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Event Comment: Benefit for Lacey & Miss Thomas (Cross). Tickets deliver'd by Clough, G. Burton, and Mrs Addison will be taken. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Event Comment: Benefit for White, Treasurer. No building on stage. Particular care will be taken to prevent any tickets sold at the doors of the theatre being admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Cast
Role: Renault Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: AA Peasant Dance-Cooke, Miss Hilliard; The Italian Peasants, as17531120

Event Comment: Some Tickets to Lloyd &c. (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Creusa

Event Comment: Benefit for Marten, Stoppelaer, Mme Gondou. Particular care will be taken to prevent tickets sold at the doors being taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Cast
Role: Solarino Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: IItalian Peasants, as17531120; Dutch Dance, as17531018

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr, Mrs and Master Simson. Tickets of Simson in Wild-Passage, Wild St., near Lincoln's Inn Fields, and at stage door. Mainpiece: Acted but once this season. Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #206 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Oracle

Song: I: Mary Scot (by particular desire)-Beard; III: A Scots Cantata-Beard; IV: Hooly and Fairly-Beard

Dance: CCountry Amusements, as17540416

Event Comment: Benefit for Anderson, Cushing, and Wignell. Mainpiece. Not acted these 8 years. [See 26 March 1748.] No building on Stage. Particular care will be taken to prevent tickets sold at the doors being admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Song: I: Favourite Dialogue No Never-Lowe, Mrs Chambers; III: If Love's a Sweet Passion-Mrs Chambers

Dance: DDutch Dance, as17531018

Event Comment: Benefit for Roger, Shawford, Reinhold, & Gerard, he run away (Cross). Mons Gerard left England. His tickets not admitted (Winston MS 8). Last time of performing the Mainpiece this Season. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller

Dance: III: The Pierrot's Dance, as17540504; V: A Hornpipe-Walker

Song: Dialogue call'd% Damon and Chloe-Master Reinhold, Miss Thomas

Event Comment: Benefit for Bennett, Reed, R. Smith. No Building on Stage. [The usual notice about fraudulent tickets.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: Archer-Dyer; Aimwell-Ridout; Scrub-Collins; Sullen-Dunstall; Boniface-Marten; Foigard-Barrington; Sir Charles-R. Smith; Dorinda-Mrs Chambers, 1st appearance that stage; Gibbett-Bennet; Gipsey-Miss Young; Lady Bountiful-Mrs Bambridge; Cherry-Mrs Baker; Mrs Sullen-Mrs Bland.
Cast
Role: Aimwell Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Song: I: No Never-Lowe, Mrs Chambers; III: Song-Mrs Chambers

Dance: V: Dutch Dance, as17531018

Event Comment: At the chapel of the Foundling Hospital. [Beard and Ch. Smith gave their services free. Deutsch notes that this is the first list of Messiah performers preserved at the Foundling Hospital. The treasurer of the Hospital recorded receipts from 1,219 tickets and by cash-#666 15s. and an outlay of #58 17s. 6d., for Musicians, singers, constables, &c. Net to Hospital: #607 17s. 6d.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Event Comment: Benefit for the Box-Keepers Evans and Plummer. [Usual notice about fraudulent tickets.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Cast
Role: Clerimont Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: DDutch Dance, as17531018

Entertainment: EEpilogue Riding on an Ass-Shuter

Event Comment: Benefit for Driscol, Barnard, Prince, Ross, Trott (Lobby Door-keeper). Tickets deliver'd by Wilford, Browse and others will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: IItalian Peasants, as17531120

Event Comment: Benefit for the Box-Keepers Condell and Green. [Care taken about fraudulent tickets.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Wives Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: I: No Never-Lowe, Mrs Chambers; III: If Love's a Sweet Passion-Mrs Chambers

Dance: DDutch Dance, as17531018

Event Comment: Benefit for Banberigines. No tickets sold at the door will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mrs Midnights New Carnival Concert

Dance: As17540808, but Prologue-_; Dances-Banberigines, Sambuccio, Atterino, Rerriminonies, Tirenello

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Tickets deliver'd by Mrs James will be taken. For ye Benefit of Mrs James, tho' her name was not put up, who is going to leave the Stage, and retire as said to a Nunnery. Mr Macklin's Oratory open'd at his house in ye Piazza (Cross). Public Advertiser 22 Nov.: At Macklin's Great Room in Hart St. Covent Garden this day...will be opened The British Inquisition. This Inquisition is upon the plan of the ancient Greek, Roman and modern French, Italian Societies@of@liberal@investigation...&c. First lecture to be on Hamlet. [See Mackliniana (2 Vols. Folger Shakespeare Library) MS notes by Isaac Reed, from the Public Advertiser, 22 Nov. Macklin's lecture series was repeated on 23, 28 Nov., 2, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 16, 18, 20, 23, 26, 28 Dec.] Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Event Comment: Benefit for one Barbat -no name in ye bills (Cross). Both pieces by Desire. Tickets deliver'd out for this night will be taken. Receipts: #210 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: II: A New DanceSga Sabatini, as17541115

Event Comment: Benefit for the Widow Vince (Cross). Tickets at Temple-Exchange Coffee House; Fleet St.; Mr Hanson's, Poulterer, Corner Fleet Market; the Cock at Temple Bar, and at Stage Door (playbill). This night Mr Foote open'd an Oratory against Macklin at ye little Haymarket House--great crowd-great Applause (Cross). Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: A Hornpipe-Mathews; IV: A New Dance-Sga Sabatini, as17541115

Event Comment: At Mr Ogle's Great Room, Dean St., Soho. A Pastoral Opera [by John Hoadley] set by Dr Green. To begin at 7 p.m. Tickets 5s. Books of the Opera at places of Performance at 6d. Benefit for Robinson, organist of Westminster Abbey

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phoebe

Event Comment: Pit and Boxes put together, and no persons to be admitted without tickets, which will be deliver'd this day at the Office in the Theatre at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. 6d. Galleries to be opened at half an hour after four o'clock. Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at exactly half an hour after Six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Hercules

Event Comment: The Shakespeare Society will meet this day at Tomkyn's, in the Piazza, Covent Garden. Dinner to be on the table at Three. None to be admitted without tickets

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Hercules

Event Comment: By Handel. Benefit for Miss Turner. Oratorios by Handel. At the Great Room, Dean St., Soho. To begin at 7 p.m. Tickets 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Esther

Song: I: Praise the Lord- accompanied by Parry

Music: II: Concerto (Arne) on Harpsichord-Miss Turner

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Mossop. Tickets at his lodgings at Newton's Warehouse in Tavistock St., opposite Charles St., Covent Garden, and at Stage Door. Receipts: #224 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Song: CCymon and Iphigenia-Beard

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clive (Cross). Music of Afterpiece by DeFesch. Tickets at her lodgings at the Wheatsheaf in Henrietta St., and at the Stage Door. Afterpiece: Never performed but twice. Part of Pit to be laid into the boxes. Receipts: #210 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The London Prentice

Dance: T$Three Sabatinis As17550203

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Macklin (Cross). Receipts: #180 (Cross). Ladies to send for tickets for the places they taken at Miss Macklin's, Russel St. next door to Tom's Coffee House. Part of Pit laid into Boxes and Amphitheatre on stage. Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Last time of Performing till the Holidays. On seeing Miss Macklin in the character of the Mourning Bride: @Should Death (for Oh! what power can save Our tragic heroine from the grave)@At Cibber aim his dart:@Tears should forever speak my moan,@For oh! 'tis she, and she alone@Can melt the feeling heart.@Britannia spake, when Lo! a Voice@Britain be happy, and rejoice,@That, when your Cibber dies@The Gods have yet in store for thee,@A Macklin; and in her you'll see@Another Cibber rise.--Public Adveriser@

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: As17550203

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Beard. Afterpiece: By Desire. Tickets of Beard at Mrs Coleman's in East St., near Red Lyon Square, and at the Stage Door. Receipts: #300 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: II: A New Cantata-Beard; III: Hooly and Fairly by Desire-Beard; V: Rule Britannia-Beard, chorus; Britons Strike Home sung in Character-Beard, accompanied with a chorus

Music: IV: A Piece upon the Harp-Parry

Dance: ll concluding with% Hornpipe-Mathews

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Havard (Cross). Last time of performing the Mainpiece this season. Tickets of Havard at his house in Broad Court, Bow St., Covent Garden, and at the Bedford Coffee House and the Stage Door. [The Public Advertiser lists Old Knowell this night as Berry.] Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: III: New Comic Dance-Three Sabatinis, as17550203

Song: B$Beard particularly at the End: Rule Britannia, as17550402 Britons Strike Home in character and accompanied with a Chorus, as17550402 Concluding with: a Hornpipe-Mathews