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Event Comment: N.B. On Saturday Next, 11 March, for the Benefit of Woodward will be presented Cymbeline...and a New Tragedy in Two Acts, call'd The Rival Favourites; or, The Death of Bucephalus the Great: Alexander-$Woodward; Philip-$Shuter; Statira-$Mrs Green. With a Triumphal Entry. The Funeral Procession of Bucephalus to the Monument of the Houyhnhnms and a Solemn Dirge [See Comment 7, 9, 11 March.] Receipts: #208 7s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #230 13s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Event Comment: Rec'd of Condell for Fruit Rent #20 (Account Book). [The advance notice of Woodward's Benefit this day omits mention of Bucephalus (see 4 March) and lists only Cymbeline and a "farce."] Receipts: #224 5s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Event Comment: WWoodward's forthcoming Benefit now listed as Cymbeline and the Oxonian in Town. Receipts: #215 11s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Event Comment: Benefit for Woodward. Ladies send servants by 4 o'clock. Charges #66 19s. Balance to Woodward #87 16s. 6d. plus #65 15s. from 263 Box tickets (Account Book). [The proposed afterpiece, Dr Schomberg's burlesque tragedy, The Rival Favourites; or, Death of Bucephalus the Great (Public Advertiser, 4 March), had been sent to the Licenser 27 Feb., had been cast, and put in rehearsal, but was dropped and never played there. It had been done in Edinburgh in 1765. Larpent MS 293 is the Edinburg edn. The rivals are Statira and the Horse, Statira bribes Alexander's physician to kill Bucephalus.] Receipts: #154 16s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Oxonian in Town

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17680930

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Yates. Mainpiece: A Tragedy (Written by Voltaire) and translated by [Dr Thomas Francklin] the Author of The Earl of Warwick. Pit and Boxes will be laid together. Ladies are desired to send their servants by 4 o'clock. Mrs Yates will be particularly oblig'd to those Ladies, and Gentlemen, who have seats in the Pit, if they will be co kind as to come as early as possible to prevent confusion in getting their places. [Genest V, 242, conjectures the following assignment of parts: Orestes-Smith; Aegisthus-Bensley; Pammenes-Clarke; Pylades-Perry; Electra-Mrs Yates; Clytemnestra-Mrs Ward; Iphisa-Mrs Bulkley.] Charges #65 7s. 6d. Balance to Mrs Yates #39 1s. plus #180 10s. from 722 Box tickets (Account Book). Total House value #284 18s. 6d. Receipts: #104 8s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orestes

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: End: The Garland, as17681028

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. Part of Pit will be laid into Boxes. Send servants by 4 o'clock. Charges #69 10s. Balance to Smith #41 plus income of #158 9s. from tickets (Box 486; Pit 183; Gallery 95) (Account Book). Receipts: #110 10s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: End: The Tambourine-Aldridge, Sga Manesiere. [See17671119.

Event Comment: Benefit for Shuter. Charges #64 5s. Balance to Shuter #106 9s. 6d. plus #95 17s. from Tickets. (Boz 309; Pit 124) (Account Book). [The Epilogue is Larpent MS 294, criticising the "rules" and praising "Laughter" as the all-in-all of Comedy]:@What matters it you or me to know@How Blockheads wrote two thousand years ago?@ Receipts: #170 14s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: I: The Merry Sailors, as17680920

Entertainment: II: The Cries of London-Shuter; End of Opera: An Epilogue on Modern Taste, written by the late Churchill-Shuter

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pinto. Last time of performing till the Holidays. Advertisement for Younger's General History of the stage, repeated. Charges #74 9s. Balance to Mrs Pinto #77 4s. 6d. plus #93 14s. from Tickets (Box 300; Pit 98; Gallery 40) (Account Book). Receipts: #151 13s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: II: The Tartars, as17681004

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bellamy. Afterpiece: Written by Aaron Hill not acted these 20 years. [See 17 April 1750.] Tickets deliver'd for the Distrest Mother will be taken. Charges #65 10s. Balance to Mrs Bellamy #86 11s. Plus #116 11s. from Tickets (Box 330; Pit 227). Paid the Italian Giant for 10 Nights performance in the Masquerade #38 17s Receipts: #152 1s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens Or The Death Of Mary Queen Of Scots

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue or The Devil in the Wine Cellar

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17680930

Event Comment: Benefit for Yates. Tragedy written by R. Glover. Part of Pit will be laid into Boxes. Send servants by 4 o'clock. Charges #64 19s. Balance to Yates #52 19s. plus #151 3s. from tickets (Box 589; Pit 26) (Account Book). Neville MS Diary: Having places in the Pit at Covent Garden went to see Mrs Yates do Medea in which she is inimitably great. My strong desire to see her in this character was one reason of continuing to town so long. Read her part before the play began. Her husband is truly comic in Tim in the Knights. Receipts; #117 18s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medea

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Dance: End: The Tartars, as17681004

Event Comment: CCyrus is oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of Indisposition of a principal Performer. Receipts: #131 6s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. Charges #66 8s. Balance to Mrs Mattocks #65 19s. plus #45 17s. in Tickets (Box 130; Pit 89) (Account Book). Receipts: #132 7s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Oxonian in Town

Dance: End: The Reel, as17681212

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Macklin. Part of Pit will be laid into Boxes. Send servants by 4 o'clock. Afterpiece: For the only time this season. Charges #64 5s. Balance to Miss Macklin #77 7s. 6d. plus #115 15s. from tickets (Box 463). Paid Mr Reed for the balance of his 3 nights for Tom Jones #297 3s. Receipts: #141 12s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal Or The Ladys Philosophy

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17680930

Event Comment: Benefit for Mattocks. Charges #68 16s. Balance to Mattocks #82 4s. plus #40 5s. in tickets (Box 83; Pit 130) Paid Mr Hobster for Negus's at rehearsals #2 2s. 8d. Receipts: #151 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17680930

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bulkley. Afterpiece: Never Perform'd There. Charges #64 5s. Balance to Mrs Bulkley #26 13s. 6d. plus #90 18s. in tickets (Box 252; Pit 186). Receipts: #90 18s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Dance: III: The Merry Sailors, as17680920; End: A Minuet-Fishar, Mrs Bulkley

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Thompson. The Happy Discovery cannot be performed because of Indisposition of Mrs Mattocks. Charges #65 1s. 6d. Balance to Mrs Thompson #88 plus #40 4s. from tickets (Box 123; Pit 63) (Account Book). Receipts: #153 1s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: End: A Minuet-Fishar, Mrs Thompson; End Act I of the Afterpiece: The Irish Lilt, as17680930

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #190 8s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Event Comment: Benefit for Dyer. Charges #64 5s. Balance to Dyer #4 3s. plus #143 1s. from tickets (Box 383; Pit 234; Gallery 122). Paid Music Porter as per bill 10s. 6d. Receipts: #68 8s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Song: II: A Song-DuBellamy

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17680930

Event Comment: Benefit for Fishar (ballet master) and Sga Manesiere. The Opera of Lionel and Clarissa being oblig'd to be changed to the Comedy of The Wonder, Fishar and Sga Manesiere hope those Ladies and Gentlemen who have taken places for the opera, will honour them with their commands for the above play. Charges #64 5s. Balance to Fishar and Sga Manesiere #33 19s. plus tickets income: Fishar #46 9s. (Box 67; Pit 114; Gallery 126); Sga Manesiere #28 18s. (Box 69; Pit 45; Gallery 49). Receipts: #98 4s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: A New Pantomime Dance, call'd The Florist-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford, Miss Ford (scholars to Fishar), Arnauld, Miss Capon (Apprentice to Fishar); II: A Minuet-Fishar, Sga Manesiere; III: [By Particular Desire, The Garland[, with an Allemand, as17681028; End: The Wapping Landlady (not performed this season) [see17670427] [but Sga Manesiere impersonates an Orange@Woman instead of a Milk@woman, [with a Double Hornpipe-Fishar, Sga Manesiere; End I Afterpiece: A New Tripple Hornpipe-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford, Miss Ford

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Ward. Mrs Ward is extremely sorry she is oblig'd to change the Night's Entertainment advertised for her Benefit, but the severe illness of Mrs Mattocks and Mrs Baker, makes it impossible to perform the Opera of Love in a Village, as does Mr Woodward's indisposition the Farce of the Citizen. The Managers have therefore kindly granted her the above tragedy and pantomime. Charges #65 15s. Balance to Mrs Ward #55 5s. plus #53 2s. from tickets (Box 58; Pit 158; Gallery 149). Receipts: #121 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Event Comment: Benefit for Gibson. Charges #69 11s. Balance to Gibson #65 7s. plus #29 14s. from tickets (Box 48; Pit 118) (Account Book). Receipts: #134 18s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: End: The Wapping Landlady, with Double Hornpipe, as17690408

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke. Charges #66 1s. Balance tj Clarke #31 6s. 6d. plus #147 5s from tickets (Box 347; Pit 310; Gallery 140). Receipts; #97 7s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: End: The Wapping Landlady-, Double Hornpipe, as17690408

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Vincent. Charges #64 10s. Deficit to Mrs Vincent #4 2s. 6d. covered by #134 2s. income from tickets (Box 282; Pit 306; Gallery 177). Receipts: #60 7s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Dance: End: The Wapping Landlady, Double Hornpipe, as17690408

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunstall. Charges #64 15s. Balance to Dunstall #3 16s. 6d. plus #184 tickets (Box 422; Pit 443; Gallery 121). Receipts: #68 11s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17680930