Event Comment: "Had Mr Bannister, sen (whose merit as a singer is pre-eminent) never played any other character than that of Caliban, he would, by so capital, so unique, so unparalleled a performance, have deserved to be ranked with the foremost" (Jonson, ed. Waldron, 178). Receipts: #182 15s. (145.11; 36.2; 1.2)

Event Comment: Among the instrumental performers are Shaw, W. Parke, Mason, Parkinson, Hyde, A. Shaw, Archer, Corfe, C. Parkinson, Dressler, Flack Sen., Flack Jun., Zwingman. Under the direction of Linley. At Play-house Prices. No Money to be returned. Boxes 6s. Pit 3s. 6d. Gallery 2s. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Fosbrook, at the Theatre. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season]

Event Comment: Instrumental performers as 7 Mar., but omitted: Archer, Corfe, C. Parkinson, Dressler, Flack Sen.

Event Comment: Benefit for Sedgwick. Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2, by Samuel Birch. Larpent MS 983; not published; synopsis of plot in Universal Magazine, May 1793 p. 389]: The Music principally composed by Attwood, with selections from Mozart, Ferrari, Martin y Soler?, Linley? Sen.. And a new Overture by Shaw. Morning Herald, 25 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Sedgwick at his house, Kennington-Green. Receipts: #379 14s. 6d. (70.18.0; 52.12.0; 3.1.6; tickets: 253.3.0) (charge: #162 5s. 1d.)

Event Comment: Afterpiece: 8th Time [i.e. in continuation of the reckoning for the DL season at King's of 1792-93]. The Musick principally composed by Attwood, with selections from Mozart, Ferrari, Martin (y Soler], Linley [Sen.). With a new Overture by Shaw

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera; the music by Cimarosa, under the direction of Federici. The music of both dances by Miller. With entirely new Dresses, Scenes and Decorations, both in the Theatre itself, and in the Representations. Pit 10s. 6d. 1st Gallery 5s. 2nd Gallery 3s. No Money to be returned. The Subscribers are respectfully entreated to observe that they are to produce their Tickets at the doors. The Doors to be opened at 6:30. To begin at 7:30 [same throughout season, except on 15 May). The Ladies at the Head of the Boxes arc respectfully reminded that such Boxes as shall not be paid for at the opening of the Theatre become then vacant, and may be claimed by any of the old Subscribers. No one to be admitted behind the scenes. For the greater Safety of the Company in coming and going out of the Theatre Mr Townsend has taken charge of the Peace Officers, and will himself attend every night of Performance. [Morning Herald, 12 Jan., notes than the original gallery is now divided into two, a lower and an upper, and that the chief colors used in the repainting of the auditorium are blue, white and gold. Ibid, 13 Jan.: The scenes [in the opera], which were entirely new, have never been exceeded in splendour of general effect...One, representing the hall of an Italian villa, shews a ceiling designed like that of the theatre itself [which the same newspaper, 4 Jan., describes as being Apollo and the Muses, in a cove enriched with allegorical figures, flowers, and medals, in chiaroscuro].]

Event Comment: Powell: Mrs Goodall and Sedgwick not on in [Miss Farren's] Epilogue. Bannister Sen. came too late, not supposing the Play to be over so early, but apologiz'd to Mr Kemble, with which he was satisfied. Pirates rehearsed at 10 (in consequence of Suett, Storace being ill; Kelly, Crouch, Bannister Jun., Sedgwick absent, rehearsal was dismiss'd); My Grandmother at 12; Lodoiska music at 1. Receipts: #370 17s. 6d. (295/11/0; 62/6/0; 13/0/6)

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of COMUS, advertised on playbill of 11 June.) Powell: Clandestine Marriage rehearsed at 10 (King ill; Barrymore one scene); Lodoiska at 12 (Bannister Sen. not call'd; Danby, Denman, Reynoldson, Hobler, Horsfall, Dorion Jun., G. D'Egville, Hamoir absent). Receipts: #114 2s. 6d. (74/19/0; 33/10/6; 5/13/0)

Event Comment: 2nd piece: In one act. ["The following Gentlemen of the Chorus absent from this Evening Performance, viz., Messrs Boyce, Hobler, Dixon, Dorion Sen., Annereau; Dancers: Messrs G. D'Egville and Hamoir" (Powell).] Powell: Heiress rehearsed at 10; High life at 12; New Ballet [Glorious First of June] at 12. Receipts: #209 16s. 6d. (143/18/0; 63/7/6; 2/11/0)

Event Comment: ["Dorion Sen. absent from this Evening's Performance" (Powell).] Powell: Bon Ton rehearsed at 11 (Tittup's Scenes); My Grandmother at 11:30 (Vapour's Scenes; Barrymore not being in Town, the rehearsal was dismiss'd); Liar at 12; Children in the Wood at 1 (last Scene). Receipts: #179 4s. (111/5; 64/1; 3/18)

Event Comment: Benefit for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans of the brave Men who fell in the late Glorious Actions [on 1 June 1794], under Earl Howe. The Whole Receipt of the Night to be applied to the above Fund. Under the Patronage of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence. The Tickets for the Boxes at Half-a-Guinea each, are issued under the Direction of a Committee consisting of the following Noblemen and Gentlemen, who have obligingly undertaken to attend to the arrangements of the Evening: The Duke of Leeds, The Duke of Bedford, The Earl of Lauderdale, Lord Mulgrave, Lord William Russel, The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor [Paul Le Mesurier], Mr Alderman Coombe, Hon. Thos. Erskine, J. Nesbit Esq., I. B. Church Esq., W. Devaynes Esq., J. Taylor Vaughan Esq., J. J. Angerstein Esq., R. B. Sheridan Esq. Tickets and Places for the Boxes, not disposed of by the Committee, to be had of Fosbrook, at the Box-Office, Little Russel-Street. Tickets also to be had at the Bar of Lloyd's Coffee House. Afterpiece [1st time; ENT 2, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and James Cobb; with songs written by the Duke of Leeds, the Earl of Mulgrave, Mary Robinson, Joseph Richardson, &c. In 1797 altered as CAPE ST. VINCENT. Prologue by Joseph Richardson (London Chronicle, 4 July). Epilogue by Richard Brinsley Sheridan]: The Music composed and selected by Storace [with one song each by Reeve. Linley Sen., Michael Kelly]. The Dresses, Scenery and Machinery entirely New. "This piece is a sort of continuation of No Song No Supper...hastily put together for the occasion" (European Magazine, July 1794, p. 60). "The Theatre this Evening was crowded in every Part, the receipt amounting to something better than 1300 Guineas" (Powell). Powell, 1 July: Country Girl rehearsed at 10; Glorious First at 12 and at night. 2 July: Glorious First rehearsed at 10. Receipts: #1,526 11s. (450/6/0; 41/13/0; 0/12/6; tickets in boxes: 954/0/0; tickets in pit: 80/0/0) (charge: free)

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; BALL. P 2, by James Byrn. Synopsis of action, somewhat enlarged from that on playbill (H. Macleish, 1794)]: The Music partly new by Shield, and partly selected from Haydn, Mazzinghi, Gluck, Baumgarten, Gretry, Martin? y Soler, Dezede, Eley. With a new Overture for a Double Orchestra composed by Reeve. The Scenery, Machinery, Dresses and Decorations are entirely New. The Scenery painted by Hodgins, Walmsley, Phillips and Lupino Jun., assisted by Hollogan, Byrn, &c. The Dresses chiefly designed by Lupino Sen., and executed under the direction of Dick. "This ballet [is] the most magnificent exhibited on the English stage for many years" (Universal Magazine, Nov. 1794, p. 378). Receipts: #136 13s. 6d. (123.12.6; 13.1.0)

Event Comment: Powell: Miss Davies, Mrs Bramwell, G. D'Egville, Caulfield absent [from afterpiece], all Ill [their substitutes are not listed]; Miss Leak, Messrs Annereau, Bardoleau, Dorion Sen., Horsfall absent from the chorus. Receipts: #254 17s. (177.10; 73.7; 4.0)