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Event Comment: By particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gli Amanti Gelosi

Dance: [Unspecified.

Event Comment: At the Great Piazza Coffee Room, late Macklin's in Covent Garden. At the particular Desire of several Ladies and Gentlemen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lecture

Event Comment: By particular Desire. No persons to be admitted behind the Scenes, nor any Money to be returned after the curtain is up. The managers intended to have finish'd the season this evening, but as several persons of quality have desired to see Lethe again, the comedy of Much Ado About Nothing, with that Farce, will be acted tomorrow, being positively the last time of acting. Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Horatio Actor: Havard
Role: Player King Actor: Burton
Role: Player Queen Actor: Mrs Bennet

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Event Comment: At the Desire of Several People of Distinction. Positvely the last Night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'ipermestra

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Particular desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Event Comment: Alter'd from the Italian with several new Additions. [By Dr Morell. Set by Handel. The words entirely adapted to the Music of Il Trionfo del Tempo, composed at Rome about 1707 (Biographia Dramatica).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumph Of Time And Truth

Event Comment: Benefit for Barrington and Mrs Lampe. Mainpiece: At the particular Desire of several persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Cast
Role: Horatio Actor: Barry

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Song: II: New Song By Arne-Mrs Lampe; III: Myself I shall Adore, composed by Handel,-Mrs Lampe; IV: Ellen a Roon,accompanied on the German Flute-Miss Davis (her 2nd time of appearing on any stage)

Dance: FFingalian Revels, as17570329 a Dutch Dance-Miss Valois

Event Comment: By Desire of several Ladies. Box as 3s. Pit 2s. Gallery 1s. And the Price is reduced a little more than half what was formerly taken in order to obtain the Favour of the Public

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Impromptu Faragolio

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Frolic

Event Comment: An Oratorio. With several New Additions. Pit and Boxes to be put together. No person to be admitted without tickets, which will be deliver'd this day at the Office of the Theatre at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. 6d. Galleries to be opened at Half past Four, Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at Half an Hour after Six. [Customary note for all oratorios this season.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumph Of Time And Truth

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Demetrio

Event Comment: As 25 Feb. At the Particular Desire of Several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Demetrio

Event Comment: MMr Mossop having receiv'd a letter from several Upholsterers, takes this method of acquainting the Writer, that he shall be very ready to give full Explanation with respect to the contents, upon receiving notice how he may convey an answer; but he must beg leave to decline any further reply in the Public Papers, being unwilling to treat seriously what very possibly may have been intended only as a joke (Public Advertiser)

Performances

Event Comment: Benefit for Me & Wife (Cross). Afterpiece: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: #236 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Simson and 3 Children. Afterpiece: At the Particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Being the last time of performing it this season. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: III: A Minuet, Louvre-Master Simson, Miss Simson

Event Comment: Benefit for a Gentleman under Misfortunes. By the Desire of several Persons of Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: newComic Dance, as17580417

Event Comment: Benefit for several: Wilford, Ross, Derby, Mislebrook, and Trott (Lobby-door-keeper). Tickets deliver'd out by Morgan, Elliot, Dimmock, Slatter, Toten, Jos. Smith, Hacket, Barnes, and others will be taken. On Monday Romeo and Juliet with Harlequin Sorcerer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Dance: New Comic Dance, as17580417

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Dulisse. Afterpiece By Particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Frolick

Dance: Miss Dulisse; Joly; especially The Italian Peasant and the Happy Slave-Miss Dulisse, Joly; End Afterpiece: Fingalian Dance-Miss Dulisse

Song: -LLauder

Event Comment: Benefit for a Widow in Distress. By Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: As17581016

Event Comment: By Particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Demetrio

Dance: With new dances-

Event Comment: By Particular Desire of several Ladies and Gentlemen. 7:30 p.m. 3s. [From later bills it appears that the house was required to desist.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

Event Comment: Benefit for Cross and Wife. Mainpiece: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Tickets deliver'd out for Every Man in His Humour will be taken. Receipts: #147 (Cross); charges #60 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Ballet: II: The Prussian Camp. As17581214

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Event Comment: At the Particualr Desire of several Persons of Quality. The Subscribers Tickets will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Farnace

Event Comment: By Desire of several Persons of Quality. The Fifth Night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Galligantus

Music: (BBy particular desire,)The mock violincello, Italian Spiletta-Sg Bombastini

Dance: HHornpipe-Jeffrey ApArthur (not exceeding five years, just arrived from Monmouth)

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Edition of 1759: Music by several composers directed by Gioacchino Cocchi. Simphony by Jomelli.] With new Decorations, Cloaths, and Dances. Pit and Boxes together, and no persons admitted without tickets, which will be delivered this Day at half a Guinea. Gallery 5s. By His Majesty's Command, no Person to be admitted behind the Scenes. To begin at half an hour after Six precisely. [This notice repeated in the bills.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Vologeso

Dance: DDancesdirected by Gallini,-Gallini, Mlle Asselin, Maranesi, Signora Provenzale