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Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. At the Desire of the Jerusalem Lodge. Benefit for Brother Harricks and Mrs Robinson. The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:30. Tickets delivered by West will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Friar

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Entertainment: Monologues End I: Bucks have at Ye All-Master Russell; End I afterpiece: an Address to the Ladies on the subject of Jealousy-Master Russell; Imitations End: of several Dramatic Characters-Master Russell

Event Comment: By Permission of the Right Hon. the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for a Lady in Distress. To begin at 7:00

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Entertainment: Monologues. End: [a Parody on Shakespeare's Stages [recte Seven Ages]-Creswick; Between Acts afterpiece: [an Epilogue[, concluding with Marplot's Address,-Creswick

Event Comment: By Authority [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Benefit for West. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. Tickets to be had of West, No. 4, Stanhope-street, Clare-market. [Authors of Prologue and Address unknown.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: King Richard-A Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified]); King Henry-Lucas; Duke of Buckingham-Thompson; Prince of Wales-Master Benson (1st appearance on any stage); Duke of York-Master Kenny; Norfolk-Massey; Oxford-Stevens; Lord Stanley-Painter; Blunt-Bell; Ratcliff-Kenny; Catesby-Bailey; Tressel-Mills; Lieutenant-Newton; Lord Mayor-Bowles; Tirrell-Edwards; Richmond-A Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified]); Lady Anne-Mrs Lefevre; Duchess of York-Mrs Leister; Queen Elizabeth-Mrs Robinson (from the Theatre Royal at Bath); An occasional Prologue (written by a Gentleman eminent in the Republic of Letters [unidentified])-West.
Cast
Role: Oxford Actor: Stevens

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Performance Comment: Colonel Tamper (with the original Prologue)-West; Major Belford-Newton; Prattle-Smith; Emily-Mrs Lefevre; Bell-Mrs Robinson; Mademoiselle Florival-Mrs West.
Cast
Role: Major Belford Actor: Newton

Song: A variety of Entertainments of Singing, particularly The Soldier tir'd-a Lady [unidentified]

Entertainment: Monologue. End: an occasional Address-Master Benson

Event Comment: By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Benefit for Follet, Smith & T. Smith, late of the Bear, Westminster-bridge. Tickets to be had of Follet, No. 20, Little Wild-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields; of T. Smith at the Golden Cross, Charing Cross. T. Smith hopes to be honoured with the company of his brother Free Masons, Bucks, &c., Gentlemen of the Welsh Society, Hereford Society and West-moreland Society

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Song: Between Acts: Singing, particularly Black Ey'd Susanthe new Hunting Song-T. Smith

Entertainment: Monologue.End: The Farmer's Blunder-Follet

Event Comment: By Authority [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Benefit for Freeman [who, as Chamont, is identified in Public Advertiser, 7 Apr.]. Tickets to be had of Freeman, Vine-street, Piccadilly; of Massey, at Marshall's, Bedford-court, Covent Garden. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan; Or, The Unhappy Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Entertainment: Monologue. End I afterpiece: an Epilogue-Master Benson

Event Comment: By Authority [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Benefit for Silvester and Rae. Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years.Afterpiece: Never performed here. Tickets delivered for The Earl of Essex will be admitted. Tickets to be had of Silvester at Mrs Hobbe's, Stanhope-street, Clare Market; at Iver's Wine Vaults, No. 384, Oxford-street; of Rae, No. 35, Great Pultney-street, Golden-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses; Or, The Custom Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Silvester, Bailey, Kenny, Bowles, Thompson, Manstead, Mrs Bailey, Mrs Dawes. [For parts see dl, 7 Apr. 1777.]For parts see dl, 7 Apr. 1777.]

Song: I: the original Sheep@shearing Song-the Characters

Dance: In I: Country Dance-the Characters; End: Hornpipe-a Gentleman

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suicide

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: As17780624

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Digges. Mainpiece: Never acted here. [Barry had acted King Lear at this theatre on 15 July 1767, and Ross on 18 June 1770.] Afterpiece: Altered into 3 acts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Music: Afterpiece: With the Scots Musick incidental to the Piece-

Event Comment: By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Benefit for Mrs Jewell. The out-standing Tickets of Jewell's, for September the 2d, will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. The Double Deception [announced on playbill of 29 Apr.], on account of the Benefits, is obliged to be deferred till Thursday next. Receipts: #240 2s. (222.9.0; 17.9.6; 0.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: As17780919

Song: As17781006

Event Comment: By Authority of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Mitchell and Sinclair. The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:00 precisely. Tickets to be had of Mitchell at the Old Castle Tavern, near Gray's Inn Gate, Holborn; of Sinclair, Church-Lane, near St. Martin's Church, Strand

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Wit's Last Stake

Afterpiece Title: The Brave Irishman

Dance: End Monologue: Hornpipe-Lapper

Song: End III: He's aye kissing me-Miss Harris; End: Hunting Song-Miss Harris

Music: Between the Acts: The original Scotch Music-

Entertainment: Monologue.End 2nd piece: Hippisley's Drunken Man-Lewis (1st appearance on that stage these 3 years)

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Every Man in his Humour and The Irish Widow [both announced on playbill of 13 May], which were to have been performed this Evening, for the Benefit of Fawcett and Sga Crespi, are obliged to be deferred till Monday next. Receipts: #216 2s. 6d. (193.7.0; 22.7.6; 0.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Cast
Role: Lorenzo Actor: Vernon

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Cast
Role: Sandford Actor: Aickin

Dance: End I afterpiece: The Coopers, as17781211

Ballet: End III: The Humours of Newmarket. As17790503 at cg Jockeys-Dagueville, Harris, Master Dagueville, Master Holland; Ladies-Miss Ross, Sga Tinte, Miss Armstrong

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Separate Maintenance

Afterpiece Title: The Tailors

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: 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: [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

Cast
Role: Vainlove Actor: Vernon

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Dance: End: The Devonshire Minuet, as17810517