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Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Benefit Macklin. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. [Tickets at Macklin's, No. 12, Wild Court.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Cast
Role: Salarino Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: I: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; II: Shepherds and Shepherdesses-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Les Caprices des Rebelles (new)-Mlle Maltere; IV: L'Allemande-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf; V: La Rose Boree et Ziphirs (new)-Maltere, Mlle Maltere

Event Comment: By partiuclar Desire. Benefit Chapman. Tickets at Chapman's House, Corner of Bow Street. [in the London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 7 April, Chapman published a letter regretting that this benefit will be on the night Handel has a performance at lif. Chapman states that he owes much to Handel and wishes him success. Because, he states, some 20,000 will want to attend lif, which cannot hold above twenty hundred, Chapman remarks that, if those who cannot get into lif will go to dl, he will be happy.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Song: In II: Lowe; III: Was Ever Nymph Like Rosamond-Lowe

Dance: III: Maltere, Mlle Maltere; V: Peasants-Muilment

Event Comment: This being the last Time of performing, many Persons of Quality and others, are pleas'd to make great Demands for Box Tickets, which encourage me (and hope will give no Offence) to put the Pit and Boxes together, at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lallegro Ed Il Penseroso

Event Comment: Benefit Maltere and Mlle Maltere. Tickets at Maltere's Lodgings, Mr Farnel's, in Bridges Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Dance: LLe Paisan-LaPierre; II: La Provan Sale (Sailor's Dance)-Maltere, Mlle Maltere; III: Indian Dance (never in England before)-Maltere, Mlle Maltere; IV: Les Caprices des Rebelles-Mlle Maltere; V: La Rose Boree and Ziphirs-Maltere, Mlle Maltere

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Steele. With proper Scenes, Habits, and Decorations. [Tickets for Mr and Mrs Dunstall taken.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winters Tale

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Song: lso the Sheep@shearing Song, the Songs in As You Like It-Mrs Dunstall

Event Comment: Benefit Peirson, Treasurer. Tickets at Peirson's, the Green Door, Great Queen Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Miss Scott; I: L'Arlequine deux visages-Mlle Chateauneuf; In III: Ballet-Desse; III: A new dance-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf; V: L'Allamande-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf

Song: II: Blow Blow thou Winter Wind-Mrs Arne; IV: The Echo Song-Mrs Arne

Event Comment: Benefit Wright. Mainpiece: Alter'd from Shakespear, [Tickets at Wright's Lodgings, Clare Street, dl.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Universal Passion

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: L'Arlequine deux visages-Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Desse; V: Les Matelotes-Maltere, Mlle Maltere

Event Comment: Benefit Mechel, Mlle Mechel (the French Boy and Girl). Afterpiece: a new Pantomime Entertainment. [Tickets at Mechel's in Newport Street.] Receipts: money #70 8s. 6d.; seals #71 14s. (Account Book); #150 (Rylands MS.). [The two dancers were charged #60 for their benefit. This is the last entry in the incomplete Account Book.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Barber

Dance: I: Concerto-Mlle Mechel; II: Minuet, French Rigadoon-Mechel the Father, who never appeared in any theatre in England, Mlle Mechel the Daughter; Minuet-Mechel the Son, Miss Polly Woffington, the first time of her appearing on the stage; IV: The Metamorphoses of the Windmills-Mechel, Mlle Mechel, Miss Woffington, Master Ferg, a little French Boy; lately come from France. End Afterpiece: A Wooden Shoe dance called Les Sabotiers de Piemont-Mechel Sr, Mechel Jr., Mlle Mechel, little French Boy

Event Comment: By partiuclar Desire. Benefit Lowe. [Tickets at Lowe's Lodgings, 2d door on left hand in Beaufort Buildings, The Strand.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Ben Budge Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; II: Shepherds and Shepherdesses-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf; in III: Hornpipe-Vaughan

Event Comment: Benefit Michael Dove. Tickets at Dove's, The Sun, in Hooper's Square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: DDrunken Peasant-Chettle

Song: Mrs Dunstall, Mrs Jones

Event Comment: Benefit Laguerre, Prisoner in the King's Bench. [Tickets of Laguerre at John's Coffee-House, next door the King's-Bench, Southwark. In the London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 22 April, Laguerre expressed his thanks to Giffard for giving him this benefit and added that, it being term-time, he had "by the common Licence of a Day Rule," liberty to act on 23 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Event Comment: Benefit Harper and Raftor. [Tickets at Harper's House in Bridges Street. A letter to the Daily Advertiser, 24 April, concerning this benefit, states that Harper is incapacitated with 'a Paralytick Disorder.'

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ladys Last Stake Or The Wifes Resentment

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: II: Was Ever Nymph Like Rosamond-Lowe; IV: Miss Edwards

Dance: III: Grand Ballet-Maltere, Mlle Maltere; V: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

Event Comment: Benefit Berry. Tickets for Ridout, Miss Story also taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: Shepherds and Shepherdesses-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Grand Ballet-Maltere, Mlle Maltere; V: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; End Afterpiece: Minuet-Liviez, Miss Story

Song: II: Was Ever Nymph Like Rosamond-Lowe

Event Comment: Benefit Neale. Receipts: #120 (Rylands MS.). Tickets for Arthur, Dupre, Destrade, also taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Comic Dance-Richardson, Mlle Ozanne; In II: Pierots-Richardson, Delagarde

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Walter. Tickets at Mrs Walter's, next door the Baker's, in Bridges Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: Maltere, Mlle Maltere; II: L'Allemande-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; V: Minuet-Rector, Mrs Walter

Song: III: Blow Blow-Lowe

Event Comment: Benefit Cross (Prompter), Anderson, Clarke, White. Tickets for Miss Burgess also taken. Receipts: #110 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: II: Comic Dance-Richardson, Mlle Ozanne; IV: Pierots-Richardson, Delagarde

Song: III: Roberts

Event Comment: Benefit Chetwood. Tickets at Chetwood's Lodgings, the Golden Ball in May's Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

Cast
Role: Laertes Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Dance: I: Indian Dance-Maltere; II: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: L'Allemande-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf; End Afterpiece: The Dance in The Beggar's Opera-Mrs Clive, Lowe

Song: III: Blow Blow-Lowe; V: See from the Silent Groves-Savage

Event Comment: Benefit Naylor, Banks, Duck. Tickets for Trott also taken. Receipts: #100 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: CComic Dance-Richardson, Mlle Ozanne

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of the Antient and Honourable Society of Free and Accepted Masons. For the Benefit of an unfortunate Brother Mason. [This program, which was given in the Old Tennis Court, included a concert; and tickets for 27 April, when the performance was intended but prevented, are received this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler of Preston

Event Comment: Benefit a Widow Gentlewoman under Misfortunes. The Theatre near the Tennis Court in the Haymarket. Tickets at Three Shillings, Two Shillings, and One Shilling. The whole will be conducted with all possible Decency and Regularity. To begin exactly at half an Hour after Six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Wrangling Lovers

Dance: DDrunken Peasant-Chettle

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Play to begin exactly at Six. Places for Boxes to be taken at Mr Bradshaw's, Box-Keeper, at the King's Arms in Russell Street, near the Playhouse. 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s. [This customary notice about time, tickets, and prices will hereafter be silently omitted.] Receipts: #120

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Event Comment: At the Theatre in James Street, near the Haymarket...between the two Halves of a Concert of Vocal and Instrumental Musick will be presented...gratis...Benefit of Miss Rogers. 6 p.m. Prices, Boxes 3s., Pit 2s., Gallery 1s. Tickets may be secured from Pinchbeck. [Customary notice of prices and concert formula repeated in every notice of performance.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: DDavid Garrick to Peter Garrick: We have greater Business than Either Drury Lane or Convent Garden; Mr. Giffard himself Gave Me yesterday twenty Guinease for a Ticket & next Week I design buyin #200 of my Stock out of my Profits of Playing.-Little, Pineapples, p. 27

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Event Comment: Benefit Spackman. By Desire of the Honourable Society of Mercurians. Tickets to be had at Pinchbeck's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Comic part of Spanish Fryar

Song: SSwains I Scorn, Who're Nice and Fair-Miss Carter; The Life of a Beau-Mrs Morrison

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Never acted there before. With all the decorations proper to the play. By Command of their Royal Highnesses, the Prince and Princess of Wales. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr Page, Housekeeper, at the stage door of the theatre. [This last announcement becomes a customary note on subsequent bills.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winters Tale

Dance: Dubisson, Mlle Bonneval, being the 1st time of their appearing since their arrival from Paris