*p1776 9 21 dl New Brooms!  [Principal Characters by King, Moody, Palmer, Parson
s, Bannister, Baddeley, Wrighten, Carpenter, Griffiths, Wright, Burton, R. Palme
r, Dodd, Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Love, Miss Platt, Miss Stageldoir, Mrs Wrighten.%  [C
ast from text ($T. Becket=. 1776):% Sprightly-King; Phelim-Moody; Catcall-Palmer
; Sir Dulcimer Dunder-Parsons; Sailor-Bannister; Mezzetin-Baddeley; Furrow-Wrigh
ten; Dripping-Griffiths; Musician-Wright; Frank Furrow-Burton; Lad-R. Palmer; Cr
otchet-Dodd; Mrs Dripping-Mrs Bradshaw; Mrs Furrow-Mrs Love; Doxy-Miss Platt; Mi
ss Dripping-Miss Stageldoir; Miss Quaver-Mrs Wrighten; unassigned-Carpenter; +Pr
ologue=[, not listed on playbill,%-King [; it was, presumably, spoken at all sub
sequent performances].  *aTwelfth Night.  Malvolio-Yates (1st appearance in that
 character these 1O years); Sir Andrew Ague@Cheek-Dodd; Sir Toby Belch-Palmer; O
rsino-Jefferson; Sebastian-Davies; Fabian-Lamash; Antonio-Wrighten; Captain-Wrig
ht; Officer-Carpenter; Priest-Griffiths; Valentine-Norris; Curio-Everard; Clown-
Vernon; [with the original% +Epilogue song=-Vernon; Olivia (with a +song=)-Mrs B
addeley; Maria-Mrs Hopkins; Viola-Miss Younge.  *aMiss in her Teens.  Fribble (w
ith a +song= in character)-Dodd; Captain Flash-Palmer; Captain Loveit-Davies; Pu
ff-Moody; Jasper-Burton; Tag-Mrs Love; Miss Biddy-Miss Jarratt.  *cPrelude [1st 
time: PREL 1, by $George Colman elder=; incidental music by $Thomas Linley Sen.=
 and $Nicola Piccinni=.  Prologue by $David Garrick= (+Poetical Works=, II, 327)
]. The Words of the Songs in [the] Prelude will be given at the Theatre.  The Do
ors to be opened at 5:3O.  To begin at 6:30 [see 11 Nov.].  Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1s
t Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s.  Places for the Boxes to be taken of $Fosbrook= 
at the Stage Door. No Money to be taken at the Stage Door, nor any Money returne
d after the Curtain is drawn up.  The TR opened this Season under the Management
 of Messrs $Lacy=, $Sheridan=, $Ford= and $Linley=.  This Summer the Flys has be
en raised considerably--the Stage widened and heitened--the orchestra enlarged, 
and Iron ornaments at the Top.  +New Brooms= written by G. Colman Esq. went off 
with tolerable Applause--is much too long (+Hopkins Diary=).  +Public Advertiser
=, 3 Oct. 1776: This Day at Noon will be published New Brooms! (1s.).  [$Yates= 
had last acted +Malvolio=r at dl on 6 Jan. 1764 and at cg on 5 May 1772.]  Recei
pts: #269 19s. 6d.  *p23 cg News from Parnassus.  See 25 Sept.  *aThe Recruiting
 Officer.  Captain Plume-Lewis (1st appearance in that character); Justice Balan
ce-Hull; Worthy-Whitefield; Scale-Thompson; Scruple-Cushing; Serj. Kite-Fearon; 
Bullock-Dunstall; Recruits-Quick, Jones; Capt. Brazen-Woodward; Melinda-Miss Amb
rose; Rose (1st time)-Miss Dayes; Lucy-Mrs Pitt; Sylvia-Mrs Lessingham.  *aThe M
ock Doctor.  The Mock Doctor-Dunstall; Sir Jasper-Cushing; Dorcas-Mrs Pitt.  *cP
relude [1st time; PREL 1, by $Arthur Murphy=].  Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 yea
rs.  Afterpiece: Not acted these 5 years [acted 21 Nov. 1772].  The Doors to be 
opened at 5:3O.  To begin at 6:3O [see 11 Nov.].  Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 
2s. 2nd Gallery 1s.  Places for the Boxes to be taken of $Sarjant= (only) at the
 Stage-door.  No persons admitted behind the Scenes, nor any Money returned afte
r the Curtain is drawn up. Receipts: #214 17s. 6d. (214.15.O; O.2.6.)  *phay The
 Beaux Stratagem.  *aThe Mayor of Garratt. [See conclusion of preceding season.%
  *pchr The School for Wives.  General Savage-Massey; Captain Savage-Johnson; Le
eson-Smith; Torrington-Lewis; Spruce-Dancer; Conolly-Comerford; Belville-Saul; M
rs Belville-Mrs Massey; Lady Rachel Mildew-Mrs Ross; Miss Walsingham-Mrs Wilks; 
Mrs Tempest-Mrs Russell; Miss Leeson-Miss Taylor.  *aMidas.  Midas-Newton; Silen
o-Comerford; Damaetas-Dancer; Pan-Massey; Jupiter-Johnson; Apollo-Kenny; Juno-Mr
s Wilks; Mysis-Mrs Russell; Daphne-Miss Taylor; Nysa-Mrs Davies.  *sEnd: +Modera
tion and Alteration=[; or a +Touch on the Times=%-Massey.  *e[+Monologue=.% Prec
eding: [the celebrated Satyric% +Lecture on Hearts and Dissertation on Noses=[, 
illustrated by Hearts of different colours and Noses of various sizes,%-Comerfor
d; End III: +Imitations=-Master Russell.  *cBenefit for $Miss Taylor=.  Mainpiec
e: Written by $Hugh Kelly Esq=.  Tickets to be had of Miss Taylor at +Sergeant's
=, +Paradise-street=.  Boxes 3s. Pit 2s. Gallery 1s. The Doors to be opened at 5
:00.  To begin precisely at 6:00.  *p24 dl New Brooms!  As 21 Sept.  *aJane Shor
e.  Hastings-Smith; Gloster-Jefferson; Bellmour-Davies; Catesby-Wright; Ratcliff
e-Farren; Derby-Hurst; Shore-Reddish; Alicia-Miss Younge; Jane Shore-Mrs Yates. 
 *aMay Day; or, The Little Gipsy.  William-Vernon; Clod-Bannister; Dozey-Waldron
; Cryer-Wrighten; Furrow-Parsons; Dolly-Mrs Wrighten; The Little Gipsy-Miss Abra
ms.  *cThe +Prelude= shortened, and is much the better for it (+Hopkins Diary=).
  Receipts: #246 8s. 6d.  *p25 cg News from Parnassus.  [Characters by Woodward,
 Hull, Wilson, Lee Lewes, Wewitzer, Quick.%  [Cast from +Murphy's Works=, Vol. I
V ($T. Cadell=, 1786:% Frolick-Woodward; Boccalini-Hull; Vellum-Wilson; Rantwell
-Lee Lewes; La Fleur-Wewitzer; Rebus-Quick; Catcall-Whitefield (who is omitted f
rom the playbill).  *aShe Stoops to Conquer.  Hardcastle-Wilson; Tony Lumpkin-Qu
ick; Marlow-Lee Lewes; Hastings-Whitefield; Sir Charles Marlow-Fearon; Mrs Hardc
astle-Mrs Green; Miss Neville-Mrs Lessingham; Miss Hardcastle-Mrs Bulkley.  *aTh
e Padlock.  Don Diego-Reinhold; Leander-Mahon; Mungo-Quick; Ursula-Mrs Green; Le
onora-Miss Brown.  *cPaid Music 23rd Inst. #7 4s.; Properties 12s.  Receipts: #2
17 12s. 6d. (217.3.0; 0.9.6).  *pchr King Henry VIII; With the Fall of Cardinal 
Wolsey.  King Henry-A Gentleman (from the $Theatre Royal, Edinburgh= [unidentifi
ed]); Duke of Buckingham-Stacy; Duke of Norfolk-Comerford; Duke of Suffolk-Kenny
; Earl of Surry-Garland; Cranmer (Archbishop of Canterbury)-Lewis; Gardiner (Bis
hop of Winchester)-Massey; Lord Sands-Ware [of +Deptford=%; Lord Chamberlain-Joh
nson; Cardinal Campeius (the Pope's Legate)-Sparrow; Cromwell (Gentleman Usher)-
W. Smith; Doctor Butts (Physician to the King)-Ward; Cardinal Wolsey-Stokes; Que
en Katherine-Miss Reynolds; Anne Bullen-Mrs West; Patience (with a +song= in cha
racter)-Mrs Davies; Dame Prattle-Mrs Ross; Lady of the bed chamber [to Queen Kat
herine%-Miss C. Reynolds.  *aMiss Hoyden; or, The Man of Quality.  Lord Foppingt
on (the man of quality)-Smith; Young Fashion-Sparks; Sir John Friendly-Ward; Lor
y-Johnson; Coupler-Lewis; Shoemaker-Dancer; Mendlegs (the hosier)-W. Smith; Sir 
Tunbelly Clumsey-The Gentleman [who performs +King Henry=r%; Miss Hoyden (with a
 +song=)-Miss Reynolds; Nurse-Mrs Ross.  *dA +Hornpipe=-Mrs Marklew.  *sBetween 
Acts: Singing-Mrs Davies.  *cBenefit for $Miss Reynolds=.  [Afterpiece usually a
cted as +The Man of Quality=.]  *p26 dl New Brooms!  As 21 Sept.  *aLove in a Vi
llage.  Hawthorn-Vernon; Justice Woodcock-Parsons; Young Meadows-Dodd; Sir Willi
am Meadows-Aickin; Eustace-Davies; Hodge-King; Margery-Mrs Wrighten; Deborah Woo
dcock-Mrs Love; Lucinda-Miss Jarratt; Rosetta-Mrs Baddeley (1st appearance in th
at character these 5 years).  *aThe Note of Hand; or, Trip to Newmarket.  O'Conn
or Mac Cormuck-Moody; Revell-Palmer; Sapling-Lamash; Sunderland-Jefferson; River
s-Farren; Dipp-Wright; Spavin-Carpenter; Putty-Wrighten; Tom Epping-Waldron; Fra
ncis-Burton; Secretary-Griffiths; Issachar-Messink; Mrs Cheveley-Mrs Greville.  
*dI: [a% +Country Dance=- [incident to the main piece%; End II: +The Sailors Rev
els=-Blurton.  *c$Mrs Baddeley= sung but very indifferently (+Hopkins Diary=).  
Receipts: #188 9s. 6d.  *p27 cg News from Parnassus.  As 25 Sept.  *aThe Beggar'
s Opera.  Macheath-Mattocks; Peachum-Wilson; Lockit-Dunstall; Filch-Wewitzer; Ma
t o' the Mint-Fox; Lucy-Mrs Mattocks; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Pitt; Mrs Slammekin-Mrs Gr
een; Polly-Miss Catley (1st appearance these 2 years).  *aCross Purposes.  Grub-
Wilson; George Bevil-Whitefield; Chapeau-Lee Lewes; Consol-Jones; Robin-Wewitzer
; H. Bevil-Booth; F. Bevil-Thompson; Emily-Miss Ambrose; Mrs Grub-Mrs Green.  *d
III: +Hornpipe=-Miss Besford; To conclude with: +Country Dance=-the characters. 
 [Both these were danced, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]  *c
Receipts: #279 0s. 6d. (278.13.0; 0.7.6).  *pchr Barbarossa.  Barbarossa-The Gen
tleman who performed King Henry [on 25 Sept.]; Othman-Comerford; Sadi-Johnson; A
ladin-Smith; Officer-Lewis; Slave-Dancer; Selim-Stokes; Zaphira-Mrs Massey; Iren
e-Miss Reynolds; [The original% +Prologue= [in character%-Master Kenny.  *aThe K
ing and the Miller of Mansfield.  The King-A Gentleman of Rotherhithe (1st appea
rance on any stage [unidentified]); Dick-Johnson; Lord Lurewell-Smith; Keeper-Le
wis; Joe (with a +song=)-Comerford; John Cockle (the Miller of Mansfield)-Newton
; Peggy-Mrs Wilks; Kate-Miss Taylor; Madge-Mrs Ross.  *sAs 25 Sept.  *cBenefit f
or $Spooner=, box-office-keeper.  *p28 dl New Brooms!  As 21 Sept.  *aMatilda.  
Morcar-Reddish; Siward-Palmer; Oswald-Chaplin; Harold-Wrighten; Edwin-Smith; Ber
tha-Miss Platt; Matilda-Miss Younge.  *aThe Mayor of Garratt.  Jerry Sneak-A You
ng Gentleman (1st appearance upon any stage [$Baker=]); Sir Jacob Jollup-Waldron
; Mr Bruin-Wright; Lint-Wrighten; Heeltap-Bransby; Major Sturgeon-Bannister; Mrs
 Bruin-Miss Platt; Mrs Sneak-Mrs Wrighten.  *c$Mr Baker= made his first Appearan
ce in +Jerry Sneak=r--he is a tall, thin, awkward Figure, looked like a Pinmaker
, is a very strong Copy of poor $Weston=, has some Requisites, may in Time be a 
tolerable Actor in low Comedy--pretty well received.  [Note added by $J. P. Kemb
le=: Mr Baker, I have heard, had at this Time just received an Inheritance of fi
fteen thousand Pounds, which he so quickly dissipated as to be reduced within fi
ve years after to the Condition of Coachman to a +Bristol= Diligence] (+Hopkins 
Diary=).  Receipts: #181 2s.  *p30 cg News from Parnassus.  As 25 Sept.  *aThe B
eggar's Opera.  As 27 Sept., but Lucy-Miss Catley; Polly-Miss Brown.  *aMiss in 
her Teens.  Fribble-Quick; Puff-Dunstall; Captain Loveit-Fearon; Jasper-Thompson
; Capt. Flash-Lee Lewes; Tag-Mrs Pitt; Miss Biddy-Miss Leeson.  *cReceipts: #291
 15s. (291.11.6; 0.3.6).  *pchr A Bold Stroke for a Wife; or, The Quaker's Weddi
ng.  Colonel Feignwell-Comerford; Freeman-Smith; Sackbut-Lewis; Tradelove-Johnso
n; Obadiah Prim-Massey; Periwinkle-Newton; Simon Pure-Kenny; Quaker Boy-Master R
ussell; Sir Philip Modelove-Lloyd (from the Theatre Royal, +Hay-market=); Anne L
ovely-Mrs Wilks; Betty-Miss Taylor; Masked Lady-Mrs West; Mrs Prim-Mrs Ross.  *a
The Devil to Pay.  Jobson-Massey; Nell-Mrs Ross.  *sAs 25 Sept.  *e+Imitations=-
Master Russell.  *cBenefit for +Massey=.  Tickets to be had of Massey, the +Bell
 and Dragon=, near Princes stairs.  *p10 1 dl New Brooms!  As 21 Sept.  *aThe Ru
naway.  George Hargrave-Smith; Mr Drummond-Bensley; Justice-Parsons; Jarvis-Palm
er; Mr Morley-Aickin; Sir Charles Seymour-Brereton; Mr Hargrave-Yates; Emily-Mrs
 Baddeley (1st appearance in that character); Lady Dinah-Mrs Hopkins; Susan-Mrs 
Wrighten; Harriet-Miss P. Hopkins; Bella-Miss Younge.  *aThe Elopement.  Harlequ
in-Wright; Pantaloon-Grimaldi; Clown-Carpenter; Lover-Messink; Drunken Valet-Gri
ffiths; Scaramouch-Follett; Country Girls-Miss Jarratt, Miss Collett; Colombine-
Mrs Sutton.  *cAfterpiece: To conclude with the Scene of the Waterfall, as it wa
s originally performed.  [This was included in all subsequent performances.]  Th
is Comedy (+The Runaway=) is much shortened since last Year and is the better fo
r it (+Hopkins Diary=).  Receipts: #197 7s.  *p2 cg The Distrest Mother.  Oreste
s-Barry; Phyrrhus-Aickin; Pylades-Whitefield; Phoenix-L'Estrange; Andromache-Mrs
 Hartley; Cephisa-Miss Dayes; Cleone-Mrs Poussin; Hermione-Mrs Barry.  *aThe Pad
lock.  As 25 Sept.  *c[Afterpiece in place of +Three Weeks after Marriage=, anno
unced on playbill of 30 Sept.]  Receipts: #265 8s. (264.10.6; 0.17.6).  *pchr Or
oonoko; or, The Royal Slave.  Oroonoko-Comerford; Aboan-Smith; Hotman-Johnson; C
aptain Driver-Saul; Blandford-Newport; Stanmore-A Gentleman [unidentified]; Jack
 Stanmore-Dancer; Daniel-Kenny; Governor-A Gentleman (1st appearance on this sta
ge [unidentified]); Imoinda-A Young Lady of Rotherhithe [unidentified]; Widow La
ckit-Mrs Ross; Lucy Weldon-Miss Taylor; Charlotte Weldon-Mrs Wilks.  *aA Trip to
 Scotland.  Jemmy Twinkle-A Young Gentleman [unidentified]; Griskin-Massey; Soth
erton-Smith; Chamberlain-Johnson; Cupid-Master Russell; Fillagree-Mrs Ross; Land
lady-Mrs West; Miss Flack-Miss Taylor; Miss Griskin-Mrs Wilks.  *sAs 25 Sept.  *
e[+Monologue=.%Before: +Bucks have at ye all=-Master Russell; +Imitations=, as 3
0 Sept.  *cBenefit for $Mrs Wilks=.  Tickets to be had of Mrs Wilks, at $Jones='
s, +Upper Queen-street=.  *p3 dl The Fair Penitent.  Sciolto-Aickin; Altamont-Br
ereton; Horatio-Bensley; Rossano-Farren; Lothario-Reddish; Lavinia-Mrs Bulkley; 
Lucilla-Mrs Davies; Calista-Mrs Yates.  *aThe Mayor of Garratt.  As 28 Sept.  *c
Receipts: #176 19s. 6d.  *p4 cg The Beggar's Opera.  As 30 Sept.  *aThe Englishm
an in Paris.  Buck-Woodward; Sir John Buck-Fearon; Subtle-Thompson; Marquis-Wewi
tzer; Classic-Hull; Mrs Subtle-Mrs Pitt; Lucinda (with a +song=)-Miss Macklin.  
*dafterpiece: +Minuet=-Dumay, Miss Macklin.  *cReceipts: #284 10s. (283.18; 0.12
).  *pchr King Richard III.  King Richard-A Gentleman (1st appearance on any sta
ge [unidentified]); King Henry-Comerford; Duke of Buckingham-Russell; Lord Stanl
ey-Lewis; Oxford-Thomas; Ractliff-Johnson; Catesby-Smith; Tressel-The Gentleman 
who performed King Lear [at this theatre, 16 Sept. 1776; unidentified]; Lord May
or-Massey; Prince of Wales-Mrs Wilks; Duke of York-Master Russell; Lieutenant of
 the Tower-Smith; Tyrell-Dancer; Earl of Richmond-West; Queen-Mrs Massey; Duches
s of York-Mrs Ross; Lady Ann-Miss Taylor; +Prologue=-Morgan (in character of a +
Jew=r).  *aThe Honest Yorkshireman.  Gaylove-Kenny; Sapskull-Russell; Blunder-Ma
ssey; Slango-Dancer; Muckworm-Lewis; Combrush-Mrs Russell; Arabella-Mrs West.  *
sAs 25 Sept.  *e[+Imitations=.%As 30 Sept.  *cBenefit for $Harrison= and $Thomps
on=.  *p5 dl The Clandestine Marriage.  Lord Ogleby-King; Sterling-Parsons; Sir 
John Melvil-Bensley; Lovewell-Brereton; Serjeant Flower-Bransby; Traverse-Hurst;
 Trueman-Fawcett; Canton-Baddeley; Brush-Palmer; Miss Sterling-Miss Pope (1st ap
pearance upon this stage these 2 years); Fanny-Mrs Baddeley; Betty-Mrs Love; Cha
mbermaid-Mrs Davies; Mrs Heidelberg-Mrs Hopkins.  *aThe Waterman.  Tugg-Banniste
r; Bundle-Davies; Robin-Dodd; Wilhelmina-Miss Jarratt; Mrs Bundle-Mrs Wrighten. 
 *cAfterpiece: To conclude with a +Grand Representation of a Regatta=v.  [This w
as included in all subsequent performances.]  Paid Supernumeraries #5 13s. 6d.; 
Billstickers #2 14s.; Music 1st week #25 7s. 6d.; $Miss Younge='s Cloathes #5.  
$King= being hoarse the Prelude [see 21 Sept.] was omitted--$Miss Pope= made her
 first Appearance these 2 years upon this stage in +Miss Sterling=r--but coolly 
received (+Hopkins Diary=).  Receipts: #213 8s. 6d.  *p7 cg Romeo and Juliet.  R
omeo-Ward (1st appearance on this stage); Capulet-Clarke; Friar Lawrence-Hull; M
ercutio-Woodward; Benvolio-Booth; Paris-Whitefield; Tibalt-L'Estrange; Peter-Jon
es; Lady Capulet-Mrs Poussin; Nurse-Mrs Pitt; Juliet-Mrs Jackson.  *aComus.  Com
us-Mattocks; Spirit-L'Estrange; Brothers-Whitefield, Robson; Bacchanals-Reinhold
, Mahon; The Lady-Mrs Jackson; Pastoral Nymph, Sabrina-Miss Dayes; Bacchants-Mis
s Ambrose; Euphrosyne-Miss Catley (1st appearance in that character these 2 year
s).  *dI: [a% Masquerade Scene-[incident to the Play%; [a% +Minuet=-Dumay, Mrs J
ackson.  *sEnd IV: [Funeral Procession of Juliet, with the% +Solemn Dirge=-Matto
cks, Reinhold, Baker, Fox, Miss Dayes, Miss Valois, Mrs Willems; [The Masquerade
, Minuet, and Dirge, as here assigned, are the same in all subsequent performanc
es.] In afterpiece: +Sweet Echo=-Leoni, Miss Catley.  [This was sung, as here as
signed, in all subsequent performances.]  *cPaid Wardrobe 3 nights #4 0s. 6d. [$
Ward= was from the +Birmingham theatre=.]  Receipts: #302 17s. 6d. (302.10.0; 0.
7.6).  *phay The Gentle Shepherd.  Sir William-A Gentleman [unidentified]; Patie
-McDonald; Roger-Burnat; Symon-Middlemist; Glaud (with the +Cries of Edinburgh=)
-Boyack; Bauldy-Walker; Peggy-The Lady who performed it with universal Applause 
last February [$Mrs Moss=]; Jenny-Miss Ross; Madge, Elspa-Mr Wilson; Mause-Mr Ha
milton; New +Prologue=-Walker.  *aThe Prejudice of Fashion.  Colonel Ancient-Wal
ker; Medium-Phillimore; O'Cargo-Brodrick; [with a% song-Brodrick; Marmoset-Benso
n; Whisk-Jackson; Jonathan-Lloyd; Carbuncle-Boyack; Lady Ancient-Mrs Sparkes; Lu
cinda-Miss Essex; +Prologue=-Lloyd.  *sEnd: +The Birks of Invermay=-the Lady who
 performs Peggy.  *cBy Authority of the +Lord Chamberlain=.  Benefit for $Walker
=.  Afterpiece [1st time; F 2]: by a Gentleman from +Edinburgh= [unidentified.  
+Larpent MS 433=; not published.  Authors of Prologues unknown.  $Mrs Moss= is i
dentified on playbill of 22 Apr. 1777].  Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper
 Gallery 1s.  The Doors to be opened at 5:00.  To begin at 6:00.  Tickets to be 
had of Walker, No. 4, +New Round-court=, +Strand=; of $McIntosh=, the +King's He
ad=, near +Marybone-street=; at the +St. Andrew=, +Wapping=; at the +Mount-stree
t Coffee-house=, +Grosvenor-square=.  *pchr Alexander the Great; or, The Rival Q
ueens.  Alexander-West; Hephestion-Russell; Lysimachus-Smith; Cassander-Comerfor
d; Polyperchon-Jones; Perdiccas-Johnson; Thessalus-Dancer; Aristander-Thomas; Eu
menes-Brown; Clytus-Lewis; Roxana-Mrs Wilks; Sysigambis-Mrs Ross; Parisatis-Miss
 Taylor; Satira-A Gentlewoman [unidentified].  *aMarriage a la Mode [i.e. +Three
 Weeks after Marriage=]; or, What we must all come to.  Sir Charles Racket-West;
 Drugget-Lewis; Lovelace-Smith; Woodley-Johnson; Mrs Drugget-Mrs Ross; Nancy-Mis
s Taylor; Dimity-Mrs Wilks; Lady Racket-Mrs West (1st appearance in that charact
er).  *sII: [the grand chorus,% +See the conquering Hero comes=-; Between Acts: 
Singing, as 25 Sept.  *e[+Monologue=.%+The Painter's Art=-[from +Taste=, by $Sam
uel Foote=]; Lady Pentweazle-Master Russell.  *cBenefit for $Mrs West=.  Tickets
 to be had of $West=, at the +Ship=, near the +Seven Houses=, +Rotherhithe=.  Ma
inpiece: In Act II the +triumphal entry of Alexander into Babylon=v; In Act IV t
he grand Banquet where Alexander kills his faithful soldier, old Clytus.  [The p
laybill contains a lengthy synopsis of the plot of the mainpiece; it concludes b
y noting that "the many flowery passages with which this tragedy abounds does ho
nour to the pen of its author, $N. Lee=, Esqr., and we may justly say with $Mr P
ope=, 'Such plays alone shou'd please a +British ear=, as +Cato='s self had not 
disdain'd to hear.'"]  *p8 dl New Brooms!  As 21 Sept.  *aVenice Preserv'd.  Jaf
fier-Reddish; Priuli-Aickin; Renault-Jefferson; Duke-Bransby; Bedamor-Packer; Sp
inosa-Wright; Elliot-Wrighten; Officer-Griffiths; Pierre-Bensley; Belvidera-Miss
 Younge.  *aThe Elopement.  As 1 Oct.  *cReceipts: #118 16s.  *pcg Venice Preser
v'd.  Jaffier-Barry; Priuli-Hull; Renault-Clarke; Duke-Mahon; Bedamar-Whitefield
; Spinosa-L'Estrange; Elliot-Fearon; Officer-Booth; Pierre-Aickin; Belvidera-Mrs
 Barry.  *aComus.  As 7 Oct.  *cAccount-Book, 31 Oct.: Paid $Miss Catley= for 5 
nights performance #136 10s.  Receipts: #242 15s. 6d. (241.2.6; 1.13.0).  *p9 dl
 New Brooms!  As 21 Sept.  *aAs You Like It.  Touchstone-King; Orlando-Reddish; 
Jaques-Jefferson; Duke Senior-Hurst; Duke Frederick-Bransby; Oliver-Packer; Amie
ns (with +songs=)-Vernon; Corin-Waldron; LeBeau-Everard; Silvius-R. Palmer; Will
iam-Messink; Adam-Moody; Caelia-Mrs Baddeley; +Cuckoo Song=-Mrs Baddeley; Phoebe
-Mrs Davies; Audrey-Mrs Bradshaw; Rosalind-Miss Younge.  *aBon Ton; or, High Lif
e above Stairs.  Sir John Trotley-King; Colonel Tivy-Brereton; Davy-Parsons; Jes
samy-Lamash; Mignon-Burton; Lord Minikin-Dodd; Miss Tittup-Mrs Davies; Lady Mini
kin-Miss Pope.  *dEnd I: +The Grand Garland Dance=-Giorgi, Sga Crespi, Slingsby.
  *sIn V: [a% +song=-Mrs Scott.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  $Mrs Davies
= +Miss Tittup=r--La! La!  $King= sent a letter to $Sheridan= desiring to be off
 his Engagement--all made up at night.  $Mattocks= came and told me that $Lacy= 
had sold Half his Share of the Patent to $Mr Langford= (The Auctioneer) and $Cap
tain Thomson= (Authour of the +Syrens= &c.).  I acquainted $Sheridan= of it--he 
had not heard it before (+Hopkins Diary=).  Receipts: #267 6s.  *pcg Love in a V
illage.  Justice Woodcock-Wilson; Hawthorn-Reinhold; Young Meadows-Mattocks; Sir
 William Meadows-Fearon; Eustace-Mahon; Hodge-Dunstall; Deborah-Mrs Pitt; Marger
y-Miss Dayes; Lucinda-Mrs Mattocks; Rosetta-Miss Catley (1st appearance in that 
character these 2 years).  *aMiss in her Teens.  As 30 Sept., but Captain Loveit
-Booth.  *dEnd II: +The Pilgrim=-Harris, Miss Matthews.  *cReceipts: #184 18s. (
184.9; 0.9).  *pchr The Minor.  The Minor-Raymond; Sir William Wealthy-Lloyd; Mr
 Richard Wealthy-Lewis; Loader-Comerford; Dick-Master Russell; Transfer-Marson; 
Smirk, Shift, Mrs Cole-Russell; Lucy-Miss Taylor.  *aThe Life and Death of Tom T
humb the Great.  Tom Thumb-Master Russell; King Arthur-Comerford; Lord Grizzle-M
assey; Noodle-Russell; Doodle-Johnson; Bailiff-Dancer; Follower-Thomas; Glumdalc
a (Queen of the Giants)-Mr Smith; Queen Dollalolla-Mrs Ross; Princess Huncamunca
-Mrs Wilks; Mustacha (a Maid of Honour)-Miss Taylor; Cleora-Mrs West.  *e[+Monol
ogues=.%Preceding: +Prologue to Barbarossa= [in the character of a +Country Boy=
r, containing an account of his Journey to +London=, his different Services ther
e, first in the City, next with a Lord, then with a Lady, and last of all with a
 starved Poet%-Master Russell; End I: [a Scene from +Lethe=:% Fine Gentleman-Mas
ter Russell; End II: [an% +Harangue in a Tub=[after the manner of the celebrated
 $George Alexander Stevens=%-Master Russell; End: +The Drunken Buck=-Raymond.  *
cBenefit for $Master Russell=.  Tickets to be had of Master Russell at the +Swan
=, +Elephant stairs=.  Afterpiece: Written by $Henry Fielding, Esq.= In Act I th
e +Triumphal Entry of Tom Thumb=v, attended with Giants, Giantess's, Dwarfs, Pig
mies, Drums, Trumpets, &c.  *p10 dl New Brooms!  As 21 Sept.  *aBraganza.  Duke 
of Braganza-Reddish; Almada-Aickin; Ribiro-Palmer; Mendoza-Brereton; Lemos-Farre
n; Corea-Hurst; Roderic-Wright; Mello-R. Palmer; Pizarbo-Davies; Ramirez-Packer;
 Antonio-Wrighten; Ferdinand-Griffiths; Velasquez-Smith; Ines-Mrs Johnston; Dutc
hess of Braganza-Mrs Yates.  *aThe Rival Candidates.  Byron-Davies; Sir Harry Mu
ff-Dodd; General Worry-Parsons; Spy-Baddeley; 1st Gardener-Bannister; Gardeners-
Fawcett, Kear; Jenny-Mrs Wrighten; Narcissa-Mrs Baddeley.  *cPaid Lampmen #3 18s
.; Tailors #11 2s. 10d.; Mantua Makers #3 14s. 6d.; Carpenters #16 15s. 6d.; Pri
nter [of playbills] #19 5s. 6d.  +The Hypocrite= and +Christmas Tale= in three A
cts was advertised for to-morrow.  This Morning at Rehearsal $Lacy= came and tol
d $Sheridan= that he could not be off from his Agreement with $Mr Langford= and 
$Captain Thomson=.  Sheridan told him, if he did agree, that he would withdraw h
imself from the Management of the Theatre--accordingly at eight this Evening he 
sent me with a Letter to Lacy confirming what he told him, and ordered me to rec
eive my orders from Mr L  and that he withdrew the Christmas Tale, as he had alt
ered, for a Farce, it was his Property.  This put us all into confusion--Sent to
 $Mrs Abington= to know if she would play in the Hypocrite, as it was advertised
--Her answer was, that she had made her Agreement with Sheridan only, and would 
play under no other Manager.  About twelve at night we got +Richard the third= s
ettled, and sent Bills accordingly (+Hopkins Diary=).  [For further remarks conc
erning this situation see 15 Oct.]  Receipts: #173 6s.  *p11 cg Love in a Villag
e.  As 9 Oct.  *aCatherine and Petruchio.  Petruchio-Woodward; Baptista-Thompson
; Hortensio-Davis; Taylor-Jones; Music Master-Fox; Biondello-Cushing; Pedro-Wewi
tzer; Grumio-Quick; Bianca-Mrs Poussin; Curtis-Mrs White; Catherine-Mrs Green.  
*dAs 9 Oct.  *cReceipts: #212 12s. (211.18.6; 0.13.6).  *pchr The London Merchan
t; or, The History of George Barnwell.  George Barnwell-Russell; Thoroughgood-Le
wis; Trueman-Johnson; Blunt-Smith; Constable-Dancer; Uncle-Comerford; Millwood-M
rs Russell; Lucy-Miss Taylor; Maria-Mrs Wilks.  *aThe Life and Death of Tom Thum
b the Great.  As 9 Oct., but Lord Grizzle-Saul; Cleora-_.  *p12 dl King Richard 
III.  King Richard-Smith; Richmond-Palmer; Buckingham-Jefferson; Tressel-Davies;
 Lord Stanley-Bransby; Norfolk-Hurst; Catesby-Packer; Prince Edward-Miss P. Hopk
ins; Duke of York-Master Pulley; Lord Mayor-Griffiths; Ratcliffe-Wright; Lieuten
ant-Fawcett; King Henry-Reddish; Lady Anne-Mrs Greville; Dutchess of York-Mrs Jo
hnston; Queen-Mrs Hopkins.  *aThe Elopement.  As 1 Oct.  *c+The Provoked Husband
= and +Rival Candidates= was given out for Tuesday.  On Sunday Morning $Mrs Yate
s= sent word she was ill and could not play--sent to $Miss Younge=, and she sent
 word that she was ill in bed--$King= sent word he had a sore Throat, and could 
not play--so that we could do no Play but +the Committee= and +Rival Candidates=
.  On Monday the Managers met, but nothing was settled.  At twelve o'clock $Mrs 
Baddeley= sent word she had a sore Throat, and could not play in the Riv[al] Can
[didates] (+Hopkins Diary=).  +The Hypocrite= and +The Christmas Tale= are oblig
ed to be deferred.  "[$Smith=] has a good figure, is gentlemanlike, and decent i
n everything he undertakes.  When we allow that, we have said all; he wants both
 feeling to be affected, and powers to convey his feelings, if he had them.  In 
fine, in spite of all the partiality of his friends, or the ignorant prejudices 
of those who never judge but at second hand, his performance of +Richard=r was l
ittle more than a strong union of judgement and industry, unaided by nature.  He
 should woo genteel Comedy oftener; and not that coy sister of hers, who certain
ly holds Smith at the point of her lance" (+London Magazine=, Oct. 1776, p. 511)
.  Receipts: #186 18s. 6d.  *p14 cg Romeo and Juliet.  As 7 Oct.  *aComus.  As 7
 Oct.  *cReceipts: #281 15s. (281.6.6; 0.8.6).  *pchr The Mourning Bride.  Osmyn
-A Young Gentleman (Pupil to $Newton=; 1st appearance on any stage [unidentified
]); Gonzalez-Lloyd; Garcia-Garland (of +Deptford=); Selim-Johnson; Perez-Kenny; 
Alonzo-Dancer; Heli-Smith; King-Comerford; Zara-A Young Lady [unidentified]; Leo
nora-Miss C. Newton; Almeria (the Mourning Bride)-Miss Reynolds.  *aThe Life and
 Death of Harlequin.  Harlequin (for that night only)-Loutherbourgh; Pantaloon-R
ussell; Frenchman-Smith; Clown-Newton; Colombine-Miss Reynolds.  *aThe Citizen. 
 Old Philpot-Ware (of +Deptford=); Young Wilding-Sparks; Old Wilding-Taylor (of 
Deptford); Dapper-Dancer; Quildrive-Smith; Beaufort-Johnson; Young Philpot-Garla
nd; Maria (with Theatrical +Imitations=)-Miss Reynolds.  *sAs 25 Sept.  *e[+Mono
logue=.%End 3rd piece: +Bucks have at ye all=-Master Russell.  *cBenefit for $Mr
s Newton=, box-keeper.  As $Newton= superintends the whole Performance of the Pl
ay, Farce and Interlude, the greatest care will be taken to gratify the taste of
 a most generous Public.  Tickets to be had of Mrs Newton at the +Seven Houses=.
  *p15 dl The Committee; or, The Faithful Irishman.  Teague (with +song=)-Moody;
 Col. Careless-Jefferson; Col. Blunt-Aickin; Lieut. Story-Fawcett; Mr Day-Baddel
ey; Obadiah-Parsons; Abel-Burton; Committee@Men-Waldron; Mrs Day-Mrs Bradshaw; A
rabella-Miss Jarratt; Ruth-Miss Pope; [Edition of 1792 ($John Bell=) adds:% Tave
rn@boy-Everard; Bailiff-Griffiths; Soldier-Blanchard; Chairman-Heath; Gaol@keepe
r-Kear; Bookseller-Carpenter; Porter-Wrighten; Mrs Chat-Mrs Cartwright.  *aThe W
aterman.  As 5 Oct.  *c[As afterpiece +Public Advertiser= announces +The Rival C
andidates=, but see +Hopkins Diary=, 12 Oct.]  The Managers met again to-day, bu
t nothing settled.  +Hamlet= was given out.  I saw $Mr Sheridan=, he told me tha
t $Mr Lacy= and he had agreed that no Play should be given out, nor any Bills pu
t up, till they had settled this Affair, which was to be done to-Morrow at $Mr W
allis='s (the Attorney's) where they were all to dine.  I waited on Mr Lacy, who
 agreed to the same, and no Bills or Paragraph were sent to the Papers.  All the
 Business of the Theatre is at a Stand, and no Rehearsal called.  Wed. 16th--Mr 
Sheridan, $Dr Ford= and $Mr Linley= dined today by Appointment with Mr Wallis wh
ere Mr Lacy was to have met them; about four o'clock he sent a verbal Message th
at he could not come to Dinner, but would wait upon them in the Evening, and abo
ut nine o'clock he came, and everything was settled to the Satisfaction (of them
 all) and a Paragraph sent to the Papers, and the +Hypocrite= and +Christmas Tal
e= was advertised for Friday, but no Play was to be done on Thursday--+Covent Ga
rden= did not play on Friday (Hopkins Diary).  +Public Advertiser=, 16 Oct., sum
marizes the proprietors' dispute: the +Drury Lane= patent had been purchased [in
 1747] by $David Garrick= and $James Lacy=.  On his death Lacy had devised his h
alf-share to his son, $Willoughby Lacy=; on his retirement from the stage Garric
k had sold his half-share to Sheridan, Ford and Linley.  The original agreement 
between Garrick and Lacy, as recited in a document retained by the attorney $Alb
any Wallis= was that, in case of the sale of either share of the patent, or any 
part of either share, the seller was obligated to offer the first refusal to pur
chase to the other partner, and that this was to be done only when the theatre w
as closed for the summer.  In selling one half of his share to $Robert Langford=
 and to $Edward Thompson=, Willoughby Lacy was--so argued his three partners--ac
ting illegally: he had not offered to them the first refusal, and he was negotia
ting the sale at a time when the theatre was open.  +Public Advertiser=, 17 Oct.
. prints a statement from Lacy saying that he did not feel himself bound by the 
original agreement between his father and Garrick, but that, in the interest of 
the business of the theatre, he had asked Langford and Thompson to withdraw thei
r claim to partnership, to which request they had acceded.  Receipts: #130 9s. 6
d.  *pcg The Busy Body.  [Cast from +Morning Chronicle= and +Morning Post=, both
 16 Oct.:% Marplot-Woodward; Sir Francis Gripe-Quick; Sir George Airy-Lewis; Cha
rles Gripe-Wroughton; Isabinda-Mrs Whitfield; Miranda-Miss Macklin.  [+Gazetteer
=, 16 Oct., also refers to $Dunstall=, who probably acted +Sir Jealous Traffic=r
 (see 29 Jan. 1778).]  *aThe Golden Pippin.  Jupiter-Reinhold; Paris-Mattocks; M
omus-Quick; Mercury-Mahon; Venus-Mrs Mattocks; Pallas-Miss Dayes; Iris-Miss Valo
is; Juno-Miss Catley.  *dEnd: +Mirth and Jollity=-Aldridge, Master Langrish, Mas
ter Jackson, Miss Besford.  *c[As mainpiece the playbill announces Douglas, but 
"$Mrs Barry= being suddenly taken ill yesterday Morning , +The Busy Body= ws sub
stituted for +Douglas=...and allowing for the short Notice which the Performers 
had to prepare for the Representation, we must do them the Justice to say that t
hey acquitted themselves extremely well" (+Morning Chronicle=, 16 Oct.).]  Recei
pts: #234 5s. (233.4; 1.1).  *p16 cg All in the Wrong.  Sir John Restless-Lee Le
wes; Sir W. Belmont-L'Estrange; Young Belmont-Whitefield; Mr Blanford-Fearon; Ro
bert-Booth; Brush-Wewitzer; Beverly-Lewis; Lady Restless-Mrs Mattocks; Clarissa-
Miss Dayes; Tippet-Mrs Whitefield; Marmalet-Mrs Willems; Tattle-Mrs Pitt; Belind
a-Mrs Bulkley (1st appearance in that character).  *aCross Purposes.  As 27 Sept
., but Consol-Quick.  *dAs 15 Oct.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  [For $Fa
nny Burney='s pen and ink sketch of the royal box and her written description o 
 it, as it appeared on this evening, see List of illustrations these volumes.  R
eceipts: #261 14s. 6d. (260.14.0; 1.0.6).  *pchr Cato.  Cato-Comerford; Portius-
Russell; Marcus-Smith; Lucius-Dancer; Sempronius-Johnson; Juba-Stokes; Decius-Mr
s Kenny; Syphax-Lewis; Marcia-Miss Taylor; Lucia-Mrs Wilks.  *aThe Election.  Jo
hn-Kenny; Dick-Comerford; Trusty-Russell; Sally-Mrs Davies; Wife-Mrs Wilks.  *aH
igh Life below Stairs.  Lovel-Russell; Freeman-Johnson; Philip-Lewis; Lord Duke-
Comerford; Sir Harry-Smith; Robert-Dancer; Coachman-G. Smith; Tom-Kenny; Kingsto
n (the Black Boy)-Master Russell; Kitty (with +song=)-Mrs Russell; Lady Charlott
e-Miss Taylor; Lady Bab-Mrs Wilks; Cook-Mrs Newby.  *s2nd piece: [With all the o
riginal% +Songs=, +Chorusses=-.  *e+Imitations=, as 30 Sept.  *cBenefit for $Rob
inson=, musician, and $Mrs Newby=.  *p17 cg Hamlet.  Hamlet-Lewis (1st appearanc
e in that character); King-Clarke; Ghost-Aickin; Horatio-Hull; Laertes-Whitefiel
d; Ostrick-Lee Lewes; Polonius-Quick; Player King-L'Estrange; Marcellus-Fearon; 
Bernardo-Booth; Francisco-Wewitzer; Rosencraus-Robson; Guildenstern-Thompson; Gr
avediggers-Dunstall, Jones; Ophelia-Mrs Mattocks; Player Queen-Mrs Poussin; Quee
n (1st time)-Mrs Jackson.  *aThe Golden Pippin.  As 15 Oct.  *cReceipts: #233 10
s. (232.16.6; 0.13.6).  *p18 dl The Hypocrite.  Doctor Cantwell-Moody; Sir John 
Lambert-Packer; Seyward-Brereton; Col. Lambert-Jefferson; Maw@Worm-A Young Gentl
eman (3rd appearance upon any stage [Baker]); Darnley-Bensley; Lady Lambert-Miss
 Sherry; Old Lady Lambert-Mrs Bradshaw; Charlotte-Mrs Abington (1st appearance t
his season).  *aA Christmas Tale.  Floridor-Vernon; Bonoro-Bannister; Faladel-Pa
rsons; Nigromant-Legg; Tycho-Dodd; Robinette-Mrs Wrighten; Camilla-Mrs Baddeley;
 [The Other Characters-Hurst, Burton, Lamash, R. Palmer, Wright, $Fawcett=, $Kea
r=, Master Pulley, Miss Platt, Mrs Scott, Miss Jarratt,% [Edition of 1776 ($T. B
ecket=) specifies:% Radel-Lamash; Messengers-R. Palmer, Master Pulley; Good and 
Evil Spirits[, in various characters%-Hurst, Burton, Wright, Carpenter, Miss Pla
tt, Mrs Scott, Miss Jarratt, Mrs Johnston, Mrs Bradshaw; [Account-Book adds:% Ch
orus Singers-Follett, Chaplin, Reynoldson, Webbe, Mrs J. Smith, Miss Collett, Mr
s Love, Mrs Pitt, Miss Abrams, Miss Boyd.  *c[Afterpiece in 3 acts, altered from
 $Garrick='s original 5 acts by $Richard Brinsley Sheridan=.]  The Music compose
d by $Dibdin=.  With New Dresses.  The Scenes, Machines, &c. invented by $DeLout
herbourg=.  +The Christmas Tale= reduced to three Acts (by R. B. Sheridan esq.) 
was performed for the first time as a Farce--was received with very great Applau
se--it is too long, and must be shortened (+Hopkins Diary=).  +Public Advertiser
=, 22 Oct. 1776: This Day at Four o'Clock will be published A Christmas Tale (1s
.) [For $Baker= see 28 Sept.]  Receipts: #241 14s.  *pchr The Recruiting Officer
.  Captain Plume-Comerford; Worthy-Johnson; Captain Brazen-Russell; Justice Ball
ance-Lewis; Bullock-Newton; Thomas Appletree-Kenny; Costar Pearmain-Dancer; Serj
eant Kite-Smith; Sylvia-Miss Reynolds; Melinda-Mrs West; Lucy-Miss Taylor; Rose-
A Young Lady of Rotherhithe (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified]).  *aThe
 Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great.  As 11 Oct.  *dEnd: +The Wapping Landlad
y=[; or, +Jack in Distress=%-; [with a% +Hornpipe= [in character,%-a Lady from +
London= [unidentified].  *sAs 25 Sept.  *e[+Imitations=.% As 30 Sept; [+Monologu
e=.% +Teague's Ramble to London=[.  +Captain O'Blunder=r%-Broderick.  *cBenefit 
for $Lewis=, $Dancer= & $J. Smith=.  Tickets to be had of Lewis at the +Europa=;
 of Smith at the +Ship=, +Seven Houses=.  *p19 dl Measure for Measure.  Duke-Smi
th; Angelo-Palmer; Claudio-Farren; Escalus-Aickin; Clown-Parsons; Provost-Davies
; Elbow-Wright; Barnardine-Wrighten; Abhorson-Carpenter; Lucio-King; Mariana-Mis
s Hopkins; Juliet-Miss Platt; Mrs Over@done-Mrs Bradshaw; Francisca-Mrs Johnston
; Isabella-Mrs Yates.  *aA Christmas Tale.  As 18 Oct.  *cThe +Christmas Tale= i
s shortened, and went off with great Applause (+Hopkins Diary=).  Receipts: #208
 16s. 6d.  *p21 cg Romeo and Juliet.  As 7 Oct.  *aThe Golden Pippin.  As 15 Oct
.  *cPaid Chorus Singers #3 17s. 6d.  Receipts: #257 2s. (256.11; 0.11).  *p22 d
l The Distress'd Mother.  Orestes-Smith; Pyrrhus-Palmer; Pylades-Packer; Phoenix
-Hurst; Hermione-Miss Younge; Cleone-Miss Sherry; Cephisa-Miss Platt; Andromache
-Mrs Yates.  *aA Christmas Tale.  As 18 Oct., but Faladel-Burton; Good and Evil 
Spirits-_Burton.  *cReceipts: #230 6s.  *p23 dl Hamlet.  Hamlet-Smith; King-Jeff
erson; Ghost-Bransby; Horatio-Packer; Polonius-Baddeley; Laertes-Aickin; Rosencr
aus-Davies; Guildenstern-Fawcett; Marcellus-Wrighten; Player King-Hurst; Lucianu
s-Waldron; Messenger-Wright; Bernardo-Griffiths; Francisco-Norris; Queen-Mrs Hop
kins; Player Queen-Mrs Johnston; Ophelia-Mrs Baddeley.  *aA Christmas Tale.  As 
22 Oct.  *cMainpiece: with Alterations [by $David Garrick=].  Receipts: #243 13s
. 6d.  *pcg Comus.  *aThe Golden Pippin.  As 15 Oct.  *dEnd: [a% +New Rural Ball
et=-Palladini, Sga Tinte (their 1st appearance on this stage); End I afterpiece:
 As 15 Oct.  *s[A favourite%+Scotch Air= [of $Dr Arne='s%, +Hunting Song=-Miss C
atley.  *mEnd I: [a% +Solo= on the violin-Fisher.  *cBenefit for $Miss Catley=. 
 +Public Advertiser=, 3 Oct.: Tickets to be had of Miss Catley, No. 12, +Cockspu
r-street=.  Receipts: #297 13s. (187.19; tickets: 109.14) (charge: free).  *p24 
dl Twelfth Night.  As 21 Sept., but Maria-Miss P. Hopkins.  *aA Christmas Tale. 
 As 22 Oct.  *dEnd II: [$Slingsby='s Grand Ballet,% +The Savage Hunters=-Slingsb
y, Helme (1st appearance on this stage), Grimaldi, Giorgi, Blurton, Sga Crespi, 
Sga Vidini, Sga Ricci (1st appearance upon the +English stage=).  *c[Mainpiece i
n place of +The Conscious Lovers=, announced on playbill of 23 Oct.]  Receipts: 
#150 12s. 6d.  *pcg The Beggar's Opera.  As 30 Sept.  *aThe Upholsterer.  Razor-
Woodward; Pamphlet-Wilson; Quidnunc-Dunstall; Rovewell-Davis; Belmour-Thompson; 
Harriet-Mrs Whitefield; Termagant-Mrs Green.  *c+All for Love= is obliged to be 
deferred.  Receipts: #237 7s. 6d. (236.16.6; 0.11.0).  *p25 dl The Conscious Lov
ers.  Young Bevil-Smith; Myrtle-Jefferson; Sir John Bevil-Bransby; Mr Sealand-Ai
ckin; Cimberton-Waldron; Humphrey-Chaplin; Daniel-Burton; Tom-King; Phillis-Miss
 Pope; Lucinda-Miss Hopkins; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Johnston; Isabella-Miss Platt; Indi
ana-Miss Younge.  *aA Christmas Tale.  As 22 Oct.  *sII: Mrs Scott.  *cPaid the 
$Duke of Bedford= 1!4 Yrs Rent #78 11s. 6d.  Receipts: #120 13s. 6d.   *pcg The 
Jovial Crew.  Vincent-Mattocks; Hearty-Reinhold; Hilliard (1st time)-Mahon; Oldr
ents (1st time)-Booth; Springlove-Wroughton; Oliver-Robson; Randal-Dunstall; Mar
tin-Thompson; Patrico-Fearon; Beggars-Fox, Baker, Wewitzer, Jones; Justice Clack
 (1st time)-Quick; Meriel-Miss Brown; Amie-Miss Dayes; Beggar Women-Mrs Willems,
 Mrs Poussin, Mrs White; Rachel-Miss Catley.  *aThree Weeks after Marriage.  Sir
 Charles Racket-Lewis; Lovelace-Booth; Woodley-Thompson; Drugget-Quick; Dimity-M
rs Green; Mrs Drugget-Mrs Pitt; Nancy-Miss Dayes; Lady Racket-Mrs Mattocks.  *dI
I: [the Original% +Crutch Dance=-[This was danced in all subsequent performances
.];  End: As 9 Oct.  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 2 years.  Receipts: #217 18s. 
(216.3; 1.15).  *p26 dl Cymbeline.  Posthumus-Brereton; Cloten-Dodd; Cymbeline-H
urst; Pissanio-Packer; Bellarius-Aickin; Guiderius-Farren; Arviragus-Davies; Luc
ius-Bransby; French Gentleman-Fawcett; Philario-Wright; Iachimo-Smith; Queen-Mis
s Sherry; Imogen-Miss Younge.  *aA Christmas Tale.  As 22 Oct.  *dIn II: [a Masq
uerade Scene, with% +Dancing=-Giorgi, Henry, Mrs Sutton; In: +The Savage Hunters
=, as 24 Oct.  *sIn II: [Masquerade Scene% +Singing=-Mrs Scott.  *cReceipts: #16
4 15s. 6d.  *pcg The Beggar's Opera.  As 30 Sept.  *aThe Golden Pippin.  As 15 O
ct.  *dEnd: As 9 Oct.  *cPaid $Mountford= [master carpenter] for Scene Men #15 1
9s. 3d.  Receipts: #276 3s. 6d. (275.14.6; 0.9.0).  *p28 dl The Clandestine Marr
iage.  As 5 Oct.  *aA Christmas Tale.  As 22 Oct.  *cReceipts: #192 4s.  *pcg Th
e Beggar's Opera.  As 30 Sept.  *aComus.  As 7 Oct.  *dEnd: As 9 Oct.  *c[Mainpi
ece in place of +The Jovial Crew=, announced on playbill of 26 Oct.]  Receipts: 
#289 0s. 6d. (287.18.0; 1.2.6).  *p29 dl Medea.  Jason-Smith; Creon-Bensley; Aes
on-Palmer; 1st Colchian-Packer; Lycander-Farren; Children-Miss Stageldoir, Maste
r Pulley; Hecate-Bransby; Theano-Mrs Hopkins; Medea-Mrs Yates; [Edition of 1792 
($John Bell=) adds:% 1st Corinthian-Griffiths.  *aA Christmas Tale.  As 22 Oct. 
 *s+Azure God=-Mrs Wrighten.  *cThis Play (+Medea=) was performed the first time
 for the Managers-$Mrs Yates= was fine in her Character; but the Play is too hea
vy and will not do (+Hopkins Diary=).  Receipts: #142 5s.  *pcg The Merchant of 
Venice.  Shylock-Macklin (1st appearance this season); Antonio-Clarke; Bassanio-
Wroughton; Gratiano-Lee Lewes; Lorenzo (with +songs=)-Mattocks; Duke-Fearon; Lau
ncelot-Quick; Tubal-Thompson; Jessica (with a +song=)-Miss Dayes; Nerissa-Mrs Le
ssingham; Portia-Miss Macklin.  *aLove a-la-Mode.  Sir Archy MacSarcasm-Macklin;
 Squire Groom-Woodward; Sir Callaghan O'Brallaghan-Mahon; Beau Mordecai-Quick; S
ir Theodore Goodchild-Dunstall; Charlotte-Miss Macklin.  *dEnd III: +The Pilgrim
=, as 9 Oct.; End IV: +Mirth and Jollity=, as 15 Oct.  *cReceipts: #196 8s. (195
.15.6; 0.12.6).  *p30 dl The West Indian.  Belcour-King; Stockwell (1st time)-Ai
ckin; Major O'Flaherty-Moody; Capt. Dudley-Packer; Charles Dudley-Brereton; Fulm
er-Baddeley; Varland-Parsons; Lady Rusport-Mrs Hopkins; Louisa Dudley-Mrs Baddel
ey; House@keeper-Mrs Bradshaw; Lucy-Mrs Love; Mrs Fulmer-Miss Sherry; Charlotte 
Rusport-Mrs Abington; The original +Epilogue=-Mrs Abington.  *aA Christmas Tale.
  As 22 Oct.  *c[Mainpiece: Epilogue by $David Garrick=.]  Receipts: #167 15s.  
*pcg Comus.  As 7 Oct.  *aThe Golden Pippin.  As 15 Oct.  *dAs 23 Oct.  *sAs 23 
Oct.  *c$Miss Catley='s outstanding tickets [from her benefit on 23 Oct.] will b
e receiv'd.  Receipts: #261 8s. 6d. (241.10.0; 2.13.6; tickets: 17.5.0).  *p31 d
l Love in a Village.  As 26 Sept.  *aBon Ton.  As 9 Oct.  *d+Country Dance=, as 
26 Sept.; End II: +The Irish Fair=-Blurton, Mrs Sutton.  *cReceipts: #111 6s. 6d
.  *pcg Douglas.  Douglas-Lewis; Randolph-Wroughton; Officers-Thompson, Davis; G
lenalvon-Aickin; Old Norval-Clarke; Anna-Miss Dayes; Lady Randolph-Mrs Barry.  *
aThe Bankrupt.  Principal Characters-Wilson, Wroughton, Dunstall, Fearon, L'Estr
ange, Whitefield, Robson, Quick, Miss Dayes, Miss Ambrose, Mrs Whitefield, Mrs J
ackson.  [Partial cast suggested by Genest, V 561: Sir Robert Riscounter-Wilson;
 Sir James Biddulph-Wroughton; Pillage-Dunstall; Margin-Quick; Lady Riscounter-M
rs Jackson.]  *dEnd: +The Enchantress=-Aldridge, Harris, Miss Valois.  *cMainpie
ce: Not acted this season [see 15 Oct.].  Afterpiece: Never perform'd there.  Re
ceipts: #150 17s. 6d. (149.2.6; 1.15.0).  *p11 1 dl The Runaway.  As 1 Oct.  *aA
 Christmas Tale.  As 22 Oct.  *dIn: +The Savage Hunters=, as 24 Oct., but _Helme
, +Prelot.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  Paid $Kirk= Housekeeper's bills 
to October 12 #102 19s. 4d.; Chorus Singers #6 15s.  They called for the +Epilog
ue= (to the +Runaway=) and made a great Noise for it all through the first Scene
 of the Farce, but it was not spoken.  $Miss Younge= was not down ready to begin
 [the mainpiece], $Sheridan= ordered the Curtain to be drawn up, it was two Minu
tes before she came to begin (+Hopkins Diary=).  Receipts: #219 16s. 6d.  *pcg T
he Orphan.  Castalio-Wroughton; Acasto-Clarke; Polydore-Aickin; Chaplain-L'Estra
nge; Ernesto-Fearon; Page-Master Jones; Chamont-Lewis; Serina-Miss Leeson; Flore
lla-Mrs Pitt; Monimia-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified]).
  *aThe Bankrupt.  As 31 Oct.  *dAs 31 Oct.  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 6 Year
s.  Receipts: #110 7s. (109.2.6; 1.4.6).  *p2 cg The Way of the World.  Mirabel-
Lewis; Fainall-Wroughton; Witwou'd-Lee Lewes; Sir Wilful Witwou'd-Dunstall; Wait
well-Wilson; Messenger-Cushing; Coachman-Fox; Petulant-Woodward; Mrs Marwood-Mrs
 Mattocks; Mrs Fainall-Mrs Whitefield; Foible-Mrs Green; Mincing-Mrs Poussin; Be
tty-Mrs White; Lady Wishfort-Mrs Pitt; Millamant-Mrs Barry (1st appearance in th
at character).  *aThe Padlock.  As 25 Sept.  *dAs 23 Oct.  *cMainpiece: Not acte
d these 6 years.  Receipts: #186 1s. 6d. (185.4.0; 0.17.6).  *pking's Astarto.  
[Principal Characters by Rauzzini, Trebbi, Savoi, Micheli, $Sga Luiggia? Farnese
=, Sga Pozzi.  [Cast from libretto ($T. Cadell=, 1776):% Clearco-Rauzzini; Fenic
io-Trebbi; Agenore-Savoi; Nino-Leopoldo Micheli; Sidonia-Sga Luiggia Farnese; El
isa-Sga Anna Pozzi.  *d[New Dances composed by $Simonet= and $Vallouy=.%End I: [
a% +Grand Serious Ballet=-Mons Simonet, Mme Simonet (their 1st appearance in +En
gland=), Sg Zuchelli, Sga Zuchelli; End II: [a new Pastoral Ballet% +Les Amans H
eureux=[; ou, +L'Aimable Vieillesse=%-Mons Vallouy, Mme Vallouy, Sg and Sga Zuch
elli, Vallouy@le@cadet; End Opera: [a new Ballet Demi-caracteres% +Les Amusemens
 Champetres=-Mons and Mme Simonet, Sg and Sga Zuchelli.  *cA new Serious Opera. 
 The Music by several eminent Masters; under the Direction of $Giardini= [who al
so composed the overture (see 14 Dec.)].  With magnificent new Scenes, Dresses a
nd Decorations, both for the Opera and Dances.  Tickets will be delivered at the
 Office in +Union-court=, Haymarket, at Half a Guinea each.  1st Gallery 5s. 2nd
 Gallery 3s.  By $Their Majesties=' Command, No Person can be admitted behind th
e Scenes.  The Doors to be opened at 6:00.  To begin exactly at 7:00 [same throu
ghout season].  Care will be taken that no Inconvenience shall arise from the Pa
vement not being compleated in the Haymarket, the Commisioners having promised t
o leave the Way safe for Carriages.  The Nobility and Gentry will be so obliging
 to give Orders to take up and set down with their Horses Heads towards +Pall-ma
ll=.  The Door in +Market Lane= for Chairs only.  +Public Advertiser=, 21 Sept.:
 Subscriptions are received by $Messrs Hoare=, in +Fleet-street=, and by $Johnso
n= at the Office in Union-court, +Hay-market=.  *p4 dl Tamerlane.  Tamerlane-Pal
mer; Axalla (1st time)-Grist; Dervise-Bransby; Omar-Hurst; Prince of Tanais-Wrig
hten; Moneses-Reddish; Stratocles-Farren; Zama-Wright; Mirvin-Norris; Haly-Chapl
in; Bajazet-Smith; Selima-Miss Hopkins; Arpasia-Miss Younge; The usual +Prologue
=-Reddish.  *aA Christmas Tale.  As 22 Oct., but Camilla-Miss Jarratt; Good and 
Evil Spirits-Miss _Jarratt.  *sIn IV: +To Thee Oh gentle sleep=-Miss Abrams.  *c
$Grist= +Axalla=r--some Hisses (+Hopkins Diary=).  [Prologue by $Nicholas Rowe=.
]  Receipts: #193 15s. 6d.  *pcg The Conscious Lovers.  Bevil-Lewis; Myrtle-Wrou
ghton; Sealand-Clarke; Sir John Bevil-Fearon; Cimberton-Quick; Humphrey-Thompson
; Daniel-Wewitzer; Tom-Woodward; Phillis-Mrs Mattocks; Lucinda-Miss Ambrose; Mrs
 Sealand-Mrs Pitt; Isabella-Mrs Booth; Indiana-Mrs Hartley (1st appearance in th
at character).  *aLove a-la-Mode.  As 29 Oct.  *sIn II: [a% +Song=-Leoni.  *c+Ta
merlane= (usually presented this Evening) is obliged to be declined, on Account 
of the Indisposition of two principal Performers.  [Mainpiece in place of +King 
Richard III=, announced on playbill of 2 Nov.]  Receipts: #192 4s. 6d. (191.6.6;
 0.18.0).  *p5 dl The Provok'd Husband.  Lord Townly-Smith; Sir Francis Wronghea
d-Yates; Manly-Packer; John Moody-Moody; Squire Richard-Burton; Count Basset-Dod
d; Lady Grace-Miss Sherry; Lady Wronghead-Mrs Hopkins; Miss Jenny-Mrs Davies; Mr
s Motherly-Mrs Cross; Trusty-Mrs Johnston; Myrtilla-Miss Platt; Lady Townly-Miss
 Younge.  *aA Christmas Tale.  As 4 Nov.  *c+Alexander the Great?= [announced on
 playbill of 4 Nov.] is obliged to be deferred.  [The playbill lists $Mrs Yates=
 as +Lady Townly=r, but see following note.  $Miss Younge='s name appears in all
 subsequent playbills, except on 19 Dec.]  +Alexander= was advertised for this N
ight, but $Lacy= being hoarse, who was to have played +Alexander=r, it was oblig
ed to be deferred, and this Play substituted.  It was between eleven and twelve 
o'clock at (Night) before we got it settled.  $Mr. Sheridan= ordered me not to s
end to Mrs. Yates about (it) till the Morning.  About eight o'clock I sent her N
otice that the +Provoked Husband= was to be performed at Night.  A little after 
nine, she sent Word by her Niece that she was never so ill treated in her life, 
that she was never before asked to play on the fifth of November [which day was 
traditionally set aside for the acting of +Tamerlane=], that she would not play 
Lady Townly that Night, nor would she play any more; and if she had an Inclinati
on to play, she had no Cloaths ready to play it in; and sent back the Part of +S
emiramis=r in a new Tragedy that was preparing [see 16 Nov., 14 Dec.].  I got Mi
ss Younge to do Lady Townly, and an Apology was made by $Packer= that Mrs Yates 
having refused this Morning to do Lady Townly, Miss Younge at a Minutes' Notice 
undertook to do it.  Miss Younge was much applauded and Yates had a few hisses (
+Hopkins Diary=).  Receipts: #179 11s. 6d.  *pking's La Fraschetana.  [Principal
 Characters by Trebbi, Fochetti, Savoi, Micheli, Sga Prudom, $Sga Luiggia? Farne
se=, Sga Sestini.  [Cast from libretto ($T. Cadell=, 1776):% Nardone-Trebbi; Don
 Fabrizio-Fochetti; Il Cavaliere Giocondo-Savoi; Pagnotta-Micheli; Donna Stella-
Sga Maria Prudom [$Inglesina=]; Lisetta-Sga Luiggia Farnese; Violante-Sga Sestin
i.  [The libretto does not assign +Violante=r, but see +Larpent MS 417=.%  *dAs 
2 Nov.  *cA new Comic Opera; the Music by $Paisiello=; under the Direction of $G
iardini=.  *p6 dl The Gamesters.  Wilding-King; Hazard-Reddish; Barnacle-Parsons
; Nephew-Dodd; Dwindle-Waldron; Acreless-Farren; Little Stock-Fawcett; Sellaway-
Lamash; Box@keeper-Wright; Drawer-Griffiths; Page-Master Pulley; Mrs Wilding-Mis
s Younge; Penelope-Mrs Abington.  *aA Christmas Tale.  As 4 Nov.  *dEnd II: +The
 Savage Hunters=-Slingsby, Helme, Giorgi, Blurton, Sga Crespi, Sga Vidini, Sga R
icci.  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 2 years.  $Vernon= was so very drunk in the 
Farce that he could scarcely stand--a Man in the Gallery cryed out, Hold him up-
-a few hisses at the End of the Trio (+Hopkins Diary=).  Receipts: #146 15s.  *p
cg The Conscious Lovers.  As 4 Nov., but Myrtle (1st time)-Whitefield; Humphrey-
_; Daniel-_.  *aThree Weeks after Marriage.  As 25 Oct.  *dEnd III: +The Merry S
ailors=-Aldridge; End: +The Enchantress=, as 31 Oct.  *sAs 4 Nov.  *cBy Command 
of $Their Majesties=.  Receipts: #266 6s. 6d. (265.9.6; 0.17.0).  *p7 dl The Mai
d of the Oaks.  Dupely-Dodd; Oldworth-Aickin; Sir Harry Groveby-Brereton; Druid-
Bannister; Hurry-Parsons; Painter-Moody; Architect-Fawcett; Old Groveby-Baddeley
; Maria-Miss P. Hopkins; Lady Bab Lardoon-Mrs Abington; [The last new% +Epilogue
=-Mrs Abington.  [This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performan
ces.]  *aPolly Honeycomb.  Mr Honeycomb-Parsons; Scribble-Dodd; Ledger-Bransby; 
Mrs Honeycomb-Mrs Johnston; Nurse-Mrs Bradshaw; Polly Honeycomb-Miss Pope.  *dIn
 II: [but postponed until end of Act III (see following note)][a new grand Balle
t, Demie Caractere, composed by $Gallet=,% +The Double Festival=-Gallet, Mlle Du
pre (their 1st appearance upon the +English stage=), Helme, Slingsby, Sga Vidini
, Sga Crespi, Sga Ricci; In V: [a new grand serious Ballet, composed by Gallet,%
 +The Triumph of Love=-Gallet, Helme, Sga Crespi, Miss Armstrong, Mlle Dupre.  *
sIn: [a% Fete Champetre[.  The vocal parts%-Vernon, Davies, Miss Abrams, Mrs Sco
tt, Mrs Wrighten.  [This was included, as here assigned (except on 20 Feb. 1777)
, in all subsequent performances.]  *cEpilogue by $David Garrick=.  Second Balle
t: with New Scenes [by $deLoutherbourg=] and Dresses [by $Lupini=].  Two new Gra
nd Ballets, composed by $Gallet=, were introduced in this Piece (+The Maid of th
e Oaks=) in which Gallet and $Mlle Dupre= made their first Appearance upon the E
ng. Stage--the first Dance, which was to be in the 2nd Act, was obliged to be de
ferred till the end of the 3rd Act, as $Lupini=, who made the Dancers Dresses, h
ad not brought them to the House--this put us all into great Confusion, and $Dod
d= made an Apology to the Audience, that an unforseen Accident had prevented the
 Dance being done in the proper Place.  At the beginning of the 3rd Act most of 
the Dresses were brought, but not all, and some of the Dancers were obliged to p
ut on what Dresses could be got for them--They were all very much confused--the 
Music also was not perfect.  Gallet went on, and spoke in $French= to the Audien
ce, and told the Band that he wished they had any Heads.  In the first Dance Mll
e Dupre fell down, and a little after Gallet fell down, but (they) did not hurt 
themselves, and the Dance went on--and even with all these Disadvantages was muc
h applauded (+Hopkins Diary=).  Receipts: #181 19s. 6d.  *pcg The Provok'd Husba
nd.  Lord Townly-Lewis (1st appearance in that character); Manly-Clarke; Squire 
Richard-Quick; John Moody-Dunstall; Count Basset-Lee Lewes; Sir Francis Wronghea
d-Macklin; Lady Grace-Mrs Lessingham; Lady Wronghead-Miss Macklin (1st appearanc
e in that character); Miss Jenny-Mrs Mattocks; Lady Townly-Mrs Barry; [Edition o
f 1776 ($T. Lowndes=) adds:% Mrs Motherly-Mrs Poussin; Myrtilla-Mrs Whitefield; 
Mrs Trusty-Mrs Willems.  *aThe Padlock.  As 25 Sept.  *dEnd: +The Merry Sailors=
, as 6 Nov.  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 2 years.  Account-Book: Paid $Mrs Barr
y= on account for finding her own Dresses #50.  Receipts: #133 1s. 6d. (131.15.6
; 1.6.0).  *p8 dl The Maid of the Oaks.  As 7 Nov.  *aThe Mayor of Garratt.  As 
28 Sept.  *dAs 7 Nov.  *cThe Dances went off tonight without Interruption, and w
ere greatly received, and are allowed to be (the) best ever done in +England= (+
Hopkins Diary=).  Receipts: #184 12s.  *pcg Romeo and Juliet.  As 7 Oct.  *aThe 
Citizen.  Young Philot-Woodward; Sir Jasper Wilding-Dunstall; Old Philpot-Quick;
 Young Wilding-Whitefield; Beaufort-Thompson; Maria-Mrs Mattocks.  *c+The Royal 
Convert= [announced on playbill of 7 Nov.] is obliged to be deferred on account 
of the Indisposition of $Wroughton=.  Receipts: #87 18s. (87.15; 0.3).  *p9 dl T
he Fair Quaker; or, The Humours of the Navy.  Commodore Flip-Moody; Captain Mize
n-Dodd; Captain Worthy-Jefferson; Sir Charles Pleasant-Brereton; Rovewell-Lamash
; Lieut. Cribbage-Davies; Lieut. Easy-Norris; Binnacle-Parsons; Cockswain-Wright
en; Purser Indent-Griffiths; Hatchway (with a +song=)-Bannister; Arabella Zeal-M
rs Greville; Belinda-Miss Hopkins; Jiltup-Mrs Bradshaw; Jenny Private-Miss Platt
; Barmaid-Mrs Davies; Advocate-Mrs Johnston; Dorcas Zeal-Miss Pope.  *aA Christm
as Tale.  As 4 Nov.  *dEnd: The Grand Naval Review-; [in which a% +Dance of Sail
ors=-Blurton, Mrs Sutton.  *s+Rule Britannia=-Davies, Fawcett, others.  *cMainpi
ece: With a Medley +Overture= of favourite Sea Tunes.  +Old City Manners= [annou
nced on playbill of 8 Nov.] is obliged to be deferred on account of $Palmer='s I
llness.  Receipts: #146 1s.  *pcg The Duenna; or, The Double Elopement.  [Princi
pal Characters by Robson, Quick, Wilson, Reinhold, Mahon, Wewitzer, Fox, Baker, 
Leoni, Miss Brown, Mrs Green, Mrs Mattocks.  [Cast from playbill of 29 Oct. 1777
 and Genest, V, 515:% Ferdinand-Robson; Isaac-Quick; Don Jerome-Wilson; Antonio-
Reinhold; Father Paul-Mahon; Lopez-Wewitzer; Friars-Fox, Baker; Carlos-Leoni; Cl
ara-Miss Brown; The Duenna-Mrs Green; Louisa-Mrs Mattocks.  *aThe Upholsterer.  
As 24 Oct.  *dEnd: +The Irish Lilt=-Aldridge, Miss Valois.  *c[The playbill list
s $Mattocks= in place of $Robson=, but "Mattocks being really ill, Robson, at sh
ort Notice, supplied his Place' (+Morning Post=, 11 Nov.).]  Mainpiece: With New
 Dresses and other Decorations.  Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre.  [
Afterpiece in place of +The Apprentice=, announced on playbill of 8 Nov.]  Paid 
one-half year's Land Tax #61 5s.  Receipts: #283 (282.9; 0.11).  *pking's Astart
o.  As 2 Nov.  *dEnd I: +Les Amusemens Champetres=, as 2 Nov.; End II: +Les Aman
s Heureux=, as 2 Nov.; End Opera: +Grand Serious Ballet=, as 2 Nov.  *p11 dl The
 Maid of the Oaks.  As 7 Nov.  *aBon Ton.  As 9 Oct., but the original +Prologue
=-King.  *dAs 7 Nov.  *c[Afterpiece: Prologue by $George Colman elder=.]  The Do
ors to be opened at 5:15.  To begin at 6:15 [see 30 Apr. 1777].  Receipts: #194 
18s.  *pcg King Richard the Third.  King Richard-Macklin; King Henry-Clarke; Ric
hmond-Wroughton; Buckingham-Hull; Stanley-Fearon; Tressel (1st time)-Ward; Princ
e Edward-Miss Besford; Duke of York-Master Jones; Norfolk-Whitefield; Lieutenant
-L'Estrange; Dutchess of York-Mrs Poussin; Lady Ann-Miss Macklin; Queen (1st tim
e)-Mrs Jackson.  *aLove a-la-Mode.  As 29 Oct.  *dAs 9 Nov.  *cThe Doors to be o
pened at 5:15.  To begin at 6:15 [see 30 Apr. 1777].  Receipts: #172 16s. 6d. (1
72.2.6; 0.14.0).  *p12 dl Cymbeline.  As 26 Oct., but Posthumus-Reddish; Guideri
us-Brereton.  *aA Christmas Tale.  As 4 Nov., but Robinette-Mrs Davies.  *d[Masq
uerade Scene,%+Dancing=, as 26 Oct.[+Singing=-_.%  *c+Hamlet= is obliged to be d
eferred.  [But on 11 Nov. +Jane Shore= is announced for this night.]  Receipts: 
#124 3s. 6d.  *pcg As You Like It.  Jaques-Clarke; Orlando-Lewis; Adam-Lee; Duke
 Senior-Hull; Amiens (with +songs=)-Mattocks; Oliver-L'Estrange; Duke Frederick-
Fearon; Touchstone-Woodward; Caelia (with the +Cuckoo Song=)-Mrs Mattocks; Audre
y-Mrs Pitt; Rosalind-Mrs Barry.  *aThe Padlock.  As 25 Sept.  *dEnd I: As 15 Oct
.; In V: [a% +Dance of Foresters=-Harris.  *cPaid $Dall=, painter, on account of
 Salary #60.  Receipts: #125 15s. 6d. (124.12.0; 1.3.6).  *pking's La Fraschetan
a.  As 5 Nov.  *dEnd I: +Les Amusemens Champetres=, as 2 Nov.; End II: +Grand Se
rious Ballet=, as 2 Nov.; End Opera: [a new Ballet, Demi-caractere,% +Les Chasse
urs=-Mons Vallouy, Mme Vallouy, Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Simonin Vallouy?@le@cadet. 
 *p13 dl The Maid of the Oaks.  As 7 Nov.  *aThe Waterman.  As 5 Oct.  *dAs 7 No
v.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  Receipts: #255 3s. 6d.  *pcg The Duenna.
  As 9 Nov., but Ferdinand-Mattocks [in place of $Robson=%.  *aDuke and no Duke.
  Trappolin-Woodward; Lavinio-L'Estrange; Brunetto-Robson; Barberino-Booth; Albe
rto-Davis; Mago-Fearon; Officer-Thompson; Captain-Baker; Puritan-Jones; Dutchess
-Mrs Poussin; Flametta-Mrs Willems; Prudentia-Miss Ambrose.  *dAs 9 Nov.  *cRece
ipts: #278 19s. 6d. (278.6.0; 0.13.6).  *p14 dl The Clandestine Marriage.  As 5 
Oct., but Brush-Burton.  *aA Christmas Tale.  As 12 Nov.  *cReceipts: #109 10s. 
 *pcg Ethelinda; or, The Royal Convert.  Hengist-Wroughton; Seofrid-Hull; Offa-W
hitefield; Oswald-Robson; Priest-L'Estrange; Officers-Fearon, Booth, Davis, Thom
pson; Aribert-Lewis; Rodogune-Mrs Ward (1st appearance on this stage); Ethelinda
-Mrs Hartley.  *aThe Seraglio.  [Principal Characters by Mattocks, Reinhold, Qui
ck, Dunstall, Leoni, Miss Dayes, Mrs Green, A Young Lady (who never appeared on 
any stage) ($Miss Wewitzer=), Miss Brown.  [Cast from text ($T. Evans=, 1776):% 
Abdallah-Mattocks; Reef-Reinhold; Venture-Quick; Goodwill-Dunstall; Frederick-Le
oni; Hassan-Baker; Gunnel-Bates; Williams-Thompson; Polly-Miss Dayes; Curtis-Mrs
 Green; Elmira-Miss Wewitzer; Lydia-Miss Brown.  *mV: the Original Music for the
 Sacrifice [by $Purcell=%-.  *cMainpiece: With a New Scene and New Dresses.  Aft
erpiece [1st time; CO 2, by $Charles Dibdin= and $Edward Thompson=.  Thompson's 
name does not appear on the title-page of the text; it has been added by $J. P. 
Kemble= on the half-title of his copy now in the +Huntington Library=]: The Musi
c chiefly composed by Dibdin [+Public Advertiser=, 15 Nov.: Three of the airs an
d the finale were composed by $Samuel Arnold=; one air by $John Abraham Fisher=]
.  With New Scenes [ibid: by $Dall=, $Richards=, and $Carver=], Dresses and Deco
rations.  Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre.  Account-Book, 7 Feb. 177
7: Paid Dibdin in full for copyright of the Seraglio #20; ibid, 2 June 1777: Rec
eived of $Cooper= for Songs & Books sold of +The Seraglio= #19 10s. 9d.  [$Mrs W
ard= was from the +Birmingham theatre=].  Receipts: #221 11s. 6d. (219.7.0; 2.4.
6).  *p15 dl The Hypocrite.  As 18 Oct., but Darnley-Reddish.  *aBon Ton.  As 11
 Nov.  *dEnd II: As 1 Nov.  *c+The Maid of the Oaks= [announced on playbill of 1
4 Nov.] is obliged to be deferred on account of $Mlle Dupre='s sudden illness.  
Paid 2 Oylbills to Oct. 25 #253 7s.  Receipts: #98 12s. 6d.  *pcg Love for Love.
  Valentine-Lewis; Scandal-Hull; Sir Sampson Legend-Dunstall; Trapland-Cushing; 
Ben (with a +song=)-Macklin; Foresight-Quick; Jeremy-Lee Lewes; Tattle-Woodward;
 Mrs Frail-Mrs Bulkley; Miss Prue-Mrs Mattocks; Mrs Foresight-Miss Ambrose; Nurs
e-Mrs Pitt; Angelica-Miss Macklin.  *aThe Seraglio.  As 14 Nov.  *cReceipts: #15
3 8s. (151.12.6; 1.15.6).  *p16 dl The Roman Father.  Horatius-Bensley; Tullus H
ostilius-Jefferson; Valesius-Brereton; Citizens-Wrighten, Norris, Griffiths; Sol
dier-Chaplin; Publius Horatius-Smith; Valeria-Miss Hopkins; Horatia-Mrs Yates.  
*aA Christmas Tale.  As 22 Oct., but Robinette-Mrs Davies; Good and Evil Spirits
-Miss _Jarratt.  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 10 years [not acted since 20 Apr. 
1765]; in [it] will be introduced a +Grand Triumphal Entry of Publius=v, with th
e original Music composed by $Boyce=.  [This was included in all subsequent perf
ormances.]  This is the first Time that $Mrs Yates= played since the Paper Quarr
el between the Managers and her.  Before the Play began Mrs Yates went on, and m
ade the following apology, "Ladies and Gentlemen, I hope what has been already p
ublished has been sufficient to satisfy the Publick that I did not intend to aff
ront or insult them.  I have only to add, that it ever has (been) and ever shall
 be my Study and Endeavour to please that Publick from (whom) I have received so
 many Favours."  The Audience applauded, and the Play went on--Mrs Yates played 
finely and had great applause (+Hopkins Diary=).  Receipts: #145 2s. 6d.  *pcg T
he Duenna.  As 13 Nov.  *aThe Englishman in Paris.  As 4 Oct.  *dEnd: +The Pilgr
im=, as 9 Oct.; In afterpiece: +Minuet=, as 4 Oct.  *cReceipts: #255 9s. (254.17
.6; 0.11.6).  *pking's Astarto.  As 2 Nov.  *dEnd I: +Les Amans Heureux=, as 2 N
ov; End II: +Grand Serious Ballet=, as 2 Nov.; End Opera: +Les Chasseurs=, as 12
 Nov.  *p18 dl The Roman Father.  As 16 Nov.  *aThe Elopement.  As 1 Oct.  *cRec
eipts: #149 15s.  *pcg Ethelinda.  As 14 Nov.  *aThe Seraglio.  As 14 Nov., butA
bdallah-Robson [in place of $Mattocks=%.  *cReceipts: #175 7s. 6d. (172.15.6; 2.
12.0).  *p19 dl The Old Batchelor.  Bellmour-Smith; Heartwell-Bensley; Fondlewif
e-Yates; Vainlove-Reddish; Captain Bluff-Moody; Sharper-Farren; Setter-Baddeley;
 Sir Joseph Wittol-King; Belinda-Miss Younge; Araminta-Mrs Baddeley; Silvia-Miss
 Essex (1st appearance upon that stage); Lucy-Miss Pope; Laetitia-Mrs Abington; 
New occasional +Prologue= (in the Character of a modern fine gentleman)-Dodd.  [
This was spoken, as here assigned, at the first 4 performances only (see 7 Dec.)
.]  *aA Christmas Tale.  As 22 Oct.  *dAs 15 Nov.  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 
16 years [not acted since 27 Oct. 1758].  With Alterations [by $Richard Brinsley
 Sheridan=.  Prologue by $David Garrick=].  The Characters new dressed.  This Pl
ay is revived with Alterations (by R. B. Sheridan Esq) and a new occasional Prol
ogue written by Mr Garrick? and spoken by $Dodd=, both well received.  $Miss Ess
ex= made her first Appearance upon this stage in +Silvia=r, a small mean Figure 
and shocking Actress, so bad that she is to do the Part no more.  $Reddish= was 
very imperfect in +Vainlove=r from the Beginning, but was so very much so in the
 last Act, that the Audience hissed very much, and cryed out, 'Off, Reddish, Off
!"  He went forward, and addressed them as follows, 'Ladies and Gentlemen, I hav
e been honoured with your Favour and Protection for these ten years past, and I 
am very sorry to give any cause for your Displeasure now; but having undertaken 
the Part at a very short Warning, in order to strengthen the Bill, and having ha
d but two Rehearsals for it, puts it out of my Power to do Justice to the Part, 
or myself.'  The Play then went on.  So great a Lye was never delivered to an Au
dience by any Actor or Actress before.  He had the Part at least six weeks in hi
s Possession, and repeated Notice to be ready in it, and six Rehearsals was call
ed for it,--indeed, he attended but three.  $Vernon= undertook to study the Part
 at eleven o'clock to-night, and to perform it to-morrow (+Hopkins Diary=).  [$M
iss Essex= was from the +hay=.]  Receipts: #209 6s.  *pcg The Duenna.  As 13 Nov
.  *aPolly Honeycombe.  Mr Honeycombe-Quick; Scribble-Lee Lewes; Ledger-Booth; M
rs Honeycombe-Mrs Pitt; Nurse-Mrs Poussin; Polly Honeycombe (1st time)-Mrs Wilso
n.  *dAs 31 Oct.  *cPaid $Hull= on account of Salary as Acting Manager #30.  Rec
eipts: #179 2s. (178.3; 0.19).  *pking's La Fraschetana.  As 5 Nov.  *dAs 16 Nov
.  *p20 dl The Old Batchelor.  As 19 Nov., but Vainlove-Vernon; Silvia-Miss P. H
opkins.  *aThe Elopement.  As 1 Oct.  *cReceipts: #161 10s. 6d.  *pcg The Duenna
.  As 13 Nov.  *aThe Lyar.  Young Wilding-Lee Lewes; Old Wilding-Fearon; Sir Jam
es Elliot-Whitefield; Papillon-Quick; Miss Godfrey-Miss Ambrose; Miss Grantham-M
rs Bulkley.  *dEnd: +The Frolick=-Aldridge, Miss Besford, Miss Valois.  *cBy Com
mand of $Their Majesties=.  Receipts: #260 12s. (259.17; 0.15).  *p21 dl The Rom
an Father.  As 16 Nov.  *aThe Hotel; or, The Double Valet.  [Principal Character
s by King, Brereton, Packer, Davies, Burton, Griffiths, Parsons; Miss P. Hopkins
, Miss Jarratt, Mrs Wrighten.  [Cast from text ($T. Becket=, 1776):% Trimwell-Ki
ng; Neville-Brereton; Wentworth-Packer; Sir John Seymour-Davies; Robin-Burton; I
rish Chairman-Griffiths; Sir Jacob Thrift-Parsons; Clarissa-Miss P. Hopkins; Fla
via-Miss Jarratt; Tabby-Mrs Wrighten; +Prologue=-King.  [This was spoken, as her
e assigned, at the first 7 performances only (see 1 Feb. 1777).]  *cAfterpiece [
1st time; F 2, by $Thomas Vaughan=, based on +Il Servitor di due Padroni=, by $C
arlo Goldoni=.  Prologue by the author (+Town and Country Magazine=, Dec. 1776, 
p. 663)]: With New Dresses.  +Public Advertiser=, 2 Dec. 1776: This Day at Noon 
is published +The Hotel= (1s.).  Receipts: #182 1s.  *pcg Zenobia.  Rhadamistus-
Wroughton; Pharasmanes-Aickin; Teribazus Lewis; Megistus-Hull; Zopiron-Whitefiel
d; Tigranes-L'Estrange; Zelmira-Mrs Jackson; Zenobia-Mrs Barry.  *aThe Seraglio.
  As 18 Nov.  *cMainpiece: Never perform'd there.  With New Dresses and Decorati
ons.  Receipts: #153 14s. 6d. (151.12.6; 2.2.0).  *p22 dl The Old Batchelor.  As
 20 Nov.  *aA Christmas Tale.  As 4 Nov.  *dAs 15 Nov.  *cReceipts: #179 4s.  *p
cg The Merchant of Venice.  As 29 Oct.  *aLove a-la-Mode.  As 29 Oct., but Sir C
allaghan O'Brallaghan (1st time)-Booth.  *dEnd III: +The Pilgrim=, as 9 Oct.; En
d IV: +The Frolick=, as 20 Nov.  *cReceipts: #179 7s. 6d. (178.12.0; 0.15.6).  *
p23 dl Jane Shore.  As 24 Sept.  *aThe Hotel.  As 21 Nov.  *cBefore the Play beg
an, $Reddish= went on, and addressed the Audience as follows, which was drawn up
 by $Mr Sheridan=, "Ladies and Gentlemen, having in my Address to the Publick on
 Tuesday Night last accounted for my Omission in the Part of +Vainlove=r in a ma
nner which appeared to reflect highly on the Managers, I now beg Permission to a
scribe it to the Confusion I was in from the Displeasure of the Audience, and, a
s the Managers are satisfied with my Assurance that this was the Case, I humbly 
hope for the Indulgence of the Publick, whom I never meant to offend, and whom I
 will ever study to please" (+Hopkins Diary=).  Raceipts: #119 17s. 6d.  *pcg Ze
nobia.  As 21 Nov.  *aThe Seraglio.  As 18 Nov.  *dEnd: [a new% +Pastoral Dance=
-Bishop (1st appearance on any stage), Sga Tinte.  *cReceipts: #134 16s. 6d. (13
3.9.0; 1.7.6).  *pking's Astarto.  As 2 Nov., but new Airs-Sga Pozzi.  *dAs 9 No
v.  *p25 dl Macbeth.  Macbeth-Smith; Macduff-Reddish; Duncan-Bransby [+Public Ad
vertiser=: $Hurst=]; Ross-Aickin; Malcolm-Davies; Banquo-Packer; Lenox-Grist; Do
nalbain-R. Palmer; Angus-Chaplin; Seward-Hurst [Public Advertiser: $Wrighten=]; 
Doctor-Wright; Captain-Farren; Fleance-Master Pulley; Seyton-Griffiths; Hecate (
1st time)-Bannister; Witches-Parsons, Moody, Baddeley; Lady Macduff-Miss Sherry;
 Lady Macbeth-Mrs Melmoth (1st appearance on this stage).  *aThe Hotel.  As 21 N
ov.  *dIV: [a% +Dance of Furies=-.  [This was included in all subsequent perform
ances.]  *soriginal Music [by $Mattew Locke= , with full Chorusses and Additiona
l Accompaniments by $Thomas Linley Sen=.%-Bannister, Legg, Kear, Fawcett, Brown,
 Follett, Chaplin, Carpenter, Mrs Scott, Miss Abrams, Mrs Greville, Mrs Davies, 
Miss Jarratt, Miss Collett, Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Mrs Pitt, Mrs J. Smith, Mrs Wri
ghten; [Account-Book adds:% Reynoldson, Webbe, Michan, Gaudry, Danby, J. Danby, 
Short, Miss Boyd.  *cThe Characters will be dressed in the Habits of the Times. 
 The Musick of +Macbeth= had a proper Attention paid to it in the getting up by 
$Mr Linley= (who composed the Additional Accompaniments) and went off with great
 Applause.  $Mrs Melmoth=, who came out at +Covent Garden= [on 26 Feb. 1774], ma
de her first Appearance upon this Stage in +Lady Macbeth=r, was very wild in the
 Part, met with some Applause.  The Play was dressed in the Habits of the Times.
  [Note added by $J. P. Kemble=: I have seen some of these Habits, and very palt
ry and very improper they were] (+Hopkins Diary=).  [Mrs Melmoth was from the +E
dinburgh theatre=.]  Receipts: #191 1s. 6d.  *pcg King Henry the Eighth.  King H
enry-Clarke; Cardinal Wolsey-Lee; Buckingham-Wroughton; Cranmer-Hull; Surrey-War
d; Cromwell-Whitefield; Gardiner-Wilson; Lord Sands-Wewitzer; Lord Chamberlain-L
ee Lewes; Norfolk-Davis; Suffolk-Booth; Lord Chancellor-Fearon; Anne Bullen-Miss
 Ambrose; Patience (with a +song=)-Miss Dayes; Queen Catherine-Mrs Hartley.  *aT
he Seraglio.  As 18 Nov., but [a new Obligato% +Song= [by $Dr Arne=%-Leoni; acco
mpanied [on the violin]-Fisher.  *dI: [the Banquet, with% +Dancing=-Dumay, Miss 
Matthews.  *cBenefit for $Dibdin=.  In Act IV of mainpiece the +Procession from 
the Abbey at the Coronation of Anne Bullen=v.  Paid $John Doe= for sticking Blac
k Bills #6 3s.  Receipts: none listed (charge: #84).  *p26 dl The Maid of the Oa
ks.  As 7 Nov.  *aThe Hotel.  As 21 Nov.  *dIn II: +The Double Festival=, as 7 N
ov., but +Grimaldi, Mrs +Sutton; In V: +The Grand Garland Dance=, as 9 Oct., but
 Sga +Ricci.  *cReceipts: #145 18s. 6d.  *pcg The Stratagem.  Archer-Lewis; Aimw
ell-Wroughton; Gibbet-Booth; Boniface-Dunstall; Foigard-Fox; Sir Charles Freeman
-Whitefield; Sullen-Clarke; Scrub-Woodward; Dorinda-Mrs Lessingham; Cherry-Miss 
Brown; Lady Bountiful-Mrs Pitt; Mrs Sullen-Mrs Bulkley.  *aThe Seraglio.  As 18 
Nov., but Venture-Wewitzer [in place of $Quick=%.  *dEnd IV: As 9 Nov.  *c+The W
ay of the World= [announced on playbill of 25 Nov.] is obliged to be deferred.  
Receipts: #99 15s. (98.11; 1.4).  *pking's La Fraschetana.  As 5 Nov.  *dAs 16 N
ov.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  *p27 dl The Old Batchelor.  As 20 Nov. 
 *aA Christmas Tale.  As 4 Nov.  *cReceipts: #184 14s. 6d.  *pcg The Duenna.  As
 13 Nov.  *aDuke and no Duke.  As 13 Nov.  *dAs 23 Nov.  *cReceipts: #254 19s. 6
d. (253.10.6; 1.9.0).  *p28 dl The Drummer; or, The Haunted House.  Tinsel-Dodd;
 Sir George Trueman-Aickin; Vellum-Parsons; Fantome-Packer; Gardener (1st time)-
Baker; Butler-Baddeley; Coachman-Moody; Lady Trueman-Mrs Hopkins; Abigail-Miss P
ope.  *aThe Hotel.  As 21 Nov.  *dIn: +The Irish Fair=, as 31 Oct.  *cNot acted 
these 2 years.  Written by $Addison=.  Receipts: #98 19s. 6d.  *pcg The Grecian 
Daughter.  Evander-Barry; Philotas (1st time)-Ward; Arcas-Fearon; Dionysius-Clar
ke; Herald-L'Estrange; Melanthon-Hull; Officer-Booth; Calippus-Whitefield; Phoci
on-Wroughton; Erixene-Miss Ambrose; Euphrasia-Mrs Barry.  *aThe Padlock.  See 25
 Sept.  *c[As afterpiece playbill announces the 8th night of +The Seraglio=.  In
 the Account-Book it is deleted, and +The Padlock= listed (see 17 Dec.).  The ch
ange was made probably because of $Leoni='s illness (see 30 Nov.).  This was $Ba
rry='s last appearance on the stage; he died on 10 Jan. 1777.]  Receipts: #187 1
5s. 6d. (186.11.6; 1.4.0).  *p29 dl Love for Love.  Valentine-Reddish; Sir Samps
on Legend-Moody; Scandal-Bensley; Foresight-Parsons; Ben-Yates; Jeremy-Baddeley;
 Trapland-Waldron; Buckram-Wrighten; Officer-Griffiths; Tattle-King; Angelica-Mi
ss Younge; Mrs Frail-Miss Pope; Mrs Foresight-Miss Sherry; Nurse-Mrs Bradshaw; M
iss Prue-Mrs Abington; [The new% occasional +Prologue=-Dodd.  [This was spoken, 
as here assigned, at the first 2 performances only (see 5 Dec.).]  *aThe Elopeme
nt.  As 1 Oct., but Lover-Burton.  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 5 years.  Writte
n by $Congreve=.  [For +Prologue= see 19 Nov.]  +Love for Love= was revived with
 alterations by $R. B. Sheridan= Esq. (Note by $J. P. Kemble= on +Hopkins Diary=
).  Receipts: #150 0s. 6d.  *p29 cg The Provok'd Husband.  As 7 Nov., but Manly-
Hull.  *aThe Citizen.  As 8 Nov.  *dAs 23 Nov.  *cReceipts: #107 5s. 6d. (106.0.
6; 1.5.0).  *p30 dl Hamlet.  As 23 Oct., but Ghost-Farren.  *aBon Ton.  As 11 No
v.  *c+The Old Batchelor= [and +A Christmas Tale=, both announced on playbill of
 29 Nov. are] obliged to be deferred.  [+Public Advertiser= assigns +Lucianus= t
o $Parsons=.]  Receipts: #106 11s.  *pcg She Stoops to Conquer.  As 25 Sept.  *a
High Life below Stairs.  Lovell-Ward; Duke's Servant-Lee Lewes; Sir Harry's Serv
ant-Booth; Freeman-Robson; Philip-Wilson; Tom-Fearon; Robert-Thompson; Coachman-
Fox; Kingston-Wewitzer; Lady Bab-Miss Dayes; Lady Charlotte-Miss Ambrose; Cook-M
rs White; Chloe-Miss Stewart; Kitty (with a +song= and +minuet=)-Mrs Wilson.  *d
End II: as 23 Nov.  *c+The Duenna= [announced on playbill of 29 Nov.] is obliged
 to be deferred on account of $Leoni='s illness.  Afterpiece: Never acted here. 
 Receipts: #131 7s. (129.7; 2.0).  *pking's La Fraschetana.  As 5 Nov.  *dEnd I:
 +Les Amans Heureux=, as 2 Nov; End II: +Grand Serious Ballet=, as 2 Nov., but M
ons _Simonet; [in which a% +Passacaile=-Mme Simonet; +Chaconne=-Mme Simonet; End
 Opera: +Les Chasseurs=, as 12 Nov.  *p12 2 dl The Distress'd Mother.  As 22 Oct
., but Pyrrhus-Bensley.  *aThe Hotel.  As 21 Nov.  *cBenefit for the Author of t
he Farce.  Receipts: #115 3s. 6d. (charge: #73 10s.).  *pcg Macbeth.  Macbeth-Ma
cklin; Macduff-Clarke; Duncan-Hull; Malcolm-Ward; Banquo-Aickin; Lenox-L'Estrang
e; Seyton-Thompson; Seyward-Davis; Doctor-Fearon; Hecate-Reinhold; Witches-Dunst
all, Mrs Pitt, Quick; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Hartley.  *aThe Two Misers.  Lively-Matto
cks; Hunks-Reinhold; Gripe-Quick; Osman-Dunstall; Mustapha-Fox; Ali-Baker; Jenny
-Mrs Mattocks; Harriet-Miss Brown.  *sMainpiece: Vocal Parts-Mattocks, Baker, Fo
x, Miss Brown, Miss Dayes, Miss Valois, Mrs Willems.  *cReceipts: #158 0s. 6d. (
157.0.6; 1.0.0).  *pking's None.  *cIn order to give Time to the Serious Singers
 to get ready in $Trajetta='s New Opera [+Germondo= (see 21 Jan. 1777)], +La Fra
schetana= will be performed on Saturday, on which Account there will be no Opera
 To-morrow.  *p3 dl Love for Love.  As 29 Nov.  *aA Christmas Tale.  As 4 Nov.  
*cReceipts: #181 17s.  *pcg Ethelinda.  As 14 Nov.  *aThe Two Misers.  As 2 Dec.
  *c$Barry= being suddenly taken extremely ill, +Zara= [announced on playbill of
 2 Dec.] is obliged to be deferred.  Receipts: #110 0s. 6d. (105.10.6; 4.10.0). 
 *p4 dl The Clandestine Marriage.  As 14 Nov., but Serjeant Flower-Wrighten; Fan
ny-Miss P. Hopkins.  *aThe Hotel.  As 21 Nov.  *dEnd: +Dance=-Sga Crespi, Sga Vi
dini, Sga Ricci.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  [Mainpiece in place of +Th
e Old Batchelor=; afterpiece of +Selima and Azor=, both announced on playbill of
 3 Dec.]  Receipts: #253 3s. 6d.  *pcg The Maid of the Mill.  Lord Aimworth-Matt
ocks; Sir Harry Sycamore-Wilson; Giles-Reinhold; Mervin-Mahon; Fairfield-Hull; R
alph-Quick; Fanny-Miss Brown; Lady Sycamore-Mrs Pitt; Theodosia-Miss Dayes; Patt
y-Mrs Mattocks.  *aThe Bankrupt.  As 31 Oct.  *dAs 9 Nov.  *cReceipts: #146 14s.
 6d. (145.18.0; 0.16.6).  *p5 dl Love for Love.  As 29 Nov., but occasional +Pro
logue=-_[and thereafter].  *aSelima and Azor.  [Principal Characters by Vernon, 
Bannister, Dodd, Miss Jarratt, Mrs Scott, Miss Collett, Mrs Baddeley.  [Cast fro
m Songs ($J. Wilkie=, 1776):% Azor-Vernon; Scander-Bannister; Ali-Dodd; Fairy-Mi
ss Jarratt; Lesbia-Mrs Scott; Fatima-Miss Collett; Selima-Mrs Baddeley.  *cAfter
piece [1st time; MD 3, by $Sir George Collier=, based on +Zemire et Azor=, by $J
ean Francois Marmontel=]: The Music [by $Thomas Linley Sen=., adapted from $Gret
ry=], Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations entirely New.  The Scenes, &c., designed 
by $DeLoutherbourg=.  The Words of the Songs, &c. to be had at the Theatre.  The
 Entertainment is splendidly got up--The Music by $Thomas Linley Jun.= [sic] was
 very well received (+Hopkins Diary=).  +Public Advertiser=, 7 Dec. 1776: This D
ay is published the Songs in +Selima and Azor= (6d).  [Text 1st published by $J.
 Bell=, 1784.]  Receipts: #218 7s.  *pcg The Suspicious Husband.  Ranger-Lewis; 
Strictland-Clarke; Frankly-Wroughton; Bellamy-Whitefield; Jack Meggot (1st time)
-Booth; Tester-Wewitzer; Mrs Strictland-Mrs Mattocks; Jacintha (1st time)-Miss L
eeson; Lucetta-Mrs Green; Clarinda-Mrs Bulkley.  *aThe Two Misers.  As 2 Dec.  *
dconclude with: +Country Dance=-the Characters.  *cReceipts: #95 17s. 6d. (91.5.
0; 4.12.6).  *p6 dl King Richard III.  As 12 Oct., but Richmond (1st time)-Brere
ton; Lord Stanley-Wrighten.  *aSelima and Azor.  As 5 Dec.  *cReceipts: #167 8s.
 6d.  *pcg Caractacus.  [Characters by Clarke, Lewis, Wroughton, Ward, Whitefiel
d, Mrs Hartley.%  Druids and Bards-Aickin, Hull, L'Estrange, Fearon, others; Pri
ncipal Vocal Parts-Leoni, Reinhold, Mrs Farrell; [Cast from text (+York=: $A. Wa
rd=, 1777 [i.e. 1776]):% Caractacus-Clarke; Arviragus-Lewis; Elidurus-Wroughton;
 Vellinus-Ward; Aulus Didius-Whitefield; Evelina-Mrs Hartley; Modred-Aickin; Mad
or-Hull.  *aPolly Honeycombe.  see 19 Nov.  *cMainpiece [1st time in +London=; D
R. POEM 5, by $William Mason=, 1st acted at $Crow Street Theatre, Dublin=, 30 Ma
r. 1764]: Written on the Model of the ancient Greek Tragedy.  The Overture and a
ll the Music composed New by $Dr Arne=.  With a New Scene designed and executed 
by $Dahl= [recte $Dall=].  The Dresses, Decorations, &c. all entirely New.  Book
s of the Lyrical Part of the Drama to be had at the Theatre.  'But I had rather 
talk of +Caractacus=; I agree that he will not suffer by not being sputtered by 
$Barry=, who has lost all his teeth.  +Covent Garden= is rather above +Drury Lan
e= in actors, but both sets are exceedingly bad, so bad-that I almost wish Carac
tacus was not to appear.  Very seldom do I go to the play, for there is no beari
ng such strollers" ($Walpole= [to the author, 8 Oct. 1776], IX, 419-20).  "I att
ended Caractacus last winter, and was greatly interested, both from my friendshi
p for Mr Mason and from the excellence of the poetry.  I was out of all patience
; for though a young $Lewis= played a subordinate part very well, and $Mrs Hartl
ey= looked her part charmingly, the Druids were so massacred, and Caractacus so 
much worse, that I never saw a more barbarous exhibition" (Walpole [13 July 1777
], X, 81-82).  +Public Advertiser=, 7 Dec. 1776: This Day is published the Lyric
al Part of Caractacus (6d.).  [The publisher, $J. Wilkie=, states that he also h
as the "whole Drama, as altered by the Author, 18d."  Ibid., 9 Dec., contains an
 advertisement from Mason stating that this version is unauthorized.]  Ibid., 12
 Dec.: This Day is published [by $A. Ward= of +York=] a new Edition of Caractacu
s, now altered for Representation at the Theatre-Royal in +Covent Garden= (1s. 6
d.).  Receipts: #163 10s. (163.6; 0.4).  *p7 dl The Old Batchelor.  As 20 Nov., 
but New occasional +Prologue=-_[and thereafter].  *aSelima and Azor.  As 5 Dec. 
 *cReceipts: #217 19s.  *pcg The Duenna.  As 13 Nov.  *aHigh Life below Stairs. 
 As 30 Nov.  *dAs 23 Nov.  *cReceipts: #271 19s. (270.8; 1.11).  *pking's La Fra
schetana.  As 5 Nov.  *dEnd I: +Les Amans Heureux=, as 2 Nov.; End II: +Grand Se
rious Ballet=, as 30 Nov.; End Opera: [a new Comic Dance, composed by $Zuchelli=
,% +La Force de l'Amour=-Sg and Sga Zuchelli.  *p9 dl Love for Love.  As 29 Nov.
  *aSelima and Azor.  As 5 Dec.  *cReceipts: #181 16s. 6d.  *pcg Caractacus.  As
 6 Dec.  *aCross Purposes.  As 16 Oct.  *cReceipts: #194 9s. (193.9.6; 0.19.6). 
 *p10 dl Romeo and Juliet.  Romeo-Brereton; Fryar Lawrence-Packer; Capulet-Aicki
n; Benvolio-Davies; Tibalt-Grist; Prince-Norris; Paris-Farren; Peter-Burton; Apo
thecary-Waldron; Balthazar-Chaplin; Mercutio-Dodd; Lady Capulet-Mrs Johnston; Nu
rse-Mrs Love; Juliet-A Young Lady (1st appearance upon any stage [$Mrs Robinson=
]).  *aSelima and Azor.  As 5 Dec.  *dIn I: Masquerade-; +Dance=-Giorgi, Blurton
, Mrs Sutton.  [This was included, as here assigned, in all subsequent perfomanc
es.]  *sMainpiece: [with the Funeral Procession.% Vocal Parts-Gaudry, Legg, Kear
, Fawcett, Brown, Carpenter, Follett, Chaplin, Miss Abrams, Miss Collett, Mrs Sc
ott, Mrs Greville, Mrs Davies, Miss Jarratt, Miss Boyd, Mrs Booth, Mrs Pitt.  *c
+Juliet=r by $Mrs Robinson=--a genteel Figure--a very tolerable first Appearance
, and may do in time.  [Note added by $J. P. Kemble=: $Mrs Mary Robinson=, whose
 maiden name was $Darby=, died Dec. 26, 1800 at +Englefield Green=.  See her Lif
e, of which the first part, namely as far as to her Acquaintance with the $Princ
e of Wales=, was written by herself] (+Hopkins Diary=).  Receipts: #170 8s. (133
.15; 31.15; 4.18).  *pcg Caractacus.  As 6 Dec.  *aHigh Life below Stairs.  See 
30 Nov.  *cReceipts: #131 18s. 6d. (130.19.6; 0.19.0).  *pking's La Fraschetana.
  As 5 Nov.  *dEnd I: +Les Amans Heureux=, as 2 Nov., but Mme _Vallouy; End II: 
+Serious Ballet=, as 30 Nov.; End Opera: +La Force de l'Amour=, as 7 Dec.  *p11 
dl The Old Batchelor.  As 20 Nov.  *aSelima and Azor.  As 5 Dec.  *cBenefit for 
the Author of the Alterations [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, b
ut not on the playbill].  Receipts: #174 7s. 6d. (132.8.0; 36.2.6; 5.17.0; ticke
ts: none listed) (charge: #84).  *pcg Caractacus.  As 6 Dec.  *aPolly Honeycombe
.  As 6 Dec.  *dAs 23 Nov.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  Rec'd. of $Conde
ll= on Acct of Fruit Rent this Season #20.  Receipts: #240 1s. (239.3; 0.18).  *
p12 dl Romeo and Juliet.  As 10 Dec.  *aSelima and Azor.  As 5 Dec.  *dEnd II: +
The Triumph of Love=, as 7 Nov.  *sMainpiece: [with the Funeral Procession% Voca
l Parts, as 10 Dec., but Mrs +Smith.  *cReceipts: #139 11s. 6d. (113.2.0; 26.9.6
; 0.0.0).  *pcg Caractacus.  As 6 Dec.  *aCatherine and Petruchio.  See 11 Oct.,
 but Petruchio-Lewis; Catherine-Mrs Green.  *cReceipts: #120 9s. (118.16.6; 1.12
.6).  *p13 none +General Fast=.  *p14 dl Semiramis.  [Principal Characters by Sm
ith, Bensley, Grist, Farren, Hurst, Chaplin, R. Palmer, Reddish, Mrs Reddish, Mr
s Yates.  [Cast from text ($J. Dodsley=, 1776), and +Town and Country Magazine=,
 Dec. 1776, p. 659:% Ninias (known first as Arzaces)-Smith; Assures-Bensley; Mit
hranes-Grist; Otanes-Farren; Ghost of Ninus-Hurst; Cedarus-Chaplin; Oroes-Reddis
h; Azema-Mrs Reddish (in text: $Miss Hopkins= [see 16 Dec.]); Semiramis-Mrs Yate
s; $R. Palmer= [is unassigned%; +Prologue=-Reddish; +Epilogue=-Mrs Yates.  [Thes
e were spoken, as here assigned, at the first 9 performances only (see 1 Feb. 17
77.)]  *aThe Irish Widow.  Whittle-Parsons; Kecksey-Dodd; Sir Patrick O'Neale-Mo
ody; Bates-Baddeley; Nephew-Davies; Thomas-Burton; Widow Brady (with an +Epilogu
e Song=)-Mrs Greville.  *dEnd I afterpiece: +The Irish Fair=, as 31 Oct.  *cMain
piece [1st time; T 5, by $George Edward Ayscough=, based on +Semiramis=, by $Vol
taire=.  Prologue by the author.  Epilogue by $Richard Brinsley Sheridan= (see t
ext)]: With New Scenes and Dresses.  This Tragedy is a translation from $Voltair
e= by Captain Ayscough.  $Mrs Yates= played finely, and met with the Applause sh
e deserved.  $Mrs Reddish=, alias $Mrs Canning=, who played the part of +Azema=,
 was hissed all through, and must never perform again.  Indeed she was very bad.
  The Play was greatly applauded (+Hopkins Diary=).  +Public Advertiser=, 24 Dec
. 1776: This Day is published Semiramis (1s. 6d.).  Receipts: #226 3s. 6d. (224.
16.6; 0.0.0; 1.7.0).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 13 Nov.  *aThe Lyar.  As 20 Nov.  *dA
s 20 Nov.  *cReceipts: #247 4s. (245.18.6; 1.5.6).  *pking's Piramo e Tisbe.  [P
rincipal Characters by Rauzzini, Giulinani, Savoi, Sga Prudom.  [Cast from libre
tto (no pub., 1776):% Piramo-Rauzzini; Eupalte-Giulinani; Corebo-Savoi; Tisbe-Sg
a Prudom.  *dEnd of Overture: +Les Amans Heureux=, as 10 Dec.; End I: +La Force 
de l'Amour=, as 7 Dec., but +Vallouy@le@cadet; End Opera: +Serious Ballet=, as 3
0 Nov.  *mBefore first Dance: +Overture= to Astarto [by $Giardini=%-.  *cA Serio
us Opera; the Music by $Rauzzini=.  *p16 dl Semiramis.  As 14 Dec., but Azema-Mi
ss Hopkins [in place of $Mrs Reddish=%.  *aSelima and Azor.  As 5 Dec.  *cReceip
ts: #217 9s. 6d. (195.16.0; 18.3.0; 3.10.6).  *pcg Caractacus.  As 6 Dec.  *aThe
 Country Wife.  Pinchwife-Lee; The Country Wife (1st time)-Mrs Wilson.  [see 21 
Dec.%  *cAfterpiece: In 2 acts, taken from $Wycherley= [by $John Lee= (+Public A
dvertiser=, 14 Dec.)].  Paid $Pattinson=, Tallow Chandler, #41 19s.  Receipts: #
167 18s. (166.9.6; 1.8.6).  *p17 dl The Conscious Lovers.  As 25 Oct., but Young
 Bevil-Reddish; Sir John Bevil-Grist; Cimberton-Parsons; Daniel-Waldron; Indiana
 (1st time)-Mrs Greville.  *aThe Rival Candidates.  As 10 Oct., but Byron-Vernon
.  *dEnd: +Comic Dance=-the two Miss Stageldoirs.  *sAs 25 Oct.  *cBenefit for t
he +City of London Lying-in Hospital=.  $Mrs Greville=-+Indiana=r--$Miss Younge=
 being ill (+Hopkins Diary=).  +Public Advertiser=, 4 Dec.: Tickets to be had at
 the Hospital, in +Oldstreet Road=.  Receipts: #253 9s. (70.14; 0.0; 0.0; ticket
s: 182.15) (charge: #105).  *pcg The Double Dealer.  Maskwell-Aickin (1st appear
ance in that character); Careless-Lewis; Lord Touchwood-Clarke; Mellefont-Wrough
ton; Brisk-Lee Lewes; Lord Froth-Booth; Sir Paul Plyant-Macklin; Lady Touchwood-
Mrs Jackson; Lady Froth-Mrs Mattocks; Cynthia-Miss Leeson; Lady Plyant-Miss Mack
lin (Their 1st appearance in those characters).  *aThe Seraglio.  As 26 Nov.[, b
ut $Miss Wewitzer='s name listed in playbill.%  *dAs 23 Nov.  *cBenefit for a Fu
nd for the Relief of Performers and others retiring from the Theatre.  Mainpiece
: Acted but once [on 5 Mar. 1776] these 20 years.  Afterpiece: 8th Night (see 28
 Nov.).  Receipts: none listed (charge: #105).  *pking's Piramo e Tisbe.  As 14 
Dec.  *dEnd Overture: +Les Amusemens Champetres=-Mme Simonet, Zuchelli, Vallouy@
le@cadet; End I: +Les Amans Heureux=-Vallouy, Mme Simonet, Zuchelli, Vallouy@le@
cadet; End Opera: +Grand Serious Ballet=, as 30 Nov., but Sga _Zuchelli, +Vallou
y@le@cadet; Passacaile, as 30 Nov.;Chaconne, as 30 Nov.  *mAs 14 Dec.  *c[Opera 
in place of +La Fraschetana=, announced in +Public Advertiser=, 16 Dec.]  $Sga Z
uchelli= being extremely ill, $Mme Simonet= has had the Complaisance, that the P
ublic might not be disappointed, to offer to dance in all the Ballets this Eveni
ng.  *p18 dl The Wonder.  Don Felix-Smith (1st appearance in that character); Do
n Lopez-Baddeley; Don Pedro-Parsons; Colonel Briton-Brereton (1st appearance in 
that character); Frederick-Packer; Gibby-Moody; Lissardo-King; Isabella-Miss Hop
kins; Flora-Miss Pope; Inis-Mrs Bradshaw; Violante-Mrs Yates.  *aSelima and Azor
.  As 5 Dec.  *dEnd II: +The Double Festival=-Gallet, Mlle Dupre, Helme, Slingsb
y, Sga Vidini, Sga Crespi, Sga Ricci, Mrs Sutton.  *cBy Command of $Their Majest
ies=.  $Smith= +Don Felix=r--very so, so.  The Play was very imperfect (+Hopkins
 Diary=).  Receipts: #249 12s. 6d. (235.6.0; 12.15.6; 1.11.0).  *pcg The Mournin
g Bride.  Osmyn-Lewis (1st appearance in that character); King-Clarke; Heli-L'Es
trange; Perez-Thompson; Alonzo-Fearon; Selim-Robson; Gonzales-Hull; Leonora-Miss
 Ambrose; Zara-Mrs Ward; Almeria-Mrs Hartley (Their 1st appearance in those char
acters).  *aThe Seraglio.  As 17 Dec.  *dAs 15 Oct.  *cMainpiece: Not acted thes
e 7 years.  Receipts: #107 19s. (103.17; 4.2).  *p19 dl The Provok'd Husband.  A
s 5 Nov., but Mrs Motherly-Mrs Bradshaw; Lady Townly-Mrs Yates.  *aThe Waterman.
  As 5 Oct.  *dEnd: +The Irish Fair=, as 31 Oct.  *cBenefit for the +British Lyi
ng-in-Hospital=, for Married Women, in +Brownlow-street=, +Long-acre=.  Receipts
: #165 (98.5.6; 0.0.0; 1.8.6; tickets: 65.6.0) (charge: #105).  *pcg The Merchan
t of Venice.  As 29 Oct., but Nerissa-Miss Ambrose; Solanio-Booth; Solarino-Davi
s.  *aLove a-la-Mode.  As 29 Oct., but Squire Groom-Lee Lewes.  *dEnd III: +The 
Pilgrim=, as 9 Oct.; End IV: +Pastoral Dance=, as 23 Nov.  *cReceipts: #170 12s.
 6d. (168.19.0; 1.13.6).  *p20 dl Semiramis.  As 16 Dec.  *aThe Rival Candidates
.  As 17 Dec.  *cBenefit for the Author [of mainpiece].  Receipts: #174 5s. (2nd
 account, after-money, tickets: none listed) (charge: #105).    *pcg All in the 
Wrong.  As 16 Oct., but Tippet-_; Marmalet-_.  *aHigh Life below Stairs.  As 30 
Nov.  *dAs 15 Oct.  *cBenefit for the +Middlesex Hospital=.  Receipts: #193 10s.
 (89.4; tickets: 104.6) (charge: #105).  Account-Book, 30 Dec.: Rec'd of Middles
ex Hospital in full for charge of house #15 16s.  *p21 dl Romeo and Juliet.  As 
10 Dec.  *aSelima and Azor.  As 5 Dec.  *sAs 12 Dec.  *cReceipts: #128 (92.13; 3
3.2; 2.5).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 13 Nov.  *aThe Country Wife.  As 16 Dec., but S
parkish-Lee Lewes; Harcourt-Ward; Dorilant-Whitefield; Alithea-Miss Ambrose.  *d
As 23 Nov.  *cReceipts: #257 7s. 6d. (256.4.0; 1.3.6).  *pking's Piramo e Tisbe.
  As 14 Dec.  *dEnd Overture: +Les Amans Heureux=, as 17 Dec.; End I: +La Force 
de l'Amour=, as 14 Dec.; End Opera: Grand +Serious Ballet=, as 17 Dec.  *mAs 14 
Dec.  *c[Opera in place of +La Fraschetana=, announced in +Public Advertiser=, 2
0 Dec.]  The last Opera till the 31st of December [but on that day no opera is a
nnounced].  *p23 dl The West Indian.  As 30 Oct. [+Epilogue= as 30 Oct.%  *aSeli
ma and Azor.  As 5 Dec.  *dAs 18 Dec.  *c[Mainpiece in place of +Semiramis=, ann
ounced on playbill of 21 Dec.]  $Mrs Yates= sent Word last Night that her Cold c
ontinued--she could not play in Semiramis to-night.  [Note added by $J. P. Kembl
e=: I have not yet found the rest of $Mr. Hopkins= Diary for the Year] (+Hopkins
 Diary=).  Receipts: #185 17s. 6d. (160.18.0; 24.2.6; 0.17.0).  *pcg Zenobia.  A
s 21 Nov.  *aTrue-Blue; or, The Press-Gang.  Principal Parts-Mattocks, Reinhold,
 Baker, Miss Dayes.  [Probable cast: Lieutenant Dreadnought-Mattocks; Careful-Re
inhold; True-Blue-Baker; Nancy-Miss Dayes.]  *aThe Country Wife.  As 21 Dec.  *d
In 2nd piece: Aldridge.  *cReceipts: #153 7s. (152.3.6; 1.3.6).  *p26 dl Macbeth
.  As 25 Nov.  *aA Christmas Tale.  As 4 Nov., but [The original% +Prologue=-Moo
dy.  *sAs 25 Nov., but +Gaudry, Mrs J _Smith, Mrs +Smith.  *c[Afterpiece: Prolog
ue by $David Garrick=.]  Receipts: #208 16s. 6d. (197.5.0; 10.18.6; 0.13.0).  *p
cg King Henry the Second; or, The Fall of Rosamond.  King Henry-Aickin; Clifford
-Hull; Prince Henry-Wroughton; Salisbury-Booth; Leicester-Fearon; Abbot-Clarke; 
Verulam-Thompson; Ethelinda-Mrs Poussin; Queen Eleanor (1st time)-Mrs Ward; Rosa
mond-Mrs Hartley.  *aHarlequin's Frolicks.  Harlequin-Lee Lewes; Prometheus-Maho
n; Pantaloon-Baker; Host (with a +song=)-Dunstall; Pierrot-Delpini (1st appearan
ce on the English stage); Maid-Mrs Whitefield; Colombine-Miss Valois.  *dEnd Aft
erpiece: +Rural Dance=-Bishop, Sga Tinte.  *cAfterpiece [1st time; P 2 (?), auth
or unknown]: An Alteration of +Prometheus=.  The Overture and Music composed by 
$Fisher=.  The Scenes painted by $Dall= and $Richards=.  Books of the Songs, Mas
que, &c. to be had at the Theatre.  Receipts: #208 3s. 6d. (205.14.6; 2.9.0).  *
p27 dl Romeo and Juliet.  As 10 Dec.  *aA Christmas Tale.  As 4 Nov., but +Prolo
gue=-Moody.  *sAs 12 Dec.  *cReceipts: #131 17s. 6d. (107.16.0; 22.13.0; 1.8.6).
  *pcg The Tempest.  Prospero-Hull; Ferdinand-Mattocks; Stephano-Wilson; Trincal
o-Quick; Caliban-Dunstall; Gonzalo-Fearon; Alonzo-L'Estrange; Sebastian-Robson; 
Antonio-Booth; Master-Thompson; Boatswain-Bates; Miranda-Miss Brown; Juno-Miss D
ayes; Ceres-Miss Valois; Ariel-Mrs Farrell.  *aHarlequin's Frolicks.  As 26 Dec.
, but Pierrot-Wewitzer; Servant-Stevens.  *dIn: Aldridge, Miss Valois, others [t
he dance was composed by $Aldridge= (+Morning Chronicle=, 26 Nov. 1779), and dan
ced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances]; In afterpiece: as 26 Dec
.  *cMainpiece: Never Performed There.  On account of the Additional Airs, contr
acted into 3 Acts.  [+Public Advertiser=, 30 Dec., notes that the principal omis
sion was the conspiracy of +Alonzo=r, +Antonio=r, &c., and that the Masque in Ac
t IV was removed to the concluding scene of the play.]  With New Dresses, Scener
y and Decorations.  The Music by $Purcell=, $John Christopher? Smith=, $Dr Arne=
 and $Fisher=.  [In afterpiece the playbill retains $Delpini= as +Pierrot=r, but
 "[$Hull=] made an apology for the illness of Delpini, telling the audience that
 the Signor had hurt himself so much the preceding evening in performing the par
t of Pierrot that he could not come out of his room; the managers therefore hope
d that the audience would accept of $Wewitzer= in the character" (+Morning Chron
icle=, 28 Dec.).  The playbill also adds Wewitzer as the +Gardener=r; this part 
was perhaps omitted.]  Paid $Enderby=, Oil Merchant, #258 17s.  Receipts: #245 1
8s. (244.15; 1.3).  *p28 dl Old City Manners.  Quicksilver-Dodd; Golding-Brereto
n; Sir Petronal Flash (1st time)-Farren; Security-Parsons; Captain Seagull (with
 a +song=)-Bannister; Fig-Norris; Bramble-Hurst; Scapethrift-Fawcett; Spendall-F
ollett; Wolf-Wrighten; Waterman-Wright; Holdfast-Griffiths; Constable-Carpenter;
 Drawer-R. Palmer; Coachman-Chaplin; Touchstone-Baddeley; Mildred-Miss Hopkins; 
Winifred-Miss Boyd; Mrs Touchstone-Mrs Johnston; Syndefy-Miss Platt; Gertrude (w
ith +songs=)-Mrs Wrighten.  *aSelima and Azor.  As 5 Dec.  *cMainpiece: Altered 
[by $Charlotte Lennox=] from [+Eastward Hoe=, by] $Ben Johnson=, and others [$Ge
orge Chapman= and $John Marston=].  Receipts: #128 7s. 6d. (100.11.0; 23.8.0; 4.
8.6).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 13 Nov.  *aThe Country Wife.  As 21 Dec.  *dAs 20 No
v.  *cReceipts: #262 18s. 6d. (262.7.6; 0.11.0).  *p30 dl Macbeth.  As 25 Nov.  
*aSelima and Azor.  As 5 Dec.  *sAs 26 Dec.  *c+Semiramis= [announced on playbil
l of 28 Dec.] is obliged to be deferred on Account of $Mrs Yates=' illness.  Rec
eipts: #130 5s. (107.7.0; 21.7.6; 1.10.6).  *pcg The Tempest.  As 27 Dec., but S
tephano-Woodward.  *aHarlequin's Frolicks.  As 26 Dec., but Host (with a +song=)
-Booth; Pierrot-Wewitzer; Maid-_.  *dAs 26 Dec.  *cReceipts: #224 13s. (223.10.6
; 1.2.6).  *p31 dl The Way of the World.  Mirabell-Smith; Fainall-Reddish; Sir W
ilful Witwou'd-Yates; Petulant-Baddeley; Waitwell-Parsons; Coachman-Griffiths; M
essenger-Nash; Servants-Carpenter, Everard; Witwou'd-King; Lady Wishfor't-Mrs Ho
pkins; Marwood-Miss Sherry; Foible-Miss Pope; Mrs Fainall-Mrs Greville; Mincing-
Miss Platt; Betty-Mrs Smith; Peg-Mrs W. Palmer; Millamant-Mrs Abington.  *aSelim
a and Azor.  As 5 Dec.  *cReceipts: #167 13s. (144.4; 22.15; 0.14).  *pcg The Te
mpest.  As 27 Dec.  *aHarlequin's Frolicks.  As 30 Dec.  *dAs 26 Dec.  *c$Reinho
ld= being seized with a severe Hoarseness, +Caractacus= [announced on playbill o
f 30 Dec.] is obliged to be deferred.  Receipts: #159 9s. 6d. (158.7.6; 1.2.0). 
 *p1777 1 1 dl Hamlet.  As 23 Oct. 1776.  *aHarlequin's Invasion.  Harlequin-Wri
ght; Mercury-Davies; Snip-Parsons; Simon-Moody; Gasconade-Baddeley; Corporal Bou
nce-Bransby; Abram-Waldron; Forge-Griffiths; Bogg-Messink; Taffy-Burton; Crib-Ev
erard; Jailor-Carpenter; Turnkey-R. Palmer; Justices-Wrighten, Follett, Norris, 
Nash, Marr; Falstaff-Gaudry; Slender-Baker; Old Woman-Mr Dodd; Mrs Snip-Mrs Brad
shaw; Sukey Chitterlin-Mrs Davies; Dolly Snip-Miss Pope; Vocal Parts-Fawcett, Le
gg, Kear, Brown, Chaplin, Mrs Scott, Miss Collett, Miss Abrams, Miss Boyd, Mrs L
ove, Mrs Booth, Mrs Pitt, Mrs Smith.  *c[Mainpiece in place of +The Orphan=, ann
ounced on playbill of 31 Dec. 1776.  +Public Advertiser= assigns the +Ghost=r to
 $Farren=.]  Afterpiece: With Additions and Alterations, New Music, Scenes [by $
Greenwood=, $Leroy= and $French Jun.=  (+Morning Post=, 4 Jan.)], Dresses, and D
ecorations.  Receipts: #175 1s. 6d. (137.1.0; 34.17.0; 3.3.6).  *pcg Love in a V
illage.  As 9 Oct. 1776, but Hawthorn (1st time)-Mahon; Eustace (1st time)-Robso
n.  *aHarlequin's Frolicks.  As 26 Dec. 1776, but Host (with a +song=)-Booth; Pi
errot-Wewitzer.  *dEnd II: +Mirth and Jollity=, as 15 Oct. 1776; In afterpiece: 
+Rural Dance=, as 26 Dec. 1776.  *cReceipts: #186 19s. (186.3.6; 0.15.6).  *p2 d
l The Way of the World.  As 31 Dec. 1776.  *aHarlequin's Invasion.  As 1 Jan.  *
dIn: As 24 Oct. 1776.  *cReceipts: #238 8s. (212.7; 23.4; 2.17).  *pcg The Refus
al; or, The Lady's Philosophy.  Sir Gilbert Wrangle-Macklin; Frankly-Lewis; Gran
ger-Mahon; Witling-Lee Lewes; Cook-Dunstall; Lady Wrangle-Mrs Green; Sophronia-M
rs Lessingham; Maid-Miss Ambrose; Charlotte-Miss Macklin.  *aHarlequin's Frolick
s.  As 1 Jan.  *dIV: +Minuet=-Mahon, Miss Macklin; In afterpiece: as 26 Dec. 177
6.  *cReceipts: #106 14s. 6d. (105.16.6; 0.18.0).  *p3 dl Semiramis.  As 16 Dec.
 1776.  *aHarlequin's Invasion.  As 1 Jan., but Bogg-_.  *cReceipts: #219 16s. (
203.11.6; 13.19.0; 2.5.6).  *pcg The Beggar's Opera.  Macheath-Mattocks; Peachum
-Wilson; Lockit-Dunstall; Filch-Wewitzer; Mat o' the Mint-Fox; Lucy-Miss Catley;
 Mrs Peachum-Mrs Pitt; Jenny Diver-Mrs Poussin; Mrs Coaxer-Mrs Whitefield; Diana
 Trapes-Mrs White; Polly-Miss Brown.  *aThe Country Wife.  As 21 Dec. 1776.  *dA
s 27 Sept. 1776.  *cReceipts: #219 5s. (218.10; 0.15).  *p4 dl The Tempest.  Pro
spero-Bensley; Stephano-Moody; Trincalo-Baddeley; Caliban-Bannister; [with% +son
gs=-Bannister; Gonzalez-Aickin; Alonzo-Bransby; Sebastian-Farren; Francisco-Norr
is; Boatswain-Carpenter; Antonio-Hurst; Master of the Ship-Wrighten; Ferdinand-V
ernon; Ariel-A Young Lady (A Scholar of $Linley=; 1st appearance upon any stage 
[$Miss Field=]); Miranda-A Young Lady (1st appearance upon any stage [$Mrs Cuyle
r=]); Chorus of Spirits-Gaudry, Legg, Fawcett, Kear, Carpenter, Chaplin, Holcrof
t, Follett, Mrs Scott, Miss Abrams, Miss Collett, Miss Jarratt, Miss Boyd, Mrs L
ove, Mrs Booth, Mrs Pitt, Mrs Smith.  *aHarlequin's Invasion.  As 3 Jan.  *dI: [
a% +Dance of Spirits= (composed by $Gallet=)-Mlle Dupre; III: [a% +Fantastic Dan
ce=-Grimaldi; [Both these dances, as here assigned, except on 14, 25 Apr. and 0 
May, were included in all subsequent performances.] End IV: +The Double Festival
=, as 7 Nov. 1776, but +Giorgi, +Blurton.  *cMainpiece: by $Shakespeare=, in 5 a
cts.  With New Music, Scenes, Dresses and Decorations.  +Public Advertiser=, 6 J
an.: +The Shipwreck=, which opened the Piece, was designed and executed under th
e Direction of $DeLoutherbourg=.  The new Airs and Chorusses are composed by $Li
nley Jun.=  The Musical Instrument (played behind the Scenes) is the Invention o
f $Merlin=.  +Morning Chronicle=, 6 Jan.: +Caliban= is by much the best performe
d character in the piece...  The dresses were rich, but to our amazement those o
f +Ferdinand=, +Sebastian=, &c. were in the Spanish taste.  [Ibid., 8 Jan., rema
rks that the entire omission of I. i is to be regretted.  $Miss Field= and $Mrs 
Cuyler= are identified by MS annotations on +Kemble playbill=.]  Receipts: #231 
9s. 6d. (211.19.0; 17.5.6; 2.5.0).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 13 Nov. 1776, but Anton
io-Robson [in place of $Reinhold=%.  *aHarlequin's Frolicks.  As 1 Jan.  *dAs 26
 Dec. 1776.  *cReceipts: #268 0s. 6d. (267.12.0; 0.8.6).  *pking's La Fraschetan
a.  As 5 Nov. 1776.  *dEnd I: +La Force de l'Amour=, as 14 Dec. 1776; End II: +G
rand Serious Ballet=, as 30 Nov. 1776; End Opera: +Les Amans Heureux=, as 17 Dec
. 1776, but Sga +Zuchelli.  *cThe new Serious Opera of +Germondo= [announced in 
+Public Advertiser=, 2 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred 'till This Day Se'nnight,
 on account of the Illness of a principal Performer.  *p6 dl The Tempest.  As 4 
Jan., but [Caliban's% +songs=-_.  *aHarlequin's Invasion.  As 3 Jan.  *dIn IV: +
The Double Festival=, as 4 Jan.  *cReceipts: #208 8s. 6d. (185.14.0; 15.3.6; 7.1
1.0).  *pcg The Beggar's Opera.  As 3 Jan., but Mat o' the Mint-Baker.  *aHarleq
uin's Frolicks.  As 1 Jan.  *dIn afterpiece: as 26 Dec. 1776.  *cReceipts: #184 
5s. 6d. (183.18.0; 0.7.6).  *p7 dl Semiramis.  As 16 Dec. 1776.  *aHarlequin's I
nvasion.  As 3 Jan.  *cReceipts: #227 2s. 6d. (208.17.0; 14.12.6; 3.13.0).  *pcg
 The Busy Body.  See 15 Oct. 1776.  *aComus.  As 7 Oct. 1776, but Pastoral Nymph
, Sabrina-Miss Brown; Bacchants-Miss Dayes, others.  *sIn afterpiece: +Nor on Be
ds of fading Flowers=-Mrs Farrell.  *c[The playbill announces +Caractacus= and +
Harlequin's Frolicks=, but "$Clarke= being suddenly taken extremely ill, Caracta
cus is obliged to be changed to +The Busy Body=.  +Marplot=r by $Woodward=.  Aft
er which, +Comus= [with full cast listed]" (printed slip attached to +BM playbil
l= 937. b. 4).]  Receipts: #151 0s. 6d. (149.8.0; 1.12.6).  *p8 dl Semiramis.  A
s 16 Dec. 1776.  *aThe Padlock.  Leander-Vernon; Don Diego-Bannister; Mungo-Fawc
ett; Ursula-Mrs Love; Leonora-Miss Abrams.  *cBenefit for the Author [of mainpie
ce].  Receipts: #276 12s. (126.15.0; 10.2.6; 2.17.0; Tickets: 136.17.6) (charge:
 #105).  *pcg Measure for Measure.  Duke-Lee (1st appearance in that character);
 Angelo-Hull; Escalus-Fearon; Claudio-Wroughton; Provost-L'Estrange; Friar Peter
-Davis; Thomas-Booth; Constable-Wewitzer; Clown-Dunstall; Abhorson-Bates; Barnar
dine-Jones; Lucio-Woodward; Mariana-Miss Leeson; Juletta-Mrs Whitefield; Francis
ca-Miss Green; Isabella-Mrs Jackson (1st appearance in that character).  *aComus
.  As 7 Jan.  *sAs 7 Jan.  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 5 years.  Receipts: #191
 15s. 6d. (188.15.6; 3.0.0).  *p9 dl The Way of the World.  As 31 Dec. 1776, but
 Mrs Fainall (1st time)-Miss Hopkins.  *aHarlequin's Invasion.  As 1 Jan.  *dAs 
12 Dec. 1776.  *c[For the dance the playbill lists +The Savage Hunters=, but "La
st night $Sga Ricci= being suddenly taken ill...$Gallet= and $Mlle Dupre= undert
ook at a short notice to dance +The Triumph of Love=" (+Morning Post=, 10 Jan.).
] Receipts: #217 10s. 6d. (190.14.0; 25.7.0; 1.9.6).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 13 No
v. 1776.  *aHarlequin's Frolicks.  As 26 Dec. 1776, but Host (with a +song=)-Boo
th.  *dAs 26 Dec. 1776.  *c[The playbill lists this as $Delpini='s 2nd appearanc
e (see 26 and 27 Dec. 1776)].  Receipts: #258 3s. 6d. (257.16.0; 0.7.6).  *p10 d
l The Tempest.  As 6 Jan.  *aHarlequin's Invasion.  As 1 Jan., but Snip-Burton; 
Taffy-Holcroft.  *dIV: +The Triumph of Love=, as 7 Nov. 1776.  *cReceipts: #244 
(227.18; 14.12; 1.10).  *pcg Caractacus.  As 6 Dec. 1776.  *aHarlequin's Frolick
s.  As 9 Jan.  *dEnd: +The Merry Sailors=, as 6 Nov. 1776; In afterpiece: +Rural
 Dance=, as 26 Dec. 1776.  *cPaid $Harris= for his Trouble and Expenses in half 
a year's superintendence of the Business of the Theatre #250.  Receipts: #181 11
s. 6d. (181.2.0; 0.9.6).  *p11 dl Semiramis.  As 16 Dec. 1776.  *aHarlequin's In
vasion.  As 10 Jan.  *cReceipts: #169 16s. (150.16.0; 15.4.6; 3.15.6).  *pcg The
 Jovial Crew.  As 25 Oct. 1776, but 1st Beggar Woman-Miss Green.  *aHarlequin's 
Frolicks.  As 9 Jan.  *dAs 26 Dec. 1776.  *cReceipts: #192 14s. 6d. (189.8.0; 3.
6.6).  *pking's La Fraschetana.  As 5 Nov. 1776.  *dEnd I: +La Force de l'Amour=
, as 14 Dec. 1776; End II: +Grand Serious Ballet=, as 17 Dec. 1776[, +Passacaile
=-_, +Chaconne=-_%; End Opera: +Les Amans Heureux=, as 4 Jan.  *p13 dl The Tempe
st.  As 6 Jan.  *aHarlequin's Invasion.  As 10 Jan., but Snip-Yates (1st appeara
nce in that character these 10 years).  *dIn IV: +The Triumph of Love=, as 7 Nov
. 1776.  *cReceipts: #224 19s. (226.18; 16.2; 1.9).  *pcg The Tempest.  As 30 De
c. 1776, but Caliban (1st time)-Mahon; Master-_; Boatswain-_.  *aThe Golden Pipp
in.  As 15 Oct. 1776, but Venus-Miss Brown.  *c[This was $Woodward='s last appea
rance on the stage.  He died on 17 Apr. 1777.]  Receipts: #224 16s. (222.4.6; 2.
11.6).  *p14 dl Love for Love.  As 29 Nov. 1776.  *aHarlequin's Invasion.  As 1 
Jan., but Old Woman-Mr Davies [i.e. doubled +Mercury=r].  *c+Selima and Azor= [a
nnounced on playbill of 13 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred on Account of $Dodd='
s Illness.  Paid Prompter's Bill #23 17s. 6d.  Receipts: #233 13s. (210.2; 22.8;
 1.3).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 13 Nov. 1776.  *aHarlequin's Frolicks.  As 9 Jan.  
*dAs 26 Dec. 1776.  *cReceipts: #272 2s. 6d. (271.0.6; 1.2.0).  *p15 dl Semirami
s.  As 16 Dec. 1776.  *aHarlequin's Invasion.  As 14 Jan.  *cReceipts: #201 17s.
 6d. (181.10.0; 15.15.0; 4.12.6).  *pcg The Merchant of Venice.  As 29 Oct. 1776
, but Solanio-Booth; Solarino-Davis.  *aLove a-la-Mode.  As 19 Dec. 1776.  *dEnd
 III: +Pastoral Dance=, as 23 Nov. 1776; End IV: +Mirth and Jollity=, as 15 Oct.
 1776.  *cReceipts: #208 2s. 6d. (207.10.6; 0.12.0).  *p16 dl The Rivals.  Sir A
nthony Absolute-King; Acres-Dodd; Capt. Absolute-Palmer; Sir Lucius O'Trigger-Mo
ody; David-Parsons; Fag-Baddeley; Coachman-Carpenter; Faulkland-Reddish; Mrs Mal
aprop-Mrs Hopkins; Julia-Mrs Baddeley; Lucy-Mrs Wrighten; Lydia Languish-Mrs Abi
ngton; The Original +Epilogue=-Mrs Abington.  *aHarlequin's Invasion.  As 14 Jan
.  *cMainpiece: Never acted here.  [+Epilogue= by $Richard Brinsley Sheridan=.] 
 Receipts: #235 17s. (216.14.0; 17.19.6; 1.3.6).  *pcg Caractacus.  As 6 Dec. 17
76.  *aHarlequin's Frolicks.  As 9 Jan.  *dAs 26 Dec. 1776.  *cReceipts: #190 (1
89.11; 0.9).  *p17 dl The Rivals.  As 16 Jan. [+Epilogue= as 16 Jan.%  *aSelima 
and Azor.  As 5 Dec. 1776.  *dEnd II: +The Double Festival=, as 4 Jan., but Sga 
_Ricci, Mrs +Sutton.  *cReceipts: #215 7s. 6d. (184.17.0; 29.15.6; 0.15.0).  *pc
g Merope.  Dorilas-A Young Gentleman (1st appearance [$Peile=]); Poliphontes-Hul
l; Narbas-Clarke; Euricles-Whitefield; Erox-L'Estrange; High Priest-Fearon; Isme
ne-Miss Leeson; Merope-Mrs Jackson.  *aComus.  As 7 Jan., but Bacchants-Miss +Am
brose.  *cMainpiece: Never acted there.  In Act III +The Procession and Ceremony
 at the Tomb of Cresphontes=v.  [$Peile= is identified on playbill of 16 Apr. 17
77.]  Receipts: #247 17s. 6d. (246.16.6; 1.1.0).  *pking's La Fraschetana.  As 5
 Nov. 1776.  *dEnd I: +La Force de l'Amour=, as 14 Dec. 1776; End II: +Grand Ser
ious Ballet=, as 2 Nov. 1776, but Mons _Simonet, +Vallouy@le@cadet; End Opera: +
Les Amans Heureux=, as 4 Jan.  *p18 dl The Tempest.  As 6 Jan., but Gonzalez-Wri
ghten; Boatswain-_; Antonio-_; Master of the Ship-_.  *aHarlequin's Invasion.  A
s 14 Jan.  *dIV: As 17 Jan.  *cReceipts: #229 9s. 6d. (215.9.0; 13.2.6; 0.18.0).
  *pcg Merope.  As 17 Jan.  *aThe Golden Pippin.  As 13 Jan.  *dAs 7 Nov. 1776. 
 *sIn the Procession and Ceremony: Vocal Parts-Reinhold, others.  *c[Mainpiece i
n place of +Artaxerxes=, announced on playbill of 17 Jan.]  Receipts: #181 16s. 
6d. (179.18.0; 1.18.6).  *p20 dl Semiramis.  As 16 Dec. 1776.  *aHarlequin's Inv
asion.  As 14 Jan.  *cBenefit for the Author [of mainpiece].  Paid $Palmer= of +
Bath=, Spermacetti Candles #259 16s.; $Stacy=, Colourman #106.  Receipts: #175 3
s. 6d. (159.10.0; 15.13.6; 0.0.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #005).  *pcg Me
rope.  As 17 Jan.  *aComus.  As 17 Jan.  *sAs 18 Jan.  *cReceipts: #209 2s. 6d. 
(206.3.0; 2.19.6).  *p21 dl The Rivals.  As 16 Jan.  [+Epilogue= as 16 Jan.%  *a
Selima and Azor.  As 5 Dec. 1776.  *cReceipts: #235 2s. (212.9; 21.3; 1.10).  *p
cg The Duenna.  As 13 Nov. 1776.  *aHarlequin's Frolicks.  As 9 Jan.  *dAfterpie
ce conclude: +Rural Dance=-Harris, Miss Matthews.  *cReceipts: #273 14s. 6d. (27
3.8.6; 0.6.0).    *pking's Germondo.  [Principal Characters by Rauzzini, Trebbi,
 Savoi, Micheli, Sga Marianna Farnese, Sga Cecilia Davies Inglesina.  [Cast from
 libretto ($T. Cadell=. 1776):% Germondo-Rauzzini; Alarico-Trebbi; Cratero-Savoi
; Lisimaco-Micheli; Alvida-Sga Farnese; Rosomonda-Sga Cecilia Davies.  *dEnd I: 
+La Force de l'Amour=, as 14 Dec. 1776; End II: +Les Amans Heureux=, as 4 Jan.; 
End Opera: [a new grand Serious Ballet,% +L'Epouse Persane=-Mons and Mme Simonet
, Vallouy, Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Vallouy@le@cadet.  *cA New Serious Opera [1st ti
me; SER 3].  The Poetry by $Goldoni=; the Music entirely new by $Tommaso Tragett
a= [recte $Traetta=].  +Public Advertiser=, 27 Jan.: "A senseless, impertinent O
pera:...with Music, in point of Dullness, extremely well suited to the Book."  [
This review notes that the new scenery was painted by $Colomba=.]  *p22 dl Merop
e.  Dorilas-A Young Gentleman (1st appearance [$Vincent=]); Poliphontes-Palmer; 
Narbas-Packer; Euricles-Aickin; Erox-Hurst; High Priest-Bransby; Ismene-Miss Hop
kins; Merope-Miss Younge.  *aHarlequin's Invasion.  As 14 Jan.  *cMainpiece: Not
 acted these 3 years.  With a Procession and Sacrifice.[$Vincent= is identified 
by a MS annotation on +Kemble playbill=.]  Receipts: #205 4s. (174.11.0; 28.0.6;
 2.12.6).  *pcg She Stoops to Conquer.  As 25 Sept. 1776.  *aComus.  As 17 Jan. 
 *dEnd II: as 15 Oct. 1776; End: +The Villagers=-Aldridge, Master Langrish, Mast
er Jackson, Miss Valois.  *sAs 7 Jan.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  Recei
pts: #280 2s. 6d. (278.18.0; 1.4.6).  *p23 dl The Tempest.  As 6 Jan., but Boats
wain-_; Antonio-_; Master of the Ship-_.  *aHarlequin's Invasion.  As 14 Jan.  *
dAs 18 Jan.  *cReceipts: #211 10s. 6d. (194.4.0; 15.19.0; 1.7.6).  *pcg Caractac
us.  As 6 Dec. 1776.  *aHarlequin's Frolicks.  As 9 Jan.  *dAs 21 Jan.  *cReceip
ts: #174 2s. 6d. (173.0.0; 1.2.6).  *p24 dl The Way of the World.  As 9 Jan.  *a
Harlequin's Invasion.  As 14 Jan.  *dIn: +The Triumph of Love=, as 7 Nov. 1776. 
 *cReceipts: #160 0s. 6d. (132.1.0; 25.18.0; 2.1.6).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 13 No
v. 1776.  *aHarlequin's Frolicks.  As 9 Jan.  *dAs 21 Jan.  *cReceipts: #239 6s.
 (238.13.6; 0.12.6).  *p25 dl The Tempest.  As 23 Jan.  *aA Christmas Tale.  As 
22 Oct. 1776.  *dAs 18 Jan.  *c+Merope= [announced on playbill of 24 Jan.] is ob
liged to be deferred on Account of $Palmer='s Illness.  Receipts: #186 7s. (150.
12; 34.6; 1.9).  *pcg Artaxerxes.  Arbaces-Leoni; Artabanes-Reinhold; Rimenes-Ma
hon; Artaxerxes-Mrs Farrell; [with a% new +air=-Mrs Farrell (1st appearance in t
his opera); Semira-Miss Dayes; Mandane-Miss Catley (1st appearance in that chara
cter these 3 years).  *aThe Old Maid.  Clerimont-Wroughton; Capt. Cape-Dunstall;
 Harlow-Whitefield; Mrs Harlow-Mrs Lessingham; Miss Harlow-Mrs Green.  *dEnd: +T
he Villagers=, as 22 Jan.  *cMainpiece: The orchestra will be considerably augme
nted.  [+Public Advertiser=, 24 Jan.: $Mrs Farrell='s new air, with recitative, 
composed by $Dr Arne=.]  Afterpiece: Not acted these 7 years.  Receipts: #273 4s
. (272.2.6; 1.1.6).  *pking's Germondo.  As 21 Jan.  *dAs 21 Jan.  *p27 dl Love 
for Love.  As 29 Nov. 1776.  *aSelima and Azor.  As 5 Dec. 1776.  *dAs 24 Jan.  
*c+The Rivals= [announced on playbill of 25 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred on A
ccount of $Palmer='s Illness.  Receipts: #153 19s. 6d. (133.14.0; 18.19.0; 1.6.6
).  *pcg The Beggar's Opera.  As 6 Jan.  *aHarlequin's Frolicks.  As 9 Jan.  *dA
s 21 Jan.  *c+The Tempest= [announced on playbill of 25 Jan.] is obliged to be p
ostponed.  [Afterpiece in place of +The Golden Pippin=, announced as above.]  Re
ceipts: #197 8s. (196.16; 0.12).  *p28 dl The Jealous Wife.  Oakly-Smith; Lord T
rinket-Dodd; Sir Harry Beagle-Barrett (1st appearance on this stage); Charles (1
st time)-Farren; Russet-Dunstall (of +cg=); Captain O'Cutter-Moody; Paris-Waldro
n; Tom-Carpenter; William-Griffiths; John-Everard; Robert-Norris; Major Oakly-Ya
tes; Lady Freelove-Mrs Hopkins; Harriet-Miss P. Hopkins; Toilet-Miss Platt; Mrs 
Oakly-Miss Younge.  *aA Christmas Tale.  As 4 Nov. 1776.  *dIn: as 17 Jan.  *c[$
Barrett= was from the +Richmond theatre=.]Receipts: #154 8s. 6d. (126.5.0; 25.9.
0; 2.14.6).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 13 Nov. 1776.  *aThe Country Wife.  As 21 Dec.
 1776.  *dAs 25 Jan.  *cReceipts: #256 4s. (255.6.6; 0.17.6).  *pking's La Frasc
hetana.  As 5 Nov. 1776.  *dAs 17 Jan.  *p29 dl The Jealous Wife.  As 28 Jan., b
ut Charles-Brereton.  *aHarlequin's Invasion.  As 14 Jan., but Corporal Bounce-C
arpenter [i.e. doubled +Jailor=r].  *dAs 28 Jan.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesti
es=.  Receipts: #263 6s. (249.5.0; 12.7.6; 1.13.6).  *pcg Caractacus.  As 6 Dec.
 1776.  *aThe Golden Pippin.  As 13 Jan.  *cReceipts: #224 18s. 6d. (223.14.6; 1
.4.0).  *p31 dl The Tempest.  As 6 Jan., but Alonzo-Wrighten; Boatswain-_; Anton
io-_; Master of the Ship-_.  *aHarlequin's Invasion.  See 14 Jan.  *dAs 18 Jan. 
 *c[As afterpiece the playbill announces +Selima and Azor=, but "it could not be
 performed last Night on Account of $Mrs Baddeley='s sudden Illness" (+Public Ad
vertiser=, 1 Feb.).  Its substitute is listed in the Account-Book.]  Receipts: #
244 12s. (220.14.0; 21.4.6; 2.13.6).  *pcg Artaxerxes.  As 25 Jan., but Mandane-
Miss Brown (1st appearance in that character).  *aThe Country Wife.  As 21 Dec. 
1776.  *dAs 25 Jan.  *c$Mrs Green= being taken ill, +The Old Maid= [announced on
 playbill of 29 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred.  Receipts: #233 11s. (232.2.6; 
1.8.6).  *p2 1 dl Semiramis.  As 16 Dec. 1776, but +Prologue=-_; +Epilogue=-_[an
d thereafter].  *aThe Hotel.  As 21 Nov. 1776, but +Prologue=-_.  *cReceipts: #1
30 18s. (109.12.0; 16.14.6; 4.11.6).  *pcg Sir Thomas Overbury.  [Principal Char
acters by Lewis, Wroughton. Hull, Whitefield, Thompson, Mrs Jackson, Miss Leeson
, Mrs Hartley.  [Cast from text ($Francis Newbery=, 1777):% Sir Thomas Overbury-
Lewis; Earl of Somerset-Wroughton; Earl of Northampton-Hull; Sir Gervas Elvis-Wh
itfield; Officer-Thompson; Servant-Stevens; Countess of Somerset-Mrs Jackson; Cl
eora-Miss Leeson; Isabella-Mrs Hartley; +Prologue=-Hull; +Epilogue=-Mrs Hartley.
  [These were spoken. as here assigned, at the first 9 performances only (see 3 
May).]  *aHigh Life below Stairs.  As 30 Nov. 1776.  *dAs 15 Oct. 1776.  *cMainp
iece [1st time, i.e. as an alteration of $Richard Savage='s play; T 5, by $Willi
am Woodfall=.  Prologue by $Richard Brinsley Sheridan=.  Epilogue by $Richard Cu
mberland= (see text)]: with New Scenes and Dresses.  +Public Advertiser=, 13 Feb
. 1777: +Sir Thomas Overbury= (the Publication of which was unavoidably postpone
d) will be ready this Morning, at Ten o'Clock (1s. 6d.).  Receipts: #212 4s. 6d.
 (210.7.6; 1.17.0).  *pking's Germondo.  As 21 Jan.  *dEnd I: +Les Amans Heureux
=, as 4 Jan.; End II: +La Force de l'Amour=, as 14 Dec. 1776; End Opera: +L'Epou
se Persane=, as 21 Jan.  *p3 dl Hamlet.  As 23 Oct. 1776, but Hamlet-Lacy (1st a
ppearance in that character); Ghost-Reddish (1st appearance in that character); 
Horatio (1st time)-Barrett.  *aBon Ton.  As 9 Oct. 1776.  *cReceipts: #155 0s. 6
d. (127.4.0; 25.16.0; 2.0.6) (orders: #61 13s.).  *pcg Sir Thomas Overbury.  As 
1 Feb.  *aComus.  As 17 Jan.  *cReceipts: #230 1s. 6d. (228.8.0; 1.13.6).  *p4 d
l The Tempest.  As 31 Jan.  *aA Christmas Tale.  As 4 Nov. 1776.  *dAs 10 Jan.  
*cReceipts: #190 (164.12; 23.5; 2.3).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 13 Nov. 1776.  *aThe
 Country Wife.  As 21 Dec. 1776.  *dAs 20 Nov. 1776.  *cReceipts: #273 10s. 6d. 
(273.0.6; 0.10.0).  *pking's Il Geloso in Cimento.  Principal Characters-Trebbi,
 Fochetti, Savoi, Micheli, Sga Prudom, Sga Luiggia Farnese, Sga Sestini.  [Libre
tto (+Venice=, 1774) lists the parts: +Fabio=r , +Perichetto=r , +Rosbif=r , +Pa
terio=r , +Flavia=r , +Modesta=r , +Vittoria=r .]  *dEnd I: +La Force de l'Amour
=, as 14 Dec. 1776; End II: [a new% +Comic Ballet=-Vallouy, Mme Simonet, Sg and 
Sga Zuchelli, Vallouy@le@cadet; End Opera: [a new% +Masquerade Dance=-; [in whic
h:% a +Provencal=-Vallouy@le@cadet; a +Scaramouch=-Sg and Sga Zuchelli; +Minuet=
-Mons and Mme Simonet; to conclude with: +Country Dance=-all the Characters.  *c
A new Comic Opera; the Music by $Anfossi= [with additions by $Tommaso Giordani=]
; under the Direction of $Giardini=.  [not in +Larpent MS=.]  *p5 dl Semiramis. 
 As 16 Dec. 1776.  *aHarlequin's Invasion.  As 14 Jan.  *c[Mainpiece in place of
 +Hamlet=, announced on playbill of 4 Feb.]  Receipts: #158 18s. (128.2; 22.14; 
8.2).  *pcg The West Indian.  Belcour-Lewis; Stockwell-Clarke; Capt. Dudley-Hull
; Charles-Wroughton; Major O'Flaherty-Aickin; Fulmer-Dunstall; Varland-Quick; La
dy Rusport-Mrs Green; Louisa-Mrs Bulkley; Mrs Fulmer-Mrs Booth; Charlotte Ruspor
t-Mrs Mattocks.  *aCross Purposes.  As 27 Sept. 1776.  *dEnd II: As 23 Nov. 1776
; End: +The Villagers=, as 22 Jan.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  [Mainpie
ce in place of +Sir Thomas Overbury=; afterpiece of +Comus=, both announced on p
laybill of 4 Feb.]  Receipts: #268 2s. (267.13; 0.9).  *p6 dl Love for Love.  As
 29 Nov. 1776.  *aSelima and Azor.  As 5 Dec. 1776.  *cReceipts: #186 (150.14; 3
2.5; 3.1).  *pcg Sir Thomas Overbury.  As 1 Feb., but Cleora-Mrs Whitefield [in 
place of $Miss Leeson=%.  *aComus.  As 17 Jan.  *dAs 23 Nov. 1776.  *sAs 7 Jan. 
 *c[In mainpiece the playbill retains $Miss Leeson=, but she "being suddenly ind
isposed, $Mrs Whitefield= yesterday, at very short notice, undertook the part of
 +Cleora=r" (+Morning Chronicle=, 7 Feb.).]  Paid $Woodfall= on acct. of his Two
 [Benefit] Nights #150 [and see 20 Feb.].  Receipts: #233 17s. (230.14; 3.3).  *
p7 dl The Rivals.  As 16 Jan., but Capt. Absolute-Smith (1st appearance in that 
character); +The Original Epilogue=-_.  *aSelima and Azor.  As 5 Dec. 1776.  *dA
s 2 Jan.  *cPaid +Hewetson & Co.=, Lacemen. #140 16s. 6d.  Receipts: #210 11s. 6
d. (185.13.0; 24.18.6; 0.0.0).  *pcg Caractacus.  As 6 Dec. 1776.  *aThe Golden 
Pippin.  As 13 Jan.  *cReceipts: #187 11s. 6d. (185.17.6; 1.14.0).  *p8 dl Hamle
t.  As 3 Feb., but Bernardo-Chaplin.  *aA Christmas Tale.  As 4 Nov. 1776.  *cRe
ceipts: #107 8s. (105.10.6; 0.0.0; 1.17.6).  *pcg Sir Thomas Overbury.  As 6 Feb
.[, but $Mrs Whitefield='s name listed in playbill.%  *aThe Jovial Crew.   As 25
 Oct., but Randal-_; Martin-_; Patrico-_; Beggars-_; Beggar Women-_.  *c[Afterpi
ece: In 3 acts, "with the Dialogue contracted, and the Airs least approved of le
ft out" [(+Public Advertiser=, 7 Feb.).]  Receipts: #233 5s. (231.8.6; 1.16.6). 
 *pking's Germondo.  As 21 Jan.  *dAs 1 Feb.  *p10 dl The Maid of the Oaks.  As 
7 Nov. 1776.  *aBon Ton.  As 9 Oct. 1776.  *dIn II: +The Double Festival=-Gallet
, Helme, Giorgi, Blurton, Sga Crespi, Sga Vidini, Mrs Sutton, Sga Ricci, Mlle Du
pre; In IV: +The Triumph of Love=, as 7 Nov. 1776.  *sIn: +songs=-Tenducci (1st 
appearance in this kingdom these 12 years).  *c[+Public Advertiser=, 11 Feb. pri
nts the text of the first of $Tenducci='s two songs, +Lo! a stranger now before 
you=.]  Receipts: #217 16s. (200.19.0; 15.17.6; 0.19.6).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 1
3 Nov. 1776.  *aThe Country Wife.  As 21 Dec. 1776, but The Country Wife-[read b
y%Miss Brown.  *c[The playbill retains $Mrs Wilson= as The Country Wife, but "La
st night Mrs Wilson was taken suddenly ill upon the stage at +Covent-garden thea
tre=, and fainted away, in consequence of which $Miss Brown= read her part in +T
he Country Wife=" (+Morning Post=, 11 Feb.).]  Receipts: #246 12s. 6d. (246.1.0;
 0.11.6).  *p11 dl The Old Batchelor.  As 20 Nov. 1776, but Barnaby-Burton.  *aS
elima and Azor.  As 5 Dec. 1776.  *dAs 2 Jan.  *cReceipts: #168 5s. (141.2; 25.1
2; 1.11).  *pcg Artaxerxes.  As 25 Jan., but new +air=-_.  *aThe Old Maid.  As 2
5 Jan.  *dAs 23 Nov. 1776.  *cReceipts: #180 5s. (179.14.6; 0.10.6).  *phay King
 Henry IV; with the Humours of Sir John Falstaff.  Falstaff-Johnson; King Henry-
A Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified]); Prince of Wales-Frodsh
am; Worcester-Comerford; Northumberland-Kenny; Hotspur-West (1st appearance in t
hat character); Hostess Quickly-Mrs Fowler; Lady Percy-Mrs West (1st appearance 
in Town); Occasional +Prologue=[, written by a gentleman eminent in the Republic
 of Letters,%-West.  *aThe Deuce is in Him.  Prattle-Comerford; Emily-A Young La
dy (1st appearance [unidentified]).  *eEnd: +Imitations=-Gentleman [unidentified
].  *cBy authority [of the +Lord Chamberlain=].  At the Desire of the most noble
 +Order of Bucks=.  Benefit for $West= and $Johnson=.  Tickets to be had of West
 at the +Black Lion=, +Russel-street=; of Johnson at the +Golden-cross=, +Charin
g-cross=.  Tickets delivered by $Comerford= will be receiv'd.  Doors to be opene
d at 5:00.  To be begin exactly at 6:30.  [$Mrs West= was from the +China Hall=,
 +Rotherhithe=.  Author of Prologue unknown.]  *pking's Il Geloso in Cimento.  A
s 4 Feb.  *dAs 4 Feb.  *p12 none +Ash Wednesday=.  *p13 dl The Maid of the Oaks.
  As 7 Nov. 1776.  *aHarlequin's Invasion.  As 14 Jan.  *dIn II: +The Double Fes
tival=, as 10 Feb., but +Slingsby; In V: +The Triumph of Love=, as 7 Nov. 1776. 
 *sAs 10 Feb.  *c[+Public Advertiser=, 14 Feb.. refers to a third song sung by $
Tenducci=: an +air= from +Artaxerxes=.]  Receipts: #202 13s. 6d. (184.19.0; 17.0
.6; 0.14.0).  *pcg The Tempest.  As 27 Dec. 1776, but Caliban-Mahon; Master-_; B
oatswain-_.  *aThe Jovial Crew.  As 8 Feb., but Springlove-Whitefield.  *c$Mrs H
artley= being taken ill, +Sir Thomas Overbury= [announced on playbill of 11 Feb.
] is obliged to be deferred till Monday.  Receipts: #167 6s. (164.10.6; 2.15.6).
  *p14 dl Alexander's Feast.  Principal Vocal Parts-Norris, Champness, Miss Linl
ey, Miss M. Linley, Miss Draper.  *aThe Coronation Anthems.  Principal Vocal Par
ts-Norris, Champness, Miss Linley, Miss M. Linley, Miss Draper.  *mEnd Part I: +
concerto= on the organ-Stanley; End Part II: +concerto= on the violin-Linley Jun
.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  Tickets to be had and Places for the Boxe
s to be taken of $Fosbrook= at the Stage Door of the Theatre at Half a Guinea ea
ch.  Pit 5s. 1st Gallery 3s. 6d. 2nd Gallery 2s.  The Doors to be opened at 5:30
.  To begin at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season].  Those ladies who have ha
d Boxes for the Oratorios, and intend continuing them, are humbly requested to g
ive notice to Fosbrook.  *pcg Judas Maccabaeus.  Principal Vocal Parts-Tenducci 
(1st appearance at that theatre these 8 years), Saville, Reinhold, Miss Storace,
 Miss Harrop (1st public appearance).  *mEnd of Part I: +concerto= on the violon
cello-Cervetto; End of Part II: +concerto= on the violin-Lamotte.  *cBoxes 10s. 
6d. Pit 5s. 1st Gallery 3s. 6d. 2nd Gallery 2s.  Places for the Boxes to be take
n of $Sarjant= (only) at the Stage Door.  Books of the Oratorios to be had at th
e Theatre.  The Doors to be opened at 5:30.  To begin at 6:30 [same throughout o
ratorio season.  The date of $Tenducci='s re-appearance in +London= seems to hav
e been a matter of some uncertainty (see +dl=, 10 Feb.)].  *p15 dl The Rivals.  
As 7 Feb.  *aSelima and Azor.  As 5 Dec. 1776, but Lesbia-Miss Abrams.  *dIn: +T
he Double Festival=, as 13 Feb.  *cReceipts: #235 15s. (218.11.0; 16.16.6; 0.7.6
).  *pcg The Merchant of Venice.  As 15 Jan.  *aLove a-la-Mode.  As 19 Dec. 1776
.  *dEnd III: [a new comic dance,% +The Shepherd's Wedding=-Harris, Miss Matthew
s; End IV: As 23 Nov. 1776.  *cReceipts: #210 15s. (208.19; 1.16).  *pking's Ger
mondo.  As 21 Jan.  *dAs 1 Feb.  *p17 dl Alexander the Great; or, The Rival Quee
ns.  Alexander-Lacy; Cassander-Farren; Lysimachus-Brereton; Hephestian-Davies; P
olyperchon-Bransby; Thessalus-Wright; Perdiccas-Chaplin; Eumenes-Norris; Aristan
der-Wrighten; Slave-R. Palmer; Clytus-Hurst; Roxana-Mrs Melmoth; Parisatis-Miss 
Hopkins; Sisigambis-Mrs Johnston; Statira-Mrs Robinson (1st appearance in that c
haracter).  *aSelima and Azor.  As 15 Feb.  *cMainpiece: With the +Grand Triumph
al Entry=.  Receipts: #180 5s. (163.14.0; 15.16.6; 0.14.6).  *pcg Sir Thomas Ove
rbury.  As 8 Feb.  *aThe Jovial Crew.  As 13 Feb.  *dEnd: +The Shepherd's Weddin
g=, as 15 Feb.  *cReceipts: #229 19s. 6d. (227.15.0; 2.4.6).  *p18 dl The Tempes
t.  As 23 Jan.  *aBon Ton.  As 11 Nov. 1776.  *dIn IV: +The Double Festival=, as
 13 Feb.  *cReceipts: #159 7s. (133.1.0; 24.5.6; 2.0.6).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 1
3 Nov. 1776.  *aThree Weeks after Marriage.  As 25 Oct. 1776.  *dEnd: [a new% +H
unting Dance=-Bishop, Sga Tinte.  *cReceipts: #258 10s. (257.5.6; 1.4.6).  *pkin
g's Il Geloso in Cimento.  As 4 Feb.  *dAs 4 Feb.  *p19 dl The Messiah; Alexande
r's Feast.  As 14 Feb.  *mAs 14 Feb.  *pcg The Messiah; Judas Maccabaeus.  As 14
 Feb.  *mEnd Part I: a +duetto= on the tenor and violin-Stamitz, Lamotte; End Pa
rt II: +concerto= on the violin, as 14 Feb.  *p20 dl The Maid of the Oaks.  As 7
 Nov. 1776.  *aThe Author.  Cadwallader-Bannister; Vamp-Moody; Governor Cape-Bra
nsby; Young Cape-Aickin; Sprightly-Packer; Poet-Waldron; Robert-Wrighten; Printe
r's Devil-Burton; Arabella-Miss Platt; Mrs Cadwallader-Miss Pope.  *dAs 13 Feb. 
 *sFete Champetre, as 7 Nov. 1776, but _Vernon, Mrs _Scott; +songs=[-Tenducci%, 
as 10 Feb.  *cReceipts: #165 19s. (143.4; 19.7; 3.8).  *pcg Sir Thomas Overbury.
  As 8 Feb.  *aComus.  As 17 Jan.  *sAs 7 Jan.  *cPaid $Woodfall= in full for hi
s 2 nights #150 [see 6 Feb.].  Receipts: #226 7s. 6d. (223.6.0; 3.1.6).  *p21 dl
 Judas Maccabaeus; Alexander's Feast.  As 14 Feb., but Principal Vocal Parts-+Ed
wards (1st appearance in public).  *mAs 14 Feb.  *pcg Samson; Judas Maccabaeus. 
 As 14 Feb.  *mAs 14 Feb.  *p22 dl The Rivals.  As 7 Feb.  *aSelima and Azor.  A
s 15 Feb.  *dAs 24 Jan.  *cReceipts: #198 5s. 6d. (165.1.0; 31.14.0; 1.10.6).  *
pcg Know Your Own Mind.  [Principal Characters by Lewis, Wroughton, Aickin, Whit
efield, Fearon, Booth, Wewitzer, Thompson, Lee Lewes, Mrs Hartley, Mrs Jackson, 
Miss Dayes, Miss Ambrose, Mrs Mattocks.  [Cast from text ($T. Becket=, 1778):% M
illamour-Lewis; Melvil-Wroughton; Bygrove-Aickin; Sir Harry Lovewit [in all subs
equent +cg= playbills until 1800: +Sir Harry Lizard=r]-Whitefield; Sir John Mill
amour-Fearon; Captain Bygrove-Booth; Charles-Wewitzer; Dashwould-Lee Lewes; Miss
 Neville-Mrs Hartley; Mrs Bromley-Mrs Jackson; Lady Jane-Miss Dayes; Madam La Ro
uge-Miss Ambrose; Lady Bell-Mrs Mattocks; Thompson; New +Prologue=-Lewis; New +E
pilogue=-Mrs Mattocks.  [These were spoken, as here assigned, at the first 9 per
formances (see 18 Mar.) and on 30 Apr. only.]  *aThe Mock Doctor.  As 23 Sept. 1
776.  *dAs 23 Nov. 1776.  *cMainpiece [1st time; C 5, by $Arthur Murphy=, based 
on +L'Irresolu=, by $Philippe Nericault=, dit $Destouches=.  Prologue by the aut
hor.  Epilogue by $David Garrick= (see text)]: A new Scene and New Dresses.  +Pu
blic Advertiser=, 2 May 1778: This Day is published +Know Your Own Mind= (1s 6d.
).  Receipts: #246 7s. 6d. (245.7.0; 1.0.6).  *pking's La Fraschetana.  As 5 Nov
. 1776.  *dEnd I: +Comic Ballet=, as 4 Feb.; End II: +La Force de l'Amour=, as 1
4 Dec. 1776; End Opera: +L'Epouse Persane=, as 21 Jan.  *p24 dl A Trip to Scarbo
rough.  Loveless-Smith; Lord Foppington-Dodd; Sir Tunbelly Clumsey-Moody; Col. T
ownly-Brereton; Probe-Parsons; Lory-Baddeley; Young Fashion-Reddish; Miss Hoyden
-Mrs Abington; Amanda-Mrs Robinson; Berinthia-Mrs Yates; The other parts-Burton,
 Lamash, Carpenter, Wrighten, Norris, Nash, Everard, Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Booth, Mi
ss Platt, Mrs Smith; [Edition of 1781 ($G. Wilkie=) specifies: +La Varole=r-Burt
on; +Jewelle=r-Lamash; +Shoemaker=r-Carpenter; +Hosier=r-Norris; +Taylor=r-Baker
 (see 25 Feb.); +Nurse=r-Mrs Bradshaw; +Mrs Coupler=r-Mrs Booth;% New +Prologue=
-King.  *aThe Waterman.  As 5 Oct. 1776.  *dEnd III: +The Triumph of Love=, as 7
 Nov. 1776:  *cMainpiece: Altered from [+The Relapse=, by] $Sir John Vanbrugh= [
1st time; C 5, by $Richard Brinsley Sheridan=.  Prologue by $David Garrick= (see
 edition of 1781)].  The Characters new dressed.  Receipts: #229 7s. 6d. (217.13
.0; 10.8.0; 1.6.6).  *pcg Know Your Own Mind.  As 22 Feb.  *aThe Golden Pippin. 
 As 13 Jan.  *dAs 7 Nov. 1776.  *cReceipts: #224 10s. 6d. (223.8.6; 1.2.0).  *p2
5 dl A Trip to Scarborough.  As 24 Feb., but The other parts-+Baker.  [+Prologue
= as 24 Feb.%  *aHarlequin's Invasion.  As 14 Jan.  *dEnd III: As 24 Oct. 1776. 
 *cPaid $Hatsell=, Mercer, #280 7s.  Receipts: #149 13s. 6d. (131.10.0; 15.19.0;
 2.4.6).  *pcg Know Your Own Mind.  As 22 Feb.  *aComus.  Comus-Mattocks; Spirit
-L'Estrange; Brothers-Whitefield, Robson; Bacchanals-Reinhold, Mahon; The Lady-M
rs Jackson; Bacchants-Miss Dayes, Miss Ambrose; Sabrina, Pastoral Nymph-Miss Bro
wn; Euphrosyne-Miss Catley; 2nd Spirit-Mrs Farrell.  *dAs 18 Feb.  *s+Sweet Echo
=, as 7 Oct. 1776.  *cBenefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the 
Account-Book, but not on the playbill].  Receipts: none listed (charge: #73 10s.
).  *pking's La Fraschetana.  As 5 Nov. 1776.  *dEnd I: +Comic Ballet=, as 4 Feb
.; End II: [a new% +Serious Ballet=-Simonet, Mlle Baccelli (1st appearance this 
season), Sg Zuchelli, Sga Zuchelli, Vallouy@le@cadet; [in which a% +Grand Chacon
ne=-Simonet, Mlle Baccelli; [a% +Pas de Deux=-Simonet, Mlle Baccelli; End Opera:
 +L'Epouse Persane=, as 21 Jan.  *p26 dl Israel in Egypt; Judas Maccabaeus.  As 
21 Feb.  *mAs 14  Feb.  *pcg Omnipotence; Judas Maccabaeus.  As 14 Feb.  *mEnd P
art I: +solo= on the pedal harp-Renaudin (1st public performance); End Part II: 
+concerto= on the violin, as 14 Feb.  *p27 dl A Trip to Scarborough.  As 25 Feb.
  [+Prologue= as 24 Feb.%  *aA Christmas Tale.  As 4 Nov. 1776.  *dAs 25 Feb.  *
cReceipts: #220 5s. 6d. (199.8.0; 18.13.0; 2.4.6).  *pcg Sir Thomas Overbury.  A
s 1 Feb., but Cleora-Miss Dayes [in place of $Miss Leeson=%.  *aThe Jovial Crew.
  As 13 Feb.  *dAs 17 Feb.  *cReceipts: #228 3s. 6d. (224.1.6; 4.2.0).  *p28 dl 
Acis and Galatea; Judas Maccabaeus.  As 21 Feb.  *aDryden's Ode; Judas Maccabaeu
s.  As 21 Feb.  *mAs 14 Feb.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  *pcg The Prodi
gal Son; Judas Maccabaeus.  As 14 Feb., but Principal Vocal Parts-Mrs +Farrell (
1st appearance in the Oratorios).  *s[With additional% +airs=-.  *mEnd Part I: +
solo= on the German flute-DeCamp; End Part II: +concerto= on the violin, as 14 F
eb.  *cOratorio [1st time in public.  It had 1st been performed at +Oxford=, 8 J
uly 1773, as part of the ceremony of the installation of $Lord North= as Chancel
lor.]  *p3 1 dl A Trip to Scarborough.  As 25 Feb., but New +Prologue=-King.  *a
The Deserter.  Henry-Vernon; Russet-Bannister; Simkin-Fawcett; Skirmish-Parsons;
 Flint-Wright; Soldiers-Legg, Kear, Carpenter, Chaplin, Follett, Holcroft; Jenny
-Mrs Wrighten; Margaret-Mrs Love; Louisa-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any sta
ge [$Mrs Sherborn=]).  *dEnd III: +The Double Festival=, as 13 Feb.  *c+Public A
dvertiser=, 3 Mar.: "A +new Prologue= was spoken by $King= on Saturday Evening, 
and received with uncommon Applause."  [$Mrs Sherborn= is identified in +Lysons,
 Collectanea=.]  Receipts: #215 16s. 6d. (187.12.0; 25.17.0; 2.7.6).  *pcg Know 
Your Own Mind.  As 22 Feb.  *aThe Golden Pippin.  As 13 Jan.  *dAs 18 Feb.  *c+P
ublic Advertiser=, 3 Mar.: "When [$Reinhold=] appeared on the Stage [in the afte
rpiece], after some little Time the excessive Glare of the Lamps affected him so
 much [because of an incomplete recovery from illness] that he dropped down in t
he Middle of his Part in a fainting Fit, of which he soon afterwards perfectly r
ecovered in the Green Room.  The Audience, with their wonted Indulgence and Huma
nity, universally insisted that the Curtain should be dropped."  Receipts: #259 
5s. (257.17; 1.8).  *pking's Antigono.  [Principal Characters by Rauzzini, Trebb
i, Savoi, Micheli, $Sga Luiggia? Farnese=, $Sga Cecilia Davies Inglesina=.  [Cas
t adjusted from libretto ($R. Rapley=, 1776):% Demetrio-Rauzzini; Antigono-Trebb
i; Alessandro-Savoi; Clearco-Micheli; Ismene-Sga Farnese; Berenice-Sga Cecilia D
avies.  *dEnd I: +La Force de l'Amour=, as 14 Dec. 1776; End II: +Serious Ballet
=, as 25 Feb.; End Opera: +Les Amusemens Champetres=, as 2 Nov. 1776.  *cOpera: 
The Music by several eminent Masters [$Giordani=, $Traetta=, $Hasse=, $Vento=]; 
under the Direction of $Giardini=.  *p3 dl The Tempest.  As 23 Jan.  *aA Christm
as Tale.  As 4 Nov. 1776.  *dAs 10 Jan.  *cReceipts: #170 17s. 6d. (148.1.0; 21.
8.8; 1.8.0).  *pcg Douglas.  As 31 Oct. 1776, but Officers-_Davis; [Before the P
lay% a New Occasional +Address=-Mrs Barry.  *aThe Jovial Crew.  As 13 Feb., but 
Hearty-Baker.  *dAs 18 Feb.  *c[This was $Mrs Barry='s 1st appearance since the 
death of her husband on 10 Jan.  See also 28 Nov. 1776.  Address by $David Garri
ck= (+Poetical Works=, II, 333).]  Receipts: #270 17s. 6d. (267.16.6; 3.1.0).  *
p4 dl A Trip to Scarborough.  As 25 Feb.; but Young Fashion-Palmer (1st appearan
ce in that character); New +Prologue=-King[as 1 Mar.%.  *aThe Deserter.  As 1 Ma
r.  *dAs 25 Feb.  *cReceipts: #142 8s. (114.19.0; 24.12.6; 2.16.6).  *pcg Know Y
our Own Mind.  As 22 Feb.  *aComus.  As 25 Feb., but Bacchanals-_Reinhold.  *dAs
 17 Feb.  *sAs 7 Jan.  *cReceipts: #255 15s. (253.16.6; 1.18.6).  *pking's Il Ge
loso in Cimento.  As 4 Feb., but [a new% +Duet=-Sga Sestini; +Songs=-Sga Sestini
.  *dEnd I: +Les Amans Heureux=, as 4 Jan.; End II: +Serious Ballet=, as 25 Feb.
; End Opera: +Masquerade Dance=, as 4 Feb.  *p5 dl Samson; Judas Maccabaeus.  As
 21 Feb.  *mAs 14 Feb.  *pcg The Prodigal Son.  As 28 Feb.  *mAs 14 Feb.  *p6 dl
 A Trip to Scarborough.  As 4 Mar.  [New +Prologue= as 1 Mar.%  *aSelima and Azo
r.  As 15 Feb.  *dAs 25 Feb.  *cReceipts: #176 15s. (150.4.0; 23.9.6; 3.1.6).  *
pcg Know Your Own Mind.  As 22 Feb.  *aThe Golden Pippin.  As 13 Jan.  *dAs 7 No
v. 1776.  *cBenefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Bo
ok, but not on the playbill].  Receipts: none listed (charge: #73 10s.).  *p7 dl
 Israel in Egypt; Judas Maccabaeus.  As 21 Feb.  *mAs 14 Feb.  *cBy Command of $
Their Majesties=.  *pcg Jephtha; Prodigal Son.  As 28 Feb.  *mAs 19 Feb.  *p8 dl
 A Trip to Scarborough.  As 4 Mar.  [New +Prologue= as 1 Mar.%  *aThe Jubilee.  
*dAs 25 Feb.  *cAfterpiece: A Dramatic Entertainment of Singing, Dancing and Dia
logue in Honour of $Shakespeare=.  In which a Pageant.  The Music by $Dibdin=.  
Receipts: #257 11s. (234.12.0; 20.4.6; 2.14.6).  *pcg Know Your Own Mind.  As 22
 Feb.  *aComus.  As 25 Feb., but Bacchanals-_Mahon.  *dAs 18 Feb.  *cReceipts: #
263 15s. 6d. (262.12.0; 1.3.6).  *pking's Antigono.  As 1 Mar.  *dEnd Act I: +Le
s Amans Heureux=, as 4 Jan.; End II: +Serious Ballet=, as 25 Feb.; End Opera: +L
'Epouse Persane=, as 21 Jan.  *p10 dl The Rivals.  As 7 Feb.  *aHarlequin's Inva
sion.  As 29 Jan.  *dEnd III: +The Irish Fair=, as 31 Oct. 1776.  *cBenefit for 
$Smith=.  +Public Advertiser=, 18 Feb.; Tickets to be had of $Smith= at his Hous
e in +Beaufort Buildings=, +Strand=.  Receipts: #260 4s. (144.4; 13.8; 0.19; tic
kets: 101.13) (charge: #74 14s.).  *pcg Artaxerxes.  As 11 Feb.  *aThe Jovial Cr
ew.  As 13 Feb.  *dAs 23 Nov. 1776.  *sEnd afterpiece: +Push about the Jorum=, [
and% an additional Verse[suitable to the Night%-Miss Catley.  *cBenefit for $Mis
s Catley=.  No Part of the Pit can on any Account be laid into the Boxes.  +Publ
ic Advertiser=, 3 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Miss Catley at +Wilson's=, Watchmak
er, No. 150, +Drury-Lane=.  Receipts: #302 3s. (209.13; tickets: 92.10) (charge:
 free).  *p11 dl The Rivals.  As 16 Jan., but Lydia Languish-Miss Younge (1st ap
pearance in that character); The Original +Epilogue= [see 16 Jan.]-Miss Younge. 
 *aMargaret of Anjou.  The Principal Character-Miss Younge.  *aThe Deserter.  As
 1 Mar.  *dEnd V: +The Irish Fair=, as 31 Oct. 1776.  *cBenefit for $Miss Younge
=.  Interlude [1st time; M. INT I, by $Edward Jerningham=]: Interspersed with Mu
sic [by $James Hook=.  Text 1st published in +Jerningham's Poems=, vol. I ($J. R
obson=, 1786)].  +Public Advertiser=, 20 Feb.: Tickets to be had of Miss Younge 
at +Thelwall's=, Silk Mercer, +King-street=, +Covent Garden=.  Receipts: #222 9s
. (80.14; 18.10; 1.19; tickets: 121.6) (charge: #65 17s.).  *pcg Know Your Own M
ind.  As 22 Feb.  *aThe Golden Pippin.  As 13 Jan.  *dAs 17 Feb.  *cReceipts: #2
44 7s. (243.8; 0.19).  *phay A Lecture on Heads.  George Alexander Stevens.  [In
 five parts; concluding with an Experiment upon the Human Face, with two Wigs.% 
 *cThe Last Time [i.e. Season] of its ever being exhibited in +London=.  The Doo
rs to be opened at 6:00.  To begin at 7:00.  Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s.  *pki
ng's Il Geloso in Cimento.  As 4 Mar.  *dAs 4 Mar.  *p12 dl L'Allegro il Pensero
so; Judas Maccabaeus.  As 21 Feb.    *aThe Song of Moses; Judas Maccabaeus.  As 
21 Feb.   *mAs 14 Feb.  *c+Ode= [1st time; composed by $Thomas Linley Jun.= (see
 18 Mar. 1778), text by $John Hoadly=].  *pcg The Prodigal Son.  As 28 Feb.  *mA
s 28 Feb.  *p13 dl The Funeral; or, Grief a-la-Mode.  Lord Hardy-Lacy; Campley-P
almer (Their first appearance in those characters); Lord Brumpton-Hurst; Sable-M
oody; Puzzle-Baddeley; Trusty-Packer; Tom-Waldron; Cabinet-Norris; Trim-King; La
dy Brumpton-Mrs Hopkins; Lady Harriet-Mrs Baddeley (1st appearance in that chara
cter); Mademoiselle-Mrs Booth; Farthingale-Mrs Bradshaw; Tattleaid-Mrs Love; Lad
y Charlotte-Miss Younge; [Edition of 1777 ($W. Strahan= [et al]) adds:% Kate Mat
chlock-Mr Griffiths.  *aThe Jubilee.  As 8 Mar.  *dAs 15 Feb.  *cMainpiece: Not 
acted these 2 years.  Receipts: #221 13s. 6d. (200.3.0; 20.17.0; 0.13.6).  *pcg 
Know Your Own Mind.  As 22 Feb.  *aThe Jovial Crew.  As 13 Feb.  *dAs 18 Feb.  *
cBenefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not
 on the playbill].  Receipts: none listed (charge: #73 10s.).  *phay A Lecture o
n Heads.  As 11 Mar.[, but In Part I is a Collection of Macaronies; Part II, upo
n the Sciences, General Elections; Part III, upon Ladies Head Dresses; Part IV, 
upon Law; Part V, upon Politics and Physic.  To conclude, by way of +Epilogue=, 
with an Experiment, as 11 Mar.%  *cIncluding the Whole of [$Stevens='] Improveme
nts and Alterations.  *pking's L'Ali d'Amore.  [Principal Characters by Rauzzini
, Trebbi, Savoi, Micheli, Rovedino, $Sga Luiggia? Farnese=, Miss Storace, $Sga C
ecilia Davies Inglesina=.  [Cast from libretto ($T. Cadell=, 1777):% Fileno-Vena
nzio Rauzzini; Damone-Trebbi; Erasto-Savoi; Silvano-Micheli; Lucida-Rovedino; Cl
ori-Sga Farnese; Cupido-Miss Storace; Amarilli-Sga Cecilia Davies.  *dEnd I: +La
 Force de l'Amour=, as 14 Dec. 1776; End II: +Comic Ballet=, as 4 Feb.; End Oper
a: +Serious Ballet=, as 25 Feb.  *cBenefit for $Rauzzini=.  Opera: With Alterati
ons, New Songs, and grand Chorusses.  The Music by Rauzzini.  +Public Advertiser
=, 15 Feb.: Tickets to be had of Rauzzini, No. 5, +Great Suffolk-street=.  *p14 
dl Acis and Galatea; Judas Maccabaeus.  As 21 Feb.    *aThe Coronation Anthems; 
Judas Maccabaeus.  As 21 Feb.  [Singers same.%  *mAs 14 Feb.  *cBy Command of $T
heir Majesties=.  *pcg Judas Maccabaeus.  As 14 Feb.  *sEnd Part I: [a select% +
song= [by $Dr Arne=%(the Music entirely new)-Mrs Farrell.  *mEnd Part II: +conce
rto= on the violin, as 14 Feb.  *p15 dl The Tempest.  As 31 Jan.  *aThe Deserter
.  As 1 Mar.  *dAs 10 Jan.  *cBenefit for $Vernon=.  +Public Advertiser=, 5 Mar.
: Tickets to be had of Vernon, +Vauxhall=.  Receipts: #219 12s. 6d. (107.16.0; 2
0.13.6; 7.16.0; tickets: 83.7.0) (charge: #71 19s.).  *pcg The Beggar's Opera.  
As 6 Jan., but Mrs Slammekin-Mrs Green.  *aComus.  As 8 Mar.  *cReceipts: #269 1
5s. 6d. (268.15.0; 1.0.6).  *phay A Lecture on Heads.  As 13 Mar.  *pking's Tele
maco.  Principal Characters-Rauzzini, Trebbi, Savoi, Micheli, Sga Marianna Farne
se, Sga Cecilia Davies Inglesina.  [+Morning Chronicle=, 17 Mar., lists the part
s: +Telemaco=r, +Mentore=r, +Mopso=r, +Calipso=r, +Eurice=r; and gives synopsis 
of plot.]  *dEnd I: +Serious Ballet=, as 25 Feb.; End Act II: +Les Chasseurs=, a
s 12 Nov., but Mme _Vallouy, Mme +Simonet; End Opera: [a new Ballet Demi-caracte
re,% +La Clochette=-Simonet, Mlle Baccelli, Vallouy, Mme Simonet, Sg Zuchelli, S
ga Zuchelli, Vallouy@le@cadet.  *cA new Serious Opera [1st time; SER 3]: With Gr
and Chorusses.  The Poetry by the $Abate Conte Zaccaria de Seriman=.  The Music 
entirely new by $Tragetta= [recte $Traetta=].  *p17 dl Twelfth Night.  As 24 Oct
. 1776.  *aA Christmas Tale.  As 4 Nov. 1776.  *cBenefit for Dodd.  +Public Adve
rtiser=, 1 Mar.: Tickets to be had of $Dodd=, +New Ormond-street=.  Receipts: #2
44 13s. (111.17.0; 11.16.6; 1.10.6; tickets: 119.9.0) (charge: #74 3s.).  *pcg T
welfth Night.  Duke-Lewis; Sebastian-Wroughton; Sir Toby Belch-Dunstall; Fabian-
Whitefield; Sea Captain-Booth; Malvolio-Wilson; Clown-Lee Lewes; Sir Andrew Ague
 Cheek-Quick; Olivia-Mrs Hartley; Maria-Mrs Wilson; Viola-Mrs Barry (Their 1st a
ppearance in those characters).  *aThe Two Misers.  As 2 Dec. 1776.  *dAs 25 Jan
.  *sI: +song=-Mrs Farrell.  *cBenefit for $Mrs Barry=.  Mainpiece: Not acted th
ese 6 years.  Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes.  Servants are desired
 to be sent by Four o'clock, and those Ladies and Gentlemen who have Places in t
he Pit, are respectfully intreated to come early, to avoid inconveniency in gett
ing to their Seats.  +Public Advertiser=, 25 Feb.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Barr
y at No. 10, on the +Terrace=, +New Palace-Yard=, +Westminster=.  Receipts: #271
 15s. 6d. (143.15.6; tickets: 128.0.0) (charge: #67).  *phay A Lecture on Heads.
  As 13 Mar.  *p18 dl A Trip to Scarborough.  As 4 Mar.  [New +Prologue= as 1 Ma
r.%  *aThe Jubilee.  As 8 Mar.  *dAs 25 Feb.  *cReceipts: #225 0s. 6d. (200.1.0;
 2".16.6; 1.3.0).  *pcg Know Your Own Mind.  As 22 Feb., but New +Prologue=-_; N
ew +Epilogue=-_[and thereafter, except on 30 Apr.].  *aThe Two Misers.  As 2 Dec
. 1776, but Jenny (1st time)-Miss Dayes.  *dAs 25 Jan.  *cReceipts: #222 2s. (22
0.17; 1.5).  *pking's La Fraschetana.  As 22 Feb.  *dAs 8 Mar. [throughout.%  *p
19 dl The Messiah; Judas Maccabaeus.  As 21 Feb.    *mAs 14 Feb.  *pcg Acis and 
Galatea; Prodigal Son.  As 28 Feb.   *aA Miscellaneous Concert.  +Song [by $Arno
ld=%-Saville; +song [by $Giordani=%-Reinhold; +song [by $Dr Arne=%-Mrs Farrell; 
+song=-Tenducci; +song [by $Saccini=%-Miss Harrop; [accompanied% violin obligato
-Lamotte; [to conclude with% +My Heart is inditing=-(from +Coronation Anthems=).
  *sIn I: +song= [by $Dr Arne=%, as 14 Mar.  *m+solo= on the violoncello-Cervett
o; concerto on the violin, as 14 Feb.  *phay A Lecture on Heads.  As 13 Mar.  *p
20 dl The Provok'd Husband.  As 5 Nov. 1776, but Lord Townly-Lacy (1st appearanc
e in that character); Manly-Palmer; Mrs Motherly-Mrs Bradshaw.  *aThe Milesian. 
 [Principal Characters by Vernon, Dodd, Bannister, Aickin, Burton, R. Palmer, Ev
erard, Moody, Miss Collett, Mrs Davies, Mrs Booth, Mrs Baddeley.  [Cast from tex
t ($J. Wilkie=, 1777), and +London Chronicle=, 21 Mar.:% Belfield-Vernon; Charle
s Marlove-Dodd [in text: Lamash (see 3 Apr.)]; George Belfield-Bannister; Mr Bel
field-Aickin; La Flure-Burton; Richard-R. Palmer; Waiter-Everard; Capt. Corneliu
s O'Gollagher-Moody; Melinda-Miss Collett; Patty-Mrs Davies [in text: $Miss Plat
t= (see 3 Apr.)]; Mrs Belfield-Mrs Booth; Caroline O'Gollagher-Mrs Baddeley.  *c
[Mainpiece in place of +The Funeral=, announced on playbill of 18 Mar.]  Afterpi
ece [1st time; CO 2, by $Isaac Jackman=]: The Music composed by $Carter=.  Recei
pts: #233 11s. (190.1.0; 40.16.6; 2.13.6).  *pcg Know Your Own Mind.  As 22 Feb.
  *aThe Padlock.  As 25 Sept. 1776.  *dAs 25 Jan.  *cReceipts: #238 9s. 6d. (237
.4.6; 1.5.0).  *pking's L'Ali d'Amore.  As 13 Mar., but Clori-Sga Marianna Farne
se [in place of $Sga Luiggva? Farnese=%.  *dAs 13 Mar. [throughout.%  *sIn III: 
+'Sventurata in van mi lagno=-Sga Davies; [with the% flute accompaniment-[, from
 +Antigono=%.  *cBenefit for $Signora Davies Inglesina=.  +Public Advertiser=, 2
5 Feb.: Tickets to be had of $Sga Davies= at her House, No. 1, +St. Alban's stre
et=, +Pall-mall=.  *p21 dl The Messiah; Judas Maccabaeus.  As 21 Feb.   *mAs 14 
Feb.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  Account-Book, 4 Apr.: Received Oratori
o Acc't. #335 3s. 6d.  *pcg Acis and Galatea; Prodigal Son.  As 28 Feb.   *aA Mi
scellaneous Concert.  As 19 Mar., but My Heart is inditing-_;[to conclude with% 
+Zadock the Priest=-(from +Coronation Anthems=); +A song=-Miss Storace.  *cThe A
ccount-Book notes that the theatre received #21 on each of the 11 Oratorio night
s.  *phay A Lecture on Heads.  As 13 Mar.  *p22 dl Love for Love.  As 29 Nov. 17
76, but Miss Prue-Mrs Mattocks [of +cg=].  *aThe Milesian.  As 20 Mar., but Mrs 
Belfield-_.  *dAs 15 Feb.  *cOn Account of $Mrs Yates='s Indisposition +A Trip t
o Scarborough= [announced on playbill of 20 Mar.] is obliged to be deferred.  [T
he playbill retains $Mrs Abington= as +Miss Prue=r, but "Last Saturday night, Mr
s Abington being suddenly taken ill, $Mrs Mattocks= supplied the Part in +Love f
or Love=; and though we will not pretend to put her comic Abilities on a Level w
ith those of Mrs Abington, yet her Performance was exceedingly humourous and ent
ertaining" (+Gazetteer=, 24 Mar.).]  Paid Mrs Abington in lieu of a benefit #200
.  Receipts: #218 8s. (188.0.0; 28.15.6; 1.12.6).  *pcg The Merchant of Venice. 
 As 15 Jan.  *aLove a-la-Mode.  As 19 Dec. 1776.  *dEnd III: +Pastoral Dance=, a
s 23 Nov. 1776; End IV: +Mirth and Jollity=, as 15 Oct. 1776.  *cBenefit for $Ma
cklin=.  +Public Advertiser=, 8 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Macklin, +James-stree
t=, +Covent Garden=.  Receipts: #273 16s. (charge: #64 10s.).  [Of this amount #
177 17s. was "Money," i.e. tickets sold at the door.  The remainder, #95 19s., w
as "Tickets," disposed of by Macklin: 305 in the boxes, 104 in the pit, 41 in th
e gallery.]  *pking's Telemaco.  As 15 Mar.  *dAs 15 Mar. [throughout.%  *p24[-2
9% none +Holy Week=.  *p31 dl The Way to Keep Him.  Lovemore-Reddish; Sir Brilli
ant Fashion-Dodd; William-Baddeley; Sideboard-Burton; Sir Bashful Constant-King;
 Mrs Lovemore-Mrs Baddeley; Lady Constant-Mrs Greville; Muslin-Miss Pope (1st ap
pearance in that character); Mignionet-Mrs Bradshaw; Widow Bellmour (with a +son
g=)-Mrs Abington.  *a[A Favourite Scene from [the end of Act II of]% The Registe
r Office [and see 22 Apr.].  Gulwell-Packer; Melpomene-Miss Stageldoir; Mrs Slat
ernella Doggrel-Miss Pope.  *aHarlequin's Invasion.  As 14 Jan.  *dAs 28 Nov. 17
76.  *cBenefit for $Miss Pope=.  Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes.  +
Public Advertiser=, 8 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Miss Pope, +Little Russel-stree
t=, +Covent Garden=.  Receipts: #280 19s. (114.8; 7.9; 0.16; tickets: 158.6) (ch
arge: #74 14s.).  *pcg The Grecian Daughter.  As 28 Nov. 1776, but Evander-Aicki
n.  *aTrue-Blue.  As 23 Dec. 1776.  *aMidas.  Midas-Wilson; Apollo-Mattocks; Pan
-Mahon; Jupiter-Fox; Damaetas-Wewitzer; Sileno-Baker; Juno-Mrs Poussin; Daphne (
1st time)-Miss Brown; Mysis (1st time)-Mrs Wilson; Nysa-Mrs Mattocks.  *dAs 23 D
ec. 1776.  *cBenefit for $Mrs Mattocks=.  Receipts: #276 13s. 6d. (207.13.6; tic
kets: 69.0.0) (charge: #70 5s.).  *phay A Lecture on Heads.  As 13 Mar.  *p4 1 d
l The Roman Father.  As 16 Nov. 1776.  *aThe Election.  Principal Characters-Ver
non, Bannister, Davies, Mrs Love, Mrs Wrighten.  [Cast from $Genest=, V, 441: Ri
chard-Vernon; John-Bannister; Trusty-Davies; John's Wife-Mrs Love; Sally-Mrs Wri
ghten.]  *aA Christmas Tale.  As 22 Oct. 1776.  *dAs 2 Jan.  *cBenefit for $Bens
ley=.  +Public Advertiser=, 8 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Bensley, +Charlotte-str
eet=, +Bloomsbury=.  Receipts: #174 14s. (106.11; 16.4; 1.7; tickets: 50.12) (ch
arge: #74 14s.).  *pcg Know Your Own Mind.  As 22 Feb.  *aHarlequin's Frolicks. 
 As 9 Jan.  *dAs 26 Dec. 1776.  *cAccount-Book, 30 Apr.: Paid $Murphy= #119 13s.
 for the 12th night of +Know Your Own Mind= on Apr. 1st, after deducting charge 
of #73 10s.  Receipts: #193 3s. (192.4.6; 0.18.6).  *pking's La Schiava.  Princi
pal Characters-Trebbi, Fochetti, Savoi, Micheli, Sga Prudom, Sga Luiggia Farnese
, Sga Sestini.  [Libretto ($H. Reynell=, 1784) lists the parts: Fulgenzio, Lelio
, Asdrubale, Kirca, Rosalba, Arminda, Nerina.]  *dAs 8 Mar. [throughout.%  *cOpe
ra: The music by $Piccinni=; under the Direction of $Giardini=.  *p2 dl A Trip t
o Scarborough.  As 4 Mar., but The other parts-R. +Palmer, _Norris; New +Prologu
e=-King.  *aThe Jubilee.  As 8 Mar.  *dAs 1 Mar.  *cReceipts: #215 12s. 6d. (190
.4.0; 24.2.0; 1.6.6).  *pcg Sir Thomas Overbury.  As 1 Feb.  *aMidas.  As 31 Mar
.  *dAs 20 Nov. 1776.  *cReceipts: #133 1s. (129.9; 3.12).  *phay A Lecture on H
eads.  As 13 Mar.  *p3 dl Love for Love.  As 29 Nov. 1776.  *aThe Milesian.  As 
22 Mar., but Charles Marlove-Lamash [in place of $Dodd=%; Patty-Miss Platt[in pl
ace of $Mrs Davies=%.  *dEnd: +The Court Minuet-Master Holland, Miss Armstrong; 
+Allemande=-Master Holland, Miss Armstrong.  *cBenefit for $Moody=.  Tickets del
ivered for +The Rivals= will be taken.  Receipts: #213 8s. 6d. (85.19.0; 24.14.6
; 0.0.0; tickets: 102.5.0) (charge: #64 12s.).  *pcg Know Your Own Mind.  As 22 
Feb.  *aHarlequin's Frolicks.  As 9 Jan.  *dAs 26 Dec. 1776.  *cReceipts: #182 2
s. (181.2.6; 0.19.6).  *p4 dl The Tempest.  As 31 Jan.  *aThe Jubilee.  As 8 Mar
.  *dAs 10 Jan.  *c+A Trip to Scarborough= [announced on playbill of 3 Apr.] is 
obliged to be deferred on Account of $Mrs Yates='s Illness.  Receipts: #210 11s.
 6d. (180.5.0; 30.6.6; 0.0.0).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 13 Nov. 1776.  *aThe Countr
y Wife.  As 21 Dec. 1776.  *dEnd: +New Dance=-; [in which the% +Minuet de la Cou
r=-Bishop, Sga Tinte.  *cPaid $Lee= in lieu of a benefit #120.  Receipts: #278 5
s. (277.0.6; 1.4.6).  *phay A Lecture on Heads.  As 13 Mar.  *p5 dl The Provok'd
 Husband.  As 20 Mar.  *aBon Ton.  As 11 Nov. 1776, but Colonel Tivy-Davies.  *d
End II: [a Grand New Ballet (composed by $Ricci=),% +The Chaconne=-Ricci (1st ap
pearance on the English stage), Sga Crespi, Sga Ricci; End V: +The Savage Hunter
s=, as 24 Oct. 1776.  *cBenefit for $Sga Ricci=.  +Public Advertiser=, 13 Mar.: 
Tickets to be had of Sga Ricci at her House, No. 9, +Warwick-street=, +Golden-sq
uare=.  Receipts: #183 1s. 6d. (95.0.0; 22.17.6; 0.0.0; tickets: 65.4.0) (charge
: #105).  *pcg Caractacus.  As 6 Dec. 1776.  *aThree Weeks after Marriage.  As 2
5 Oct. 1776.  *dAs 7 Nov. 1776.  *cBenefit for $Leoni=.  +Public Advertiser=, 31
 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Leoni at +Basire's= No. 34, +Great Queen-street=, +L
incoln's Inn Fields=.  Receipts: #231 6s. 6d. (118.8.6; tickets: 112.18.0) (char
ge: free).  *pking's Telemaco.  As 15 Mar.  *dAs 15 Mar. [throughout.%  *p7 dl T
he Way of the World.  As 31 Dec. 1776, but Marwood-Miss Hopkins; Foible-Miss P. 
Hopkins (Their 1st appearance in those characters); Mincing-_; Betty-_; Peg-_.  
*aAll the World's a Stage.  [Principal Characters by Palmer, Parsons, Farren, La
mash, Burton, Griffiths, Carpenter, Baddeley, Miss P. Hopkins, Mrs Hopkins.%  [C
ast from text ($J. Wilkie=, 1777):% Harry Stukely-Palmer; Diggery-Parsons; Charl
es Stanley-Farren; Waiter-Lamash; Cymon-Burton; Wat-Griffiths; Hostler-Carpenter
; Sir Gilbert Pumpkin-Baddeley; William-Everard; Miss Kitty Sprightly-Miss P. Ho
pkins; Miss Bridget Pumpkin-Mrs Hopkins; New +Prologue=-King.  *dEnd V: +The Tri
umph of Love=, as 7 Nov. 1776.  *cBenefit for  Miss P. Hopkins, Miss E. Hopkins.
  Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by $Isaac Jackman=.  Prologue by $David Garrick= (+
Poetical Works=, II, 334)].  +Public Advertiser=, 15 Mar.: Tickets to be had of 
the Miss Hopkins', No. 7, +Little Russel-street=.  Receipts: #237 11s. 6d. (88.5
.0; 23.15.6; 1.15.0; tickets: 123.16.0) (charge: #65 2s. 6d.).  *pcg The Countes
s of Salisbury.  Alwin-Lewis (1st appearance in that character); Raymond-Wrought
on; Grey-Clarke; Laroche-Whitefield; Morton-L'Estrange; Sir Ardolph-Fearon; Peas
ant-Booth; Knight-Robson; Eleanor-Miss Dayes; Countess of Salisbury-Mrs Barry.  
*aTrue-Blue.  As 23 Dec. 1776.  *aThe Jealous Husband.  Characters-Quick, Lee Le
wes, Fearon, Booth [+Public Advertiser=: $Walters=], Dunstall, Mrs Mattocks.  *d
As 23 Dec. 1776.  *cBenefit for $Lewis=.  Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years.  3
rd piece [1st time; F 3, author unknown.  Not in +Larpent MS=; not published]: T
aken from $Dryden='s +Spanish Fryar=.  +Public Advertiser=, 20 Mar.: Tickets to 
be had of Lewis, +Bow-street=, +Covent Garden=.  Receipts: #246 18s. (164.3; tic
kets: 82.15) (charge: #66 10s.).  *phay A Lecture on Heads.  As 13 Mar.  *p8 dl 
A Trip to Scarborough.  As 4 Mar., but The other parts-_; New +Prologue=-King.  
*aThe Milesian.  As 3 Apr.  *dAs 1 Mar.  *cReceipts: #118 5s. 6d. (88.19.0; 27.6
.0; 2.0.6).  *pcg Sir Thomas Overbury.  As 1 Feb., but Earl of Northampton-Clark
e.  *aTrue-Blue.  As 23 Dec. 1776.  *aMidas.  As 31 Mar.  *dAs 23 Dec. 1776.  *c
Benefit for $Clarke=.  +Public Advertiser=, 18 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Clarke
, +Great Russel-street=, +Covent Garden=.  Receipts: #220 17s. 6d. (103.2.6; tic
kets: 117.15.0) (charge: #69 5s.).  *pking's La Fraschetana.  As 22 Feb.  *dAs 8
 Mar. [throughout.%  *p9 dl The Rivals.  As 16 Jan., but Lucy (1st time)-Mrs Dav
ies; The Original +Epilogue=-_.  *aThe Jubilee.  As 8 Mar.  *dEnd II: +The Trium
ph of Love=, as 7 Nov. 1776.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  Receipts: #257
 1s. (242.18.0; 13.0.6; 1.2.6) (orders: #6 16s. 6d.).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 13 N
ov. 1776.  *aThe Country Wife.  As 21 Dec. 1776.  *dAs 18 Feb.  *cReceipts: #239
 17s. 6d. (239.1.6; 0.16.0).  *phay A Lecture on Heads.  As 13 Mar.  *p10 dl The
 Clandestine Marriage.  As 5 Oct. 1776, but Fanny-Mrs Robinson (1st appearance i
n that character).  *aA Christmas Tale.  As 16 Nov. 1776.  *cBenefit for $Mrs Ro
binson=.  +Public Advertiser=, 28 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Robinson, No. 1
9, +Southampton-street=, +Covent Garden=.  Receipts: #189 10s. (77.5; 21.19; 0.0
; tickets: 90.6) (charge: none listed).  *pcg Know Your Own Mind.  As 22 Feb.  *
aMidas.  As 31 Mar.  *dAs 20 Nov. 1776.  *cBenefit for $Woodward=.  Tickets deli
vered for +Every Man in His Humour=, March 18th, and for this Day, will be admit
ted.  +Public Advertiser=, 7 Apr.: Tickets to be had of $Woodward=, +Chapel Stre
et=, +Grosvenor Place=, +Hyde-Park Corner=.  Receipts: #204 10s. (168.15; ticket
s 35.15) (charge: free).  *pking's La Schiava.  As 1 Apr.  *dAs 13 Mar. [through
out.%  *cBenefit for $Trebbi=.  +Public Advertiser=, 15 Mar.: Tickets to be had 
of Trebbi, at +Stephenson's=, +Hay-market=.  *p11 dl Othello.  Othello-Lacy (1st
 appearance in that character); Roderigo-Dodd; Cassio-Palmer; Brabantio-Aickin; 
Duke-Bransby; Lodovico-Packer; Iago-Reddish; Montano-Davies; Gratiano-Wrighten; 
Messenger-Chaplin; AEmilia-Mrs Hopkins; Desdemona-Miss Younge.  *aThe Milesian. 
 As 3 Apr.  *dAs 24 Jan.  *cReceipts: #98 4s. 6d. (76.18.0; 21.6.6; 0.0.0).  *pc
g The Duenna.  As 13 Nov. 1776.  *aThree Weeks after Marriage.  As 25 Oct. 1776.
  *dAs 25 Jan.  *cReceipts: #226 8s. (224.18; 1.10).  Account-Book: Paid $Aickin
= in lieu of a Benefit #90.  *p12 dl The Old Batchelor.  As 11 Feb.  *aThe Miles
ian.  As 3 Apr.  *dAs 14 Dec. 1776.  *cBenefit for the Author of +The Milesian=.
  Receipts: #124 15s. 6d. (94.19.0; 28.6.6; 1.10.0; tickets: none listed) (charg
e: #84).  *pcg Know Your Own Mind.  As 22 Feb.  *aMidas.  As 31 Mar.  *dAs 18 Fe
b.  *cPaid $Mrs Hartley= in lieu of a benefit #105.  Receipts: #145 13s. (144.9;
 1.4).  *phay A Lecture on Heads.  As 13 Mar.  *cBenefit for a Decayed Tradesman
.  *pking's Telemaco.  As 15 Mar.  *dEnd I: +Serious Ballet=, as 25 Feb.; End II
: +Les Chasseurs=, as 15 Mar.; End Opera: [a% +New Serious Ballet=-Mlle Baccelli
, Sg Zuchelli, Sga Zuchelli; +Entree=-Mlle DeCamp (1st appearance in +England=).
  *p14 dl The Tempest.  As 31 Jan.  *aThe Jubilee.  As 8 Mar.  *d+Dance of Spiri
ts, as 4 Jan., but Mlle _Dupre, Sga +Ricci; In IV: +The Chaconne=, as 5 Apr.  *c
Receipts: #157 14s. (131.13.0; 24.5.6; 1.15.6).  *pcg Tancred and Sigismunda.  T
ancred-Lewis (1st appearance in that character); Osmond-Clarke; Rhodolpho-L'Estr
ange; Attendant-Thompson; Siffredi-Hull; Laura-Miss Ambrose; Sigismunda-Mrs Barr
y.  *aTrue-Blue.  As 23 Dec. 1776.  *aThe Country Mad-Cap.  Ballad-Mattocks; Can
tileno (with +imitations=)-Reinhold; Zorobabel-Quick; Lord Bawble-Lee Lewes; Goo
dwill-Fearon; Thomas-Whitefield [+Public Advertiser=: Young]; Mrs Midnight-Mrs P
itt; Jenny-Mrs Poussin; The Country Mad@Cap-Mrs Mattocks.  *dAs 23 Dec. 1776.  *
cBenefit for $Mattocks=.  Mainpiece: Written by $Thomson=.  Not acted these 7 ye
ars. Receipts: #224 0s. 6d. (163.16.6; tickets: 60.4.0) (charge: #66 6s.).  *p15
 dl The Funeral.  As 13 Mar.  *aThe Jubilee.  As 8 Mar.  *cReceipts: #108 (79.9;
 25.12; 2.19).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 13 Nov. 1776.  *aHarlequin's Frolicks.  As 
9 Jan.  *dAs 21 Jan.  *cReceipts: #249 7s. 6d. (248.5.6; 1.2.0).  *pking's Il Ge
loso in Cimento.  As 4 Mar.  *dAs 4 Mar. [throughout.%  *p16 dl The Way to Keep 
Him.  As 31 Mar.  *aAll the World's a Stage.  As 7 Apr. [+Prologue= as 7 Apr.%  
*c+Braganza= [announced on playbill of 15 Apr.] is oblig'd to be deferr'd on Acc
ount of $Smith='s Indisposition.  Receipts: #121 14s. (94.12; 25.18; 1.4).  *pcg
 Othello.  Othello-Peile (the Gentleman who appeared in the character of +Dorila
s=r[on 17 Jan.]); Roderigo-Lee Lewes; Cassio-Lewis; Brabantio-Hull; Lodovico-Whi
tefield; Montano-Davis; Duke-L'Estrange; Gratiano-Fearon; Iago-Macklin; Emilia-M
rs Mattocks; Desdemona-Mrs Lessingham.  *aThe Experiment.  Characters-Wroughton,
 Lee Lewes, Robson, Fearon, Wewitzer, Booth, Mrs Whitefield, Mrs Lessingham; [+L
arpent MS 429= lists the parts: +Mr Warren=r, +Sir James Middleton=r, +The Hon. 
Capt. Turner=r, +Mr Green=r, +Robert=r, +Thomas=r, +Miss Warren=r, +Miss Louisa 
Warren=r.]  +Address= [to the Public%-Mrs Lessingham.  *dEnd: +Hunting Dance=, a
s 18 Feb.; End I afterpiece: +The Villagers=, as 22 Jan.  *cBenefit for $Mrs Les
singham=.  Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years.  The Characters dressed in the Ha
bits of the Country.  Afterpiece [1st time; C 2, ascribed to $Charles Stuart=.  
Author of Address unknown].  +Public Advertiser=, 24 Mar.: Tickets to be had of 
Mrs Lessingham at her House, the corner of +Percy-street=, +Rathbone Place=.  Re
ceipts: #224 1s. 6d. (151.19.6; tickets: 72.2.0) (charge: #65 13s. 6d.).  *phay 
A Lecture on Heads.  As 13 Mar.  *p17 dl The Gamester.  The Gamester-Reddish; St
ukely-Palmer; Jarvis-Aickin; Bates-Packer; Dawson-Norris; Lewson-Farren; Charlot
te-Miss Hopkins; Lucy-Miss Platt; Mrs Beverly-Miss Younge.  *aHarlequin's Invasi
on.  As 14 Jan., but Abram (1st time)-Baker.  *sEnd: +The Soldier tir'd With war
's Alarms=-Miss Abrams.  *cBenefit for $Farren=, $Baker= & $Miss Abrams=.  Recei
pts: #140 19s. 6d. (48.2.0; 15.5.6; 0.0.0; tickets: 77.12.0) (charge: #74 14s.).
  *pcg The Countess of Salisbury.  As 7 Apr., but Lord William-Miss Francis.  *a
The Country Mad-Cap.  As 14 Apr.  *dAs 25 Jan.  *cReceipts: #131 12s. 6d. (126.1
4.0; 4.18.6).  *pking's Alcina.  Principal Characters-Trebbi, Fochetti, Savoi, V
incdnzio Cestini, Sga Prudom, Sga [Luiggia] Farnese, Sga Sestini.  [Libretto (+V
enice=, 1772) lists the parts: +Il Barone di Brikbrak=r, +La Rose=r, +Brunoro=r,
 +James=r, +Alcina Fata=r, +Lesbia=r, +Clizia=r.]  *dAs 13 Mar.  *s[With the Alt
erations of% two new +songs=-Sga Sestini; a favourite one-Sga Sestini.  *cBenefi
t for $Sga Sestini=.  A new Comic Opera [usually entitled +L'Isola di Alcina=]; 
the Music by $Gazzaniga=.  +Public Advertiser=, 27 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Sg
a Sestini, No. 8, +Great Suffolk-street=, +Hay-market=.  *p18 dl The Runaway.  A
s 1 Oct. 1776, but Jarvis-Lamash; Sir Charles Seymour (1st time)-Davies; Mr Harg
rave-Waldron; Susan-Mrs Davies (1st appearance in that character); Clerk-Carpent
er.  *aBon Ton.  As 11 Nov. 1776, but Col. Tivy (1st time)-Norris.  *dAs 28 Nov.
 1776.  *cBenefit for $Lamash=, $Griffiths= & $Norris=.  Receipts : #214 11s. (5
1.0; 18.13; 0.0; tickets: 144.18) (charge: #65 11s. 6d.).  *pcg Artaxerxes.  As 
31 Jan., but new +air=-_.  *aThree Weeks after Marriage.  As 25 Oct. 1776, but D
imity (1st time)-Mrs Wilson.  *dAs 18 Feb.  *cBenefit for $Reinhold=.  +Public A
dvertiser=, 25 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Reinhold, No. 46, +Charlotte-street=, 
+Rathbone Place=.  Receipts: #237 7s. (110.12; tickets: 126.15) (charge: #68 7s.
).  *p19 dl The Way of the World.  As 31 Dec. 1776, but Betty-_; Peg-_.  *aThe I
rish Widow.  As 14 Dec. 1776.  *dEnd I: [a new Comic Dance,% +The Corn Thrashers
=-Blurton, Mrs Sutton; End: +Minuet de la Cour=-Froment, Mrs Sutton (his Scholar
); End I: +The Irish Fair=, as 31 Oct. 1776.  *cBenefit for $Mrs Sutton=.  Ticke
ts delivered by $Thompson= will be taken.  +Public Advertiser=, 11 Apr.: Tickets
 to be had of Mrs Sutton, No. 8, +Great Wild Street=, +Lincoln's Inn Fields=.  R
eceipts: #232 1s. 6d. (74.18.0; 22.18.6; 0.0.0; tickets: 134.5.0) (charge: #64 1
3s.).  *pcg The Merchant of Venice.  As 15 Jan.  *aLove a-la-Mode.  As 19 Dec. 1
776.  *dEnd I: +Minuet=-Aldridge, Miss Macklin; End III: +The Shepherd's Wedding
=, as 15 Feb.; End IV: +The Frolick=, as 20 Nov. 1776.  *cBenefit for Miss Mackl
in [and her last appearance on the stage].  +Public Advertiser=, 3 Apr.: Tickets
 to be had of $Miss Macklin=, No. 59, +Great Queen-street=, +Lincoln's Inn Field
s=.  Receipts: #191 16s. (151.6; tickets: 40.10) (charge: #64 10s.).  *pking's T
elemaco.  As 15 Mar.  *dEnd I: +New Serious Ballet=, as 12 Apr.; End II: +Les Ch
asseurs=, as 15 Mar.; End Opera: +La Clochette=, as 15 Mar.  *p21 dl The Committ
ee.  As 15 Oct. 1776, but Arabella-Miss P. Hopkins; Mrs Chat-Mrs Cartwright.  *a
The Deserter.  As 1 Mar., but Soldiers-_Holcroft, +Griffiths; Jenny-Mrs Davies; 
Louisa-Miss Collett (1st appearance in that character).  *dAs 14 Dec. 1776.  *sE
nd: +O What a Charming Thing's a Battle=-Bannister.  *cBenefit for $Mrs Bradshaw
=, $Mrs Love= & $Mrs Johnston=.  +Public Advertiser=, 14 Apr.: Tickets to be had
 of Mrs Bradshaw, No. 93, near +Craven Buildings=, +Drury-lane=; of Mrs Love, at
 +Booth's=, +Brownlow-street=, +Long-acre=; of Mrs Johnston, No. 97, near Craven
 Buildings, Drury-lane.  Receipts: #166 4s. (65.16; 13.14; 0.0; tickets: 86.14) 
(charge: #65 6s. 6d.).  *pcg Tancred and Sigismunda.  As 14 Apr.  *aMidas.  As 3
1 Mar.  *dAs 20 Nov. 1776.  *cReceipts: #193 6s. 6d. (189.11.0; 3.15.6).  *phay 
A Lecture on Heads.  As 13 Mar.  *p22 dl Macbeth.  As 25 Nov. 1776, but Lady Mac
duff-Miss Platt; Lady Macbeth-Miss Sherry.  *aThe Register Office.  Irishman-Moo
dy; Capt. LeBrush-Palmer; Gulwell-Packer; Scotchman-Parsons; Frenchman-Baddeley;
 Frankly-Davies; Harwood-Lamash [+Public Advertiser=: $Wheeler=]; Lord Brilliant
-Fawcett; Williams-Wrighten; Margery Moorpout-Mrs Love; Maria-Miss Platt; Melpom
ene-Miss Stageldoir; Mrs Doggerel-Miss Pope.  *dEnd II: [a New Pastoral Ballet, 
composed by $Helme=,% +The Garden of Love=-Helme, Sga Crespi, Miss Armstrong, Sg
a Ricci; End: +Chaconne=-Sga Crespi.  *soriginal Music [by $Matthew Locke=%-Bann
ister, Legg, Kear, Fawcett, Follett, Chaplin, Carpenter, Mrs Scott, Miss Abrams,
 Mrs Greville, Mrs Davies, Miss Jarratt, Miss Collett, Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Mrs 
Pitt, Mrs Smith, Gaudry.  *cBenefit for $Miss Sherry= & $Sga Crespi=.  Tickets d
elivered by $Harwood= will be taken.  Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years [see 3
1 Mar.].  +Public Advertiser=, 17 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Sherry, at +Ni
choll's=, Baker, +Bridge's-street=, +Covent Garden=; of Sga Crespi, +Poland-stre
et=, opposite the Back Door of the +Pantheon=.  Receipts: #257 0s. 6d. (91.14.0;
 23.0.6; 0.0.0; tickets: 142.6.0) (charge: #70 17s. 6d.).  *pcg All in the Wrong
.  As 20 Dec. 1776, but Sir W. Belmont-Dunstall; Clarissa-Miss Ambrose.  *aThe D
evil to Pay.  Sir John Loverule (with +The Early Horn=)-Mattocks; Jobson-Dunstal
l; Lady Loverule-Mrs Pitt; Nell-Mrs Hunt (1st appearance in that character).  *d
End: As 9 Nov 1776.  *cBenefit for $Dunstall=.  +Public Advertiser=, 3 Apr.: Tic
kets to be had of Dunstall, +Little Queen-street=, +Lincoln's Inn Fields=.  Rece
ipts: #282 10s. 6d. (70.17.6  tickets: 211.13.0) (charge: #64 5s.).  *phay The G
entle Shepherd; or, Patie and Roger.  As 7 Oct. 1776, but Sir William-Lewis; Pat
ie (the Gentle Shepherd)-Mrs Moss (1st appearance in that character in +England=
); Roger-M'Donald; Peggy-Miss Douglas (1st appearance on the +English stage=); S
cots +Prologue=-Mrs Moss [in the character of a +Country Boy=r%.  *aEntertainmen
ts of Singing and Dancing.  *dConclude: +reel=-the characters.  *sEnd I: +The Ba
nks of the Tweed=-Mrs Moss; End III: +Rosilind Castle=-Mrs Moss; End: +The Banks
 of Invermay=-Mrs Moss.  *cBy Permission of the +Lord Chamberlain=.  Benefit for
 $Mrs Moss=, who performed +Peggy=r in February and October 1776.  [Author of Pr
ologue unknown.]  *pking's La Schiava.  As 1 Apr.  *dEnd I: +Les Amans Heureux=,
 as 4 Jan.; End II: +Serious Ballet=, as 25 Feb.; End Opera: +La Clochette=, as 
15 Mar.  *p23 dl The Jealous Wife.  As 28 Jan., but Sir Harry Beagle-Burton; Rus
set-Bransby; Tom-Holcroft.  *aBon Ton.  As 5 Apr.  *dEnd I afterpiece: [the% +Lo
uvre Minuet, Allemande=-the Miss Stageldoirs.  *cBenefit for $Bransby= & $Burton
=.  +Public Advertiser=, 19 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bransby, No. 10, +New Pye
-street=, +Westminster=; of Burton, +Duke's-court=, +Bow-street=, +Covent Garden
=.  Receipts: #196 1s. 6d. (61.11.0; 24.17.6; 0.0.0; tickets: 109.13.0) (charge:
 #64 9s.).  *pcg Caractacus.  As 6 Dec. 1776.  *aThe Royal Chace; or, Harlequin 
Skeleton.  Harlequin Jupiter-Lee Lewes; Chasseur Royal-Mahon; Pantaloon-Baker; A
natomist-Wewitzer; Pierrot-Delpini; Colombine-Miss Valois.  *cBenefit for $Lee L
ewes=.  Afterpiece: In [it] will be introduced the +Stockwell Scenes=, with a +P
rologue= [by $Richard Brinsley Sheridan= (+Boaden, Mrs Siddons=, I, 107)], in th
e Character of +Harlequin=r, spoken by Lee Lewes; to conclude with the Escape th
rough the Tub, as in +Mother Shipton=.  [The Stockwell Scenes were included in a
ll subsequent performances.  The Prologue and Escape were included in the first 
3 performances only (see 3 May).]  +Public Advertiser=, 8 Apr.: Tickets to be ha
d of Lee Lewes, No. 40, +Charlotte-street=, +Rathbone Place=.  Receipts: #282 18
s. (119.15; tickets: 163.3) (charge: #69 17s. 6d.).  *phay A Lecture on Heads.  
As 13 Mar.  *p24 dl The Revenge.  Zanga-A Young Gentleman (1st appearance on any
 stage [$Wolfe=]); Don Carlos-Barrett; Alvarez-Hurst; Don Manuel-Norris; Don Alo
nzo-Lacy; Isabella-Mrs Johnston; Leonora-The Young Lady who perform'd Miranda in
 the Tempest [$Mrs Cuyler=].  *aAll the World's a Stage.  As 7 Apr., but New +Pr
ologue=-_.  *dAs 15 Feb.  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 9 years [acted 20 Oct. 17
69.  $Wolfe= is identified by MS annotation on +Kemble playbill=.  For $Mrs Cuyl
er= see 4 Jan.].  Receipts: #143 15s. (103.19; 33.14; 6.2).  *pcg Know Your Own 
Mind.  As 22 Feb., but Lady Jane-Mrs Whitefield [in place of $Miss Dayes=%.  *aT
he Royal Chace.  As 23 Apr.  *cReceipts: #216 7s. 6d. (214.15.0; 1.12.6).  *p25 
dl The Tempest.  As 31 Jan., but Chorus of Spirits-_Fawcett.  *aHarlequin's Inva
sion.  As 29 Jan.  *d+Dance of Spirits, as 14 Apr.; IV: [+Grand Dance=% [i.e.% +
The Chaconne=, as 5 Apr.   *cBenefit for $Wright=, $Carpenter= & $Butler=.  Tick
ets delivered by $Mrs Veal= will be taken.  Receipts: #299 8s. (39.3; 3.18; 0.0;
 tickets: 256.7) (charge: #74 14s.).  *pcg She Stoops to Conquer.  As 25 Sept. 1
776.  *aThe Country Mad-Cap.  As 14 Apr.  *dEnd II: +New Comic Dance=-Master Jac
kson, Miss Parish (A pupil of $Aldridge=; 1st appearanae on the stage); End III:
 [a new characteristic +Irish Dance=,% +The Humours of Leixlip=[; or, +A Jaunt t
o the Salmon-Leap=, in which an +Irish Jigg=,%-Aldridge, Miss Besford; End IV: [
a new Comic Dance,% +The Coopers=-Langrish, Master Jackson, Miss Nicols (Scholar
 to Aldridge; 1st appearance also); End: [a new pantomimical Naval Dance,% +All 
in the Downs= [; or, +Farewell to Deal=,%-Aldridge, Jackson, Besford, Miss Besfo
rd, Miss Valois.  *cBenefit for $Aldridge=.  +Public Advertiser=, 14 Apr.: Ticke
ts to be had of Aldridge, No. 2, +Great Maddox-street=, +Hanover-square=.  Recei
pts: #189 9s. (123.4; tickets: 66.5) (charge: #64 10s.).  *phay A Lecture on Hea
ds.  As 13 Mar.  *p26 dl Tamerlane.  As 4 Nov. 1776, but Bajazet-Younger (1st ap
pearance on this stage); The usual +Prologue=-_.  *aBon Ton.  As 5 Apr.  *dEnd: 
+Grand Dance=, as 25 Apr.; End I afterpiece: +The Irish Fair=, as 31 Oct. 1776. 
 *sAs 4 Nov. 1776.  *cBenefit for $Grimaldi= & $Hurst=.  +Public Advertiser=, 21
 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Grimaldi, +Little Piazza=, +Covent Garden=.  [$Young
er= was from the +Manchester theatre=.]  Receipts: #217 0s. 6d. (46.14.0; 17.17.
6; 0.0.0; tickets: 152.9.0) (charge: #65 16s. 6d.).  *pcg The Suspicious Husband
.  As 5 Dec. 1776, but Jack Meggot-Lee Lewes.  *aThe Country Wife.  As 21 Dec. 1
776.  *dEnd II: [a New Dance,% +The Serenade=-Bishop, Sga Tinte; [in which the% 
+Minuet de la cour=-; End: +Pastoral Dance=, as 23 Nov. 1776; End I afterpiece: 
[a% +Minuet=-Bishop, A Young Lady (his Scholar).  *cBenefit $Bishop=.  +Public A
dvertiser=, 4 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bishop, No. 15, +Bateman's Buildings=. 
 Receipts: #176 19s. 6d. (88.13.6; tickets: 88.6.0) (charge: #105).  *pking's Te
lemaco.  As 15 Mar.  *dEnd I: +Les Chasseurs=, as 15 Mar.; End II: +New Serious 
Ballet=, as 12 Apr.; End Opera: +La Clochette=, as 15 Mar.  *p28 dl A Bundle of 
Prologues.  [Cast from +London Chronicle=, 29 Apr.:% Mr Tragedy Truncheon-Bannis
ter; Mr Quaver-Davies; Mr Smirk-Parsons; Patrick Boosely-Moody; Mrs Ranter-Mrs D
avies; Mrs Stately-Mrs Bradshaw.  *aTwelfth Night.  As 24 Oct. 1776, but Sebasti
an-Farren; Clown-Davies; Epilogue Song-Davies.  *aThe Jubilee.  As 8 Mar.  *cBen
efit for a Fund, for the Relief of those who from their Infirmities shall be obl
iged to retire from the Stage.  Prelude [1st time; M. PREL 1, by $David Garrick=
, and others.  In a synopsis of the plot the +London Chronicle= assigns $Bannist
er=; it lists the names of the other performers and, separately, their parts.  T
he assignments given above are my own conjecture.  Not in +Larpent MS=; the comp
oser of the vaudeville written by Garrick is unknown].  The Words of the Songs w
ill be given at the Theatre.  Ladies and Gentlemen are requested to come early, 
to prevent Confusion.  And to send their Servants by Five o'clock to keep the Pl
aces.  Receipts: #217 8s. 6d. (100.9.0; 25.14.6; 0.0.0; tickets: 91.5.0) (charge
: free).  *pcg Amphitryon.  Jupiter-Lewis; Amphitryon-Wroughton; Mercury-Whitefi
eld; Judge Gripus-Wilson; Phoebus-Booth; Polidas-Fearon; Tranio-Thompson; Sosia-
Quick; Phaedra-Mrs Mattocks; Bromia-Mrs Pitt; Night-Mrs Poussin; Alcmena-Mrs Har
tley.  *aDon Quixote in England.  Principal Parts-Lee Lewes, Mahon, Robson, Fear
on, Booth, Thompson, Jones, Fox, Wewitzer (with a new +song=), Miss Ambrose; [Pa
rtial cast suggested by $Genest=, V, 567:% +Don Quixote=-Lee Lewes; +Sancho=-Qui
ck; +Dorothea=-Miss Valois; +Mrs Guzzle=-Mrs Pitt.  *eIV: [an% Interlude between
 Plutus and Wit and a Masque of +Singing= and +Dancing=[+Plutus=r%-Reinhold, [+W
it=r-% Miss Valois; After dance: [+Monologue=% +Tony Lumpkin's Adventures in a T
rip to London= (1st time)-Quick.  *dEnd: +The Humours of New@Market with the Pon
y Races=-Dagueville (1st appearance this season).  *cBenefit for $Quick=.  After
piece: Altered from $Fielding=; not acted these 17 years [not acted since 10 May
 1759].  +Public Advertiser=, 3 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Quick at +Boyes's=, C
oachmaker, +Long-Acre=.  Receipts: #278 15s. (160.15; tickets: 118.0) (charge: #
65 10s.).  *p29 dl A Bold Stroke for a Wife.  Col. Feignwell-King; Sir Philip Mo
delove-Baddeley; Obadiah Prim-Moody; Freeman-Packer; Sackbut-Bransby; Tradelove-
Hurst; Simon Pure-Waldron; Perriwinkle-Parsons; Mrs Prim-Mrs Bradshaw; Masked La
dy-Miss Platt; Betty-Mrs Smith; Ann Lovely-Mrs Greville (1st appearance in that 
character).  *aHarlequin's Invasion.  As 14 Jan.  *dAs 28 Nov. 1776.  *cBenefit 
for $Waldron= & $Mrs Greville=.  +Public Advertiser=, 19 Apr.: Tickets to be had
 of Waldron, No. 16, +Glanville-street=, +Rathbone Place=; of Mrs Greville at th
e +Orange Warehouse=, the Corner of +King-street=, +Covent Garden=.  Receipts: #
178 15s. (69.0; 15.1; 0.0; tickets: 94.14) (charge: #74 14s.).  *pcg Lionel and 
Clarissa.  Lionel-Mattocks; Sir John Flowerdale-Hull; Harman-Mahon; Jenkins-Duns
tall; Jessamy-Wewitzer; Colonel Oldboy-Wilson; Lady Mary Oldboy-Mrs Green; Diana
-Miss Brown; Jenny-Mrs Wilson; Clarissa-Mrs Mattocks.  *aThe Citizen.  As 8 Nov.
 1776, but Young Philpot-Lee Lewes; Maria-Miss Brown (1st appearance in that cha
racter).  *dEnd Dialogue: As 23 Nov. 1776; End I: +Minuet=-Aldridge, Miss Brown.
  *sEnd: New Pastoral Dialogue [+Tell me Silvia why so sad?=] [set to music by $
Dr Arnold=%-Miss Wewitzer, Miss Brown.  *cBenefit for $Miss Brown=.  The Words o
f the Pastoral Dialogue to be had Gratis at the Theatre.  Mainpiece: Not acted t
hese 6 years.  Receipts: #244 6s. 6d. (167.1.6; tickets: 77.5.0) (charge: #64 10
s.).  *pking's La Buona Figliuola.  Principal Characters-Trebbi, Fochetti, Savoi
, Micheli, Sga Prudom, Sga Luiggia? Farnese, Sga Sestini.  [Libretto ($T. Cadell
=, 1777) lists the parts: +Il Cavaliere Armidoro=r, +Il Marchese della Conchigli
a=r, +Tagliaferro=r, +Mengotto=r, +La Marchesa Lucinda=r, +Paoluccia=r, +Cecchin
a=r, +Sandrina=r.]  *dEnd I: +Serious Ballet=, as 25 Feb.; End II: +Les Amans He
ureux=, as 4 Jan.; End Opera: +L'Epouse Persane=, as 21 Jan.  *cOpera: The Music
 by $Piccinni=; under the Direction of $Giardini=.  *p30 dl The Fair Quaker.  As
 9 Nov. 1776, but Sir Charles Pleasant (1st time)-R. Palmer; Rovewell-Holcroft. 
 *aThe Deserter.  As 21 Apr., but Henry-Davies.  *d[Grand Naval Review,% As 9 No
v. 1776; End I afterpiece: [a% +Hornpipe=-Walker.  *sAs 9 Nov. 1776.  *e[+Monolo
gue=.% End: +Bucks have at ye All=-R. Palmer.  *cBenefit for $R. Palmer=, $Walke
r=, $Kirk=, house-keeper, & $Mrs Cross=.  The Doors to be opened at 5:30.  To be
gin at 6:30 [same for rest of season].  Receipts: #247 9s. 6d. (45.5.0; 11.12.6;
 0.0.0; tickets: 190.12.0) (charge: #67 5s.).  *pcg Know Your Own Mind.  As 24 A
pr. [+Prologue= and +Epilogue= as 22 Feb.%  *aThe Old Maid.  As 25 Jan.  *dEnd I
II: +The Serenade=, as 26 Apr.; End: +The Humours of Leixlip=, as 25 Apr.  *cBy 
Command of $Their Majesties=.  Such Tickets as have been delivered for this Day 
cannot possibly be admitted this Evening, but will be received on Thursday, the 
Eighth of May.  The Doors to be opened at 5:30.  To begin at 6:30 [same for rest
 of season].  Receipts: #243 9s. 6d. (242.18.6; 0.11.0).  *phay A Lecture on Hea
ds.  As 13 Mar.  *p5 1 dl The Rivals.  As 9 Apr., but Julia (1st time)-Miss Hopk
ins.  *aAll the World's a Stage.  As 7 Apr., but Harry Stukely-Barrett; Waiter-R
. Palmer; New +Prologue=-Jefferson.  *dIn: +Grand Dance=, as 25 Apr.  *cReceipts
: #97 14s. (66.9; 30.1; 1.4).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 13 Nov. 1776.  *aThe Royal C
hace.  As 23 Apr.  *cReceipts: #260 15s. 6d. (259.19.6; 0.16.0).  *phay A Word t
o the Wise.  Sir John Dormer-Comerford; Sir George Hastings-Brerely; Willoughby-
Webb; Villars-Pepys; Captain Dormer-West; Mrs Willoughby-Mrs Nost'e (from the $T
heatre Royal, York=); Miss Willoughby-Mrs West; Miss Dormer-A Lady (1st appearan
ce in +London= [unidentified]); Miss Montague (with the original +Epilogue=)-The
 Lady [who performed +Emily=r in the +Deuce is in Him=, on 11 Feb.].  *aCatherin
e and Petruchio.  Petruchio-West; Catherine-Mrs West.  *cBy Authority [of the +L
ord Chamberlain=].  Benefit for a Gentleman, who, through unavoidable misfortune
s, is reduced to take this method of soliciting the patronage of his Friends and
 a Generous Public.  Tickets delivered for the 26th of April will be admitted.  
The Doors to be opened at 6:30.  To begin exactly at 7:00.  *pking's La Fraschet
ana.  As 5 Nov. 1776.  *dEnd I: +Les Amans Heureux=, as 4 Jan.; End II: +Diverti
sement=-Simonet, Mlle Baccelli, Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Vallouy@le@cadet; End Opera
: +New Ballet= (composed by $Simonet=)-Simonet, Mlle Baccelli, Mlle DeCamp, Sg a
nd Sga Zuchelli; [in which, particularly a grand% +Chaconne= [in two Parts, habi
lle en homme%-Mme Simonet.  *cBenefit for $Mons and Mme Simonet=.  +Public Adver
tiser=, 28 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Simonet, at +Leary's=, near the +White Bea
r=, +Piccadilly=.  *p2 dl The Tempest.  As 25 Apr., but Ferdinand-Davies.  *aAll
 the World's a Stage.  As 1 May.  [+Prologue= as 1 May.%  *d+Dance of Spirits=, 
as 14 Apr.; In IV: +Grand Dance=, as 25 Apr.; The Court Minuet, as 3 Apr.; Allem
ande, as 3 Apr.  *cBenefit for $Mr and Mrs Booth=, $Miss Armstrong= & $Everard= 
[who are named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill].  Receipts: #114 4s
. (46.10; 10.8; 1.11; tickets: 55.15) (charge: none listed).  *pcg The School fo
r Wives.  General Savage-Wilson; Torrington-Quick; Connelly-Mahon; Capt. Savage-
Lee Lewes; Leeson-Whitefield; Belville-Lewis; Mrs Belville-Mrs Jackson; Lady Rac
hel Mildew-Mrs Pitt; Miss Leeson-Miss Leeson [sic]; Mrs Tempest-Mrs Whitefield; 
Miss Walsingham-Mrs Wilson.  *aThe Clock-Case; or, Female Curiosity.  Face-Wilso
n; Square-Robson; Magnum Bonum-Fearon; Triangle-Cushing; Compass-Wewitzer; Perpe
ndicular-Thompson; Mrs Magnum-Mrs White; Mrs Square-Mrs Pitt.  *aMidas.  As 31 M
ar.  *dEnd 2nd piece: +The Humours of Leixlip=, as 25 Apr.  *cBenefit for $Wilso
n=.  Mainpiece: Never acted there.  Interlude [1st time; INT 1, author unknown. 
 +Larpent MS 433=; synopsis of plot in +London Chronicle=, 5 May].  +Public Adve
rtiser=, 17 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Wilson at his House in +Tavistock-street=
, +Bedford-square=.  Receipts: #187 1s. (87.8; tickets: 99.13) (charge: #67 5s.)
.  *p3 dl As You Like It.  As 9 Oct. 1776, but Amiens (with +songs=)-Davies; Cae
lia-Miss Hopkins; +Cuckoo Song=-_.  *aAll the World's a Stage.  As 1 May.  [+Pro
logue= as 1 May.%  *dEnd Act I: +Grand Dance=, as 25 Apr.  *sAs 9 Oct. 1776.  *c
Benefit for $Fosbrook=, box-book keeper.  Tickets delivered for +As You Like It=
 on the 10th of May will be taken this Night.  Receipts: #257 2s. (62.3; 17.9; 0
.0; tickets: 177.10) (charge: #84).  *pcg Sir Thomas Overbury.  As 1 Feb., but +
Prologue=-_; +Epilogue=-_[and thereafter].  *aThe Royal Chace.  As 23 Apr., but 
Anatomist-Jones [+Prologue=-_; Escape-_% [and thereafter].  *dEnd: +The Serenade
=, as 26 Apr.  *mEnd II: +solo= on the pedal harp-Jones.  *cTickets delivered by
 the Widow of the late $Dall=, $Sga Tinte=, $Thompson=, $Jones= and $Bates= will
 be taken this Night.  Receipts: #283 8s. 6d. (54.5.6; 1.4.6; tickets: 127.18.6)
.  *pking's Telemaco.  As 15 Mar.  *dAs 19 Apr.  *c+Morning Chronicle=, 8 May: T
he audience had been much better satisfied with less noise behind the scenes, wh
ile $Miss Davies= was singing.  During her first song there was such a noise tha
t $Savoi= was obliged to go off the stage, by orders from some gentlemen in the 
pit, to request silence three several times.  *p5 dl Hamlet.  As 3 Feb., but Oph
elia-Mrs Mattocks (of +cg=).  *aAll the World's a Stage.  As 1 May.  [+Prologue=
 as 1 May.%  *cReceipts: #59 1s. 6d. (38.3.0; 19.18.6; 1.0.0).  *pcg Alexander t
he Great.  Alexander-Peile (1st appearance in that character); Clytus-Clarke; He
phestion-Whitefield; Lysimachus-Mahon; Cassander-Fearon; Thessalus-Thompson; Pol
yperchon-Booth; Roxana-Mrs Ward (1st appearance in that character); Parisatis-Mr
s Whitefield; Sysigambis-Mrs Poussin; Statira-Mrs Hartley.  *aThe Device; or, Th
e Marriage-Office.  [Characters by Mattocks, Robson, Mahon, Wewitzer, Thompson, 
Stevens, Wilson, Mrs Wilson, Mrs Booth, Miss Brown.  [Cast from Airs, (no pub. 1
777)]:% Townley-Mattocks; Sharpley-Robson; O'Donnely-Mahon; Lumber-Wewitzer; Col
onel Olive-Wilson; Miss Blond-Mrs Wilson; Mrs Olive-Mrs Booth, [in Airs:% Mrs Pi
tt; Miss Olive-Miss Brown; Thompson; Stevens.  *dEnd: +The Humours of New@Market
 with the Pony Races=, as 28 Apr.  *sEnd I: +A Welcome to the Spring= (composed 
by $Dr Arne=)-Mrs Farrell.  *cBenefit for $Wild=, prompter, and $Mahon=.  +Gazet
teer=, 26 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Wild, No. 20, +Martlet-court=, +Bow-street=
, +Covent-garden=; of Mahon, No. 6, +Paradise-street=, +Marybone=.  Mainpiece: W
ith the Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Babylon.  Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2, 
by-$Richards=]: The Music entirely new, composed by $William? Bates=.  Receipts:
 #256 13s. 6d. (126.0.6; tickets: 130.13.0) (charge: #72 15s. 6d.).  *phay A Lec
ture on Heads.  As 13 Mar.  *cOn account of the many necessary Alterations wante
d in the Theatre for the ensuing Season, the +Lecture on Heads= can only be repe
ated the above Night.  *p6 dl The Runaway.  As 18 Apr., but Jarvis-Palmer; Emily
 (1st time)-Miss Jarratt; Clerk-_.  *aThe Register Office.  As 22 Apr., but Fran
kly-Norris; Lord Brilliant-R. Palmer.  *dEnd: +Grand Dance=, as 25 Apr.  *cBenef
it for $Fawcett=, $Legg= & $Kear=.  +Morning Chronicle=, 3 May: Tickets to be of
 Fawcett, +Craven Buildings=, +Drury-Lane=; of Legg, +Market-street=, +St James'
s Market=; of Kear, No: 2, +Stephen-street=, +Tottenham Court Road=.  Tickets de
livered for Wednesday the 7th Inst. will be taken.  Receipts: #229 1s. (36.12; 1
0.12; 0.0; tickets: 181.17) (charge: #64 15s.).  *pcg The Grecian Daughter.  As 
31 Mar., but Euphrasia-Mrs Ward (1st appearance in that character).  *aThe Count
ry Wife.  As 21 Dec. 1776.  *dEnd: +All in the Downs=, as 25 Apr.  *sAs 5 May.  
*cBenefit for $Mr and Mrs Ward=.  +The Country Mad-Cap= [announced on playbill o
f 5 May] is obliged to be set aside on account of $Mrs Pitt='s indisposition.  T
ickets delivered for +Alexander the Great=, for Saturday, May 3, will be admitte
d.  +Public Advertiser=, 22 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mr and Mrs Ward at +Stacy
's=, No. 76, the Corner of +Long-acre=, +Drury-lane=.  Receipts: #197 18s. (82.1
0; tickets: 115.8) (charge: #66 1s.).  *pking's La Fraschetana.  As 5 Nov. 1776.
  *dEnd I: +Les Amans Heureux=, as 4 Jan.; End II: +New Serious Ballet=, as 12 A
pr.; End Opera: +La Clochette=, as 15 Mar.  *p7 dl The Tempest.  As 2 May.  *aBo
n Ton.  As 5 Apr.  *dAs 10 Jan.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  Receipts: #
219 15s. 6d. (204.16.0; 13.17.0; 1.2.6).  *pcg The Revenge.  Zanga-Jackson (from
 the $Theatre-Royal, Crow Street, Dublin=); Carlos-Lewis; Alvarez-L'Estrange; Ma
nuel-Robson; Alonzo-Wroughton; Isabella-Miss Ambrose; Leonora (with an Occasiona
l +Prologue=)-Mrs Jackson.  *aDon Quixote in England.  As 28 Apr., but Principal
 Parts-Mrs +Poussin, Mrs _Pitt.  *dAfter monologue: +The Humours of Leixlip=, as
 25 Apr.  *eEnd: [+Monologue=.%  +Tony Lumpkin's Adventures in a Trip to London=
, as 28 Apr.  *cBenefit for $Mrs Jackson=.  Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. 
 The Characters to be dressed in the Habits of the Country.  +Public Advertiser=
, 3 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Jackson, +Great Piazza=, +Covent Garden=.  Rec
eipts: #189 14s. (87.7; tickets: 102.7) (charge: #64 10s.).  *p8 dl The School f
or Scandal.  [Principal Characters by King, Yates, Dodd, Palmer, Parsons, Baddel
ey, Aickin, Packer, Farren, Lamash, Gaudry, R. Palmer, Norris, Chaplin, Smith, M
iss Pope,Miss P. Hopkins, Miss Sherry, Mrs Abington.  [Cast from +Public Adverti
ser=, 9 May:% Sir Peter Teazle-King; Sir Oliver Surface-Yates; Sir Benjamin Back
bite-Dodd; Joseph Surface-Palmer; Crabtree-Parsons; Moses-Baddeley; Rowley-Aicki
n; Snake-Packer; Careless-Farren; Trip-Lamash; Sir Harry Bumper-Gaudry; Gentleme
n-R. Palmer, Norris, Chaplin; Charles Surface-Smith; Mrs Candour-Miss Pope; Mari
a-Miss P. Hopkins; Lady Sneerwell-Miss Sherry; Lady Teazle-Mrs Abington; +Prolog
ue=-King; +Epilogue=-Mrs Abington.  [These were spoken, as here assigned, at all
 subsequent performances.]  *aThe Mayor of Garratt.  As 28 Sept. 1776, but Baker
; Mrs Sneak (1st time)-Mrs Davies.  *cMainpiece [1st time; C 5, by $Richard Brin
sley Sheridan=.  Prologue by $David Garrick=.  Epilogue by $George Colman elder=
 (+London Chronicle=, 9 May).  Text 1st published (unauthorized), +Dublin=, 1780
]: With New Scenes and Dresses.  "No modern theatrical piece ever met with a ful
ler success, nor deserved it more...  The performers deserve every sort of comme
ndation for their spirited exertion in supporting the respective characters, esp
ecially $Smith=, $King= and the incomparable $Mrs Abington=" (+Gazetteer=, 9 May
).  "To my great astonishment there were more parts performed admirably in +The 
School for Scandal= than I almost ever saw in any play.  Mrs Abington was equal 
to the first of her profession, $Yates= (the husband), $Parsons=, $Miss Pope=, a
nd $Palmer=, all shone.  It seemed a marvellous resurrection of the stage.  Inde
ed, the play had as much merit as the actors.  I have seen no comedy that comes 
near it since +The Provoked Husband=" ($Walpole= [13 July 1777], X, 82).  Receip
ts: #224 10s. (215.12.0; 8.14.6; 0.3.6).  *pcg Know Your Own Mind.  As 24 Apr.  
*aThe Royal Chace.  As 3 May.  *cTickets which have been already delivered by $M
iss Ambrose=, $Branson=, and the Gentlemen of the Orchestra for Wednesday, the 3
0th of April, will be received this Evening.  Receipts: #286 (55.12; tickets: 23
0.8).  *pking's Il Geloso in Cimento.  As 4 Feb.  *dEnd I: [new Comic Dance,% +L
e Culte d'Amour=(composed by $Vallouy=)-Vallouy, Mlle DeCamp, Vallouy@le@cadet; 
End II: +Serious Ballet=-Simonet, Mlle Baccelli; [, in which the% +Minuet de la 
Cour=-Mons and Mme Vallouy; End Opera: +Les Amans Heureux=, as 4 Jan.  *cBenefit
 for $Mons and Mme Vallouy=.  +Public Advertiser=, 3 May: Tickets to be had of V
allouy at his house, No. 2, +Berkley-square=.  *p9 dl The School for Scandal.  A
s 8 May.  *aThe Deserter.  Henry-Davies; Russet-Bannister; Simkin-Carpenter; Ski
rmish-Parsons; Flint-Wright; Soldiers-Legg, Kear, Griffiths, Chaplin, Follett; J
enny-Mrs Davies; Margaret-Mrs Love; Louisa-Miss Collett.  *c"A Gentleman who is 
as mad as myself about the School remark'd that the Characters upon the Stage at
 the falling of the Screen stand too long before they speak-I thought so too the
 first Night-he said it was the same on the 2d & was remark'd by others-tho they
 should be astonish'd & a little petrify'd, yet it may be carry'd to too great a
 length" ($David Garrick= to $R. B. Sheridan=, 12 May 1777, in +The Letters of D
avid Garrick=, ed. $D. M. Little= and $G. M. Kahrl=, 1963, III, 1163).  Receipts
: #195 13s. (184.7; 10.19; 0.7).  *pcg She Stoops to Conquer.  As 25 Sept. 1776.
  *aCross Purposes.  As 27 Sept. 1776, but Consol-Stevens.  *dEnd II: +Minuet de
 la Cour and Allemande=-Rudd, Miss Ross; End: +Double Hornpipe=-Rudd, Miss Bassa
n.  *cTickets delivered by $Rudd=, $Ledger=, $Stevens=, $Mountford=, $Mrs Heard=
, $Mrs Morris= and $Miss Bassan= [Account-Book adds: $Thompson=, $Jones=, $Bates
=] will be taken this Evening.  $Miss Brown= being ill, +Lionel and Clarissa= [a
nnounced on playbill of 8 May] is obliged to be set aside.  Receipts: #158 1s. (
40.4; 1.9; tickets: -116.8).  *p10 dl The School for Scandal.  As 8 May.  *aAll 
the World's a Stage.  As 1 May.  [+Prologue= as 1 May.%  *cReceipts: #240 10s. 6
d. (231.15.0; 8.7.0; 0.8.6).  *pcg Caractacus.  As 6 Dec. 1776, but Caractacus-P
eile (1st appearance in that character).  *aHarlequin's Frolicks.  As 9 Jan.  *d
As 21 Jan.  *cBenefit for $Peile=.  [In the playbill his part is specified.]  +P
ublic Advertiser=, 15 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Peile at his House, +North-stre
et=, +Westminster=.  Receipts: #184 7s. 6d. (69.6.6; tickets: 115.1.0) (charge: 
#105).    *pking's Telemaco.  As 15 Mar.  *dAs 19 Apr.  *p12 dl The School for S
candal.  As 8 May.  *aAll the World's a Stage.  As 1 May.  [+Prologue= as 1 May.
%  *cAccount-Book: Paid Author's ballance for 1 Night of the +Trip to Scarboroug
h= & 4 Nights for the +School for Scandal= #741 0s. 6d.  Receipts: #257 7s. 6d. 
(251.16.0; 5.0.0; 0.11.6).  *pcg The West Indian.  As 5 Feb.  *aThe Citizen.  As
 8 Nov. 1776, but Young Philpot-Lee Lewes; +Epilogue=-Lee Lewes, Quick.  *dEnd I
I: +The Serenade=, as 26 Apr.; End: +The Humours of Leixlip=, as 25 Apr.  *cBy C
ommand of $Their Majesties=.  Receipts: #164 4s. (163.11.6; 0.-0.12.6).  *p13 dl
 The School for Scandal.  As 8 May.  *aMiss in her Teens.  As 21 Sept. 1776, but
 Miss Biddy-Miss Hamilton.  *cReceipts: #242 8s. 6d. (233.13.0; 8.15.6; 0.0.0). 
 *pcg A Word to the Wise.  Sir George Hastings-Lee Lewes; Sir John Dormer-Hull; 
Mr Willoughby-Aickin; Capt. Dormer-Whitefield; Villars-Lewis; Miss Willoughby-Mr
s Hartley; Mrs Willoughby-Mrs Jackson; Miss Dormer-Mrs Whitefield; Miss Montague
-Mrs Bulkley.  *aTrue-Blue.  As 23 Dec. 1776, but Principal Parts-Miss +Wewitzer
, Miss _Dayes.  *aThree Weeks after Marriage.  As 25 Oct. 1776, but Mrs Drugget-
Mrs Poussin; Nancy-Mrs Whitefield.  *dEnd III: As 23 Nov. 1776; In interlude: La
ngrish.  *sEnd I: [a favourite% +air= (composed by $Dr Arne=)-Mrs Farrell.  *cBe
nefit for $Whitefield= and $Wewitzer=.  Mainpiece: Written by the late $Hugh Kel
ly=, Esq., Never acted there.  +Public Advertiser=, 26 Apr.: Tickets to be had o
f Whitefield, +Crown-court=, +Bow-street=; of Wewitzer. +Great Hart-street=, +Co
vent Garden=.  Receipts: #137 4s. 6d. (55.14.6; tickets: 81.10.0) (charge: #85 1
2s. 6d.).  *pking's I Capricci del Sesso.  *cNot performed [see 20 May].  +Publi
c Advertiser=, 14 May: "The Managers of the Opera [are] extremely concerned for 
the Disappointment of last Night."  *p14 dl The School for Scandal.  As 8 May.  
*aThe Waterman.  As 5 Oct. 1776, but Robin (1st time)-Lamash; Mrs Bundle-Mrs Lov
e.  *cReceipts: #248 7s. (237.11.0; 10.5.6; 0.10.6).  *pcg Tancred and Sigismund
a.  As 14 Apr., but Sigismunda-Mrs Hartley (1st appearance in that character).  
*aThe Country Mad-Cap.  As 14 Apr., but Mrs Midnight-Mrs Booth.  *dEnd: As 18 Fe
b.  *sEnd I: [a new% +air= in the Scotch Taste (composed by $Dr Arne=)-Mrs Farre
ll.  *cBenefit for $Mrs Pitt=, $Booth= & $L'Estrange=.  +Morning Chronicle=, 7 M
ay: Tickets to be had of Mrs Pitt, +James-street=; of Booth, No. 35, +Brownlow-s
treet=, +Long-acre=; of L'Estrange, +Bolton-street=, +Long-acre=.  Tickets deliv
ered for +Elfrida= will be taken.  Receipts: #161 15s. 6d. (45.8.6; tickets: 116
.7.0) (charge: #91 10s.).  *p15 dl The Committee.  As 15 Oct. 1776, but Col. Blu
nt-Hurst; Lieut. Story-Farren; Mrs Chat-Mrs Cartwright.  *aThe Deserter.  As 9 M
ay, but Henry-Vernon; Jenny-Mrs Wrighten.  *dEnd I: +The Corn Thrashers=, as 19 
Apr.; End II: [a% +Hornpipe=-Master Staples (scholar of Blurton).  *bEnd: +The W
apping Landlady=.  Jack in Distress-Blurton; Wapping Landlady-Mr Griffiths; Oran
ge Woman-Mrs Sutton.  *cBenefit for $Grist=, $Messink= & $Blurton=.  Tickets del
ivered by $Follett= will be taken.  Receipts: #201 14s. (38.12; 8.14; 0.0; ticke
ts: 154.8) (charge: #65 6s. 6d.).  *pcg Sir Thomas Overbury.  As 1 Feb.  *aDon Q
uixote in England.  As 7 May, but Principal Parts-Miss +Green, Miss _Ambrose.  *
dEnd: +The Serenade=, as 26 Apr.  *cTickets delivered by $Cushing=, $Stoppelaer=
, $Walters=, $Potter=. $Mrs Sharpe=, $Mrs Warneck= will be taken this Evening.  
Receipts: #168 17s. (50.15; 1.12; tickets: 116.10).  *phay The English Merchant.
  Principal Parts-Aickin, Palmer, Jackson, Fearon, Massey, Egan, Davies, Mrs Hun
ter, Mrs Davies, Mrs Poussin, A Gentlewoman [Mrs Armstead]; [Partial cast from +
Morning Chronicle=, 16 May, and playbill of 16 July 1779: +Freeport=r-Aickin; +S
patter=r-Palmer; +Lord Falbridge=r-Davies; +Lady Alton=r-Mrs Hunter; +Molly=r-Mr
s Davies; +Mrs Goodman=r-Mrs Poussin; +Amelia=r-Mrs Armstead.  Edition of 1767 l
ists the other parts: +Sir William Douglas=r, +Owen=r, +La France=r, +Officer=r,
 +Servants=r.]  [A New Occasional% +Prologue=-Palmer.  *aLilliput.  [The% Lillip
utians-Master Edwin, Master Harrison, Miss Morris, Miss P. Farren (see 18 July),
 [also% Master Hitchcock, Master Pulley, Miss Besford, Miss Francis, Miss Hitchc
ock (Peake, II, 2).  *cMainpiece: Never acted here.  [$Mrs Armstead= is identifi
ed in +Morning Chronicle=, 16 May.  Prologue by $George Colman elder= (+Collecti
on...of English Prologues and Epilogues=, II, 207).]  Afterpiece: Not acted thes
e 20 years.  With a new Overture, the Original Prologue [by $David Garrick=], an
d a New Scene, in which will be introduced an +air=.  With a Grand Jubilee-Pagea
nt, in Honour of +Gulliver=r.  The Music, Dresses, Scenes, Trophies and Decorati
ons entirely new.  The Music composed by $Dr Arnold=.  ["Lilliput was altered by
 Garrick (its author), and a procession of cards introduced in it, Gulliver walk
ing as the Knave of Clubs" ($Gilliland=, I, 121-22).  +London Chronicle=, 16 May
, gives a synopsis of this pageant.]  The Doors to be opened at 6:00.  To begin 
at 7:00 [same throughout season].  Places for the Boxes to be taken at the Theat
re.  After this Evening the Entertainments of this Theatre will be discontinued 
till further Notice, on account of the Performers employed at +Drury Lane Theatr
e= [see 28 May].  *pking's La Fraschetana.  As 5 Nov. 1776, but Nardone-Massimin
o.  *dEnd I: +New Serious Ballet=, as 12 Apr.; End II: +Les Amans Heureux=, as 4
 Jan.; End Opera: +Serious Ballet=, as 25 Feb.[+Chaconne=-_, +Pas de deux=-_.%  
*cBenefit for $Mlle Baccelli=.  +Public Advertiser=, 1 May: Tickets to be had of
 Mlle Baccelli, at +Micheli's=, +Hay-market=.  *p16 dl The School for Scandal.  
As 8 May.  *aMay Day.  As 24 Sept. 1776.  *cReceipts: #262 14s. (255.8; 7.1; 0.5
).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 13 Nov. 1776.  *aThe Royal Chace.  As 3 May.  *cReceipt
s: #223 3s. 6d. (222.4.6; 0.19.0).  *p17 none +Whitsun Eve=.  *p19 dl The School
 for Scandal.  As 8 May.  *aThe Devil to Pay.  Sir John Loverule-Vernon; Jobson-
Moody; Lady Loverule-Mrs Johnston; Nell-Mrs Wrighten.  *cReceipts: #263 16s. (25
6.10.0; 6.18.6; 0.7.6).  *pcg The Tempest.  As 13 Feb.  *aThree Weeks after Marr
iage.  As 13 May.  *cBenefit for $Sarjant=, box-book keeper.  Tickets delivered 
for Monday the 12th will be received.  Receipts: #253 17s. (67.16; tickets: 186.
1) (charge: #84).  *p20 dl The School for Scandal.  As 8 May, but Rowley-Wrighte
n.  *aAll the World's a Stage.  As 1 May, but +New Prologue=-_.  *cReceipts: #26
8 0s. 6d. (259.12.0; 8.7.6; 0.1.0).  *pcg All in the Wrong.  As 20 Dec. 1776, bu
t Clarissa-Miss Ambrose; Tattle-Mrs Poussin.  *aHarlequin's Frolicks.  As 9 Jan.
  *dEnd III: +Minuet de la Cour, Allemande=-Mr and Mrs Holloway; End IV: +The Sh
epherd's Wedding=, as 15 Feb.; End: [a% +Minuet=-Dumay, Sga Tinte; Afterpiece: +
Rural Dance=, as 21 Jan.  *cBenefit for $Dumay=, $Harris= & $Holloway=.  +Public
 Advertiser=, 16 May: Tickets to be had of Dumay at +Sandhill=, behind the +Foun
dling Hospital=; of Harris, No. 12, +Duke's-court=, +Bow-street=, +Covent Garden
=; of Holloway, +Great Maddox-street=, +Hanover-square=.  Receipts: #263 15s. (6
9.2; tickets: 194.13) (charge: #105).  *pking's I Capricci del Sesso.  Principal
 Characters-Trebbi, Fochetti, Micheli, Sga Prudom, Sga Marianna Farnese, Sga Ses
tini.  [Cast adjusted from playbill of 19 Dec. 1780: Giannino-Trebbi; Letanzio-F
ochetti; Don Grillo-Micheli; Palmetta-Sga Prudom; Carlina-Sga Marianna Farnese; 
Giacinta-Sga Sestini.]  *dEnd I: +Comic Ballet=, as 4 Feb.; End II: +Serious Bal
let=, as 25 Feb.; End Opera: [a new Ballet Demi-caractere,% +La Paysane Distrait
e=-Vallouy, Mme Simonet, Sg Zuchelli, Sga Zuchelli, Vallouy@le@cadet, Mlle DeCam
p.  *cA new Comic Opera.  The Music by $Traetta=.  [This was 1st performed at +V
enice=, 1766, as Le Serve Rivali.  And see 19 Dec. 1780.]  *p21 dl The School fo
r Scandal.  As 20 May.  *aThe Irish Widow.  As 14 Dec. 1776.  *cBy Command of $T
heir Majesties=.  Receipts: #273 1s. (269.1.0; 3.7.6; 0.12.6).  *pcg The Beggar'
s Opera.  As 15 Mar., but Lucy (1pt time)-Mrs Wilson; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Love (of +
dl=).  *aDon Quixote in England.  As 15 May.  *cBenefit for $Condell=, $Evans= &
 $Curteen=, box-keepers.  Receipts: #295 4s. 6d. (68.8.6; tickets: 226.16.0) (ch
arge: #105).  *p22 dl The School for Scandal.  As 20 May.  *aThe Deserter.  As 1
5 May.  *cReceipts: #255 16s. (244.11.0; 10.10.6; 0.14.6).  *pcg The Maid of the
 Mill.  As 4 Dec. 1776, but Lady Sycamore-Mrs Bradshaw (of +dl=); Theodosia-Mrs 
Willems.  *aCross Purposes.  As 27 Sept. 1776.  *dAs 15 May.  *cBenefit for $Gre
en= and $Ansell=, box-keepers.  +Public Advertiser=, 7 May: Tickets to be had of
 Green, the corner of +Norris-street=, +Hay-market=; of Ansell, +Davies-street=,
 +Berkley-square=.  Receipts: #329 17s. (48.15; tickets: 281.2) (charge: #105). 
 *p23 dl The School for Scandal.  As 20 May.  *aMay Day.  As 24 Sept. 1776.  *cR
eceipts: #247 11s. (238.19.0; 8.1.6; 0.10.6).  *pcg The West Indian.  As 5 Feb. 
 *aThe Padlock.  As 25 Sept. 1776.  *dEnd: +New Comic Dance=, as 25 Apr.  *cBene
fit for $Thomas Ansell=, $Pilfold=, $Woolley=, $Symmonds= $Furkins= & $Roberts=.
  Tickets delivered by $Clarridge=, $Doe=, $Wells=, $Longley=, $Francis=, $Brand
on=, $Walker=, $Varley= will be taken this Night.  Receipts: #278 11s. 6d. (21.8
.6; 0.6.0; tickets: 256.17.0) (charge: none listed).  *p24 dl The School for Sca
ndal.  As 20 May.  *aThe Devil to Pay.  As 19 May.  *cReceipts: #246 5s. (236.19
.0; 8.17.6; 0.8.6).  *pcg The Recruiting Officer.  As 23 Sept. 1776, but Capt. B
razen-Lee Lewes (1st appearance in that character); Rose (1st time)-Miss Leeson;
 Lucy-Mrs Poussin.  *aThe Lyar.  As 20 Nov. 1776.  *dAs 23 Nov. 1776.  *cBenefit
 for $Miller=, $Shuter=, $Robson=, $Colley= & $Stephenson=.  Tickets delivered b
y $Robinson=, $Brereton=, $William Ansell=, $Miller= (constable), $Smallwood= an
d $Halliburton= will be taken this Night.  Tickets delivered by $Morris= will li
kewise be received.  Receipts: #210 18s. 6d. (32.8.0; 0.13.6; tickets: 177.17.0)
 (charge: none listed).  *pking's Orione.  [Principal Characters by Rauzzini, Tr
ebbi, Savoi, Sga Prudom, Sga Luiggia and Marianna Farnese, Sga Pozzi, Sga Davies
 Inglesina.[Cast from libretto (T. Cadell, 1777):% Orione-Rauzzini; Enopione-Tre
bbi; Mercurio-Savoi; Oracolo-Micheli; Nice-Sga Prudom; Argia-Sga Luiggia Farnese
; Tirsi-Sga Marianna Farnese; Retrea-Sga Pozzi; Candiope-Sga Davies Inglesina.  
*dEnd I: +New Serious Ballet=, as 12 Apr.; End II: +La Paysane Distraite=, as 20
 May, but Mme _Simonet; End Opera: +Serious Ballet=-Mons and Mme Simonet, Sg and
 Sga Zuchelli, Vallouy@le@cadet, Mlle DeCamp, Mlle Baccelli.  *cA new Serious Op
era, with Grand Chorusses; the Music by $Johann Christian? Bach=.  *p26 dl The S
chool for Scandal.  As 20 May.  *aAll the World's a Stage.  As 7 Apr., but Harry
 Stukely-Barrett; New +Prologue=-_.  *cReceipts: #246 15s. 6d. (238.3.0; 8.5.0; 
0.7.6).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 13 Nov. 1776.  *aThe Royal Chace.  As 3 May.  *dEn
d: +The Humours of Leixlip=, as 25 Apr.  *cThe last time of the Company's perfor
ming this Season.  Account-Book, 2 June: Received for Stage Forfeits this Season
 #12 14s. 8d.; 5 June: Received of $Their Majesties= for this Season #80.  Recei
pts: #209 5s. 6d. (208.15.0; 0.10.6).  *p27 dl The School for Scandal.  As 20 Ma
y.  *aThe Waterman.  As 14 May.  *cReceipts: #239 19s. 6d. (229.16.0; 9.7.6; 0.1
6.0).  *pking's I Capricci del Sesso.  As 20 May.  *dEnd I: +La Paysane Distrait
e=, as 24 May; End II: +Serious Ballet=, as 25 Feb.; End Opera: +La Clochette=, 
as 15 Mar.  *p28 dl The Provok'd Husband.  As 20 Mar., but Manly (1st time)-Barr
ett.  *aSt Helena; or, The Isle of Love.  Principal Characters-Jefferson, Davies
, Waldron, Legg, Kear, Follett, Carpenter, Holcroft, Barrett, Mrs Bradshaw, Miss
 Collett, Mrs Smith, A Lady (1st appearance) [$Mrs LeBlanc=] (+London Magazine=,
 July 1777, p. 377, which states that she acted the part of Emma); [+Larpent MS 
412= lists the parts: +Capt. Haleyard=r, +Mr Trinket=r, +Ned Raymonde=r, +Sam Sc
upper=r, +Jack Jeers=r, +Mrs Trinket=r, +Leda=r, +Emma=r, +Priscilla=r.]  +Prolo
gue=-Barrett (in the character of a +sailor=r).  *dEnd II: [a% +Hornpipe=, as 30
 Apr.  *cBenefit for $Dickinson=, 1st gallery office-keeper.  Afterpiece [F 2, b
y $Edward Thompson=, 1st acted at +Richmond=, 1 Aug. 1776; not published; Prolog
ue probably by the author]: Never performed there.  +Public Advertiser=, 17 May:
 Tickets to be had of Dickinson, No. 5, +Wild-court=, +Wild-street=, near +Linco
ln's Inn Fields=.  Receipts: #276 17s. (21.14; 7.10; 0.0; tickets: 247.13) (char
ge: #84).  *phay The Tailors.  [+Master Tailors=r:% Francisco-Parsons; Regniades
-R. Palmer; Campbello-Bannister; [+Flints=r:% Abrahamides (the Chief)-Palmer; Is
aacos-Fearon; Jackides-Jackson; Barnardo-Davis; [+Dungs=r:% Zacharydes-Egan; Tim
otheus-Stevens; Tailors' Ladies-[Mrs Gardner%Mrs Love, Miss Platt, Mrs Poussin[,
 Mrs Jewell%; [$Genest=, V, 582 specifies:% Tittilinda-Mrs Gardner; Dorothea-Mrs
 Jewell.  [+Prologue= as 15 May.%  *aLilliput.  As 15 May.  *cMainpiece: +A Trag
edy for Warm Weather=, written after the Manner of the Worst as well as the Best
 English Poets; containing, amongst a Variety of Particulars, the Rebellion of t
he Journeymen Tailors; their Military Preparations and Election of a Chief; thei
r Skirmishes, Ambushes, Sieges, Councils and Combats; their Division into Flints
 and Dungs, with the Defection of the Dungs at the Pass of the Butcher-Row, and 
total Overthrow of the Flints at the Famous Battle of Temple-Bar; together with 
the Captivity and Fatal End of their Valiant Leader.  *p29 dl The School for Sca
ndal.  As 20 May.  *aSt Helena.  As 28 May.  *cReceipts: #235 15s. 6d. (228.9.0;
 7.2.6; 0.4.0).  *pcg A Word to the Wise.  As 13 May, but Capt. Dormer-Powell (f
rom the $Theatre Royal, Edinburgh=; 1st appearance in +London=); Miss Dormer-Mrs
 Mattocks (1st appearance in that character).  *aThe Deuce is in Him.  Colonel T
amper-Wroughton; Major Belford-Whitefield; Prattle-Lee Lewes; Bell-Mrs Bulkley; 
Mademoiselle Florival-Mrs Lessingham; Emily-Mrs Mattocks; [A New occasional% +Pr
ologue= (written by +Dr Johnson=)-Hull; [A New occasional% +Epilogue= [author un
known]-Mrs Bulkley.  *sEnd I: [a new cantata,% +Diana=-Mrs Farrell.  *mEnd Epilo
gue: +concerto= on the violin-Fisher.  *c[Extra night] Benefit for the Widow and
 Children of the late $Hugh? Kelly=.  Tickets delivered for a Comedy, May 28th, 
will be admitted.  +Morning Chronicle=, 10 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Kelly, 
No. 3, +Racquet Court=, +Fleet-street=.  Receipts: #108 -16s. (52.1; tickets: 56
.15) (charge: #52 1s.).  *p30 dl The Tempest.  As 25 Apr., but Gonzalez-Grist.  
*aThe Irish Widow.  As 14 Dec. 1776.  *dIn IV: +The Triumph of Love=, as 7 Nov. 
1776; End I afterpiece: +The Irish Fair=, as 31 Oct. 1776.  *cBenefit for $Morti
mer=, $Tomlinson=, $Carleton Sen.= & $Walton=.  Tickets delivered by $Page=, $Ba
rthrope= and $Whittey= will be admitted.  Receipts: #235 4s. (20.1; 3.18; 0.0; t
ickets: 211.5) (charge: #84).  *phay The Nabob.  Principal Parts-Foote, Parsons,
 Fearon, Massey, R. Palmer, Griffiths, Jackson, Bransby, Egan, T. Davis, Stevens
, Peirce, Palmer, Mrs Hunter, Miss Hale, Mrs W. Palmer, Mrs Gardner.  [+Morning 
Chronicle=, 3 June: Sir Matthew Mite-Foote; Mr Mayor-Palmer.  Edition of 1778 ($
T. Cadell=), which assigns the cast for season of 1772, lists the other parts: +
Sir John Oldham=r, +Mr Thomas Oldham=r, +Young Oldham=r, +Touchit=r, +Antiquaria
ns=r, +Secretary=r, +Rapine=r, +Nathan=r, +Moses=r, +James and Putty=r, +Conserv
e=r, +Waiter=r, +Lady Oldham=r, +Sophy=r, +Mrs Match'em=r, +Crocus=r.]  [+Prolog
ue= as 15 May.%  *aLilliput.  As 15 May.  *p31 dl The School for Scandal.  As 20
 May.  *aThe Padlock.  As 8 Jan., but Mungo-Holcroft.  *cReceipts: #183 13s. (17
5.13.0; 6.19.6; 1.0.6).  *pking's Orione.  As 24 May.  *dEnd I: +New Serious Bal
let=, as 12 Apr.; End II: +La Clochette=, as 15 Mar., but _Vallouy; End Opera: +
Serious Ballet=, as 24 May.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  *p6 2 dl A Bold
 Stroke for a Wife.  As 29 Apr., but Col. Feignwell-Barrett (1st appearance in t
hat character); Simon Pure-Holcroft; Perriwinkle-Waldron.  *aThe Waterman.  As 1
4 May.  *dAs 28 Nov. 1776.  *cBenefit for $Watson=, $Silvester=, $Kaygill= & $Wi
lson=.  Receipts: #200 9s. 6d. (12.11.0; 3.13.6; 0.0.0; tickets: 184.5.0) (charg
e: #84).  *phay The Tailors.  As 28 May, but characters-Mrs W. +Palmer [in place
 of%, Mrs _Poussin; +Prologue=-Palmer.  *aLilliput.  As 15 May.  *p3 dl The Scho
ol for Scandal.  As 20 May.  *aThe Deserter.  As 15 May.  *cReceipts: #188 12s. 
6d. (181.2.0; 6.18.0; 0.12.6).  *pking's I Capricci del Sesso.  As 20 May.  *dEn
d I: +La Force de l'Amour=, as 14 Dec. 1776; End II: +New Serious Ballet=, as 12
 Apr.; End Opera: +La Clochette=, as 31 May.  *p4 dl The Fair Quaker.  As 9 Nov.
 1776, but Sir Charles Pleasant-R. Palmer.  *aThe Devil to Pay.  As 19 May.  *dA
s 9 Nov. 1776; End II: +Comic Dance=, as 17 Dec. 1776.  *s+Rule Britannia=-as 9 
Nov. 1776, but _Fawcett, +Gaudry.  *cBenefit for $Wood=, $Percey=, $Robinson= & 
$Cameron=.  Tickets delivered by $Hodges= and $Dale= will be taken.  Receipts: #
224 9s. (11.5; 2.10; 0.0; tickets: 210.14) (charge: #84).  *p5 dl The School for
 Scandal.  As 20 May.  *aMiss in her Teens.  As 13 May.  *cReceipts: #164 18s. 6
d. (157.8.0; 7.10.6; 0.0.0).  *p6 dl George Barnwell.  George Barnwell-Vincent (
1st appearance in that character); Thorowgood-Hurst; Trueman-Davies; Uncle-Wrigh
ten; Blunt-Burton; Maria-Miss Hopkins; Lucy-Mrs Davies; Millwood-Mrs Greville (1
st appearance in that character).  *aThe Mayor of Garratt.  As 28 Sept. 1776, bu
t [Baker's name listed in playbill;% Heeltap-Griffiths.  *dAs 14 Dec. 1776.  *sI
n I: +song=-Miss Abrams.  *cBenefit for $Berrisford=, $Carleton Jun.=, $Shade= &
 $Edleston=.  Receipts: #227 5s. 6d. (25.17.0; 3.10.6; 0.0.0; tickets: 197.18.0)
 (charge: #84).  *phay The Devil upon Two Sticks.  [Principal Parts by Foote, Ja
ckson, R. Palmer, Fearon, Griffiths, Egan, Massey. T. Davis, Kenny, Hitchcock, W
alker, Parsons, Mrs Jewell, Mrs Gardner.  [Cast adjusted from text (T. Cadell, 1
778), and playbill of 13 Aug. 1779:% Devil-Foote (1st two acts; 3rd act read by 
Palmer); Apozem-Jackson; Invoice-R. Palmer; Camphire-Fearon; Julep-Griffiths; Sl
igo-Egan; Sir Thomas Maxwell-Massey; Osasafras-T. Davis; Fingerfee-Kenny; Broadb
rim-Hitchcock; Macpherson-Walker; Dr. Last-Parsons; Harriet-Mrs Jewell; Margaret
-Mrs Gardner.  [+Prologue= as 15 May.%  *aLilliput.  As 15 May.  *c+Morning Chro
nicle=, 7 June: $Foote= caught cold on Wednesday last...Unwilling to disappoint 
the public [last night] he determined to play his part in +The Devil upon Two St
icks=, but, after he had ended the second act, was so much worse that he was obl
iged to retire...An apology was made to the audience, and $Palmer= undertook to 
read the remainder of Foote's part.  *p7 dl The School for Scandal.  As 20 May. 
 *aThe Padlock.  As 31 May.  *cThe last time of the Company's performing this Se
ason.  Receipts: #185 1s. (175.12; 9.9; 0.0).  *pking's Orione.  As 24 May.  *dE
nd I: +New Serious Ballet=, as 12 Apr.; End II: +Les Amans Heureux=, as 4 Jan.; 
End Opera: +Serious Ballet=, as 24 May.  *p9 hay She Stoops to Conquer.  Young M
arlow-Palmer; Hastings (with a +song=)-DuBellamy; Sir Charles Marlow-Fearon; Dig
gory-Massey; Landlord-Griffiths; Tony Lumpkin-Jackson; Hardcastle-Edwin; Miss Ne
ville-Mrs Hitchcock [from the $Theatre Royal, Bath= (on playbill of 6 June)]; Mr
s Hardcastle-Mrs Gardner; Betty-Mrs Poussin; Miss Hardcastle-Miss Farren (1st ap
pearance in +London=).  *aMidas.  Midas-Edwin; Apollo-Du-Bellamy; Sileno-Massey;
 Jupiter-Griffiths; Damaetas-Blissett; Pan-Bannister; Juno-Mrs Poussin; Mysis-Mr
s Love; Daphne-Mrs Hitchcock; Nysa-A Young Gentlewoman (1st appearance on any st
age [$Miss Twist=]).  *c[This was $Mrs Hitchcock='s 1st appearance in +London=. 
 $Miss Farren= was from the +Manchester theatre=.  $Miss Twist= is identified in
 playbill of 14 July.]  Because of $Foote='s acting scarcely anything but his ow
n plays "a relaxation of discipline has been fallen into at the +Haymarket=...  
The audience last night, however, were not less surprized than pleased at the ve
ry regular manner in which the Comedy and the Burletta were exhibited.  All the 
business of the stage perfect, all the little parts smoothly given, and the whol
e rather superior than inferior to a performance at either of the Winter Theatre
s" (+Morning Chronicle=, 10 June).  *p10 king's I Capricci del Sesso.  As 20 May
.  *dEnd I: +La Paysane Distraite=, as 24 May; End II: +Serious Ballet=, as 25 F
eb.; End Opera: +La Clochette=, as 31 May.  *p11 hay The Merchant of Venice.  Sh
ylock-Henderson (from the $Theatre Royal, Bath=; 1st appearance in +London=); An
tonio-Younger; Bassanio-Davies; Salanio-Egan; Solarino-T. Davis; Lorenzo (with +
songs=)-Du-Bellamy; Old Gobbo-Blissett; Tubal-Massey; Launcelot-Edwin; Duke-Fear
on; Gratiano-Palmer; Nerissa-Mrs Hunter; Jessica (with a +song=)-Mrs Hitchcock; 
Portia-Miss Barsanti (1st appearance on this stage).  *aPiety in Pattens.  Butle
r-Edwin; Squire-Fearon; Mrs Caudy-Mrs Love; Polly Pattens-Mrs Jewell.  *dEnd III
: +The Merry Lasses=-; End IV: +The Venetian Regatta=- [performers not listed fo
r either dance, but "Monsieur $Giorgi='s infantile pupils, as dancers, were a co
mplete burlesque upon a +corps de ballet=.  The audience laughed, and tolerated 
the poor little things, when they were pushed on between the acts to caper and l
ose their shoes" ($Peake=, II, 15-16)].  *c"[$Henderson=] appears to have cultiv
ated the gifts of nature, with great industry; he promises better to attain the 
character of a player of consummate judgment than a great player, properly so ca
lled.  $Edwin=, in spite of his thin voice and disgusting articulation, is at le
ast equal to half his London contemporaries; and exhibited proofs that neither h
is conception, nor style of playing, is limited to a particular cast of parts, o
r mode of acting" (+London Magazine=, June 1777, p. 288).  [$ Miss Barsanti= was
 from the $Crow Street Theatre, Dublin=.]   *p12 hay The Merchant of Venice.  As
 11 June.  *aPiety in Pattens.  As 11 June.  *dAs 11 June.  *p13 hay She Stoops 
to Conquer.  As 9 June.  *aMidas.  As 9 June.  *p14 king's I Capricci del Sesso.
  As 20 May.  *dAs 7 June.  *p16 hay The Merchant of Venice.  As 11 June, but An
tonio-Hull (of +cg=; 1st appearance [at this theatre]).  *aPolly Honeycombe.  Mr
 Honeycombe-Parsons; Scribble-R. Palmer; Ledger-Griffiths; Mrs Honeycombe-Mrs Ga
rdner; Nurse-Mrs Love; Polly Honeycombe-Mrs Hitchcock.  *dAs 11 June.  *cLadies 
and Gentlemen who have taken Places are desired to send their Servants to the Do
or in +Suffolk-Street= by Five o'Clock.  *p17 king's La Fraschetana.  As 5 Nov. 
1776.  *dEnd I: +La Paysane Distraite=, as 24 May, but Sga _Zuchelli; End II: +S
erious Ballet=, as 25 Feb., but Sga _Zuchelli; End Opera: +La Clochette=, as 15 
Mar., but Sga _Zuchelli.  *p18 hay The Merchant of Venice.  As 16 June.  *aMidas
.  As 9 June.  *dEnd III: +The Haymakers=-[see 11 June%; End IV: +The Venetian R
egatta=, as 11 June.  *pchr The Fair Penitent.  Horatio-L'Estrange; Lothario-You
ng; Sciolto-Henry; Altamont-G. Graham; Rossano-Trotter; Lavinia-Miss Wilson; Luc
illa-Miss Williams; Calista-Mrs Dawes.  *aMiss in her Teens.  Fribble-Russell; F
lash-L'Estrange; Capt. Loveit-Vowell; Puff-Graham; Tag-Mrs Russell; Biddy-Miss W
illiams.  *e[+Monologue=. An Occasional%+Poetical Address=-Russell.  *cA Concert
 of +Music=, Vocal and Instrumental, by the most celebrated performers, with +Da
ncing= by $Miss Cranfield=.  Between the several parts of the Concert will be re
hearsed (gratis) by Pupils, for their mutual improvement in Oratory +The Fair Pe
nitent= [etc., as above].  By Subscription.  The Doors to be opened at 5:30.  To
 begin precisely at 6:30.  Boxes 3s. Pit 2s. Gallery 1s.  No money will be taken
 at the door, nor any person admitted without a ticket, which may be had at the 
Office near the Concert Room, where attendance will be given from Ten to One eve
ry day; and from half past Five till Eleven each evening of performing.  +Mornin
g Chronicle=, 19 June: A correspondent who was present declares the business of 
the evening was conducted with great regularity and decorum...  The dresses were
 as good as those of the Theatres Royal, the band excellent, and the decorations
 neat and ornamental.  *p19 hay Polly.  [Principal Parts by Du-Bellamy, Parsons,
 Davies, Massey, Fearon, Egan, Griffiths, Kenny, Bannister, Mrs Hitchcock, Mrs D
avies, Mrs Love, Miss Hale, Miss Platt, A Young Gentlewoman (1st appearance [$Mr
s Colles=]).  [Cast from text (T. Evans, 1777):% Cawwawkee-DuBellamy; Ducat-Pars
ons; Culverin-Davies; Vanderbluff-Massey; Pohetohee-Fearon; Hacker-Egan; Capster
n-Griffiths; Laguerre-Kenny; Morano-Bannister; Jenny Diver-Mrs Hitchcock; Trapes
-Mrs Davies; Mrs Ducat-Mrs Love; Damaris-Miss Hale; Flimzy-Miss Platt; Polly-A G
entlewoman; [Characters in the Introduction:% Poet-Davies; Players-Fearon, T. Da
vis; Signora Crotchetta-Miss Platt.  *aPolly Honeycombe.  As 16 June.  *dEnd I: 
[a% +Dance of Pirates=-(see 11 June); III: +Dance of Indians=- (see 11 June).  [
These were danced in all subsequent performance.] *cMainpiece [1st time; BO 3]: 
Being the Sequel to +The Beggar's Opera=, Written by $Gay=, with Alterations [by
 $George Colman elder=; the overture (a compilation of airs from The Beggar's Op
era) and 6 new airs by $Samuel Arnold=].  Books of the Opera to be had at the Th
eatre.  [$Mrs Colles= is identified on playbill of 9 July.]  +Public Advertiser=
, 20 June: This Day is published Polly (1s.).  *p20 hay Polly.  As 19 June.  *aP
olly Honeycombe.  As 16 June.  *pchr The Busy Body.  Marplot-Russell; Sir Franci
s Gripe-Graham; Charles-Vowell; Sir Jealous Traffic-Henry; Sir George Airy-G. Gr
aham; Isabinda-Mrs Bolingbroke; Patch-Mrs Russell; Miranda-Mrs Graham.  *aThe Ma
yor of Garratt.  Major Sturgeon-L'Estrange; Sneak-Baker; Bruin-Vowell; Sir Jacob
 Jollup-Trotter; Crispin Heeltap-Graham; Mob-Roger, Walters, Jefferson, Hubert; 
Mrs Bruin-Miss Essex; Mrs Sneak-Mrs Russell.  *cConcert, &c., as 18 June.  *p21 
king's Orione.  As 24 May.  *dEnd I: +La Paysane Distraite=, as 17 June; End II:
 +New Serious Ballet=, as 12 Apr., but Sga _Zuchelli; End Opera: +Serious Ballet
=, as 24 May, but Sga _Zuchelli.  *p23 hay Polly.  As 19 June.  *aPiety in Patte
ns.  As 11 June.  *pchr The Suspicious Husband.  Ranger-Young; Strictland-Newton
; Jack Meggot-Russell; Bellamy-Vowell; Tester-Baker; Buckle-Walters; Frankly-G. 
Graham; Mrs Strictland-Miss Holland; Jacintha-Mrs Bolingbroke; Lucetta-Miss Esse
x; Milliner-Miss Cranfield; Clarinda-Mrs Graham.  *aPolly Honeycombe.  Honeycomb
e-Graham; Scribble-G. Graham; Ledger-Henry; Mrs Honeycombe-Mrs Russell; Nurse-+M
r= Graham; Polly Honeycombe-Miss Essex.  *cConcert, &c., as 18 June.  *p24 king'
s I Capricci del Sesso.  As 20 May.  *dEnd I: +La Paysane Distraite=, as 17 June
; End II: +Serious Ballet=, as 17 June; End Opera: +La Clochette=, as 15 Mar., b
ut Sga _Zuchelli, Mlle +DeCamp.  *p25 hay Polly.  As 19 June, but Mrs Poussin.  
*aLilliput.  As 15 May.  *pchr Jane Shore.  Hastings-Stokes; Dumont-L'Estrange; 
Gloster-Henry; Bellmour-Vowell; Ratcliffe-G. Graham; Catesby-Trotter; Alicia-Mrs
 Bolingbroke; Jane Shore-Mrs Dawes.  *aThe Mock Doctor.  Gregory-Newton; Sir Jas
per-Graham; Leander-Vowell; Davy-Baker; James-Walters; Henry-Trotter; Charlotte-
Miss Essex; Dorcas-Mrs Symmonds.  *cConcert, &c., as 18 June.  *p26 hay Hamlet. 
 Hamlet-Henderson (1st appearance in that character [in +London=]); King-Fearon;
 Horatio-Davies; Rosencraus-Stevens; Guildenstern-Egan; Polonius-Edwin; Laertes-
Aickin; Player@King-Griffiths; Lucianus-Blissett; Osrick-R. Palmer; Gravediggers
-Parsons, Massey; Ghost-Palmer; Ophelia-Mrs Hitchcock; Player@Queen-Mrs Poussin;
 Queen-Mrs Hunter.  *aPolly Honeycombe.  As 16 June.  *c[$Henderson='s 1st appea
rance on the stage was as +Hamlet=r, at +Bath=, 6 Oct. 1772.  In I.iv "after the
 short ejaculation of 'Angels and ministers of grace, defend us!' he endeavoured
 to conquer that fear and terror into which he was naturally thrown by the first
 sight of the vision, and uttered the remainder of the address calmly, but respe
ctfully, and with a firm tone of voice, as from one who had subdued his timidity
 and apprehension" (Davies, III, 30).  "$Palmer='s +Ghost=r would have been more
 in character had he given less into the rant of declamation and the bustle of s
tage action, which accord not with our ideas of a supernatural being; his crying
, likewise, at the recital of his murder, was childish, and destroyed the solemn
ity of the scene' (+Morning Post=, 27 June).]  *p27 hay Hamlet.  As 26 June.  *a
The Deuce is in Him.  Colonel Tamper-Palmer; Major Belford-DuBellamy; Prattle-Pa
rsons; Bell-Mrs Hitchcock; Florival-Mrs Davies; Emily-The Gentlewoman who perfor
med Amelia [on 15 May: $Mrs Armstead=].  *pchr The Wonder: A Woman keeps a Secre
t.  Don Felix-L'Estrange; Frederick-Vowell; Gibby-Graham; Lissardo-Henry; Don Pe
dro-Newton; Don Lopez-Trotter; Colonel Briton-G. Graham; Donna Isabella-Mrs Boli
ngbroke; Flora-Miss Essex; Inis-Mrs Russell; Donna Violante-Mrs Graham.  *aThe L
ying Valet.  Sharp-Russell; Gayless-Vowell; Justice Guttle-Newton; Beau Trippet-
Trotter; Cook-Walters; Kitty-Mrs Russell; Mrs Gadabout-Miss Essex; Melissa-Mrs B
olingbroke.  *cConcert, &c., as 18 June, but +Dancing=-$Herbert=, and added: +Th
e Early Horn= by $Barnshaw=.  *p28 king's I Capricci del Sesso.  As 20 May.  *dE
nd I: +La Paysane Distraite=, as 17 June; End II: +La Clochette=, as 24 June; En
d Opera: +Serious Ballet=, as 21 June.  *p30 hay Polly.  As 25 June.  *aThe Citi
zen.  Young Philpot-Palmer; Old Philpot-Parsons; Young Wilding-R. Palmer; Beaufo
rt-Egan; Quildrive-Stevens; Dapper-T. Davis; Corinna-Mrs W. Palmer; Maria-Miss F
arren (1st appearance in that character).  *pchr George Barnwell.  Barnwell-Youn
g; Thoroughgood-Newton; Truman-Vowell; Uncle-Graham; Blunt-Henry; Maria-Mrs Boli
ngbroke; Lucy-Mrs Russell; Millwood-Mrs Graham.  *aCross Purposes.  Grub-Graham;
 Consol-Baker; George Bevil-Vowell; Harry Bevil-Trotter; Frank Bevil-Henry; Chap
eau-G. Graham; Robin-Russell; Emily-Mrs Bolingbroke; Maid-Miss Essex; Mrs Grub-M
rs Russell.  *sI: +Sweet Passion of Love=-Miss Wilson.  *cConcert, &c., as 18 Ju
ne.  *p7 1 hay She Stoops to Conquer.  As 9 June.  *aMidas.  As 9 June.  *p2 hay
 Polly.  As 25 June.  *aThe Citizen.  As 30 June, but Sir Jasper Wilding-Massey.
  *pchr She Stoops to Conquer.  Hardcastle-Graham; Sir Charles Marlow-Henry; You
ng Marlow-G. Graham; Tony Lumpkin-Russell; Landlord-Newton; Diggory-Baker; Hasti
ngs-Vowell; Mrs Hardcastle-Mrs Russell; Miss Hardcastle-Miss Essex; Miss Nevil-M
iss Powel; Maid-Miss Cranfield.  *aThe Devil to Pay.  Sir John Loverule-Barnshaw
; Jobson-Newton; Conjuror-Henry; Butler-Russell; Coachman-Walters; Cook-Trotter;
 Lady Loverule-Mrs Bolingbroke; Nell-Mrs Russell; Lucy-Miss Essex; Lettice-Miss 
Cranfield.  *cConcert, &c., as 18 June.  *p3 hay Hamlet.  As 26 June.  *aThe Rec
ruiting Serjeant.  Serjeant-Bannister; Countryman-Davies; [Wife-Mrs Love; Mother
-Mrs Hitchcock.  These two parts are here transposed; correctly:% Mother-Mrs Lov
e; Wife-Mrs Hitchcock= [, as in all subsequent playbills.]  *dAfterpiece: [with 
a% +Dance= [incident to the Piece%-.  [This was danced in all subsequent perform
ances.]  *cAfterpiece: Never performed here.  *pchr Venice Preserved.  *c[Announ
ced on playbill of 2 July, which lists no afterpiece, but not advertised on 3 Ju
ly.  Perhaps not acted; the theatre appears to have been closed until 21 July.] 
 *p4 hay Hamlet.  As 26 June.  *aThe Recruiting Serjeant.  As 3 July.  *c[Mainpi
ece in place of +Polly=; afterpiece of +Lilliput=, both announced on playbill of
 3 July.]  *p5 king's L'Ali d'Amore.  As 20 Mar.  *dEnd I: +La Clochette=, as 17
 June [, but omitted: $Sga Zuchelli=%; End II: +Minuet de la Cour=, as 8 May; En
d Opera: +Serious Ballet=-Mons and Mme Simonet, Vallouy@le@cadet, Mlle Baccelli.
  *sPreceding last ballet: +Address of Thanks= (composed for the occasion by $Ra
uzzini=)-Rauzzini, Miss Storace.  *cBenefit for $Rauzzini=.  The last Opera this
 Season.  Part of the Figurants being gone to +Paris=, the Dances will be given 
in the best manner possible, and hope for the Indulgence of the Audience.  Ticke
ts to be had of Rauzzini, No. 5, +Suffolk-street=.  *p7 hay The Minor.  Smirk, M
rs Cole-Foote; The Minor-Aickin; Shift-Bannister; Sir William Wealthy-Egan; Mr R
ichard Wealthy-Fearon; Loader-T. Davis; Transfer-Jackson; Dick-Stevens; Lucy-Mrs
 Jewell.  *aThe Author.  Cadwallader-Foote; Young Cape-Aickin; Sprightly-R. Palm
er; Vamp-Edwin; Governor Cape-Fearon; Robin-T. Davis; Printer's Devil-Master Hit
chcock; Poet-Jackson; Arabella-Miss Platt; Mrs Cadwallader-Mrs Gardner.  *dEnd: 
+The Merry Lasses=, as 11 June.  *p8 hay The Merchant of Venice.  As 11 June.  *
aThe Recruiting Serjeant.  As 3 July.  *dAs 18 June.  *p9 hay Polly.  As 25 June
[, but Mrs Colles's name listed in playbill, 'her 7th appearance.'%  *aLilliput.
  As 15 May.  *p10 hay Hamlet.  As 26 June.  *aThe Recruiting Serjeant.  As 3 Ju
ly.  *p11 hay The Nabob.  As 30 May, but Principal Parts-+Aickin [in place of%, 
_Bransby.  *aThe Citizen.  As 2 July.  *p14 hay The English Merchant.  As 15 May
.  *aMidas.  As 9 June, but Nysa-Miss Twist.  *c+She Stoops to Conquer= [announc
ed on playbill of 11 July] is obliged to be deferred.  *p15 hay Rule a Wife and 
Have a Wife.  Leon-Henderson (1st appearance in that character [in +London=]); D
on Juan-R. Palmer; Alonzo-Egan; Sanchio-T. Davis; Duke-Fearon; Cacafogo-Massey; 
Servants-Kenny, Stevens; Copper Captain-Palmer; Old Woman-+Mr= Parsons; Old Woma
n's Maid-+Mr= Besford; Margarita-Mrs Hunter; Altea-Mrs Poussin; Clara-Miss Platt
; Ladies-Miss Hale, Mrs W. Palmer, Miss Morris; Estifania-Miss Barsanti.  *aThe 
Waterman.  Tom Tug-Bannister; Mr Bundle-Davies; Robin-Edwin; Mrs Bundle-Mrs Davi
es; Wilhelmina-Mrs Jewell.  *dAs 7 July.  *cMainpiece: The Characters dressed in
 Spanish Habits.  [$Henderson='s 1st recorded appearance as +Leon=r was at +Bath
=, 4 Feb. 1777.]  *p16 hay Rule a Wife and Have a Wife.  As 15 July, but Servant
s-_.  *aMidas.  As 14 July.  *dAs 7 July.  *c+The Minor= and +The Author= [both 
announced on playbill of 15 July] are obliged to be deferred on account of $Foot
e='s Illness.  *p17 hay None.  *c+Public Advertiser=: "The Sheep-Shearing and Th
e Fairy Tale not being quite ready for Representation This Day are postponed til
l To-morrow."  *p18 hay The Sheep-Shearing.  [Principal Parts by Du-Bellamy, Edw
in, Fearon, Egan, Jackson, Massey, T. Davis, Griffiths, Bannister, Mrs Hitchcock
, Miss Hale, Mrs Poussin, Mrs Colles.  [Cast from text (G. Kearsly, 1777:% Flori
zel-DuBellamy; Autolicus-Edwin; Leontes-Fearon; Polixenes-Egan; Clown-Jackson; O
ld Shepherd-Massey; Cleomenes-T. Davis; Camillo-Griffiths; Servant-Bannister; Ge
ntleman-Stevens; Mopsa-Mrs Hitchcock; Dorcas-Miss Hale; Paulina-Mrs Poussin; Per
dita-Mrs Colles.  *aThe Fairy Tale.  Bottom-Parsons; Quince-Edwin; Snout-Kenny; 
Starveling-Peirce; Snug-Bannister; Puck-The Admiral of Lilliput [$Master Edwin=]
; Fairies-The rest of the Lilliputians [see 15 May], Miss Morris, Master Harriso
n, Miss Twist; [Edition of 1777 (G. Kearsly) adds:% Flute-Blissett; [and identif
ies:% Oberon-Miss Morris; Fairies-Master Harrison, Miss Twist; Titania-Miss P. F
arren; [and The Admiral of Lilliput.  With a % +Fairy Epilogue=-. [This was spok
en at all subsequent performances.]  *d[With a%+Pastoral Dance= (incident to the
 [main]piece)-; End: As 7 July.  *cMainpiece [1st time; PAST 3]: Taken from [+Th
e Winter's Tale=, by] $Shakespeare= [altered by $George Colman elder=].  Afterpi
ece: Likewise taken from [+A Midsummer-Night's Dream=, by] $Shakespeare=.  Books
 of both pieces to be had at the Theatre.  The Musick of both pieces by the most
 eminent Composers [i.e. $Michael Arne=, $Dibdin=, $Dr Burney=, $Hook=, $Theodor
e Smith=, $Dr Arnold=].  The Characters new dressed.  *p21 hay Hamlet.  As 26 Ju
ne.  *aThe Fairy Tale.  As 18 July.  *cAs it appears to be the general Opinion t
hat +The Sheep-Shearing= should rank as an After-Piece, it will for the future (
as well as +The Fairy Tale=) be subjoined to other Performances.  [But The Sheep
-Shearing was not acted again until 20 Aug. 1783.]  *pchr Othello, Moor of Venic
e.  Othello-Newton; Cassio-G. Graham; Roderigo-Russell; Brabantio-Graham; Lodovi
co-Vowell; Duke-Sidney; Montano-Trotter; Iago-Henry; AEmilia-Mrs Graham; Desdemo
na-Miss Powell.  *aAll the World's a Stage.  Principal Characters-G. Graham, Gra
ham, Vowell, Newton, Henry, Walters, Trotter, Baker, Mrs Graham, Miss Essex.  *c
Concert, &c., as 18 June.  *p22 hay Polly.  As 9 July.  *aThe Fairy Tale.  As 18
 July.  *p23 hay The Merchant of Venice.  As 11 June.  *aThe Fairy Tale.  As 18 
July.  *dAs 18 June.  *pchr A Bold Stroke for a Wife.  Colonel Feignwell-Russell
; Freeman-G. Graham; Perriwinkle-Graham; Tradelove-Vowell; Sackbut-Newton; Obadi
ah Prim-Walters; Sir Philip Modelove-Trotter; Boy-Master Russell; Mrs Prim-Mrs R
ussell; Betty-Mrs Trotter; Mask'd Lady-Miss Powell; Ann Lovely-Miss Essex.  *c[T
he play was not allowed to conclude, nor was the afterpiece, +All the World's a 
Stage=, performed.  "Yesterday evening, during the representation of...+A Bold S
troke for a Wife=, at +China Hall=, +Rotherhithe=, a party of the inhabitants, w
ho had laid an information against the performers, rushed into the theatre, behi
nd the scenes, and seized $Mr Russell= (who played the character of +Colonel Fei
gnwell=r), and carried him, in his stage dress, before $Justice Smith=, at the +
Rotation-Office=, +St Bennet's-hill=, who committed him to the House of Correcti
on, for further examination this morning" (+Morning Chronicle=, 24 July).  What 
happened to Russell is not known, but because of this occurrence the theatre did
 not re-open until the following season, on 25 May 1778.  See my article on the 
history of this unlucky playhouse, +Theatre Notebook=, VIII, 76-80.]  *p24 hay T
he First Part of King Henry IV; with the Humours of Sir John Falstaff.  Falstaff
-Henderson (1st appearance in that character [in +London=]); Hotspur-Aickin; Kin
g-Younger; Westmorland-Egan; Sir W. Blunt-T. Davis; Sir Richard Vernon-Davies; W
orcester-Fearon; Poins-R. Palmer; Bardolph-Massey; Peto-Kenny; Gadshill-Besford;
 Francis-Edwin; Carriers-Jackson, Blissett; Prince of Wales-Palmer; Hostess-Mrs 
Love; Lady Percy-Mrs Colles.  *aThe Portrait.  Leander-Bannister; Pantaloon-Edwi
n; Colombine-Mrs Hitchcock; Isabel-Miss Twist.  *c[$Henderson='s 1st recorded ap
pearance as +Falstaff=r was at +Bath=, 6 Mar. 1777.  "In the frolicksome, gay, a
nd humourous situations of Falstaff Henderson is superior to every man...His sol
iloquy in describing his ragamuffin regiment, and his enjoying the misuse of the
 king's press-money are so truly excellent that they are not inferior to any com
ic representation of the stage" ($Davies=, I, 252-53).] Afterpiece: Never perfor
med here.  The Musick composed by $Dr Arnold=.  *p25 hay The Minor.  As 7 July. 
 *aThe Author.  As 7 July.  *dAs 7 July.  *p28 hay The First Part of King Henry 
IV.  As 24 July, but Douglas-DuBellamy [not listed in playbill; see below].  *aT
he Portrait.  As 24 July.  *dEnd II: +The Merry Lasses=, as 11 June.  *c"$DuBell
amy=, who played +Douglas=r, and was to have assailed +Falstaff=r, during the co
mbat between +Harry Percy=r and the +Prince of Wales=r [in V.iv], went up to und
ress, having forgot that his part was not finished" (+Morning Chronicle=, 29 Jul
y).  *p29 hay She Stoops to Conquer.  As 9 June.  *aThe Fairy Tale.  As 18 July.
  *p30 hay The Maid of Bath.  [Principal Parts by Foote, Aickin, Parsons, Fearon
, T. Davis, Griffiths, Massey, Stevens, Edwin, Mrs Fearon, Miss Platt, Mrs Jewel
l.  Cast adjusted from text (T. Cadell, 1778):% Mr Flint-Foote; Major Rackett-Ai
ckin; Sir Christopher Cripple-Parsons; Peter Poultice-Fearon; Fillup-T. Davis; M
ynheer Sour@Crout-Griffiths; Mons de Jarsey-Massey; John-Stevens; Billy Button-E
dwin; Lady Catharine Coldstream-Mrs Fearon; Mrs Linnet-Miss Platt; Miss Linnet-M
rs Jewell.  *aThe Mayor of Garratt.  Major Sturgeon-Foote; Sir Jacob Jollup-Mass
ey; Bruin-Fearon; Heel@tap-T. Davis; Lint-Jackson; Roger-Stevens; Snuffle-Peirce
; Jerry Sneak-Parsons; Mrs Bruin-Miss Platt; Mrs Sneak-Mrs Gardner.  *dEnd: +The
 Venetian Regatta=, as 11 June.  *c[This was $Foote='s last appearance on the st
age.  He died on 21 Oct. 1777.]  *p31 hay The First Part of King Henry IV.  As 2
4 July.  *aThe Recruiting Serjeant.  As 3 July.  *dAs 28 July.  *p8 1 hay The Ta
ilors.  As 2 June.  *aThe Portrait.  As 24 July.  *p2 hay The First Part of King
 Henry IV.  As 24 July.  *aPolly Honeycombe.  As 16 June, but Scribble-_; Ledger
-_.  *dAs 28 July.  *p4 hay Hamlet.  As 26 June.  *aPiety in Pattens.  As 11 Jun
e, but Mrs Candy-Mrs W. Palmer.  *p6 hay Rule a Wife and Have a Wife.  As 16 Jul
y.  *aThe Portrait.  As 24 July.  *dAs 7 July.  *cThe Devil upon Two Sticks [ann
ounced in +Public Advertiser=, 5 Aug.] is obliged to be deferred on account of t
he Indisposition of Foote.  *p7 hay K. Richard III.  Richard-Henderson (1st appe
arance in that character [in +London=]); King Henry-Younger; Catesby-T. Davis; R
atcliff-Egan; Lieutenant-R. Palmer; Lord Mayor-Massey; Buckingham-Aickin; Tresse
l-Davies; Stanley-Fearon; Norfolk-Griffiths; Tyrrell-Kenny; Oxford-Stevens; Prin
ce Edward-Miss Francis; Duke of York-Master Edwin; Richmond-Palmer; Lady Anne-Mr
s Hunter; Duchess of York-Mrs Poussin; Queen Elizabeth-Mrs Massey (1st appearanc
e on this stage).  *aMiss in Her Teens.  Captain Flash-Palmer; Captain Loveit-R.
 Palmer; Jasper-Egan; Puff-Fearon; Fribble (with a +song=)-Blissett; Tag-Mrs Gar
dner; Miss Biddy-Mrs Davies.  *c[$Henderson='s 1st appearance as +Richard=r was 
at +Bath=, 20 Oct. 1772.  $Mrs Massey= was from the +Norwich theatre=.]  *p8 hay
 K. Richard III.  As 7 Aug.  *aThe Recruiting Serjeant.  As 3 July.  *c['The sce
ne of the tent...was judiciously managed with regard to the lighting it withinsi
de the tent only' (+London Chronicle=, 9 Aug.)]  *p9 hay The Advertisement; or, 
A Bold Stroke for a Husband.  [Principal Parts by Parsons, Egan, Jackson, R. Pal
mer, Fearon, Blissett, Walker, Edwin, Mrs Colles, Miss Hale, Miss Platt, Mrs Lov
e, Mrs Gardner.%  [Cast from +Public Advertiser=, 12 Aug.:% Doctor Obstetric-Par
sons; Capt. O'Cannon-Egan; Jack Steerage-Jackson; George Wydham-R. Palmer; Sir W
illiam Wydham-Fearon; Careful-Blissett; MacLocust-Walker; Snap-Edwin; Mrs Epigra
m-Mrs Colles; La Bronze-Miss Hale; Lydia Fanlove-Miss Platt; Landlady-Mrs Love; 
Widow Holdfast-Mrs Gardner; +Prologue=-Mrs Gardner.  *aThe Citizen.  As 2 July. 
 *cMainpiece [1st time; C 3, by $Sarah Gardner=.  Prologue by the author (+Londo
n Chronicle=, 11 Aug.).  +Larpent MS 435=; not published; synopsis of plot in +L
ondon Magazine=, Aug. 1777, p. 433.  For a description of the difficulties atten
ding the reception of this play, from a recently discovered MS by Mrs Gardner, s
ee +Theatre Notebook=, VII, 76-81].  *p11 hay K. Richard III.  As 7 Aug.  *aThe 
Portrait.  As 24 July.  *p12 hay Love in a Village.  Hawthorn-Bannister; Justice
 Woodcock-Edwin; Young Meadows-DuBellamy; Sir William Meadows-Fearon; Hodge-Davi
es; Eustace-Kenny; Margery-Mrs Davies; Deborah Woodcock-Mrs Love; Lucinda-Miss H
ale; Rosetta-Miss Farren (1st appearance in that character).  *aMiss in her Teen
s.  As 7 Aug.  *dI: [a% +Country Dance= [incident to the [main] piece%-; End II:
 [a% +New Dance= [of Demi Caractere%-.  *p13 hay The First Part of King Henry IV
.  As 24 July.  *aThe Portrait.  As 24 July.  *dAs 28 July.  *p14 hay Cato.  Cat
o-Digges (1st appearance in +London=); Portius-Aickin; Marcus-Davies; Sempronius
-Fearon; Syphax-Blissett; Mutineers-T. Davis, Stevens, Kenny; Decius-Egan; Luciu
s-Massey; Juba-Palmer; Lucia-Mrs Colles; Marcia-Mrs Massey.  *aThe Citizen.  As 
2 July.  *dEnd: +Dance=-.  *cMainpiece: Never performed here.  "$Digges= 'discha
rged the character' in the same costume as it is to be supposed was adopted by $
Booth=, when the play was originally acted [in 1713], that is, in a shape, as it
 is technically termed [i.e. a costume] of the stiffest order, decorated with gi
lt leather upon a black ground, with black stockings, black gloves, and a powder
ed periwig" ($Peake=, II, 13).  *p15 hay The Merchant of Venice.  As 11 June.  *
aThe Portrait.  As 24 July.  *dAs 18 June.  *c+Polly= [announced on playbill of 
14 Aug.] is obliged to be deferred on account of the Hoarseness of $Mrs Colles=.
 [Afterpiece in place of +The Fairy Tale=, announced on playbill of 14 Aug.]  *p
18 hay Cato.  As 14 Aug.  *aBon Ton; or, High Life above Stairs.  Lord Minikin-R
. Palmer; Sir John Trotley-Massey; Col. Tivy-Egan; Jessamy-Fearon; Mignon-Steven
s; Davy-Parsons; Lady Minikin-Mrs Hitchcock; Miss Tittup-Miss Farren (1st appear
ance in that character).  *dAs 14 Aug.  *p19 hay The Chances.  Don John-Henderso
n (1st appearance in that character [in +London=]); Petruchio-Aickin; Duke-Fearo
n; Peter-Blissett; Anthony-Massey; Francisco-Jackson; Surgeon-Griffiths; Antonio
-Parsons; Don Frederick-Davies; 1st Constantia-Mrs Hunter; Landlady-Mrs Love; Nu
rse-Mrs W. Palmer; Kinswoman-Miss Hale; Mother-Miss Platt; 2nd Constantia-Miss B
arsanti.  *aThe Lyar.  Young Wilding-Palmer; Old Wilding-Fearon; Sir J. Elliot-R
. Palmer; Papillion-Parsons; Miss Godfrey-Miss Platt; Kitty-Mrs Poussin; Miss Gr
antham-Mrs Davies.  *dEnd Monologue: [a% +Dance=-.  *e[+Monologue=%End: +The Pic
ture of a Playhouse= or +Bucks have at Ye All=-Palmer.  *cBenefit for $Palmer=. 
 Mainpiece: Never performed here [so stated on playbill of 18 Aug.].  +Public Ad
vertiser=, 13 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Palmer at his house in +Bow-street=, +B
loomsbury=.  [$Henderson='s 1st appearance as +Don John=r was at +Bath=, 23 Oct.
 1773.]  *p20 hay Love in a Village.  As 12 Aug.  *aLilliput.  As 15 May.  *dAs 
12 Aug.  *p21 hay The First Part of King Henry IV.  As 24 July.  *aPiety in Patt
ens.  As 11 June.  *dAs 28 July.  *p22 hay April-Day.  [Principal Parts by Banni
ster, Du-Bellamy, Edwin, Mrs Hitchcock, Miss Twist.  Cast from text (G. Kearsly,
 1777):% Don Buffalo-Bannister; Count Folatre-DuBellamy; Davo-Edwin; Matilda-Mrs
 Hitchcock; Cephisa-Miss Twist.  *aThe Citizen.  As 2 July.  *dEnd I: [a% +New P
astoral Dance=-[see 11 June]; End II: +The Provencalle=-[see 11 June].  *cMainpi
ece [1st time; BURL 3]: Written by the Author of +Midas= [$Kane O'Hara=; music b
y $Samuel Arnold=].  Books of the Burletta to be had at the Theatre.  +Public Ad
vertiser=, 22 Aug.: This Afternoon, at Three, will be published +April-Day= (1s.
 6d.).  *p23 hay The Chances.  As 19 Aug., but Mother-Mrs Gardner; Nurse-_.  *aM
idas.  As 14 July.  *p25 hay The Rehearsal.  Bayes-Henderson (1st appearance in 
that character [in +London=]); Smith-Aickin; Johnson-Palmer; The other Character
s-R. Palmer, Egan, Hitchcock, Besford, T. Davis, Griffiths, Peirce, Fearon, Pars
ons, Blissett, Jackson, Edwin, Miss Hale, Mr DuBellamy, Mrs Poussin, Mrs Love, M
iss Platt, Mrs Colles [who acted +Amaryllis= (+Morning Post=, 26 Aug.)]. [With a
n Additional Reinforcement of Mr Bayes's New-raised Troops [for which, and for a
 list of the other parts, see +dl=, 13 Dec. 1777].%  *aThe Fairy Tale.  As 18 Ju
ly.  *cBenefit for $Henderson=.  +Public Advertiser=, 19 Aug.: Tickets to be had
 of Henderson, No. 21, +Maiden-lane=, +Covent Garden=.  [Henderson's 1st appeara
nce as +Bayes=r was at +Bath=, 28 Nov. 1772.]  *p26 hay April-Day.  As 22 Aug.  
*aThe Lyar.  As 19 Aug.  *dAs 22 Aug.  *p27 hay The Rehearsal.  As 25 Aug.  *aPo
lly Honeycombe.  As 2 Aug.  *p28 hay The Chances.  As 23 Aug., but 2nd Constanti
a-Mrs Lisley (late $Miss Barsanti=).  *aThe Waterman.  As 15 July.  *cBenefit fo
r Bannister.  +Public Advertiser=, 21 Aug.: Tickets to be had of $Bannister=, at
 $Palmer's=, +Bridges-street=.  [Public Advertiser assigns in mainpiece: +Kinswo
man=r-$Miss Platt=; in afterpiece: +Mrs Bundle=r-$Mrs Love=.]  *p29 hay King Hen
ry VIII.  Cardinal Wolsey-Digges; Buckingham-Palmer; Cranmer-Younger; Surry-Davi
es; Cromwell-R. Palmer; Gardiner-Parsons; Lord Sands-Jackson; Lord Chamberlain-E
gan; Norfolk-T. Davis; Suffolk-Fearon; King Henry-A Gentleman (from the +Theatre
 Royal, Dublin=; 1st appearance in +London= [$Fotteral=]); Anne Bullen-Mrs Colle
s; Patience (with a +song=)-Miss Twist; Queen Catherine-Mrs Massey (1st appearan
ce in that character).  *aThe Portrait.  As 24 July.  *c[$Digges= refused to mak
e use of "the too familiar modern manner of speaking blank verse" (+London Chron
icle=, 30 Aug., which also identifies $Fotteral=, although misspelling his name 
as "Fotheril").]  *p30 hay The Spanish Barber; or, The Fruitless Precaution.  [P
rincipal Parts by Palmer, Parsons, Blissett, Jackson, R. Palmer, Egan, Stevens, 
Edwin, Miss Farren.  [Cast from +London Chronicle=, 1 Sept.:% Count Almaviva-Pal
mer; Dr Bartholo-Parsons; Basil-Blissett; Argus-Jackson; Pall@Boy-R. Palmer; Alc
ade-Egan; Notary-Stevens; Lazarillo-Edwin; Rosina-Miss Farren; +Prologue=-Parson
s; +Epilogue=-Miss Farren.  [These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequ
ent performances.]  *aThomas and Sally.  Thomas-Bannister; The Squire-DuBellamy;
 Dorcas-Mrs Love; Sally-Mrs Jewell.  *dEnd: +Dance=-.  [This was included in all
 subsequent performances.]  *cMainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by $George Colman elder
=, based on +Le Barbier de Seville; ou, La Precaution Inutile=, by $Pierre Augus
tin Caron de Beaumarchais=; music by $Samuel Arnold= and, by attribution, $Pierr
e Alexandre Monsigny=.  Prologue by the author (+Collection...of English Prologu
es and Epilogues=, II, 209).  Epilogue by $David Garrick= (+Garrick's Poetical W
orks=, II, 340).  +Larpent MS 436=; not published; synopsis of plot in +London M
agazine=, Sept. 1777, pp. 467-69]: With New Dresses and Scenes.  *p9 1 hay The S
panish Barber.  As 30 Aug.  *aThe Recruiting Serjeant.  As 3 July.  *p2 hay The 
Spanish Barber.  As 30 Aug.  *aLilliput.  As 15 May.  *p3 hay The Merry Wives of
 Windsor.  Falstaff-Henderson (1st appearance in this play [in +London=]); Justi
ce Shallow-Blissett; Sir Hugh Evans-Parsons; Dr Caius-Jackson; Mr Page-Fearon; M
aster Slender-Bates; Fenton-R. Palmer; Host-Massey; Bardolph-Kenny; Pistol-Steve
ns; Robin-Master Hitchcock; Simple-Master Pulley; Ford-Palmer; Mrs Page-Mrs Davi
es; Ann Page-Mrs Colles; Hostess-Mrs Love; Mrs Ford-Mrs Lisley (late $Miss Barsa
nti=).  *aThe Padlock.  Don Diego-Bannister; Leander-DuBellamy; Mungo-Davies (1s
t appearance in that character); Ursula-Mrs Love; Leonora-Mrs Jewell.  *cBenefit
 for $Jewell=, treasurer.Mainpiece: Never performed here.  [$Henderson='s 1st re
corded appearance as +Falstaff=r was at +Bristol=, 11 Sept. 1775.]  *p4 hay The 
Spanish Barber.  As 30 Aug.  *aMidas.  As 14 July.  *c[Mainpiece in place of +Ki
ng Henry VIII=, announced on playbill of 3 Sept.]  *p5 hay King Henry VIII.  As 
29 Aug.  *aThe Fairy Tale.  As 18 July.  *dEnd: +Dance=-.  *p6 hay Hamlet.  As 2
6 June.  *aPiety in Pattens.  As 11 June.  *p8 hay The Spanish Barber.  As 30 Au
g.  *aMidas.  As 14 July.  *p9 hay The Merry Wives of Windsor.  As 3 Sept., but 
Master Slender-R. Palmer; Fenton-Egan.  *aThe Portrait.  As 24 July.  *p10 hay T
he Provok'd Wife.  Sir John Brute-Digges (1st appearance in that character [in +
London=]); Heartfree-Aickin; Constant-Davies; Lord Rake-Egan; Justice-Massey; Co
nstable-Griffiths; Watchmen-Jackson, Besford; Razor-R. Palmer; Taylor-Blissett; 
Lady Fanciful-Mrs Lisley; Belinda-Mrs Hitchcock; Mademoiselle-A Young Gentlewoma
n (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified]); Lady Brute-Mrs Hunter.  *aMidas.
  As 14 July.  *dEnd: +Dance=-.  *cMainpiece: Never performed here.  [$Digges='s
 1st recorded appearance as +Sir John Brute=r was at +Edinburgh= in 1757.]  *p11
 hay The Spanish Barber.  As 30 Aug.  *aMidas.  As 14 July.  *p12 hay The Provok
'd Wife.  As 10 Sept.  *aThe Waterman.  As 28 Aug.  *dAs 10 Sept.  *p13 hay The 
First Part of King Henry IV.  As 24 July, but Hotspur-Smith (from the $Theatre R
oyal, Dublin=; 1st appearance in +London=).  *aThe Portrait.  As 24 July.  *dAs 
28 July.  *p15 hay Hamlet.  As 26 June, but King-Younger; Guildenstern-T. Davis;
 Bernardo-Kenny.  *aThe Recruiting Serjeant.  As 3 July.  *cThe Last Night this 
Season.  *p16 hay The Spanish Barber.  As 30 Aug., but Basil-Massey; Alcade-T. D
avis; Lazarillo-Bannister.  *aThe Waterman.  As 15 July, but Robin-_.  *c[Extra 
night] By Permission [of the +Lord Chamberlain=].  Benefit for $Miss Farren=.  *
p17 hay The Beggar's Opera.  Capt. Macheath-Bannister; Peachum-Aickin; Lockit-Ma
ssey; Mat o' th' Mint-Griffiths; Filch-Parsons; Lucy-Miss Hale; Mrs Peachum, Dia
na Trapes-Mrs Love; Mrs Slammekin-Mrs W. Palmer; Polly-Mrs Jewell.  *aThe Mayor 
of Garratt.  Major Sturgeon-Bannister; Sir Jacob Jollup-Jackson [+Public Adverti
ser=: Massey]; Bruin-Griffiths; Heel@tap-T. Davis; Jerry Sneak-Parsons; Mrs Brui
n-Miss Platt; Mrs Sneak-Mrs Burden (1st appearance in +London= these 8 years).  
*dIII: [a% +Hornpipe=-.  *e[+Imitations=%End: +New Imitations= Vocal and Rhetori
cal-Hutton.  *c[Extra night] By Permission [of the +Lord Chamberlain=].  Benefit
 for $Mrs Jewell=.  The Out-standing Tickets of $Mr Jewell= [from his benefit on
 3 Sept.], and those issued for +King Richard III= will be admitted.  *p18 hay T
he Provok'd Wife.  As 10 Sept., but Lord Rake-Griffiths; Taylor-Stevens; Belinda
-Miss Hale; Mademoiselle-Miss Walton (1st appearance); Lady Brute-Mrs Burden; Co
l. Bully (with a +song=)-Bannister; Constable-_.  *aThe Mayor of Garratt.  As 17
 Sept., but Sir Jacob Jollup-Massey; Bruin-Fearon; Heel@tap-Griffiths.  *c[Extra
 night] By Permission [of the +Lord Chamberlain=].  Benefit for $Griffiths= and 
$Fearon=.  Tickets delivered for +Hamlet= and a Comedy will be admitted.  Ticket
s to be had of Griffiths and of Fearon at +Clay's=, Cabinet-maker, +Princess-str
eet=, +Soho=.  *p19 hay The Provoked Husband.  Lord Townly-Digges (1st appearanc
e in that character [in +London=]); Manly-Aickin; Count Basset-Davies; Squire Ri
chard-R. Palmer; John Moody-Jackson; Sir Francis Wronghead-Parsons; Lady Wronghe
ad-Mrs Love; Miss Jenny-Mrs Davies; Lady Grace-Mrs Colles; Myrtilla-Miss Platt; 
Trusty-Mrs W. Palmer; Mrs Motherly-Mrs Poussin; Lady Townly-Mrs Lisley (1st appe
arance in that character).  *aThe Occasional Prelude.  Manager-Fotteral; Young A
ctress-Mrs Lisley.  *aThe Mayor of Garratt.  As 17 Sept., but Sir Jacob Jollup-M
assey; Bruin-Fearon.  *c[Extra night] By Permission [of the +Lord Chamberlain=].
  Benefit for $Mrs Lisley=, late $Miss Barsanti=.  $T. Davis='s benefit, which w
as intended for Tuesday next, is obliged to be deferred till a Future Day, of wh
ich Proper Notice will be given.  [$Digges='s 1st recorded appearance as +Lord T
ownly=r was at +Edinburgh=, 6 Mar. 1756.]             *p1777 9 20 dl The Tempest
.  Prospero-Packer; Stephano-Moody; Trincalo-Baddeley; Caliban-Bannister; Gonzal
ez-Aickin; Alonzo-Wrighten; Ferdinand-Davies; Ariel-Miss Field; Miranda-Mrs Cuyl
er; Chorus of Spirits-Gaudry, Legg, Carpenter, Chaplin, Holcroft, Miss Abrams, M
iss Collett, Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Mrs Pitt, Mrs Smith.  *aAll the World's a Stag
e.  Sir Gilbert Pumpkin-Baddeley; Charles Stanley-Farren; Harry Stukely-Barrett;
 Diggery-Parsons; Miss Kitty Sprightly-Miss Hopkins; Miss Bridget Pumpkin-Mrs Ho
pkins.  *dI: +Dance of Spirits=-Miss Armstrong; III: +Dance of Fantastic Spirits
=-; [These were danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.] V: [a
 Ballet, Demie Caractere, composed by $Gallet=,% +The Double Festival=-Gallet, S
lingsby, Miss Armstrong, Sga Dupre.  *cMainpiece: The Storm Scene will (by desir
e) begin the 2d Act.  [This notice is included in all subsequent performances.] 
 Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s.  No Money to be taken at th
e Stage-Door, nor any Money returned after the Curtain is drawn up.  Places for 
the Boxes to be had of $Fosbrook=, at the Stage-Door.  The Doors to be opened at
 5:30.  To begin at 6:30 [see 9 Oct.].  Receipts: #183 4s. (154.2; 27.16; 1.6). 
 *p22 cg The Recruiting Officer.  Capt. Plume-Lewis; Justice Balance-Hull; Worth
y-Whitefield [beginning with 15 Oct. the name is spelled "$Whitfield="]; Scale-T
hompson; Scruple-Cushing; Serjeant Kite-Fearon; Bullock-Dunstall; Recruits-Quick
, Jones; Capt. Brazen-Lee Lewes; Melinda-Miss Ambrose; Rose-Miss Dayes; Lucy-Mrs
 Pitt; Sylvia-Mrs Lessingham; [New Occasional% +Prologue=[, not listed on playbi
ll%-Lewis (see 24 Sept.).  *aThe Padlock.  Don Diego-Reinhold; Leander-Bowles?; 
Mungo-Quick; Ursula-Mrs Green; Leonora-Miss Brown.  *c[Author of Prologue unknow
n.  In afterpiece the playbill assigns +Leander=r to $Mahon=, but "after the pla
y $Hull= made a genteel apology for the non-attendance of Mahon...who, by some u
naccountable accident, was not arrived in town, at the same time begging their a
cceptance of a young Gentleman' (+Morning Post=, 23 Sept.).  For $Bowles= as Lea
nder see 10 Oct.]  Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. 2nd Gallery 1s.  Places for
 the Boxes to be taken of $Sarjant= (only) at the Stage-Door.  No Persons admitt
ed behind the Scenes, nor any Money returned after the Curtain is drawn up.  The
 Doors to be opened at 5:30.  To begin at 6:30 [see 13 Oct.].  Receipts: #187 13
s. (186.4; 1.9).  *p23 dl The Jealous Wife.  Oakly-Smith; Lord Trinket-Dodd; Sir
 Harry Beagle-Barrett; Charles-Farren; Russet-Aickin (1st appearance in that cha
racter); Captain O'Cutter-Moody; Paris-Waldron; Tom-Carpenter; Major Oakly-Yates
; Lady Freelove-Mrs Hopkins; Harriet-Miss Hopkins; Mrs Oakly-Miss Younge.  *aThe
 Deserter.  Henry-Davies; Russet-Bannister; Simkin-Carpenter; Flint-Wright; Skir
mish-Parsons; Jenny-Mrs Wrighten; Margaret-Mrs Love; Louisa-Mrs Sherborn.  *cRec
eipts: #160 6s. 6d. (126.13.0; 32.0.6; 1.13.0).  *p24 cg Sir Thomas Overbury.  S
ir Thomas Overbury-Lewis; Somerset-Wroughton; Northampton-Hull; Elvis-Whitfield;
 Lieutenant-Thompson; Countess of Somerset-Mrs Jackson; Cleora-Miss Leeson; Isab
ella-Mrs Hartley; [By Particular Desire the New Occasional% +Prologue= [which wa
s spoken on Monday will be repeated%-Lewis (for this Night only).  *aThe Commiss
ary.  The Commissary-Quick; Young Loveit-Whitfield; Simon-Fox; Isaac Fungus-Fear
on; Mrs Loveit-Mrs Pitt; Jenny-Mrs Poussin; Dolly-Mrs Fearon; Mrs Mechlin (1st t
ime)-Miss Ambrose.  *dEnd: +The Shepherd's Wedding=-Harris, Miss Matthews.  *cPa
id Music 22nd Inst. #7 9s. 6d.  Receipts: #146 15s. (144.14.6; 2.0.6).  *p25 dl 
The Clandestine Marriage.  Lord Ogleby-King; Sterling-Parsons; Sir John Melvil-A
ickin; Lovewell-Brereton; Serjeant Flower-Wrighten; Traverse-Hurst; Trueman-Norr
is; Canton-Baddeley; Brush-Burton; Miss Sterling-Miss Pope; Fanny-Miss P. Hopkin
s; Chambermaid-Mrs Davies; Betty-Mrs Love; Mrs Heidelberg-Mrs Hopkins.  *aThe De
vil to Pay.  Sir John Loverule-Vernon; Jobson-Moody; Lady Loverule-Mrs Johnston;
 Nell-Mrs Wrighten.  *cReceipts: #154 1s. (122.7.0; 30.15.6; 0.18.6).  *p26 cg L
ove in a Village.  Justice Woodcock-Wilson; Hawthorn-Reinhold; Young Meadows-Mat
tocks; Sir William Meadows-Fearon; Eustace-Mahon; Hodge-Dunstall; Lucinda-Mrs Ma
ttocks; Deborah-Mrs Pitt; Margery-Miss Dayes; Rosetta-Miss Brown (1st appearance
 in that character).  *aThe Old Maid.  Clerimont-Wroughton; Capt. Cape-Dunstall;
 Harlow-Whitfield; Mrs Harlow-Mrs Lessingham; Miss Harlow-Mrs Green.  *dEnd II: 
+The Shepherd's Wedding=, as 24 Sept.  *cReceipts: #150 2s. 6d. (149.13.0; 0.9.6
).  *p27 dl The Distress'd Mother.  Orestes-Smith; Pylades-Packer; Phoenix-Hurst
; Pyrrhus-Palmer; Hermione-Miss Younge; Cleone-Miss Sherry; Cephisa-Mrs Johnston
; Andromache-Mrs Yates.  *aHarlequin's Invasion.  Harlequin-Wright; Mercury-Davi
es; Snip-Parsons; Simon-Moody; Gasconade-Baddeley; Corporal Bounce-Carpenter; Ab
ram-Waldron; Justice-Wrighten; Forge-Griffiths; Bogg-Barrett; Taffy-Burton; Old 
Woman-Mr Davies [i.e. doubled Mercury]; Mrs Snip-Mrs Bradshaw; Sukey Chitterlin-
Mrs Davies; Dolly Snip-Miss Pope.  *cReceipts: #193 1s. (157.18; 31.15; 3.8).  *
p29 cg Romeo and Juliet.  Romeo-Wroughton (1st appearance in that character); Ca
pulet-Clarke; Friar Lawrence-Hull; Mercutio-Lewis (1st appearance in that charac
ter); Benvolio-Booth; Escalus-Fearon; Paris-Whitfield; Tibalt-L'Estrange; Peter-
Jones; Lady Capulet-Mrs Poussin; Nurse-Mrs Pitt; Juliet-Mrs Jackson.  *aThe Appr
entice.  The Apprentice (1st time)-Lewis; Wingate-Dunstall; Gargle-Thompson; Sim
on-Cushing; Charlotte-Miss Dayes.  *dI: Masquerade Scene [incident to the Play%-
; I: +Minuet=-Dumay, Mrs Jackson.  *sEnd IV: [the Funeral Procession of Juliet, 
with the% +Solemn Dirge=[. Vocal Parts%-Mattocks, Reinhold, Baker, Fox, Miss Bro
wn, Miss Dayes, Miss Valois, Mrs Willems, Miss Green.  *c[$Nicoll=, III, 280, 39
0, states that this was an alteration of $Shakespear='s play by $John Lee=.]  Re
ceipts: #174 5s. (173.10.6; 0.14.6).  *p30 dl Hamlet.  Hamlet-Henderson (1st app
earance on this stage); King-Packer; Horatio (1st time)-Farren; Polonius-Baddele
y; Laertes-Aickin; Rosencraus-Davies; Guildenstern-Lamash; Marcellus-Wrighten; P
layer King-Hurst; Lucianus-Waldron; Messenger-Wright; Bernardo-Griffiths; Franci
sco-Norris; Ghost-Palmer; Queen-Mrs Hopkins; Player Queen-Mrs Johnston; Ophelia-
Mrs Robinson (1st appearance in that character).  *aAll the World's a Stage.  As
 20 Sept., but Miss Kitty Sprightly-Miss P. Hopkins.  *cMainpiece: With Alterati
ons [by $David Garrick=].  [$Henderson= was from the +hay=.]  'The style of Hend
erson did not assimilate with the tone of the [+dl=] company.  They declaimed in
 a higher key, and more upon the level.  The frequent under-tones the former har
dly struck the ear at any considerable distance' (+Boaden, Siddons=, I, 170).  R
eceipts: #225 8s. (204.2; 20.14; 0.12).  *p10 1 cg The Miser.  Miser-Macklin; Fr
ederick-Wroughton; Clerimont-Whitfield; Ramilie-Lee Lewes; James-Cushing; Decoy-
Fox; Lappet-Mrs Green; Harriet-Mrs Whitefield; Mariana-Mrs Bulkley.  *aThe Royal
 Chace; or, Harlequin Skeleton.  Harlequin Jupiter-Lee Lewes; Chasseur Royal-Mah
on; Pantaloon-Baker; Anatomist-Jones; Pierrot-Delpini; Colombine-Miss Matthews. 
 *dEnd: +The Humours of New@Market with the Poney Races=-Dagueville, Harris, Mas
ter Holland, Master Dagueville, Miss Ross, Sga Tinte.  *cMainpiece: Not acted th
ese 3 years.  Afterpiece: With the +Stockwell Scenes=.  [These were included in 
all subsequent performances.]  Receipts: #173 11s. 6d. (172:4.6; 1.7.0).  *p2 dl
 Love in a Village.  Hawthorn-Vernon; Justice Woodcock-Parsons; Young Meadows-Do
dd; Sir William Meadows-Aickin; Eustace (1st time)-Lamash; Hodge-Davies; Margery
-Mrs Wrighten; Deborah Woodcock-Mrs Love; Lucinda (1st time)-Miss Collett; Roset
ta-Miss Walpole (1st appearance on the English stage).  *aHarlequin's Invasion. 
 As 27 Sept., but Bogg-Holcroft.  *dI: +Country Dance= (incident to the [main]pi
ece)-; [This was danced in both performances.] End II: [New Ballet, Demi-Caracte
re (composed by $Gallet=),% +Rural Grace=-Gallet, Henry, Miss Armstrong, Mlle Du
pre.  *c[$Miss Walpole= was from the $Crow Street Theatre, Dublin=.]  Receipts: 
#178 19s. 6d. (146.17.0; 31.13.6; 0.9.0).  *p3 cg Lionel and Clarissa.  Lionel-M
attocks; Sir John Flowerdale-Hull; Harman (1st time)-Bowles; Jenkins-Dunstall; J
essamy-Wewitzer; Col. Oldboy-Wilson; Lady Mary Oldboy-Mrs Green; Diana-Miss Brow
n; Jenny-Mrs Wilson; Clarissa-Mrs Mattocks.  *aThe Royal Chace.  As 1 Oct., but 
Harlequin Jupiter-Rayner.  *dEnd II: +The Pilgrim=-Harris, Miss Matthews.  *cMai
npiece: With Alterations and New Airs [composed by $Fisher= (+Gazetteer=, 6 Oct.
)].  Receipts: #170 16s. 6d. (170.6.0; 0.10.6).  *p4 dl Hamlet.  As 30 Sept.  *a
Harlequin's Invasion.  As 2 Oct.  *c$Palmer= and $Parsons= Sal[ar]y raised #1 pe
r full week [of 6 nights].  Receipts: #235 18s. 6d. (207.18.0; 26.11.0; 1.9.6). 
 *p6 cg King Lear.  Lear-Ross (1st appearance these 5 years); Edgar-Lewis; Glost
er-Hull; Bastard-Aickin; Kent-Clarke; Albany-L'Estrange; Cornwall-Thompson; Gent
leman Usher-Quick; Burgundy-Booth; Goneril-Mrs Poussin; Regan-Miss Ambrose; Aran
te-Miss Green; Cordelia-Mrs Hartley (1st appearance in that character).  *aThe R
oyal Chace.  As 3 Oct.  *dAs 1 Oct.  *cPaid Properties 3rd Inst. #1 15s. 4d.; Wa
rdrobe to date #4 1s. 6d.  Receipts: #203 9s. 6d. (202.11.6; 0.18.0).  *phay The
 Beggar's Opera.  Captain Macheath-Digges (1st appearance in that character on t
his stage); Peachum-Moody; Lockit-Edwin; Filch-Parsons; Lucy-Mrs Bradley (1st ap
pearance on this stage); Mrs Peachum-Mrs Love (of +dl=); Polly-Miss Jarratt.  *a
A Farce and Entertainments.  [Not specified.%  *cBy Permission [of the +Lord Cha
mberlain=].  Benefit for $Digges=.  The Doors to be opened at 5:30.  To begin at
 6:30.  +Morning Post=, 7 Oct.: Digges, far advanced in the autumn of his life, 
wanted that fire which is so indispensable to +Macheath=r.  His dress was beyond
 measure ridiculous, and his songs...discordant and tedious.  [His 1st appearanc
e as Macheath was at $Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin=, 10 Oct. 1752.]  *p7 dl King 
Richard the Third.  King Richard-Henderson (1st time [at this theatre]); Richmon
d-Palmer; Buckingham (1st time)-Farren; Tressel-Davies; Lord Stanley-Chaplin; No
rfolk-Hurst; Catesby-Packer; Prince Edward-Miss Field; Duke of York-Master Pulle
y; Lord Mayor-Griffiths; Ratcliffe-Wright; Lieutenant-R. Palmer; King Henry-Aick
in; Lady Anne-Mrs Robinson (1st appearance in that character); Dutchess of York-
Mrs Johnston; Queen-Mrs Hopkins.  *aThe Quaker.  [Principal Characters by Vernon
, Parsons, Wrighten, Bannister, Miss Walpole, Mrs Love, Mrs Wrighten.  [Cast fro
m text ($John Bell=, 1777):% Lubin-Vernon; Solomon-Parsons; Easy-Wrighten; Stead
y-Bannister; Gillian-Miss Walpole; Cicely-Mrs Love; Floretta-Mrs Wrighten.  *c[F
or $Henderson= as +King Richard=r see hay, 7 Aug. 1777.]  Afterpiece: The Music 
composed by $Dibdin=.  With New Scenes and Dresses.  Books of the Songs, &c. to 
be had at the Theatre.  [The text erroneously assigns: +Gillian=r-$Mrs Wrighten=
; +Floretta=r-$Miss Walpole=, but see +Public Advertiser=, 8 Oct., which in a re
view, gives the correct assignment; see also 6 Oct. 1778.]  Receipts: #260 7s. (
241.14; 17.17; 0.16).  *p8 cg The Conscious Lovers.  Young Bevil-Lewis; Myrtle-W
roughton; Sealand-Clarke; Sir John Bevil-Fearon; Cimberton-Quick; Tom-A Young Ge
ntleman (1st appearance on this stage [$Death=]); Phillis-Mrs Mattocks; Lucinda-
Miss Ambrose; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Pitt; Isabella-Mrs Poussin; Indiana-Mrs Hartley.  
*aThe Royal Chace.  As 3 Oct.  *dEnd III: +The Humours of Leixlip=-Aldridge, Mas
ter Jackson, Miss Besford.  *sII: +song= [+I have lost my Anna=]-Leoni.  *c[$Dea
th= is identified in +Public Advertiser=, 9 Oct.; he was from the +York theatre=
.  $Leoni='s song is identified in +London Chronicle=, 9 Oct.]  Receipts: #197 1
s. (196.3; 0.18).  *p9 dl The Old Batchelor.  Bellmour-Smith; Heartwell-Bensley;
 Fondlewife-Yates; Vainlove-Vernon; Capt. Bluff-Moody; Sharper-Farren; Setter-Ba
ddeley; Sir Joseph Wittol-King; Laetitia-Miss Pope (1st appearance in that chara
cter); Araminta-Mrs Robinson; Silvia-Miss P. Hopkins; Lucy-Mrs Wrighten; Belinda
-Miss Younge.  *aThe Quaker.  As 7 Oct.  *dEnd II: +Rural Grace=, as 2 Oct.  *cM
ainpiece: With Alterations [by $Richard Brinsley Sheridan=].  The Doors to be op
ened at 5:15.  To begin at 6:15 [same for rest of season].  Receipts: #187 9s. (
139.0.0; 45.4.6; 3.4.6).  *phay The Coquette; or The Mistakes of the Heart.  Pri
ncipal Characters-Camery (1st appearance), Jackson, Davis, Tannett, Dowson, Curt
is, Williams, Morris, Johnston, Miss Walton (the young Lady who performed in +Th
e Provok'd Wife= [on 18 Sept.]), Miss Essex, Mrs Gardner, Mrs Bishop, Mrs Roche,
 Mrs Russell (from the $Theatre Royal, Norwich=), A Young Gentlewoman [unidentif
ied].  [Text (+Bath=: $R. Cruttwell=, 1777) lists the parts, with cast as acted 
at +Hull=: +Sedley=r , +Captain Helm=r , +Woodford=r , +Sir Whifling Trifle=r , 
+Flamwell=r , +Spangle=r , +Finesse=r , +Swab=r , +Ty'em=r , +Miss Bloomer=r , +
Lady Younglove=r , +Flora=r , +Mrs Fashion=r , +Miss Belgrove=r , +Frippery=r , 
+Fontange=r .]  *aThe True-Born Irishman; or, The English Sailors and Soldiers i
n America.  Characters-Jackson, Dowson, Davis, Evans, Alfred, Russell, Williams,
 Jones, Miss Essex, Miss Walton, [Text ($J. Williams=, 1767) lists the parts: +I
ndian King=r, +English Captain=r, +Macfinan=r, +Ben=r, +Ned=r, +White Lady=r, +B
lack Woman=r.]  *dEnd IV: [a% +Hornpipe=-Miller.  *e[+Imitations=%End: +Imitatio
ns=[, Vocal and Rhetorical,%-Decastro [; several new ones, and those which Foote
 introduced him in before $their Majesties=%.  *cBy Permission [of the +Lord Cha
mberlain=].  Mainpiece [1st time in +London=; C 5, by $Robert Hitchcock=, 1st ac
ted at Hull, 14 Nov. 1775].  Afterpiece: Written by $George Alexander Stevens=. 
 [This was not $Charles Macklin='s play, +The True-Born Irishman=, 1st published
 in $Jones=' +British Theatre=, 1795, but Stevens's +The French Flogged; or, The
 British Sailors in America=.]  Tickets delivered for the 23rd of September and 
for the Evening will be admitted.  *p10 cg Know Your Own Mind.  Principal Charac
ters-Lewis, Wroughton, Aickin, Whitfield, Fearon, Booth, Wewitzer, Thompson, Lee
 Lewes, Mrs Hartley, Mrs Jackson, Miss Dayes, Miss Ambrose, Mrs Mattocks.  [For 
assignment of parts see 30 Oct.]  *aThe Padlock.  As 22 Sept., but Leander-Bowle
s.  *dEnd: +The Humours of Leixlip=, as 8 Oct.  *cMainpiece: The Principal Chara
cters new dressed.  Receipts: #180 15s. 6d. (178.19.0; 1.16.6).  *p11 dl King Ri
chard the Third.  As 7 Oct., but King Henry-Bensley (1st appearance in that char
acter).  *aThe Quaker.  As 7 Oct.  *cPaid $Mrs Yates= 9 Days Cloaths #10 10s. 10
d.; Renters' Interest #8 [this paid daily throughout season].  Receipts: #250 9s
. 6d. (221.17.0; 26.5.0; 2.7.6).  *p13 cg King Lear.  As 6 Oct., but Gentleman U
sher-Death.  *aThe Apprentice.  As 29 Sept.  *dAs 1 Oct.  *cPaid Chorus Singers 
#2 10s.  The Doors to be opened at 5:15.  To begin at 6:15 [same for rest of sea
son].  Receipts: #212 14s. (211.19.6; 0.14.6).  *phay The Gentle Shepherd.  Sir 
William-West; Patie-Dowson; Roger-Walker; Symon-Morrison; Glaud-Massey; Bauldy-S
tewart; Peggy-Miss Hale; Madge-Mr Jackson; Mause-Mr Joyce; Jdnny-Miss Russell; [
New Occasional% +Prologue=-Walker.  *aThe Students; or The Humours of St. Andrew
s.  Principal Parts-Walker, Stewart, Shepherd, Alfred, A Young Gentleman (1st ap
pearance on any stage [unidentified]), Miss Russell, Miss Hale; +Prologue=-Stewa
rt.  [Text (For the Author, 1779) lists the parts: +Byron=r, +Frederick=r, +Free
port=r, +Graspall=r, +Andrew=r, +Macdowell=r, +Drover=r, +Henpeck=r, +Emily=r, +
Harriot=r, +Mrs Macdowell=r.]  *cBy Authority of the +Lord Chamberlain=.  Benefi
t for $Stewart= and $Walker=.  Mainpiece [1st time; PAST 5]: Done into $English=
, from the Original of $Allan Ramsay=, by $Cornelius Vanderstop=, Esq.  As it ha
s long been the Desire of the Nobility and Gentry to have this celebrated Piece 
performed in English, the Gentleman who has undertaken this ardent Task hopes it
 will give Satisfaction to the Public in general.  [Text 1st published For the A
uthor, 1777.]  Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by $James Stewart=.  Authors of Prolog
ues unknown.].  The Doors to be opened at 5:00.  To begin at 6:00.  No Persons w
hatever to be admitted behind the Scenes, nor any Money returned after the Curta
in is drawn up.  Ladies are desired to send their Servants by Five to keep Place
s.  Tickets to be had at the +Edinburgh Coffee-house= and +Jamaica Coffee-house=
, +Cornhill=; the +St. Andrew=, +Wapping=; and of Walker, No. 4, +New Round Cour
t=, +Strand=.  *p14 dl The Merchant of Venice.  Shylock (1st time [at this theat
re])-Henderson; Antonio-Bensley (1st appearance in that character); Gratiano-Dod
d; Lorenzo (with +songs=)-Vernon; Duke-Packer; Launcelot-Parsons; Gobbo-Wrighten
; Salanio-Farren; Solerino-Lamash; Tubal-Waldron; Bassanio-Palmer (1st appearanc
e in that character); Jessica (1st time; with a +song=)-Miss Walpole; Nerissa-Mr
s Davies; Portia-Miss Younge (1st appearance in that character).  *aThe Quaker. 
 As 7 Oct.  *dEnd III: +Rural Grace=, as 2 Oct.  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 2 
years.  [$Henderson= had 1st acted +Shylock=r at +Bath=, 21 Dec. 1774; and 1st i
n +London= at +hay=, 11 June 1777.]  Paid Printers Bills to the 11th Inst.  #32 
8s.  Receipts: #234 6s. 6d. (209.7.0; 23.19.6; 1.0.0).  *p15 cg Much Ado about N
othing.  Benedick-Lewis (1st appearance in that character); Leonato-Hull; Don Pe
dro-Wroughton; Claudio-Whitfield [see 22 Sept.]; Balthazar (with a +song=)-Matto
cks; Don John-Booth; Antonio-Thompson; Dogberry (1st time)-Quick; Borachio-L'Est
range; Verges-Cushing; Conrade-Robson; Town Clerk-Wewitzer; Friar-Fearon; Hero-M
rs Lessingham; Beatrice-Mrs Bulkley.  *aThe Two Misers.  Lively-Mattocks; Hunks-
Reinhold; Gripe-Quick; Osman-Dunstall; Jenny-Miss Dayes; Harriet-Miss Brown.  *d
II: +Masquerade Dance= [proper to the Play%-; to conclude with: +Country Dance=-
the Characters.  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 2 years.  $Quick='s "+Dogberry=r w
as true to the text, and not a caricature.  In fact it was comedy, and not buffo
onery" (+Morning Chronicle=, 16 Oct.).  Receipts: #178 12s. (176.2; 2.10).  *p16
 dl The Merchant of Venice.  As 14 Oct.  *aThe Quaker.  As 7 Oct.  *dAs 14 Oct. 
 *cReceipts: #136 5s. (106.8; 28.18; 0.19).  *pcg The Merchant of Venice.  Shylo
ck-Macklin; Antonio-Clarke; Bassanio-Wroughton; Gratiano-Lee Lewes; Lorenzo (wit
h +songs=)-Mattocks; Duke-Fearon; Tubal-Thompson; Launcelot-Quick; Salanio-Booth
; Solarino-L'Estrange [+Public Advertiser=: Davis]; Jessica (with a +song=)-Miss
 Dayes; Nerissa-Mrs Lessingham; Portia-Mrs Barry (1st appearance in that charact
er [at this theatre]).  *aLove a-la-Mode.  Sir Archy MacSarcasm-Macklin; Squire 
Groom-Lee Lewes; Sir Callaghan O'Brallaghan-Mahon; Mordecai-Quick; Sir Theodore 
Goodchild-Dunstall; Charlotte-Miss Ambrose.  *dEnd III: +The Shepherd's Wedding=
, as 24 Sept.; End IV: As 8 Oct.  *c+London Chronicle=, 17 Oct.: In Act IV $Mack
lin= 'very properly declined the orator, but pleaded from his feelings and the p
redetermined purpose of his heart.'  [Mrs Barry, as $Mrs Dancer=, had 1st acted 
+Portia=r at $Crow Street Theatre, Dublin=, 9 Dec. 1761, and at +dl=, 24 Mar. 17
68.]  Receipts: #205 8s. (204.19.6; 0.8.6).  *p17 dl The First Part of King Henr
y the Fourth.  Hotspur-Smith; King Henry-Bensley (1st appearance in that charact
er); Worchester-Aickin; Sir Richard Vernon-Farren; Northumberland-Packer; Sir Wa
lter Blunt-Hurst; Prince John-Lamash; Westmorland-Wrighten; Douglas-Chaplin; Poi
ns-R. Palmer; Carriers-Moody, Parsons; Francis-Waldron; Bardolph-Wright; Sheriff
-Griffiths; Gadshill-Holcroft; Peto-Nash; Prince of Wales-Palmer; Falstaff (1st 
time [at this theatre])-Henderson; Hostess-Mrs Bradshaw; Lady Piercy (1st time)-
Mrs Cuyler.  *aThe Quaker.  As 7 Oct.  *dEnd II: +Comic Dance=-the Miss Stageldo
irs.  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 7 years.   No joke ever raised such loud and 
repeated mirth, in the galleries, as +Sir John=r 's labour in getting the body o
f +Hotspur=r on his back...At length this upper-gallery merriment was done away 
[with] by the difficulties which $Henderson= encountered in getting $Smith= on h
is shoulders.  So much time was consumed in this pick-a-pack business that the s
pectators grew tired, or rather, disgusted.  It was thought best, for the future
, that some of +Falstaff=r 's ragamuffins should bear off the dead body" ($Davie
s=, I, 273-75).  [For Henderson as Falstaff see +hay=, 24 July 1777.]  Receipts:
 #207 10s. 6d. (185.6.0; 20.7.0; 1.17.6).  *pcg The Beggar's Opera.  Macheath (w
ith additional +songs=)-Mrs Farrell (1st appearance in that character); Peachum-
Wilson; Lockit-Dunstall; Filch-Wewitzer; Mat o' the Mint-Baker; Lucy-Mrs Mattock
s; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Pitt; Mrs Slammekin-Mrs Green; Polly-Miss Brown; [To conclude
 with a% New Scene-.  [This was included in all subsequent performances, althoug
h notice of it is omitted from the playbills of 8 and 15 Dec., 2 and 14 May 1778
.]  *aThe Commissary.  As 24 Sept.  *dEnd: As 8 Oct.; III: [a% +Hornpipe=-Miss B
esford.  *cNew Scene [1st time; by $Edward Thompson=, with music by $Dr Arne=.  
+Larpent MS 438=; synopsis ("+Macheath=r, after trial, is sentenced to work on t
he +Thames=" in +London Chronicle=, 18 Oct.].  Paid $Hull= on Acct. of salary as
 Acting Manager #30.  Account-Book, 23 Mar. 1778: Paid Capt. Thompson for writin
g the new Scene in +The Beggar's Opera= #25.  Receipts: #240 9s. (240.2.6; 0.6.6
).  *p18 dl Twelfth Night.  Sir Andrew Ague@cheek-Dodd; Sir Toby Belch-Palmer; O
rsino-Brereton; Sebastian-Davies; Fabian-Lamash; Antonio-Wrighten; Captain-Wrigh
t; Officer-Carpenter; Priest-Griffiths; Valentine-Norris; Clown (with the origin
al +Epilogue song=)-Vernon; Malvolio-Yates; Olivia (with a +song=)-Mrs Baddeley;
 Maria-Miss P. Hopkins; Viola-Miss Younge.  *aThe Quaker.  As 7 Oct.  *dIn: +Rur
al Grace=, as 2 Oct.  *cReceipts: #204 0s. 6d. 163.11.0; 36.9.6; 4.0.0).     *p2
0 cg The Beggar's Opera.  As 17 Oct., but Diana Trapes-Mrs White.  *aCross Purpo
ses.  Grub-Wilson; Chapeau-Lee Lewes; George Bevil-Whitfield; Consol-Jones; Robi
n-Wewitzer; H. Bevil-Booth; F. Bevil-Thompson; Emily-Miss Ambrose; Mrs Grub-Mrs 
Green.  *d+Hornpipe=, as 17 Oct.; End: As 1 Oct.  *cSome of the Audience having 
objected to the Omission of a Scene on Friday night, that Scene will be restored
 this Evening.  [+Public Advertiser=, 18 Oct., specifies the scene as that of +D
iana Trapes=r in Act III, the exclusion of whom "breaks a principal Link in the 
Chain of the Plot."]  Paid $Guard= [master carpenter] for Scene-men #19 15s.  Re
ceipts: #287 16s. (286.8; 1.8).  *p21 dl The First Part of King Henry the Fourth
.  As 17 Oct.  *aThe Quaker.  As 7 Oct.  *dAs 9 Oct.  *cReceipts: #183 (163.16; 
18.8; 0.16).  *pcg Zenobia.  Rhadamistus-Wroughton; Pharasmanes-Aickin; Teribazu
s-Lewis; Megistus-Hull; Zopiron-Whitfield; Tigranes-L'Estrange; Zelmira-Mrs Jack
son; Zenobia-Mrs Barry.  *aThe Reprisal; or, The Tars of Old England.  Heartley-
Whitfield; Champignon-Wewitzer; Oclabber-Mahon; Maclaymore-Wilson; Lyon-Booth; B
rush-Death; Haulyard-Reinhold; Block-Quick; Harriet-Miss Dayes.  *dEnd: +Mirth a
nd Jollity=-Aldridge, Langrish, Mast. Jackson, Miss Besford.  *sconclude Afterpi
ece: +The Glorious Ninety@Two=-.  *cMainpiece: With New Dresses and Decorations.
  Afterpiece: Never acted there.  Receipts: #165 18s. 6d. (164.8.0; 1.10.6).  *p
22 dl The School for Scandal.  Sir Peter Teazle-King; Sir Oliver Surface-Yates; 
Joseph Surface-Palmer; Sir Benjamin Backbite-Dodd; Crabtree-Parsons; Rowley-Aick
in; Moses-Baddeley; Snake-Packer; Careless-Farren; Trip-Lamash; Charles-Smith; M
rs Candour-Miss Pope; Maria-Miss P. Hopkins; Lady Sneerwell-Miss Sherry; Lady Te
azle-Mrs Abington (1st appearance this season).  *aThe Quaker.  As 7 Oct.  *sIn 
III: +song=-Vernon.  [This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent perform
ances, except on 20 May 1778.]  *cMainpiece: The 21st night [i.e. in continuatio
n of the reckoning for the previous season].  Account-Book, 21 Nov.: Paid $Sheri
dan= Net Rect. of +Scl. for Scandal= 22d Oct. last #280 11s.  Receipts: #280 11s
. (274.10.0; 5.8.6; 0.12.6).  *pcg The Beggar's Opera.  As 20 Oct.  *aThe Repris
al.  As 21 Oct.  *d+Hornpipe=, as 17 Oct.; End II: As 21 Oct.  *sAs 21 Oct.  *cR
eceipts: #246 15s. (246.2; 0.13).  *p23 dl Hamlet.  As 30 Sept.  *aSelima and Az
or.  Azor-Vernon; Ali-Dodd; Scander-Bannister; Fatima-Miss Collett; Liesbia-Miss
 Abrams; Selima-Mrs Baddeley.  *cReceipts: #207 2s. 6d. (179.4.0; 24.14.6; 3.4.0
).  *pcg The Provok'd Wife.  Sir John Brute-Macklin; Heartfree-Bensley (of +dl=)
; Col. Bully (with a +song=)-Mattocks; Razor-Quick; Justice-Thompson; Taylor-Jon
es; Lord Rake-Mahon; Constant-Wroughton; Lady Fanciful-Mrs Mattocks; Belinda-Mis
s Leeson; Mademoiselle-Mrs Lessingham; Lady Brute-Mrs Bulkley.  *aThe Reprisal. 
 As 21 Oct., but Maclaymore-Fearon.  *dAs 16 Oct.  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 
12 years.  [The playbill retains $Wilson= as +Maclaymore=r, but "At the close of
 the Play $Hull= came forward and made an Apology for Wilson's not playing Macla
ymore...on Account of his being taken suddenly ill with an Ague, and begged thei
r Acceptance of $Fearon= in the Part, which was accepted with that good Nature w
hich distinguishes a +British Audience=" (+Morning Chronicle=, 24 Oct.).]  Recei
pts: #100 15s. 6d. (100.11.0; 0.4.6).  *p24 dl The School for Scandal.  As 22 Oc
t.  *aThe Quaker.  As 7 Oct.  *cPaid +Waller & Co.=, Hosiers, #14 18s.; $Gardner
=, Shoemaker, #22 18s. 6d.; +Smith & Co.=, Coal Merchants, #82 8s.; $Blakes=, Ha
tter, #7 16s.  Receipts: #263 6s. 6d. (251.11.0; 11.5.6; 0.10.0).  *pcg The Begg
ar's Opera.  As 20 Oct., but Peachum-Moody (of +dl=).  *aThe Apprentice.  As 29 
Sept.  *d+Hornpipe=, as 17 Oct.; End II: As 8 Oct.  *cPaid Land Tax one-half yea
r on Theatre #52 10s.; Tax on Window Lights #6 12s. 6d.  Receipts: #171 11s. 6d.
 (171.3.6; 0.8.0).  *p25 dl The School for Scandal.  As 22 Oct.  *aThe Quaker.  
As 7 Oct.  *cReceipts: #259 3s. (234.9.0; 23.2.6; 1.11.6).  *p27 cg The Beggar's
 Opera.  As 20 Oct., but Peachum (1st time)-Booth.  *aThe Reprisal.  As 23 Oct.[
, but $Fearon='s name listed in playbill.%  *d+Hornpipe=, as 17 Oct.; End II: As
 21 Oct.  *cReceipts: #259 7s. 6d. (258.17.0; 0.10.6).  *p28 dl The Roman Father
.  Horatius-Henderson (1st appearance in that character); Tullus Hostilius-Aicki
n; Valerius-Brereton; Publius Horatius-Smith; Valeria-Miss Hopkins; Horatia-Mrs 
Yates.  *aSelima and Azor.  As 23 Oct.  *m[With a +Grand Triumphal Entry of Publ
ius=r, with the%original Music [by $Boyce=%-.  *cMainpiece: With alterations [by
 the author (+Morning Post=, 29 Oct.)].  Receipts: #234 9s. (214.17; 14.6; 5.6).
  *pcg The Merchant of Venice.  As 16 Oct.  *aLove a-la-Mode.  As 16 Oct.  *dEnd
 III: +The Shepherd's Wedding=, as 24 Sept.; End IV: As 8 Oct.  *cReceipts: #149
 1s. 6d. (148.12.6; 0.9.0).  *phamm The First Part of King Henry the Fourth.  *c
[The performance is referred to in +Gazetteer=, 8 Nov.]  *p29 dl The School for 
Scandal.  As 22 Oct.  *aThe Rival Candidates.  Byron-Vernon; Sir Harry Muff-Dodd
; General Worry-Parsons; Spy-Baddeley; Gardeners-Bannister, Fawcett, Kear; Jenny
-Mrs Wrighten; Narcissa-Mrs Baddeley.  *cReceipts: #246 1s. (232.8.0; 13.3.6; 0.
9.6).  *pcg The Duenna.  Ferdinand-Mattocks; Isaac-Quick; Don Jerome-Wilson; Ant
onio-Reinhold; Father Paul-Mahon; Friars-Fox, Baker; Carlos-Leoni; Clara-Miss Br
own; The Duenna-Mrs Green; Louisa-Mrs Mattocks.  *aThe Apprentice.  As 29 Sept. 
 *dAs 10 Oct.  *cMainpiece: The Principal Parts New Dressed.  Receipts: #202 15s
. (201.10; 1.5).  *p30 dl The Roman Father.  As 28 Oct.  *aThe Quaker.  As 7 Oct
.  *dAs 18 Oct.  *mAs 28 Oct.  *c[Afterpiece in place of +Bon Ton=, announced on
 playbill of 29 Oct.]  Receipts: #124 19s. (107.13; 14.17; 2.9).  *pcg Know Your
 Own Mind.  Millamour-Lewis; Malvil-Wroughton; Bygrove-Aickin; Sir Harry Lizard-
Whitfield; Sir John-Fearon; Capt. Bygrove-Booth; Dashwou'd-Lee Lewes; Miss Nevil
le-Mrs Hartley; Mrs Bromley-Mrs Jackson; Lady Jane-Miss Dayes; La Rouge-Miss Amb
rose; Lady Bell-Mrs Mattocks.  *aComus.  Comus-Mattocks; 1st Spirit-L'Estrange; 
Brothers-Whitfield, Robson; Bacchanal-Reinhold; The Lady-Mrs Jackson; Bacchants-
Miss Dayes, Miss Ambrose; Sabrina, Pastoral Nymph-Miss Brown; Euphrosyne-Mrs Far
rell (1st appearance in that character).  *sAfterpiece: +Sweet Echo=-Leoni, Mrs 
Farrell.  [This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]  *c
[In text of mainpiece +Sir Harry Lizard=r is +Sir Harry Lovewit=r, but "Lizard" 
was the form invariably used in the playbills.]  Receipts: #120 13s. (118.4; 2.9
).  *p31 dl Cymbeline.  Posthumus-Brereton; Cloten-Dodd; Cymbeline-Hurst; Pissan
io-Packer; Bellarius-Aickin; Guiderius-Farren; Arviragus-Davies; Lucius-Wrighten
; French Gentleman-Chaplin; Philario-Wright; Iachimo-Smith; Queen-Miss Sherry; I
mogen-Miss Younge.  *aBon Ton; or, High Life above Stairs.  Sir John Trotley (wi
th the original +Prologue=)-King; Colonel Tivy-Brereton; Davy-Parsons; Jessamy-L
amash; Mignon-Burton; Lord Minikin-Dodd; Miss Tittup-Mrs Davies; Gymp-Mrs Colles
; Lady Minikin-Miss Pope.  *dII: [Masquerade Scene with% +Dancing=-Burton, Henry
, Mrs Marklew; End III: +Rural Grace=, as 2 Oct.  *sII: [Masquerade Scene% +song
=-Miss Abrams.  *c[Afterpiece: Prologue by $George Colman elder=.]  Paid $DeLout
herbourg= #41 13s. 4d. [this paid monthly throughout season].  Receipts: #104 3s
. 6d. (75.9.0; 27.16.0; 0.18.6).  *pcg The Beggar's Opera.  As 20 Oct.  *aThe Re
prisal.  As 27 Oct., but +song=-Miss Dayes.  *d+Hornpipe=, as 17 Oct.  *cReceipt
s: #168 15s. 6d. (168.4.0; 0.11.6).  *p11 1 dl The School for Scandal.  As 22 Oc
t.  *aThe Quaker.  As 7 Oct.  *cReceipts: #251 7s. (236.9; 14.2; 0.16).  *pcg Ot
hello.  Othello-Ross; Roderigo-Lee Lewes; Cassio (1st time)-Whitfield; Brabantio
-Hull; Lodovico-Booth; Montano-Robson; Duke-L'Estrange; Gratiano-Fearon; Iago-Ma
cklin; Emilia-Mrs Mattocks; Desdemona-Mrs Hartley (1st appearance in that charac
ter).  *aComus.  As 30 Oct.  *cMainpiece: The Characters new dressed in the Habi
ts of the Country.  Receipts: #160 3s. (159.1; 1.2).  *p3 dl Hamlet.  As 30 Sept
.  *aHarlequin's Invasion.  As 27 Sept.  *cReceipts: #173 17s. (154.3; 18.6; 1.8
).  *pcg The Beggar's Opera.  As 20 Oct.  *aSt. Patrick's Day.  Lieut. O'Connor 
(1st time)-Mahon; Justice Credulous-Lee Lewes; Doctor Rosy-Quick; Serjeant Troun
ce-Dunstall; Bridget-Mrs Pitt; Lauretta-Miss Brown; +song=-Miss Brown.  *d+Hornp
ipe=, as 17 Oct.; End II: +La Soiree a@la@Mode=-Dagueville, Harris, Master Holla
nd, Sga Tinte.  *cReceipts: #168 18s. (167.15.6; 1.2.6).  *p4 dl Tamerlane.  Tam
erlane-Palmer; Moneses-Brereton (1st appearance in that character); Axalla (1st 
time)-Farren; Dervise-Packer; Omar-Hurst; Stratocles-Lamash; Prince of Tanais-Wr
ighten; Zama-Wright; Mirvan-Norris; Haly-Chaplin; Bajazet-Smith; Selima-Miss Hop
kins; Arpasia-Miss Younge; [The usual% +Prologue=-Brereton.  *aHarlequin's Invas
ion.  As 2 Oct.  *sIV: [the original song% +To thee oh gentle sleep=-Miss Abrams
.  *c[Prologue by $Nicholas Rowe=.]  Receipts: #134 9s. 6d. (119.19.0; 12.17.0; 
1.13.6).  *pcg The Conscious Lovers.  As 8 Oct., but Sealand-Hull; Tom-Death; Hu
mphrey-Thompson; Daniel-Wewitzer.  *aLove a-la-Mode.  As 16 Oct.  *dEnd: +The En
chantress=-Aldridge, Harris, Miss Valois.  *sAs 8 Oct.  *c[Mainpiece in place of
 +King Lear=, announced on playbill of 3 Nov.]  On playbill of 3 Nov.: +Tamerlan
e= [usually acted on this night (see 4 Nov. 1782)] is obliged to be laid aside o
n account of $Mrs Barry='s Indisposition.  Receipts: #92 18s. 6d. (91.10.0; 1.8.
6).  *pking's Le Due Contesse.  [Principal Characters by Jermoli, Rossi, Coppola
, Micheli, Sga Jermoli, Sga Prudom. Sga Todi.  Cast from libretto ($T. Cadell=, 
1777):% Cavaliere della Piuma-Guglielmo Jermoli; Don Grillo-Antonio Rossi; Lucin
do-Giuseppe Coppola; Prospero-Micheli; Livietta-Sga Jermoli; Arminda-Sga Prudom;
 Contessa di bel Colore-Sga Luiggia Todi.  *d[With%New Dances [composed by $Simo
net=%-; End I: [new ballet, demi-caractere% +Le Devin du Village=-Mons and Mlle 
Banti, Sg and Sga Zuchelli [+Colin=r-Banti; +Colette=r-Mlle Banti%; End II: +New
 Ballet=[Serious and Demi-caractere%-; [in which a% +Pas de Quatre=-Mons and Mme
 Simonet, Mons and Mlle Banti; [to conclude with the% +Chaconne= [of $Froquett=%
-; End Opera: [new serious ballet% +La Polonaise Favourite=-Mons Simonet, Mme Si
monet, Mlle Baccelli, Sg Zuchelli, Sga Zuchelli, Vallouy@le@cadet.  *cA new Comi
c Opera; the Music by $Paisiello= [and "other eminent Composers" (libretto)]; un
der the Direction of $Giordani=.  With magnificent new Scenes, Dresses and Decor
ations, both for the Opera and Dances.  Tickets will be delivered at the Office,
 +Union Court=, +Haymarket=, at Half a Guinea each.  1st Gallery 5s. 2nd Gallery
 3s.  By $Their Majesties=' Command no Person can be admitted behind the Scenes.
  The Doors to be opened at 6:00.  To begin exactly at 7:00 [same throughout sea
son].  The Coffee Room will be open with Tea, Coffee, Lemonade, Orgeat, Ice, Cre
ams, &c. which will be furished by $Weltje=, of +St. James's Street=.  To preven
t Inconvenience to the Nobility and Gentry in getting to their Carriages, they a
re respectfully intreated to give positive Orders to their Servants to set down 
and take up with their Horses Heads towards +Pall-mall=.  The Door in +Market La
ne= for Chairs only.  [+Public Advertiser=, 13 Feb. 1778, prints a letter outlin
ing a scheme-never realized-of having occasional plays at +king's= on non-opera 
nights acted by performers from both +dl= and +cg=, and by "the young Nobility o
f both Sexes."]  *p5 dl The First Part of King Henry the Fourth.  As 17 Oct.  *a
Bon Ton.  As 31 Oct.  *dAs 9 Oct.  *cReceipts: #161 7s. 6d. (134.18.0; 25.8.0; 1
.1.6).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 29 Oct.  *aSt. Patrick's Day.  As 3 Nov.  *dAs 4 No
v.  *cReceipts: #227 13s. (226.4; 1.9).  *p6 dl The School for Scandal.  As 22 O
ct.  *aThe Quaker.  As 7 Oct.  *cReceipts: #259 9s. (247.7; 11.3; 0.19).  *pcg T
he Orphan of China.  Zamti-Ross; Hamet-Wroughton; Mirvan-L'Estrange; Timurkan-Pe
ile; Octar-Fearon; Selim-Booth; Morat-Hull; Orasming-Robson; Zimventi-Thompson; 
Etan-Lewis; Mandane-Mrs Barry.  *aCross Purposes.  As 20 Oct.  *dAs 4 Nov.  *cMa
inpiece: Never acted there.  With Alterations and Additions by the Author [$Arth
ur Murphy=.  +London Chronicle=, 7 Nov., prints a detailed synopsis of the alter
ations.].  The Characters entirely new dressed; with New Scenery and Decorations
.  [+Morning Chronicle=, 7 Nov.: $Mrs Barry= entered into the character of +Mand
ane=r with all that strength of conception which characterizes her acting in gen
eral.  Many of the passages received additional force from the judicious breaks 
and sudden transitions in her manner of giving them.]  Receipts: #200 3s. (199.6
; 0.17).  *p7 dl The Merchant of Venice.  As 14 Oct.  *aThe Deserter.  As 23 Sep
t., but Henry-Vernon.  *dEnd III: +The Minuet de la Cour=-Master Holland, Miss A
rmstrong.  *cReceipts: #92 8s. (72.18; 19.8; 0.2).  *pcg King Richard the Third.
  Richard-A Gentleman (1st appearance [Kirkpatrick]); King Henry-Hull; Richmond-
Wroughton; Buckingham-Booth; Stanley-Fearon; Tressel-Whitfield; Prince Edward (1
st time)-Miss Morris; Duke of York-Master Jones; Norfolk-Bowles; Lieutenant-L'Es
trange; Duchess of York-Mrs Poussin; Lady Ann-Mrs Jackson; The Queen-Mrs Hartley
 (their 1st appearance in those characters).  *aComus.  As 30 Oct.  *c[$Kirkpatr
ick= is identified in +Morning Chronicle=, 8 Nov.  He was from the $Crow Street 
Theatre, Dublin=.]  Receipts: #132 11s. 6d. (129.19.0; 2.12.6).  *p8 dl The Begg
ar's Opera.  Capt. Macheath-Webster (1st appearance upon this stage); Peachum-Mo
ody; Lockit (1st time)-Baddeley; Filch-Parsons; Player-Farren; Beggar-Waldron; M
at o' th' Mint-Gaudry; Lucy-Mrs Wrighten; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Love; Mrs Slammekin-Mr
s Johnston; Jenny Diver-Mrs Davies; Polly-Mrs Baddeley.  *aAll the World's a Sta
ge.  As 30 Sept.  *dIII: [a% +Hornpipe=-Blurton.  [This was danced, as here assi
gned, in all subsequent performances.]  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 3 years [ac
ted 6 May 1776].  With Accompaniments to the Airs composed by $Thomas? Linley Se
n?.=.  +Public Advertiser=, 10 Nov.: "+Jenny Diver=r forgot her song...and conti
nued inflexibly silent till a Wag behind the Scenes assumed her Voice, and sung 
the Song for her"; ibid, 15 Nov., identifies this wag as $Bannister=, who sang "
in a feigned voice."  [$Webster= was from the $Crow Street Theatre, Dublin=.]  R
eceipts: #192 6s. 6d. (167.2.0; 24.16.0; 0.8.6).  *pcg The Orphan of China.  As 
6 Nov.  *aSt. Patrick's Day.  As 3 Nov., but +song=-_.  *dAs 4 Nov.  *cReceipts:
 #110 (108.10.6; 1.9.6).  *pking's Creso.  [Principal Characters by Roncaglia, A
damberger, Coppola, Sga Prudom, Sga Danzi.  [Cast from libretto ($T. Cadell=, 17
77):% Eurisio-Francesco Roncaglia; Creso-Valentino Adamberger; Ciro-Giuseppe Cop
pola; Sibari-Micheli; Cratina-Sga Prudom; Ariene-Sga Francesca Danzi.  *dEnd I: 
+New Ballet=, as 4 Nov.; End II: +Le Devin du Village=, as 4 Nov.; End Opera: +L
a Polonaise Favourite=, as 4 Nov.  *cA New Serious Opera; the Music entirely new
 by $Antonio Sacchini=.  *p10 dl The First Part of King Henry the Fourth.  As 17
 Oct.  *aThe Elopement.  Harlequin-Wright; Pantaloon-Byrn; Clown-Carpenter; Love
r-Burton; Drunken Valet-Griffiths; Scaramouch-Barrett; Country Girls-Mrs Colles,
 Miss Abrams; Colombine-Miss Collett.  *cAfterpiece: To conclude with the Scene 
of the Waterfall, as it was originally performed.  [This was included in all sub
sequent performances.]  Receipts: #177 7s. (160.4; 16.9; 0.14).  *pcg King Lear.
  As 13 Oct.  *aComus.  As 30 Oct.  *cReceipts: #167 2s. 6d. (165.7.0; 1.15.6). 
 *p11 dl The Beggar's Opera.  As 8 Nov., but Polly-Miss Walpole.  *aThe Elopemen
t.  As 10 Nov.  *dEnd II: +The Minuet de la Cour=, as 7 Nov., but Master _Hollan
d, +Henry.  *c[The playbill retains $Mrs Baddeley= as +Polly=r, but she "being i
ndisposed $Miss Walpole= played the part of Polly on Tuesday night' (+London Chr
onicle=, 12 Nov.).]  Paid $Chettell=, timber merchant, #286 13s.  Receipts: #135
 15s. 6d. (118.10.0; 16.18.6; 0.7.0).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 29 Oct.  *aSt. Patri
ck's Day.  As 8 Nov.  *dEnd: [new dance,% +The Garden of Love=-Dagueville, Maste
r Holland, Master Dagueville, Miss Simonet, Sga Tinte.  *cReceipts: #197 9s. 6d.
 (195.17.0; 1.12.6).  *pking's Le Due Contesse.  As 4 Nov.  *dAs 8 Nov.  *cThe O
pera having been found too long on the first Representation has since been revis
ed and curtailed to a proper Length.  *p12 dl The School for Scandal.  As 22 Oct
.  *aThe Padlock.  Leander-Vernon; Don Diego-Bannister; Mungo-Holcroft; Ursula-M
rs Love; Leonora-Miss Abrams.  *cReceipts: #267 15s. (256.7.0; 10.7.6; 1.0.6).  
*pcg The Beggar's Opera.  As 20 Oct.  *aThree Weeks after Marriage.  Sir Charles
 Racket-Lewis; Lovelace-Booth; Woodley-Thompson; Drugget-Quick; Dimity-Mrs Green
; Mrs Drugget-Mrs Pitt; Nancy-Miss Dayes; Lady Racket-Mrs Mattocks.  *d+Hornpipe
=, as 17 Oct.; End: As 11 Nov.  *cReceipts: #184 6s. 6d. (183.3.6; 1.3.0).  *p13
 dl Measure for Measure.  Duke-Smith; Angelo-Palmer; Claudio (1st time)-Brereton
; Escalus-Aickin; Clown-Parsons; Provost-Davies; Elbow-Wright; Barnardine-Wright
en; Abhorson-Carpenter; Lucio-King; Mariana-Miss Hopkins; Juliet-Mrs Colles; Mrs
 Over@done-Mrs Bradshaw; Francisca-Mrs Johnston; Isabella-Mrs Yates.  *aThe Elop
ement.  As 10 Nov.  *cReceipts: #90 (78.5; 9.18; 1.17).  *pcg The Grecian Daught
er.  Evander-Aickin; Philotas-Lewis; Arcas-Fearon; Dionysius-Clarke; Herald-L'Es
trange; Melanthon-Hull; Officer-Booth; Calippus-Thompson; Phocion-Wroughton; Eri
xene-Miss Ambrose; Euphrasia-Mrs Barry.  *aLove a-la-Mode.  As 16 Oct.  *dAs 11 
Nov.  *cReceipts: #173 7s. (170.4.6; 3.2.6).  *p14 dl The Tempest.  As 20 Sept.,
 but Prospero-Bensley.  *aHigh Life below Stairs.  Lovel-Lamash; Sir Harry's Ser
vant-Dodd; Lord Duke-Palmer; Philip-Baddeley; Robert-Griffiths; Tom-Kear; Freema
n-Farren; Lady Charlotte-Mrs Davies; Lady Bab-Mrs Johnston; Kitty (with a +song=
)-Miss Pope.  *dIV: +Rural Grace=, as 2 Oct; II afterpiece: [a% +Mock Minuet=-Pa
lmer, Miss Pope.  [This was danced, as here assigned, in both subsequent perform
ances.]  *cAfterpiece: Not acted these 3 years [acted 18 Mar. 1776].  Receipts: 
#116 13s. 6d. (91.18.0; 22.15.0; 2.0.6).  *pcg Othello.  As 1 Nov.  *aThree Week
s after Marriage.  As 12 Nov.  *dAs 11 Nov.  *c[Afterpiece in place of +The Two 
Misers=, announced on playbill of 13 Nov.]Receipts: #101 13s. (100.12; 1.1).  *p
15 dl The School for Scandal.  As 22 Oct.  *aAll the World's a Stage.  As 30 Sep
t.  *cReceipts: #258 9s. (246.4.0; 11.4.6; 1.0.6).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 29 Oct.
  *aThe Apprentice.  As 29 Sept.  *dAs 11 Nov.  *cReceipts: #170 (169.11; 0.9). 
 *pking's Creso.  As 8 Nov.  *dEnd I: +Le Devin du Village=, as 4 Nov.; End II: 
+New Ballet=, as 4 Nov.; End Opera: [a Ballet Demi-caractere,% +La Clochette=-Mo
ns and Mme Simonet, Mlle Baccelli, Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Vallouy@le@cadet.  *p17 
dl The Beggar's Opera.  As 11 Nov.[, but $Miss Walpole='s name listed in playbil
l.%  *aBon Ton.  As 31 Oct.  *dAs 11 Nov.  *cReceipts: #171 1s. 6d. (144.12.0; 2
5.9.0; 1.0.6).  *pcg The Orphan of China.  As 6 Nov.  *aThe Upholsterer.  Razor-
Lee Lewes (1st appearance in that character); Pamphlet-Wilson; Quidnunc-Dunstall
; Harriet-Mrs Whitfield; Termagant-Mrs Green.  *dAs 4 Nov.  *cReceipts: #129 19s
. (128.3; 1.16).  *p18 dl Braganza.  Velasquez-Smith; Almada-Aickin; Ribiro-Palm
er; Mendoza (1st time)-Farren; Lemos-Chaplin; Corea-Hurst; Roderic-Wright; Mello
-R. Palmer; Pizarro-Davies; Ramirez-Packer; Antonio-Wrighten; Ferdinand-Griffith
s; Duke of Braganza-Brereton (1st appearance in that character); Ines-Mrs Johnst
on; Dutchess of Braganza-Mrs Yates.  *aHarlequin's Invasion.  As 2 Oct.  *cRecei
pts: #91 18s. (73.2.0; 16.5.6; 2.10.6).  *pcg Love Finds the Way.  [Principal Ch
aracters by Mattocks, Quick, Wilson, Wewitzer, Fearon, Mrs Farrell, Miss Brown, 
Mrs Wilson, A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [Miss Courtenay]).  [Cast 
from Airs ($J. Bell=, 1777) and +Public Advertiser=, 19 Nov.:% Young Brumpton-Ma
ttocks; Oldcastle-Quick; Lovibond-Wilson; Peter-Wewitzer; Sir Theodore Brumpton-
Fearon; Bellford-Mrs Farrell; Mary@Ann-Miss Brown; Bridget-Mrs Wilson; Harriet-M
iss Courtenay.  *aThe Upholsterer.  As 17 Nov.  *dEnd II: +The Minuet de la Cour
=, as 11 Nov.; End: +The Enchantress=, as 4 Nov.  *cMainpiece [1st time; CO 3, b
y $Thomas Hull=, altered from +The School for Guardians= by $Arthur Murphy=.  No
t in +Larpent MS=; synopsis of plot in +Public Advertiser=  19 Nov.]: With New D
resses, &c.  The Music chiefly compiled; the rest composed by $Dr Arne=, $Sacchi
ni= and $Fisher=.  Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre.  +Public Adverti
ser=, 18 Nov. 1777: This Day is published the Airs in +Love Finds the Way= (6d.)
.  [$Miss Courtenay= is identified in the Airs.]  Receipts: #233 8s. 6d. (232.5.
0; 1.3.6).  *pking's Le Due Contesse.  As 4 Nov.  *dEnd I: +Le Devin du Village=
, as 4 Nov.; End II: +La Polonaise Favourite=, as 4 Nov.; End Opera: +La Clochet
te=, as 15 Nov.  *p19 dl The School for Scandal.  As 22 Oct.  *aThe Waterman.  T
ugg-Bannister; Bundle-Davies; Robin-Lamash; Wilhelmina-Miss Walpole (1st appeara
nce in that character); Mrs Bundle-Mrs Wrighten.  *cAfterpiece: To conclude with
 a +Grand Representation of a Regatta=v.  [This was included in all subsequent p
erformances.]  Receipts: #269 7s. 6d. (259.1.0; 9.11.0; 0.15.6).  *pcg Love Find
s the Way.  As 18 Nov.  *aCatherine and Petruchio.  Petruchio-Lewis; Baptista-Th
ompson; Hortensio-Davis; Taylor-Jones; Music Master-Fox; Biondello-Cushing; Pedr
o-Wewitzer; Grumio-Quick; Bianca-Mrs Poussin; Curtis-Mrs White; Catherine-Mrs Gr
een.  *dEnd II: As 11 Nov.; End: +The Humours of Leixlip=, as 8 Oct.  *cReceipts
: #153 1s. (151.11; 1.10).  *p20 dl The First Part of King Henry the Fourth.  As
 17 Oct.  *aHigh Life below Stairs.  As 14 Nov.  *dAs 9 Oct.  *cReceipts: #159 3
s. (137.3; 21.3; 0.17).  *pcg Love Finds the Way.  As 18 Nov.  *aThe Citizen.  Y
oung Philpot-Lee Lewes; Sir Jasper Wilding-Dunstall; Young Wilding-Whitfield; Ol
d Philpot-Quick; Maria-Mrs Mattocks.  *dAs 11 Nov.  *cPaid $Francis= for writing
 parts #2 11s.  Receipts: #108 19s. 6d. (107.3.6; 1.16.0).  *p21 dl The School f
or Scandal.  As 22 Oct.  *aThe Quaker.  As 7 Oct.  *cReceipts: #235 14s. (217.14
.0; 16.17.6; 1.2.6).  *pcg Love Finds the Way.  As 18 Nov.  *aThe Englishman in 
Paris.  Buck-Lee Lewes; Sir John Buck-Fearon; Subtle-Thompson; Marquis-Wewitzer;
 Classick-Hull; Mrs Subtle-Mrs Pitt; Lucinda (with a +song=)-Mrs Mattocks.  *dEn
d: As 11 Nov.; In afterpiece: +Minuet=-Dagueville, Mrs Mattocks.  *cReceipts: #1
03 12s. 6d. (102.11.0; 1.1.6).  *p22 dl The School for Scandal.  As 22 Oct.  *aD
aphne and Amintor.  Amintor-Davies; Mindora-Mrs Wrighten; Daphne-Miss Field.  *d
As 18 Oct.  *cAfterpiece: Not acted these 8 years [acted 7 Feb. 1771].  Receipts
: #202 13s. 6d. (186.10.0; 15.0.6; 1.3.0).  *pcg Love Finds the Way.  As 18 Nov.
  *aThree Weeks after Marriage.  As 12 Nov.  *dAs 11 Nov.  *cReceipts: #115 2s. 
6d. (113.18.6; 1.4.0).  *pking's Creso.  As 8 Nov.  *dAs 8 Nov.  *p24 dl The Sec
ond Part of King Henry the Fourth.  Falstaff-Henderson; King Henry-Bensley; Prin
ce of Wales-Palmer; Chief Justice-Aickin; Arch Bishop York-Packer; Prince John-L
amash; Gloster-Mrs Colles; Clarence-Miss Collett; Mowbray-Hurst; Hastings-Barret
t; Justice Silence-Parsons; Pistol-Baddeley; Poins-R. Palmer; Bardolph-Wright; D
avy-Waldron; Page-Master Pulley; Justice Shallow-Yates; Hostess-Mrs Bradshaw; Do
ll Tearsheet-Mrs Davies.  *aDaphne and Amintor.  As 22 Nov.  *cMainpiece: Not ac
ted these 8 years [acted 2 Feb. 1770].  Receipts: #186 19s. (161.11.0; 24.4.6; 1
.3.6).  *pcg Love Finds the Way.  As 18 Nov.  *aCatherine and Petruchio.  As 19 
Nov.  *dAs 11 Nov.  *cReceipts: #123 9s. (121.15; 1.14).  *p25 dl The Beggar's O
pera.  As 17 Nov.  *aHarlequin's Invasion.  As 2 Oct.  *dEnd II: +New Dance=-Hen
ry, Miss Armstrong.  *cReceipts: #128 11s. (101.8.0; 25.13.6; 1.9.6).  *pcg Sir 
Thomas Overbury.  As 24 Sept.  *aThe Norwood Gypsies.  Principal Characters-Lee 
Lewes, Rayner, Delpini, Messink, Miss Matthews, Miss Cranfield, Sga Tinte; Pasto
ral-Reinhold, Miss Dayes; Rest of Vocal Parts-Battishill, Mahon, Baker.  [Partia
l cast from +Morning Chronicle=, 26 Nov.: Harlequin-Lee Lewes; Clown-Delpini; Co
lombine-Sga Tinde.  Airs (no pub., 1777) lists no cast, no act division; has son
gs sung by Justice, Constable, Colin, Lucy, Gypsies.  For parts see 6 May 1780.]
  *dAfterpiece: Dancing-Aldridge, Dagueville, Miss Besford, Miss Valois.  *cAfte
rpiece [1st time; P 2(?), by $James Messink= and $Carlo Antonio Delpini=.  Not i
n +Larpent MS=; synopsis of action in +London Chronicle=, 26 Nov.]: The Scenery,
 Machinery, &c. painted new by $Carver=, $Greenwood= and $Garvey=.  The Overture
 and the rest of the Music composed new by $Fisher=.  Nothing under Full Price w
ill be taken.  Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre.  Account-Book, 3 Feb
. 1778: Paid Fisher for composing songs, &c. in +The Tempest= [see 27 Dec. 1776]
, and other pieces, as per bill, #131 11s.  Receipts: #190 16s. (182.18; 7.18). 
 *pking's Le Due Contesse.  As 4 Nov.  *dAs 8 Nov.  *p26 dl The School for Scand
al.  As 22 Oct.  *aThe Waterman.  As 19 Nov.  *dAs 18 Oct.  *cReceipts: #265 1s.
 (248.14; 14.16; 1.11).  *pcg Love Finds the Way.  As 18 Nov.  *aThe Norwood Gyp
sies.  As 25 Nov.  *dAs 25 Nov.  *cReceipts: #209 10s. (206.2; 3.8).  *p27 dl Th
e Second Part of King Henry the Fourth.  As 24 Nov., but Westmoreland-Farren.  *
aBon Ton.  As 31 Oct.  *cReceipts: #125 18s. (97.16.0; 26.11.6; 1.10.6).  *pcg D
ouglas.  Douglas-Lewis; Randolph-Wroughton; Officer-Thompson; Glenalvon-Aickin; 
Old Norval-Clarke; Anna-Miss Dayes; Lady Randolph-Mrs Barry.  *aThe Norwood Gyps
ies.  As 25 Nov.  *dAs 25 Nov.  *cReceipts: #215 12s. (209.11; 6.1).  *p28 dl Th
e School for Scandal.  As 22 Oct.  *aThe Quaker.  As 7 Oct.  *cReceipts: #226 17
s. (208.6.0; 17.16.6; 0.14.6).  *pcg Love Finds the Way.  As 18 Nov.  *aThe Norw
ood Gypsies.  As 25 Nov.  *dAs 25 Nov.  *cReceipts: #165 1s. (161.19; 3.2).  *p2
9 dl King John.  King John-Henderson; Hubert-Bensley; Salisbury-Packer; Pembroke
-Farren; Essex-Lamash; Prince Henry-R. Palmer; Rob. Faulconbridge-Waldron; Messe
nger-Norris; Bastard-Smith; King Philip-Aickin; Dauphin-Brereton; Prince Arthur-
Miss Field; Pandulpho-Chambers; Chatilion-Davies; Austria-Wrighten; Citizen-Hurs
t; Heralds-Chaplin, Wright; Queen Elinor-Miss Sherry; Lady Blanch-Mrs Colles; La
dy Faulconbridge-Mrs Johnston; Constance-Mrs Yates.  *aThe Deuce is in Him.  Col
onel Tamper-Palmer; Major Belford-Packer; Prattle (1st time)-Baddeley; Madam Flo
rival-Mrs Davies; Bell-Miss Hopkins; Emily-Miss Pope.  *cMainpiece: Not acted th
ese 6 years [acted 11 Feb. 1774].  Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years.  Paid La
mpmen #4 10s.; Billstickers #2 14s.; Tailor #4 19s. 3d.  Receipts: #144 12s. 6d.
 (126.3.0; 16.19.0; 1.10.6).  *pcg The Beggar's Opera.  As 20 Oct., but Lucy-Mis
s Dayes.  *aThe Norwood Gypsies.  As 25 Nov.  *dIn: +Hornpipe=, as 17 Oct.; In a
fterpiece: Dancing, as 25 Nov.  *cReceipts: #194 7s. (193.13; 0.14).  *pking's C
reso.  As 8 Nov.  *dEnd I: +New Ballet=, as 4 Nov.; End II: +Le Devin du Village
=, as 4 Nov.; End Opera: +La Clochette=, as 15 Nov.  *p12 1 dl The School for Sc
andal.  As 22 Oct.  *aHarlequin's Invasion.  As 2 Oct.  *cReceipts: #231 5s. (20
7.8.0; 22.16.6; 1.0.6).  *pcg The Grecian Daughter.  As 13 Nov.  *aThe Norwood G
ypsies.  As 25 Nov.  *dAs 25 Nov.  *cReceipts: #173 8s. (169.0; 4.8).  *p2 dl Ki
ng John.  As 29 Nov.  *aThe Quaker.  As 7 Oct.  *cReceipts: #127 15s. (100.17; 2
3.12; 3.6).  *pcg Love Finds the Way.  As 18 Nov.  *aThe Norwood Gypsies.  As 25
 Nov.  *dAs 25 Nov.  *cReceipts: #150 6s. (149.0; 1.6).  *pking's Le Due Contess
e.  As 4 Nov.  *dAs 8 Nov.  *p3 dl As You Like It.  Touchstone-King; Orlando-Bre
reton; Duke Senior-Hurst; Duke Frederick-Chaplin; Oliver-Packer; Le Beau-Farren;
 Amiens (with +songs=)-Vernon; Corin-Waldron; Jaques de Bois-Lamash; Silvius-R. 
Palmer; William-Burton; Adam-Moody; Jaques-Palmer (1st appearance in that charac
ter); Caelia-Miss Hopkins; Phoebe-Mrs Davies; Audrey-Mrs Bradshaw; Rosalind-Miss
 Younge.  *aHigh Life below Stairs.  As 14 Nov.  *dEnd I: +Rural Grace=, as 2 Oc
t.  *sV: +song=-Miss Abrams.  *cReceipts: #92 7s. (73.5; 17.14; 1.8).  *pcg Cara
ctacus.  Caractacus-Clarke; Arviragus-Lewis; Elidurus-Wroughton; Vellinus-Robson
; Aulus Didius-Whitfield; Modred-Aickin; Chief Bard-Hull; Evelina-Mrs Hartley; P
rincipal Vocal Parts-Leoni, Reinhold, Mrs Farrell.  *aThe Norwood Gypsies.  As 2
5 Nov., but Principal Characters-Miss +Dayes; Pastoral-_.  *dAs 25 Nov.  *cRecei
pts: #163 (161.6; 1.14).  *p4 dl The Chances.  Don John (1st time [at this theat
re])-Henderson; Frederick-Brereton; Duke-Packer; Petruchio-Aickin; Antonio-Parso
ns; Peter-Burton; Antony-Waldron; Francisco-Wright; Surgeon-Wrighten; First Cons
tantia-Miss Hopkins (1st appearance in that character); Mother-Mrs Hopkins; Land
lady-Mrs Bradshaw; Nurse-Mrs Love; Second Constantia-Mrs Abington.  *aA Christma
s Tale.  Floridor-Vernon; Bonoro-Bannister; Faladel-Burton; Nigromant-Legg; Tych
o-Dodd; Robinette-Mrs Wrighten; Camilla (1st time)-Miss Collett.  *dIn afterpiec
e: [a% +Dance of Evil Spirits=-.  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 3 years.  Afterpi
ece: With a Grand Procession.  [Both the dance and the procession were included 
in all subsequent performances, except on 23 Apr. 1778.  For $Henderson= as +Don
 John=r see hay, 19 Aug. 1777.]  Receipts: #153 11s. 6d. (125.19.0; 18.0.6; 9.12
.0).  *pcg The Beggar's Opera.  As 29 Nov.. but Lockit (1st time)-Booth.  *aThe 
Norwood Gypsies.  As 3 Dec.  *dIn: +Hornpipe=, as 17 Oct.; Afterpiece: Dancing, 
as 25 Nov.  *cReceipts: #154 6s. (153.9; 0.17).  *p5 dl The School for Scandal. 
 As 22 Oct.  *aThe Deserter.  As 7 Nov.  *dAs 18 Oct.  *cReceipts: #264 6d. (245
.18; 16.14; 1.14).  *pcg She Stoops to Conquer.  Hardcastle-Wilson; Tony Lumpkin
-Quick; Marlow-Lee Lewes; Hastings-Whitfield; Sir Charles Marlow-Fearon; Mrs Har
dcastle-Mrs Green; Miss Neville-Mrs Lessingham; Miss Hardcastle-Mrs Bulkley.  *a
The Norwood Gypsies.  As 3 Dec.  *dAs 25 Nov.  *cPaid Price for Men's Cloaths #1
50.  Receipts: #111 11s. (108.17; 2.14).  *p6 dl Hamlet.  As 30 Sept., but Franc
isco-Philimore.  *aA Christmas Tale.  As 4 Dec.  *cReceipts: #144 6s. (114.12; 2
9.1; 0.13).  *pcg Love Finds the Way.  As 18 Nov.  *aThe Norwood Gypsies.  As 3 
Dec.  *dAs 25 Nov.  *cReceipts: #118 7s. (117.10; 0.17).  *pking's Creso.  As 8 
Nov.  *dAs 18 Nov.  *p8 dl The Clandestine Marriage.  As 25 Sept., but Sir John 
Melvil-Bensley; Brush-Palmer.  *aA Christmas Tale.  As 4 Dec.  *cReceipts: #127 
5s. 6d. (98.0.0; 28.17.0; 0.8.6).  *pcg The Beggar's Opera.  As 29 Nov.  *aThe N
orwood Gypsies.  As 3 Dec.  *dAs 25 Nov.  *cReceipts: #182 11s. (181.3; 1.8).  *
p9 dl The School for Scandal.  As 22 Oct.  *aThe Waterman.  As 19 Nov.  *dAs 18 
Oct.  *cReceipts: #256 2s. (237.16.0; 18.3.6: 0.2.6).  *pcg The Recruiting Offic
er.  As 22 Sept.  *aThe Norwood Gypsies.  As 3 Dec.  *dAs 25 Nov.  *cThe New Tra
gedy of +Percy= [announced on playbill of 8 Dec.] is obliged to be deferred till
 to-morrow, on Account of the Indisposition of two principal Performers.  Receip
ts: #99 19s. (97.19; 2.0).  *pking's Le Due Contesse.  As 4 Nov.  *dEnd I: +Le D
evin du Village=, as 4 Nov.; End II: +La Clochette=, as 15 Nov.; End Opera: [a g
rand% +Serious Ballet=-Mons Simonet, Mme Simonet, Mlle Baccelli, Zuchelli, Vallo
uy@le@cadet.  *p10 dl The First Part of King Henry the Fourth.  As 17 Oct.  *aTh
e Quaker.  As 7 Oct.  *dAs 11 Nov.  *cReceipts: #108 16s. (92.17.0; 15.15.6; 0.3
.6).  *pcg Percy.  [Principal Characters by Lewis, Aickin, Hull, Whitfield, Robs
on, Thompson, Wroughton, Mrs Jackson, Mrs Barry.  [Cast from text ($T. Cadell=, 
1778 [i.e. 1777]), and +Universal Magazine=, Dec. 1777, p.307:% Percy-Lewis; Ear
l Raby-Aickin; Sir Hubert-Hull; Edric-Whitfield; Harcourt-Robson; Servant-Thomps
on; Earl Douglas-Wroughton; Birtha-Mrs Jackson; Elwina-Mrs Barry; New +Prologue=
-Mrs Bulkley; New +Epilogue= spoken-Lee Lewes.  [These were spoken, as here assi
gned, at all subsequent performances.]  *aSt. Patrick's Day.  As 3 Nov.  *dAfter
 Epilogue: As 24 Sept.  *cMainpiece [1st time; t 5, by $Hannah More=, based part
ly on +Gabrielle de Vergy=, by $Pierre Laurent Buirette de Belloy=.  Prologue an
d Epilogue by $David Garrick= (see text)]: With New Scenes, Dresses, &c. +Public
 Advertiser=, 19 Dec. 1777: This Day at Noon is published +Percy= (1s. 6d.).  Re
ceipts: #215 (212.12.6; 2.7.6).  *p11 dl The Wonder.  Don Felix-Smith; Col. Brit
on-Brereton; Don Lopez-Baddeley; Don Pedro-Parsons; Frederick-Packer; Gibby-Mood
y; Alguazile-Wrighten; Vasquez-R. Palmer; Lissardo-King; Flora-Miss Pope; Isabel
la-Miss Hopkins; Inis-Mrs Bradshaw; Violante-Mrs Yates.  *aA Christmas Tale.  As
 4 Dec.  *cReceipts: #96 2s. 6d. (76.7.0; 17.18.0; 1.17.6).  *pcg Percy.  As 10 
Dec.  *aThe Two Misers.  As 15 Oct.  *dAfter Epilogue: +La Soiree a@la@Mode=, as
 3 Nov.  *cReceipts: #182 10s. (179.4; 3.6).  *p12 dl The School for Scandal.  A
s 22 Oct.  *aThe Padlock.  As 12 Nov.  *cReceipts: #239 19s. 6d. (227.7.0; 12.9.
0; 0.3.6).  *pcg Percy.  As 10 Dec.  *aComus.  As 30 Oct.  *cBenefit for the Aut
hor [of mainpiece].  Receipts: #204 18s. 6d. (197.18.6; tickets: 7.0.0) (charge:
 #105).  *p13 dl The Rehearsal.  Bayes (1st time [at this theatre])-Henderson; M
r Johnson-Palmer; Mr Smith-Aickin; [The other Characters-Baddeley, Moody, Parson
s, Burton, Hurst, R. Palmer, Waldron, Lamash, Chambers, Holcroft, Chaplin, Carpe
nter, Griffiths, Norris, Wrighten, Wright, Legg, Master Pulley, Mrs Colles, Miss
 Collett, Mrs Davies.  With an Additional Reinforcement of Mr Bayes's New Raised
 Troops [These were "hobby-horses and other novelties' ($Davies=, III, 303).].  
[Edition of 1777 ($John Bell=) specifies:% Gentleman Usher-Baddeley; Physician-M
oody; Cordelio-Burton; Prince Prettyman-Hurst; 1st King of Brentford-Waldron; Fi
sherman-Griffiths; Thunder-Wrighten; Earth-Legg; Lightning-Master Pulley; Cloris
-Mrs Colles; Parthenope-Miss Collett; Amaryllis-Mrs Davies; Pallas-+Mr= Parsons.
  [It assigns the remaining characters-2nd King of Brentford, Prince Volscius, D
rawcansir, Lieut. General, Tom Thimble, Sun, Moon-to actors of previous season.%
  *aA Christmas Tale.  As 4 Dec.  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 2 years.  [For $H
enderson= as +Bayes=r see +hay=, 25 Aug. 1777.]  Receipts: #113 16s. (91.5; 22.7
; 0.4).  *pcg Percy.  As 10 Dec.  *aComus.  As 30 Oct.  *cReceipts: #202 10s. (1
98.13.6; 3.16.6).  *pking's Creso.  As 8 Nov.  *dEnd I: +Le Devin du Village=, a
s 9 Dec.; End II: +Serious Ballet=, as 9 Dec.; End Opera: +La Clochette=, as 9 D
ec.  *p15 dl The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth.  As 27 Nov.  *aComus.  Co
mus-Webster; 1st Spirit-Aickin; Brothers-Farren, Lamash; Principal Bacchanals-Ba
nnister, Gaudry; 2nd Spirit (with the +song= of +Sweet Echo=)-Tenducci; The Lady
-Mrs Robinson; Principal Bacchants-Mrs Wrighten, Mrs Colles, Miss Collett; Euphr
osyne-Miss Walpole; Sabrina-Miss Field; Pastoral Nymph-Mrs Baddeley.  *cAfterpie
ce: With Additional Music and Grand Chorusses from $Handel=; with New Scenery, D
resses and Decorations.  Receipts: #190 15s. 6d. (145.1.0; 45.12.0; 0.2.6).  *pc
g The Beggar's Opera.  As 27 Oct., but Lucy-Miss Dayes.  *aThe Norwood Gypsies. 
 As 3 Dec.  *dAs 25 Nov.  *c+Percy= (on account of $Wroughton='s Hoarseness) is 
obliged to be deferred till To-morrow.  Receipts: #153 17s. (153.5; 0.12).  *p16
 dl The Rehearsal.  As 13 Dec.  *aComus.  As 15 Dec.  *c+The School for Scandal=
 [announced on playbill of 15 Dec.] is unavoidably deferred till To-morrow.  Rec
eipts: #96 12s. 6d. (63.11.0; 32.16.0; 0.5.6).  *pcg Percy.  As 10 Dec.  *aComus
.  As 30 Oct.  *cReceipts: #204 17s. (201.13.6; 3.3.6).  *pking's Vittorina.  [P
rincipal Characters by Jermoli, Rossi, Coppola, Micheli, Sga Buroni, Sga Prudom,
 Sga Todi.  [Cast from libretto ($T. Cadell=, 1777):% Il Cavaliere-Guglielmo Jer
moli; Il Barone di Sarzana-Antonio Rossi; Il Conte di Ripalta-Giuseppe Coppola; 
Roberto-Micheli; Donna Isabella-Sga Buroni; La Marchesa-Sga Prudom; Vittorina-Sg
a Luiggia Todi.  *dEnd I: +New Ballet=, as 4 Nov.; End II: [new ballet, Demicara
ctere, composed by $Banti=,% +Les Bohemiens=-Sg and Sga Banti, Sg and Sga Zuchel
li; End Opera: +La Polonaise Favourite=, as 4 Nov.  *cA new Comic Opera [1st tim
e; com 3]; both the Poetry, by $Goldoni=, and the Music, by $Piccinni=, entirely
 new.  *p17 dl The School for Scandal.  As 22 Oct.  *aComus.  As 15 Dec.  *cRece
ipts: #268 9s. (251.1; 17.8; 0.0).  *pcg Percy.  As 10 Dec.  *aComus.  As 30 Oct
.  *cBenefit for the Author [of mainpiece].  Receipts: #185 13s. [179.3; tickets
: 6.10) (charge: #105).  *p18 dl The Roman Sacrifice.  [Principal Characters-Smi
th, Bensley, Brereton, Aickin, Packer, Farren, Hurst, Wrighten, Wright, Chaplin,
 R. Palmer, Henderson, Miss Younge, Mrs Yates.% [Cast from +London Magazine=, De
c. 1777, p.621:% Titus-Smith; Valerius-Bensley; Tiberius-Brereton; Collatinus-Ai
ckin; Vitellius-Packer; Feciales, Messengers from Tarquin-Farren, Wrighten; Aqui
lius-Hurst; Senators-Wright, Chaplin, R. Palmer; Brutus-Henderson; Tarquinia-Mis
s Younge; Vitellia-Mrs Yates; +Prologue=-Palmer; +Epilogue=-Miss Younge.  [These
 were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]  *aDaphne and A
mintor.  As 22 Nov.  *cMainpiece [1st time; T 5, by $William Shirley=.  Not in +
Larpent MS=; not published; synopsis of plot in +London Chronicle=, 19 Dec. +Pro
logue= by the author (+London Chronicle=, 23 Dec.).  +Epilogue= by $Richard Cumb
erland= (+Collection...of English Prologues and Epilogues=, IV, 194]: With New S
cenes and Dresses.  "I have been at another new play, +The Roman Sacrifice=.  It
 is the old story of +Junius Brutus=r, without a tolerable line.  I went to see 
it, as I had never seen $Henderson=, and thought I could Judge him better in a n
ew part; but either the part was so bad, or he wants to copy, that I should not 
have found out he was at all superior to all other actors" ($Walpole= [23 Dec. 1
777], X 170).  Receipts: #2223s. 6d. (207.8.0; 13.13.6; 1.2.0).  *pcg Percy.  As
 10 Dec.  *aComus.  As 30 Oct.  *cPaid $Mrs Barry= as per Agreement #200.  Recei
pts: #146 9s. (143.9; 3.0).  *p19 dl The Roman Sacrifice.  As 18 Dec.  *aComus. 
 As 15 Dec.  *cPaid the $Duke of Bedford= 1!2 Yrs Rent #164 12s. 1!2d.  Receipts
: #141 11s. 6d. (115.2.0; 25.13.6; 0.16.0).  *pcg The West Indian.  Belcour-Lewi
s; Stockwell-Booth; Capt. Dudley-Hull; Charles-Wroughton; Major O'Flaherty-Aicki
n; Fulmer-Dunstall; Varland-Quick; Lady Rusport-Mrs Green; Louisa-Mrs Bulkley; M
rs Fulmer (1st time)-Mrs Pitt; Charlotte Rusport-Mrs Mattocks; +Epilogue= [for t
hat Charity by $Richard? Cumberland, Esq=%-Hull, Mrs Mattocks.  *aThe Upholstere
r.  As 17 Nov.  *dAs 4 Nov.  *sEnd II: +song=-Mrs Farrell.  *cBenefit for the Es
tablishment for the Discharge of Persons imprisoned for small Debts.  [The Socie
ty in charge of this charity was located at 7, +Craven-street=, +Strand= (+Publi
c Advertiser=, 15 Dec.).]  Receipts: #181 12s. (125.9; tickets: 56.3) (charge: #
105).  *p20 dl The Roman Sacrifice.  As 18 Dec.  *aThe Waterman.  As 19 Nov.  *c
Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece].  Receipts: #69 19s. (59.12; 9.11; 0.6; ti
ckets: none listed) (charge: #105).  *pcg Percy.  As 10 Dec.  *aMan and Wife.  C
ross-Wilson; Kitchen-Dunstall; Col. Freeman-Robson; Marcourt-Lee Lewes; Charlott
e-Mrs Bulkley; Lettice-Miss Dayes; Sally (1st time)-Miss Morris; Mrs Cross-Mrs G
reen.  *dAs 4 Nov.  *cAfterpiece: Not acted these 5 years [acted 21 Oct. 1773]. 
 Receipts: #142 1s. (138.7.6; 3.13.6).  *pking's Creso.  As 8 Nov.  *dEnd I: +Le
 Devin du Village=, as 4 Nov.; End II: +Les Bohemiens=, as 16 Dec.; End Opera: +
Serious Ballet=, as 9 Dec.  *p22 dl The Roman Sacrifice.  As 18 Dec.  *aComus.  
As 15 Dec.  *cReceipts: #91 7s. (66.18; 23.11; 0.18).  *pcg Percy.  As 10 Dec.  
*aLove a-la-Mode.  As 16 Oct.  *dEnd: +The Humours of Leixlip=-Aldridge, Miss Be
sford.  *cBenefit for the Author [of mainpiece].  Receipts: #198 3s. (183.8; tic
kets: 14.15) (charge: #105).  *p23 dl The School for Scandal.  As 22 Oct.  *aCom
us.  As 15 Dec.  *cReceipts: #241 16s. 6d. (222.4.0; 19.11.0; 0.1.6).  *pcg Know
 Your Own Mind.  As 30 Oct.  *aComus.  As 30 Oct.  *cBenefit for the Establishme
nt of a Fund for the Relief of Performers and Others retiring from the Stage.  R
eceipts: #88 3s. (87.3; tickets: 1.0) (charge: #105).  *pking's Vittorina.  As 1
6 Dec.  *dEnd I: +Le Devin du Village=, as 20 Dec.; End II: +Serious Ballet=, as
 20 Dec.; End Opera: +Les Bohemiens=, as 20 Dec.  *p26 dl The Tempest.  As 14 No
v., but Ferdinand-Vernon.  *aHarlequin's Invasion.  As 2 Oct.  *dIV: +Rural Grac
e=, as 2 Oct.  *cThe Christmas Tale [announced on playbill of 23 Dec.] is oblige
d to be deferred on account of $Dodd='s Illness.  Receipts: #185 19s. [168.19.0;
 16.11.6; 0.8.6).  *pcg George Barnwell.  Barnwell-Wroughton; Thorowgood-Hull; T
rueman-Whitfield; Uncle-Fearon; Blunt-Thompson; Maria-Mrs Bulkley; Lucy-Mrs Gree
n; Millwood (1st time)-Mrs Jackson.  *aThe Norwood Gypsies.  As 3 Dec., but a Ne
w Additional Scene-.  *dAs 25 Nov.  *sIn I: [a% +song=-Leoni.  *cMainpiece: Not 
acted these 2 years.  Receipts: #224 1s. (221.11; 2.10).  *p26 king's None.  *cO
n Account of the Holidays there will be No Opera till the 3d of January.  *p27 d
l The Beggar's Opera.  As 8 Nov.  *aThe Elopement.  As 10 Nov., but Colombine-Mr
s Pulley.  *dAs 11 Nov.  *cReceipts: #144 18s. 6d. (121.3.0; 23.15.6; 0.0.0).  *
pcg The Beggar's Opera.  As 15 Dec.  *aThe Norwood Gypsies.  As 26 Dec.  *dIn: +
Hornpipe=, as 17 Oct.; Afterpiece: Dancing, as 25 Nov.  *cReceipts: #193 3s. (19
2.5; 0.18).  *p29 dl Hamlet.  As 30 Sept., but Player Queen-Mrs Colles.  *aComus
.  As 15 Dec., but Sabrina-Miss Abrams.  *cReceipts: #175 4s. 6d. (142.2.0; 32.1
6.0; 0.6.6).  *pcg King Lear.  As 13 Oct., but Kent (1st time)-Fearon; Cordelia 
(1st time)-Mrs Jackson.  *aThe Norwood Gypsies.  As 26 Dec., but Principal Chara
cters-Lee _Lewes.  *dAfterpiece: Dancing, as 25 Nov., but _Aldridge, +Langrish. 
 *cReceipts: #183 2s. (182.3; 0.19).  *p30 dl The First Part of King Henry the F
ourth.  As 17 Oct.  *aThe Deserter.  As 7 Nov.  *dAs 11 Nov.  *sIn afterpiece: [
by Desire,% +Oh what a charming thing's a battle=-Bannister.  *cBenefit for the 
+Dispensary for the Infant Poor=, in +Soho-Square=.  Receipts: #212 0s. 6d. (112
.18.0; 22.9.6; 1.3.0; tickets: 75.10.0) (charge: #105).  *pcg Percy.  As 10 Dec.
  *aThe Norwood Gypsies.  As 26 Dec.  *dAs 29 Dec.  *cReceipts: #212 3s. (210.17
; 1.6).  *p31 dl The Distress'd Mother.  As 27 Sept.  *aComus.  As 29 Dec.  *cRe
ceipts: #124 2s. (96.0.0; 26.0.6; 2.1.6).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 29 Oct.  *aThe N
orwood Gypsies.  As 26 Dec.  *dAs 29 Dec.  *cReceipts: #264 14s. (263.19; 0.15).
  *p1778 1 1 dl King John.  As 29 Nov. 1777, but Prince Arthur-Master Pulley.  *
aQueen Mab.  Harlequin-Wright; Pantaloon-Johnston; Clod-Carpenter; Silvio-Burton
; Meagre-R. Palmer; Fat Cook-Griffiths; Watchman-Holcroft; Farmer-Chaplin; Queen
 Mab-Miss Abrams; Colombine-Miss Collett.  *cAfterpiece: With Alterations and Ad
ditions, particularly two Grand New Scenes designed by $DeLoutherbourg= [see 2 J
an.].  Receipts: #163 13s. 6d. (122.15.0; 40.11.0; 0.7.6).  *pcg Percy.  As 10 D
ec. 1777.  *aThe Norwood Gypsies.  As 26 Dec. 1777.  *dAs 29 Dec. 1777.  *cRecei
pts: #156 16s. (156.4; 0.12).  *p2 dl Every Man in His Humour.  Kitely-Smith; Ol
d Knowell-Aickin; Young Knowell-Brereton; Wellbred-Farren; Master Stephen-Dodd; 
Brainworm-Baddeley; Justice Clement-Parsons; Downright-Hurst; Cob-Moody; Master 
Mathew-Burton; Cash-R. Palmer; Capt. Bobadil-Henderson (1st appearance in that c
haracter [in London]); Bridget-Miss P. Hopkins; Tib-Mrs Bradshaw; Mrs Kitely-Mrs
 Baddeley.  *aQueen Mab.  As 1 Jan., but Colombine-Mrs Pulley.  *cMainpiece: Not
 acted these 2 years.  Afterpiece: To conclude with a grand View of +Greenwich H
ospital= designed by $DeLoutherbourg=.  [This was included in all subsequent per
formances; notice of the two New Scenes (see 1 Jan.) is omitted.  $Henderson=, u
nder his stage name of $Courtney=, had 1st acted +Capt. Bobadil=r at +Bath=, 21 
Nov. 1772.]  Receipts: #230 1s. 6d. (204.9.0; 25.0.6; 0.12.0).  *pcg Know Your O
wn Mind.  As 30 Oct. 1777.  *aThe Norwood Gypsies.  As 26 Dec. 1777.  *dAs 29 De
c. 1777.  *cReceipts: #151 1s. (148.4; 2.17).  *p3 dl Twelfth Night.  As 18 Oct.
 1777, but Officer-Nash.  *aQueen Mab.  As 2 Jan.  *dAs 18 Oct. 1777.  *cReceipt
s: #139 6s. (105.14.0; 33.8.6; 0.3.6).  *pcg The Revenge.  Zanga-A Gentleman (1s
t appearance on any stage [Wright]); Don Carlos-Lewis; Don Alvarez-L'Estrange; D
on Manuel-Robson; Don Alonzo-Wroughton; Isabella-Miss Ambrose; Leonora-Mrs Hartl
ey; New Occasional +Prologue=-Hull.  *aThe Norwood Gypsies.  As 29 Dec. 1777.  *
dAs 29 Dec. 1777.  *c[$Wright= is identified in +Westminster Magazine=, Jan. 177
8, 46.  Author of Prologue unknown.]Receipts: #179 7s. (178.8; 0.19).  *pking's 
Creso.  As 8 Nov. 1777.  *dEnd I: +La Polonaise Favourite=, as 4 Nov. 1777; End 
II: +Le Devin du Village=, as 4 Nov. 1777; End Opera: +Serious Ballet=, as 9 Dec
. 1777.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  *p5 dl Macbeth.  Macbeth-Smith; Mac
duff-Brereton (1st appearance in that character); Duncan-Chambers; Ross-Aickin; 
Malcolm-Davies; Banquo-Packer; Lenox-Norris; Donalbain-R. Palmer; Angus-Chaplin;
 Seward-Hurst; Doctor-Wright; Captain-Farren; Hecate-Bannister; Witches-Parsons,
 Moody, Baddeley; Lady Macduff-Miss Sherry; Lady Macbeth-Miss Younge.  *aQueen M
ab.  As 2 Jan.  *sIn: the original Music [by $Matthew Locke=, with full Chorusse
s and Additional Accompaniments,%-Bannister, Gaudry, Legg, Edwards, Chaplin, Car
penter, Holcroft, Miss Abrams, Mrs Love, Mrs Pitt, Mrs Smith, Miss Collett.  *cR
eceipts: #212 16s. 6d. (189.13.0: 23.2.6; 0.1.0).  *pcg George Barnwell.  As 26 
Dec. 1777.  *aThe Norwood Gypsies.  As 29 Dec. 1777.  *dAs 29 Dec. 1777.  *sAs 2
6 Dec. 1777.  *cReceipts: #152 17s. (150.9; 2.8).  *pking's None.  *cTomorrow be
ing Twelfth Night there will be no Opera.  *p6 dl The Tempest.  As 26 Dec. 1777.
  *aQueen Mab.  As 2 Jan.  *dIV: +Rural Grace=, as 2 Oct. 1777.  *cThe School fo
r Fathers [announced on playbill of 5 Jan.] is deferred till Thursday, on accoun
t of $Mrs Wrighten='s Hoarseness.  Receipts: #108 18s. (86.0.0; 21.14.6; 1.3.6).
  *pcg The Duenna.  As 29 Oct. 1777.  *aThe Norwood Gypsies.  As 29 Dec. 1777.  
*dAs 29 Dec. 1777.  *cReceipts: #244 3s. (243.17; 0.6).  *p7 dl The School for S
candal.  As 22 Oct. 1777.  *aComus.  As 15 Dec. 1777.  *cBy Command of $Their Ma
jesties=.  Receipts: #291 17s. (279.7.0; 12.5.6; 0.4.6).  *pcg Percy.  As 10 Dec
. 1777.  *aThe Norwood Gypsies.  As 29 Dec. 1777.  *dAs 29 Dec. 1777.  *cReceipt
s: #265 3s. (263.12; 1.11).  *p8 dl A School for Fathers.  Lionel-Webster (1st a
ppearance in that character); Col. Oldboy-Parsons; Sir John Flowerdale (1st time
)-Aickin; Jenkins-Bannister; Harman-Davies; Jessamy-Dodd; Diana-Mrs Wrighten; La
dy Mary Oldboy (1st time)-Mrs Hopkins; Jenny-Mrs Davies; Clarissa-Mrs Baddeley. 
 *aQueen Mab.  As 2 Jan.  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 5 years [acted 3 May 1774
].  Receipts: #181 14s. 6d. (148.17.0; 32.9.0; 0.8.6).  *pcg Artaxerxes.  Arbace
s-Leoni; Artabanes-Reinhold; Rimenes-Mahon; Artaxerxes-Mrs Farrell; Semira-Miss 
Dayes; Mandane-A Young Lady (1st appearance on this stage [Miss Twist].)  *aThe 
Norwood Gypsies.  As 29 Dec. 1777.  *dAs 29 Dec. 1777.  *c[$Miss Twist= is ident
ified in +Morning Post=, 9 Jan.; she was from the +hay=.]  Receipts: #190 13s. (
189.13; 1.0).  *p9 dl The School for Scandal.  As 22 Oct. 1777.  *aThe Padlock. 
 As 12 Nov. 1777.  *dEnd: +Rural Grace=, as 2 Oct. 1777.  *cReceipts: #280 17s. 
6d. (267.4.0; 13.13.6; 0.0.0).  *pcg Caractacus.  As 3 Dec. 1777.  *aThe Norwood
 Gypsies.  As 29 Dec. 1777.  *dAs 29 Dec. 1777.  *cReceipts: #177 3s. (175.19; 1
.4).  *p10 dl The Runaway.  George Hargrave-Smith; Drummond-Bensley; Justice-Par
sons; Jarvis-Palmer; Mr Morley-Aickin; Sir Charles Seymour-Brereton; Mr Hargrave
-Moody (1st appearance in that character); Lady Dinah-Mrs Hopkins; Emily-Mrs Rob
inson (1st appearance in that character); Susan-Mrs Davies; Harriet-Miss P. Hopk
ins; Bella-Miss Younge.  *aQueen Mab.  As 2 Jan.  *cComus [announced on playbill
 of 9 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred on account of $Mrs Wrighten='s hoarseness.
  Receipts: #132 4s. 6d. (99.9.0; 31.14.6; 1.1.0).  *p10 cg Percy.  As 10 Dec. 1
777.  *aThe Norwood Gypsies.  As 29 Dec. 1777.  *dAs 29 Dec. 1777.  *cReceipts: 
#183 1s. (182.5; 0.16).  *pking's Creso.  As 8 Nov. 1777.  *dAs 8 Nov. 1777.  *p
12 dl Macbeth.  As 5 Jan.  *aQueen Mab.  As 2 Jan.  *sAs 5 Jan.  *c+The School f
or Fathers= [announced on playbill of 10 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred till We
dnesday next on account of $Mrs Wrighten='s Illness.  Receipts: #151 7s. 6d. (12
5.13.0; 25.11.0; 0.3.6).  *pcg Romeo and Juliet.  As 29 Sept. 1777, but Juliet-M
rs Keefe [recte $O'Keeffe=] (from the $Theatre-Royal in Crow Street, Dublin=; 1s
t appearance on the +English stage=).  *aThe Norwood Gypsies.  As 29 Dec. 1777. 
 *dIn: Masquerade Scene-; +Minuet=, as 29 Sept. 1777; Afterpiece: Dancing, as 29
 Dec. 1777.  *sAs 29 Sept. 1777.  *cReceipts: #174 19s. (174.0; 0.10).  *p13 dl 
The School for Scandal.  As 22 Oct. 1777.  *aThe Waterman.  As 19 Nov. 1777, but
 Mrs Bundle-Mrs Love.  *dEnd IV: +Rural Grace=, as 2 Oct. 1777.  *cReceipts: #26
6 17s. 6d. (251.4.0; 15.10.0; 0.3.6).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 29 Oct. 1777.  *aThe
 Norwood Gypsies.  As 29 Dec. 1777.  *dAs 29 Dec. 1777.  *cReceipts: #231 (230.2
; 0.18).  *pking's Le Due Contesse.  As 4 Nov. 1777.  *dAs 23 Dec. 1777.  *p14 d
l A School for Fathers.  As 8 Jan.  *aQueen Mab.  As 2 Jan.  *cReceipts: #189 7s
. 6d. (168.0.0; 20.10.0; 0.17.6).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 29 Oct. 1777.  *aThe Nor
wood Gypsies.  As 26 Dec. 1777.  *dAs 29 Dec. 1777.  *cBy Command of $Their Maje
sties=.  Receipts: #287 7s. (286.14; 0.13).  *p15 dl The School for Scandal.  As
 22 Oct. 1777.  *aThe Quaker.  As 7 Oct. 1777.  *cReceipts: #248 9s. (232.12.0; 
15.14.6; 0.2.6).  *pcg The Brothers.  Ironsides (with the Original +Epilogue=)-W
ilkinson (of the $Theatre-Royal, York=); Elder Belfield-Booth; Paterson-Whitfiel
d; Goodwin-L'Estrange; Philip-Robson; Francis-Thompson; Young Belfield-Wroughton
; Jonathan-Fearon; Skiff-Wewitzer; Sir Benj. Dove-Quick; Sophia-Mrs Mattocks; Vi
oletta-Mrs Bulkley; Fanny-Miss Dayes; Lucy Waters-Mrs Poussin; Kitty-Miss Valois
; Lady Dove-Mrs Green.  *aThe Mayor of Garratt.  Major Sturgeon-Wilkinson; Sir J
acob Jollup-Booth; Bruin-Thompson; Heeltap-Fearon; Lint-Death; Jerry Sneak-Wewit
zer; Matthew Mug-Lee Lewes; Mrs Bruin-Miss Green; Mrs Sneak-Mrs Green.  *dAs 22 
Dec. 1777.  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 7 years [acted 16 May 1772].  [+Epilogu
e= by $Richard Cumberland=.]  Afterpiece: Never acted here.  Receipts: #165 6s. 
(161.12.6; 3.13.6).  *p16 dl A School for Fathers.  As 8 Jan.  *aQueen Mab.  As 
2 Jan.  *cReceipts: #140 14s. 6d. (124.2.0; 16.3.6; 0.9.0).  *pcg The Beggar's O
pera.  As 29 Nov. 1777.  *aThe Mayor of Garratt.  As 15 Jan.  *dEnd: As 4 Nov. 1
777; +Hornpipe=, as 17 Oct. 1777.  *cReceipts: #147 9s. (145.17; 1.12).  *p17 dl
 Cymon.  Cymon-Vernon; Merlin-Bannister; Dorus-Parsons; Daemon of Revenge-Legg; 
Dorilas-Chaplin; Damon-Lamash; Linco-Dodd; Urganda-Mrs Baddeley; Fatima-Mrs Wrig
hten; Dorcas-Mrs Bradshaw; Shepherdesses-Miss Collett, Mrs Davies; Sylvia-A Youn
g Lady (1st appearance upon any stage [Miss Simson]).  *aThe Deuce is in Him.  A
s 29 Nov. 1777.  *d[the following new Dances [composed] by $Gallet=:%I: [a% +Dan
ce of Cupids=-; IV: [a% +Dance of Daemons=-; to conclude: +Grand Ballet=-Henry, 
Miss Armstrong, Mlle Dupre.  [These were danced, as here assigned, in all subseq
uent performances.]  *mMainpiece: [With a% New Overture, [and additional% Airs, 
Chorusses-[; the whole of the Music composed by $Michael Arne=%.  *cMainpiece: W
ith a +Grand Procession of the different Orders of the Knights of Chivalry=v.  [
This was included in all subsequent performances.]  With new Dresses, and the Sc
enery entirely new painted.  [$Miss Simson= is identified by MS annotation on +K
emble playbill=.] Receipts: #226 6s. 6d. (204.10.0; 21.12.0; 0.4.6).  *pcg Percy
.  As 10 Dec. 1777.  *aThe Norwood Gypsies.  As 26 Dec. 1777.  *dAs 29 Dec. 1777
.  *cReceipts: #208 (205.14; 2.6).  *pking's Creso.  As 8 Nov. 1777.  *dEnd I: +
Les Bohemiens=, as 16 Dec. 1777; End II: +Serious Ballet=, as 9 Dec. 1777; End O
pera: +La Clochette=, as 15 Nov. 1777.  *p19 dl The School for Scandal.  As 22 O
ct. 1777.  *aQueen Mab.  As 1 Jan.  *cReceipts: #277 1s. 6d. (266.4.0; 10.16.0; 
0.1.6).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 29 Oct. 1777.  *aThe Minor.  Shift, Smirk, Mrs Col
e (with the Original +Epilogue=)-Wilkinson; Sir George Wealthy-Whitfield; Sir Wi
lliam Wealthy-Wewitzer; Mr Wealthy-L'Estrange; Loader-Fearon; Transfer-Jones; Di
ck-Stevens; Lucy-Miss Leeson.  *c+Macbeth= [announced on playbill of 17 Jan.] is
 obliged to be deferred on account of $Mrs Hartley='s Indisposition.  [Afterpiec
e: +Epilogue= by $Samuel Foote=.]  Receipts: #223 16s. 6d. (222.5.6; 1.11.0).  *
p20 dl Cymon.  As 17 Jan., but Cupid-Miss Field.  *aBon Ton.  As 31 Oct. 1777.  
*cReceipts: #210 0s. 6d. (189.18.0; 20.2.6; 0.0.0).  *pcg The Rehearsal.  Bayes-
Wilkinson (1st appearance in that character on this stage); Mr Johnson-Hull; Mr 
Smith-Clarke; other Characters-Quick, Dunstall, Whitfield, Robson, Wewitzer, Bak
er, L'Estrange, Death, Jones, Fearon, Thompson, Cushing, Fox, Smith, Stevens, Mr
s Poussin, Miss Green, Miss Morris, Miss Dayes.  [With a Reinforcement of +Mr Ba
yes's New Raised Troops=r% [for which, and for a list of the other parts, see +d
l=, 13 Dec. 1777].  *aThe Norwood Gypsies.  As 26 Dec. 1777.  *dAs 29 Dec. 1777.
  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 3 years [not acted since 11 Oct. 1774].  Receipts
: #128 6s. (126.0; 2.6).  *pking's La Vera Costanza.  Principal Characters by Je
rmoli, Rossi, Coppola, Micheli, Sga Jermoli, Sga Prudom, Sga Pozzi. [Cast from l
ibretto ($T. Cadell=, 1778):% Conte Enrico-Guglielmo Jermoli; Villotto-Antonio R
ossi; Marchese Ernesto-Giuseppe Coppola; Masino-Micheli; Lisetta-Sga Jermoli; Ba
ronessa Irere-Sga Prudom; Rosina-Sga Pozzi.  *dEnd I: +Les Bohemiens=, as 16 Dec
. 1777; End II: +Serious Ballet=, as 9 Dec. 1777, but Mme _Simonet; End Opera: +
La Clochette=, as 15 Nov. 1777.  *cA new Comic Opera; the Music by $Anfossi= [wi
th additions by $Tommaso Giordani=]; under the Direction of $Giordani=.  *p21 dl
 The First Part of King Henry the Fourth.  As 17 Oct. 1777.  *aThe Quaker.  As 7
 Oct. 1777.  *dAs 9 Oct. 1777.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  Receipts: #2
78 19s. 6d. (269.7.0; 9.12.6; 0.0.0).  *pcg Alfred.  [Principal Characters by Le
wis, Hull, Whitfield, L'Estrange, Fearon, Booth, Robson, Smith, Thompson, Aickin
, Mrs Jackson, Miss Ambrose, Miss Green, Mrs Barry.  [Cast from text ($T. Becket
=, 1778) and +London Chronicle=, 22 Jan.:% Alfred-Lewis; Edwin-Hull; Earl of Sur
rey-Whitfield; Rollo-L'Estrange; Officers-Booth, Robson, Thompson; Hinguar-Aicki
n; Ronex-Mrs Jackson; Edda-Miss Ambrose; Elisa-Miss Green; Ethelswida-Mrs Barry;
 Fearon, Smith; [New% +Prologue=-Wroughton; [New% +Epilogue=-Mrs Barry.  [These 
were spoken, as here assigned, at both subsequent performances.]  *aThe Padlock.
  As 10 Oct. 1777.  *dEnd: +The Villagers=-Aldridge, Langrish, Master Jackson, M
iss Valois.  *cMainpiece [1st time; T 5, by $John Home=.  +Prologue= by the auth
or (+London Chronicle=, 16 Feb.).  +Epilogue= by $David Garrick= (ibid.)]: New S
cenes, Dresses, &c.  Account-Book, 26 Jan.: Paid $Wild= for [obtaining] license 
for +Alfred= #2 2s. +Public Advertiser=, 14 Feb. 1778: This Day is published Alf
red (1s. 6d.).  Receipts: #246 (241.17.6; 4.2.6).  *p22 dl Cymon.  As 20 Jan., b
ut 2nd Shepherdess-Mrs Colles.  *aThe Register Office.  Irishman-Moody; Capt. Le
 Brush-Palmer; Gulwell-Packer; Scotchman-Parsons; Frenchman-Baddeley; Frankly-No
rris; Harwood-Lamash; Lord Brilliant-R. Palmer; Williams-Wrighten; Margery Moorp
out-Mrs Love; Maria-Miss Collett; Melpomene-Miss Stageldoir; Mrs Doggrel-Miss Po
pe.  *cReceipts: #171 6s. (145.9; 25.16; 0.1).  *pcg Alfred.  As 21 Jan.  *aThe 
Minor.  As 19 Jan., but Dick-_.  [+Sir George Wealthy=r here called +The Minor=r
.]  *dAs 21 Jan.  *cReceipts: #132 2s. 6d. (127.17.6; 4.5.0).  *p23 dl The Way o
f the World.  Mirabell-Smith; Fainall-Bensley (1st appearance in that character)
; Sir Wilful Witwou'd-Yates; Petulant-Baddeley; Waitwell-Parsons; Witwou'd-King;
 Lady Wishfor't-Mrs Hopkins; Marwood-Miss Sherry; Mrs Fainall-Miss Hopkins; Foib
le-Miss Pope; Mincing-Miss Collett; Millamant-Mrs Abington.  *aComus.  As 15 Dec
. 1777, but The Lady-Miss Hopkins.  *cReceipts: #199 14s. (167.7; 31.18; 0.9).  
*pcg Alfred.  As 21 Jan.  *aSt. Patrick's Day.  As 8 Nov. 1777.  *dAs 21 Jan.  *
cBenefit for the Author [of mainpiece].  Receipts: none listed (charge: #105).  
*p24 dl The Battle of Hastings.  [Principal Characters by Henderson, Palmer, Bre
reton, Aickin, Farren, Hurst, Chambers, Norris, Chaplin, Philimore, Bensley, Mis
s Younge, Mrs Colles, Mrs Yates.  [Cast from text ($Edward and Charles Dilly=, 1
778):% Edgar Atheling-Henderson; Earl Edwin-Palmer; Earl Waltheof-Brereton; Earl
 of Northumberland-Aickin; Siffric-Farren; Raymond-Hurst; Duncan-Chambers; Earl 
of Mercia-Norris; Reginald-Chaplin; Harold-Bensley; Matilda-Miss Younge; Sabina-
Mrs Colles; Edwina-Mrs Yates; Philimore; +Prologue=-Henderson; +Epilogue=-Miss Y
ounge.  [These were spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 10 performances only (s
ee 12 Feb.).]  *aDaphne and Amintor.  As 22 Nov. 1777.  *cMainpiece [1st time; T
 5, by $Richard Cumberland=.  +Prologue= and +Epilogue= by the author (+Collecti
on...of English Prologues and Epilogues=, II, 214; IV, 195)]: With new Scenes, D
resses, and Decorations.  +Public Advertiser=, 7 Feb. 1778: This Day is publishe
d +The Battle of Hastings= (1s. 6d.).  "This piece was received with uncommon ap
plause...[$Palmer='s] heroic exclamation-'all private feuds should cease when En
gland's glory is at stake'-was so sensibly felt by the audience that a repetitio
n was called for, but judiciously refused, as out of character in a tragedy" (+L
ondon Magazine=, Jan. 1778, p.37).  Receipts: #243 15s. 6d. (235.0.0; 8.13.0; 0.
2.6).  *pcg The Beggar's Opera.  As 29 Nov. 1777.  *aThe Minor.  As 22 Jan.  *dE
nd: As 21 Jan.; +Hornpipe=, as 17 Oct. 1777.  *cReceipts: #147 16s. (146.18.6; 0
.17.6).  *pking's Creso.  As 8 Nov. 1777.  *dEnd I: +Serious Ballet=, as 20 Jan.
; End II: +Les Bohemiens=, as 16 Dec. 1777; End Opera: +La Polonaise Favourite=,
 as 4 Nov. 1777.  *p26 dl The Battle of Hastings.  As 24 Jan.  *aComus.  As 23 J
an.  *cReceipts: #229 1s. 6d. (201.2.0; 26.19.6; 1.0.0).  *pcg Percy.  As 10 Dec
. 1777.  *aThe Norwood Gypsies.  As 26 Dec. 1777.  *dAs 29 Dec. 1777.  *cReceipt
s: #201 6s. (197.18; 3.8).  *phay The Spanish Friar.  Torrismond-Harricks; Bertr
an-Sincock; Raymond-Smith; Pedro-Echells; The Friar-Bowles; Gomez-Bailey; Alphon
so-Kenny; Lorenzo-West; Elvira-Mrs West; Teresa-Mrs Smith; Queen-Mrs Robinson (f
rom the $Theatre-Royal at Bath=).  *aThe Irish Widow.  Widow Brady-Mrs Wilks; Ep
ilogue Song-Mrs Wilks.  *e[+Monologues=% End I: +Bucks have at Ye All=-Master Ru
ssell; End I afterpiece: [an% +Address= to the Ladies [on the subject of Jealous
y%-Master Russell; [+Imitations=% End: [of several% Dramatic Characters-Master R
ussell.  *cBy Permission of the +Lord Chamberlain=.  At the Desire of the +Jerus
alem Lodge=.  Benefit for $Brother Harricks= and $Mrs Robinson=.  The Doors to b
e opened at 5:15.  To begin at 6:30.  Tickets delivered by $West= will be admitt
ed.  *p27 dl The Battle of Hastings.  As 24 Jan.  *aThe Waterman.  As 19 Nov. 17
77.  *cReceipts: #179 3s. 6d. (153.13.0; 25.6.6; 0.4.0).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 2
9 Oct. 1777, but Antonio-Robson; Lopez-Wewitzer.  *aThe Norwood Gypsies.  As 26 
Dec. 1777.  *dAs 29 Dec. 1777.  *cReceipts: #225 11s. (224.2; 1.9).  *pking's La
 Vera Costanza.  As 20 Jan.  *dEnd I: +Les Bohemiens=, as 16 Dec. 1777; End II: 
+Serious Ballet=, as 20 Jan.; End Opera: +La Clochette=, as 15 Nov. 1777.  *p28 
dl The School for Scandal.  As 22 Oct. 1777.  *aThe Deserter.  As 7 Nov. 1777, b
ut Louisa-Miss Collett.  *dEnd: [will be revived $Slingsby='s ballet,% +The Prov
incalle=-Slingsby, Henry, Miss Armstrong, Mlle Crespi.  *cReceipts: #274 8s. (26
1.3; 12.19; 0.6).  *pcg The Merchant of Venice.  As 16 Oct. 1777, but Solarino-D
avis.  *aThe Two Misers.  As 15 Oct. 1777, but Hunks (1st time)-Bowles.  *dEnd I
II: +The Garden of Love=-Dagueville, Sga Tinte; End IV: [a new Dance,% +The Cric
ketters=-Aldridge, Langrish, Master Jackson, Miss Besford, Miss Nichols, Miss Va
lois.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  Receipts: #282 9s. (281.1; 1.8).  *p2
9 dl The Battle of Hastings.  As 24 Jan.  *aThe Quaker.  As 7 Oct. 1777.  *dAs 2
8 Jan.  *cReceipts: #185 6s. 6d. (165.16.0; 19.3.6; 0.7.0).  *pcg The Busy Body.
  Marplot-Lewis; Sir G. Airy-Wroughton (their 1st appearance in those characters
); Charles-Whitfield; Sir Jealous Traffic-Dunstall; Sir Francis Gripe-Quick; Whi
sper-Cushing; Scentwell-Mrs Poussin; Isabinda-Mrs Lessingham; Patch-Mrs Pitt; Mi
randa-Mrs Bulkley.  *aMidas.  Midas (1st time)-Wilkinson; Apollo-Mattocks; Pan-M
ahon; Jupiter-Fox; Damaetas-Wewitzer; Sileno-Baker; Juno-Mrs Poussin; Daphne-Mis
s Brown; Mysis-Mrs Wilson; Nysa-Mrs Mattocks.  *dEnd: +The Cricketters=, as 28 J
an.  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 2 years.  Receipts: #151 11s. (146.14; 4.17). 
 *p31 dl The Battle of Hastings.  As 24 Jan.  *aComus.  As 15 Dec. 1777.  *cRece
ipts: #213 14s. 6d. (181.13.0; 31.6.6; 0.15.0).  *pcg The Beggar's Opera.  See 2
9 Nov. 1777.  *aThe Norwood Gypsies.  As 26 Dec. 1777.  *dAs 29 Dec. 1777.  *c[A
s mainpiece the playbill announces +Percy=, but "$Lewis= being suddenly taken ex
tremely ill...Percy cannot be performed this Evening; instead of which $Mrs Farr
ell= will appear in the character of +Macheath=r in +The Beggar's Opera=.  The o
ther characters as usual" (printed slip attached to +BM playbill=).]Receipts: #1
43 5s. (141.13; 1.12).  *p31 king's Creso.  As 8 Nov. 1777.  *dEnd I: +Serious B
allet=, as 20 Jan.; End II: +Les Bohemiens=, as 16 Dec. 1777; End Opera: +La Pol
onaise Favourite=, as 4 Nov. 1777, but Mme _Simonet.  *p2 2 dl The Battle of Has
tings.  As 24 Jan.  *aThe Note of Hand; or, Trip to Newmarket.  O'Conner MacCorm
uck-Moody; Sunderland (1st time)-Packer; Rivers-Farren; Sapling-Lamash; Dipp-Wri
ght; Putty-Wrighten; Spavin-Carpenter; Tom Epping-Waldron; Francis-Burton; Jocke
y-R. Palmer; Secretary-Griffiths; Issachar-Holcroft; Revell-Palmer; Mrs Cheveley
 (1st time)-Miss Sherry.  *cReceipts: #186 17s. 6d. (165.1.0; 21.5.0; 0.11.6).  
