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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Squire Basinghall

Dance: End Afterpiece: Black Joak by Mrs Charke and Miss Brett

Song: V: Roast Beef Song by Mullart

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality and Distinction. Mainpiece: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh and Mr Cibber. Afterpiece: Written by Mr Carey

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Eminent Merchants and Citizens. Afterpiece: Written by Mr Carey. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 9 Oct.: Yesterday, between One and Two o'Clock, died of a Haemorrage . . . Mr Charles Hulett, belonging to [GF], whose natural Qualifications to the Stage, had he the Application of many of less Merit, would have render'd him one of the most considerable Performers now alive

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: As17351006

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: II: Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Mrs Woodward. IV: Scot's Dance by Mrs Bullock

Song: V: In Italian by Mrs Chambers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: Britannia; or, The Royal Lovers

Performance Comment: Britannia-Mrs Chambers; Germanicus-Miss Jones; Cupid-Miss Roberts; Victory-Vallois; Dancing by Haughton; Serjeant-Lyon; Grenadiers by Comedians; Watermen-Bardin, Norris, Vallois, Le Sac, Ray, Topham, Delagarde, Dove: With New Songs by Mr Carey, and Harlequin in the City. Colombine-Mrs Hamilton; Colombine's Husband-Rosco; Harlequin-Lun Jr; Clown-Penkethman .
Event Comment: By Their Majesties' Command. [Their Majesties and the rest of the Royal Family present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv, Part I

Cast
Role: King Actor: Mills
Role: Prince Actor: W. Mills
Role: Northumberland Actor: Boman
Role: Westmoreland Actor: Turbutt

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress; or, The Ridotto Al' Fresco

Performance Comment: Kitty-Mrs Clive; Harlequin-Le Brun; Mordecai-Salway; Debauchee-Berry; Poudre-Este; Constable-Hough; Porter-Beckham; Jenny-Mrs Davenport; Mother Midnight-Turbutt; Brindle-Leigh; Pompey-Young Carney; Justices-Winstone, Raftor, Colo; Ladies of Pleasure-Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs Davenport, Miss Brett; Pierrot-Davenport; Punch-Janno; Scaramouch-Taylor; Shepherd and Shepherdess-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; Dutchman and Frou-Thurmond, Miss Mann; Peasant Man and Woman-Duke, Mrs Pelling. With a New Comic Medley Overture, composed by Mr Charke .

Dance: I: Grand Serious Ballet by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c. II: Le Badinage de Provence by Poitier, Mlle Roland, &c. III: Russian Sailor by Denoyer and others. V: Le Chasseur Royal by Denoyer, Mlle Roland, &c

Performance Comment: II: Le Badinage de Provence by Poitier, Mlle Roland, &c. III: Russian Sailor by Denoyer and others. V: Le Chasseur Royal by Denoyer, Mlle Roland, &c .
Related Works
Related Work: Ignoramus; or, The Academical Lawyer Author(s): Ferdinando Parkhurst
Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. Daily Advertiser, 13 Dec: Charles Mecklin was try'd for the Murder of Mr Hallam the Player, and found Guilty of Manslaughter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Cast
Role: Careless Actor: W. Mills

Dance: I: Ballet by Mlle Anne Roland. II: Revellers by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c

Event Comment: Not Acted these Forty Years. Written by Mr Dryden. And new Scenes, Machines, and other Decorations, particularly An Exact Representation of Merlin's Cave, as in the Royal Gardens at Richmond. Boxes and Balconies on the Stage 5s. Boxes 4s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d. No After-Money will be taken. [According to edition of 1736, the Prologue and Epilogue were written by Mr Sterling.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur; Or, Merlin The British Enchanter

Performance Comment: King Arthur-Johnson; Merlin-Rosco; Oswald-Giffard; Conon-Havard; Osmond-W. Giffard; Aurelius-Richardson; Albanact-Woodward; Guillamar-Hamilton; Grimbald-Lyon; Philadel-Mrs Hamilton; Matilda-Miss Tollett; Emmeline-Mrs Giffard. In it music by Purcell, sung by Kelly, Touchbury, Nichols, Kellner, Mrs Chambers, Miss Jones, Miss Gerrard; Venus sung by Miss Wilson, her first on any stage; Cupid-Miss Thornowets, her first on any stage. Dances by Haughton, Mrs Bullock, Le Sac, Vallois, Delagarde, Topham, Mrs Woodward, Mrs Vallois, Miss Gerrard, Mrs Dove. With a New Prologue and Epilogue, spoken by Giffard and Mrs Giffard .
Event Comment: London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 27 Jan.: We hear the Designs of Merlin's Cave, that were presented last Week to her Majesty by Mr Giffard, have been so well approv'd of, by many Persons of Quality, that Mr Devoto, who made the Draughts, has had several Copies bespoke by the Nobility

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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Event Comment: Benefit Galliard. The Words of the Incantation will be printed, and deliver'd Gratis at the Theatre. Receipts: money #22 9s.; tickets #31 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus, King Of Thebes

Performance Comment: Oedipus-Delane, but see17351110. And the Incantation, new set to Musick by Mr Galliard .

Dance: French Peasants, as17360223 Harlequin by Mlle De L'Isle. Sailors (from Orestes) by Glover, Tench, Desse, Delagarde, Livier, Richardson

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Dryden. Set to Musick by Mr Handel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Feast Of Alexander

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Death Of Julius Caesar (in French)

Afterpiece Title: The Forced Marriage (in English)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 20 Nov.: We hear that Mr Giffard...last Night, upon the happy Occasion of her Royal Highness' s Birth-Day, entertained his Company with an elegant Supper and a Concert of Musick, where the Healths of their Majesties, the Prince and Princess of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family were drank with universal Demonstrations of Joy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Event Comment: Benefit the Author of the Farce, and Miss Burgess. Mainpiece: As originally written by Shakespear. Supervised, Read over, Revised, and Unalter'd. [For a puff (signed by W. Shakespear), see Daily Advertiser, 4 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of King John

Performance Comment: Prince Arthur-Miss Burgess; With a New Prologue- in the Characters of Shakespear's Ghost, the Squire, Mr Student, and Mr Bays; concluding with an Address to the Ladies- of the Shakespear's Club.

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Milliners

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales [who were present]. An Ode, written by Mr Dryden. The Pit will be floored over, and laid into the Boxes. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 17 March: The Prince and Princess of Wales seem'd to be highly entertain'd, insomuch that his Royal Highness commanded Mr Handel's Concerto on the Organ to be repeated

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast

Performance Comment: Deutsch, Handel, p. 429, speculates concerning a possible cast. With Concertos on the Organ-, and other Instruments.
Event Comment: Benefit Haughton. Tickets at Haughton's, at the Wheatsheaf in Little Russel Street, cg. Daily Advertiser, 24 March: An Order having been sent to Mr Giffard, forbidding all Performances on Wednesdays and Fridays in Lent, Mr Haughton was oblig'd to defer his Benefit to this Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Afterpiece Title: The Lover His Own Rival

Dance:

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: (London Daily Post and General Advertiser missing), but see below.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: As17380121

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Spirits Actor: Mills, Hill
Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Walter and Pelling. Mainpiece: Taken from Plautus and Moliere. [Tickets of Mrs Walter at her House in back of Mr Acton's, Fishmonger, in Bridge Street, and of Pelling at Mr Dailey's, Jeweller, in dl.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Cast
Role: Mariana Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Clerimont Actor: Mills

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: English Maggot-Haughton, Mrs Walter; II: Black Joke-Pelling, Mrs Walter; III: Russian Sailor-Denoyer; V: Minuet-Rector, Mrs Walter

Song: IV: The Early Horn-Beard

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 24 May: May 23, 1738. All Persons that have subscrib'd or are willing to subscribe twenty Guineas for Italian Opera to be perform'd next Season at the King's Theatre...under my Direction, are desired to send ten Guineas to Mr Drummond the Banker....and Whereas I declared I would undertake the Operas provided I can agree with the Performers, and that 200 Subscriptions are procured, and as the greatest Part ob the Subscribers have already paid the 10 Guineas; it is desired that the remaining Subscribers will be pleased to send the Money to Mr Drummond, on or before the 5th of June next....J. J. Heidegger

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Conquista Del Vello D'oro

Event Comment: See Daily Advertiser, 19 April, for a letter on Handel. Deutsch, Handel, pp. 481-83, reprints it but states that it appeared in the London Daily Post and General Advertiser

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Saul

Performance Comment: See17390116, but With a Concerto on the Organ-Mr Handel; And another Concerto on the Violin-the famous Sig Plantanida (who is just arrived from Abroad).
Event Comment: Benefit Castelman, the Treasurer. Mainpiece: Alter'd from Beaumont and Fletcher by Sir John Vanbrugh and Mr Dryden. [Tickets at Castelman's Lodgings, at Mr Watford's, Upholder, over-against the Sun Tavern, Russel Street, Bloomsbury.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Cast
Role: Alinda Actor: Mrs Mills

Afterpiece Title: Mars and Venus

Dance: I: Punches Dance-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; III: Pierots-Leviez, Pelling; IV: Moors Dance-Muilment, Mrs Walter

Music: V: A Concerto-Henry Burgess Jr