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Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Chambers. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: With several Additional Songs

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mithridates King Of Pontus

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Song: IV: Singing in Italian-Mrs Chambers

Dance: II: Dutchman and his Frow-Vallois, Mrs Bullock; V: Scots Dance-Haughton, Mlle Roland

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Song: A new Song-Beard

Dance: SSerious Dance, concluding with a Minuet-Misses Scott; Highlander and his Mistress-Lalauze, Mrs Laguerre; Punch in Love with Dame Ragonde, as17370319 Grecian Sailor-Glover

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Hamilton, Two Masters Hamilton. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. [Tickets at Hamilton's Lodgings, at Mrs Corey's , in Hemlock Court, Corey Street.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Song: II: A Dialogue composed by Purcell-the Masters Hamilton; IV: Singing in Italian -Mrs Chambers

Dance: III: Dutchman and Frow-Vallois, Mrs Bullock; V: Scot's Dance-Haughton, Mlle Roland; End Afterpiece: French Peasant-Master Oates, Miss Oates

Event Comment: Benefit A. Hallam. Tickets at Hallam's, next the Chapel in Great Queen Street.Tickets for Mrs Forrester taken also

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

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Role: Madam Bernard Actor: Mrs Forrester

Song: III: Rosy Bowers (set by Henry Purcell)-Beard

Event Comment: Benefit the Author of the Tragedy. As 28 March

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: The Historical Register

Event Comment: Benefit Salway

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Clown-Nivelon; III: Comic Dance-Nivelon, Lalauze, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs LeBrun; V: Grecian Sailor-Glover; End Afterpiece: Hippisley's Drunken Man-

Song: II: Rosy Bowers-Beard; IV: Since Times are so bad-Leveridge, Salway

Event Comment: Benefit a Family under Misfortunes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Dance: II: Pierrots-Vallois, Delagarde

Song: I: Dialogue composed by Henry Purcel-the Masters Hamilton; III: Miss Jones; IV: Singing in Italian-Mrs Chambers

Event Comment: Benefit the Author of the Tragedy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: The Historical Register

Event Comment: Benefit Harper. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the Toy Shop

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: Foresters Actor: Turbutt, Leigh, Marshall.

Music: Comic Medley Overture by Arne-

Dance: I: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; III: Drunken Peasant-Phillips; V: Turkish Dance-Muilment, Villeneuve, Livier

Event Comment: Benefit the Author of both Pieces. Mainpiece: Written by the Author of Pasquin. Afterpiece: a very short, but very merry Tragedy [By Henry Fielding]. Pit and Boxes (at the Desire of several Ladies of Quality) put together at 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Historical Register

Afterpiece Title: Eurydice Hissd or A Word to the Wise

Event Comment: Benefit the Author of both Pieces

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Historical Register

Afterpiece Title: Eurydice Hissd

Event Comment: Benefit the Author of the Farce. Afterpiece: a Farce. [Author not known.] Preface to edition of 1737: The Misrepresentation of this little Piece upon the Stage, and the proper Indifference with which it was received by the Audience, made it necessary, for my Reputation sake, to publish it with all convenient Expedition. My Friends, who had read the Thing, did not know it again, it was in so disastrous a Plight; and they that had not read it (from a Prepossession in my Favour) imputed its Aukwardness to the Mismanagement, or Incapacity of the Players

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Authors Triumph or The Manager Managd

Performance Comment: The Characters of which are, An Author-; his Patron-; a Manager-; 1st Player-; 2d Player-; 3d Player-; 4th Player-; a Humourous Fellow-; one Tatter-; the Author's Servant-; Amanuebsis-; a Mistress for the Poet-; a Mistress for his Man-; Also a New Epilogue- to the Farce.
Cast
Role: a Mistress for the Poet Actor:
Role: a Mistress for his Man Actor:

Dance: End Afterpiece: Pierrots-Vallois, Delagarde

Song: II: Dialogue by Purcell-the Masters Hamilton; III: Miss Jones; IV: Singing in Italian-Mrs Chambers

Event Comment: Benefit Griffin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Taste Or The Guardians

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Kilby and Miss Bincks

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: SScot's Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre, Desse, Mrs Ogden, Tench, Mrs Delorme; Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Lalauze; Comic Dance-Nivelon, Lalauze, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs LeBrun

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Butler. [Tickets at Mrs Elizabeth Butler's Leicester Fields. See Daily Advertiser, 18 April for verses spoken by Mrs Butler on this night.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Performance Comment: Hermione-Mrs Butler (in London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 14 April; issue for 15 April missing); with the Original Epilogue-.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: Benefit Rosco, Vallois. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality and Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Song: I: Italian Song-Miss Jones

Dance: II: By Desire of several Ladies of Quality, a new Ball Dance, Dedicated to the Princess of Wales, concluding with a Minuet-Vallois, Miss Oates; III: Clown-Vallois; IV: Two Pierrots-Vallois, Delagarde; V: French Peasant-Vallois, Miss Oates

Event Comment: Benefit Mills

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: Dublin Maggot-Philips, Janno, Peters; IV: Drunken Peasant-Philips; V: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman in Distress

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Nivelon, Lalauze; Grecian Sailors-Glover

Song: RRosy Bowers (set by Purcell)-Beard; The Contented Mind, in the Anacreontic Stil,-Leveridge

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Cibber. Tickets at Cibber's House in Wild-Court, lif

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Stevens, Mrs Wright

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Song: A Cantata-Mrs Wright; Caelia has a Thousand Charms (set by Purcell)-Beard; The Agreement-Leveridge, Laguerre, Mrs Wright

Dance: GGrecian Sailors-Glover

Event Comment: Benefit Johnson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alzira

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: III: Clown-Vallois; V: French Peasants-Master Oates, Miss Oates

Song: IV: Singing in Italian-Mrs Chambers

Event Comment: Benefit Mlle Roland. By particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Dance:

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd 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 Essex. Tickets at Essex's Lodgings, at Mrs Holt's near the Playhouse Passage in Bow Street. Note, As many of my Friends may not appris'd of the hurt I receiv'd in my Performance on the Stage at the beginning of this Season, which still continues

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: II: Turkish Dance-Muilment; IV: Serious Dance-Muilment; V: Russian Sailor-Denoyer

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