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Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Barry. Mainpiece: Not acted these 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 the Pit, are respectfully intreated to come early, to avoid inconveniency in getting to their Seats. Public Advertiser, 25 Feb.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Barry at No. 10, on the Terrace, New Palace-Yard, Westminster. Receipts: #271 15s. 6d. (143.15.6; tickets: 128.0.0) (charge: #67)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Two Misers

Dance: As17770125

Song: I: song-Mrs Farrell

Event Comment: Benefit for Signora Davies Inglesina. Public Advertiser, 25 Feb.: Tickets to be had of Sga Davies at her House, No. 1, St. Alban's street, Pall-mall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lali Damore

Dance: As17770313throughout.

Song: In III: 'Sventurata in van mi lagno-Sga Davies; with the flute accompaniment-, from Antigono

Event Comment: Benefit for Macklin. Public Advertiser, 8 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Macklin, James-street, 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., was "Tickets," disposed of by Macklin: 305 in the boxes, 104 in the pit, 41 in the gallery.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Cast
Role: Jessica Actor: Miss Dayes

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Dance: End III: Pastoral Dance, as17761123; End IV: Mirth and Jollity, as17761015

Event Comment: Benefit 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-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #280 19s. (114.8; 7.9; 0.16; tickets: 158.6) (charge: #74 14s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: A Favourite Scene from the end of Act II of The Register Office and see17770422

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Dance: As17761128

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Ricci. Public Advertiser, 13 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Sga Ricci at her House, No. 9, Warwick-street, Golden-square. Receipts: #183 1s. 6d. (95.0.0; 22.17.6; 0.0.0; tickets: 65.4.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: End II: a Grand New Ballet (composed by Ricci), The Chaconne-Ricci (1st appearance on the English stage), Sga Crespi, Sga Ricci; End V: The Savage Hunters, as17761024

Event Comment: Benefit for Leoni. Public Advertiser, 31 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Leoni at Basire's No. 34, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Receipts: #231 6s. 6d. (118.8.6; tickets: 112.18.0) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caractacus

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Cast
Role: Nancy Actor: Miss Dayes

Dance: As17761107

Event Comment: Benefit 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.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Dance: End V: The Triumph of Love, as17761107

Event Comment: 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; tickets: 117.15.0) (charge: #69 5s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Thomas Overbury

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: As17761223

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Robinson. Public Advertiser, 28 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Robinson, No. 19, Southampton-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #189 10s. (77.5; 21.19; 0.0; tickets: 90.6) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: A ChristmasTale

Cast
Role: Bonoro Actor: Bannister
Event Comment: Benefit for Trebbi. Public Advertiser, 15 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Trebbi, at Stephenson's, Hay-market

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Schiava

Dance: As17770313throughout.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Afterpiece Title: The Country Mad Cap

Performance Comment: Ballad-Mattocks; Cantileno (with imitations)-Reinhold; Zorobabel-Quick; Lord Bawble-Lee Lewes; Goodwill-Fearon; Thomas-Whitefield [Public Advertiser: Young]; Mrs Midnight-Mrs Pitt; Jenny-Mrs Poussin; The Country Mad@Cap-Mrs Mattocks.

Dance: As17761223

Event Comment: Benefit 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 Sga Sestini, No. 8, Great Suffolk-street, Hay-market

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alcina

Dance: As17770313

Song: With the Alterations of two new songs-Sga Sestini; a favourite one-Sga Sestini

Event Comment: Benefit for Reinhold. Public Advertiser, 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.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Cast
Role: Semira Actor: Miss Dayes

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Cast
Role: Nancy Actor: Miss Dayes

Dance: As17770218

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Sutton. Tickets 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. Receipts: #232 1s. 6d. (74.18.0; 22.18.6; 0.0.0; tickets: 134.5.0) (charge: #64 13s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End 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, as17761031

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Macklin [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 Fields. Receipts: #191 16s. (151.6; tickets: 40.10) (charge: #64 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Cast
Role: Jessica Actor: Miss Dayes

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Dance: End I: Minuet-Aldridge, Miss Macklin; End III: The Shepherd's Wedding, as17770215; End IV: The Frolick, as17761120

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunstall. Public Advertiser, 3 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Dunstall, Little Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Receipts: #282 10s. 6d. (70.17.6 tickets: 211.13.0) (charge: #64 5s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: End: As17761109

Event Comment: Benefit 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.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: End I afterpiece: the Louvre Minuet, Allemande-the Miss Stageldoirs

Event Comment: Benefit for Lee Lewes. Afterpiece: In [it] will be introduced the Stockwell Scenes, with a Prologue [by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Boaden, Mrs Siddons, I, 107)], in the Character of Harlequin, spoken by Lee Lewes; to conclude with the Escape through the Tub, as in Mother Shipton. [The Stockwell Scenes were included in all subsequent performances. The Prologue and Escape were included in the first 3 performances only (see 3 May).] Public Advertiser, 8 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Lee Lewes, No. 40, Charlotte-street, Rathbone Place. Receipts: #282 18s. (119.15; tickets: 163.3) (charge: #69 17s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caractacus

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace or Harlequin Skeleton

Event Comment: Benefit for Aldridge. Public Advertiser, 14 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Aldridge, No. 2, Great Maddox-street, Hanover-square. Receipts: #189 9s. (123.4; tickets: 66.5) (charge: #64 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: The Country Mad Cap

Dance: End II: New Comic Dance-Master Jackson, 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 to 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 Besford, Miss Valois

Event Comment: Benefit for Grimaldi & Hurst. Public Advertiser, 21 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Grimaldi, Little Piazza, Covent Garden. [Younger 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.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: As17761104, but Bajazet-Younger (1st appearance on this stage); The usual Prologue-_.

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: End: Grand Dance, as17770425; End I afterpiece: The Irish Fair, as17761031

Song: As17761104

Event Comment: Benefit Bishop. Public Advertiser, 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)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Dance: End II: a New Dance, The Serenade-Bishop, Sga Tinte; in which the Minuet de la cour-; End: Pastoral Dance, as17761123; End I afterpiece: a Minuet-Bishop, A Young Lady (his Scholar)

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick. Afterpiece: 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, Coachmaker, Long-Acre. Receipts: #278 15s. (160.15; tickets: 118.0) (charge: #65 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Afterpiece Title: Don Quixote in England

Entertainment: IV: an Interlude between Plutus and Wit and a Masque of Singing and DancingPlutus-Reinhold, Wit- Miss Valois; After dance: +Monologue Tony Lumpkin's Adventures in a Trip to London (1st time)-Quick

Dance: End: The Humours of New@Market with the Pony Races-Dagueville (1st appearance this season)

Event Comment: Benefit for Waldron & Mrs Greville. Public Advertiser, 19 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Waldron, No. 16, Glanville-street, Rathbone Place; of Mrs Greville at the Orange Warehouse, the Corner of King-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #178 15s. (69.0; 15.1; 0.0; tickets: 94.14) (charge: #74 14s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Dance: As17761128

Event Comment: Benefit for Mons and Mme Simonet. Public Advertiser, 28 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Simonet, at Leary's, near the White Bear, Piccadilly

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Fraschetana

Dance: End I: Les Amans Heureux, as17770104; End II: Divertisement-Simonet, Mlle Baccelli, Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Vallouy@le@cadet; End Opera: New Ballet (composed by Simonet)-Simonet, Mlle Baccelli, Mlle DeCamp, Sg and Sga Zuchelli; in which, particularly a grand Chaconne in two Parts, habille en homme-Mme Simonet

Event Comment: Benefit for Wilson. Mainpiece: Never acted there. Interlude [1st time; INT 1, author unknown. Larpent MS 433; synopsis of plot in London Chronicle, 5 May]. Public Advertiser, 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.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: The Clock Case or Female Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: End 2nd piece: The Humours of Leixlip, as17770425