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Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Karver. To be conducted in the same manner as in 1754. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. To begin at seven o'clock. Miss Midnight had no concern in the management of a performance lately exhibited at the Haymarket under the above mentioned name, but was only there as a Performer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mrs Midnight's Concert And Oratory

Afterpiece Title: The Contest of Love and Glory

Event Comment: A Sacred Oratorio by Pope, set by Charles Barbandt. Benefit for the Composer. Box 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. To begin at Seven O'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Universal Prayer

Event Comment: By Authority. Benefit for Lauder. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. To begin at Half an Hour after Six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Patie And Roger; Or, The Gentle Shepherd

Song: Introducing several favorite Scots Songs-Lauder

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pritchard. Tickets delviered out for The Way to Keep Him and Catherine and Petruchio will be taken. Mainpiece At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Part of Pit will be railed into the Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: The Way to Keep Him

Event Comment: Benefit for Sparks. By Desire. Tickets for Romeo and Juliet will be taken. Receipts: #69 in cash, plus #203 15s. from tickets (Boxes 380; Pit 563; Gallery 243). Total #272 15s. Charges #64 5s. Paid Kemp #6 8s.; Paid Meares 8s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Song: Miss Brent

Dance: II: A Comic Dance-Granier, Miss Hilliard; End: The Lamp Lighters, as17600318

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Macklin. Last time of performing afterpiece this season. Part of Pit laid into boxes; Amphitheatre on stage. Full prices. Send servants at 3 o'clock; Doors open promptly at Three

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Event Comment: Benefit for Ross. No building on Stage. Receipts: #112 in cash, plus #71 1s. from tickets (Boxes 208; Pit 127). Charges #63. [Ross found his wax candles.] Total income #183 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: I: The Dutch Skipper, as17591017; End: The Lamp Lighters, as17600318

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

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

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

Event Comment: Benefit for Dyer. Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. No building on stage. Receipts: #75 5s., in cash, plus #143 4s. from tickets (Boxes 238; Pit 416; Gallery 213). Total income #218 8s. Charges #64 5s. Paid Besworth the porter 1 week's salary 12s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: III: Fingalian Dance-Miss Hilliard; End: The Lamp Lighters, as17600318

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

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

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke. No building on stage. [Afterpiece: see The Country Wake. This may be Hippisley's alteration.] Receipts: #51 14s. 6d. in cash. Deficit to Clarke, #12 10s. 6d. covered by income from tickets, #106 10s. (Boxes 127; Pit 401; Gallery 146). Total income #158 4s. 6d. Charges #64 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part I

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: II: Fingalian Dance, as17600408 End: The Lamp Lighters, as17600318

Event Comment: Benefit for Lowe. Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock. Receipts: #103 1s., in cash, plus #162 19s. from tickets (Boxes 259; Pit 546; Gallery 163). Total income #266.Charges #64 5s. Paid Martin (wardrobe keeper) on a acct of his salary #5; Paid Whitefield 3 months salary #7 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: CCountry Dance-characters of the play; Hornpipe-Miss Dawson; I: Fingalian Dance-Miss Hilliard; II: Dutch Skipper-Poitier

Event Comment: Benefit for Ryan. Tickets delivered out for The Fop's Fortune will be taken. Receipts: #66 7s. 6d. in cash, plus #100 17s. from tickets (Boxes 249; Pit 190; Gallery 101). Total income #167 4s. 6d. Charges #64 5s. Paid Meares a bill for 6s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Vincent. Afterpiece: By Desire and for that night only. No building on Stage. Miss Dawson's second time of speaking on the Stage. Tickets delivered out for Hamlet will be taken. Receipts: #76 4s. 6d. in cash, plus #83 5s. from tickets (Boxes 147; Pit 208; Gallery 153). Total income #159 9s. 6d. Charge #64 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Entertainment: E+Extravaganza. Between Play and Farce: Shuter will entertain the Audience (this night only) by A Day of Taste, as17600320

Event Comment: Benefit for Poitier Jr. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [See 1 May 1758.] Receipts: #47 in cash. Deficit to Poitier Jr #17 5s., covered by #39 7s. from tickets (Boxes 79; Pit 92; Gallery 50). Total income #86 7s. Charges #64 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: I: A new Comic Dance, The Knife Grinders-Poitier, Mlle Capdeville; II: A Shepherdess-Miss Wilford, as17600324 III: The Peasants-Miss Wilford, Miss Valois; IV: The Pygmalion Dance-Poitier, Miss Wilford; End: A Minuet , By Desire,-Poitier, Miss Wilford

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunstall. Mainpiece: Not acted these 12 years. No building on Stage. Receipts: #34 14s. in cash. Charges #64 5s. Deficit to Dunstall #29 11s., covered by income from tickets, #158 19s. (Boxes 172; Pit 681; Gallery 138). Total income #193 13s

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: Flora; or, Hob in the Well

Song: III: Lowe

Dance: II: Comic Dance, as17600421 End: The Lamp Lighters, as17600318

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

Afterpiece Title: Flora

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

Event Comment: Benefit for Rice. Afterpiece: For the only time this season will be introduc'd a Mock Italian Burletta. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. To begin at Seven O'clock. As it was originally performed in 1754

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mrs Midnight's Concert And Oratory

Afterpiece Title: Britannia's Triumph; or, The Contest of Love and Glory

Dance: HHornpipe-

Music: The Band all mask'd in the Venetian Taste

Event Comment: Benefit for Ballard, Treasurer. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years [see 20 Oct. 1759]. Receipts: #37 11s. 6d. plus #205 4s. from tickets (Boxes 260; Pit 830; Gallery 247). Total income #242 15s. 6d. Charges #64 5s. Paid Ledley for 8 doz. wax candles at #1 11s. per dozen, #12 8s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A La Mode

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: II: The Lamp Lighters, as17600318 End: The Knife Grinders, as17600417

Event Comment: Benefit for General Lying-In Hospital. Pit and boxes Half a Guinea. First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Clemenza Di Tito

Event Comment: Benefit for Stoppelaer. Receipts: #26 2s. 6d. in cash. Charges #64 5s. Deficit of #36 17s. 6d. covered by #119 5s. from tickets (Boxes 107; Pit 478; Gallery 208)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: III: The Fingalian Dance, as17591102; End: The Threshers, as17591005

Event Comment: Benefit for Foly (Box lobby doorkeekper) and Veal (First Gallery doorkeeper). British Chronicle, 16 May: Yesterday Foulkes, a Beadle of Vere St Clare Market fell from the upper gallery of Drury Lane play house into the pit & expired immediately. The seat on which he fell was broke in half. British Chronicle, 16 May: It is said Mrs Pritchard is appointed Dresser to her intended Majesty for the Royal Wedding

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal; Or, The Humours Of The Navy

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Dance: HHornpipe-a sailor on board the Royal Sovereign

Event Comment: Benefit for Varney. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Tickets delivered for the 10th instant will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: IV: Miss Spencer

Dance: HHornpipe-a sailor from the Royal Sovereign

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Polly Capitani. Boxes 10s. 6d. Pit 5s. To begin at seven. The House will be illuminated with wax candles

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Instrumental parts-the best performers

Dance: A Minuetby Particular Desire,-Sga Asselin, Noverre; A new Terzetta-Miss Capitani, Miss Capitani's brother (six years old), Master Teriot

Event Comment: At the Greyhound Inn, West Smithfield. N.B. The Gentry and others are desired to take notice, that there is a most commodious Way to the Boxes and Pit next the sheep pens, where they may pass without the least Crowd, and Coaches may draw up close to the Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dramatic Turtle