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Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Horatio Actor: Havard
Role: Player King Actor: Turbutt
Role: Player Queen Actor: Miss Bennet.

Song: As17430103

Music: III: Concerto on German Flute-Burk Thumoth

Event Comment: Not acted these 25 years. At the Particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality for the Benefit of Mrs Giffard. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber Esq., Poet-Laureat. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. 6d. And the Company will continue to act every Day, Wednesdays and Fridays in Lent excepted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nonjuror

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Dance: II: Grand Serious Ballet, as17421005

Song: III: Song-Lowe

Music: IV: Concerto-Piantanida

Event Comment: Benefit Ryan. At the Desire of several persons of Quality. [The customary notice about counterfeit tickets (see 7 March) is repeated, as it is for all benefit performances this season. It will not be noted farther here.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: Toyshop

Dance: As17430314

Event Comment: Benefit Hippisley. Mainpiece: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Amphitheatre on stage where servants may keep places. Ladies desired to send servants by three o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: CCharacters of Dancing, as17421025; Tambourine-Cooke; Les Boufons du Cour, as17430305

Event Comment: Benefit Cooke. At the desire of several persons of Quality. Amphitheatre on stage. Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock to keep places. Tickets to be had and places to be taken of Cooke Sen., at his house in Great Ormond St., near Queen Square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Dance: I: Les Matelots-Cooke; III: A French Peasant-Cooke; IV: Grand Ballet, as17421108; V: a Ball Dance call'd the Louvre, concluding with a Minuet-Cooke, Anne Auretti

Event Comment: Benefit Chapman. Mainpiece: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Dance: DDutch Skipper, as17421025; Le Rendezvous Gallant, as17421217

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Song: As17430413

Music: III: Concerto on German Flute-Burk Thumoth

Event Comment: Benefit Destrade and Reinhold. Tickets deliver'd out by Mrs Louch will be taken. No tickets sold at the door will be admitted. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality, for the Benefit of Mrs Middlehurst, from Cheshire, whose name is now Louch; Tickets at Mrs Louch's, three Doors above St James Church, Piccadilly [Folger Bill]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Song: HHonour and Arms scorn such a Foe from Samson-Reinhold

Dance: LLes Boufons du Cour, as17430305 A Minuet (By particular Desire)-Destrade, Mrs Wright (Daily Advertiser lists Ann Auretti)

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Mills. At the particular desire of several Ladies of Quality. Servants admitted to keep places on the stage. Tickets to be had of Mrs Mills at her House in Nassau Street, near Soho. Stage form'd into side boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Devil To Pay

Song: I: Stella and Flavia-Beard; IV: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard; II: A Cantata (compos'd by Stanley)-Lowe

Music: III: Concerto on German Flute-Burk Thumoth

Dance: V: Grand Serious Ballet, as17421005

Event Comment: YYeates, Warner, and Rosoman's Great Theatrical Booth, Upper End of Little Brookfield. At the Desire of Several Persons of Quality will be presented the Droll. Begin at Noon and end at 10 p.m. The Booth founded after the Manner of an Amphitheatre, with Boxes on the Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love His Own Rival

Afterpiece Title: Trick Upon Trick

Dance: The Humours of Mayfair-

Event Comment: We hear that the Lord Chamberlain has refus'd granting a License to the seceding players to act in the Theatre in the Haymarket. (Daily Advertiser) To the Author of the London Daily Post, Sir: As I have engag'd myself for this winter to perform in Dublin, by an Invitation of Several Persons of Distinction in Ireland, I think it my duty before I leave London, by your paper, to return my sincere and hearty thanks to the Town for the many favours I have receiv'd during the Time of my Performing in Publick, which I hope they will Candidly accept from their most of Oblig'd, humble Servants, Thomas Lowe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favorite; Or, The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of Several persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Player Actor: Anderson
Event Comment: Tomorrow Morning will be publish'd A Full Answer to a False and scandalous Libel, entitled the Case of Charles Macklin, Comedian. In which will be inserted several original letters relating to that Dispute, by David Garrick

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: III: Italian Masquerade, as17431126

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Horatio Actor: Havard
Role: Player King Actor: W. Giffard
Role: Player Queen Actor: Mrs Bennet

Dance: III: As17431123

Song: IV: Morland

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Particular desire of several persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Player Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Event Comment: At the particular desire of several persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Queen Of Spain

Song: As17440119; a new song by Gladwin-Sullivan; Concluding with: a new Hunting piece by Lampe-

Event Comment: Mainpiece at the Particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: Columbine Courtezan

Dance: II: La Mariniere-Mlle Auguste; IV: New Serious Dance, as17440119

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Horatio Actor: Havard
Role: Player King Actor: W. Giffard
Role: Player Queen Actor: Mrs Bennet

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Goddess

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several persons of Quality. Benefit a Person under Misfortunes. The person concerned will take care the whole performance shall be conducted with the utmost decency and regularity. Tickets delivered out for Jane Shore will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Music: Kettle@Drums-Jo Baker; Handel's Water Piece-

Event Comment: A new English Pastoral Serenata. Set to Musick by William DeFesch. 6 p.m. 5s. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Tickets at the Author's Lodgings, at Mrs Misaubain's, on the Pav'd Stones, in St. Martin's Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Friendship

Event Comment: Mainpiece at the Particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Horatio Actor: Havard
Role: Player King Actor: W. Giffard
Role: Player Queen Actor: Mrs Bennet

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Goddess

Event Comment: Benefit Cooke. Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of Several Ladies of Quality. Amphitheatre on Stage. Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock. Tickets and places to be had at Cooke's in Great Ormond St., near Queen's Square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: I: New Dance-Cooke; III: Grand Ballet-Cooke, Mlle Domitilla; IV: New Serious Dance-Cooke, Mlle Bonneval; V: Ball Dance call'd the Louvre, concluding with a Minuet-Cooke, Mrs Domitilla

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Particular desire of several ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: Benefit Cashell. [Address]: At the Dial in little Wild St., near lif. Mainpiece: At the Desire of several persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Player Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet