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Event Comment: Paid Billstirkers from beginning of season #10 4s.; Tailor's bill #8 9s. 10d.; Lampmen #6 16s. Receipts: #286 8s. 6d. (219.13.6; 65.3.0; 1.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: First Love

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Event Comment: Paid Messrs Robson and Hale, paper hangers, #124 14s. 6d. Receipts: #222 5s. (218.16; 3.9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Crotchet Lodge

Dance: In III: a Hornpipe-Byrn

Event Comment: An Accurate Edition of Venice Preserv'd to be had in the Theatre. Receipts: #347 13s. 6d. (268.13.0; 78.14.6; 0.6.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Event Comment: Afterpiece: With a Representation of the Indian Manner of Preparation for Battle, and their extraordinary Method of Laying in Ambush. A Representation of an Engagment between an English and French Man of War. And a Shipwreck. To conclude with the original Allegoric Scene from Provocation. A View of the British Fleet at Anchor. Receipts: #221 12s. 6d. (221.3.6; 0.9.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Dance: In afterpiece: a Dance-Byrn, Mlle St.Amand

Song: As17951019

Event Comment: "After the 3rd night this play was obliged to be laid aside on account of the improper application of some of the political passages; when Pierre said, "Curs'd be your Senate-curs'd your Constitution," he was rapturously applauded" (Genest, VII, 229). Receipts: #290 8s. (233.9.6; 56.6.6; 0.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 4 years [acted 27 May 1794]. With the original Music, Dresses, Scenery, Machinery and Decorations. Receipts: #203 15s. (200.0; 3.15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Event Comment: Mainpiece: The Musick principally new, composed by Storace, with a few Pieces selected from Anfossi, Mozart, Bianchi, Ditters and Sarti. Receipts: #165 1s. (113.5.6; 50.15.0; 1.0.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cherokee

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #481 7s. (470.0; 11.7)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Dance: As17951008

Event Comment: 2nd piece: The Customs of the Tribunal, &c., as 23 Oct. 3rd piece: Representation of the Indian Manner, &c., as 26 Oct. Receipts: #130 9s. 6d. (123.14.6; 6.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

Afterpiece Title: The Secret Tribunal

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Dance: In 3rd piece: Dance, as17951026

Event Comment: The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15 [see 29 Mar. 1796]. Receipts: #336 11s. 6d. (254.11.0; 80.0.6; 2.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Song: As17950919, but Epithalamium-Miss _Leak, Mrs Bland

Event Comment: [This was Bernard's last appearance in London.] The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15, and so continue till further Notice [see 31 Mar. 1796]. Receipts: #196 2s. (194.16; 1.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Song: As17951019

Event Comment: Mainpiece: 19th Time [i.e. in continuation of the reckoning for the previous season]. Receipts: #130 19s. 6d. (124.11.0; 6.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mysteries Of The Castle

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of 2nd piece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. 2nd piece: The Customs of the Tribunal, &c., as 23 Oct. Receipts: #92 17s. 6d. (80.19.6; 11.18.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

Afterpiece Title: The Secret Tribunal

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Event Comment: Mainpece: In Act I the Cardinal's Banquet. In Act II the Court for the Trial of Queen Katharine. In Act V a Grand Procession to the Christening of Princess Elizabeth. Receipts: #211 1s. 6d. (150.5.0; 58.4.6; 2.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Frederick Reynolds. Prologue by the author. Epilogue by Miles Peter Andrews (see text)]: With new Scenes, Dresses, &c. Receipts: #242 4s. (237.16; 4.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speculation

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Event Comment: Afterpiece: To conclude with a Representation of the Lord Mayor's Show on the Water, and a Dance and Finale. The Overture, and the principal Part of the Music composed by Shield. [For synopsis of action see 16 Nov.] Receipts: #339 14s. 6d. (331.5.0; 8.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speculation

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayors Day or A Flight from Lapland

Dance: I afterpiece: The Long Minuet- taken from the Caricature Print of that title [The Long Minuet as Danced at Bath, by H. W. Bunbury; see17951116]

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Distress'd Mother, advertised on playbill of 12 Nov.] Receipts: #192 12s. (147.0; 41.5; 4.7)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Event Comment: [For the naming of the characters in mainpiece, as they were called originally, see 23 Feb. 1792.] Afterpiece: By permission of the Proprietor of the Theatre Royal, Hay Market. Receipts: #272 17s. (181.9.6; 87.9.6; 3.18.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Event Comment: Afterpiece: With Songs [by Shield]. Receipts: #152 4s. (147.12; 4.12)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Speculation

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Mimick or Blunders at Brighton

Dance: As17951114

Event Comment: [Mainpiece altered by John Philip Kemble.] An Accurate Edition of King Lear to be had in the Theatre. Receipts: #214 19s. 6d. (159.2.6; 54.9.0; 1.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Event Comment: Mainpiece [altered by John Philip Kemble]: With new Scenes, Dresses, Decorations, and Machinery. In Act I, at the opening will be introduced, for the First Time a Battle between the Macedonians and the Persians. In Act IV, the Royal Banquet. [These were included in all subsequent performances.] The Scenes designed and painted by Marinari. The Dresses and Decorations by Johnston and Miss Rein. The Machinery by Cabanel. "[In the last scene] the expiring tone with which [Kemble] pronounces 'Cover me'; his shivering, when wrapt round in the imperial robes; his wan and wasted countenance; the manner of his labouriously drawing his legs together, and their aguish knocking when they meet, surpass all description" (Monthly Mirror, Jan. 1796, p. 180). Receipts: #375 2s. 6d. (306.14.6; 67.3.0; 1.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Song: In II: Alexander's Triumphal Entry into Babylon-; The Grand Chorus of Priests Youths Virgins-Bannister, Sedgwick, Dignum, Wathen, Welsh, Wentworth, Trueman, Cooke, Danby, Evans, Fisher, Master Welsh, Master DeCamp, Master Gregson, Mrs Bland, Miss Leak, Miss DeCamp, Miss Arne, Miss Mellon, Mrs Bramwell, Mrs Boimaison, Mrs Maddocks, Miss Menage, Miss Jackson, Miss Granger, Miss Chatterley, Miss Wentworth, Mrs Butler

Event Comment: In Act I of mainpiece a Gran dMasquerade. Receipts: #158 3s. (155.9; 2.14)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayors Day

Song: As17950921, but Vocal Parts-_

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #104 14s. 6d. (99.2.6; 5.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wild Oats

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp or Patrick in Prussia

Dance: End: Highland Festivity-Byrn, Holland, Mlle St.Amand

Event Comment: An Accurate Edition of Alexander the Great to be had in the Theatre. Receipts: #246 14s. (189.1; 54.11; 3.2)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Song: As17951123

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Permission of the Proprietor of the Theatre Royal, Hay Market. Receipts: #191 5s. (113.4.6; 74.1.6; 3.19.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law