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Event Comment: Benefit for Stoppelaer and Miss Young

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant; Or, The Sick Lady's Cure

Afterpiece Title: Phoebe

Cast
Role: Tippet Actor: Miss Young

Song: Between the acts: Miss Young

Dance: I: Comic Dance-J. Granier, J. Granier's Sister

Event Comment: Benefit for Collins, Mrs Bambridge, Mrs Cowper, and Miss Ferguson. Tickets deliver'd by Wilder, Mr Line and Widow Powell will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: As17481027, but Busy Body-Cibber; Isabinda-Mrs Cowper; Scentwell-Miss Ferguson.
Cast
Role: Scentwell Actor: Miss Ferguson.

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Cast
Role: Phillida Actor: Miss Young.

Song: A Dialogue of Jack and Jenny-Wilder, Miss Falkner

Dance: CComic Dance-J. Granier, J. Granier's Sister

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Norris. Tickets at Stage Door. Rec'd Cash #73 11s. 6d., plus #73 6s. from tickets. Total #146 17s. 6d. Paid Blandford (Tallow Chandler) #17 18s.; Paid Mr Field for Mr Killigrew's 9 s[hares] for 100 nights #105 (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #160 (Cross); charges, #63 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Rehearsal; or, Bayes in Petticoats

Song: Between the acts: Miss Norris

Event Comment: Benefit for Raftor, Reinhold and Miss Pitt. Rec'd cash #54 16s., plus #83 from tickets. Total #137 16s. Paid Mrs Reynolds for wax and brick dust 3s. 11d. (Treasurer's Book). Last time of performing the Afterpiece this season. Receipts: #160 (Cross); charges, #63 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Cast
Role: Iris Actor: Miss Cole

Afterpiece Title: Bayes in Petticoats

Song: IIf God could lengthen life forever-Reinhold; (by desire) Honour and Arms from the Oratorio Sampson,-Reinhold

Dance: WWooden Shoe Dance-Maltere; Tambourine-Miss Foulcade

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Hillyard. Tickets deliver'd out for the 11th instant will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Cast
Role: Cornet Actor: Miss Ferguson

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Performance Comment: See17500924, but Damon-Lowe; Phillida-Miss Young.
Cast
Role: Phillida Actor: Miss Young.

Dance: I: (By Desire) Pigmalion, as17510412 III: Grand Scots Ballet, as17500926; End: Louvre and Minuet-Cooke, Miss Hillyard

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Hilliard, and Mrs Storer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantly

Dance: I: Grand Dutch Dance, as17511021; III: A Grand Scots Ballet, as17511009; V: Louvre, Minuet-Cooke, Miss Hilliard

Song: II: (By Particular Desire) an Irish Song call'd Ellen a@roon-Mrs Storer

Event Comment: Benefit for LaLauze. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Tickets delivered by Miss Haughton will be taken. This Day Publish'd the last New Oratorio Jeptha, in Score, composed by Mr Handel at 10s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: Royal Chace

Dance: I: Two Pierrots-Dennison, Settree (Scholars of LaLauze); II: Shepherd's Dance-Settree; III: Pigmalion, as17510925; IV: Le je ne scay quois-Dennison, Madem Camargo, Settree; V: "By Desire"Louvre, Minuet-Settree, Miss Hillyard

Event Comment: Benefit for Signor Maranesi and Miss Hilliard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: Lover His Own Rival

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Pitt

Dance: II: A New Dance Il Guastatore-Maranesi, Sga Bugiani; III: Grand Scots Ballet, as17521216; IV: Mock Minuet-Sg Bugiani, Sga Bugiani; V: Minuet, Louvre-Cooke, Miss Hilliard

Event Comment: Benefit for Stede &c. Tickets deliver'd by Miss Ferguson will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Statue

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Morrison

Dance: II: Drunken Peasant-Miles; the Clown-Bennet; IV: Grand Scots Ballet-Cooke, Miss Hilliard

Song: III: Smiling Dawn from Jeptha-Mrs Chambers

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 Miss Macklin. Last time of Performing the Mainpiece this season. Afterpiece: Translated from the French by Macklin. Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

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

Afterpiece Title: A Will and no Will; or, A new case for the Lawyers

Performance Comment: The Principal Characters-Yates, Palmer, Usher, Philips, Blakes, Simson, Mrs Bennet, Miss Minors.

Dance: II: New Sailor's Dance, as17560217; End: A Minuet-Miss Macklin, Leviez. By Desire

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Hilliard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Lover His Own Rival

Dance: II: New Dance-Granier, Miss Hilliard; III: Fingalian Dance, as17551126; IV: The Villagers, as17560315

Song: I: Mrs Chambers

Event Comment: Both pieces by Command of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Mainpiece: Not acted these 10 years [see 8 May 1753]. Written by Beaumont and Fletcher. Afterpiece: Taken from Dryden and Colley Cibber, Poets Laureate. [Lucy was played by Miss Sledge; see 4 Feb. 1757.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: The Frenchified Lady never in Paris

Dance: Poitier, Granier, Lucas, Mlle Capdeville, Miss Hilliard

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Nossiter. No Building on stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Statira Actor: Miss Nossiter

Afterpiece Title: The Frenchified Lady

Dance: As17570103 Granier, Miss Hilliard, Lucas

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Macklin. Last time of performing till the Holidays. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Receipts: #330 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Performance Comment: As17561021, but Lord Townly-Garrick, 1st time for 10 years; Lady Townly-Miss Macklin, 1st time in the part here; John Moody-_; Trusty-_; Mrs Motherly-_; Myrtilla-_; Miss Jenny-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Dance: By particular Desire, aMinuet-Miss Macklin

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pritchard. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. This day publish'd, Price 1s. Brief Remarks on the Original and Present State of the Drama. To which is added Hecate's Prophecy, being a characteristic Dialogue between future Mangers and their Dependents. [William Shirley? A most virulent attack on Garrick's management as well as Rich's Quotes from the Herald No. XX, a denunciatory article on the managers, deplores the pamphleteering attempt to praise Garrick, asks "Shall he shine the God of our Idolatry, merely for excluding every other emulous and aspiring candidate?"] Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Cast
Role: Horatia Actor: Miss Pritchard, 1st time

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Cast
Role: Charlotte Actor: Miss Minors

Dance: II: The Italian Peasants, as17571004; End: By Desire, a Minuet-Noverre, Miss Pritchard

Event Comment: MMr Woodward has enter'd into partnership with Mr Barry in a new Theater in Ireland & has taken from us Mr Walker and Wife (Miss Minors that was) Mr Vernon, Mr Jefferson and Wife-from Mr Rich, Mr Arthur, Mr White, Mr Chambers, Mr Finny (his Scene-man) & others (Cross). Receipts: #120 (Cross); #128 15s. (Winston MS 8). Places for Boxes to be had of Mr Varney at the stage door. No admittance behind scenes, nor any money returned after the Curtain is drawn up. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. [This notice regularly occurs at foot of bill and will not be noted further this season. The box receipts recorded from Winston MS 8 seem to have been taken by him from the Huntington Library playbills (second set) annotated by J. P. Kemble from a Treasurer's Book.] Letter to Mr G@k on Opening of the Theatre, With Observations on Managers, Actors, Authors, and their Audiences and Particularly New Performers. 6d. Published by Cooke opposite Drury Lane Theatre. [It is a plea for more frequent appearances of Garrick, especially in lighter parts, now that Woodward has left; for especially good plays on Saturday nights; for striking from the repertoire all immoral, immodest and cruel plays; for being a sport about competition with Rich; for better regulation of the boxes, on a first-come, first-pay basis; for training up the most promising young actors gradually and not casting them in parts beyond their reaches; for more new plays; and for an advisory council in selecting them; for omission of personal satirical attacks in comedy.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: Touchstone-Yates; Orlando-Palmer; Jacques-Berry; Duke Sr-Blakes; Frederick-Bransby; Oliver-Burton; Amiens (with proper Songs)-Beard; Adam-Havard; Corin-Taswell; Silvius-Austin; Celia-Mrs Clive; Phebe-Miss Hippisley; Audrey-Mrs Bradshaw; Rosalind-Miss Macklin.
Cast
Role: Phebe Actor: Miss Hippisley
Role: Rosalind Actor: Miss Macklin.

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: I: A comic Dance call'd The German Hunters-Master Settree, Miss Twist

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Brent. Receipts: #175 13s. in cash, plus #92 7s. from tickets (Boxes 330; Pit 95; Gallery 56). Charges #64 5s. Total income #268. Bought 6 doz. Wax candles #7 7s

Performances

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Performance Comment: As17591212, but Fine Lady-Miss Brent, in Which she will introduce Ah se un cor barbaro, a favourite song in Demetrio.

Song: (B(By Desire) introduce the Favourite Song in Alfred called Nymphs and Shepherds-Miss Brent

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pritchard. Part of pit laid into boxes. Building on Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: Valentine-Fleetwood; Tattle-King; Scandal-Palmer; Angelica-Miss Pritchard; Mrs Frail-Mrs Clive; Prue-Miss Pope; Mrs Foresight-Mrs Pritchard; Trapland-Vaughan; Nurse-Mrs Bradshaw; Ben-Yates; Sir Sampson-Burton; Foresight-Blakes; Jeremy-Austin.
Cast
Role: Angelica Actor: Miss Pritchard
Role: Prue Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Cast
Role: Harriet Actor: Miss Pritchard.

Dance: By Particular Desire, a Minuet-Noverre, Miss Pritchard

Event Comment: Benefit for Noverre and Miss Pope. Mainpiece: Not acted 8 years [but see 30 April 1756]. Afterpiece: Not acted in 6 years [but see 16 May 1753]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Last Stake; Or, The Wife's Resentment

Performance Comment: Wronglove-Palmer; Brilliant-Obrien; Lady Wronglove-Mrs Clive; Miss Notable-Miss Pope; Mrs Conquest-Mrs Yates; Lady Gentle-Miss Pritchard; Hartshorn-Mrs Bennet; Sir Friendly-Burton [all for the first time, but Mrs Bennet and Mrs Clive]; a New Epilogue in the character of Miss Notable, -Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Miss Notable Actor: Miss Pope
Role: Lady Gentle Actor: Miss Pritchard
Role: Actor: Miss Pope.

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Performance Comment: Phelim O'Blunder-Moody, 1st time, with a song in character; Marquis-Balkes; Loveless-Atkins; Gripe-Philips; Jeremy-Clough; Isabel-Miss Hippisley.
Cast
Role: Isabel Actor: Miss Hippisley.

Dance: II: The Last New Dance-Sg Giorgi, Sga Giorgi; IV: A Louvre and Minuet (first time)-Noverre, Miss Pope

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Mowat. No Building on Stage. Receipts: #72 14s., plus #71 2s. from tickets (Boxes 93; Pit 225; Gallery 141). Charges #64 5s. Total income #143 16s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: As17600408 but Juliet-Miss Mowat, 1st time.

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Cast
Role: Flora Actor: Miss Young
Role: Betty Actor: Miss Mullart
Role: Mother Actor: Miss Copin.

Dance: III: By Desire, a Hornpipe-Miss Dawson; End: The Lamp Lighters, as17600318

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Simson and Miss Simson. No Building on Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: Touchstone-Yates; Orlando-Palmer; Jaques-Burton; Duke Sr-Balkes; Duke Frederick-Bransby; Oliver-Packer; Amiens (with proper songs)-Atkins; Adam-Havard; Corin-Philips; Sylvius-Austin; Caelia-Mrs Clive; Phoebe-Mrs Hippisley; Audry-Mrs Bradshaw; Rosalind-Miss Macklin.
Cast
Role: Rosalind Actor: Miss Macklin.

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

Dance: I: The Cow Keepers, as17600313 End: Louvre, Minuet-Noverre, Miss Simson

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Macklin. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [See 24 May 1759.] Part of Pit will be rail'd into Boxes. Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock. Tickets deliver'd out for the Constant Couple will be taken this night. Receipts: #47 5s. plus #73 17s. from tickets (Box 235; Pit 84; Gallery 75) (Account Book). Charges: #63 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Performance Comment: Sir Charles-Ross; Foppington-Macklin; Morelove-Hull; Lady Easy-Mrs Elmy; Lady Graveairs-Mrs Vincent; Edging-Mrs Green; Lady Betty-Miss Macklin, 1st time.

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Performance Comment: See17601219, but cast first listed: Sir Archy McSarcasm-Macklin; Sir Theodore-Dunstall; Sir Callaghan-Barrington; Mordecai-Cresswick; Squire Groom-Shuter; Charlotte (by desire)-Miss Macklin (Public Advertiser); Attorney-Weller (playbill).
Cast
Role: Charlotte Actor: Miss Macklin

Dance: III: A Comic Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville; End: Minuet-Poitier Jr, Miss Macklin

Event Comment: Benefit for Champnes and Miss Young. No Building on Stage. Mrs Yates oblig'd to go to Bristol for her health (Hopkins MS Notes)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanter

Song: II: A Cantata set by Handel,-Miss Young

Event Comment: Benefit for Noverre and Miss Pope

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Performance Comment: Don Carlos-Garrick; Sancho-King; Toledo-Blakes; Jacinta-Miss Pope, 1st time; Lorenzo-Palmer; Lopez-Yates; Felix-Burton; Alvarez-Bransby; Metaphrastus-Philips; Camilla-Mrs Davies; Isabella-Mrs Bennet; Leonora-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Jacinta Actor: Miss Pope, 1st time

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Dance: A Louvre and Minuet-Noverre, Miss Pope

Song: Mrs Vincent