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Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clendining. 3rd piece: To conclude as 15 Apr. Morning Herald, 16 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Clendining, No. 13, King-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #238 4s. (100.15; 15.4; tickets: 122.5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Afterpiece Title: The Point at Herqui

Dance: In 3rd piece: a new incidental Dance, as17960415

Song: In 3rd piece: songs As17960503; In Evening: Mad Bess (1st time), the Minstrel's Song [Where is that tow'ring spirit fled?] [from The Days of Yore-Mrs Clendining; Harp-Weippert

Event Comment: Benefit for Barrymore. Mainpiece: In Act II a Masquerade Scene. Morning Herald, 16 May: Tickets to be had of Barrymore, No. 20, Judd-place West, New-road, St. Pancras. Receipts: #155 9s. (97.9.6; 51.12.6; 4.10.6; tickets: none listed; odd money: 1.16.6) (charge: #217 5s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Song: As17960428

Event Comment: Benefit for Townsend. Morning Herald, 13 May: Tickets to be had of Townsend, No. 153, Drury-lane. Receipts: #354 16s. 6d. (131.13.6; 13.7.0; tickets: 209.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: The Positive Man

Song: End: an Interlude of Songs, Glees-Incledon, Johnstone, Fawcett, Bowden, Townsend, Richardson, Linton

Entertainment: In course Evening: Imitations, The Beggar (from Merry Sherwood)-Townsend

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. 3rd piece [1st time; M. INT 1]. Morning Herald, 10 May: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Charing-cross. Receipts: #188 6s. 6d. (120.9.6; 61.1.0; 2.17.6; tickets: none listed; odd money: 3.18.6) (charge: #218 11s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mountaineers

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Afterpiece Title: A Musical Olio

Event Comment: [Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Shotter, Pitt, Wilde, Berecloth, Young, Hasler, Bagley, Noble, Bonsor, Little, Brice, Hawkin, Atkins, W. Wilde, Ware will be admitted.] Receipts: #327 11s. 6d. (35.8.6; 7.9.0; tickets: 284.14.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Dance: As17951008

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kemble, being the last Time of her Appearing on the Stage. 1st piece [1st time; T 2, by John Philip Kemble, altered from the same by Philip Massinger. Larpent MS 1040: not published]: In Act I the Triumphal Entry of Domitian into the Capitolv. 2nd piece [1st time; C 3, by John Philip Kemble, altered from The Comical Lovers, by John Dryden and Colley Cibber. Larpent MS 1133: not published. Genest, VII, 243: C. Kemble on being asked, in 1821, if the above cast was right, said that he believed it was, but that he was ill and did not act]. [Address by Bertie Greatheed (European Magazine, June 1796, p. 397).] Morning Herald, 10 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Kemble, No. 13, Caroline-street, Bedford-square. Account-Book: Paid H. S. Hargraves, Box No. 95, his Servant being turn'd out by Force, #1 4s. Receipts: #190 9s. 6d. (130.9.0; 59.10.0; 0.10.0; tickets: none listed; odd money: 0.0.6) (charge: #216 17s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Actor

Afterpiece Title: Celadon and Florimel or The Happy Counterplot

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Entertainment: Monologue.End 2nd piece: an Address-Mrs Kemble on the Occasion of her Retiring from the Stage

Event Comment: [Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Claremont, Blurton, Ledger, Mrs Egan, Miss Leserve will be admitted.] Receipts: #255 3s. 6d. (101.10.6; 7.0.6; tickets: 146.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Treasure 0

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Treasure 1

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Treasure 2

Event Comment: Benefit for Macready and Hull. 1st piece: Not acted these 14 years, and compressed into 3 Acts. Receipts: #313 16s. (81.19; 3.9; tickets: 228.8, of which Macready sold 139.15, and Hull 88.13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick And Margaret Of Anjou

Afterpiece Title: The Lie of the Day

Afterpiece Title: Sprigs of Laurel

Song: In Course Evening: The Waiter-Fawcett; Master Thedy Shemus O'Shaughnessey O'Finnegin Delaney's History of Himself-Johnstone; Mad Bess (in character)-Mrs Clendining; The Sportman's snug little Cot, Admiral Benbow-Incledon

Event Comment: At the Request of many Friends to Worth and Genius, and in Commemoration of the late Mr Storace [who died 19 Mar.], Benefit for his Widow and Orphan. Receipts: #657 12s. (352.18.6; 32.4.0; 2.2.0; tickets: 270.6.0; odd money: 0.1.6) (charge: #244 13s. 9d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahmoud

Afterpiece Title: A Dramatic Cento

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: End I: (by permission of the Proprietor of the king's Theatre) the new favorite Ballet, in the Scots' Stile, Little Peggy's Love- The Pantomime, Principal Steps by Didelot; the Principal Characters the Dancers of the Opera House: Didelot, Gentili, Ms Vidi, Ms Bossi, Ms Barre, Ms Parisot, Ms Hilligsberg, Ms Rose

Song: End 3rd piece: the Finale to The Iron Chest, Harmony Harmony- being the last Composition of Storace

Event Comment: Benefit for Mme Mara. 2nd piece: Compressed into 2 Acts. The Words of the new Song to be had at the Theatre. Morning Herald, 21 May: Tickets to be had of Mme Mara, No. 57, Edgeware-road. Account-Book: Paid the Duke of Bedford one years Rent for the Theatre due Ladyday 1794 #456 4s.; Account-Book, 10 June: Paid the Duke of Bedford one years Rent due Ladyday 1795 #456 4s. Receipts: #339 10s. (250.1.6; 2.2.0; tickets: 87.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Doldrum

Song: In 1st piece: Sweet Echo (1st time)-Mme Mara; accompanied on the hautboy-W. Parke; End I 1st piece: Mad Bess (in character)-Mme Mara (1st time); In 2nd piece: a new song [High rolling seas that bear afar]-Mme Mara [written for the Occasion, and set to music by Herself

Event Comment: Benefit for Sedgwick. Morning Herald, 20 May: Tickets to be had of Sedgwick at Mr Gibson's, jeweller, Charlotte-street, Rathbone-place. Receipts: #156 17s. (100.16; 54.4; 1.17; tickets: none listed) (charge: #212 16s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Phoenix or Anacreontics Renovated i

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Entertainment: In 2nd piece: Imitations-Caulfield

Event Comment: Benefit for Richardson and Mrs Davenport. 1st piece: Not acted these 20 years [acted 9 Oct. 1778], and compressed into one Act. [Miss Hay, whose 1st appearance on the stage was at Richmond, 15 Sept. 1792, is identified in Thespian Dictionary, 1805, under Mrs Litchfield.] Receipts: #234 5s. (69.1.6; 2.6.6; tickets: 162.17, of which Richardson sold 84.0, and Mrs Davenport 78.17)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Maid

Afterpiece Title: Every One has His Fault

Afterpiece Title: Cymon

Dance: Conclude 3rd piece: Dance-

Song: End: Black@Ey'd Susan-Incledon; End 2nd piece: The Group of Lovers-Munden

Event Comment: Benefit for Wewitzer. Receipts: #198 15s. (72.6.6; 39.10.6; 10.3.6; tickets: 76.11.6; odd money: 0.3.0) [Account-Book: Wewitzer to have to the Amount of #100 in tickets; [although] he brought in [only] #76 11s. 6d., wit upper Gallery tickets.] (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahmoud

Afterpiece Title: Alive and Merry

Event Comment: Benefit for Haymes. 1st piece: Not acted these 2 years [not acted since 24 Apr. 1793]. 2nd piece: With a view of High-street, Portsmouth, at the time of an Illumination. Receipts: #236 2s. 6d. (66.17.6; 11.10.6; tickets: 157.14.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Such Things Are

Afterpiece Title: Arrived at Portsmouth

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: End 2nd piece: Highland Festivity, as17951125

Song: In 2nd piece: songs as in 3rd piece, 12 Apr. We've bade the restless seas adieu-; O why to be happy, as17960314+With Rosabel what joy to stray-Townsend; Here we laugh and work together-; With pride we steer'd for England's coast-Incledon; When love was a stranger-Mrs Mountain; The seaman who of wars may tell-Incledon, Bowden; Rule Britannia-

Event Comment: Benefit for Fosbrook, box-book and housekeeper. Receipts: #142 15s. 6d. (84.0.6; 46.15.0; 6.12.6; tickets: none listed; odd money: 5.7.6) (charge: #211 5s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Afterpiece Title: The Purse

Song: In IV of 1st piece: a Masquerade Scene, in which Ally Croker-Miss Leak, Master Welsh; Listen to the Voice of Love-Master Welsh

Event Comment: [Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Goostree, Creswell, Farley, Mlle St.Amand, Mrs Watts will be admitted.] Receipts: #226 4s. 6d. (105.7.6; 4.8.6; tickets: 116.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Dance: As17951125

Event Comment: Benefit for Whitfield. 1st piece: Written by the late Mr Benson [see 9 June]. Morning Herald, 21 May: Tickets to be had of Whitfield, No. 19, Piazza, Covent Garden. Receipts: #127 15s. (79.11.0; 40.5.6; 3.12.6; tickets: none listed; odd money: 4.6.0) (charge: #223 3s. 5d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Money

Afterpiece Title: First Love

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Event Comment: [Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Brandon, Hill, Mrs Masters, Gillet, Mrs Norton, Finley, Ashwin, Simmons will be admitted.] Receipts: #447 4s. (55.7.6; 6.16.0; tickets: 385.0.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mysteries Of The Castle

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Event Comment: [Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Wathen and Miss Arne will be admitted.] Receipts: #326 19s. 6d. (128.17.6; 55.0.6; 2.13.6; tickets: 139.17.0, of which Wathen sold 84.6.0, and Miss Arne 55.11.0; odd money: 0.11.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahmoud

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Event Comment: Benefit for Powel and Follett. 1st piece: To conclude as 15 Apr. [2nd piece: Epilogue by Miles Peter Andrews.] Receipts: #423 1s. (92.13; 7.7; tickets: 323.1, of which Powel sold 74.13.6, and Follett 248.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Point At Herqui

Afterpiece Title: The Dramatist

Afterpiece Title: Oscar and Malvina

Dance: In: a new incidental Dance, as17960415

Song: In: songs as17960503; End 2nd piece: The Sea Storm-Incledon; In 3rd piece: songs The Sea Storm, as17960516; I am a jolly gay Pedlar, as17960516; Come every jovial Fellow, as17960516; O ever in my bosom live, as17960516

Event Comment: Benefit for R. Palmer and Russell. [Palmer's 1st recorded appearance as Hamlet was at Canterbury, 16 Feb. 1780.] Morning Herald, 31 May: Tickets to be had of R. Palmer, No. 28, Eaton-street, Pimlico; of Russell, No. 250, High Holborn. Receipts: #157 18s. (110.16; 43.10.6; 1.19.0; tickets: none listed; odd money: 1.12.6) (charge: #212 3s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Entertainment: Monologue. End: A Picture of a Play House; or, Bucks have at ye all-R. Palmer

Event Comment: Benefit for Thompson, Williamson, Rees & Sloper. In 4th piece a Representation of the Indian Mannerv, &c., as 26 Oct. 1795, but added to Allegoric Scene: With Britannia seated on the Globe of the Earth attended by Fame, and Neptune in his Watery Car, attended by Sea Nymphs. Receipts: #353 3s. 6d. (63.0.6; 4.9.0; tickets: 285.14.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Get Un married

Afterpiece Title: The School for Arrogance

Afterpiece Title: Dr Lasts Examination before the College of Physicians

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Dance: In 4th piece: Dance, as17951026, but Holland; in which dance Bells-Lawrence that inimitable Performer, will introduce accompaniments on his Bells

Song: In: Admiral Benbow-Incledon; In 3rd piece: All on Hobbies-Williamson; In 4th piece: Rule Britannia-Townsend

Entertainment: 3rd piece: a variety of Imitations-Rees

Event Comment: Benefit for Dignum. Morning Herald, 20 May: Tickets to be had of Dignum, No. 23, New North-street, Red-lion-square. Receipts: #148 10s. 6d. (81.10.0; 57.6.6; 2.3.0; tickets: none listed; odd money: 7.11.0) (charge: #214 1s. 7d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Afterpiece Title: A Musical Olio

Song: End II: The Little Waist- (composed by Hook); End IV: The Sailor's Journal (composed by Dibdin)-Dignum

Event Comment: [Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Jackson, Paskin, Hay, Dick, Doe, Hall, Carpenter, Larkman, Robson (music porter), Smart, Strahan, Anselmo, Sturgeon will be admitted.] Receipts: #398 11s. 6d. (43.0.0; 4.0.0; tickets: 351.11.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Travellers In Switzerland

Afterpiece Title: The Farm House

Dance: In: The Savoyard-Jackson, Mlle St.Amand; End II afterpiece: The Lamplighter [composed by Aldridge]-Jackson, Mrs Ratchford

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of Alive and Merry, advertised on playbill of 3 June.] Receipts: #118 17s. (76.3.6; 36.16.0; 5.17.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahmoud

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: II afterpiece: a Mock Minuet-Palmer, Miss Pope