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Event Comment: Benefit for Peile. Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years. Tickets delivered by Dagueville will be taken. Public Advertiser, 1 May and 27 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Peile at his house in North-street, Westminster; of Dagueville, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #149 2s. 6d. (56.14.6; tickets: 92.8.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: End II: new dance, The Arts and Sciences-Dagueville, Dagueville's pupils; End: new pantomimical dance, The Russian Light Infantry and Cossack Camp-Dagueville, Sga Tinte, Sga Vidini (1st appearance this season), fifty more performers

Song: End IV: a song-Mrs Farrell

Event Comment: Benefit for Wild, prompter. Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years [acted 6 Jan. 1773]. End of mainpiece: The Procession from Westminster Abbey Coronation. Public Advertiser, 8 May: Tickets to be had of Wild at his house, No. 20, Crown-court, Bow-street. Receipts: #224 18s. (146.1; tickets: 78.17) [charge: #72 6s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth; Or, The Conquest Of France

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Song: End I: new song, The Cottage on the lawn (composed by Michael? Arne)-Mrs Farrell

Ballet: End Procession: The Sailors' Revels at Portsmouth. As17780502

Event Comment: Benefit for Sarjant, box-book and house-keeper. Mainpiece: Procession as 11 May. Tickets delivered for Amphitryon will be taken. Receipts: #243 1s. (69.14; tickets: 173.7) (charge: #84)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Song: As17780511

Event Comment: To begin at 6:30 precisely. Boxes 3s. Pit 2s. Gallery 1s. The Proprietors have spared no expence in enlarging and beautifying the Theatre; and as they are determined to preserve the exactest punctuality in the time of beginning, and to make regularity and decorum their chief study, hope they shall render themselves deserving of that favourable encouragement they have before experienced. The House is illuminated with Wax. Subscription tickets may be had by applying to Bailey, at Mr Oldfield's. [Author of Prologue unknown.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder: A Woman Keeps A Secret

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: End: Hornpipe-a Lady [from the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden unidentified]

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Morning Chronicle, 5 Sept.: Tickets to be had of Palmer at his house, Bow-street, Bloomsbury. Afterpiece: Never performed here

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suicide

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: End: Dance-; In II afterpiece: a Minuet-Harris, Miss Harper

Entertainment: Monologue Following 1st dance: The Picture of a Playhouse; or, Bucks have at ye All-Palmer

Event Comment: "This may be called the Coalition Season, the Actors of both Theatres playing at either house indiscriminately" (MS annotation by J. P. Kemble on Kemble playbill). Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be had of Fosbrook at the Stage Door. No Money to be taken at the Stage Door, nor any Money returned after the Curtain is drawn up. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 16 Oct.]. Receipts: #226 8s. 6d. (193.9.0; 32.12.0; 0.7.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Song: In afterpiece: Sweet Echo-Leoni, Mrs Farrell (of cg)

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [see 2 Dec.]. [A letter from Fosbrook, the box-book keeper, to Garrick gives the number of spectators in the house on this night (Garrick, Private Correspondence, II, 323), as follows: Boxes Pit 1st Gall. 2ed Gall.@1st Account 234 310 330 210@2nd Account 80 30 160 80@Total: 1,434.] Receipts: #166 14s. 6d. (140.8.0; 25.18.6; 0.8.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fathers

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain, Mainpiece: Altered from the Original [Woman is a Riddle, by Christopher Bullock. Not in Larpent MS; not published]. 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT I, author unknown. MS not in Larpent; not published]. 3rd piece: Written by Henry Fielding, Esq. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. Tickets delivered by Davis, Wright, Mrs Lefevre will be admitted. Constant fires will be kept on the stage, Pit, Boxes and Galleries to air the house

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Macaroni Adventurer; Or, Woman's A Riddle

Afterpiece Title: Fashionable Love; or, The Happy British Tar

Afterpiece Title: The Covent Garden Tragedy

Dance: Entertainments ofDancing-

Entertainment: Monologue.End III: Imitations [Vocal and Rhetorical, never attempted, a Trumpet-a Choice Spirit [who will (to his vocal performances) accompany himself with the Symphonies (his 1st appearance on the stage [unidentified])

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of Hamlet, announced on playbill of 9 Jan.] Paid Brady, house barber for Wigs #10 10s. Receipts: #285 5s. (284.9; 0.16)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Wonders of Derbyshire

Dance: End I: The Coopers, as17781211

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years [acted 31 Mar. 1777]. Public Advertiser, 2 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Smith at his house, Beaufort Buildings, Strand. Receipts: #243 17s. 6d. (129.3.0; 18.17.6; 2.9.0; tickets: 93.8.0) (charge: #74 15s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

Event Comment: Benefit for Dodd. Afterpiece: With Alterations. Not acted these 50 years [acted 31 Dec. 1739]. Public Advertiser, 6 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Dodd at his house, New Ormond-street. Receipts: #272 4s. 6d. (117.4.0; 13.19.0; 2.1.6; tickets: 139.0.0) (charge: #66 15s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Britons, Strike Home

Event Comment: Benefit for Wroughton. Public Advertiser, 13 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Wroughton at his house, No. 18, Broad-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: As17790218

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years [not acted since 19 Apr. 1773]. Public Advertiser, 17 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Lewis at his house, Broad-court

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Afterpiece Title: True-Blue

Afterpiece Title: The Liverpool Prize

Dance: In 2nd piece: Aldridge

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years [acted 16 Feb. 1778]. Mrs Mattocks' Benefit has been unavoidably obliged to be deferred till this Day. Tickets delivered for Tuesday the 23d of March will be admitted. Public Advertiser, 27 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Mattocks at her house in Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: True-Blue

