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Event Comment: Benefit for Aickin. [Meredith is identified in European Magazine, May 1789, p. 410, which also states address was written by a Mr Vardill.] Mainpiece: End of Act II the Grand Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Babylon. Public Advertiser, 24 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Aickin at his house, No. 5, Gower-street, Bedford-square. Receipts: #228 4s. 6d. (155.17.6; 8.2.0; tickets 64.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: As17881010

Entertainment: Monologue. Preceding: Occasional Address-Middleton

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. Public Advertiser, 11 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 2, Frith-street, Soho. Afterpiece: By Permission of G. Colman, Esq., taken from The Genius of Nonsense. Receipts: #266 3s. 6d. (137.1.0; 15.3.0; 0.13.6; tickets: 113.6.0) (charge: #116 5s. 2d.)

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: The Blade-Bone; or, Harlequin's Frolic

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Entertainment: Monologue Preceding: British Loyalty[; or, A Squeeze for St. Paul's by George Colman ynger]-Bannister Jun

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. Tickets delivered for the 24th of April will be taken. Public Advertiser, 16 Apr.: Tickets [for 24 Apr.] to be had of Mrs Mattocks, No. 7, King-street, Covent Garden. Mainpiece: Written by Richard Steele. 3rd piece [1st time; ENT I, author unknown. Larpent MS 830; not published]. Receipts: #253 17s. 6d. (159.12.0; 8.9.6; tickets: 85.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A-la-mode

Afterpiece Title: Annette and Lubin

Afterpiece Title: Saint George's Day; or, Britons Rejoice

Song: End 3rd piece: God save the King-; with Grand Accompaniment [on the organ]-Greatorex [, as performed at the Oratorios see17890320

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnstone. 1st piece: The Music by Hook; the rest compiled from the most eminent Masters. Public Advertiser, 30 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Johnstone, No. 12, Norton-street, Portland Chapel. Receipts: #313 17s. (166.16.6; 12.2.6; tickets: 134.18.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: The Feast of Anacreon [i

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Martyr. Afterpiece: The Music composed by Dibdin. Public Advertiser, 4 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Martyr, No. 13, King-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #314 18s. 6d. (167.15.0; 12.7.6; tickets: 134.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Dance: End II: Negro Dance- as l Jan.; End: Mirth by Moonshine-, as17890113

Song: In I: Sweet Bird, as17890126

Event Comment: Benefit for Barrymore. [Afterpiece in place of Arthur and Emmeline, advertised on playbill of 7 May.] Public Advertiser, 5 May: Tickets to be had of Barrymore, No. 1, Southampton-street, Strand. Receipts: #251 4s. (44.18.0; 16.13.6; 1.12.6; tickets: 188.0.0) (charge: #107 4s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

Dance: As17890507

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Siddons (the last Night of her Engagement). [She had 1st acted Juliet at Birmingham, 6 Sept. 1776, and 1st recited the Ode, written by Robert Merry (European Magazine, Apr. 1789, pp. 335-38), at the King's on 21 Apr.] Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes, To prevent Confusion, Ladies are desired to send their Servants by Half past Four o'Clock. Public Advertiser, 29 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Siddons, Gower-street, Bedford Square. "The pouting Scene with the old Nurse was the cleverest thing I ever saw--so pretty, so Babyish, so charming" (Thraliana, II, 748). On this and every Evening for the Remainder of the Season the Doors will not be opened till 5:30, and the Performance will commence exactly at 6:30. Receipts: #320 6s. 6d. (112.12.0; 11.12.0; 1.7.6; tickets: 194.15.0) (charge: #112 13s. 7d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Song: As17881117, but Vocal Parts-Miss Hagley, Miss _Collett

Entertainment: Monologue. End afterpiece: An Ode on the Recovery of His Majesty-Mrs Siddons; in the Character of Britannia. Conclude with: God save the King!-

Event Comment: Benefit for Pope. Mainpiece: Grand Triumphal Entryv, as 28 Apr. Public Advertiser, 9 May: Tickets to be had of Pope, Half-moon-street, Piccadilly. For the remainder of the Season the Doors to be opened at 5:30, and to begin at 6:30. Receipts: #138 18s. (80.18.6; 9.4.6; tickets: 48.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Dance: End: Mirth by Moonshine-[, as17890113

