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Event Comment: Benefit for Mlle Theodore. [Scenario of new ballet (Vienna, c. 1773) lists the parts: Colin, Herpin, Le Baillif, Clitandre, Lucas, Julie, Mathurine, Javotte, Climene, Lisette.] Tickets to be had of Mlle Theodore, No. 39, Tichfieldstreet, Portland Chapel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Contadina In Corte

Dance: In the Masquerade Scene a Minuet by Mlle Theodore and Nivelon; End of Act I Le Triomphe de l'Amour Conjugal, as17820110; End of Act II a new Ballet (composed by Noverre), La Rosihe de Salency, by Gardel, Mlle Baccelli, Nivelon, Mlle Theodore, Leger, Henry, Bournonville, Olivier, Miss Simonet, Sga Crespi

Event Comment: Benefit for Dodd. Mainpiece: Not acted these 11 years. 2nd piece: An Interlude, written by the late D. Garrick, Esq. Receipts: #246 13s. 6d. (110/11/0; 21/16/6; 0/18/0; tickets: 113/8/0) (charge: #105 4s. 11d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Foundling

Afterpiece Title: Linco's Travels

Afterpiece Title: The Alchymist

Event Comment: Benefit for Younger [who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. The Interlude of Henry and Emma [announced in Public Advertiser, 22 Mar.] cannot be performed on account of the Indisposition of Packer. Receipts: #255 6s. (182/5/0; 20/4/6; 0/2/6; tickets: 52/14/0) (charge: #108 16s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

Dance: As17820307athi

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. Afterpiece: As performed at the Theatre Royal in the Haymarket [beginning 6 Aug. 1779]; by the Author of the Son-in-Law, the Agreeable Surprise, &c. [John O'Keeffe]. [Prologue by George Colman, the elder.] Receipts: #195 9s. 6d. (161/11/6; tickets: 33/18/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Tony Lumpkin in Town

Dance: End of mainpiece The Humours of Newmarket; with the Poney Races. Jockies-Harris, Langrish, Ratchford, Holloway; Ladies-Mrs Ratchford, Miss Francis, Miss Matthews

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. Afterpiece: Taken from Moliere and Betterton. Receipts: #186 19s. 6d. (146/9/6; tickets: 40/10/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle; or, A Wife at her Wit's End

Dance: As17820402

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Farren. Receipts: #111 11s. (76/3; 35/3; 0/5; tickets: none listed) (charge: #109 2s. 7d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lord Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: Linco's Travels

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: End of 2nd piece the Minuet de la Cour, as17820104

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. Receipts: #135 7s. (104/7; 31/0; 0/0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #108 8s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

Dance: As17820123

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick. Mainpiece: Altered from [Charles] Johnson. Not acted these 20 years. Afterpiece: In 2 Acts; Carefully revised, and every exceptionable Passage expunged. [Author and speaker of Prologue unknown.] Receipts: #289 2s. (195/1; tickets: 94/1) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief; Or, The Husband's Cure

Afterpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Dance: As17820409

Event Comment: Benefit for Noverre. Tickets, half-a-guinea each, to be had of Noverre, No. 40, Great Marlborough-street. 1st ballet: The Music entirely new, composed by Le Brun. [Scenario(Milan, 1774) lists the parts: Guillaume, Raymond, Alphonse, Renaud, Adele, Alise, Beatrix, Isabellc, Eleonore. In 2nd ballet Jason to be danced by Gardel (Morning Herald, n Apr.); the overture by Gluck, and rest of the music by Noferi (Public Advertiser, 12 Apr.).]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Viaggiatori Felici

Dance: End of Act I an entirely new Ballet, composed by Noverre, Adela of Pontbieu (the subject taken from the History of ancient Chivalry), by Gardel, Mme Simonet, Nivelon, Mlle Theodore, Simonet, Sga Crespi, Mlle Baccelli; End of Opera Medea and Jason, as originally composed by Noverre, by Gardel, Mme Simonet, Nivelon, Simonet, Mlle Theodore, Mlle Baccelli

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. The 9th Night (see 11 Mar.). Afterpiece: Not acted these 6 years. Receipts: #95 9s. (73/10/0; 20/8/6; 1/10/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Variety

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Performance Comment: Sharp-Dodd; Gayless (1st time)-R. Palmer; Dick-Suett; Justice Guttle-Griffiths; Beau Trippit-Helme; Melissa (1st rime)-Miss Collett; Mrs Gadabout-Mrs Booth; Mrs Trippit-Mrs Granger; Miss Trippit-Miss Barnes; Kitty Pry-Mrs Wells (1st appearance in that character) .
Cast
Role: Mrs Gadabout Actor: Mrs Booth

Dance: End of Act I of afterpiece the Minuet de la Cour, as17820104

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Allegranti. Tickets, half a guinea each, to be had of Sga Allegranti, No. 23, Queen-street, Golden-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Viaggiatori Felici

Dance: As17820219 throughout

Song: In Act II two new songs by Sga Allegranti, one of which composed by Giardini

Event Comment: Subscription Tickets will be admitted, and their Boxes kept as usual, without being accounted a Subscription night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Vlaggiatori Felici

Dance: End of Act I Le Triomphe de l'Amour Conjugal, as17820110; End of Opera Medea and Jason, as17820411

Event Comment: Benefit for Westley [who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #235 9s. 6d. (121/11/0; 25/14/6; 0/8/0; tickets: 87/16/0) (charge: #106 14s. 1d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Alchymist

