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Event Comment: Benefit for Dumay, Harris & Holloway. Receipts: #277 18s. (50.2; tickets: 227.16) (charge: #107 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comedy Of Errors

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Cast
Role: Characters Actor: Reinhold, Robson, Baker, Mrs Morton.
Role: True Actor: Blue-Baker
Role: Blue Actor: Baker
Role: Gypsies Actor: Baker, Simpkinson, Mrs Morton

Dance: End III: a new Tambourine Dance-; in which the Minuet de la Cour and Gavot-Harris, Miss Matthews; End IV: Minuet-Dumay, Miss Dagueville; a dew Minuet and Allemandecomposed by Dagueville-Holloway, Miss Lings; to conclude with: Quadrilles-; In afterpiece: Dancing, as17800510

Ballet: End: The Humours of New-Market. As17800508

Event Comment: Benefit for Evans, Curteen & Condell, box-keepers. Receipts: #212 6s. 6d. (42.8.6; tickets: 169.18.0) (charge: #107 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Cast
Role: Characters Actor: Reinhold, Robson, Baker, Mrs Morton.
Role: True Actor: Blue-Baker
Role: Blue Actor: Baker
Role: Gypsies Actor: Baker, Simpkinson, Mrs Morton

Dance: Dancing, as17800510

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Sestini. Opera: The Music by Piccinni. [Sga Sestini's name is in the playbill, but she did not sing. On 29 May she circulated a card (Public Advertiser, etc.) in regard to her Benefit, saying that she "is exceedingly mortified at the Disappointment which prevented her from being able to perform her Part."] Tickets to be had of Sga Sestini, No. 18, Sherrard-street, Golden-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Buona Figliuola

Dance: End I: Pastoral Ballet, as17800408; End II: New Ballet-Guiardele, Mme Simonet, Sga Tantini; End Opera: Serious Ballet, as17800122; Grand Chaconne, as17800122

Event Comment: Opera: Performed in the Manner of an Oratorio. The music by Bertoni. Tickets to be had of Bertoni, No. 20, Queen Ann-street, Westminster

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orfeo

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Crawford. [The playbill assigns Roderigo to Lamash, but Barrett was "the substitute for Lamash, who was suddenly indisposed" (Morning Chronicle, 26 July).] Tickets to be had of Mrs Crawford at her house in Salisbury-street, Strand

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End I afterpiece: As17800615

Event Comment: Benefit for Du-Bellamy. Mainpiece: In Act I the Statute Scenev. Tickets to be had of Du-Bellamy, next door to the Theatre Coffee-House, Bow-street, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: End II: As17800615 I: Country Dance-the Characters

Song: End: Kate of Aberdeen-Du-Bellamy; I afterpiece: The Death of the Stag-Du-Bellamy, Bannister

Event Comment: Benefit for Wilson. Tickets to be had of Wilson, Suffolk-street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-law

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Webb. Tickets to be had of Mrs Webb at her house, No. 15, Bedford-Street, Covent-Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: As17800615

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun. at a print shop, four doors below New-street, St. Martin's Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Dance: II afterpiece: As17800615

Entertainment: End: a Variety of Imitations-Bannister Jun

Event Comment: Benefit for Jewell, treasurer. 2nd piece: Altered [in 3 acts from the original 5] from Dryden. Tickets to be had of Jewell at his house, adjoining to the Theatre, Suffolk-street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-law

Event Comment: [3rd piece 1st acted at dl, 5 Apr. 1779, as The Contract; or, The Female Captain. Prologue by James Cobb (Public Advertiser, 19 Sept. 1780).] Tickets delivered by Kenny and Painter will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Female Captain

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Harper. Mainpiece: Never acted here. Tickets to be had of Miss Harper, No. 16, Catherine-street, Strand

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cargill. Tickets to be had of Mrs Cargill, No. 41, Suffolk-street, Charing-Cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: End: As17800530

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 8, Air-street, Piccadilly

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-law

Dance: End: As17800615

Entertainment: After the dance: a Variety of Imitations , vocal and rhetorical, and (never attempted before) several in Dialogue-Messrs Bannister

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. 1st piece: Never acted here. 2nd piece: Altered from Prior. Never acted here. The Songs and Chorusses composed by Shield. Tickets to be had of Palmer at his house in Bow-street, Bloomsbury

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Henry and Emma

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-law

Dance: End 1st piece: As17800615

Event Comment: Benefit for Richard Brinsley Sheridan [who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Afterpiece: With a Sea Fight and Procession. [These were included in all subsequent performances.] The Scenery designed by De Loutherbourg, and executed under his direction. Receipts: #236 3s. 6d. (200.17.0; 35.0.0; 0.6.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #73 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Critic; or, A Tragedy Rehears'd

Dance: End I: The Butterfly, as17800921

Song: V: song-Miss Field

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts: #100 0s. 6d. (72.18.0; 26.7.0; 0.15.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Generous Impostor

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts: #138 9s. (105.18; 30.12; 1.19; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Generous Impostor

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Event Comment: Benefit for the New General Lying-in Hospital in Store-Street, Tottenham-Court-Road. Receipts: #149 1s. 6d. (48.7.6; tickets: 100.14.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of an Election

Dance: As17801018

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Music [of mainpiece].Receipts: #147 10s. (118.0; 29.0; 0.10; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lord Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Music [of mainpiece]. Receipts: #209 1s. (176.10.0; 32.2.6; 0.8.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lord Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Dance: As17810102

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Music [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #161 15s. (121.15; 39.0; 1.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lord Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Pantomime [who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #270 3s. (269.14; 0.9; tickets: none listed) (charge: #84)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: As17810131

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts: #142 8s. 6d. (117.15.0; 22.19.0; 1.14.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Suppliants

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Event Comment: Benefit for Vestris? Jun. Opera: In 2 acts; the music by Piccinni, and conducted by Bianchi. With new Scenes painted by Novosielski. New Dresses and Decorations both for the Opera and Dances. Mme Simonet will this Evening reassume her station at the Opera House; but as she is not perfectly recovered from the consequences of her late Accidnet, she hopes for the indulgence of the Public, from whom she has already received so many flattering proofs of Approbation. Tickets, 10s. 6d., to be had of Vestris, No. 5, Leicester-street, Leicester-fields. "Last Thursday was the benefit of Vestris and son; the house could not receive and contain the multitudes that presented themselves. Their oblations amounted to fourteen hundred pounds" (Walpole [26 Feb. 1781], XI, 406)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Barone Di Torre Forte

Dance: End I: new Pastoral Ballet (composed by Simonet) The Country Diversions-Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Henry, Sga Crespi, Slingsby, Sga Tantini; and to finish with a grand Chaconne-Vestris? Jun

Ballet: End Opera: a new grand Pantomime Ballet in 3 acts (composed by Vestris Sen.) Ninette a la Cour. Sg Zuchelli, Sga Zuchelli, Henry, Sga Crespi, Mlle Baccelli, Vestris Jun., Mme Simonet, Vestris Sen. (1st appearance in England). Cast, with synopsis, from Public Advertiser, 26 Feb.: Nancy-Mlle Baccelli; Colas-Vestris Jun.; Prince-Vestris Sen.; Countess-Mme Simonet; Dancing@Master-Simonet; Mayor of the Town-Delpini; Peasants-Slingsby, Sga Tantini, Traffieri, 16 Figure Dancers; Lords-Zuchelli, Henry; Ladies-Sga Zuchelli, Sga Crespi; Huntsmen-; Captain of Life Guards-; Equerries-; Notaries-