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Event Comment: Benefit for Sturt, Bulbrick, Harrison and Rooker. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Cast
Role: Frenchman Actor: Blakes

Dance: IV: A Dutch Dance, as17521125; End: A Hornpipe-Harrison

Song: II: A Song-Wilder

Event Comment: Benefit for Shawford, Roger, Granier and the Widow Reinhold. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Cast
Role: M Le Medicin Actor: Blakes

Dance: II: A Scot's Dance, as17530501; III: A Hornpipe-Granier; End Opera: The Rigadoon, Minuet-Mr and Miss Shawford

Event Comment: Benefit for Morris, Gray, Dunbar, Smith. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Humphrey Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Cast
Role: Fanfaron Actor: Blakes.

Dance: II: A Comic Dance-Morris, Miss Shawford; IV: A Hornpipe-Morris; V: Minuet-Morris, Miss Shawford

Event Comment: Benefit for Barresford, Goodwin, Parr, Keyton (Cross). Keating (playbill). Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Cast
Role: Varole Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Cast
Role: Fanfaron Actor: Blakes.

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-Walker; V: A Comic Dance, as17530514

Song: II: Wilder; IV: Love's a sweet passion-Wilder

Event Comment: Benefit for Foley & Veale (Mrs Yates dy'd) (Cross). Tickets deliver'd out by Lewis and Reygle will be taken, also those deliver'd by Clough for the Provok'd Wife will be admitted. Receipts: #210 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Jeremy Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Cast
Role: Fanfaron Actor: Blakes.

Song: II: Wilder

Dance: V: A Comic Dance, as17530514

Event Comment: Benefit for Tomlinson, Walker, Baker, Robinson, Dawson, and Bride. Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Cast
Role: Frenchman Actor: Blakes

Dance: II: A Comic Dance, as17530514; III: A Hornpipe-Walker; V: A Minuet-Morris, Miss Shawford

Event Comment: Both pieces By Particular Desire. The lamp at ye Alter boil'd over & Frank Heath was burnt in ye loins in getting it out (Cross). Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Cast
Role: Euricles Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Acted but once these 8 years. [See 24 April 1753, and 15 Feb. 1746.] Receipts: #60 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Non juror

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: HHornpipe-Mathews, the Little Swiss

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By particular desire. Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Cast
Role: Chaplain Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Cast
Role: others Actor: Blakes

Dance: II: A New Dance, Gipsey Tambourine, as17531012

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: Tibalt Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Event Comment: MMr Foote interrupted in ye Prologue by a Drunk: Gent-nothing (Cross). Afterpiece: Published at 1s. by Foote. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Cast
Role: Setter Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Event Comment: Publish'd at 3s. The Actor, in One Pocket Volume. A treatise on the art of playing, interspersed with Observations on the performances of Garrick, Quin, Barry, Berry, Macklin, Ryan, Havard, Woodward, Foote, &c; Mrs Cibber, Mrs Pritchard, Mrs Woffington, Mrs Ward, Mrs Elmy, Mrs Green, Mrs Clive, Miss Bellamy, &c. Also some anecdotes of Betterton, Booth and Wilkes and other celebrated performers; together with occasional remarks upon managers and audiences, and upon the principal Tragedies, Comedies, Masques and Farces. Printed for R. Griffiths in Paul's Church-yard. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Cast
Role: Setter Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. A whore taken out for Noise in Green Box (Cross). Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Dance: II: The Neopolitans, as17531101

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Cast
Role: Bedamour Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Entertainments-LeFevre, Mlle Prud'homme, Devisse, Mlle Auguste

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #80 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Humphrey Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Dance: II: Mlle Prudhomme

Event Comment: [Murphy in Gray's Inn Journal puffed' the tragedy Boadicia in rehearsal at dl, commending the casting, and praising the author. See 1 Dec.] Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: Bellamy Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Dance: II: New Dutch Dance-LeFevre

Event Comment: Farce not lik'd (Cross). Receipts: #80 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Duke Senior Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: Mr Footes Tea

Dance: I: A New Dutch Dance, as17531117

Event Comment: [C$Cross lists no receipts.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Cast
Role: Borachio Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales. Prince of Wales & 5 Chil. (Cross). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Cast
Role: Cornwall Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Event Comment: AAuretti danc'd for the first time this season (Cross). Receipts: #70 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Non juror

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Dance: LL'Entree de Flore-Mlle Auretti, Dennison, Mlle Lussant

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 8 years [See 23 March 1747.] Went off Indiff (Cross). Receipts: #80 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode Or Sir Fopling Flutter

Afterpiece Title: The Shepherds Lottery

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: Sir Charles Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Dance: IV: L'Entree de Flore, as17531123

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #210 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Tressel Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: A tragedy written by Mr Glover, great Applause-but a thought dull (Cross). Never Acted before. [Mainpiece complimented left-handedly by Murphy in Gray's Inn Journal, 8 Dec. The music and scenery were both suited to the piec e, and the acting of it, were there no other inducement, should be sufficient to draw numerous audiences...I cannot but remark that the applause it met with, was scarcely warm enough for such fine writing...I am convinced that this Tragedy will prove an elegant Closet-companion to every reader of taste."] Receipts: #230 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Boadicia

Music: With new pieces of Between the Acts: Music , adapted to the play, and by Dr Boyce-

Event Comment: For the Author (Cross). Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Boadicia

Music: As17531201