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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

Event Comment: Benefit for Murphy. Tickets for Macbeth will be taken. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17550320 and 17550116, but Hamlet-Murphy first time; and an abbreviated cast: King-Sparks; Horatio-Ridout; Ghost-Ryan; Laertes-Dyer; Ostrick-Cibber; Gravediggers-Shuter, Stoppelaer; Polonius-Arthur; Ophelia-Mrs Chambers; Queen-Mrs Woffington.
Cast
Role: Horatio Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: As17541203

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Ross. Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Tickets of Ross at his House, corner of Bow St., Covent Garden, and at Stage Door. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Berry. Tickets of Berry at Mr Pope's, Peruke Maker, in Russel St., Covent Garden, and at Stage Door. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Creusa

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: As17550203; V: The Last New Comic Dance-Sg and Sga Sabatini

Song: III: Rule Britannia, as17550402-Beard%; concluding with: Hornpipe-Mathews

Event Comment: Benefit for Davies, and Mrs Davies. Tickets at their lodgings at Mr Marshall's in Tavistock Row, Covent Garden, and at Stage Door. Part of Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Haughton--masters share (Cross). Full Prices. That there may be no Obstruction in the Machinery, there will be no building on the stage. Tickets of Miss Haughton, in Chandois St., and at Stage Door. Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Proteus

Event Comment: Benefit for Blakes. No building on Stage. Tickets at Blakes' House in Duke's Court, Bow St., Covent Garden. Macklin's Coffee House sold by Auctioneer under the Commissioner of Bankruptcy (Winston MS 8). Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Graham. Tickets of Mrs Graham, at Mr Robinson's in Beaufort Buildings in the Strand, and at the stage door. Last time of performing the mainpiece this season. Receipts: #80 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Song: I: By particular desire, Hooly and Fairly-Beard

Dance: II: As17550203

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Raftor and Miss Young (Cross). [Miss Young is referred to as "The Queen of the Fairies " on the Huntington advance Bill.] Tickets to be had of Miss Young, at Mr Driscol's, Peruke Maker, in Broad Court, Bow Street Covent Garden, and at Stage Door. There will be no building on the Stage. Receipts: #80 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: Bayes in Petticoats

Song: Between the acts: Miss Young

Event Comment: Benefit for Pritchard. Tickets at Pritchard's lodgings at Pritchard's Warehouse in Tavistock St., and at Stage Door. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Marplot in Lisbon

Event Comment: Benefit for Burton and Philips. Tickets of Philips at Martlet Court in Bow St., Covent Garden, and at the stage door (Playbill). [Advertised as not acted in 10 years, but see 29 Oct. 1748.] Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies or Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great

Song: I: By Particular Desire, Hooly and Fairly-Beard

Dance: HHornpipe-Harrison

Event Comment: Benefit for Scrase and Miss Thomas. Tickets of Scrase at Mr Cross's in Crown Court, Russel St., Covent Garden; of Miss Thomas at the Ring and Pearl, Duke's Court, Bow St., and at stage door. No Building on Stage. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Song: Miss Thomas

Event Comment: Benefit for Simson and Wife and Mas. Simson. Tickets of Simson in Wild Passage, Wild St., near Lincoln's Inn Fields; at Grigsbys Coffee House, behind the Royal Exchange, and at stage door. Afterpiece: By particular Desire. Receipts: #210 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: I: Hooly and Fairly-Beard

Dance: III: A Minuet-Mas. Simson, Miss Simson

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Glen. Tickets deliver'd for Zara and 30th Instant will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Cast
Role: Renault Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: CComic Dance-Granier and Mrs Granier

Event Comment: Benefit for Berrisford, Parr, Broad, and Palmer. Tickets deliver'd out by Mr Costin will be taken. Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: (BBy desire) a Hornpipe-Mr Harrison

Event Comment: Benefit for Marten, Desse, Stoppelaer. Tickets sold at the doors will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: Aimwell Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Cast
Role: Gripe Actor: Costollo
Role: Lucia Actor: Mrs Baker.

Dance: III: Les Charbonieres-Lepie, Lucas; V: Italian Peasants, as17550414