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Event Comment: [Alter'd from +Lionel and Clarissa. Mrs Wrighten made her first appearance in the Stage in Diana. A very fine Voice--Aukward & Clumsy figure--Well faced (Hopkins Diary). Mrs Wrighten's first Appearance (Cross Diary). New Scenes, Dresses and Decorations. Greater part of the Music entirely New (playbill)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: lionel And Clarissa; Or, The School For Fathers

Afterpiece Title: [The Old Maid

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Miss Ross years later married M LeTexier (Hopkins MS Notes; MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Slave

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Dance: II: By Particular Desire, for the first time, a Minuet, Allemande-Sieur Daigville, Miss Ross (his apprentice of 4 months); IV: The English Gardeners, as17691206

Entertainment: End: Bucks Have At Ye All-Palmer

Event Comment: Benefit for House. By Particular Desire. End of Season. 66 different Plays 23 different Farces 195 Nights in all (Hopkins Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties K. & Q. (Hopkins Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: Mrs Davies Smart little figure, some spirit, was well receiv'd (Hopkins Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Event Comment: Miss Hayward her first appearance on this Stage a pretty figure Some Requisites & very wild-time must discover what she will be-well received (Hopkins Diary). Calista, Miss Hayward first Time (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies' Frolick

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By particular Desire. Juliet by Mrs Morland from the Norwich Theater a thin small figure too long a waist--wants power has a small impediment in her Speech she may be useful but never Capital--Pretty well receiv'd (Hopkins Diary). Mrs Morland the late Miss Westray (O. Smith) (Winston MS 10)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never acted there. [The Gentleman identified as Savigny in Hopkins MS Notes.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Barbarossa

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: End: Comic Dance, as17701017

Event Comment: Mainpiece not so much hiss'd as first Night (Hopkins Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 'tis Well It's No Worse

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Event Comment: Mrs Barry--Imogen (first time) not so well as was expected (Hopkins Diary). Mrs Barry, Imogen (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Dance: III: Comic Dance, as17701025

Event Comment: [The young lady who played Lady Townly identified by Hopkins MS Notes.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Event Comment: New Scenes, Dresses and Decorations for Mainpiece (playbill). This Masque was got up in a Superb manner the Scenery exquisitely fine & greatly applauded--. Miss Hayward play'd Emmeline very bad (Hopkins Diary). Mainpiece: Altered from Dryden by Garrick. First time performed. Music Purcell and Arne. New Overture by Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur; Or, The British Worthy

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Event Comment: For the Benefit of Middlesex Hospital (Hopkins Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zenobia

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Event Comment: Benefit of Westmr new Lying in Hospital (Hopkins Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Dance: III: Comic Dance, as17701025

Event Comment: Command. The Pub: & Gaz: both omitted to put in by Command & fresh Bills were printed about the Omission--at 12 o'clock (Hopkins Diary). K & Q (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost

Event Comment: great applause to the Play (Hopkins Diary). Mainpiece: A tragedy never before acted [by Mrs Celisia]. Prologue (by Whitehead)-Reddish; Epilogue (by Garrick)-Mrs Barry. New Scenes, Dresses and Decorations (Winston MS 10). [The Gentleman's Magazine for Feb. reviewed the mainpiece in great detail, concluding: "A combat between two knights in the days of chivalry and honour, not to determine whether a person accused is innocent or guilty, but whether a person under the infamy of acknowledged guilt shall suffer, is, as the Scotch peasant says emphatically of his pupil, a phenomenon. It is, however, but justice to Mrs Barry, to say, that in performing the part allotted her in this piece, she rises like perfection out of chaos, and therefore those who have not yet seen it represented should by no means be deterred by these strictures on the composition, supposing them to be just."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Almida

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Event Comment: Benefit for Inchbald and Mrs Morland. Mrs Morland did not perform (Winston MS 10). This Farce was written by Mrs Pye -Some hisses (Hopkins Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zenobia

Afterpiece Title: The Capricious Lady

Song: V: By Desire, The Soldier Tir'd-Mrs Wrighten

Event Comment: Patty by Mrs Hunt very Indiff (Hopkins Diary). Man fell from gallery into the pit, running down at opening of doors. Broke his ribs--He was able to walk not having any bones broken which was supposed to arise from his catching a chandelier worth #50 which he carried with him (Winston MS 10). Paid chorus 2 night this incl. #4 11s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #140 2s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Dance: I: Comic Dance, as17710921

Event Comment: For the Benefit of the British Lying In-Hospital for Married Women in Brownlow Street, Long Acre (Hopkins). Paid Salary list #501 13s. 6d.; Mrs Abington cloaths acct #2; Mrs S. French, 6 days #1 10s.; Mrs Weston 29 nights at 2s. 6d. per night #3 12s. 6d. Rec'd stopages #10 10s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #180 10s. 6d. Charges #84. Profit to hospital #96 10s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Event Comment: Garrick? (Hopkins Diary). Paid one year's insurance to Xmas 1772, #15. Receipts: #271 2s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Event Comment: N.B. The eleventh night of The Fashionable Lover is deferr'd till tomorrow, on account of Mrs Hopkins' Illness. Receipts: #212 9s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

Event Comment: Garrick? (Hopkins Diary). Receipts: #260 9s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Event Comment: House (Hopkins Diary). Paid Printer's Bill #9 6s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #243 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Event Comment: Mrs Usher Alicia (very bad) (Hopkins Diary). Benefit for Grimaldi, Messink and Giorgi. Paid half year's King's Tax and Window Lights for St Martin's to Lady Day last, #48 3s. 4d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #205 9s. Charges: #40 13s. Profits to Grimaldi, Messink & Georgi: #164 16s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Dance: II: A New Double Hornpipe-Mas. White, Miss Lings; IV: New Tambourine Dance-Mas. Byrn, Miss Byrn, Miss Wilkinson, scholars to Sg Giorgi (playbill)

Event Comment: House (Hopkins Diary). Doors open at 5 o'clock. Play to begin promptly at six. Paid Printer's Bill #9 6s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #236 18s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid