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Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. For ye Author of ye farce (not put up so). Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Cast
Role: Surly Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted in 25 years (playbill); went off very well (Cross). Receipts: #160 (Cross). High Life Below Stairs published (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Woman Is A Riddle

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

Dance: TThe Swiss, as17591108

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Cast
Role: Cornwall Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years [but see 8 May 1758]. Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon Or The Two Sosias

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

Event Comment: TThe Guardian deferred; Mrs Clive indisposed. Tomorrow will be reviv'd Comus, the characters of the Bacchanal and Euphrosyne by a Gentleman and Gentlewoman who never appeared on the stage before. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Cast
Role: others Actor:
Event Comment: Afterpiece: Scene of the Drawing in Guild-Hallv. Receipts: #69 1s. 6d. Rec'd of Mrs Bellamy #10 7s. 8d. for 6 nights deducted for last season on death of Princess of Orange

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: TThe Plowman, as17591121

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #114 19s. Paid Meares #2 4s. 1s.; Paid Pattinson [tallow chandler] four bills, #70 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine With the Birth and Adventures of Harlequin

Event Comment: HHamlet by Fleetwood. Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Polonius Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Cast
Role: Cornwall Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Event Comment: Benefit for the Composer. Afterpiece: Written by Congreve and set to Music by Dr Arne. Receipts: #206 19s. [cash], plus #51 18s. from tickets (Boxes 148; Pit 74; Gallery 38). Total income #258 17s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess Or The History Of Dioclesian

Afterpiece Title: To conclude with the Masque ofThe Sultan

Afterpiece Title: The Judgment of Paris

Music: II: A Concerto on the Violin-Hay; End Opera: A Concerto on the Haut@Bois-Simson

Event Comment: Benefit for ye Marine Society (Cross). Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Receipts: #200 (Cross). [The Prologue is in Larpent MS 163: @"Ye sons of Freedom view this little Band@They owe their safety to your giving hand@Snatch'd from the paths of vice and branded shame@You ope the door to Honesty and Fame..."@ The Prologue is printed in the British Magazine, Jan., 1760.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Cast
Role: Chatilion Actor: Blakes.

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette

Event Comment: Full Prices. 'Tis hop'd no Gentlemen will take it ill that they cannot possibly be admitted behind the Scenes, as it will greatly obstruct the performance of the Entertainment. Receipts: #147 11s. [An extra outlay of #1 7s. 6d. per night for chorus singers in The Fair.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Or The Unhappy Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Fair With Additional Scenes of Action

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Cast
Role: Hotman Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

Event Comment: Full Prices. [The Pantomime] revived with Additional Scenes of Action. Receipts: #203 7s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Indsor

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Event Comment: Afterpiece: An English Burtetta from the Italian. Music by Sig Adolfo Hasse (playbill). Burletta Damn'd (Cross). Acted but once and not printed (Genest, IV, 579). Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Cast
Role: Chatilion Actor: Blakes.

Afterpiece Title: The Tutor

Event Comment: Benefit for the Middlesex Hospital. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Receipts: #230 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Event Comment: Benefit for a Widow with a large family in distress. Receipts: #55 10s. 6d. in cash, plus #123 from tickets (Boxes 137; Pit 313; Gallery 418). Total #178 10s. 6d. Charges #84. Profit to Widow Sheark, #94 10s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: TThe Dutch Skipper, as17591017; Fingalian Dance, as17591212

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years [see 20 Dec. 1753.] Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal Or The Ladies Philosophy

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Cast
Role: Mordecai Actor: Blakes

Dance: AA Minuet-Noverre, Miss Macklin

Event Comment: Benefit for the General Lying-In Hospital, Duke Street. Receipts: #56, plus #142 6s. from tickets. Total #198 6s. Charges #84. Paid J. Rich on acct, #547 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Dance: As17591218

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Cast
Role: Mordecai Actor: Blakes
Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Cast
Role: Hotman Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Henry Jones. Afterpiece: [See note under cg play this night. During this year appeared An Essay Upon the Present State of the Theatre, in France, England, and Italy, a "work absolutely necessary to be read by every lover of Theatrical Exhibitions," printed for J. Pottinger. It contains twenty-two chapters on tragedy, thirteen on comedy, opera, authors, and the art of acting. Pages 147-51 discuss the obligation of English farces to French ones.] Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Cast
Role: Cornwall Actor: Blakes
Event Comment: Mr Berry dy'd (Cross). Receipts: #170 (Cross). British Chronicle; 8 Jan. 1760. (Winston MS 8): Died Mr Edward Berry in Russel St., Covent Garden, 53 years one of the comedians of tr dl. On this Sunday the body was interr'd in the Cemetery of St Martin's Church. The loss of so worthy a man was expressed by those present. His only daugher is to [....] with the following inscription to his memory, to whom he has left his fortune worth about #1000: @Epitaph@Here lies the remains of@Edward Berry@Who lived@With public applause and private esteem@The former he acquired as@An Excellent Comedian, the latter as an@Honest Man. 8 Jan 1760 Aet 5s.@Light lie the turf, what tho' no breathing Bust@Of mimic Marble dignifie thy dust?@Yet filial sorrow pays the Dudeous Tear@And heartworn Friendship heaves a Sigh sincere.@Pleas'd may thy shade these humble rites receive@The last sad tribute gratitude can give@

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Cast
Role: Petulant Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion