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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fontainbleau

Performance Comment: Lackland-Lewis; Lepoche-Quick; Squire Tally@ho-Blanchard; Sir John Bull-Wilson; Lord Winlove-Incledon; Col. Epaulette-Marshall; Henry-Johnstone; Celia-Miss Broadhurst; Rosa-Mrs Blanchard; Lady Bull-Mrs Webb; Mrs Casey-Mrs Harlowe [Public Advertiser: Mrs Cross]; Nannette-Miss Stuart; Miss Dolly Bull-Mrs Mattocks.

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: Afterpiece conclude: Dance-

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. Under the Patronage of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales. [In mainpiece the playbill retains Mrs Bland as Ariel , but "Ariel was, on account of the sudden indisposition of Mrs Bland, read by Miss Heard" (Diary, 8 May). Miss Heard may also have substituted for Mrs Bland in the afterpiece.] Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by James Cobb, for whose authorship see Kemble Mem. Larpent MS 982; not published]. Public Advertiser, 2 May: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Charing Cross. Receipts: #227 8s. (95.17; 7.5; tickets: 124.6) (charge: #90 2s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Hay The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Fortune's Wheel

Song: In: Vocal Parts, as17921213, Sedgwick, _Kelly, Mrs +Crouch; Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite, as17930102 In course of Evening: +The Little Farthing Rushlight-Bannister Jun

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. Morning Herald, 21 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Charing-Cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: COMUS

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. Morning Chronicle, 8 May: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Charing-cross. Receipts: #518 19s. 6d. (146.11.0; 54.13.6; 19.16.0; tickets: 297.19.0) (charge: #221 6s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

Song: End II: When on board our trim vessel (composed by Carter)-Bannister; End: The Waggoner (composed by Dibdin)-Wathen; End I 2nd piece: When Bibo went down-Bannister; End 2nd piece: The Cobler (composed by Reeve)-Wathen; End I 3rd piece: The Ship@wreck'd Sailors (composed by an Amateur for the Thespian Panorama [see hay, 4 Mar.])-Mrs Bland, Master Welsh, Dignum, Suett, Caulfield, Bannister

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. 3rd piece [1st time; M. INT 1]. Morning Herald, 10 May: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Charing-cross. Receipts: #188 6s. 6d. (120.9.6; 61.1.0; 2.17.6; tickets: none listed; odd money: 3.18.6) (charge: #218 11s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mountaineers

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Afterpiece Title: A Musical Olio

Event Comment: Benefit for Jewell, treasurer. Morning Herald, 1 Sept.: Tickets to be had of Jewell, No. 26, Suffolk-street, Charing-cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Iron Chest

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Event Comment: [Extra night] By Authority of the Most Noble for Marquis of Salisbury, Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty's Household. Benefit for Waldron, prompter. Tickets to be had of Waldron, No. 4, Cross-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mountaineers

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: End 2nd piece: Pas Russe, as17960907

Entertainment: MonologueEnd: Collins's Ode on the Passions-Palmer

Event Comment: [3rd piece in place of Cross Purposes, advertised on playbill of 21 Feb.] Receipts: #270 12s. (262.10; 8.2)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Cure For The Heart Ache

Afterpiece Title: Bantry Bay

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. 4th piece: Not acted these 7 years [acted 29 Mar. 1792]. Morning Herald, 12 May: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Charing-Cross. Receipts: #259 6s. (60.16.0; 51.17.6; 4.6.0; tickets: 142.6.6) (charge: #211 7s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Purse

Related Works
Related Work: The Purse; or, Benevolent Tar Author(s): John Cartwright Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. True Briton, 1 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Charing-Cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Thieves

Dance: End: Hornpipe-Sga Bossi DelCaro

Music: After Dancing: a favourite concerto by Dussek upon the Grand Piano Forte-Miss Gaudry (1st appearance in public)

Song: End I afterpiece: a favourite song by Webbe-Master Sincock

Entertainment: In the course of the Evening: a Variety of Imitations-Caulfield

Event Comment: Benefit for Jewell, treasurer. True Briton, 2 Sept.: Tickets to be had of Jewell, No. 26, Suffolk-street, Charing-Cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Event Comment: Benefit for the Four Youngest Orphans of the late Mr Palmer [see dl, 18 June]. As it is presumed that the well-known liberality of the Publick will be strongly excited on the present occasion, the Proprietor of the [Haymarket] Theatre has requested the use of the Opera-House for this Evening, that the largest number of persons who wish to patronize the undertaking may be accomodated with places. The Proprietor of the Opera-House has, with the utmost readiness, granted the request. Tickets to be had of the Miss Palmers, at Dixon's, Upholsterer, the corner of Bedford-Court, Bedford-Street, Covent-Garden; of Messrs Ransom, Morland and Co., Bankers, Pall-Mall; of Jewell, No. 26, Suffolk-Street, Charing-Cross, of whom, and of Rice, at the Box-Office, Places for the Boxes may be taken. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. "[His brother] R. Palmer attempted to deliver an address at the end of the play, but he was so much overpowered that he...left the address unrecited, and [his] part in the farce was given up to another performer" (Monthly Mirror, Aug. 1798, p. 117, which also records that the receipts were approximately #700)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Heir At Law

