Event Comment: The Nineteenth Day

Event Comment: The Twenty-Second Day

Event Comment: The Twenty-Third Day

Event Comment: The Twenty-Fourth Day

Event Comment: The Twenty-Fifth Day

Event Comment: Manipiece: By Particular Desire. The Twenty-Seventh Day

Event Comment: The Twenty-Eighth Day

Event Comment: By Particular Desire. The Twenty-Ninth Day

Event Comment: The Thirtieth Day. By Particular Desire. The Last Night this Season

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. N.B. Love in a Village will not be acted after this evening, for a considerable time, on account of a new Musical Comedy which will be performed some Day this week. [See 6 Dec., The Summer's Tale.

Event Comment: [W+Winston MS 9 notes that Rich's Register names Jane Shore and The Royal Chace for this night. If so, see casts for 9 Oct. (Jane Shore) and 7 Dec. (The Royal Chace). Credence may be given this note by the fact that the next performance of Summer's Tale is listed in playbills as 20 Jan. 1766, the Fifth Day.

Event Comment: Author's Day

Event Comment: Author's Day

Event Comment: The Thirteenth Day. N.B. In order to vary the Entertainments, this Comedy will not be perform'd after tonight for some time

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Pit and Boxes to be put together. Tickets delivered this day at the Office in the theatre at Half a Guinea each. 1st Gallery 5s. 2nd Gallery 3s. 6d. Galleries to be opened at half after Four, Pit and Boxes at Five, To begin at Half an Hour after Six

Event Comment: MMrs Clive taken extremely ill, The Clandestine Marriage deferred (Winston MS 9). [The St James Chronicle; or, British Evening Post, this day contained four epigrams on Foote's accident.

Event Comment: In the Gazetteer 25 Feb. appeared a long editorial by "Rectus": "Though the performing oratorios in the time of Lent,is highly censured by many, yet I must own that I think the far greater part of them become enemies to those solemn performances, rather because their ears are more unfit for music than their minds are for the pretended immorality that attends such exhibitions." [The writer wishes not to cry down every entertainment he cannot relish himself and adds], "I have long endeavoured to find out the reason why plays should not be performed on Wednesdays and Fridays in Lent as well as on those days all through the rest of the season. I have never yet been able to find out that Lent makes the least difference in people's way of living." [He wonders, however, why the non-sacred oratorios such as Acis and Galatea and Alexander's Feast have been allowed performance. He then registers a mild complaint about the management of the Oratorios because they do not include sufficient solo instrumental entertainment between the parts.] "This custom was wholly dropped last year, and I complained greatly of it in a letter which you did me the favour to insert. I was greatly surprised to find Mr Pinto, who then led the band, was either not permitted or not paid to play a solo, as well as Mr Hay, who played one every night the preceding season. Mr Stanley's illness not permitting him then to play, that omission was overlooked, though it might have been supplied by a performer on some other instrument. This season the managers have thought proper to treat their audience with one solo or concerto every night, but why not have two?" [He liked Barthelemon's solos, but lamented that Stanley sat idle, and he offered final advice that the managers should alternate the solo instruments for "pleasing variety." The admission price demands it.

Event Comment: [The Public Advertiser this day contains a long letter from G. F. Theatricus extolling the virtues of Powell, Holland, Yates and Mrs Yates as actors capable of filling the shoes of Garrick and Mrs Cibber, especially with reference to their performance in the Clandestine Marriage, but calling attention also to their excellencies in other parts.

Event Comment: The Third Night. At the Theatre-Royal in the Haymarket this Day, will be performed..

Event Comment: For the Future the days of playing will be Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Paid salary list 3 days at #71 2s. 5d. per diem #213 7s. 3d.; Paid Billstickers #4 1s.; Handbills 8s.; Candlemen #1 13s.; Mantua Maker #3 17s.; Page 18s.; Chorus singers 1 night #2 5s. 6d. (Drury Lane Treasurer's Book) [The first five items were constants (weekly) during the season amounting to a total outlay as follows. No further itemization of them will be made]: @Item Weekly Average Season Total@Billstickers #2 14s. #99 18s.@Handbills 12s. #22 4s.@Candlemen #4 #148@Mantua Maker #2 #78@Page 18s. #33 6s.@ Receipts: #142 9s. 6d

Event Comment: [R+Rich's Register lists The Hermit as afterpiece.] Paid salary list 5 days at #72 6s. 8d. per diem, #361 13s. 4d.; Atkins not on list #1 7s. 6d.; Rollet on note #7 7s.; Vernon on note per order Mr L, #12 12s.; Bill for 2 suit Men's cloathes #15 15s. (Treasurer's Book). [See engagement contract for Guidetti (Private Correspondence of David Garrick, II, 454) arranged for in Paris by Jean Monnet in early August 1766. He was engaged as Premier Danseur and composer of Ballets at 150 Guineas a year plus "300 Livres argent de France" for travelling expenses. He was to dance for no other theatre without explicit permission from Garrick.] Receipts: #130 17s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Paid salary list 6 days at #72 8s. 4d. per diem #434 10s.; Mr Hopkins on note #28; Miss Reynolds to make up salary 18s. 4d.; Rec'd Stopages [i.e., forfeits from actors' wages for missing rehearsals, etc.] #3 6s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #254 5s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera. The Music composed by several celebrated Composers. All Boxes put together, and no Persons admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered this Day at the Office at Half a Guinea each; First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. By His Majesties Command no Person whatsoever to be admitted behind the Scenes or into the Orchestra. 6:30 p.m. Vivant Rex et Regina. [Repeated in all bills.] [A pasticchio similar to La Schiava (The Humorists). See Nicoll, III, 361. Advertisement for the company of performers at the Opera had been given in the Public Advertiser three months earlier, 6 August: 'Drummond, Vincent and Gordon,Proprietors and Managers of the Opera at the King's Theatre in the Haymarket beg leave to announce that they have engaged the best Company that could be got in Italy...and are expected in London this month. The company are as follows: Serious-the celebrated Guarducci, first man; Signora Aunuciati, first woman; Savoi, second man; Miss Young, second woman; Grassi, Signora Piatti, third woman. Comic-Lovattini, first man, tenor; Signora Zamperini, first woman; Savoi, first man, serious; Miss Young, first woman; Signor Moriggi (the old man) bass; Signora Piatti, second woman; Zamperini second man; Signora Gibbetti [Gibelli in the Gazetteer] third woman."

Event Comment: MMr Woodward's Day. [As author of afterpiece, altered from The Necromancer; or, Harlequin Dr Faustus.] Mainpiece: By particular Desire. The Accomplish'd Maid oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of the indisposition of Mattocks. Charges #65 15s. [Profit to Woodward #126 9s.] (Account Book). Payment of this sum to Mr Woodward on account of the pantomime of Dr Faustus" was made on 15 Dec. Receipts: #192 4s. (Account Book)