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Event Comment: Benefit for Blakes. The Performance will not be interrupted by any building on the stage. Neither piece acted this season. Mainpiece: By particular desire for the first and only time of performing it this season. Tickets of Blakes at his house in Duke's Court, Bow St., Covent Garden. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Performance Comment: Fribble-Garrick; Capt. Loveit-Palmer; Puff-Yates; Tag-Mrs Clive; Miss Biddy-Miss Minors; Flash-Woodward (playbill) but Tag-Mrs Bennet (playbill and Public Advertiser).

Dance: IV: The Country Amusements-Devisse, Mlle Auretti

Event Comment: On Saturday next will be publish'd in The Westminster Journal, (over and above the Essay as usual) No 1 of The Theatrical Kalander. In which not only will be kept an accurate register of all the plays, farces, and Entertainments exhibited as both Theatres Royal, but the respective merits of the performances, as well as performers, will be critically and impartially considered. To be continued weekly during the season. Note This is the first thing of its kind attempted in England, and it is humbly presumed, that it will have something still more than Novelty to recommend it (Public Advertiser). [See numbers 4 May 1754 and 17 Oct. 1755 of this magazine.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17541001, but Richard-Garrick; Catesby-Usher (playbill). Catesby-$Marr (Public Advertiser).

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Event Comment: Benefit for the Lying-In Hospital for Married Women, in Brownlow Street, Long Acre. [On 18 Jan. appeared in the Public Advertiser the Occasional Epilogue]: @After this bounteous, well-intentioned play@You think I'm come to banter all away;@To mock the soft compassion in the breast,@And turn at once all charity to jest...@Tir'd of such arts, I'm now so serious grown@I mean to speak plain sentiments alone.@ [Then addressing each part of the house, with appropriate comment--and a good deal of banter--she praises marriage as an institution, and this hospital as an aid.] @Methinks I spy some amorous pairs above [to upper gallery]@Drawn here by tender flames of mutual love.@Close pack'd they sit,-and woo with secret squeeze,@With conscious elbows, sympathetic knees.@Go on my friends,-true to connubial law,@And leave to us the Women in the straw.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Event Comment: [Subscription period for next season announced in the Public Advertiser.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

Event Comment: A New Opera. [The first performance in England; text by Metastasio. The Musick composed by Sg Hasse (by Perez according to the Public Advertiser of 26 April).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ezio

Dance: new Dew Dances-

Event Comment: Benefit for Ridout. No Building on Stage. [The printer of the Public Advertiser seems to have kept his form for the old notices of the cast for the mainpiece, for although changing Bayes to Shuter, with the appropriate remark about his first appearance in the character, he also lists Gentleman Usher as Shuter.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: IItalian Peasants-Granier, Mrs Granier

Event Comment: Benefit for Jefferson, Phebe, Dennison, and Morris (Cross); for Jefferson, Dennison, Mrs Toogood, Miss Hippisley (Public Advertiser). [Cross's Phebe seems to refer to Miss Hippisley who played the part in As You Like It.] Receipts: #104 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: I: Hooly and Fairly-Beard; IV: Miss Thomas

Dance: II: A Hornpipe-the Little Swiss; V: Louvre, Minuet-Dennison, Mrs Addison

Event Comment: Last night the Prince of Wales, Prince Edward, Prince Henry, Prince Frederick, and Princess Augusta were at Covent Garden to see The Merry Wives of Windsor and The What D'ye Call It (Public Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: As17551101

Event Comment: [W+Winston MS 8 lists the mainpiece as All for Love. But Love for Love appears in the Public Advertiser and in Rich's Register.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returnd from Paris

Dance: As17551101

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: As17551106, but Shore-Ross (Playbill); Havard (Public Advertiser); Catesby-Mozeen; Alicia-Miss Haughton.

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Cast
Role: Peter Actor: Ackman

Dance: IV: New Dance-

Song: Anniversary Ode in Commemoration of Shakespeare, as17560401

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performance Comment: [The Mock Orators] The Public Advertiser list Mock Orators as the afterpiece, but gives cast for Mock Doctor: Doctor-Yates; Leander-Jefferson; Charlotte-Miss Minors; Jasper-Clough; Dorcas-Mrs Macklin.
Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales (Public Advertiser). Prince of Wales & 6 ye Family (Cross). Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Dance: TThe Press Gang, as17561013

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With proper Dances and Decorations (Public Advertiser). Miss Bricklayer sung Indiff. (Cross). Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of the Chinese Mandarin (Public Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Dance: As17561216

Event Comment: This Night (tho' not so mentioned) was for Dr Hawksworth, who alter'd the play (he is just made a Dr of Law) (Cross). Last time of performing till the Holidays (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Event Comment: Both pieces By Command of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales (Public Advertiser). [Present] Prince of Wales & 7 More (Cross). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Event Comment: MMr Vernon play'd his Wife's part & was well receiv'd (Cross). [The Public Advertiser, however, carried her name in the play notice.] Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eliza

Afterpiece Title: Lilliput

Event Comment: MMr Austin did Aboan (Cross). Third time of his appearing on this stage (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Event Comment: Afterpiece alter'd from Beaumont & Fletcher (Cross) being a sequel to Catherine and Petruchio; or, The Taming of the Shrew (Public Advertiser). Benefit for Pritchard. Tickets of Pritchard in Great Queen St.; Lincoln's Inn Fields; and at Pritchard's Warehouse in Tavistock St. [The Larpent MS 133 lists the characters: Sophocles, Tranio, Maria, Bianca, Jaques, Petruchio, Petronius, Pedro, Citizens, Countrymen, Doctor, Apothecary, 1st Watch, 2nd Watch.] Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Creusa

Afterpiece Title: The Tamer Tamd

Song: Beard

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By particular Desire. Walker, Miss Barton, Miss Rousillet, Mrs Preston Tickets (Cross). Tickets delivered for the Double Dealer will be taken (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #80 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Creusa

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Cast
Role: Lovell Actor: Ackman

Afterpiece Title: Toy Shop The Author

Performance Comment: [As17570509, for Toyshop, but the The Public Advertiser lists the The Author, for which see17570413] .
Cast
Role: First Gentleman Actor: Ackman
Event Comment: [The Account Book lists Orpheus and Eurydice as afterpiece, but The Public Advertiser lists Lethe.] Receipts: #51 18s. 6d. (Account Book.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: JJovial Coopers, as17571107

Event Comment: By Command. Receipts: #194 19s. 6d. Present His Majesty. Gave Yeomen of the Guards 10s. 6d. (Account Book). Public Advertiser: We hear His Majesty will be at Covent Garden this night to see the Comedy of She Wou'd and She Wou'd not, with the Duke and No Duke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: Guerin, Mlle Capdeville

Event Comment: Benefit for a Widow in Distress, with Four Children (Public Advertiser). Benefit for Mrs Calvert. Receipts: #57 7s. Income from tickets #112 13s. (boxes 113; pit 318; gallery 361). Charges #84 (Account Book). [The Account Book shows a profit again of #31 9s. 6d.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distressd Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: JJovial Coopers, as17571107