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Event Comment: Paid Hull the balance of his night of The Royal Merchant the 16th Inst....#38 14s. Paid also the Extra Charge and allowed again for the same night...#3 10s. (Account Book). [Hull seems to have protested the charge of candles, drum & chorus in addition to the high house charge of #84, and seems to have succeeded.] Receipts: #141 13s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Cast
Role: Vandunk Actor: Shuter

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: II: The Dutch Milkmaid, as17671114; End of Opera: A New Comic Dance, as17671024

Event Comment: HHull's second Night. House charges #84. Balance to Hull #52 16s. and in addition #1 13s. from disposal of 3 Box and 6 Pit tickets. Paid Mr Buzaglio in full for use of a warming machine #15 15s. (Account Book). Receipts: #136 16s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Cast
Role: Vandunk Actor: Shuter

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: End of Opera: The Garland, as17671214

Event Comment: By command of their Majesties. Pit and Boxes to be put together. Tickets will be deliver'd this day at the Office in the Theatre at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. 6d. Galleries will be opened at Half an Hour after Four. Pit and Boxes at Five. To Begin at Half after Six. House Charges to Stanley and Smith #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Performance Comment: Parts were Samson-; Manoa-; Micah-; Israelite Officer-; Chorus of Israelites-; Dalila-; Harapha-; Chorus of Philistine Women-; Priests of Dagon-.
Cast
Role: Parts were Samson Actor:

Music: CConcerto on Organ-Stanley

Event Comment: Benefit for Macklin. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. House charges and Candles #64 5s. Balance to Macklin #134 8s. plus #60 for disposing of 240 Box tickets (Account Book). Receipts: #198 13s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Dance: III: The Dutch Milkmaid, as17671114

Event Comment: Third Day. For the Author. House charges and Candles #64 5s. Balance to Bickerstaffe #155 11s. 6d. (Account Book). This month were published Harris and Rutherford's Narrative of the Rise and Progress of the Disputes subsisting between the Patentees of Covent Garden Theatre, and Colman's True State of The Differences subsisting....Both were reviewed in the Gentleman's Magazine. Receipts: #219 16s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: End of Opera: A New Comic Dance, call'd the Provenzales-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford, Miss Ford 1st time

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. House Charges received from Stanley and Smith #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Joseph

Music: As17680219

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. House Charges: #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Macchabaeus

Music: As17680219

Event Comment: Benefit for Powell. Part of pit will be laid into boxes, where servants will be allowed to keep places. Ladies are desired to send servants by 3 o'clock. [Powell paid no House charges, so received a clear benefit of #170 19s. plus #109 5s. from disposing of 439 combined Box and Pit tickets (Accoudt Book).] Receipts: #170 19s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Oxonian in Town

Dance: End: A New Comic Dance, call'd The Highland Reel-Aldridge, Miss Valois, Sga Manesiere (playbill); [But Public Advertiser lists The Irish Lilt by Aldridge and Miss Valois.

Event Comment: Sixth Day. For the Author. Books of the Opera to be had at the Theatre. House charges and candles #64 5s. Balances for Bickerstaffe #120 18s. (Account Book). Receipts: #185 3s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: End of Opera: The Irish Lilt, as17670921, but Miss Valois, Sga _Manesiere

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Published Animadversions on Mr Colman's True State etc., with some remarks on his little serious piece, The Oxonian in Town (20 pp.). [Criticizes the play as having a bad influence on the young, with its characters of whores, bawds and pickpockets. Did our author flatter himself that he could wipe out these rooted impressions with a cold moral sentence uttered by the mouth of a woman of pleasure, and perhaps never reaching the ears of one half of the audience from the variety of noises which accompany the finishing speech of every play?" Concludes: "The reputation of our Universities is a national concern of the highest and most sacred importance....I blush when I see academical characters brought upon the stage, but I burn when I see them lampooned."] House Charges: #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Cast
Role: Parts were Samson Actor:

Music: As17680219

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. House charges: #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Performance Comment: Acis-; Polyphemus-; Damon-; Galatea-; Chorus of Shepherds and Shepherdesses-.

Music: As17680224, but Dryden's Ode by Handel-

Event Comment: Benefit for Woodward. With two New Scenes in the Afterpiece painted by Richards and Dahl. Mr Woodward, at the particular request of several persons of Quality has changed from the Fair Quaker to The Busy Body. Tickets deliver'd for Fair Quaker will be admitted. House charges with candles and extras #65 15s. Balance to Woodward #102 7s. plus #58 5s. for 233 Box tickets (Account Book). [Public Advertiser, 12 Dec. 1767: "Speedily will be published the Battle of the Wigs, an additional canto to Dr Garth's poem The Dispensary. Occasioned by the Disputes between the Fellows and licentiates of the College of Physicians in London. By B. T. and M. B."] Receipts: #168 2s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Cast
Role: Miranda Actor: Miss Macklin.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus With a New Additional Scene

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. House charges: #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander Balus

Performance Comment: Alexander Balus-(King of Syria); Ptolomee-(King of Egypt); Jonathan-(Chief of the Jews); Cleopatra-(Ptolomee's Daughter); Aspasia-(her friend and Companion); Chorus of Israelites-; Chorus of Asiatics-.
Cast
Role: Alexander Balus Actor:

Music: As17680219

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Yates. Mainpiece: With additions. Never Performed there. House charges #63, candles #1 5s., Extra wardrobe #1 5s. 6d., Side Drum 2s. Total #65 12s. 6d. Balance to Mrs Yates #46 12s. plus income of #170 from 680 Box tickets (Account Book). Receipts: #112 4s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medea

Performance Comment: Jason-Powell; Creon-Smith; Aeson-Bensley; 1st Colchian-Clarke; Lycander-Perry; Hecate-Gardner; Children-Mas. Harris, Mas. Bates; Theano-Mrs Ward; Medea-Mrs Yates; With Prologue-; Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: Lycander Actor: Perry

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: End: The Highland Reel, as17680307

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Paid to Mrs Nuttall for an engine etc. #6 6s. Paid Jas. Abbott 16s. 4d. for covering an elephant, etc. (Account Book). House charges: #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Macchabaeus

Music: As17680219

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. By Particular Desire. House charges, candles etc. #66 6s. 6d. Balance to Smith #27 2s. plus income of #175 2s. from 516 Box, 224 Pit and 125 Gallery tickets (Account Book). Receipts: #93 8s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: III: The Highland Reel, as17680307

Event Comment: Benefit for Shuter. By Particular Desire. House charges, candles and extras #67 15s. Balance to Shuter #81 5s. 6d., plus income from #104 4s. worth of 340 Box and 128 Pit tickets (Account Book). Receipts: #149 6s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Good Natured Man

Cast
Role: Miss Richland Actor: Mrs Bulkley

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Entertainment: III: By Particular Desire, Shuter will entertain with his Whimsical Observations in a Post Haste Journey to Paris-Shuter; Following the Afterpiece, The Cries of London with Additions-Shuter

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17670921

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. House charges: #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. House charges: #35 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Event Comment: Benefit for Mattocks. House charges, candles and extras #69 12s. 6d. Balance to Mrs Mattocks #75 5s. 6d. plus #48 4s. from tickets (Box 168; Pit 34; Gallery 11) (Account Book). Receipts: #144 18s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors, as17671009

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Ward. Afterpiece: Never acted there before. Mainpiece: Not acted this season. Mrs Ward having been defrauded of a number of Tickets for the above play, those sold at the door will not be admitted. [Afterpiece is John Lee's alteration of Wycherley's play into two acts. See dl 26 April 1765.] @Receipts #74 2s. 6d.@House charges #63@Candles #1 5s.@Extra: Kettle drum 5s.@Side Drum 2s.@Wardrobe #1 9s.@Total #66 1s.@Balance due Mrs Ward #8 1s. 6d.@Tickets 115 129 179 #66@Money #74 2s. 6d.@Total value of House #140 2s. 6d. (Account Book). [Mrs Ward seems to have profited only to the extent of #74 1s. 6d.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love Or The World Well Lost

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Dance: End: The Highland Reel, as17680307

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Cast
Role: Miranda Actor: Miss Macklin.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-Miss Ford

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Lessingham. Mainpiece: Alter'd from Shakespeare and Thompson, not acted these 4 years. Afterpiece: For last time this season (playbill of 19 April 1768). [See 18 Feb. 1765. This Coriolanus is possibly the Tragedy by Thomas Sheridan, 8vo, 1755.] @Receipts #85 10s. 6d.@House charge #63@Candles #1 5s.@Extras: Kettle Drum 5s.@2 Side Drums 4s.@4 Fifes 8s.@2 Trumpets 10s.@Chorus Singers #1 10s.@Wardrobe #5 19s.@Total #73 1s. 6d.@Balance due Mrs Lessingham #12 9s.@Tickets 197 137 89 #78 14s.@Money #85 10s. 6d.@Total value of House #164 4s. 6d. (Account Book).@ Mr Clarke being suddenly taken ill in the afternoon [yesterday] his part in the tragedy was oblig'd to be supplied by Mr Younger. And Mr Clarke still continuing ill the Tragedy of King Lear, with the Musical entertainment Amelia is oblig'd to be deferred till further notice (Public Advertiser, 21 April)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17670921

Event Comment: Benefit for Younger. Tickets deliver'd by Bryan and Branson will be taken. Tickets sold at doors will not be admitted. Charges #65 15s. Balance to Younger #58 10s. plus income from tickets. Younger 70 129 159 #52 15s. Bryan 4 49 61 #14 9s. Branson 26 102 134 #35 4s.@Total ticket value #102 8s. (Account Book).@ Rec'd #20 a year improv'd rent of the houses in Bow St. and part of the effects of the late John Rich...#250. Receipts: #124 5s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Dance: I: The Highland Reel, as17680307

Event Comment: Benefit for Morris and Lewes. Charges #64 10s. Balance due the actors #5 1s 6d. Morris 40 346 #93 7s. Lewes 79 303 236 #88 16s. Money #59 8s. 6d.@Total House Value #241 11s. 6d.@ Reciv'd from Proprieters of the Gazetter for this season #50 for exclusive rights to publishing Play Notices (Account Book). Receipts: #59 8s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Ballet: III: Wapping Landlady. Double Hornpipe, As17680416

Cast
Role: Landlady Actor: Miles