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Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Buchanan. Mainpiece: Written by the late N. Rowe, Esq; Poet-Laureat. Receipts: money #46 2s. 6d.; tickets #151 11s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: Peasant by Nivelon and Mlle De L'Isle. Shepherd and Shepherdess by Glover and Miss Rogers. French Peasants by Lalauze and Mlle D'Hervigni

Event Comment: Benefit Thurmond. Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Cast
Role: Syphax Actor: Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq. [Prince and Princess present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Cast
Role: Syphax Actor: Cibber

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restord

Dance: Miller and his Wife by Poitier and Mlle Roland. Le Badinage de Provence by Poitier, Mlle Roland, &c

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late N. Rowe, Esq; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Cast
Role: Axalla Actor: Cibber

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restord

Dance: I: The Flight-Essex, Mrs Walter; III: Grand Ballet, as17361028

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Mainpiece: Written by the late $J. Addison, Esq.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Cast
Role: Syphax Actor: Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Burgomaster Trickd

Dance: Denoyer, Muilment

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late $J. Hughes, Esq.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Cast
Role: Daran Actor: Cibber
Role: Eudocia Actor: Mrs Cibber.

Song: II: La Nuvoletta, an Italian Ballad.-Miss Young; IV: Wou'd you gain the Tender Creature-Miss Young

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late $J. Hughes, Esq.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Cast
Role: Daran Actor: Cibber
Role: Eudocia Actor: Mrs Cibber.

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Song: II: La Nuvoletta-Miss Cecilia Young; IV: Wou'd you gain the Tender Creature-Miss Cecilia Young

Event Comment: Benefit a Decay'd Merchant and his Family, in Great Distress. Mainpiece: Written by the late $J. Addison, Esq.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Cast
Role: Syphax Actor: Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: I: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; II: Frenchman and Frow-Phillips, Miss Brett; III: Muilment

Event Comment: Benefit the Daughter of the late Mr Mills. Mainpiece: Written by the late $J. Hughes, Esq.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Cast
Role: Daran Actor: Cibber
Role: Eudocia Actor: Mrs Cibber.

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: EEnglish Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; Drunken Peasant-Philips; Russian Sailor-Denoyer

Event Comment: By Desire. Mainpiece: Written by the late N. Rowe, Esq; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Cast
Role: Arpasia Actor: Mrs Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Harlots Progress

Related Works
Related Work: The Harlot's Progress; or, The Ridotto Al' Fresco: With a Grand Masque call'd, The Judgment of Paris; or, The Triumph of Beauty Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: I: Saraband-Miss Scott; Minuet-Miss Scott; II: Comic Dance-Miss Scott's Sister; III: The Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; two of the Lilliputians. IV: Serious Dance-Misses Scott

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late $J. Addison, Esq.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Cast
Role: Syphax Actor: Cibber
Role: Marcia Actor: Mrs Cibber.

Afterpiece Title: The Burgomaster Trickd

Event Comment: By Desire. Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Hughes, Esq. London Evening Post, 28 Jan.: It's remarkable that the new Comedy call'd The Nest of Plays...and the new Farce call'd The Coffee House...and which are the two first that have been perform'd since the Act of Parliament took Place, obliging all Plays, Farces, &c. to be licens'd before play'd, were both damn'd by the Town

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Cast
Role: Eudocia Actor: Mrs Cibber.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Grand Volgi

Music: Select Pieces-

Dance: I: Flanderkins, as17380120 II: Drunken Peasant-Philips; III: Grand Polish Dance-Haughton, Mrs Walter, Liviez, Pelling, Vallois, Rector, Mrs Thompson, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Woodward, Miss Brett

Event Comment: Benefit Wright. Mainpiece: Written by N. Rowe, Esq. late Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Sir John Cockle at Court

Music: III: Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Master Ferg

Dance: I: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; II: Grand Ballet-Muilment, Mrs Walter; IV: Polonese-Haughton, Mrs Walter; V: Russian Sailor-Denoyer

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Cast
Role: Tinsel Actor: Cibber

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Grand Volgi

Dance: II: Drunken Peasant-Philips; IV: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by N. Rowe, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady Jane Gray

Cast
Role: Gardiner Actor: Cibber

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restord

Dance: As17381012

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by N. Rowe, Esq. Afterpiece: Altered from the French of Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady Jane Gray

Cast
Role: Gardiner Actor: Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: Cibber Jr.

Dance: II: Ballet-Mlle Roland the Elder; V: Drunken Peasant-Philips

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Robin Goodfellow

Dance: III: Dance of Moors-Muilment

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Event Comment: By Desire. Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Hughes, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked or An Old Man Taught Wisdom

Event Comment: By particular Desire. Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreckd

Event Comment: By particular Desire. Mainpiece: Written by N. Rowe, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne Author(s): Theophilus Cibber
Event Comment: FFawkes and Pinchbeck's Booth, end of Hosier Lane, West Smithfield. Noon to 10 p.m. Boxes 2s. Pit 1s. Gallery 6d. Mainpiece: Written by Henry Fielding, Esq. Afterpiece: The Present Tense...by Punch's Company of comical Tragedians from the Haymarket [i.e., a puppet show]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Humours Of Covent Garden Or The Covent Garden Tragedy

Afterpiece Title: The Universal Monarch Defeated or The Queen of Hungary Triumphant

Entertainment: While the booth is filling, the Audience will be diverted by Curious Performances-Ruffian Boy

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 15 Feb.: We hear that Miss Budgell, duaghter of the late Eustace Budgell, Esq. who perform'd the part of Polly on Monday Night in the Beggar's Opera, met with such unusual Applause, that several persons of Quality have desired the same performance tomorrow

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Goddess

Event Comment: This Day is Publish'd The Roman and English Comedy consider'd and compared. With Remarks on the Suspicious Husband; and an examen into the Merits of the present Comic Actors by S. Foote, Esq. This day is publish'd in Two Volumes a Companion to the Theatre or a View of our most celebrated dramatic pieces. In which the Plan, Characters and Incidents, of each are particularly explained. Interspersed with remarks Historical, Critical, and Moral. Price Bound 6s. Printed for J. Nourse, at the Lamb, over against Katherine St. in the Strand

Performances

Event Comment: [Benefit on one-half value of tickets basis to nine ticket holders. The General Advertiser notice lists beneficiaries as Harrington (Prompter); Stede, Carr, Mrs Bland, Mrs Rowley.] Tickets deliver'd by Mrs Daniel, Mrs Dumont, &c will be taken. /For Box Pit Gallery Value Half-Value/Harrington 7 29 22 #8 6s. #4 3s./Stede 7 52 59 #15 9s. #7 14s. 6d./Carr 6 53 46 #14 1s. #7 0s. 6d./Mrs Rowley 27 77 44 #22 14s. #11 7s./Mrs Dumont 36 31 32 #16 17s. #8 8s. 6d./Mrs Bland 9 56 91 #19 15s. #9 17s. 6d./Mrs Dupre 5 33 42 #10 8s. #5 4s./Mrs Daniel .. 45 109 #17 13s. #8 16s. 6d./Mrs Hitchcock 34 58 31 #20 6s. ........./Totals 131 434 476 #145 9s. #62 11s. 6d./ [Mrs Hitchcock seems to have received the full value of her tickets.] This Day is Publish'd A Treatis on the Passions so far as they regard the stage, with a critical inquiry into the Theatrical Merit of Mr G k, Mr Q n, and Mr B y, the first considered in the part of Lear, the last two oppos'd in Othello. By S. Foote, Esq

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Dance: The English Boy, English Girl