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Event Comment: [Extra night] By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Mrs Jewell. [Mainpiece in place of The Spanish Barber, announced on playbill of 16 Sept.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suicide

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: As17790818

Event Comment: By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Benefit for Massey. Afterpiece: Never performed in London, written by the author of The Son-In-Law [John O'Keeffe; 1st acted at Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, 14 Jan. 1767. See also cg, 16 Mar. 1782, when it was acted as The Positive Man]. To begin at 7:00. Tickets delivered for the 4th instant will be taken. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be had of Rice at the Theatre, and of Massey, No.4, St. Martin's-street, Leicester-Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The She Gallant

Event Comment: By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Benefit for Davis. 1st piece: Altered from [The Soldier's Fortune, by] Otway, by John Brownsmith. [not in Larpent MS; not published.] 2nd piece: A Poetical Interlude altered from Prior's Nut-brown Maid. 3rd piece: Altered to 3 acts. [Prologue by Shatford Jones. Author of Epilogue unknown. For authorship of 1st piece and prologue see Morning Chronicle, 25 Oct.] Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. Tickets delivered for Davis and Wright will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Touchstone Of Invention; Or, The Soldier's Fortune

Afterpiece Title: Henry And Emma

Afterpiece Title: The Busy Body

Dance: 2nd piece: With a Hornpipe-Lonsdale

Song: End I: two part song, Damon and Clora-Leach, Miss Mitchell (1st appearance); End III: My sweet pretty Mogg-Wright

Event Comment: By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. By Desire of the Most Noble Order of Bucks. Benefit for Griffith. [Author of Epilogue unknown.] Tickets delivered for November 22 and for The West Indian will be admitted. The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Wrangling Lovers; or, Like Master Like Man

Entertainment: Imitations. After the Epilogue: a Variety of new Imitations-Decastro; Monologue. End IV: Address to the Town, in which several Dramatic Characters will be introduced-Master Russell

Event Comment: By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Benefit for a Gentlewoman. Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years. [Author of Prologue unknown.] Afterpiece: Written by Thomas King, Esq. The Doors to be opened at 5:00. To begin at 6:30. The Public may be assured that the principal Performers in the above play and farce are Persons accustomed to the Stage, and that the utmost Attention will be paid to the credit of Performance. Tickets delivered by Mrs Lefevre and Blackburn will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Modish Wife

Afterpiece Title: Wit's Last Stake

Dance: End II: Miller

Entertainment: End: Variety of Rhetorical Imitations-a Gentleman (1st appearance [unidentified])

Event Comment: Opera: The music by several Eminent Masters [chiefly Bertoni, with additions by Paisiello and Gluck]; under the Direction of Bertoni. Benefit for Pacchierotti. Tickets to be had of Pacchierotti, No. 20, Queen Ann Street, Westminster

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'olimpiade

Dance: End I: Grand Serious Ballet, as17800208; End II: La Bergere Coquete, as17800122; End Opera: Serious Ballet, as17800122; Grand Chaconne, as17800122

Event Comment: Zoraida [announced on playbill of 9 Mar., benefit for the Author] is obliged to be deferred till further Notice. Receipts: #104 13s. 6d. (70.5.0; 32.17.6; 1.11.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Afterpiece Title: Who's The Dupe

Cast
Role: Sandford Actor: Aickin

Dance: As17800205

Event Comment: By Permission of the Right Honourable the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Mrs Lefevre. Mainpiece: Acted but once these 60 years [on 15 Mar. 1779]. Tickets to be had of Mrs Lefevre, No. 25, Frith-street. tickets delivered by Mrs Robinson will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humours Of Oxford

Performance Comment: Gainlove-Powell; Col. Trumore-Williams; Haughty-Massey; Conundrum-Barret; Young Apeall-Hayes; Old Apeall-Newton; Timothy-Booth; Dash-Gibson; Lord Shamwell-Forde (from the Theatre-Royal, Dublin); Clarinda-Mrs Robinson; Victoria-Miss Dudley; Kitty-Miss Brangin; Wife-Mrs Barnet; Lady Science-Mrs Lefevre.
Cast
Role: Lord Shamwell Actor: Forde

Afterpiece Title: The Orators; or, The School of Eloquence Dissected

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Song: Between Acts: an Italian song-a Young Lady [unidentified]

Entertainment: End III: Imitations-Young Gentleman [unidentified]

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Macbeth, for Mattocks' Benefit, is necessarily postponed to Monday next 24th Instant. Receipts: #273 11s. 6d. (270.4.6; 3.7.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Dance: End: new dance, Cupid Recruiting; or, The Female Volunteers,-Dagueville, Harris, Ratchford, Miss Matthews, Miss Lings, Miss Valois

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Macbeth, for Mattocks's benefit, is obliged to be deferred to Thursday next. Receipts:270 (267.5; 2.15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Song: Interlude between Plutus and Wit, as17800412

Dance: Interlude, as17800412; End: Cupid Recruiting, as17800417

Event Comment: The last Time of performing this Season. [This was Mrs Hartley's last appearance on the tstage.] Account-Book, 29 May: Paid Foulis for writing Music #101 17s.; 31 May: Received of Their Majesties for this Season #60, of Prince of Wales #30; 16 June: Paid Pattinson, tallow chandler, #332 8s. Paid Cooper, printer, #335 11s. Paid Harris, manager, #500. Paid Enderby, oil merchant, #1,061 17s. Paid Hull, salary as Acting Manager #150. Paid Mrs Hartley in lieu of a Benefit #105; 6 July: Received Stage Forfeits this season #42 3s. 6d. Receipts: #63 8s. (61.14.6; 1.13.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Siege of Gibraltar

Dance: As17800417

Event Comment: [Extra night] Benefit for Mrs Bellamy. [This was Mrs Bellamy's last appearance on the stage. And see dl, 24 May 1785.] Receipts: none listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Music: End IV: concerto on the violin-Fisher

Event Comment: By desire of their Excellencies the Persian Ambassadors. Benefit for Booth, Egan & Bates. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. Receipts: #219 5s. (79.0; tickets: 140.5) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Performance Comment: As17810427, but SCENE I as17810403; Overture-_; Forester's Dance-_; SCENE II as SCENE V on 3 Apr.; SCENE III as SCENE II on 3 Apr.; SCENE IV as SCENE III on 4 May. We be three poor Mariners-_Davies, Cubitt. SCENE V as SCENE V on 25 Apr. SCENE VI as SCENE VI on 27 Apr.

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Event Comment: By particular desire of their Excellencies the Persian Ambassadors. Benefit for Griffiths, Norris, Spencer & Williams. [Afterpiece in place of The Flitch of Bacon, announced on playbill of 21 May.] Receipts: #251 0s. 6d. (35.14.0; 14.17.6; 4.8.0; tickets: 196.1.0) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Dance: End: The Devonshire Minuet, as17810517

Event Comment: The last Night of the Company's performing this Season. Receipts: #180 12s. (after-money not listed). Account-Book, 18 June: Paid Harris for his trouble in superintending the Business of the Theatre #500; Garton in full for salary this season #230; Hull for salary as acting manager #150; Mrs Yates in lieu of cloathes this season #200; Cooper, printer, #347 9s.; Carver, painter, #245 18s.; Hodgins, painter, #141 15s.; Received of Their Majesties this season #100; of the Prince of Wales #65. 27 June: Paid Hull in lieu of a benefit #100, Mrs Lessingham #70, Mrs Morton #21. 17 July: Paid one year's Land Tax #122 10s.; Macklin in full for season #217 10s.; Received Stage Forfeits #35 4s. 6d. 23 July: Paid Hawkes, coal merchant, #173 5s. 28 Aug.: Paid Hawkes, tallow chandler, #331 10s. 4 Sept.: Paid Barrett, wax chandler, #426 9s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Free-Mason

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Mrs Lefevre. [Author ofPrologue unknown.] Afterpiece: Never performed here [acted 5 Apr. 1734]. Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15. Tickets and places to be had of Mrs Lefevre, No. 25, Frith Street, Soho, and of Rice at the Theatre. Tickets delivered by Holland will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Don Quixote in England; or, The Humours of Sancho Pancha

Monologue: 1782 03 04 End of mainpiece Bucks have at ye all by Benson. vaudeville. End of Act I of afterpiece The Manual Exercise by Mrs Lefevre

Event Comment: Paid Miss Harper in lieu of a Benefit #80. Receipts: #215 11s. (211/15; 3/16)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Which Is The Man

Afterpiece Title: The Positive Man

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17811219

Event Comment: Paid Lee Lewes in lieu of a Benefit #70. Receipts: #191 8s. 6d. [1st account and after-money not itemized]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece, as17811101; End of Act IV, as17810921

Event Comment: By Desire of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Benefit for Gardel. Tickets, half a guinea each, to be had of Gardel, No. 26, Margaret-street, Cavendish-square. 1st ballet: With entirely new Music, and a new Overture by Carter (Morning Herald, 25 May)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'eroe Cinese

Dance: End of Act I an entire new Ballet (composed by Gardel Sen.), Mirsa (Taken from an American Anecdote), by Gardel, Mlle Baccelli, Nivelon, Mlle Theodore, Sga Crespi, Mons and Mme Simonet, in which a Minuet and Gavet: composed by Gardel Jun. who, in the Concert Scene, will execute a concerto on the violin [Scenario (Paris, 1779) lists the parts: Mondor, Son Epouse, Mirsa, Lindor, Officier Corsaire, Gouvernante de Mirsa, Officiers Americains, Creoles, Officiers Francais, Negres]; End of Act II Apollon et les Muses, as17820502, but Slingsby in place of Nivelon; End of Opera Adela of Pontbieu, as17820411

Event Comment: [Extra night] By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Wilson. 3rd piece: Not acted these 4 years [not acted since 1 July 1776]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of Common Sense

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Village

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Monologue: 1782 09 16 End of 2nd piece Joe Haynes's Epilogue, riding on an Ass, by Wilson

Event Comment: [Extra night] By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Benefit for Wood

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague

Dance: As17820826

Song: As17820918

Event Comment: By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Benefit for Davis. Mainpiece: Altered from Fielding. Not acted these 60 years [acted at GF 27 Apr. 1736. Authors of Prologue and Epilogue unknown]. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin precisely at 7:00

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Temple Beau; Or, The Intriguing Sisters

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: Young Philpot-Benson; Old Philpot-Barrett; Sir Jasper-Swords; Wilding-Booth; Beaufort-Walker; Dapper-Fellowes; Quildrive-Middleton; Corinna-Miss Patterson; Maria (by Desire)-Miss Fitzherbert .
Cast
Role: Beaufort Actor: Walker

Dance: End of mainpiece a Hornpipe by Middleton

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera [1st time; com 2, by Filippo Livigni, with alterations by Antonio Andrei]: The Music entirely new by Bertoni. [Bartolini was from the Opera, Milan.] The Music and Orchestra under the direction of Giardini. New Scenes and Decorations by Novosielski. Entirely new dresses by Lupino. Pit 10s. 6d. 1st Gallery 5s. 2nd Gallery 3s. By Command of Their Majesties no Persons to be admitted behind the Scenes. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin exactly at 7:00 [same throughout season]. To prevent inconvenience to the Nobility and Gentry in getting to their carriages, they are most respectfully intreated to give positive orders to their servants to set down and take up with their horses' heads towards Pall-mall. The Door in Market-lane for Chairs only. Subscription tickets will be admitted every Opera Night (Benefits excepted) during the Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Convito

Dance: End of Act I a New Divertisement, composed by Simonet [for title, see17821105], by Slingsby, Zuchelli, Henry, Sga Sala, Mlle Theodore; End of Open Apelles and Campaspe by Lepicq, Simonet, Mlle Theodore, Mme Simonet

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Gardner. Afterpiece: From The Devil upon Two Sticks, written by the late Samuel Foote, Esq. [Mrs Mills is identified in Morning Chronicle, 1 Jan. 1783. For remarks on this night's performance, including references to Dunstan by Charles Lamb, see Theatre Notebook, VIII, 5.] Gardner having unavoidably been obliged to postpone his night from the 26th to the 30th, he thinks it his duty to inform his friends that tickets delivered for the 26th will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Fourth Act of The Merchant of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Dr Lasts's Examination BEFORE THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS

Event Comment: Paid Lee Lewes in lieu of a Benefit #105. Afterpiece: Never acted at this Theatre. Receipts: #157 1s. 6d. (153/19/0; 3/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

Dance: In Act I of afterpiece a Dance by Harris, Miss Matthews, Miss Besford