Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Benefit for Mrs Cibber. Send servants to keep places at 3 o'clock. Tickets deliver'd for King John will be taken. Garrick returned [from trip to France and Italy] to his house in Southampton St. (Winston MS 9)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Afterpiece: A new Musical Entertainment went off pretty well--some Noise &c. (Cross). Published at 3 o'clock that afternoon and sold at the theatre for 6d. (General Advertiser). No admission behind scenes or in Orchestra on account of the entertainment. [Music by C. Burney. Text by Moses Mendez]. Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Newton, box-keeper. As Newton superintends the whole Performance of the Play, Farce and Interlude, the greatest care will be taken to gratify the taste of a most generous Public. Tickets to be had of Mrs Newton at the Seven Houses

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years. [Mrs Siddons's 1st appearance as Millwood was at Liverpool, 11 Oct. 1776.] Receipts: #503 17s. 6d. (420.4.0; 81.4.0; 2.9.6)

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; M. ENT 2, by William Linley. Larpent MS 1246; not published]: With new Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations. The Overture and Musick entirely new, composed by William? Linley. Books of the Songs to be had in the Theatre. [Notice on playbill of 20 Nov.: The Author of The Pavilion, submitting with deference to the decision of the Public, has withdrawn it for the present to make such alterations as he hopes may render it an Entertainment better entitled to their approbation. (On 21 Jan. 1800, altered, it was acted as The Ring.)] "Miss DeCamp need never wish to have a better foil to her exquisite style of acting, than the puny efforts of Kelly and Mrs Crouch. They may be singers, but never should attempt to perform" (Dramatic Censor, I, 9). Receipts: #291 4s. 6d. (157.3.0; 131.8.6; 2.13.0)

Event Comment: [For the naming of the characters in mainpiece, as they were called originally, see 23 Feb. 1792. As afterpiece the playbill announces Blue-Beard, but "The Public are most respectfully informed that on account of the very sudden indisposition of Mrs Crouch, Blue-Beard cannot be performed. This evening will be presented The Children in the Wood" (printed slip attached to Kemble playbill).] Receipts: #165 15s. (120.7.6; 43.16.6; 1.11.0)

Event Comment: Benefit Cibber. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. London in 1710 (p. 96): It was a fine piece, and on that account had a large audience

Event Comment: [M$Milward unable to perform, his part was read by Cibber Jun.] Rylands MS.: Cibber read Hamlet. Receipts: #50

Event Comment: nnounced as 1 Nov., but 5 p.m. Cibber's continuance of performances brought the following response]: In Pursuance of my Promise that I would do nothing against your Theatre, or you, without first giving you Notice, I do hereby acquaint you, that I am obliged to proceed against you, and that I shall, with another of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, stop all your Theatrical Performances, of which take Notice.-Thomas de Veil, 8 Nov. Cibber, A Serio-Comic Apology, p. 18

Event Comment: By Permission Benefit Miss Jenny Cibber. Tickets deliver'd out for the 12th will be taken. By particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. [T. Cibber says: It was hinted to me, I might, unmolested, take a Benefit for myself, or Daughter, or both.-Serio-Comic Apology, p. 18.

Event Comment: At Cibber's Histrionic Academy on the Bowling Green, A Public Rehearsal, gratis. With out Gain, Hire or Reward. The Rehearsal must begin punctually at 6 p.m. No Money will be taken, nor any Persons admitted without Pass Tickets, which will be given by Mr Cibber to particular Patrons, Friends and Customers. The Cephalick Snuff is to be had at the Above Academy, at the following Prices, viz., First sort 3s., second sort 2s., third sort 1s., none sold under. [Play not given. See Public Advertiser, 14 Dec. "Southwark. Some sudden Disappointments (as unexpected as unforeseen) compel me to defer opening my Histrionic Academy." Advance advertisement had also appeared in the Daily Advertiser, 6 Dec.