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Event Comment: The Fourteenth Day. At the Desire of Several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Event Comment: By Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory

Event Comment: By Particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Benefit for Francis Callaway Citizen of London, under Misfortunes, being unavoidably involved in a most litigious Chancery Suit. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory

Event Comment: To begin at 12 noon. At the particular request of several persons of quality. Prices as usual

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mrs Midnight Will Give Caudle

Dance: M Timbertoe from the Opera House in Paris

Event Comment: At the Particular Desire of Several Foreign Ministers Tomorrow, Romeo and Juliet. On Thursday will be reviv'd The Silent Woman-dress'd in the Habits of the Times. Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of several Foreign Ministers. Afterpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Dance: III: Devisse, Mlle Auretti

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: As17521208

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bland. Mainpiece: At the particular desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: GGrand Scots Ballet, as17521216

Event Comment: Benefit for Several, Crudge (Housekeeper), Barnard, Driscoll, Prince, Trott. Tickets deliver'd by Hickey, Ross, Browne, the Widow Banks and others will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: DDrunken Peasant-Miles; with Clown-Bennet; Two Pierrots, as17530501

Event Comment: Tomorrow, by particular desire of several persons of Quality, Romeo and Juliet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Dance: Grandchamps, Mlle Camargo

Event Comment: Benefit for Sparks. By Particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Tickets deliver'd for the Distress'd Mother the 28th will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: LLes Taileurs, as17531210

Event Comment: Benefit for the Lock Hospital. Prices Box and Pit half a Guinea. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. At the Particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'allegro And Il Penseroso

Afterpiece Title: Ode to St Cecelia's Day

Afterpiece Title: First Violin Concerto

Event Comment: By Particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mrs Midnight's New Carnival Concert

Dance: As17540808

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mrs Midnight's New Carnival Concert; Or, The Old Woman's Oratory

Performance Comment: Set for a Smoking Pipe, a Tankard, a Bassoon, a Pair of Tongs, two Wooden Spoons, a Salt Box, and a Pair of Slippers, by the best Italian masters, viz.: Sig Zappino, Sig Sallybotino, Sig Diavolino, Sig Ferrareni, Sig Cochinino, Sig Batterino, Sig Ciavartino, several others (just arrived from the Republic of San Marino).

Afterpiece Title: La Pantomime du Charpentier

Dance: An Extraordinary Original who will not touch the Ground either with his hands or feet-

Event Comment: At Cleopatra's Cataract between the several acts of her concert, will be pour'd upon the Town a cataract of Originals and Amazing Geniusses, brought by that antient Soverign from Anamamboo, Upper Egypt, and the renown'd Kingdom of Abyssinia. These being an entire new set of performers will exhibit that evening in a new manner sever strange and surprising Feats of an Egyptian Broomstick, the Ghosts, Witches, Imps, modern Saints, Ballad Singer, Conjuror, and Elizabeth Canning. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. To begin at 6 p.m. [A cryptic "puff" in the Daily Advertiser suggests that Mrs Midnight has abdicated in favour of Cleopatra, who will now take over the Haymarket.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aethiopian Concert

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the request of several persons of Distinction, for the Benefit of a gentleman who served as an Officer in Flanders with Reputation during the late war, now under misfortunes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the particular Desire of several persons of Quality. Receipts: #110 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Proteus

Event Comment: MMiss Wilkinson has not only complied with the Vulgar Method of printing Bills, but as more elegant Form of Invitation, has sent complimentary Cards to all the Ladies of Distinction. [A debate on the superiority of the fair sex, after which Miss Wilkinson performed on the wire. A Praemium and peroration were spoken by George Alexander Stevens. Well advertised in advance bills. It began at 7 p.m. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. This performance, soon changed to A Short Comic Oratorio and had a run here, almost always advertised as by the particular desire of several ladies of quality.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Inquisition

Event Comment: At the particular desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: The Vocal parts Actor: Beard, Wilder, Vernon
Event Comment: At the instance of several of the Nobility and Gentry. Pope's prayer set to music by Charles Barbandt in the manners of an Oratorio

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pope's Universal Prayer

Music: Solo on the Violin-Morella; Solo on the German Flute-Tacet; Concerto on the Hautboy, a voluntary on the Organ-Barbandt

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Addison. At the Particular Desire of Several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of Several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Event Comment: At the Lecture Room, Robin Hood, near Temple Bar. By desire of several citizens. To begin at 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Dissertation On Various Theatrical Subjects

Event Comment: Benefit towards the Increase of a Fund for the support of a Public Charity. Mainpece: By Particular Desire of Several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: As17560126