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Event Comment: Benefit for Lalauze. Receipts: #81 10s. 6d. in cash.Charges #64 5s. [No indication of income form tickets.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Cassander Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Statue or The Jealous Farmer Deceivd

Dance: II: A New Dance call'd La Petite Bergere-Lalauze's daughter , a child between 6 and 7 years of age, her 2nd time of performing on Stage; End: a Ball Dance call'd The Louvre , with a and Minuet-Lalauze, Lalauze's daughter

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunstall. Mainpiece: Not acted these 12 years. No building on Stage. Receipts: #34 14s. in cash. Charges #64 5s. Deficit to Dunstall #29 11s., covered by income from tickets, #158 19s. (Boxes 172; Pit 681; Gallery 138). Total income #193 13s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice Or It Cannot Be

Performance Comment: Sir Courtly-Dyer; Surly-Sparks; Bellguard-Gibson; Farewell-Ridout; Crack-Shuter; Testimony-Collins; Hothead-Dunstall; Violante-Mrs Vincent; Aunt-Mrs Pitt; Leonora-Mrs Hamilton.
Cast
Role: Farewell Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: Flora or Hob in the Well

Song: III: Lowe

Dance: II: Comic Dance, as17600421 End: The Lamp Lighters, as17600318

Event Comment: Benefit for Collins and Miss Dawson. Receipts: #84 9s. 6d. plus income from tickets: Collins #69 4s. (Boxes 36; Pit 298; Gallery 155); Miss Dawson #74 (Boxes 122; Pit 194; Gallery 144). Charges #64 5s. Total income #227 13s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Fondlewife-Collins; Belmour-Smith; Sir Joseph-Shuter; all for first time; Bluff-Marten; Setter-Bennet; Barnaby-Holtom; Betty-Miss Allen; Sylvia-Mrs Baker; Lucy-Mrs Pitt; Heartwell-Sparks; Vainlove-Gibson; Sharper-Ridout; Araminta-Mrs Barrington; Belinda-Mrs Elmy; Laetitia-Mrs Hamilton.
Cast
Role: Sharper Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Statue

Entertainment: E+Extravaganza.Between Play and Farce: Shuter will entertain the audience (for the last time) with A Day of Taste, as17600320

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Mowat. No Building on Stage. Receipts: #72 14s., plus #71 2s. from tickets (Boxes 93; Pit 225; Gallery 141). Charges #64 5s. Total income #143 16s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: Fryar Lawrence Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: III: By Desire, a Hornpipe-Miss Dawson; End: The Lamp Lighters, as17600318

Event Comment: Benefit for Roberts, and Sarjant, House Keeper. Receipts: #46 7s. 6d. Charges #64 5s. Deficit to each #16 16s. 3d., covered by income from tickets: Sarjant #45 14s. (Boxes 50; Pit 178; Gallery 65); Roberts #82 9s. (Boxes 100; Pit 293; Gallery 135). Total income #174 10s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: Aimwell Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Statue

Dance: II: The Threshers, as17591005; IV: The Lamp Lighters, as17600318

Song: III: Song-Roberts

Music: III: accompanied on the Harp-Evans; after which, By Desire, A Lass that was Laden with Care, with variations -Evans

Event Comment: Benefit for Bennet and Legg. Receipts: #32 11s. in cash. Charges #64 5s. Deficit to each beneficiary #15 4s. 6d., covered by income from tickets: Bennet #95 11s. (Boxes 13; Pit 408; Gallery 311); Legge #77 2s. (Boxes 71; Pit 305; Gallery 136). Total income #205 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Music: II: A Piece on the Harp-Evan Evans

Dance: III: The Drunken Peasant-Miles; Clown-Bennet; IV: The Lamp Lighters, as17600318

Event Comment: Benefit for Stoppelaer. Receipts: #26 2s. 6d. in cash. Charges #64 5s. Deficit of #36 17s. 6d. covered by #119 5s. from tickets (Boxes 107; Pit 478; Gallery 208)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: III: The Fingalian Dance, as17591102; End: The Threshers, as17591005

Event Comment: Benefit for Wignel, Davis. Receipts: #28 2s. 6d., in cash. Charges #64 5s. Deficit to each #17 8s. 9d. covered by tickets: Wignell #99 9s. (Boxes 58; Pit 401; Gallery 248); Davis #68 19s. (Boxes 90; Pit 199; Gallery 166). Total income #196 10s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man Or The Fops Fortune

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: III: A new Comic Dance-Granier, Miss Hilliard; End: The Knife Grinders, as17600417

Event Comment: Benefit for Vaughan, Condell, Green (boxkeepers). Receipts: #18 18s. in cash. Charges #64 5s. Deficit to each #17 0s. 8d. covered by tickets: Condell #74 12s. (Boxes 132; Pit 212; Gallery 98); Vaughan #71 2s. (Boxes 151; Pit 147; Gallery 113); Green #73 13s. (Boxes 206; Pit 119; Gallery 456). Total income #238 9s. Paid Kemp #8 6s.; Paid Pattinson (Tallow chandler) 6 bills to 8 May #100 14s. 6d.; Advanced to Barrington #21. [The house is now, according to the books, showing a deficit of #634 14s. 6d.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part I

Cast
Role: Worcester Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: The Fingalian Dance, as17591102; End: The Knife Sharpeners, as17600417

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Seratina. Tickets 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

Song: Before the burletta begins: several new songs-Sga Seratina, the rest of the performers will sing several new songs in the orchestra, and by particular Desire a Trio

Event Comment: N.B. The Tickets given out for the benefit of Reinhold will be admitted on the 21st. The genuine book of the Burletta to be had at the Bar of the Gardens only

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

Event Comment: Benefit for a Family under Misfortunes. [Mr Pasmore, who took in #161 19s., in ready money, and sold tickets to the value of #102 8s. Total House #264 7s. (Boxes 70. Pit 442. Gallery 186) (Account Book). Charges: #85 5s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: Aimwell Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: As17601014

Event Comment: Boxes #28 2s. 6d. Rec'd of Rev'd Mr Smith in full for his share of Tickets ye 9th Inst. #2 12s. 6d. (Account Book). Receipts: #117. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Dance: The Dances incident to the masque-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville, Granier, Leppie, Desse, Rochford, Dumai, Gosley, Hussey, Balthazar, Mrs Granier, Mrs Jansolin, Mrs Mariane, Mrs Crawford, Mrs Welch, Miss Daw

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Boxes #78 [about 312 persons]. Rec'd of Mr Boval in full for his share of tickets ye 9th Inst. #15 15s. 6d. (Account Book). Receipts: #217 10s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: Benefit for a Clergyman's Widow under misfortunes. [Receipts: #88 2s. 6d. plus #87 19s. from tickets (Box 251; Pit 136; Gallery 48). Profits to Mrs Seede, the clergyman's widow, #90 15s. 6d.] Paid Mr J. Rich on account #531 (Account Book). [The profitable balance on the treasurer's books this night before deducting expenses and Rich's #500, withdrawal was #996 4s. 2d.] Charges: #85 5s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: LLes Charboniers, as17601215

Event Comment: Benefit for Wilkinson. Receipts: #113 10s. 6d. plus #64 13s. from Tickets (Box 163; Pit 118; Gallery 62) (Account Book). Charges: #63 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Entertainment: By Desire, Lady Pentweazle's Scene from the Comedy Taste, Lady Pentweazle-Wilkinson; Carmine-Davis

Dance: LLes Charboniers-Sg Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville

Event Comment: Benefit for the composer to the theatre. Words of the songs in the pastoral will be printed and given out Gratis at the theatre. Receipts: #160 13s. 6d. plus #33 8s. from tickets. Profits to Dr Arne #129 19s. 6d. (Account Book). Charges: #63 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Horatio Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: Florizel and Perdita

Performance Comment: Florizel-Mattocks (with a new song in character); Autolicus (with songs in character)-Shuter; King-Ridout; Shepherd-Sparks; Perdita-Miss Brent (with new songs in character); The Music by Dr Arne. With a New Rural Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville.
Cast
Role: King Actor: Ridout

Dance: LLes Charboniers, as17601216

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years. [See 19 Jan. 1758.] Tickets deliver'd out for 2nd of January will be taken tomorrow. Boxes #66 15s. Macklin's fifth of the surplus above #63 for House charges, #24 1s. Paid Bedwell & Freeke, Braziers, sundry bills from April 1757 to March 1760: #60. (Account Book). Receipts: #183 5s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal Or The Ladies Philosophy

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Dance: A Minuet-Miss Macklin, Poitier; Dances [unspecified]-Sg Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville

Event Comment: Benefit for Tenducci. At the Great Room, Dean St., Soho. The Petition of Ferdinand Tenducci, Musician, arrested for Debt and been in King's Bench for eight Months. Tickets to be had of Tenducci at the King's Bench Prison

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Event Comment: Music composed by Dr Arne. Pit and Boxes will be laid together at Half a Guinea, and no person to be admitted without Tickets, which may be had at Dr Arne's in the Piazza next the Church, Covent Garden, and of Varney at the Stage Door of the Theatre. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. [Information concerning this Oratorio appeared in the Public Advertiser, 23 Feb.. "on Saturday last the New Oratorio called Judith, composed by Dr Arne, to be at Drury Lane on Friday, was rehearsed at the House of a Lady of Quality, where was present a numerous Assembly of the First Distinction, who honoured it with the highest approbation. We are assured that in the Sacred Oratorio, Sg Tenducci has obtained Permission from his Plaintiff, to sing the part which Signora Eberhardi was so obliged as to understudy for him, in Case he could not obtain such Indulgence."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judith

Music: A Concerto on the Organ-

Event Comment: Benefit for Ross. Receipts: #81 10s. 6d. plus #62 7s. from tickets (Boxes 166; Pit 139) (Account Book). Charges: #63 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: Fryar Lawrence Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: Florizel and Perdita

Dance: HHornpipe-Poitier Jr

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Hamilton. Mainpiece: Not acted in 10 years. [See 16 Jan. 1753.] Afterpiece: By Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock. Receipts: #56 16s. plus #154 13s. from tickets (Box 203; Pit 514; Gallery 268) (Account 8ook). Charges: #64 5s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: LLes Charboniers, as17601216

Event Comment: Benefit for Shuter. Mainpiece: Not acted in 20 years. Receipts: #171 15s. 6d. plus #112 17s. from tickets (Box 272; Pit 299). Paid Hughes and Batten for 4 1!2 yds muslin for sleeves for women dancers 18s. 9d. (Account Book). [Shuter's Interlude is Larpent MS 188, a verse monologue with songs, giving the geneology of Bucks from Nimrod's heirs-hunters who now seek ladies in Boxes rather than foxes. A patriotic song on successes at Minden, Quebec, Cape Breton, &c. ending]: @We wish as we ought that Great Britain may thrive@That freedom and friendship may faction survive@On sea and on shore, as we have may we shine@And this year sixty-one equal fam'd forty-nine.@ Charges: #63 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wifes Relief Or The Husbands Cure

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: II: (By Desire) Hornpipe-Poitier Jr

Entertainment: End: A Comic Lecture; or, Tea a-la-Mode, in the manner of Foote-Wilkinson; The Cries of London-Shuter; End Afterpiece: the Origin, Nature, and Progress of the Order of British Bucks-Mr Shuter; with the whimsical behaviour of Choice Spirits, and Mons Thurot's Trip to Carrickfergus-

Event Comment: Benefit for Havard. By Particular Desire. Ode written by Havard, and set to music by Mr Bates. Tickets to be had at Mr Havard's in Broad Court, Bow-Street; at Tom's and the Bedford Coffee Houses; and of Mr Varney at the Stage Door, where places for the Boxes may be taken. Ode deliver'd Gratis

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Entertainment: End: will be perform'd a New Coronation Ode by Havard; Vocal parts-Lowe, Champness, Mrs Vincent, Miss Young

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Tickets deliver'd for Rule a Wife and Have a Wife will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

Dance: As17610307