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Event Comment: Benefit Walker. By Particular Desire. [Tickets at Walker's, Gay's Head in the Strand.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies

Dance: I: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; II: Two Pierots-Lalauze, Liviez; In III: Hornpipe-Yates

Music: End Afterpiece: Preamble on Kettle Drums-Master Ferg; with Handel's Water Musick-

Event Comment: Benefit Gray, Fulwood, Bishop Walker, Stevens, Saunders. Tickets for Cooper and Gillibrand also taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Pierots-Lalauze, Leviez; II: Hornpipe in the Character of a Jack Tar-Yates; III: Muilment; IV: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg; V: Le Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

Event Comment: Benefit Mines and Powel, Boxkeepers. Tickets for Verhuyck and Nalor also taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: II: Ballet-Desse, Miss Oates; IV: Je ne scay quoy-Villeneuve, Richardson, Miss Oates; V: Grecian Sailors-Glover

Event Comment: Benefit Bradshaw (Boxkeeper), Hobson (House Keeper and Stage Doorkeeper). Afterpiece: Written by the Author of Pasquin. [Tickets for Rumball taken.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Cast
Role: Shamwell Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies

Cast
Role: Shoulderdab Actor: Ridout

Dance: I: Pierots-Lalauze, Liviez; II: Muilment; III: Le Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: Hornpipe-Yates; V: French Peasants-Leviez, Mrs Walter; End Afterpiece: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg

Song: II: The Noon Tide Air-Miss Edwards

Event Comment: Benefit Tyfer and Webb. Tickets for Banks also taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: I: Je ne scay quoy-Villeneuve, Richardson, Miss Oates; III: Grand Ballet-Desse, Miss Oates; V: Grand Ballet-Glover, Mlle Roland

Event Comment: Benefit Taswell, Paget, Miss Karver. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of Pasquin. [Tickets for Mrs Marshall, Mrs Moore, Miss Tenoe also taken.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Cast
Role: Pedro Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies

Cast
Role: Shoulderdab Actor: Ridout

Dance: I: Pierots-Lalauze, Leviez; II: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg; V: Muilment

Song: V: Miss Karver

Event Comment: Benefit Bowcher and Giles. Afterpiece: With several Additions by the Author. [Tickets for Holland also taken.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Parting Lovers

Dance: I: Grand Ballet-Desse,Miss Oates; III: A Comic Dance-Richardson, Mrs LeBrun; V: Grand Ballet-Glover, Mlle Roland

Event Comment: At the Late Theatre in Ayliffe Street....A Concert of Vocal and Instrumental Musick. Divided into Two Parts. Tickets at Four, Three, Two, and One Shilling. N.B. Between the two Divisions of the Concert will be presented Gratis...The Stratagem. 6 p.m. [This formula of a concert (with admission charges) and a play given gratis is employed by gf throughout the season.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Event Comment: Whereas divers Complaints have been made, that Numbers...shift from Box to Box, to the great Annoyance of the Ladies...which Inconvenience appears on Enquiry to be caus'd by many not Paying...an Office is erected in the Lobby to the Boxes, where all Persons (the Ladies Excepted) are asked to take Tickets before they go in. Receipts: #64 19s. (Account Book); #100 (Rylands MS.). Rylands MS.: Cibber ill

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Dance: Desnoyer, Signiora Barberini; Also Mechell, Mlle Mechell

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies. Benefit Henry Plowman. Receipts: Money #34 14s. 6d.; Tickets #85 7s. (Account Book); #150 (Rylands MS.). [Account Book states that Plowman was charged #80 for his benefit. See a letter by Plowman in Daily Advertiser, 7 Nov., on his acting in this play.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Or The Unhappy Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Tanner of York

Dance: PPeasants-Mechel, Mlle Mechel; Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Drunken Peasant-Phillips

Event Comment: Benefit the Author of Sir Roger DeCoverley [Joseph Dorman]. Receipts: money #38 8s. 6d.; tickets #120 3s. (Account Book); #170 (Rylands MS.). [On 19 Nov. Dorman paid the Treasurer #15.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: W Wooden Shoe-Mechel; Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Drunken Peasant-Phillips

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentlewoman under Misfortunes. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. Receipts: money #74 5s.; tickets #46 14s. (Account Book); #120 (Rylands MS.). [According to the Account Book, the individual for whom it was a benefit received half the value of the ticekts.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: CComic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Wooden Shoe-Mechel; Drunken Peasant-Phillips; Le Bergeres Fidelle (new)-Villeneuve, Miss Oates

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. For the Benefit of the Brave and Unfortunate Capt John Peddie, of the Prince of Orange, who, after defending his Ship, and saving her by the most Gallant Behaviour, against a Spanish Privateer, had the Misfortune to lose her, and all he had on Board, in the late Storm. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Addison. Pit and Boxes 5s. Galleries 2s. and 1s. Receipts: money #52 1s.; tickets #295 (Account Book); #350 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Nancy

Dance: CComic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Wooden Shoe-Mechel

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Benefit Fausan. [Tickets at Fausan's Lodgings, Corner of Martlet-Court, Bow Street.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Le Boufon-; III: Les Matelotes-; V: Les Sabotiers-Fausan, Signora Fausan

Event Comment: Benefit Signora Fausan. Tickets at her Lodgings, Mr Cheek's Apothecary, Bow Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: LLes Sabotiers-Fausan, Signora Fausan; Les Egyptiens (new)-Fausan, Signora Fausan, Muilment; L'Hydropique Amoreux (new)-Fausan, Signora Fausan

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Horton. Tickets at Mrs Horton's, at the Angel, in Bedford Street. Receipts: money #78; seals #81 17s. (Account Book); #160 (Rylands MS.). [Mrs Horton received a Free Benefit.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Abra Mule Or Love And Empire

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: LLouvre-Signora Barberini; French Peasant-Mechel; Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Benefit Mrs Clive. Mainpiece: Alter'd from Shakespear. [Tickets at Mrs Clive's, at Mr Dandrige's in Great Queen Street.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Universal Passion

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Song: The Favourite Airs out of L'Allegro il Penseroso by Handel-Miss Edwards; I: Miss Edwards; IV: Miss Edwards

Dance: II: L'Arlequine deux visages-Mlle Chateauneuf; III: La Tambourine Matelote-Maltere, Mlle Maltere; V: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Benefit Michael Lally. [Tickets at Lally's House, in Great Russel Street, over-against Montagu-House.] Receipts: money #42 15s.; seals #163 9s. (Account Book); #180 (Rylands MS.). [According to the Account Book, Lally was charged #30 for his benefit.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: Nancy

Dance: TThe Matelots-Mechel, Mlle Mechel; Yorkshire Maggot-Haughton, Mlle Roland; Louvre, Minuet-Lally, Signora Barberini

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Roberts. Tickets at Mrs Roberts' House in Duke Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: Seyward Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Maltere, Mlle Maltere; V: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Benefit Cibber. [Tickets at Cibber's Lodgings at the Shell House in Spring Garden.] Receipts: money #65 15s. 6d.; seals #126 7s. (Account Book); #230 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Afterpiece Title: Nancy

Dance: I: The Swiss-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; II: Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde; III: A new Muzette, Tambourine-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; IV: Italian Peasants-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness the Duke. Benefit Mrs Butler. [Tickets at Mrs Butler's House in King Street.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon Or The Two Sosias

Performance Comment: Jupiter-Milward; Mercury-Shepard; Phoebus-Ridout; Amphitryon-Mills; Sosia-Turbutt; Gripus-Taswell; Polidas-Winstone; Tranio-Raftor; Alcmena-Mrs Butler; Phaedra-Mrs Pritchard; Bromia-Miss Bennet.
Cast
Role: Phoebus Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Miss Scott; II: Les Tambourine Matelotes-Maltere, Mlle Maltere; III: Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: Muilment; V: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

Event Comment: Benefit Mlle Chateauneuf. [Tickets at her Lodgings, Mr Farnel's, Bridges Street.] The Stage enclosed and formed into Side and Front Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Cast
Role: Fairbank Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: I: La Terpsichore (new)-Mlle Chateauneuf; II: Muilment; III: La Sabotiere-Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: L'Allemande-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf; V: A new Tambourine-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf

Event Comment: Benefit Paget. Tickets for Julian also taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Life and Death of Master ThomasThumb

Music: Solo on the Violin-Mrs Bush

Dance: I: Miss Naylor; II: Drunken Peasant-Chettle; IV: Hornpipe-Yates

Song: III: Miss Medina; V: Dialogue-Stitchbury, Mrs Jones

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa. Benefit Glover. [Tickets at Glover's, in Chandos Street.] Stage as 10 March. Receipts: money #45 4s.; seals #126 17s. [In the Account Book, the space for the nightly charge is blank.] #200 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Dance: I: French Peasants-Mechel; II: English Peasants-Glover, Mlle Mechel, Delagarde, Oates, Mrs Villeneuve, Miss Horsington; III: Scots Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland, Villeneuve, Richardson, Oates, Mrs Villeneuve; IV: Serious Ballet-Glover, Mlle Mechel; V: Louvre, Minuet-Glover, Signora Barberini

Event Comment: Benefit Muilment. Tickets at Muilment's Lodgings, next to the Golden Star in Greek Street, Soho

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: A new Grand Ballet-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf; II: Shepherds and Shepherdesses-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Pastres-Master Gillier, a Scholar of Muilment; IV: Muilment; V: A new Figure Minuet called The Queen Minuet, concluding with a Ball Minuet-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf; after the Minuet a Corelli's Jig-Master Gillier