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Event Comment: Benefit for Weller, Chapman, Mrs Burden, Miss Sledge. Tickets deliver'd by Redman, Dibdin, Miss Helm, Mrs Viviez, Miss Dawes, and Widow Dupre will be taken. [Ticket distribution from Account Book:] @Names Box Pit Gallery Value 1!2 Value@Weller 19 59 80 #21 12s. #10 16s.@Redman 2 41 44 #11 1s. #5 10s. 6d.@Chapman 51 177 87 #48 #24@Dibdin 5 24 40 #8 17s. #4 8s. 6d.@Mrs Burden 20 30 56 #15 2s. #7 11s.@Miss Sledge 6 56 72 #17 2s. #8 11s.@Miss Helm 4 27 25 #7 11s. #3 15s. 6d.@Mrs Viviez 8 53 144 #24 7s. #12 3s. 6d.@Miss Dawes 14 30 56 #13 12s. #6 16s.@Mrs Dupre 5 44 42 #12 1s. #6 6d.@Total 134 541 646 #179 5s. #89 12s. 6d.@ Receipts: #22 15s. 6d. plus half value of tickets #89 12s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: TThe Waggoners, as17610228

Event Comment: Boxes #15 5s. (Account Book). Receipts: #57 6s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunstall. No Building on the Stage. Farce not acted these 10 years. [See 12 Nov. 1750.] Receipts: #48 13s. 6d. plus income of #168 15s. from tickets (Box 216; Pit 677; Gallery 132) (Account Book). Charges: #63 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Phebe or The Beggars Wedding

Dance: LLes Charboniers, as17601215

Event Comment: Benefit for Lalauze. Receipts: #63 5s. plus #112 19s. from tickets (Box 153; Pit 340; Gallery 237) (Account Book). Charges: #63 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: LLa Petite Bergere-Lalauze's Daughter, a child between 7 and 8 years of age; a Serious Dance(for 1st time)-Lalauze's Daughter; also by desire a Ball-Dance call'd The Louvre and Minuet-Lalauze, Lalauze's Daughter; After: (this night only) A Day of Taste-Shuteras17600320

Event Comment: Benefit of Mattocks and Hull. Tickets deliver'd for The Busy Body will be taken. No Building on Stage. [Playbill suggests Beard and Mattocks took the parts of Sailor and Squire for the 1st time this night. According to Genest they had performed them since 28 Nov. 1760, i.e., for 23 times this season. Possibly their parts were originally reversed.] Receipts: #79 17s. 6d. plus income from tickets: Mattocks #40 6s. (Box 37; Pit 159; Gallery 72); Hull #42 1s. (Box 80; Pit 111; Gallery 54) (Account Book). Charges: #64 6s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: Last New Comic Dance-Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville

Event Comment: Benefit for Collins, and Younger, Prompter. Receipts: #38 8s. plus income from tickets: Collins, #51 6s. (box 26; Pit 258; Gallery 161); Younger, #55 14s. (Box 50; Pit 152; Gallery 104) (Account Book). Charges: #63 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: End: The Waggoners, as17610228; End IV: A Hornpipe-Mrs Crawford

Event Comment: Benefit for Tindal. No Building on Stage. Receipts: #38 12s. plus #113 18s. from tickets (Box 102; Pit 442; Gallery 221). Paid Mr Hursfall, barber, a bill for work done for Mr Sodi's New Dance #2 1s. 6d. (Account Book). [See Hungarian Gambols, 9 March.] Charges: #84 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: TThe Waggoners, as17610228

Event Comment: Benefit for Baker, Miles, Miss Young. Tickets deliver'd out by Mrs Ferguson will be taken. No building on Stage. Receipts: #36 17s. plus income from tickets: Miles, #60 13s. (Box 103; pit 182; Gallery 76); Baker, #41 6s. (Box 69; Pit 125; Gallery 53); Miss Young #32 10s. (Box 28; Pit 98; Gallery 108). [All shared equally in the charges.] Mrs Ferguson's income of #18 16s. from tickets was clear (Box 9; Pit 61; Gallery 74) (Account Book). Charges: #64 8s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man Or The Fops Fortune

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: II: A Hornpipe-Miles; IV: The Drunken Peasant-Miles; Clown-Bennet

Event Comment: Benefit for Marten, Anderson, R. Smith. Receipts: #27 2s. plus income from tickets: Marten #83 7s. (Box 59; Pit 326; Gallery 197); Anderson #64 3s. (Box 14; Pit 343; Gallery 92); Richard Smith #50 3s. (Box 13; Pit 206; Gallery 160) (Account Book). Charges: #63 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: The Last New Comic Dance-Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire, being the last time of performing it this Season. Boxes #42 17s. 6d. (Account Book). Receipts: #109 14s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: Benefit for Legg and Bennet. Receipts: #34 13s. 6d. plus income from tickets: Bennet #102 19s. (Box 37; Pit 418; Gallery 310); Legg #64 10s. (Box 34; Pit 248; Gallery 188) (Account Book). Charges: #63 17s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Dance: III: Last New Comic Dance-Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville; End: By Desire Heart of Oak (the Song)-Legg; with a Hornpipe in character-Poitier Jr

Event Comment: Boxes #10 12s. 6d. (Account Book). [i.e., only about 42 persons in the boxes this night.] Receipts: #46 4s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cleone

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: Benefit for Ballard, Treasurer. [For Entertainment, see 26 March] Receipts. #39 8s. 6d. plus #211 6s. from tickets (Box 282; Pit 782; Gallery 235). [Ballard deliver'd 1,299 tickets, nearly the record fbr any recipient of a benefit, actor or nonactor. His profit of #187 14s. 6d. seems to have been equivalent to more than 3 years' salary, since he is set down for a weekly salary of #1 in the Account Book for this year.] Charges: #63 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: IV: Last New Comic Dance-Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville

Entertainment: End: Tea a@la Mode-Wilkinson; into which will be introduc'd a Male Mock Italian Burletta Song-Wilkinson; and by Desire The Epilogue to the Minor-Wilkinson , being his last time of performing this season (playbill)

Entertainment: End Afterpiece: The Cries of London-Shuter

Event Comment: Benefit for Holtom, Davis, Buck, Perry. No Building on Stage. Receipts: #41 15s. 6d. plus income from tickets: Holtom #27 9s. (Box 10; Pit 89; Gallery 116); Davis #75 2s. (Box 70; Pit 300; Gallery 126); Buck #32 13s. (Box 28; Pit 115; Gallery 84); Perry #57 19s. (Box 17; Pit 202; Gallery 234). [The beneficiaries in this joint operation delivered 1,391 tickets (Account Book).] Charges: #64 6s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: A Comic Dance-Granier, Mrs Granier. *uôÖcg Lady Pentweazle Scene. Lady Pentweazle-Hartry, 1st appearance on the stage; Carmine-Davis

Entertainment: EEpilogue to the Minor-Davis

Event Comment: Benefit for Roberts. Receipts: #23 14s. plus #87 15s. from tickets (Box 116; Pit 295; Gallery 145 (Account Book). Charges: #80 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Song: II: A Song-Roberts, accompanied on a Welch Harp by Evans; IV: A Piece on the Welch Harp-Evans

Dance: LLes Charboniers, as17601215

Event Comment: Benefit for Cresswick, Desse, Mrs Jansolin. Last time of performing till Whitsun holidays. Receipts: #25 plus #173 7s. 6d. from tickets: Cresswick #30 17s. (Box 53; Pit 106; Gallery 17); Desse #80 12s. (Box 146; Pit 186; Gallery 162); Mrs Jansoline #61 17s. (Box 105; Pit 130; Gallery 161). Rec'd from John Rich #200 by the hand of Mrs Rich. [The House is now showing a deficit of #727 5s. 11d. (Account Book).] Charges: #63 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Office

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Entertainment: I: The Cries of London-Shuter

Dance: II: A Hornpipe-Mlle Capdeville, 1st time; a Minuet-a young Gentleman, a Young Lady (a Child of 5 years) scholar of Desse Jr; III: The Provincial Sailors-Maranesi, Miss Twist; IV: The Painter in Love with his Picture-Balthazar, Hussey, Mad Marianne; End: The Last New Comic Dance-Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville

Event Comment: Benefit for Wignell and Mrs Lee. No building on Stage. Receipts: #38 10s. plus #134 17s. from tickets: Wignell #90 14s. (Box 52; Pit 324; Gallery 291); Mrs Lee #44 3s. (Box 94; Pit 107; Gallery 46) (Account Book). Charges: #63 10s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko Or The Royal Slave

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: II: Hornpipe (2nd time)-Mlle Capdeville; IV: The Provincial Sailors, as17610508

Event Comment: Benefit for a Gentleman under Misfortunes. Receipts: #63 19s. 6d. plus #116 6s. from tickets (Box 389; Pit 127). [Profit to Mr Oliver, the beneficiary, #96 5s. 6d. (Account Book).] Charges: #84 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: LLes Charboniers, as17601215

Event Comment: Benefit for Evans and Green, (box keepers). Receipts: #22 10s. plus income from tickets: Evans #102 9s. (Box 278; Pit 151; Gallery 103); Green #90 14s. (Box 259; Pit 147; Gallery 39). Paid to Evans and Green #10 each for attendance at the Boxes this season (Account Book). Charges: #70 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: Last New Comic Dance-Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville

Event Comment: Benefit for Wilford, Ross, (pit door-keepers); Slater; and Trott, (lobby door-keeper). Mainpiece: Acted but once these 10 years. [See 15 Jan. 1753.] Tickets deliver'd by Besford, Clark, Darby, Toten, Dimmock, &c. will be taken. [Besford a mistake for Joseph Besworth (porter).] Receipts: #15 15s. plus #100 14s. 2d. as 1!2 value of the tickets deliver'd. @Names Bow Pit Gallery Balue 1!2 Value@Wilford 2 62 18 #11 12s. #5 16s.@Ross 5 162 83 #33 17s. #16 18s. 6d.@Trott 144 53 .. #43 19s. #18 12s. 9d.@Slater 2 57 110 #20 1s. #10 6d.@Derby 4 79 105 #23 7s. #11 13s. 6d.@Toten .. 32 43 #9 2s. #4 11s.@Clingo .. 55 47 #12 19s. #6 9s. 6d.@Clarke .. 40 44 #10 8s. #5 4s.@Besworth .. 24 20 #5 12s. #2 16s.@Dymuck .. 12 53 #7 2s. #3 11s.@Jos. Smith 8 29 25 #8 17s. #4 8s. 6d.@Cole 4 61 83 #18 9s. #9 4s. 6d.@S. Griffiths .. 11 12 #2 17s. #1 8s. 6d.@Total 169 677 643 #208 2s. #100 14s. 2d. [1!2 of #208 2s. would seem to be #104 1s.]@ Rec'd of John Crane for the ends of the wax candles sold last season #6 4s., and for those sold this season #23 19s. 4d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: Benefit for Charles Sarjant, (house keeper). Tickets deliver'd for the Wonder will be taken. Receipts: #69 2s. 6d. plus #73 2s. from tickets (Box 125; Pit 223; Gallery 84) (Account Book). Charges:#80 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: A Hornpipe-Mrs Vernon; a Country Dance-the Characters in the opera; End II: Les Charboniers, as17601215

Event Comment: Boxes #14 5s. (Account Book). Receipts: #92 2s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: Boxes #10 (Account Book). Receipts: #41 9s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: Boxes #4 2s. 6d. (Account Book). [i.e., only 16 persons were in the Boxes, and the 2s. 6d. indicates that at least one occupant came in after the third act and paid only half price.] Receipts: #26 12s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: The Winston Theatrical Record suggests the following initial outlay for the season, which on 26 Nov. was subtracted from the total receipts to leave the company solvent at #715 9s., when Beard took over: @50 Performers' salary #210 0s. 10d.@50 Servants' salary #16 16s.@Music expenses #52 16s. 7d.@#279 13s. 5d.@To Mr Rich on account #1000@Habadasher's Bill for Coronation #4 16s. 4d.@Ribbons for Coronation #2 16s. 5d.@Window Curtain for Mrs Bellamy's Room #1 4s. 8d.@Printing #3 8s. 6d.@#1291 19s. 4d.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None