Event Comment: Benefit for Farren. Public Advertiser, 6 May: Tickets to be had of Farren, No. 73, Gower-street. Account-Book, 16 May: Received Farren's benefit deficiency #33 7s. 6d. [Reckoned as follows: Farren disposed of #209 12s. in tickets; this sum he kept. Money [i.e. tickets sold at the doors of the theatre] amounted to #71 12s. 6d. From this money he was obliged to meet the house charge of #105, and hence owed the treasury the amount stated above.] Receipts: #281 4s. 6d. (69.".0; 2.10.6; tickets: 209.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The Feast of Anacreon

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Entertainment: Monologue. End IV: A Comic Description of the Curiosities in the Tower of London-Edwin

Event Comment: Benefit for Mlle Saulnier. The Gentlemen of the Orchestra are requested to attend at twelve o'clock the Rehearsal of the new Ballet for this Evening. World, 12 May: Tickets to be had of Mlle Saulnier, No. 34, Suffolk-street, Charing-cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Vendemmia

Dance: End I: Admete, as17890402; End Opera: a new Ballet, composed in Paris by Gardel Sen. for Mlle Guimard, Ninette a la Cour , Ninette -Mlle Guimard

Event Comment: Benefit for Wrighten, prompter. 3rd piece [1st time; M I, author unknown. Music selected from Dr Arne. MS: Larpent 833 (which notes, "The words partly new and partly compiled. In Commemoration of the Restoration of His Majesty's Health"); not published]. Public Advertiser, 18 May: Tickets to be had of Wrighten, No. 6, Little Russel Street. Tickets delivered for the 20th will be admitted. Receipts: #278 17s. 6d. (48.2.0; 13.17.0; 0.17.6; tickets: 216.1.0) (charge: #106 13s. 7d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Afterpiece Title: Laoeudaimonos; or, A People Made Happy

Dance: End II: The Russian Minuet-the young D'Egvilles, Miss DeCamp; End: a new dance, The Irish Bird@Catchers-the young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Billington. Public Advertiser, 9 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Billington, No. 53, Poland-street. Receipts: #290 16s. 6d. (196.14.6; 4.10.0; tickets: 89.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fontainbleau

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: As17881021

Song: Mainpiece: With an additional song by Shield-; the Bravura Song from Erifile, by Sacchini-; accompanied on the hautboy-W. Parke; Auld Robin Gray-Mrs Billington

Event Comment: Benefit for Noverre. World, 19 May: Tickets, 10s. 6d. each, to be had of Noverre, No. 40, Great Marlborough-street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Disertore

Dance: End I: Les Jalousies du Serail, as17890317End Opera: Ninette a la Cour, as17890514; but to conclude with the Pas de Six de la Rosieu-

Event Comment: Benefit for Hull. [Mainpiece: Epilogue by Miles Peter Andrews.] Public Advertiser, 21 May: Tickets to be had of Hull, No. 31, Bow-street, Covent-garden. Receipts: #172 16s. 6d. (100.8.0; 9.0.6; tickets: 63.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Such Things Are

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Dance: As17890512

Entertainment: Monologue. Between acts Farce: Bucks have at Ye All-Ryder

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Ward. Tickets delivered for the 26th will be admitted. Public Advertiser. 11 May: Tickets [for 26 May] to be had of Mrs Ward, No. 12, Catherine-street, Strand. Mainpiece: Never performed there. Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #234 13s. 6d. (29.3.0; 15.2.0; 1.0.6; tickets: 189.8.0) (charge: #108 0s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Follies Of A Day; Or, The Marriage Of Figaro

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: III: a Dance-the young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp; End I afterpiece: Highland Reel-Hamoir, Keen, Miss Stageldoir

Entertainment: Monologue. End: as17890430

Event Comment: Benefit for Delpini. 3rd piece: 1st time at that Theatre [1st acted at the Royalty, 13 Aug. 1787]. Delpini's Grand, Tragic, Comic, Pantomimical Entertainment in 2 acts. With new Dresses and Decorations. The Music composed by Gluck, the Airs and Duett by Reeve. Public Advertiser, 9 May: Tickets to be had of Delpini, No. 17, Tavistock-street, Covent-garden. Receipts: #224 11s. (114.2; 7.18; tickets: 102.11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Deserter

Afterpiece Title: Barataria

Afterpiece Title: Don Juan; or, The Libertine Destroyed

Dance: End 1st piece: New Dance by Byrne-; In 3rd piece: Dancing-Byrne, Mrs Ratchford, Mrs Goodwin

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Sestini. A Comic Opera, not acted these 7 years [acted 28 Apr. 1785]; the Music by Piccinni, under the direction of Mazzinghi. Tickets, 10s. 6d., to be had of Sga Sestini, No. 15, Mount-street, Berkeley-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Buona Figliuola

Dance: End I: New Divertissement-[See17890110]; in which the Minuet of Iphigenia, as17890428; Pas de Deux Anacreontique, as17890428; End Opera: Les Caprices de Galatee, as17890523

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mountain. Afterpiece [1st time in London; M. INT 2, by Walley Chamberlain Oulton, 1st acted at Crow Street Theatre, Dublin, 12 Mar. 1789, Larpent MS 835; not published]: The Music by Tommaso? Giordani. Receipts: #213 17s. (80.0.6; 6.3.6; tickets: 127.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood

Afterpiece Title: Perseverance; or, The Third Time the Best

Entertainment: Monologue. End: As17890514

Event Comment: Benefit for Booth. Public Advertiser, 28 May: Tickets to be had of Booth, No. 18, Broad-court, Bow-street. Receipts: #176 17s. 6d. (52.19.6; 6.18.0; tickets: 117.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Event Comment: Benefit for Fearon. Public Advertiser, 22 May: Tickets to be had of Fearon, No. 1, Broad-court, Bow-street. Receipts: #146 7s. (81.19; 5.0; tickets: 59.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Dance: As17881021

Event Comment: Benefit for Darley. Tickets to be had of Darley, No. 27, Bow-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #157 12s. 6d. (66.19.6; 3.18.0; tickets: 86.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Dance: As17890512

Song: End II: Poor Jack!-Darley

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Storace. A new Comic Opera, as originally performed at the Courts of Petersburgh and Vienna; the Music by Paisiello. Tickets to be had of Sga Storace, No. 23, Howland-street, Rathbone-place

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Barbiere Di Siviglia; Or, The Spanish Barber

Dance: End II: New Divertissement-[See17890110]; End Opera: La Nymphe et le Chasseur, as17890606

Music: End I: a Trio for Piano Forte Violin and Violoncello-Clementi, Cramer, Cervetto

Event Comment: Benefit for Didelot. Tickets to be had of Didelot, No. 37, Silver-street, Golden-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Barbiere Di Siviglia

Dance: End I: New Divertissement, as17890528; End Opera: Le Tuteur Trompe (not acted these 3 years [not acted since 24 Feb, 1785]; composed by Lepicq)-Didelot, Mlle Guimard, Zuchelli (for that night only); in which Minuet de la Cour-Mlle Guimard, Didelot; [and Les Folies d'Espagne [as originally danced by Lepicq, and now performed-Didelot, Mlle Guimard, Duquesney; accompanied on the harp-Meyer Jun

Event Comment: Benefit for Coinde, Ballet-Master. Tickets to be had of Coinde, No. 37, Silver-street, Golden-square. [The above is the playbill in World, 1 July. On 2 July no newspaper carries a playbill for this night. The theatre, therefore, was perhaps dark.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Favourite Opera

Dance: End I: La Nymphe et le Chasseur, as17890319at king's; in which Minuet of Iphigenia, as17890428 at king's; Pas de Deux Anacreontique, as17890428 at king's; End Opera: Le Tuteur Trompe-see17890615; in which Minuet de la Cour, as17890615at king's; Les Folies d'Espagne-see17890615; Pas de Six de la Rosieu, as17890521 at king's

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Iliff. Afterpiece: Not acted these 10 years [not acted since 30 July 1778]. Diary, 28 July: Tickets to be had of Iliff, No. 20, Charles-street, Westminster

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: The Portrait

Entertainment: Imitations End: Theatrical Imitations Serious, Comic, Vocal, and Rhetorical,-Rees; Duologue End afterpiece: Hobby@Horses Describing the Statesman's Hobby, the Ladies' Hobby, the Lawyer's Hobby, the Physician's Hobby, the Manager's Hobby, and R. Palmer's own Hobby,-R. Palmer, Iliff