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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Song: II: Beard; IV: Lowe

Music: Concerto on Violincello-Cervetti

Event Comment: Benefit Garrick. By Command of Prince and Princess of Wales. [Winston MS. from Dyer MS.: A prodigious audience] Farce never acted there. Seven rows of the Pit will be rail'd into the Boxes. Stage to be form'd into side boxes where servants may keep places. Tickets of Mr Valliant</a>, Bookseller, Strand; or at Garrick's, Bow St., Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: IV: Beard

Event Comment: Benefit Chiaretta Aquilanti. B the particular desire of several Ladies of Quality. [A poor Benefit (Winston MS.).] Tickets and places to be had of Hobson, &c; and at Mr Garnier's, a Jeweller, in Bow St

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Dance: I: Italian Gardeners, as17421231; III: a New Serious Dance-Sga Aquilanti; V: A New Sicilian Peasant</i>-Checo, Chiaretta

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Dance: DDutch Skipper, as17421025; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; Grand Ballet, as17421108

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple; Or, A Trip To The Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: I: a Serious Dance-Mlle Roland; III: Sailor's Dance-Delamayne, Mlle Roland; V: (by Desire) a Minuet, Louvre-Delamayne, Mlle Roland. [Dances not in Daily Advertiser.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice; Or, It Cannot Be

Performance Comment: Crack-Cibber; Surly-Dunstall; Violante-Mrs Dunstall; Sir Courtly Nice-Peterson.
Cast
Role: Violante Actor: Mrs Dunstall

Afterpiece Title: Bickerstaff's Unburied Dead

Song: Mrs Dunstall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amelia

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Dance: TTambourine-Cooke; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; La Provencale, as17421105

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Dance: I: Scotch Dance-Delamain, Anne Auretti; II: Tambourine-Anne Auretti; III: Characters of Dancing, as17421025; IV: Un Pas de Deux-Anne and Janneton Auretti; V: L'Aimable Vainqueur, Minuet-Picq, Anne Auretti

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Music: II: Concerto on German Flute-Burk Thumoth

Song: IV: Stella and Flavia-Beard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: As17430413

Music: As17430416

Event Comment: Benefit Cashell. Mainpiece At the Desire of Several Persons of Quality. Tickets and places to be had of Cashell at his lodgings, at the Dial in Little Wild St; or of Page at the stage Door. No Tickets will be admitted that are sold about the playhouse Passage. Mr Cashell begs the favour of those Ladies who have taken Boxes of Places to send for tickets, and likewise to send their servants by four o'clock to keep their places

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Cast
Role: Antonio Actor: Hippisley

Afterpiece Title: The Toyshop

Dance: I: Dutch Skipper, as17421025; III: Peasants, as17421230; V: Le Rendezvous Gallant</i>, as17421217

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: I: A French Peasant</i>-Froment, Mlle Gondeau; III: A New Serious Dance-Desse, Mrs Walter; V: La Florana, as17430408

Song: II: Stella and Flavia-Beard; IV: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard, Lowe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: III: Song-Lowe

Dance: II: Tyrolean Dance, as17421129; IV: Sicilian Peasant</i>, as17430310

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Event Comment: By the late Mr Addison. Benefit Capt Norton, late Commander of the Crawley Pink, who was taken the 18th of Sept. last, after a Gallant Engagement of Five Hours with Twelve Spanish privateers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Dance: II, V: As17431003

Related Works
Related Work: The Siege of Rhodes, Part II Author(s): Sir William Davenant

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Roxana; Or, Alexander In India

Performance Comment: Allessandro-Monticelli; Rossane-Siga Visconti; Lisaura-Rosa Mancini; Tassile-Giulia Frasi; Clito-Signora Fratesanti (Deutsch Handel, p. 573). Lady Hertford to Lord Beauchamp: The singers are Monticelli, Visconti, Julietta, a bass from Italy whose name is Fratanzanti, and two new women; one whose name is Rosa Mancini...and the other, Caselli.-Hughes, Hertford, p. 297.
Cast
Role: Clito Actor: Signora Fratesanti

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Roxana

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Assignation; Or, Love In A Nunnery

Performance Comment: Benito-Chapman; Duke of Mantua-Bridgwater; Prince Frederick-Ryan; Camillo-Cashell; Ascanio-Miss Hippisley; Lucretia-Mrs Horton; Aurelian-Hale; Mario-Rosco; Valerio-Anderson; Hippolita-Mrs Hale; Laura-Mrs Vincent; Violetta-Mrs Dunstall; Sophronia-Mrs James; Frontona-Mrs Mullart.
Cast
Role: Duke of Mantua Actor: Bridgwater

Dance: LLes Paisans Moisonneurs, as17431026

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Event Comment: Whereas Great Disorders were committed on Tuesday Night at the Theatre, by Numbers of persons violently forcing their way into the House, particularly into the Boxes, knocking down the door-keepers, and obliging the servants who kept places to go out, to the great prejudice of the Manager, who lost all the Money for the said Places, as they not only refus'd to pay for the Boxes, but likewise forc'd into the Pit without paying, he thinks it incumbent on him to gide Public notice That an Office will for the Future be kept at the Boxes, to prevent persons from going in the same tumultuous manner, and hopes no Gentlemen will be displeas'd in being first desir'd to take a ticket at the said Office. Last night the Play of the Rehearsal was perform'd at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane; when, upon Mr Garrick's making a proper apology to the Town he was receiv'd with the greatest marks of Approbation; and the Play was acted with the utmost Decency and Order

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Event Comment: The New Tragedy entitled Love's the Cause and Cure of Grief intended to have been acted this night is deferr'd till Monday Next. Daily Advertiser: The Fable of the Iron and the Earthen Pot. To Mr Macklin. Vers'd thou art in every Wile Thy conduct who can Reconcile? Who'll think thee knowing in Intrigue With Garrick e'er to join in League? Was not the Maxim to thee known That Leaguers. 'Twixt Equals suit alone? We grant thee Merit; yet how far Does Sol outshine the brightest Star? Thy strength hads't thou by duly weigh'd No Feuds had then to ills betray'd. Still if thou well or ill deserve Pity, methinks, to let thee starve Pity that thou shoulds't find too late Sage Aesop's Earthen Pot thy fate

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Lawyer's Feast

Song: II: Song-Morland

Dance: V: New Dance, as17431123