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Event Comment: This Night by the Crowd upon the upper Gallery Stairs two Women & a Man were Kill'd (Cross). 2 or 3 Persons squeezed to death getting into Drury Lane (Winston MS 8). The Tragedy of the Mourning Bride will be acted at the latter end of this week at Drury Lane, in which Mrs Glen will perform the character of Zara, it being the second time of her appearing on that stage. The reviv'd Comedy of the Gamesters and the tragedy of the Fatal Marriage will be played after the holidays. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Cast
Role: Boatswain Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Event Comment: 'TTis reported that her Royal Highness the Princess Carolina is dangerously indisposed (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Ballet: II: The Prussian Camp. As17571223

Cast
Role: Officer Actor: Blakes
Event Comment: MMrs Glen did Zara (bad) (Cross). Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: Heli Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Ballet: TThe Prussian Camp. As17571223

Cast
Role: Officer Actor: Blakes
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years.[See 29 April 1756.] Receipts: #127 13s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alzira

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Event Comment: PPrince of Wales & 4 (Cross). By Command of Prince of Wales. This day is publish'd Belisarius: A Tragedy, written by Mr Philips, to which is prefixed some account of the life of Belasarius. Printed for J. Staples, opposite Stationer's Hall. Neatly printed. Price 1s. (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #200. (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Cast
Role: Chatillion Actor: Blakes

Ballet: TThe Prussian Camp. As17571223

Cast
Role: Officer Actor: Blakes
Event Comment: PPittard's Observations on Garrick's Acting pub. as 6 d. Dedicated to Earl of Chesterfield (Winston MS 8). [Joseph Pittard the actor? or pen name for John Shebbeare?] Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamesters

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette

Ballet: TThe Prussian Camp. As17571223

Cast
Role: Officer Actor: Blakes
Event Comment: To be Lett. Elegantly Furnish'd, the House of the Late Colley Cibber, Esq: in Berkley Square, the Corner of Bruton Street (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #106 3s. Gave Porters of the several Inns, #3 14s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part I

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Event Comment: MMrs Glen did Zara agen-Oh! (Cross). Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: Heli Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Silvio Actor: Blakes
Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #75 15s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Dance: SSicilian Peasants, as17571217

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Cast
Role: Boatswain Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Silvio Actor: Blakes
Event Comment: On Monday will be reviv'd a Tragedy (not acted these 10 years) call'd Mariamne. Receipts: #37 15s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Dance: As17571217

Event Comment: Tickets to be had of Lee at the Golden Ball in Bow St., Covent Garden. N.B. On Account of the Horses, &c. there will be no building on the stage. Receipts: Benefit for Lee. #117 9s. plus income from tickets, #91 9s. (boxes 82; pit 345; gallery 192) (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: FFingalian Dance, as17571013

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Ballet: TThe Prussian Camp. As17580120

Cast
Role: Officer Actor: Blakes
Event Comment: This day is Publish'd: The Author, a Comedy of two Acts, by Foote. Price 1s. Printed for R. Francklin, Russell St., Drury Lane. Creusa Queen of Athens, a Tragedy, by Wm. Whitehead, Price 1s. 6d. Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall Mall. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Creusa

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: II: The Italian Peasants, as17571004

Event Comment: Mainpiece [by Elijah Fenton]: Not acted these 10 years. [See 12 March 1745.] Receipts: #110 15s. 6d. Paid Barry his one third of the surplus above the #80 House Charges: #10 5s. 2s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted in 5 years. [See 15 May 1751.] Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales. Present the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince Edward, Lady Augusta, and Princess Elizabeth. Receipts: #219 1s. 6d. Paid Barry his one third of the surplus above #80 House Charges: #46 7s. 2d. Gave the yeoman of the Prince and Princess #1 1s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Ballet: The Judgment of Paris. As17571217

Dance: As17571217

Event Comment: Twenty Renters only at Drury Lane at 2s. a night (Winston MS 8). Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar Or The Double Discovery

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Event Comment: A Dramatic Opera [by Betterton altered from Beaumont and Fletcher; music by Purcell. Not acted these 30 years. New Cloaths, Scenes, and other Decorations incident to the Opera. Nothing under full prices will be taken. To prevent any obstruction either in the Music or Decorations, no persons can be admitted behind the scenes. [Notices repeated for this play this season.] Receipts: #190 18s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess Or The History Of Dioclesian

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. New Scene in Knights; or, Foote's Fresh Tea, published at 6d. Printed for J. Wilkie behind the Chapter House in St Paul's Churchyard. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette

Dance: IV: The Italian Peasants, as17571004

Event Comment: Tomorrow Mariamne. This day publish'd at 6d. The Prophetess; or, The History of Dioclesian, a Dramatic Opera as it is performed at Covent Garden. Printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand. Receipts: #160 3s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales. Present Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince Edward, William, Frederick. Lady Augusta, and Princess Elizabeth. Receipts: #180 1s. Bought 3 1!2 dozen Wax Candles, #5 8s. 6d. [The complete payroll was met and a balance carried over of #120 13s. 9d. as profit.] (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess

Event Comment: By Command [both pieces] by the Prince of Wales. Prince of W: & P: Receipts: #210 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Event Comment: By Desire. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Brainworm Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: TThe Market, as17571126

Event Comment: The New Tragedy is deferr'd on account of Mrs Cibber's illness. Receipts: #80 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Cast
Role: Boatswain Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Silvio Actor: Blakes