Event Comment: Benefit
for King. [
Mrs Siddons's 1st appearance as
Gertrude was at
Liverpool, 23 July 1777;
Mrs Jordan's as
Ophelia at
Richmond, 19 Aug. 1795.]
Morning Herald, 28 Apr.: Tackets to be had of King, No. 56,
Store-street,
Bedford-square; 30 Apr.: The dresses [in
Hamlet] were all modern. Receipts: #498 17s. 6d. (284.11.6; 55.9.0; 2.5.0; tickets: 156.12.0) (charge: #232 7s. 6d.)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: Hamlet
Performance Comment: Claudius-Packer; Hamlet-Wroughton; Polonius-Dodd (1st appearance in that character); Horatio-Whitfield; Laertes-C. Kemble; Rosencrantz-Caulfield; Guildenstern-Trueman; Osrick (for that night only)-Bannister Jun.; Marcellus-Benson; Bernardo-Phillimore; Ghost of Hamlet's father-Bensley; Players-Maddocks, Hollingsworth; 1st Grave@digger-King (1st appearance in that character); 2nd Grave@digger-Burton; Gertrude-Mrs Siddons (1st appearance in that character [in London]); Ophelia-Mrs Jordan (1st appearance in that character in London]); [in which she will introduce an additional Air by Linley-Mrs Jordan; Actress-Miss Tidswell.Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day
Entertainment: Monologue.End: a Serio-Comic, Poetic, Prosaic Paraphrase on Shakespeare's Seven Ages-King