Event Comment: "Miss B. Menage acted Zingarella for Mrs Bland, who sang at the Opera House" (Kemble Mem.). Receipts: #127 6s. (81.18.6; 43.16.6; 1.11.0)

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of Katharine and Petruchio, advertised on playbill of 2 Jan.] Receipts: #208 9s. 6d. (151.18.6; 55.14.0; 0.17.0)

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The School for Scandal, advertised on playbill of 4 Jan.] Receipts: #136 7s. (87.2.0; 47.10.6; 1.14.6)

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years [acted 7 June 1798]. Receipts: #210 (197.18; 12.2)

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Kemble as Faulkland, but "Charles acted Faulkland for me" (Kemble Mem.).] Receipts: #134 5s. (82.11.0; 50.10.6; 1.3.6)

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of Measure for Measure, advertised on playbill of 9 Jan.] Receipts: #163 9s. 6d. (109. 11.0; 51.8.6; 2.10.0)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: In IV Masquerade Scene. Receipts: #133 11s. 6d. (76.15.0; 55.2.6; 1.14.0)

Event Comment: Kemble's illness still continuing, Measure for Measure [advertised on playbill of 11 Jan.] is again obliged to be deferred [see 9 and 10 Jan.]. Receipts: #166 8s. (108.4.6; 57.10.6; 0.13.0)

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Joseph George Holman. Prologue by William Thomas Fitzgerald; Epilogue by John Taylor (see text)]: With new Dresses, Scenery, &c. [Afterpiece in place of The Farmer, advertised on playbill of 11 Jan.] Morning Chronicle, 26 Mar. 1799: This Day is published The Votary of Wealth (2s.). Receipts: #326 10s. 6d. (321.2.6; 5.8.0)

Event Comment: The new Scotch Ballet of Moggy and Jemmy; or, The Union Feast [advertised on playbill of 12 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred. Receipts: #204 13s. 6d. (151.12.0; 50.11.6; 2.10.0)

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Doors, &c. as 21 Nov. 1798. Receipts: #530 12s. 6d. (524 19s. 6d.; 5.13.0)

Event Comment: King Richard the Third, and also Moggy and Jemmy [both advertised on playbill of 17 Jan.], are obliged to be deferred. Receipts: #124 6s. 6d. (70.7.0; 52.6.0; 1.13.6)

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; MD 2, by George Colman, ynger]: With new Musick, Scenery, Machinery, Dresses and Decorations. The Musick entirely new, composed by Kelly with an overture by Dussek]. The Scenes designed and executed by Greenwood? Jun, with the assistance of Chalmers and Banks. The Machinery, Decorations and Dresses designed and under the direction of Johnston, and executed by him, Underwood and Gay. The Female Dresses designed and executed by Miss Rein. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. "We have to congratulate the town on the acquisition of three admirable dramatic writers, in the persons of Johnston, Greenwood, and Miss Rein, who have here exhibited a specimen of the Sublime and Beautiful which it will be difficult, indedd, to surpass" (Monthly Mirror, Jan. 1799, p. 47). [This piece is "an exhibition of music and dialogue, pantomime and dancing, painting and machinery, antique dresses and armour, thunder and lightning, fire and water, illumination, processions, banquets, battles, sieges, explosions, and everything that can surprize, enchant or terrify the spectators" (Morning Chronicle, 21 Jan.). Morning Chronicle, 16 Feb. 1799: This Day is published Feudal Times (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #483 15s. 6d. (381.10.6; 100.6.6; 1.18.6)

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [The Mouth of the Nile, also advertised on playbill of 19 Jan., was not acted on this night.] Receipts: #408 7s. (405.17; 2.10)

Event Comment: [As afterpiece the playbill announces the 1st night of The Magic Oak, but see 25 and 29 Jan. Robin Hood is listed in Gentleman's Magazine, Jan. 1799, p. 86.] Receipts: #337 3s. (327.9; 9.14)

Event Comment: The Public are respectfully acquainted that on account of some accidents having happened to the very complicated Machinery of The Magic Oak its first representation is unavoidably postponed till Tuesday [see 24 Jan.] Receipts: #212 4s. 6d. (205.0.0; 7.4.6)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: In IV Masquerade Scene. Receipts: #342 12s. (220.0.6; 118.9.0wP4.2.6)

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years [not acted since 29 Jan. 1796]. Receipts: #164 9s. 6d. (156.18.0; 7.11.6)

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Doors, &c. as 21 Nov. 1798. Receipts: #418 4s. (414.4; 4.0)

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; P 2, by Thomas John Dibdin; pantomime by Charles Farley]: With new Scenery, Machinery, Tricks, Dresses, and Decorations. The Overture, Airs and Chorusses by Attwood. The Pantomime Music by Attwood, Mountain, and Ealy [recte Eley]. The Scenery by Phillips, Lupino, Hollogan, Blackmore, Thorne, Wilkins, &c. The Machinery and Tricks by Cresswell, Sloper and Goostree. The Dresses by Dick and Mrs Egan. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #364 (353.12; 10.8)

Event Comment: In II Masquerade. "The Dance mangled. No Glee, the Singers not thinking proper to come this bad weather" (Kemble Mem.). Receipts: #156 15s. (97.10.6; 58.9.6; 0.15.0)

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #486 3s. (471.0; 15.3)

Event Comment: Ballet: 1st time, composed by Roffey; the Musick by Rhodes. Receipts: #189 11s. (127.1.6; 61.2.6; 1.7.0)

Event Comment: In IV A Masquerade Scene. She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not [advertised on playbill of 7 Feb.] is obliged to be deferred on account of the indisposition of a principal Performer. Receipts: #147 7s. 6d. (86.17.6; 58.15.6; 1.14.6)

Event Comment: [In mainpiece Lucianus is not listed in the playbill, but "Wewitzer never came to act Lucianus, so the Prompter's Call-boy [identified as Chatterley by Kemble's list, in his Memoranda, of this season's servants] acted it" (Kemble Mem.).] Receipts: #266 14s. (213.3.0; 53.3.6; 0.7.6)