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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: A Solo and several Pieces on the French Horn by Mr Charles. And several Songs and Duets by the two Miss Youngs. The German Flute by Mr Pelicour [Balicourt in Daily Advertiser], lately arrived from abroad; Being the first Time of his Performing in England

Performance Comment: And several Songs and Duets by the two Miss Youngs. The German Flute by Mr Pelicour [Balicourt in Daily Advertiser], lately arrived from abroad; Being the first Time of his Performing in England .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus, King Of Thebes

Dance: Two Pierrots by Nivelon and Lalauze. Peasant by Tench and Miss Rogers. Comic Dance by Nivelon and Mlle De L'Isle. Dance of Sailors, as17351128

Performance Comment: Peasant by Tench and Miss Rogers. Comic Dance by Nivelon and Mlle De L'Isle. Dance of Sailors, as17351128.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Indiana Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Tom Actor: Cibber
Role: Lucinda Actor: Miss Holliday

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Music: In II: Violin Solo by Charke

Dance: I: English Maggot by Villeneuve, Mrs Walter, &c. II: The Rover by Essex, Mrs Walter, Miss Mann, &c. III: New Serious Dance by Denoyer, Mlle Anne Roland, &c. IV: Revellers by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c

Performance Comment: II: The Rover by Essex, Mrs Walter, Miss Mann, &c. III: New Serious Dance by Denoyer, Mlle Anne Roland, &c. IV: Revellers by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Parisatis Actor: Miss Horsington
Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Queans Author(s): Colley Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Nell Actor: Miss Norsa
Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: Two Pierrots by Nivelon and Lalauze. French Peasant by Tench and Miss Rogers. Scot's Dance, as17360226

Performance Comment: French Peasant by Tench and Miss Rogers. Scot's Dance, as17360226.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Cast
Role: Foppington Actor: Cibber
Related Works
Related Work: Antiochus the Great: or, The Fatal Relapse Author(s): Jane Wiseman

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: I: The Whim by Delamayne. II: The English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. IV: By Mlle Anne Roland. V: Rover by Essex, Mrs Walter, Miss Mann, &c

Performance Comment: II: The English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. IV: By Mlle Anne Roland. V: Rover by Essex, Mrs Walter, Miss Mann, &c .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Dance: II: By a Scholar of Nivelon's. III: Two Pierrots by Nivelon and Lalauze. IV: Tambourine by Miss Rogers. V: Sailors (from Orestes) by Glover and others

Performance Comment: III: Two Pierrots by Nivelon and Lalauze. IV: Tambourine by Miss Rogers. V: Sailors (from Orestes) by Glover and others .

Song: I: Chanson a Boire, to Musick of Mr Handel's, sung by Leveridge and Laguerre. II: The Confession by Roberts and Miss Norsa. III: The Opinion of the Ancients, set to Musick, by the Famous Mr Henry Purcell, and sung by Leveridge and Beard. IV: A Song in the Anacreontick Stile by Leveridge. V: A new Song in Praise of Old English Brown Beer, being a Sequel to the Roast Beef Song, and fit to be sung by all True Britons, and Lovers of Old England

Performance Comment: II: The Confession by Roberts and Miss Norsa. III: The Opinion of the Ancients, set to Musick, by the Famous Mr Henry Purcell, and sung by Leveridge and Beard. IV: A Song in the Anacreontick Stile by Leveridge. V: A new Song in Praise of Old English Brown Beer, being a Sequel to the Roast Beef Song, and fit to be sung by all True Britons, and Lovers of Old England .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: Peasant by Nivelon and Mlle De L'Isle. Shepherd and Shepherdess by Glover and Miss Rogers. French Peasants by Lalauze and Mlle D'Hervigni

Performance Comment: Shepherd and Shepherdess by Glover and Miss Rogers. French Peasants by Lalauze and Mlle D'Hervigni .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Cast
Role: Caska Actor: Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: I: Pierrots by Delamagne and Villeneuve. III: Black and White Joak by Phillips and Miss Mann. V: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter

Performance Comment: III: Black and White Joak by Phillips and Miss Mann. V: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Cast
Role: Jaculine Actor: Miss Bincks

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: II: A new Serious Dance by a Scholar of Nivelon. IV: A new Comic Dance by another Scholar of Nivelon. V: Tambourine by Miss Rogers

Performance Comment: IV: A new Comic Dance by another Scholar of Nivelon. V: Tambourine by Miss Rogers .

Song: I: By Roberts. III: Chancon a Boire, as17360504

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Cast
Role: Sparkish Actor: Cibber
Role: Mrs Dainty Actor: Miss Mann

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Cast
Role: Page Actor: Miss Cole

Dance: I: Two Pierrots by Davenport and Pelling. II: Whim by Delamayne. nI: Serious Dance by Delamayne and Miss Brett. IV: Double Jealousy by Poitier, Mlle Roland, &c. V: Comic Dance by Mr and Mrs Davenport. End Afterpiece: Harlequin by Delamayne

Performance Comment: II: Whim by Delamayne. nI: Serious Dance by Delamayne and Miss Brett. IV: Double Jealousy by Poitier, Mlle Roland, &c. V: Comic Dance by Mr and Mrs Davenport. End Afterpiece: Harlequin by Delamayne .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Comical Disappointment; or, The Miser Outwitted

Performance Comment: Cast not listed. With a new Prologue and an Epilogue to be spoken by Miss Ferguson in Boy's Cloaths .
Event Comment: Benefit Miss Jones, the Mayor of Pasquin's Daughter. Mainpiece: Written by the Author of Pasquin. Afterpiece: Written by a Female Politician

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Historical Register

Afterpiece Title: The Sailor's Opera

Dance: Mr Sant[, Dancing-Master, from Chester, who has perform'd several Times at dl] with great Applause, by the Name of the Chesire Boy

Event Comment: Play By Particular Desire. [Miss Woodman now Mrs Ridout.] Receipts #50

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Dance: LLe Genereux Corsaire-Sig and Siga Fausan; only; but see17411214 Les Jardiniers Suedois, as17411128

Event Comment: Benefit Harrington, Master Gillier, Miss Allen, and others

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Cast
Role: Eudocia Actor: Mrs Cibber.

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Dance: CCharacters of Dancing-Janneton Auretti; Tambourine-Master Gillier; L'Aimable Vainquers-Master Gillier, Mlle Janneton Auretti

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Friendship

Performance Comment: Beard, Savage, Mrs Clive, Miss Edwards.
Event Comment: [This Pastoral Serenata first appeared 21 March 1744 at the Crown and Anchor in the Strand, qv. At that time Beard, Savage, Mrs Clive and Miss Edwards sang in it.] By Subscription for three nights will be performed an English Pastoral Serenata, set to Music by Mr DeFesch. Pit and Boxes laid together at 5s. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. On the 20th of March and 3rd of April will be performed a New Oratorio call'd Joseph, also set to Music by Mr DeFesch. For the encouragement of such persons as shall please to favour Mr Defesch by subscribing one Guinea, they shall be entitled to six tickets, each of which will admit one into the boxes, or Two into the Gallery. Nobody to be admitted into the boxes without printed tickets, which will be deliver'd at the theatre. Subscriptions to be taken till the 5th of March, at Mr DeFesch's at the sign of the Angel and Trumpet, in St. Martin's Lane, at the Bedford Coffee House, Covent Garden; and at Mr Page's Stage Door-keeper. To begin at half an hour after six. This day is publish'd Papal Tyranny in the Reign of King John. [No price given, but the 1st edition lists it as 1s. 6d. Watts would have had to sell about two thousand copies to cover his investment in copyright and printing costs.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Friendship

Event Comment: [Handel paid Miss Robinson #210; on 11 May he paid Signora Franchesina #400. See Deutsch, Handel, 618-19.

Performances

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Lincoln. Prices 2s., 1s., 6d. At Hickford's Room, Panton St.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil To Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Entertainment: Rope dancing-; juggling-Yeates

Event Comment: MMr Picq entered from Saturday last at 2 Guineas per week certain; Mr Matthews entered ditto at 30s. per week. Mr Granier for his Christmas performance #5 5s.; Mr Forrest, attorney, on account #100 (Account Books, Egerton 2268). We hear there is now in rehearsal a Farce of two acts call'd Miss in her Teens; and will be acted soon after the Holidays.-General Advertiser. Receipts: #77 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command (General Advertiser). Present The King and The Princess Amelia. Rec'd by overcharge in Woodfall's Bills Jan. 14: 5s. and 17 days at 1s. per day of Miss in Her Teens: #1 2s. Receipts: #188 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Event Comment: [Notice of Ryan's Benefit for Monday, 30 March, with the Fair Penitent, instead of Venice Preserved]: Mr Garrick's Illness having rendered him incapable of taking any Part that requires energy, obliges me to change the Play, but not the farce of Miss in Her Teens in which he may be able to perform.--General Advertiser. Receipts: #70 13s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Event Comment: Benefit Berry, Mrs Ridout, Mrs Mozeen, and Miss Minors. Tickets deliver'd for Oroonoko will be taken. Oroonoko oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of the Indisposition of a principal performer. Afterpiece: At the particular request of several ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fine Lady's Airs

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: Salomon, Sga Padouana, the Mechels, Salomon's son

Song: III: A Duet of Purcell's call'd Caesar and Urania-Mrs Clive, Mrs Mozeen

Event Comment: Benefit for Desse, Brownly St., Longacre, and Miss Hippisley. Receipts: #72 9s. 6d., plus #71 3s. from tickets, but distribution unspecified. Charges #60

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Cast
Role: Fair Penitent Actor: Mrs Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: English Boy and Girl; By Desire, Hornpipe-Matthews

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

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