Event Comment: [In afterpiece the assignment of Captain Cook is from Diary, 27 Apr., which does not state who performed Koah.] Receipts: #234 3s. (222.14; 11.9)

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Fearon as Peachum, but "In consequence of Fearon's illness, Ryder was yesterday obliged to undertake the part of Peachum" (Diary, 30 Apr.).] Receipts: #248 8s. 6d. (240.3.6; 8.5.0)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kemble. 1st piece [1st time; M. PREL 1; at its 2nd performance, 10 Aug., acted under its 2nd title, and published as such]: Written by Thomas? Bellamy. [The Address by--Codrington, of Exeter (European Magazine, Sept. 1789, p. 218).] World, 1 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Kemble, No. 26, Villiers-street, York-Buildings. Diary, 1 Sept. 1789: This Day is published The Benevolent Planters (1s.)

Event Comment: "Harley's youth and vigour so repeatedly got the better of his endeavours to conceal them under the veil of assumed debility that it was rather the grandson of Lear, who was rehearsing the part of that injured Prince and parent, than the good old King himself" (Diary, 5 Jan.). Receipts: #269 8s. 6d. (266.13.0; 2.15.6)

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Mrs Ward, but "An apology was made for Mrs Wilson's reading the part of Angelica, vice Mrs Ward, who was suddenly taken ill" (Diary, 22 Mar.). Afterpiece in place of The Pannel, advertised on playbill of 18 Mar.] Receipts: #234 3s. 6d. (188.12.0; 44.1.6. 1.10.0)

Event Comment: Benefit for Dignum. Diary, 17 May: Tickets to be had of Dignum, the corner of Leigh-street, Red Lyon-square. Receipts: #323 19s. (31.14.0; 8.2.6; 0.12.6; tickets: 283.10.0) (charge: #105 16s.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Duffey and Cox. Diary, 3 June: Tickets to be had of Duffey, No. 115, St. Martin's Lane [Cox not listed]. Receipts: #315 10s. 6d. (94.12.0; 6.3.6; tickets: 214.15.0)

Event Comment: [Extra night] Benefit for Lee Lewes. [Mrs Saunders is identified in Diary, 19 Nov. 1790.] Receipts: none listed

Event Comment: "Yesterday evening Palmer performed the part of Inkle for the first time to a very full house. He went through the two first acts with much credit, and had he been less imperfect in the last scene it would have proved more interesting" (Diary, 24 Aug.)

Event Comment: The Nobility, Gentry and Public at large are respectfully informed that, in compliance with the wishes of many of the principal Subscribers an supporters of this undertaking, and it being found that, without offence to law, the entertainments advertised for the Hanover-square Rooms may be given at this Place. The Doors to be opened at 6:30. To begin at 7:30 [same throughout season]. Pit 10s. 6d. Gallery 5s. As the Proprietors would not presume, even to save themselves from utter ruin, to offend either the Authority of the King, or of the Laws, they forbear all idea of performing Operas until the hardship and justice of their case shall produce the proper influence upon his Majesty's benevolent mind; and, under the circumstances in which thy stand, with a Company of the most celebrated singers and dances in the world, in their respective departments, engaged at an expense of #18,000, they confide in the liberality to the Public that they will countenance and support such an Entertainment as they are legally warranted to give, until they shall recover their just right of performing Operas under his Majesty's license. "From dinner we all went to the Opera House in the Haymarket, where for the first time they performed for money [see 23 Feb., 10 and 22 Mar.]; the singers, to avoid the [licensing] Act, coming in their own dresses and confining themselves to the airs. It will be seen whether this restriction will be considered sufficient" (Windham Diary, 219). "The action of Orpheus and Eurydice has been seen before at both the rehearsals [see 10 and 22 Mar.], but the scenery could not be then sufficiently displayed. It was very correctly managed on Saturday night...The scene of the Elysian fields deserved the most admiration, where, by means of lights placed behind gauze, a filmy hue is thrown over the stage, and the figures assume the appearance of aerial beings" (Gazetteer, 28 Mar.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood, Percey, Cameron, Wilson, George, Woollams. Kemble Mem.: Benefit for the Boxkeepers. A New Edition of the [mainpiece] to be had at the Theatre. "Went to play. Mrs Jordan in 'Rosalind.' I am still of opinion, there is more in her person and natural manners than in her acting. Her merit lies out of her part. The words set down by the author she does not repeat with great propriety of tone, emphasis, or gesture, than others. But she has of these, certain peculiarities, which indicate dispositions, such as take strong hold of the affections, at least of the male part of her audience; and therefore, when the part is of a sort to admit a large portion of these, she produces a great effect. The true acting of the part may, in many instances, not require what she throws into it, but it may admit it; and if the expression so thrown in is of the sort described, the effect of the whole will be improved, though the part is thereby neither better nor worse acted" (Windham Diary, 28 May 1791, 227). Receipts: #363 4s. 6d. (33.5.0; 9.5.6; 2.13.0; tickets: 318.1.0) (charge: #117 1s. 7d.)

Event Comment: In consequence of the Indisposition of a principal Performer [Mrs Goodall (Diary, 29 July)] The Battle of Hexham [advertised on playbill of 27 July] is unavoidably postponed

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Kemble as Jaffier, but "On Saturday evening Whitfield played the part of Jaffier in the room of Kemble, at four hours notice, and happy it was for Whitfield that an opportunity offered to prove how much his talents have been kept in the shade; his conception of the part was critically without error, his delivery of Otway's language with good emphasis and his pathos extremely natural and interesting" (Diary, 16 Apr.).] Receipts: #296 6s. 6d. (254.14.6; 38.14.0; 2.18.0)

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera (1st time [in London; 1st performed at Naples, 1789]); the Music by Paisiello. Under the direction of Storace. With new Dresses, Scenery and Decorations. Diary, 15 May: The Opera, besides exquisite music, abounds with lively trickery and humourous incident...Kelly shifted his dress nine times, and acted with much pleasantry

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clendining. The Poetry of the additional Songs [in 1st piece] by Peter Pindar, Esq. [pseud. for John Wolcot]. Morning Herald, 27 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Clendining, No. 19, Martlett-court, Bow-street, Covent-garden. "Mrs Clendining's endeavours to entertain were successful, and Fitzroy by Incledon gave a rich feast to the musical amateur. The air beginning, 'Dear Tom, this brown jug,' had a fine effect by the music being omitted" (Diary, 18 May). Receipts: #273 17s

Event Comment: A New Serious Opera [1st time; SER 2, by Teresa Bandettino]; the Music [a pasticcio] by Sarti, Giardanello [i.e. G. Giordani], Tarchi and Federici. Under the direction of Federici. With new Dresses, Scenes, &c. [In 2nd ballet the playbill retains Nivelon as Achilles , but "Favre Gardel took the part of Achilles, vice Nivelon' (Diary, 12 June).

Event Comment: "Opera, for first time. Dance of 'Bacchus and Ariadne.' We have advanced to the point of seeing people dance naked" (Windham Diary (9 Dec. 1797), p. 383)

Event Comment: Last night Pizarro underwent "further curtailments. It was concluded by a little after ten o'clock" (Morning Chronicle, 28 May). 'It is unquestionably the most excellent play I ever saw for variety of attractions. The scenery and decorations are splendid and magnificent without being tawdry or puerile, and these ornaments are made to heighten, not supersede, real dramatic merit" (Henry Crabb Robinson, Diary, 1869, I, 58-59). Receipts: #402 2s. (354.10; 45.17; 1.15)