 Cecil and Clayton yielded management at the Court to Mrs. John Wood and Arthur Chudleigh when the theatre closed in 1887, although Cecil continued acting at the theatre after it was rebuilt.Cecil played the title role in "Pickwick" by Burnand, with music by Edward Solomon, at the Comedy Theatre in 1889 and Lord Burnham in "The Crusaders", a comedy by Henry Arthur Jones at the Avenue Theatre in 1891.In 1893, he appeared as Baron Stein in "Diplomacy" by Clement Scott and B. C. Stephenson with the Bancrofts at the Garrick Theatre.