*pcg The Duenna.  As 27 Jan.  *aThe Rehearsal.  As 20 Jan., but other Characters
-_Quick, _Jones, _Thompson, _Smith, _Stevens, Miss _Morris, Miss _Dayes, Mrs +Wi
llems; Reinforcement-_.  *dAs 29 Jan.  *c+King Lear= [announced on playbill of 3
1 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred on account of the Indisposition of $Mrs Hartle
y= and $Lewis=.  +The Rehearsal= having been found too tedious in Representation
, and Part of the Dialogue between +Bayes=r and the +two Gentlemen=r wholly obso
lete, it has been thought advisable to...reduce the Piece to Three Acts [from th
e original five].  Receipts: #219 10s. [216.4.6; 3.5.6).  *p3 dl The Battle of H
astings.  As 24 Jan.  *aQueen Mab.  As 1 Jan.  *dIn: As 28 Jan.  *c+The School f
or Scandal= [announced on playbill of 2 Feb.] is obliged to be deferred on accou
nt of the sudden Indisposition of $Mrs Abington=.  Receipts: #189 2s. (158.8.0; 
30.11.6; 0.2.6).  *pcg Know Your Own Mind.  As 30 Oct. 1777, but Miss Neville-Mi
ss Leeson.  *aThe Norwood Gypsies.  As 26 Dec. 1777.  *dAs 29 Dec. 1777.  *cRece
ipts: #168 18s. (166.16; 2.2).  *pking's La Vera Costanza.  As 20 Jan.  *dEnd I:
 +Le Devin du Village=, as 4 Nov. 1777; End II: +Serious Ballet=, as 20 Jan.; En
d Opera: +Les Bohemiens=, as 16 Dec. 1777.  *p4 dl The Battle of Hastings.  As 2
4 Jan.  *aQueen Mab.  As 1 Jan.  *dAs 3 Feb.  *c+The School for Scandal= [announ
ced on playbill of 3 Feb.] is obliged to be deferred on account of the sudden In
disposition of $Mrs Abington=.  Receipts: #160 14s. 6d. (137.10.0; 23.2.0; 0.2.6
).  *pcg Percy.  As 10 Dec. 1777.  *aPoor Vulcan!.  [Principal Characters by Qui
ck, Mattocks, Mahon, Robson, Battishill, Leoni, Miss Dayes, Miss Brown.  Cast fr
om text ($G. Kearsley=, 1778):% Vulcan, Crump-Quick; Jupiter, Stud-Mattocks; Mar
s, Pike-Mahon [in text: $Reinhold= (see 21 Apr.)]; Apollo, Wiseman-Robson; Bacch
us, Guage-Battishill; Adonis, Joe-Leoni; Grace-Miss Dayes; Venus, Maudlin-Miss B
rown [all the characters, except +Grace=r, are alternateley Gods and mortals].  
*cAfterpiece [1st time; burl 2, by $Charles Dibdin=, based on The +Loves of Mars
 and Venus=, by $Peter Anthony Motteux=]: With New Scenes and Dresses.  The Musi
c chiefly composed by $Dibdin=.  [$Dr Arne= and $Dr Arnold= each wrote one air.]
  Books of the Burletta to be had at the Theatre.  +Public Advertiser=, 5 Feb. 1
778: This Day at Noon is published +Poor Vulcan!=  (1s.).  [The playbill lists $
Reinhold= in place of $Mahon=, but on the +Kemble playbill= his name is deleted 
and a MS annotation substitutes Mahon's.]  Receipts: #232 5s. 6d. (230.2.6; 2.3.
0).  *p5 dl The Battle of Hastings.  As 24 Jan.  *aComus.  As 15 Dec. 1777.  *cR
eceipts: #137 10s. 6d. (119.16.0; 17.7.0; 0.7.6).  *pcg King Lear.  As 13 Oct. 1
777, but Cordelia-Mrs Jackson.  *aPoor Vulcan!  As 4 Feb.[, but $Mahon='s name l
isted in playbill.%  *cReceipts: #201 3s. 6d. (198.6.6; 2.17.0).  *p6 dl Cymon. 
 As 20 Jan., but Daemon of Revenge-Gaudry.  *aThe Note of Hand.  As 2 Feb.  *cRe
ceipts: #140 19s. 6d. (120.14.0; 20.4.6; 0.1.0).  *pcg She Wou'd and She Wou'd N
ot.  Don Manuel-Wilkinson; Don Philip-Wroughton; Don Octavio-Whitfield; Trappant
i (1st time)-Lee Lewes; Flora-Mrs Lessingham; Rosara-Miss Leeson; Viletta-Mrs Pi
tt; Hyppolita-Mrs Bulkley (1st appearance in that character).  *aThe Author.  Ca
dwallader-Wilkinson; Young Cape-Whitfield; Vamp-Wilson; Governor Cape-Fearon; Sp
rightly-Robson; Arabella-Miss Ambrose; Mrs Cadwallader-Mrs Green; [With the Orig
inal% +Prologue=-.  *aTea; or, Tragedy a-la-Mode.  Golcondus-Wilkinson; The King
-; Lindamira-[to the best Advantage%.  *dAs 29 Jan.  *cBenefit for $Wilkinson=. 
 Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years.  [Afterpiece: Prologue by $Samuel Foote=.  
For an account of +Tea= see $Tate Wilkinson=, +The Wandering Patentee=, 1795, 1,
 282-90.]  Receipts: #221 0s. 6d. (217.5.6; tickets: 3.15.0) (charge: #70).  *p7
 dl Every Man in his Humour.  As 2 Jan.  *aThe Quaker.  As 7 Oct. 1777.  *dAs 3 
Feb.  *cReceipts: #118 7s. (97.18; 20.9; 0.0).  *pcg Percy.  As 10 Dec. 1777.  *
aPoor Vulcan!.  As 5 Feb., but Bacchus, Gauge-Fox.  *cReceipts: #180 8s. 6d. (17
6.4.6; 4.4.0).  *pking's Erifile.  [Principal Characters-Roncaglia, Adamberger, 
Coppola, Sga Prudom, Sga Danzi.  [Cast from libretto ($T. Cadell=, 1778):% Cleom
ene-Francesco Roncaglia; Learco-Valentino Adamberger; Cresfonte-Giuseppe Coppola
; Ermione-Sga Prudom; Erifile-Sga Francesca Danzi.  *dEnd I: +La Polonaise Favou
rite=, as 31 Jan.; End II: +Les Bohemiens=, as 16 Dec. 1777; End Opera: +Diverti
sement=-Mons and Mlle Banti, Vallouy@le@cadet, Mlle Baccelli.  *sIn II: +Air=-Sg
a Danzi; [accompanied on the% Hautboy-LeBrun.  [This was sung, as here assigned,
 in all subsequent performances.]  *cA new Serious Opera [1st time; SER 3, by $G
iovanni de Gamerra=].  With grand Chorusses.  The Music entirely new by $Antonio
 Sacchini=.  *p9 dl The Battle of Hastings.  As 24 Jan.  *aQueen Mab.  As 1 Jan.
  *dAs 9 Oct. 1777.  *cReceipts. #161 11s. 6d. (135.2.0; 26.6.6; 0.3.0).  *pcg T
he Duenna.  As 27 Jan.  *aThe Norwood Gypsies.  As 26 Dec. 1777.  *dAs 29 Dec. 1
777.  *cReceipts: #254 3s. (252.6; 1.17).  *phay Jane Shore.  Gloster-Smith; Dum
ont-O'Brien Machin (from the $Theatre Royal, Crow Street in Dublin=); Ratcliffe-
Bailey; Catesby-Shepherd; Bellmour-Barnes; Earl of Derby-Thompson; Lord Hastings
-West; Alicia-Mrs Lefevre (1st appearance in town); Jane Shore-Mrs Massey.  *aTh
e Irish Widow.  Sir Patrick O'Neale-Bailey; Whittle-Shepherd; Kecksy-Benson; Bat
es-Wallace; Thomas-Massey; Widow Brady (with the original +Epilogue Song=)-Mrs M
assey.  *sEntertainments of singing-Mrs Mapples;[, particularly the favourite so
ng of% +The Soldier tir'd of war's alarms=-Mrs Mapples.  *cBy Permission of the 
+Lord Chamberlain=.  Benefit for $Mr and Mrs Massey=.  The Doors to be opened at
 5:30.  To begin at 6:30.  Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. T
ickets to be had of Massey, No. 17, +Portugal-street=, +Lincoln's inn fields=.  
Care has been taken to have the House well aired.  *p10 dl Much Ado about Nothin
g.  Benedick-Henderson (1st appearance in that character [in London]); Don Pedro
-Packer; Claudio-Brereton; Balthazar (with a +song=)-Vernon; Don John-Aickin; An
tonio-Hurst; Borachio-Farren; Fryar-Wright; Messenger-Lamash; Dogberry-Parsons; 
Town@Clerk-Baddeley; Conrade-Griffiths; Sexton-Wrighten; Verges-Carpenter; Watch
men-Burton, Holcroft; Leonato-Bensley (1st appearance in that character); Hero-M
iss Hopkins; Margaret-Mrs Bradshaw; Ursula-Mrs Colles; Beatrice-Miss Pope.  *aSe
lima and Azor.  As 23 Oct 1777.  *dII: a Masquerade, +Dance=[, proper to the pla
y%-; To conclude with: [a% +Country Dance=-.  [These were included in all subseq
uent performances.]  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 2 years.  [$Henderson=, under 
his stage name of $Courtney=, had 1st acted +Benedick=r at +Bath=, 5 Nov. 1772.]
  Receipts: #243 8s. 6d. (220.10.0; 22.16.0; 0.2.6).  *pcg Jane Shore.  Hastings
-Lewis (1st appearance in that character); Gloster (1st time)-Whitfield; Ratclif
f-Robson; Belmour-Hull; Catesby-L'Estrange; Derby-Thompson; Dumont-Ross; Jane Sh
ore (for this night)-Mrs Yates [of +dl=]; Alicia-Mrs Barry.  *aPoor Vulcan!.  As
 7 Feb.  *cReceipts: #306 3s. 6d. (304.0.6; 2.3.0).  *pking's La Vera Costanza. 
 As 20 Jan.  *dEnd I: +Serious Ballet=, as 20 Jan.; End II: +Le Devin du Village
=, as 4 Nov. 1777; End Opera: +La Polonaise Favourite=, as 31 Jan.  *p11 dl Much
 Ado about Nothing.  As 10 Feb.  *aBon Ton.  As 31 Oct. 1777.  *dEnd III: As 28 
Jan.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  Receipts: #255 17s. (239.17.0; 15.15.6
; 0.4.6).  *pcg She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not.  As 6 Feb., but Don Manuel-Dunstall
; Soto-Wewitzer; Diego-Cushing; Don Lewis-Booth; Corrigidor-Fox; Alguazil-Thomps
on.  *aPoor Vulcan!.  As 7 Feb.  *cReceipts: #140 14s. 6d. (138.11.6; 2.3.0).  *
p12 dl The Battle of Hastings.  As 24 Jan., but +Prologue=-_; +Epilogue=-_[and t
hereafter].  *aHarlequin's Invasion.  As 2 Oct. 1777.  *dAs 9 Oct. 1777.  *cRece
ipts: #121 10s. 6d. (104.3.0; 17.1.6; 0.6.0).  *pcg The Grecian Daughter.  As 13
 Nov. 1777, but Dionysius-Mahon.  *aPoor Vulcan!.  As 7 Feb.  *cReceipts: #173 1
0s. (170.18.6; 2.11.6).  *p13 dl The School for Scandal.  As 22 Oct. 1777.  *aTh
e Waterman.  As 19 Nov. 1777.  *cReceipts: #286 6s. (275.4; 11.2; 0.0).  *pcg Th
e Careless Husband.  Lord Foppington-Lewis; Lord Morelove-Wroughton; Servant-Tho
mpson; Sir Charles Easy-Ross; Lady Easy-Mrs Mattocks; Lady Graveairs-Mrs Jackson
; Edging-Mrs Lessingham; Lady Betty Modish-Mrs Bulkley.  *aPoor Vulcan!.  As 7 F
eb.  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 12 years [not acted since 3 May 1764].  Receip
ts: #232 19s. 6d. (229.19.0; 3.0.6).  *p14 dl Cymon.  As 6 Feb.  *aBon Ton.  As 
31 Oct. 1777.  *cReceipts: #142 17s. 6d. (109.3.0; 33.12.6; 0.2.0).  *pcg The Du
enna.  As 27 Jan.  *aThe Norwood Gypsies.  As 26 Dec. 1777.  *dAs 29 Dec. 1777. 
 *cReceipts: #203 12s. (202.15; 0.17).  *pking's Erifile.  As 7 Feb.  *dAs 7 Feb
.  *p16 dl The School for Scandal.  As 22 Oct. 1777.  *aThe Quaker.  As 7 Oct. 1
777.  *cReceipts: #267 1s. (255.17; 11.2; 0.2).  *pcg The Fair Penitent.  Sciolt
o-Ross; Lothario-Lewis; Rossano-L'Estrange; Altamont-Wroughton; Servant-Thompson
; Horatio-Aickin; Lavinia-Mrs Bulkley; Lucilla-Miss Dayes; Calista-Mrs Barry.  *
aPoor Vulcan!.  As 7 Feb.  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 2 years.  Receipts: #203
 16s. (201.9; 2.7).  *p17 dl Much Ado about Nothing.  As 10 Feb.  *aComus.  As 2
3 Jan.  *dAs 11 Feb.  *c[Mainpiece in place of +Hamlet=, announced on playbill o
f 16 Feb.]  +The Cady of Bagdad= [also announced on playbill of 16 Feb.] is obli
ged to be deferred till Thursday on account of the Indisposition of a Performer.
  Receipts: #90 0s. 6d. (68.18.0; 21.1.6; 0.1.0).  *pcg The Careless Husband.  A
s 13 Feb.  *aPoor Vulcan!.  As 7 Feb.  *c[This has hitherto been stated to be $R
oss='s last appearance on the stage, but he acted subsequently in +Edinburgh= an
d +Dublin=, and at the +Royalty=, 21 Nov. 1787.]  Receipts: #121 14s. (118.17.6;
 2.16.6).  *pking's La Vera Costanza.  As 20 Jan.  *dAs 10 Feb.  *p18 dl A Schoo
l for Fathers.  As 8 Jan.  *aQueen Mab.  As 1 Jan.  *dAs 9 Oct. 1777.  *c+The Sc
hool for Scandal= [announced on playbill of 17 Feb.] is obliged to be deferred t
ill Friday, on account of $Palmer='s Illness.  Receipts: #115 5s. 6d. (96.5.0; 1
8.17.0; 0.3.6).  *pcg She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not.  As 11 Feb.  *aPoor Vulcan!. 
 As 7 Feb.  *dEnd III: As 22 Dec. 1777.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  Rec
eipts: #253 2s. (251.12.6; 1.9.6).  *p19 dl Cymbeline.  As 31 Oct. 1777.  *aThe 
Cady of Bagdad.  [Principal Characters by Dodd, Davies, Hurst, Bannister, Mr Wal
dron, Mr Wrighten, Miss Abrams, Mrs Baddeley.  [Cast from Songs ($G. Kearsley=, 
1778):% Omar-Dodd; Abdallah-Davies; Black Aga-Hurst; Mouaffac-Wrighten; Cady of 
Bagdad-Bannister; Dyer's Daughter [not in Songs, but see 21 Feb.]-Mr Waldron; Ca
cafatadri-Mr Wrighten [i.e. doubled +Mouaffac=r]; Selima-Miss Abrams; Zemroude-M
rs Baddeley.  *dIn II: [+Masquerade Scene=% Dancing-Blurton, Henry; End III: +Th
e Provincalle=, as 28 Jan.  *s[Masquerade Scene% As 31 Oct. 1777.  *c+Hamlet= [a
nnounced on playbill of 18 Feb.] is obliged to be deferred on account of the Ind
isposition of a principal Performer.  Afterpiece [1st time; CO 3, by $Abraham Po
rtal=.  +Larpent MS 445=; not published]: The Overture and Music [by $Thomas Lin
ley Jun=.] entirely new.  With New Scenes, Dresses and Decorations.  Words of th
e Songs, Chorusses, &c. to be had at the Theatre.  +Public Advertiser=, 19 Feb. 
1778: This Day at Three will be published the Songs in +The Cady of Bagdad= (6d.
).  Receipts: #180 0s. 6d. (130.9.0; 49.7.6; 0.4.0).  *pcg The Busy Body.  As 29
 Jan.  *aPoor Vulcan!.  As 7 Feb.  *cReceipts: #102 16s. (96.6; 6.10).  *p20 dl 
The School for Scandal.  As 22 Oct. 1777.  *aThe Rival Candidates.  As 29 Oct. 1
777.  *dAs 9 Oct. 1777.  *cReceipts: #262 7s. (251.1.0; 11.4.6; 0.1.6).  *pcg Th
e Duenna.  As 27 Jan.  *aThree Weeks after Marriage.  As 12 Nov. 1777.  *c[After
piece in place of +St. Patrick's Day=, announced on playbill of 19 Feb.]  Receip
ts: #168 5s. 6d. (166.15.6; 1.10.0).  *p21 dl The Clandestine Marriage.  As 25 S
ept. 1777, but Sir John Melvil-Bensley.  *aThe Cady of Bagdad.  As 19 Feb., but 
Dyer's Daughter-Mrs Love.  *cThe Character of the +Dyer's Daughter=r [in afterpi
ece], performed by $Waldron=, will be changed.  Receipts: #154 0s. 6d. (121.1.0;
 32.12.0; 0.7.6).  *pcg Percy.  As 10 Dec. 1777.  *aPoor Vulcan!.  As 7 Feb.  *c
Receipts: #132 12s. (129.8.6; 3.3.6).  *pking's Erifile.  As 7 Feb.  *dAs 7 Feb.
  *p23 dl The School for Scandal.  As 22 Oct. 1777.  *aThe Cady of Bagdad.  As 2
1 Feb.  *cAfterpiece: With Alterations.  Receipts: #274 18s. 6d. (256.3.0; 18.9.
0; 0.6.6).  *pcg Romeo and Juliet.  As 29 Sept. 1777, but Capulet-Booth; Benvoli
o-Whitfield; Paris-Robson.  *aMother Shipton.  Harlequin-Lee Lewes; Clown-Cushin
g; Farmer-Messink; Mother Shipton-Mr Baker; Colombine-Sga Tinte; other Character
s-Wewitzer, Jones, Smith, Thompson, Stevens, Ledger, Mrs White, Mrs Poussin.  *d
In: As 29 Sept. 1777; In afterpiece: Langrish, Miss Besford [who danced in all s
ubsequent performances].  *sEnd IV: Solemn Dirge, as 29 Sept. 1777, but _Reinhol
d, +Battishill.  *cAfterpiece: Not acted these 6 years [acted 23 May 1774].  Rec
eipts: #199 10s. 6d. (198.12.0; 0.18.6).  *p24 dl The Merry Wives of Windsor.  M
r Ford-Smith; Sir Hugh Evans-Parsons; Doctor Caius-Baddeley; Mr Page-Packer; Hos
t of the Garter-Moody; Jus. Shallow-Waldron; Fenton-Farren; Simple-Burton; Bardo
lph-Wright; Pistol-Holcroft; Nym-Nash; Rugby-Carpenter; Page to Falstaff-Master 
Pulley; Slender-Dodd; Falstaff-Henderson; Mrs Page-Miss Pope; Ann Page-Mrs Colle
s; Mrs Quickly-Mrs Bradshaw; Mrs Ford-Miss Younge.  *aComus.  As 23 Jan.  *dAs 1
1 Feb.  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 8 years [acted 15 Jan. 1772].  Receipts: #2
31 15s. 6d. (213.0.0; 18.13.0; 0.2.6).  *pcg As You Like It.  Jaques-Aickin; Orl
ando-Lewis; Adam (1st time)-Hull; Duke Senior-L'Estrange; Amiens (with +songs=)-
Mattocks; Oliver-Whitfield; Duke Frederick-Fearon; Touchstone-Quick (1st appeara
nce in that character); Caelia (with the +Cuckoo Song=)-Mrs Mattocks; Phoebe-Mis
s Dayes; Audrey-Mrs Pitt; Rosalind-Mrs Barry.  *aMother Shipton.  As 23 Feb.  *d
End I: As 22 Dec. 1777; In V: [a% +Dance of Foresters=-Dagueville.  *cReceipts: 
#164 12s. 6d. (162.19.0; 1.13.6).  *pking's La Vera Costanza.  As 20 Jan.  *dEnd
 I: +Le Devin du Village=, as 4 Nov. 1777; End II: +Divertisement=, as 7 Feb.; E
nd Opera: [a new Grand Ballet Espagnol,% +La Serenade Interrompuee=-Mlle Baccell
i, Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Vallouy@le@cadet; [in which a% +Pas de Deux du Masque=-S
imonet, Mlle Baccelli; accompanied on the Guitarre-Noferi.  *p25 dl The Merry Wi
ves of Windsor.  As 24 Feb.  *aSelima and Azor.  As 23 Oct 1777.  *dAs 14 Oct. 1
777.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  Receipts: #273 10s. (264.17.0; 8.6.6; 
0.6.6).  *pcg Love Makes a Man; or, The Fop's Fortune.  Clodio-Lewis; Antonio-Th
ompson; Charino-Cushing; Don Luis-Dunstall; Don Duart-Booth; Manuel-Robson; Sanc
ho-Death; Monsieur-Wewitzer; Carlos-Wroughton; Elvira-Mrs Jackson; Louisa-Miss A
mbrose; Angelina-Mrs Bulkley.  *aMother Shipton.  As 23 Feb.  *c+The Duenna= [an
nounced on playbill of 24 Feb.] is unavoidably postponed on account of $Wilson='
s sudden and violent indisposition.  Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years.  Receip
ts: #138 10s. (135.4.6; 3.5.6).  *p26 dl The School for Scandal.  As 22 Oct. 177
7.  *aThe Quaker.  As 7 Oct. 1777.  *cReceipts: #264 1s. (246.18.6; 16.18.6; 0.4
.6).  *pcg The Maid of the Mill.  Lord Aimworth-Mattocks; Sir H. Sycamore (1st t
ime)-Quick; Giles-Mahon; Mervin-Robson; Fairfield-Hull; Ralph-Wewitzer; Fanny-Mi
ss Brown; Lady Sycamore-Mrs Pitt; Theodosia-Miss Dayes; Patty-Mrs Mattocks.  *aM
other Shipton.  As 23 Feb.  *cReceipts: #172 1s. (170.16.6; 1.4.6).  *p27 none  
+General Fast=.  *p28 dl The Merry Wives of Windsor.  As 24 Feb.  *aSelima and A
zor.  As 23 Oct. 1777.  *dAs 11 Feb.  *cReceipts: #210 18s. (183.14; 27.4; 0.0).
  *pcg The Stratagem.  Archer-Lewis; Aimwell-Wroughton; Gibbet-Booth; Boniface-D
unstall; Foigard-Fox; Sir Charles Freeman-Robson; Sullen-Clarke; Scrub-Quick; Do
rinda-Mrs Lessingham; Cherry-Miss Brown; Lady Bountiful-Mrs Poussin; Mrs Sullen-
Mrs Barry (1st appearance in that character at this theatre).  *aMother Shipton.
  As 23 Feb.  *cReceipts: #169 6s. (166.17; 2.9).  *pking's Erifile.  As 7 Feb. 
 *dAs 7 Feb.  *p3 2 dl The Battle of Hastings.  As 24 Jan.  *aThe Rival Candidat
es.  As 29 Oct. 1777, but Gardeners-_Fawcett, _Kear.  *dAs 9 Oct. 1777.  *cRecei
pts: #150 17s. 6d. (129.3.0; 21.6.6; 0.8.0).  *pcg The Orphan.  Castalio-Wrought
on; Acasto-Clarke; Polidore-Aickin; Chaplain-L'Estrange; Ernesto-Fearon; Page-Mi
ss Morris; Chamont-Lewis; Serina-Miss Leeson; Florella-Mrs Pitt; Monimia-Mrs Bar
ry.  *aMother Shipton.  As 23 Feb.  *cMainpiece: Acted but once these 7 years [o
n 1 Nov. 1776].  Receipts: #206 12s. (205.1; 1.11).  *p3 dl The School for Scand
al.  As 22 Oct. 1777.  *aThe Quaker.  As 7 Oct. 1777.  *cReceipts: #262 17s. (24
6.17; 15.18; 0.2).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 27 Jan.  *aMother Shipton.  As 23 Feb. 
 *cReceipts: #225 9s. 6d. (223.8.0; 2.1.6).  *pking's L'Amore Artigiano.  [Princ
ipal Characters by Jermoli, Rossi, Coppola, Micheli, Sga Jermoli, Sga Prudom, Sg
a Todi.%  [Cast from libretto ($T. Cadell=, 1778):% Giannino-Guglielmo Jermoli; 
Bernardo-Rossi; Titta-Coppola [in libretto: Rovedino (see 10 Mar.)]; Giro-Michel
i; Angiolina-Sga Jermoli; Madama Costanza-Sga Prudom; Rosina-Sga Todi.  *dEnd I:
 [a% +Masquerade Dance= [incident to the opera, in which the%-; +Minuet de la Co
ur and Gavot=-Simonet, Mlle Baccelli; +Provencal=-Vallouy@le@cadet; +Allemande a
 la Strasbourgoise=-Mons and Mlle Banti; End II: +Le Devin du Village=, as 4 Nov
. 1777; End Opera: +La Serenade Interrompuee=, as 24 Feb.  *cA new Comic Opera; 
the Music by $Gassmann=; under the Direction of $Giordani=.  *p4 none +Ash Wedne
sday=.  *p5 dl Love for Love.  Valentine-Henderson (1st appearance in that chara
cter [in +London=]); Sir Sampson Legend-Moody; Scandal-Bensley; Foresight-Parson
s; Ben-Yates; Jeremy-Baddeley; Trapland-Waldron; Tattle-King; Angelica-Miss Youn
ge; Mrs Frail-Miss Pope; Mrs Foresight-Miss Sherry; Miss Prue-Mrs Abington.  *aQ
ueen Mab.  As 1 Jan.  *dAs 9 Oct. 1777.  *c[$Henderson='s 1st appearance as +Val
entine=r was at +Bath=, 1 Feb. 1777.]  Receipts: #192 8s. (171.12.0; 20.14.6; 0.
1.6).  *pcg The Miser.  As 1 Oct. 1777, but Mariana-Mrs Mattocks.  *aPoor Vulcan
!.  As 7 Feb.  *cReceipts: #116 11s. 6d. (113.14.6; 2.17.0).  *pking's Creso.  A
s 8 Nov. 1777.  *dAs 3 Feb. [throughout.%  *sII: [a% new +song= [by $Sacchini=%-
Roncaglia; accompanied on the violin-Cramer.  *cBenefit for $Roncaglia=.  Ticket
s to be had of Roncaglia at +Fleureau's=, No. 2, +Hay-market=.  *p6 dl Acis and 
Galatea.  Principal Vocal Parts-Norris, Webster, Miss Linley, Miss M. Linley, Mr
s Farrell, Miss Draper; 1st Violin-Linley Jun.  *aDryden's Ode.  Principal Vocal
 Parts-Norris, Webster, Miss Linley, Miss M. Linley, Mrs Farrell, Miss Draper.  
*sBetween: [As there are very few songs in +Acis and Galatea= that can be adapte
d for Mrs Farrell's voice, she will sing a +cantata=% The rosy morn with crimson
 dye=-Mrs Farrell.  *mEnd Part I: +concerto= on the organ-Stanley; End Part II: 
+concerto= on the violin-[probably $Linley Jun=%.  *cBy Command of $Their Majest
ies=.  Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of $Fosbrook= at the Stage D
oor of the Theatre, at Half a Guinea each.  Pit 5s. 1st Gallery 3s. 6d. 2nd Gall
ery 2s.  The Doors to be opened at 5:30.  To begin at 6:30 [same throughout orat
orio season.  $Mrs Farrell='s cantata is identified in +London Chronicle=, 9 Mar
.].  *pcg Acis and Galatea.  Principal Vocal Parts-Vernon, Meredith, Mrs Wrighte
n, Mrs Weichsel; 1st Violin-Baumgarten.  *aSacred Canons.  [A Select Collection,
 by the most eminent ancient and modern composers;% Principal Vocal Parts-Vernon
, Meredith, Mrs Wrighten, Mr Weichsel; [to conclude with% +Non Nobis Domine=-.  
*mEnd Part I: +concerto= on the German flute-Florio; End of Part III: +concerto=
 on the piano forte-Miss Weichsel; +concerto= on the hautboy-LeBrun; +concerto= 
on the violin-Master Weichsel.  *cBoxes 10s. 6d. Pit 4s. 1st Gallery 3s. 2nd Gal
lery 2s. Places for the Boxes to be taken of $Sarjant= (only) at the Stage Door.
  Books of the Oratorio to be had at the Theatre.  The Doors to be opened at 5:3
0.  To begin at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season.  The Account-Book notes t
hat the director of the oratorios this season was $James Hook=.]  *p7 dl The Sch
ool for Scandal.  As 22 Oct. 1777.  *aSelima and Azor.  As 23 Oct. 1777.  *cRece
ipts: #264 16s. (250.14.0; 13.16.6; 0.5.6).  *pcg Tancred and Sigismunda.  Tancr
ed-Lewis; Osmond-Clarke; Rhodolpho-L'Estrange; Officer-Thompson; Siffredi-Hull; 
Laura-Miss Ambrose; Sigismunda-Mrs Barry.  *aMother Shipton.  As 23 Feb.  *cRece
ipts: #196 2s. 6d. (193.2.0; 3.0.6).  *pking's Erifile.  As 7 Feb.  *dAs 7 Feb. 
 *p9 dl The Merry Wives of Windsor.  As 24 Feb.  *aComus.  As 23 Jan., but Pasto
ral Nymph-Miss Collett; Principal Bacchants-Miss _Collett, Mrs _Colles.  *dAs 14
 Oct. 1777.  *cReceipts: #209 13s. (184.4.0; 24.18.6; 0.10.6).  *pcg The Duenna.
  As 27 Jan.  *aThe Lyar.  Young Wilding-Lee Lewes; Old Wilding-Fearon; Sir Jame
s Elliot-Whitfield; Papillon-Quick; Miss Godfrey-Miss Ambrose; Miss Grantham-Mrs
 Bulkley.  *dEnd: [a new dance,% +All in the Downs= [or +Farewell to Deal=%-Aldr
idge, Master Jackson, Besford, Miss Besford, Miss Valois.  *cBy Command of $Thei
r Majesties=.  Receipts: #282 11s. (280.11.6; 1.19.6).  *p10 dl The School for S
candal.  As 22 Oct. 1777.  *aThe Quaker.  As 7 Oct. 1777.  *dAs 9 Jan.  *cReceip
ts: #247 2s. (229.3; 17.10; 0.9).  *pcg Know Your Own Mind.  As 3 Feb., but Bygr
ove (1st time)-Thompson.  *aMother Shipton.  As 23 Feb.  *cReceipts: #116 5s. 6d
. (113.18.0; 2.7.6).  *pking's L'Amore Artigiano.  As 3 Mar., but Titta-Rovedino
.  *dEnd I: +Le Devin du Village=, as 4 Nov. 1777; End II: +Masquerade Dance=, a
s 3 Mar.; [but a% +Minuet=-Simonet, Sga Jermoli [in place of +Minuet de la Cour 
and Gavot=%; +Provencal=, as 3 Mar.; +Allemande a la Strasbourgoise=, as 3 Mar.;
 End Opera: +La Polonaise Favourite=, as 31 Jan., but Mlle _Baccelli.  *c$Mlle B
accelli= being still unable to dance, $Sga Jermoli= has...undertaken to dance a 
Minuet, in her character of +Angiolina=r, with $Simonet=.  *p11 dl Judas Maccaba
eus; Acis and Galatea.  [Principal Vocal Parts% As 6 Mar., but 1st Violin-_.  *m
End Part I: +concerto= on the hautboy-Parke; End Part II: +concerto= on the viol
in, as 6 Mar.  *c+London Chronicle=, 12 Mar.: "The chorusses were more in charac
ter than we ever remember, from the circumstance of mixing women's voices with t
he boys'."  *pcg Acis and Galatea.  As 6 Mar., but 1st Violin-_.  *aSacred Canon
s.  As 6 Mar.  *mAs 6 Mar.  *p12 dl The Rivals.  Sir Anthony Absolute-King; Acre
s-Dodd; Sir Lucius O'Trigger-Moody; David-Parsons; Fag-Baddeley; Coachman-Carpen
ter; Faulkland-Webster (1st appearance in that character); Capt. Absolute-Palmer
; Mrs Malaprop-Mrs Hopkins; Julia-Mrs Baddeley; Lucy-Mrs Wrighten; Lydis Languis
h-Miss Younge.  *aQueen Mab.  As 1 Jan.  *cReceipts: #136 16s. 6d. (113.9.0; 23.
3.6; 0.4.0).  *p12 cg The Conscious Lovers.  As 8 Oct. 1777, but Tom-Lee Lewes (
1st appearance in that character); Indiana-Mrs Barry (1st appearance in that cha
racter at this theatre).  *aMother Shipton.  As 23 Feb.  *sAs 8 Oct. 1777.  *cRe
ceipts: #168 10s. 6d. (165.0.6; 3.10.0).  *p13 dl L'Allegro il Penseroso; Acis a
nd Galatea.  As 6 Mar., but 1st Violin-_.  *aThe Coronation Anthems; Acis and Ga
latea.  As 6 Mar., but 1st Violin-_.  *mEnd Part II: +concerto= on the violin, a
s 6 Mar.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  *pcg The Messiah; Acis and Galatea
.  As 6 Mar., but 1st Violin-_.  *mEnd Part I: +concerto= on the piano forte, as
 6 Mar.; End Part II: +concerto= on the violin, as 6 Mar.  *p14 dl The School fo
r Scandal.  As 22 Oct. 1777.  *aThe Deserter.  As 28 Jan.  *dAs 9 Jan.  *cReceip
ts: #263 19s. 6d. (251.5.0; 12.9.6; 0.5.0).  *pcg The Lady's Last Stake; or, The
 Wife's Resentment.  Ld. Wronglove-Wroughton; Sir Friendly Moral-Hull; Brush-Boo
th; Surgeon-Fearon; Snug-Jones; Stranger-Smith; Lord George Brilliant-Lewis; Lad
y Wronglove-Mrs Jackson; Lady Gentle-Mrs Bulkley; Miss Notable-Mrs Mattocks; Mrs
 Hartshorn-Mrs Pitt; Mrs Conquest-Mrs Lessingham.  *aPoor Vulcan!.  As 7 Feb.  *
dEnd IV: as 9 Mar.  *cMainpiece: Written by $Colley Cibber=, Esq.  Receipts: #17
1 8s. (169.9; 1.19).  *pking's Erifile.  As 7 Feb.  *dEnd I: As 3 Mar.  *p16 dl 
Venice Preserv'd.  Jaffier-A Young Gentleman (1st appearance upon any stage [$Bi
ngham=]); Priuli-Aickin; Renault-Packer; Bedamor-Davies; Duke-Chaplin; Spinosa-W
right; Elliot-Wrighten; Officer-Griffiths; Pierre-Bensley; Belvidera-Miss Younge
.  *aBelphegor; or, The Wishes.  [Principal Characters by Vernon, Moody, Parsons
, Davies, Gaudry, Bannister, Miss Simson, Mrs Wrighten.  [Cast from Songs ($T. B
ecket=, 1778):% Booze-Vernon; Wheatear-Moody; Justice Solemn-Parsons; Colin-Davi
es; Belphegor-Bannister; Phebe-Miss Simson; Dame Din-Mrs Wrighten; Gaudry.  *c[$
Bingham= is identified by MS annotation on +Kemble playbill=.]  Afterpiece [1st 
time; CO 2, by $Miles Peter Andrews=, based on +Le Bucheron; ou, Les Trois Souha
its=, by $Jean Francois Guichard=.  Music by $Francois Hippolyte Barthelemon=]: 
With New Scenes, Dresses and Decorations.  Books of the Songs, Chorusses, &c. to
 be had at the Theatre.  +Public Advertiser=, 17 Mar, 1778: This Day is publishe
d the Songs in +Belphegor= (6d.).  [Text 1st published in +Dublin=: For the Book
sellers, 1788.]  Receipts: #196 0s. 6d. (156.5.0; 38.13.6; 1.2.0).  *pcg The Orp
han.  As 2 Mar., but Florella-Mrs Poussin.  *aThe Norwood Gypsies.  As 26 Dec. 1
777.  *dAs 29 Dec. 1777.  *cReceipts: #191 (188.5; 2.15).  *p17 dl Hamlet.  As 3
0 Sept. 1777.  *aBelphegor.  As 16 Mar.  *cReceipts: #160 1s. (124.14; 35.3; 0.4
).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 27 Jan.  *aMother Shipton.  As 23 Feb.  *cReceipts: #20
2 1s. (200.13.6; 1.7.6).      *pking's L'Amore Artigiano.  As 10 Mar.  *dEnd I: 
+Le Devin du Village=, as 3 Mar.; End II: +Masquerade Dance=, as 3 Mar.; +Minuet
 de la Cour and Gavot=, as 3 Mar.; +Provencal=, as 3 Mar.; +Allemande al la Stra
sbourgeiose=, as 3 Mar.; End Opera: +La Serenade Interrompuee=, as 3 Mar.  *p18 
dl Alexander's Feast; Acis and Galatea.  As 6 Mar., but 1st Violin-_.  *aThe Son
g of Moses; Acis and Galatea.  As 6 Mar., but 1st Violin-_.  *s[As there are ver
y few songs in +Alexander's Feast= that can be adapted%Between two Parts of Ode:
 +song=-Mrs Farrell.  *mAs 11 Mar.  *cOde: Perform'd but once [on 12 Mar. 1777].
  Set to Music by $Linley Jun=.  *pcg The Ascension; Acis and Galatea.  As 6 Mar
., but 1st Violin-_.  *mEnd Part I: +concerto= on the hautboy, as 6 Mar.; End Pa
rt II: +quartetto= for the violin German flute tenor and piano forte-Master Weic
hsel, Florio, Stamitz, Miss Weichsel.  *cOratorio: The music composed by $Hook=.
  *p19 dl The School for Scandal.  As 22 Oct. 1777.  *aBelphegor.  As 16 Mar.  *
dAs 9 Jan.  *c+Love for Love= is obliged to be deferred.  Receipts: #261 14s. (2
41.11; 20.3; 0.0).  *pcg Lionel and Clarissa.  As 3 Oct. 1777, but Harman-Mahon.
  *aThe Norwood Gypsies.  As 26 Dec. 1777.  *dAs 29 Dec. 1777.  *cReceipts: #133
 (132.2; 0.18).  *pking's Creso.  As 8 Nov. 1777.  *dAs 3 Feb.  *sII: new +song=
, as 5 Mar.; In II: [a new% +song=-Sga Danzi; accompanied on the hautboy-LeBrun.
  *cBenefit for $Sga Danzi=.  Tickets to be had of Sga Danzi, No. 8, +Suffolk-st
reet=, +Charing-cross=.  *p20 dl Judas Maccabaeus; Acis and Galatea.  As 6 Mar.,
 but 1st Violin-_.   *mAs 11 Mar.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  *pcg The 
Messiah; Acis and Galatea.  As 6 Mar., but 1st Violin-_.  *mAs 13 Mar.  *p21 dl 
The First Part of King Henry the Fourth.  As 17 Oct. 1777.  *aBelphegor.  As 16 
Mar.  *dAs 9 Oct. 1777.  *cReceipts: #146 17s. 6d. (121.10.0; 25.5.0; 0.2.6).  *
pcg She Stoops to Conquer.  As 5 Dec. 1777.  *aPoor Vulcan!.  As 7 Feb.  *dEnd I
I: +La Soiree a@la@Mode=, as 3 Nov. 1777.  *cReceipts: #129 16s. 6d. (126.8.0; 3
.8.6).  *pking's Erifile.  As 7 Feb.  *dEnd I: +Les Bohemiens=, as 7 Feb.; End I
I: +Divertisement=, as 7 Feb.; End Opera: +La Polonaise Favourite=, as 7 Feb.  *
p23 dl The School for Scandal.  As 22 Oct. 1777.  *aBelphegor.  As 16 Mar.  *cRe
ceipts: #241 8s. 6d. (223.7.0; 17.19.0; 0.2.6).  *pcg Iphigenia; or, The Victim.
  Achilles-Lewis; Ulysses-Fearon; Calchas-L'Estrange; Arcas-Robson; Eurybates-Th
ompson; Agamemnon-Hull; Eriphile-Mrs Mattocks; Clytemnestra-Mrs Jackson; Doris-M
iss Leeson; Aegina-Mrs Whitfield; Iphigenia-Mrs Barry.  *aPoor Vulcan!.  As 7 Fe
b.  *dAs 22 Dec. 1777.  *sV: [will be introduced a% Sacrifice-;[, with% new Musi
c [by $Fisher=%-; the vocal parts and chorus-Miss Brown, others.  *cBenefit for 
$Mrs Barry=.  Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, as altered by $Thomas Hull=].  Translate
d from [+Iphigenie en aulide=, by] $Racine= by $Boyer=.  Part of the Pit will be
 laid into the Boxes.  Ladies are desired to send their Servants by Four o'Clock
.  +Public Advertiser=, 18 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Barry, No. 26, +Henrie
tta-street=, +Covent Garden=.  Receipts: #273 19s. 6d. (157.18.6; tickets: 116.1
.0) (charge: #70 17s. 6d.).  *phay The Jealous Wife.  Oakly-West; Major Oakly-Bo
wles; Charles-Swindall; Russet-Kenny; Sir Harry Beagle-Everard; Captain O'Cutter
-Bailey; Tom-Johnson; Paris-Thompson; Lord Trinket-Creswick; Mrs Oakly-Mrs Lee; 
Lady Freelove-Mrs Roach; Toilette-Mrs Bailey; Chambermaid-Mrs Everard; Harriet-M
rs West.  *aCatherine and Petruchio.  Petruchio-West; Grumio-Everard; Catherine-
Mrs West.  *e[+Monologues=.% End: [a% +Parody on Shakespeare's Stages= [recte +S
even Ages=]-Creswick; Between Acts afterpiece: [an% +Epilogue=[, concluding with
 +Marplot's Address=,%-Creswick.  *cBy Permission of the Right Hon. the +Lord Ch
amberlain=.  Benefit for a Lady in Distress.  To begin at 7:00.  *p24 dl Twelfth
 Night.  As 3 Jan.  *aBelphegor.  As 16 Mar.  *dEnd II: [will be revived $Slings
by='s grand ballet,% +The Savage Hunters=-Slingsby, Henry, Miss Armstrong, Mlle 
Crespi.  *cBenefit for the Author of +Belphegor=.  Receipts: #99 18s. 6d. (83.9.
0; 15.17.0; 0.12.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #84).  *pcg The Merchant of V
enice.  As 28 Jan., but Portia-Mrs Bulkley (1st appearance in that character).  
*aLove a-la-Mode.  As 16 Oct. 1777.  *dEnd III: +La Soiree a@la@Mode=, as 3 Nov.
 1777; End IV: As 9 Mar.  *cBenefit for $Macklin=.  +Daily Advertiser=, 24 Mar.:
 Tickets to be had of Macklin, +Tavistock-Row=, +Covent-Garden=.  [$Mrs Bulkley=
's 1st appearance as +Portia=r was at this theatre, 1 Jan. 1768.]  Receipts: #21
2 8s. (132.1; tickets: 80.7) (charge: #64 10s.).  *phay King Richard III.  King 
Richard-A Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified]); King Henry-Luc
as; Duke of Buckingham-Thompson; Prince of Wales-Master Benson (1st appearance o
n any stage); Duke of York-Master Kenny; Norfolk-Massey; Oxford-Stevens; Lord St
anley-Painter; Blunt-Bell; Ratcliff-Kenny; Catesby-Bailey; Tressel-Mills; Lieute
nant-Newton; Lord Mayor-Bowles; Tirrell-Edwards; Richmond-A Gentleman (1st appea
rance on any stage [unidentified]); Lady Anne-Mrs Lefevre; Duchess of York-Mrs L
eister; Queen Elizabeth-Mrs Robinson (from the $Theatre Royal at Bath=); An occa
sional +Prologue= (written by a Gentleman eminent in the Republic of Letters [un
identified])-West.  *aThe Deuce is in Him.  Colonel Tamper (with the original +P
rologue=)-West; Major Belford-Newton; Prattle-Smith; Emily-Mrs Lefevre; Bell-Mrs
 Robinson; Mademoiselle Florival-Mrs West.  *s[A variety of Entertainments of Si
nging, particularly% +The Soldier tir'd=-a Lady [unidentified].  *e[+Monologue=.
% End: [an occasional% +Address=-Master Benson.  *cBy Authority [of the +Lord Ch
amberlain=].  Benefit for $West=.  The Doors to be opened at 5:30.  To begin at 
6:30.  Tickets to be had of West, No. 4, +Stanhope-street=, +Clare-market=.  [Au
thors of Prologue and Address unknown.]  *pking's Creso.  As 8 Nov. 1777.  *dEnd
 I: +Le Devin du Village=, as 4 Nov. 1777; End II: +Divertisement=, as 7 Feb.; E
nd Opera: +La Polonaise Favourite=, as 31 Jan.  *sAs 19 Mar.  *p25 dl Samson; Ac
is and Galatea.  As 6 Mar., but 1st Violin-_.  *mAs 11 Mar.  *pcg Acis and Galat
ea.  As 6 Mar., but 1st Violin-_.  *aA Miscellaneous Act.  +Concerto= on the vio
le d'amore-Stamitz; a favourite +Hunting song=-Mrs Wrighten; +duetto= for the vi
olin and tenor-Master Weichsel, Stamitz; [a favourite% +Trumpet song=-Mrs Weichs
el; +concerto= on the piano forte-Miss Weichsel.  *mEnd Part I oratorio: +concer
to= on the German flute, as 6 Mar.  *p26 dl The School for Scandal.  As 22 Oct. 
1777.  *aSelima and Azor.  As 23 Oct. 1777  *cBenefit for $Smith=.  +Morning Chr
onicle=, 24 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Smith at his house, +Beaufort-buildings=,
 +Strand=.  Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes.  Ladies and Gentlemen a
re desired to send servants before Five o'Clock, to keep their Places; and those
 who have Places in the Pit are requested to come early, to prevent Confusion an
d Inconvenience to themselves.  Receipts: #284 6s. (145.4: 10.15; 1.6; tickets: 
127.1) (charge: #62 2s.).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 29 Oct. 1777, but Lopez-Wewitzer
.  *aMother Shipton.  As 23 Feb.  *cReceipts: #232 5s. 6d. (230.16.0; 1.9.6).  *
pking's Il Marchese Villano.  Principal Characters-Jermoli, Rossi, Micheli, Sga 
Jermoli, Sga Rovedino, Sga Todi.  [Libretto (+Venice=, 1762) lists the parts: +I
l Marchese Giorgino=r, +Il Marchese Tulipano=r, +Palamede=r, +Il dottore Galerin
o=r, +Vespina=r, +Belisa=r, +Dorilla=r.]  *dAs 3 Feb.  *cBenefit for $Jermoli=. 
 A new Comic Opera; the Poetry by $Goldoni=; the Finales and Airs by $Piccinni= 
and $Paisiello=. [Performed on 24 Jan. 1786 as +Il Marchese Tulipano=.]  Tickets
 to be had of Jermoli, No. 29, +Cockspur-street=, +Charing-cross=.  *p27 dl Acis
 and Galatea.  As 6 Mar., but 1st Violin-_.  *aThe Coronation Anthems.  Principa
l Vocal Parts-Norris, Webster, Miss Linley, Miss M. Linley, Mrs Farrell, Miss Dr
aper.  *sBetween acts oratorio: +Verdi Rale= [i.e. +Prati=] (a favourite song of
 $Handel='s)-Mrs Farrell.  *mAs 6 Mar.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  *pcg
 Judas Maccabaeus; Acis and Galatea.  As 6 Mar., but 1st Violin-_.  *mAs 13 Mar.
  *p28 dl The School for Scandal.  As 22 Oct. 1777.  *aBelphegor.  As 16 Mar.  *
dEnd: +The Savage Hunters=, as 24 Mar.  *cReceipts: #193 14s. 6d. (174.9.0; 19.4
.0; 0.1.6).  *pcg Percy.  As 10 Dec. 1777.  *aThree Weeks after Marriage.  As 12
 Nov. 1777, but Mrs Drugget-Mrs Poussin.  *dAfter Epilogue: +All in the Downs=[;
 or, +Farewell to Deal=%, as 9 Mar., but _Besford, Mrs +White.  *cBenefit for $M
rs Mattocks=.  [As afterpiece $Genest=, VI, 25, lists +The Romp=, "1st time," wi
th partial cast.  In an advance notice of Mrs Mattocks' benefit in +Public Adver
tiser=, 20 Mar., the farce advertised for 28 Mar. is The Romp, "1st time," with 
full cast; this appears to have been Genest's source.  But in the same newspaper
 for 25, 26, 27 Mar. the farce advertised is +Three Weeks after Marriage=.  The 
Romp was 1st acted at the +Capel Street Theatre=, +Dublin=, 23 Jan. 1771, and in
 +London= at the +hay=, 12 Nov. 1781.  See also +dl=, 21 Nov. 1785.]  +Public Ad
vertiser=, 17 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Mattocks at her house in +Covent Ga
rden=.  Receipts: #160 9s. (101.19; tickets: 58.10) (charge: #64 10s.).  *pking'
s Erifile.  As 7 Feb.  *dEnd I: +Les Bohemiens=, as 16 Dec. 1777; End II: +Diver
tisement=, as 7 Feb.; End Opera: +La Serenade Interrompuee=, as 24 Feb.  *p30 dl
 Alexander the Great; or, The Rival Queens.  Alexander-Smith; Cassander-Palmer; 
Lysimachus-Hurst; Hephestian-Davies; Polyperchon-Chambers; Thessalus-Wright; Per
diccas-Chaplin; Eumenes-Norris; Aristander-Wrighten; Slave-R. Palmer; Clytus-Ben
sley; Roxana-Miss Younge; Parisatis-Miss Hopkins; Sisigambis-Mrs Johnston; Stati
ra-Mrs Yates; A favorite +Epilogue= (written by $D. Garrick=, Esq.) [with altera
tions spoken%-Miss Younge.  *aSecond Thought is Best.  [Principal Characters by 
Vernon, Dodd, Moody, Aickin, Baddeley, Bannister, Mrs Wrighten, Mrs Baddeley.  C
ast from text (+Murray and Greenlaw=, 1778):% Morley-Vernon; Jingle-Dodd; O'Dona
van-Moody; Frankly-Aickin; Conrad-Baddeley; Woudbe-Bannister; Agnes-Mrs Wrighten
; Matilda-Mrs Baddeley.  *cBenefit for $Miss Younge=.  Mainpiece: With the +gran
d Triumphal Entry=v.  [+Public Advertiser=, I Apr., identifies the Epilogue as a
n alteration by $Garrick= of his epilogue to +Alfred=.]  Afterpiece [1st time; C
O 2, by $J Hough=]: The Music composed by $William? Bates=.  Tickets delivered f
or +The Brothers= will be taken.  Books of the Performances to be had at the The
atre.  +Public Advertiser=, 7 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Miss Younge at +Thelwal
l's=, Silk Mercer, +King-street=, +Covent Garden=.  Receipts: #285 13s. 6d. (141
.9.0; 11.15.0; 0.2.6; tickets: 132.7.0) (charge: #76 19s. 6d.).  *pcg Isabella; 
or, The Fatal Marriage.  Biron (1st time)-Lewis; Count Baldwin-Clarke; Carlos-Wh
itfield; Belford-L'Estrange; Sampson-Dunstall; Friend-Smith; Pedro-Bates; Child-
Miss Francis; Villeroy (1st time)-Wroughton; Nurse-Mrs Poussin; Isabella-Mrs Bar
ry (1st appearance in that character at this theatre).  *aTrue-Blue.  Characters
-Reinhold, Mahon, Baker, Miss Dayes.  [Probable cast: +Lieutenant Dreadnought=r-
Reinhold; +Careful=r-Mahon; +True-Blue=r-Baker; +Nancy=r-Miss Dayes.]  *aThe App
rentice.  As 29 Sept. 1777.      *d2nd piece: Aldridge.  [This was danced, as he
re assigned, in all subsequent performances.]  *sIII: +Epithalamium=-; the vocal
 parts-Robson, Miss Dayes.  *cBenefit for $Lewis=.  Mainpiece: Not acted these 6
 years.  +Public Advertiser=, 17 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Lewis at his house i
n +Broad court=, +Bow-street=, +Covent Garden=.  Receipts: #194 16s. (143.9; tic
kets: 51.7) (charge: #66 13s.)  *p31 dl Macbeth.  As 5 Jan., but Macbeth-Henders
on (1st appearance in that character [in +London=]); Macduff-Farren; Captain-_. 
 *aThe Quaker.  As 7 Oct. 1777.  *dAs 24 Mar.  *sIn: the original Music, as 5 Ja
n., but _Edwards, +Philimore, Mrs +Gaudry, Mrs +Wrighten.  *cBenefit for $Hender
son=.  +Public Advertiser=, 7 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Henderson, No. 21 +Maid
en Lane=, +Covent Garden=.  [Henderson, under his stage name of $Courtney=, had 
1st acted +Macbeth= at +Bath=, 12 Nov. 1772.]  Receipts: #275 18s. [156.2; 9.1; 
0.0; tickets: 110.15) (charge: #105).  *pcg Love in a Village.  As 26 Sept. 1777
, but Young Meadows-Leoni (1st appearance in that character); Deborah-A Gentlewo
man (1st appearance on this stage [unidentified]); Margery-Mrs Wilson; Lucinda (
1st time)-Miss Dayes.  *aThe Citizen.  As 20 Nov. 1777, but Young Wilding-Whitfi
eld; Beaufort-Thompson.  *dAs 22 Dec. 1777.  *cBenefit for $Leoni=.  +Public Adv
ertiser=, 19 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Leoni, No. 34, +Great Queen-street=, +Li
ncoln's-inn-fields=.  Receipts: #234 8s. 6d. (174.19.6; tickets: 59.9.0) (charge
: free).  *phay A Bold Stroke for a Wife.  Colonel Feignwell-Smith; Sir Philip M
odelove-Massey; Periwinkle-Bailey; Freeman-Swindall; Simon Pure-Thompson; Tradel
ove-Bowles; Sackbut-Kenny; Quaker's Boy-Master Follet; Obadiah Prim-Follet; Ann 
Lovely-Miss Hale; Betty-Mrs Waldron; Mrs Prim-Mrs Lee.  *aThe Mayor of Garratt. 
 *sBetween Acts: [Singing, particularly% +Black Ey'd Susan=[the new +Hunting Son
g=%-T. Smith.  *e[+Monologue=.%End: +The Farmer's Blunder=-Follet.  *cBy Permiss
ion [of the +Lord Chamberlain=].  Benefit for $Follet=, $Smith= & $T. Smith=, la
te of the +Bear=, +Westminster-bridge=.  Tickets to be had of Follet, No. 20, +L
ittle Wild-street=, +Lincoln's-inn-fields=; of T. Smith at the +Golden Cross=, +
Charing Cross=.  T. Smith hopes to be honoured with the company of his brother $
Free Masons=, +Bucks=, &c., Gentlemen of the +Welsh Society=, +Hereford Society=
 and +West-moreland Society=.  *pking's L'Amore Artigiano.  As 10 Mar.  *dEnd II
: +Masquerade Dance=, as 3 Mar.; +Minuet de la Cour and Gavot=, as 3 Mar.; +Prov
encal=, as 3 Mar.; +Allemande a la Strasbourgoise=, as 3 Mar.; End Opera: +La Se
renade Interrompuee=, as 24 Feb.  *bEnd I: [new Ballet Pastoral (composed by $Si
monet=; the introduction by $Banti=),% +La Surprize de Daphnis et Cephise=.  +Pa
s de Deux=-Sg and Sga Zuchelli; Daphnis Banti; Cephise-Mlle Banti.  *p4 1 dl Jos
hua; Acis and Galatea.  As 6 Mar., but Principal Vocal Parts-Mrs _Farrell; 1st V
iolin-_.  *mAs 6 Mar.  *pcg The Prodigal Son; Acis and Galatea.  As 6 Mar., but 
Principal Vocal Parts-Master +Harrison; 1st Violin-_.  *mAs 13 Mar.  *p2 dl The 
Merry Wives of Windsor.  As 24 Feb.  *aBelphegor.  As 16 Mar.  *cBenefit for $Ve
rnon=.  +Public Advertiser=, 17 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Vernon at $Mahon='s, 
the corner of +Bow-street=, +Covent Garden=.  Receipts: #222 19s. (108.19.0; 18.
17.6; 0.6.6; tickets: 94.16.0) (charge: #65 1s.).  Account-Book totals the charg
e as follows: Ord[inary] Charge #64 4s.; Sup[ernumeraries] 3s.; K[ettle] D[rum] 
5s.; 6 Ext[ra] Carp[enter]s 9s.  *pcg The Lady's Last Stake.  As 14 Mar., but Mr
s Hartshorn-Mrs Whitfield.  *aPoor Vulcan!.  As 7 Feb.  *dEnd IV: +La Soiree a@l
a@Mode=, as 3 Nov. 1777.  *cReceipts: #119 10s. (117.6; 2.4).  *pking's La Buona
 Figliuola.  Principal Characters-Jermoli, Rossi, Coppola, Micheli, Sga Jermoli,
 Sga Prudom, Sga Todi.  [Libretto ($T. Cadell=, 1777) lists the parts: Il Cavali
ere Armidoro, Il Marchese della Conchiglia, Tagliaferro, Mengotto, La Marchesa L
ucinda, Paoluccia, Cecchina, Sandrina.]  *dAs 3 Feb. [throughout.%  *cBenefit fo
r $Sga Todi=.  Opera: The Music by $Piccinni=.  Tickets to be had of Sga Todi, N
o. 12, +Haymarket=.  *p3 dl Alexander's Feast; Joshua; Acis and Galatea.  As 1 A
pr.  *aSt. Caecilia's [i.e. $Dryden='s] Ode; Joshua; Acis and Galatea.  As 1 Apr
.  *mAs 6 Mar.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  *pcg Acis and Galatea.  As 6
 Mar., but 1st Violin-_.  *aA Miscellaneous Act.  As 25 Mar., but +concerto= on 
the German flute-Florio; +Concerto= on the viole d'amore-_.  *p4 dl The School f
or Scandal.  As 22 Oct. 1777.  *aBelphegor.  As 16 Mar.  *dAs 28 Mar.  *cReceipt
s: #247 14s. (235.7.0; 12.5.6; 0.1.6).  *pcg Douglas.  As 27 Nov. 1777, but Anna
-Mrs Morton (late $Miss Dayes=).  *aTrue-Blue.  As 30 Mar., but Characters-Mrs +
Morton, [late% Miss _Dayes [see above].  *aThree Weeks after Marriage.  As 28 Ma
r., but Nancy-Mrs Morton [see above].  *cBenefit for $Clarke=.  +Public Advertis
er=, 17 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Clarke, +Russel-street=, +Covent Garden=.  Re
ceipts: #219 4s. (124.0; tickets: 95.4) (charge: #66 9s.).  *pking's La Clemenza
 di Scipione.  [Principal Characters by Roncaglia, Adamberger, Coppola, Sga Prud
om, Sga Danzi.]  [Cast from libretto ($T. Cadell=, 1778):% Luceio-Francesco Ronc
aglia; Scipione-Valentino Adamberger; Marzio-Giuseppe Coppola; Idalba-Sga Prudom
; Arsinda-Sga Francesca Danzi.  *dEnd I: +Divertisement=, as 7 Feb.; End Opera: 
[new grand Serious Ballet,% +Les Amans unis par l'Hymen=-Simonet, Mlle Baccelli,
 Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Vallouy@le@cadet.  *sII: [an% +air=-Sga Danzi; [accompanie
d on the% violin-Cramer; violoncello-Cervetto; German flute-Florio; hautboy-LeBr
un.  [This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]  *bEnd I
I: +La Surprize de Daphnis et Cephise=.  As 31 Mar.  *cA new Serious Opera [1st 
time; SER 3, librettist unknown].  With grand chorusses; the Music entirely new 
by $Johann Christian? Bach=.  *p6 dl Love for Love.  As 5 Mar., but Ben (with so
ng, +The Storm=)-Dodd [1st appearance in that character].  *aSelima and Azor.  A
s 23 Oct. 1777.  *cBenefit for $Dodd=.  +Public Advertiser=, 21 Mar.: Tickets to
 be had of Dodd at his house in +New Ormond-street=, +Queen's-square=.  Receipts
: #245 7s. 6d. (102.15.0; 19.9.0; 0.7.6; tickets: 122.16.0) (charge: #68 19s.). 
 *pcg Love in a Village.  As 31 Mar., but Lucinda-Mrs Morton [late $Miss Dayes=]
.  *aMother Shipton.  As 23 Feb.  *cPaid $Mrs Hartley= in lieu of a Benefit #105
.  Receipts: #165 16s. 6d. (164.7.6; 1.9.0).  *p7 dl Cymon.  As 20 Jan., but Cym
on-Webster (1st appearance in that character); Sylvia-Mrs Arne (1st appearance i
n that character).  *aAll the World's a Stage.  As 30 Sept. 1777, but Harry Stuk
ely (1st time)-Lamash.  *s[Several new%+airs= (never performed) [by $Michael Arn
e=%-[for the characters of +Cymon=r and +Sylvia=r, on this occasion%.  *cBenefit
 for $Webster=.  +Public Advertiser=, 19 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Webster, No.
 74, +Great Queen-street=.  Receipts: #227 17s. 6d. (120.10.0; 22.0.6; 0.0.0; ti
ckets: 85.7.0) (charge: #105).  *pcg The Countess of Salisbury.  Alwin-Aickin (1
st appearance in that character); Raymond-Wroughton; Grey-Clarke; Laroche-Whitfi
eld; Morton-L'Estrange; Sir Ardolphe-Fearon; Peasant-Booth; Knight-Robson; Ld. W
illiam-Miss Francis; Eleanor-Mrs Morton; Countess of Salisbury-Mrs Barry.  *aPoo
r Vulcan!.  As 7 Feb., but Mrs Morton [i.e. formerly $Miss Dayes=].  *dAs 21 Jan
.  *cBenefit for $Aickin=.  +Public Advertiser=, 20 Mar.: Tickets to be had of A
ickin at his house in +Bow-street=, +Covent Garden=.  Receipts: #128 5s. (91.8; 
tickets: 36.17) (charge: #67 7s. 6d.).  *pking's L'Amore Artigiano.  As 10 Mar. 
 *dAs 31 Mar.  *b+La Surprize de Daphnis et Cephise=.  As 31 Mar.  *p8 dl The Me
ssiah; Acis and Galatea.  As 1 Apr.  *mAs 6 Mar.  *pcg Omnipotence; Acis and Gal
atea.  As 6 Mar., but 1st Violin-_.  *mEnd Part I: +concerto= on the violin, as 
6 Mar.; End Part II: +concerto= on the piano forte, as 6 Mar.  *cAn Oratorio com
posed by [i.e. consisting of selections from] $Handel=.  *p9 dl The Confederacy.
  Brass-King; Gripe-Moody; Money@Trap-Parsons; Clip-Lamash; Jessamy-Burton; Dick
-Palmer; Clarissa-Mrs Bulkley (of +cg=); Araminta-Mrs Robinson; Mrs Amlet-Mrs Ho
pkins; Mrs Clogget-Mrs Bradshaw; Flippanta-Miss Pope; Corinna-Mrs Abington.  *aS
elima and Azor.  As 23 Oct. 1777.  *dEnd II: [$Slingsby='s grand ballet% +The Sa
vage Hunters=, as 24 Mar., but +Fitzgerald.  *cBenefit for $Miss Pope=.  Part of
 the Pit will be laid into the Boxes.  Mainpiece: Not acted these 8 years.  +Pub
lic Advertiser=, 21 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Miss Pope, at +Pope's=, +Little R
ussel-street=, +Covent Garden=.  Receipts: #265 5s. (94.8; 17.7; 0.8; tickets: 1
53.2) (charge: #69 1s. 6d.).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 26 Mar.  *aThe Norwood Gypsie
s.  As 26 Dec. 1777, but Mrs Morton [i.e. formerly $Miss Dayes=].  *dAs 29 Dec. 
1777.  *cReceipts: #235 15s. (234.2; 1.13).  *phay The Orphan; or, The Unhappy M
arriage.  Chamont-A Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [Freeman]); Acasto-Ma
ssey; Page-Master Benson; Polidore-Swendall; Chaplain-Bowles; Ernesto-Bailey; Ca
stalio-Cooke; Serina-A Young Gentlewoman [unidentified]; Florella-Mrs Bailey; Mo
nimia-Mrs Massey.  *aThe Irish Widow.  Whittle-Benson; Kecksey-Shepherd; Nephew-
Nelson; Bates-Bowles; Sir Patrick O'Neale-Bailey; Thomas-Massey; The Widow (with
 the +Epilogue Song=)-Mrs Massey.  *e[+Monologue=.%  End I afterpiece: [an% +Epi
logue=-Master Benson.  *cBy Authority [of the +Lord Chamberlain=].  Benefit for 
$Freeman= [who, as +Chamont=r, is identified in +Public Advertiser=, 7 Apr.].  T
ickets to be had of Freeman, +Vine-street=, +Piccadilly=; of Massey, at +Marshal
l's=, +Bedford-court=, +Covent Garden=.  The Doors to be opened at 5:30.  To beg
in at 6:30.  Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s.  *pking's La Ve
ra Costanza.  As 20 Jan.  *dAs 3 Feb.  *sII: new +song= (composed by $Sacchini=)
-Pozzi; accompanied on the flute-Florio; III: +Che dirnen so=-Jermoli.  *cBenefi
t for $Sga Pozzi=.  Tickets to be had of Sga Pozzi, No. 18, +Sherrard-street=, +
Golden-square=.  *p10 dl The Messiah.  [Principal Vocal Parts as 1 Apr.% As 8 Ap
r.  *mAs 6 Mar.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  Account-Book, 22 Apr.: Rece
ived from +Stanley & Co.= Oratorio Acct. #334 2s. 6d.  *pcg The Prodigal Son; Ac
is and Galatea.  As 6 Mar., but 1st Violin-_.  *mAs 13 Mar.  *c[The Account-Book
 notes that the theatre received #25 on each of the 11 Oratorio nights.]  *p11 d
l The Beggar's Opera.  As 8 Nov. 1777.  *aBon Ton.  As 31 Oct. 1777, but Gymp-Mi
ss Collett.  *dAs 9 Apr.  *cBenefit for $Mrs Baddeley=.  Receipts: #206 1s. (103
.6; 26.11; 0.3; tickets: 76.1) (charge: #67 10s. 6d.).  *pcg Venice Preserv'd.  
Jaffier-Lewis (1st appearance in that character); Priuli-Hull; Renault-Clarke; D
uke-Mahon; Bedamar-Whitfield; Spinosa-L'Estrange; Elliot-Fearon; Theodore-Smith;
 Officer-Booth; Pierre-Aickin; Belvidera-Mrs Barry.  *aTrue-Blue.  As 4 Apr.  *a
Poor Vulcan!.  As 7 Apr.  *cBenefit for $Mattocks=.  +Public Advertiser=, 30 Mar
.: Tickets to be had of Mattocks at his house in +Covent Garden=.  Receipts: #14
6 17s. 6d. (112.3.6; tickets: 34.14.0) (charge: #69 18s. 6d.).  *pking's La Clem
enza di Scipione.  As 4 Apr.  *dEnd I: +Divertisement=, as 7 Feb.; End II: +La S
erenade Interrompuee=, as 24 Feb.; End Opera: +Les Amans unis par l'Hymen=, as 4
 Apr.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  *p13[-18% none +Holy Week=.  *p20 dl 
Jane Shore.  Hastings-Smith; Gloster-Aickin; Bellmour-Davies; Catesby-Wright; Ra
tcliffe-Chaplin; Derby-Chambers; Shore-Bensley; Alicia-Miss Younge; Jane Shore-M
rs Yates.  *aJoseph Andrews.  [Principal Characters by Palmer, Parsons, Baddeley
, Burton, Lamash, Mrs Hopkins, Mrs Wrighten, Miss Sherry, Mrs Robinson.  [Cast f
rom +Morning Chronicle=, 21 Apr.:% Joseph Andrews-Palmer; Peter Pounce-Parsons; 
Captain Wilson-Baddeley; Coupee-Burton; Lord Didapper-Lamash; Slipslop-Mrs Hopki
ns; Jenny-Mrs Wrighten; Lady Booby-Miss Sherry; Fanny-Mrs Robinson; New +Prologu
e=-Bensley.  *dAs 9 Jan.  *cBenefit for $Bensley=.  Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, b
y $Samuel Jackson Pratt=.  Not in +Larpent MS=; not published.  Prologue printed
 in +Westminster Magazine=, Apr. 1778, p.218; author unknown].  +Public Advertis
er=, 2 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bensley, +Charlotte-street=, +Bloomsbury=.  Re
ceipts: #230 16s. 6d. (131.6.0; 25.4.0; 0.7.6; tickets: 73.19.0) (charge: #66 9s
.).  *pcg The Orphan.  As 16 Mar., but Polidore (1st time)-Whitfield.  *aMother 
Shipton.  As 23 Feb.  *dEnd: +The Humours of New@Market=-Dagueville, Harris, Mas
ter Holland, Miss Ross, Sga Tinte.  *c+The Grecian Daughter= [announced on playb
ill of 11 Apr.] is obliged to be deferred on account of $Aickin='s Illness.  Rec
eipts: #118 14s. 6d. (117.8.6; 1.6.0).  *p21 dl The Committee; or, The Faithful 
Irishman.  Teague (with +songs=)-Moody; Col. Blunt-Aickin; Mr Day-Baddeley; Obad
iah-Parsons; Abel-Burton; Lieut. Story-Philimore; Committee@Men-Waldron; Col. Ca
reless-Brereton; Mrs Day-Mrs Hopkins; Arabella-Miss P. Hopkins; Ruth-Miss Pope. 
 *aBelphegor.  As 16 Mar.  *dAs 9 Apr.  *cBenefit for $Moody=.  +Public Advertis
er=, 16 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Moody at the +New Inn Coffee-house=, +Wych-st
reet=.  Receipts: #173 6s. 6d. [98.17.0; 12.18.6; 0.8.0; tickets: 61.3.0) [charg
e: #66 16s. 6d.).  *pcg All in the Wrong.  Sir John Restless-Lee Lewes; Sir W. B
elmont-L'Estrange; Young Belmont-Whitfield; Blanford-Fearon; Beverly-Lewis; Lady
 Restless-Mrs Mattocks; Tattle-Mrs Pitt; Clarissa-Mrs Morton; Belinda-Mrs Bulkle
y.  *aTrue-Blue.  As 4 Apr.  *aPoor Vulcan!.  As 7 Apr., but Mars-Reinhold (1st 
time).  *dEnd II: +The Poney Races=-Dagueville, Sga Tinte.  *cBenefit for $Reinh
old=.  +Morning Post=, 6 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Reinhold, No. 90, +Charlotte
-street=, +Rathbone-Place=.  Tickets delivered for +The Merchant of Venice= will
 be taken.  Receipts: #184 18s. (85.16; tickets: 99.2) (charge #69 15s. 6d.).  *
pking's L'Amore Artigiano.  As 10 Mar.  *dAs 31 Mar.  *b+La Surprize de Daphnis 
et Cephise=.  As 31 Mar.  *p22 dl The School for Scandal.  As 22 Oct. 1777.  *aT
he Quaker.  As 7 Oct. 1777.  *dEnd: as 9 Apr.  *cBenefit for the Author [of main
piece: $Richard Brinsley Sheridan=, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on
 the playbill].  Receipts: #259 9s. (250.7.0; 8.19.6; 0.2.6; tickets: none liste
d) (charge: #73 10s.).  *pcg Alexander the Great.  Alexander-Wroughton (1st appe
arance in that character); Clytus-Clarke; Lysimachus-Whitfield; Hephestion-Robso
n; Cassander-Fearon; Thessalus-Thompson; Polyperchon-Booth; Roxana-Mrs Jackson; 
Parisatis-Mrs Morton; Sysigambis-Mrs Poussin; Statira-Mrs Bulkley.  *aTrue-Blue.
  As 4 Apr.  *aThe Dutiful Deception.  [Principal Characters by Wilson, Whitfiel
d, Lee Lewes, Mrs Wilson, Mrs Bulkley.  [Cast from +London Chronicle=, 23 Apr.:%
 Sir Oliver Beaufort-Wilson; Beaufort-Whitfield; Harrison-Lee Lewes; Betty-Mrs W
ilson; Clarissa-Mrs Bulkley.  *d+New Dance=, +Allemande=-Aldridge, Mrs Bulkley. 
 *cBenefit for $Mrs Bulkley=.  Mainpiece: With the Triumphal Entry of +Alexander
= into Babylon.  [This was included in both subsequent performances.]  Afterpiec
e [1st time; C 1, author unknown.  Not in +Larpent MS=; not published; synopsis 
of plot in +London Chronicle=, 23 Apr.].  +Public Advertiser=, 9 Apr.: Tickets t
o be had of Mrs Bulkley, No. 10, +New Ormond-street=.  Receipts: #195 13s. 6d. [
166.16.6; tickets: 28.17.0) (charge: #73 7s.).  *p23 dl All for Love; or, The Wo
rld Well Lost.  Marc Antony-Lacy (1st appearance in that character); Dollabella-
Brereton; Alexis-Farren; Serapion-Chambers; Romans-Chaplin, Norris; Ventidius-Pa
lmer; Octavia-Mrs Robinson (1st appearance in that character); Charmion-Mrs John
ston; Iras-Mrs Colles; Cleopatra-Miss Younge.  *aA Christmas Tale.  As 4 Dec. 17
77, but The original +Prologue=-Palmer.  *dAs 22 Apr.  *cBenefit for $Palmer=.  
Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years.  [In afterpiece +Prologue= by $David Garrick
=.]  +Public Advertiser=, 7 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Palmer at his house in +B
ow-street=, +Bloomsbury=.  Receipts: #132 16s. 6d. (55.15.0; 26.3.6; 0.8.0; tick
ets: 50.10.0) (charge: #75 0s. 6d.).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 26 Mar.  *aThe Norwoo
d Gypsies.  As 9 Apr.  *dAs 29 Dec. 1777.  *cAccount-Book, 20 Apr.: Paid $Mrs Gr
een= in lieu of a Benefit #84.  Receipts: #204 13s. (203.9; 1.4).  *p24 dl The S
chool for Scandal.  As 22 Oct. 1777.  *aBelphegor.  As 16 Mar.  *dAs 9 Jan.  *cR
eceipts #224 (211.4.0; 12.13.6; 0.2.6).  *pcg The Merchant of Venice.  As 28 Jan
., but Jessica-Mrs Morton [i.e. formerly $Miss Dayes=]; Nerissa-Miss Ambrose; Po
rtia-Mrs Lessingham (1st appearance in that character).  *aLove a-la-Mode.  As 1
6 Oct. 1777.  *dEnd III: +The Irish Lilt=-Aldridge, Miss Valois; End IV: as 21 A
pr.  *cBenefit for $Mrs Lessingham=.  +Public Advertiser=, 10 Apr.: Tickets to b
e had of Mrs Lessingham at her house, the corner of +Percy-street=, +Rathbone Pl
ace=.  Receipts: #160 7s. (100.18; tickets: 59.9) (charge: #64 10s.).  *p25 dl L
ove in a Village.  As 2 Oct. 1777, but Hawthorn-Bannister; Young Meadows-Webster
 (1st appearance in that character); Hodge-Vernon (1st appearance in that charac
ter); Rosetta-Mrs Baddeley.  *aThe Quaker.  As 7 Oct. 1777.  *dEnd II: +The Sail
ors' Revels=-Blurton.  *cBenefit for $Bannister=.  +Public Advertiser=, 23 Apr.:
 Tickets to be had of Bannister at +Starzaker's=, the Upper End of +Bow-street=,
 +Covent Garden=.  Receipts: #246 12s. 6d. [77.0.0; 13.1.6; 0.10.0; tickets: 156
.1.0) (charge: #65 17s.).  *pcg The Wonder.  Don Felix-Wroughton; Col. Briton-Wh
itfield; Lissardo-Lee Lewes (their 1st appearance in those characters); Don Lope
z-Dunstall; Don Pedro-Quick; Frederick-Booth; Gibby (1st time)-Fearon; Isabella-
Miss Leeson; Flora-Mrs Pitt; Inis (1st time)-Mrs Wilson; Violante-Mrs Mattocks (
1st appearance in that character).  *aPoor Vulcan!.  As 7 Apr.  *dEnd: +The Iris
h Lilt=, as 24 Apr.  *cBenefit for $Miss Brown=.  Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 y
ears.  +Midas= [announced on playbill ff 24 Apr.] cannot be performed on account
 of $Wilson='s sudden illness.  Tickets delivered for +Love Finds the Way= will 
be admitted, that Opera being unavoidably postponed on account of $Mrs Farrell='
s Indisposition.  +Public Advertiser=, 3 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Brown, 
No. 10, +Bow-street=, +Covent Garden=.  Receipts: #150 18s. 6d. (89.17.6; ticket
s: 61.1.0) (charge: #67 7s. 6d.).  *pking's La Clemenza di Scipione.  As 4 Apr. 
 *dAs 4 Apr.  *p27 dl The Provok'd Wife.  Sir John Brute (for that night only)-K
ing; Constant-Brereton; Col. Bully (with a +song=)-Vernon; Lord Rake-Davies; Raz
or-Baddeley; Justice-Chaplin; Watchmen-Wright, Burton; Constable-Wrighten; Heart
free-Bensley; Lady Fanciful-Miss Pope; Belinda-Miss Hopkins; Mademoiselle-Miss P
. Hopkins (their 1st appearance in those characters); Lady Brute-Miss Younge.  *
aThe Jubilee.  *cBenefit for $Hopkins=, prompter, and $Mrs Hopkins=.  Mainpiece:
 Not acted these 2 years.  Afterpiece: A Dramatic Entertainment (in two parts) o
f Singing, Dancing and Dialogue in Honour of $Shakespeare=.  In which a Pageant.
  The Music by $Dibdin=.  +Public Advertiser=, 10 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Hop
kins, No. 7, +Little Russel-street=, +Covent Garden=.  Receipts: #280 7s. (169.5
; 21.0; 1.2; tickets: 89.0) (charge: #64 4s.).  *pcg Tancred and Sigismunda.  As
 7 Mar., but Tancred-Wroughton (1st appearance in that character).  *aThe Little
 French Lawyer.  [Characters by Quick, Whitfield, Thompson, Booth, Lee Lewes, L'
Estrange, Fearon, Wewitzer, Mrs Poussin, Mrs Willems, Mrs Lessingham.  [Cast fro
m text ($J. Bell=, 1778):% Le Writ-Quick; Dupre-Whitfield; Verdone-Thompson; Bea
upre-Booth; Mellefont-[read by%Lee Lewes [in text: $Death=]; Vertaign-L'Estrange
; Champernel-Fearon; Sampson-Wewitzer [in text: $Wilson=]; Agnes-Mrs Poussin; Vi
letta-Mrs Willems; Lamira-Mrs Lessingham.  *dEnd monologue: +The Poney Races=, a
s 21 Apr.  *e[+Monologue=.%  End: +Cunning Isaac will relate his Escape from the
 Duenna= [with a new +song=]-Quick.  *cBenefit for $Quick=.  Afterpiece 1st time
; F 2, by $Ursula Agnes Booth=, based on the same, by $John Fletcher= and $Phili
p Massinger=.  The playbill lists $Death= in place of $Lee Lewes=, but he 'Was n
ot to be found...$Hull= begged permission for Lee Lewes to read Death's part in 
his own undress, which [was] granted" (+London Chronicle=, 28 Apr.).].  Books of
 the Entertainment to be had at the Theatre.  +Public Advertiser=, 30 Mar.: Tick
ets to be had of Quick, No. 15, +Drury-lane=.  Receipts: #262 2s. (157.2; ticket
s: 105.0) (charge: #64 10s.).  *p28 dl The Runaway.  As 10 Jan., but Susan-Mrs W
righten.  *aThe Waterman.  As 19 Nov. 1777.  *dEnd III: as 25 Apr.  *sBetween Ac
ts: [her two favorite +Vauxhall= songs% +He's Aye Kissing Me=, +Tally Ho!=-Mrs W
righten.  *cBenefit for $Mrs Wrighten=.  +Morning Post=, 6 Apr.: Tickets to be h
ad of Mrs Wrighten, No. 56, +Drury-lane=.  +The Battle of Hastings= [announced o
n playbill of 27 Apr.] is obliged to be deferred on account of $Mrs Yates=' Indi
sposition.  Tickets delivered for the Battle of Hastings will be taken.  Receipt
s: #288 10s. 6d. (74.0.0; 7.7.0; 0.8.6; tickets: 206.15.0) (charge: #66 2s.).  A
ccount-Book totals the charge as follows: Ord[inary] Charge #64 4s.; Nosegay 1s.
 6d.; Tea for three 1s. 6d.; Negus 1s. 2d.; Bread & Cheese 4d.; K[ettle] D[rum] 
5s.; 19 Carp[enter]s #1 8s. 6d.  *pcg Lionel and Clarissa.  As 19 Mar., but Col.
 Oldboy-Booth (1st appearance in that character); Lady Mary Oldboy-Mrs Pitt; Jen
ny-Mrs Hunt (1st appearance in that character).  *aThe Englishman in Paris.  As 
21 Nov. 1777.  *dEnd: +The Poney Races=, as 21 Apr.; In afterpiece: +Minuet=, as
 21 Nov. 1777.  *cBenefit for $Dunstall=.  +Morning Chronicle=, 4 Apr.: Tickets 
to be had of Dunstall, +Little Queen-street=, +Lincoln's-Inn-Fields=.  Receipts:
 #237 3s. 6d. (79.15.6; tickets: 157.8.0) [charge: #64 5s.).  *pking's La Vera C
ostanza.  As 20 Jan.  *dEnd I: +Divertisement=, as 7 Feb.; End II: +Les Bohemien
s=, as 16 Dec. 1777; End Opera: +Masquerade Dance=, as 3 Mar  +Minuet de la Cour
=, as 3 Mar.; +Provencal=, as 3 Mar.; +Allemande a la Strasbourgoise=, as 3 Mar.
  *p29 dl The School for Scandal.  As 22 Oct. 1777.  *aQueen Mab.  As 1 Jan.  *c
Receipts: #244 15s. 6d. (232.13.0; 11.19.0; 0.3.6).  *pcg Know Your Own Mind.  A
s 3 Feb., but Millamour-Whitfield (1st appearance in that character); Sir Harry 
Lizard (1st time)-Robson; Lady Jane-Mrs Morton.  *aMother Shipton.  As 23 Feb., 
but Clown (for that night only)-Grimaldi.  *e[+Monologue.=%As 27 Apr.  *cBenefit
 for $Lee Lewes=.  +Public Advertiser=, 23 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Lee Lewes,
 +Charlotte-street=, +Rathbone Place=.  Receipts: #205 6s. (82.16; tickets: 122.
10) (charge: #66 9s. 6d.).  *phay The Country Lasses; or, The Custom of the Mano
r.  Modely-Cooke; Sir John English-Bailey; Lurcher (1st time)-Manstead; Freehold
-Bowles; Carbuncle-Kenny; Sneak-Benson; Vulture-Massey; Doublejugg-Thompson; Sha
cklefigure-Roche; Heartwell-Swendall; Flora-Mrs Lefevre; Aura (with the Original
 +Epilogue=)-Mrs Dawes.  *aAll the World's a Stage.  Principal Characters-Silves
ter, Bailey, Kenny, Bowles, Thompson, Manstead, Mrs Bailey, Mrs Dawes.  [For par
ts see +dl=, 7 Apr. 1777.]  *sI: [the original% +Sheep@shearing Song=-the Charac
ters.  *dIn I: +Country Dance=-the Characters; End: +Hornpipe=-a Gentleman.  *cB
y Authority [of the +Lord Chamberlain=].  Benefit for $Silvester= and $Rae=.  Ma
inpiece: Not acted these 6 years.Afterpiece: Never performed here.  Tickets deli
vered for +The Earl of Essex= will be admitted.  Tickets to be had of Silvester 
at $Mrs Hobbe's=, +Stanhope-street=, +Clare Market=; at +Iver's Wine Vaults=, No
. 384, +Oxford-street=; of Rae, No. 35, +Great Pultney-street=, +Golden-square=.
  *p30 dl Macbeth.  As 5 Jan., but Lady Macbeth-Mrs Robinson (1st appearance in 
that character).  *aThe Lucky Escape.  [Principal Characters by Vernon, Waldron,
 Dodd, Miss Collett, Mrs Wrighten.  [Cast from Songs (Printed for the Author [17
78]):% Edwin-Vernon; Sir Toby Stedfast-Waldron; Venture-Dodd; Maria-Miss Collett
; Letitia-Mrs Wrighten.  *sAs 31 Mar.  *cBenefit for $Mrs Robinson=.  +Morning C
hronicle=, 6 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Robinson, at +Parviso's=, No. 114, +
Long acre=.  Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2, by $Mary Robinson=.  +Larpent MS 447=; 
not published]: The Music chiefly compiled.  Tickets delivered for +King Lear= w
ill be taken.  Books of the Performances to be had at the Theatre.  Receipts: #1
53 17s. 6d. (57.8.0; 21.3.6; 0.10.0: tickets: 74.16.0) (charge: #78 11s. 6d.).  
*pcg The Grecian Daughter.  As 13 Nov. 1777, but Philotas-Whitfield.  *aThe Norw
ood Gypsies.  As 9 Apr.  *dAs 29 Dec. 1777.  *cTickets delivered by $Messink= an
d $Miss Reynolds= for +The Orphan= will be admitted this Evening.  [Afterpiece i
n place of +The Little French Lawyer=, announced on playbill of 29 Apr.]  Receip
ts: #139 2s. (121.0; 3.0; tickets: 15.2).  *phay The Clandestine Marriage.  Lord
 Ogleby-Hertford (1st appearance); Sterling-Massey; Sir John Melvil-West; Lovewe
ll-Cooke; Brush-Creswick; Canton-Holtom; Miss Sterling-Mrs Robinson; Fanny-Mrs D
awes; Betty-Mrs West; Mrs Heidelberg-Mrs Roach; +Prologue= by Hertford-West; +Ep
ilogue=-Creswick [as 23 Mar%.  *aThe Old Maid.  Clerimont-Creswick; Mr Harlowe-K
enny; Captain Cape-West; Mrs Harlowe-Mrs West; Miss Harlowe-Mrs Roach.  *sEnd II
I: a new +Cantata=[, suitable to the occasion, composed by $Barthelemon=,%-Mrs B
arthelemon.  *mEnd: +concerto= on the violin-Barthelemon; [in which% +Grammacree
= [with variations%-.  *cBy Authority [of the +Lord Chamberlain=].  Benefit for 
the +Westminster New Lying-In Hospital=.  *pking's La Buona Figliuola.  As 2 Apr
.  *dEnd I: +Serious Ballet=, as 20 Jan.; End II: +Masquerade Dance=, as 3 Mar.;
 +Minuet de la Cour and Gavot=, as 3 Mar.; +Provencal=, as 3 Mar.; +Allemande a 
la Strasbourgoise=, as 3 Mar.; End Opera: +La Serenade Interrompuee=, as 24 Feb.
  *cBenefit for $Mlle Baccelli=.  Tickets to be had of Mlle Baccelli at +Chanu's
=, No. 46, +Rupert-street=, +Leicester-fields=.  *p5 1 dl The Clandestine Marria
ge.  As 8 Dec. 1777, but Betty-Miss Hopkins.  *aThe Crisis; or, Love and Fear.  
[Principal Characters by Webster, Bannister, Holcroft, Dodd, Mrs Wrighten, Mrs B
addeley.  [Cast from +Morning Chronicle=, 2 May:% Captain Melford-Webster; Rusta
n-Bannister; Orak-Holcroft; Panic-Dodd; Eliza-Mrs Wrighten; Sophia-Mrs Baddeley.
  *dAs 9 Jan.  *cBenefit for $the Miss Hopkins'=.  Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2 (?
), by $Thomas Holcroft=.  Not in +Larpent MS=; not published]: The Music [by $Wi
lliam Shield= (+European Magazine=, Jan. 1782, p.59)] entirely new.  +Public Adv
ertiser=, 15 Apr.  Tickets to be had of the Miss Hopkins', No. 7, +Little Russel
-street=, +Covent Garden=.  Receipts: #129 8s. 6d. (61.15.0; 24.5.6; 0.1.0; tick
ets: 43.7.0) (charge: #66 11s. 6d.).  *pcg The Beggar's Opera.  As 27 Oct. 1777,
 but Lucy-Mrs Morton; Polly-A Young Lady (pupil of the late $Dr Arne=; 1st appea
rance in that character [probably $Miss Twist=]).  *aComus.  As 30 Oct. 1777, bu
t 1st Bacchant-Mrs Morton; Sabrina, Pastoral Nymph-A Young Lady [unidentified]. 
 *d+Hornpipe=, as 17 Oct. 1777; End: +The Poney Races=, as 21 Apr.  *cBenefit fo
r $Mrs Farrell=.  +Public Advertiser=, 9 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Farrell,
 +Bow-street=, +Covent Garden=.  Receipts: #266 3s. 6d. (135.1.6; tickets: 131.2
.0) (charge: #105).  *p2 dl Love in a Village.  As 2 Oct. 1777, but Young Meadow
s-Mattocks (of +cg=).  *aThe Irish Widow.  Whittle-Parsons; Sir Patrick O'Neale-
Moody; Nephew-Davies; Bates-Baddeley; Thomas-Burton; Kecksey-Dodd; Widow Brady (
with an +Epilogue Song=)-Miss Walpole (1st appearance in that character).  *dEnd
 II: +The Minuet de la Cour=, as 11 Nov. 1777; End: +Hornpipe=-Miss Walpole; End
 I afterpiece: +The Sailors' Revels=, as 25 Apr.  *cBenefit for $Miss Walpole=. 
 +Public Advertiser=, 15 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Walpole, No. 150, +Drur
y-lane=.  Receipts: #153 5s. (56.19; 26.13; 0.12; tickets: 69.1) (charge: #105).
    *pcg The Beggar's Opera.  As 1 May.  *aThe Commissary.  As 24 Sept. 1777.  *
dEnd I: [a new% +Comic Dance=-Langrish, Master Jackson, Miss Parish, Miss Lings 
(pupils of $Aldridge=); End II:  [+The Cricket@Match=% [sic]+The Cricketters=, a
s 28 Jan.; [in which part of the celebrated% +Tambourine Dance=-Aldridge[, origi
nally composed and danced by him%; III: +Hornpipe=, as 17 Oct. 1777.  *bEnd: [a 
new, Grand Marine Pantomimical Dance, suited to the times,% +The Sailors' Revels
 at Portsmouth; or, British Glory=.  [in which an accurate view of the Isle of W
ight and the Fleet now riding at Spithead.  Principal Characters:% Bobby Flip th
e Boatswain-Aldridge; Powder Monkey-Master Jackson; Mat Mizen-Langrish; Molly To
pknot-Miss Besford; Susan Constant-Miss Valois; [with variety of other Character
s, and% +Hornpipe Dancing=-[in an entire new stile%.  *cBenefit for $Aldridge=. 
 Tickets delivered for +Love in a Village= [announced on playbill of 1 May] will
 be admitted.  +Public Advertiser=, 27 Apr.: Tickets to be had of $Aldridge= at 
the +Carpet Warehouse=, +Piazza=, +Covent Garden=.  Receipts: #199 16s. [132.2; 
tickets: 67.14) [charge: #67 5s.).  *pking's La Clemenza di Scipione.  As 4 Apr.
  *dAs 4 Apr.  *b+La Surprize de Daphnis et Cephise=.  As 4 Apr.  *p4 dl Alexand
er the Great.  As 30 Mar., but Lysimachus-Farren; Roxana-Miss Sherry (1st appear
ance in that character).  *aBon Ton.  As 31 Oct. 1777.  *dEnd: +The Sailors' Rev
els=, as 25 Apr.  *cBenefit for $Farren= and $Miss Sherry=.  Mainpiece: With the
 +grand Triumphal Entry=.  Tickets delivered by $Thompson= will be taken.  +Publ
ic Advertiser=, 22 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Farren at +Rumler's=, +Clare-court
=, +Drury-lane=; of Miss Sherry at +Nichol's=, Baker, +Bridges-street=, +Covent 
Garden=.  Receipts: #265 7s. (84.5; 15.9; 0.1; tickets: 165.12) (charge: #75 12s
. 6d.).  *pcg Love in a Village.  See 6 Apr.  *aThe Norwood Gypsies.  As 9 Apr. 
 *dAs 29 Dec. 1777.  *c[The playbill announces +The Duenna=, with The Duenna (1s
t time)-$Mrs Pitt= [see 25 May].  In the Account-Book this is deleted, and +Love
 in a Village= substituted.]  Receipts: #122 11s. (121.14; 0.17).  *p5 dl A Scho
ol for Fathers.  As 8 Jan., but Sir John Flowerdale-Hurst (1st appearance in tha
t character).  *aThe Lyar.  Young Wilding-Palmer; Old Wilding (1st time)-Chamber
s; Sir James Elliot-Davies; Papillion-Burton; Miss Godfrey-Mrs Colles; Kitty-Mrs
 Johnston; Miss Grantham-Mrs Davies.  *dAs 4 May.  *cBenefit for $Hurst= and $Bu
rton=.  Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years.  +Public Advertiser=, 25 Apr.: Tick
ets to be had of Hurst at his house, No. 374, +Strand=; of Burton, +Duke's-court
=, +Bow-street=, +Covent Garden=.  Receipts: #209 15s. (42.11.0: 11.16.6; 0.2.6;
 tickets: 155.5.0) (charge: #65 3s.).  *pcg The British Heroine.  [Characters by
 Wroughton, Hull, Fearon, Robson, L'Estrange, Thompson, Clarke, Whitfield, Jacks
on, Miss Morris, Mrs Jackson.  [Cast from +Town and Country Magazine=, May 1778,
 p.231:% Albertus-Wroughton; Ethelwin-Hull; Cardic-Fearon; Belardo-Robson; Barze
rig-L'Estrange; Elmar-Thompson; Ruedig-Clarke; Rinaldo-Whitfield; Hareb-Jackson;
 Edgar-Miss Morris; Townsman-Bates; Berner-Cushing; Gerilda-Mrs Jackson; +Prolog
ue=-Whitfield; +Epilogue=-Lee Lewes.  *aMidas.  As 29 Jan., but Midas-A Gentlema
n (1st appearance [$Robinson=]); Jupiter-_; Juno-_.  *e[+Monologue=.%End: +Tony 
Lumpkin's Ramble through London=-Quick.  *cBenefit for $Mrs Jackson=.  Mainpiece
 [1st time in +London=; T 5, by $John Jackson=, 1st acted at $Crow Street Theatr
e, Dublin=, 13 Jan. 1777, as +Gerilda=.  +Larpent MS 448=, which also lists the 
following unassigned parts: +Halard=r, +Bragances=r, +Setoc=r, +Bruno=r, +Grinda
l=r, +Clara=r.  Authors of Prologue and Epilogue unknown].  [$Robinson=, who is 
identified in +Morning Chronicle=, 6 May, was from the $Smock Alley Theatre, Dub
lin=.]  Account-Book, 4 May: Paid $Hull= in lieu of a Benefit #100.  +Public Adv
ertiser=, 18 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Jackson, +Great Piazza=, +Covent Gar
den=.  Receipts: #188 15s. 6d. (99.19.6; tickets: 88.16.0) (charge: #105).  *pki
ng's L'Amore Soldato.  [Principal Characters by Jermoli, Rossi, Coppola, Micheli
, Sga Jermoli, Sga Prudom, Sga Todi. Cast from libretto ($T. Cadell=, 1778):% Do
n Faustino-Guglielmo Jermoli; Don Anselmo-Rossi; Pasquino-Micheli; Lisandrina-Sg
a Jermoli; Semplicina-Sga Prudom; Ottavina-Sga Todi; Coppola [is unassigned%.  *
dAs 31 Mar.[End I: +Masquerade Dance=; End II: +La Surprize de Daphnis et Cephis
e=; End Opera: +La Serenade Interrompuee=.%  *bEnd II: +La Surprize de Daphnis e
t Cephise=.  As 31 Mar.  *cA Comic Opera [1st time; COM 3, by $Antonio Andrei=].
  The Music entirely new by $Sacchini=.  *p6 dl Much Ado about Nothing.  As 10 F
eb.  *aThe Jubilee.  As 27 Apr.  *cReceipts: #168 12s. (127.0.0; 41.9.6; 0.2.6).
  *pcg Macbeth.  Macbeth-Aickin (1st appearance in that character); Macduff-Clar
ke; Duncan-Hull; Malcolm-Whitfield; Banquo-Wroughton; Lenox-L'Estrange; Seyton-T
hompson; Hecate-Reinhold; Witches-Dunstall, Stevens, Quick; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Jac
kson [1st appearance in that character].  *aSt. Patrick's Day.  As 3 Nov. 1777. 
 *sVocal Parts-Mattocks, Mahon, Baker, Fox, Miss Brown, Mrs Morton, Mrs Willems,
 Miss Valois, Miss Green.  *cTickets delivered by the performers in the orchestr
a, $Delpini=, $Brandon=, $Stevens= and $Guard= will be taken.  [Account-Book lis
ts in boxes 349 tickets, in pit 511, in galleries 682-a total of 1542.]  Receipt
s: #277 11s. (160.2; 1.8; tickets: 116.1).  *p7 dl The School for Scandal.  As 2
2 Oct. 1777.  *aThe Quaker.  As 7 Oct. 1777.  *cBenefit for a Fund for the Relie
f of those who from their Infirmities shall be obliged to retire from the Stage.
  Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes.  Ladies and Gentlemen are request
ed to come early to prevent Confusion, and to send their Servants by Five o'Cloc
k to keep the Places.  Receipts: #278 12s. 6d. (157.10.0; 9.18.0; 0.4.6; tickets
: 111.0.0) (charge: #60 7s. 4d.).  *pcg Love Makes a Man.  As 25 Feb., but Clodi
o-Lee Lewes (1st appearence in that character); Sancho-Stevens; Governor-Fearon.
  *aThe Commissary.  As 24 Sept. 1777, but Young Loveit-Robson.  *dEnd: +The Pon
ey Races=, as 21 Apr.  *cTickets delivered by $Miss Ambrose=, $Sga Tinte= and $B
ranson= will be admitted this Evening.  Receipts: #201 11s. (127.6.6; 2.9.6; tic
kets: 71.15.0).  *p8 dl King Richard the Third.  As 11 Oct. 1777, but King Richa
rd-Smith; Buckingham-Aickin; Lord Mayor-Chambers.  *aThe Waterman.  As 19 Nov. 1
777.  *dEnd II: +Minuet de la Cour=-the Miss Stageldoirs; End: +Double Hornpipe=
-Master Staples (scholar of $Blurton=; 2nd appearance), Miss Stageldoirs; End I 
afterpiece: +The Irish Fair=-Blurton, Mrs Sutton [1st appearance this season].  
*cBenefit for $Lamash=, $Legg= & $Blurton=.  +Twelfth Night= [announced on playb
ill of 7 May] is oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of the Indisposition of 2 pri
ncipal performers.  Tickets delivered for Twelfth Night by $the Miss Stageldoirs
= and $Mrs Pulley= will be taken.  Receipts: #225 5s. 6d. (30.0.0; 10.6.6; 0.1.0
; tickets: 184.18.0) (charge: #67 11s. 6d.).  *pcg Love Finds the Way.  As 18 No
v. 1777.  *aThe Dutiful Deception.  As 22 Apr.  *dAs 27 Apr.  *e[+Monologue=.% E
nd: +Don Jerome's Trip to England= (with a +song= in character) (1st time)-Wilso
n.  *cBenefit for $Wilson=.  +Public Advertiser=, 21 Apr.: Tickets to be had of 
Wilson at the +Tilt-yard Coffee-house=, +Horse Guards=.  Receipts: #167 8s. 6d. 
[60.15.6; tickets: 106.13.0) (charge: #64 10s.).  *p9 dl Cymon.  As 20 Jan., but
 Dorus-Waldron; Sylvia-Miss Abrams (1st appearance in that character).  *aThe Ir
ish Widow.  As 2 May.  *dEnd I afterpiece: +The Irish Fair=, as 8 May.  *cBenefi
t for $Waldron= and $Miss Abrams=.  +Public Advertiser=, 8 May: Tickets to be ha
d of Waldron, No. 16, +Glanville-street=, +Rathbone Place=; of Miss Abrams, +Lit
tle Bridges-street=, +Drury-lane=.  Receipts: #182 0s. 6d. [63.6.0; 23.15.0; 0.2
.6; tickets: 94.17.0) (charge: #74 3s. 6d.).  *pcg Oroonoko.  Oroonoko-Peile [1s
t appearance in that character]; Governor-Whitfield; Blandford-Hull; Captain Dri
ver-Dunstall; Stanmore-Robson; Jack Stanmore-Booth; Hotman-L'Estrange; Daniel-Qu
ick; Aboan-Aickin; Charlotte Weldon-Miss Ambrose; Lucy-Mrs Whitfield; Widow Lack
it-Mrs Pitt; Imoinda-Mrs Jackson.  *aThe Upholsterer.  As 17 Nov. 1777, but Term
agant-Mrs Pitt.  *dEnd II: [new dance,% +The Arts and Sciences=-Dagueville, Dagu
eville's pupils; End: [new pantomimical dance,% +The Russian Light Infantry and 
Cossack Camp=-Dagueville, Sga Tinte, Sga Vidini (1st appearance this season), fi
fty more performers.  *sEnd IV: a +song=-Mrs Farrell.  *cBenefit for $Peile=. Ma
inpiece: Not acted these 6 years.  Tickets delivered by $Dagueville= will be tak
en.  +Public Advertiser=, 1 May and 27 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Peile at his h
ouse in +North-street=, +Westminster=; of Dagueville, +Bow-street=, +Covent Gard
en=.  Receipts: #149 2s. 6d. (56.14.6; tickets: 92.8.0) (charge: #105).  *pking'
s La Clemenza di Scipione.  As 4 Apr.  *dAs 4 Apr.  *b+La Surprize de Daphnis et
 Cephise=.  As 4 Apr.  *p11 dl The Beggar's Opera.  As 17 Nov. 1777, but Filch-C
arpenter; Mat o' th' Mint-Wright.  *aQueen Mab.  As 1 Jan.  *dEnd II: +Minuet de
 la Cour=, as 8 May.  *cBenefit for $Wright=, $Carpenter= & $Butler=.  +Public A
dvertiser=, 5 May: Tickets to be had of Carpenter at +Sutton's=, No. 11, +Little
 Russel-street=, +Covent Garden=; of Butler, next Door to the Theatre.  Receipts
: #283 15s. 6d. (42.2.0; 7.2.6; 0.2.0; tickets: 234.9.0) (charge: #74 14s.).  *p
cg King Henry the Fifth; or, The Conquest of France.  King Henry (1st time)-Wrou
ghton; Archbishop of Canterbury-Hull; Exeter-L'Estrange; Gower-Bowles; Williams-
Booth; Capt. Fluellin-Wilson; Burgundy-Robson; French Soldier-Wewitzer; Capt. Ja
my-Dunstall; Bishop of Ely-Thompson; Salisbury-Cushing; Capt. MacMorris-Mahon; B
ardolph-Fox; Nym-Jones; Pistol-Quick; King of France-Fearon; Dauphin-Whitfield; 
Boy-Miss Francis; Mountjoy-Baker; High Constable-Clarke; Westmoreland-Smith; Q. 
of France-Mrs Poussin; Hostess-Mrs Pitt; Catherine-Mrs Mattocks; Original +Choru
s=-Hull.  *aPoor Vulcan!  As 7 Apr.  *sEnd I: [new song,% +The Cottage on the la
wn= (composed by $Michael? Arne=)-Mrs Farrell.  *bEnd Procession: +The Sailors' 
Revels at Portsmouth=.  As 2 May.  *cBenefit for $Wild=, prompter.  Mainpiece: N
ot acted these 7 years [acted 6 Jan. 1773].  End of mainpiece: +The Procession f
rom Westminster Abbey Coronation=.  +Public Advertiser=, 8 May: Tickets to be ha
d of Wild at his house, No. 20, +Crown-court=, +Bow-street=.  Receipts: #224 18s
. (146.1; tickets: 78.17) [charge: #72 6s.).  *p12 dl The Rivals.  As 12 Mar., b
ut Julia-Miss Hopkins.  *aThe Irish Widow.  As 2 May.  *dEnd I afterpiece: +Minu
et de la Cour=, as 8 May.  *cBenefit for $Fosbrook=, box-book keeper.  Receipts:
 #298 9s. 6d. (40.14.0; 10.2.6; 1.0.0; tickets: 246.13.0) (charge: #105).  *pcg 
The Maid of the Mill.  As 26 Feb., but Sir H. Sycamore-Wilson; Giles-Reinhold; M
ervin-Mahon; Ralph-Quick; Theodosia-Mrs Morton [i.e. formerly $Miss Dayes=].  *a
Mother Shipton.  As 23 Feb.  *dAs 26 Sept. 1777.  *cTickets delivered by $Smith=
, $Bowles=, $Ledger=, $Mrs Morris=, $Miss Bassan= and $Miss Matthews= for +Love 
in a Village= will be admitted this Evening.  Receipts: #165 16s. 6d. (124.9.6; 
0.12.0; tickets: 40.15.0).  *pking's L'Amore Soldato.  As 5 May.  *dEnd I: +Masq
uerade Dance=, as 3 Mar.; +Minuet de la Cour and Gavot=, as 3 Mar.; +Provencal=,
 as 3 Mar.; +Allemande a la Strasbourgoise=, as 3 Mar.; End II: +Les Bohemiens=,
 as 16 Dec. 1777; End Opera: +Serious Ballet=, as 20 Jan.  *cThe Last Night of t
he Subscription.  *p13 dl The Clandestine Marriage.  As 8 Dec. 1777.  *aQueen Ma
b.  As 1 Jan.  *dEnd I: +Minuet de la Cour=, as 8 May; End IV: +Rural Grace=, as
 13 Jan.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  Receipts: #247 14s. 6d. [234.15.0;
 12.11.0; 0.8.6).  *pcg The Rival Queens; or, The Death of Alexander the Great. 
 As 22 Apr., but Roxana-Mrs Whitfield (1st appearance in that character).  *aTru
e-Blue.  As 4 Apr.  *aThe Commissary.  As 7 May, but Gruel-Thompson; La Fleur-We
witzer.  *dEnd 2nd piece: +The Poney Races=, as 21 Apr.  *sAs 11 May.  *cBenefit
 for $Whitfield= and $Mrs Pitt=.  [2nd piece in place of +The Ephesian Matron=, 
announced on playbill of 12 May.]  +Public Advertiser=, 2 May: Tickets to be had
 of Whitfield, No. 14, +Crown-court=, +Bow-street=, +Covent Garden=.  Receipts: 
#144 15s. [51.14; tickets: 93.1) [charge: #74 7s.).  *p14 dl As You Like It.  As
 3 Dec. 1777, but Le Beau-Philimore.  *aThe Irish Widow.  As 2 May.  *dAs 12 May
.  *sEnd I: +He's Aye Kissing Me=, as 28 Apr.; End II: [the much-admir'd song in
 +The Milesian= being a description of a Naval Engagement% +Stand to your guns m
y hearts of oak=-Bannister; In V: +song=, as 3 Dec. 1777.  *cBenefit for $Mrs Br
adshaw=, $Mrs Love= & $Mrs Johnston=.  Tickets delivered for +The Plain Dealer= 
will be taken.  +Public Advertiser=, 13 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Bradshaw a
t $Mrs Norolk's=, Glazier, +Little Russel-street=, +Covent Garden=; of Mrs Love,
 +Gerrard-street=, +Soho=; of Mrs Johnston, No. 97, +Drury-lane=.  Receipts: #13
2 16s. (32.3; 20.13; 1.4; tickets: 78.16) (charge: #65 15s.).  *pcg The Beggar's
 Opera.  As 29 Nov. 1777, but Lucy-Mrs Morton [i.e. formerly $Miss Dayes=].  *aT
he Norwood Gypsies.  As 29 Dec. 1777, but Mrs Morton [see above].  *dIn afterpie
ce: As 29 Dec. 1777; In: +Hornpipe=, as 17 Oct. 1777.  *c[Afterpiece in place of
 +The Dutiful Deception=, announced on playbill of 13 May.]  Tickets delivered b
y $Thompson=, $Cushing=, $Jones=, $Bates=, $Miss Green=, $Mrs Sharp= and the $Wi
dow Emery= [Account-Book adds $Whittington=] will be admitted this Evening.  Rec
eipts: #184 19s. (127.7; 1.13; tickets: 55.19).  *p15 dl The Tempest.  As 26 Dec
. 1777, but Chorus of Spirits-Mrs +Gaudry.  *aBon Ton.  As 31 Oct. 1777, but Col
. Tivy-Norris.  *dIV: +New Dance=, as 25 Nov. 1777; End I afterpiece: +The Minue
t de la Cour=, as 11 Nov. 1777.  *sIn: +He's Aye Kissing Me=, as 28 Apr.  *cBene
fit for $Gaudry=, $Griffiths=, $Norris= & $Miss Armstrong=.  Receipts: #211 12s.
 (31.15; 11.11; 0.10; tickets: 167.16) (charge: #67 19s.).  *pcg Edward the Blac
k Prince; or, The Battle of Poictiers.  Edward-Wroughton; Arnold-Whitfield; Lord
 Audley-Hull; Earl of Salisbury-Mahon; Cardinal Perigort-Fearon; King John-L'Est
range; Dauphin-Robson; Duke of Athens-Booth; Charney-Thompson; Ribemont-Aickin; 
Mariana-Mrs Jackson.  *aMother Shipton.  As 23 Feb., but Harlequin-Rayner.  *bEn
d: +The Sailors' Revels at Portsmouth=.  As 11 May.  *sAs 11 May.  *cBenefit for
 $Booth=, $Fearon= & $L'Estrange=.  Mainpiece: Never perform'd here.[Afterpiece 
in place of +The Englishman in Paris=, announced on playbill of 14 May.]  Receip
ts: !173 16s. 6d. (60.14.6; tickets: 113.2.0) [charge: #105).  *p16 dl The Jealo
us Wife.  As 23 Sept. 1777, but Sir Harry Beagle-Palmer; Harriet-Mrs Colles (1st
 appearance in that character).  *aThe Deserter.  As 23 Sept. 1777, but Simkin-F
awcett; Louisa-Miss Collett.  *cBenefit for $Chambers=, $Fawcett= & $Mrs Colles=
.  Receipts: #241 18s. (31.13.0; 11.12.6; 0.10.6; tickets: 198.2.0) (charge: #10
5).  *pcg She Stoops to Conquer.  As 5 Dec. 1777, but Marlow-Wroughton; Mrs Hard
castle (1st time)-Mrs Pitt; Miss Neville-Miss Leeson.  *aPoor Vulcan!.  As 7 Apr
.  *dEnd II: +New Dance=-; [in which the% +Minuet de la Cour=, +Gavot=-Harris, M
iss Valois; End IV: +Le Minuet a Quatre=-Dumay, Holloway, Miss Matthews, Miss Ro
ss; [with a variety of new% +Quadrilles=-.  *bEnd: +The Sailors' Revels at Ports
mouth=.  As 2 May.  *cBenefit for $Dumay=, $Holloway= & $Harris=.  Tickets deliv
ered for Know Your Own Mind will be taken.  +Public Advertiser=, 9 May: Tickets 
to be had of Dumay, +Sand-hill=, +Lamb's Conduit Fields=, behind the +Foundling 
Hospital=; of Holloway, +Great Maddox-street=, +Hanover-square=; of Harris, No. 
12, +Duke's-court=, +Bow-street=, +Covent Garden=.  Receipts: #251 15s. (56.11; 
tickets: 195.4) (charge: #105).  *pking's La Clemenza di Scipione.  As 4 Apr.  *
dAs 4 Apr.  *b+La Surprize de Daphnis et Cephise=.  As 4 Apr.  *p18 dl The Old B
atchelor.  As 9 Oct. 1777.  *aThe Irish Widow.  As 2 May, but Whittle-Waldron.  
*dEnd II: +Hornpipe=-Walker; End I afterpiece: +Minuet de la Cour=, as 12 May.  
*sAs 15 May.  *e[+Monologue=.% End: +Bucks have at ye All=-R. Palmer.  *cBenefit
 for $R. Palmer=, $Harwood=, $Walker= & $Kirk=, housekeeper.  Receipts: #287 5s.
 (27.17; 4.18; 0.6; tickets: 254.4) (charge: #64 4s.).  *pcg King Henry the Fift
h.  As 11 May. [+Chorus= as 11 May.%  *aMother Shipton.  As 15 May.  *sAs 11 May
.  *cBenefit 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).  *phay The Female Chevalier.  [Principal 
Characters by Palmer, Aickin, Baddeley, R. Palmer, Massey, Davis, Kenny, Silvest
er, Parsons, Miss Sherry, Mrs Love, Miss Walton, Mrs Greville.  [Cast from +Lond
on Chronicle=, 20 May:% Sir Harry Freelove-Palmer; Ned Winworth-Aickin; Servants
-Baddeley, Massey, Davis, Kenny, Silvester; Young Upstart-R. Palmer; Mr Stockwel
l-Parsons; Mrs Upstart-Miss Sherry; Landlady-Mrs Love; Mademoiselle-Miss Walton;
 Belinda-Mrs Greville; [The occasional% +Prologue= [on Opening the Theatre, with
 Alterations,%-Palmer.  *aPiety in Pattens.  Butler-Parsons; The Squire-Lamash; 
Mrs Candy-Mrs Love; Polly Pattens-Mrs Jewell.  *dEnd I: +The Merry Lasses=-(see 
29 May); End: +Provencalle Dance=-Master and Miss Byrn.  *cMainpiece: Altered fr
om [+The Artful Wife=, by $William? Taverner=.  [1st time; C 3, by $George Colma
n elder=.  Not in +Larpent MS=; not published; synopsis of plot in +London Chron
icle=, 20 May.  +Public Advertiser=, 19 May, notes that the Prologue was the sam
e as that spoken on 15 May 1777.  Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Galler
y 1s.  Servants to keep Places are to be at the door in +Suffolk-street= by Five
 o'clock.  The Doors to be opened at 6:00.  To begin at 7:00 [same throughout se
ason].  On account of the Performers employed at other Theatres the second Night
 of Representation cannot be till Thursday, the 21st inst.  [On this night, the 
18th, $Baddeley='s name is in the playbills at both +dl= and +hay=.]  *p19 dl Th
e Rivals.  As 12 May.  *aThe Waterman.  As 19 Nov. 1777.  *e[+Monologue=.% End: 
+Bucks have at ye All=[; or, +The Picture of a Playhouse=%-Master Pulley.  *cBen
efit for $Holcroft=, $Miss Field= & $Miss Simson=.  +The Rival Candidates= [anno
unced on playbill of 18 May] is obliged to be deferred on account of $Vernon='s 
illness.  Tickets delivered for +Oroonoko= by $Philimore=, $Nash=, $Hulet=, $Mas
ter Pulley= and $Dale= will be taken.  Receipts: #211 11s. 6d. (28.1.0; 10.3.0; 
0.12.6; tickets: 172.15.0) [charge: #105).  *pcg The Stratagem.  As 28 Feb., but
 Archer-Wroughton (1st appearance in that character); Aimwell-Whitfield; Dorinda
-Miss Ambrose; Mrs Sullen-Mrs Bulkley.  *aComus.  As 30 Oct. 1777, but 1st Bacch
ant-Mrs Morton.  *dAs 7 May.  *cBenefit for $Condell=, $Evans= & $Curteen=, box-
keepers.  Tickets sold at the doors will not be admitted.  +Public Advertiser=, 
12 May: Tickets to be had of Condell, +Cross-court=, +Duke's-court=, +Bow-street
=, +Covent Garden=; of Evans at +Bromfield's=, Trunk-maker, No. 118, +Long-acre=
; of Curteen, No. 11, +Temple-lane=, +White-friars=.  Receipts: #259 5s. (53.3; 
tickets: 206.2) (charge: #105).  *pking's L'Amore Soldato.  As 5 May.  *dEnd I: 
+Les Bohemiens=, as 16 Dec. 1777; End II: +Serious Ballet=, as 20 Jan.; End Oper
a: [new Ballet Demi-caractere (never performed),% +L'Amour dans la Vendange=-Mon
s and Mlle Banti, Sg and Sga Zuchelli.  *c[Beginning with 2 June the new ballet 
was entitled +L'Amour en Vendange=.]  *p20 dl The School for Scandal.  As 22 Oct
. 1777.  *aThe Irish Widow.  As 2 May.  *dAs 12 May.  *sIn III: +song= [see 22 O
ct. 1777]-Gaudry.  *cReceipts: #233 2s. 6d. (220.11.0; 12.2.6; 0.9.0).  *pcg Lov
e Finds the Way.  As 18 Nov. 1777.  *aThe Commissary.  As 13 May.  *b+The Sailor
s' Revels at Portsmouth=.  As 15 May.  *cBenefit for $Green= and $Ansell=, box-k
eepers.  Tickets delivered for +The Lady's Last Stake= will be taken.  Tickets s
old at the doors will not be admitted.  +Public Advertiser=, 16 May: Tickets to 
be had of Green, the corner of +Norris-street=, +Hay-market=; of Ansell, +Davies
-street=, +Berkley-square=.  Receipts: #290 14s. 6d. (40.19.6; tickets: 249.15.0
) (charge: #105).  *p21 dl George Barnwell.  George Barnwell-Brereton; Thorowgoo
d-Hurst; Trueman-Davies; Uncle-Wrighten; Blunt-Burton; Maria-Miss P. Hopkins (1s
t appearance in that character); Lucy-Mrs Davies; Millwood-Miss Hopkins (1st app
earance in that character).  *aThe Waterman.  As 19 Nov. 1777.  *dEnd: +Hornpipe
=, as 18 May.  *sIn I: +song=-Miss Abrams.  *cBenefit for $Dickinson=, pit offic
e-keeper.  +Public Advertiser=, 16 May: Tickets to be had of Dickinson, No. 5, +
Wild-court=, +Wild-street=, +Lincoln's Inn Fields=.  Receipts: #276 13s. (48.16;
 9.0; 0.14; tickets: 218.3) (charge: #105).  *pcg Lionel and Clarissa.  As 19 Ma
r., but Lady Mary Oldboy-Mrs Pitt.  *aMother Shipton.  As 15 May.  *cBenefit for
 $T. Ansell=, $Pilfold=, $Woolley= & $Marks=.  Tickets delivered by $Furkins=, $
Roberts=, $Clarridge=, $Doe=, $Wells=, $Francis=, $Walker=, $Brandon=, $Shuter= 
and $Abbot= will be received.  Tickets delivered for +The Busy Body= will be tak
en.  Receipts: #243 13s. 6d. (137.12.6; 0.13.0; tickets: 105.8.0).  *phay The Fe
male Chevalier.  As 18 May, but Mrs Poussin.  [+Prologue= as 18 May.%  *aThe Tai
lors; A Tragedy for Warm Weather.  Warm@Weather Tragedians-Palmer, Parsons, Gard
ner, R. Palmer, Jackson, Massey, Davis, Walker, Stevens, Peirce, Miss Platt, Mrs
 Love, Mrs Poussin, Mrs W. Palmer, Mrs Jewell.  [Probable cast: +Flints=r: +Abra
hamides=r (the Chief)-Palmer; +Isaacos=r-Gardner; +Jackides=r-Jackson; +Barnardo
=r-Davis.  +Master Tailors=r: +Francisco=r-Parsons; +Regniades=r-R. Palmer; +Cam
pbello=r-Massey.  +Dungs=r: +Zacharydes=r-Walker; +Timotheus=r-Stevens; +Christo
phorides=r-Peirce; +Tittilinda=r-Miss Platt; +Dorothea=r-Mrs Jewell; +Tailors' L
adies=r-Mrs Love, Mrs Poussin, Mrs W. Palmer.]  *dAs 18 May.  *c[For cast of aft
erpiece see 28 May 1777.]  *p22 dl The Runaway.  As 28 Apr., but Justice (1st ti
me)-Waldron.  *aThe Irish Widow.  As 18 May.  *dAs 12 May.  *cBenefit for $Morti
mer=, $Tomlinson=, $Carleton Sen.= & $Woollams=.  Tickets delivered by $Page=, $
Whittey=, $Barthrope=, $Finney= and the $Widow Eddleston= will be taken.  Receip
ts: #278 16s. (26.17.0; 4.7.6; 0.8.6; tickets: 247.3.0) (charge: #105).  *pcg Sh
e Stoops to Conquer.  As 16 May.  *aThe Country Mad-Cap.  Cantileno (with +imita
tions=)-Reinhold; Ballad-Mahon; Zorobabel-Quick; Lord Bawble-Robson; The Country
 Mad@Cap-Mrs Mattocks.  *dEnd II: +The Arts and Sciences=, as 9 May; [in which a
n% +Assault=-Master Dagueville, Master Holland; [with a% +Minuet=-Master Daguevi
lle, Miss Bullock; +Prince of Wales's New Court Minuet=-Master Holland, Miss Sim
onet.  *cBenefit for $Miller=, $Longley= & $Colley=.  Tickets delivered by $Robs
on=, $Stephenson=, $Robinson=, $Varley=, $Brereton=, $W. Ansell=, $Miller= (cons
table), $Smallwood=, $Haliburton=, $R. Ledger=, $Baker= and $Whittington= will b
e received.  Receipts: #286 6s. 6d. [151.0.6; 0.14.0; tickets: 134.12.0].  *phay
 Love in a Village.  Hawthorn-Bannister; Justice Woodcock-Parsons; Sir William M
eadows-Gardner; Hodge-Massey; Eustace-Lamash; Young Meadows-Mattocks; Lucinda-Mr
s Jewell; Margery-Miss Twist; Deborah Woodcock-Mrs Love; Rosetta-A Young Gentlew
oman (1st appearance on any stage [$Miss Harper=]).  *aMiss in her Teens.  Capta
in Flash-Palmer; Captain Loveit-Gardner; Jasper-Stevens; Puff-Massey; Fribble-La
mash; [with a% +song=-Lamash; Tag-Mrs Poussin; Miss Biddy-Mrs Hitchcock.  *dEnd 
II: +The Merry Lasses=-[, as 18 May%.  *c[$Miss Harper= is identified in playbil
l of 8 June.]  *p23 dl Romeo and Juliet.  Romeo-Brereton; Fryar Lawrence-Packer;
 Capulet-Aickin; Benvolio-Davies; Prince-Norris; Tibalt-R. Palmer; Paris-Philimo
re; Peter-Burton; Apothecary-Waldron; Balthazar-Chaplin; Mercutio-Dodd; Lady Cap
ulet-Mrs Johnston; Nurse-Mrs Bradshaw; Juliet-Mrs Robinson.  *aThe Devil to Pay.
  As 25 Sept. 1777, but Sir John Loverule-Davies.  *dIn I: Masquerade and +Dance
=-.  *s[With the Funeral Procession.%The vocal parts-Gaudry, Legg, Carpenter, Ch
aplin, Holcroft, Philimore, Miss Abrams, Miss Collett, Miss Kirby, Mrs Gaudry, M
rs Booth, Mrs Pitt, Mrs Smith.  *cBenefit for $Watson=, $Wilson=, $Devoto=, $Kay
gill= & $Burroughs=.  Receipts: #182 18s. 6d. (22.15.0; 6.10.0; 0.2.6; tickets: 
153.11.0) (charge: #105).  *pcg The Rival Queens; or, The Death of Alexander the
 Great.  As 22 Apr., but Statira-Miss Moore (1st appearance on any stage).  *aTr
ue-Blue.  As 4 Apr.  *aComus.  As 19 May.  *cBenefit for the +New General Lying-
in-Hospital=, in +Store-street=, +Tottenham-Court-Road=.  Tickets delivered for 
+Venice Preserv'd= will be taken.  Receipts: #149 1s. 6d. (66.4.6; tickets: 82.1
7.0) (charge: #115).  *phay Love in a Village.  As 22 May.  *aPiety in Pattens. 
 As 18 May.  *dAs 22 May.  *pking's La Clemenza di Scipione.  As 4 Apr.  *dAs 4 
Apr.  *b+La Surprize de Daphne et Cephise=.  As 4 Apr.  *p25 dl The Beggar's Ope
ra.  As 17 Nov. 1777, but Player-Wrighten; Diana Trapes-Mrs Bradshaw; Mrs Slamme
kin-_.  *aThe Lyar.  As 5 May.  *dEnd II: +Minuet de la Cour=, as 8 May.  *cBene
fit for $Carleton Jun=., $Hind=, $Shade= & $Bayne=.  Tickets sold at the doors w
ill not be admitted.  Tickets delivered for a comic opera [+Love in a Village=, 
announced on playbill of 23 May] and by $Barrett= and $McDonald= will be taken. 
 Receipts: #258 11s. 6d. (19.4.0; 7.2.6; 0.1.0; tickets: 232.4.0) (charge: #105)
.  *pcg The Duenna.  As 26 Mar., but The Duenna (1st time)-Mrs Pitt.  *aThe Norw
ood Gypsies.  As 14 May.  *dAs 29 Dec. 1777.  *cThe last time of the Company's p
erforming this Season.  Account-Book, 26 May: Received of $Their Majesties= for 
this season #40.  Receipts: #183 13s. (after-money not listed).  *phay The Femal
e Chevalier.  As 21 May. [+Prologue= as 18 May.%  *aThe Tailors.  See 21 May.  *
dAs 18 May.  *cAfterpiece: Written after the Manner of the worst as well as the 
best English Poets.  Containing, amongst a Variety of Particulars, curious, ente
rtaining and pathetic, the Rebellion of the Journeymen Tailors; their Military P
reparations and Election of a Chief; their Skirmishes, Ambushes, Sieges, Council
s, and Combats; their Division into Flints and Dungs; with the Defection of the 
Dungs at the Pass of the Butcher-Row, and total overthrow of the Flints at the f
amous battle of +Temple-Bar=; together with the Captivity and fatal End of their
 valiant Leader.  *pchr The Wonder: A Woman keeps a Secret!.  Don Felix-King; Co
lonel Briton-West; Frederick-Cooke; Don Lopez-Bowles; Don Pedro-Newton; Gibby-Ba
iley; Lissardo-Russell; Violante-Mrs Burden; Isabella-Mrs Lefevre; Flora-Mrs Rus
sell; Inis-Mrs West.  *aThe Lying Valet.  Gayless-Cooke; Beau Trippet-Bailey; Dr
unken Cook-Bowles; Justice Guttle-Newton; Sharp-Russell; Melissa-Mrs West; Mrs T
rippet-Mrs Heard; Mrs Gadabout-Mrs Lefevre; Kitty Pry-Mrs Russell; [With an occa
sional% +Prologue=[written by a Gentleman of +Deptford=%-West.  *dEnd: +Hornpipe
=-a Lady [from the Theatre Royal, +Covent Garden= [unidentified]%.  *cTo begin a
t 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 regular
ity and decorum their chief study, hope they shall render themselves deserving o
f that favourable encouragement they have before experienced.  The House is illu
minated with Wax.  Subscription tickets may be had by applying to $Bailey=, at M
r +Oldfield's=.  [Author of Prologue unknown.]  *p26 dl King Richard the Third. 
 As 8 May.  *aBon Ton.  As 31 Oct. 1777.  *dEnd: +Minuet de la Cour=, as 8 May. 
 *cBenefit for $J. Wood=, $Percey=, $Cameron= & the $Widow Robinson=.  Tickets d
elivered by $Camery= and $Hodges= will be taken.  Receipts: #288 13s. (33.3; 1.6
; 0.18; tickets: 253.6) [charge: #105).  *pking's L'Amore Soldato.  As 5 May.  *
dEnd I: +Divertisement=, as 7 Feb.; [with a% +Minuet=-Mons and Mme Simonet; End 
II: +L'Amour dans la Vendange=, as 19 May; End Opera: +La Serenade Interrompuee=
, as 24 Feb.  *p27 dl The Way of the World.  As  23 Jan., but Fainall (for that 
night only)-Davies (1st appearance on the stage these 15 [recte 16] years).  *aH
arlequin's Invasion.  As 2 Oct. 1777.  *dEnd III: +Minuet de la Cour=, as 8 May.
  *cBenefit for $Davies=, bookseller, and $Mrs Davies=, who formerly belonged to
 this Theatre, and who have sustained misfortunes in trade.  +Public Advertiser=
, 20 May: Tickets to be had of Davies, +Great Russel-street=, +Covent Garden=.  
Receipts: #198 9s. 6d. (69.14.0; 17.10.0; 0.13.6; tickets: 110.12.0) (charge: #6
4 4s.).  *phay Love in a Village.  As 22 May, but Justice Woodcock-Jackson; Sir 
William Meadows-Aickin.  *aMiss in her Teens.  As 22 May.  *dEnd II: +Provencall
e Dance=, as 18 May.  *pchr Douglas.  Douglas-Stokes; Glenalvon-Cooke; Old Norva
l-Bowles; Servant-Massey; Lord Randolph-West; Lady Randolph-Mrs Burden; Anna-Mrs
 West.  *aThe Mayor of Garratt.  Major Sturgeon-Newton; Sir Jacob Jollup-Bailey;
 Bruin-West; Lint-Bowles; Crispin Heeltap-Massey; Jerry Sneak-Russell; Mrs Sneak
-Mrs Burden; Mrs Bruin-Mrs West.  *dEnd: +Hornpipe=-Lady [from the Theatre Royal
, +Drury Lane=% [unidentified].  *p28 dl The School for Scandal.  As 22 Oct. 177
7.  *aThe Irish Widow.  As 2 May.  *dAs 12 May.  *cThe last Time of the Company'
s performing this Season.  Receipts: #215 18s. (198.3; 17.15; 0.0).  *pking's La
 Buona Figliuola.  As 2 Apr.  *dEnd I: +L'Amour dans la Vendange=, as 19 May; En
d II: +The Masquerade Ballet=-; [in which a% +Minuet=-Mme Simonet [en homme, or 
in man's dress,%, Mlle Baccelli; End Opera: +La Serenade Interrompuee=, as 24 Fe
b.; [in which the% +Minuet Dauphin=-Mme Simonet [in man's dress%, Mlle Banti.  *
cBenefit for $Mons and Mme Simonet=.  Tickets to be had of Mons and Mme Simonet 
at +Leary's=, No. 232, +Piccadilly=.  *p29 hay Love in a Village.  As 22 May, bu
t Sir William Meadows-Aickin.  *aPiety in Pattens.  As 18 May.  *dEnd II: +The M
erry Lasses=-Master and Miss Byrn.  *c[Afterpiece in place of +Man and Wife=, an
nounced on playbill of 27 May.]  *pchr She Stoops to Conquer.  Young Marlow-Cook
e; Hastings-West; Hardcastle-Bailey; Landlord-Newton; Diggory-Massey; Sir Charle
s Marlow-Bowles; Tony Lumpkin-Russell; Miss Hardcastle-Mrs Burden; Miss Neville-
Mrs Lefevre; Maid-Mrs West; Mrs Hardcastle-Mrs Russell.  *aCatherine and Petruch
io; or, The Taming of the Shrew.  Petruchio-West; Baptista-Bowles; Hortensio-Coo
ke; Grumio-Newton; Biondello-Bailey; Music Master-Massey; Taylor-Russell; Cather
ine (the Shrew)-Mrs Russell; Bianca-Mrs Heard.  *dAs 27 May.  *sBetween Acts: Ma
ster Nelson.  *p30 king's Il Re Pastore.  [Principal Characters by Roncaglia, Ad
amberger, Coppola, Sga Prudom, Mme Le Brun (late $Sga Danzi=).  [Cast from libre
tto ($T. Cadell=, 1778):% Aminta-F. Roncaglia; Alessandro-Adamberger; Agenore-Co
ppola; Tamiri-Sga Prudom; Elisa-Sga F. Danzi.  *dEnd I: +Masquerade Dance=, as 3
 Mar.; +Minuet de la Cour and Gavot=, as 3 Mar.; +Provencal=, as 3 Mar.; +Allema
nde a la Strasbourgoise=, as 3 Mar.; End Opera: +Les Amans unis par l'Hymen=, as
 4 Apr.  *bEnd II: +La Surprize de Daphnis et Cephise=.  As 31 Mar.  *cA new Ser
ious Opera [1st time; SER 3, by $Pietro Metastasio=]; the Music entirely new by 
$Tommaso Giordani=.  *p6 1 hay The Female Chevalier.  As 21 May. [+Prologue= as 
18 May.%  *aMan and Wife.  Cross-Parsons; Kitchen-Massey; Colonel Frankly-Lamash
; Buck-Davis; Snarl-Egan; Luke-R. Palmer; Passengers-Gardner, Kenny; Marcourt-Pa
lmer; Charlotte-Mrs Jewell; Lettice-Mrs Hitchcock; Landlady-Mrs Love; Sally-Miss
 Hitchcock; Women Passengers-Miss Platt, Mrs Poussin; Mrs Cross-Mrs Webb (from t
he $Theatre Royal, Edinburgh= [1st appearance in +London=]).  *dEnd II: +The Mer
ry Lasses=, as 29 May; End II afterpiece: +Provencalle Dance=, as 18 May.  *cAft
erpiece: Never performed here.  *pchr Jane Shore.  Lord Hastings-Cooke; Gloster-
Newton; Dumont-Bowles; Bellmour-Russell; Ratcliffe-Massey; Catesby-Bailey; Alici
a-Mrs Burden; Jane Shore-Miss Glassington.  *aThe Citizen.  Young Philpot-Russel
l; Young Wilding-Cooke; Beaufort-Massey; Dapper-Fildew; Quildrive-Bailey; Sir Ja
sper Wilding-Bowles; Old Philpot-Newton; Maria-Mrs Burden; Corinna-Mrs Heard.  *
dEnd: +Hornpipe=-Everard.  *sEnd II: Master Nelson.  *p2 king's L'Amore Soldato.
  As 5 May.  *dEnd I: +Divertisement=, as 26 May; End II: +L'Amour dans la Venda
nge=, as 19 May; End Opera: +La Serenade Interrompuee=, as 24 Feb.  *p3 hay Love
 in a Village.  As 29 May, but Young Meadows-Brett.  *aPolly Honeycombe.  Mr Hon
eycombe-Parsons; Scribble-R. Palmer; Ledger-Gardner; Mrs Honeycombe-Miss Platt; 
Nurse-Mrs Love; Polly Honeycombe-Mrs Hitchcock.  *dAs 29 May.  *pchr The Busy Bo
dy.  Sir George Airy-West; Charles-Cooke; Sir Francis Gripe-Newton; Sir Jealous 
Traffick-Bailey; Whisper-Everard; Butler-Massey; Marplot-Russell; Isabinda-Miss 
Brown; Patch-Mrs Russell; Scentwell-Mrs Heard; Miranda-Mrs Burden.  *aThe Devil 
to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphosed.  Sir John Loverule-A Gentleman (1st appeara
nce on the stage [unidentified]); Butler-Everard; Cook-Bailey; Footman-Massey; C
oachman-Fildew; Conjurer-Cooke; Jobson-Newton; Lady Loverule-Mrs West; Lucy-Mrs 
Lefevre; Lettice-Mrs Heard; Nell-Mrs Fowler (1st appearance on this stage).  *sE
nd: Master Nelson.  *e[+Monologue=.% Before: +Address to the Town=[, in the char
acter of +Marplot=r%-Russell.  *p5 hay The Female Chevalier.  As 21 May. [+Prolo
gue= as 18 May.%  *aMan and Wife.  As 1 June.  *dEnd I: +The Merry Lasses=, as 2
9 May; End II: +Provencalle Dance=, as 18 May.  *pking's Il Re Pastore.  As 30 M
ay.  *dEnd II: +Masquerade Dance=, as 3 Mar.; +Minuet de la Cour and Gavot=, as 
3 Mar., but _Simonet, Mme +Simonet; +Provencal=, as 3 Mar.; +Allemande a la Stra
sbourgoise=, as 3 Mar.; End Opera: +La Serenade Interrompuee=, as 24 Feb.  *bEnd
 I: +La Surprize de Daphnis et Cephise=.  As 31 Mar.  *p6 none +Whitsun Eve=.  *
p8 hay The Beggar's Opera.  Macheath-Bannister; Peachum-Aickin; Lockit-Massey; M
at o' th' Mint-Baker; Beggar-Blissett; Player-Davis; Filch-Parsons; Lucy-Mrs Hit
chcock; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Love; Jenny Diver-Mrs Poussin; Mrs Slammekin-Miss Platt;
 Polly (1st time)-Miss Harper (who performed the part of   +Rosetta=r [on 22 May
]).  *aThe Tailors.  As 21 May, but Warm@Weather Tragedians-_Walker, +Egan.  *dI
n III: +Hornpipe=-Master Byrn.  [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subse
quent performances.]  *pchr The Clandestine Marriage.  Lord Ogleby-Russell; Sir 
John Melville-West; Sterling-Burnett; Canton-Everard; Brush-Bailey; Serjeant Flo
wer-Newton; Miss Sterling-Mrs Burden; Mrs Heidelberg-Mrs Russell; Betty-Mrs West
; Chambermaid-Mrs Bailey; Housekeeper-Mrs Newby.  *aThe Mock Doctor; or, The Dum
b Lady Cured.  Gregory (the Mock Doctor)-Newton; Sir Jasper-Burnett; Squire Robe
rt-West; Leander-Glassington; James-Bailey; Doctor Hellebore-Fildew; Harry-Cooke
; Welch Davy-Russell; Dorcas-Mrs Russell; Charlotte-Mrs Bailey.  *dAs 1 June.  *
sII: Master Nelson.  *p9 hay The Beggar's Opera.  As 8 June.  *aThe Tailors.  As
 8 June.  *pchr The London Merchant; or, George Barnwell.  Barnwell-Everard; Tho
rowgood-Newton; Trueman-Cooke; Uncle-West; Blunt-Bailey; Officer-Massey; Millwoo
d-Mrs Burden; Maria-Mrs Bailey.  *aThe Old Maid.  Clerimont-Russell; Mr Harlow-C
ooke; Captain Cape-West; Servant-Massey; Mrs Harlow-Mrs Burden; Mademoiselle Flo
rival-Mrs West; Miss Harlow (the Old Maid)-Mrs Russell.  *dAs 1 June.  *sAs 8 Ju
ne.  *pking's L'Amore Soldato.  As 5 May.  *dEnd I: +Divertisement=, as 7 Feb.; 
End II: +L'Amour dans la Vendange=, as 19 May; End Opera: +La Clochette=, as 15 
Nov. 1777.  *p10 hay Love in a Village.  As 3 June, but Lucinda-Mrs Hitchcock; R
osetta-Miss Harper. [+Prologue= as 18 May.%  *aNature Will Prevail: A Dramatic P
roverb.  [Characters by Palmer, Baddeley, Mrs Hitchcock, Mrs Massey.  [Cast from
 +London Chronicle=, 11 June:% Current-Palmer; Padlock-Baddeley; Finette-Mrs Hit
chcock; Almadine-Mrs Massey.  *dAs 18 May.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  
Afterpiece [1st time; INT 1, by $Horace Walpole=.  Text 1st Published in +Walpol
e's Works=, vol. II ($G. G. and J. Robinson= and $J. Edwards=, 1798)].  *pchr Ro
meo and Juliet.  Romeo-West; Mercutio-Russell; Tibalt-Cooke; Capulet-Newton; Ben
volio-Glassington; Prince-Massey; Peter-Bailey; Paris-Everard; Friar Laurence-Bu
rnett (from the +Theatre Royal, Edinburgh=); Lady Capulet-Mrs Newby; Nurse-Mrs R
ussell; Juliet-Miss Glassington.  *aThe Lying Valet.  As 25 May.  *dAs 1 June.  
*sBetween Acts: Master Nelson; End IV: Solemn +Dirge= [and the Funeral Processio
n of Juliet to the Monument of the Capulets.  Vocal Parts%-Master Nelson, Mrs Ru
ssell, Mrs Fowler.  *p11 hay The Spanish Barber; or, The Fruitless Precaution.  
[Principal Characters by Palmer, Parsons, Blissett, Jackson, R. Palmer, Egan, St
evens, Edwin, Miss Farren.  [Cast from +London Chronicle=, 1 Sept. 1777:% Count 
Almaviva-Palmer; Dr Bartholo-Parsons; Basil-Blissett; Argqs-Jackson; Tall@Boy-R.
 Palmer; Alcade-Egan; Notary-Stevens; Lazarillo-Edwin; Rosina-Miss Farren; +Prol
ogue=-Parsons; +Epilogue=-Miss Farren.  [These were spoken, as here assigned, at
 all subsequent performances.]  *aThe Waterman; or, The First of August.  Tom Tu
gg-Bannister; Bundle-Massey; Robin-Edwin; Mrs Bundle-Mrs Brett; Wilhelmina-Mrs J
ewell.  *dEnd I: +The Merry Lasses=, as 18 May; End: +Provencalle Dance=, as 18 
May.  *sMainpiece: [some additional% +songs=-.  *mMainpiece: [With a new% +Fanda
ngo Overture=-.  *cMainpiece: 8th time [i.e. in continuation of the reckoning fo
r the previous season.  Prologue by $George Colman elder=.  Epilogue by $David G
arrick= (see 30 Aug. 1777)].  Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre.  *p12
 hay The Spanish Barber.  As 11 June.  *aMidas.  Midas-Edwin; Apollo-Brett; Sile
no-Massey; Jupiter-Legg; Damaetas-Blissett; Pan-Bannister; Daphne-Mrs Hitchcock;
 Juno-Mrs Poussin; Mysis-Mrs Love; Nysa-Miss Twist.  *dEnd II: +The Merry Lasses
=, as 18 May; End afterpiece: +Provencalle Dance=, as 18 May.  *p13 king's Creso
.  As 8 Nov. 1777, but Mme LeBrun (late $Sga Danzi=).  *dEnd I: +La Polonaise Fa
vourite=, as 4 Nov. 1777; End Opera: +La Serenade Interrompuee=, as 24 Feb.  *bE
nd II: +La Surprize de Daphnis et Cephise=.  As 31 Mar.  *p15 hay The Beggar's O
pera.  As 8 June.  *aNature Will Prevail.  As 10 June.  *dEnd: +The Merry Lasses
=, as 29 May.  *pchr Venice Preserved; or, A Plot Discover'd.  Jaffier-West; Pri
uli-Watts; Renault-Newton; Duke-Bailey; Bedamar-Cooke; Spinosa-Massey; Elliot-Ev
erard; Officer-Fildew; Pierre-Burnett; Belvidera-A Young Lady (1st appearance on
 any stage [unidentified]).  *aComical Courtship; or, The Battle Royal.  Princip
al Characters-Cooke, Everard, Russell, Mrs West, Mrs Russell.  *dAs 1 June.  *sA
s 29 May.  *cAfterpiece [1st time; C 2, author unknown.  Not in +Larpent MS=; no
t published].  *p16 hay The Spanish Barber.  As 11 June.  *aMidas.  As 12 June. 
 *dEnd II: +Provencalle Dance=, as 18 May; End afterpiece: +The Merry Lasses=, a
s 29 May.  *pking's L'Amore Soldato.  As 5 May.  *dAs 9 June.  *p17 hay The Span
ish Barber.  As 11 June.  *aMidas.  As 12 June.  *dAs 16 June.  *p18 hay The Fem
ale Chevalier.  As 21 May.  *aMan and Wife.  As 1 June.  *dEnd I: +The Gardeners
=-Master and Miss Byrn; End II afterpiece: As 29 May.  *pchr A Bold Stroke for a
 Wife; or, The Quaker's Wedding.  Colonel Feignwell-Russell; Freeman-Cooke; Sir 
Philip Modelove-Massey; Obadiah Prim-Watts; Simon Pure-Bailey; Anne Lovely-Mrs B
urden; Betty-Mrs West; Mask'd Lady-Mrs Heard; Mrs Prim-Mrs Russell.  *aHigh Life
 below Stairs.  Lovell-Russell; Freeman-Bailey; Lord Duke's Servant-Everard; Sir
 Harry's Servant-Cooke; Robert-Burnett; Tom-Newton; Kingston-Master Nelson; Coac
hman-Fildew; Kitty (with a +song=)-Mrs Russell; Lady Bab-Mrs West; Lady Charlott
e-Mrs Bailey; Cook-Mrs Newby.  *dAs 1 June.  *sAs 29 May.  *p19 hay King Henry V
III.  Cardinal Wolsey-Digges (1st appearance this season); Buckingham-Palmer; Cr
anmer-Gardner; Surry-Aickin; Cromwell-R. Palmer; Gardiner-Parsons; Lord Sands-Ma
ssey; Lord Chamberlain-Egan; Chancellor-Blissett; Sir T. Lovell-Stevens; Norfolk
-Davis; Suffolk-Lamash; King Henry-Usher; Anne Bullen-Miss Hale; Patience [with 
a +song=]-Miss Twist; Queen Catherine-Mrs Massey.  *aNature Will Prevail.  As 10
 June.  *pchr The Earl of Essex; or, The Unhappy Favourite.  Essex-West; Burleig
h-Burnett; Southampton-Cooke; Sir Walter Raleigh-Everard; Officer-Massey; Queen 
Elizabeth-Mrs Burden; Nottingham-Mrs Bailey; Rutland-The Lady [who performed +Be
lvidera=r% [on 15 June; unidentified].  *aThe Ghost; or, The Dead Man Alive.  Si
r Jeffery Constant-Massey; Captain Constant-Cooke; Trusty-Newton; Clinch-Bailey;
 Roger-Russell; Melinda-Mrs Bailey; Dolly-Mrs Russell.  *dAs 1 June.  *sAs 29 Ma
y.  *p20 king's La Clemenza di Scipione.  As 4 Apr., but Mme LeBrun (late $Sga D
anzi=).  *dEnd II: +La Clochette=, as 15 Nov. 1777; End Opera: +Les Amans unis p
ar l'Hymen=, as 4 Apr.  *bEnd I: +La Surprize de Daphnis et Cephise=.  As 31 Mar
.  *p22 hay Love in a Village.  As 10 June.  *aNature Will Prevail.  As 10 June.
  *dEnd II: +The Merry Lasses=, as 18 May; End: +The Gardeners=, as 18 June.  *p
chr The Fashionable Lover.  Aubrey-West; Lord Aberville-Cooke; Mortimer-Bailey; 
Mr Bridgmore-Newton; Doctor Druid-Everard; Colin Macleod-Bailey [sic; a misprint
]; Le Jeunesse-Russell; Jarvis-Massey; Servant-Fildew; Tyrrel-Lear; Miss Aubrey-
Mrs Burden; Mrs Bridgmore-Mrs Russell; Maid-Mrs West; Mrs Mackintosh-Mrs Newby; 
Miss Bridgmore-Mrs Bailey.  *aCross Purposes.  Old Grub-Bailey; George Bevil-Coo
ke; Thomas Bevil-West; Harry Bevil-Massey; Consol-Russell; Chapeau-Everard; Mrs 
Grub-Mrs Russell; Emily-Mrs West.  *sAs 29 May.  *e[+Monologue=.%End: +Bucks hav
e at ye All=-Middleton (1st appearance on any stage).  *parme The Earl of Warwic
k.  *p23 hay The Spanish Barber.  As 11 June.  *aMidas.  As 12 June.  *dEnd: +Th
e Gardeners=, as 18 June.  *pking's L'Amore Soldato.  As 5 May.  *dAs 9 June.  *
cThe last Opera this season.  *p24 hay The Spanish Barber.  As 11 June.  *aThe W
aterman.  As 11 June, but Wilhelmina (with +songs= restored and newly composed)-
Miss Harper (1st appearance in that character).  *dEnd: +Tambourine Dance=-Maste
r and Miss Byrn.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  *pchr The Miser.  Lovegold
 (the Miser)-Jackson (1st appearance on this stage); Frederick-Cooke; Clerimont-
Everard; Decoy-Newton; Sparkle-West; Furnish-Massey; Taylor-Fildew; Lawyer-Lear;
 Ramillie-Russell; Marianna-Mrs Burden; Harriet-Mrs Bailey; Mrs Wisely-Mrs Heard
; Wheedle-Mrs West; Lappet-Mrs Russell.  *aThe Irish Widow.  Whittle-Everard; Ke
cksey-Russell; Nephew-Lear; Thomas-West; Bates-Massey; Sir Patrick O'Neal-Bailey
; The Widow Brady (with an +Epilogue Song=)-Mrs Bailey.  *sAs 29 May.  *e[+Monol
ogue=% End: +The Cries of London= (in Imitation of the late $Mr Shuter=)-Jackson
.  *p25 hay King Henry VIII.  As 19 June.  *aBuxom Joan.  [Principal Characters 
by Bannister, Brett, Massey, Edwin, Mrs Brett, Miss Twist.  Cast from text ($T. 
Cadell=, 1778):% Bluff-Bannister; Ben-Brett; Tom-Massey; Snip-Edwin; Mother-Mrs 
Brett; Buxom Joan-Miss Twist.  *cAfterpiece (1st time; BURL I, by $Thomas Willet
=.  For music see 31 July]: Books of the Burletta to be had at the Theatre.  +Pu
blic Advertiser=, 1 July 1778: This Day is published +Buxom Joan= (6d.).  *p26 h
ay The Beggar's Opera.  As 8 June.  *aBuxom Joan.  As 25 June.  *dEnd II: As 24 
June; End: +The Gardeners= (see 18 June).  *pchr King Richard III.  King Richard
-Stokes; King Henry-Newton; Prince Edward-A Young Gentleman (1st appearance on a
ny stage [unidentified]); Buckingham-Russell; Duke of York-Master Nelson; Stanle
y-Lear; Tressel-Cooke; Lieutenant of the Tower-Burnett; Catesby-Massey; Lord May
or-Fildew; Blunt-Bailey; Earl of Richmond-West; Lady Ann-Mrs Bailey; Duchess of 
York-Mrs Newby; Queen-Mrs Russell.  *aThe Ghost.  As 19 June.  *dAs 1 June.  *sA
s 29 May.  *c[This was the last performance ever held in this theatre.  On 27 Ju
ne the +Morning Chronicle= published the playbill for that same evening: +Love i
n a Village= and +Comical Courtship=, but on 29 June the same newspaper reported
 that on "Friday [26 June] (soon after the performances of the evening were fini
shed at +China Hall=, +Rotherhithe=) the theatre was discovered to be on fire.  
The flames increased so rapidly that in a short time the whole building, with al
l the scenes, stage, cloaths, &c. were consumed...There is no doubt but the thea
tre was wilfully set on fire."  During the course of the summer it was rebuilt, 
but "Yesterday morning the play-house at China-hall, Rotherhithe, was blown down
 by the violence of the wind.  The said play-house was burnt down last summer, b
ut it being insured was rebuilt by contract, and the tiling of it completely fin
ished last week" (+Gazetteer=, 26 Nov. 1778).  And see 30 July.]  *p29 hay The S
panish Barber.  As 11 June.  *aThe Waterman.  As 24 June.  *dAs 24 June.  *p30 h
ay The Female Chevalier.  As 21 May.  *aMan and Wife.  As 1 June.  *dEnd I: As 2
4 June; End II: +Provencalle Dance=, as 18 May.   *p7 1 hay She Stoops to Conque
r.  [Principal Characters by Palmer, Griffin (from the $Theatre Royal, Bath=), G
ardner, Jackson, Massey, Painter, Webb (from the $Theatre Royal, Edinburgh=), Mr
s Webb, Miss Farren, Mrs Poussin, A Young Gentlewoman (1st appearance on any sta
ge [$Miss Powel=]).  [Cast from +London Chronicle=, 2 July, and adjusted from pl
aybill of 9 June 1777:% Young Marlow-Palmer; Hastings-Griffin; Sir Charles Marlo
w-Gardner; Tony Lumpkin-Jackson; Diggory-Massey; Landlord-Painter; Hardcastle-We
bb; Mrs Hardcastle-Mrs Webb; Miss Hardcastle-Miss Farren; Betty-Mrs Poussin; Mis
s Neville-Miss Powel.  *aBuxom Joan.  As 25 June.  *c[$Miss Powel= is identified
 in +Morning Chronicle=, 2 July.]  *p2 hay King Henry VIII.  As 19 June.  *aTony
 Lumpkin in Town; or, The Dilettante.  [Principal Characters by Parsons, Blisset
t, Massey, R. Palmer, Lamash, Egan, Davis, Kenny, Bannister, Miss Hale, Mrs Hitc
hcock.  [Cast from text ($T. Cadell=, 1780):% Tony Lumpkin-Parsons; Pulville-Bli
ssett; Diggory-Massey; Doctor Minim-R. Palmer; Mr Jonquil-Lamash; Frank-Egan; Pa
inter-Davis; Shoemaker-Kenny; Tim Tickle-Bannister; Taylor-Peirce; Footman-Paint
er; Lavender-Miss Hale; Mrs Jonquil-Mrs Hitchcock; +Prologue=-Palmer.  [This was
 spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances, except on 28 Aug.]  *
dAs 23 June.  *cAfterpiece [1st time in London; F 2, by $John O'Keeffe=, 1st act
ed at the $Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin=, 13 Apr. 1774.  Prologue by $George Colm
an elder= (+Prose on Several Occasions=, III, 222)].  +Public Advertiser=, 16 Au
g. 1780: This Day is published +Tony Lumpkin in Town= (1s.).  *p3 hay Love in a 
Village.  As 10 June.  *aTony Lumpkin in Town.  As 2 July.  *dEnd II: +Tambourin
e Dance=-(see 24 June); End: +The Gardeners=, as 18 June.  *p6 hay The Spanish B
arber.  As 11 June.  *aThe Waterman.  As 24 June.  *dAs 23 June.  *p7 hay She St
oops to Conquer.  As 1 July.  *aBuxom Joan.  As 25 June.  *c[Mainpiece in place 
of +The Maid of the Mill=; afterpiece of +Tony Lumpkin in Town=, both announced 
on playbill of 6 July.]  *p8 hay King Henry VIII.  As 19 June.  *aTony Lumpkin i
n Town.  As 2 July.  *dAs 23 June.  *p9 hay The Maid of the Mill.  Lord Aimworth
-Brett; Sir Harry Sycamore-Edwin; Fairfield-Aickin; Ralph-Jackson; Mervin-Griffi
n; Giles-Bannister; Fanny-Mrs Hitchcock; Theodosia-Miss Twist; Lady Sycamore-Mrs
 Webb; Patty-Miss Harper (1st appearance in that character).  *aNature Will Prev
ail.  As 10 June.  *dEnd I: +The Gardeners=, as 18 June.  *p10 hay The Maid of t
he Mill.  As 9 July.  *aNature Will Prevail.  As 10 June.  *dAs 5 June.  *p11 ha
y The Suicide.  [Principal Characters by Palmer, Aickin, Edwin, R. Palmer, Webb,
 Lamash, Gardner, Baddeley, Blissett, Massey, Davis, Egan, Peirce, Sdevens, Bann
ister, Mrs Webb, Miss Hale, Miss Farren.%  [Cast from +London Chronicle=, 11 Jul
y:% Tobine-Palmer; Tabby-Aickin; Wingrave-Edwin; Squib-R. Palmer; Bounce-Webb; R
obin-Lamash; Cathartic-Gardner; Catchpenny-Baddeley; Dr Truby-Blissett; Juggins-
Massey; Waiters-Davis, Egan, Stevens; Watchman-Peirce; Ranter-Bannister; Mrs Gro
gram-Mrs Webb; Peggy-Miss Hale; Nancy-Miss Farren; [The MS also lists% Bolus [an
 unassigned part.%-; +Prologue=-Palmer; +Epilogue=-Miss Farren.  [These were spo
ken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]  *aMiss in her Teens.  A
s 22 May, but Captain Flash-Davis; +song=-_.  *cMainpiece [1st time; c 4, by $Ge
orge Colman elder=.  Prologue by the author (+Prose on Several Occasions=, III, 
244).  Epilogue by $David Garrick= (+Poetical Works=, II, 351).  +Larpent MS 450
=; synopsis of plot in +London Chronicle=, 11 July Postcript; not published].  *
p13 hay The Suicide.  As 11 July.  *aPolly Honeycombe.  As 3 June.  *p15 hay The
 Suicide.  As 11 July.  *aThe Waterman.  As 24 June.  *dAs 24 June.  *p17 hay Th
e Suicide.  As 11 July.  *aMidas.  As 12 June.  *dAs 24 June.  *p20 hay The Suic
ide.  As 11 July.  *aMidas.  As 12 June.  *dAs 24 June.  *p21 hay The Spanish Ba
rber.  As 11 June.  *aBuxom Joan.  As 25 June.  *dAs 23 June.  *c+The Maid of th
e Mill= [announced on playbill of 20 July] is obliged to be deferred on account 
of the Indisposition of $Miss Harper=.  [Afterpiece in place of +Tony Lumpkin in
 Town=, announced as above.]  *p22 hay The Suicide.  As 11 July.  *aThe Portrait
.  Leander-Brett; Pantaloon-Edwin; Colombine-Mrs Hitchcock; Isabel-Miss Twist.  
*dAs 24 June.  *cAfterpiece: The Musick composed by $Dr Arnold=.  *p23 hay The S
panish Barber.  As 11 June.  *aBuxom Joan.  As 25 June.  *dAs 23 June.  *p24 hay
 The Suicide.  As 11 July.  *aThe Portrait.  As 22 July.  *dAs 15 June.  *p25 ha
y The Spanish Barber.  As 11 June.  *aMidas.  As 12 June.  *dAs 24 June.  *p27 h
ay The Suicide.  As 11 July.  *aBuxom Joan.  As 25 June.  *dAs 15 June.  *p28 ha
y The Maid of the Mill.  As 9 July.  *aTony Lumpkin in Town.  As 2 July.  *dEnd 
I: As 24 June.  *p29 hay The Suicide.  As 11 July.  *aThe Waterman.  As 24 June.
  *dAs 15 June.  *p30 hay Bonduca.  [Principal Parts by Digges, Aickin, Usher, G
ardner, Lamash, R. Palmer, Parsons, Massey, Davis, Griffin, Egan, Stevens, Kenny
, Painter, Master Edwin, Palmer, Miss Sherry, Mrs Greville, Mrs Massey.  [Cast f
rom text ($T. Cadell=, 1778):% Caratach-Digges; Penius-Aickin; Nennius-Usher; Su
etonius-Gardner; Junius-Lamash; Demetrius-R. Palmer; Judas-Parsons; Macer-Massey
; Decius-Davis; Drusius-Griffin; Curius-Egan; Soldiers-Stevens, Kenny, Painter; 
Hengo-Master Edwin; Petillius-Palmer; Bonduca-Miss Sherry; Daughters-Mrs Grevill
e, Mrs Massey; +Prologue=-Palmer.  [This was spoken, as here assigned, at all su
bsequent performances.]  *aThe Portrait.  As 22 July.  *cMainpiece: Not acted th
ese 150 years [acted 31 Jan. 1723].  Written by $Beaumont= and $Fletcher= [with 
alterations by $George Colman elder=.  Prologue by $David Garrick= (+Poetical Wo
rks=,  II, 354)].  The Musick by $Purcell=.  New Scenes, Dresses and Decorations
.  +Public Advertiser=, 30 July 1778: This Afternoon at five is published +Bondu
ca= (1s.).  *pchr The Merchant of Venice.  Shylock-Machin; Launcelot-Everard; Je
ssica-Mrs Nost; Portia-Miss Taylor.  *aThe Old Maid.  *c[These performances were
 held in a temporary booth erected following the destruction of the theatre by f
ire (see 26 June).  In August +King Lear=, with $Everard= as +Lear=r and $Cooke=
 as +Edgar=r, was acted here three times [$Edward Cape Everard=, +Memoirs of an 
Unfortunate Son of Thespis= [+Edinburgh=, 1018], p.78).  Everard states that the
 booth was kept open for about six weeks, but no further records of what was act
ed have survived.]  *p31 hay Bonduca.  As 30 July.  *aBuxom Joan.  As 25 June.  
*cAfterpiece: The Musick composed by $Raynor? Taylor=.  *p8 1 hay The Spanish Ba
rber.  As 11 June.  *aThe Waterman.  As 24 June.  *dAs 24 June.  *p3 hay Bonduca
.  As 30 July.  *aThe Gipsies.  [Characters by Brett, Blissett, Griffin, Gardner
, Edwin, Mrs Hitchcock, Miss Twist, Miss Hale, Miss Harper.]  [Cast from text ($
T. Cadell=, 1778):% Lelio-Brett; Marquis-Blissett; Clarin-Griffin; Governor-Gard
ner; Carlo-Edwin; Laura-Mrs Hitchcock; Isabella-Miss Twist; Violetta-Miss Hale; 
Spinetta-Miss Harper.  *cAfterpiece [1st time; CO 2, by $Charles Dibdin=, based 
on +La Bohemienne=, by $Charles Simon Favart=.  Music by $Samuel Arnold=].  Book
s of both Pieces to be had at the Theatre.  +Public Advertiser=, 10 Aug. 1778: T
his Day is published +The Gipsies= (price not listed).  *p4 hay The Suicide.  As
 11 July.  *aThe Gipsies.  As 3 Aug.  *dAs 15 June.  *p5 hay Bonduca.  As 30 Jul
y, but Drusius-_.  *aThe Gipsies.  As 3 Aug.  *p6 hay The Maid of the Mill.  As 
9 July.  *aThe Mayor of Garratt.  Major Sturgeon-Bannister; Sir Jacob Jollup-Mas
sey; Bruin-Webb; Heel@tap-Davis; Lint-Kenny; Roger-Stevens; Snuffle-Peirce; Jerr
y Sneal-Parsons; Mrs Bruin-Miss Platt; Mrs Sneak-Mrs Webb.  *dEnd I: As 24 June;
 End: +The Gardeners=, as 18 June.  *c[Afterpiece in place of +Tony Lumpkin in T
own=, announced on playbill of 5 Aug.]  *p7 hay The Suicide.  As 11 July.  *aApr
il-Day.  [Characters by Bannister, Brett, Edwin, Mrs Hitchcock, Miss Twist.  [Ca
st adjusted from text ($G. Kearsly=, 1777):% Don Buffalo-Bannister; Count Folatr
e-Brett; Davo-Edwin; Matilda-Mrs Hitchcock; Cephisa-Miss Twist.  *dAs 15 June.  
*cAfterpiece: Written by the author of +Midas= [$Kane O'Hara=].  *p10 hay Bonduc
a.  As 5 Aug.  *aThe Gipsies.  As 3 Aug.  *p11 hay The Spanish Barber.  As 11 Ju
ne.  *aApril-Day.  As 7 Aug.  *dAs 24 June.  *p12 hay Bonduca.  As 5 Aug.  *aThe
 Gipsies.  As 3 Aug.  *p13 hay The Suicide.  As 11 July.  *aMan and Wife.  As 1 
June.  *dEnd: +The Gardeners=, as 23 June; End II afterpiece: As 24 June.  *p14 
hay King Henry VIII.  As 19 June.  *aTony Lumpkin in Town.  As 2 July.  *dAs 24 
June.  *cBenefit for the Author of the Farce.  [$O'Keeffe=, 1, 366, records the 
receipts: #89, and charge: #63.]  *p15 hay Bonduca.  As 5 Aug.  *aMan and Wife. 
 As 1 June, but Fleece-Stevens.  *dEnd II afterpiece: As 24 June.  *p17 hay Bond
uca.  As 5 Aug.  *aThe Flitch of Bacon.  [Principal Characters by Bannister, Par
sons, Brett, Blissett, Massey, Edwin, Miss Harper.  [Cast from text ($T. Evans=,
 1779):% Captain Wilson-Bannister; Major Benbow-Parsons; Captain Greville-Brett;
 Justice Benbow-Blissett; Kilderkin-Massey; Ned-Stevens [see 19 Aug.]; Tipple-Ed
win; Eliza-Miss Harper.  *cAfterpiece [1st time; co 2, by $Henry Bate= (later $S
ir Henry Bate Dudley=).  Music by $William Shield=].  Books for both Pieces to b
e had at the Theatre.  +Public Advertiser=, 15 June 1779: This Day is published 
+The Flitch of Bacon= (1s.).  *p18 hay Bonduca.  As 5 Aug.  *aThe Flitch of Baco
n.  As 17 Aug.  *p19 hay The Suicide.  As 11 July.  *aThe Flitch of Bacon.  As 1
7 Aug., but Stevens.  *dAs 23 June.  *p20 hay The Minor.  Smirk, Shift, Mrs Cole
-Bannister; The Minor-R. Palmer; Sir William Wealthy-Baddeley; Mr Richard Wealth
y-Gardner; Loader-Davis; Transfer-Jackson; Dick-Stevens; Lucy-Mrs Jewell.  *aThe
 Gipsies.  As 3 Aug.  *dAs 15 June.  *p21 hay The Provoked Husband; or, A Journe
y to London.  Lord Townly-Digges; Sir Francis Wronghead-Parsons; Manly-Aickin; C
ount Basset-Lamash; Squire Richard-R. Palmer; John Moody (for that night only)-P
almer; Lady Grace-Mrs Hitchcock; Lady Wronghead-Mrs Webb; Miss Jenny-A Young Lad
y (1st attempt upon any stage [unidentified]); Myrtilla-Miss Platt; Trusty-Mrs W
.? Palmer; Mrs Motherly-Mrs Poussin; Lady Townly-Miss Farren (1st appearance in 
that character).  *aThe Quaker.  The Quaker-Bannister; Lubin-Brett; Easy-Painter
; Solomon-Parsons; Floretta-Mrs Brett; Cicely-Mrs Love; Gillian (for that night 
only)-Miss Sharpe (from the $Theatre Royal, Richmond=).  *sEnd: +Hunting@song=-G
riffin.  *cBenefit for $Parsons=.  +Public Advertiser=, 18 Aug.: Tickets to be h
ad of Parsons, No. 60, +Stanhope-street=, +Clare-Market=.  *p22 hay The Beggar's
 Opera.  As 8 June, but Mat o'the Mint-Griffin.  *aNature Will Prevail.  As 10 J
une.  *dEnd II: As 24 June.  *cTickets delivered by $Massey=, $R. Palmer=, $Blis
sett=, $Painter= and $Hitchcock=, prompter, will be admitted.  *p24 hay The Span
ish Barber.  As 11 June.  *aMidas.  As 12 June.  *dAs 24 June.  *c[Afterpiece in
 place of A New Pantomimical Piece (never performed), +A Bartholomew-tide Entert
ainment; or, A Trip to Chatham=.  This was laid aside, and seemingly, never acte
d.]  *p25 hay King Henry VIII.  As 19 June.  *aThe Flitch of Bacon.  As 19 Aug. 
 *dAs 24 June.  *sEnd II: +In love should there meet a fond pair=-Miss Harper.  
*cBenefit for $Miss Harper=.  Tickets delivered for +The Nabob= and +The Provoke
d Husband= will be admitted.  Afterpiece: By Permission of the Author.  +Public 
Advertiser=, 24 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Miss Harper at +Guy's=, +Catherine-st
reet=, +Strand=.  *p26 hay The Provoked Husband.  As 21 Aug., but John Moody-Mas
sey.  *aThe Flitch of Bacon.  As 19 Aug.  *dAs 24 June.  *p27 hay The Devil upon
 Two Sticks.  [Principal Parts by Blissett, Gardner, Egan, R. Palmer, Jackson, M
assey, Stevens, Parsons, Davis, Walker, Painter, Kenny, Peirce, Bannister, Mrs W
ebb, Mrs Jewell.  [Cast adjusted from playbill of 13 Aug. 1779:% Dr Julep-Blisse
tt; Sir Thomas Maxwell-Gardner; Dr Sligo-Egan; Invoice-R. Palmer; Dr Apozem-Jack
son; Dr Camphire-Massey; Forceps-Stevens; Dr Last-Parsons; Dr O'Sassafras-Davis;
 Macpherson-Walker; Dr Fingerfee-Painter; Dr Broadbrim-Kenny; Dr Habbakuk-Peirce
; The Devil-Bannister; Margaret Maxwell-Mrs Webb; Harriet-Mrs Jewell.  *aThe App
rentice.  Dick (with the original +Prologue=, and a variety of Imitations)-Banni
ster Jun. (1st appearance on any stage); Gargle-Gardner; Simon (1st time)-Steven
s; Irishman-Egan; Scotchman-Walker; Watchman-Jackson; Porter-Silvester; Wingate-
Dunstall (of +cg=); Charlotte-Miss Walton.  *dAs 15 June.  *cBenefit for $Bannis
ter=.  [Afterpiece: Prologue by $David Garrick=.]  +Public Advertiser=, 25 Aug.:
 Tickets to be had of Bannister at +Starzaker's=, Upper End of +Bow-street=, +Co
vent Garden=.  *p28 hay The Suicide.  As 11 July.  *aTony Lumpkin in Town.  As 2
 July, but +Prologue=-_.  *dAs 15 June.  *p29 hay The Provoked Husband.  As 26 A
ug.  *aThe Flitch of Bacon.  As 19 Aug.  *p31 hay Bonduca.  As 30 July.  *aThe F
litch of Bacon.  As 19 Aug.  *p9 1 hay The Suicide.  As 11 July.  *aThe Flitch o
f Bacon.  As 19 Aug.  *dAs 15 June.  *p2 hay The Provoked Wife.  Sir John Brute-
Digges; Heartfree-Aickin; Constant-Lamash; Lord Rake-Egan; Justice-Massey; Const
able-Stevens; Watchmen-Jackson, Peirce; Razor-R. Palmer; Tailor-Blissett; Col. B
ully (with a +song=)-Bannister; Lady Brute-Mrs Greville; Belinda-Mrs Hitchcock; 
Mademoiselle-Miss Walton; Lady Fanciful-Miss Farren (1st appearance in that char
acter).  *aThe Apprentice.  As 27 Aug., but Wingate-Webb; Watchman-_; Porter-_. 
 *dAs 24 June.  *cBenefit for $Jewell=, treasurer.  +Public Advertiser=, 29 Aug.
: Tickets to be had of Jewell, +Suffolk-street=.  *p3 hay The Spanish Barber.  A
s 11 June.  *aThe Flitch of Bacon.  As 19 Aug.  *dAs 24 June.  *p4 hay The Provo
ked Wife.  As 2 Sept., but 2nd Watchman-Kenny.  *aThe Flitch of Bacon.  As 19 Au
g.  *p5 hay Bonduca.  As 30 July.  *aFlitch of Bacon.  As 17 Aug.  *p7 hay Macbe
th.  Macbeth-Digges; Macduff-Aickin; Duncan-Gardner; Malcolm-R. Palmer; Lenox-Eg
an; Seyton-Webb; Doctor-Massey; Banquo-Palmer; Hecate-Bannister; Witches-Parsons
, Edwin, Baddeley; Lady-Mrs Poussin; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Massey.  *aBuxom Joan.  As
 25 June.  *s[With the%original musick [by $Matthew Locke=%-Bannister, Brett, Ba
ker, Legg, Battishill, Simkinson, Burton, Steel, Offild, Mrs Hitchcock, Mrs Jewe
ll, Mrs Love, Mrs Mapples, Mrs Brett, Mrs Poussin, Miss Hale, Miss Morris, Miss 
Twist, Mrs Webb.  *cMainpiece: Never acted here.  *p8 hay The Spanish Barber.  A
s 11 June.  *aThe Flitch of Bacon.  As 19 Aug.  *dAs 24 June.  *cTickets deliver
ed by $Hussey=, $Jackson=, $Stevens=, $Kenny= and $Brownsmith= will be admitted.
  *p9 hay Macbeth.  As 7 Sept.  *aThe Flitch of Bacon.  As 19 Aug.  *sAs 7 Sept.
  *p10 hay The Suicide.  As 11 July.  *aThe Englishman in Paris.  Buck-Palmer; S
ir J. Buck-Gardner; Classick-Usher; Subtle-Massey; Mrs Subtle-Mrs Love; Lucinda 
(with a +song=)-Miss Harper (1st appearance in that character).  *dEnd: +Dance=-
; In II afterpiece: a +Minuet=-Harris, Miss Harper.  *e[+Monologue=% Following 1
st dance: [+The Picture of a Playhouse=; or,% +Bucks have at ye All=-Palmer.  *c
Benefit for $Palmer=.  +Morning Chronicle=, 5 Sept.: Tickets to be had of Palmer
 at his house, +Bow-street=, +Bloomsbury=.  Afterpiece: Never performed here.  *
p11 hay The Spanish Barber.  As 11 June.  *aThe Flitch of Bacon.  As 19 Aug.  *d
As 24 June.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  *p12 hay The Suicide.  As 11 Ju
ly.  *aThe Flitch of Bacon.  As 19 Aug.  *dAs 24 June.  *c[Mainpiece in place of
 +The Provoked Husband=, announced on playbill of 11 Sept.]  *p14 hay Bonduca.  
As 30 July.  *aThe Flitch of Bacon.  As 19 Aug.  *p15 hay The Suicide.  As 11 Ju
ly.  *aThe Flitch of Bacon.  As 19 Aug.  *dAs 24 June.  *cThe last Night this Se
ason.  *p16 hay The Suicide.  As 11 July.  *aThe Flitch of Bacon.  As 19 Aug.  *
dAs 24 June.  *c[Extra night] By Permission [of the +Lord Chamberlain=].  Benefi
t for $Miss Farren=.  *p1778 9 17 dl The Merry Wives of Windsor.  Mr Ford-Smith;
 Sir Hugh Evans-Parsons; Doctor Caius-Baddeley; Mr Page-Packer; Host of the Gart
er-Moody; Justice Shallow-Waldron; Fenton-Farren; Simple-Burton; Bardolph-Wright
; Pistol-Holcroft; Rugby-Carpenter; Page to Falstaff-Master Pulley; Slender-Dodd
; Falstaff-Henderson; Mrs Page-Miss Pope; Ann Page-Mrs Colles; Mrs Quickly-Mrs B
radshaw; Mrs Ford-Miss Younge.  *aComus.  Comus-Webster; 1st Spirit-Aickin; Brot
hers-Farren, Lamash; Principal Bacchanals-Bannister, Gaudry; The Lady-Mrs Sharp;
 Pastoral Nymph-Miss Collett; Sabrina-Miss Field; Principal Bacchant-Mrs Farrell
; Euphrosyne-Mrs Farrell.  *sIn afterpiece: +Sweet Echo=-Leoni, Mrs Farrell (of 
+cg=).  *c"This may be called the Coalition Season, the Actors of both Theatres 
playing at either house indiscriminately" (MS annotation by $J. P. Kemble= on +K
emble playbill=).  Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places fo
r 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).  *phay King Lear.  King Lear-Digges; Bastard-West; Ke
nt-Gardner; Gloster-Mitchell; Gentleman Usher-Blissett; Albany-Taylor; Burgundy-
Turner; Cornwall-Davis; Edgar-Dimond (from the $Theatre-Royal, Bath=); Goneril-M
rs Lefevre; Regan-Mrs West; Cordelia-Mrs Massey.  *aThe Gentle Shepherd.  Bauldy
-Blissett; Sir William Worthy-Mitchell; Jenny-A Young Lady (4th appearance on an
y stage [unidentified]); Peggy-Mrs Hitchcock.  *mAfterpiece: [With the% Scots Mu
sick [incidental to the Piece%-.  *cBy Permission of the +Lord Chamberlain=.  Be
nefit for $Digges=.  Mainpiece: Never acted here.  [$Barry= had acted +King Lear
=r at this theatre on 15 July 1767, and $Ross= on 18 June 1770.]  Afterpiece: Al
tered into 3 acts.  *p18 cg Rose and Colin.  [Characters by Mrs Farrell, Reinhol
d, Baker, Mrs Pitt, Miss Brown.  [Cast from text ($G. Kearsly=, 1778):% Colin-Mr
s Farrell; Gregory-Reinhold; Higgins-Baker [in text: $Fearon=]; Goody Fidget-Mrs
 Pitt; Rose-Miss Brown.  *aShe Wou'd and She Wou'd Not.  Don Manuel-Dunstall; Do
n Philip-Wroughton; Don Octavio-Whitfield; Don Louis-Booth; Trappanti-Lee Lewes;
 Flora-Mrs Lessingham; Rosara-Miss Leeson; Viletta-Mrs Pitt; Hyppolita-Mrs Bulkl
ey.  *aThe Wives Revenged.  [Characters by Mattocks, Wilson, Quick, Miss Weller,
 Mrs Morton, Mrs Mattocks.]  [Cast from text ($G. Kearsly=, 1778):% Mr Vermilion
-Mattocks; Alderman Tokay-Wilson; Deputy Dimity-Quick; Mrs Dimity-Miss Weller; M
rs Tokay-Mrs Morton; Mrs Vermilion-Mrs Mattocks.  *c1st piece [1st time; CO I, b
y $Charles Dibdin=, based on +Rose et Colas=, by $Michel Jean Sedaine=].  3rd pi
ece [1st time; CO I, by Charles Dibdin, based on +Les Femmes Vengees=, by $Miche
l Jean Sedaine=]: With new Scenery [+Public Advertiser=, 19 Sept.: by $Richards=
] and Decorations.  Both the Musical Pieces, with new Overtures, composed by Dib
din.  Books of the new Musical Pieces to be had at the Theatre.  Places for the 
Boxes to be taken of $Brandon= (only) at the Stage Door.  No Money to be taken a
t the Stage Door, nor any Money to be returned after the Curtain is drawn up.  B
oxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s.  The Doors to be opened at 5:
15.  To begin at 6:15 [see 21 Sept.].  +Public Advertiser=, 18 Sept.: This After
noon at Three will be published +Rose and Colin= and +The Wives Revenged= (each 
6d.).  "At this season of the year the little company upon the Ton, who are in t
own, seldom rise from the table till after the beginning of the play; in order, 
therefore, to obviate the disturbance that the fracas in the boxes usually makes
 towards the close of the first act, or the beginning of the second, this comic 
opera [Rose and Colin] was prefaced.  It at the same time affords these late com
ers an opportunity of seeing the play [i.e. the mainpiece] complete" (+Town and 
Country Magazine=, Sept. 1778, p.453).  *phay The Provoked Husband.  Lord Townly
-Digges; Manly-Usher; Count Basset-Taylor; Squire Richard-Everard; John Moody-Ma
ssey; James-Davis; Poundage-Brownsmith; Constable-Summers; Sir Francis Wronghead
-Blissett; Lady Grace-Mrs Hitchcock; Lady Wronghead-Mrs Standen; Miss Jenny-A Yo
ung Lady (5th appearance on any stage [unidentified]); Mrs Motherly-Mrs Everard;
 Trusty-Mrs W?. Palmer; Lady Townly-Miss Farren.  *aPiety in Pattens.  Butler-Us
her; The Squire-Everard; Mrs Candy-Mrs W. Palmer; Polly Pattens-Mrs Jewell.  *cB
y Permission [of the +Lord Chamberlain=].  Benefit for $Mrs Jewell=.  The out-st
anding Tickets of $Jewell='s, for September the 2d, will be admitted.  *p19 dl H
amlet.  Hamlet-Henderson; King-Packer; Horatio-Farren; Polonius-Baddeley; Laerte
s-Aickin; Rosencraus-Davies; Guildenstern-Lamash; Marcellus-Wrighten; Player Kin
g-Chambers; Lucianus-Waldron; Messenger-Wright; Bernardo-Griffiths; Francisco-No
rris; Ghost-Palmer; Queen-Mrs Hopkins; Player Queen-Mrs Johnston [+Public Advert
iser=: $Mrs Colles=]; Ophelia-Mrs Robinson.  *aThe Irish Widow.  Whittle-Parsons
; Sir Patrick O'Neale-Moody; Nephew-Davies; Bates-Baddeley; Thomas-Burton; Kecks
ey-Dodd; Widow Brady (with an +Epilogue Song=)-Miss Walpole.  *dEnd I afterpiece
: +Minuet de la Cour=-the Miss Stageldoirs; [with the% +Allemande=-the Miss Stag
eldoirs.  *cMainpiece: With alterations [by $David Garrick=].  Receipts: #157 14
s. 6d. (119.16.0; 37.14.0; 0.4.6).  *p21 cg Rose and Colin.  As 18 Sept.  *aKing
 Henry the Fifth.  Henry-W?. Smith (of +dl=); Archbishop of Canterbury-Hull; Exe
ter-L'Estrange; Capt. Jamy-Dunstall; Capt. Fluellin-Wilson; Pistol-Quick; King o
f France-Fearon; Dauphin-Whitfield; High Constable-Clarke; Queen of France-Mrs P
oussin; Hostess-Mrs Pitt; Catherine-Mrs Mattocks.  *aThe Wives Revenged.  As 18 
Sept.  *dEnd: +The Shepherd's Wedding=-Harris, Miss Matthews.  *cThe Doors to be
 opened at 5:30.  To begin at 6:30 [see 19 Oct.].  *p22 dl The First Part of Kin
g Henry IV.  Hotspur-Smith; King Henry-Bensley; Worcester-Aickin; Sir Richard Ve
rnon-Farren; Northumberland-Packer; Sir W. Blunt-Fawcett; Prince John-Lamash; We
stmoreland-Wrighten; Douglas-Chaplin; Poins-R. Palmer; Carriers-Mofdy, Parsons; 
Francas-Waldron; Bardolph-Wright; Prince of Wales-Palmer; Falstaff-Henderson; Ho
stess-Mrs Bradshaw; Lady Piercy-Mrs Cuyler.  *aComus.  As 17 Sept.  *dEnd II: As
 19 Sept.  *sAs 17 Sept.  *cReceipts: #170 3s. (135.0; 35.1; 0.2).  *p23 cg Rose
 and Colin.  As 18 Sept.  *aThe Suspicious Husband.  Ranger-Lewis; Strictland-Cl
arke; Jack Meggot-Lee Lewes; Bellamy-Whitfield; Tester-Wewitzer; Frankly-Wrought
on; Mrs Strictland-Mrs Mattocks; Jacintha-Mrs Lessingham; Lucetta-Mrs Green; Cla
rinda-Miss Farren [1st appearance on this stage].  *aThe Wives Revenged.  As 18 
Sept.  *dAs 21 Sept.  *c[$Miss Farren= was from the +hay=.  And see +dl=, 8 Oct.
]  *p24 dl Macbeth.  Macbeth-Smith; Macduff-Brereton; Duncan-Chambers; Ross-Aick
in; Malcolm-Davies; Banquo-Packer; Lenox-Norris; Donalbain-R. Palmer; Captain-Wr
ighten; Angus-Chaplin; Seward-Hurst; Doctor-Wright; Seyton-Griffiths; Hecate-Ban
nister; Witches-Parsons, Moody, Baddeley; Lady Macduff-Miss Sherry; Lady Macbeth
-Miss Younge.  *aComus.  As 17 Sept.  *sAfterpiece: As 17 Sept.; [With the% orig
inal Music [by $Matthew Locke= with full Chorusses and Additional Accompaniments
,%-Bannister, Gaudry, Legg, Chaplin, Fawcett, Carpenter,Holcroft, Philimore, Ken
ny, Miss Simson, Miss Abrams, Mrs Love, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Smith, Miss Kirby, Mrs
 Gaudry, Miss Collett.  *cReceipts: #153 11s. 6d. (115.13.0; 37.12.0; 0.6.6) (or
ders and free: #32 17s.).  *p25 cg Rose and Colin.  As 18 Sept.  *aThe Provok'd 
Wife.  Sir John Brute-Digges (1st appearance on this stage); Heartfree-Aickin; C
ol. Bully (with a +song=)-Mattocks; Razor-Brunsdon; Ld. Rake-Robson; Constant-Wr
oughton; Lady Fanciful-Mrs Mattocks; Belinda-Miss Leeson; Mademoiselle-Mrs Lessi
ngham; Lady Brute (1st time)-Mrs Jackson.  *aThe Wives Revenged.  As 18 Sept.  *
dEnd: +The Merry Sailors=-Aldridge.  *c[$Digges= was from the +hay=.]  *p26 dl A
s You Like It.  Touchstone-King; Orlando-Brereton; Duke Senior-Hurst; Duke Frede
rick-Chaplin; Oliver-Packer; Amiens (with +songs=)-Davies; Corin-Waldron; Jaques
 de Bois-Lamash; Silvius-R. Palmer; William-Burton; Le Beau-Philimore; Charles-W
righten; Adam-Moody; Jaques-Palmer; Caelia-Mrs Sharp; Phoebe-Miss Kirby; Audrey-
Mrs Bradshaw; Rosalind-Miss Younge.  *aComus.  As 17 Sept.  *dEnd I: [comic danc
e,% +The Cow@keeper=-Master Mills, Miss Grimaldi.  *sAfterpiece: As 17 Sept.; V:
 +song=-Miss Abrams.  *cPaid $Smith= 1 night extra playing at +Covent Garden= [o
n 21 Sept.] #2 12s. 6d.; Lampmen #4 10s.; Supernumeraries #5 5s.  [Afterpiece in
 place of +The Padlock=, announced on playbill of 24 Sept.]  Receipts: #148 2s. 
6d. (111.6.0; 36.12.0; 0.4.6).  *p28 cg King Lear.  King Lear-Digges; Gloster-Hu
ll; Bastard-Aickin; Kent-Clarke; Albany-L'Estrange; Cornwall-Thompson; Gentleman
 Usher-Brunsdon; Burgundy-Robson; Edgar-Lewis; Goneril (1st time)-Miss Platt; Re
gan-Miss Ambrose; Arante-Miss Green; Cordelia-Miss Younge (of +dl=).  *aPoor Vul
can!.  [Characters by Quick, Mattocks, Reinhold, Robson, Leoni, Mrs Morton, Miss
 Brown.  Cast from text ($G. Kearsly=, 1778):% Vulcan, Crump-Quick; Jupiter, Stu
d-Mattocks; Mars, Pike-Reinhold; Apollo, Wiseman-Robson; Adonis, Joe-Leoni; Grac
e-Miss Dayes [i.e. later $Mrs Morton=]; Venus, Maudlin-Miss Brown [all the chara
cters, except +Grace=r, are alternately Gods and mortals].  *cBooks of the Burle
tta to be had at the Theatre.  *p29 dl The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth.
  Falstaff-Henderson; King Henry-Bensley; Prince of Wales-Palmer; Chief Justice-
Aickin; Archbishop of York-Packer; Prince John-Lamash; Gloster-Mrs Colles; Clare
nce-Miss Collett; Westmoreland-Farren; Mowbray-Hurst; Hastings-Wrighten; Justice
 Silence-Parsons; Pistol-Baddeley; Poins-R. Palmer; Bardolph-Wright; Davy-Waldro
n; Page-Master Pulley; Justice Shallow-Yates; Hostess-Mrs Bradshaw; Doll Tearshe
et-Mrs Davies.  *aThe Padlock.  Leander-Vernon; Don Diego-Bannister; Mungo-Quick
 (of +cg=); Ursula-Mrs Love; Leonora-Miss Brown (of +cg=).  *dEnd IV: +The Irish
 Fair=-the Miss Stageldoirs.  *cReceipts: #157 4s. 6d. (122.18.0; 34.6.6; 0.0.0)
.  *p30 cg The Wives Revenged.  As 18 Sept.  *aThe Provok'd Husband.  Lord Townl
y-Digges; Manly-Clarke; Squire Richard-Wewitzer; J. Moody-Dunstall; Count Basset
-Lee Lewes; Sir F. Wronghead (1st time)-Wilson; Lady Grace-Mrs Lessingham; Lady 
Wronghead-Mrs Pitt; Miss Jenny (with a +song=)-Mrs Wilson; Lady Townly-Miss Farr
en.  *aRose and Colin.  As 18 Sept.  *dAs 25 Sept.  *p10 1 dl The Battle of Hast
ings.  Edgar Atheling-Henderson; Earl Edwin-Palmer; Earl Waltheof-Brereton; Earl
 of Northumberland-Aickin; Earl of Mercia-Norris; Siffric-R. Palmer; Raymond-Wri
ghten; Reginald-Chaplin; Duncan-Chambers; Harold-Bensley; Matilda-Miss Younge; S
abina-Mrs Colles; Edwina-Mrs Yates.  *aHarlequin's Invasion.  Harlequin-Wright; 
Mercury-Davies; Snip-Parsons; Simon-Moody; Gasconade-Baddeley; Corporal Bounce-C
arpenter; Abram-Waldron; Justice-Wrighten; Forge-Griffiths; Bogg-Holcroft; Taffy
-Burton; Old Woman-Mr Davies [i.e. doubled +Mercury=r]; Mrs Snip-Mrs Bradshaw; S
ukey Chitterlin-Mrs Davies; Dolly Snip-Miss Pope.  *cAccount-Book, 22 Sept.: Pai
d Renters' Interest #8 [this paid daily].  Receipts: #158 2s. (129.17; 26.16; 1.
9).  *p2 cg Annette and Lubin.  [Characters by Mrs Farrell, Wilson, Fearon, Miss
 Brown.  [Cast from text ($G. Kearsly=, 1778):% Lubin-Mrs Farrell; Bailiff-Wilso
n; Lord of the Manor-Fearon; Annette-Miss Brown.  *aThe Busy Body.  Marplot-Lewi
s; Sir George Airy-Wroughton; Charles-Whitfield; Sir Jealous Traffic-Dunstall; S
ir Francis Gripe-Quick; Whisper-Cushing; Scentwell-Mrs Poussin; Isabinda-Mrs Les
singham; Patch-Mrs Pitt; Miranda-Mrs Mattocks.  *aCross Purposes.  Grub-Wilson; 
Chapeau-Lee Lewes; George Bevil-Whitfield; Consol-Jones; Robin-Wewitzer; H. Bevi
l-Booth; F. Bevil-Thompson; Emily-Miss Ambrose; Mrs Grub-Mrs Green.  *c1st piece
 [1st time; CO I, by $Charles Dibdin=, based on +Annette et Lubin=, by $Charles 
Simon Favart= and $Jean Baptiste Lourdet de Santerre=.  Music by the author].  B
ooks of the new Musical Piece to be had at the Theatre.  +Public Advertiser=, 2 
Oct.: This Afternoon at Four is published Annette and Lubin (6d.).  *p3 dl A Sch
ool for Fathers.  Lionel-Webster; Col. Oldboy-Parsons; Sir John Flowerdale-Aicki
n; Jenkins-Bannister; Harman-Davies; Jessamy-Dodd; Diana-Mrs Wrighten; Lady Mary
 Oldboy-Mrs Hopkins; Jenny-Mrs Davies; Clarissa-Mrs Baddeley.  *aThe Lyar.  Youn
g Wilding-Palmer; Old Wilding-Chambers; Sir James Elliot-Davies; Papillion-Burto
n; Miss Godfrey-Mrs Colles; Kitty-Mrs Johnston; Miss Grantham-Mrs Davies.  *dEnd
: [dance (composed by $Zuchelli=), +The Strength of Love=% +The Force of Love=-S
g and Sga Zuchelli (1st appearance on this stage), Henry, Sga Crespi.  [On 8 Oct
. this was entitled +The Power of Love=, on 13 Oct. and thereafter +The Force of
 Love=.]  *c[The ballet had 1st been performed at King's, 7 Dec. 1776.  $Sg and 
Sga Zuchelli= were from King's.]  Receipts: #160 14s. (125.13; 34.5; 0.16).  *p5
 cg Annette and Lubin.  As 2 Oct.  *aKing Richard the Third.  King Richard-Hende
rson (of +dl=); King Henry-Clarke; Richmond-Wroughton; Buckingham-Hull; Stanley-
Fearon; Tressel-A Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [Burghall]); Prince Edw
ard-Miss Morris; Duke of York-Mast. Pulley; Norfolk-Booth; Lieutenant-L'Estrange
; Duchess of York-Miss Platt; Lady Ann-Mrs Jackson; Queen-Mrs Mattocks.  *aPolly
 Honeycombe.  Mr Honeycombe-Quick; Scribble-Lee Lewes; Ledger-Booth; Mrs Honeyco
mbe-Mrs Pitt; Nurse-Mrs Poussin; Polly Honeycombe-Mrs Wilson.  *c[$Burghall= is 
identified by MS annotation on +BM playbill=.]  *p6 dl The School for Scandal.  
Sir Peter Teazle-King; Sir Oliver Surface-Yates; Joseph Surface-Palmer; Sir Benj
amin Backbite-Dodd; Crabtree-Parsons; Rowley-Aickin; Moses-Baddeley; Snake-Packe
r; Careless-Farren; Trip-Lamash; Charles-Smith; Mrs Candour-Miss Pope; Maria-Mrs
 Brereton; Lady Sneerwell-Miss Sherry; Lady Teazle-Mrs Abington.  *aThe Quaker. 
 Lubin-Vernon; Solomon-Parsons; Easy-Wrighten; Steady-Bannister; Gillian-Miss Wa
lpole; Cicely-Mrs Love; Floretta-Mrs Wrighten.  *sIII: +song=-Vernon.  *cAfterpi
ece: The Music composed by $Dibdin=.  Receipts: #281 5s. 6d. (265.19.0; 15.3.0; 
0.3.6).  *p7 cg Annette and Lubin.  As 2 Oct.  *aA Bold Stroke for a Wife.  Col.
 Feignwell (1st time)-Lee Lewes; Obadiah Prim-Wilson; Sir Philip Modelove-Booth;
 Periwinkle-Quick; Tradelove-Dunstall; Freeman-Whitfield; Sackbut-Fearon; Simon 
Pure-Wewitzer; Mrs Prim-Mrs Pitt; Mask'd Lady-Mrs Willems; Ann Lovely-Mrs Mattoc
ks.  *aThe Wives Revenged.  As 18 Sept.  *dAs 21 Sept.  *cMainpiece: Not acted t
hese 4 years.  *p8 dl The West Indian.  Belcour-King; Stockwell-Aickin; Major O'
Flaherty-Moody; Captain Dudley-Packer; Charles Dudley-Brereton; Fulmer-Baddeley;
 Varland-Parsons; Lady Rusport-Mrs Hopkins; Louisa Dudley (1st time)-Mrs Brereto
n; Housekeeper-Mrs Bradshaw; Lucy-Mrs Love; Mrs Fulmer-Miss Sherry; Charlotte Ru
sport-Miss Farren (1st appearance on this stage).  *aQueen Mab.  Harlequin-Wrigh
t; Pantaloon-Grimaldi; Clod-Carpenter; Silvio-Burton; Meagre-R. Palmer; Fat Cook
-Griffiths; Watchman-Holcroft; Farmer-Chaplin; Queen Mab-Miss Abrams; Colombine-
Miss Collett.  *dEnd II: [+The Power of Love=% +The Force of Love=, as 3 Oct.  *
cMainpiece: Not acted these 2 years.  Afterpiece: With Alterations and Additions
; to conclude with a grand View of +Greenwich Hospital=, designed by $DeLoutherb
ourg=.  [This was included in all subsequent performances.  $Miss Farren= was fr
om the +hay=.  And see +cg=, 23 Sept.]  Receipts: #190 4s. [161.6; 28.14; 0.4). 
 *p9 cg Annette and Lubin.  As 2 Oct.  *aAll in the Wrong.  Sir John Restless-Le
e Lewes; Sir William Belmont-L'Estrange; Young Belmont-Whitfield; Mr Blandford-F
earon; Robert-Booth; Brush-Wewitzer; Beverly-Lewis; Lady Restless-Mrs Mattocks; 
Clarissa-Mrs Morton; Tippet-Mrs Whitfield; Marmalet-Mrs Willems; Tattle-Mrs Pitt
; Belinda (1st time)-Miss Farren.  *aThe Old Maid.  Clerimont-Wroughton; Capt. C
ape-Dunstall; Harlow-Whitfield; Mrs Harlow-Mrs Lessingham; Miss Harlow-Mrs Green
.  *dAs 25 Sept.  *p10 dl The School for Scandal.  As 6 Oct.  *aThe Deserter.  H
enry-Vernon; Russet-Bannister; Simkin-Carpenter; Flint-Wright; Skirmish-Parsons;
 Jenny-Mrs Wrighten; Margaret-Mrs Love; Louisa-Miss Collett.  *sAs 6 Oct.  *cRec
eipts: #262 14s. (237.18.0; 24.4.6; 0.11.6).  *p12 cg Annette and Lubin.  As 2 O
ct.  *aHamlet.  Hamlet-Reddish (1st appearance on this stage); King-Clarke; Ghos
t-Aickin; Horatio-Hull; Laertes-Whitfield; Ostrick-Lee Lewes; Polonius-Quick; Gr
ave@Diggers-Dunstall, Jones; Queen-Mrs Jackson; Ophelia-Mrs Mattocks.  *aThe Wiv
es Revenged.  As 18 Sept.  *c[$Reddish= was from +dl=.]  *p13 dl Love for Love. 
 Valentine-Henderson; Sir Sampson Legend-Moody; Scandal-Bensley; Foresight-Parso
ns; Ben-Yates; Jeremy-Baddeley; Trapland-Waldron; Tattle-King; Angelica-Miss You
nge; Mrs Frail-Miss Pope; Mrs Foresight-Miss Sherry; Miss Prue-Mrs Abington.  *a
Selima and Azor.  Azor-Vernon; Ali-Dodd; Scander-Bannister; Fatima-Miss Collett;
 Liesbia-Miss Abrams; Selima-Mrs Baddeley.  *dEnd: +The Force of Love=, as 3 Oct
.  *cReceipts: #219 16s. 6d. (187.9.0; 32.0.6; 0.7.0).  *p14 cg Know Your Own Mi
nd.  Millamour-Lewis; Malvil-Wroughton; Bygrove-Aickin; Sir Harry Lizard-Whitfie
ld; Sir John-Fearon; Capt. Bygrove-Booth; Dashwou'd-Lee Lewes; Miss Neville-Miss
 Leeson; Mrs Bromley-Mrs Jackson; Lady Jane-Mrs Morton; La Rouge-Miss Ambrose; L
ady Bell-Mrs Mattocks.  *aThe Medley; or, Harlequin At-All.  Principal Character
s-Garland, Rayner, Delpini, Messink, Cushing, Thompson, Stevens, Ledger, Brunsdo
n, Wewitzer, Jones, Mahon, Baker, Painter, R.? Smith, Miss Matthews, Miss Ross, 
Mrs White, Sga Tinte.  *dAfterpiece: [The% +dances=-Aldridge, Dagueville, Miss V
alois.  [These were danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent Performances.]  
*c[Mainpiece in place of +The Recruiting Officer=, announced on playbill of 12 O
ct.]  Afterpiece [1st time; P 2(?), by $James Messink=.  Not in +Larpent MS=; sy
nopsis of action in +London Chronicle=, 15 Oct.]: The Scenes partly new and part
ly compiled from $Rich='s Pantomimes [i.e. +The Rape of Proserpine=, +Perseus an
d Andromeda=, +Apollo and Daphne=, all three written by $Lewis Theobald= (+Morni
ng Chronicle=, 15 Oct.)].  The new Music by $Dibdin=.  The new Scenes painted by
 $Carver=.  *p15 dl Braganza.  Velasquez-Smith; Almada-Aickin; Ribiro-Palmer; Me
ndoza-Farren; Lemos-Chaplin; Corea-Hurst; Roderic-Wright; Mello-R. Palmer; Pizar
ro-Davies; Ramirez-Packer; Antonio-Wrighten; Ferdinand-Griffiths; Duke of Bragan
za-Brereton; Ines-Mrs Johnston; Dutchess of Braganza-Mrs Yates.  *aThe Camp.  [P
rincipal Characters by Webster, Moody, Parsons, Bannister, Baddeley, Carpenter, 
Wrighten, Burton, Fawcett, Dodd; Mrs Robinson, Mrs Cuyler, Miss Farren, Mrs Love
, Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Booth, Miss Kirby, Mrs Wrighten, Miss Walpole.% +Prologue=-P
almer; [This was spoken, as here assigned, at the first 46 performances, except 
on 9, 10, 17, 18 Nov. (see 9 Feb. 1779).] [Cast from +Morning Chronicle=, 16 Oct
.:% Corporal [later called +William=r]-Webster; O'Daub-Moody; Gage-Parsons; Serj
eant-Bannister; Mons Bluard-Baddeley; Recruits-Carpenter, Fawcett, Holcroft, Cha
plin; Countrymen-Wrighten, Burton, Waldron; Sir Charles Plume [later called +Sir
 Harry Bouquet=r]-Dodd; Commander@in@Chief at the Camp-Farren; Officers of Regim
ents-R. Palmer, Lamash, Kenny; Lady Plume-Mrs Robinson; Lady Gorget-Mrs Cuyler; 
Lady Sash-Miss Farren; Countrywomen-Mrs Love, Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Booth, Miss Kirb
y; Nell-Mrs Wrighten; Nancy-Miss Walpole.  *cAfterpiece [1st time; M. ENT 2, by 
$Richard Brinsley Sheridan= (also attributed to Richard Tickell).  Prologue by $
Richard Tickell= (+London Chronicle=, 23 Oct.).  Text 1st published probably by 
$T. Lowndes=, 1795]: To conclude with a perspective Representation of the +Grand
 Camp at Cox-Heath=v [near +Maidstone=, +Kent=, where a military encampment had 
been in existence for several months], from a View taken by $DeLoutherbourg= and
 executed under his direction.  [This was included in all subsequent performance
s.]  With a New Overture and other Music [by $Thomas Linley Sen=.].  New Scenery
, Dresses and Decorations.  Account-Book, 16 Oct.: Paid Supernumeraries & Soldie
rs for Camp #35 5s. 6d.  Receipts: #266 0s. 6d. (258.16.0; 6.18.0; 0.6.6).  *pcg
 The Recruiting Officer.  Capt. Plume-Lewis; Justice Ballance-Hull; Worthy-Whitf
ield; Serjeant Kite-Fearon; Bullock-Dunstall; Recruits-Quick, Jones; Capt. Braze
n-Lee Lewes; Melinda-Miss Ambrose; Rose-Mrs Morton; Lucy-Mrs Pitt; Sylvia-Mrs Le
ssingham.  *aThe Medley.  As 14 Oct.  *p16 dl Hamlet.  As 19 Sept., but Horatio 
(1st time)-Davies; Rosencraus-R. Palmer; Player King-Hurst; Bernardo-Philimore. 
 *aThe Camp.  As 15 Oct.  *c[Mainpiece in place of +Romeo and Juliet=, announced
 on playbill of 15 Oct.]  The Doors to be opened at 5:15.  To begin at 6:15 [see
 7 May 1779].  Receipts: #224 7s. 6d. (190.17.0; 33.2.6; 0.8.0).  *pcg King Henr
y the Eighth.  King Henry-Clarke; Buckingham-Wroughton; Crammer-Hull; Lord Chamb
erlain-Lee Lewes; Cromwell-Farren; Gardiner-Wilson; Lord Sands-Quick; Norfolk-Pe
ile; Suffolk-Booth; Abergavenny-R.? Smith; Cardinal Wolsey-Digges; Anne Bullen-M
rs Morton; Patience (with a +song=)-Mrs Farrell; Queen Catherine-Miss Younge (of
 +dl=).  *aThe Medley.  As 14 Oct.  *dI: [The Banquet, with% +Dancing=-Daguevill
e, Sga Tinte.  *cIn Act IV of mainpiece the +Procession from the Abbey=v at the 
+Coronation of Anne Bullen=v.  [+Abergavenny=r is not listed in playbill, but is
 referred to in review of the performance in +Morning Chronicle=, 28 Oct.]  *p17
 dl The Merchant of Venice.  Shylock-Henderson; Antonio-Bensley; Gratiano-Dodd; 
Lorenzo (with +songs=)-Vernon; Launcelot-Parsons; Duke-Packer; Bassanio-Palmer; 
Jessica (with a +song=)-Mrs Morton (of +cg=); Nerissa-Mrs Davies; Portia-Miss Yo
unge.  *aThe Camp.  As 15 Oct.  *dEnd III: +The Force of Love=, as 3 Oct.  *cPai
d a suit of Gold Embroidered Mens Cloaths #22 1s.  Receipts: #225 12s. (193.8; 3
1.15; 0.9).  *pcg The Beggar's Opera.  Macheath-Mrs Farrell; Peachum-Wilson; Loc
kit-Dunstall; Filch-Wewitzer; Mat o' the Mint-Baker; Lucy (1st time)-Miss Weller
; Diana Trapes-Mrs White; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Pitt; Mrs Slammekin-Mrs Green; Polly-M
iss Brown.  *aThe Medley.  As 14 Oct.  *dIII: [a% +hornpipe=-Miss Matthews.  *p1
9 dl The Way of the World.  Mirabell-Smith; Fainall-Bensley; Sir Wilful Witwou'd
-Yates; Petulant-Baddeley; Waitwell-Parsons; Witwou'd-King; Lady Wishfor't-Mrs H
opkins; Marwood-Miss Sherry; Mrs Fainall-Mrs Sharp; Foible-Miss Pope; Mincing-Mi
ss Collett; Millimant-Mrs Abington.  *aThe Camp.  As 15 Oct.  *cReceipts: #251 7
s. 6d. (230.10.0; 19.13.6; 1.4.0).  *pcg King Lear.  As 28 Sept.  *aThe Medley. 
 As 14 Oct.  *cThe Doors to be opened at 5:15.  To begin at 6:15 [see 27 Oct.]. 
 *p20 dl Measure for Measure.  Duke-Smith; Angelo-Palmer; Claudio-Brereton; Esca
lus-Aickin; Clown-Parsons; Provost-Davies; Elbow-Wright; Fryar Peter-Chambers; B
arnardine-Wrighten; Abhorson-Carpenter; Lucio-King; Mariana-Mrs Sharp; Juliet-Mr
s Colles; Francisca-Mrs Johnston; Mrs Over@done-Mrs Bradshaw; Isabella-Mrs Yates
.  *aThe Camp.  As 15 Oct.  *cReceipts:  #226 18s. 6d. (197.0.0; 29.8.0; 0.10.6)
.  *p21 dl The Clandestine Marriage.  Lord Ogleby-King; Sterling-Parsons; Sir Jo
hn Melvil-Bensley; Lovewell-Brereton; Serjeant Flower-Wrighten; Traverse-Hurst; 
Trueman-Norris; Canton-Baddeley; Brush-Palmer; Miss Sterling-Miss Pope; Fanny-Mr
s Baddeley; Chambermaid-Mrs Davies; Betty-Mrs Love; Mrs Heidelberg-Mrs Hopkins. 
 *aThe Camp.  As 15 Oct.  *cReceipts: #218 10s. 6d. (194.14.0; 23.5.0; 0.11.6). 
 *pcg The Wives Revenged.  As 18 Sept.  *aThe Twin Rivals.  Elder Wou'dbe-Wrough
ton; Young Wou'dbe-Lee Lewes; Richmore-Whitefield; Teague-Egan; Alderman-Dunstal
l; Fairbank-Fearon; Clearaccount-L'Estrange; Poet-Jones; Subtleman-Wewitzer; Bal
derdash-Booth; Trueman-Lewis; Constance-Mrs Jackson; Mrs Clearaccount-Mrs Poussi
n; Mrs Midnight-Mrs Pitt; Aurelia-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [Mis
s Smith]).  *aAnnette and Lubin.  As 2 Oct.  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 9 year
s.  [$Miss Smith= is identified by MS annotation on +Kemble playbill=.]  *p22 dl
 The School for Scandal.  As 6 Oct.  *aThe Waterman.  Tugg-Bannister; Bundle-Dav
ies; Robin-Lamash; Wilhelmina-Miss Simson; Mrs Bundle-Mrs Wrighten.  *dAs 13 Oct
.  *sAs 6 Oct.  *cAfterpiece: To conclude with a grand +Representation of a Rega
tta=v.  Receipts: #206 5s. (190.2; 16.3; 0.0).  *pcg Caractacus.  Caractacus-Dig
ges (1st appearance in that character); Arviragus-Lewis; Elidurus-Wroughton; Vel
linus-Whitfield; Aulus Didius-Peile; Modred-Aickin; Chief Bard-Hull; Bards-L'Est
range, Fearon; Evelina-Miss Farren (1st appearance in that character); Principal
 Vocal Parts-Leoni, Reinhold, Mrs Farrell.  *aThe Norwood Gypsies.  Principal Ch
aracters-Garland, Rayner, Delpini, Messink, Miss Matthews, Miss Cranfield, Mrs M
orton, Sga Tinte.[For parts see 6 May 1780.]  *dIn afterpiece: Dagueville, Langr
ish, Miss Lings, Miss Valois.  [These were the same in all subsequent performanc
es.]  *cAfterpiece: The Scenery, Machinery, &c. painted by $Carver=, $Greenwood=
 and $Garvey=.  The Overture and the rest of the Music composed by $Fisher=.  Bo
oks of the Songs to be had at the Theatre.  *p23 dl The Earl of Warwick.  Earl o
f Warwick-Smith; Earl of Suffolk-Packer; Earl of Pembroke-Aickin; Earl of Buckin
gham-Fawcett; King Edward-Palmer; Lady Elizabeth Gray-Mrs Baddeley; Lady Cliffor
d-Mrs Johnston; Margaret of Anjou-Mrs Yates.  *aThe Camp.  As 15 Oct.  *cMainpie
ce: Not acted these 4 years [acted 6 Feb. 1776].  Receipts: #216 6s. (191.2.0; 2
1.2.6; 4.1.6).  *pcg The Duenna.  Ferdinand-Mattocks; Isaac-Quick; Jerome-Wilson
; Lopez-Wewitzer; Father Paul-Mahon; Carlos-Leoni; Antonio-Vernon (of +dl=); Cla
ra-Miss Brown; Louisa-Mrs Mattocks; The Duenna-Mrs Green.  *aThe Apprentice.  Di
ck-Lewis; Wingate-Dunstall; Simon-Cushing; Gargle-Thompson; Charlotte-Mrs Morton
.  *dEnd: +La Soiree a la Mode=-Dagueville, Mast. Holland, Harris, Sga Tinte.  *
p24 dl The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth.  As 29 Sept.  *aThe Camp.  As 1
5 Oct.  *dEnd IV: +The Force of Love=, as 3 Oct.  *c+Twelfth Night= [announced o
n playbill of 23 Oct.] is obliged to be deferred on account of $Miss Younge='s s
udden Illness.  Receipts: #209 16s. 6d. (178.14.0; 30.14.6; 0.8.0).  *pcg Rose a
nd Colin.  As 18 Sept.  *aCymbeline.  Posthumus-Brereton [of +dl=]; Cloten-Lee L
ewes; Cymbeline-L'Estrange; Pisanio-Hull; Bellarius-Clarke; Guiderius-Wroughton;
 Arviragus-Whitfield; Caius Lucius-Fearon; Philario-Booth; Iachimo-[W.] Smith (o
f +dl=); Queen-Mrs Jackson; Imogen-Mrs Crawford [late $Mrs Barry=] (1st appearan
ce in that character [at this theatre]).  *aThe Dutiful Deception.  Sir Oliver B
eaufort-Wilson; Young Beaufort-Whitfield; Harrison-Lee Lewes; Betty-Mrs Morton; 
Clarissa-Mrs Whitfield.  *dEnd III: As 21 Sept.  *sII: [Masquerade Scene, with% 
+Singing=-Mrs Morton.  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 4 years.  [The playbill assi
gns +Posthumus=r to $Reddish=, but "On Saturday afternoon, at four o'Clock, Noti
ce was sent of the extreme illness of Reddish; and $Lewis= (on Application) find
ing it impossible to attempt the Character of Posthumus at that very short Notic
e [not having performed it for some Seasons) it was obligingly undertaken by $Br
ereton= of +Drury-Lane Theatre=" (+Public Advertiser=, 26 Oct.).  $Mrs Crawford=
, as $Mrs Barry=, had 1st acted +Imogen=r at +dl=, 1 Dec. 1770.]  *p26 dl King R
ichard the Third.  King Richard-Smith; Richmond-Palmer; Buckingham-Aickin; Tress
el-Davies; Lord Stanley-Chaplin; Norfolk-Hurst; Catesby-Packer; Ratcliffe-Wright
; Lieutenant-R. Palmer; Prince Edward-Miss Field; Duke of York-Master Pulley; Ki
ng Henry-Bensley; Lady Anne-Mrs Robinson; Dutchess of York-Mrs Johnston; Queen-M
rs Hopkins.  *aThe Camp.  As 15 Oct.  *cReceipts: #224 6s. 6d. (198.0.0; 25.11.6
; 0.15.0).  *pcg Romeo and Juliet.  Romeo-Wroughton; Capulet-Clarke; Friar Lawre
nce-Hull; Benvolio-Booth; Paris-Whitfield; Prince-Fearon; Balthasar-Robson; Tiba
lt-L'Estrange; Montague-Baker; Peter-Jones; Apothecary-Stevens; Mercutio-Lewis; 
Lady Capulet-Mrs Poussin; Nurse-Mrs Pitt; Juliet-Mrs Jackson.  *aThe Medley.  As
 14 Oct.  *dI: [a% Masquerade Scene [incident to the play%-; [and a% +Minuet=-Du
may, Mrs Jackson.  *sEnd IV: [the +Funeral Procession of Juliet=v, with the% +So
lemn Dirge= [Vocal Parts%-Mattocks, Reinhold, Baker, Miss Brown, Mrs Morton, Mis
s Valois, Mrs Willems.  *p27 dl Isabella; or, The Fatal Marriage.  Biron-Smith; 
Count Baldwin (1st time)-Packer; Carlos-Aickin; Belford-Chaplin; Sampson-Wrighte
n; Child-Master Pulley; Villeroy-Palmer; Nurse-Mrs Johnston; Isabella-Mrs Yates.
  *aThe Camp.  As 15 Oct.  *dAs 22 Sept.  *sIn III: [an% Epithalamium-; [with% +
Singing=-Miss Collett, Miss Abrams.  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 2 years.  Rece
ipts: #220 15s. 6d. (193.9.0; 26.15.0; 0.11.6).  *pcg The Maid of the Mill.  Lor
d Aimworth-Mattocks; Sir Harry Sycamore-Wilson; Giles-Reinhold; Mervin-Mahon; Fa
irfield-Hull; Ralph-Quick; Fanny-Miss Brown; Lady Sycamore-Mrs Pitt; Theodosia-M
rs Morton; Patty-Mrs Mattocks.  *aThe Norwood Gypsies.  As 22 Oct.  *cThe Doors 
to be opened at 5:30.  To begin at 6:30 [see 2 Nov.]  *p28 dl Every Man in his H
umour.  Kitely-Smith; Old Knowell-Aickin; Young Knowell-Brereton; Wellbred-Farre
n; Master Stephen-Dodd; Brainworm-Baddeley; Justice Clement-Parsons; Downright-H
urst; Cob-Moody; Master Mathew-Burton; Cash-R. Palmer; Formal-Wright; Captain Bo
badil-Henderson; Bridget-Mrs Brereton; Tib-Mrs Bradshaw; Mrs Kitely-Mrs Baddeley
.  *aThe Camp.  As 15 Oct.  *cReceipts: #209 2s. 6d. (186.10.0; 21.17.0; 0.15.6)
.  *pcg Tancred and Sigismunda.  Tancred-Lewis; Osmond-Clarke; Rhodolpho-L'Estra
nge; Officer-Thompson; Siffredi-Hull; Laura-Miss Ambrose; Sigismunda-Mrs Crawfor
d.  *aPoor Vulcan!.  As 28 Sept.  *dAs 23 Oct.  *cMainpiece: Written by $Thompso
n=.  *p29 dl The School for Scandal.  As 6 Oct.  *aThe Camp.  As 15 Oct., but La
dy Sash-Mrs Baddeley.  *sIII: +song=-Gaudry.  *cReceipts: #270 5s. (260.13.0; 9.
6.6; 0.5.6).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 23 Oct.  *aThree Weeks after Marriage.  Sir C
harles Racket-Lewis; Lovelace-Booth; Drugget-Quick; Woodley-Thompson; Dimity-Mrs
 Green; Nancy-Mrs Morton; Mrs Drugget-Mrs Pitt; Lady Racket-Mrs Mattocks.  *p30 
dl The First Part of King Henry IV.  As 22 Sept., but Sir W. Blunt-Hurst.  *aThe
 Camp.  As 29 Oct.  *dAs 22 Sept.  *c[Mainpiece in place of +The Chances=, annou
nced on playbill of 29 Oct.]  Receipts: #195 9s. (166.0.0; 29.2.6; 0.6.6).  *pcg
 Annette and Lubin.  As 2 Oct.  *aThe Provok'd Husband.  As 30 Sept., but Manly-
Hull; Miss Jenny (1st time)-Miss Wood.  *aThe Wives Revenged.  As 18 Sept.  *p31
 dl The Chances.  Don John-Henderson; Duke-Packer; Petruchio-Aickin; Antonio-Par
sons; Peter-Burton; Antony-Waldron; Francisco-Wright; Surgeon-Wrighten; Frederic
k-Brereton; 1st Constantia-Mrs Baddeley; Mother-Mrs Hopkins; Landlady-Mrs Bradsh
aw; Nurse-Mrs Love; Niece-Miss Kirby; 2nd Constantia-Miss Farren (1st appearance
 in that character).  *aThe Camp.  As 29 Oct.  *cPaid $DeLoutherbourg= 1 month #
41 13s. 4d. [this paid monthly].  Receipts: #167 17s. (143.13.0; 22.0.6; 2.3.6).
  *pcg Rose and Colin.  As 18 Sept.  *aJane Shore.  Hastings-Lewis; Gloster-Clar
ke; Ratcliff-Robson; Belmour-Hull; Catesby-L'Estrange; Derby-Thompson; Dumont (1
st time)-Wroughton; Jane Shore-Mrs Yates; Alicia-Mrs Crawford.  *aThe Wives Reve
nged.  As 18 Sept.  *cThe natural grandeur and commanding air of [Mrs Yate's] de
portment contradicts the whole idea of the part...We cannot help thinking that [
the two characters] would be much better play'd throughout, if they were exchang
ed; the haughty +Alicia=r would sit much more characteristically on $Mrs Yates=,
 and $Mrs Crawford= would give a degree of plaintive softness to +Jane Shore=r w
hich seems to have been intended by the author (+Gazetteer=, 3 Nov.).  *p11 2 dl
 The Tempest.  Propero-Packer; Stephano-Moody; Trincalo-Baddeley; Caliban-Bannis
ter; Gonzalez-Aickin; Alonzo-Wrighten; Ferdinand-Vernon; Miranda-Mrs Cuyler; Ari
el-Miss Field; Chorus of Spirits-Gaudry, Legg, Carpenter, Chaplin, Holcroft, Faw
cett, Kenny, Philimore, Miss Abrams, Miss Collett, Mrs Gaudry, Mrs Love, Mrs Boo
th, Miss Kirby, Mrs Smith.  *aThe Camp.  As 29 Oct.  *dI: +Dance of Spirits=-Mis
s Armstrong; III: +Dance of Fantastic Spirits=-; [These were danced, as here ass
igned, in both subsequent performances.] V: +Grand Dance=-Sg and Sga Zuchelli, H
enry, Sga Crespi.  *cReceipts: #213 2s. (190.2.0; 21.8.6; 1.11.6).  *pcg Jane Sh
ore.  As 31 Oct.  *aThe Medley.  As 14 Oct.  *cThe Doors to be opened at 5:15.  
To begin at 6:15 [see 6 May 1779].  *p3 dl The Way of the World.  As 19 Oct.  *a
The Camp.  As 29 Oct.  *cReceipts: #201 17s. 6d. (176.0.0; 25.8.6; 0.9.0).  *pcg
 The Busy Body.  See 2 Oct.  *aThe Norwood Gypsies.  As 22 Oct.  *c[As mainpiece
 the playbill announces +Caractacus=, but it "was not performed last night at +C
ovent Garden= theatre, on account of $Leoni='s sudden illness.  +The Busy Body= 
was substituted in its stead" (+Morning Chronicle=, 4 Nov.).]  *p4 dl Much Ado a
bout Nothing.  Benedick-Henderson; Claudio-Brereton; Don Pedro-Packer; Don John-
Aickin; Balthazer (with a +song=)-Vernon; Antonio-Hurst; Borachio-Lamash; Verges
-Carpenter; Conrade-Griffiths; Dogberry-Parsons; Town@Clerk-Baddeley; Sexton-Wri
ghten; Fryar-Wright; Watchmen-Burton, Holcroft; Leonato-Bensley; Hero-Mrs Sharp;
 Margaret-Mrs Bradshaw; Ursula-Mrs Colles; Beatrice-Miss Pope.  *aThe Camp.  As 
29 Oct.  *dII: [a Masquerade and% +Dance= [proper to the play%-; [to conclude% +
Country Dance=-.  [Both these were included in all subsequent performances.]  *c
Receipts: #156 15s. (124.14; 29.6; 2.15).  *pcg Tamerlane.  Bajazet-W.? Smith; M
oneses-Wroughton; Axalla-Whitfield; Dervise-L'Estrange; Omar-Fearon; Prince of T
anais-Booth; Hali-Robson; Tamerlane-Aickin; Selima-Mrs Jackson; Arpasaa-Mrs Craw
ford; [The usual% +Prologue=-Wroughton.  *aThe Invasion; or, A Trip to Brighthel
mstone.  [Principal Characters by Quick, Whitfield, Mahon, Wewitzer, Brunsdon, E
gan, Lee Lewes, Mrs Pitt, Mrs Morton, Mrs Willems, Mrs Green. [Cast from text ($
G. Kearsly=, 1778):% Sir John Evergreen-Quick; Charles Evergreen-Whitfield; Beau
fort-Mahon; Drill-Wewitzer; Tattoo-Brunsdon; Roger-Egan; Cameleon-Lee Lewes; Bru
ssels-Mrs Pitt; Emily-Mrs Morton; Maid-Mrs Willems; Lady Catherine Rouge-Mrs Gre
en; [New% +Prologue=-Whitfield.  *sIn: +To thee O gentle sleep!=-Mrs Farrell.  *
cMainpiece: Not acted these 4  years [acted 6 Nov. 1775.  Prologue by $Nicholas 
Rowe=.%  Afterpiece [ 1st time; f 2, by $Frederick Pilon=.  Prologue by the auth
or (+Public Advertiser=, 5 Nov.).  In speaking a line in the Prologue that won a
pplause $Whitfield= waved his hat so vehemently tha  he "dislocated a Bone in hi
s Arm. He went to the side of the stage, and one of the Scene-men taking him by 
the Wrist, and giving four or five pretty severe jerks, the Bone recovered its p
lace" (ibid).  In all subsequent performances the Prologue was spoken by $Lee Le
wes=.].  +Public Advertiser=, 18 Nov. 1778: This Day at Noon is published +The I
nvasion= (1s.).  *p5 dl The School for Scandal.  As 6 Oct.  *aThe Camp.  As 29 O
ct.  *sAs 6 Oct.  *cReceipts: #250 (239.5; 10.15; 0.0).  *pcg The Beggar's Opera
.  As 17 Oct., but Lucy-Mrs Morton; Mrs Slammekin-_.  *aThe Invasion.  As 4 Nov.
