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Event Comment: Benefit Johnson. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by Beaumont and Fletcher. Three Rows of the Pit will be rail'd in at the Price of the Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Dance: Hussar-Shaw, Mrs Booth; Venetian Peasant-Thurmond Jr, Miss Smith

Event Comment: Benefit C. Bullock. At the Request of several Persons of Quality. Three Rows of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes at 5s. Receipts: money #26 1s. 6d.; tickets #71 19s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats; or, The Tavern Bilkers

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Barbier. Two rows of the Pit will be rail'd in at the same Price of the Boxes. Receipts: money #38 3s.; tickets #43 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Song: Mrs Barbier, Mrs Chambers, Leveridge

Music: Two Concertos-Master Clegg, a Boy of Nine Years old

Event Comment: DDaily Post, 25 Feb.: About 11 in the Morning, a Fire broke out at the Earl of Cardigan's House in Portugal Row, Lincoln's Inn Fields...and the New Play-house, which was in great Danger, escap'd with but little Damage

Performances

Event Comment: Benefit Shaw. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. Three Rows of the Pit (at the particular Desire of several Ladies and Gentlemen) will be Rail'd in, at the Price of the Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

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Event Comment: Benefit Mlle Salle. Four Rows of the Pit will be railed into the Boxes at 5s. Receipts: money #44 1s.; tickets #48 11s. Probable attendance: boxes, 87 by money and 149 by tickets; stage, 1 by money; pit, 82 by money and 36 by tickets; slips, 5 by money; first gallery, 58 by money and 59 by tickets; second gallery, 15 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Dance: PPastoral-Miss Rogers, a Child of Nine Years of Age, Scholar to Mlle Salle, it being the first Time of her APpearance on the Stage; Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Salle

Event Comment: Benefit Tom Crawford, who was lately burnt out from the Bear and Harrow Tavern, Butcher-Row. No receipts extant

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Song: TThe Merry Month of May, Ye Nymphs and Sylvan Gods-Miss Warren

Dance: SScottish Dance-Mrs Bullock; Milk Maids Dance-Newhouse, Pelling, Lanyon, Dupre Jr, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Ogden, Mrs Anderson, Miss LaTour

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Three Rows of the Pit to be rail'd into the Boxes, Receipts: money #47 5s. 6d,; tickets #95 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Periander

Event Comment: Benefit Short and Neale. Receipts: money #28 1s.; tickets #212 4s. [Short's Tickets at his House in Milman Street, near Bedford Row; Neale's at his house in Nottingham Street, Bloomsbury.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Two Pierrots-Pelling, LeSac; II: Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; IV: Tambourine-Miss Rogers; V: Scotch Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre, DuPre, Mrs Pelling, Delagarde, Mrs Ogden

Song: III: Mrs Wright

Music: W+Water Musick, As17330507; A Grand Overture by Dr Pepusch-

Ballet: End Afterpiece: The Amorous Clowns; or, the Courtesans. Clowns-Nivelon, Mrs Pelling; Wives-Miss LaTour, Mrs Ogden; Courtezan-Mrs Pelling

Event Comment: Benefit Glover. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Three Rows of the Pit will be rail'd in, and Part of the Stage form'd into Boxes. Receipts: money #43 6s.; tickets #169 19s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: Clown by Nivelon. III: By particular Desire, Minuet and Louvre by Glover and Miss Rogers. IV: Tambourine by Glover and Miss Rogers. V: French Peasants by Lalauze, Mlle D'Hervigni, &c

Event Comment: Benefit Stephens. Tickets at Stephens' House in Paternoster Row. Receipts: money #42 18s. 6d.; tickets #129 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: Tambourine by Glover and Miss Rogers. Tambourine by Mlle De L'Isle. Two Pierrots by Nivelon and Lalauze

Event Comment: Benefit Balicourt. At the Castle Tavern in Paternoster Row. 5s. To begin between six and seven o'Clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: great Concert of Musick-the best Hands from both Operas

Event Comment: Benefit Stephens. Tickets at Stephens' in Paternoster Row

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv, Part I

Related Works
Related Work: The Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus Vespasian, Part I Author(s): John Crowne
Related Work: The Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus Vespasian, Part II Author(s): John Crowne
Related Work: The Destruction of Jerusalem, Part II Author(s): John Crowne

Dance: I: Clown-Nivelon; III: Peasant Dance-Lalauze; V: Scotch Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre

Song: II: The Lady's Lamentationfor the Loss of Sig Sensino-Roberts; IV: Beard

Event Comment: Benefit Beard, Two Rows of the Pit will be laid into the boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance: (IIn Daily Advertiser) I: Two Pierrots-Lalauze, Nivelon; III: Clown-Nivelon; V: Grecian Sailors-Glover

Song: (IIn Daily Advertiser)II: A new Cantata-Beard; In III: Chacon a Boire-Leveridge, Salway; IV: Beard; End I Afterpiece: Since Times are so bad (Purcell)-Leveridge, Salway

Event Comment: Benefit Short, Tickets at Short's House, Millman Street, near Bedford Row, Holborn

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Music: Between the Acts: various Instruments-

Song: II: The Lady's Lamentation, as17370414 V: A new Trumpet Song-Beard

Dance: I: Clown-Nivelon; III: Comic Dance-Nivelon, Lalauze, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs LeBrun; IV: A Ball Dance, called The Prince of Wales's Saraband, composed by L'Abbree, concluding with a Minuet-Dupre, Miss Norman; V: Grecian Sailors-Glover

Event Comment: Benefit Berry. For the Entertainment of the Grand Master, and the rest of the Brethren...of Free and Accepted Masons. By Desire, two Rows of the Pit will be rail'd into the Boxes for Masons only, who are desir'd to attend the Grand Master at the Shakespear's Head, Covent-Garden, exactly at Five o'clock, in order to proceed to the Play. Tickets to be had of Berry, in Crown-Court, Russell Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Song: The Songs in Masonry, as usual: Brother Berry, Brother OatesI: Come let us prepare-Brother Berry, Brother Oates; III: On on my dear Brethren-Brother Berry, Brother Oates; V: Let Masonry be now my Theme-Brother Berry, Brother Oates

Dance: II: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; IV: Wooden Shoe Dance-Livier, Villeneuve

Event Comment: Benefit the Reviver. N.B. To prevent any Interruption in the Musick, Dancing, Machinery or other Parts of the Performance, Side Boxes only will be form'd on the Stage, for the Accommodation of the Ladies. And (by Desire) five Rows of the Pit will be rail'd in at the Price of the BoXes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: Benefit Michael Lally. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. [Tickets at Lally's House in Southampton-Row.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: II: Je ne scai quoi-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates; III: Grecian Sailors-Glover; IV: Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Lalauze; with a Minuet-Lally (his first since his lameness), Mlle Roland; V: Grand Ballet-Glover, Mlle Roland; accompanied-Tench

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 7 Feb.: Last Night as one John Sommerford, a Sawyer (who came into the Upper Gallery at [cg] at the latter End of the Play), was pressing forward, in order to get a better Place, he was push'd by a Person, who took disgust at his standing before him, which occasion'd the Sawyer to lose his Footing, and he tumbled over into the Pit (the depth of 30 Feet) between two Rows of the Audience, without receiving any Damage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness the Duke, and Their Royal Highdesses the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, Mary and Louisa. Benefit Glover. Three Rows of the Pit will be laid into Boxes. [Tickets at Glover's, Chandos Street, near cg.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Dance: I: Comic Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; II: Two Pierots-Lalauze, Desse; III: Grand Ballet as performed in the Opera of Pastor Fido-Glover, Mlle Roland; IV: Scots Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland; V: The Louvre (a Ball Dance), including The Minuet-Glover, Mlle Roland

Event Comment: Benefit Stephens. Tickets at Stephen's House, Paternoster Row

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance: TTwo Pierots-Lalauze, Desse; Je ne sai quoi-Villeneuve, Richardson, Miss Oates; Serious Dance-Mlle Roland; Grecian Sailors-Glover

Event Comment: Benefit Berry. For the Entertainment of the Grand Master and the rest of the Brethren of...Free and Accepted Masons. [Three Rows of the Pit railed into the Boxes for Masons only. Tickets at Berry's in Bridges Street.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Song: I: Come let us Prepare-Brother Berry; III: On on my Dear Brethren-Brother Beard; IV: Ye Brethren of the Ancient Craft-Brother Berry; End Afterpiece: Thus mighty Eastern Kings-Brother Beard

Dance: II: Ethiopian Dance-Muilment, Livier, Baudouin, Rector, Fromont; V: Hungarian Dance-Denoyer, Mrs Walter

Event Comment: Benefit Short. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet Laureat. Afterpiece: Alter'd from Hob; or, The Country Wake. [Tickets at Short's House, Little Ormond Street, near Bedford-Row, Holborn.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Song: I: Genius of England-Salway; III: Roberts

Dance: II: Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; IV: La Badinage de Provence-Poitier, Mlle Roland; V: Grand Ballet-Glover, Mlle Anne Roland

Music: End Afterpiece: A preamble on the Kettle Drums-Woodbridge; followed by Handel's Water Musick-

Event Comment: Benefit Glover. As 22 Dec. 1739. [Three Rows of Pit railed into Boxes. Tickets at Glover's House in Chandois Street.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Dance: PPeasants-French Boy and Girl; Ballet-Glover, Villeneuve, Desse, Delagarde, Miss Oates, Mrs LeBrun, Mlle Ozanne; Pastor Fido (a Grand Dance)-Glover, Mlle Roland; The Maria (Ball Dance), a Minuet-Glover, Mlle Roland; Scots Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland

Event Comment: Benefit Stephens. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [Tickets at Stephen's Lodgings in Paternoster Row.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; II: Peasant-French Boy; Serious Dance-French Girl; IV: Miller and Wife-French Boy and Girl; V: Grand Ballet-Glover, Mlle Roland Ynger

Song: III: Roberts