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Event Comment: Paid to Charlotte Lane for cleaning for Mr Dyer a white cloth Suit lac'd with silver, 2s. 6d. For Altering and mending ditto, silk &c., 6s. (MS list in Folger Library, Davies Life of Garrick, II, 322)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-Lowe; Peachum-Arthur; Lockit-Dunstall; Player-Anderson; Beggar-Holtom; Mat-Stoppelaer; Ben-Bencraft; Filch-Cushing; Wat Dreary-C. Smith; Jemmy Twitcher-Redman; Drawer-Bennet; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Dunstall; Lucy-Miss Young; Mrs Coaxer-Miss Ferguson; Mrs Vixen-Mrs Stephens; Jenny-Miss Allen; Sukey Tawdry-Miss Mullart; Molly Brazen-Miss Helm; Mrs Slammekin-Mrs Pitt; Betty Doxy-Mrs Vallois; Dolly Trull-Miss Davis; Polly-Mrs Chambers.
Cast
Role: Player Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Cast
Role: Steward Actor: Anderson
Event Comment: The play of Merope will be reviv'd on Tuesday next, at Drury Lane, in which Mr Holland, who play'd the part of Oroonoko, will appear in the character of Eumenes. The Opera of the Fairies (By Desire) will be performed there someday next week. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Cast
Role: Rutland Actor: Mrs Cibber

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Opera Of The Fairies

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Cast
Role: Chatillon Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Gibson
Role: Octavian Actor: Anderson

Dance: Guerin, first appearance on the English stage, Mlle Capdeville

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: IV: Lilliputian Sailors, as17551104

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performance Comment: As17551001, but Conjuror-Anderson; Coachman-C. Smith; Butler-Holtom; Cook-Stoppelaer; Lucy-Miss Ferguson; Lettice-Miss Allen.
Cast
Role: Conjuror Actor: Anderson

Dance: As17551101

Event Comment: A New Opera. Musick composed by Jomelli. Pit and Boxes 1!2 guinea. Gallery 5s. 6 p.m. By His Majesty's Command, no Person admitted behind the Scenes. [Repeated in the bills.] The Subscribers to the Operas for the ensuing Season, are desir'd to pay their Subscription money to Mr Crawford, Treasurer of the said Theatre. Pit Tickets, for Tuesdays only, 15 Tickets for five Guineas

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Andromaca

Dance: With new Dances- [repeated several times]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: The Chinese Festival

Event Comment: Paid Charlotte Lane for altering and mending a pair of black velvet breeches for Mr Wm. Smith, 1s. 6d.; For making a scarlet camblet frock, 8s.; for sewing silk, twist, buckram & stays, 4s. 6d.; for a velvet fall down collar, 3s. 6d.; 17 plain gilt buttons at 3d.-4s. 3d.; (MS list in Davies, Life of Garrick, II, 322)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Cast
Role: Brumpton Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: As17551101; Granier, Miss Hilliard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: LLilliputian Sailors, as17551104

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: IV: A Hornpipe-Mathews

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. This Morning at Ten will be publish'd at 6d. An Epistle from Mr The. Cibber to David Garrick, Esq; to which are prefix'd some occasional verses, Petitions, &c.: @Lowliness is young Ambition's ladder,@Whereto the Climber upwards turns his face;@But when he once attains the upmost Round,@He then unto the ladder turns his back,@Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees@By which he did ascend.@Shakespeare@"Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so we would have it; let them not say, we have swallow'd him up," Ps. XXXV. v.25. Printed for R. Griffiths. [A thirty-five-page apologia, and bitter attack upon Garrick for supposed complicity in prohibiting the license of the Haymarket to him.] Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: Strictland Actor: Berry
Role: Mrs Strictland Actor: Mrs Davies

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Non Juror

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: As17551101

Event Comment: Speedily will be publish'd at 1s. 6d. Dedicated to David Garrick Esq a New Edition of the Orphan of China...acted at Paris with great applause. [A weekly writer says of this performance: "I could wish that our modern Play-wrights would endeavor to imitate this author in the judicious choice and dispositions of their Fable; and further think this very piece not unworthy the notice of our managers. The Translator has indeed, with great propriety, laid his version at Mr Garrick's door, since there is nobody so well qualified to take the orphan under their protection."] Printed for R. Baldwin in Paternoster Row. Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Cast
Role: Rutland Actor: Mrs Cibber

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: IV: Peasant Dance-

Event Comment: PPrince of Wales, Edward, Augusta, and 2 more princes. Mr Garrick (By Command) did Osmyn (Cross). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: [But unspecified.

Event Comment: A new Opera. [But not performed.] 'Twas with inexpressible Concern that Mr Vanneschi found the Nobility and Gentry disappointed last Night, by the new Opera's not being then performed; a circumstance wholly owing to Sig Ricciarelli's being, on a sudden, taken extremely ill Yesterday, at an hour too late for its being made known to the Public (Public Advertiser, 11 Feb.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'olimpiade

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Song: new Anniversary Ode in Commemoration of Shakespeare written by Havard set to music by Dr Boyce-Beard, Champness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies

Dance: A New Dance-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Marcellus Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: The Tanner of York

Dance: LLes Statues Animees, as17560302

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Tickets for Merope will be taken. Benefit for Mr Holland. Tickets at Holland's lodgings, a Peruke-Maker's, opposite Cecil St., Strand. While he was speaking his first Speech to the Ghost, an Ignorant man took up his hat & clapt it upon his head, Holland unconcern'd play'd with it so, & went off wth it, (great Prudence) (Cross). Receipts: #270 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17560214, but Hamlet-Holland, first time; Polonius-Woodward, second time; Ostrick-Palmer; Ophelia-Miss Macklin, second time; Rosencrantz-_; Guildenstern-_; Bernardo-_; Marcellus-_; Player King-_; Player Queen-_.
Cast
Role: Hamlet Actor: Holland, first time

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: NNew Sailor's Dance, as17560217

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Desire. Benefit for Mr Blakes who spoke ye Ep: upon the Ass (Cross). Tickets at Blakes's House, Duke's Court, Bow St., Covent Garden, and at stage door. Receipts; #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: HHornpipe-Mathews

Event Comment: Last time of performing the Mainpiece this Season. Benefit for Mr and Mrs Davies. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: IV: Hornpipe-Mathews

Song: I: Beard

Related Works
Related Work: The Genoese Pirate; or, Black-Beard Author(s): James Sanderson
Event Comment: Benefit for Bencraft and Mrs Lampe. Afterpiece: Perform'd but once these ten years [see 8 May 1755], a Burlesque Opera being a Sequel to the Dragon of Wantly, Music composed by the late Mr Lampe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Cast
Role: Ballance Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: Lady Moore; or, The Dragoness

Dance: The Villagers, as17560315 Italian Peasants, as17551126