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Event Comment: Benefit for the Authors [of mainpiece, who are named in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #247 14s. (187.18.0; 56.5.6; 3.10.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #115)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Better Late Than Never

Cast
Role: Diary Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Island of St

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Storace. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Public Advertiser, 2 Feb.: Tickets to be had of Sga Storace, No. 23, Howland-street, Rathbone Place. Receipts: #357 11s. (195.13; 20.19; 1.9; tickets: 139.10) (charge: #115 3s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #172 15s. (164.14; 8.1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Arrogance

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Cast
Role: Lady Waitfor't Actor: Mrs Webb
Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Esten. Public Advertiser, 7 Feb.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Esten, No. 5, Nassau-street, Soho. Receipts: #353 18s. (212.0; 5.10; tickets: 136.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Performance Comment: As17900915, but Lady Touchwood-Mrs Wells; Letitia Hardy (for that night only, with the song and Minuet de la Cour)-Mrs Esten.

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Entertainment: Monologue End: (for that night only) Collins's Ode on the Passions-Mrs Esten

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #190 12s. 6d. (184.5.0; 6.7.6; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Arrogance

Event Comment: Benefit for tha Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #185 8s. 6d. (177.2.6; 8.6.0; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Arrogance

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #217 2s. 6d. (212.17.6; 4.5.0; tickets: none listed)
Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #211 14s. 6d. (207.11.6; 4.3.0; tickets: none listed)
Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Jordan. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by half past Four. Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Richard (later) Sir Richard? Ford. Kemble Mem.: Altered by R. Ford from the Humourous Lieutenant. Epilogue by Henry William? Bunbury. Larpent MS 894; not published]: Altered from Beaumont and Fletcher (recte Fletcher alone). Oracle, 25 Feb.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Jordan at her house, No. 14, Somerset-street, Portman-square. Receipts: #346 8s. 6d. (102.18.0; 13.5.0; 3.6.6; tickets: 226.19.0) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Greek Slave Or The School For Cowards

Related Works
Related Work: The Greek Slave; or, The School for Cowards Author(s): Richard Ford

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. End I afterpiece: A Grand Representation of Mount Vesuvius, at the Time of an Eruption. Oracle, 28 Feb: Tickets to be had of Palmer, No. 3, London Road, St. George's Fields. Receipts: #340 5s. 6d. (144.1.0; 22.0.0; 4.4.6; tickets: 170.0.0) (charge: #126 4s. 11d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter of Naples

Entertainment: Monologue. A Lecture on Oratory: The Pulpit the Senate the Bar and the Stage with a Specimen of Scotch Elocution, written by the late Samuel Foote, Esq.-Palmer

Event Comment: Benefit for D'Auberval. Tickets to be had of D'Auberval, No. 52, Poland-street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Bella Pescatrice

Ballet: End I: Telemachus in the Island of Calypso. As17910322

Monologue: End Opera: The Deserter (with augmentations, composed by D'Auberval). Skirmish-D'Auberval; Deserter-D'Egville; Simkin-Vigano; Louisa-Mme Theodore D'Auberval; Nieces-Mlle Gervaise Troche, Mlle Menage; Duchess-Mlle Leonore Simonet; Invalid-Mons Fialon; Aunt-Mlle Bithmer

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #295 18s. 6d. (290.16.6; 5.2.0; tickets: none listed)
Event Comment: Benefit for King [who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #296 17s. (255.10.0; 39.6.6; 2.0.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #114 3s. 3d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Siddons. Part of the Pit [9 rows (London Chronicle, 5 Apr.)] will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by half past Four. Morning Chronicle, 4 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Siddons, No 49, Marlborough-street. Receipts: #412 11s. (212.2.0; 10.18.6; 0.0.6; tickets: 189.10.0) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Cast
Role: Major Belford Actor: Whitfield
Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by half past Four. Afterpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Public Advertiser, 2 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 2, Frith-street, Soho. Receipts: #339 3s. 6d. (145.15.0; 13.1.0; 1.12.6; tickets: 178.15.0) (charge: #132 10s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #188 9s. 6d. (174.0.6; 14.9.0; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lorenzo

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pope. Public Advertiser, 22 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Pope at her house in Half Moon-street, Piccadilly. Receipts: #306 12s. (190.13.6; 10.0.6; tickets: 105.18.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Performance Comment: Duke's Servant (for that night only)-Lewis; Lovell-Munden; Sir Harry's Servant (with a Mock Minuet)-Blanchard; Philip-Wilson; Freeman-Macready; Tom-Cubitt; Robert-Thompson; Coachman-[C.] Powell; Kingston-Cross; Lady Charlotte-Miss Stuart; Cook-Mrs Davenett; Lady Bab-Mrs Rock; Kitty (with a song and mock Minuet, for that night only)-Mrs Pope.

