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Event Comment: At Yeates' Great Booth. From 10 a.m. to 9 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Event Comment: MMrs Aubin against Mr Henly. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality Mrs Aubin will make an Oration. Also a Concert. At Topham's Great Room, now The Lady's Oratory. At 6 p.m. Tickets 2s. 6d

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Event Comment: At Lee-Harper Great Booth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Bethulia; Containing The Ancient History Of Judith And Holofernes; Together With The Comical Humours Of Rustego And His Man Terrible

Song: Mrs Fitzgerald Sr

Event Comment: At Reynolds' Booth. The Beggar's Wedding acted until 8 p.m.; Damon and Phillida, 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.; The Humours of Harlequin added to each one. Daily Post, 25 Aug.: This Day his Royal Highness the Duke and their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Mary and Louisa intend to honour Mr Reynolds with their Presence at his Great Theatrical Booth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Wedding

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of Harlequin

Music: With the Original Band of Musick

Event Comment: At Yeates' Great Booth

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Wedding

Event Comment: By a Company of Comedians from the Hay-Market. At the Great Theatrical Tyl'd Booth, during the four Days of Black-heath Fair. From 1 P.M. to 10 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Wedding

Afterpiece Title: Flora

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Event Comment: [T$The Prince of Wales present.] Daily Journal, 29 Jan.: The Tragedy of Timoleon has been received with very great Applause by the Town, notwithstanding the Endeavours of a certain Person (who can give a Preference to none but his own Performances) to depreciate it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timoleon

Event Comment: The Boxes not being sufficient to answer the great Demand for Places, at the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality, the Pit and Boxes will be put together, for their better Accommodation

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Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentlewoman in Distress. At Topham's Great Room. 7 p.m. Tickets 5s

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: the best Mhe best Masters from the Opera House

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Daily Courant, 23 Feb.: And the Concourse was so great, that several Ladies of the first Rank were excluded for want of room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Younger. By Command of His Royal Highness. Written by Mr Farquhar. Receipts: money #75 17s.; tickets #119 6s. Daily Journal, 21 March: After the Play...the Prince of Wales and a great Number of the Nobility being Present, Mr Leveridge (whose Benefit is also to come very shortly) advanced upon the Stage, and after paying his Honours to the Audience, invited them to his Benefit, by a humorous Song set to the merry Tune of the Black Joke; which was receiv'd by the whole House with a universal Encore

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Music: Preamble on the Kettle Drum-Poitier

Dance: End I: Pierrots-Nivelon, Poitier; II: French Sailor-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; III: Numidian-Glover, Miss LaTour; IV: Highlander and Mistress=-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; V: Polonese-Poitier, Miss LaTour

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. The Boxes not equal to the great Demand for Places, at the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality, Pit and Boxes will be put together

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Author's Farce

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Gentlemen and Ladies. For the Benefit of a Young Man. By a Company of Young Gentlemen. At Lee's Great Booth, on the Bowling-Green. Afterpiece: Being particularly desired. Written by Mr Gibson Jr. Intermix'd with Songs. [Announced only in Craftsman, 16 May.

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Mainpiece Title: The Perfidious Brother

Afterpiece Title: Love at First Sight

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rum Duke And The Queer Duke; Or, A Medley Of Mirth And Sorrow

Afterpiece Title: Punch's Oratory; or, The Pleasures of the Town: Containing several diverting Passages,

Performance Comment: ..a very elegant and learned Dispute between Punch and another great Orator: Punch's Family Lectures; or, Joan's Chimes on her Tongue to some Tune. Punch-Reynolds; Joan-Mrs Egleton; from lif; Orator-Jones; Opera-Stoppelaer; Goddess of Nonsense-Mrs Mullart; Mrs Novel-Mrs Nokes.

Dance: St.Luce

Event Comment: At the Great Booth. [Advertised also on 8, 10, 15, 17 Sept.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood And Little John; Shewing How He Was Banish'd By The Instigation Of The earl Of Pembroke, For The Love Of The Fair matilda; His Bold Adventures With His Man little John; And The band Of Outlaws; On Which Information the King Went With His Army To pembroke, And robin Hood's Happy Return To Court: With The Comical Adventures Of Little John And The pindar's Wife

Afterpiece Title: (at 8 p

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Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Performance Comment: Hamlet-Wilks; Queen-Mrs Porter; Ophelia-Mrs Booth; King-Wm. Mills; Horatio-Mills; Laertes-Williams; Ghost-Bridgewater; Fop-Cibber Jr; Gravedigger-Johnson; With a new Prologue-address'd to the Merchants of Great Britain.
Event Comment: By the Company of Comedians from the Hay-Market at the Great Theatrical Booth in Bird-Cage Alley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Contrivance; or, The Plague of a Wanton Wife

Song: Mrs Nokes

Event Comment: Benefit Ray, alias Little John. At Lee-Harper Great Booth, on the Bowling-Green, Southwark. At 6:30 p.m

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Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Song: TThe Bath Teazer (that celebrated Ballad) by Leveridge-Ray

Dance: End II: The White Joke-Eaton; III: A new Dance-Hind, Eaton, Mrs Hill

Event Comment: Benefit Charles, the Merry Trumpeter of Oxford. At Mrs Lee's Great Booth on the Bowling-Green. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Author's Farce; With The Pleasures Of The Town

Performance Comment: Luckless-Mullart; Whitemore-Havard; Marplay-Raynolds; Sparkish-Stoppelaer; Bookweight-Jones; Scarecrow-Wathen; Harriot-Miss Talbot; Goddess of Nonsense-Mrs Mullart; Tragedio-Ayres; Sir Farsical-Davenport; Opera-Stoppelaer; Orator-Jones; Somebody-Wathen; Nobody-Cross; Mrs Novel-Mrs Nokes; Lady Kingcale-Mrs Clark; Punch-Reynolds; Joan-Hicks; with The Triumphs of the King of Bantam-; With a new Prologue- address'd to the Merchants' 'prentices of Great Britain.
Event Comment: The same morning [Saturday 31] the Opera of Scipio was rehearsed before a great Number of Ladies of the first Quality, and other Persons of Distinction.-Daily Courant, 2 Nov

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Scipio

Event Comment: The Noted Yeates, at his Great Booth in the Upper Moorfields, during the Holiday Week

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Damon And Phillida

Afterpiece Title: The Comical Humours of Cimon and Mopsus

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman under great Misfortunes. By a Company of Young Gentlemen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler of Preston

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Event Comment: Benefit a Person in Great Distress. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. Receipts: money #18 9s.; tickets #55 15s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Nivelon, Poitier; Highlander and his Mistress-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; Numidian-Glover, Miss LaTour

Event Comment: Benefit Thomas Mountier, the Chichester Boy, who sung at Mr Smith's Concert in lif. At the Request of a great Number of Gentlemen and Ladies. Pit and Boxes will be laid together at 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert