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Event Comment: Benefit for Byrn, Cox & Thompson. Receipts: #221 13s. 6d. (39.13.6; 5.4.0; tickets: 176.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fontainbleau

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: End I: (for that night only) A New Tambourine Dance-; End: a new Ballet, Fortune's Favor; or, The Lover's Lottery-Byrn, Mrs Goodwin

Music: End I afterpiece: a concertante, two violins-the Master Wares

Event Comment: Benefit for Danby, Miss J. Stageldoir & Mrs Booth. Receipts: #148 1s. 6d. (21.19.0; 16.12.0; 0.8.6; tickets: 109.2.0) (charge: #106 6s. 3d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disguise

Dance: End II: an entire New Dance-Hamoir, Miss J. Stageldoir; End: The Irish Fair, as17880306

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Afterpiece: For that Night only [it had 1st been acted at the Royalty, 1 Jan. 1788]. The Airs and Chorusses composed by Reeve. End of Act I a Grand Representation of Mount Vesuvius at the time of an Eruptionv. [Mrs Gibbs was from the Royalty.] Receipts: #275 10s. (138.15; 26.19; 5.8; tickets: 104.8) (charge: #115 14s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter of Naples; or, Royal Clemency

Dance: In afterpiece: Hamoir, Miss J. Stageldoir

Event Comment: Benefit for Alfred, Walker, Brigg & Miss Tidswell. Receipts: #180 3s. 6d. (18.5.0; 6.2.0; 0.9.6; tickets: 155.7.0) (charge: #107 3s. 1d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Duke and No Duke

Dance: End: The Irish Fair-Hamoir, Miss J. Stageldoir

Song: End IV: Ma chere Amie-Dignum

Event Comment: Benefit for Gardner, Rock, Besford & Mrs Watts. The Caledonian Wedding [a dance, advertised on playbill of 2 June] cannot be performed on Account of the Indisposition of a Principal Performer. [3rd piece in place of The Country Mad-Cap, advertised on playbill of 2 June.] Receipts: #177 6d. (48.1.6; 7.16.0; tickets: 121.7.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Follies Of A Day

Afterpiece Title: Linco's Travels

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Song: End II 1st piece: The Soldier tir'd of War's Alarms (for this Night only)-Master Braham

Entertainment: Monologue End III 1st piece: A Description of the Tombs in Westminster Abbey-Edwin

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, Cameron & Percey. Receipts: #250 9s. 6d. (13.0.0; 7.10.0; 3.0.6; tickets: 226.19.0) (charge: #106 9s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Dance: As17880603

Song: In I: Sheep@shearing Song-Mrs Forster; End II: Ma chere Amie-Dignum

Event Comment: Benefit for Carleton, Wilson, J. Shade & Gibson. Receipts: #238 8s. 6d. (15.17.0; 7.13.0; 1.13.6; tickets: 213.5.0) (charge: #107 17s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Dance: As17880607

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Brooks. Public Advertiser, 22 July: Tickets to be had of Mrs Brooks at Woodmason's, No. 66, Pall-mall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seeing Is Believing

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat

Afterpiece Title: A Beggar on Horseback

Cast
Role: Scout Actor: Burton

Dance: As17880707

Event Comment: Benefit for Jewell, treasurer. 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT I]. Public Advertiser, 8 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Jewell, No. 26, Suffolk-street, Charing-cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: Love and War

Afterpiece Title: Gretna Green

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. 1st piece: In I act. Public Advertiser, 11 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 2, Frith-street, Soho

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Election

Afterpiece Title: Inkle and Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Dance: End 2nd piece: The British Soldier Triumphant-Byrn, Ratchford, Miss DeCamp, Mrs Goodwin

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bannister. 2nd piece [1st time; INT I, by George Colman, elder]: A much admired Scene from The Genius of Nonsensev. Public Advertiser, 18 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Bannister, No. 2, Frith-street, Soho

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Afterpiece Title: The Blade Bone; or, Agreeable Companion

Afterpiece Title: A Quarter of an Hour before Dinner

Entertainment: Monologue Preceeding 1st piece: A Touch of the Times; or, The Humours of London-Bannister Jun

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. 3rd piece [1st time; F 1, by Horatio Edgar Robson, based on La Bonne Mere, by Jean Pierre Claris de Florian]: Now reading with universal Applause by Mons. LeTexier. Public Advertiser, 9 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street. Ibid., 8 Oct. 1788: This Day is published Look before You Leap (1s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Catch Club [i

Afterpiece Title: Gretna Green

Afterpiece Title: Look before You Leap

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Cast
Role: Scout Actor: Bannister Jun.
Role: Mrs Scout Actor: Mrs Webb.

Entertainment: Monologue End 1st piece: George Alexander Stevens's Original Lecture on Heads (Head of Alexander the Great, Head of a Cherokee Chief, Head of a Quack-Doctor, Cuckold's Head, Nobody's Head, The laughing and crying Philosophers' Heads, Head of Flattery, A fine Lady's Head, Head of an Old Maid, Cleopatra's Head, Plain Moll's Head, Head of a Married Lady)-Palmer

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Farren. Tickets delivered for the 18th instant will be admitted. Mainpiece: With Permission of the Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kemble. "Kemble? Sen. performed the Miller...Here and there we could perceive the liberty of the country performer, by saying more than was set down by the author" (Public Advertiser, 27 Aug.). [Address by John Taylor (European Magazine, Sept. 1788, p. 217).] Public Advertiser, 21 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Kemble, No. 26, Villiers-street, York-buildings, Strand

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Election

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Entertainment: Monologue End 3rd piece: Address (written on the Occasion)-Mrs Kemble

Event Comment: Benefit for Edwin. Afterpiece: With the Triumphal Entryv of King Chrononhotonthologos into Queerumania attended with Drums, Trumpets, Fiddles, Flutes, Fifes, Flagellets, Lutes, Bagpipes, Tabours and Pipes, Marrow-Bones and Cleavers, Post-Horns, French Horns, Cows Horns, Salt-Boxes, Broom-stickado's. The different Instruments will be played after the Manner of the Queen's Band at Queerum. The most comical Tragedy that ever was Tragedized by any comical Company of Tragedians. Public Advertiser, 23 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Edwin, No. 19, Piazza, Covent-Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Good-natured Man

Afterpiece Title: Chrononhotonthologos

Song: End III: Four@and@twenty Perriwigs all on a Row-Edwin

Entertainment: Monologue. End: Lingo's Opinions on Men and Manners (a Comical, Whimsical, Operatical, Farcical Rhapsody)-Edwin

Event Comment: By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. 3rd piece: Written by A. Murphy, Esq. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. Tickets to be had at the Shakespeare, Covent-garden; the Chapter Coffee-house, Paternoster-row; the Horn Tavern, Doctors Commons; the Theatre, where Places for the Boxes may be taken; and at Abbott's Academy, Bridges-street, Westminster

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Miss In Her Teens

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

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Entertainment: Monologue. End 1st piece: Scrubb's Trip to the Jubilee (as altered by the late David Garrick, Esq., in character,)-Death; Vaudeville. End 2nd piece: a new favourite song-Birkett; Dance-the Miss Simonets; A Pantomimical Interlude: Harlequin (with the celebrated Dying Scene)-Follett Jun., Clown- Follett Sen.; +A martial song-Birkett

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Farce [who is named in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill. Kemble's 1st appearance as Leon was at Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin (Genest, VI, 295); Palmer's as the Copper Captain at hay, 15 July 1777]. Receipts: #133 15s. (94.17; 37.3; 1.15; tickets; none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: As17881119

Event Comment: Receipts: #110 16s. 6d. (76.0.0; 32.14.6; 1.9.6; tickets not come in: 0.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Mrs Farrer. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Afterpiece: Never acted here. The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. 2nd Gallery 1s. Tickets delivered for Wednesday, Dec. 18, will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane The Great; Or, The Fall Of Bajazet, Emperor Of The Turks

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Song: IV: To Thee O Gentle Sleep-a Young Lady (1st appearance in public [unidentified])

Entertainment: Monologue End: Hippisley's Drunken Man-Jackson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Song: As17881016, but Chorusses and Accompaniments-Miss _Collett, Mrs _Crouch

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

Song: As17881220

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 16s. (100.5.0; 59.13.6; 0.2.6; tickets not come in: 0.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Event Comment: Receipts: #253 1s. 6d. (227.8.0; 24.5.0; 0.18.6; tickets not come in: 0.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

Song: Original Music-; Chorusses and Accompaniments, as17881016, but _Fawcett, Miss _Collett

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in Kemble Mem., but not on playbill]. Receipts: #133 14s. 6d. (103.10.0; 23.13.0; 6.11.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Impostors

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor