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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: Witches Actor: Burton, Blakes, Yates

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Cast
Role: Le Medicin Actor: Blakes
Event Comment: Benefit for ye Composer--tho' not in ye Bills (Cross). Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fairies

Dance: See17550203

Event Comment: N.B. Mrs Cibber's Benefit oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of her illness. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Cast
Role: Cornwall Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Cast
Role: Gayless Actor: Blakes
Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clive (Cross). Music of Afterpiece by DeFesch. Tickets at her lodgings at the Wheatsheaf in Henrietta St., and at the Stage Door. Afterpiece: Never performed but twice. Part of Pit to be laid into the boxes. Receipts: #210 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Cash Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The London Prentice

Dance: T$Three Sabatinis As17550203

Event Comment: Farce never performed before, taken from second part of ye Busy Body (Cross). For the benefit of Woodward. Garrick had Woodward act Polonius seriously (Genest, IV, 408). Receipts: #300 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Marplot in Lisbon

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Macklin (Cross). Receipts: #180 (Cross). Ladies to send for tickets for the places they taken at Miss Macklin's, Russel St. next door to Tom's Coffee House. Part of Pit laid into Boxes and Amphitheatre on stage. Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Last time of Performing till the Holidays. On seeing Miss Macklin in the character of the Mourning Bride: @Should Death (for Oh! what power can save Our tragic heroine from the grave)@At Cibber aim his dart:@Tears should forever speak my moan,@For oh! 'tis she, and she alone@Can melt the feeling heart.@Britannia spake, when Lo! a Voice@Britain be happy, and rejoice,@That, when your Cibber dies@The Gods have yet in store for thee,@A Macklin; and in her you'll see@Another Cibber rise.--Public Adveriser@

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: Heli Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: As17550203

Event Comment: Benefit for ye Sabatini's (Cross). Mainpiece: At the particular desire of several persons of quality. Tickets to be had of Sg Sabatini at Mr Leviez's in Beaufort Building in the Strand and at the Stage Door. Tickets delivered out for 18th of March will be taken. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: I: The Italian Fishermen-Sg and Sga Sabatini; III: New Comic Dance-Sg and Sga Sabatini; V: A Peasant Dance-Sg and Sga Sabatini, Sabatini the younger

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Beard. Afterpiece: By Desire. Tickets of Beard at Mrs Coleman's in East St., near Red Lyon Square, and at the Stage Door. Receipts: #300 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: II: A New Cantata-Beard; III: Hooly and Fairly by Desire-Beard; V: Rule Britannia-Beard, chorus; Britons Strike Home sung in Character-Beard, accompanied with a chorus

Music: IV: A Piece upon the Harp-Parry

Dance: ll concluding with% Hornpipe-Mathews

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Havard (Cross). Last time of performing the Mainpiece this season. Tickets of Havard at his house in Broad Court, Bow St., Covent Garden, and at the Bedford Coffee House and the Stage Door. [The Public Advertiser lists Old Knowell this night as Berry.] Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Cash Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: III: New Comic Dance-Three Sabatinis, as17550203

Song: B$Beard particularly at the End: Rule Britannia, as17550402 Britons Strike Home in character and accompanied with a Chorus, as17550402 Concluding with: a Hornpipe-Mathews

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Yates. Receipts: #210 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: Beard

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Palmer. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Afterpiece Title: Marplot in Lisbon

Event Comment: Benefit for Mlle Auretti--she sick in bed (Cross). Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Cast
Role: Chaplain Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: A Hornpipe-Mathews

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Berry. Tickets of Berry at Mr Pope's, Peruke Maker, in Russel St., Covent Garden, and at Stage Door. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Creusa

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: As17550203; V: The Last New Comic Dance-Sg and Sga Sabatini

Song: III: Rule Britannia, as17550402-Beard%; concluding with: Hornpipe-Mathews

Event Comment: Benefit for Davies, and Mrs Davies. Tickets at their lodgings at Mr Marshall's in Tavistock Row, Covent Garden, and at Stage Door. Part of Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: Bellamy Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Haughton--masters share (Cross). Full Prices. That there may be no Obstruction in the Machinery, there will be no building on the stage. Tickets of Miss Haughton, in Chandois St., and at Stage Door. Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Cast
Role: Borachio Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: Proteus

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Graham. Tickets of Mrs Graham, at Mr Robinson's in Beaufort Buildings in the Strand, and at the stage door. Last time of performing the mainpiece this season. Receipts: #80 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Cast
Role: Frenchman Actor: Blakes.
Role: Old Man Actor: Blakes

Song: I: By particular desire, Hooly and Fairly-Beard

Dance: II: As17550203

Event Comment: Tickets deliver'd for the Busy Body will be taken. Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Afterpiece Title: Proteus

Event Comment: Benefit for myself and Wife (Cross). Tickets at the Stage Door. N.B. At the desire of several Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr Cross has changed Virginia, which he had before advertised, to the above Play. Tickets delivered out for Virginia will be taken. Receipts: #147 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: As17550203

Event Comment: Benefit for Mathews and Miss Minors. Receipts: #90 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Humphrey Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Cast
Role: Gayless Actor: Blakes

Song: Beard

Dance: A Hornpipe-Mathews

Event Comment: Benefit for Leviez. Last time performing mainpiece this season. No Building on Stage. Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: A Comic Dance-Sg and Sga Sabatini; IV: A Comic Dance-Sg and Sga Sabatini, Sabatini the Younger; V: A Minuet-Leviez, Miss Macklin

Event Comment: Benefit for Pritchard. Tickets at Pritchard's lodgings at Pritchard's Warehouse in Tavistock St., and at Stage Door. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: Heli Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: Marplot in Lisbon

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mills. Tickets deliver'd out by Taswell, Wilder, Morris, and Mrs Addison will be taken. Tickets to be had of Mrs Mills at Mr Gardyner's, Printer, in Russel St., Covent Garden, and at the Stage Door. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Cast
Role: Dugard Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: Dick Actor: Blakes

Dance: II: The Running Footmen-Morris, Walker; III: The Minuet, Louvre-Dennison, Mrs Addison; IV: Comic Dance by Three Sabatinis, as17550203

Song: V: Rule Britanniaby Beard, as17550402 concluding with a Hornpipe-Morris

Event Comment: Benefit for Burton and Philips. Tickets of Philips at Martlet Court in Bow St., Covent Garden, and at the stage door (Playbill). [Advertised as not acted in 10 years, but see 29 Oct. 1748.] Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies or Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great

Song: I: By Particular Desire, Hooly and Fairly-Beard

Dance: HHornpipe-Harrison

Event Comment: Benefit for Scrase and Miss Thomas. Tickets of Scrase at Mr Cross's in Crown Court, Russel St., Covent Garden; of Miss Thomas at the Ring and Pearl, Duke's Court, Bow St., and at stage door. No Building on Stage. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Tressel Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Song: Miss Thomas

Event Comment: Benefit for Simson and Wife and Mas. Simson. Tickets of Simson in Wild Passage, Wild St., near Lincoln's Inn Fields; at Grigsbys Coffee House, behind the Royal Exchange, and at stage door. Afterpiece: By particular Desire. Receipts: #210 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: I: Hooly and Fairly-Beard

Dance: III: A Minuet-Mas. Simson, Miss Simson