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Event Comment: At Lee-Harper Booth. An excellent new Droll

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Guy, Earl Of Warwick: With The Comical Distresses Of Rogero, Guy's Servant

Song: The best Masters

Dance: The best Masters

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: With new Scenes, Habits, Machines, and other Decorations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris; With Harlequin Grand-Volgi

Song: Miss Raftor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: Eaton, Miss Sandham. With New Habits

Performance Comment: With New Habits.
Event Comment: All the Characters new dress'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Song: Singing in English-Miss Raftor

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Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By Aaron Hill.] With new Habits, Scenes, and other Decorations, proper to the Play. Admission: 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s. [See Pope, Correspondence, III, 253-54.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Athelwold

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Performance Comment: As17311117, but Parly-Mrs Haughton; With a new Prologue, Epilogue on the Occasion-.

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Song: With the usual Songs-

Dance: Burney, Miss Wherrit

Event Comment: DDaily Journal, 14 Jan.: We hear...that...The Modish Couple, which met with great Opposition the two first Nights, but was acted the third with Success, before one of the finest Assemblies of Persons of Quality that has been seen, was last Night again so interrupted, that the Players could not perform but were forced to dismiss the Audience.' The violent Treatment which this Piece has met with, is supposedles those People who made it their Business to raise Disturbances at every new Performance that comes on the Stage. [For another account, see Egmont, Diary, I, 216.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Modish Couple

Event Comment: [Music by Handel. Translation by Samuel Humphreys.] Wherein the Cloaths and Scenes are all entirely New. Colman's Opera Register: But did not draw much Company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aetius

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Music by Handel. Done into English by Humphreys. Their Majesties, Prince, eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sosarmes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Modern Husband

Performance Comment: As17320218 With a new Epilogue.
Event Comment: As 2 March. According to Daily Post, 4 March, the new English Opera of Amelia was rehearsed at hay on 3 March by a Set of Performers that never appeared before upon any Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Blazing Comet

Event Comment: A New Opera of three Acts. [Author unknown.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Footman

Event Comment: A New English Opera (after the Italian Method). [Text by Henry Carey. Music by John Frederick Lampe.] Subscribers' Tickets will not be taken after the first four Nights. Pit and Boxes 6s. Gallery 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amelia

Event Comment: Benefit Pullen and Mrs Pullen. Afterpiece: a Ballad Opera of Three Acts. [Author unknown.] This Opera, relating to the Affair of Father Girard with Miss Cadiere, &c. is entirely new, being a faithful Translation from the French Original, as it was forbid in Paris

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Wanton Jesuit; or, Innocence Seduced

Dance: HHornpipe-Jones' Scholar

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Afterpiece: With Alterations and a new Prologue after the Italian Manner. Admission 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Blazing Comet

Performance Comment: As17320302 With a New Epilogue.
Event Comment: Benefit Hippisley. At the Particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Afterpiece: a new Comic Scene. Receipts: money #43 13s. 6d.; tickets #103

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Medley; or, Hippisley's Drunken Man

Related Works
Related Work: The Triumphant Widow; or, The Medley of Humours Author(s): William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Poitier, Nivelon

Event Comment: Benefit Henry Woodward and Miss Wherrit. By Desire. Afterpiece: With Alterations and Additions, particularly an entire new Scene, call'd Pierot's Encounter with a Bearv

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Contrivance

Dance: I: Tambourine-Miss Wherrit; II: The Merry Lass-Miss Wherrit; V: Passacail-Miss Wherrit

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: A New Farce. [By Henry Fielding.] Alter'd from the French of Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Debauchees

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor; or, The Dumb Lady Cur'd

Dance: I: The Pieraite-Holt, Mrs Walter; II: Harlequin-Miss Brett; III: English Maggot-Lally Jr, Mrs Walter; End Afterpiece: Midsummer Whim, as17320606

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Afterpiece: a new Pastoral Opera. [Author unknown. Apparently not published.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Rural Love; or, The Merry Shepherd

Dance: d'V'Vallois, Mrs Walter

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. For the Benefit of the Famous Signora Violante, who is just arriv'd with a new extraordinary fine Company....After the Irish Manner, Which was perform'd 96 Times in Dublin with great Applause. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. [For performances at the Fairs in September, see season of 1731-1732.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance: HHarlequin-Master LaFevre, Miss Violante; Louvre in Boys Cloaths-Miss Violante; Two Pierrots-Lalauze, Tobin

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Ballet: With New Habits. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Devil of a Duke; or, Trapolin's Vagaries

Dance: Grand Ballet: Les Bergeries, Composed in the Taste of Monsieur Dumoulin and Mademoiselle Camargo, of the Opera at Paris-Essex, Miss Robinson, Houghton, being the first Time of their Dancing since their Arrival from Paris; Thurmond, Mrs Walter, Tench, Miss Williams, Davenport, Miss Mears

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv, Part 1

Performance Comment: As17321002 A new Prologue, Epilogue to the Town.
Event Comment: Acted in English, according to the New Translation

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by his Grace the Duke of Buckingham. With New Habits

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: TTambourine-Miss Robinson; Scots Dance-Haughton, Mrs Walter; Grand Dance of Moors-Essex, Mrs Booth, Lally Jr, Haughton, Lally, Tench, Mrs Walter, Mrs D'Lorme, Miss Williams, Miss Mears