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Event Comment: Benefit for Gray, Atkinson, & 4 Doorkeepers (Cross). Benefit for Gray, Jones (Box Office Keeper), Berrisford (Box Keeper), Atkinson (Pit Doorkeeper), and Goodwin. Receipts; #220 (Cross); charges, #63 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: III: Savoyards, as17471215; IV: Pastoral Dance, as17480326

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunbar (Box Keeper), Warner and Foley (Box Lobby Keepers), Pritchard (Upper Gallery Office Keeper), Saunders (Stage Doorkeeper). Receipts: #180 (Cross); charges, #63 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: I: Peasant Dance, as17480506; III: Hornpipe-Shawford; V: Comic Dance, as17480506

Event Comment: Mainpiece: For the entertainment of two young Africans. On Friday 10 February will be perform'd a New Oratorio, call'd Susanna, with a Concerto. Pit and boxes to be put together, and no person to be admitted without tickets, which will be deliver'd that day, at the Office in Covent Garden Theatre, at half a guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. 6d. Galleries opened at half past four. Pit and Boxes at Five. To Begin at Half an Hour after Six. [This advertisement repeated in the General Advertiser daily to 10 Feb. 1749.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cibber. Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years.[See 2 April 1745]. Pit and Boxes laid together, where servants will be allowed to keep Places, and on the stage; which for the better Accommodation of the Ladies will be inclos'd and form'd into Front and Side Boxes. Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock. Tickets of Mrs Cibber at New Street, Spring Garden, and of Hobson. Receipts: #275 (Cross); house charges, #60. This must be subtracted as before (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: Cooke, the Aurettis

Event Comment: Benefit for James Sturgis Adams (a Person in Distress) (Cross). Gave Xmas Box to Duke's Servts #1 1s. (Treasurer's Book). Tickets for Boxes to be had at the following Coffee Houses, St. James, St. James's St; Somerset in the Strand; Grigsby's behind the Royal Exchange; and the Union, Cornhill. Receipts: #205 (Cross); charges, #80 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Song: I: Master Mattocks

Dance: IV: Hornpipe-Mathews

Event Comment: A New Comic Opera. To begin at six o'clock. Pit and Boxes 1!2 Guinea. Gallery 5s. Gallery open at four; Pit and Boxes at Five (Daily Advertiser). [This information is repeated in each advertisement.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Madame Ciana

Event Comment: Benefit for Barry. By Command of his Majesty. Duke and Amelia [present] (Cross). Pit and Boxes laid together, and servants will be allowed to keep places there and on the stage, which will be formed into front and side boxes. Ladies desired to send their servants by three o'clock. Tickets and places to be had of Barry, the corner of Bow St., Covent Garden; and of Hobson at the stage door. Receipts: #280 (Cross); #252 (Treasurer's Book). @Rec'd: Cash Front #84 14s. 6d.@Stage #45 16s. 6d.@Tickets Front #119 10s.@Stage-@ Paid salary List 4 days, #203 7s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Dance: Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti, Mathews, Miss Baker

Event Comment: Benefit for Evans and Condell (Box-Keepers) and Page (House-keeper). Charges Evans #35; Condell #20; Page #3 3s. 6d. (taken up by Rich), plus 1!2 value of his tickets or #18 4s. Evans covered his Charges by #105 5s. from Tickets; Condell by #43 16s. from tickets; Page by #36 8s. These Box-Keepers also rec'd #10 each for attendance this season. Receipts: #12 14s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Event Comment: Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no person to be admitted without tickets, which will be deliver'd that day at the office in Covent Garden theatre at Half a Guinea each; 1st Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. The Galleries will be open'd at half an hour after Four. Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Belshazzar

Afterpiece Title: Concerto on Organ

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Ye Audience allarm'd in the Middle of ye farce by Cap Robinson & Cap Loyde fighting behind ye Boxes; people suspected at first it was fire, but being convinc'd to ye Contrary set down again. Cap Rob was wounded (Cross). Was a terrible alarm at Drury Lane theatre by a noise from behind the boxes, occasion'd by two gentlemen quarrelling and drawing their swords, which produc'd a rumor of fire through the house, and so great a confusion that many were hurt in attempting to force their way out. A woman was with difficulty saved from throwing herself over the gallery into the pit (Gentleman's Magazine, p. 425). Receipts: #80 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Song: III: Mattocks

Dance: IV: Will be introduced a Comic Dance-Harvey, Mrs Addison

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory 1

Afterpiece Title: Old Woman's Oratory 2

Afterpiece Title: Old Woman's Oratory 3

Performance Comment: 1. A new Concerto for several different Instruments-; 2. A Piece of innocent Politicks-; 3. A French Horn Concerto-; 4. An Oration on the Salt Box-a Rationalist; 5. Overture by Dr Boyce-; Epilogue-Master Hallet in the Character of Cupid.
Event Comment: Pit and boxes to be put together, and no person to be admitted without Tickets, which will be deliver'd this day, at the Office in Covent Garden Theatre, at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. 6d. Galleries to be open'd at Half an Hour after Four c'oclock. Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at Half an Hour after Six [repeated]. This day is publish'd Compos'd by Handel, at 10s. 6d., The Oratorio Joshua, in Score...Printed for J. Walsh, in Catherine St. in the Strand

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Joshua

Event Comment: Benefit Signor Antonio Ambrosia, Operator on the Cremona Staccato, vulgarly call'd the Salt-Box. Tickets delivered for 5 March will be taken. Prices, Boxes 4s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. [The fifteenth night.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory

Event Comment: The farce went off dull. Taken from a play so call'd (Cross). Part of pit laid into the boxes, and Stage formed into an Amphitheatre & Commodiously enclos'd for the Reception of Ladies. Ladies send servants by three. Doors opened at half past three. Benefit for Woodward. Boxes and Stage 5s. Receipts: #280 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Man of Taste

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory

Performance Comment: As17521219, but Dissertation on Salt Box-.

Afterpiece Title: Animal Pantomine

Event Comment: For the Small Pox Hospital; Pit and Boxes 1!2 Guinea; a Treble Ticket at 26s., which admits a Gentleman and two Ladies to the Pit and Boxes, and the Gentleman to Dinner at Merchant Taylors Hall. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. No more Tickets will be disposed of than will conveniently fill the House, nor will any Money be taken at the Doors, or Collection at the Theatre. This being a Morning's Entertainment it is not expected that the Ladies come full-dressed. The most convenient way to the upper gallery at the Theatre, is through the King's Yard. To begin at 12 noon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast

Music: CConcerto-Stanley who is to conduct the performance

Event Comment: Afterpiece: An Interlude. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no person to be admitted without tickets, which will be deliver'd this day, at the office in Covent Garden theatre at half a guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. 6d. Galleries to be opened at half an hour after Four O'clock. Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at half an hour after Si(

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Hercules

Event Comment: The Dances, Music, Dresses, Scenes and other Decorations entirely new. The House to be illuminated with Wax candles, and particular care taken to keep it cool. The Performance by Particular Desire. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. To begin at 7:00 p.m. Places for Boxes will be taken at the Theatre. [Prices, places, and opening time repeated.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The British Roratory; Or, Mrs Midnight's New Carnival Concert

Music: Will be introduced a NewConcerto for the Tambour de Basque-; accompanied with the Original Jews@Harp-; the Hurdy Gurdy-

Dance: DDancing-Banbaregines, Rerriminonies (just arived from +Piemons); End Concert: a New British Dance, The Cassey-a company of Lilliputians; to which will be added a new Entertainment of Music and Dancing-a company of Lilliputians just arrived, being their first time of performing in +England

Event Comment: Pit and Boxes put together, and no persons to be admitted without tickets, which will be deliver'd this day at the Office in the Theatre at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. 6d. Galleries to be opened at half an hour after four o'clock. Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at exactly half an hour after Six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Hercules

Event Comment: Pit and Boxes to be laid together. No Person to be admitted without tickets, which will be deliver'd this day at the office of the Theatre at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery, 5s. Second Gallery 3s. 6d. Galleries to be opened at Half an HoUr after Four o'Clock. Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin exactly at Six. This Day publish'd, Athalia, an Oratorio by Handel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Athalia

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cibber. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire, being the last time of performing it this Season. Part of Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Boxes and Stage 5s. Ladies desired to send servants by three o'clock. Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: The Last New Sailor's Dance, as17560217

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted in 15 years. [See 3 Nov. 1743.] Afterpiece: By Desire. Benefit for Woodward. Part of pit will be laid into the Boxes. Boxes and Stage 5s. No person can be admitted to any part of the House till the usual time of opening of doors, which will be exactly at Four o'clock. Ladies are desired to send their servants by Three o'clock. Receipts: #250 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Event Comment: [E+Esther] With New Additions. Pit and Boxes to be put together .No persons to be admitted without tickets, which will be deliver'd this day at the office in the Theatre at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. 6d. Galleries to be open'd at Half an Hour after Four o'clock. Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at Half an Hour after Six o'Clock. This day publish'd Esther. An Oratorio, composed by Handel, as is to be performed this day at Covent Garden. Printed for J. Watts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Esther

Event Comment: By Cibber and Company. Consisting of a Variety of Entertainments, intermixed with Singing, Dancing, &c. The Scenes, Machines, Habits, and Decorations &c., all new. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gall. 2s. The Doors will be opened at Five; the Concert to begin at Six. To be continued (with Variations) on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, during the Summer season. Places for the Boxes to be had at the Theatre. The Performances depending very much on the Music, no Persons can be admitted into the Orchestra; and on account of the Variety of Scenery and Machinery, &c., that there may be no Interruptions in the Performances, 'tis hoped no Gentlemen will take it ill that they cannot possibly be admitted behind the Scenes. No money to be returned after the Curtain is drawn up; nor anything under the full Price to be taken during the Performance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Medley Concert; Or, An Impromptu Of Whim, Novelty And Amusement

Event Comment: An Oratorio. With several New Additions. Pit and Boxes to be put together. No person to be admitted without tickets, which will be deliver'd this day at the Office of the Theatre at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. 6d. Galleries to be opened at Half past Four, Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at Half an Hour after Six. [Customary note for all oratorios this season.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumph Of Time And Truth