscar and Malvina

Music: The Harp and Pipes, as17920125, but _Courtney

Event Comment: Account-Book: Paid Lewis in full for management #100. Tickets delivered by Savery, Iredale, Robson, Way, Finley, Dosel, Kelm, Goodwin, Lamp, Wilkins, Varley, Jealous, Longley, Powell, Plank, Atkins, Pilbro will be admitted. The Last Night of the Company's performing this Season. Receipts: #421 16s. (48.18; 2.10; tickets: 370.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Event Comment: [Extra night] Benefit for a Fund, established for the Relief of those Performers who through Infirmity shall be obliged to retire from the Stage. [Author of Prologue unknown. This was Mrs Pitt's last appearance on the stage.] Received for the King's box #50; for the Princess Royal's box #25; for Their Majesties' Servants' box #2 2s.; from Cadell for Books #30 0s. 6d. Receipts: none listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Barataria or Sancho Turned Governor

Dance: As17920509

Entertainment: As17920414; Imitations End I: several Imitations entirely New,-Mrs Wells; Monologue

Event Comment: Mainpiece in place of She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not, advertised on playbill of 4 June.] Receipts: #194 9s. (119.8; 60.13; 14.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of High Life below Stairs, advertised on playbill of 5 June.] Receipts: #233 2s. (180.16; 47.8; 4.15; ticket not come in: 0.3)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Event Comment: Benefit for the young D'Egvilles, Johnstone, Nix & Dale. Morning Herald, 7 June: Tickets to be had of the young D'Egvilles, No. 18, Broad-street; of Johnston, No. 15, Martlet-court, Bow-street, Covent-Garden; of Nix, No. 8, Little Russel-street, Covent-garden; of Dale, No. 26, Stanhope-street, Claremarket. Receipts: #518 6s. (86.14.6; 29.1.0; 10.8.0; tickets: 392.2.6) (charge: #171 15s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: End: a new Dance, Provision for the Convent; or, The Fryars' Frolick-G. D'Egville, Hamoir, Miss Fanny D'Egville, Sophia D'Egville, Miss DeCamp

Song: As17911003

Ballet: End I: a new Dance, The Martial Nymph; or, The Conquered Scythian. The Scythian-George D'Egville; Nymphs-Miss DeCamp, Miss Fanny D'Egville; The Victorious Nymph-Miss Sophia D'Egville

Event Comment: Benefit for Mme Mara. Morning Chronicle, 4 June; Tickets to be had of Mme Mara, No. 25, Queen Anne-street, East. Receipts: #233 5s. 6d. (170.5.6; 56.9.0; 6.11.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #161 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dido Queen Of Carthage

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Event Comment: Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Alfred, Appleby, Benson, Banks, Cooke, Daglish, Mrs Edwin, Mrs Gawdry, Master Gregson, Miss Jacobs, Jones, Lyons, Maddocks, Pilsbury, Walker, Whitmill will be admitted. Receipts: #459 9s. 6d. (53.2.6; 46.6.0; 7.5.0; tickets: 352.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

Dance: End: Allemande-Whitmill, Miss Jacobs, Miss DeCamp

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, Percey, Cameron, Wilson, George, Woollams. Kemble Mem.: Bt. the box-keepers. Receipts: #98 6s. (59.6.6; 26.0.6; 12.19.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #147 12s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Event Comment: Tickets delivered for this Evening [Account-Book: by Andrews, Calkin, Chatterley, Dangerfield, Edwards, Gardiner, Gilles, Henderson, Humphreys, Irish, Long, Massingham, Panchaud, Scott, Sherratt, Smith, Stevens, Thompson] will be admitted. Receipts: #57 15s. 6d. (36.14.6; 17.14.0; 3.7.0; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beaux Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: As17920613

Event Comment: Benefit for Portal, Shade, Hicks, J. Shade, Gibson, Rice. Kemble Mem.: Bt. the box-keepers. The Last Time of the Company's performing this Season. Receipts: #87 2s. 1d. (53.2.0; 28.15;28.15.1; 5.6.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #148 1s. 3d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Event Comment: Boxes 6s. 2nd Price 3s. Pit 3s. 6d. 2nd Price 2s. Gallery 2s. 2nd Price 1s. No Money to be returned. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook at the Office of the Theatre. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 21 Nov.]. Receipts: #231 12s. (129.9; 35.14; 3.9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: All The Worlds A Stage

Song: III: a song-Dignum

Event Comment: 1st piece [1st time; PREL 1, by Richard Cumberland. Larpent MS 958; not published]. Without insisting on the great Expence that has been incurred in re-building this Theatre (in the erecting of which no other Object has been attempted but the greater ease, safety and accomodation of the Spectators) it appears upon the Books that the Annual Disbursements of the past Seasons have gradually been encreasing from Year to Year, under the Direction of the present Proprietor, to nearly the sum of #10,000 per Annum more than the usual Expenditure of any of his Predecessors; it is therefore trusted the Necessity of the following small Advancement of the Prices of Admission to the Boxes and the Pit will be sufficiently apparent to the Justice of that Public whose Liberality has never yet been doubted. E. Barlow, Treasurer. Boxes 6s. 2nd Price 3s. Pit 3s. 6d. 2nd Price 2s. Gallery 2s. 2nd Price 1s. No Money to be returned. The Office for taking Places for the Boxes is removed to Hart-street. The principal new Entrance to the Boxes is from the Great Portico in Bow-street; from the Small Portico are Entrances to the Pit and Gallery only. In the Old Passage from the Piazza are new Entrances to the Boxes, Pit, and Gallery. Carriages coming to Bow-street Entrances are desired to set down and take up with the Horses' Heads towards Hart-street. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 12 Nov.]. [The audience objected vociferously to the increased prices of admission and to the absence of a 2nd gallery (and see under 19 Sept.). "The Prelude passed off without a syllable of it being heard...Two acts of The Road to Ruin displayed the performers' skill in pantomime, for not a word was heard...The Irishman in London then walked over the stag amidst the same riot and confusion which attended the preceding pieces" (Times, 18 Sept.).] Receipts: none listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Occasional Prelude

Afterpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Event Comment: It having appeared to be the Sense of a considerable Part of the Audience on Monday Night that the One Shilling Gallery should be restored, the Proprietor has already given Directions that their Wishes may be obeyed with all possible Expedition. With respect to the other Point, upon which some difference of Opinion still continued throughout the Performance, it is necessary to declare, that without absolute Ruin to the Property, this Theatre cannot be opened at lower Prices of Admission. The Proprietor therefore relies with Confidence on the Justice and Protection of the Public should any Attempt be made again to interrupt the Performance upon this Ground. [The new Upper, or One-Shilling, Gallery was constructed within two weeks, and opened on 1 Oct. The audience accepted The argument for the necessity of raising the prices of admission, which, as they now stood, remained in effect for the remainder of the century. 2nd piece in place of The Suspicious Husband, advertised on playbill of 17 Sept.] Receipts: none listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Occasional Prelude

Afterpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: Modern Antiques or The Merry Mourners

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Busy Body; afterpiece on The Poor Soldier, both advertised on playbill of 19 Sept.] The Public are respectfully informed that a One Shilling Gallery will be opened on Monday the 1st of October. Receipts: #77 12s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle

Dance: III: Hornpipe in Character-Byrn

Event Comment: Paid 7 constant Carpenters #2 2s.; 4 Scenemen #5 7s.; The World for Advertisement #1 10s. Receipts: #238 5s. 6d. (166.13.6; 69.11.0; 2.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Event Comment: [The playbill assigns the Dauphin to Barrymore but, "Benson performed the Dauphin instead of Barrymore" (Thespian Magazine, Nov. 1792, p. 125). It is not stated who acted Duke of Gloster; doubling these two parts is not likely.] Account-Book: Paid The Prince of Wales's Porter for Performances in Cymon [on 31 Dec. 1791, et seq.] #13 10s. Receipts: #169 9s. 6d. (118.6.6; 46.8.0; 4.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings King Henry The Fifth Or The Conquest Of France

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

Event Comment: [Public Advertiser erroneously assigns Wowski to Mrs Martyr, and Narcissa to Mrs Mountain. Throughout this season Mrs Mountain was acting in Dublin.] Receipts: #294 17s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Little Hunchback

Dance: End II: a Negro Dance-

Event Comment: [In afterpiece the playbill assigns Euphrosyne to Mrs Crouch, but "illness prevented, and Mrs Bland...undertook the part" (Thespian Magazine, Nov. 1792, p. 125). Mrs Crouch is also listed as one of the Bacchants.] Receipts: #225 8s. 6d. (167.5.6; 57.7.0; 0.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Careless Husband; Afterpiece of Richard Coeur De Lion, both advertised on playbill of 27 Sept.] Receipts: #159 19s. (111.0; 45.15; 3.4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Inconstant Or The Way To Win Him

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Event Comment: From the Small Portico are Entrances to the Pit and One Shilling Gallery only [and see 19 Sept.]. In the Old Passage from the Piazza are new Entrances to the Boxes, Pit and Two Shilling Gallery. The only Entrance to the Two Shilling Gallery is in the Passage from the Piazza. [Beginning with 5 Oct. the playbills have: Upper Gallery 1s. 2nd Price 6d.] Receipts: #336 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Taken from Soliman the Magnificent of Marmontel. Receipts: #305 3s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fontainbleau

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: Afterpiece conclude: Dance-

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber; With Alterations. Not Acted these 12 years [acted 10 May 1784]. With new Scenes, Dresses and Decorations. Receipts: #275 19s. 6d. (194.3.6; 78.19.0; 2.17.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings Love Makes A Man Or The Fops Fortune

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper