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Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Woffington. Mainpiece: By the late Mr Taverner, never acted there before. Tickets deliver'd out for the 19th of February, and 5 March will be taken this night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Artful Husband

Performance Comment: Sir Harry Freelove-Mills; Winwife-Giffard; Stockwell-Yates; Frank Flash-Neale; Mrs Winwife-Mrs Giffard; Ned-Blakes; Lady Upstart-Mrs Furnival; Mademoiselle-Mrs Macklin; Mrs Decoy-Mrs Bridges; Steward-Taswell; Butler-Winstone; John-Usher; Robin-Bransby; Mrs Prink-Miss Cole; Betty-Miss Pitt; Belinda-Mrs Woffington; with a New Epilogue in Man's clothes-Mrs Woffington , addressed to the Young Gentlemen, who call themselves the Town.

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

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Dance: Salomon, Signora Padouana

Event Comment: Benefit for Bencraft and Mrs Lampe. Afterpiece: Perform'd but once these ten years [see 8 May 1755], a Burlesque Opera being a Sequel to the Dragon of Wantly, Music composed by the late Mr Lampe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

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Afterpiece Title: Lady Moore; or, The Dragoness

Dance: The Villagers, as17560315 Italian Peasants, as17551126

Event Comment: Not Acted these Twelve Years. Written by the late Mrs Farquhar. Carefully revis'd. Receipts: #33 1s. 6d. [The opening of the summer season.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And A Bottle

Performance Comment: Roebuck-Walker; Lovewell-Ogden; Lyrick-Bullock; Mockmode-W. Bullock; Club-Hall; Pamphlet-Morgan; Brush-Spiller; Rigadoon-Norris; Leanthe-Mrs Vincent; Pindress-Mrs Morgan; Mrs Trudge-H. Bullock; Lucinda-Mrs Moffett, being the first Time of her Appearance upon the Stage.
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Dance: A newIrish Dance in Fingalian Habits-Newhouse, Pelling, Mrs Ogden

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Younger. By Command of His Royal Highness. Written by Mr Farquhar. Receipts: money #75 17s.; tickets #119 6s. Daily Journal, 21 March: After the Play...the Prince of Wales and a great Number of the Nobility being Present, Mr Leveridge (whose Benefit is also to come very shortly) advanced upon the Stage, and after paying his Honours to the Audience, invited them to his Benefit, by a humorous Song set to the merry Tune of the Black Joke; which was receiv'd by the whole House with a universal Encore

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

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Music: Preamble on the Kettle Drum-Poitier

Dance: End I: Pierrots-Nivelon, Poitier; II: French Sailor-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; III: Numidian-Glover, Miss LaTour; IV: Highlander and Mistress=-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; V: Polonese-Poitier, Miss LaTour

Event Comment: Benefit Rochetti and Mrs Wright. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Wycherley. Afterpiece: Written by Mr Farquhar. Receipts: money #34 4s.; tickets #146 13s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

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Song: II: Hunting Song in Admetus (Se L'arco avesso Strali)-Mrs Wright accompanyed with a Trumpet; III: Rochetti; IV: Leveridge; V: Rochetti, Mrs Wright

Dance: I: Tollet's Ground-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; II: Tambourine-Miss Rogers; IV: Scottish Dance, as17330329

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of their Excellencies Jousef Coja and Sidi Mohammed, Envoys from Tunis. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Farquhar. Afterpiece: Set to Musick by Mr T. Arne Jr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

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Afterpiece Title: The Opera of Operas

Dance: As17331031

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks

Music: A piece of Instrumental Musick- to be perform'd on the Stage

Song: Mr Laroon, Mrs Hughs; particularly a Two/part Song-Mr Laroon, Mrs Hughs compos'd by the late Mr Henry Purcell

Song: Country Farmer's Daughter, Highland Lilt-the Devonshire Girl; The Whip of Dunbyn-Claxton; a new Entry-Mrs Campion, others; A Scotch Dance-Mrs Bicknell; a new Scaramouch Man and Scaramouch Woman-Laferry, Mrs Lucas

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: The Vocal part-Mrs Arne; late Miss Cecilia Young. With select Songs and Pieces of Musick; compos'd by Mr Arne, particularly, a New Ov e rture-; a new Concerto for Hautboys-; the March in Zara-; with a Comic Medley Overture-; two new Songs in English-; (by particular Desire) a Ballad Air call'd, Come and Listen to my Ditty-Mr Arne on the Violin, with many Variations; Also variety of Pieces by other Authors-; particularly the first and eighth Concertosof Corelli-; two Italian Songs-

Performance Comment: With select Songs and Pieces of Musick; compos'd by Mr Arne, particularly, a New Ov e rture-; a new Concerto for Hautboys-; the March in Zara-; with a Comic Medley Overture-; two new Songs in English-; (by particular Desire) a Ballad Air call'd, Come and Listen to my Ditty-Mr Arne on the Violin, with many Variations; Also variety of Pieces by other Authors-; particularly the first and eighth Concertosof Corelli-; two Italian Songs-.
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the first performance is uncertain, but the fact that the play was entered in the Stationers' Register on 14 April 1679 suggests a premiere not later than April 1679. A song, Can life be a blessing, with music by Thomas Farmer, is in Choice Ayres and Songs, The Third Book, 1681

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Troilus And Cressida; Or, Truth Found Too Late

Performance Comment: Edition of 1679: The Prologue-Mr Betterton Representing the Ghost of Shakespear; Hector-Smith; Troilus-Betterton; Priam-Percivall; Aeneas-Joseph Williams; Pandarus-Leigh; Calchas-Percivall; Agamemnon-Gillo; Ulysses-Harris; Achilles-David Williams; Ajax-Bright; Nestor-Norris; Diomedes-Crosby; Patroclus-Bowman; Anthenor-Richards; Thersites-Underhill; Cressida-Mrs Mary Lee; Andromache-Mrs Betterton; The Epilogue-Thersites.
Event Comment: Written by Mr Farquhar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

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Dance: Moreau, Thurmond Jr, Mrs Bullock, Miss Smith

Event Comment: Written by Mr Farquhar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

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Event Comment: Benefit Lacy, Pitt, Mrs Rice. Written by Mr Farquhar. Receipts: money #4 10s.; tickets #87 11s. Probable attendance: boxes, 3 by money and 76 by tickets; stage, 4 by money; pit, 4 by money and 261 by tickets; first gallery, 4 by money and 294 by tickets; second gallery, 18 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And A Bottle

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Dance: SScottish Dance-Mrs Bullock; Grand Dance of Moors-Glover, Newhouse, Pelling, Lanyon, Mrs Ogden, Mrs Anderson, Miss LaTour; Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Chambers. Written by Mr Farquhar. Receipts: money #65 11s.; tickets #91 16s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

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Song: Mrs Chambers, Mrs Barbier

Music: TTrumpet Song sounded-L. Granom; Solo on German Flute-M. Granom

Dance: new Scots Dance-Moreau; Two Pierrots-Salle, Pelling

Event Comment: Benefit Lawrence and Taylor, Boxkeepers. Written by Mr Farquhar. Receipts: money #10 7s.; tickets #115 19s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

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Dance: End II: Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock; III: Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; IV: Two Pierrots-Salle, Pelling; V: Myrtillo, as17290508

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Mr Farquhar. Receipts: #94 15s. [Prince of Wales and Princess Amelia present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

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Afterpiece Title: Flora

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Role: Hob's Mother Actor: Mrs Egleton.

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Event Comment: Benefit Ryan. Afterpiece: Written by Mr Farquhar. Interspers'd with Variety of Songs to Ballad Tunes. [No receipts extant.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

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Dance: TTambourine-Miss Rogers; Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Poitier; Scottish Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre, DuPre, Mrs Pelling, Delagarde, Mrs Ogden

Song: The Gentlewoman who was to have sung, being exceeding ill and not able to perform, in lieu thereof will be the last new Dialogue-Leveridge, Mrs Wright

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Bullock. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Afterpiece: Written by Mr Farquhar. Receipts: money #50 0s. 6d.; tickets #93 11s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

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Dance: CComic Dance, as17330328 Tambourine-Miss Rogers; Scottish Dance, as17330328

Event Comment: Benefit the Prompter (Stead). Afterpiece: Written by Mr Farquhar. [Tickets for Howard and Miss Horsington taken.] Receipts: money #16 19s.; tickets #83 14s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

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Music: V: Water Musick, as17330501; Kettle Drums, as17330501

Song: II: Dialogue-Leveridge, Mrs Wright in the Scottish Stile

Dance: I: Swedish Dal Karle-Jones, Mrs Ogden; III: Footing Dance with Hornpipe, as17330501; End Afterpiece: Scottish Dance, as17330501. IV: Masque of Vocal and Instrumental Musick. As17330501

Event Comment: Benefit W. Bodle, a Brother [who has been ill for two years]. At the particular Desire of several Free and Accepted Masons. Written by Mr Farquhar. 4s., 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d. 6 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And A Bottle

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Dance: I: Running Footman and V: Scot's Dance by Brother Shawford

Event Comment: Benefit Master Oates. Written by Mr Farquhar. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. 6 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And A Bottle

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Music: By Desire, a Concerto of Vivaldi's The Cuckow, attempted on the Violin by Master Oates

Dance: II: Scottish Dance. rv: Irish Trot. V: French Peasant Dance. All by Master and Miss Oates

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these Ten Years. Written by Mr Farquhar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

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Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: I: Venetian Gondolier and Courtezan by Denoyer, Mlle Anne Roland, &c. II English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. III: Le Badinage de Provence by Poitier, Mlle Roland, &c. IV: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. V: A new Comic Dance called The Rover: Rover-Essex; Flanderkin Woman-Mrs Walter; Dutchwoman-Miss Mann; Peasant Woman-Mrs Anderson; Dutchman-Duke; French Peasant-Davenport; Dutchmen and Wives-Pelling, Janno, Miss Brett, Mrs Davenport

Performance Comment: II English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. III: Le Badinage de Provence by Poitier, Mlle Roland, &c. IV: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. V: A new Comic Dance called The Rover: Rover-Essex; Flanderkin Woman-Mrs Walter; Dutchwoman-Miss Mann; Peasant Woman-Mrs Anderson; Dutchman-Duke; French Peasant-Davenport; Dutchmen and Wives-Pelling, Janno, Miss Brett, Mrs Davenport .
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Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Mr Farquhar. [Prince of Wales present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

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Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: I: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. II: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. III: The Rover, as17360103

Performance Comment: II: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. III: The Rover, as17360103.
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Mr Farquhar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

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Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: I: By Mlle Anne Roland, &c. II: Dutchman and Frow by Le Brun and Miss Brett. III: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. IV: Tambourine by Mlle Roland. V: The Rover, as17360103

Performance Comment: II: Dutchman and Frow by Le Brun and Miss Brett. III: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. IV: Tambourine by Mlle Roland. V: The Rover, as17360103.
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Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Mr Farquhar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

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Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Dance: I: By Mlle Anne Roland, &c. II: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. III: Tambourine by Mlle Roland. IV: The Rover, as17360103

Performance Comment: II: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. III: Tambourine by Mlle Roland. IV: The Rover, as17360103.
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Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Farquhar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

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Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

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Dance: I: By Mlle Anne Roland, &c. II: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. III: Tambourine by Mlle Roland. IV: Dutchman and Frow by Le Brun and Miss Brett. V: The Rover, as17360103

Performance Comment: II: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. III: Tambourine by Mlle Roland. IV: Dutchman and Frow by Le Brun and Miss Brett. V: The Rover, as17360103.
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