Event Comment: Went off with applause (Cross). Afterpiece: a New Pantomime after the Manner of the Italian Comedy, with New Scenes, Habits, Decorations. Nothing under Full Prices will be taken. No Gentleman can possibly be admitted behind the Scenes or into the Orchestra, on account of the Machinery and Music. The Music composed by Dr Boyce. The Songs will be printed, and deliver'd at the doors. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 26 years. [See 13 April 1748.] Dressed in The Habits of the Times (playbill). This play is altered by Mr G was well perform'd a New Prologue & Epilogue all receiv'd with Applause (Hopkins Diary). [MacMillan's note from Kemble differs sligntly in wording.] Paid Properties #1 11s. 11d.; Housekeeper's bill #4 13s. Receipts: #153 13s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: This Play is alter'd by Capt. Thompson and a New Sea Character introduc'd which was well perform'd by Mr Weston. the Play Concludes very properly with a Representation of the Grand Naval Review the same as was introduc'd in Alfred--the whole was receiv'd with very great Applause (Hopkins Diary). Paid Housekeeper's Bill #3 10s. (Treasurer's Book). Mainpiece a Reviv'd Comedy, with Alterations and Additions, and a New Medley Overture of Favourite Sea Tunes (playbill). Receipts: #245 6s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With New Dresses and Decorations. N.B. After this night the Meeting of the Company will be laid aside for sometime. The Play was New drest in the Habits of the time & they look'd very well & was applauded (Hopkins Diary) Paid 3 days salary list at #91 16s. 4d. per diem, #275 9s.; Sundry salaries not on list last week as per partners in Memorandum Book, #44 8s.; Mr Granier for last week 12s. 6d.; Mr J. French on acct #5 5s. Receipts: #226 3s. (Treasurer's Book)

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A New Comedy (by Hugh Kelly] of 2 Acts never perform'd. [Written, as the author states in his Advertisement to the Edition of 1774, at the instigation of and on the inspiration of Mrs Abington. The Larpent MS 379 lists a partial cast and the lengths for each part: 10 Hector Strangeways-the +Westminster Magazine, Dec: Though there is scarce anything new in the Plot, Characters, Dialogue of this piece; yet upon the whole we found it extremely entertaining. The Indian servant is well introduced to satirize the follies and vices of the metropolis; and Sir Hector and his son give us a good dish of sea terms, well served up by Messrs $Shuter">Shuter; 7 Brownlow-$Bensley; 5 Ormsby-$Clarke; 6 Bussora-...; 5 +Orson-...; 6 +Pillage-$Dunstall; 1!2 Servant-...; 5 +Lady Strangeways-$Mrs Green; 7 1!2 Zelinda 1!2 Jenny-....(A Length was 42 lines of dialogue.)] [From the +Westminster Magazine, Dec: Though there is scarce anything new in the Plot, Characters, Dialogue of this piece; yet upon the whole we found it extremely entertaining. The Indian servant is well introduced to satirize the follies and vices of the metropolis; and Sir Hector and his son give us a good dish of sea terms, well served up by Messrs $Shuter and Quick."

Event Comment: With Magnificent new Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations, both for the Opera and Dances

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; t 5, by Hannah More, based partly on Gabrielle de Vergy, by Pierre Laurent Buirette de Belloy. Prologue and Epilogue by David Garrick (see text)]: With New Scenes, Dresses, &c. Public Advertiser, 19 Dec. 1777: This Day at Noon is published Percy (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #215 (212.12.6; 2.7.6)

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by John Home. Prologue by the author (London Chronicle, 16 Feb.). Epilogue by David Garrick (ibid.)]: New Scenes, Dresses, &c. Account-Book, 26 Jan.: Paid Wild for [obtaining] license for Alfred #2 2s. Public Advertiser, 14 Feb. 1778: This Day is published Alfred (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #246 (241.17.6; 4.2.6)

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; c 3, altered from the same, probably by the author, Richard Bentley]: Written in the manner of the Italian Comedy. With new Scenes and Dresses. [Author of Prologue unknown.] "It was originally produced at Drury Lane in the summer of 1761 [27 July] . . . and has now been new dished up, and seasoned to the day" (European Magazine, ibid). J. P. Collier states that "it is not a revival of the former piece" (MacMillan, Larpent Catalogue, p. 98). It was not, strictly speaking, a "revival", but, rather, a revision, as a collation of Larpent MS 586 (the present version, which is unpublished) with MS 199 (Bentley's 1761 version) makes clear. In 1761 Bentley introduced "the speaking Harlequin after the manner of the Italians . . . Mr Harris some years after gave it a second chance on the stage" (Cumberland, Memoirs, I, 212-14). Receipts: #215 19s. (213/5/6; 2/13/6)

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Lord Lumbcrcourt to Wilson, but "Lee Lewes was the substitute for Wilson, and far indeed better than the man he appeared for" (Public Advertiser, 31 Jan.).] Afterpiece [1st time; P 2, by John O'KeerFe]: The Music composed by Shield. The Scenery designed by Richards and Carver, and executed by them, Hodgins, and others. The 1st Part of this Pantomime is an Alteration of the Last New One [Friar Bacon (see 23 Dec. 1783)], and the 2nd Part entirely new and never before exhibited. Nothing under Full Price will be taken. "If Macklin once loses the Catch Word he is gone irretrievably." At the end of the 3rd act, at half price, some apprentices coming into the pit talked so loudly that "Macklin stopped; he lost himself. ... He came to the Side of the Stage, and stooping down to the Talkers, said, 'Gentlemen, I must beg you to be silent; my Hearing and Recollection are not so perfect as they were; I cannot proceed for your Talking'" (Public Advertiser, 5 Feb.). Receipts: #286 14s. (282/15; 3/19)

Event Comment: 3rd piece [1st time; P 2 (?), by John Cartwright Cross. MS of Songs only: Larpent MS 1203]: Partly New and Partly Selected. The Overture and Music by Reeve. The Scenery partly new & the rest completely repaired by Phillips, Lupino, Hollogan, Blackmore, &c. The Machinery by Cresswell, Sloper, Goostree, Goostree Jun., &c. Receipts: #195 9s. (193.2; 2.7)

Event Comment: With the Addition of a New Scene

Event Comment: [By Colley Cibber.] Never Acted before. By Subscription. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and none to be admitted but by the Subscribers' Tickets. [In the preface to The Double Gallant Cibber states that in Marriage a la Mode he joined "the Comical Episodes of the Maiden Queen, and Marriage alamode...the Alteration cost me but six days trouble; and not calling it a new Play, we found the Town very favourable to it."

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By John Vanbrugh.] Never Acted before. Mainpiece: With all the Original Scenes, Machines, and Decorations. To which will be added several new ones, particularly the intire front prospect of Blenheim Castlev. And another Piece alluding to the late glorious Successes of her Majesty's Arms, &c

Event Comment: Receipts: #44 4s. 6d. The Season being so far advanc'd that the Cloaths, Scenes, and Decorations proper to the New Tragedy, call'd, The Fair Captive, cannot be got ready as soon as was intended, we are oblig'd for some time to defer it. N.B. The Tickets deliver'd out for the Benefit of the Author of the Tragedy, will be taken at this Play

Event Comment: Not Acted these Sixteen Years. And all the Original Musick. The Habits, Scenes, Machines, Dances, and all other Decorations proper to the Play, being entirely New. Boxes 6s. Pit 5s. Gallery 2s 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. And whereas there are a great many Scenes and Machines to be mov'd in this Opera, which cannot be done if Persons should stand on the Stage, (where they could not be without Danger) it is therefore hoped no Person will take it ill that they must be deny'd Entrance on the Stage. Receipts: #198 18s. 6d

Event Comment: Not Acted these Seven Years. All the Habits being intirely New. [The Prologue was printed in Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 24 Nov.

Event Comment: Not acted these Twenty Years. Written by Shakespear, and since revis'd with several Alterations. The whole Play being new dress'd. N.B. The Play will begin exactly at Six a-Clock. Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 5 Oct., reports a rumor that J. J. Heidegger has sent to France to recruit a set of comedians to act French plays at the king's

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Benefit the Author. With the Addition of some new Scenes (never acted before)

Event Comment: Benefit Ryan. Afterpiece: A new Dramatick Entertainment of Grotesque Characters

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman in Misfortunes. Written by Aaron Hill, Esq. All the Characters being entirely new Dress'd. N.B. The putting off the Play so long was occasion'd by the Indisposition of one of the principal Performers, and the Tickets deliver'd out for 4th, the 11th, and the 17th Instant will be taken this Day