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Event Comment: Benefit Wright, Miss Bennett, Fleetwood, Reynolds, Green, Ockman, and Elliott. Tickets deliver'd for the Provok'd Husband will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Event Comment: WWinston MS: Mrs Green married during June 1747. She play'd as Miss Hippisley at Covent Garden 29 May 1747. Receipts: #140 (Cross); #121 8s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal; Or, The Ladies Philosophy

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Performance Comment: Brass-Macklin; Dick-Havard; Moneytrap-Yates; Gripe-Taswell; Clarissa-Mrs Woffington; Flippanta-Mrs Clive; Corinna-Mrs Green (late Miss Hippisley); Araminta-Mrs Mills; Amlet-Mrs Macklin; Mrs Cloggit-Mrs Cross.

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: II: New Dance-Cooke

Event Comment: CCross: Miss Pit went to play in the Beg. Opera for Mr Usher at Richmond & was deliver'd of a fine Girl--N.B.: She was Virgin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Event Comment: Benefit for Mlle Roland and Master & Miss Jenny Poitier

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orazio

Dance: NNew Dances-

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Bridges. Tickets to be had of Mr Bridges at Mr Courteen's in Bow St., Covent Garden; and of Hobson at the stage door. Publish'd this day at 1s. Miss in Her Teens; or, the Medley of Lovers, a Farce in Two Acts, as it is performed at Drury Lane. Written by Mr Garrick. Printed for J. and R. Tonson. Receipts: #140 (Cross); charges, #63 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Lethe and Jumpedo

Event Comment: Benefit for Morgan and Miss Stevens. Tickets given out by Craven and Mrs Denton will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Knights

Afterpiece Title: The Auction

Event Comment: No persons to be admitted behind the scenes nor any money to be returned after the Curtain is drawn up. [A customary notice throughout the remainder of the season until benefit time.] Tomorrow (not acted these two years) Jane Shore. The part of Alicia to be attempted by Miss Jane Cibber, being her first time of appearing upon that stage these two years. Receipts: #40 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Entertainment: EEpilogue upon Two Prologues-Mrs Clive

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Cast
Role: Laura Actor: Miss Norris

Dance: I: Comic Dance, as17501231; IV: La Minuet a Quatre-Roger, G. Yates, Mrs Toogood, Miss Shawford; V: Hornpipe-the Little Swiss

Performance Comment: Yates, Mrs Toogood, Miss Shawford; V: Hornpipe-the Little Swiss.

Music: II: a Scotch and Welch Air on the Harp-Mrs Gwinn

Song: III: Song (words by Dr Boyce)-Mattocks

Event Comment: Play By Particular Desire. The tragedy of Jane Shore in which character Miss Macklin is to make her appearance, is in rehearsal at Covent Garden, and will be acted there on Friday next

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Drummer

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer; with the Loves of Pluto and Proserpine With Alterations

Performance Comment: Pluto-Howard; Ascalax-Baker; Proserpine-Mrs Storer; Witches-Legge; Mrs Lampe, Mrs Arne, Miss Young; Harlequin- (1752 ed.).
Event Comment: During the short time of the Fair, at Bence's Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark. Boxes 2s. Pit 1s. Gallery 6d. To begin at Twelve and end at Ten at night. [N.B. at a Booth next to Yeates's ran Parsloe's Grand Medley, including The Town Miss; or, The Miser Outwitted,' by operational moving figures (puppets) followed by dancing, jiggs, disjointments, concluding with a piece of German Clockwork, for the diversion of the Curious.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Intriguing Chambermaid; Or, The Wanton Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Triumphant

Dance: I: A new Grand Comic Dance-Sg and Sga Codgerino; End: A new Irish Dance-

Event Comment: 'TTis said Miss Bellamy, who engag'd lately with Mr Rich is off again. Mr Colthorp who kept her, swears to kick Rich &c. Great noise about it in ye Bedford Coffee House (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses; Or, The Custom Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Dance: Grandchamps, Mlle Camargo

Event Comment: No Performance Passion Week (Cross). We hear that a new Tragedy call'd Creusa Queen of Athens, written by the author of the Roman Father is now in rehearsal at Drury Lane, in which Miss Macklin will play the part of a boy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Event Comment: Tickets deliver'd by Mlle Camargo and Miss Ferguson will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Dance: LLes Taileurs, as17531210; also by Particular Desire, a Minuet, Louvre-Gardner, Mlle Camargo

Event Comment: MMiss Wilkinson has not only complied with the Vulgar Method of printing Bills, but as more elegant Form of Invitation, has sent complimentary Cards to all the Ladies of Distinction. [A debate on the superiority of the fair sex, after which Miss Wilkinson performed on the wire. A Praemium and peroration were spoken by George Alexander Stevens. Well advertised in advance bills. It began at 7 p.m. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. This performance, soon changed to A Short Comic Oratorio and had a run here, almost always advertised as by the particular desire of several ladies of quality.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Inquisition

Event Comment: This day publish'd at 3s. The Actor; or, A Treatise on the Art of Playing. A New Work written by the Author of the former [See dl 30 Oct. 1753]; and adapted to the present state of the Theatres. Containing impartial Observations on the Performance, Manner, Perfections, and Defects of: Garrick, Barry, Woodward, Foote, Havard, Palmer, Ryan, Berry, Mrs Cibber, Mrs Pritchard, Mrs Woffington, Mrs Gregory, Mrs Clive, Mrs Green, Miss Nossiter, Mrs Bellamy, &c., &c., in their capital parts. Printed for R. Griffiths

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Macchabaeus

Event Comment: This night the Riot was very Great, the Gentlemen came with Sticks, & tho' the play went on quiet 'till the last Act, we had there a great Stop, notwithstanding we ended it, & then the rout went on, ye Boxes drove many out of the Pit, & broken heads were plenty on both Sides; the dance began,--was Stop'd--& so again & again--while this was doing numbers were assembl'd in the Passages of the pit, broke down & were getting into the Cellar, but were repuls'd by our Scene men &c.--heavy blows on both sides--Justice Fielding--& Welch came with Constables & a Guard; but without effect, tho' the Justices stood upon ye Stage--I thought ye proclamation must have been read--after ye battle in the Passages numbers went & broke Garrick's Windows in Southhampton Street, --part of ye Guard went to protect it-Garrick was oblig'd to give up the Dancers-& ye Audience disperc'd (Cross). This day publish'd at 1s. The Country Coquet; or, Miss in her Breeches, a Ballad Opera, as it may be acted at Drury Lane. @Men, some to business, some to pleasure take@But every woman is at heart a Rake.@ Pope By a Young Lady. Printed for and sold for J. Major, in Three-Tun Court, leading from the Ship in Ivy Lane into Newgate Market. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Chinese Festival

Event Comment: Benefit of Cross jun and Miss Thomas. Box 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. To begin at 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Music: To conclude with the Coronation Anthem-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: Jacintha Actor: Miss Macklin
Role: Lucetta Actor: Miss Minors

Afterpiece Title: Britannia

Performance Comment: [See17550509, but without Miss Thomas.] With a Prologue-Garrick [in the character of a Sailor; Epilogue-[suitable to the Occasion, to be spoken at the head of a Number of Boys clothed in Sailors Habits given them by the Society.suitable to the Occasion, to be spoken at the head of a Number of Boys clothed in Sailors Habits given them by the Society.
Event Comment: Benefit for Morris, Marr, Berrisford, Gray, Brownsmith, Miss Hippisley. Tickets deliver'd for Richard III and The Mourning Bride, and by Spilsbury, Royal, Hawksly, Costin, and Mrs Smith will be taken. Receipts: #170. 11 people had tickets (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: A Hornpipe-Mossis

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Glanville and Kear. Being the last Night of performing in the Gardens for this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

Event Comment: BBritish Chronicle, 8 Oct.: A young Lady from Jamaica, Miss Osborne, is to make her appearance at Drury Lane and Sheridan is also engag'd there

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Event Comment: MMiss Pope in Corrinna (fine) Mr Wilkinson, Mrs Amlet (sad) (Cross). Mainpiece: Not acted in 8 years [but see 3 Jan. 1753]. My mother and I were at Drury Lane to see The Confederacy and Harlequin Ranger, Mrs King, Watson and Miss Pitt sat in our Box, a new actress did Corrinne to perfection, see Schutz Jr, Mr Schutz, Dives and Pigot there (Hailey, 'The Brietzcke Diary," p. 360). Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Event Comment: Receipts: #155 2s. Miss Mowat's 2nd appearance. Paid Powell for his attendance and adjusting the Accounts for two seasons to the end of May #100

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore