Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Arne the composer of it (Cross). [Cross omits receipts for this night.

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Arne. In the Manner of an Oratorio. The Music composed by Arne. Boxes Half a Guinea. Pit 5s. First Gallery 3s. Upper Gallery 2s. To begin exactly at half an hour after Six. Tickets to be had and places to be taken of Varney at the Stage Door; and of Arne, next door to the Passage, in Charles St., Covent Garden. The Book is sold at R. Francklin's in Covent Garden, and at the Theatre the night of the performance. Price 1s. [Cross lists no receipts.

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Hillyard. Receipts: #46 17s. Charges: #63. Deficiency cover'd by tickets, #105 9s. (boxes 170; pit 279; gallery 211). Rec'd from John Rich, #100, being part of the sum paid to Mr Finny on account of the New Building (Account Book)

Event Comment: Benefit for Lalauze. No Building on Stage. Mr Lalauze having had for the most part of this season, a severe indisposition, and still continuing very weak, he hopes those Ladies and Gentlemen, who will favor him with their companies, will excuse his not performing, on this night as he has been accustomed to do

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Reviv'd, not acted these six Years. Written by Mr Foote

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Tickets to be had and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr Johnston, at the Stage Door of the Theatre at Half a Guinea. Pit 5s. First Gallery 3s. 6d. Upper Gallery 2s. Doors to be opened at Five o'clock. To begin at Half past Six

Event Comment: [The Young Gentleman identified as Owenson by Hopkins MS Notes. Confirmed by Sir Nicholas Nipclose, in The Theatres (2nd. ed. London, 1722, p. 51) speaking of Inchbald's introduction to the London stage with advertisement of "first appearance" though he had been many years an itinerant actor, "this is a trick to gain, from curiosity, what may pay by one night the whole season's pitiful salary of such actors; several mushrooms have vegetated thus; but none more worthless or short lived, than Mr Owenson; brought forward modestly in Tamerlane, some weeks since; without even the requistes of a grown-up school-boy."] Receipts: #180 6s. (Account Book)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [See 31 Dec. 1772.] Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. No Persons admitted behind the scenes, nor any money returned after the Curtain is drawn up. Places for Boxes to be taken of Mr Sarjant (only) at the Stage Door. The Doors to be open'd at half an hour past 5 o'clock. To Begin half an Hour past 6. Vivant Rex & Regina. [Customary footnote for all succeeding bills this season, not to be repeated here. Woodward seems to have spoken an Occasional Prologue on the opening of the theatre. See request for its repetition on bill for 21 Sept. This Prologue is Larpent MS 377. It suggests the policy of offerings and competitions for the season--some old plays, some new, some foreign, some pantomimes, some Shakespeare, &c.

Event Comment: Tickets to be had and places for Boxes to be taken of Mr Johnston at the Stage Door of the Theatre at Half a Guinea each. Pit 5s. First Gallery 3s. 6d. Second Gallery 2s. Doors to be opened at Five o'clock. To begin at Half past Six

Event Comment: By subscription. [The mainpiece is advertised as on 22 Feb. except that its composition is attributed to Leveridge.

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of his Excellency the Ambassador from the States General

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Event Comment: Benefit For the Composer (Hopkins). Books of the Opera sold at the Theatre. Charges: #76 12s. 6d.; Receipts: #184 18s. Profit to composer: #108 5s. 6d. (MacMillan)