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Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Charke. Mainpiece: Written by Mrs Charke. Intermixed with Songs. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Carn1val Or Harlequin Blunderer

Afterpiece Title: Squire Basing Hall

Music: A new Medley Overture composed by Charke. With a large Band of Musick provided for that Night, with French Horns, Kettle Drums, and Trumpets

Performance Comment: With a large Band of Musick provided for that Night, with French Horns, Kettle Drums, and Trumpets .

Dance: Hornpipe by Taylor

Event Comment: Benefit the Author of the Farce. On Friday next Printed Books of the Farce will be sold at the Great Room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell the London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Art of Management

Event Comment: Benefit a Family in Great Distress. Written by the late Mrs Centlivre. 5s., 3s., 2s. 6 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Song:

Dance: By some of the best Masters

Event Comment: Benefit John Aewood. 7 P.M. 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman in Distress. [Advertised in London DaIly Post and General Advertiser, 22 Dec, not later: With other Entertainments, as will be express'd in the Day's Bills.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Event Comment: Benefit Author of the Farce. Mainpiece: Not Acted these Fourteen Years. Written by Dr Young, Author of the Universal Passion. Afterpiece: A New Tragic-Comic-Operatic-Pastoral Farce [By T. Drury]. At Common Prices. [Preface gives a long account of difficulties in getting the Afterpiece on the stage. See Daily Advertiser, 16 and 17 Jan. for puffs of the Afterpiece.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Milliners or The Humours of Covent Garden

Dance: I: Irish Trot by Shawford. III: Scot's Dance by Shawford. IV: Hornpipe by Collard. V: Sailor's Dance by Castiglione

Performance Comment: III: Scot's Dance by Shawford. IV: Hornpipe by Collard. V: Sailor's Dance by Castiglione .

Song: II: By Young Cunningham

Event Comment: Benefit Speltra. 6 P.M. 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal by Signiora Segatti and Arrigoni. Solo on Lute by Arrigoni. Concerto on Harpsicord and Violoncello by Speltra and Corporalli. Castrucci Sr will play the first violin

Event Comment: Benefit the Author of the Farce

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Extravagance

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Milliners

Dance: Irish Trot. Scot's Dance. Two Pierrots. Sailor's Dance

Event Comment: Benefit Angel. For the Entertainment of all Lovers of Musick and Painting. 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Event Comment: Benefit Caporali

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Two solos and two concertos on Violoncello by Carporali. Singing by Palma. First Violin by Clegg

Event Comment: Benefit Hyde. Receipts: money #41 3s. 6d.; tickets #69 14s. [In Daily Advertiser, 20 Feb., Hyde had given notice that tickets for the boxes numbered 208-14 had been lost and would not be accepted at the theatre.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear And H1s Three Daughters

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: Glover's Scot's Dance. IV: Tambourine by Glover and Miss Rogers. V: French Peasant by Tench and Miss Rogers

Event Comment: Benefit Freeman. Mainpiece: Not Acted these Twelve Years. By particular Desire. Afterpiece: With Alterations. And a Description of Tom King's Coffee-house in Covent-Garden. At Common Prices [4s., 2s. 6d., and 1s. 6d. in Daily Advertiser]. 6 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Busiris King Of Aegypt

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Milliners

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit Valentine Snow. 5s. 6 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Two Anthems out of the Coronation Musick to be done by a great Number of Voices and Performers, with several other Pieces of Musick. The whole to conclude with the Anthem of God Save the King

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Jupiter and Io

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Horton. Afterpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: money #65 15s.; tickets #51 18s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance: A Ballet by Glover, Miss Rogers, Tench, Desse, Livier, Dupre, Mrs Ogden, Mlle Delorme, Miss Sandham, Miss Norman. Scot's Dance, as17360226

Event Comment: Benefit of a Gentlewoman in Distress. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

Event Comment: Benefit J. Festin. 7 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Segatti. Tickets a half guinea. 7 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Event Comment: Benefit Delane. Tickets at Delane's Lodgings, Sign of the Dial, CG. Receipts: money #70 19s. 6d.; tickets #50 18s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Lawyer

Dance: Sailors (from orestes), as17360302 Two Pierrots by Nivelon and Lalauze

Event Comment: Benefit Scarpettini. Tickets for 20 Feb. taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Hallam. Tickets at her Lodgings, at a Grocer's, Corner of James St, Long-Acre. Receipts: money #32 10s.; tickets #66 6s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Two Pierrots by Nivelon and Lalauze. French Peasant by Tench and Miss Rogers. Scot's Dance, as17360226

Event Comment: Benefit Ryan. Afterpiece: A Ballad Opera (not perform'd these Six Years) reduc'd to two short acts. [Tickets at Ryan's at the Golden Cup, King-street, CG.] Receipts: money #38 1s.; tickets #102 11s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: Falstaff-Delane; Page-A. Hallam; Ford-Ryan; Sir Hugh-Hippisley; Caius-Mullart; Shallow-Chapman; Slender-Clark; Fenton-Master Ryan; Mrs Ford-Mrs Horton; Mrs Page-Mrs Buchanan; Anne Page-Miss Norsa; Mrs Quickly-Mrs Mullart .
Cast
Role: Ford Actor: Ryan
Role: Mrs Ford Actor: Mrs Horton

Afterpiece Title: Sylvia or The Country Burial

Performance Comment: Sir John-Walker; Sylvia-Miss Norsa; Timothy Stitch-Laguerre; Jonathan-Hippisley; Wilford-Aston; Ploughshare-Mullart; Gaffer Gabble-M. Stoppelaer; Sexton-James; Dorothy-Mrs Kilby; Betty-Miss Bincks; Goody Busy-Mrs Martin; Goody Gabble-Mrs Forrester; Lettice-Miss Hilliard .
Cast
Role: Wilford Actor: Aston
Role: Goody Gabble Actor: Mrs Forrester

Dance: As17360316

Song: Dialogue by Leveridge and Mrs Wright

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Roberts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Lover His Own Rival

Related Works
Related Work: The Lover His Own Rival Author(s): Abraham Langford

Dance: Dutch Skipper by Vallois and Mrs Bullock

Event Comment: Benefit Mil ward. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Afterpiece: Taken from Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: II: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. III: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. V: Revellers by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c