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Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Afterpiece: By Desire. No money to be receiv'd at the stage door, nor any return'd after the curtain is up

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: Edgar and Emmeline

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. No Building on Stage, &c. Tickets sold at doors will not be taken. Tickets deliver'd for This Night will be admitted. Benefit for Clough, Raftor, &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: II: Double Hornpipe, as17630504; IV: The Irish Lilt, as17621023

Song: End: A Mimic Comic Opera Song-Mrs Clive

Event Comment: Benefit for Foley, Roberts, Palmer (doorkeepers). Tickets deliver'd by Kaygill will be taken. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or The History Of George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Song: End: Vernon

Event Comment: Benefit for Lobby Door Keepers, Bowers and Veal. Tickets deliver'd by Broad and Berrisford will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Event Comment: A serious Opera...the Musick composed by several eminent Masters. All new Dances; and New Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations. Pit and Boxes laid together 10s. 6d. Gallery 5s. and no Person admitted without Tickets, which will be deliver'd at the door. By His Majesty's Command, no Person to be admitted behind the Scenes. To begin 6:30 p.m. [Giardini the new Impresario; Spilsbury-treasurer.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cleonice

Dance: Director of the Dances Sg Pietro Sodi

Event Comment: Benefit for Clough, Walker, Raftor. Tickets deliver'd for This Night will be taken. Tickets sold at doors not to be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: II: By Desire, a Double Hornpipe-Walker, Miss Egan; IV: Dutch Dance, as17640511

Event Comment: Benefit for Watkins, Mortimer, Tomlinson, and West. Tickets deliver'd for This Night will be taken. Tickets sold at doors will not be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

Dance: II: By Desire, a Hornpipe-Miss Watkins; IV: The Provancalle, as17631014

Entertainment: End: A New Panegyri@Satiri@Serio@Comic Epilogue upon Epilogues-Tomlinson

Event Comment: No Money received at Stage Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: IV: The Provencalle-Miss Rogers

Event Comment: Benefit for Dickinson (door keeper)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Dance: II: The Irish Lilt, as17641011; End: Double Hornpipe-Walker, Miss Tetley

Event Comment: By authority. The Last night of performing it this season. Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Entertainment: The Cries of Edinburgh-Lauder

Dance: McClean, 1st appearance on the stage

Event Comment: Benefit for Bowers (box-keeper) and Veal (first gallery door-keeper). Tickets deliver'd for the benefit of Broad and Hodges will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Dance: II: A New Comic Dance, as17650516; End: Double Hornpipe-Walker, Miss Tetley

Event Comment: Benefit for Evans, and Green (box-keepers). None admitted behind scenes. Tickets sold at the doors will not be admitted. Last time of performing this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: II: A Hornpipe-Miss Twist; End: Rural Love, as17641212

Event Comment: Benefit for The General Lying-In Hospital. Tickets to be had at the Smyrna Coffee House, Pall Mall, and at the Stage Door. N.B. Tickets deliver'd for The Distress'd Mother will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Foundling

Afterpiece Title: A Fairy Tale

Event Comment: At the Little Theatre in James Street near the Haymarket. Doors to be opened at 5:00. To begin exactly at 6:00. Boxes 4s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d. to the public. After several of our Lords and Masters, the Men, have with various success made wry faces for the amusement of the town; permit a woman to attempt the arduous task of laughing the men out of their follies; declaring, however, that while she attempts the ridicule of vices peculiar to the other sex, she will by no means spare the slightest foible of her own (Public Advertiser). The Theatre is fitted up in an elegant manner, and constant fires are kept to make the house agreeably warm (Gazetteer & New Daily Advertiser). [This Lecture continued to 6 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lecture On Heads

Event Comment: Benefit for Bowers and Veal (door-keepers). Tickets deliver'd by Broad and Hodges will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: DDouble Hornpipe-Walker, Miss Tetley; End: Comic Dance, as17660207

Event Comment: Benefit for Vaughan, Condell, Potter (box-keepers). Tickets sold at the doors will not be admitted. Charges #81 5s. [Deficit to each beneficiary #9 10s. 10d., covered by income from tickets: Vaughan #50 13s. (Box 106; Pit 101; Gallery 90); Condell #81 3s. (Box 206; Pit 145; Gallery 79); Potter #60 6s. (Box 126; Pit 145; Gallery 138).] (Account Book). Receipts: #52 12s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: III: New Pantomime Ballet(4th time)-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford, as17670427 End: Double Hornpipe, as17670427

Ballet: End: The Wapping Landlady. As17670427

Event Comment: Benefit for Charles Sarjant (book-keeper) and his Son (box-keeper). Tickets sold at doors not admitted. Afterpiece: For last time this season. Charges #89 6d. [Deficit to the Sarjants #11 16s., covered by income from tickets of #142 8s. (Box 346; Pit 260; Gallery 169).] Paid the Billsetters for Black Bills #4 10s. (Account Book). Receipts: #77 4s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantly

Dance: III: A New Tambourine(by Desire)-Mas. Blurton, as17670427 End: Double Hornpipe, as17670427

Ballet: End: The Wapping Landlady. As17670427

Event Comment: Benefit for Weller, Murden, Lewes. Afterpiece for 52nd and last time this season. Tickets deliver'd for Friday the 15th will taken. Tickets sold at the Door will not be admitted. Charges #65 10s. [Deficit to each beneficiary #1 14s. 4d., covered by income from tickets. Weller #41 14s. (Box 7; Pit 145; Gallery 182); Murden #41 12s. (Box 31; Pit 111; Gallery 172); Lewes #61 10s. (Box 45; Pit 239; Gallery 144).] Paid the Duke of Bedford half year's ground rent due Lady Day last for the theatre #41 13s. 4d. (#50 minus half year's Land Tax #8 6s. 8d.). Paid Duke of Bedford half year's ground rent for the New Building adjoining the theatre #12 10s. (#15 minus half year's Land Tax #2 10s.). (Account Book). Receipts: #60 1s. (Account Book). At 5 went to Covent Garden to see Conscious Lovers &c....Got a bad place hn the First Gallery...Lewis did Harlequin, but not so well as Woodward; and Miss D. Twist did ye Miller's Bride, Miss Wilford's Character. Mrs Mahon does the jealous fellow's wife (Neville MS Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Dance: IV: Double Hornpipe, as17670427

Ballet: IV: The Wapping Landlady. As17670427

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Benefit for Bowers (box-keeper) and Veal (1st gallery door-keeper). Play begins exactly at six o'clock. House charges #84. [Deficit to beneficiaries #61 5s. 6d.] Tickets deliver'd for The Busy Body will be taken. Paid Rector's rate and Watch 4 quarters #1 13s. Rec'd from Messrs Powell & Co for cloaths #11 11s.; Eight days from the Certainties #82 13s. 4d.; Stopages #1 18s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #22 14s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Took a place in ye front Boxes at Drury Lane for Wednesday next, when ye Suspicious Husband is to be performed for ye Decayed Actors' Fund, scarcely a place remaining untaken. I wanted one in ye Pit (Neville MS Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Event Comment: Author's Night. @Receipt #126 4s.@House charges #84@Candles #1 5s.@Kettle Drum 5s.@Chorus Singers #2@Total #87 10s.@Balance due the author #38 14s.@Tickets 14 48 #10 14s.@Money #126 4s.@Total #136 18s. (Account Book).@ [The #136 18s. represents the total value of the house, from two sources: money at the door and tickets given to the author to dispose of. Since the #10 14s. value of the tickets is not added into the Account Book as a receipt for the company, it is presumed that the author received this as a bonus in addition to the #38 14s. which was taken in over and above the house charges, etc.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Dance: I: The Female Archer, as17671029; II: The Merry Sailors, as17671009

Event Comment: Benefit for the Middlesex Hospital. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire of Several Persons of Distinction. @Receipts #135 4s.@House Charge #84@Candles #1 5s..@Total #85 5s.@Balance Due to Hospital #49 19s.@Tickets 254 191 72 #99 7s.@Money #135 4s.@Total #234 11s. (Account Book).@ [Hospital apparently received #99 7s., for disposing of 515 tickets, and #49 19s. from the money taken at the door.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: End: A New Tambourine Dance, as17671119

Event Comment: Benefit of a Public Charity. [The Lock Hospital?] To begin at 7:00 p.m. A great many Tickets having been lost by Accident, no Person can be admitted but by paying ready Money at the Door. Connection denied by Thos. Stamford, Secretary to the Lock Hospital: Whereas a Ridotto has been publicly advertised for the benefit of a "public charity," and tickets for the same sent to several governors of this charity, by which they and many others have been induced to suppose that the benefit was intended for this hospital; the Governors of this charity think it incumbent on them to inform the Public, that the same is NOT intended for the benefit of this Hospital (which has ever applied to the benevolence of the Town under the title of Public Charity), nor do they know for what charity the same is meant. By order of the Board (Public Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Ridotto

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Ward. Afterpiece: Never acted there before. Mainpiece: Not acted this season. Mrs Ward having been defrauded of a number of Tickets for the above play, those sold at the door will not be admitted. [Afterpiece is John Lee's alteration of Wycherley's play into two acts. See dl 26 April 1765.] @Receipts #74 2s. 6d.@House charges #63@Candles #1 5s.@Extra: Kettle drum 5s.@Side Drum 2s.@Wardrobe #1 9s.@Total #66 1s.@Balance due Mrs Ward #8 1s. 6d.@Tickets 115 129 179 #66@Money #74 2s. 6d.@Total value of House #140 2s. 6d. (Account Book). [Mrs Ward seems to have profited only to the extent of #74 1s. 6d.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love; Or, The World Well Lost

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Dance: End: The Highland Reel, as17680307

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Green and Mrs Vincent. Tickets for A Play will be taken. Those sold at Doors will not be admitted. Catherine and Petruchio cannot be perform'd because ff the illness of Woodward. Charges #64 5s. Balance to the nadies #17 18s. Paid Mrs Vincent #8 19s. who also had from Tickets #71 11s. (Box 110; Pit 207; Gallery 100). Paid Mrs Green #8 19s. who also had from Tickets #38 9s. (box 110; Pit 207; Gallery 130). Paid Miss Stede extra dancer for 6 nights #1 (Account Book). Receipts: #82 3s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Ballet: End: The Wapping Landlady. As17680416

Event Comment: Benefit for Younger. Tickets deliver'd by Bryan and Branson will be taken. Tickets sold at doors will not be admitted. Charges #65 15s. Balance to Younger #58 10s. plus income from tickets. Younger 70 129 159 #52 15s. Bryan 4 49 61 #14 9s. Branson 26 102 134 #35 4s.@Total ticket value #102 8s. (Account Book).@ Rec'd #20 a year improv'd rent of the houses in Bow St. and part of the effects of the late John Rich...#250. Receipts: #124 5s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Dance: I: The Highland Reel, as17680307