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Event Comment: Benefit Turbutt, Mich. Stoppelaer, Miss Oates. All the Songs will be printed, and delivered at the Theatre Gratis. Admission: 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s. 6:30 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beaux Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Generous Free Mason

Music: A Solo on the Violin by Master Oates, Scholar to Charke

Dance: II: Irish Trot by Master Oates. III: A new dance by Master and Miss Oates. IV: A new dance by Mr and Mrs Davenport. V: Peasant by Master and Miss Oates

Event Comment: Benefit Hyde

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

Dance: II: Black Joak-Philips, Miss Mann; V: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter

Event Comment: Benefit Cibber. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Sir George Etheridge. Afterpiece: Taken from the French of Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode Or Sir Fopling Flutter

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: A new Punch Dance-Master Ferg; III: French Peasants-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; IV: Grand Ballet-Muilment, Mrs Walter

Song: (BBy Desire) Ballad of Mary Scot-Mrs Clive

Music: Instead of an Overture to the Farce, will be performed a Grand Piece of Musick with Trumpets (being the Chorus...by Mr Handel)-; with a Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Master Ferg

Event Comment: Benefit Ryan. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wedding the Comic Part of Acis and Galatea

Dance: Glover, Lalauze, Mlle Roland

Event Comment: Benefit Ryan. Mainpiece: At the desire of several persons of Quality. Tickets at Ryan's Lodgings in Great Queen St

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Dance: DDrunken Tyrolese-Sodi; Peasant-Cooke

Event Comment: Benefit Furnival. Tickets deliver'd out by Costollo will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: Brett

Dance: As17461124

Event Comment: Benefit Master Arne. To begin at 6:30 p.m. Pit and Boxes will be laid together at Half a Guinea. Gallery 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Pasticcio

Afterpiece Title: The Judgement of Paris

Event Comment: Benefit for Widow Lampe and Miss Young. Afterpiece: Being Positively the last time of performing it this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius

Afterpiece Title: The Oracle

Dance: III: Two Pierrots, as17530501; V: Grand Scots Ballet, as17521216

Event Comment: Benefit for Shuter. Mainpiece: Not acted in 10 years. Receipts: #194 10s. in cash, plus #147 18s. from tickets (Boxes 378; Pit 356). Charges #64 5s. Advanced to Mrs Ward #30. [Shuter called for imaginative participation of his audience in his Medley Skit (see Larpent MS 171): @"Suppose my dress alter'd with each exhibition....@If I speak like a Dutchman, or Brogue it like Paddy,@Or mimic Monsieur, or lisp like a Lady"@ Parts for The English Sailors in America (by G. A. Steevens) are listed in Larpent MS 172: Indian King , English Captain , Irishman , Sailor Ned and Sailor Ben , a Black Messenger , Guards , White Savage Lady , Black Woman , Image .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant Or The Beggars Bush

Dance: TThe Dutch Skipper-Poitier

Entertainment: E+Extravaganza. Shuter will entertain the audience in an Oratorical, Poetical, Operatical Method (never befoer attempted) with a Comic Extravaganza call'd A Day of Taste; or, London Raree Show-Shuter being a Ranelagh Breakfast, a Coffee House Conversation, An Auction at Noon, and the Choice Spirits at Night; conclude with: The Cries of London-. *uó‘cg To which will (By Desire) be added (for this Night only) Mr Shuter's Droll that was perform'd at Bartholomew Fair, call'd The English Sailors in America. Mackfinnen (the Irish Volunteer)-Shuter; Princess-Miss Dawson, her first Time of speaking on the stage

Event Comment: Benefit for Wilkinson. At the Request of several Persons of Quality. Tickets delivered by Fox, Royall, and for The Distress'd Mother will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Event Comment: Benefit for Wilkinson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: II: A Serious Dance-Miss Street (scholar to Ghendi); V: The Venetian Gardeners-Master Rogier, Miss Street

Event Comment: Benefit Wilkinson, by Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Event Comment: Benefit for Miles, Mrs Green and Mrs Baker. None admitted behind Scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: III: A Scotch Dance-Mas. King, Miss Pitt; IV: The Drunken Peasant-Miles, Clown-Bennet; End: A Hornpipe-Mas. King

Event Comment: Benefit for Reddish. Mainpiece: Not acted in 40 years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Falsehood

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: III: Hearts of Oak-Giorgi, Mrs King

Event Comment: Benefit for Legg, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Jones, Miss Besford

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Dance: II: Double Hornpipe-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford; V: The Fingalian Dance-Miss Besford. [See17591102.

Music: III: Concerto on Trumpet-Mas. Green (Scholar to Mr Jones)

Event Comment: Benefit for Dickinson, 1st gallery office-keeper. Afterpiece [F 2, by Edward Thompson, 1st acted at Richmond, 1 Aug. 1776; not published; Prologue probably by the author]: Never performed there. Public Advertiser, 17 May: Tickets to be had of Dickinson, No. 5, Wild-court, Wild-street, near Lincoln's Inn Fields. Receipts: #276 17s. (21.14; 7.10; 0.0; tickets: 247.13) (charge: #84)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Cast
Role: Lady Wronghead Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: St Helena or The Isle of Love

Dance: End II: a Hornpipe, as17770430

Event Comment: Benefit for Brett

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

Event Comment: Benefit for Booth. Afterpiece: Not acted these 7 years [acted 12 Nov. 1782. Rees is identified in Dram. Reg.]. Public Advertiser, 10 May: Tickets to be had of Booth, No. 18, Broad-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #234 2s. (95.13; 7.1; tickets: 131.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Dance: As17880328

Event Comment: Benefit for Marshall, Miss Williams & Mrs Warrell. Oracle, 3 June: Tickets to be had of Marshall, No. 11, York-street, York-buildings; of Miss Williams, No. 14, Martlett-court, Bow-street, Covent-Garden; of Mrs Warrell, No. 48, Carey-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. Receipts: #147 9s. 6d. (14.16.6; 4.1.0; tickets: 128.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fontainbleau

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Song: End I: Had I a Heart for Falsehood framed-Marshall in imitation of Leoni; After Monologue: a New Song-Incledon

Entertainment: Monologue. End: A Dissertation on Hobby@Horses, as17910524 but Mr Brandon's Hobby in place of Mrs Mountain's Hobby; The Lawyer's Hobby-Marshall (in the character of a Jockey)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Martyr. 1st piece: Not acted these 20 years [never previously acted at this theatre]. Morning Herald, 4 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Martyr, No. 16, Martlet-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #349 16s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: May Day Or The Little Gipsey

Afterpiece Title: Fashionable Levities

Afterpiece Title: The Soldiers Festival

Afterpiece Title: Hartford Bridge

Dance: As17921116

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Storace. Morning Herald, 25 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Sga Storace, No. 36, Howland-street, Fitzroy-square. Receipts: #402 7s. (197.11.6; 62.19.6; 0.16.0; tickets: 141.0.0) (charge: #261 7s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahmoud

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnstone. 1st piece: By permission of G. Colman, Esq.; never performed here. [Bannister Jun.'s 1st appearance at this theatre was on 2 Feb. 1779.] 3rd piece: Not performed here these 3 years. [No play of this title had been hitherto acted anywhere. But it appears to be the same as The Sailor's Prize, for which see cg, 1 May 1795.] Morning Chronicle, 22 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Johnstone, No. 19, Piazza, Covent Garden. Receipts: #478 (208.6.6; 13.17.6; tickets: 255.16.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False And True

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Afterpiece Title: The Paradox or Maid Wife and Widow

Dance: III: a Characteristic Dance and Masquerade as at the Venetian Carnival-

Song: In course Evening: a new Sea Ballad, composed for his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Tomorrow[; or, the Mars, Capt. Connor (the words by the Author of the Castle Spectre [Matthew Gregory Lewis]; the music by Kelly)-Incledon; A Touch at old Times-Munden; In my Father's Mud Cabin-Johnstone

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Performance Comment: Subtle-Burton; Sir Epicure Mammon-Love; Kastril-J. Burton; Face-Palmer; Tribulation-Hartry; Surly-Baddeley; Ananias-Parsons; Doll Common-Mrs Hopkins; Dame Pliant-Mrs Johnston; Abel Drugger-Garrick; Lovewit-Packer; Dapper-W. Palmer.
Cast
Role: Doll Common Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rose And Colin

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Ballet: II: Savoyard Travellers. Principal Savoyards-Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti, Mathews, Mrs Addison; Children Savoyards-Little Swiss, Miss Popling; Peasants-M'Neil, Mlle delaContri; see17491110