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Event Comment: Paid Supernumeraries #9 13s. 6d.; Carpenters #15 12s. 1d. Afterpiece: Written by the late Henry Fielding, Esq. Receipts: #225 12s. (181.3; 43.18; 0.11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Event Comment: Paid Harwood [former prompter] Gratuity on his Dismission #25. Receipts: #195 16s. (168.9; 27.2; 0.5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Event Comment: Paid Bligh, tallow chandler, in full for last season #354 14s. Receipts: #200 17s. 6d. (197.14.6; 3.3.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Dance: In I: Masquerade Scene-(incident to the mainpiece)

Song: End IV: Juliet's Funeral Procession-; With the Solemn Dirge-; Vocal Parts-Johnstone, Cubitt, Brown, Darley, Pemberton, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart, Mrs Davenett, Miss Cranfield, Mrs Kennedy

Event Comment: Paid Danby [for] Chorus #9; Printer [of playbills] #14 6s. 6d. [Mrs McGeorge was from the Tunbridge Wells theatre.] Afterpiece: To conclude with a Grand Representation of a Regattav . "When [Mrs Siddons] begins a dialogue of scorn, at the top of her voice (as she did last night in the fifth act), the climax must inevitably be sacrificed" (Morning Chronicle, 7 Dec.). Receipts: #227 6s. (204.6.0; 22.4.6; 0.15.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distressd Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Event Comment: Paid Whitfield for making Cloaths to Decr. inclusive #59 2s. Receipts: #203 19s. (201.4; 2.15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man Or The Fops Fortune

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Castle

Event Comment: Paid the Duke of Bedford One Year and 9 Mos. Rent for the Theatre, the House in Bow Street, and the House in the passage #336 17s. 6d. Receipts: #180 (176.16; 3.4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Performance Comment: As17861028, but Belinda-Mrs Lewis.

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Castle

Event Comment: Paid One Half Yrs Land Tax #48 2s. 4d. Receipts: #264 18s. (249.1.0; 15.12.6; 0.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Dance: End III: As17870113

Song: II: [Dr Cooke]'s Glee, Hark! the Lark at Heav'n's Gate sings-Dignum, Williames, Danby, Master Clarke

Event Comment: Paid House and Window Tax one half Yr. #56 13s. 8d. Receipts: #113 16s. 6d. (62.9.0; 48.2.6; 3.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Performance Comment: As17861026, but Colonel Briton-Whitfield; Alguazile-Jones; Vasquez-Phillimore.

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Event Comment: Paid Parsons his Benefit Allowance [i.e. in lieu of a benefit] #100. Receipts: #197 5s. (171.13.0; 24.6.6; 1.5.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17861202, but Macduff-Whitfield.

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Song: Singing, as17861202, but Mrs _Wrighten

Event Comment: Paid Printer [of playbills] #11 18s. Receipts: #262 19s. (240.14; 21.18; 0.7)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella Or The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Song: III: Epithalamium Vocal Parts-Mrs Forster, Miss Stageldoir

Event Comment: Paid Maddocks, mercer, #56 19s. Receipts: #203 13s. (175.1.0; 28.7.6; 0.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Event Comment: Paid T. Finch for Fancy Dresses #63. Receipts: #224 9s. (219.19.6; 4.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Event Comment: Paid Pugh, oilman, #92 3s. Afterpiece: From the French of Sedaine. The Music by the celebrated Gretry; and the Paintings by Greenwood. Receipts: #180 9s. 6d. (129.12.0; 48.9.0; 2.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Dance: In III afterpiece: Dance-the two young D'Egvilles, Miss DeCamp. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Event Comment: Paid Cooper, printer, for last season #64 10s. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #114 18s. 6d. (111.13.0; 3.5.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Follies Of A Day Or The Marriage Of Figaro

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Event Comment: Paid One-half Years Land Tax #84 2s. 6d. Receipts: #228 19s. 6d. (224.15.6; 4.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Event Comment: Paid R. Whitfield [men's wardrobe keeper] #39 18s. 11d. Receipts: #245 8s. (242.12.6; 3.15.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Event Comment: Paid Miss Farren her Benefit Allowance [i.e. in lieu of a benefit] #200. Receipts: #238 16s. (221.10; 16.11; 0.15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In The East

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Performance Comment: As17880303but Miss Romanzini; Mrs_ Booth; Miss_ Cranford.
Event Comment: Paid Billstickers #2 14s.; Supernumeraries #4 18s. Receipts: #176 9s. 6d. (128.7.0; 48.0.0; 0.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist or Whos Who

Event Comment: Paid Printer [of playbills] to 20th Inst. #20 15s. Receipts: #182 8s. (146.7; 36.1; 0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Event Comment: Paid Pugh, oilman, #99 1s. 5d. Receipts: #111 11s. (75.17.0; 35.4.6; 0.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

Song: As17881117, but Vocal Parts-Dignum, Sedgwick, Miss Collett, Miss Romanzini

Event Comment: Paid Edwards & Co. for Crape, Gauze & Tiffeny #23 9s. Receipts: #128 16s. 6d. (127.13.0; 1.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Performance Comment: As17890928, but Shelty-Edwin.

Afterpiece Title: The Little Hunchback

Event Comment: Paid 1@2 Years Land and House Tax #106 2s. 7d. Receipts: #187 1s. (182.6.6; 4.14.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: End I: Divertissement=, as17891002

Event Comment: Paid Lokes & Co., Wax Chandlers, to Nov. 25, #72 10s. Receipts: #157 15s. 6d. (141.13.0; 15.14.0; 0.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Performance Comment: As17891124, but Lady Elinor-Miss Hagley in place of Mrs Crouch.

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: In: Dance, as17891204; In afterpiece: Minuet, as17891201

Event Comment: Paid Duke of Bedford 1 Yrs. Rent #343 5s. 1d. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Edward Morris. Author of Prologue unknown]: With new Dresses and Decorations. Public Advertiser, 8 Apr. 1790: This Morning is published The Adventurers (1s.). Receipts: #260 8s. (226.5.0; 31.16.0; 2.4.6; ticket not come in: 0.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Adventurers

Dance: As17891204

Event Comment: Paid Brady, barber's bill, #10 1s. Receipts: #201 19s. 6d. (176.12.0; 24.10.0; 0.17.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Dance: As17891204