Dance: As17901204

Event Comment: Benefit for Vestris Sen. Tickets to be had of Vestris, No. 2, Hay-market. 2nd ballet: A new Historical Dance [in 3 acts]. The Music entirely new, composed by VanEsch. With new Dresses, Machinery, and Decorations. [Morning Chronicle, 15 Apr., printed a letter from Vestris complaining that the manage had not fulfilled his promises as regards the scenery. Vestris outlines what he had planned, and concludes with a description of the "3rd and last act, the Olympus descending, which shall fill the whole stage with clouds, and a Glory in which one shall see Jupiter with his whole Celestial Court; Hercules shall appear there mounting in the Olympus to receive his Apotheosis; the Ballet shall be concluded by a general acclamation of joy and admiration of all the people assembled in the place."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments Of Music And Dancing

Dance: End I: Divertisement, as17910326

Ballet: End II: La Mort d' Hercule, and his Apotheosis. Hercule-Vestris Sen. [For other parts see17910412]

Performance Comment: Hercule-Vestris Sen. [For other parts see17910412] .For other parts see17910412] .
Event Comment: Benefit for Mlle Hilligsberg. Tickets to be had of Mlle Hilligsberg, No. 11, Haymarket

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments Of Music And Dancing

Dance: End I: a new Dance, La Fete des Matelots et des Provencaux-Vestris? Jun., Mlle Hilligsberg, all the principal dancers; in which a Provencale-; End II: Orpheus and Eurydice, as17910331

Event Comment: Benefit for Mme Mara. A new Grand Serious Opera, composed by Sarti. Under the direction of Mazzinghi. With new Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations. Tickets, half a guinea each, to be had of Mme Mara, No. 25, Queen Ann-street, East

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Idalide

Dance: End I: Amphion et Thalie, as17910409nd Opera: Telemachus in the Island of Calypso [See17910322

Song: additional Songs-Mme Mara; accompanied by the Pedal Harp-

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by John O'Keeffe. Prologue by John Taylor. Epilogue by George Colman, ynger (see text)]. "No piece in the remembrance of this writer was ever better acted. No piece was ever better cast...The palm of acting, however, must be given to Blanchard. One short scene of rustic generoisity, in which he gives his purse to Farmer Banks, displayed finer efforts than we ever saw before" (Oracle, 18 Apr.). Public Advertiser, 15 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Lewis, Bow-street. Receipts: #315 (225.6.6; 3.15.6; tickets: 85.18.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wild Oats Or The Strolling Gentlemen

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Lewis, Quick, Holman, Blanchard, Wilson, Munden, Hull, Cubitt, Macready, Thompson, Powel, Rock, Evatt, Reeve, C. Powell, Cross, Farley, Ledger, Milburne, Master Simmons, Mrs Wells, Miss Chapman, Mrs Pope.[Cast from O'Keeffe's Dramatic Works, Vol. II (T. Woodfall, 1798), and text (Dublin: For the Booksellers, 1791): Rover-Lewis; Sir George Thunder-Quick; Harry-Holman; Sim-Blanchard; John Dory-Wilson; Ephraim Smooth-Munden; Banks-Hull; Gammon-Cubitt; Muz [in subsequent seasons: Midge]-Macready; Sailors-Thompson, Farley, Milburne; Landlord-Powel; Twitch-Rock; Trap-Evatt; Zachariah-Reeve [in text: Rees (see17911012)]; Lamp-C. Powell; Sheriff's Officers-Cross, Ledger; Waiter-Master Simmons; Jane-Mrs Wells; Amelia-Miss Chapman; Lady Amaranth-Mrs Pope; Prologue-Harley; Epilogue-Mrs Pope. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 10 performances only (see17910530).]These were spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 10 performances only (see17910530).]

Dance: As17901204

Event Comment: Benefit for Dodd. Gazetteer, 21 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Dodd, No. 8, Southampton-Row, Bloomsbury. Receipts: #270 4s. (81.16.0; 19.9.6; 0.7.6; tickets: 168.11.0) (charge: #116 2s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Cast
Role: Mrs Malaprop Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: End: (for this night only) Mad Bess-Mrs Crouch, in character

Event Comment: Benefit for Baddeley. Morning Chronicle, 28 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Baddeley, No. 10, New Store-street, Bedford-square. Receipts: #326 17s. (106.4.0; 18.4.6; 1.10.6; tickets: 200.18.0) (charge: #129 2s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mordecais Beard

Afterpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: Arthur and Emmeline

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #244 10s. (241.6; 3.4; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ild Oats

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Event Comment: Benefit for Holman. Ode: The music by Dr Arne. Afterpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [acted 16 June 1790]. Public Advertiser, 28 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Holman, No. 2, Tavistock-row, Covent Garden. Receipts: #217 2s. 6d. (121.11.0; 6.15.6; tickets: 88.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Entertainment: Duologue. End: Garrick's Ode on Shakespeare-Holman, Miss Brunton; Principal Vocal Parts-Incledon, Blanchard, Williamson, Cubitt, Gray, Miss Broadhurst, Miss Williams, Mrs Martyr