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Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Scrase & Mathews (Cross). Tickets of Scrase at Tauranac's Wine Vault, in James St., Covent Garden, and at the Stage Door. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song:

Dance: [As express'd in the Bills of the Day (playbill). Advance notice.]

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Simson Their Son & Daughter (Cross). Receipts: #220 (Cross )

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Performance Comment: By the children (Cross). See17560327 but Parts-Mt Simson, Mt Perkins, Mt Wallace, Mt Martin, Mt Cautherley, Mas. Hanyours, Miss Pope, Miss Simson; With a New Occasional Prologue-.

Dance: IV: The Louvre and Minuet-Mas and Miss Simson

Song: I: Hooly and Fairly (by Desire)-Beard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Verney. [Another player must have played Mat of the Mint for Blakes.] Receipts: #270 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17550923, but Player-Burton; Macheath-Blakes Beard Sick Blakes did Macheath (Cross).
Cast
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: III: Hornpipe-Mathews

Event Comment: A Gratis Play. This is put for ye Benefit of Mrs Horton, an old Actress who has left ye Stage some Years, but Mr Morgan (an old Actor) is to have a third of it (Cross). No building on Stage. None behind Scenes. No money returned after Curtain is up. Receipts: #89 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: The last New Comic Dance,The Indian Peasants, as17560515

Song: Beard

Related Works
Related Work: The Genoese Pirate; or, Black-Beard Author(s): John Cartwright Cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Concert With Other Entertainments

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Event Comment: Tomorrow a Comedy (not acted these 02 years) call'd The Gamester with Dancing by Mr Gardiner, being his first time of appearing on that stage, Mrs Vernon, &c. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: Comedy [Mrs Centlivre] not acted in twelve years [see 17 Oct. 1745]. Acted but once (Genest, IV, 474). The Ballets composed by Mr Gardiner. Receipts: #70 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester comedy

Dance: II: A New Serious Dance, call'd The Shipwreck; or +The Distressed Lovers-Gardiner (1st appearance that stage), Mrs Vernon; IV: A new Comic Dance call'd The Press Gang; or +The Sailor's Farewell-Gardiner, Mrs Vernon

Song: III: Miss Young

Event Comment: For the Benefit of the Wid. Kraus & her children whose Husband was murder'd by Robbers near Chelsea (Cross). Tickets to be had at White's Chocolate House, and the St James Coffee House, St James St.; at Allmack's Coffee House, Halfmoon St.; The Mount Coffee House, Grosvenor St.; Sam's Coffee House and The Jerusalem Coffee House, Exchange Alley; of Mrs Kraus, at her house in Halfmoon St., Picadilly, and of Mr Varney at the stage Door, where places may be taken. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire of several persons of Quality. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Event Comment: By Command. Afterpiece: Written by Mr Garrick. Acted by children. Prince of Wales & 4 more went off very well (Cross). New Scenes, Habits and Decorations. Full prices. Prologue-writ by Garrick, spoken by Woodward; Epilogue-Lady Flimnap. [The run of seventeen performances of the afterpieces seems to contradict the judgement of the author of the Theatrical Examiner (1757, p. 89): Lilliput is, I think, the most petit, trifling, indecent, immoral, stupid parcel of rubbish, I ever met with; and I can't help judging it a scandal to the public, to suffer such a thing to pass a second night, which at best was alone calculated to please boys and girls, and fools of fashion; it may gratify them; the manager to debauch the minds of infants, by putting sentiments and glances in their breasts and eyes, that should never be taught at any years, which are sufficiently bad when naturally imbibed. The question of Gulliver, in answer to the infant lady's gross adresses, is horrid, if we allow an audience a common share of delicacy, what should we do with her? and what the devil does it mean. Finally where is the instruction, or even tolerable language, to gild the dirt over. O tempora! O mores!"] Receipts: #210 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: a new farce calldLa new farce calldLilliput

Event Comment: Benefit for the Widow Jona and her Five Children. Tickets to be had at Arthur's Chocolate House, St James's St.; Prince of Orange's Coffee House, Haymarket; Forrest's Coffee House, Charing Cross; the Rainbow Coffee House in Cornhill; and Places for Boxes to be taken of Mrs Jona in Little Warwick St., Charing Cross, and of Mr Crudge at the stage Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: As17561023

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: Granier, Leppie, Lucas, Miss Hilliard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Dance: Granier, Miss Hillyard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: Lucas, Miss Hilliard

Event Comment: [Music] compos'd by Mr Arne went of with Great Applause (Cross). With Proper Dances and Decorations. Books of the Opera will be sold at the Theatre price 1s. [The cast is first listed 17 Jan. 1757.] Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eliza An English Opera

Event Comment: This day is publish'd at 1s. Amphitryon; or, The Two Sosias, a Comedy altered from Mr Dryden, as it is now perform'd at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. With a New Interlude of Music, an Occasional Prologue, and some account of the Alterations. Printed for J. Payne, at Pope's Head in Paternoster Row. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Cast
Role: Jupiter Actor: Ross

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Event Comment: [M+Mercury Harlequin seems to have been the afterpiece. The Public Advertiser carried the following notice under news from London: "Mr Garrick was prevented from appearing in the character of Chamont last night, by a sudden and violent Indisposition, but we hear that he is better, tho' not quite free from pain."] Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: Lilliput Mercury Harlequin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antigono

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Beard. Part of Pit will be laid into boxes, &c. Receipts: #350 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Song: I: The Country Wedding-Beard; II: The Bonny Broom-Miss Young; III: By Desire, Music: Sir Watkins Delighton the Harp-Parry; IV: The Toast-Beard; V: A Duetto When Phoebus the top of the Hills does Adorn-Beard, Miss Young

Event Comment: TThe Knights, publish'd 4 April, at 1s. A Comedy in Two Acts as it is perform'd at Drury Lane. By Mr Foote (Public Advertiser). Passion Week (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Dance: FFingalian Revels, as17570329

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

Dance: As17570103