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Event Comment: Benefit for Brandon, box-book and house-keeper. Tickets delivered for May the 29th will be admitted. Receipts: #456 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comedy Of Errors

Afterpiece Title: The Sailors Festival

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Dance: In 3rd piece: The Lucky Escape, as17921116

Song: End II: Black Eyed Susan, as17930510; III: a song in character-Miss Barnett

Event Comment: Benefit for Burton, Fawcett [his last appearance on the stage] and Phillimore. Receipts: #231 18s. (28.18; 4.3; tickets: 198.17) (charge: #95 0s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: End: Minuet de la Cour and Gavot-Master and Miss D'Egville

Song: As17921030

Event Comment: Benefit for Powel, Rock, Thompson & Follett. Receipts: #393 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fashionable Levities

Cast
Role: Welford Actor: Lewis

Afterpiece Title: The Relief of Williamstadt

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Afterpiece Title: Oscar and Malvina

Song: In course: a favorite Sea Song-Incledon

Music: 4th piece: The Harp-Weippert

Event Comment: Benefit for Marshall and Mrs Harlowe. Tickets delivered for the 5th of June will be admitted. Morning Herald, 1 June: Tickets to be had of Marshall [for 5 June], No. 17, Crown-court, Bow-street, Covent-Garden; of Mrs Harlowe, No. 54, Drury-Lane. Receipts: #378 13s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Columbus

Afterpiece Title: The Pad

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Song: End of 1st piece: Dibdin's song; The Lucky Escape; or, The Ploughboy's Return from Sea in character-Mrs Harlowe; End of 2nd piece: Sally in our Alley-Marshall; In 3rd piece: Farewell to old England dear Mary adieu-Incledon; Rule Britannia-Marshall, full Chorus; In the course of the Evening: Black eyed Susan-Incledon

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Goodall. Morning Herald, 26 July: Tickets to be had of Mrs Goodall, No. 3, Great Russel-street, Covent-garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: Post Boy Actor: Comerford
Role: Beaufort Actor: Evatt
Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kemble. Afterpiece: The [first] and only time of performing it [this season] at this theatre. Morning Herald, 31 July: Tickets to be had of Mrs Kemble, No. 24, corner of Panton-street, Haymarket

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of King Richard The Iii

Performance Comment: Richard (for that night only)-Kemble; King Henry-Bensley; Prince of Wales-Master DeCamp; Duke of York-Miss Menage; Duke of Buckingham-Benson; Earl of Richmond-Barrymore; Duke of Norfolk-Usher; Ratcliffe-Evatt; Tressel-Bland; Sir William Catesby-Davies; Lord Stanley-Aickin; Sir R. Brackenbury-Palmer Jun.; Sir James Blount-Lyons; Sir James Tyrrel-Abbott; Lord Mayor-Burton; Elizabeth-Mrs Whitfield; Lady Anne-Mrs Kemble; Duchess of York-Mrs Powell.

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Performance Comment: Crop (for that night only)-Huttley (from the Theatre Royal, Bath; 1st appearance on this stage); Frederick-Bland; Endless-Suett; Robin-Bannister Jun.; William-Sedgwick (of dl); Dorothy-Miss DeCamp; Louisa-Miss Dall; Nelly-Mrs Hatton; Margaretta-Mrs Kemble (1st appearance in that character).
Event Comment: Benefit for the Orphan Daughters of the late Wrighten, prompter [who had died on 2 Apr. 1793]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surrender Of Calais

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Song: As17930720

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. [Wathen had 1st appeared in London at Lord Barrymore's private theatre, Savile Row, 22 July 1790.] Morning Herald, 16 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnstone. Morning Herald, 22 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Johnstone, No. 19, Piazza, Covent-Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surrender Of Calais

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Performance Comment: Lingo (for that night only)-Johnstone (1st appearance in that character); Sir Felix Friendly-Suett; Compton-Bannister; Eugene-Davies; Chicane-Usher; Thomas-Barrett; John-Bland; Cudden-Waldron Jun.; Stump-Ledger; Laura-Miss Dall (1st appearance in that character); Mrs Cheshire-Mrs Webb; Fringe-Miss Fontenelle; Cowslip-Mrs Kemble.

