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Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Public Advertiser, 26 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Palmer, No. 39, Goodge-street, Rathbone-place. Afterpiece: 1st time at that theatre. With a Sea Fight

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: The Critic or A Tragedy Rehearsd

Dance: As17830603

Song: End of afterpiece Stand to your Guns, as17830801

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Sestini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: Gretna Green

Song: End of Act III of mainpiece Water parted from the Sea by Sga Sestini; End of Act I of afterpiece Edwin's favourite song in The Castle of Andalusia, A Master I have and I am his Man, by Master Sestini

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: none listed (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Magic Picture

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Song: As17831121

Event Comment: Benefit for the Composer [of mainpiece]. Receipts: #72 9s. (51/7/0; 19/17/6; 0/2/0; tickets not come in: 1/2/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Metamorphosis

Cast
Role: Mrs Neville Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: Beaufort Actor: Phillimore

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece, as17831018; End of mainpiece, as17831204

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: none listed (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: More Ways Than One

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: none listed (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: More Ways Than One

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: none listed (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: More Ways Than One

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Siddons. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by half past Four o'clock. [Mrs Siddons's 1st appearance as Lady Randolph was at Manchester, 5 Feb. 1777.] "The Siddons, younger and more rich in natural Gifts, certainly offers much to the Mind, and yet much more to the Eye. The Crawford, by some means or other, offers more to the Heart" (Public Advertiser, 24 Dec). Receipts: #303 8s. 6d. (156/2/0; 10/13/0; 0/13/6; tickets: 136/0/0) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: As17831020

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #112 14s. (85/8/0; 26/17/6; 0/8/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Reparation

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #164 13s. 6d. (162/11/0; 2/2/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Reparation

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Event Comment: Benefit for Vestris [Jun.]. Tickets, half a guinea each, to be had of Vestris, No. 37, Great Pulteney-street, Golden-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Rivali Delusi

Dance: End of Act I Le Reveil du Bonheur, as17840203; End of Opera an entirely new ballet in the Rural Stile, composed by D'Auberval, founded on the much admired Burletta of the celebrated Favart, Le Coca du Pillage; ou, La Lotterie Ingenieuse, in which a Pastoral Minuet, never exhibited but at the Opera in Paris, by Vestris fJun.J and Mme Theodore, the other parts by Blake, Slingsby, Mme Rossi, Miss De Camp, Mme Simonet. The Music selected from Sacchini, Piccinni, and other eminent Performers

Performance Comment: J and Mme Theodore, the other parts by Blake, Slingsby, Mme Rossi, Miss De Camp, Mme Simonet. The Music selected from Sacchini, Piccinni, and other eminent Performers .
Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #180 12s. 6d. (179/5/0; 1/7/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Reparation

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Event Comment: Benefit for Pacchierotti. Opera: A Serious Opera; the Music by several eminent Masters. Pit tickets will admit two persons to the 1st, and three to the 2nd Gallery; but no money to be returned. Tickets to be had of Pacchierotti, No. 7, Great Marylebone-street, near Cavendish-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Demofoonte

Music: Between the 1st and 2nd Acts a sonata on the harpsichord by Clementi

Dance: End of Act II Friendship leads to Love, as17831206, but omitted: Lepicq; End of Opera he Reveil du Bonheur, as17840203

Song: Pacchierotti will conclude the 1st Act with an entire new scene by Sarti; In Act III a song, composed by Handel, by Pacchierotti

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Sestini. Public Advertiser, 9 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Sga Sestini, No. 16, Upper Seymour-street, Portman Square. Receipts: #307 2s. (212/3; tickets: 94/19) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17830917

Song: In Act I of afterpiece a favourite song by Sga Sestini; In Act II she will introduce the celebrated tune of Marlborough, with English words adapted to it

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Farce [who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #106 11s. 6d. (77/2/0; 28/15/6; 0/14/0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disguise

Dance: End of Act IV of mainpiece, as17840311athi

Event Comment: Benefit for D'Auberval, ballet-master. Opera: An entirely new Species of Entertainment, after the French style [1st time; ser 3, by Antonio Andrei]. The Music entirely new, composed by Rauzzini. [Libretto (H. Reynell, 1784) is entitled Alina; o sia, La Regina di Golconda.] The Scenery and Decorations devised and painted by Novosielski. The Dresses in character, and entirely new by Lupino. Tickets, half a guinea each, to be had of D'Auberval, No. 5, Great Pultney-street, Golden-square. To prevent all manner of confusion, the Subscribers are most respectfully entreated to give early notice, addressed as above, of their intention concerning their Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Regina Di Golconda

Dance: Three new ballets composed by D'Aubcrval. End of Act I Ballet [of Warriors] by Lepicq, Henry, Zuchelli, the two Miss Simonets, Mme Theodore; End of Act II Dance [of Shepherds] by Lepicq, Mme Simonet, D'Aubcrval (1st appearance), Mme Rossi, Vestris [Jun.], Mme Theodore; End of Opera The Four Ages of Man, in which a Pas de Trois of Chinese by Henry, Zuchelli, Blake. Childhood-the two Miss Simonets; Youth-Slingsby and Mme Theodore; Manhood-Lepicq, Mme Rossi, Vestris [Jun.]; Old Age-D'Auberval and Mme Simonet, who will dance to the celebrated Musette of Handel. To conclude with a Pas de Huit, in a stile entirely new, by the Couples who represent the Four Ages

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Younge. Mainpiece: Never acted here. In Act V a Grand Procession. Receipts: #275 12s. (161/4; tickets: 114/8) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heroine Of The Cave

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Knights

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Song: In Act II of mainpiece an Anthem (singers not listed)

Event Comment: Benefit for Henderson. Public Advertiser, 16 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Henderson at his house in Buckingham-street, York Buildings. Receipts: #292 2s. 6d. (166/10/6; tickets: 125/12/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Cast
Role: Mr Ford Actor: Wroughton
Role: Mrs Ford Actor: Mrs Mattocks

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Knights

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. Part of the Pit [Public Advertiser, 26 Mar.: 4 rows] will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by half past Four o'clock. Receipts: #321 3s. (160/2/0; 9/3/6; 0/7/6; tickets: 151/10/0) (charge: #67 11s. 11d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Cast
Role: Belford Actor: R. Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: As17840320athi

Event Comment: Benefit for Mme Rossi. Tickets, half a guinea each, to be had of Mme Rossi, No. 31, Pall-mall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Rivali Delusi

Dance: End of Act I a new ballet, composed for the occasion by D'Auberval, Pygmalion (taken from the Mono-drama of that name by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, with the original music composed by that very celebrated writer; the story founded on the fabulous account of Pygmalion animating his statue) by Lepicq, Vcstris (Jun.], Mme Rossi, Mme Theodore; End of Opera will be revived Le Tuteur Trompe (composed by Lepicq) in which the following new dances: A new Pas de Deux by Lepicq and Mme Rossi, the latter in the character of Niaise; a Pas Seul by Mme Theodore; a Pas de Troit by Lepicq, Mme Rossi, Zuchelli; an entirely new Pas de Deux by Vestris [Jun.] and Mme Theodore; a Pas Seul by Slingsby; a Pas Seul, entirely new, by Vestris [Jun.]; to conclude with the Sequdilla and Fandango by Lepicq and Mme Rossi. N. B. In the same ballet will be introduced a Minuet, composed by Barthelemon for the Prince of Wales, and an Allemande in the French stile, both by Lepicq and Mme Rossi

Performance Comment: ], Mme Rossi, Mme Theodore; End of Opera will be revived Le Tuteur Trompe (composed by Lepicq) in which the following new dances: A new Pas de Deux by Lepicq and Mme Rossi, the latter in the character of Niaise; a Pas Seul by Mme Theodore; a Pas de Troit by Lepicq, Mme Rossi, Zuchelli; an entirely new Pas de Deux by Vestris [Jun.] and Mme Theodore; a Pas Seul by Slingsby; a Pas Seul, entirely new, by Vestris [Jun.]; to conclude with the Sequdilla and Fandango by Lepicq and Mme Rossi. N. B. In the same ballet will be introduced a Minuet, composed by Barthelemon for the Prince of Wales, and an Allemande in the French stile, both by Lepicq and Mme Rossi .
Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Gazetteer, 20 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Palmer at his house, No. 39, Goodge-street, Rathbone-place. Receipts: #287 9s. (147/8/0; 14/1/6; 0/19/6; tickets: 125/0/0) (charge: #69 7s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: Too Civil by Half

Cast
Role: Lady Treacle Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Dance: As17840311athi

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bannister. Mainpiece: Never acted here. The Music by Dr Arne. With a Grand Procession of the different Orders of the Knights of Chivalry. Public Advertiser, 6 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Bannister, No. 6, Great Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #252 8s. 6d. (177/14/6; tickets: 74/14/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: In Act I of mainpiece a Dance of Cupids; In Act IV a Dance of Daemons; In Act V a Grand Ballet (performers not listed)

Event Comment: Benefit for Dodd. Afterpiece: Not acted these 12 years. Receipts: #207 12s. 6d. (60/2/0; 20/10/6; 0/17/0; tickets: 126/3/0) (charge: #106 10s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Afterpiece Title: The Absent Man

Dance: As17840311athi

Event Comment: Benefit for Wroughton. Public Advertiser, 20 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Wroughton at his house, Broad-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #262 18s. 6d. (167/0/6; tickets: 95/18/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Cast
Role: Blandford Actor: Fearon

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Knights

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pope. Public Advertiser, 24 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Miss Pope, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. Receipts: #268 19s. 6d. (94/9/0; 28/3/0; 0/14/6; tickets: 145/13/0) (charge: #107 1s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs