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Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of Several Persons of Quality. Receipts: #153 11s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Event Comment: At the Particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband; Or, A Journey To London

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Gentlemen and Ladies

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Dance: As17470126

Event Comment: By Particular Desire of Several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Patie And Roger

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Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of Several Persons of Quality. All for Love is oblig'd to be deferr'd 'till Monday, on account of The Provok'd Husband's being desir'd.--General Advertiser, 30 Jan

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: Cook, Padouana, Salomon's Son

Event Comment: By Desire of Several Persons of Quality (General Advertiser). Benefit Garrick as author of the farce. Charges #60. (Account Books, Egerton 2268). Receipts: #166 7s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: As17461231

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Dance: The Two last new Entertainments-Salomon, Mlle Violette, Cook

Event Comment: At the Particular Desire of Several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Dance: As17470220

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Benefit Mrs Giffard. Tickets to be had of her at her house, No 11 in Craven Buildings, Drury Lane, and of Hobson at the stage door where places may be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: Salomon, Sga Padouana, Muilment, Salomon's Son, the Mechels

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Cymber. 6 p.m. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. A Concert, etc. Boxes 4s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Event Comment: By Desire of several Gentlemen and Ladies. Benefit Cunningham

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Patie And Roger

Song: Select Songs-Cunningham

Event Comment: [Written by Garrick.] Mainpiece: At particular desire of several Ladies of Quality. Benefit Chapman. [Receipts: #63 7s. 6d., plus #76 8s.; charges #60.] Subscrib'd to the Hospital for Curing Smallpox #2 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distress'd Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Event Comment: Benefit Berry, Mrs Ridout, Mrs Mozeen, and Miss Minors. Tickets deliver'd for Oroonoko will be taken. Oroonoko oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of the Indisposition of a principal performer. Afterpiece: At the particular request of several ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fine Lady's Airs

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: Salomon, Sga Padouana, the Mechels, Salomon's son

Song: III: A Duet of Purcell's call'd Caesar and Urania-Mrs Clive, Mrs Mozeen

Event Comment: MMr Foote thinks it his Duty to return Thanks to his Friends for the great Honour they did him Yesterday, and begs the Favour of their Company this Day at Twelve o'Clock on the same Occasion. It is desir'd by several Persons of Quality, that (to prevent confusion at going out) the Ladies and Gentlemen would pay for their Chocolate going in. [Repeated 29, 30 April.] [See Daily Advertiser on 30 April for Ed. Pinchbeck's objections against Foote's program.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Diversions Of The Morning

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of Several Ladies of Quality. Paid Garrick in full for his performance this season #175. Paid for carpentry at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre 12s. 6d. (Account Books, Egerton 2268). Receipts: #82 16s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Event Comment: To the Author of the General Advertiser: Sir: Several Parodies on the favourite Soliloquy in Hamlet having appear'd lately, and all of the serious and grave Kind; the following Attempt in Burlesque, if you think it will be agreeable to the Publick, is at their and your Service: Yours, Rigdum Funnidos. @To drink, or not to Drink? that is the Question--@Whether 'tis easier for a Man, to suffer@The Pangs and Horrors of Outrageous Thirst;@Or boldly venture on a Sea of Liquor.... Receipts: #140 (Cross); #111 19s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband; Or, A Journey To London

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: #170 (Cross); #157 4s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: As17471212, but Filch-_; Mat@o@Mint-_; Player-_; Beggar-_; Mrs Slammekin-_; Sukey Tawdry-_; Jenny Diver-_; Molly Brazen-_.
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Role: also Player Actor: Bransby

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of Several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Player Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: Tea

Event Comment: Both pieces By command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales (General Advertiser). On 8 Feb. will be performed the Suspicious Husband for the benefit of Bridgwater. The kind reception I have met with in the character of the Suspicious Husband, has emboldened me to hope for the further encouragement of the town, on my Benefit night; especially as I have not troubled them on such an occasion for several seasons (General Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Tea

Event Comment: Benfit for a Gentleman who has wrote for the Stage. At the Particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Observing in yesterday's General Advertiser some Verses to the Lady Georgina Spencer, and other Ladies, intending a Benefit that is to be Tomorrow on her Interest, in favour of a Gentleman who has wrote for the Stage.--Unidentified newspaper clipping in Folger scrapbook

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: Benefit for Blakes. Tickets and places of Blakes at his house in Cranbourne Alley, Leicester Fields, and of Hobson at the stage door. Les Messieurs & Dames peuvent laisser Diner leurs Domestiques car a quatre Heur sera assez a bonne heur de les Envoyer pour Gardez les places dans les loges. M. Fanfaron (General Advertiser). [The General Advertiser this day also included the first announcement of Mrs Macklin's benefit to be held on 22 April, at which would be perform'd the Lover's Melancholy, "Not acted these Hundred years," together with a new farce (never acted) called The Club of Fortune Hunters. The notice ran again several times, followed by the letters to the author of the General Advertiser noted on 19 and 23 April.] Receipts: #111 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel); cash, #58 6s.; tickets, #52 15s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: II: Dutch Dance, as17471128; IV: Savoyards, as17471215; V: Pastoral Dance, as17480326 Sailor's Rendezvous, as17471117

Song: SSailor's Rendezvous, as17471117

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Faulkner. Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of Several Ladies of Quality. Afterpiece: By Desire. Miss Faulkner playing Polly "for the 1st time." Tickets of Page at the stage door in Bow St., Covent Garden; and of Miss Faulkner at her house in Leicester Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Player Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Event Comment: The Thirteenth Day. Several new Lots

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Event Comment: Benefit for the Education of a Young Gentleman in Distress. Mainpiece: At the Particular desire of several Ladies of Quality. The Gentleman for whom this Benefit is intended, after having gone thru a scholastic Education, being by a series of Misfortunes too tedious to enumerate, deprived of an academical one, takes this opportunity humbly to submit his case to the publick, and beg their indulgence so far as to enable him to go through his studies at the University

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd