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Event Comment: The Words of the Music [for Alzuma] will be given away at the Theatre. Third Night. For the Author. Charges #67. Profit to author #96 13s. 6d. Paid Whitefield for Cloaths made #65 12s. 5d. Paid Scott (copper laceman) #59 9s. (Account Book). Receipts: #163 13s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alzuma

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Event Comment: By Order of the Grand Buck for the Benefit of Wignell and Davis. N.B. Places will be kept in the front boxes for the brethren of the Mcst Noble Order, who are desired to meet the Grand Buck and His Council at the Shakespeare's Head in the Great Piazza, by 5 o'clock, from thence to proceed to the theatre, and bring the ensigns of the Order with them (playbill). Charges #66 3s. 6d. Deficit to beneficiaries #4 6s. 3d. apiece, cover'd by income from tickets: Wignell #78 4s. (Box 82; Pit 290; Gallery 142); Davis #74 4s. (Box 59; Pit 281; Gallery 173) (Account Book). Receipts: #57 11s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: End: The Whim, as17730426

Event Comment: Public Advertiser: When the Disturbances of the Theatre at Rome, in the Days of Augustus, caus'd several Tumults, the Emperour interpos'd and pronounc'd the Sentence of Banishment on a very great Actor, for whose Sake these Disturbances were made. He observ'd at the same Time, that the Stage had a strong Tendency to disturb all as well as to amuse the People. The Actor said, with great Spirit, "'Tis for your Interest, Caesar, that they shoul d be amus'd any Way." The Civil War of England, 1641, did not commence 'til the Playhouses were shut. People are never more discontented than when depriv'd of their Favourite Diversions

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bankrupt

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Portsmouth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Performance Comment: Belcour-Lewis (From Theatre Royal, Dublin, first appearance in this kingdom); Stockwell-Clarke; Capt. Dudley-Hull; O'Flaherty-Shuter; Fulmer-Dunstall; Varland-Quick; Lady Rusport-Mrs Green; Louisa Dudley-Mrs Baker; House Keeper-Miss Helme; Lucy-Mrs Willems; Mrs Fulmer-Mrs Gardner; Charlotte Rusport-Miss Barsanti; Charles Dudley-Wroughton.

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Event Comment: Paid half year's Poor's Rate for theatre due Mich last #24 15s. 10d., and ditto for House in Bow Passage 17s. 9d. Paid Palmer (wax chandler) #46 8s. Receipts: #136 1s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Event Comment: Music of Afterpiece by Monsigny, Phillidor, and Dibdin. Books of songs at Theatre. The Farce was well rec'd the Music is very pretty. rather too long--much applause (Hopkins Diary). [MacMillan's note from Kemble differs slightly in wording.] Receipts: #183 18s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: I: The Mountaineers, as17730930

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [See 25 Jan. 1772.] [Brown identified by Kemble note on playbill. Macklin no longer appears on the playlist. This day is published at 1s. 6d. The Duellist, a Comedy, as it was represented at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. To which is prefixed a concise Narrative of the very Extraordinary Circumstances attending its Reception. T. Evans Bookseller.] Receipts: #188 1s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: End: The Highland Reel, as17731112

Event Comment: Books of the Opera to be had at the Theatre. Paid Pattinson (tallow chandler) #35 10s., and Evans for Spermecetti candles #14 8s. Receipts: #143 11s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Achilles in Petticoats

Event Comment: Paid for 2 extra Flutes & Guitars (29 ultimo incl.) #2 5s. (Treasurer's Book). [This month was published Bell's edition of Shakespeare's acting plays, 'as performed at the Theatres Royal in London, requlated from the Prompt Books of each House, by permission of the managers, with notes critical and illustrative by the author of the Dramatic Censors, 5 vols. 12 mo. Price 15s."] Receipts: #246 6s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Event Comment: [Oratorios were not given at Covent Garden this season. No record of any occurrence in the Account Book for this day. Full Epilogue to the Man of Business publish'd in Public Advertiser, with note that many lines were omitted, because of its length, in the theatre.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Books of the Burletta to be had at the theatre. Author's third night. Charges #64 5s. Profit to author #37 12s. Receipts: #101 17s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Business

Afterpiece Title: The Portrait

Dance: End: The Lamplighter, as17731207

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these years. [See 17 March 1772. Gentlewoman identified by Hopkins Manuscript Notes and by Winston MS 10. The Westminster Magazine for March (p. 111) gives out that "she was very lately a boarder with the celebrated Charlotte Hayes; a circumstance which will inform our readers that her figure is pleasing and also that she is young and hadsome. It is but justice, however, to add that she possesses the internal as well as external requisites of a good actress; for she discovers great feeling and sensibility; and indeed promises to be an ornament to the theatre."] Receipts: #192 6s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pitt and Stoppelaer. Charges #67 15s. Deficit to each #4 6s. 9d., cover'd by income from tickets: Mrs Pitt #53 7s. (Box 48; Pit 185; Gallery 136); Stopplear, #86 5s. (Box 112; Pit 271; Gallery 176). Paid Bates for performing 4 nights in the Sorcerer to 11 Oct. last 10s., 5 nights in Henry VIII to 14 Feb. last #1 5s., and 5 nights in the Fair to 13 Nov. last 5s. Paid half year's Poor's rate for the theatre due Lady day last, #24 15s. 10d., and ditto for House in Bow Passage 17s. 9d. Receipts: #59 1s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantly

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Theatre open at half past five. Play to begin half past six. Paid Supernumeraries & Kettle Drum 2 nights #1 7s. (Treasurer's Book). [This payment averaged #2 10s. per night throughout the season, or #470 total for the season. No further notation will be made of the item.] Receipts: #152 6s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Meeting of the Company

Cast
Role: Newphew Actor: Cautherly

Afterpiece Title: The Note of Hand

Dance: I: The Sailors Revels-Atkins

Event Comment: Music by Fisher. The whole to conclude with a Capital Scene by Servandoni. Books of the Songs, Chorusses &c. [of the afterpiece] to be had at the Theatre. [Customary note on all succeeding bills advertising the Sylphs this season. Mrs Williams was probably Mrs Willems.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Sylphs or Harlequins Gambols

Event Comment: Benefit towards the establishment of a Fund for the relief of Performers and others retiring from the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Romance of an Hour

Dance: II: The Provencale, as17740928; End Opera: The Frolick, as17741214

Event Comment: Book of the Opera may be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #230 13s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Matilda

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

Event Comment: Books of the Entertainment to be had at the Theatre. [Refers to the afterpiece, and appears throughout the season when this musical entertainment is produced.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Two Misers

Event Comment: Books of the Oratorio to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: Between parts Oratorio: a Concerto on German Flute, as17760223; Violin Concerto, as17760223

Event Comment: Benefit for Reinhold. Tickets delivered for An Opera will be taken. Books of the Entertainment [i.e., afterpiece] to be had at the theatre. Afterpiece: A Musical Entertainment by D. J. Piguenit. 8vo 1774, played this one night only (Biographia Dramatica). [It had been played as a Burletta at Marybone Gardens according to the Westminster Magazine for April, and though some of its music was good, the Burletta writer had taken great liberty with his original.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Don Quixote

Entertainment: Interlude.End: True Blue, as17760409

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Acted but once this season. Tickets deliver'd by Branson, Cushing, Thompson, Wewitzer, Jones, will be taken this night. Books of the Masque to be had at the theatre. Doors open half past 5. To begin half past 6 o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Syrens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Performance Comment: As17760427 but Kecksey-Moss (from Theatre Royal Edinburg); Epilogue Song-_.
Event Comment: House (Hopkins Diary). Garrick's last time of performing Ranger (playbill). Rec'd Sga Paccini's Debt in full #75; Condell's 3rd payment: Fruit Office #20. Paid Blandford, Chandler's bill (after deduction) in full #14 12s. 2d.; Balance of Mad. Paccini and Martini's acct. in full #6 10s.; Bensley in full; Everard's debt and costs #5 15s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). [Publish'd this month, Garrick's Looking Glass; or, the Art of Rising on the Stage. Price 2s. 6d. Printed for T. Evans By S. J. Pratt. Informative on most stage fundamentals. A poem in three cantos. Publish'd in July, A Lecture on Mimicry, as it was deliver'd with great applause at the Theatres in Covent Garden and the Haymarket, and the Great Room in Panton St. In the course of which were introduced a great variety of theatrical Imitations, to which is added Jerry Sneak 's return from the regatta and a Lecture upon Lectures. By G. S. Carey. Price 1s. @"I'll...on myself depend.@Inever yet found manager my friend.@By you supported boldly I'll oppose@My mimic powers against a host of foes.' Foote, Barry, and toothless Macklin, singers and dancers.] Receipts: #226 13s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: I: The Savage Hunters, as17751118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii With The Fall Of Cardinal Wolsey

Performance Comment: King Henry-A Gentleman (from the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh [unidentified]); Duke of Buckingham-Stacy; Duke of Norfolk-Comerford; Duke of Suffolk-Kenny; Earl of Surry-Garland; Cranmer (Archbishop of Canterbury)-Lewis; Gardiner (Bishop of Winchester)-Massey; Lord Sands-Ware of Deptford; Lord Chamberlain-Johnson; Cardinal Campeius (the Pope's Legate)-Sparrow; Cromwell (Gentleman Usher)-W. Smith; Doctor Butts (Physician to the King)-Ward; Cardinal Wolsey-Stokes; Queen Katherine-Miss Reynolds; Anne Bullen-Mrs West; Patience (with a song in character)-Mrs Davies; Dame Prattle-Mrs Ross; Lady of the bed chamber [to Queen Katherine-Miss C. Reynolds.

Afterpiece Title: Miss Hoyden or The Man of Quality

Dance: A Hornpipe-Mrs Marklew

Song: Between Acts: Singing-Mrs Davies

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife Or The Quakers Wedding

Performance Comment: Colonel Feignwell-Comerford; Freeman-Smith; Sackbut-Lewis; Tradelove-Johnson; Obadiah Prim-Massey; Periwinkle-Newton; Simon Pure-Kenny; Quaker Boy-Master Russell; Sir Philip Modelove-Lloyd (from the Theatre Royal, Hay-market); Anne Lovely-Mrs Wilks; Betty-Miss Taylor; Masked Lady-Mrs West; Mrs Prim-Mrs Ross.
Cast
Role: Periwinkle Actor: Newton

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: As17760925

Entertainment: Imitations-Master Russell