Event Comment: By Per
mission of the
Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for
Everard. 1st piece [1st time; PREL 1, by
Sarah Gardner.
Larpent MS 1101; not published]. 2nd piece: Never acted here [acted 19 Aug. 1784]. [3rd piece: Prologue by
Samuel Foote.] Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. The Doors to be opened at 5:00. To begin at 6:15. Tickets to be had at No. 21,
Carey-street,
Lincoln's-Inn Fields;
New Slaughter's Coffee-house,
St. Martin's-lane; of
Adams, the
Duke of Clarence Coffee-house,
Haymarket; and of
Everard, at Mr
Shade's,
Woburn-street, near
Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title: Mrs Doggrell In Her Altitudes; Or, The Effects Of A West India
Ramble
Afterpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage
Performance Comment: Lord Ogleby (for that night only)-Thornton (of the Theatre-Royal Windsor; 1st appearance in London); Canton-Everard (late of the Theatre-Royal Drury-Lane); Miss Sterling-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified]); Mrs Heidelberg-Mrs Gardner (1st appearance since her return from the West Indies).Afterpiece Title: The Author