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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Greenwich Park

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performance Comment: As17410202, but a new Dance between a Garden Swain and Nymph-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini.

Dance: FFawns and Nymphs-Haughton, Desnoyer, Signora Barberini; Harlequin-Mechel, Mlle Mechel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Performance Comment: With Concertos on the Organ-; and other Instruments-; Mr Dryden's last New Ode-.
Cast
Role: Mr Dryden's last New Ode Actor: .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'allegro Ed Il Penseroso

Performance Comment: With Concertos on the Organ-; and several Instruments-; To which will be added, Mr Dryden's last New Ode-.
Cast
Role: 's last New Ode Actor: .

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Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Sham Conjurer

Performance Comment: As17410421 but a new Country Dance-_.

Dance: II: Minuet-Destrade, Mlle Mechel; III: Two Pierots-Richardson, Destrade; IV: Peasants de Bordeaux-Destrade; V: Minuet-Dupre, Mlle Ozanne

Event Comment: Afterpiece: a New Dramatic Entertainment of Dancing combin'd With a New Pantomime in Grotesque Characters. [Author unknown. Apparently not printed.] Mainpiece: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake; Or, The Lover's Quarrel

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice: with Metamorphoses of Harlequin

Dance: TThe Italian Peasants-Lalauze, Sga Barberini, accompanied by Villeneuve, Delagarde, Richardson, Dupre, Sga Domitella, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Wright, Mrs Villeneuve; Villagers-Waltz, Thompson, Roberts, Smith, Davis, Stoppelaer, Miss Davis, Miss Dodson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

Performance Comment: Kitty-Mrs Phillips; Harlequin-Phillips; Beau Mordicai-Macklin; Debauchee-Turbutt; Poudre-Raftor; Constable-Gray; Porter-Barclay; Jenny-Miss Story; Mother Midnight-Hough; Pompey-Young Brooks; Justices-Ray, Woodburn, Taswell; Ladies of Pleasure-Mrs Jackson, Miss Budgell; Concluding with a new Comic Dance-Delamayne, M Mechell, Mlle Mechell.

Song: I: The Early Horn-Lowe; III: Happy Pair-Beard

Dance: II: A Sailor's Dance, as17411015; IV: a Ballet, as17411015

Event Comment: The King's Opera House in the Haymarket. A new Opera...Dances and other Decorations entirely New. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be deliver'd this Day, at the Office in the Haymarket, at Half a Guinea each. Gallery 5s. By His Majesty's Command, no Persons Whatever to be admitted behind the Scenes. The Gallery will be open'd at Four o'Clock. Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at Six o'clock. This Day Attendance will be given at the Opera-Office from Nine to One in order to deliver the Silver Tickets to the Subscribers. Each Subscriber is desir'd to send his printed Receipt, it being necessary for the Delivery of the Tickets [customary notice on the bills throughout the season]. BBurney, History of Music, IV, 445: A pasticcio, music mainly composed by Galuppi, now the resident composer for the Opera House. Edition lists libretto by Francesco Vanneschi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander In Persia

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

Performance Comment: As17411031, but a new Comic Dance-M _Mechell, Mlle _Mechell, Baudouin, +Leviez, Miss +Story, Mrs +Rayner.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Performance Comment: (Daily Advertiser, 6 Jan.) A new Prologue on the Gamesters-.

Afterpiece Title: Nancy; or, The Parting Lovers

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Event Comment: A new Opera [A pasticcio. See Burney, History of Music, IV, 447.]With Dances, and other Decorations entirely new. Dedication by librettist Francesco Vanneschi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Polidoro

Event Comment: A New Opera...With Dances and Decorations entirely new. [Libretto by Vanneschi. Music by Galuppi (Burney, History of Music, IV, 447).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Scipione In Cartagine

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: Rosalind-Page; with a new Epilogue-Page.
Cast
Role: with a new Epilogue Actor: Page.
Event Comment: Benefit for Phillips and Mrs Walter. Tickets to be had at Phillips, Lodgings in Little Wild St., near Lincoln's Inn Fields; at the Bedford Coffee House, Covent Garden; of Mrs Walter, at the Three Queens, a Hosier, in New St., Covent Garden; and at Bradshaws. Afterpiece: a New Pantomimic Entertainment. Receipts: #170

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Cooper Outwitted; or, Harlequin Happy

Song: I: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard; III: The Early Horn-Lowe

Dance: II: Le Boufon, as17420325 IV: The Drunken Peasant-Phillips

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: As17411209, but Othello-Stephens; Roderigo-Woodward; Brabantio-Gibson; Emilia-Mrs Woodward; Lodovico-_; Gratiano-_; With a New Prologue-Hale.
Cast
Role: With a New Prologue Actor: Hale.

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: III: The Peasants, as17420210; IV: Chacone, as17411230; V: Pantaloon and Enamorata, as17420420

Song: End Farce: a Gregorean Song-Stoppelaer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Miss Lucy in Town

Performance Comment: As17420506, but with a New Epilogue-Mrs Clive.
Event Comment: To begin exactly at Six o'clock. Play Written by Shakespear. The Principal Characters new dress.d, and the Theatre New Decorated. None will be admitted into the Boxes but by Printed tickets, which will be deliver'd at the Office in the Lobby at 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. N.B. For the Better Regulation of the stage, it is desired that no persons will take it ill, that they cannot be admitted behind the scenes. [The notice about time and prices remains constant throughout the season and will not again be noted here. The notice about refusal of admission behind the scenes appears on each bill till the benefits begin. It will not be repeated here.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Event Comment: Ever studious for Public Amusement, I...strayed last Week, to a place near the Haymarket in Westminster, and Temple Bar in Middlesex, call'd James's St., where at the New Theatre, a Play called the Miser, with an Entertainment called the Old Man Bit, or Harlequin Skeleton, I saw rehears'd. J. W. Gray's Inn 12 Oct.-Theatrical Clippings, Folger Library. Benefit Julian Late of Goodman's Fields Theatre. At the New Theatre in James St., near Haymarket...a Concert. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6 p.m. Note, Mr Julian taken this Opportunity to acquaint his Friends, that these Performances will be done with the utmost Regularity and Decoration, most of the Performers having belong'd to the Theatres. [This customary notice about the concert, time and prices will not be included unless changed.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Mock Doctor

Event Comment: A New Opera. With Dances and other Decorations entirely new. Pit and Boxes to be put together; and no person to be admitted without Tickets, which will be deliver'd this Day at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. Gallery 5s. By His Majesty's Command, No Person to be admitted behind the Scenes. The Gallery to be open'd at Four o'clock, Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at Six o'clock. [Customary notice will not be included again. A pasticcio; music by Hasse, Lampugnani, Brivio, and Rinaldo da Capua; librettist--Apostolo Zeno. See Burney, History of Music, IV, 447.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gianguir

Dance: Barbara Campanini (Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Sir Horace Mann, I, 191)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Performance Comment: Foppington-Cibber; Easy-Giffard; Morelove-W. Giffard; Lady Betty-Mrs Giffard; Lady Easy-Mrs Butler; Lady Graveairs-Mrs E. Giffard; Edging-Miss Brunette; With a New Prologue-Mr Cibber; And a reviv'd Epilogue-nobody.

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: Carney, Mrs Roland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: I: Comic Ballet, as17421203; III: Welsh Boufon, as17421203; IV: Comic Ballet, as17421203; II: La Sabotier-M LaPierre

Ballet: The facetious Grand Dance by the whole Company. Thunder, Lightning, Players, Soldiers, Bishops, Judges, Lord@Mayor, Serjeants at Arms-the Comedians; With the Total Eclipse of the Sun and Moon-; Sol-Hemskirk; Luna-Stitchbury; Orbis-Worldly; Also a Representation of a Grand Theatrical Battle-; Mr Bayes' New Rais'd Troops-

Performance Comment: Thunder, Lightning, Players, Soldiers, Bishops, Judges, Lord@Mayor, Serjeants at Arms-the Comedians; With the Total Eclipse of the Sun and Moon-; Sol-Hemskirk; Luna-Stitchbury; Orbis-Worldly; Also a Representation of a Grand Theatrical Battle-; Mr Bayes' New Rais'd Troops-.
Event Comment: Text-Vanneschi; Music-Galuppi (Burney). A new Opera [Description as before] but the Silver Tickets will be deliver'd to the Subscribers at the Opera-Office, where Attendance will be given from Nine to One for that Purpose. [Not entered as a new piece in the Larpent MS.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Enrico

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Performance Comment: As17430202, but a New Dance call'd Les Amant Volages-Desse, Froment, Mrs Walter, Leviez, Baudouin, Mrs Thomson, Mlle Gondeau, Mlle Fabres, Miss King.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Performance Comment: Sharp-Garrick; Kitty-Mrs Clive; with a New Epilogue written and-Garrick.

Song: IV: Beard

Event Comment: Benefit Rogers, Simson, and Mrs Chetwood. Tickets to be had of Rogers at Mr Molloy's, Wine Merchant in Bear Yard, Lincoln's Inn Fields; at Mr Settre's, Linen Draper, at the Golden Anchor, next Tom's Coffee House, Covent Garden; of Mrs Chetwood, Castle Tavern, Drury Lane; and of Simson, at Mr Gill's, a shoemaker, Basinghall St. [At 5 p.m. this day Jack, Joseph and Polly Granier are scheduled to dance in several dances at the New Wells, Lemon St., Goodman's Fields. Carney has also gone over to the New Wells.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: III: Welch Buffoons, as17430308 V: Scotch Dance, as17430308

Event Comment: A new Opera. [Not listed as a new piece in the Larpent MS.] Music by Galuppi (Burney, History of Music, IV, 450)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sirbace