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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Beggar Actor: Bennet

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance: CCountry Dance-Characters of the Opera; A Hornpipe-Miss Dawson; End II: A New Dance call'd The Shepherdess-Miss Wilford

Event Comment: Full prices. Last time of performing till Easter Holidays. Receipts: #214 11s. Paid Kemp #6 8s.; Meares #0 10s. 6d.;Mr Platt for mahogany chair frames (12), #9 12s.; Paid Rich #50; Paid 10 night's Rents for Oratorios #100. I was to see the Jovial Crew and the Fair again, at the Gallery at Covent Garden, where I see Mrs Viebert, Miss Meredith & Mr Madan. Slept in at Drury Lane Gallery where I see the best part of Catherine & Petruchio for King's Benefit (Hailey, Brietzcke Diary, Vol. 197, p. 210)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Yates. Garrick's first appearance in Chamont in 4 years. Mrs Yates in Monimia for first time. Mrs Cibber's illness has oblig'd Mrs Yates to change her Play from Jane Shore to The Orphan. The Afterpiece (for one night only): A Burlesque Opera of two acts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Performance Comment: As17591025, but Chamont-Garrick; Polydore-Holland; Monimia-Mrs Yates, 1st time.
Cast
Role: Chamont Actor: Garrick

Afterpiece Title: Galligantus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Advertisement

Related Works
Related Work: The Advertisement; or, A Bold Stroke for a Husband Author(s): Sarah Gardner

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Performance Comment: Ranger-Garrick; Jack Meggot-O'Brien; Bellamy-Packer; Mr Strictland-Davies; Frankly-Palmer; Jacintha-Mrs Kennedy; Mrs Strictland-Miss Haughton; Clarinda-Mrs Pritchard; Lucetta-Mrs Bennet; To conclude with a Country Dance-.
Cast
Role: Ranger Actor: Garrick

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

Dance: II: The Mad Doctor, as17601014

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Entertainment: MMedley Epilogue, written by Garrick-Beard

Event Comment: Benefit for Holland. [Farce is the first act of Taste (Foote) connected with a New additional act (never perform'd before) call'd Modern Tragedy written by Mr Foote, with a new character (Genest, IV, 661.] Holland's Bt. deferred till this date so that Mr Garrick may have time to be prepared in the Character of Mercutio" (Folger Bill). The new last act to Taste--great hissed--and almost d-d (Hopkins MS Notes)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: As17601226, but Mercutio-Garrick, 1st time; Lady Capulet-_; Tibalt-_.
Cast
Role: Mercutio Actor: Garrick, 1st time

Afterpiece Title: Taste

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: Ranger Actor: Garrick

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb

Dance: II: The Cow Keepers, as17601008

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief

Afterpiece Title: Florizel and Perdita

Entertainment: After the Farce:(this night only) the Origin, Nature, and Progress of the: Order of British Bucks, with the Whimsical Behavior of Choice Spirits and M. Thurot's Trip to Carrickfergus-Mr Shuter. See17610326

Dance: The Last New Comic Dance-Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Event Comment: Benefit for Tindal. No Building on Stage. Receipts: #38 12s. plus #113 18s. from tickets (Box 102; Pit 442; Gallery 221). Paid Mr Hursfall, barber, a bill for work done for Mr Sodi's New Dance #2 1s. 6d. (Account Book). [See Hungarian Gambols, 9 March.] Charges: #84 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Related Works
Related Work: The Lying Valet Author(s): David Garrick

Dance: TThe Waggoners, as17610228

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Arcadia; or, The Shepherd's Wedding

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cleone

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Event Comment: Benefit for Ross. Mainpiece: Never acted there. Afterpiece: Not acted this season. No Building on Stage. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr Ross in the Little Piazza, Covent Garden; and of Mr Sarjant, at the Stage Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Florizel and Perdita

Dance: TThe Pleasures of Spring, as17620212

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: TThe Pleasures of Spring, as17620212

Event Comment: Benefit for Havard. Mr King has kindly undertaken on a very short word, to speak the Original Prologue this evening as Mr Garrick performs both in the play and the Interlude

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Florizel And Perdita

Cast
Role: Leontes Actor: Garrick

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petruchio

Related Works
Related Work: Catherine and Petruchio Author(s): David Garrick

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe (With Alterations)

Ballet: II: A New Comic Dance, call'd The May Day Frolic. Country Girl-Miss Dawson; Chimney Sweeper-Mr Baltazar

Dance: End: New Hornpipe-Miss Dawson

Song: IV: Miss Young

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lyar

Afterpiece Title: The Orators

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orators

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Citizen

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Event Comment: At the Request of several Scotch Nobility, as benefit for Mr Gibson, who perform'd Donald MacGregor in The Orators 38 Days...will be performed a Concert of Music...after which, &c. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Tickets to be had of Mr Gibson, next Door to the Golden Star in Lower Cross St., near Hatton Gardens...He will make it his chief care to conduct the whole with Regularity. To begin at 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orators

Entertainment: A Prologue, Singing, a Dutch Story, Hippisley's Drunken Man-, with alterations and additions

Related Works
Related Work: A Bundle of Prologues Author(s): David Garrick