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Event Comment: Benefit Machen. [For an essay on the bill proposing regulation of the stage, see Prompter, 21 March.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Covent Garden Tragedy

Dance: By Le Sac, from DL

Song: By E. Roberts, from DL

Event Comment: Benefit Bridgwater. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Sir John Vanbrugh. With his Additional Scene. [Tickets at Bridgwater's Lodgings, No. 16, Craven Buildings.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: Scot's Dance, as17350315 Pigmalion by Mlle Salle and Lally

Event Comment: Benefit Topham, the English Sampson. [Tickets at Topham's, Corner of Little Bridges Street.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lembarras Des R1ches

Dance:

Entertainment: After the Play [Topham] will shew Surprising Activities of Strength: And further to oblige the Audience, will endeavor to accommodate them with several New Performances

Song: In English and Italian by Topham

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Clive. Mainpiece: Written by Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom

Music: Solo on Violin by Charke

Dance: III: Amorous Swain and Nymphs, as17350310 IV: Russian Sailor by Denoyer. V: By Denoyer's Apprentice

Event Comment: Benefit Rosco. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality and Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Performance Comment: Merchant-Havard; Clause-Hulett; Higgen-Penkethman; Prig-Rosco; Woolfort-Richardson; Hubert-Bardin; Vandunk-Huddy; Boor-Norris; Gertrude-Mrs Haughton; Jaquelin-Mrs Hamilton .
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Role: Woolfort Actor: Richardson

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song:

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit Verneuil, Mrs Verneuil, Miss Mimi Verneuil. By Command of his Royal Highness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Astrologue Ramoneur Enfant Statue Skellete Negre

Afterpiece Title: Arlequin Hulla

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit the Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Taste

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Orpheus

Event Comment: Benefit Johnson. [For a discussion of the impending bill to restrain the playhouses, see Prompter, 27 March.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom

Dance: Amorous Swain and Rival Nympbs by Lalauze, Mrs Walter, Miss Mann. Russian Sailor by Denoyer, &c. French Peasant by Nivelon

Event Comment: Benefit Huddy. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Performance Comment: Hob-Daniel French of Hampstead, who performed it twice last year at CG .

Dance: I: Pastoral Dance by Vallois and Mrs Bullock. III: La Follette c'est Ravise by Tench and Mrs Woodward. V: Scotch Dance by Mrs Bullock

Song: II: By Miss Jones. IV: By Mrs Chambers

Event Comment: Benefit a Family in Distress. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke, the Princesses Maria and Louisa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lheureux Naufrage

Afterpiece Title: Arlequin Esprit Folet

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit Signor Arrigoni. 7 P.M. Tickets half a guinea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Event Comment: Benefit Castiglione

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Balourd

Dance: I: Les Warriors. II: Les Transfigurations. III: The Prisoner. IV: Comical Pantomime Dance. V: Pierot and Peraitte. Wooden Shoe Dance. Pantomime after the Venetian Manner. All by Castiglione

Event Comment: Benefit Winsch. 6 P.M. 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Seventy select voices and instruments perform the four anthems composed by Handel for the Coronation. A violin solo by Festing

Event Comment: Benefit Chapman. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Dance: Scot's Dance, as17350311 Shepherd and Shepherdess by Lally and Mlle Salle

Song: Scotch Ballad by Miss Hillyard

Event Comment: Benefit Haughton. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: I: Pierrots by Vallois and Delagarde. III: A new Moors' Dance by Haughton, Vallois, Tench, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Woodward. V: Last new Scot's Dance by Haughton, Mrs Bullock, Vallois, Mrs Woodward, Tench, Miss Norman

Song: II: Song with French Horns by Mrs Jones. IV: Singing in Italian by Mrs Chambers

Event Comment: Benefit La Fontaine, who has sustained great Losses by the Fire in Marybone Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Faucon

Afterpiece Title: Les Filles Errantes

Dance: By Lilliputians

Event Comment: Benefit Mercy. At the Desire of several People of Distinction. 6:30 P.M. 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Compositions by Mercy played by himself

Event Comment: Benefit the Lilliputians. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Mary and Louisa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The French Cuckold

Afterpiece Title: The Intrigues of Harlequin

Afterpiece Title: Don Pasquin dAvalos

Afterpiece Title: Le Carillon Comique Dame Alison Maitre Gervase

Dance: The last Lilliputian Scotch Dance. A new Lilliputian Chacone of Characters: Harlequin Man and Woman. Pierot and Pierraite. Punch and Dame Ragondy. Scaramouch

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Bullock. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the Beggar's Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Oxford Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

Dance: Pigmalion by Glover, Lally, Mlle Salle. Scot's Dance, as17350315

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Hamilton, and the Little Chimney-Sweepers, her Sons. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: III: Pierrots by Vallois and Delagarde. V: Scotch Dance, as17350329

Song: II: Watermen's Song in Britannia by the two Masters Hamilton. IV: In Italian by Mrs Chambers

Event Comment: Benefit Neale

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Music: Preamble on the Kettle Drums by Job Baker

Dance: By Lally and Mlle Salle. Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Miss Rogers

Event Comment: Benefit Stephens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Dance: By Lally and Mlle Salle. Scot's Dance by Glover and Miss Rogers

Event Comment: Benefit Penkethman. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

Dance: I: La Follette c'est Ravizee by Tench and Mrs Woodward. III: Pierrots by Vallois and Delagarde. V: Scot's Dance, as17350329

Song: II: By Mrs Chambers. IV: By Mrs Chambers

Event Comment: Benefit Harper. Tickets at Harper's House in Katherine-strcet, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom

Dance: By Nivelon, Lalauze, Le Brun, Pelling, Villeneuve, Davenport, Mrs Walter, Miss Mann, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Davenport, Mrs Brett, particularly Dutchman and his Frow, Amorous Swain and Rival Nymphs, Drunken Peasant, Pierots

Event Comment: Benefit A. Hallam. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Tickets for Miss Baston also taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: La Coquette Francoise by Lally, S. Lally, Mlle Salle. The Buxom Lass (new) by Miss Baston. Tambourine by Glover and Miss Rogers