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

Event Comment: Benefit for Jewell, treasurer. Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years [acted 2 Aug. 1792]. Times, 4 Sept.: Tickets to be had of Jewell, No. 26, Suffolk-street, Charing-cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key

Event Comment: [Extra night] By Authority of the Most Noble the Marquis of Salisbury, Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty's Household. Benefit for Waldron, prompter. [Amarath the Fourth was "A musical tale," 1st acted at the Royalty, 27 Nov. 1797.] 3rd piece [1st time; P 1, author unknown]: Got up under the direction of Delpini. Tickets to be had of Waldron, No. 4, Cross-court, Bow-street, Covent-garden.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan; or, A Peep into the Seraglio

Afterpiece Title: The Giant and Dwarf; or, Columbine Captive

Entertainment: Vaudeville. A Pasticcio, consisting of: From Shades of Night[, composed by Storace for Mahmoud,-D'Arcy; [The first Strophe, Epode, and Antistrophe of Gray's Bard-a Young Gentleman [, aged 10 years [unidentified]; Cheap Experience [; or, Cheats of London, composed by Dibdin,-Waldron Jun

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for an Infant Orphan Family. Tickets to be had at No. 17, Tufton-street, Westminster; of Appleby, Hosier, Parliament-street; Mrs Cleaver, Cannon-row, Parliament-street; Newcomb, Confectioner, Bridge-street, Westminster; Taylor, Linen-draper, Whitehall; Thomas, Butcher, Charing-cross; Medhurst, Pastry Cook, Russel-court, Drury-lane; Rice, at the Theatre, where Places for the Boxes may be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Entertainment: End: Her much admired Imitations-Mrs Sumbel

Event Comment: Benefit for the Widow and Four Children of the late Mr Follett. [John Follett had died in Jan. 1799. Address by John Cartwright Cross (Monthly Mirror, June 1799, p. 367).] Receipts: #416 7s. 9d. (120.4.3; 4.1.0; tickets: 292.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Get Married

Afterpiece Title: The Vanguard

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Song: End II: The Storm-Incledon (written by G. A. Stevens); Black Ey'd Susan-Incledon; Sally in our Alley-Incledon

Entertainment: Monologue End: An Occasional Address-H. Johnston; Imitations-Rees

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. Morning Chronicle, 9 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Charing Cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Fortune's Frolick

Dance: In III: Hornpipe in character-a Young Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified])

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bland. Morning Chronicle, 20 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Bland, No. 8, Cockspur-street, Charing-cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surrender Of Calais

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

Song: End II: Crazy Jane-Mrs Bland; In the character of Josephine in afterpiece 'Twas in the solemn mid@night hour-Mrs Bland the Ballad in Sighs; End I afterpiece: Little Taffline ; or, The Silken Sash-Mrs Bland

Event Comment: Benefit for Jewell, treasurer. Morning Chronicle, 31 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Jewell, No. 26, Suffolk-street, Charing Cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sighs

Afterpiece Title: Tars at Torbay

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

Song: End 1st piece: Crazy Jane-Mrs Bland

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Bossi DelCaro. 2nd ballet: 1st time; composed for the occasion by Dupret; the music by Bossi, composer and leader of the Band at the Opera House. Of Age To-morrow [advertised on playbill of 30 May] is obliged to be deferred on account of the indisposition of Bannister Jun. Morning Chronicle, 30 May: Tickets to be had of Sga Bossi DelCaro, No. 1, Great Suffolk-street, Charing-cross. Receipts: #327 5s. (212.10.0; 61.13.6; 2.18.0; tickets: 50.3.6) (charge: #215 13s. 7d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Dance: End II: New Divertisement Ballet-Sga Bossi DelCaro, Mme D'Egville, Gheri; a Pas Seul-Sga Bossi DelCaro; accompanied on the tamborine-Sga Bossi DelCaro; End: The Lucky Escape Principal Performers-St.Pierre, Grimaldi, Gheri, Miss B. Denis, Mrs Grimaldi, Miss E. Denis, Miss Lupini, Miss Cranfield, Mme D'Egville, Sga Bossi DelCaro, the whole Corps de Ballet

Event Comment: [Emery was from cg. Mainpiece: Epilogue by the younger George Colman.] Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. 2nd Gallery 1s. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin precisely at 7:00 [same throughout season]. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Rice, at the Theatre. Printed by T. Woodfall, No. 1, Cross Court, Russel Court, Drury Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Afterpiece Title: The Jew and the Doctor

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. Morning Chronicle, 28 July: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Charing-cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

Song: As18000725

Event Comment: Benefit for Jewell, treasurer. Morning Chronicle, 1 Sept.: Tickets to be had of Jewell, No. 26, Suffolk-street, Charing-cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Afterpiece Title: The Castle of Sorrento

Song: As18000725