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Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Mrs Mattocks, but "Mrs Davenport undertook the part of Mrs Fancourt at a very short notice, on account of the sudden indisposition of Mrs Mattocks" (Morning Herald, 9 Dec.).] Receipts: #254 1s. (252.1; 2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Town Before You

Afterpiece Title: Hercules and Omphale

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Banquet, Court, Procession, as 18 Oct. [Mainpiece in place of King Lear, advertised on playbill of 8 Dec.] Powell: Confederacy rehearsed at 10; Cherokee (music) at 11. Receipts: #189 10s. (136.4; 49.6; 4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: Powell: All's Well rehearsed at 10; Cherokee at 12. Receipts: #216 1s. 6d. (159.3.0; 49.19.6; 2.6.0; 1.2 tks.: 4.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of The Town before You, advertised on playbill of 9 Dec.] Receipts: #446 5s. (439.1; 7.4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Grief A la mode i

Afterpiece Title: Hercules and Omphale

Event Comment: Powell: All's Well rehearsed at 10; Cherokee at 12. Receipts: #243 3s. 6d. (182.0.0; 56.1.6; 5.2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With Alterations [by John Philip Kemble. In his version, as published in 1793, Lewis is assigned to Barrymore, Helena to Mrs Siddons, the Countess to Mrs Ward, Diana to Mrs Powell. Genest lists the present cast; it appears to be reliable. He omits Phillimore, who is assigned in the text, and Miss Tidswell]. A new Edition of All's Well that Ends Well to be had in the Theatre. Afterpiece: With a Sea Fightv. Powell: Drummer rehearsed at 10; Critic at 11:30; Cherokee at 1. Receipts: #282 1s. (178.19; 99.16; 3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alls Well That Ends Well

Afterpiece Title: The Critic or A Tragedy Rehearsed

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of King Lear, advertised on playbill of 12 Dec.] Afterpiece: In three Acts, taken from Addison. Powell: Drummer rehearsed at 10; Cherokee (business) at 11; Cherokee (dialogue & music) at 12. Receipts: #247 0s. 6d. (165.4.6; 76.13.6; 5.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Drummer

Event Comment: Powell: School for Lovers rehearsed at 10; Cherokee at 11; Grecian Daughter at 12. Receipts: #169 (123.1.6; 43.19.0; 1.19.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

Event Comment: Powell: Cherokee (business) rehearsed at 10; Cherokee (dialogue & music) at 12. Receipts: #243 11s. 6s. (174.12.0; 64.18.0; 4.1.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Event Comment: Powell: Cherokee (business) rehearsed at 10; Cherokee (dialogue & music) at 12. Receipts: #202 19s. 6d. (132.10.0; 61.16.0; 8.7.6; 1.2 tks.: 0.6.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Event Comment: Powell: School for Lovers rehearsed at 10; Cherokee at 11:30. Receipts: #225 7s. 6d. (171.13.6; 46.1.6; 7.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Event Comment: [In afterpiece the playbill retains Phillimore as the Beefeater , but Phillimore Ill, Benson doubled the Beefeater with the Interpreter " (Powell).] Afterpiece: With a Sea Fight. Powell: School for Lovers rehearsed at 10; Cherokee at 12. Receipts: #205 3s. (108.6; 89.9; 7.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by James Cobb. Larpent MS 1050; published (pirated) 1795]: The Musick, principally new, composed by Storace, with a few Pieces selected from Anfossi, Mozart, Bianchi, Ditters and Sarti. The Scenes and Decorations are all designed and painted by Greenwood, except the View of the New Settlement, which is by Capon. The Dresses, &c. are executed by Johnston and Miss Rein. Books of the Songs to be had in the Theatre. Powell: Cherokee rehearsed at 9:30. Receipts: #340 5s. 6d. (284.5.0; 54.13.0; 1.7.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cherokee

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

Event Comment: The Public are respectfully informed that the War-Whoop Chorus, which was so much honoured with their Approbation, is now removed to the End of the First Act (printed slip attached to Kemble playbill). Powell: Englishman in Paris rehearsed at 10; Cherokee at 11. Receipts: #276 3s. (203.6.0; 69.7.6; 3.9.6),

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cherokee

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Event Comment: Powell: Deaf Lover rehearsed at 10; New Ballet at 11 (dismissed). Receipts: #230 (182.14.6; 42.14.6; 3.16.0; 6.1.2 tks.: 0.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cherokee

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Event Comment: Powell, 24 Dec.: New Ballet rehearsed at 11; 26 Dec.: Cherokee rehearsed at 10; New Ballet at 11. Receipts: #217 6s. (193.17.6; 23.8.6; 0.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cherokee

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Earl of Essex, advertised on playbill of 23 Dec.] Afterpiece [1st time; P 1]: Composed, prepared and directed by Mark? Lonsdale. With new Music, Scenery, Machinery, Dresses and Decorations. The Dances by Byrn. The Music partly composed new by Shield [the printed score (Preston and Son [1794]) contains rest of new music, by Aylward , Atterbury, Spofforth, Howard, with overture by Gretry (from Evenements Imprevus)]; the rest selected by Goodwin from the works of Haydn, Aylward, Baumgarten, Boccherini, Pleyel, Gluck, Reeve, Dr Arne, Ware, Leffler Jun. & Spofforth. The Scenery (with very few exceptions) expressly designed and executed by Richards, Walmsley, Phillips, Lupino Jun. and Hodgins; assisted by Byrne, Holland, Thorne, Hollogan and others. The Dresses under the direction of Dick. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #286 1s. (270.8; 15.13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Mago and Dago or Harlequin the Hero

Event Comment: Powell: Measure for Measure rehearsed at 10; New Ballet at 12. Receipts: #170 18s. (139.5.6; 28.11.6; 3.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cherokee

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat

Event Comment: The Public are respectfully informed that, a sufficient Profit being allowed to the Persons who sell Plays and Books of Songs in the Theatre, those Persons are forbidden to demand for such Plays or Books of Songs more than the Price marked thereon, upon pain of dismission from their employ. [Afterpiece in place of The Pannel, advertized on playbill of 27 Dec.] Powell: Messrs Danby & Fisher absent from this Evening's Performance, Ill. Measure for Measure rehearsed at 10; New Ballet at 12. Receipts: #208 8s. (167.4.6; 39.13.6; 1.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cherokee

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Event Comment: A new Edition of Measure for Measure [altered by John Philip Kemble] to be had in the Theatre. Powell: Miss Leak absent from this Evening's Performance, Ill. New Ballet rehearsed at 12. Receipts: #248 8s. 6d. (193.2.6; 53.18.0; 1.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Event Comment: By Comand of Their Majesties, [Mainpiece in place of The Cherokee; afterpiece of The Citizen, both advertised on playbill of 30 Dec.] Receipts: #474 0s. 6d. (411.9.0; 58.2.6; 4.9.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Event Comment: Powell: Benson and Bland absent from this Evening's Performance. Who's the Dupe? rehearsed at 10 [but this play not acted this season]; Pannel at 11. Receipts: #171 8s. 6d. (130.16.0; 34.15.6; 5.17.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Event Comment: The Public are respectfully informed that on Account of the Indisposition of Parsons, Who's the Dupe? [announced in the playbill] cannot be acted. This Evening will be presented [as above] (printed slip attached to Kemble playbill). Powell: New Ballet rehearsed at 10:30. Receipts: #224 17s. (177.13.0; 43.17.6; 1.9.6; 1.2 tks.: 1.7.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cherokee

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years [acted 17 Apr. 1790. The playbill assigns Theodosia to Mrs Clendining, but "The absence of Mrs Clendining from the theatre on Friday last is due to...accident by which her shoulder and collar-bone were dislocated and she now lies dangerously ill" (Morning Herald, 5 Jan.). On 14 Jan. the part was acted by Mrs Arnold]. Receipts: #164 15s. 6d. (158.16.6; 5.19.0)

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Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: Mago and Dago

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of Isabella, advertised on playbill of 2 Jan., and of The Cherokee, announced on playbill for this present night.] "The Public are respectfully informed that The Cherokee is unavoidably postponed till Monday night. This evening will be presented [as above]" (printed slip attached to Kemble playbill). Powell: The Cherokee postponed "on Account of the Indisposition of Kelly;" in The Pannel "Jones being Ill, Webb play'd 1st Alguazile, Evans 2nd Alguazile. Benson being Ill, Trueman play'd Octavio." Pannel rehearsed at 10:30; New Ballet at 12. Receipts: #158 4s. (108.17.0; 39.11.6; 9.15.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel