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Event Comment: Benefit for City of London Lying-In Hospital, Aldersgate St. No building on Stage. Tickets to be had at the Hospital, and of Mr Sarjant at the Stage-Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Cast
Role: Recruits Actor: Buck, Costollo

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: II: Pleasures of Spring, as17621202; End: The Jealous Woodcutter, as17621023

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. Mainpiece: For last time this Season. Part of Pit rail'd into Boxes. No Building on Stage. Tickets sold at the doors will not be admitted (playbill). [See 6 April 1763. Smith's Skit is Larpent MS 222, in which each of the seven ages is acted out and accompanied with generalized comment.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Cast
Role: Whisper Actor: Costollo

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: Dapper Actor: Costollo

Entertainment: After: The Humours of the Age Imitation of Shakespeare's Stages-Smith

Dance: TThe Jealous Woodcutter, as17621023

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Ward. To prevent any interruption in the performance, there will be No Building on Stage. N.B. Tickets to be had of Mrs Ward, at Mr Dean's in Queen St., Soho; and of Mr Sarjant, at the Stage Door, where Places may be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Cast
Role: Subtle Actor: Costollo

Dance: I: The Jealous Woodcutter, as17621023

Event Comment: Benefit for Shuter. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Daily Advertiser: Lost: a leather Pocket Book...containing 4 Box Tickets for Shuter's Benefit...As the Numbers are known, care is taken to have them stopped by the Box, Pit and Gallery Keepers. [The Daily Advertiser also lists as thefts at the theatres: 1 violin, 4 pocket books (two stolen in the 2s. gallery), 4 gold watches (one with baronial arms), 1 woman's coat, 1 diamond ring. At Drury Lane thieves has stolen 4 pockets books, 1 silver watch, 4 gold watches, 1 woman's coat, and 1 sable muff.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not Or The Kind Imposter

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: TThe Jealous Woodcutter, as17621023

Entertainment: New Comic Lectural Exhibition in his Old Taste-Shuter

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Elliot. No Building on Stage. Last time of performing the Afterpiece this season. [But see 18 April.] Lost...a pocket book containing an account of last year's tickets for a benefit at Covent Garden. It is of no use to anyone but the owner (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: Dapper Actor: Costollo

Dance: A New Comic Dance, as17630224

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Catley and Hull. Afterpiece: By Desire, but for last time this season. No Building on Stage (playbill). [The Briton" song is Larpent MS 203, high praise of George III, as a truly British king.] Such as please to send for tickets shall have the words of the Ode gratis

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Song: I: A New Ode, call'd A Briton the Son of a Briton- set to music by Bates. Vocal parts: Mattocks, Miss Catley; in IV: Nymphs and Shepherds-Miss Catley

Dance: A New Comic Dance, as17630224

Event Comment: Benefit for a Gentlewoman under misfortunes. Tickets delivered for Tuesday the 3rd will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Dance: II: A New Comic Dance, as17630224

Event Comment: Benefit for Tomlinson, Mortimer, West, Robinson. Tickets delivered for This Night will be taken. No building on Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Wedding

Dance: IV: Double Hornpipe, as17630504

Event Comment: Benefit for Mendez, treasurer. Tickets in Bow-Street, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: VVenetian Gardeners, as17630808; Provincial Dance-Master Clinton, Miss Street

Event Comment: Benefit for Weston and Mrs Daly. Tickets to be had of Mrs Daly at Mr Allen's in Great Suffolk St., near the Haymarket; and of Mr Weston, in Monmouth Court, Hedge Lane, Charing Cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beaux Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Contented Cuckold

Dance: Master Clinton, Miss Street

Event Comment: By Particular Desire of the Ancient and Honorable Society of Free Masons, and By Authority. Benefit for Brother Lauder. Tickets at Berwick St., at the Black Boy, near the Hermitage Bridge. To begin at Seven. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Event Comment: No Tickets will be admitted except those dated on this day, except those of the 21st of January, that could not then get into the House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Leucippo

Dance: As17640124

Event Comment: By Desire of several Persons of Distinction. Upper Gallery Tickets 3s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sacrifice

Event Comment: Benefit for a Public Charity at the Chapel of the Lock Hospital near Hyde Park corner. Gallery 10s. 6d. Bottom of Chapel 3s. None to be admitted without tickets. To begin at 11:30 in the forenoon. Oratorio composed by Dr Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judith

Music: FFirst violin, Concerto-Giardini; Concerto on Hautboy-Vincent

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Pit and Boxes put together. No Person to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered this Day at the Office in the Theatre at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. Gallery to be opened at half an hour after Four. Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at Half after Six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lallegro Il Penseroso Drydens Ode

Music: CConcerto on Organ-Stanley

Event Comment: DDesdemona-Mrs Davies. $Mrs Havard being ill Mr King play'd Iago (Hopkins). Mrs Yates ill...Mrs Davies Desdemona (Cross Diary). Benefit for Vernon. Tickets for The Roman Father will be taken. Both main and afterpiece, By Particular Desire. Mr King Iago. Mr Havard could not play Mrs Havard being dead (Hopkins Diary-MacMillan). A mistake in the Diary. Mrs Havard died Friday 27th (J. P. Kemble MS Notes-MacMillan). Music A La Mode deferr'd on account of Indisposition of a principal performer. Last time of performing till the Holidays. Charges: #64 4s. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: The Faggot Binders, as17640224

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Lee & Mr Evans [sub-treasurer]. Tickets sold at doors will not be taken. Charges: #64 4s. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petrucio

Dance: II: Dance of Slaves, as17640425 The Cow@Keepers, as17640504

Song: I: The Song of Sweet Bird-Mrs Vincent; accompanied on violin-Pinto as17640427

Entertainment: II: King as Mr Prattle, will open a Packet of News (for that night only), as17640403

Event Comment: Benefit the General Lying-In Hospital. Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. Subscriber's tickets will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alessandro Nell Indie

Dance: I: Le Tamborine, as17640310 a new Terzetto, as17640310 II: Le Matelot Provencalle, as17640410

Ballet: LLe Masquerade. As17640331

Event Comment: By Desire of the Subscribers. Tickets will be admitted doubled this evening

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Enea E Lavinia

Event Comment: Benefit of Miss Mozart of eleven, and Master Mozart of seven Years of Age, Prodigies of Nature. At the Great Room, Spring Garden, St James's Park. Tickets at half a guinea each. By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. [For Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his sister. Their father had brought them to visit London in May. See hay 21 Feb. 1765. They remained through July 1765. See also Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, III, p. 539 (3rd edn. New York, 1947).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Concert Of Vocal And Instrumental Musick

Music: FFirst Violin solo-Barthelemon; Violincello Concerto-Ciri; Harpsichord and Organ-Miss Mozart, Master Mozart

Event Comment: The Subscribers Tickets will be admitted double

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Enea E Lavinia

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Brent. Tickets 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Event Comment: The Last Opera of this Season. The Subscribers Tickets will be admitted double

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Enea E Lavinia

Event Comment: A new serious Opera. No Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered at the Office. Boxes Half a Guinea, Gallery 5s. By their Majesties Command no Persons whatsoever to be admitted behind the Scenes or in the Orchestra. The Gallery, Pit and Boxes to be opened at Five. To begin at 6:30 p.m. Vivant Rex et Regina. [A pasticcio.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ezio

Dance: II: Scene ii: Dance of Vintage-; II: Masons at Work-; End Opera: The Chinese Wedding-; Ballet Master-Gherardi

Event Comment: An Oratorio composed by Dr Arne. Tickets delivered for the 7th will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judith

Entertainment: Concerto on Violin-Giardini