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Event Comment: Benefit for Watson, Carleton, Wilson & Hicks. Receipts: #216 16s. (12/15/0; 6/5/6; 1/9/6; tickets: 196/6/0) (charge: #106 15s. 3d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Dance: As17840320athi

Event Comment: Benefit for Brandon, box-book and housekeeper. Tickets delivered for She Would and She Would Not will be admitted. Receipts: #291 16s. 6d. (61/18/6; tickets: 229/18/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Cast
Role: Sir Richard Vernon Actor: Whitfield

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: End of mainpiece The Charms of a Camp, as17840521

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece Tally Ho! by Mrs Martyr; End of Act iv Poor ThomasDay by Edwin, Davies, Brett

Event Comment: Benefit for Portal, Shade, Morris & Palmer Sen. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. Receipts: #223 6s. 6d. (24/6/0; 8/13/6; 0/8/0; tickets: 189/19/0) (charge: #105 17s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Cast
Role: Sandford Actor: R. Palmer

Dance: As17840320athi

Event Comment: Benefit for Booth, Guard & Stevens. 3rd piece: Not acted these 12 years [not acted since 25 Apr. 1770]. Receipts: #233 1s. (73/10; tickets: 159/11) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Jubilee In Commemoration Of Handel

Afterpiece Title: The Funeral or Grief a la Mode

Performance Comment: Camply-Lewis; Sable-Quick; Trusty-Hull; Lord Brumpton-Clarke; Puzzle-Booth; Tom-Stevens; Trim-Bonnor; Nathan Matchlock-Ledger; Darby-Tattoo-Helme; Hugh Clump-Thompson; Jeffery Tatter-Besford; Lord Hardy-Wroughton; Lady Brumpton-Mrs Bates; Lady Charlotte-Mrs Kemble; Fardingale-Mrs Poussin; Mademoiselle-Mrs Whitfield; Tattleaid-Mrs Pitt; Lady Harriet-Mrs Mattocks .
Cast
Role: Jeffery Tatter Actor: Besford

Afterpiece Title: Hob in the Well

Dance: End of mainpiece The Charms of a Camp (performers not listed, but see17840521)

Event Comment: Benefit for Green and Ansell, box-keepers. Receipts: #290 0s. 6d. (34/3/6; tickets: 255/17/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Performance Comment: As17830926, but Marall-Fearon; Furnace-Booth; Margaret-Mrs Kemble [i.e. formerly Miss Satchell (see17831124)] .i.e. formerly Miss Satchell (see17831124)] .

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: As17840525

Event Comment: Benefit for Curteen, Condell & Colborne, box-keepers. Receipts: #153 12s. (24/15; tickets: 128/17) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Dance: As17840525

Event Comment: Benefit for Brereton, Beeston, Longley & Colley. Tickets delivered by Robson, Stephenson, Robinson, Varley, Small wood, Partridge, Shirley, Shuter, Pilbrow, Turtle, W. Ansell, Hall will be admitted this Evening. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. [This was Whitsun Eve, on which night the theatre was customarily closed.] Receipts: #242 17s. (29/17/6; 3/9/6; tickets: 209/10/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: RosiNA

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Rachele Dorta. Boxes to be had by applying to No. 80, near the Opera-house, Hay-market. Tickets, half a guinea each, to be had of Sga Rachele Dorta, No. 72, west side of the Hay-market

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Rivali Delusi

Dance: End of Act I Le Reveil du Bonheur, as17840513; End of Opera Le Deserteur, as17840608

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Lusini. Gazetteer, 16 June: Tickets, half a guinea each, to be had of Sga Lusini, No. 232, Piccadilly

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Demofoonte

Dance: As17840615throughout

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Farce

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Afterpiece Title: A Mogul Tale

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Woollery. Public Advertiser, 23 July: Tickets to be had of Miss Woollery, No. 5, Delahay-street, near Great George-street, Westminster

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Event Comment: Benefit for Brett. Public Advertiser, 22 July: Tickets to be had of Brett at Warburton's, Hay-market

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: End of mainpiece Dance [probably The Medley], as17840528

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. Public Advertiser, 24 July: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 6, Great Russel-street, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece, as17840727

Song: In the Temple of Health [in afterpiece] (1st time, and for this night only) a new, shocking Electrical Caleb, set to Medical Music by Dr Arnold, sung by Edwin, Bannister, Davies, Brett. imitations. End of mainpiece Various Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical, by Bannister Jun

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss George

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Music: End of Act III of mainpiece a clarinet concerto by Mahon

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece a favorite Scotch song; End of Act IV a favorite Irish ballad, both by Miss George

Monologue: 1784 08 03 End of mainpiece (for that night only) Buds, have at ye all! by Palmer

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Noble Peasant

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Cast
Role: Sandford Actor: R.Palmer
Event Comment: Benefit for Wilson. 2nd piece [1st time; INT I, probably by Richard Wilson. MS: Larpent 667; not published]. 3rd piece: Never perform'd here. [Prologue and Epilogue by John Gay.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Afterpiece Title: A Peep into Elysium or Foote Weston and Shuter in the Shades

Afterpiece Title: The What dye Call It

Monologue: 1784 08 10 End of interlude Joe Haynes's Epilogue, riding on an Ass, by Wilson

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Noble Peasant

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: As17840727

Event Comment: Benefit for Jewell, treasurer. Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years. [Hemsted is identified in European Magazine, Aug. 1784, p. 87.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Foote Weston and Shuter in the Shades

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Song: As17840730

Event Comment: Benefit for Parsons. Mainpiece: Never perform'd here

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Foote Weston and Shuter in the Shades

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Song: As17840730

Monologue: 1784 08 19 Preceding mainpiece A Looking Glass for the Times; or, The Charms of Money by Parsons in the Character of a distress'd Poet

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bannister. Afterpiece: Written by [John] O'Keeffe, Author of The Son-in-Law, Agreeable Surprise, Young Quaker, &c &c. Tickets to be had of Mrs Bannister, No. 6, Great Russel-strcet, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

Dance: As17840730

Monologue: 1784 08 20 As 19 Aug. IMITATIONS. As 30 July

Event Comment: Benefit for Edwin. Mainpiece: Written by Dr Goldsmith. Public Advertiser, 20 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Edwin, No. 19, Piazza, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Good naturd Man

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Song: End of Act I of afterpiece Four-and-Twenty Fiddlers all on a Row by Edwin

Monologue: 1784 08 24 End of mainpiece A Description of the Curiosities of the Tomer of London by Edwin, in the Character of a Warden

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Mainpiece [1st time; C 3, by William Hayley. Text in his Plays . . . for a Private Theatre (T. Cadell, 1784). Prologue by George Colman, the elder. Epilogue by Edward Topham (Gazetteer, 13 Sept., which also gives the names of the speakers). The parts are assigned (see 18 Aug.)]: A new Comedy, in Rhyme

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Two Connoisseurs

Performance Comment: Beril-Palmer; Careless-Bannister Jun.; Bijou-Wilson; Cycle-Williamson; Lord Seewell-Aickin; Harry-Riley; Vernish-Parsons; Mrs Bijou-Mrs Webb; Lady Frances-Miss Kemble; Joan-Mrs Love; Lady Harriet-Miss Farren. New Prologue [spoken by Wilson, in the character of Bayes] and Epilogue [spoken by Miss Farren]. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.] hathi.spoken by Wilson, in the character of Bayes] and Epilogue [spoken by Miss Farren]. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.] hathi.

Afterpiece Title: Foote Weston and Shuter in the Shades

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Noble Peasant

Afterpiece Title: Hunt the Slipper

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Farce

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #221 10s. 6d. (201/2/0; 19/13/0; 0/15/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105, with "author's allowance deducted")

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Carmelite

Cast
Role: Gyfford Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Cast
Role: Sandford Actor: R. Palmer