Event Comment: Send serv'ts by 3 p.m. Books of opera at Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desir. Books of opera at Theatre

Event Comment: Send serv'ts by 3 p.m. Books of opera at Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Yates. Set to music by Yates. Pit and Boxes 5s. Gallery 3s. The Serenata published this day at 6d. Books of the performance to be had at the Theatre

Event Comment: Send Serv'ts at 3 p.m. Books of Opera at Theatre. Love in a Village deferr'd. Miss Brent ill

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Books of opera at Theatre

Event Comment: Twenty-sixth Night. Send serv'ts by 3 p.m. Books o Opera at Theatre. Last time of performing this opera till after Easter

Event Comment: Benefit for Tenducci. By Particular Desire. Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. The House will be doubly Illuminated for the Upper Boxes and Upper Gallery to read their Books. Books of the opera to be had at the Theatre. Nor will any Pit Tickets be admitted into the Gallery

Event Comment: Books of opera at theatre. [Miss Hallam became Mrs Mattocks on or about Easter Sunday (Winston MS 9).

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke. None admitted behind Scenes. Books of the Entertainment (a Musical Afterpiece, perform'd but once) to be sold at the Theatre

Event Comment: Send serv'ts by 3 p.m. Books of Opera at Theatre

Event Comment: Books of the Opera at the Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mattocks. Ladies send serv'ts by 3 p.m. Books of Opera at Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Tenducci. Send Serv'ts by 3 p.m. Books of the Opera at the Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Hull. Books of the afterpiece to be had at the Theatre. Afterpiece: Founded on the plan of the old Ballad of that name. The songs adapted to old English, Irish and Scotch tunes. [Shuter's Prologue is Larpent MS 218, wherein he enters in character of a Ballad singer, interrupting the music as the overture comes to a close. He sings snatches from some ten old ballads, stopping in the midst of each to comment on the superiority of modern circumstances which parallel those referred to in the old ballads. As the bell rings he introduces the afterpiece.

Event Comment: Send Serv'tS by 3 p.m. Books of the Opera at Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Perry, Dibdin. Mainpiece: Acted but once these two years. Afterpiece: Perform'd but twice. None admitted behind Scenes. Books of the Afterpiece to be sold at Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Books of Opera at Theatre

Event Comment: Send Serv'ts by 3 p.m. Books of Opera at Theatre (Twenty-Ninth Night)

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr Sarjant (ONLY) Book-Keeper, at the Stage-Door of the Theatre. No Person can be admitted behind the Scenes. Nor any money returned after the curtain is drawn up. To begin exactly at 6 o'clock. [Customary note repeated on each bill.

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A comic opera [by Bickerstaffe never performed before. Books of the opera at the Theatre. The music by the most eminent composers

Event Comment: [Scheduled for performance, but theatres closed on account of the death of the Duke of Cumberland.

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Those ladies and gentlemen who have taken places in the Boxes are desired to be at the theatre earlier than usual, to prevent mistakes; and to send their servants by 3 o'clock. [Garrick's first appearance. He afterwards played only occasionally 7 or 8 nights.] Disturbance at Drury Lane. Those not in black insulted, one young gentleman from Bond Street had a sword run into his eye (Winston MS 9)

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. A new serious Opera. Pit and Boxes put together and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered this Day, at the Office, at Half a Guinea each. Gallery 5s. By their Majesties Command no Persons whatsoever to be admitted behind the Scenes or in the Orchestra. Gallery, Pit and Boxes to be opened at Five. 6:30 p.m. [Repeated in the subsequent bills.] Messrs Crawford, Vincent, and Gordon most humbly request that the Nobility and Gentry, Subscribers to the Operas for the ensuing Season, will please send their Subssciptions to Andrew Drummond and Co., Bankers at Charing Cross; or to Crawford, at the theatre, where attendance will be given every day from Ten to Two, to receive Subscriptions, and the names of the Subscribers who are pleased to honor the Managers with their Protection to enable them to get the Tickets engraved before the Operas begin (Public Advertiser through October and November)

Event Comment: A New Musical Comedy in 3 Acts never performed before. New Scenes and Habits. Book of the Comedy to be had at the Theatre. [Richard Cumberland's second dramatic piece, and first one to be performed (Genest, V, 104).