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Event Comment: Benefit for Quick. Mainpiece: Written by R. Cumberland, Esq. Afterpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, with capital Additions by Fielding, Dean Swift, G. A. Stevens, &c. &c. &c. Public Advertiser, 20 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Quick, Broad-court, Bow-street. Receipts: #327 4s. (177.2.6; 9.11.6; tickets: 140.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Related Works
Related Work: The Loyal Brother; or, The Persian Prince Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: Alexander the Little; or, The Rival Queans

Dance: End: The Jockies-Ratchford, Platt, Jackson, Mrs Goodwin

Song: End II: song-Incledon; Afterpiece: The Tragedy will be interspersed with Airs, Duets, Glees, composed by Arne, Arnold, Fischer, Dibdin, with a Grand Overture(A Finale, composed by Shield), Triumphal Entry of Alexander-

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Crouch. Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2, by Prince Hoare, based on La Grotta di Trofonio, by Giovanni Battista Casti. Not in Larpent MS; not published]; Written by the Author of No Song No Supper. The Music composed principally by Storace [partly adapted from Salieri, composer of Casti's opera; one song each by Anna Storace, Thomas Attwood, Giovanni Paisiello, Richard Suett]. Oracle, 28 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Crouch, No. 26, Bridges-street. Receipts: #280 2s. (100.12.0; 33.13.6; 4.13.6; tickets: 141.3.0) (charge: #119 9s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: The Cave of Trophonius

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. [Epilogue by Miles Peter Andrews (Oracle, 5 May).] Public Advertiser, 28 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Mattocks, No. 7, King-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #272 18s. 6d. (170.11.6; 4.3.0; tickets: 98.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fontainbleau

Afterpiece Title: The Soldier's Festival; or, The Night before the Battle

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Event Comment: Benefit for Barrymore. A new Edition of [The Country Girl] to be had at the Theatre. Morning Chronicle, 27 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Barrymore, No. 11, Bedford-street, Bedford-row. Receipts: #305 0s. 6d. (84.4.0; 25.13.6; 5.0.0; tickets: 190.3.0) (charge: #115 6s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Goodall. [Epilogue by John Burgoyne.] Oracle, 15 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Goodall, No. 16, Villers-street, York-Buildings. Receipts: #262 15s. (102.18.0; 27.1.6; 3.7.6; tickets: 129.8.0) (charge: #112 0s. 3d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Island of St

Song: As17901124, but Vocal Parts-Mrs Bland

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnstone. Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years. By Permission of Mr Macklin. Oracle, 28 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Johnstone, No. 10, Great Russel-Street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #285 1s. 6d. (132.1.6; 2.3.0; tickets: 150.17.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Song: End I: Wine cannot cure the pain I endure for my Chloe-Johnstone, Incledon; with new accompaniments by Shield-; End: Catches and Glees-Bannister, Johnstone, Incledon, Davies, Blanchard, Williamson; The Anacreontic Song-Bannister; The Introductory Dialogue, in Irish Character-Rock

Event Comment: Benefit for Suett. Oracle, 5 May: Tickets to be had of Suett, No. 21, King-street, Bloomsbury-square. Receipts: #279 17s. (76.3; 21.8; 1.12; tickets: 180.14) (charge: #116 7s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: End: Cou'd a Man be secure-Dignum, Sedgwick

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Martyr. 3rd piece [1st time: F 2, by Edmund John Eyre. Text (Shrewsbury: P. Sandford, 1791) correctly assigns Prolix to Wilson. Prologue by John Wolcot (see text)]. Morning Chronicle, 29 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Martyr, No. 16, Martlett-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #318 4s. (153.3; 2.5; tickets: 162.16)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Malabar

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Afterpiece Title: The Dreamer Awake; or, The Pugilist Matched

Song: End I 1st piece: Say Bonny Lass: Highland Lad-Mrs Martyr, Highland Lassie- Mrs Mountain; End I 3rd piece: The Musical Courtship-Incledon, Mrs Martyr

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. Public Advertiser, 27 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bensley, No. 21, Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury. Receipts: #226 12s. 6d. (96.18.0; 30.19.0; 2.15.6; tickets: 96.0.0) (charge: #121 5s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Performance Comment: As17910128, but Sir John Trotley [without the Prologue]-Bensley (1st appearance in that character).
Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bland and Mrs Powell. Afterpiece: 1st Time this Season [see 9 Oct. 1790]. Morning Chronicle, 4 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Bland, No. 93, Strand; of Mrs Powell, No. 12, Little Russel-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #248 9s. (59.17; 21.19; 3.7; tickets: 163.6) (charge: #115 16s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wells. Mainpiece [1st time: C 5, by Simon. Prologue by John Henniker (Town and Country Magazine, June 1791, p. 281). Larpent MS 906; not published; synopsis of plot in Morning Post, 11 May]. "Scarcely [any] performer in the piece thought it worth while to charge their memories with words, that they would wish afterwards, if they had, to forget as fast as possible...The imitations were some tolerably true, and a few excellent. Siddons and Storace were outrageous caricatures. Mrs Wells once came infinitely nearer the former. She is now deficient in tone and emphasis--all is shiver and sob. Mrs Crawford, Mrs Jordan and Mrs Abington were worthy her talents in the mimetic art" (Oracle, 11 May). Public Advertiser, 27 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Wells, No. 12, Weymouth-street, Portland-place. Receipts: #313 3s. (148.15; 8.7; tickets: 156.1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: National Prejudice

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Entertainment: Imitations End II: (for that Night only some) Comic Imitations-Mrs Wells; End: instead of an Epilogue, some Tragic Imitations-Mrs Wells

Event Comment: Benefit for Whitfield. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2] Translated from the French [La Nuit aux Aventures; on, Les Deux Morts Vivants, by Antoine Jean Bourlin, dit Dumaniant] by Mrs Inchbald, the Author of I'll Tell You What, Such Things Are, A Simple Story, &c. [Larpent MS 900; not published. In 1797 altered by J. C. Cross as An Escape into Prison. "In January 1788 Mrs Inchbald was translating an unnamed French play, acted three years later as The Hue and Cry" (James Boaden, Memoirs of Mrs Inchbald, 1833, I, 255-56). "Mrs Inchbald is now adapting La Nuit aux Aventures, by Dumaniant" (World, 26 Jan. 1788). In the text of Dumaniant's play the dramatis personae is the same as that in the Larpent MS. Author of Prologue unknown.] Morning Chronicle, 30 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Whitfield, No. 19, Great Piazza, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #263 13s. (68.19.0; 31.7.6; 3.13.6; tickets: 159.13.0) (charge: #116 4s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Hue and Cry

Event Comment: Benefit for Farren. Public Advertiser, 15 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Farren, No. 14, Lower Charlotte-street, Bedford Square. Receipts: #335 1s. (81.9; 5.14 tickets: 247.18)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant; Or, The Sick Lady's Cure

Afterpiece Title: Robin Hood

Dance: As17910507

Event Comment: Benefit for R. Palmer. The Public is respecfully inform'd that the Prelude of The Hop formerly advertised for Mr Palmer's Benefit is on a very particular account withdrawn from the Theatre. Oracle, 7 May: Tickets to be had of R. Palmer, No. 14, East Place, Lambeth. Receipts: #292 5s. 6d. (77.13.0; 30.15.6; 2.6.0; tickets: 181.11.0) (charge: #117 0s. 7d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

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

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Ward. Oracle, 22 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Ward, No. 6, York-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #82 19s. (56.7.0; 22.18.6; 3.13.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #115 2s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: End: As17910429

Song: End II: song-Sedgwick

Event Comment: Benefit for a Fund for the Relief of those whose Infirmities oblige them to retire from the Stage. The whole Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Those Ladies and Gentlemen who have seats in the Pit are earnestly requested to be early at the Theatre, and Servants are desired to attend at half past Four o'Clock to keep Places. "The fine tragic powers of [Mrs Siddons] and Kemble were but wasted on the turgid trumpery of the play...But Kemble in this scene [end of Act III] was so impassioned and transcendent that it killed all the rest of the piece. The scorn of Mrs Siddons at his dissimulation--her haughty bearing and marking emphasis, with the piercing powers of her eye, are all treasured where they should be" (Oracle, 16 May). Receipts: #117 14s. (107.11.0; 9.12.6; 0.10.6; tickets: none listed, but Oracle, 17 May, reports that tickets were purchased for as much as one guinea and a half) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Brunton. [Address by Robert Merry (Oracle, 16 May).] Oracle, 27 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Brunton, No. 35, Gerrard-street, Soho. Receipts: #202 19s. (133.16.6; 7.12.6; tickets: 61.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Cast
Role: Southampton Actor: Farren

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: After monologue: The Jockies, as17910507

Entertainment: Monologue. End: an Occasional Address-Miss Brunton

Event Comment: Benefit for Dignum. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Public Advertiser, 14 May: Tickets to be had of Dignum, No. 23, New North-street, Red Lion-square. Receipts: #56 16s. (43.1.0; 11.8.6; 2.6.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #121 6s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Song: End I: My Poll and my Partner Joe (composed by Dibdin)-Dignum

Event Comment: Benefit for Blanchard. Morning Chronicle, 16 May: Tickets to be had of Blanchard, No. 29, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #334 11s. 6d. (118.6.0; 8.16.6; tickets: 207.9.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Dance: As17910428

Song: End: Catches and Glees: When Arthur first in court began, Jack thou'rt a toper-Incledon, Reeve, Blanchard; To be jovial and gay-Johnstone; The Siege of Troy (Dibdin)-Johnstone; Goody Groaner (Dr Harington)-Incledon, Reeve, Blanchard; Sir you're a comical fellow-; Let's sing old Rose and burn the Bellows-

Event Comment: Benefit for Sedgwick. Morning Chronicle, 14 May: Tickets to be had of Sedgwick, No. 66, St. Martin's-lane. Receipts: #100 16s. 6d. (65.11.0; 31.9.0; 3.16.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #117 13s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Court of Apollo [i

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

Event Comment: Benefit for Wilson. Afterpiece [1st time; M. ENT 3]: The Dialogue and part of the Songs written by Richard? Wilson. The Overture, new Music and accompaniments composed by Reeve. The Songs, Duets, Glees compiled from Arnold, Rogers, Giordani, Shield, Hook, Dibdin, W. Wilson, Stevens, Broderip and David Rizzio. [Larpent MS 908; not published. Prologue probably by Richard Wilson. Epilogue by Joseph Haynes.] Public Advertiser, 14 May: Tickets to be had of Wilson. No. 10, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #354 14s. 6d. (165.17.6; 5.4.0; tickets: 183.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: The Union; or, St

Dance: Afterpiece conclude: Highland Fling-the Scotch Characters

Song: End II: Black Eyed Susan-Incledon

Music: In afterpiece: will be introduced the Highland Competition Prizeexactly as represented annually in the City of Edinburgh,-McLane, McGregor, McTavish; several Strathpays, Laments, Pebruchs-several other celebrated Pipers

Entertainment: Monologue End: Epilogue (riding on an Ass,)-Wilson

Event Comment: Benefit for Munden. Morning Chronicle, 30 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Munden, No. 8, Portsmouth-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. Receipts: #334 17s. (157.19.6; 3.11.6; tickets: 173.6.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Wou'd Be A Soldier

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Song: End IV: The Group of Lovers; or, Beauty at her Levee (1st time at this theatre)-Munden; End: The Pleasures of the Chace-Incledon; after which Say Bonny Lass will you lie in a Garrat-, being a Parody on Say Bonny Lass, will you lie in a Barrack; Timothy Staytape-Munden; Miss Tippet-Mrs Martyr

Event Comment: Benefit for Phillimore, Miss Tidswell, Miss Barnes & Miss DeCamp. [La Fete Marine was 1st performed at king's, 27 Apr. 1786.] Oracle, 19 May: Tickets to be had of Phillimore, Little Russel-street; of Miss Tidswell, Stanhope-street, Clare Market; of Miss Barnes, No. 23, Clare-street, Clare Market; of Miss DeCamp, No. 64, Tottenham-court-road. Receipts: #41 14s. (27.4; 11.13; 2.17; tickets: none listed) (charge: #108 7s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: End: a new Dance, composed by D'Egville, La Fete Marine, in which introduced La Cossaque et Le Pas Russe-the young D'Egvilles, Miss D'Egville, Miss DeCamp

Event Comment: Benefit for Incledon [who had 1st acted Young Meadows at Bath, 24 Oct. 1789]. Oracle, 2 May: Tickets to be had of Incledon, No. 19, Martlet-court, Bow-street. Receipts: #278 0s. 6d. (126.11.0; 3.18.0; tickets: 147.11.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Song: Probably at end: Black Eyed Susan-Incledon; Wine cannot cure the Pain I endure for my Chloe-Johnstone, Incledon

Music: Between Acts afterpiece: the favourite air of Moggy Lauder (on the Union Pipes)-the celebrated Courtney

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Sestini. Tickets to be had of Sga Sestini at No. 17, Mount-street, Berkely-square. Tickets delivered for the 19th inst. will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments Of Music And Dancing

Dance: End I: Divertissement-all the Principal Dancers; will be introduced the favourite Pas Russe, as17910519; End II: Orpheus and Eurydice, as17910326but Mlle St.Amand