Dance: As17820302athi

Event Comment: Benefit for Fosbrook, box-book and housekeeper. Receipts: #283 3s. 6d. (50/5/0; 7/2/6; 0/12/0; tickets: 225/4/0) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

Dance: End of mainpiece the Minuet de la Cour by Zuchelli and Miss M. Stageldoir; End of Act I of afterpiece New Dance, as17820121

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wells. Morning Herald, 22 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Wells, No. 417, Strand. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years [not acted since 24 Apr. 1779]. Receipts: #172 2s. 6d. (64/16/0; 26/7/6; 0/6/0; rickets: 80/13/0) (charge: #108 4s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Recruiting Serjeant

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Event Comment: Benefit for Mme Simonet. Tickets, half a guinea each, to be had of Mme Simonet, No. 5, Dover-street, Piccadilly

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Contadina In Corte

Dance: End of Act I Adela of Pontbieu, as17820411, before which, the daughter of Mme Simonet, only 7 years old, will (for her 1st appearance this season) dance the Minuet de la Ville with her Father, and a Gavot Seule to the favourite tune of the Pas Seul danced by Mlle Theodore in Rinaldo and Armida; End of Opera Rinaldo and Armida, as17820223

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Procession as 18 Apr. Receipts: #122 0s. 6d. (69/8/0; 30/0/0; 0/2/6; R. Palmer's tickets: 22/10/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Afterpiece Title: Henry and Emma

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Dance: Dance of Daemons as17820418

Event Comment: For the better convenience of the company, during the Performance the Pit will be open as usual, and the passage through the Boxes into the Galleries will be open. As soon as the Performance is over, the Supper Rooms will be opened, and, during the time of Supper, the Pit will be covered and the Galleries shut up. The Decorations are entirely new planned, and executed by Novosielski. The whole under the Direction of Crawford. Tickets 2 guineas each. The Doors to be opened at 9:00. The Performance to begin at 10:00. [Le Picq was from the Opera, Naples.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Masked Ball, With A Supper

Dance: End of Part I a new Dance (1st time; composed by Noverre), Apollon et let Muses by Le Picq (1st appearance in England), Nivelon, Mme Simonet, Mlle Theodore, Sga Crespi, Mlle Baccelli; End of Part 11 a New Dance, demicharacter (composed by Noverre) by Le Picq, Nivelon, Slingsby, Mlle Theodore, Sga Crespi, Mlle Baccelli

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Wright. Account-Book adds: "Mrs Sharp [who was at first advertised as sharing in the benefit] having sold her 1/2 to Miss Wright." Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years [acted 6 Apr. 1780]. Receipts: #244 17s. 6d. (67/17/0; 18/9/6; 0/11/0; tickets: 158/0/0) (charge: #107 13s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece, as17820223

Event Comment: By Desire of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Benefit for Gardel. Tickets, half a guinea each, to be had of Gardel, No. 26, Margaret-street, Cavendish-square. 1st ballet: With entirely new Music, and a new Overture by Carter (Morning Herald, 25 May)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'eroe Cinese

Dance: End of Act I an entire new Ballet (composed by Gardel Sen.), Mirsa (Taken from an American Anecdote), by Gardel, Mlle Baccelli, Nivelon, Mlle Theodore, Sga Crespi, Mons and Mme Simonet, in which a Minuet and Gavet: composed by Gardel Jun. who, in the Concert Scene, will execute a concerto on the violin [Scenario (Paris, 1779) lists the parts: Mondor, Son Epouse, Mirsa, Lindor, Officier Corsaire, Gouvernante de Mirsa, Officiers Americains, Creoles, Officiers Francais, Negres]; End of Act II Apollon et les Muses, as17820502, but Slingsby in place of Nivelon; End of Opera Adela of Pontbieu, as17820411

Event Comment: Benefit for Lamash and Mrs Hedges. Receipts: #201 5s. 6d. (48/9/0; 26/1/0; 0/0/6; tickets: 126/15/0) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: As17820302athi

Event Comment: Benefit for Brandon, box-book and house-keeper. [The playbill announces as mainpiece King Henry the Eighth, and as afterpiece Barnaby Brittle, but the Account-Book has, "Alter'd to the Count of Narbonne" and "Alter'd to Comus."] Receipts: #300 8s. (66/2; tickets: 234/6) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: Benefit for Phillimore, Spencer, Mrs Pulley & Miss Armstrong. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Receipts: #298 19s. (34/8; 8/10; 0/11; tickets: 255/10) (charge: #115 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: Linco's Travels

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece a Hornpipe (for that night only) by Miss Watkins

Event Comment: Benefit for Nivelon. Tickets to be had of Nivelon, No. 7, Great Marlborough-street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Viaggiatori Felici

Dance: End of Act I Mirsa, as17820509, but omitted: Minuet and Gavot; End of Opera Medea and Jason, as17820411, but Mlle Simonet in place of Mme Simonet; omitted: Mlle Theodore

Event Comment: Benefit for a Fund for the Relief of those who from their Infirmities shall be obliged to retire from the Stage. Receipts: #152 8s. (93/6; 26/17; 0/5; tickets: 32/0) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

Dance: End of mainpiece Minuet and Gavot, as17820508; End of Act I of afterpiece New Dance, as17820121, but Duprez in place of Lemercier