Song: In: As17930720 End: The Row-Johnstone; End II: The Land of Potatoes-Johnstone

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. 2nd piece: By Permission of the Proprietors of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Morning Herald, 23 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 2, Frith-street, Soho

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Afterpiece Title: The Prize or 2 5 3 8

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Event Comment: Benefit for Jewell, treasurer. Morning Herald, 2 Sept.: Tickets to be had of Jewell, No. 26, Suffolk-street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mountaineers

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Song: As17930906

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts: #164 12s. (146.6; 18.6; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The German Hotel

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: #144 16s. (128.16.6; 15.19.6; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The German Hotel

Afterpiece Title: Robin Hood

Event Comment: Benefit for the Authors [who are named in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #197 4s. (155.16; 37.10; 3.18; tickets: none listed) (charge: #115)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Better Late Than Never

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #239 9s. (227/16/6; 11/12/6; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The World In A Village

Afterpiece Title: MARIAN

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #208 1s. 6d. (196/3/6; 11/18/0; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The World In A Village

Afterpiece Title: HARTFORD BRIDGE

Cast
Role: Sir Gregory Forrester Actor: Quick
Role: Peregrine Forrester Actor: Munden
Role: Forrester Actor: Macready

Dance: As17930916

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account Book, but not on the playbill). Receipts: #158 13s. 6d. (144/8/6; 1 4/5/0; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The World In A Village

Afterpiece Title: THE FLITCH OF BACON

Dance: As17931015

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of 2nd piece, who is named in the Account Book, but not on the playbill]. 2nd piece: With Alterations. Receipts: #211 3s. 6d. (183/18/6; 27/5/0; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Quaker

Afterpiece Title: THE SIEGE OF BERWICK

Afterpiece Title: THE HIGHLAND REEL

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Storace. Mainpiece: By Permission of the Proprietors of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2, by Prince Hoare, based partly on LE TABLEAU PARLANT, by Louis Anseaume]: The Music by Storace. "The songs are written with taste, and set to very lively and agreeable tunes by Storace's brother...[They are] calculated to afford her a complete opportunity of displaying that mixture of laughable levity, friskiness and merriment which on the stage give her so much attraction" (Public Advertiser, 18 Dec.). Tickets to be had of Sga Storace, No. 36, Howland Street, and of Rice at the Theatre, where Places for the Boxes may be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: MY GRANDMOTHER

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. 1st piece: By particular permission, for that night only. Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 2, Frith-street, Soho, and of Rice at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Afterpiece Title: THE PRIZE

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

Cast
Role: Lord Alford Actor: Dignum
Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account Book, but not on the playbill.] Paid King's Taxes for the theatre, &c., 1/2 year, #187 12s. 9d. Receipts: #328 0s. 6d. (324/9/6; 3/11/0; tickets and charge: neither listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Travellers In Switzerland

Cast
Role: Shepherdess Actor: Miss Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: CATHERINE AND PETRUCHIO

Dance: As17940225

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account Book, but not on the playbill). Receipts: #238 11s. 6d. (235/18/0; 2/13/6; tickets and charge: neither listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Travellers In Switzerland

Cast
Role: Shepherdess Actor: Miss Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: THE MIDNIGHT HOUR

Dance: As17940225

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #332 9s. 6d. (327/4/6; 5/5/0; tickets and charge: neither listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Travellers In Switzerland

Cast
Role: Shepherdess Actor: Miss Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: HE WOUD BE A SOLDIER

Dance: As17940225

Event Comment: Benefit for Benson. Morning Herald, 14 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Benson, No. 7, Brydges-street, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosina

Afterpiece Title: MY GRANDMOTHER

Cast
Role: Lord Alford Actor: Dignum
Role: Mrs Millclack Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

Cast
Role: Lord Alford Actor: Dignum
Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #297 17s. (284/13; 13/4; tickets and charge: neither listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fontainville Forest

Afterpiece Title: HARTFORD BRIDGE

Cast
Role: Sir Gregory Forrester Actor: Quick
Role: Peregrine Forrester Actor: Munden
Role: Forrester Actor: Macready

Dance: As17930916