Event Comment: The
King's Company. This performance is known from a document in
The Theatrical Inquisitor and Monthly Mirror, July 1816, p. 26, and in
Fitzgerald,
A New History, I, 145. This document lists the receipts and attendance:
The King's box, #1 10s., possibly six persons;
Mr Hayles' boxes, #2 16s., possibly 14 persons;
Mr Mohun's boxes, #3 16s., possibly 19 persons;
Mr Yate's boxes, #1 15s. 6d., possibly 9 persons;
James' boxes, #2 4s., possibly 11 persons.
Mr Kent's pit, 112 persons; and
Mr Britan's pit, 79 persons; a total of 191 persons paying #23 17s. 6d.
Mr Bracy's gallery, 100 persons;
Mr Johnson's gallery, 44 persons; a total of 144 persons, paying #10 16s. Upper Gallery, 119 persons, paying #5 19s.
Mrs Kempton (upper gallery?), 5s. The house rent is listed as #5 14s. The attendance appears to total at least 513 persons. Compare these data with those for 12 Dec. 1677
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens; Or, Alexander The Great
Related Works
Related Work: Alexander the Great Author(s): John Philip Kemble
Related Work: The Amazon Queen; or, The Amours of Thalestris to Alexander the Great Author(s): John Weston