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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Penelope

Dance: Bettina

Event Comment: By particular Desire. Benefit Smith and Miss Davis. Note, Care will be taken that the House shall be kept warm

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Event Comment: At the French Theatre, over against the Opera House in the Haymarket, a Concert of Vocal and Instrumental Musick. Boxes 4s. Pit 1s. 6d., Gallery 1s. 6d. Between the two Halves of the Concert will be presented...gratis. 6 p.m. Benefit a Tradesman. Afterpiece: By the Author of The Toy-Shop. [Note, This customary concert formula and the notice of time and prices will not be repeated here.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pamela

Afterpiece Title: Sir John Cockle at Court

Event Comment: N.B. That the Ladies and Gentlemen may not be detained at the Theatre while Tickets are given them, they are desir'd to send for them to Mr Arne's House in Craven Buildings near Drury Lane, Number 17, or to Mr Bradshaw, Box-Keeper, at the Kings Arms in Great Russel St., where tickets may be had, and places taken. Boxes 6s. Pit 4s. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. Ladies are desir'd to send their servants to keep places by Four o'clock. NB: Mr Arne humbly hopes the Town will not be offended at this small advance of Prices, being at an extraordinary expence for copying all the Music, building the stage, additional instrumental performers, chorus singers, and erecting an Organ. [The attendance apparently was heavy. See note to repeated performance on 19 March.] Mainpiece: Written by Dryden and set to Music by Handel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Afterpiece Title: The Judgment of Paris

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Roberts. Tickets had of Mrs Roberts at her house in Duke St., near Lincoln's Inn Fields; and at Bradshaws, &c. Receipts: #130

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Cast
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Butler

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: I: Celia has Ten thousand charms-Beard; III: Bright Author of my Present Flame-Lowe; IV: Happy Pair-Lowe

Dance: II: A Concerto, as17420105; V: The French Peasants, as17420116

Event Comment: Benefit Bridgwater. All will be over at Nine at Night. Tickets delivered by Messing will be taken. Tickets of Page at the stage door and of Bridgwater at his house, the lower end of Water Lane in Fleet St.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: Ben-Bridgwater; Valentine-Hale; Tattle-Chapman; Foresight-Hippisley; Sir Sampson-Marten; Scandal-Cashell; Jeremy-Woodward; Trapland-James; Buckram-Harrington; Angelica-Mrs Horton; Mrs Frail-Mrs Pritchard; Mrs Foresight-Mrs Woodward; Nurse-Mrs Martin; Jenny-Mrs Bland; Miss Prue-Miss Georgiana Bellamy, who never appeared on any stage before.
Cast
Role: Scandal Actor: Cashell
Role: Trapland Actor: James
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Bland

Dance: TThe Peasants, as17420210; Chacone, as17411230; Rigadone Provencale, as17420226; Hornpipe proper to the play-Vaughan

Event Comment: Benefit Chapman. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Mr Chapman humbly begs the favour of those Ladies and Gentlemen who intend to honour him with their presence, to send for tickets to his House, the corner of Bow St., Covent Garden, and to excuse his paying his duty in person, on account of his long illness. Tickets deliver'd out for the Confederacy will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Dance: A New Pierot Dance-Picq, Mlle Auguste

Event Comment: Benefit Desnoyer. Mainpiece: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Tickets deliver'd for the Careless Husband, will be taken. Servants allow'd to keep Places on the stage, which will be form'd into an amphitheatre. Tickets to be had at M Desnoyer's House in Gloucester Court, St. James's St.; and of Page at the stage door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow Or The Wanton Wife

Dance: I: New Scots Dance-Desnoyer, Sga Barbarina; II: Tambourine-Desnoyer, Sga Barbarina; V: A Ball Dance call'd the Britannia, Louvre-; concluding with: a Minuet-Desnoyer, Sga Barbarina, By Command

Ballet: IV: Rural Assembly. See17420121, but only Chasseur-Desnoyer; Nymph-Sga Barbarina

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. Tickets and places of Bradshaw, &c, and at Mills' House in Nassau St., near Soho Square. Servants may keep places on stage, which will (for the better accommodation of the Ladies) will be enclosed to form an amphitheatre. Rylands MS.: Cibber elop'd. Receipts: #188

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Young Bevil-Delane; Tom-Cibber Jun.; Myrtle-Mills; Sealand-Berry; Indiana-Mrs Mills; Phillis-Mrs Clive; Sir John-Winstone; Cimberton-Taswell; Humphrey-Shepard; Daniel-Leigh; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Cross; Isabella-Mrs Bennet; Lucinda-Mrs Ridout.
Cast
Role: Sealand Actor: Berry
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Lowe

Dance: I: A Concerto, as17420105; IV: Le Boufon, as17420325

Song: II: Singing in Italian-Beard; III: Song-Lowe; V: (By Particular Desire) the favourite song of Elin@a@Roon-Mrs Clive (as she performed it in Dublin)

Event Comment: Benefit Paget and Blakes. Mr Blakes' Tickets at his House in Cranbourn Alley; Mr Paget's at the Sugar-Loaf in Fleet St.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: As17420406

Event Comment: Benefit Dubuisson and Mlle Bonneval. Mainpiece: By command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Tickets of Dubuisson at his House in St. Martin's St., near Leicester Fields, and of Page at the stage door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: I: A New Peasant Dance-Picq, Mlle Auguste; III: A New Dance call'd the Quarrelling Lovers Reconciled-Dubuisson, Mlle Bonneval; IV: New Comic Dance, as17420419 V: A New Dance call'd Les Matelots-Dubuisson, Mlle Bonneval

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. Tickets of Bradshaw, &c, and at Mill's House in Nassau St. Tickets deliver'd out for The Lady's Last Stake will be taken. We are obliged to change the Play because of the uncertainty of one of the principal Actors coming to perform. Receipts: #120

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: I: Let Me Wander not Unseen-Beard; III: Song-Lowe; V: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard

Dance: II: A Dutch Dance-Phillips; IV: The Swiss, as17410926

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: TThe Welshman's Triumph; or, the Death of the Wild Goat-the Son and Daughter of David and Winifred apShenkin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Sealand Actor: Berry
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Song: II: Song-Beard; III: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard

Dance: I: Running Footman's Dance, as17420428 II: Le Boufon, as17420325 IV: The Italian Peasants, as17411205; V: The Drunken Peasant, as17411029

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Containing the Distresses and Death of King Henry VI; the Artful acquisition of the Crown by King Richardv; the Murder of young King Edward V, and his brother in the Tower; The landing of the Earl of Richmond, and the death of King Richard in the memorable Battle of Bosworth Fieldv, being the last that was fought between the Houses of York and Lancaster. With many other Historical passages. [This descriptive passage accompanies all notices of the play this season and will not be recorded here further.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Song: II: Song-Beard

Music: IV: Concerto-Veracini

Dance: V: Grand Serious Ballet, as17421005

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Desire of Several Persons of Quality. N.B. Some few days ago Mrs Catherine Penny was Committed, by Col DeVeil, to Bridewell, for selling Counterfeit tickets, for the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane; and as she has deliver'd out others for several Benefits to come (Mrs Clive's in particular) it is thought proper to give this public notice of the fraud, in order to prevent any tickets being bought in the Passages of the Theatre, proper care being taken to prevent all Tickets so bought from coming into the House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Event Comment: Benefit Quin. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. To prevent any imposition on the publick by counterfeit tickets, which are so frequently sold at the doors, no tickets so bought will be admitted into the house

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Dance: LLes Boufons du Cour, as17430305 Characters of Dancing, as17421108; Grand Ballet, as17421108

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Clive. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Servants will be admitted to keep places on the stage, which for the better accommodation of the Ladies, will then be form'd into an Amphitheatre. Ladies are desir'd to send their servants by 3 o'clock. Tickets and Places to be had of Mrs Clive, at her house in Great Queen St, Lincoln's Inn Fields; and of Hobson at the stage door of the theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: Boromeo, Desse, Mlle Bonneval

Event Comment: Last time of performing the Oratorio this season. The Subscribers to Mr Handel's six former performances, who intend to continue their subscription on the same conditions for six more, are desired to send their subscription money to Mr Handel's House in Brook Street, where attendance will be given this day [15 March] in order to deliver out their subscription tickets

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sampson

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Hooper. Tickets and Places to be taken...and of Mrs Hooper, at her House at Knightsbridge

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: I: Would you taste the Noontide Air?-Mrs Hooper; III: Let me wander not unseen-Mrs Hooper

Performance Comment: -Mrs Hooper; III: Let me wander not unseen-Mrs Hooper.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Song: II: Beard

Dance: I: Sicilian Peasant, as17430310 III: Neopolitan Punch-Checo, Signora Chiaretta

Event Comment: Benefit Cooke. At the desire of several persons of Quality. Amphitheatre on stage. Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock to keep places. Tickets to be had and places to be taken of Cooke Sen., at his house in Great Ormond St., near Queen Square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Woodward.
Role: Sealand Actor: Rosco

Dance: I: Les Matelots-Cooke; III: A French Peasant-Cooke; IV: Grand Ballet, as17421108; V: a Ball Dance call'd the Louvre, concluding with a Minuet-Cooke, Anne Auretti

Event Comment: To the Publick: Ladies and Gentleman, The Play of Othello, with Dancing by Cooke, Picq, Delamain, and Les Damoiselles Anne and Janneton Auretti, &c., being to be acted for my benefit on Monday next, at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden; and having accidentally heard that a certain person being possess'd of a great quantity of my tickets, has some thoughts of getting them up to a considerable premium, I out of meer Friendship, not at all with regard to my own interest (if you'll believe me) do privately and secretly, in this public manner, advise you, to send away to my house, the corner of Bow St. near the said theatre, where I will oblige you with what number of tickets you please, at Par, to within an Hour of the Play's beginning. I am, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your most obedient and humble servant, Tho. Chapman

Performances

Event Comment: Benefit Shepard. Tickets of Hobson at the stage Door. Mr Shepard humbly hopes his friends will not be offended at the Alteration of the play, he being oblig'd to change it on account of the Indisposition of a Principal Performer. The Tickets deliver'd for Henry VIII will be taken this night (London Daily Post and General Advertiser). Shepard belonged for many years to the House. Fleetwood dismissed him. Let him have a benefit for the money accrued to him. Beard ill and did not act. (Winston MS. from Dyer MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: End of Farce:By Particular Desire, Bumper Squire Jones-Beard