, but +Prologue=-Lee Lewes [and thereafter].  *dAs 17 Oct.  *c+The Duenna= [anno
unced on playbill of 4 Nov.] is unavoidably postponed on account of $Leoni='s Il
lness.  *p6 dl The Merry Wives of Windsor.  As 17 Sept., but Fenton-Lamash; Ann 
Page-Miss Collett.  *aThe Camp.  As 29 Oct.  *cReceipts: #137 16s. 6d. (119.17.0
; 17.11.6; 0.8.0).  *pcg The Suspicious Husband.  As 23 Sept., but Mrs Strictlan
d (1st time)-Mrs Jackson.  *aThe Invasion.  as 4 Nov.  *c+The Twin Rivals= [anno
unced on playbill of 5 Nov.] is obliged to be deferred.  *p7 dl Love for Love.  
As 13 Oct., but Valentine-Farren?; Scandal-Palmer.  *aThe Camp.  As 29 Oct.  *c[
The playbill retains $Henderson= as +Valentine=r, but on the +Kemble playbill= h
is name is deleted.  On 21 Nov. the part was acted by $Farren=.]  Receipts: #187
 3s. 6d. (158.2.0; 27.6.6; 1.15.0).  *pcg Jane Shore.  As 31 Oct.  *aThe Invasio
n.  As 4 Nov.  *p9 dl George Barnwell.  George Barnwell-Brereton; Thorowgood-Hur
st; Trueman-Davies; Uncle-Wrighten; Blunt-Burton; Maria-Mrs Brereton; Lucy-Mrs D
avies; Millwood-Mrs Sharp.  *aThe Camp.  As 29 Oct., but +Prologue=-_.  *sI: +so
ng=-Miss Abrams.  *c[Mainpiece in place of +Romeo and Juliet=, announced on play
bill of 7 Nov.]  Receipts: #160 12s. 6d. (144.3.0; 14.2.0; 2.7.6).  *pcg King Le
ar.  As 28 Sept., but King Lear-A Gentleman (1st appearance on this stage [$Rund
ell=]); Cordelia-Mrs Jackson.  *aThe Invasion.  As 4 Nov.  *c[$Rundell= is ident
ified by MS annotation on +Kemble playbill=.  His 1st appearance on the stage wa
s at +dl=, 19 Apr. 1776.]  *p10 dl Twelfth Night.  Sir Andrew Ague@cheek-Dodd; S
ir Toby Belch-Palmer; Orsino-Brereton; Sebastian-Davies; Fabian-Lamash; Antonio-
Wrighten; Captain-Wright; Officer-Nash; Priest-Griffiths; Valentine-Norris; Clow
n (with the original +Epilogue Song=)-Vernon; Malvolio-Yates; Olivia (with a +so
ng=)-Mrs Baddeley; Maria-Mrs Brereton; Viola-Miss Younge.  *aThe Camp.  As 29 Oc
t., but +Prologue=-_.  *cReceipts: #178 1s. (163.1; 14.2; 0.18).  *pcg The Roman
 Father.  Horatius-Digges (1st appearance in that character); Publius-Lewis; Val
erius-Wroughton; Tullus Hostilius-Clarke; Valeria-Mrs Jackson; Horatia-Mrs Yates
.  *aThe Invasion.  As 4 Nov.  *dEnd: +La Soiree a la Mode=, as 23 Oct., but Mas
t. +Dagueville, Miss +Simonet, _Harris.  *cBenefit for the Author of the Farce. 
 Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years [acted 26 Jan. 1776]; In Act V the +Triumpha
l Entry of Publius=v.  *p11 dl Mahomet.  Zaphna-Bannister Jun. (1st appearance o
n this, and 2nd [recte 3rd] on any stage); Mahomet-Palmer; Pharon-Packer; Mirvan
-Hurst; Ali-Chaplin; Alcanor-Bensley; Palmira-Mrs Robinson.  *aThe Camp.  As 29 
Oct.  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 3 Years.  [$Bannister Jun.='s 1st appearances
 on the stage were at the +hay=, 27 Aug. and 2 Sept. 1778.]  Receipts: #165 18s.
 (139.12.0; 26.5.6; 0.0.6).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 23 Oct.  *aThe Invasion.  As 4
 Nov.  *dAs 25 Sept.  *p12 dl The School for Scandal.  As 6 Oct., but Lady Teazl
e-Mrs Mattocks (of +cg=).  *aThe Camp.  As 29 Oct.  *sAs 6 Oct.  *cReceipts: #25
6 10s. [243.14; 12.16; 0.0).  *pcg Jane Shore.  As 31 Oct.  *c[As afterpiece the
 playbill announces the 8th night of +The Invasion=, but it was not acted, presu
mably because of $Mrs Green='s illness (see 14 Nov.).  On 16 Nov. it was announc
ed as "the 8th Time"; on 17 Nov. as "the 9th Time," etc.  What was acted on this
 present night I have been unable to discover.]  *p13 dl Mahomet.  As 11 Nov.  *
aThe Camp.  As 29 Oct.  *cReceipts: #155 18s. (131.2.0; 24.13.6; 0.2.6).  *pcg T
he Twin Rivals.  As 21 Oct.  *aPoor Vulcan!.  As 28 Sept.  *c[Mainpiece in place
 of +Love Makes a Man=, announced on playbill of 12 Nov.]  *p14 dl The Runaway. 
 George Hargrave-Smith; Drummond-Bensley; Justice-Parsons; Sir Charles Seymour-B
rereton; Jarvis-Lamash; Mr Morley-Aickin; Mr Hargrave-Moody; Lady Dinah-Mrs Hopk
ins; Emily-Mrs Robinson; Susan-Mrs Wrighten; Harriet-Mrs Brereton; Bella-Miss Yo
unge.  *aThe Camp.  As 29 Oct.  *cReceipts: #123 9s. 6d. (104.17.0; 18.7.6; 0.5.
0).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 23 Oct., but The Duenna-Mrs Pitt.  *aThe Medley.  As 1
4 Oct.  *c+The Invasion= [announced on playbill of 13 Nov.] is obliged to be def
erred on account of $Mrs Green='s Hoarsness.  *p16 dl The Mourning Bride.  Osmyn
-Smith; Gonzalez-Packer; Garcia-Davies; Heli-Hurst; Selim-Fawcett; Alonzo-Wright
en; Perez-Norris; King-Aickin; Zara-Mrs Farren (1st appearance on this stage the
se 6 years); Leonora-Mrs Johnston; Almeria-Miss Younge.  *aThe Camp.  As 29 Oct.
  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 4 years [acted 30 Dec. 1775].  Receipts: #152 4s.
 (131.0; 20.17; 0.7).  *pcg Jane Shore.  As 31 Oct.  *aThe Invasion.  As 4 Nov. 
 *cAfterpiece: The 8th Time (see 12 Nov.).  *p17 dl Mahomet.  As 11 Nov.  *aThe 
Camp.  As 29 Oct., but +Prologue=-_.  *cReceipts: #135 12s. (104.18; 30.13; 0.1)
.  *pcg Caractacus.  As 22 Oct.  *aThe Invasion.  As 4 Nov.  *p18 dl Rule a Wife
 and Have a Wife.  Leon-Smith; Duke-Aickin; Cacafogo-Moody; Juan-Packer; Sanchio
-Hurst; Alonzo-Chaplin; Copper Captain-King; Margaretta-Miss Sherry; Clara-Miss 
Collett; Altea-Mrs Love; Old Woman-Mr Baddeley; Maid-Mr Waldron; Estifania-Mrs A
bington.  *aThe Camp.  As 29 Oct., but +Prologue=-_.  *c[The playbill announces 
this as "By Command of $Their Majesties=," but "His Majesty intended going to +D
rury-lane Theatre= last night, but was prevented by the multiplicity of business
 at +St James='s" (+Morning Post=, 19 Nov.).] Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years
 [acted 2 May 1776].  Receipts: #212 11s. 6d. (184.8.0; 27.6.6; 0.17.0).  *p18 c
g The Duenna.  As 23 Oct.  *aThe Medley.  As 14 Oct.  *c[Mainpiece in place of +
The Distress'd Mother=, announced on playbill of 17 Nov.]  *p19 dl The School fo
r Scandal.  As 6 Oct.  *aThe Quaker.  As 6 Oct.  *sAs 6 Oct.  *cReceipts: #239 1
4s. 6d. (214.19.0; 24.9.6; 0.6.0).  *pcg The Distress'd Mother.  Pyrrhus-Aickin;
 Pylades-Whitfield; Phoenix-L'Estrange; Orestes-Wroughton; Hermione-Mrs Crawford
;Cephisa-Mrs Morton; Cleone-Mrs Poussin; Andromache-Mrs Yates.  *aThe Invasion. 
 As 4 Nov.  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 3 years [acted 2 Oct. 1776].  *p20 dl T
he Rivals.  Sir Anthony Absolute-King; Acres-Dodd; Sir Lucius O'Trigger-Moody; D
avid-Parsons; Fag-Baddeley; Coachman-Carpenter; Faulkland-Webster; Captain Absol
ute-Palmer; Mrs Malaprop-Mrs Hopkins; Julia-Mrs Baddeley; Lucy-Mrs Wrighten; Lyd
ia Languish-Miss Younge.  *aThe Camp.  As 29 Oct.  *c[Mainpiece in place of +The
 Old Batchelor=, announced on playbill of 19 Nov.]  Receipts: #127 8s. (102.11; 
24.13; 0.4).  *pcg The Distress'd Mother.  As 19 Nov.  *aThe Invasion.  As 4 Nov
.  *p21 dl Love for Love.  As 13 Oct., but Valentine-Farren.  *aThe Camp.  As 29
 Oct.  *cReceipts: #172 4s. 6d. (144.14.0; 27.10.6; 0.0.0).  *pcg Love Makes a M
an; or, The Fop's Fortune.  Clodio-Lewis; Antonio-Thompson; Don Louis-Dunstall; 
Charino-Cushing; Don Duart-Booth; Manuel-Robson; Sancho-Brunsdon; Monsieur-Wewit
zer; Carlos-Wroughton; Elvira-Mrs Jackson; Louisa-Miss Ambrose; Angelina-Mrs Bul
kley.  *aThe Invasion.  As 4 Nov.  *c+The Lady of the Manor= [announced on playb
ill of 20 Nov.] is (on account of $Vernon='s Indisposition) deferred till Monday
 next.  *p23 dl King Richard the Third.  As 26 Oct.  *aThe Camp.  As 29 Oct.  *c
Receipts: #153 17s. 6d. (133.14.0; 20.0.6; 0.3.0).  *pcg The Lady of the Manor. 
 [Characters by Mattocks, Quick, Wilson, Doyle, Egan, Vernon, Miss Brown, Mrs Fa
rrell, Mrs Mattocks.%  [Cast from text ($E. and C. Dilly= [et al.], 1778):% Sir 
John Manly-Mattocks; Sir Wilful Wildman-Quick; Farmer Sternold-Wilson; Clodden-D
oyle; Young Wildman-Vernon; Mrs Townly-Miss Brown; Cicely-Mrs Farrell; Lady Lucy
-Mrs Mattocks; Egan.  *aThe Apprentice.  As 23 Oct.  *dEnd II: As 25 Sept.; I: [
a% +Rural Dance=[, incident to the Piece,%-Dagueville [This was danced, as here 
assigned, in all subsequent performances.].  *cMainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by $Wi
lliam Kenrick=, based on +The Country Lasses=, by $Charles Johnson=]: With new S
cenery, Dresses and Decorations.  The Overture and the rest of the Music compose
d by $Hook=.  Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre.  +Public Advertiser=,
 2 Dec. 1778: This Day at Noon is published +The Lady of the Manor= (1s. 6d.).  
*p24 dl The School for Scandal.  As 6 Oct.  *aThe Waterman.  As 22 Oct.  *sAs 29
 Oct.  *cAfterpiece: +Regatta=v as 22 Oct.  Receipts: #152 17s. 6d. (135.3.0; 17
.10.6; 0.4.0).  *p24 cg The Distress'd Mother.  As 19 Nov.  *aThe Invasion.  As 
4 Nov.  *pking's L'Avaro Deluso.  [Principal Characters by Jermoli, Rossi, Roved
ino, Sga Jermoli, Sga Pozzi, Sga Sestini.  [Cast from libretto ($G. Bigg=, 1778)
:%  Gervasio-Jermoli; Calandrano-Antonio Rossi; Agapito-Carlo Rovedino; Modesta-
Sga Jermoli; Lazzarina-Sga Pozzi; Zerbinetta-Sga Sestini.  *d[With new Dances co
mposed by $Simonet=.% End II: +La Noche Hollandoise=-Banti, Zuchelli, Slingsby, 
Sga Zuchelli, Sga Tinti; End Opera: [a new grand Serious Ballet,% +Les Nymphes d
e Diane=[; ou, +L'Amour Faune=%-Mons Simonet, Mme Simonet, Banti, Sga Tinti.  *b
End I: [new Pantomime Ballet% +Annette et Lubin=.  Bailly-LeDet; Sig. du Village
-Simonet; Lubin-Slingsby; Annette-Mme Simonet; unassigned-Sg Zuchelli, Sga Zuche
lli.  *cA new Comic Opera.  The music entirely new by $Sacchini=.  With entire n
ew Scenes, Dresses and Decorations both for the Opera and Dances.  Pit 10s. 6d. 
1st Gallery 5s. 2nd Gallery 3s.  By $Their Majesties=' Command, no person can be
 admitted behind the Scenes.  The Doors to be opened at 6:00.  To begin at 7:00 
[see 5 June 1779].  To prevent Inconvenience to the Nobility and Gentry in getti
ng to their Carriages they are respectfully intreated to give positive orders to
 their Servants to set down and take up with their Horses Heads towards +Pall-ma
ll=.  The door in +Market Lane= for Chairs only. +Public Advertiser=, 31 Oct.: T
o prevent mistakes Ladies who have not honoured the Director with the names of t
he Subscribers to their Boxes are particularly requested to send them as early a
s possible to $Johnson=, at the Office of the Theatre, in order to [permit] thei
r Tickets being engraved.  The Renters' Shares proposed to be granted on this Th
eatre are now made out, and particulars prepared, at Messrs +Wallis and Parker's
=, +Norfolk-street=, +Strand=, who are impowered by the Proprietors to dispose i
n single Shares of those which remain unsubscribed for.  The annual Subscription
s are receiving by Johnson at the Office of the Theatre in +Union-court=, +Hayma
rket=.  *p25 dl A School for Fathers.  As 3 Oct., but Lady Mary Oldboy-Mrs Brads
haw.  *aThe Camp.  As 29 Oct., but Lady Plume-Mrs Keeffe [recte $O'Keeffe=] (1st
 appearance on this stage).  *c[$Mrs O'Keeffe= was from +cg=.]  Receipts: #161 1
8s. 6d. (131.14.0; 29.19.0; 0.5.6).  *pcg The Lady of the Manor.  As 23 Nov.  *a
The Invasion.  As 4 Nov.  *dEnd II: +The Embarkment for Cytherea=-Dagueville, Ha
rris, Master Holland, Master Dagueville, Miss Matthews, Miss Besford, Miss Valoi
s.  *p26 dl Macbeth.  As 24 Sept.  *aThe Camp.  As 25 Nov.  *sAs 24 Sept.  *cRec
eipts: #158 1s. (133.13.0; 23.19.6; 0.8.6).  *pcg The Lady of the Manor.  As 23 
Nov.  *aThe Invasion.  As 4 Nov.  *dAs 25 Nov.  *cBenefit for the Author [of mai
npiece].  *p27 dl The Tempest.  As 2 Nov., but Prospero-Bensley; Ferdinand-Davie
s.  *aThe Camp.  As 25 Nov.  *d+Grand Dance=, as 2 Nov.  *cReceipts: #127 1s. (9
6.12.0; 30.2.6; 0.6.6).  *pcg A Bold Stroke for a Wife.  As 7 Oct.  *aThe Invasi
on.  As 4 Nov.  *dEnd I: +The Embarkment for Cytherea=, as 25 Nov., but Master _
Dagueville, +Langrish; End: +The Villagers=-Aldridge, Langrish, Mast. Jackson, M
iss Valois.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  *p28 dl The Old Batchelor.  Bel
lmour-Smith; Heartwell-Bensley; Fondlewife-Yates; Vainlove-Vernon; Capt. Bluff-M
oody; Sharper-Farren; Setter-Baddeley; Sir Joseph Wittol-King; Laetitia-Miss Pop
e; Araminta-Mrs Baddeley; Silvia-Mrs Brereton; Lucy-Mrs Wrighten; Belinda-Miss Y
ounge.  *aThe Camp.  As 25 Nov.  *cMainpiece: With alterations [by $Richard Brin
sley Sheridan=].  The new comedy of +The Fathers= [announced on playbill of 27 N
ov.] is obliged to be deferred on account of the Indisposition of a principal Pe
rformer.  Receipts: #123 6s. 6d. (89.14.0; 32.19.0; 0.13.6).  *pcg Jane Shore.  
As 31 Oct.  *aThe Invasion.  As 4 Nov.  *pking's Demofoonte.  [Principal Charact
ers by Pacchierotti, Adamberger, Coppola, Rovedino, Micheli, Sga Pozzi, Sga Bern
asconi.  [Cast from libretto ($G. Bigg=, 177():% Timante-Gasparo Pacchierotti; D
emofoonte-Adamberger; Cherinto-Coppola; Matusio-Rovedino; Adrasto-Micheli; Creus
a-Sga Pozzi; Dircea-Sga Bernasconi.  *dEnd II: +La Noche Hollandoise=, as 24 Nov
.; End Opera: [a% +New Ballet=[, connected with the Opera,%-Mons Simonet, Mme Si
monet, Banti, Sga Tinti.  *bEnd I: +Annette et Lubin=.  As 24 Nov.  *cA new Seri
ous Opera [1st time; SER 3, by $Pietro Metastasio=; a pasticcio].  The Music by 
$Bertoni= and other eminent Masters [$Myslivecek=, $Monza=, $Sarti=].  '$Pacchie
rotti=, who on this night made his 1st appearance in +London=, was] conscious th
at the chief delight of singing, and his own supreme excellence, lay in touching
 expression, and exquisite pathos...As an actor, with many disadvantages of pers
on, for he was tall and awkward in his figure, and his features were plain, he w
as nevertheless forcible and impressive: for he felt warmly, had excellent judgm
ent, and was an enthusiast in his profession.  His recitative was inimitably fin
e, so that even those who did not understand the language could not fail to comp
rehend, from his countenance, voice, and action, every sentiment he expressed" (
$Mount-Edgcumbe=, pp.24-25).  *p30 dl The Fathers; or, The Good Natur'd Man.  [P
rincipal Characters by King, Dodd, Bensley, Parsons, Baddeley, Whitfield, Webste
r, Mrs Baddeley, Mrs Hopkins, Miss Younge.  [Cast from text ($T. Cadell=, 1778):
% Sir George Boncour-King; Young Kennel-Dodd; Mr Boncour-Bensley; Old Valence-Pa
rsons; Old Kennel-Baddeley; Young Valence-Whitfield; Young Boncour-Webster; Miss
 Valence-Mrs Baddeley; Mrs Boncour-Mrs Hopkins; Miss Boncour-Miss Younge; +Prolo
gue=-King; +Epilogue=-Miss Younge.  [These were spoken, as here assigned, at all
 subsequent performances.]  *aThe Irish Widow.  As 19 Sept.  *dAs 19 Sept.  *cMa
inpiece [1st time; C 5]: By the celebrated $Henry Fielding=; and never yet perfo
rmed or published.  With new Scenes, Dresses, &c. [and incidental music by $Mich
ael Arne=.  Prologue by $David Garrick=.  Epilogue by the same (see text)].  +Pu
blic Advertiser=, 12 Dec. 1778: This Day is published +The Fathers= (1s. 6d.).  
"This play was written by Mr Henry Fielding, some years before his death.  Mr Ga
rrick saw it at that time.  Mr Fielding gave the only fair copy he had of it to 
his friend $Sir Charles Williams=, of whose judgment he entertained a high opini
on.  Sir Charles soon after went abroad, and the comedy was mislaid.  Mr. Fieldi
ng communicated this circumstance to his family on his death-bed; and enquiry wa
s made for it, but without effect.  At length $Mr Thomas? Johnes=, Member for +C
ardigan=, looking over Sir Charles's books, found a comedy in manuscript, which 
he read, and, approving, had it transcribed and sent to Mr Garrick for his opini
on, who, like $Archimedes=, cried out, 'This is the lost sheep!  This is Mr Henr
y Fielding's play!'  Mr Garrick communicating it to Mr Johnes, Mr Johnes immedia
tely sent the original manuscript, which was in Mr Fielding's hand-writing, to t
he family, with his best wishes for its success, promising to assist it to the u
tmost of his power" (+Gentleman's Magazine=, Dec. 1778, p.586).  See also, for c
orroboration of the above and for other details, $Wilbur L. Cross=, +The History
 of Henry Fielding=, 1918, III, 99-104.  Receipts: #210 11s. 6d. (186.6.0; 23.19
.6; 0.6.0).  *pcg The Lady of the Manor.  As 23 Nov.  *aThe Medley.  As 14 Oct. 
 *dEnd II: +The Embarkment for Cytherea=, as 27 Nov.  *p12 1 dl The Fathers.  As
 30 Nov.  *aThe Quaker.  As 6 Oct., but Lubin-Davies.  *cReceipts: #113 10s. (94
.12; 18.17; 0.1).  *pcg The Lady of the Manor.  As 23 Nov.  *aCatherine and Petr
uchio.  Petruchio-Lewis; Hortensio-Robson; Taylor-Jones; Baptista-Thompson; Musi
c@Master-Brunsdon; Pedro-Wewitzer; Biondello-Cushing; Grumio-Quick; Bianca-Mrs P
oussin; Curtis-Mrs White; Catherine-Mrs Green.  *dEnd II: As 25 Sept.  *pking's 
L'Avaro Deluso.  As 24 Nov.  *dAs 24 Nov.  *b+Annette et Lubin=.  As 24 Nov.  *p
2 dl The Fathers.  As 30 Nov.  *aQueen Mab.  As 8 Oct.  *cBenefit for the Author
 [of mainpiece].  Receipts Pd to $Allen Fielding= of the +Temple= [the author's 
son].  Receipts: #141 4s. 6d. (119.0.0; 22.2.0; 0.2.6; tickets: none listed) [ch
arge: #105).  *pcg The Lady of the Manor.  As 23 Nov.  *aThe Upholsterer.  Razor
-Lee Lewes; Pamphlet-Wilson; Quidnunc-Dunstall; Rovewell-Robson; Belmour-Thompso
n; Harriet-Mrs Whitfield; Termagant-Mrs Green.  *dAs 30 Nov.  *cBenefit for the 
Composer [of mainpiece].  *p3 dl The School for Scandal.  As 6 Oct.  *aThe Camp.
  As 25 Nov.  *sAs 6 Oct.  *cReceipts: #263 2s. (248.8; 14.2; 0.12).  *pcg The G
recian Daughter.  Evander-Aickin; Philotas-Lewis; Arcas-Fearon; Dionysius-Clarke
; Herald-L'Estrange; Melanthon-Hull; Officer-Booth; Calippus-Thompson; Phocion-W
roughton; Erixene-Miss Ambrose; Euphrasia-Mrs Crawford.  *aPoor Vulcan!.  As 28 
Sept.  *p4 dl The Fathers.  As 30 Nov.  *aThe Camp.  As 25 Nov.  *cReceipts: #13
1 5s. 6d. (107.5.0; 23.17.0; 0.3.6).  *pcg The Lady of the Manor.  As 23 Nov.  *
aThe Invasion.  As 4 Nov.  *dAs 30 Nov.  *p5 dl The Fathers.  As 30 Nov.  *aComu
s.  As 17 Sept., but Principal Bacchant-Mrs Wrighten.  *sAs 17 Sept.  *cReceipts
: #115 8s. (85.1; 30.5; 0.2).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 23 Oct.  *aThe Invasion.  As
 4 Nov.  *pking's Demofoonte.  As 28 Nov.  *dAs 28 Nov.  *b+Annette et Lubin=.  
As 28 Nov.  *p7 dl The Fathers.  As 30 Nov.  *aThe Camp.  As 25 Nov.  *cBenefit 
for the Author [see 2 Dec.].  [A letter from $Fosbrook=, the box-book keeper, to
 $Garrick= gives the number of spectators in the house on this night (+Garrick, 
Private Correspondence=, II, 323), as follows: Boxes Pit 1st Gall. 2ed Gall.@1st
 Account 234  310 330 210@2nd Account 80 30 160 80@Total: 1,434.]  Receipts: #16
6 14s. 6d. (140.8.0; 25.18.6; 0.8.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105).  *pcg
 King Richard the Third.  As 5 Oct., but Tressel-Farren; Queen-Mrs Farren (of +d
l=).  *aThe Medley.  As 14 Oct.  *c+Jane Shore= [announced on playbill of 5 Dec.
] is obliged to be deferred on account of the Indisposition of a principal Perfo
rmer.  *p8 dl The Fathers.  As 30 Nov., but Mrs Boncour-Miss Sherry.  *aHarlequi
n's Invasion.  As 1 Oct., but Forge-Burton; Taffy-R. Palmer.  *cReceipts: #96 14
s. (77.9.0; 18.13.6; 0.11.6).  *pcg Buthred.  [Principal Characters by Wroughton
, Clarke, Farren, Peile, L'Estrange, Thompson, Aickin, Miss Platt, Mrs Hartley (
1st appearance this season).  [Cast from text ($F. Newbery=, 1779):% Buthred-Wro
ughton; Morcar-Clarke; Elwin-Farren; Elbert-Peile; Ivar-L'Estrange; Randolph-Tho
mpson (in text unassigned); Osbrighte-Aickin; Ela-Miss Platt; Rena-Mrs Hartley; 
+Prologue=-Hull; +Epilogue=-Mrs Bulkley.  [These were spoken, as here assigned, 
at all subsequent performances.]  *aCross Purposes.  As 2 Oct., but Mrs Grub-Mrs
 Pitt.  *cMainpiece [1st time; T 5, ascribed to-$Johnstone=.  Authors of Prologu
e and Epilogue unknown]: With New Scenes and Dresses.  +Public Advertiser=, 1 Ja
n. 1779: This Day is published +Buthred= (1s. 6d.).  *pking's L'Avaro Deluso.  A
s 24 Nov.  *dAs 24 Nov.  *b+Annette et Lubin=.  As 24 Nov.  *p9 dl The Fathers. 
 As 8 Dec.  *aThe Camp.  As 25 Nov.  *cReceipts: #134 17s. 6d. (116.16.0; 17.16.
6; 0.5.0).  *pcg The Lady of the Manor.  As 23 Nov.  *aThe Medley.  As 14 Oct.  
*dAs 30 Nov.  *p10 dl The School for Scandal.  As 6 Oct., but Careless-R. Palmer
.  *aThe Camp.  As 25 Nov.  *sAs 29 Oct.  *cReceipts: #254 14s. 6d. (240.16.0; 1
3.15.0; 0.3.6).  *pcg Buthred.  As 8 Dec.  *aThe Upholsterer.  As 2 Dec., but Te
rmagant-Mrs Pitt.  *dEnd: +The Villagers=, as 27 Nov.  *p11 dl The Stratagem.  A
rcher-Smith; Aimwell (1st time)-Brereton; Foigard-Moody; Bonniface (1st time)-Ba
ddeley; Sir Charles Freeman-R. Palmer; Sullen-Hurst; Gibbet-Wright; Scrub-Yates;
 Cherry-Miss Pope; Dorinda (1st time)-Mrs Keeffe; Lady Bountiful-Mrs Johnston; G
ipsy-Mrs Davies; Mrs Sullen-Mrs Bulkley (of +cg=).  *aThe Irish Widow.  As 19 Se
pt.  *dEnd I afterpiece: As 19 Sept.; End IV: [new dance,% +The Coopers=-Sg and 
Sga Zuchelli, Henry, Miss Armstrong, Sga Crespi.  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 3
 years.  Receipts: #131 13s. 6d. (98.4.0; 32.13.6; 0.16.0).  *pcg Rose and Colin
.  As 18 Sept.  *aThe Conscious Lovers.  Bevil-Lewis; Myrtle-Wroughton; Sealand-
Clarke; Sir John Bevil-Fearon; Cimberton-Quick; Humphrey-Thompson; Daniel-Wewitz
er; Tom-Lee Lewes; Phillis-Mrs Mattocks; Lucinda-Miss Ambrose; Mrs Sealand-Mrs P
itt; Isabella-Mrs Poussin; Indiana-Mrs Crawford.  *aThe Wives Revenged.  As 18 S
ept.  *dAs 25 Sept.  *sII: +song=-Leoni.  *p12 dl The Fathers.  As 8 Dec.  *aThe
 Quaker.  As 6 Oct.  *cBenefit for the Author [see 2 Dec.].  Receipts: #108 0s. 
6d. (87.6.0; 19.16.6; 0.18.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105).  *pcg The Be
ggar's Opera.  As 5 Nov., but Mrs Slammekin-Miss Platt.  *aThe Englishman in Par
is.  Buck-Lee Lewes; Sir John Buck-Fearon; Subtle-Thompson; Marquis-Wewitzer; Cl
assic-Hull; Mrs Subtle-Mrs Pitt; Lucinda (with a +song=)-Mrs Mattocks.  *dIII: [
a% +Hornpipe=-Miss Besford; Afterpiece: [a% +Minuet=-Dagueville, Mrs Mattocks.  
*cThe new Tragedy [+Buthred=, announced on playbill of 11 Dec.] is obliged to be
 deferred on account of $Wroughton='s Hoarseness.  *pking's Demofoonte.  As 28 N
ov.  *dAs 28 Nov.  *b+Annette et Lubin=.  As 28 Nov.  *cBy Command of $Their Maj
esties=.  *p14 dl Mahomet.  As 11 Nov., but Palmira-Mrs Farren (1st appearance i
n that character).  *aThe Camp.  As 25 Nov.  *cReceipts: #153 16s. 6d. (124.11.0
; 29.0.6; 0.5.0).  *pcg Buthred.  As 8 Dec.  *aThe Medley.  As 14 Oct.  *cBenefi
t for the Author [of mainpiece].  On account of the severe Indisposition of $Mrs
 Yates= +Jane Shore= [announced on playbill of 12 Dec.] is obliged to be deferre
d.  *p15 dl Hamlet.  As 16 Oct., but Horatio-Farren; Ophelia-Mrs Baddeley.  *aCo
mus.  As 17 Sept., but Principal Bacchant-Mrs Wrighten; Euphrosyne-Mrs Wrighten.
  *sAs 17 Sept.  *cReceipts: #149 3s. (120.15.0; 28.2.6; 0.5.6).  *p15 cg The Du
enna.  As 23 Oct.  *aThe Lyar.  Young Wilding-Lee Lewes; Old Wilding-Fearon; Sir
 James Elliot-Whitfield; Papillon-Wewitzer; Miss Godfrey-Miss Ambrose; Miss Gran
tham-Mrs Bulkley.  *pking's L'Avaro Deluso.  As 24 Nov.  *dAs 24 Nov.  *b+Annett
e et Lubin=.  As 24 Nov.  *p16 dl The West Indian.  As 8 Oct.  *aQueen Mab.  As 
8 Oct.  *c[Afterpiece in place of +Belphegor=, announced on playbill of 15 Dec.]
  Receipts: #144 17s. 6d. (113.2.0; 31.15.6; 0.0.0).  *pcg The Lady of the Manor
.  As 23 Nov.  *aThe Invasion.  As 4 Nov.  *dAs 1 Dec.  *p17 dl The School for S
candal.  As 6 Oct.  *aThe Quaker.  As 6 Oct.  *dEnd: +The Coopers=, as 11 Dec.  
*sAs 29 Oct.  *c[Afterpiece in place of +The Camp=, announced on playbill of 16 
Dec.]  Receipts: #257 12s. 6d. (239.8.0; 18.3.6; 0.1.0).  *pcg Percy.  Percy-Lew
is; Raby-Aickin; Sir Hubert-Hull; Edrick-Whitfield; Harcourt-Robson; Knight-Thom
pson; Douglas-Wroughton; Birtha-Mrs Jackson; Elwina-Mrs Crawford.  *aPoor Vulcan
!.  As 28 Sept.  *p18 dl The Clandestine Marriage.  As 21 Oct., but [An occasion
al% +Prologue=-Miss Younge.  *aThe Deserter.  As 10 Oct., but Henry-Davies.  *cB
enefit for the +City of London Lying-in Hospital=.  [Author of Prologue unknown.
]  Paid $Heele= for Insurance #125 4s.  +Public Advertiser=, 5 Dec.: Tickets to 
be had at the Hospital, +Old Street Road=.  Receipts: #281 16s. (91.10; 9.9; 0.1
; tickets: 180.16) (charge: #105).  *pcg The Lady of the Manor.  As 23 Nov.  *aT
he Invasion.  As 4 Nov.  *dAs 30 Nov.  *p19 dl Merope.  Dorilas-Bannister Jun. (
1st appearance in that character); Narbas-Packer; Euricles-Aickin; Erox-Hurst; H
igh Priest-Chambers; Poliphontes-Palmer; Ismene-Mrs Sharp; Merope-Miss Younge.  
*aAEsop.  AEsop-Henderson; Beau-Dodd; Roger-Moody; Learches-Parsons; Oronces-Far
ren; Sir Polidorus Hogstye-Yates; Euphronia-Mrs Brereton; Doris-Miss Pope.  *cMa
inpiece: Not acted these 2 years.  With a +Procession and Sacrifice=v.  [These w
ere included in both subsequent performances.]  Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by $T
homas Sheridan=.  Not in +Larpent MS=; not published; synopsis of plot in +Londo
n Chronicle=, 21 Dec.]: Taken from the comedy of that name by $Sir John Vanburgh
i= [sic].  Receipts: #151 2s. 6d. (115.4.0; 35.16.0; 0.2.6).  *pcg Rose and Coli
n.  As 18 Sept.  *aThe Suspicious Husband.  As 6 Nov.  *aSt. Patrick's Day.  Lie
ut. O'Connor-Mahon; Justice Credulous-Lee Lewes; Doctor Rosy-Quick; Serjeant Tro
unce-Dunstall; Bridget-Mrs Pitt; Lauretta-Miss Brown.  *cBenefit for the +Welsh 
Charity School=, over against the +Foundling Hospital=.  *pking's Demofoonte.  A
s 28 Nov.  *dAs 28 Nov.  *b+Annette et Lubin=.  As 28 Nov.  *p21 dl A Trip to Sc
arborough.  Loveless-Smith; Young Fashion-Palmer; Sir Tunbelly Clumsey-Moody; Co
l. Townly-Brereton; Probe-Parsons; Lory-Baddeley; Lord Foppington-Dodd; Berinthi
a-Miss Farren (1st appearance in that character); Amanda-Mrs Robinson; Nurse-Mrs
 Bradshaw; Mrs Coupler-Mrs Booth; Miss Hoyden-Mrs Abington; [Edition of 1781 ($G
. Wilkie=) adds:% La Varole-Burton; Shoemaker-Carpenter; Hosier-Norris; Jeweller
-Lamash.  *aA Peep behind the Curtain.  Glib-King; Old Shepherd-Dodd; Sir Macaro
ni Virtu-Lamash; Patent-Packer; Sir Toby Fuz-Hurst; Wilson-R. Palmer; Mirvan-Nor
ris; Carpenter-Carpenter [sic]; Prompter-Wright; Orpheus-Vernon; Rhodope-Mrs Wri
ghten; Miss Fuz-Mrs Davies; Lady Fuz-Mrs Hopkins; other parts-Philimore, Nash, F
awcett, Chaplin, Holcroft, Kenny, Mrs Love, Mrs Bradshaw.  *cMainpiece: Not acte
d these 2 years.  Afterpiece: Not acted these 3 years.  Receipts: #157 13s. (120
.18; 34.17; 1.18).  *pcg Jane Shore.  As 31 Oct.  *aThe Spendthrift; or, A Chris
tmas Gambol.  Principal Characters-Quick, Whitfield, Dunstall, Wewitzer, Brunsdo
n, Booth, Robson, Fearon, Jones, Cushing, Mrs Willems, Mrs White, Mrs Morton; [+
Larpent MS 463= lists the parts: +Sir Clement Courtly=r, +Young Courtly=r, +Save
 Charges=r, +Plunder=r, +Hazard=r, +Bumper=r, +Bondage=r, +Bobbin=r, +Trusty=r, 
+Bottlerack=r, +Marrowbone=r, +Trip=r, +Servants=r, +Miss Worthy=r, +Dorothy=r, 
+Margery=r.  New% +Prologue=-Lee Lewes.  *cAfterpiece [1st time; F 2, by $Willia
m Kenrick=, based on +The Country Lasses=, by $Charles Johnson=.  Not published;
 synopsis of plot in +London Chronicle=, 23 Dec. Prologue by the author (ibid)].
  *p22 dl The Spanish Fryar.  Father Dominick-Henderson; Lorenzo-Palmer; Torrism
ond-Brereton; Raymond-Aickin; Bertran-Farren; Alphonso-Packer; Pedro-Hurst; Offi
cers-Philimore, Norris; Gomez-Yates; Leonora-Mrs Farren; Teresa-Miss Kirby; Elvi
ra-Miss Pope.  *aThe Camp.  As 29 Oct.  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 10 years [n
ot acted since 9 Feb. 1764].  Receipts: #170 18s. 6d. (138.7.0; 32.6.0; 0.5.6). 
 *pcg The Lady of the Manor.  As 23 Nov.  *aThe Invasion.  As 4 Nov.  *dAs 1 Dec
.  *pking's La Fraschetana [recte Frascatana].  Principal Characters-Jermoli, Ro
ssi, Coppola, Micheli, Sga Jermoli, Sga Pozzi, Sga Sestini.  [Libretto ($T. Cade
ll=, 1776) lists the parts: +Il Cavaliere Giocondo=r, +Nardone=r, +Don Fabrizio=
r, +Pagnotta=r, +Donna Stella=r, +Violante=r, +Lisetta=r.%  *dEnd I: +La Noche H
ollandoise=, as 24 Nov.; End II: [new ballet,% +Les Moissonneurs= (the music by 
the celebrated $Paisiello=) [with a +Pas de Deux Anacreontique=,%-Mme Simonet, S
lingsby, Banti, Sga Tinti, Sg and Sga Zuchelli, LeDet; End: +Les Nymphes de Dian
e=, as 24 Nov.  *cOpera: The Music by $Paisiello=.  *p23 dl Cymon.  Cymon-Vernon
; Merlin-Bannister; Dorus-Parsons; Daemon of Revenge-Gaudry; Linco-Dodd; Urganda
-Mrs Baddeley; Fatima-Mrs Wrighten; Cupid-Miss Field; Dorcas-Mrs Bradshaw; Sheph
erdesses-Miss Collett, Mrs Davies; Sylvia-Miss Brown (of +cg=; 1st appearance in
 that character).  *aThe Irish Widow.  As 19 Sept.  *dI: [a% +Dance of Cupids=-;
 IV: [a% +Dance of Daemons=-; V: +Grand Dance= [+Grand Ballet=% [sic], as 2 Nov.
; End I afterpiece: +Minuet de la Cour, as 19 Sept.; [and% Allemande=, as 19 Sep
t.  *cMainpiece: The music composed by $Michael Arne=.  With a +Grand Procession
 of the different Orders of the Knights of Chivalry=v.  Receipts: #159 19s. (134
.8; 25.11; 0.0).  *p23 cg The Distress'd Mother.  As 19 Nov.  *aThe Wives Reveng
ed.  As 18 Sept.  *aThe Spendthrift.  As 21 Dec. [+Prologue= as 21 Dec.%  *dEnd:
 +The Embarkment for Cytherea=, as 27 Nov.  *cBenefit for a Fund for the relief 
and support of Performers and others retiring from the Stage.   3rd piece: With 
Alterations.  *p26 dl The Spanish Fryar.  As 22 Dec.  *aThe Camp.  As 29 Oct.  *
cReceipts: #186 8s. (162.10.0; 23.11.6; 0.6.6).  *pcg Alexander the Great.  Alex
ander-Wroughton; Clytus-Clarke; Lysimachus-Whitfield; Hephestion-Robson; Cassand
er-Fearon; Polyperchon-Booth; Aristander-L'Estrange; Perdiccas-Thompson; Thessal
us-R.? Smith; Eumenes-Egan; Roxana-Mrs Jackson; Sysigambis-Mrs Poussin; Parisati
s-Mrs Morton; Statira-Mrs Hartley.  *aThe Invasion.  As 4 Nov.  *cMainpiece: Wit
h the +Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Babylon=v.  *pking's Demofoonte.  As 28
 Nov.  *dAs 28 Nov.  *b+Annette et Lubin=.  As 28 Nov.  *p28 dl The First Part o
f King Henry IV.  As 30 Oct.  *aHarlequin's Invasion.  As 8 Dec.  *dEnd II: +The
 Coopers=, as 11 Dec.  *cReceipts: #186 14s. 6d. (167.2.0; 19.12.6; 0.0.0).  *pc
g Romeo and Juliet.  As 26 Oct.  *aThe Medley.  As 14 Oct.  *dAs 26 Oct.  *sAs 2
6 Oct.  *phay The Macaroni Adventurer; or, Woman's a Riddle.  Characters-Payler,
 Middleton, Swords, Evans, Kennedy, Levi [their 1st appearance on any stage], Da
vis, Everard, Mrs Shirley, Miss Hiorne, Miss Percey, Miss Dudley (their 1st appe
arance on any stage), Mrs Lefevre; [A new occasional% +Prologue=-; +Epilogue=-. 
 *aFashionable Love; or, The Happy British Tar.  *aThe Covent Garden Tragedy.  L
ovegirlo-Kennedy; Captain Bilkum-Davis; Gallono-Keene; Leathersides-Clarke; Chai
rman-Evans; Kissinda-Miss Dudley; Stormandra-Mrs Lefevre; Nonparel-Miss Walters;
 Industrious Jenny-Miss Hiorne; Mother Punchbowl-Mr Swords.  *d[Entertainments o
f%+Dancing=-.  *e[+Monologue=.%End III: +Imitations= [Vocal and Rhetorical, neve
r attempted%, a Trumpet-a Choice Spirit [who will (to his vocal performances) ac
company himself with the Symphonies% (his 1st appearance on the stage [unidentif
ied]).  *cBy Permission of the +Lord Chamberlain=,  Mainpiece: Altered from the 
Original [+Woman is a Riddle=, by $Christopher Bullock=.  Not in +Larpent MS=; n
ot published].  2nd piece [1st time; M. INT I, author unknown.  MS not in Larpen
t; not published].  3rd piece: Written by $Henry Fielding, Esq.=  The Doors to b
e opened at 5:30.  To begin at 6:30.  Tickets delivered by $Davis=, $Wright=, $M
rs Lefevre= will be admitted.  Constant fires will be kept on the stage, Pit, Bo
xes and Galleries to air the house.  *p29 dl Macbeth.  As 24 Sept.  *aThe Camp. 
 As 29 Oct.  *s+original Music=, as 24 Sept., but _Legg.  *cReceipts: #146 17s. 
(125.16.0; 20.18.6; 0.2.6).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 23 Oct.  *aThe Lyar.  As 15 De
c.  *p29 king's La Fraschetana.  As 22 Dec.  *dEnd I: +La Noche Hollandoise=, as
 24 Nov., but _Banti, +LeDet; End II: +Les Moissonneurs=, as 22 Dec., but Sg and
 Sga _Zuchelli; End Opera: +Les Nymphes de Diane=, as 24 Nov.  *p30 dl The Spani
sh Fryar.  As 22 Dec.  *aThe Camp.  As 29 Oct.  *cReceipts: #157 11s. 6d. (134.3
.0; 23.2.0; 0.6.6).  *pcg Jane Shore.  As 31 Oct., but Gloster-Hull; Belmour-Fea
ron.  *aThe Medley.  As 14 Oct.  *p31 dl The School for Scandal.  As 6 Oct.  *aT
he Deserter.  As 18 Dec.  *sAs 29 Oct.  *cReceipts: #220 17s. 6d. (200.18.0; 19.
13.6; 0.6.0).  *pcg The Lady of the Manor.  As 23 Nov.  *aThe Medley.  As 14 Oct
.  *dAs 30 Nov.  *c[Afterpiece in place of +The Commissary=, announced on playbi
ll of 30 Dec.]  *p1779 1 1 dl A School for Fathers.  As 3 Oct. 1778, but Diana-M
iss Collett (1st appearance in that character).  *aThe Irish Widow.  As 19 Sept.
 1778.  *dEnd I afterpiece: +The Coopers=, as 11 Dec. 1778.  *cReceipts: #82 17s
. 6d. (63.3.0; 19.6.0; 0.8.6).  *pcg King Henry the Fifth.  As 21 Sept. 1778, bu
t Capt. Jamy-Egan; High Constable-Peile; Catherine-Mrs Whitfield; Capt. MacMorri
s-Mahon; +Prologue=, +Chorus=-Henderson.  *aPoor Vulcan!.  As 28 Sept. 1778.  *p
2 dl Love for Love.  As 13 Oct. 1778.  *aBon Ton; or, High Life above Stairs.  S
ir John Trotley (with the original +Prologue=)-King; Col. Tivy-Brereton; Davy-Pa
rsons; Jessamy-Lamash; Lord Minikin-Dodd; Lady Minikin-Miss Pope; Gymp-Mrs Colle
s; Miss Tittup-Mrs Abington (1st appearance in that character these 3 years).  *
c[Afterpiece: Prologue by $George Colman elder=.]  Receipts: #139 15s. 6d. (108.
13.0; 30.15.6; 0.7.0).  *pcg The Distress'd Mother.  As 19 Nov. 1778.  *aThe Com
missary.  The Commissary-Quick; Isaac Fungus-Fearon; Young Loveit-Robson; Mrs Lo
veit-Mrs Pitt; Jenny-Mrs Poussin; Dolly-Miss Platt; Mrs Mechlin-Miss Ambrose.  *
pking's Demofoonte.  As 28 Nov. 1778.  *dAs 28 Nov. 1778.  *b+Annette et Lubin=.
  As 28 Nov. 1778.  *p4 dl The Spanish Fryar.  As 22 Dec. 1778.  *aSelima and Az
or.  As 13 Oct. 1778.  *c[Mainpiece in place of +King Richard the Third=, announ
ced on playbill of 2 Jan.]  Receipts: #148 13s. (119.12.0; 28.18.6; 0.2.6).  *p4
 cg George Barnwell.  Barnwell-Wroughton; Thorowgood-Hull; Trueman-Whitfield; Un
cle-Fearon; Blunt-Thompson; Maria-Mrs Bulkley; Lucy-Mrs Green; Millwood-Mrs Jack
son.  *aThe Touchstone; or, Harlequin Traveller.  [Principal Characters by Lee L
ewes, Wilson, Leoni, Delpini, Rayner, Brundson, Baker, L'Estrange, Wewitzer, Jon
es, Robson, Egan, Mahon, Stevens, Ledger, Reinhold, Mrs Farrell, Miss Morris, Mi
ss Brown.  [Cast from Songs ($G. Kearsley=, 1779); +Morning Chronicle=, 7 Oct. 1
779; +Larpent MS 464=:% Harlequin-Lee Lewes; Keel-Wilson; Scaramouche-Delpini; F
rench Officer-Wewitzer; Watchman-Mahon; Pierrot-Reinhold; Feridon-Mrs Farrell; C
olombine-Miss Brown; [Larpent MS also lists:% Pantaloon-; Mezetin-; Padmanada-; 
Lord-; Capt. O'Donnavan-; Oriel-; Custom@house Officer-; Centinel-; Landlord-; G
entlemen-;.  *dIn afterpiece: Dagueville, Miss Valois.  [The dancing, as here as
signed, was included in all subsequent performances, except on 4 Feb., 7 Apr., 1
0 May.]  *sIn I: +song=-Leoni.  *cAfterpiece [1st time; P 3 (and see 18 Jan.), b
y $Charles Dibdin=, with one scene by $Hannah Cowley=.  Synopsis of action in +P
ublic Advertiser=, 5 Jan.]: A Speaking Pantomime, in 3 parts.  With new overture
, airs, duets, chorus, &c.  With new Dresses, Scenes [by $Richards=, $Carver=, $
Garvey= and $Hodgins= (Public Advertiser, 2 Jan.)], Machinery and Decorations.  
The Music entirely new, composed by $Dibdin=.  Nothing under Full Price will be 
taken.  Public Advertiser, 4 Jan. 1779: This Afternoon at Four will be published
 the Songs in +The Touchstone= (6d.).  *p5 dl Much Ado about Nothing.  As 4 Nov.
 1778, but Benedick-Lewis [of +cg=]; Balthazer-Mattocks [of cg]; Borachio-Wright
en; Dogberry-Moody; Sexton-.  *aThe Irish Widow.  As 19 Sept. 1778.  *dAs 19 Sep
t. 1778.  *c[Mainpiece in place of +Merope=, announced on playbill of 4 Jan. "We
 played last night +Much Ado about Nothing=, and had an apology to make for the 
change of three principal parts.  About twelve o'clock $Mr Henderson= sent word 
he was not able to play.  We got $Mr Lewis= from Covent Garden, who supplied the
 part of +Benedick=r.  Soon after $Mr Parsons= sent word he could not play.  $Mr
 Moody= supplied the part of +Dogberry=r; and about four in the afternoon $Mr Ve
rnon= sent word he could not play.  $Mr Mattocks= supplied his part of +Balthaza
r=r...In the middle of the first act, a message was brought me that $Mr Lamash= 
(who was to play the part of +Borachio=r) was not come to the House.  I had nobo
dy there that could go on for it, so I was obliged to cut his scenes in the firs
t and second acts entirely out, and got $Mr Wrighten= to go on for the remainder
 of the part.  At length we got the play over without the audience finding it ou
t.  We had a very bad house.  Mr Parsons is not able to play in +The School for 
Scandal= to-morrow night; do not yet know how we shall be able to settle that" (
+Garrick, Private Correspondence=, II, 328-29: $Hopkins=, prompter,in letter to 
$Garrick=, 6 Jan. 1779.  He does not state who took Wrighten's place as the +Sex
ton=r.).]  On account of the sudden Illness of a Principal Performer, the new Pa
ntomime [+The Wonders of Derbyshire=, announced on playbill of 4 Jan.] is oblige
d to be deferred till Friday.  Receipts: #74 11s. (48.19; 25.10; 0.2).  *pcg The
 Provok'd Husband.  As 30 Oct. 1778, but J. Moody-Thompson; Count Basset-Booth. 
 *aThe Touchstone.  As 4 Jan.  *pking's La Fraschetana.  As 22 Dec. 1778.  *dEnd
 I: +La Noche Hollandoise=, as 24 Nov. 1778; End II: +Les Moissonneurs=, as 29 D
ec. 1778; End Opera: +Les Nymphes de Diane=, as 24 Nov. 1778.  *p6 dl Twelfth Ni
ght.  As 10 Nov. 1778.  *aThe Lyar.  As 3 Oct. 1778.  *cReceipts: #58 18s. 6d. (
40.7.0; 18.6.6; 0.5.0).  *p6 cg The Busy Body.  As 2 Oct. 1778, but Sir Jealous 
Traffic-Thompson; Miranda-Mrs Bulkley.  *aThe Touchstone.  As 4 Jan.  *p7 dl The
 School for Scandal.  As 6 Oct. 1778, but Crabtree (1st time)-Waldron.  *aHigh L
ife below Stairs.  Lovel-Lamash; Sir Harry's Servant-Dodd; Duke's Servant-Palmer
; Philip-Baddeley; Freeman-Fawcett; Lady Charlotte-Mrs Davies; Lady Bab-Mrs John
ston; Kitty (with a +song=)-Miss Pope.  *dII afterpiece: a +Mock Minuet=-Palmer,
 Miss Pope.  [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.
]  *sAs 6 Oct. 1778.  *cReceipts: #230 17s. 6d. (201.3.0; 29.12.0; 0.2.6).  *pcg
 Percy.  As 17 Dec. 1778.  *aThe Touchstone.  As 4 Jan.  *p8 dl Merope.  As 19 D
ec. 1778.  *aThe Wonders of Derbyshire; or, Harlequin in the Peak.  Principal Ch
aracters-Wright, Grimaldi, Waldron, R. Palmer, Burton, Griffiths, Holcroft, Phil
imore, Kenny, Fawcett, Chaplin, Nash, Bannister, Miss Simson, Miss Abrams, Miss 
G. Abrams, Mrs Love, Mrs Gaudry, Miss Kirby, the Miss Stageldoirs, Miss Collett.
  *cAfterpiece [1st time; P 2, attributed to $Richard Brinsley Sheridan= (see $G
. W. Williams= in +Studies in Philology=, XLVII, 1950, 619-28).  Synopsis of act
ion ($W. Randall=, 1779) lists no parts]: The Overture and Music entirely new.  
With new Scenes, Machines, Dresses and Decorations.  All the Scenery, Machinery,
 &c. designed by $DeLoutherbourg= and executed under his direction.  Nothing und
er Full Price will be taken.  [For a discussion of this pantomime see +Theatre S
urvey=, II, 54-66.]  +Public Advertiser=, 24 Feb. 1779: This Day is published an
 Account of +The Wonders of Derbyshire= and the Songs (6d.).  Receipts: #225 19s
. (223.18.0; 2.1.0).  *pcg The Suspicious Husband.  As 6 Nov. 1778, but Jack Meg
got-Booth; Clarinda-Mrs Bulkley.  *aThe Touchstone.  As 4 Jan.  *p9 dl King Rich
ard the Third.  As 26 Oct. 1778.  *aThe Wonders of Derbyshire.  As 8 Jan.  *cRec
eipts: #209 9s. (206.1; 3.8).  *pcg The Provok'd Wife.  As 25 Sept. 1778, but Be
linda-Mrs Whitfield; Lady Brute-Mrs Bulkley.  *aThe Touchstone.  As 4 Jan.  *pki
ng's Demofoonte.  As 28 Nov. 1778.  *dAs 28 Nov. 1778.  *b+Annette et Lubin=.  A
s 28 Nov. 1778.  *p11 dl As You Like It.  As 26 Sept. 1778, but Amiens (with +so
ngs=)-Vernon.  *aThe Wonders of Derbyshire.  As 8 Jan.  *dEnd I: +The Coopers=, 
as 11 Dec. 1778.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  [Mainpiece in place of +Ha
mlet=, announced on playbill of 9 Jan.]  Paid $Brady=, house barber for Wigs #10
 10s.  Receipts: #285 5s. (284.9; 0.16).  *pcg The Stratagem.  Archer-Lewis; Aim
well-Wroughton; Boniface-Booth; Sullen-Clarke; Foigard-Egan; Sir Charles Freeman
-Robson; Gibbet-Fearon; Scrub-Quick; Dorinda-Mrs Lessingham; Lady Bountiful-Mrs 
Poussin; Cherry-Miss Brown; Mrs Sullen-Mrs Crawford.  *aThe Touchstone.  As 4 Ja
n.[, but Principal Characters-_Rayner.%  *p11 hay The Gentle Shepherd; or, Patie
 and Roger.  Sir William-Bassingwhite; Patie-M'Donald; Roger-Stewart; Symon-Midd
lemist; Glaud-Riddle; Bauldy-Henderson; Madge-Mr Wilson; Mause-Mr Hamilton; Jenn
y-Miss Coutts; Peggy-A Young Lady [unidentified]; [With a% new +Prologue=-.  *aT
he Students; or, The Humours of St. Andrews.  Byron (with +songs=)-Bush; Frederi
ck-Sinclair; Freeport-Sparks; Graspall-Swords; Drover Henpeck (with +songs=)-M'D
onald; Andrew-Munden; Macdowell, the Exciseman-Stewart; Emily-Miss Campell; Harr
iot-Miss Hamilton; [Edition of 1779 (For the Author) assigns:% Byron-Loach; [and
 adds:% Mrs Macdowell-Miss Coutts; The original +Prologue=-Stewart.  *dEnd I aft
erpiece: +Hornpipe=-.  *mBetween the Acts: [proper% Scotch Music-; a new Scotch 
overture-.  *cBy Authority of the +Lord Chamberlain=.  Benefit for $Stewart= and
 $M'Donald=.  Mainpiece: With new Dresses and Decorations.  Afterpiece: With sev
eral new additions and two new characters.  [Authors of Prologues unknown.]  The
 Doors to be opened at 5:00.  To begin at 6:00.  No Person whatever to be admitt
ed behind the Scenes, nor any Money returned after the Curtain is drawn up.  Boo
ks of the Farce to be had at the Theatre.  *p12 dl Hamlet.  As 16 Oct. 1778.  *a
The Wonders of Derbyshire.  As 8 Jan.  *cReceipts: #223 9s. (219.15; 3.14).  *pc
g Buthred.  As 8 Dec. 1778.  *aThe Touchstone.  As 11 Jan.  *pking's La Fraschet
ana.  As 22 Dec. 1778.  *dAs 5 Jan.  *p13 dl A Trip to Scarborough.  As 21 Dec. 
1778, but Probe (1st time)-Waldron.  *aThe Wonders of Derbyshire.  As 8 Jan.  *c
Receipts: #239 11s. (236.2; 3.9).  *pcg The Lady's last Stake.  Lord Wronglove-W
roughton; Sir Friendly Moral-Hull; Brush-Booth; Surgeon-Fearon; Snug-Jones; Stra
nger-R? Smith; Lord George Brilliant-Lewis; Lady Wronglove-Mrs Jackson; Lady Gen
tle-Mrs Bulkley; Miss Notable-Mrs Mattocks; Mrs Hartshorn-Mrs Pitt; Mrs Conquest
-Mrs Lessingham.  *aThe Touchstone.  As 11 Jan.  *p14 dl The School for Scandal.
  As 7 Jan.  *aHigh Life below Stairs.  As 7 Jan.  *dEnd: +The Coopers=, as 11 D
ec. 1778.  *sAs 6 Oct. 1778.  *cReceipts: #246 3s. (220.5; 25.13; 0.5).  *pcg Do
uglas.  Douglas-A Gentleman (2nd appearance on this stage [$Rundell=]); Randolph
-Wroughton; Officer-Thompson; Glenalvon-Aickin; Old Norval-Clarke; Anna-Mrs Mort
on; Lady Randolph-Mrs Crawford.  *aThe Touchstone.  As 11 Jan.  *c[For $Rundell=
 see 9 Nov. 1778.]  *p15 dl The Spanish Fryar.  As 22 Dec. 1778.  *aThe Wonders 
of Derbyshire.  As 8 Jan.  *cReceipts: #254 13s. (250.12; 4.1).  *pcg Know Your 
Own Mind.  As 14 Oct. 1778, but Miss Neville-Mrs Whitfield.  *aThe Touchstone.  
As 11 Jan.  *c+Cato= [announced on playbill of 14 Jan.] is obliged to be deferre
d.  *p16 dl The Mourning Bride.  As 16 Nov. 1778, but Perez-Philimore.  *aThe Wo
nders of Derbyshire.  As 8 Jan.  *c+The Fathers= [announced on playbill of 15 Ja
n.] is obliged to be deferred on account of $Webster='s Illness.  Receipts: #178
 8s. (173.7; 5.1).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 23 Oct. 1778.  *aThe Touchstone.  As 11
 Jan.  *pking's Demofoonte.  As 28 Nov. 1778.  *dAs 28 Nov. 1778.  *b+Annette et
 Lubin=.  As 28 Nov. 1778.  *p18 dl Mahomet.  As 11 Nov. 1778.  *aThe Wonders of
 Derbyshire.  As 8 Jan.  *cReceipts: #183 16s. (177.9; 6.7).  *pcg Cato.  Cato-D
igges; Portius-Aickin; Marcus-Whitfield; Juba-Wroughton; Sempronius-Fearon; Syph
ax-Hull; Lucius-L'Estrange; Decius-Egan; Lucia-Mrs Jackson; Marcia-Mrs Hartley. 
 *aThe Touchstone.  As 11 Jan.[, but added: Two entire new Scenes (1st time).%  
*cMainpiece: Not acted these 3 years.  Afterpiece: One of the [new Scenes] will 
conclude the Entertainment, and the Intervals between the three Acts being found
 tedious, alterations have been made in order to make it practicable to comprize
 the whole in two Acts.  *p19 dl The Merchant of Venice.  As 17 Oct. 1778, but L
auncelot (1st time)-Burton; Jessica (with a +song=)-Miss Walpole.  *aThe Wonders
 of Derbyshire.  As 8 Jan.  *dEnd III: As 19 Sept. 1778.  *cReceipts: #190 13s. 
(189.16; 0.17).  *pcg All for Love.  Marc Antony-W.? Smith; Dollabella-Farren; A
lexas-Whitfield; Serapion-L'Estrange; Officers-Robson, Thompson; Ventidius-Digge
s; Octavia (1st time)-Mrs Bulkley; Charmion-Mrs Poussin; Iras-Miss Green; Cleopa
tra-Mrs Yates.  *aThe Touchstone.  As 18 Jan.  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 6 ye
ars.  *pking's La Fraschetana.  As 22 Dec. 1778.  *dAs 5 Jan.  *p20 dl The First
 Part of King Henry IV.  *aThe Wonders of Derbyshire.  *cAnnounced by the playbi
ll, but "Not perform'd on Acct. of $Mr Garrick='s Death (at 8 o'Clo'Morng)" (MS 
annotation on +Kemble playbill=).  See also +Public Advertiser=, 21 Jan.: +Drury
 Lane Theatre= was shut up last night on [this] melancholy Occasion.  *pcg All i
n the Wrong.  As 9 Oct. 1778.  *aThe Touchstone.  As 18 Jan.  *p21 dl The School
 for Scandal.  As 6 Oct. 1778.  *aThe Wonders of Derbyshire.  As 8 Jan.  *sAs 6 
Oct. 1778.  *cPaid $Butler=, carpenter, #148 11s.  Receipts: #277 10s. (276.3; 1
.7).  *pcg She Stoops to Conquer.  Hardcastle-Wilson; Tony Lumpkin-Quick; Marlow
-Lee Lewes; Hastings-Whitfield; Sir Charles Marlow-Fearon; Mrs Hardcastle-Mrs Gr
een; Miss Neville-Mrs Whitfield; Miss Hardcastle-Mrs Bulkley.  *aThe Touchstone.
  As 18 Jan.  *p22 dl The First Part of King Henry IV.  As 30 Oct. 1778.  *aThe 
Wonders of Derbyshire.  As 8 Jan.  *dEnd II: +The Coopers=, as 11 Dec. 1778.  *c
Receipts: #171 13s. (169.5; 2.8).  *pcg The Comedy of Errors.  Antipholis of Syr
acuse-Lewis; Antipholis of Ephesus-Whitfield; Duke-L'Estrange; Angelo-Fearon; Ba
lthazar-Egan; Dr Pinch-Wewitzer; AEgeon-Hull; Officer-Jones; Merchants-Robson, T
hompson; Dromio of Syracuse-Brunsdon; Dromio of Ephesus-Quick; Adriana-Mrs Jacks
on; Luciana-Mrs Lessingham; Lesbia-Miss Platt; Abbess-Mrs Hartley.  *aThe Touchs
tone.  As 18 Jan.  *sIII: +song= [in character%-Mrs Farrell.  *cMainpiece: With 
Alterations [by $Thomas Hull=].  *p23 dl The Jealous Wife.  Oakly-Smith; Lord Tr
inket-Dodd; Sir Harry Beagle-Palmer; Charles-Farren; Russet-Aickin; Capt. O'Cutt
er-Moody; Tom-Wright; Paris-Waldron; Major Oakly-Yates; Lady Freelove-Mrs Hopkin
s; Harriet-Mrs Brereton; Mrs Oakly-Miss Younge.  *aThe Wonders of Derbyshire.  A
s 8 Jan.  *cReceipts: #184 15s. (182.15; 2.0).  *pcg Douglas.  As 14 Jan.  *aThe
 Touchstone.  As 18 Jan.  *pking's Artaserse.  [Principal Characters by Pacchier
otti, Adamberger, Manzoletto, Rovedino, Sga Pozzi, Sga Bernasconi.  [Cast from l
ibretto ($G. Bigg=, 1779);% Arbace-Gasparo Pacchierotti; Artabano-Adamberger; Ar
taserse-Manzoletto; Megabise-Rovedino; Semira-Sga Pozzi; Mandane-Sga Bernasconi.
  *dEnd I: [new Ballet,% +Les Oiseleurs=-Sg Zuchelli, Sga Zuchelli, Mlle Vidini,
 LeDet; End II: +Les Moissonneurs=, as 29 Dec. 1778; End: +Les Nymphes de Diane=
, as 24 Nov. 1778.  *cA new Serious Opera [1st time; SER 3, by $Pietro Metastasi
o=].  The Music entirely new by $Bertoni=.  *p25 dl Merope.  As 19 Dec. 1778.  *
aThe Wonders of Derbyshire.  As 8 Jan.  *c+The Discovery= [announced on playbill
 of 23 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred on account of $King='s Indisposition.  Re
ceipts: #174 17s. (171.11; 3.6).  *pcg The Lady of the Manor.  As 23 Nov. 1778. 
 *aThe Reprisal; or, The Tars of Old England.  Heartly-Whitfield; Champignon-Wew
itzer; Oclabber-Mahon; Maclaymore-Wilson; Lyon-Booth; Brush-Brunsdon; Haulyard (
with a +song=)-Reinhold; Block-Quick; Harriet-Mrs Sharp (of +dl=).  *dAs 30 Nov.
 1778.  *p26 dl The Merry Wives of Windsor.  As 17 Sept. 1778, but Fenton-Lamash
.  *aThe Wonders of Derbyshire.  As 8 Jan.  *cReceipts: #208 11s. (205.17; 2.14)
.   *pcg The Wonder.  Don Felix-Lewis; Col. Briton-Wroughton; Don Lopez-Fearon; 
Don Pedro-Quick; Lissardo-Lee Lewes; Frederick-Booth; Gibby-Wilson; Isabella-Mrs
 Lessingham; Flora-Mrs Pitt; Inis-Mrs Green; Violante-Mrs Crawford.  *aThe Touch
stone.  As 18 Jan., but Feridon-Mrs Kennedy (late $Mrs Farrell=).  *pking's None
.  *cOn account of the Preparations for the Masqued Ball to-morrow, there will b
e no Opera this Evening.  *p27 dl The Spanish Fryar.  As 22 Dec. 1778.  *aThe Wo
nders of Derbyshire.  As 8 Jan., but Principal Characters-+Gaudry, [in place of%
 _Bannister.  *cReceipts: #132 17s. (131.17; 1.0).  *pcg The Comedy of Errors.  
As 22 Jan.  *aThe Touchstone.  As 26 Jan.  *s[As 22 Jan., but% +song=-Mrs Kenned
y (late $Mrs Farrell=).  *p28 dl The School for Scandal.  As 6 Oct. 1778.  *aThe
 Wonders of Derbyshire.  As 27 Jan.  *sAs 29 Oct. 1778.  *cReceipts: #255 13s. (
253.16; 1.17).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 23 Oct. 1778.  *aThe Touchstone.  As 26 Jan
.  *p29 dl The Beggar's Opera.  Captain Macheath-Webster; Peachum-Moody; Filch-P
arsons; Lockit-Baddeley; Player-Wrighten; Beggar-Waldron; Mat o' th' Mint-Gaudry
; Lucy-Mrs Wrighten; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Love; Diana Trapes-Mrs Bradshaw; Jenny Dive
r-Miss Collett; Polly-Mrs Baddeley.  *aThe Wonders of Derbyshire.  As 27 Jan.  *
dEnd II: +Minuet de la Cour, as 19 Sept. 1778; Allemande=, as 19 Sept. 1778; III
: a +Hornpipe=-Blurton.  *cMainpiece: With Accompaniments to the Airs composed b
y +Thomas Linley? Sen.=.  Receipts: #191 10s. (190.1; 1.9).  *pcg The Maid of th
e Mill.  See 27 Oct. 1778.  *aThe Touchstone.  As 26 Jan., but Booth[; Ledger_%.
  *c[As mainpiece the playbill announces Tancred and Sigismunda, but "In consequ
ence of $Mrs Crawford='s being taken suddenly ill yesterday forenoon, +Tancred a
nd Sigismunda=...could not be acted; +The Maid of the Mill= was substituted in i
ts stead, but most of the boxes which had been taken were given up, and the chan
ge cost the managers upwards of a hundred pounds; a matter which Mrs Crawford ou
ght to take into her serious consideration, and to recollect besides, that whene
ver her name is on the bills, and she is [not] so much indisposed that her appea
rance on the stage would be fatal to her health, it is her duty not to disappoin
t her publick" (+Morning Chronicle=, 30 Jan.).]  *pking's Artaserse.  As 23 Jan.
  *dEnd I: +Les Oiseleurs=, as 23 Jan., but Sga _Zuchelli, Sga +Tinti; End II: +
Les Moissonneurs=, as 29 Dec. 1778; End Opera: +Les Nymphes de Diane=, as 24 Nov
. 1778.  *p2 1 dl The Chances.  As 31 Oct. 1778, but Francisco-R. Palmer.  *aThe
 Wonders of Derbyshire.  As 27 Jan.  *c[Mainpiece in place of +The Tempest=, ann
ounced on playbill of 29 Jan.]  Receipts: #158 12s. (152.4; 6.8).  *pcg The Come
dy of Errors.  As 22 Jan.  *aThe Touchstone.  As 29 Jan.  *sAs 27 Jan.  *p2 dl T
he Clandestine Marriage.  As 21 Oct. 1778.  *aThe Wonders of Derbyshire.  As 27 
Jan.  *cReceipts: #173 4s. (172.4; 1.0).  *pcg Barbarossa.  Achmet-Bannister Jun
. (1st appearance on this stage); Othman-Clarke; Sadi-Hull; Aladin-Robson; Offic
er-Thompson; Barbarossa-Aickin; Irene-Mrs Hartley; Female Slave-Miss Green; Zaph
ira-Mrs Yates.  *aThe Touchstone.  As 29 Jan.  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 6 ye
ars [not acted since 30 May 1772].  [$Bannister Jun.= was from +dl=.]  *pking's 
La Fraschetana.  As 22 Dec. 1778.  *dEnd I: +La Noche Hollandoise=-, as 29 Dec. 
1778, but Sga _Zuchelli; End II: +Les Moissonneurs=, as 29 Dec. 1778; End Opera:
 +Les Nymphes de Diane=, as 24 Nov. 1778.  *p3 dl The Discovery.  Sir Anthony Br
anville-King (1st appearance in that character); Sir Harry Flutter-Dodd; Col. Me
dway-Brereton; Lord Medway-Bensley; Mrs Knightly-Miss Farren (1st appearance in 
that character); Miss Richly-Mrs Robinson (1st appearance in that character); La
dy Medway-Mrs Hopkins; Louisa Medway-Mrs Brereton; Lady Flutter-Mrs Abington.  *
aThe Wonders of Derbyshire.  As 27 Jan.  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 4 years [a
cted 7 Feb. 1776].  Receipts: #205 (203.10; 1.10).  *pcg Tancred and Sigismunda.
  As 28 Oct. 1778, but Tancred-The Gentleman who performed Douglas [on 14 Jan.: 
$Rundell=].  *aThe Touchstone.  As 29 Jan., but Pierrot-Mahon; Watchman-_.  *p4 
dl The School for Scandal.  As 6 Oct. 1778.  *aThe Wonders of Derbyshire.  As 27
 Jan.  *sAs 29 Oct. 1778.  *cReceipts: #261 2s. (260.12; 0.10).  *pcg The Duenna
.  As 23 Oct. 1778.  *aThe Touchstone.  As 3 Feb.  *p5 dl The Discovery.  As 3 F
eb.  *aThe Wonders of Derbyshire.  As 27 Jan.  *cReceipts: #167 (166.3; 0.17).  
*pcg All for Love.  As 19 Jan.  *aThe Touchstone.  As 3 Feb.  *p6 dl Hamlet.  As
 16 Oct. 1778, but Horatio-Farren.  *aThe Wonders of Derbyshire.  As 27 Jan.  *c
Receipts: #151 6s. (150.0; 1.6).  *pcg The Comedy of Errors.  As 22 Jan.  *aThe 
Touchstone.  As 3 Feb.  *sAs 27 Jan.  *pking's Artaserse.  As 23 Jan.  *dEnd I: 
+Les Oiseleurs=, as 29 Jan.; End Opera: +Les Nymphes de Diane=, as 24 Nov. 1778.
  *bEnd II: +Annette et Lubin=.  As 24 Nov. 1778, but unassigned-Sga _Zuchelli. 
 *p8 dl The Law of Lombardy.  [Principal Characters by Smith, Bensley, Farren, P
acker, Hurst, Wright, Chambers, Wrighten, Fawcett, Philimore, Burghall, Henderso
n, Mrs Robinson, Miss Younge.  [Cast from text ($T. Evans=, 1779, and +London Ma
gazine=, Feb. 1779, 73):% Paladore-Smith; King-Bensley; Lucio-Farren; Rinaldo-Pa
cker; Ascanio-Hurst; Shepherd-Wright; Senator-Chambers; Foresters-Wrighten, Fawc
ett; Squire to Paladore-Philimore; Officer-Burghall; Bireno-Henderson; Alinda-Mr
s Robinson; Princess-Miss Younge; +Prologue=-Farren; +Epilogue=-Miss Younge.  [T
hese were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]  *aHigh Lif
e below Stairs.  As 7 Jan.  *cMainpiece: Written by the Author of +Braganza= [1s
t time; T 5, by $Robert Jephson=.  Prologue and Epilogue by the author (see text
)].  With new Scenes and Dresses.  +Public Advertiser=, 15 Feb. 1779: This Day i
s published +The Law of Lombardy= (1s. 6d.).  Receipts: #221 (196.19.0; 23.13.6;
 0.7.6).  *pcg The Provok'd Wife.  As 9 Jan., but Justice-Thompson; Taylor-Jones
.  *aThe Touchstone.  As 3 Feb., but Keel-Doyle.  *c+Barbarossa= [announced on p
laybill of 6 Feb.] is obliged to be deferred.  $Wilson='s violent Hoarseness pre
vents his performing this Evening.  *p9 dl The Law of Lombardy.  As 8 Feb., but 
Officers-R. Palmer.  *aThe Camp.  As 29 Oct. 1778, but +Prologue=-_[and thereaft
er].  *cReceipts: #207 2s. 6d. (170.14.0; 35.16.0; 0.12.6).  *pcg The Comedy of 
Errors.  As 22 Jan.  *aThe Touchstone.  As 8 Feb.  *sAs 27 Jan.  *c[Mainpiece in
 place of +Zara=, announced on playbill of 8 Feb.]  *pking's Demofoonte.  As 28 
Nov. 1778.  *dEnd I: +Les Oiseleurs=, as 29 Jan.; End II: +Les Moissonneurs=, as
 29 Dec. 1778; End Opera: +New Ballet=, as 28 Nov. 1778.  *p10 none +General Fas
t=.  *p11 dl The School for Scandal.  As 6 Oct. 1778.  *aThe Camp.  As 25 Nov. 1
778, but Lady Sash-Mrs Robinson.  *sAs 6 Oct. 1778.  *cReceipts: #264 18s. 6d. (
248.2.0; 16.6.0; 0.10.6).  *pcg Barbarossa.  As 2 Feb., but Female Slave-Miss Pl
att.  *aSt. Patrick's Day.  As 19 Dec. 1778, but Serjeant Trounce-Booth.  *p12 d
l The Law of Lombardy.  As 9 Feb.  *aThe Camp.  As 11 Feb.  *cBenefit for the Au
thor [of mainpiece].  Receipts: #133 3s. (109.16; 22.8; 0.19; tickets: none list
ed) (charge: #105).  *pcg Zara.  Osman-The Gentleman who performed Douglas [on 1
4 Jan.: $Rundell=]; Nerestan-Wroughton; Orasmin-L'Estrange; Chatillon-Hull; Meli
dor-Thompson; Lusignan (1st time)-Digges; Selima-Miss Ambrose; Zara-Mrs Crawford
.  *aThree Weeks after Marriage.  As 29 Oct. 1778.  *dAs 23 Dec. 1778.  *cMainpi
ece: Not acted these 2 years.  *p13 dl The Law of Lombardy.  As 9 Feb.  *aThe Ca
mp.  As 11 Feb.  *cReceipts: #121 17s. 6d. (102.4.0; 19.3.0; 0.10.6).  *pcg Love
 in a Village.  Young Meadows (1st time)-Mrs Kennedy; new songs(composed by Mich
ael? Arne)-Mrs Kennedy; Hawthorn-Reinhold; Sir William Meadows-Fearon; Eustace-M
ahon; Hodge (1st time)-Doyle; Justice Woodcock-Wilson; Deborah-Mrs Pitt; Margery
-Miss Valois; Lucinda-Mrs Morton; Rosetta-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any st
age [Miss Thornton]).  *aThe Reprisal.  As 25 Jan., but Harriet-Mrs Morton.  *dA
s 1 Dec. 1778.  *c[$Miss Thornton= is identified by MS annotation on +Kemble pla
ybill=.]  *pking's Artaserse.  As 23 Jan.  *dAs 9 Feb.  *p15 dl The Law of Lomba
rdy.  As 9 Feb.  *aThe Camp.  As 11 Feb.  *cReceipts: #145 18s. (118.13.0; 26.9.
6; 0.15.6).  *pcg Jane Shore.  As 31 Oct. 1778.  *aThe Reprisal.  See 13 Feb.  *
c[As afterpiece the playbill announces the 31st night of +The Touchstone= (see 2
0 Feb.), but "The entertaiment at +Covent-garden theatre= was obliged to be chan
ged last night, on account of $Lee Lewes= being seized with a most violent infla
mmation in his right arm...Hand-bills, announcing that +The Reprisal= would be t
he farce, were distributed at each door of the theatre as the company came in; w
hen the tragedy, however, was ended, some persons in the galleries...began an al
arming disturbance, calling out vociferously for the pantomime...and continued t
hroughout the farce to behave in the most savage manner, pelting every actor and
 actress as fast as either came on the stage.  $Mrs Morton= stood their fire of 
oranges, apples, and pieces of wood, with more heroism than prudence.  At length
 the brutes aimed at her head with an orange, which struck her a violent blow, a
nd she fainted immediately" (+Morning Chronicle=, 16 Feb.).]  *p16 dl The Law of
 Lombardy.  As 9 Feb.  *aThe Wonders of Derbyshire.  As 27 Jan.  *cBenefit for t
he Author [of mainpiece].  Receipts: #156 18s. (152.19; 3.19; tickets: none list
ed) (charge: #105).  *pcg Love in a Village.  As 13 Feb.  *aCatherine and Petruc
hio.  As 1 Dec. 1778.  *dEnd II: [new Dance,% +The Burgomaster=-Aldridge, Master
 Jackson.  *pking's Demofoonte.  As 28 Nov. 1778.  *dAs 9 Feb.  *p17 none +Ash W
ednesday=.  *p18 dl The School for Scandal.  As 6 Oct. 1778, but Snake-Wrighten.
  *aThe Wonders of Derbyshire.  As 8 Jan.  *sAs 29 Oct. 1778.  *cReceipts: #265 
8s. (263.2; 2.6).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 23 Oct. 1778, but Ferdinand-Robson.  *aT
he Apprentice.  As 23 Oct. 1778, but Wingate-Fearon.  *dEnd: +The Burgomaster=, 
as 16 Feb.     *p19 dl Judas Maccabaeus.  Principal Vocal Parts-Norris, Webster,
 Miss M. Linley, Miss Draper, Miss Wright (1st appearance in public), Mrs Kenned
y; 1st Violin-Richards.  *mEnd Part I: +concerto= on the organ-Stanley; End Part
 II: +concerto= on the violin-Cramer.  *cTickets to be had and Places for the Bo
xes to be taken of $Fosbrook= at the Stage Door, at half a guinea each.  Pit 5s.
 1st Gallery 3s. 6d. 2nd Gallery 2s.  The Doors to be opened at 5:30.  To begin 
at 6:30 [same throughout oratorio season].  Receipts: #202 0s. 6d. (197.14.6; 4.
6.0).  *p20 dl The Law of Lombardy.  As 9 Feb., but Rinaldo-_.  *aJehu.  Princip
al Characters-Farren, Lamash, R. Palmer, Miss Sherry, Miss Farren; [+Town and Co
untry Magazine=, Feb. 1779, p. 62, assigns% +Lord Jehu=-King; [+Larpent MS 467= 
lists this part, as well as the other parts: +Whiffle=r, +Fenton=r, +Groom=r, +M
rs Gules=r, +Lucy=r.% +Prologue= [, not listed on playbill, printed in +Public A
dvertiser=, 24 Feb., written by the author, and spoken by%-King.  *cAfterpiece [
1st time; F 2, author unknown.  Not published].  Receipts: #172 10s. 6d. (125.1.
0; 46.5.0; 1.4.6).  *pcg The Comedy of Errors.  As 22 Jan.  *aThe Touchstone.  A
s 29 Jan., but Mrs Keefe [recte $O'Keeffe=] [; Miss Morris_%.  *sAs 27 Jan.  *cA
fterpiece: 31st time (see 15 Feb.) [in place of +The Liverpool Prize=, announced
 on playbill of 18 Feb.].  *pking's Artaserse.  As 23 Jan.  *dAs 9 Feb.  *p22 dl
 The Law of Lombardy.  As 20 Feb.  *aThe Wonders of Derbyshire.  As 27 Jan.  *cR
eceipts: #149 6s. (142.3; 7.3).  *pcg Jane Shore.  As 31 Oct. 1778.  *aThe Liver
pool Prize.  [Principal Characters-Quick, Wilson, Lee Lewes, Whitfield, Robson, 
Fearon, Wewitzer, Brunsdon, Jones, Clarke, Mrs Morton, Miss Stewart, Miss Brown.
  [Cast from text ($T. Evans=, 1779):% Debenture-Quick; Teneriffe-Wilson; Midshi
ps-Lee Lewes; George Belford-Whitfield; Wilmot-Robson; Breeze-Fearon; Monsieur C
oromandel-Wewitzer; Bronze-Brunsdon; Old Belford-Clarke; Fanny-Mrs Morton; Adela
ide-Miss Stewart; Harriet-Miss Brown; Jones.  [+Prologue= is not listed on the p
laybill, but "No person coming on to speak a Prologue, and the audience being cl
amorous for one as soon as the farce began, the performers then on the stage wit
hdrew, and $Lee Lewes= came forward, and after an apology, spoke the Prologue de
signed for the piece, but which he thought he had not sufficiently matured himse
lf in the knowledge of" (+Morning Chronicle=, 23 Feb.; and see +cg= 23 Feb.).%  
*dEnd I afterpiece: +The Burgomaster=, as 16 Feb.  *cAfterpiece [1st time; F 2, 
by $Frederick Pilon=].  +Public Advertiser=, 6 Mar. 1779: This Day is published 
+The Liverpool Prize= (1s.).  *phay The Foundling.  Young Belmont-Cooke; Sir Cha
rles Raymond-Mitchell; Colonel Raymond-Sparks; Sir Roger Belmont-Durravan; Villi
ard-Clarke; Faddle-Everard; Fidelia-Miss Freeman; Rosetta-Mrs Robinson; Occasion
al +Prologue=-Mitchell.  *aThe Prejudice of Fashion.  Colonel Ancient-Mitchell; 
Medium-Cooke; Captain O'Cargo-Smith; Whisk-Sparks; Jonathan-Durravan; Carbuncle-
Helme; Marmozet-Everard; Lucinda-Miss Freeman; Lady Ancient-Miss Hoare.  *cBenef
it for a Family under Misfortunes.  [Author of +Prologue= unknown.]  The Doors t
o be opened at 5:00.  To begin at 6:00.  *p23 dl The Law of Lombardy.  As 20 Feb
.  *aThe Wonders of Derbyshire.  As 8 Jan.  *cBenefit for the Author [of mainpie
ce].  Receipts: #128 16s. (125.11; 3.5; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105).  *
pcg Elfrida.  Athelwold-Lewis; Edgar-Aickin; Orgar-Clarke; Edwin-Hull; Ardulph-W
hitfield; Albina-Mrs Mattocks; 2nd Speaking Virgin-Mrs Jackson; Elfrida-Mrs Hart
ley; Chorus of British Virgins-Miss Brown, Mrs Wrighten, Mrs Morton, Mrs Kennedy
.  *aThe Liverpool Prize.  As 22 Feb., but +Prologue=-Lee Lewes.  [This was spok
en, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]  *cMainpiece: With altera
tions by the author [$William Mason=].  The Overture and all the new Music compo
sed by $Giardini=.[On playbill of 27 Feb.: With a New Scene painted by $Richards
=.]  +Public Advertiser=, 23 Feb. 1779: This Day at Noon is published +Elfrida= 
(price not listed).  [Afterpiece: Prologue by the author (+New Spouter's Compani
on=, c. 1798, p. 59).]    *pking's Zemira e Azore.  [Principal Characters by Man
zoletto, Rossi, Rovedino, Sga Jermoli, Sga Pollone (1st appearance on any stage)
, Sga Pozzi.  [Cast from libretto ($G. Bigg=, 1779):% Azore-Manzoletto; Ali-Ross
i; Sandro-Rovedino; Fatima-Sga Jermoli; Lesbia-Sga Clara Pollone; Zemira-Sga Poz
zi.  *dII: +Ballet= [connected with the Opera,% by Genii [of the various Arts%- 
(See 2 Mar.); Pedal Harp-Hochbrucher; End II: [new% +Ballet by Fairies= [of the 
Court of Azore,%-Banti, Sga Tinti, LeDet, Henry, young Miss Simonet, Mlle Baccel
li (1st appearance this season); End Opera: [new serious Ballet,% +Le Couronneme
nt de Zemire=-Mons and Mme Simonet, Banti, Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Sga Tinti, Sling
sby.  *cA new Comic Opera; the Music by the celebrated $Gretry=.  *p24 dl Esther
; Judas Maccabaeus.  As 19 Feb.  *mEnd Part I: +concerto= on the organ, as 19 Fe
b.; End Part II: +concerto= on the hautboy-Parke.  *cReceipts: #122 10s. 6d. (11
8.5.0; 4.5.6).  *p25 dl The School for Scandal.  As 18 Feb.  *aThe Camp.  As 11 
Feb.  *sAs 29 Oct. 1778.  *cReceipts: #258 7s. (241.13; 15.9; 1.5).  *pcg The Du
enna.  As 18 Feb.  *aThe Liverpool Prize.  As 22 Feb.  *dEnd: +The Humours of Le
ixlip=-Aldridge, Master Jackson, Miss Besford.  *c$Macklin= being taken ill, +Th
e Merchant of Venice= and +Love a-la-Mode= [both announced on playbill of 23 Feb
.] are obliged to be postponed.  *p26 dl Acis and Galatea; Judas Maccabaeus.  As
 19 Feb.  *aSongs, Chorusses [selected from the Works of the late $Henry Purcell
=%; Judas Maccabaeus.  As 19 Feb., but 1st Violin-_.  *sEnd Part I: a +cantata=-
Mrs Kennedy.  *mEnd Part II: +concerto= on the violoncello-Cervetto.  *cReceipts
: #174 18s. (169.7.6; 5.10.6).  *p27 dl The Discovery.  As 3 Feb.  *aThe Wonders
 of Derbyshire.  As 27 Jan.  *cReceipts: #177 9s. [175.9; 2.0).  *pcg Elfrida.  
As 23 Feb.  *aThe Liverpool Prize.  As 22 Feb.  *cMainpiece: With a New Scene pa
inted by $Richards=.  Afterpiece: With a New Scene painted by $Carver=.  *pking'
s Demofoonte.  As 28 Nov. 1778.  *dEnd I: +Les Oiseleurs=, as 29 Jan.; End II: +
Les Moissonneurs=, as 29 Dec. 1778; End Opera: +New Ballet=, as 28 Nov., but Mll
e +Baccelli.  *p3 1 dl The Jealous Wife.  As 23 Jan.  *aThe Camp.  As 11 Feb.  *
cReceipts: #116 17s. (90.11; 25.3; 1.3).  *pcg Love in a Village.  As 13 Feb., b
ut new +songs=-_.  *aThe Liverpool Prize.  As 22 Feb.  *dEnd II: As 25 Feb.  *p2
 dl The West Indian.  As 8 Oct. 1778.  *aThe Wonders of Derbyshire.  As 27 Jan.,
 but Principal Characters-Mrs +Bradshaw.  *cReceipts: #132 4s. (129.11; 2.13).  
*pcg Tancred and Sigismunda.  As 3 Feb.  *aThe Liverpool Prize.  As 22 Feb.  *dE
nd I afterpiece: As 25 Sept. 1778.  *pking's Zemira e Azore.  As 23 Feb.  *dII: 
+Ballet by Genii= [as 23 Feb.%-Sg Zuchelli, Sga Zuchelli, young Miss Simonet; [a
lso% Pedal Harp, as 23 Feb.; End II: +Ballet by Fairies=, as 23 Feb., but _LeDet
, _Henry, young Miss _Simonet, +Slingsby; End Opera: +Le Couronnement de Zemire=
, as 23 Feb.  *p3 dl Acis and Galatea; Judas Maccabaeus.  As 19 Feb.  *aSongs, C
horusses.  As 26 Feb.  *sEnd Part II: a +song=-Mrs Kennedy.  *mEnd Part I: +conc
erto= on the organ, as 19 Feb.  *cReceipts: #141 18s. (139.14.6; 2.3.6).  *phay 
[The% Messiah.  Principal Vocal Parts-Vernon, Champness, Mrs Wrighten, Mrs Barth
elemon.  *sEnd Part I: [an +Italian duet= [see 10 Mar.] by $Vinci=% +Tu vuoi ch'
io vivi o cara-Mrs Barthelemon, Miss Cecilia Barthelemon.  *mEnd Part II: +conce
rto= on the violin-Barthelemon.  *cBoxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Galle
ry 1s.  The Doors to be opened at 6:00.  To begin at 7:00.  *p4 dl The School fo
r Scandal.  As 6 Oct. 1778.  *aThe Quaker.  As 6 Oct. 1778.  *sAs 6 Oct. 1778.  
*cReceipts: #251 1s. (230.5.0; 20.1.6; 0.14.6).  *pcg Othello.  Othello-A Gentle
man (1st appearance on any stage [$Daly=]); Roderigo-Lee Lewes; Cassio-Whitfield
; Brabantio-Hull; Lodovico-Booth; Montano-Robson; Duke-L'Estrange; Gratiano-Fear
on; Iago-Bensley; Emila-Mrs Hopkins; Desdemona-Mrs Crawford.  *aThe Liverpool Pr
ize.  As 22 Feb.  *dAs 22 Feb.  *c[$Daly= is identified by MS annotation on +Kem
ble playbill=.]  *p5 dl Samson; Judas Maccabaeus.  As 19 Feb.  *mEnd Part I: +co
ncerto= on the hautboy, as 24 Feb.  *cReceipts: #128 17s. (127.14; 1.3).  *p6 dl
 The Spanish Fryar.  As 22 Dec. 1778.  *aThe Wonders of Derbyshire.  As 2 Mar.  
*cReceipts: #161 (158.8; 2.12).  *pcg Elfrida.  As 23 Feb.  *aThe Liverpool Priz
e.  As 22 Feb.  *dAs 22 Feb.  *cBenefit for the Composer [of mainpiece].  *pking
's Zemira e Azore.  As 23 Feb.  *dAs 2 Mar.  *c$Pacchierotti= having been taken 
very ill with a sore throat +Artaserse= [announced in +Public Advertiser=, 5 Mar
.] is obliged to be changed to +Zemira e Azore=.  *p8 dl The Discovery.  As 3 Fe
b.  *aThe Wonders of Derbyshire.  As 2 Mar.  *cReceipts: #148 11s. (149.12; 0.19
).  *pcg Love in a Village.  As 1 Mar.  *aThe Liverpool Prize.  As 22 Feb.  *dAs
 16 Feb.  *phay The Gentle Shepherd.  Sir William-A Gentleman [unidentified]; Pa
ide-McDonald; Roger-Baker; Symon-Middlemist; Glaud-Riddle; Bauldy-Gard; Madge-Mr
 Wilson; Mause-Mr Hamilton; Jenny-A Gentlewoman [, who appeared in it lately wit
h applause; unidentified]; Peggy (with an additional +song=)-A Gentlewoman [4th 
appearance; unidentified].  *aWit's Last Stake.  Linger-Mitchell; Saville-Sparks
; Caveat-Swords; Item-Jones; Martin Sly-Everard; Myra-Mrs Read; Mrs Watchly-Mrs 
Everard; Lucetta Sharp-Mrs Lefevre.  *eEnd: Singing and Dancing-.  *cBenefit for
 $Riddle=.  *p9 dl Love for Love.  As 13 Oct. 1778.  *aThe Wonders of Derbyshire
.  As 2 Mar.  *c+The School for Scandal= [announced on playbill of 8 Mar.] is un
avoidably obliged to be deferred.  Receipts: #117 16s. (113.15; 4.1).  *pcg The 
Orphan.  Castalio-Wroughton; Acasto-Clarke; Polidore-Aickin; Chaplain-L'Estrange
; Ernesto-Fearon; Page-Miss Morris; Chamont-Lewis; Serina-Miss Leeson; Florella-
Mrs Pitt; Monimia-Mrs Crawford.  *aThe Touchstone.  As 29 Jan.  *pking's Zemira 
e Azore.  As 23 Feb.  *dAs 2 Mar.  *p10 dl Judas Maccabaeus.  As 19 Feb.  *mAs 3
 Mar.  *cReceipts: #183 10s. (182.15; 0.15).  *phay The Messiah.  As 3 Mar.  *sE
nd Part I: [+duet= by $Vinci=,% +Tu vuoi ch'io vivi o cara=, as 3 Mar.  *mAs 3 M
ar.  *p11 dl The West Indian.  As 8 Oct. 1778.  *aA Monody.  [on the Death of $G
arrick=] Mrs Yates; [With Vocal and Instrumental Music.%  Principal Vocal Parts-
Webster, Gaudry, A Young Lady [$Miss Wright=], Mrs Wrighten.  *aPolly Honeycomb.
  Mr Honeycomb-Parsons; Scribble-Dodd; Ledger-Wrighten; Mrs Honeycomb-Mrs Johnst
on; Nurse-Mrs Bradshaw; Polly Honeycomb-Miss Pope.  *c[Mainpiece in place of +A 
Trip to Scarborough=, announced on playbill of 9 Mar.] 2nd piece [1st time; M. I
NT I, by $Richard Brinsley Sheridan=]: With a new Scene invented and designed by
 $DeLoutherbourg= for the occasion.  [Music composed by $Thomas Linley Sen=.  $M
iss Wright= is identified on playbill of 24 May; and see 19 Feb.]  +Public Adver
tiser=, 27 Mar. 1779: This Afternoon at Four is published +A Monody= (1s. 6d.). 
 Afterpiece: Not acted these 3 years.  Receipts: #213 10s. 6d. (180.18.0; 32.6.0
; 0.6.6).  "Some of the verses [of the +Monody=] were responded [to] by the prin
cipal vocalists, accompanied by the band, who occupied an orchestra built on the
 stage, as at the oratorios.  The whole of the performers [were] requested to ap
pear in black clothes" ($Parke=, I, 17).  *pcg The Suspicious Husband.  As 8 Jan
.  *aThe Touchstone.  As 29 Jan.  *c$Mrs Hartley= being suddenly taken ill, +Elf
rida= [announced on playbill of 9 Mar.] is obliged to be deferred.  *pking's Dem
ofoonte.  As 28 Nov. 1778.  *dEnd of new song: +Les Oiseleurs=, as 23 Jan.; End 
II: +Les Moissonneurs=, as 29 Dec. 1778; End Opera: +New Ballet=, as 27 Feb.  *s
End I: a new +song=-Pacchierotti; [with% violin obligato [composed by $Bertoni=%
-Cramer; In III: [an additional% +song= [composed by $Handel=%-Pacchierotti.  *c
Benefit for $Pacchierotti=.  Tickets, half a guinea each, to be had of Pacchiero
tti, No. 232, +Piccadilly=.  *p12 dl Alexander's Feast; Judas Maccabaeus.  [Prin
cipal Vocal Parts and Violin% As 19 Feb.  *aA Miscellaneous Act.  +Concerto= on 
the organ-Stanley; +Verdi Prati= ($Handel=)-Mrs Kennedy; +Rosy Bowers= ($Purcell
=)-Norris; +Tergi il pianto= ($Sacchini=)-Miss Draper; +Won Regina= (Sacchini)-M
iss Linley; +Haste my Nannet= ($Travers=)-Miss Linley, Webster; +Anthem=(Handel)
-.  *mEnd Part I: +concerto= on the violin, as 19 Feb.  *cReceipts: #161 7s. 6d.
 (160.3.6; 1.4.0).  *p13 dl The Gamesters.  Wilding-King; Barnacle-Parsons; Neph
ew-Dodd; Dwindle-Waldron; Acreless-Chaplin; Little Stock-Fawcett; Sellaway-Lamas
h; Boxkeeper-Wright; Drawer-Nash; Page-Master Pulley; Hazard-Palmer; Penelope-Mi
ss Farren (1st appearance in that character); Mrs Wilding-Miss Younge.  *aA Mono
dy.  As 11 Mar.  *aThe Miller of Mansfield.  King-Aickin; Richard-R. Palmer; Lor
d Lurewell-Lamash; Joe (with a +song=)-Holcroft; Miller-Moody; Madge-Mrs Bradsha
w; Kate-Mrs Davenett; Peggy-Miss Collett.  *sII: a +song=-Gaudry.  *cMainpiece: 
Not acted these 4 years [acted 6 Nov. 1776].  Receipts: #217 11s. 6d. (186.11.0;
 30.10.6; 0.10.0).  *pcg Love in a Village.  As 1 Mar.  *aThree Weeks after Marr
iage.  As 29 Oct. 1778, but Drugget (1st time)-Wilson.  *dAs 16 Feb.  *c[Afterpi
ece in place of +The Medley=, announced on playbill of 11 Mar.]  *pking's Demofo
onte.  As 28 Nov. 1778.  *dAs 11 Mar.  *sIn III: [an additional% +song=, as 11 M
ar.  *p15 dl The Way to Keep Him.  Lovemore-Smith; Sir Brilliant Fashion-Dodd; W
illiam-Baddeley; Sideboard-Burton; John-Philimore; Sir Bashful Constant-Yates; M
rs Lovemore-Miss Younge; Muslin-Miss Pope; Lady Constant (1st time)-Mrs Brereton
; Mignionet-Mrs Bradshaw; Widow Belmour (with a +song= in character)-Mrs Abingto
n.  *aThe Camp.  As 11 Feb., but Lady Plume-Miss Collett.  *cBenefit 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.).  *pcg The Distress'd Mother.  As 19 Nov. 1778.  *aThe Touchstone.
  As 29 Jan.  *phay The Humours of Oxford.  Gainlove-Harricks; Shamwell-King; Ha
ughty-Johnson; Young Ape@all-Mills; Old Ape@all-Shatford; Dash-Curtis; Timothy-M
iddleton; Officer-Smith; Vice Chancellor-Bate; Conundrum-Swords; Colonel Truemor
e-Powell; Lady Science-Mrs Lefevre; Victoria-Miss Miller; Kitty-Miss Dudley; Wif
e-Miss Shelbourne; Maid-Miss Baker; Clarinda-Mrs Clifford; Occasional +Prologue=
-Kennedy.  *aA Mirror for the Ladies.  Lieutenant Generous-Harricks; Mr O'Carney
-Holmes; Mr McLofty-Bate; Mr Sheffery Flintshire-Swords; Monsieur-Helme; Fanny-M
iss Shelbourne; Miss Diamond-Miss Harris.  *aThe Wrangling Lovers.  Don Carlos-H
olmes; Don Lorenzo-Curtis; Lopes-Swords; Sancho-Kennedy; Leonora-Mrs Williams; J
acinta-Mrs Lefevre; +Prologue=-Brown.  *sEnd III: +Hunting Song=-Miss Harris.  *
u[+Vaudeville=.%Between Acts 3rd piece: [a few% +Pantomimical Scenes=.  Harlequi
n-Best; Columbine-Miss Dudley.  *cMainpiece: Not acted these 60 years [1st acted
 at +dl=, 9 Jan. 1730].  2nd piece [1st time; M. INT I, probably by $William Har
ricks=.  +Larpent MS 506=; not published].  *p16 dl The Countess of Salisbury.  
Alwin-Smith (1st appearance in that character); Grey-Aickin; Morton-Farren; Sir 
Ardolph-Packer; Laroches-Chaplin; Peasant-Wright; Knights-Philimore, Fawcett, No
rris; Lord William-Miss G. Abrams; Raymond-Palmer; Eleanor-Miss Sherry; Countess
 of Salisbury-Miss Younge (1st appearance in that character).  *aThe Author.  Ca
dwallader-Bannister; Vamp-Moody; Governor Cape-Chambers; Young Cape-Aickin; Spri
ghtly-Packer; Poet-Waldron; Robert-Wrighten; Printer's Devil-Burton; Arabella (1
st time)-Mrs Cuyler; Mrs Cadwallader-Miss Younge (1st appearance in that charact
er).  *dEnd: +Minuet de la Cour=, as 19 Sept. 1778; +Allemande=, as 19 Sept. 177
8.  *cBenefit for $Miss Younge=.  Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years [acted 23 A
pr. 1773].  +Public Advertiser=, 13 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Miss Younge at +T
helwall's=, +King-street=, +Covent Garden=.  Receipts: #217 16s. 6d. (83.16.0; 1
7.14.6; 9.1.0; tickets: 107.5.0) (charge: #64 15s.).  *pcg Know Your Own Mind.  
As 14 Oct. 1778.  *aThe Touchstone.  As 29 Jan.  *c[Mainpiece in place of +Elfri
da=, announced on playbill of 15 Mar.]  *pking's Zemira e Azore.  As 23 Feb.  *d
As 2 Mar.  *p17 dl Judas Maccabaeus.  As 19 Feb.  *mAs 5 Mar.  *cReceipts: #132 
3s. (129.8.6; 2.14.6).  *phay A Miscellaneous Act.  Overture-[, composed by $Bar
thelemon=%; [new cantata,% +A Sea Storm=[, composed by Barthelemon,%-Mrs Barthel
emon; +Under sweet Friendship's Name=-Vernon; +Canon=-Barthelemon; +Concerto= on
 the hautboy-Sharp; +Song=[, composed by $Dr Arne=,%-Mrs Wrighten; +Concerto= on
 the flute-DeCamp; +Italian Rondeau=-Mrs Barthelemon; Variation of +Lovely Nancy
=[, as done in +Italy=,%-Barthelemon; +Concerto= on the violin-Barthelemon.  *aV
ictory[, an Ode Inscribed to $Admiral Keppel=%; Messiah.  [Vocal Parts% As 3 Mar
., but Grand Chorusses-.  *cOde [1st time]: The Music principally composed by $B
arthelemon=.  *p18 dl The School for Scandal.  As 6 Oct. 1778.  *aA Monody.  As 
11 Mar.  *aThe Anatomist; or, Sham Doctor.  Monsieur Le Medicin-Baddeley; Crispi
n-Dodd; Old Gerald-Parsons; Martin-Burton; Young Gerald-Norris; Doctor's Wife-Mr
s Bradshaw; Beatrice-Mrs Love; Angelica-Miss Collett.  *sAs 29 Oct. 1778.  *cRec
eipts: #267 4s. (246.10.0; 19.13.6; 1.0.6).  *pcg Elfrida.  As 23 Feb.  *aThe To
uchstone.  As 29 Jan.  *p19 dl Alexander's Feast; Judas Maccabaeus.  As 19 Feb. 
 *aA Miscellaneous Act.  a +Song=-Mrs Kennedy [As 3 Mar.%; +Concerto= on the org
an-Stanley [as 19 Feb.%; +Song=-Miss Linley; +Ode on Charity=($Boyce=)-.  *mEnd 
Part I Oratorio: +concerto= on the violoncello-Crosdill.  *cReceipts: #109 16s 6
d. (109.9.0; 0.7.6).  *phay Acis and Galatea; Messiah.  [Vocal Parts% As 3 Mar. 
 *aVictory.  As 17 Mar.  *mEnd I Oratorio: +concerto on the trumpet=-Serjeant; E
nd Oratorio: +concerto on the violin=, as 3 Mar.  *p20 dl Rule a Wife and Have a
 Wife.  As 18 Nov. 1778.  *aA Monody.  As 11 Mar.  *aThe Miller of Mansfield.  A
s 13 Mar.  *cReceipts: #185 3s. (156.1; 26.2; 3.0).  *pcg A New Prelude and Prol
ogue.  [Characters by Wilson, Lee Lewes, Whitfield,% Robson, Fearon[, Hull, Miss
 Stewart, Mrs Poussin, Miss Platt. Cast from +Morning Chronicle=, 22 Mar.:% Joe 
Type-Wilson; Ratsbane-Lee Lewes; Eustace-Whitfield; Greenwood-Hull; Passengers i
n a Stage-Miss Stewart; Landlady-Mrs Poussin; Mrs O'Flannagan-Miss Platt [+Larpe
nt MS 472= adds: +Lieut. of a Man of War=r, +Sailor=r, +Ostler=r, +Boot Catcher=
r, +Printer's Devil=r, +Chambermaid=r%.  *aCalypso.  [Principal Characters by Mr
s Kennedy, Reinhold, Leoni, Miss Thornton, Miss Brown.  [Cast from text ($T. Eva
ns=, 1779):% Telemachus-Mrs Kennedy; Mentor-Reinhold; Proteus-Leoni; Antiope-Mis
s Thornton; Calypso-Miss Brown.  *aCross Purposes.  As 2 Oct. 1778.  *dIn: Incid
ental +Dances=-Dagueville, Miss Besford, Miss Valois.  *cPrelude [1st time;PREL 
I, probably by $Richard Cumberland=.  +Larpent MS 472=; not published].  Mainpie
ce [1st time; M 3, by Richard Cumberland, based on +Calypso and Telemachus=, by 
$John Hughes=]: The Overture and all the Music entirely new, and composed by $Bu
tler=.  With new Scenery painted by $Richards= and $Carver=, and new Dresses.  B
ooks of the Masque to be had at the Theatre.  +Public Advertiser=, 27 Mar. 1779:
 This Day is published +Calypso= (1s. 6d.).  *pking's Zemira e Azore.  As 23 Feb
.  *dAs 2 Mar.  *p22 dl King Lear.  King Lear-Henderson (1st appearance in that 
character [in +London=]); Gloster-Aickin; Bastard-Palmer; Kent (1st time)-Hurst;
 Albany-Packer; Cornwall-Wrighten; Burgundy-Norris; Gentleman Usher-Burton; Phys
ician-Wright; Old Peasant-Waldron; Servant to Cornwall-R. Palmer; Curan-Fawcett;
 Captain of the Guards-Chaplin; Edgar-Webster; Goneril-Miss Sherry; Regan-Mrs Co
lles; Arante-Miss Kirby; Cordelia-Miss Younge.  *aHigh Life below Stairs.  As 7 
Jan.  *cBenefit for $Henderson=.  Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years [acted 8 Ju
ne 1776].  +Public Advertiser=, 6 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Henderson, +Bucking
ham-street=, +York Buildings=.  [Henderson's 1st appearance as +King Lear=r was 
at +Bath=, 20 Feb. 1773.]  Receipts: #259 9s. (162.9.0; 16.12.6; 0.13.6; tickets
: 79.14.0) (charge: #105).  *pcg Venice Preserv'd.  Pierre-Crawford (1st appeara
nce on any stage); Priuli-Hull; Renault-Clarke; Duke-Mahon; Bedamar-Whitfield; S
pinosa-L'Estrange; Elliot-Fearon; Theodore-[R.] Smith; Officer-Booth; Jaffier-Th
e Gentleman who performed Douglas [on 14 Jan.: $Rundell=]; Belvidera-Mrs Crawfor
d.  *aComus.  Comus-Mattocks; Spirit-L'Estrange; Bacchanal-Reinhold; The Lady-Mr
s Jackson; Bacchants-Mrs Morton, Miss Ambrose; Sabrina, Pastoral Nymph-Miss Brow
n; Euphrosyne (with +Sweet Echo=, assisted by $Leoni=)-Mrs Kennedy.  *cBenefit f
or $Mrs Crawford=.  Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes.  +Public Advert
iser=, 9 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Crawford, No.3, +Adam-street=, +Adelphi=
.  *p23 dl Cymon.  As 23 Dec. 1778, but Urganda-Miss Pinto (1st appearance on th
e English stage); Sylvia-Miss Walpole (1st appearance in that character).  *aA P
eep behind the Curtain.  As 21 Dec. 1778, but Carpenter-Fawcett; other parts-_Fa
wcett.  *d+Dance of Cupids=, as 23 Dec. 1778; +Dance of Daemons=, as 23 Dec. 177
8.  *cBenefit for $Vernon=.  Mainpiece: With a Grand Procession, as 23 Dec. 1778
.  [$Miss Pinto= was from the $Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin=.]  +Public Advertise
r=, 15 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Vernon at $Mahon='s, the corner of +Bow-street
=, +Covent Garden=.  Receipts: #217 1s. 6d. (121.8.0; 21.11.0; 0.19.6; tickets: 
73.3.0) (charge: #73 3s. 6d.).  *pcg A New Prelude and Prologue.  As 20 Mar., bu
t Mrs O'Flannagan-_.  *aCalypso.  As 20 Mar.  *aThe Liverpool Prize.  As 22 Feb.
, but Debenture-Booth (1st time).  *dAs 20 Mar.  *p23 king's None.  *c+Public Ad
vertiser=, 22 Mar.: At the particular Desire of the Nobility and Gentry, the Sub
scribers to this Theatre, on account of the young Prince's Christening there wil
l be no Opera to-morrow.  This delay will prove very convenient for compleating 
the great Preparations which in every respect are necessary to present [the new]
 Opera [see 25 Mar.] in all the Magnificence it requires.  [$Prince Octavius=, 8
th son of +George III=, was christened on 23 Mar.]  *p24 dl The Messiah; Judas M
accabaeus.  [Principal Vocal Parts and Violin% As 19 Feb.  *mAs 3 Mar.  *cReceip
ts: #280 13s. (278.14; 1.19).  [Account-Book itemizes as follows: Boxes held 170
 at #89 5s.; Pit 286 at #71 10s.; 1st Gallery 526 at #92 1s.; 2nd Gallery 259 at
 #25 18s.-a total of 1,241 spectators.]  *phay Omnipotence; Messiah.  [Vocal Par
ts% As 3 Mar.  *mEnd Part I: +concerto= on the hautboy-Sharp; End Part II: +conc
erto= on the violin, as 3 Mar.  *p25 dl Medea.  Jason-Smith; Creon-Bensley; Aeso
n-Palmer; 1st Colchian-Packer; Lycander-Farren; Children-Miss G. Abrams, Master 
Pulley; Hecate-Hurst; Theano-Mrs Hopkins; Medea-Mrs Yates.  *aA Monody.  As 11 M
ar.  *aA Peep behind the Curtain.  As 23 Mar.  *s+Azure God=-Mrs Wrighten.  *cBe
nefit for $Mrs Yates= [who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill
].  Receipts: #238 13s. 6d. (216.8.0; 19.13.6; 2.12.0; tickets: none listed ) (c
harge: #70 17s. 3d.).  *pcg A New Prelude and Prologue.  As 23 Mar.  *aCalypso. 
 As 20 Mar.  *aThe Englishman in Paris.  As 12 Dec. 1778.  *dIn: Incidental +Dan
ces=, as 20 Mar.; afterpiece: +Minuet=, as 12 Dec. 1778.  *pking's Enea e Lavini
a.  [Principal Characters by Pacchierotti, Adamberger, Coppola, Rovedino, Sga Po
zzi, Sga Bernasconi.%  [Cast from libretto ($G. Bigg=, 1779):% Enea-Pacchierotti
; Latino-Adamberger; Turno-Coppola; Ilioneo-Rovedino; Amata-Sga Pozzi; Lavinia-S
ga Bernasconi.  *dEnd I: [a new Ballet,% +Hippomene et Atalante=[. +Hippomene=r%
-Simonet, [+Atalante=r-% Mlle Baccelli, Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Mlle Vidini, Slings
by; End II: [a new Ballet, connected with the Opera,% +Les Forges de Vulcain=[. 
+Venus=r%-Mme Simonet, [+the 3 Graces=r-% Sga Zuchelli, Sga Tinti, Miss Rose, [+
Cupid=r-% young Miss Simonet, [+the 3 Cyclopes=r-% Banti, Zuchelli, LeDet, [+Vul
cain=r-% Slingsby; [With a% grand Chorus of the Cyclopes [by $Sacchini=%-.  *bEn
d Opera: [a new Serious Ballet,% +La Fete du Ciel=.  Apollo-Mme Simonet; Flora-S
ga Tinti; Zephir-Banti; Iris-Mlle Baccelli; [To conclude with a grand% +Chaconne
=[, in which%-Mme Simonet [will dance in a Man's Dress%.  *cA New Serious Opera 
[1st time; SER 3, ascribed to $Giovanni Gualberto Bottarelli=].  The Music entir
ely new, composed by $Sacchini=.  2nd dance: The Music entirely new, composed by
 $Charles Stamitz=.  *p26 dl The Messiah; Judas Maccabaeus.  [Principal Vocal Pa
rts and Violin% As 19 Feb.  *mAs 3 Mar.  *cPaid $Norris= #105; $Mrs Kennedy= #11
5; $Webster= #80 17s.; $Boy's Choir= #52 10s.; $David Richards= #40; $Parke= #20
; Advertisements in +Public Advertiser= #9 5s.; Band #354 9s. 6d.; Chorus Singer
s #174 19s. 6d.; $Cramer=, $Cervetto=, $Crosdill= #5 5s. a performance.  Receive
d from $Stanley= for Oratorio rent of theatre #308.  Receipts: #206 3s. (204.10;
 1.13).  *phay The Messiah.  [Vocal Parts% As 3 Mar.  *mEnd of Part I: +concerto
= on the trumpet, as 19 Mar.; End of Part II: +concerto= on the violin, as 3 Mar
.  *p27 dl The Way of the World.  As 19 Oct. 1778, but Witwou'd-Dodd (1st appear
ance in that character); Mincing-_.  *aBritons, Strike Home!; or, The Sailor's R
ehearsal.  Principal Characters-Vernon, Aickin, Bannister, Baddeley, Wrighten, B
urton, Norris.  [Edition of 1739 lists the parts: Captain Briton, Lieutanant Mea
nwell, Sir John Freehold, Export, Dapperwit, Foremost, Bowsprit, Father Dominiqu
e, Capstern, Starboard, Helmaloe, Don Jack, Don Uric, Kitty.]  *cBenefit for $Do
dd=.  Afterpiece: With Alterations.  Not acted these 50 years [acted 31 Dec. 173
9].  +Public Advertiser=, 6 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Dodd at his house, +New O
rmond-street=.  Receipts: #272 4s. 6d. (117.4.0; 13.19.0; 2.1.6; tickets: 139.0.
0) (charge: #66 15s.).  *pcg Jane Shore.  As 31 Oct. 1778.  *aMidas.  Midas-Wils
on; Apollo-Mattocks; Pan-Mahon; Jupiter-Fox; Damaetas-Wewitzer; Sileno-Baker; Ju
no-Mrs Poussin; Daphne-Miss Brown; Mysis (1st time)-Mrs Morton; Nysa-Mrs Mattock
s.  *dAs 18 Feb.  *cBenefit for $Wroughton=.  +Public Advertiser=, 13 Mar.: Tick
ets to be had of Wroughton at his house, No. 18, +Broad-court=, +Bow-street=, +C
ovent Garden=.  *pking's Enea e Lavinia.  As 25 Mar.  *dAs 25 Mar.  *b+La Fete d
u Ciel=.  As 25 Mar.  *p3 29[-4 3% none +Holy Week=.  *p4 5 dl The Spanish Fryar
.  As 22 Dec. 1778.  *aThe Contract; or, The Female Captain.  Principal Characte
rs-Palmer, Farren, Waldron, Burton, Parsons, Miss Walpole, Miss Pope; [+Larpent 
MS 476= lists the parts: +Dorimant=r, +Sir David Dupe=r, +Gregory=r, +Skip=r, +G
ypsey=r, +Lady D'Orville=r, +Lydia Freeland=r.]  +Prologue=-Palmer.  *cBenefit f
or $Miss Pope=.  Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by $James Cobb=, based on +La Fausse
 Suivante=; ou, +Le Fourbe Puni=, by $Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux=.  
Prologue by the author ($Knapp=, 117).  +Larpent MS 476=; not published.  In 178
0 this was acted at the +hay= as +The Female Captain=].  Part of the Pit will be
 laid into the Boxes.  +Public Advertiser=, 15 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Miss P
ope, +Little Russel-street=, +Covent Garden=.  Receipts: #202 10s. (54.14; 17.6;
 1.12; tickets: 128.18) (charge: #65 17s. 2d.).  *pcg The Earl of Warwick.  Warw
ick-Lewis (1st appearance in that character); Suffolk-Hull; Pembroke-Whitfield; 
Officer-Robson; Buckingham-Stevens; King Edward-Wroughton (1st appearance in tha
t character); Lady Eliz. Grey-Miss Leeson; Lady Clifford-Mrs Poussin; Margaret o
f Anjou (for this night only)-Mrs Yates; [With the original% +Epilogue=[, writte
n by $Garrick=,%-Mrs Yates.  *aTrue-Blue.  Characters-Mahon, Reinhold, Baker, Mr
s Morton.  [Probable cast: Careful-Mahon; Lieutenant Dreadnought-Reinhold; True-
Blue-Baker; Nancy-Mrs Morton.]  *aThe Liverpool Prize.  As 23 Mar.  *dIn 2nd pie
ce: Aldridge.  *cBenefit for $Lewis=.  Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years [not a
cted since 19 Apr. 1773].  +Public Advertiser=, 17 Mar.: Tickets to be had of $L
ewis= at his house, +Broad-court=.  *p6 dl The Beggar's Opera.  As 29 Jan.  *aCo
mus.  As 15 Dec. 1778.  *dIII: +Hornpipe=, as 29 Jan.  *s+Sweet Echo=-Mrs Kenned
y, Leoni [i.e. formerly $Mrs Farrell=].  *cBenefit for $Webster=.  +Public Adver
tiser=, 9 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Webster, No. 35, +Upper Charlotte-street=, 
+Rathbone-place=.  Receipts: #203 7s. (73.12; 15.13; 1.15; tickets: 112.7) (char
ge: #105).  *pcg The Fair Penitent.  Sciolto (1st time)-Digges; Lothario-Lewis; 
Altamont-Farren; Servant-Thompson; Rossano-L'Estrange; Horatio-Aickin; Lavinia-M
rs Mattocks; Lucilla-Mrs Morton; Calista-Mrs Crawford.  *aTrue-Blue.  As 5 Apr. 
 *aMidas.  As 27 Mar.  *dAs 5 Apr.  *cBenefit for $Mrs Mattocks=.  Mainpiece: No
t acted these 3 years [acted 16 Feb. 1778].  Mrs Mattocks' Benefit has been unav
oidably 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=.  *pking's Zemira e Azore.  As 
23 Feb.  *dAs 2 Mar.  *p7 dl Macbeth.  As 24 Sept. 1778, but Donalbain-Master Be
nson; Lady Macbeth (for that night)-Mrs Yates.  *aA Peep behind the Curtain.  As
 23 Mar.  *s+original Music , as 24 Sept. 1778, but _Legg, _Carpenter.  *cBenefi
t for $Brereton=.  +Public Advertiser=, 27 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Brereton, 
No. 11, +Tavistock-street=.  Receipts: #188 10s. 6d. (84.2.0; 19.16.0; 2.6.6; ti
ckets: 82.6.0) (charge: #71 18s. 4d.).  *pcg Rose and Colin.  As 18 Sept. 1778, 
but Mrs Kennedy.  *aLove in a Village.  As 1 Mar., but Rosetta-Miss Thornton.  *
aThe Touchstone.  As 29 Jan.  *cBenefit for $Mrs Kennedy=.  Tickets delivered fo
r +Love Finds the Way= will be taken.  +Public Advertiser=, 20 Mar.: Tickets to 
be had at the late $Dr Arne='s, No. 5, +Bow-street=, +Covent Garden=.  *p8 dl Th
e School for Scandal.  As 6 Oct. 1778.  *aThe Wonders of Derbyshire.  As 2 Mar. 
 *sAs 6 Oct. 1778.  *cReceipts: #256 10s. (254.13; 1.17).  *pcg The Provok'd Hus
band.  As 30 Oct. 1778, but Lord Townly-A Gentleman (2nd appearance [$Daly=]); J
. Moody-Thompson; Lady Townly-Mrs Crawford.  *aThe Liverpool Prize.  As 23 Mar.,
 but Old Belford-L'Estrange.  *c[$Daly= is identified by MS annotation on +Kembl
e playbill=.]  *p9 dl The Discovery.  As 3 Feb.  *aThe Devil to Pay.  Sir John L
overule-Vernon; Jobson-Moody; Lady Loverule-Mrs Johnston; Nell-Miss Farren (1st 
appearance in that character).  *cBenefit for $Miss Farren=.  Receipts: #145 13s
. 6d. (60.11.0; 16.17.6; 1.1.0; tickets: 67.4.0) (charge: #76 18s. 6d.).  *pcg L
ove in a Village.  As 7 Apr.  *aThe Upholsterer.  As 2 Dec. 1778, but Quidnunc (
1st time)-Booth.  *dEnd II: +The Villagers=, as 27 Nov. 1778.  *cBy Command of $
Their Majesties=.  *p10 dl The Gamester.  The Gamester-Henderson (1st appearance
 in that character); Lewson-Brereton; Jarvis-Aickin; Bates-Packer; Dawson-Norris
; Stukely-Palmer; Charlotte-Mrs Brereton (1st appearance in that character); Mrs
 Beverley-Miss Younge.  *aA Monody.  As 11 Mar.  *aWho's the Dupe?  [Principal C
haracters by King, Parsons, Aickin, Palmer, Mrs Brereton, Mrs Wrighten.%  [Cast 
from text ($J. Dodsley= [et al], 1779):% Gradus-King; Doiley-Parsons; Sandford-A
ickin; Granger-Palmer; Elizabeth-Mrs Brereton; Charlotte-Mrs Wrighten.  *cMainpi
ece: Not acted these 3 years [acted 17 Apr. 1777].  Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, b
y $Hannah Cowley=, based partly on +The Stolen Heiress=, by $Susannah Centlivre=
].  +Public Advertiser=, 30 Apr. 1779: This Day at Noon is published +Who's the 
Dupe=?  (price not listed).  Receipts: #193 3s. 6d. (151.2.0; 39.12.6; 2.9.0).  
*pcg Artaxerxes.  Arbaces-Leoni; Artabanes-Reinhold; Rimenes-Mahon; Artaxeres-Mr
s Kennedy; Semira-Mrs Morton; Mandane-Miss Brown.  *aThree Weeks after Marriage.
  As 13 Mar., but Nancy-Mrs Whitfield.  *dAs 18 Feb.  *cBenefit for $Leoni=.  +P
ublic Advertiser=, 24 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Leoni, No. 34, +Great Queen-str
eet=, +Lincoln's Inn Fields=.  *pking's Enea e Lavinia.  As 25 Mar.  *dAs 25 Mar
.  *b+La Fete du Ciel=.  As 25 Mar.  *p12 dl Alexander the Great; or, The Rival 
Queens.  Alexander-Smith; Cassander-Palmer; Lysimachus-Brereton; Hephestian-Davi
es; Polyperchon-Chambers; Thessalus-Wright; Perdiccas-Chaplin; Eumenes-Norris; A
ristander-Wrighten; Slave-Griffiths; Clytus-Bensley; Roxana-Miss Younge; Parisat
is-Miss Collett; Sisigambis-Mrs Johnston; Statira-Mrs Yates.  *aThe Camp.  As 15
 Mar.  *cBenefit for $Bensley=.  Mainpiece: With the +grand Triumphal Entry=v.  
+Public Advertiser=, 27 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Bensley, +Charlotte-street=, 
+Bloomsbury=.  Receipts: #215 2s. 6d. (135.6.0; 21.4.0; 5.13.6; tickets: 52.19.0
) (charge: #82 5s. 3d.).  *pcg Illumination; or, The Glaziers Conspiracy.  Skyli
ght-Lee Lewes; Dip-Wilson; Quillet-Brunsdon; Parchment-Thompson; Dick-Fearon; Mo
b-Bates, Mahon, Wewitzer; Miss Skylight-Miss Green; Mrs Skylight-Mrs Pitt; +Epil
ogue=-Wilson, Lee Lewes.  [This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent 
performances.]  *aElfrida.  As 23 Feb.  *aThe Touchstone.  As 29 Jan.  *cBenefit
 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 F
eb. 1779 in honor of the acquittal, on a charge of misconduct in the naval opera
tions off +Brest=, of $Admiral Augustus Keppel=.  In 1780 it was acted at this t
heatre, 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.).  *p13 dl The Rivals.  As 2
0 Nov. 1778, but Coachman-Griffiths.  *aComus.  As 15 Dec. 1778, but The Lady (f
or that night only)-Mrs Robinson.  *sBetween the acts: +Tally ho!=-Mrs Wrighten;
 In afterpiece: +Sweet Echo=-Mrs Wrighten; accompanied-Parke.  *cBenefit for $Mr
s Wrighten=.  +Public Advertiser=, 9 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Wrighten, No
. 56, +Drury-Lane=.  Receipts: #273 11s. 6d. (64.13.0; 7.9.6; 1.1.0; tickets: 20
0.8.0) (charge: #68 18s. 6d.).  *pcg The Grecian Daughter.  As 3 Dec. 1778.  *aC
omus.  As 22 Mar., but Brothers-Whitfield, Robson.  *dAs 22 Feb.  *cBenefit for 
$Clarke=.  *pking's Zemira e Azore.  As 23 Feb.  *dAs 2 Mar.  *p14 dl King Lear.
  As 22 Mar., but Cordelia-Mrs Robinson (1st appearance in that character).  *aT
he Camp.  As 15 Mar.  *cBenefit for Mrs Robinson.  +Public Advertiser=, 10 Apr.:
 Tickets to be had of $Mrs Robinson=, +Great Piazza=, the corner of +Russel Stre
et=, +Covent Garden=.  Receipts: #210 14s. (75.0.0: 21.2.6; 0.17.6; tickets: 113
.14.0) (charge: #105).  *pcg Rose and Colin.  As 7 Apr.  *aThe Fair Penitent.  A
s 6 Apr., but Lavinia-Mrs Bulkley; Calista-Mrs Yates.  *aThe Liverpool Prize.  A
s 8 Apr.  *cBenefit for $Aickin=.  Tickets delivered for +The Earl of Warwick= w
ill be taken.  +Public Advertiser=, 8 Apr.: Tickets to be had ff Aickin at his h
ouse, +Bow-street=, +Covent Garden=.  *p15 dl The School for Scandal.  As 6 Oct.
 1778.  *aThe Wonders of Derbyshire.  As 2 Mar.  *sAs 29 Oct. 1778.  *cReceipts:
 #177 (175.6; 1.6).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 23 Oct. 1778, but Isaac (1st time)-Wew
itzer; Lopez-Brunsdon.  *aThe Apprentice.  As 18 Feb.  *c[Afterpiece in place of
 +The Touchstone=, announced on playbill of 14 Apr.]  *pking's Zemira e Azore.  
As 23 Feb.  *dII: +Ballet by Genii=, as 2 Mar.[, but Pedal Harp-_%; End II: +Bal
let by Fairies=, as 2 Mar.; End Opera: [a new grand Military Pantomime Ballet,% 
+La Bravoure des Femmes=[, in which%-Mme Simonet,[in the character of +Leading O
fficer=r, will fight a Duel at Small Sword; The other Principal Parts% Mlle Bacc
elli, Simonet, Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Slingsby; +Minuet=-Mme Simonet, Mlle Baccell
i.  *cBenefit for $Simonet= and $Mlle Simonet=.  Tickets to be had of Simonet, N
o. 5, +Dover-street=, +Piccadilly=.  *p16 dl The Constant Couple; or, A Trip to 
the Jubilee.  Sir Harry Wildair-Miss Walpole; Col. Standard-Brereton (Their 1st 
appearance in those characters); Alderman Smuggler-Parsons; Clincher Jun.-Waldro
n; Vizard-Packer; Dicky-Burton; Tom Errand-Griffiths; Beau Clincher-Palmer (1st 
appearance in that character); Angelica-Mrs Brereton; Lady Darling-Mrs Johnston;
 Parley-Mrs Love; Lady Lurewell-Miss Pope (1st appearance in that character).  *
aA Peep behind the Curtain.  As 23 Mar.  *dEnd: a +Dance=-Miss Walpole.  *cBenef
it for $Miss Walpole=.  Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years.  +Public Advertiser=
, 26 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Miss Walpole, No. 15, +Henrietta-street=, +Coven
t Garden=.  Receipts: #203 19s. 6d. (100.2.0; 15.10.0; 3.15.6; tickets: 84.12.0)
 (charge: #105).  *pcg Venice Preserv'd.  As 22 Mar., but Pierre-Aickin.  *aMida
s.  As 27 Mar.  *p17 dl The Gamester.  As 10 Apr.  *aA Monody.  As 11 Mar., but 
Principal Vocal Parts-_Webster.  *aWho's the Dupe?  As 10 Apr.  *dEnd I afterpie
ce: +Double Hornpipe=-the Miss Stageldoirs.  *cReceipts: #174 12s. (128.14; 43.1
; 2.17).  *pcg Love in a Village.  As 7 Apr.  *aThe Touchstone.  As 29 Jan.  *sE
nd II: [several of the newest and most approved% +Catches and Glees= (selected f
rom the invaluable Collection of the Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Catch-Club)-Rein
hold, Vernon, Champness, R.? Smith, Webb, Reynoldson, Simpkinson, Leoni, [assist
ed by% several other of the most eminent Performers.  *cBenefit for $Reinhold=. 
 Tickets delivered for The Comedy of Errors will be admitted.  Books of the Catc
hes and Glees to be had at the Theatre.  +Public Advertiser=, 8 Apr.: Tickets to
 be had of Reinhold, No. 90, +Charlotte-street=, +Rathbone-place=.  *pking's Ene
a e Lavinia.  As 25 Mar.  *dAs 25 Mar.  *b+La Fete du Ciel=.  As 25 Mar.  *p19 d
l The Double Gallant; or, The Sick Lady's Cure.  Atall-King; Sir Solomon Sadlife
-Parsons; Careless-Palmer; Clerimont-Brereton; Finder-Lamash; Old Wilful-Hurst; 
Sir Harry Atall-Wrighten; Dr Blister-Chaplin; Rhubarb-Norris; Supple-Burton; Lad
y Dainty (for that night)-Miss Younge; Clarinda-Miss Walpole; Sylvia-Mrs Brereto
n; Wishwell-Mrs Davies; Lady Sadlife (for that night)-Mrs Abington.  *aThe Jubil
ee.  *cBenefit for $Hopkins=, prompter, and Mrs Hopkins.  Mainpiece: Not acted t
hese 7 years [acted 18 Feb. 1773].  Afterpiece: A Dramatic Entertainment (in 2 p
arts) of Singing, Dancing and Dialogue.  In Honour of $Shakespeare=.  In which w
ill be introduced a Pageant.  The Music by $Dibdin=.  +Public Advertiser=, 27 Ma
r.: Tickets to be had of Hopkins, No. 7, +Little Russel-street=, +Covent Garden=
.  Receipts: #229 9s. (129.14; 30.18; 2.10; tickets: 66.7) (charge: #64 4s.).  *
pcg Annette and Lubin.  As 2 Oct. 1778, but Mrs Kennedy.  *aRomeo and Juliet.  A
s 26 Oct. 1778, but Juliet-A Young Lady (1st appearance [$Mrs Dawes=]).  *aThe T
ouchstone.  As 29 Jan.  *dI: As 26 Oct. 1778, but +Minuet=-Dagueville, Miss Arms
trong.  *s+Solemn Dirge=, as 26 Oct. 1778, but +Fox, Mrs _Willems.  *cBenefit fo
r $Mattocks=.  [$Mrs Dawes= is identified in +Kentish Gazette=, 19 June and 3 Ju
ly 1779.]  +Public Advertiser=, 14 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mattocks at his ho
use in +Covent Garden=.  *p20 dl The West Indian.  As 8 Oct. 1778.  *aWho's the 
Dupe?  As 10 Apr.  *dAs 17 Apr.  *c+The Gamester= [announced on playbill of 19 A
pr.] is obliged to be deferred, on account of the Indisposition of a principal P
erformer.  Receipts: #84 1s. 6d. (52.15.0; 29.10.0; 1.16.6).  *pcg Cymbeline.  A
s 24 Oct. 1778, but Posthumus-Crawford; Iachimo-Daly.  *aMidas.  As 27 Mar.  *cB
enefit for $Daly=.  +Public Advertiser=, 14 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Daly, No.
 8, +George-street=, +York Buildings=.  *pking's Zemira e Azore.  As 23 Feb.  *d
As 2 Mar.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  *p21 dl The Law of Lombardy.  As 
9 Feb., but Alinda-Miss Farren.  *aA Monody.  As 11 Mar.  *aWho's the Dupe?  As 
10 Apr.  *dAs 17 Apr.  *c[In mainpiece the playbill retains $Mrs Robinson=, but 
"A correspondent who was at +Drury Lane theatre= last night to see +The Law of L
ombardy= congratulates the town on the acquisition of a new performer of the par
t which Mrs Robinson played.  That lady being taken ill, Miss Farren, at very sh
ort warning, undertook it, and did it the most ample justice" (+Gazetteer=, 22 A
pr.).]  Receipts: #107 1s. 6d. (72.8.0; 31.1.0; 3.12.6).  *pcg Annette and Lubin
.  As 19 Apr.  *aThe Fair Quaker; or, The Humours of the Navy.  Captain Mizen-Do
dd (of +dl=); Captain Worthy-Wroughton; Sir Charles Pleasant-Whitfield; Lieut. C
ribbage-Booth; Lieut. Easy-Fearon; Binnacle-Wilson; Hatchway (with +songs=)-Maho
n; Commodore Flip-Lee Lewes; Arabella-Miss Ambrose; Belinda-Miss Leeson; Jenny P
rivate-Miss Platt; Jiltup-Mrs White; Dorcas Zeal-Mrs Bulkley.  *aThe Author.  Ca
dwallader (1st time)-Dodd; Young Cape-Whitfield; Sprightly-Robson; Vamp-Wilson; 
Governor Cape-Fearon; Arabella-Miss Ambrose; Mrs Cadwallader (1st time)-Mrs Bulk
ley.  *dIn Naval Review: +Dance of Sailors=-Aldridge, others.  *sEnd Dance: the 
+Air= [in +The Comedy of Errors= [see 22 Jan.]%-Mrs Kennedy.  *cBenefit for $Mrs
 Bulkley=.  Mainpiece: With a Medley Overture of favourite Sea Tunes.  To conclu
de with a Representation of the grand Naval Review at +Portsmouth=v.  *p22 dl Th
e School for Scandal.  As 6 Oct. 1778.  *aQueen Mab.  As 8 Oct. 1778, but Clod-G
riffiths; Fat Cook-Johnston.  *sAs 6 Oct. 1778.  *cReceipts: #187 5s. 6d. (163.3
.0; 23.3.6; 0.19.0).  *pcg The Provok'd Wife.  As 25 Sept. 1778, but Lady Brute-
Mrs Bulkley; Justice-Thompson; Taylor-Jones.  *aThe Commissary.  As 2 Jan.  *cCa
lypso [announced on playbill of 21 Apr.] is unavoidably postponed on account of 
$Reinhold='s Hoarseness.  Tickets delivered by $Miss Ambrose=, $Branson=, $Thomp
son=, $Sga Tinte= and the $Widow of the late Dr Arne=, for +Calypso=, will be ta
ken this night.  *p23 dl Every Man in his Humour.  As 28 Oct. 1778, but Cob-Wrig
ht; Bridget-Mrs Davies; Mrs Kitely-Mrs Brereton (1st appearance in that characte
r); Cash-_; Formal-_.  *aWho's the Dupe?  As 10 Apr.  *dAs 17 Apr.  *cBy Command
 of $Their Majesties=.  Receipts: #243 7s. 6d. (229.16.0; 11.8.0; 2.3.6).  *pcg 
The Stratagem.  As 11 Jan., but Sullen-Thompson; Scrub-Stevens; Mrs Sullen-Mrs B
ulkley.  *aThe Medley.  As 14 Oct. 1778, but Principal Characters-_Painter, +L'E
strange, _Thompson, _Stevens, _Ledger, _Brunsdon.  *dEnd IV: +Hornpipe=-Delpini.
  *cTickets delivered by $Delpini=, $Fox=, $Jones=, $Bates=, $Stevens= will be r
eceived.  *p24 dl The Jealous Wife.  As 23 Jan.  *aThe Jubilee.  As 19 Apr.  *c[
Mainpiece in place of +Rule a Wife and Have a Wife=, announced on playbill of 23
 Apr.]  Receipts: #108 4s. 6d. (80.8.0; 23.17.6; 3.19.0).  *pcg The First Part o
f King Henry IV, With the Humours of Sir John Falstaff.  Hotspur-Wroughton; King
-Bensley; Prince of Wales-Bannister Jun. (1st appearance in that character); Wes
tmoreland-Thompson; Sir Walter Blunt-Booth; Sir Richard Vernon-Hull; Worcester-F
earon; Poins-Robson; Bardolph-Egan; Francis-Cushing; Carriers-Wewitzer, Messink;
 Sir John Falstaff-Henderson; Hostess-Mrs Pitt; Lady Percy-Mrs Hartley.  *aThe M
inor.  Shift (with variety of +Imitations=)-Bannister Jun.; Sir George Wealthy-W
hitfield; Sir William Wealthy-Wewitzer; Mr Wealthy-L'Estrange; Loader-Fearon; Tr
ansfer-Jones; Dick-Stevens; Smirk, Mrs Cole-Bannister; Lucy-Miss Leeson.  *dAs 1
6 Feb.  *cBenefit for Bannister Jun.  +Public Advertiser=, 10 Apr.: Tickets to b
e had of Bannister Jun., No. 8, +Air-street=, +Piccadilly=.  *pking's Enea e Lav
inia.  As 25 Mar.  *dAs 25 Mar.  *b+La Fete du Ciel=.  As 25 Mar.  *p26 dl The G
amesters.  As 13 Mar.  *aA Monody.  As 11 Mar.  *aWho's the Dupe?  As 10 Apr.  *
dAs 17 Apr.  *sAs 13 Mar.  *cBenefit for the Author of the Farce.  Receipts: #17
4 11s. 6d. (100.2.0; 36.5.0; 7.067.0.6; tickets: 31.4.0) (charge: #105).  *pcg R
ose and Colin.  As 7 Apr.  *aHamlet.  As 12 Oct. 1778, but Hamlet-Henderson; Kin
g-Fearon; Polonius-Wilson; 1st Grave@Digger-Quick; Marcellus-Thompson; Bernardo-
Booth; Player King-L'Estrange.  *aDr Last in his Chariot.  Doctor Last-Quick; Dr
 Coffin-Jones; Skeleton-Wewitzer; Bulruddery-Egan; Friendly-Booth; Hargrave-Robs
on; Ailwou'd-Wilson; Nancy-Mrs Morton; Prudence-Miss Ambrose; Mrs Ailwou'd-Mrs P
itt.  *cBenefit for Quick.  Afterpiece: Never acted here.  +Public Advertiser=, 
17 Apr.: Tickets to be had of $Quick=, No. 151, +Drury-lane=.  *p27 dl The Games
ter.  As 10 Apr.  *aWho's the Dupe?  As 10 Apr.  *dAs 17 Apr.  *c[Mainpiece in p
lace of +The Double Deception=, announced on playbill of 26 Apr.]  MS annotation
 on +Kemble playbill=: I believe this was the last time $Miss Younge= acted at +
Drury Lane=.  See $C. G. T.= November 10th, 1779.  Receipts: #107 10s. 6d. (66.1
7.0; 32.16.0; 7.17.6).  *pcg Illumination.  As 12 Apr.  *aThe Funeral; or, Grief
 a-la-Mode.  Lord Hardy-Wroughton; Campley-Lewis; Lord Brumpton-L'Estrange; Trus
ty-Hull; Counsellor Puzzle-Booth; Tom-Jones; Sable-Quick; Trim-Wilson; Lady Harr
iet-Mrs Bulkley; Lady Charlotte-Mrs Lessingham; Tattleaid-Mrs Pitt; Fardingale-M
rs Poussin; Mademoiselle-Miss Ambrose; Lady Brumpton-Mrs Mattocks.  *aThe Farmer
's Return from London.  Farmer-Wilson; Farmer's Wife-Mrs Pitt.  *aThe Cobler of 
Castlebury.  [Characters by Wilson, Wewitzer, J. Wilson (1st appearance on any s
tage), Mrs Morton, Mrs Wilson.  [Cast from text ($G. Kearsley=, 1779):% Lapstone
-Wilson; Rawboy-Wewitzer; Bluff-J. Wilson; Kate-Mrs Morton; Nancy-Mrs Wilson.  *
cBenefit for Wilson.  Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years.  3rd piece: Written by
 $D. Garrick=, Esq., with Additions.  4th piece [1st time; MF 2, by $Charles Stu
art=]: The Overture and Music chiefly new, by $Gehot=, and $Shield=, who compose
d the music to +The Flitch of Bacon=.  +Public Advertiser=, 3 Apr.: Tickets to b
e had of $Wilson=, No. 2, +Henrietta-street=, +Covent Garden=.  Ibid, 29 Apr. 17
79: This Day is published +The Cobler of Castlebury= (1s.).  *pking's Zemira e A
zore.  As 23 Feb.  *dAs 2 Mar.  *p28 dl The Double Deception.  [Principal Charac
ters by Dodd, Parsons, Aickin, Baddeley, Waldron, Farren, Nash, Bidwell, Palmer,
 Miss Farren, Mrs Hopkins, Mrs Brereton, Miss Pope.  [Cast from +London Chronicl
e=, 30 Apr.:% Flippant-Dodd; Welford-Parsons; Fairgrove-Aickin; Rudely-Baddeley;
 Robin-Waldron; Charles Fairgrove-Farren; Sir Harry Varnish-Palmer; Louisa Freem
ore-Miss Farren; Lady Varnish-Mrs Hopkins; Sophia Welford-Mrs Brereton; Kitty-Mi
ss Pope; Nash, Bidwell[ are unassigned. For +Prologue= and +Epilogue= see 6 May%
.  *aThe Quaker.  As 6 Oct. 1778.  *cMainpiece [1st time; C 5, by $Elizabeth Ric
hardson=.  +Larpent MS 478=; not published].  Receipts: #137 3s. (119.12; 13.18;
 3.13).  *pcg The Beggar's Opera.  As 17 Oct. 1778, but Macheath (for that night
 only)-Aldridge (1st appearance in a dramatic character); Lockit-Booth; Lucy-Mrs
 Morton; Mrs Slammekin-Miss Platt.  *aThree Weeks after Marriage.  As 29 Oct. 17
78, but Nancy-Mrs Whitfield.  *dto conclude with: +Country Dance=-the characters
; End I: new +Comic Dance=-Langrish, Jackson, Miss Parish, Miss Lings; End II: a
 +Minuet=-Aldridge, Mrs Bulkley; In III: +Hornpipe=, as 12 Dec. 1778; End I afte
rpiece: [a new Pantomimical Dance,% +The Sports of the Green=-Aldridge, Langrish
, Jackson, Miss Besford, Miss Parish, Miss Valois; [in which his celebrated% +Ta
mbourine Dance=-Aldridge.  *cBenefit for $Aldridge=.  +Public Advertiser=, 10 Ap
r.: Tickets to be had of Aldridge at the +Carpet Warehouse=, +Covent Garden Piaz
za=.  *p29 dl The School for Scandal.  As 6 Oct. 1778.  *aThe Jubilee.  As 19 Ap
r.  *sAs 6 Oct. 1778.  *cReceipts: #222 15s. (194.17; 25.7; 2.11).  *pcg The Bus
y Body.  As 6 Jan., but Sir George Airy-A Young Gentleman (1st appearance on thi
s stage [unidentified]); Whisper-R.? Smith; Isabinda-Mrs Whitfield.  *aThe Liver
pool Prize.  As 22 Feb., but Debenture-Booth; Old Belford-L'Estrange; Bronze-_; 
Jones_.  *dAs 2 Mar.  *mEnd IV: trumpet +concerto=-Sarjant.  *cTickets delivered
 by $Mrs Pitt=, $Miss Bassan=, $Miss Green=, $Mrs Sharpe=, $R.? Smith=, $Ledger=
, $Garland= and the Performers in the Orchestra will be admitted.  *pking's La B
uona Figliuola.  Principal Characters-Jermoli, Rossi, Coppola, Micheli, Sga Jerm
oli, Sga Pollone, Sga Pozzi, Sga Sestini.  [Libretto ($T. Cadell=, 1777) lists t
he Parts: Il Cavaliere Armidoro, Il Marchese della Conchiglia, Tagliaferro, Meng
otto, La Marchesa Lucinda, Paoluccia, Cecchina, Sandrina.]  *dEnd I: +Les Oisele
urs=, as 23 Jan.; End Opera: +New Ballet=, as 27 Feb.  *bEnd II: +Annette et Lub
in=.  As 24 Nov. 1778.  *cBenefit for $Sga Sestini=.  Tickets to be had of Sga S
estini, No. 8, +Great Suffolk-street=, +Charing-cross=.        *p30 dl The Schoo
l for Scandal.  As 6 Oct. 1778.  *aThe Irish Widow.  As 19 Sept. 1778.  *dAs 19 
Sept. 1778.  *sAs 6 Oct. 1778.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  +The Double 
Deception= [announced on playbill of 29 Apr.], on account of the Benefits, is ob
liged to be deferred till Thursday next.  Receipts: #240 2s. (222.9.0; 17.9.6; 0
.3.6).  *pcg Douglas.  As 14 Jan., but Douglas-Lewis; Old Norval-Younger (1st ap
pearance these 4 years); Lady Randolph-Mrs Jackson (1st appearance in that chara
cter).  *aThe Farmer's Return from London.  As 27 Apr.  *aGallic Gratitude; or, 
The Frenchman in India.  [Characters by Wewitzer, Fearon, Robson, Thompson, L'Es
trange, Mrs Morton, Miss Leeson.  [Cast from text ($E. Johnson=, 1779):% La Bron
ze-Wewitzer; Cossim-Fearon; Haroun-Robson; Decca-Thompson; Sir Thomas Callico-L'
Estrange; Ali-Jones; Derby O'Rudder-Egan; Teresa-Mrs Morton; Harriet-Miss Leeson
; +Prologue=-Mrs Jackson [in the character of +Britannia=r%.  *sIn 3rd piece: th
e Vocal Parts-Reinhold, Miss Thornton, Mrs Wrighten.  *cBenefit for $Mrs Jackson
=.  3rd piece [1st time in +London=; F 2, by $James Solas Dodd=, based on +Le Na
ufrage=, by $Joseph de laFont=, and 1st acted at $Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin=, 
1772, as +The Funeral Pile=.  "The performers were exceedingly correct, which is
 unusual in benefit piece"  $Oulton=, 1796,1,81).  Prologue by the author (+Town
 and Country Magazine=, May 1779, p.270)]: With an +Indian Procession=v.  +Publi
c Advertiser=, 24 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Jackson in the +Great Piazza=, 
+Covent Garden=.  *p5 1 dl The Way of the World.  As 19 Oct. 1778, but Fainall-F
arren (1st appearance in that character); Mrs Fainall-Mrs Davies; Millamant-Miss
 Farren (1st appearance in that character).  *aComus.  As 15 Dec. 1778, but The 
Lady (1st time)-Mrs Brereton.  *sEnd IV: +Tally ho!=, as 13 Apr.; In afterpiece:
 +Sweet Echo=, as 13 Apr.  *cBenefit for $Farren= and $Miss Sherry=.  Tickets de
livered by $Bidwell=, $Mrs Pulley=, and for +The Way of the World= will be taken
.  +Public Advertiser=, 29 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Farren, No. 14, +Catherine
 Street=, +Strand=; of Miss Sherry, No. 2, +Little Russel-street=, +Covent Garde
n=.  Receipts: #214 13s. (39.8.0; 15.17.6; 0.12.6; tickets: 158.15.0) (charge: #
69 3s.).  *pcg The Wives Revenged.  As 18 Sept. 1778.  *aAlexander the Great.  A
s 26 Dec. 1778, but  Alexander-Peile; Clytus-Bensley; Parisatis-Mrs Whitfield.  
*aThe Farmer's Return from London.  As 27 Apr.  *aMidas.  As 27 Mar.  *cBenefit 
for $Peile=.  Mainpiece: With the +Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Babylon=v. 
 +Public Advertiser=, 22 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Peile, +North-street=, +West
minster=.  *pking's Enea e Lavinia.  As 25 Mar.  *dAs 25 Mar.  *b+La Fete du Cie
l=.  As 25 Mar.  *p3 dl The Merry Wives of Windsor.  As 26 Jan., but Mrs Ford-Mr
s Brereton (1st appearance in that character).  *aThe Camp.  As 15 Mar.  *sEnd I
V: +Tally ho!=, as 13 Apr.  *cBenefit for $Mrs Sharp= and $Mrs Brereton=.  +Publ
ic Advertiser=, 27 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Sharp, No. 10, +Bow-street=; o
f Mrs Brereton, No. 11, +Tavistock-street=.  Receipts: #133 9s. 6d. (79.13.0; 25
.0.0; 0.8.6; tickets: 28.8.0) (charge: #75 9s. 6d.).  *pcg Illumination.  As 12 
Apr.  *aOroonoko.  Oroonoko-Wroughton; Aboan-Aickin; Blandford-Hull; Governor-Wh
itfield; Stanmore-Robson; Captain Driver-Thompson; Daniel-Quick; Charlotte Weldo
n-Miss Ambrose; Lucy-Mrs Whitfield; Widow Lackit-Mrs Pitt; Imoinda (for that nig
ht only)-Mrs Yates.  *aChrononhotonthologos.  Chrononhotonthologos, King of Quee
rummania-Wilson; Bombardinion-Robson; Aldiborontiphoscophornio-Booth; Captain of
 the Guards-Bates; Herald-Thompson; Doctor-Ledger; Cook-Stevens; Rigdum Funnidos
-Lee Lewes; Fadladinida, Queen of Queerummania-Miss Platt; Venus-Miss Green; Tat
lanthe-Mrs Pitt.  *bEnd: +The Humours of Newmarket; with the Poney Races=.  Jock
eys-Dagueville, Harris, Master Dagueville, Master Holland; Ladies-Miss Ross, Sga
 Tinte.  *cBenefit for $Wild=, prompter.  Afterpiece: Not acted these 7 years.  
With a +Mock Procession=v, and Triumphal Entry of Chrononhotonthologos.  +Mornin
g Chronicle=, 1 May: Tickets to be had of Wild at +Pennington's=, watch-maker, o
pposite +Broad Court=, +Drury-Lane=.  *p4 dl King Lear.  As 14 Apr.  *aThe Quake
r.  As 6 Oct. 1778.  *cBenefit for $Hurst= and $Burton=.  +Public Advertiser=, 2
4 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Hurst, No. 368, opposite +Norfolk-street=, +Strand=
; of Burton, +Duke's-court=, +Bow-street=, +Covent Garden=.  Receipts: #194 13s.
 (54.10.0; 16.5.6; 0.2.6; tickets: 123.15.0) (charge: #66 1s. 6d.).  *pcg Illumi
nation.  As 12 Apr.  *aThe Comedy of Errors.  As 22 Jan.  *aTrue-Blue.  As 5 Apr
.  *aThe Invasion.  As 4 Nov. 1778.  *d3rd piece: As 5 Apr.; End IV: +Hornpipe=-
Master Davies (scholar to $Hurst=; 1st appearance in public).  *sIn III: +song= 
in character-Mrs Morton.  *cBenefit for $Whitfield= and $Mrs Morton=.  +Public A
dvertiser=, 17 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Whitfield, No. 14, +New Crown Court=, 
+Russel Street=, +Covent Garden=; of Mrs Morton, No. 15, same address.  *pking's
 La Buona Figliuola.  As 29 Apr.  *dAs 29 Apr.  *b+Annette et Lubin=.  As 29 Apr
.  *p5 dl Much Ado about Nothing.  As 4 Nov. 1778, but Hero-Mrs Lessingham (of +
cg=).  *aComus.  As 1 May.  *dIn: +Grand Dance=, as 2 Nov. 1778, but _Henry, +Gr
imaldi, Master +Mills, Miss +Grimaldi.  *sAs 13 Apr.  *cBenefit for $Grimaldi=, 
ballet-master, and $Lamash=.  +The Rivals= [announced on playbill of 4 May] is o
bliged 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, wee
kly throughout season] #9.  +Public Advertiser=, 4 May: Tickets to be had of Gri
maldi at his house, No. 125, +Holbourn=; of Lamash, No. 3, +Air-street=, +Piccad
illy=.  Receipts: #175 5s. 6d. (43.10.0; 17.17.6; 0.14.0; tickets: 113.4.0) (cha
rge: #69 19s.).  *pcg Cymbeline.  As 24 Oct. 1778, but Posthumus-Reddish; Imogen
-Mrs Bulkley.  *aThree Weeks after Marriage.  As 28 Apr.  *dAs 24 Oct. 1778.  *s
As 24 Oct. 1778.  *cBenefit for $Reddish= [and his last appearance on the stage]
.  Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted.  +Public Advertiser=, 1 May: 
Tickets to be had of Reddish, No. 14, near the +Turnpike=, +Tottenham Court Road
=.  "Poor Reddish, on the 5th of May, had a benefit, and it was resolved to try 
whether he could not go through the character of +Posthumus=r.  He was now infir
m; in common occurrences imbecile, but to be exited by his former profession, or
 nothing.  The late $John Ireland= gave an affecting detail of this attempt.  He
 met his friend an hour before the performance began.  Reddish entered the room 
with the step of an idiot, his eye wandering, and his whole countenance vacant. 
 Mr Ireland congratulated him, that he was sufficiently recovered to perform his
 favourite Posthumus.  'Yes', said he, 'and in the garden scene I shall astonish
 you.'  'The garden scene!  I thought you were to play Posthumus?'  'No, Sir, I 
play +Romeo=r.'  His friend assured him that Posthumus was the part he was to ac
t--and he walked to the theatre, reciting Romeo all the way.  When dressed for P
osthumus, and in the green-room, it was still hard to undeceive him--at length h
e was pushed upon the stage....The instant he came in sight of the audience his 
recollection seemed to return; his countenance resumed meaning, his eye became l
ighted up, he made the modest bow of respect, and played the scene as well as he
 had ever done.  But Romeo again met him in the green-room, and it was only the 
stage cue that had the power to unsettle this delusion; and that never failed to
 do it through the whole play.  Mr Ireland thought him, on this occasion, less a
ssuming and more natural than he had seemed in the full enjoyment of his reason"
 (+Boaden, Kemble=, I, XVI-XVII; Ireland, 58-60).  *p6 dl The Double Deception. 
 As 28 Apr., but Flippant-Lamash; +Prologue=-Farren; +Epilogue=-Miss Farren.  *a
Who's the Dupe?  As 10 Apr.  *dAs 17 Apr.  *c[Author of +Prologue= unknown.  +Ep
ilogue= by the author of mainpiece (+Town and Country Magazine=, May 1779, p.269
).]  Receipts: #146 17s. (110.19.0; 34.15.6; 1.2.6).  *pcg Fatal Falshood.  [Pri
ncipal Characters by Wroughton, Aickin, Clarke, Lewis, Mrs Hartley, Miss Younge.
  [Cast from text ($T. Cadell=, 1779):% Orlando-Wroughton; Bertrand-Aickin; Earl
 Guildford-Clarke; Rivers-Lewis; Julia-Mrs Hartley; Emmelina-Miss Younge; +Prolo
gue=-Hull; +Epilogue=-Lee Lewes (see text).  [These were spoken, as here assigne
d, at all subsequent performances.%  *aThe Chelsea-Pensioner.  [Chief Parts-Bann
ister, Hull, Wilson, Fearon, Baker, Booth, Thompson, L'Estrange, Robson, Wewitze
r, Brunsdon, Mattocks, Mrs Kennedy, Miss Brown.  [Cast from text ($G. Kearsly=, 
1779):% Blenheim-Bannister; Governor-Hull; Lapstone-Wilson; Flint-Fearon; Riflem
an-Baker; Latitat-Booth; Hone-Thompson; Soldier-L'Estrange; Plunder-Robson; Malp
laquet-Wewitzer; Thicket-Brunsdon; Lively-Mattocks; Birch-Simkinson; Platoon-Mah
on; Ester-Mrs Kennedy; Nancy-Miss Brown.  *cMainpiece [1st time; T 5]: Written b
y the Author of +Percy= [$Hannah More=.  +Prologue= by the author; +Epilogue= by
 $Richard Brinsley Sheridan= (see text)].  +Public Advertiser=, 1 Dec. 1779: Thi
s Day is published +The Fatal Falsehood= [sic] (1s. 6d.).  Afterpiece [1st time;
 CO 2, by $Charles Dibdin=]: The Overture and all the Music composed by Dibdin. 
 With new Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations to both Pieces.  Books of the Enterta
inment to be had at the Theatre.  +Public Advertiser=, 6 May 1779: This Afternoo
n at three is published +The Chelsea Pensioner= (1s.).  The Doors to be opened a
t 5:30.  To begin at 6:30 [same for rest of season].  *p7 dl The Clandestine Mar
riage.  As 21 Oct. 1778, but Fanny-Mrs Brereton.  *aThe Padlock.  As 29 Sept. 17
78, but Mungo-Holcroft; Leonora-Miss Wright (1st appearance in any character).  
*sAs 3 May.  *eEnd: +Imitations=-Bannister Jun.  *cBenefit for $Harwood=, $Thomp
son= & $Miss Wright= [who had 1st appeared as a singer in the oratorios, 19 Feb.
].  +Public Advertiser=, 3 May: Tickets to be had of Harwood at $Mrs Powel's=, +
New Nelson-street=; of Thompson, No.7, +Great Marlborough-street=; of Miss Wrigh
t, No. 136, +Drury-lane=.  Receipts: #267 4s. (69.5.0; 19.2.6; 0.6.6; tickets: 1
78.10.0) (charge: #105).  The Doors to be opened at 5:30.  To begin at 6:30 [sam
e for rest of season].  *pcg The Duenna.  As 23 Oct. 1778.  *aCross Purposes.  A
s 2 Oct. 1778.  *dEnd: +The Sports of the Green=-Aldridge.  *cBy Command of $The
ir Majesties=.  *p8 dl The Tempest.  As 2 Nov. 1778, but Prospero-Bensley; Ariel
-Miss Abrams [1st appearance in that character]; Chorus of Spirits-_Legg, _Carpe
nter, _Fawcett, Miss _Abrams.  *aComus.  As 1 May, but Pastoral Nymph-Miss Abram
s.  *dIn IV: +Dance=-Henry, Miss Armstrong.  *sAs 13 Apr.  *cBenefit for $Waldro
n= and $Miss Abrams=.  +Morning Chronicle=, 6 May: Tickets to be had of Waldron,
 No. 16, +Glanville-street=, +Rathbone Place=; of Miss Abrams, +Little Bridges-s
treet=.  Receipts: #138 5s. (50.10; 22.17; 0.9; tickets: 64.9) (charge: #71 4s. 
6d.).  *pcg Love in a Village.  As 7 Apr., but Young Meadows-A Gentleman (1st ap
pearance on any stage [$Wright=]).  *aThe Liverpool Prize.  As 29 Apr.  *dEnd II
: +Minuet=-Dumay, Miss Dagueville; [and the% +Minuet de la Cour=-Holloway, Miss 
Besford; End I afterpiece: +New Dance=-Harris, Mrs Sutton (1st appearance on tha
t stage); [with a% +New Allemande=-.  *bEnd: +The Humours of Newmarket=.  As 3 M
ay, but Jockeys-+Holloway; Ladies-Miss +Besford.  *cBenefit for $Dumay=, $Harris
= & $Holloway=.  [For $Wright= see 13 May.  $Mrs Sutton= was from +dl=.]  +Publi
c Advertiser=, 7 May: Tickets to be had of Dumay, +Sand-hill=, behind the +Found
ling Hospital=; of Harris, No. 42, +Wells-street=, +Cavendish-square=; of Hollow
ay, +Newington Butts=.  *pking's Enea e Lavinia.  As 25 Mar.  *dAs 25 Mar.  *b+L
a Fete du Ciel=.  As 25 Mar.  *p10 dl The Suspicious Husband.  Ranger-King; Mr S
trictland-Bensley (1st appearance in that character); Frankly-Palmer; Bellamy-Pa
cker; Jack Meggot (1st time)-Lamash; Tester-Burton; Buckle-Wright; Ranger's Serv
ant-Philimore; Jacintha-Mrs Robinson (1st appearance in that character); Mrs Str
ictland-Mrs Jackson (of +cg=; 1st appearance upon that stage); Lucetta-Mrs Davie
s; Milliner-Miss Kirby; Landlady-Mrs Bradshaw; Clarinda-Miss Farren.  *aWho's th
e Dupe?  As 10 Apr.  *dto conclude with: +Country Dance=-; End I afterpiece: As 
17 Apr.  *sEnd II: +Tally ho!=, as 13 Apr.  *cBenefit for $Fosbrook=, box-book-k
eeper.  Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years [acted 1 June 1776].  Receipts: #305 
5s. 6d. (53.5.0; 12.18.6: 1.5.0; tickets: 237.17.0) (charge: #105).  *pcg Illumi
nation.  As 12 Apr.  *aAmphitryon; or, The Two Sosias.  Jupiter-Lewis; Amphitryo
n-Wroughton; Mercury-Whitfield; Judge Gripus-Wilson; Phoebus-Booth; Polidas-Fear
on; Tranio-Thompson; Sosia-Quick; Phaedra-Mrs Mattocks; Bromia-Mrs Pitt; Night-M
iss Green; Alcmena-Mrs Hartley.  *aThe Touchstone.  As 29 Jan.  *uIn IV: Masque 
of +Singing= and +Dancing=.  Plutus-Reinhold; Wit-Miss Valois.  *cBenefit for $B
randon=, box-book and house-keeper.  Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admit
ted.  *phay Douglas.  Douglas-Holmes; Glenalvon-Cooke; Lord Randolph-Sparks; Off
icers-Garden, Swords; Old Norval-Mitchell; Anna-Miss Randall; Lady Randolph-Mrs 
Jones (from the $Theatre-Royal in Dublin=).  *aWit's Last Stake.  *aThe Brave Ir
ishman.  Captain O'Blunder-A Gentleman (from the $Theatre-Royal in Dublin=; 1st 
appearance on the English stage [unidentified]).  *dEnd Monologue: +Hornpipe=-La
pper.  *sEnd III: +He's aye kissing me=-Miss Harris; End: +Hunting Song=-Miss Ha
rris.  *mBetween the Acts: The original +Scotch Music=-.  *e[+Monologue=.%End 2n
d piece: +Hippisley's Drunken Man=-Lewis (1st appearance on that stage these 3 y
ears).  *cBy Authority of the +Lord Chamberlain=.  Benefit for $Mitchell= and $S
inclair=.  The Doors to be opened at 5:15.  To begin at 6:00 precisely.  Tickets
 to be had of Mitchell at the +Old Castle Tavern=, near +Gray's Inn Gate=, +Holb
orn=; of Sinclair, +Church-Lane=, near +St. Martin's Church=, +Strand=.  *p11 dl
 The Spanish Fryar.  As 22 Dec. 1778.  *aThe Elopement.  Harlequin (for that nig
ht only)-A Young Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified]); Clown-G
rimaldi (1st appearance in that character); Pantaloon-Burn; Lover-Burton; Drunke
n Valet-Griffiths; Scaramouch-R. Palmer; Country Girls-Mrs Colles, Miss Abrams; 
Colombine-Miss Collett.  *dEnd II: +Hornpipe=-Wright.  *sAs 3 May.  *cBenefit fo
r $Wright= and $Butler=, carpenter.  Afterpiece: To conclude with the Scene of t
he +Waterfall=v, as it was originally performed.  +Public Advertiser=, 5 May: Ti
ckets to be had of Wright, No. 24, +Bennet-street=, +Westminster=; of Butler, ne
xt door to the Theatre.  Receipts: #267 9s. 6d. (37.11.0; 13.8.6; 0.4.0; tickets
: 216.6.0) (charge: #74 14s.).  *pcg Fatal Falshood.  As 6 May.  *aThe Chelsea-P
ensioner.  As 6 May.  *pking's La Buona Figliuola.  As 29 Apr.  *dAs 29 Apr.  *b
+Annette et Lubin=.  As 29 Apr.  *c[Opera in place of +Enea e Lavinia=, announce
d in +Public Advertiser=, 10 May.]  *p12 dl The Double Deception.  As 6 May.  [+
Prologue= and +Epilogue= as 6 May.%  *aThe Deserter.  As 10 Oct. 1778, but Simki
n-Fawcett.  *cBenefit for the Author [of mainpiece].  Receipts: #83 1s. (65.5; 1
6.18; 0.18; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105).  *pcg Illumination.  As 12 Apr
.  *aA Bold Stroke for a Wife.  As 7 Oct. 1778, but Tradelove-Thompson.  *aThe F
armer's Return from London.  As 27 Apr.  *aThe Norwood Gypsies.  As 22 Oct. 1778
.  *cBenefit for $Messink=, $Fearon=, $Egan= & $Guard=.  *p13 dl The School for 
Scandal.  As 6 Oct. 1778.  *aWho's the Dupe?  As 10 Apr.  *dEnd I afterpiece: As
 17 Apr.  *sAs 6 Oct. 1778.  *cReceipts: #207 15s. (180.9; 27.4; 0.2).  *pcg Ill
umination.  As 12 Apr.  *aThe Tempest.  Prospero-A Gentleman (2nd appearance on 
any stage [$Wright=]); Ferdinand-Mattocks; Trincalo-Quick; Caliban-Mahon; Gonzal
o-Fearon; Alonzo-L'Estrange; Sebastian-Robson; Antonio-Booth; Stephano-Wilson; M
iranda-Miss Brown; Juno-Mrs Morton; Ceres-Miss Valois; Ariel-Mrs Kennedy.  *aThe
 Upholsterer.  As 9 Apr.  *dIn: Aldridge, Miss Valois.  *cBenefit for $Condell=,
 $Evans= & $Curteen=, box-keepers.  Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitt
ed.  Mainpiece: On account of the additional Airs, contracted into 3 Acts.  The 
Music by $Purcell=, $Smith=, $Arne= & $Fisher=.  [$Wright= is identified by MS a
nnotation on +Kemble playbill=.  And see 8 May.]  +Public Advertiser=, 7 May: Ti
ckets to be had of Condell, +Cross-court=, +Bow-street=, +Covent Garden=; of Eva
ns, at +Bromfield's=, trunk-maker, No. 118, +Long-acre=; of Curteen, No. 11, +Te
mple-lane=, +Whitefriars=.  *pking's L'Avaro Deluso.  As 24 Nov. 1778.  *dEnd I:
 +Les Oiseleurs=, as 23 Jan.; End II: +Ballet by Fairies=, as 2 Mar.; End Opera:
 +New Ballet=, as 27 Feb.  *cBenefit for $Sacchini=.  Tickets to be had of Sacch
ini, No. 5, +Whitcomb-street=, +Leicester Fields=.  Opera: With some Alterations
.  *p14 dl The Merchant of Venice.  As 17 Oct. 1778, but Portia-Mrs Bulkley (of 
+cg=).  *aWho's the Dupe?  As 10 Apr.  *dEnd I afterpiece: +The Coopers=, as 11 
Dec. 1778.  *bEnd III: +The Humours of Newmarket=.  [As 3 May at +cg=% Jockeys-D
agueville, Harris, Master Dagueville, Master Holland; Ladies-Miss Ross, Sga Tint
e, Miss Armstrong.  *cBy Command of $Their Majesties=.  +Every Man in his Humour
= and +The Irish Widow= [both announced on playbill of 13 May], which were to ha
ve been performed this Evening, for the Benefit of $Fawcett= and $Sga Crespi=, a
re obliged to be deferred till Monday next.  Receipts: #216 2s. 6d. (193.7.0; 22
.7.6; 0.8.0).  *pcg Fatal Falshood.  As 6 May.  *aThe Chelsea-Pensioner.  As 6 M
ay.  *cBenefit for the Author of the Tragedy.  *p15 dl The Plain Dealer.  The Pl
ain Dealer-Bensley; Lord Plausible-Parsons; Major Oldfox-Moody; Freeman-Palmer; 
Vernish-Packer; Jerry Blackacre-Yates; Couns. Quillet-Baddeley; Oakam-Wright; No
vel-King; Widow Blackacre-Mrs Hopkins; Olivia-Miss Pope; Eliza-Mrs Johnston; Let
tice-Mrs Bradshaw; Fidelia-Mrs Robinson (1st appearance in that character).  *aT
he Quaker.  As 6 Oct. 1778, but Gillian (1st time)-Miss Simson.  *sAs 3 May.  *c
Benefit for $Mrs Bradshaw=, $Mrs Love= & $Mrs Johnston=.  Mainpiece: Not acted t
hese 3 years.  +Public Advertiser=, 1 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Bradshaw, at
 +Nichol's=, baker, +Bridge Street=, +Covent Garden=; of Mrs Love, No. 36, +Gerr
ard Street=, +Soho=; of Mrs Johnston, No. 97, near +Craven Buildings=, +Drury-la
ne=.  Receipts: #120 1s. 6d. (31.10.0; 20.13.0; 0.7.6; tickets: 67.11.0) (charge
: #66 7s.).  *pcg The West Indian.  Belcour-Lewis; Stockwell-Booth; Capt. Dudley
-Hull; Charles-Wroughton; Major O'Flaherty-Aickin; Fulmer-Thompson; Varland-Quic
k; Lady Rusport-Mrs Green; Louisa-Mrs Bulkley; Mrs Fulmer-Mrs Pitt; Charlotte Ru
sport-Mrs Mattocks.  *aThe Liverpool Prize.  As 29 Apr.  *dAs 22 Feb.  *cBenefit
 for $T. Ansell=, $Pilfold=, $Woolley=, $Marks= & $Furkins=.  Tickets delivered 
by $Clarridge=, $Doe=, $Wells=, $Roberts=, $Francis=, $Walker=, $Whittington=, $
Abbot=, $Haliburton=, $Ledger Jun.= will be admitted.  *pking's La Governante.  
[Principal Characters by Jermoli, Rossi, Rovedino, Coppola, Sga Pozzi, Sga Salpi
etro, Sga Sestini.  [Cast from libretto ($R. Ayre=, 1779);% Antonio d'Ercilla-Je
rmoli; Don Giuseppe di Mendosa-Antonio Rosse; Don Girolamo de Castellano-Carlo R
ovedino; Ferdinando-Giuseppe Coppola; Chiaretta-Sga Pozzi; Catterina-Sga Salpiet
ro; Lucinda-Sga Sestini.  *dEnd I: [new Ballet,% +Les Paysans Voles=-Banti, Sga 
Tinti, Sg and Sga Zuchelli; End II: +Ballet by Fairies=, as 2 Mar.; End Opera: [
new Ballet Espagnol,% +La Serenade Interrompuee=-Simonet, Mlle Baccelli, Sg and 
Sga Zuchelli, LeDet; [with a% +Pas de Deux du Masque=-Simonet, Mlle Baccelli; ac
companied on the Guittar-Noferi.  *cOpera [1st time; COM 3, by $Carlo Francesco 
Badini=, based on +The Duenna=, by $Richard Brinsley Sheridan=]: the Music entir
ely new by $Bertoni=.  *p17 dl Every Man in his Humour.  As 23 Apr., but Cash-R.
 Palmer.  *aThe Irish Widow.  As 19 Sept. 1778.  *dEnd I: +Grand Dance=, +Chacon
ne= (composed by $Zuchelli=)-Henry, Miss Armstrong, Sga Crespi; [and a% +Minuet=
-Zuchelli, Sga Crespi; End I afterpiece: As 19 Sept. 1778.  *cBenefit for $Fawce
tt= and $Sga Crespi=.  +Morning Chronicle=, 12 May: Tickets to be had of Fawcett
, +Craven Buildings=, +Drury-Lane=; of Sga Crespi, No. 26, +Poland-street=, +Oxf
ord-street=.  Receipts: #194 3s. 6d. (32.8.0; 14.5.6; 0.10.0; tickets: 147.0.0) 
(charge: #105).  *pcg Fatal Falshood.  As 6 May.  *aThe Chelsea-Pensioner.  As 6
 May.  *pking's La Governante.  As 15 May.  *dAs 15 May.  *p18 dl King Richard t
he Third.  As 26 Oct. 1778, but Lord Mayor-Griffiths.  *aThe Mayor of Garratt.  
Major Sturgeon (1st time)-Griffiths; Sir Jacob Jollup-Waldron; Mr Bruin-Wright; 
Lint-Wrighten; Heeltap-Burton; Jerry Sneak (1st time)-Holcroft; Mrs Bruin-Miss K
irby; Mrs Sneak-Mrs Wrighten.  *dIn: Master Morey, 3 Miss Stageldoirs.  *cBenefi
t for $Chaplin=, $Griffiths=, $Holcroft= & $Miss Field=.  Tickets delivered by $
Stevens=, $Collins= and the $Miss Stageldoirs= will be taken.  Receipts: #253 8s
. (30.5; 13.7; 2.22.12; tickets: 207.4) (charge: #105).  *pcg All in the Wrong. 
 [As 9 Oct. 1778, but% Belinda-Mrs Bulkley; Sir John Restless-Lee Lewes; Sir Wil
liam Belmont-L'Estrange; Young Belmont-Whitfield; Mr Blandford-Fearon; Robert-Bo
oth; Brush-Wewitzer; Beverly-Lewis; Lady Restless-Mrs Mattocks; Clarissa-Mrs Mor
ton; Tippet-Mrs Whitfield; Tattle-Mrs Pitt.  *aThe Farmer's Return from London. 
 As 27 Apr.  *aMidas.  As 27 Mar.  *cBenefit for $Green= and $Ansell=, box-keepe
rs.  Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted.  +Public Advertiser=, 8 May
: Tickets to be had of Green, the corner of +Norris-street=, +St. James's=, +Hay
market=; of Ansell, +Davies-street=, +Berkeley-square=.  *p19 dl The First Part 
of King Henry IV.  As 30 Oct. 1778, but Lady Percy-Mrs Colles.  *aThe Rival Cand
idates.  Byron-Vernon; Sir Harry Muff-Dodd; General Worry-Parsons; Spy-Baddeley;
 Gardeners-Fawcett, Chaplin, Holcroft; Jenny-Mrs Wrighten; Narcissa-Miss Kirby. 
 *cBenefit for $Mrs Colles=, the $Widow Legg= & $Miss Kirby=.  +Morning Post=, 1
7 May: Tickets to be had of Miss Kirby, No. 70, +Long-acre= [others not listed].
 Receipts: #225 15s. (37.9.0; 11.11.6; 1.2.6; tickets: 175.120) )charge: #105). 
 *pcg The Strategem.  As 11 Jan., but Mrs Sullen-Mrs Bulkley.  *aGallic Gratitud
e.  As 30 Apr., but Jones, Egan.  [+Prologue= as 30 Apr.%  *cBenefit for $Breret
on=, $Longley=, $Colley= & $Robson=.  Tickets delivered by $Stephenson=, $Robins
on=, $Varley=, $Wm. Ansell=, $Smallwood=, $Baker=, $Shuter=, $Painter= will be a
dmitted.  Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted.  Afterpiece: With an +
Indian Procession=v.  *p20 dl The School for Scandal.  As 6 Oct. 1778.  *aWho's 
the Dupe?  As 10 Apr.  *dAs 17 Apr.  *sAs 6 Oct. 1778.  *cReceipts. #181 10s. (1
49.10; 31.15; 0.5).  *pcg Illumination.  As 12 Apr.  *aThe Albion Queens; or, Th
e Death of Mary Queen of Scots.  Duke of Norfolk-Wroughton; Davison-L'Estrange; 
Morton-Fearon; Gifford-Thompson; Cecil-Hull; Queen Elizabeth-Mrs Jackson; Dougla
s-Mrs Bulkley; Mary Queen of Scots-Mrs Hartley (Their 1st appearance in those ch
aracters).  *aThe Farmer's Return from London.  As 27 Apr.  *aComus.  As 13 Apr.
  *cBenefit for $Booth=, $Mahon= & $L'Estrange=.  Tickets delivered for Friday, 
May 7th, will be taken.  Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted.  Mainpi
ece: Not acted these 7 years [acted 16 Apr. 1773].  *p21 dl A Bold Stroke for a 
Wife.  Colonel Feignwell-Palmer; Sir Philip Modelove-Baddeley; Obadiah Prim-Mood
y; Freeman-Philimore; Sackbut-Griffiths; Tradelove-Hurst; Simon Pure-R. Palmer; 
Perriwinkle-Parsons; Mrs Prim-Mrs Bradshaw; Masked Lady-Miss Kirby; Betty-Mrs Sm
ith; Ann Lovely-Miss Farren (1st appearance in that character).  *aThe Quaker.  
As 15 May, but Steady-Gaudry (2nd appearance in that character).  *dEnd IV: a +H
ornpipe=-Walker.  *e[+Monologue=% End: +Bucks have at ye all=-R. Palmer.  *cBene
fit for $R. Palmer=, $Philimore=, $Walker= & $Kirk=, house-keeper.  Mainpiece: N
ot acted these 3 years [acted 29 Apr. 1777].  Receipts: #270 19s. (19.1; 5.15; 0
.13; tickets: 245.10) (charge: #105).  *pcg The Comedy of Errors.  As 22 Jan.  *
aThe Liverpool Prize.  As 29 Apr.  *dEnd I: +La Chasse de Diane=-[$Dagueville='s
 Pupils,% Master Holland, Master Dagueville, Miss Dagueville, Miss Armstrong[, w
ith a new +Minuet and Gavot=%; End IV: The Embarkment for Cytherea=, as 25 Nov. 
1778, but Master _Dagueville, Master _Holland, +Langrish, Miss +Ross; End I afte
rpiece: +The Burgomaster=, as 16 Feb.  *sAs 27 Jan.  *cTickets delivered by $Dag
ueville= (ballet-master), $Cushing=, $Simpkinson=, $Master Jackson=, $J. Bates= 
and $Mrs Ackman= for Tuesday the 25th instant will be admitted this Night.  $Bru
nsdon='s outstanding Tickets for +Cymbeline= will also be received.  *pking's En
ea e Lavinia.  As 25 Mar.  *dEnd I: +Hippomene et Atalante=, as 25 Mar.; End II:
 +Ballet by Fairies=, as 2 Mar.  *bEnd Opera: +La Fete du Ciel=.  As 25 Mar., bu
t Apollo-_; +Chaconne=-_.  *p22 none Whitsun Eve.  *p24 dl The School for Scanda
l.  As 6 Oct. 1778.  *aA Monody.  As 11 Mar., but Principal Vocal Parts-A Young 
_Lady, Miss +Wright.  *aWho's the Dupe?  As 10 Apr.  *dAs 17 Apr.  *sAs 29 Oct. 
1778.  *cBenefit for a Fund for the Relief of those who from their Infirmities s
hall be obliged to retire from the Stage.  Receipts: #98 14s. 6d. (59.10.0; 15.5
.0; 0.4.6; tickets: 23.15.0) [charge: #52 5s. 8d.).  *pcg The Duenna.  As 23 Oct
. 1778, but Louisa (1st time)-Mrs Morton.  *aThe Touchstone.  As 29 Jan.  *cThe 
last Time of the Company's performing this Season.  *p25 dl The Committee; or, T
he Faithful Irishman.  Teague-Moody; Colonel Blunt-Aickin; Mr Day-Baddeley; Obad
iah-Parsons; Abel-Burton; Lieut. Story-Norris; Committee@Men-Waldron; Colonel Ca
reless-Brereton; Mrs Day-Mrs Hopkins; Arabella-Mrs Brereton; Ruth-Miss Pope.  *a
The Quaker.  As 21 May.  *dEnd: +Minuet de la Cour=, +Gavotte=-Henry, Miss Armst
rong.  *e[+Monologue=% In IV: Description of a +Man of War and Sea Fight=-Moody.
  *cBenefit for $Norris=, $Blurton=, $Miss Simson= & $Miss Armstrong=.  Tickets 
delivered by $Dale= will be admitted.  Receipts: #150 16s. 6d. (15.1.0; 6.3.0; 3
.19.6; tickets: 125.13.0) (charge: #105).  *pking's La Governante.  As 15 May.  
*dEnd I: +Les Paysans Voles=, as 15 May; End II: +Les Moissonneurs=, as 29 Dec. 
1778; End III: +La Serenade Interrompuee=, as 15 May; +Pas de Deux du Masque=, a
s 15 May.  *cThe last Night of the Subscription.  *p26 dl The Chances.  As 31 Oc
t. 1778, but First Constantia-Mrs Sharp.  *aThe Lyar.  As 3 Oct. 1778.  *dEnd: +
Hornpipe=, as 21 May.  *cBenefit for $Dickinson=, pit office-keeper, and $Carlet
on Jun.=, box lobby door-keeper.  [Afterpiece in place of +The Irish Widow=, ann
ounced on playbill of 25 May.]  +Morning Chronicle=, 18 May: Tickets to be had o
f Dickinson, No. 5, +Wild-court=, +Wild-street=, +Lincoln's-Inn-Fields= [Carleto
n not listed].  Receipts: #280 3s. 6d. (26.1.0; 6.9.0; 0.18.6; tickets: 246.5.0)
 (charge: #105).  *p27 dl The Double Deception.  As 6 May.  [+Prologue= and +Epi
logue= as 6 May.%  *aWho's the Dupe?  As 10 Apr.  *dAs 17 Apr.  *cReceipts: #56 
8s. 6d. (34.12.0; 21.1.0; 0.15.6).  *p28 dl Mahomet.  As 14 Dec. 1778.  *aThe Ri
val Candidates.  As 19 May.  *cBenefit for $Watson=, $Wilson=, $Hind=, $Kaygill=
 & $Burroughs=.  Tickets delivered by $Newton=, $Barrett=, $Morris=, $Devoto=, $
Lislie= and $McDonald= will be taken.  Receipts: #273 4s. 6d. (18.4.0; 1.18.6; 1
.0.0; tickets: 252.2.0) (charge: #105).  *p29 dl Much Ado about Nothing.  As 4 N
ov. 1778.  *aThe Miller of Mansfield.  As 13 Mar.  *dEnd III: +Double Hornpipe=,
 as 17 Apr.  *cBenefit for $Mortimer=, $Tomlinson=, $Carleton Sen.= & $Woollams=
.  Tickets delivered by $Bayne=, $Page=, $Finney=, $Barthrope= and $Whittey= wil
l be taken.  Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted.  Receipts: #243 3s.
 (15.3; 3.11; 0.5; tickets: 224.4) (charge: #105).  *pking's L'Olimpiade.  Princ
ipal Characters-Pacchierotti, Adamberger, Coppola, Micheli, Sga Pozzi, Sga Berna
sconi.  [Libretto ($H. Reynell=, 1783) lists the parts: +Clistene=r, +Megacle=r,
 +Licida=r, +Aminta=r, +Aristea=r, +Argene=r.]  *dEnd I: +Les Paysans Voles=, as
 15 May, but _Banti, +LeDet; End II: +Les Moissonneurs=, as 29 Dec. 1778; End Op
era: [a% +New Divertisement=-Simonet, Banti, Mlle Baccelli.  *cOpera: The Music 
by $Bertoni= and other eminent Masters [$Paisiello= and $Gluck=].  *p31 hay Bond
uca.  [Principal Parts by Digges, Aickin, Bensley, Lamash, R. Palmer, Parsons, U
sher, Massey, Webb, Davis, Egan, Master Edwin, Palmer, Miss Sherry, Mrs Cuyler, 
Mrs Massey; [Cast adjusted from text ($T. Cadell=, 1778) and from playbill of 10
 July 1780:% Caratach-Digges; Penius-Aickin; Suetonius-Bensley; Junius-Lamash; D
emetrius-R. Palmer; Judas-Parsons; Nennius-Usher; Macer-Massey; Regulus-Webb; De
cius-Davis; Curius-Egan; Hengo-Master Edwin; Petillius-Palmer; Bonduca-Miss Sher
ry; 2nd Daughter-Mrs Cuyler; Eldest Daughter-Mrs Massey; [The original% +Prologu
e=[, written by the late $David Garrick=,%-Palmer.  [This was spoken, as here as
signed, at all subsequent performances.]  *aNature Will Prevail.  Characters-Pal
mer, Baddeley, Miss Wood, Mrs Massey.  [Cast adjusted from playbill of 10 June 1
778: +Current=r-Palmer; +Padlock=r-Baddeley; +Finette=r-Miss Wood; +Almadine=r-M
rs Massey.]  *dEnd: +The Provencale=-Master and Miss Byrn.  *cMainpiece: Written
 by $Beaumont= and $Fletcher= [and altered by $George Colman elder=].  The Music
 by $Purcell=.  New Scenes, Dresses and Decorations.  The Doors to be opened at 
6:00.  To begin at 7:00 [same throughout season].  Places for the Boxes to be ta
ken of $Rice= at the Theatre.  Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1
s.  Servants to keep places are to be at the Door in +Suffolk-street= by Five o'
Clock.  *p6 1 dl The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth.  As 29 Sept. 1778, bu
t Gloster-Master Benson.  *aThe Register Office.  Irishman-Moody; Captain LeBrus
h-Palmer; Gulwell-Packer; Scotchman-Parsons; Frenchman-Baddeley; Frankly-Norris;
 Harwood-Lamash; Lord Brilliant-R. Palmer; Williams-Wrighten; Margery Moorpout-M
rs Love; Maria-Miss Collett; Melpomene-Miss Stageldoir; Mrs Doggrel-Miss Pope.  
*dEnd IV: As 19 Sept. 1778.  *cBenefit for $Wood=, $Percey=, $Shade= & $Cameron=
.  Tickets delivered by $Lewis=, $Hodges=, $Gardner=, and for Monday, the 31st o
f May, will be taken.  MS annotation on +Kemble playbill=: "I believe this was t
he last time of $Mr Henderson='s acting at +Drury Lane=, except when he played +
Jaques=r in +As You Like It= for $Mrs Robinson='s Benefit, April 7, 1780.  See O
ctober 18, 1779, +Covent Garden= Bills."  Receipts: #301 6s. 6d. (19.14.0; 2.14.
6; 0.14.0; tickets: 278.4.0) (charge: #105).  *pking's La Governante.  As 15 May
.  *dAs 25 May.  *p2 hay The Spanish Barber; or, The Fruitless Precaution.  Prin
cipal Parts-Palmer, Parsons, Blissett, Jackson, R. Palmer, Egan, Stevens, Edwin,
 Miss Farren; [Cast from +London Chronicle=, 1 Sept. 1777: +Count Almaviva=r-Pal
mer; +Dr Bartholo=r-Parsons; +Basil=r-Blissett; +Argus=r-Jackson; +Tall-Boy=r-R.
 Palmer; +Alcade=r-Egan; +Notary=r-Stevens; +Lazarillo=r-Edwin; +Rosina=r-Miss F
arren.]  +Prologue= (see 19 June)-.  *aMan and Wife.  Cross-Parsons; Kitchen-Web
b; Colonel Frankly-Lamash; Luke-R. Palmer; Marcourt-Palmer; Charlotte-Mrs Jewell
; Lettice-Mrs Hitchcock; Landlady-Mrs Love; Sally-Miss Hitchcock; Mrs Cross-Mrs 
Webb.  *dEnd: +Tambourine Dance=-Master and Miss Byrn; End II afterpiece: As 31 
May.  *cMainpiece: With a new +Fandango Overture=, and some additional Songs.  *
p3 dl The School for Scandal.  As 6 Oct. 1778.  *aA Monody.  As 17 Apr., but Pri
ncipal Vocal Parts-A Young _Lady, Miss +Wright.  *aWho's the Dupe?  As 10 Apr.  
*dAs 17 Apr.  *sAs 6 Oct. 1778.  *cThe last Time of the Company's performing thi
s Season.  Account-Book, 8 June: Paid Boy counting Copper Tickets 185 nights #4 
12s. 6d.  Receipts: #168 14s. 6d. (134.19.0; 33.15.6; after-money not listed).  
*p4 hay Bonduca.  As 31 May, but Principal Parts-[+Soldier=r-]+Stevens.  *aThe T
ailors; A Tragedy for Warm Weather.  [+Master Tailors=r:% Francisco-Parsons; Reg
inades-Kenny; Campbello-Webb; [+Flints=r:% Abrahamides (the Chief)-Palmer; Isaac
os-R. Palmer; Jackides-Jackson; Bernardo-Egan; [+Dungs=r:% Zachariades-Gardner; 
Timotheus-Stevens; [+Tailors' Ladies=r:% Tittilinda-Mrs Webb; Dorothea-Mrs Jewel
l; Tinderella-Mrs W. Palmer.  *dAs 31 May.  *p5 king's L'Olimpiade.  As 29 May. 
 *dEnd I: +Les Paysans Voles=, as 29 May; End II: +Hippomene et Atalante=, as 25
 Mar.; End Opera: +New Divertisement=, as 29 May.  *cThe Doors to be opened at 6
:30.  To begin at 7:30 [same for rest of season].  *p7 hay Love in a Village.  Y
oung Meadows-Wood (from the $Theatre Royal, York=; 1st appearance in +London=); 
Justice Woodcock-Edwin; Sir William Meadows-Aickin; Hodge-Jackson [+Public Adver
tiser=: $Massey=]; Eustace-Lamash; Hawthorn-Bannister; Lucinda-Mrs Hitchcock; Ma
rgery-Miss Twist; Deborah Woodcock-Mrs Love; Rosetta-Miss Harper.  *aNature Will
 Prevail.  See 31 May.  *dEnd II: +Tambourine Dance=- [, as 2 June,%; End: As 31
 May.  *c[In mainpiece the playbill assigns +Justice Woodcock=r to $Parsons=, an
d as afterpiece announces Tony Lumpkin in Town, but "In consequence of Parsons' 
illness, $Edwin= played the part of Justice Woodcock, with which he seems well a
cquainted; and he plays it with great pleasantry in his own particular style of 
humour....Parsons' illness also prevented the performance of +Tony Lumpkin in To
wn=, and +Nature will Prevail= was substituted" (+Gazetteer=, 8 June).]  *p8 kin
g's La Governante.  As 15 May.  *dAs 15 May.  *p9 hay Love in a Village.  As 7 J
une, but Justice Woodcock-Edwin.  *aPiety in Pattens.  Butler-Edwin; The Squire-
Lamash; Mrs Candy-Mrs Love; Polly Pattens-Mrs Jewell.  *dEnd II: +Tambourine Dan
ce=, as 2 June; End: [a new dance,% +The Country Wake=-Master and Miss Byrn.  *c
$Parsons= not being sufficiently recovered +The Spanish Barber= and +The Tailors
= [both announced on playbill of 7 June] are deferred till Friday.  Afterpiece: 
A Modern Operatical, Sentimental, Crying Comedy.  *p10 hay The Suicide.  [Princi
pal Parts by Palmer, Aickin, Edwin, R. Palmer, Webb, Lamash, Gardner, Baddeley, 
Blissett, Massey, Egan, Davis, Stevens, Bannister, Mrs Webb, Miss Hale, Miss Far
ren.  [Cast from +London Chronicle=, 11 July 1778:% Tobine-Palmer; Tabby-Aickin;
 Wingrave-Edwin; Squib-R. Palmer; Bounce-Webb; Robin-Lamash; Cathartic-Gardner; 
Catchpenny-Baddeley; Dr Truby-Blissett; Juggins-Massey; Waiters-Egan, Davis, Ste
vens; Ranter-Bannister; Mrs Grogram-Mrs Webb; Peggy-Miss Hale; Nancy-Miss Farren
; Original +Prologue=-Palmer.  [This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subseq
uent performances.]  *aThe Mayor of Garratt.  Major Sturgeon-Bannister; Sir Jaco
b Jollup-Massey; Bruin-Webb; Heeltap-Egan; Lint-Jackson; Roger-Stevens; Snuffle-
Peirce; Jerry Sneak-Edwin; Mrs Bruin-Mrs W. Palmer; Mrs Sneak-Mrs Webb.  *dEnd: 
+The Country Wake=, as 9 June.  *cThe Flitch of Bacon [announced on playbill of 
9 June] is obliged to be deferred.  [Mainpiece: Prologue by $George Colman=, the
 elder.]  *p11 hay The Spanish Barber.  As 2 June.  [+Prologue= as 2 June.%  *aT
he Mayor of Garratt.  As 10 June.  *dAs 10 June.  *p12 hay Bonduca.  As 4 June. 
 *aThe Flitch of Bacon.  [Principal Characters by Bannister, Parsons, Wood, Blis
sett, Massey, Stevens, Edwin, Miss Harper.  [Cast adjusted from text ($T. Evans=
, 1779):% Captain Wilson-Bannister; Major Benbow-Parsons; Captain Greville-Wood;
 Justice Benhow-Blissett; Kilderkin-Massey; Ned-Stevens; Tipple-Edwin; Eliza-Mis
s Harper.  *cBooks of the Songs [in afterpiece] to be had at the theatre.  *pkin
g's L'Olimpiade.  As 29 May.  *dAs 5 June.  *p14 hay The Suicide.  As 10 June.  
*aThe Flitch of Bacon.  As 12 June.  *dAs 10 June.  *p15 king's La Governante.  
As 15 May.  *dEnd I: +Les Paysans Voles=, as 15 May; End II: +Les Moissonneurs=,
 as 29 Dec. 1778; End Opera: +New Ballet=, [in which the% +Quadrilles= [danced a
t the +Pantheon= last night% (composed by $Simonet=)-Slingsby, Mme Simonet, Bant
i, Sga Tinti, Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Simonet, Mlle Baccelli.  *p16 hay The Suicide
.  As 10 June.  *aThe Flitch of Bacon.  As 12 June.  *dAs 10 June.  *p17 hay The
 Spanish Barber.  As 2 June.  [+Prologue= as 2 June.%  *aMidas.  Midas-Edwin; Ap
ollo-Wood; Sileno-Massey; Jupiter-Simpkinson; Damaetas-Blissett; Pan-Bannister; 
Daphne-Mrs Hitchcock; Juno-Mrs Poussin; Mysis-Mrs Love; Nysa-Miss Twist.  *dAs 1
0 June.  *p18 hay The Jealous Wife.  Oakly-Bensley; Major Oakly-Digges; Charles-
Dimond [From the $Theatre Royal, Bath=]; Lord Trinket-Lamash; Captain O'Cutter-E
gan; Tom-Stevens; Paris-Jackson; John-Kenny; Lady Freelove's Servant-Painter; Ru
sset-Aickin; Sir Harry Beagle-Palmer; Lady Freelove-Miss Sherry; Harriot-Miss Ha
rper; Toilet-Miss Hale; Chambermaid-Mrs Poussin; Mrs Oakly-Mrs Montague (1st app
earance).  *aThe Flitch of Bacon.  As 12 June.  *dEnd: +Tambourine Dance=, as 2 
June.  *cMainpiece: Never aceted here.  [$Mrs Montague= was from the +York theat
re=.]  *p19 hay The Spanish Barber.  As 2 June, but the original +Prologue=-Pars
ons.  [This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]  *aMi
das.  As 17 June.  *dAs 10 June.  *c[Mainpiece: Prologue by $George Colman elder
=.]  *pking's L'Olimpiade.  As 29 May.  *dEnd I: +Les Paysans Voles=-LeDet, Sg a
nd Sga Zuchelli; End II: +Les Moissonneurs=, as 29 Dec. 1778; End Opera: +New Ba
llet=, [with% +Quadrilles=, as 15 June.  *p21 hay The Jealous Wife.  As 18 June.
  *aThe Flitch of Bacon.  As 12 June.  *dAs 18 June.  *p22 hay The Suicide.  As 
10 June, but Waiters-_Davis, +Kenny.  *aThe Flitch of Bacon.  As 12 June.  *dAs 
10 June.  *pking's La Governante.  As 15 May.  *dAs 15 June.  *c[Opera in place 
of +Demofoonte=, announced in +Public Advertiser=, 21 June.]  *p23 hay The Jealo
us Wife.  As 18 June.  *aThe Flitch of Bacon.  As 12 June.  *dAs 18 June.  *p24 
hay The Spanish Barber.  As 2 June.  *aMidas.  As 17 June.  *dAs 31 May.  *p25 h
ay Bonduca.  As 4 June, but Principal Parts-_Davis.  *aThe Flitch of Bacon.  As 
12 June.  *dAs 10 June.  *p26 hay The Spanish Barber.  As 2 June.  *aMidas.  As 
17 June.  *dAs 31 May.  *pking's Demofoonte.  As 28 Nov. 1778.  *dEnd I: +Hippom
ene et Atalante=, as 25 Mar., but Mlle _Vidini; End II: +Les Moissonneurs=, as 2
9 Dec. 1778; End Opera: +New Ballet=, as 28 Nov. 1778, but Mme _Simonet, Mlle +B
acelli.  *sIn III: [an additional% +song=, as 11 Mar.  *p28 hay The Suicide.  As
 22 June.  *aThe Flitch of Bacon.  As 12 June.  *dAs 10 June.  *p29 hay The Jeal
ous Wife.  As 18 June.  *aThe Flitch of Bacon.  As 12 June.  *dAs 10 June.  *pki
ng's L'Olimpiade.  As 29 May.  *dEnd I: +Ballet by Fairies=, as 2 Mar.; End II: 
+Les Moissonneurs=, as 29 Dec. 1778; End Opera: +La Serenade Interrompuee=, as 1
5 May; +Pas de Deux du Masque=, as 15 May.  *p30 hay The Spanish Barber.  As 2 J
une.  *aThe Flitch of Bacon.  As 12 June.  *dAs 31 May.  *p7 1 hay Summer Amusem
ent; or, An Adventure at Margate.  [Principal Characters by Bannister, Parsons, 
Edwin, Wood, Lamash, Jackson, Kenny, Painter, Baddeley, Palmer, Mrs Webb, Miss H
ale, Mrs Poussin, Miss Wood, Miss Harper.  [Cast from Songs ($T. Cadell=, 1779):
% Surat-Bannister; Sir James Juniper-Parsons; Etiquette-Edwin; Melville-Wood; Sp
ruce-Lamash; Crab-Jackson; Sir Dilberry-Painter; Cathartic-Baddeley; Shuffle-Pal
mer; Lady Juniper-Mrs Webb; Fidget-Miss Hale; Amelia-Miss Harper; Kenny, Mrs Pou
ssin, Miss Wood.  *aPiety in Pattens.  As 9 June.  *dMainpiece: [With% Two New D
ances-(see 5 July).  *cMainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by $Miles Peter Andrews= and $
William Augustus Miles=; +Larpent MS 485=; not published; Synopsis of plot in +L
ondon Magazine=, July 1779, pp. 306-7]: The Airs partly selected from $Dibdin=, 
$Giordani=, $Dr Arne=, &c.  The Overture and New Music composed by $Dr Arnold=. 
 With New Dresses and Decorations.  The Scenes painted by $Rooker=.  Songs of th
e Opera to be had at the Theatre.  *p2 hay Summer Amusement.  As 1 July.  *aNatu
re Will Prevail.  As 31 May, but Characters-Mrs +Hitchcock,[in place of% Miss _W
ood, Mrs +Cuyler, [in place of% Mrs _Massey.  *dAs 1 July.  *p3 king's L'Olimpia
de.  As 29 May, but Principal Characters-_Coppola, +Manzoletto.  *dAs 29 June.  
*cThe last Opera This Season.  *p5 hay Summer Amusement.  As 1 July.  *aPolly Ho
neycombe.  Mr Honeycombe-Parsons; Scribble-R. Palmer; Ledger-Gardner; Mrs Honeyc
ombe-Mrs Webb; Nurse-Mrs Love; Polly Honeycombe-Mrs Hitchcock.  *d[With%Two New 
Dances-Master and Miss Byrn.  [These were danced, as here assigned, at all subse
quent performances.]  *c[As afterpiece +Public Advertiser= erroneously announces
 +Nature Will Prevail=.]  *p6 hay Summer Amusement.  As 1 July.  *aThe Mayor of 
Garratt.  As 10 June, but Bruin-Gardner.  *p7 hay Summer Amusement.  As 1 July. 
 *aThe Mayor of Garratt.  As 6 July.  *p8 hay Summer Amusement.  As 1 July.  *aN
ature Will Prevail.  As 2 July.  *p9 hay The Spanish Barber.  As 2 June.  *aThe 
Flitch of Bacon.  As 12 June.  *dAs 31 May.  *p10 hay Summer Amusement.  As 1 Ju
ly.  *aPolly Honeycombe.  As 5 July.  *p12 hay Summer Amusement.  As 1 July.  *a
The Mayor of Garratt.  As 6 July.  *p13 hay The Suicide.  As 22 June.  *aThe Fli
tch of Bacon.  As 12 June.  *dAs 10 June.  *p14 hay Summer Amusement.  As 1 July
.  *aThe Tailors.  As 4 June, but [+Dungs=r:% Christophorides-Peirce; Tinderella
-_; Blousidora-Mrs W. Palmer.  *p15 hay The Spanish Barber.  As 2 June.  *aThe C
itizen.  Young Philpot-Palmer; Old Philpot-Parsons; Sir Jasper-Massey; Young Wil
ding-R. Palmer; Beaufort-Wood; Quildrive-Stevens; Dapper-Jackson; Maria-A Young 
Gentlewoman (1st appearance on any stage [$Mrs Lloyd=]).  *dAs 31 May.  *c[$Mrs 
Lloyd= is identified in playbill of 18 Aug.  She has "the name of Lloyd, but [is
] better known by the name of $Mrs C@@we= (who played several parts at the milit
ary theatre of +Boston= in +America= about two years ago)" (+Morning Post=, 16 J
uly).]  *p16 hay The English Merchant.  Sir William Douglas-Bensley; Freeport-Ai
ckin; Lord Falbridge-Dimond; Owen-Usher; Officer-Egan; Servant-Kenny; La France-
Baddeley; Spatter-Palmer; Lady Alton-Miss Sherry; Molly-Mrs Hitchcock; Mrs Goodm
an-Mrs Poussin; Amelia-Mrs T.? Kennedy (1st appearance in +London=).  *aThe Citi
zen.  As 15 July, but Corinna-Miss Wood.  *dAs 10 June.  *cMainpiece: Not acted 
these 2 years.  [$Mrs Kennedy= was from the +York theatre=.]  *p17 hay A Widow a
nd no Widow.  [Principal Characters by Bannister, Blissett, Egan, Usher, Jackson
, Kenny, Painter, R. Palmer, Edwin, Mrs Kennedy, Mrs Love, Miss Wood, Mrs Poussi
n, Mrs W. Palmer, Mrs Montague.  [Cast from text ($N. Conant=, 1780, and +Public
 Advertiser=, 20 July:% Macfable-Bannister; Dr Alfred-Blissett; Capt. O'Kite-Ega
n; Spurious-Usher; Coachman-Jackson; Jemmy Daisey-R. Palmer; Splash-Edwin; Boy-M
aster Hitchcock; Lucy-Mrs Kennedy; Peg Pennyworth-Mrs Love; Betty-Miss Wood; Mrs
 Splash-Mrs Poussin; Pin-Mrs W. Palmer; Mrs Sharp-Mrs Montague; Kenny, Painter; 
+Prologue=-Palmer.  [This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent perfor
mances.]  *aMidas.  As 17 June.  *dAs 10 June.  *cMainpiece [1st time; C 3, by $
Richard Paul Jodrell=.  Prologue by $Edward Topham= (see text)].  *p19 hay A Wid
ow and no Widow.  As 17 July.  *aMidas.  As 17 June.  *dAs 10 June.  *p20 hay Su
mmer Amusement.  As 1 July.  *aBon Ton.  Lord Minikin-R. Palmer; Sir John Trotle
y-Blissett; Col. Tivy-Wood; Jessamy-Lamash; Davy-Parsons; Lady Minikin-Mrs Hitch
cock; Gymp-Mrs Poussin; Miss Tittup-Mrs Kennedy; Original +Prologue=-Palmer.  *c
Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years.  [Prologue by $George Colman=, the elder.] 
 *p21 hay A Widow and no Widow.  As 17 July.  *aThe Tailors.  As 14 July.  *dAs 
10 June.  *p22 hay A Widow and no Widow.  As 17 July.  *aThe Citizen.  As 16 Jul
y.  *dAs 10 June.  *p23 hay Summer Amusement.  As 1 July.  *aThe Citizen.  As 16
 July.  *p24 hay The Suicide.  As 22 June.  *aThe Flitch of Bacon.  As 12 June. 
 *dAs 10 June.  *c[The playbill of 23 July announces for performance on this nig
ht the 1st night of +A Tour in Wales=, "a New Dramatic Piece of Three Acts, inte
rspersed with Songs."  It appears never to have been acted.  +Larpent MS 484=; t
he author is unknown.]  *p26 hay A Widow and no Widow.  As 17 July.  *aThe Citiz
en.  As 16 July.  *dAs 10 June.  *p27 hay A Widow and no Widow.  As 17 July.  *a
The Mayor of Garratt.  As 6 July.  *dAs 31 May.  *p28 hay Summer Amusement.  As 
1 July.  *aThe Tailors.  As 14 July.  *p29 hay A Widow and no Widow.  As 17 July
.  *aMan and Wife.  As 2 June.  *dEnd: +The Country Wake=, as 9 June; End II aft
erpiece: As 31 May.  *c[Afterpiece in place of +The Flitch of Bacon=, announced 
on playbill of 28 July.]  *p30 hay The Spanish Barber.  As 2 June.  *aMidas.  As
 17 June.  *dAs 10 June.  *c+Summer Amusement= [announced on playbill of 29 July
] cannot be performed on account of the indisposition of $Miss Harper=.  *p31 ha
y Albina, Countess Raimond.  [Principal Characters by Digges, Dimond, Usher, Gar
dner, Egan, R. Palmer, Kenny, Painter, Aickin, Palmer, Mrs Montague, Mrs Poussin
, Mrs Lefevre, Mrs Massey.  [Cast from text ($T. Spilsbury=, 1779) and +London C
hronicle=, 2 Aug.:% Westmoreland-Digges; Edward-Dimond; King Henry-Usher; Stewar
d-Gardner; Officer-Egan; Oswald-R. Palmer; Egbert-Aickin; Gondibert-Palmer; Edit
ha-Mrs Montague [in text: $Miss Sherry= (see 9 Aug.)]; Adela-Mrs Poussin; Ina-Mr
s Lefevre; Albina-Mrs Massey; Kenny, Painter; +Prologue=-Mrs Massey.  [This was 
spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]  *aPiety in Pattens. 
 As 9 June.  *cMainpiece [1st time; T 5, by $Hannah Cowley=.  Prologue by the au
thor (+Morning Chronicle=, 9 Aug.)]: New Scenes painted by $Rooker=.  +Public Ad
vertiser=, 30 Aug. 1779: This Day is published +Albina, Countess Raimond= (price
 not listed).  *p8 2 hay Albina, Countess Raimond.  As 31 July.  *aPolly Honeyco
mbe.  As 5 July.  *p3 hay Albina, Countess Raimond.  As 31 July.  *aThe Mayor of
 Garratt.  As 6 July.  *cBenefit for the Author [of mainpiece].  *p4 hay A Widow
 and no Widow.  As 17 July.  *aThe Flitch of Bacon.  As 12 June.  *dAs 10 June. 
 *p5 hay Summer Amusement.  As 1 July.  *aThe Mayor of Garratt.  As 6 July.  *p6
 hay The Spanish Barber.  As 2 June.  *aTony Lumpkin in Town; or, The Dilettante
.  [Principal Characters by Parsons, Blissett, Massey, R. Palmer, Lamash, Egan, 
Bannister, Miss Hale, Mrs Hitchcock.  [Cast from text ($T. Cadell=, 1780):% Tony
 Lumpkin-Parsons; Pulville-Blissett; Diggory-Massey; Doctor Minim-R. Palmer; Mr 
Jonquil-Lamash; Frank-Egan; Tim Tickle-Bannister; Lavender-Miss Hale; Mrs Jonqui
l-Mrs Hitchcock.  *dAs 10 June.  *p7 hay A Widow and no Widow.  As 17 July.  *aT
ony Lumpkin in Town.  As 6 Aug.  *dAs 18 June.  *p9 hay Albina, Countess Raimond
.  As 31 July, but Editha-Miss Sherry.  *aTony Lumpkin in Town.  As 6 Aug., but 
Stevens.  *p10 hay The Jealous Wife.  As 18 June.  *aTony Lumpkin in Town.  As 9
 Aug.  *dAs 18 June.  *e[+Monologue=% End: +Bucks have at ye all=-Master Hitchco
ck.  *cBenefit for $Dimond=.  Tickets to be had of Dimond, No. 3, +Upper James-s
treet=, +Golden-square=.  *p11 hay The Suicide.  As 22 June.  *aThe Mayor of Gar
ratt.  See 6 July.  *dAs 10 June.  *c[As afterpiece the playbill announces The F
litch of Bacon, but "$Parsons= was taken ill, in consequence of which +The Mayor
 of Garratt= [was acted] in lieu of +The Flitch of Bacon=" (+Morning Chronicle=,
 12 Aug.).]  *p12 hay A Widow and no Widow.  As 17 July.  *aMidas.  As 17 June. 
 *dAs 10 June.  *c+Summer Amusement= [announced on playbill of 11 Aug.] cannot b
e performed on account of $Parsons='s Indisposition.  [Afterpiece in place of +T
he Citizen=, announced on playbill of 11 Aug.]  *p13 hay The Devil upon Two Stic
ks.  The Devil-Bannister; Sir Thomas Maxwell-Gardner; Invoice-R. Palmer; Dr Jule
p-Baddeley; Dr Apozem-Jackson; Dr Fingerfee-Painter; Dr O'Sassafras-Davis; Dr Br
oadbrim-Kenny; Dr Sligo-Egan; Macpherson-Walker; Dr Calomel-Painter [+Public Adv
ertiser=: $Baker=]; Dr Habbakuk-Peirce; Dr Camphire-Webb; Forceps-Stevens; Print
er's Devil-Master Hitchcock; Dr Last-Parsons; Margaret Maxwell-Mrs Webb; Harriet
-Mrs Jewell.  *aThe Flitch of Bacon.  As 12 June.  *dAs 10 June.  *cBenefit for 
$Jewell=, treasurer.  Tickets to be had of Jewell, in +Suffolk-street=.  Mainpie
ce: Written by the late $S. Foote, Esq.=  *p14 hay The English Merchant.  As 16 
July.  *aThe Son-in-Law.  [The Characters by Parsons, Edwin, Wood, Baddeley, Lam
ash, Jackson, Stevens, Kenny, Bannister, Mrs Lefevre, Miss Harper.%  [Cast from 
+Public Advertiser=, 17 Aug.:% Cranky-Parsons; Bowkitt-Edwin; Bouquet-Wood; Vine
gar-Baddeley; Idle-Lamash; Orator Mum-Jackson; John-Stevens; Signor Arionelli-Ba
nnister; Dolce-Mrs Lefevre; Cecilia-Miss Harper; Kenny.  *dAs 10 June.  *cAfterp
iece [1st time; MF 2]: Written by the Author of +Tony Lumpkin in Town= [$John O'
Keeffe=.  Text (1st authorized) published in $Cumberland='s +British Theatre=, V
ol. XXXI].  The Music and Overture composed by $Dr Arnold= [with airs adapted fr
om $Philidor= and $Guglielmi= (+Public Advertiser=, 17 Aug.)].  Books of the Son
gs to be had at the Theatre.  *p16 hay Albina, Countess Raimond.  As 9 Aug.  *aT
he Son-in-Law.  As 14 Aug.  *p17 hay The Stratagem.  Archer-Palmer; Aimwell-Dimo
nd [+Public Advertiser=: Aickin]; Sir Charles Freeman-R. Palmer; Foigard-Egan; S
ullen-Blissett; Gibbet-Gardner; Boniface-Usher; Scrub-Edwin; Dorinda-Mrs Cuyler;
 Cherry-Mrs Hitchcock; Lady Bountiful-Mrs Poussin; Gipsey-Miss Wood; Mrs Sullen-
Miss Farren.  *aThe Waterman.  Tom Tug-Bannister; Bundle-Massey; Robin-Edwin; Mr
s Bundle-Mrs Webb; Wilhelmina-Miss Harper.  *sEnd IV: +Ted Blarney=-Master Edwin
.  *e[+Monologue=% End: +Bucks have at ye all=-Master Edwin.  *cBenefit for $Edw
in=.  Tickets to be had of Edwin, No. 9, +St. Martin's-street=, +Leicester-Field
s=.  Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years [acted 23 Sept. 1776].  *p18 hay The Pro
vok'd Wife.  Sir John Brute-Digges; Constant-Dimond; Lord Rake-Egan; Colonel Bul
ly (with a +song= in character)-Bannister; Justice-Massey; Constable-Stevens; Wa
tchmen-Jackson, Peirce; Razor-R. Palmer; Tailor-Blissett; Heartfree-Aickin; Lady
 Fanciful-Miss Farren; Belinda-Mrs Hitchcock; Mademoiselle-Miss Walton; Lady Bru
te-Mrs Lloyd (who performed +Maria=r in +The Citizen= [on 15 July]).  *aThe Son-
in-Law.  As 14 Aug.  *dEnd: [new Dance,% +The Spanish Lovers=-Master and Miss By
rn.  *p19 hay Albina, Countess Raimond.  As 9 Aug.  *aTony Lumpkin in Town.  As 
9 Aug.  *cBenefit for the Author [of mainpiece].  *p20 hay The Spanish Barber.  
As 2 June.  *aThe Flitch of Bacon.  As 12 June.  *dAs 31 May.  *cBenefit for $Pa
rsons=.  Tickets to be had of Parsons, No. 141, +High Holborn=.  *p21 hay Summer
 Amusement.  As 1 July.  *aThe Citizen.  As 16 July, but Maria-Mrs Lloyd.  *p23 
hay The Suicide.  As 22 June.  *aThe Son-in-Law.  As 14 Aug.  *dAs 18 Aug.  *p24
 hay King Henry the Eighth.  Cardinal Wolsey-Digges; Buckingham-Palmer; Cranmer-
Gardner; Surry-Aickin; Cromwell-R. Palmer; Gardiner-Parsons; Lord Sands-Massey; 
Lord Chamberlain-Egan; Chancellor-Blissett; Sir T. Lovell-Stevens; Norfolk-Davis
; Suffolk-Lamash; Capucius-Kenny; Campeius-Painter; King Henry-Usher; Anne Bulle
n-Mrs Cuyler; Patience (with a +song=)-Miss Twist; Queen Catherine-Mrs Massey.  
*aThe Flitch of Bacon.  As 12 June.  *dAs 10 June.  *cBenefit for $Digges=.  Tic
kets to be had of Digges at +Addinal's=, painter, +Whitehall=.  Tickets delivere
d out for +Henry IV= will be taken.  *p25 hay Summer Amusement.  As 1 July.  *aT
he Flitch of Bacon.  As 12 June.  *cBenefit for $Miss Harper=.  Tickets to be ha
d of Miss Harper, at +Guy's=, No. 19, +Catherine-street=, +Strand=.  *p26 hay Th
e Spanish Barber.  As 2 June.  *aThe Son-in-Law.  As 14 Aug.  *dAs 18 Aug.  *p27
 hay The Beggar's Opera.  Macheath-Bannister; Peachum-Aickin; Lockit-Massey; Mat
 o' th' Mint-Baker; Beggar-Blissett; Player-Davis; Filch-Parsons; Lucy-Mrs Hitch
cock; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Love; Jenny Diver-Mrs Poussin; Mrs Slammekin-Mrs Webb; Pol
ly-Miss Harper.  *aThe Son-in-Law.  As 14 Aug.  *dEnd II: +The Country Wake=, as
 9 June; In III: a +Hornpipe=-Master Byrn.  *cBenefit for $Bannister=.  Tickets 
to be had of Bannister, No. 8, +Air-street=, +Piccadilly=.  *p28 hay  A Widow an
d no Widow.  As 27 July.  *aThe Son-in-Law.  As 14 Aug.  *cTickets delivered by 
$Kenny=, $Painter=, $Walker= and $Brownsmith= for this Evening will be admitted.
  +Public Advertiser=, 28 Aug.: $Palmer= [being too much indisposed] to sustain 
so laborious a part as +Gondibert=r, +Albina= [announced on playbill of 27 Aug.]
 cannot be performed.  *p30 hay The Suicide.  As 22 June.  *aThe Son-in-Law.  As
 14 Aug.  *dAs 18 Aug.  *p31 hay The Separate Maintenance.  [Principal Character
s-Palmer, Dimond, Aickin, Gardner, Stevens, Kenny, Jackson, Edwin, Parsons, Mrs 
Webb, Mrs Hitchcock, Mrs Lloyd, Mrs Poussin, Miss Wood, Mrs Lefevre, Miss Hale, 
Miss Twist, Mrs Cuyler, Miss Farren.%  [Cast from +Gazetteer=, 1 Sept.:% Leveret
-Palmer; Lord Newbery-Dimond; Touchwood-Aickin; Fraction-Gardner; Jacky Minim-Ed
win; Lord Oldcastle-Parsons; Lady Oldcastle-Mrs Webb; Miss English-Mrs Hitchcock
; Mrs Frankly-Mrs Lloyd; Lady Didapper-Mrs Poussin; Grace-Miss Wood; Mrs Fustian
-Mrs Lefevre; Mrs Revel-Mrs Cuyler; Lady Newbery-Miss Farren; Stevens, Kenny, Ja
ckson, Miss Hale, Miss Twist; [+Larpent MS 490= lists the parts as above, and ad
ds: +Buckle=r, +Varnish=r, +Mons Epingle=r, +Mrs Coiff=r.% +Prologue=-Palmer.  [
This was spoken, as here assigned at all subsequent performances.]  *aThe Mayor 
of Garratt.  As 6 July.  *dAs 18 Aug.  *cMainpiece [1st time; C 4, by $George Co
lman elder=.  Prologue by the author (+Morning Chronicle=, 13 Oct.).  Scenery by
 $Rooker= (ibid. 1 Sept.).  +Larpent MS 490=; not published; synopsis of plot in
 +London Magazine=, Sept. 1779, pp. 405-7].  "The first three acts want business
, and the denouement is rather suddenly brought about...The greatness of the tas
k of performing a character of which $Mrs Abington= had been announced as the in
tended representative seemed to inspire [$Miss Farren=] with additional zeal, an
d helped her to gain additional credit" (+Morning Chronicle=, 1 Sept.).  *p9 1 h
ay The Separate Maintenance.  As 31 Aug.  *aThe Son-in-Law.  As 14 Aug.  *p2 hay
 The Separate Maintenance.  As 31 Aug.  *aThe Son-in-Law.  As 14 Aug.  *p3 hay T
he Separate Maintenance.  As 31 Aug.  *aThe Son-in-Law.  As 14 Aug.  *p4 hay The
 Spanish Barber.  As 2 June.  *aThe Flitch of Bacon.  As 12 June.  *dAs 10 June.
  *p6 hay The Separate Maintenance.  As 31 Aug.  *aThe Son-in-Law.  As 14 Aug.  
*p7 hay Summer Amusement.  As 1 July.  *aThe Tailors.  As 14 July.  *e[+Monologu
e=.%  End: [+The Picture of a Playhouse=; or,% +Bucks have at ye all=-Palmer.  *
cBenefit for Palmer.  Tickets to be had of $Palmer=, +Bow-street=, +Bloomsbury=.
  *p8 hay The Separate Maintenance.  As 31 Aug.  *aThe Irish Widow.  Whittle-Par
sons; Sir Patrick O'Neale-Egan; Bates-Usher; Nephew-R. Palmer; Thomas-Jackson; K
ecksey-Blissett; The Irish Widow-Mrs Lloyd (1st appearance in that character).  
*dEnd I afterpiece: As 18 Aug.  *cAfterpiece: Never acted here.  *p9 hay The Sep
arate Maintenance.  As 31 Aug.  *aThe Son-in-Law.  As 14 Aug.  *p10 hay The Sepa
rate Maintenance.  As 31 Aug.  *aThe Son-in-Law.  As 14 Aug.  *p11 hay Albina, C
ountess Raimond.  As 9 Aug.  *aThe Flitch of Bacon.  As 12 June.  *cBenefit for 
the Author [of mainpiece].  *p13 hay The Separate Maintenance.  As 31 Aug.  *aTh
e Irish Widow.  As 8 Sept.  *p14 hay The Separate Maintenance.  As 31 Aug.  *aTh
e Son-in-Law.  As 14 Aug.  *p15 hay The Separate Maintenance.  As 31 Aug.  *aThe
 Son-in-Law.  As 14 Aug., but Cecilia-[read by% Mrs Jewell.  *c[$Miss Harper= wa
s taken ill; +The Irish Widow= was thereupon substituted and begun, but the audi
ence was clamorous, and insisted on +The Son-in-Law=.  A long delay ensued until
  the proper acters had been brought back to the theatre and until they were dre
ssed.  $Mrs Jewell= read Miss Harper's part.  While trying to find out what the 
audience wanted, $Bannister= retorted sharply from the stage to one of the noisi
est of the objectors.  This action caused several letters to be written to vario
us newspapers debating the right of a "servant of the public" to reprimand a mem
ber of the audience even when that member might be in the wrong (+Morning Chroni
cle=, 16 Sept., et seq.).]  The last Night of the Season.  *p16 hay The Separate
 Maintenance.  As 31 Aug.  *aThe Tailors.  As 14 July.  *c[Extra night] By Permi
ssion [of the +Lord Chamberlain=].  Benefit for $Miss Farren=.  *p17 hay The Sui
cide.  As 22 June.  *aThe Padlock.  Leander-Wood; Don Diego-Bannister; Scholars-
Davis, Kenny; Mungo-Jackson; Ursula-Mrs Webb; Leonora-Mrs Jewell.  *dAs 18 Aug. 
 *c[Extra night] By Permission of the +Lord Chamberlain=.  Benefit for $Mrs Jewe
ll=.  [Mainpiece in place of +The Spanish Barber=, announced on playbill of 16 S
ept.]                                                                           
                                                                                
                                                                                
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