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: As17790405

Event Comment: Benefit for Lee Lewes. 1st piece [1st time; PREL I, by Frederick Pilon. Author of Epilogue unknown. This Prelude had reference to the illuminations held on 11 Feb. 1779 in honor of the acquittal, on a charge of misconduct in the naval operations off Brest, of Admiral Augustus Keppel. In 1780 it was acted at this theatre, with alterations, as A Gazette Extraordinary]. Tickets delivered for The Distress'd Mother will be received. Public Advertiser, 30 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Lee Lewes at his house in Bow-street, Covent Garden. Ibid, 4 May 1779: This Day is published Illumination (1s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Illumination; Or, The Glaziers Conspiracy

Afterpiece Title: Elfrida

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: Custom@house Officer Actor:
Event Comment: Benefit for Aickin. Tickets delivered for The Earl of Warwick will be taken. Public Advertiser, 8 Apr.: Tickets to be had ff Aickin at his house, Bow-street, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rose And Colin

Afterpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Liverpool Prize

Event Comment: Benefit for Mattocks. [Mrs Dawes is identified in Kentish Gazette, 19 June and 3 July 1779.] Public Advertiser, 14 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mattocks at his house in Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Annette And Lubin

Afterpiece Title: Romeo and Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: Custom@house Officer Actor:

Dance: I: As17781026, but Minuet-Dagueville, Miss Armstrong

Song: Solemn Dirge, as17781026, but Fox, Mrs _Willems

Event Comment: Benefit for Grimaldi, ballet-master, and Lamash. The Rivals [announced on playbill of 4 May] is obliged to be deferred on account of Dodd's sudden Illness. Tickets delivered by Kenny, and [for] The Rivals will be taken. Paid Printer [of playbills, weekly throughout season] #9. Public Advertiser, 4 May: Tickets to be had of Grimaldi at his house, No. 125, Holbourn; of Lamash, No. 3, Air-street, Piccadilly. Receipts: #175 5s. 6d. (43.10.0; 17.17.6; 0.14.0; tickets: 113.4.0) (charge: #69 19s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: In: Grand Dance, as17781102, but _Henry, Grimaldi, Master +Mills, Miss +Grimaldi

Song: As17790413

Event Comment: Benefit for Brandon, box-book and house-keeper. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Illumination

Afterpiece Title: Amphitryon; or, The Two Sosias

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: Custom@house Officer Actor:

Monologue: In IV: Masque of Singing and Dancing. Plutus-Reinhold; Wit-Miss Valois

Event Comment: Benefit for R. Palmer, Philimore, Walker & Kirk, house-keeper. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years [acted 29 Apr. 1777]. Receipts: #270 19s. (19.1; 5.15; 0.13; tickets: 245.10) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Dance: End IV: a Hornpipe-Walker

Entertainment: Monologue End: Bucks have at ye all-R. Palmer

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; B 3, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Prologue by the Hon. Richard Fitzpatrick (Public Advertiser, 3 Aug. 1781)]: With a Procession. [This was included in all subsequent performances. For the Sea Fight see 20 Nov.] With New Scenes, Dresses and Decorations. The Scenery designed by DeLoutherbourg, and executed under his direction. The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15 [same for rest of season, except on 1 May 1780]. "The House was so crowded that there were many disturbances, one so great that Smith when he had nearly finished 'To be or not to be' was obliged to leave the Stage, and when the noise subsided, to return and begin the soliloquy again... As The Critic took up two hours and a half in performance, it must of necessity be considerably shortened" (Morning Chronicle, 1 Nov.). "The scene of the battle with the Armadav [was] executed in the most masterly manner. The Motion of the sea, the engaging of the ships, and the destruction occasioned by the fire-ships were happily contrived and accurately represented" (London Chronicle, 1 Nov.). Account-Book, 9 Nov.: Paid R. B. Sheridan on Acct. of Critic #320. Receipts: #241 19s. 6d. (222.11.0; 19.3.6; 0.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Critic; or, A Tragedy Rehears'd

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. Public Advertiser, 21 Feb.: Tickets to be had of Smith at his house in Beaufort Buildings, Strand. Receipts: #270 4s. 6d. (146.4.0; 14.1.6; 0.5.0; tickets: 109.14.0) (charge: #74 14s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Event Comment: Benefit for Henderson. Ode: With the Songs, Chorusses, &c. The Music by Dr Arne. "When I recited Mr Garrick's Ode in a private room, I felt what I said, and I believe gave it some effect. Very different was it upon the stage. My feelings were weakened and confounded by the band, my voice lost its scale, and was overpowered by the music in the orchestra" (Ireland, p. 47). Public Advertiser, 26 Feb.: Tickets to be had of Henderson at his house, Great Buckingham-street, York Buildings. [His 1st appearance as Sir John Brute was at Bath, 1 Jan. 1774.] Receipts: #234 13s. 6d. (charge:#105). Account-Book notes that Henderson sold 319 tickets for the boxes and 85 for the pit, together worth #92 10s., and that tickets sold at the doors were worth #142 3s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: An Ode by Garrick

Dance: As17790922

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Public Advertiser, 7 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Palmer at his house in Bow-street, Bloomsbury. Receipts: #222 19s. 6d. (116.13.0; 29.11.6; 1.8.0; tickets: 75.7.0) (charge: #71 4s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Dance: End III: As17791122

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. Morning Chronicle, 15 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Lewis at his house, Broad-Court. Mainpiece: Not acted these 20 years [not acted since 2 May 1758]. 2nd piece [1st time in London; INT I: ascribed to John Philip Kemble, 1st acted at York, 27 Mar. 1779]. Receipts: #230 5s. (192.9; tickets: 37.16) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant; Or, The Sick Lady Cured

Afterpiece Title: The School For Scandal Scandaliz'd

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon