Event Comment: To begin at 6:30 precisely. Boxes 3s. Pit 2s. Gallery 1s. The Proprietors have spared no expence in enlarging and beautifying the Theatre; and as they are determined to preserve the exactest punctuality in the time of beginning, and to make regularity and decorum their chief study, hope they shall render themselves deserving of that favourable encouragement they have before experienced. The House is illuminated with Wax. Subscription tickets may be had by applying to Bailey, at Mr Oldfield's. [Author of Prologue unknown.

Event Comment: Benefit for Mons and Mme Simonet. Tickets to be had of Mons and Mme Simonet at Leary's, No. 232, Piccadilly

Event Comment: Benefit for Parsons. Public Advertiser, 18 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Parsons, No. 60, Stanhope-street, Clare-Market

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. [Afterpiece: Prologue by David Garrick.] Public Advertiser, 25 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Bannister at Starzaker's, Upper End of Bow-street, Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Jewell, treasurer. Public Advertiser, 29 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Jewell, Suffolk-street

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Morning Chronicle, 5 Sept.: Tickets to be had of Palmer at his house, Bow-street, Bloomsbury. Afterpiece: Never performed here

Event Comment: By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Benefit for Mrs Jewell. The out-standing Tickets of Jewell's, for September the 2d, will be admitted

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera. The music entirely new by Sacchini. With entire new Scenes, Dresses and Decorations both for the Opera and Dances. Pit 10s. 6d. 1st Gallery 5s. 2nd Gallery 3s. By Their Majesties' Command, no person can be admitted behind the Scenes. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00 [see 5 June 1779]. To prevent Inconvenience to the Nobility and Gentry in getting to their Carriages they are respectfully intreated to give positive orders to their Servants to set down and take up with their Horses Heads towards Pall-mall. The door in Market Lane for Chairs only. Public Advertiser, 31 Oct.: To prevent mistakes Ladies who have not honoured the Director with the names of the Subscribers to their Boxes are particularly requested to send them as early as possible to Johnson, at the Office of the Theatre, in order to [permit] their Tickets being engraved. The Renters' Shares proposed to be granted on this Theatre are now made out, and particulars prepared, at Messrs Wallis and Parker's, Norfolk-street, Strand, who are impowered by the Proprietors to dispose in single Shares of those which remain unsubscribed for. The annual Subscriptions are receiving by Johnson at the Office of the Theatre in Union-court, Haymarket

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts Pd to Allen Fielding of the Temple [the author's son]. Receipts: #141 4s. 6d. (119.0.0; 22.2.0; 0.2.6; tickets: none listed) [charge: #105)

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [see 2 Dec.]. [A letter from Fosbrook, the box-book keeper, to Garrick gives the number of spectators in the house on this night (Garrick, Private Correspondence, II, 323), as follows: Boxes Pit 1st Gall. 2ed Gall.@1st Account 234 310 330 210@2nd Account 80 30 160 80@Total: 1,434.] Receipts: #166 14s. 6d. (140.8.0; 25.18.6; 0.8.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [see 2 Dec.]. Receipts: #108 0s. 6d. (87.6.0; 19.16.6; 0.18.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain, Mainpiece: Altered from the Original [Woman is a Riddle, by Christopher Bullock. Not in Larpent MS; not published]. 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT I, author unknown. MS not in Larpent; not published]. 3rd piece: Written by Henry Fielding, Esq. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. Tickets delivered by Davis, Wright, Mrs Lefevre will be admitted. Constant fires will be kept on the stage, Pit, Boxes and Galleries to air the house

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts: #133 3s. (109.16; 22.8; 0.19; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts: #156 18s. (152.19; 3.19; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts: #128 16s. (125.11; 3.5; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Event Comment: Benefit for Pacchierotti. Tickets, half a guinea each, to be had of Pacchierotti, No. 232, Piccadilly

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Crawford. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Public Advertiser, 9 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Crawford, No.3, Adam-street, Adelphi

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Yates [who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #238 13s. 6d. (216.8.0; 19.13.6; 2.12.0; tickets: none listed ) (charge: #70 17s. 3d.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Farren. Receipts: #145 13s. 6d. (60.11.0; 16.17.6; 1.1.0; tickets: 67.4.0) (charge: #76 18s. 6d.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Leoni. Public Advertiser, 24 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Leoni, No. 34, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit for Simonet and Mlle Simonet. Tickets to be had of Simonet, No. 5, Dover-street, Piccadilly

Event Comment: Benefit for Mattocks. [Mrs Dawes is identified in Kentish Gazette, 19 June and 3 July 1779.] Public Advertiser, 14 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mattocks at his house in Covent Garden