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We found 14530 matches on Event Comments, 2620 matches on Performance Comments, 638 matches on Performance Title, 35 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Benefit a Gentlewoman in Distress [Concert formula]. Tickets and Places to be had of Mrs Careless in Hart St., near the Back-Passage of Covent Garden. The Gentlemen and Ladies who intend to honour her with their Company, are desir'd to come as early as possible, she being determin'd to begin punctually at six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Dance:

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Dance: DDutch Skipper, as17421025; Le Rendezvous Gallant, as17421217

Event Comment: Benefit Julian, Mrs Lamball, Miss Naylor, Miss Haughton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Performance Comment: See17430317 but Valet-a Gentleman who never appear'd on any Stage before; Kitty-Miss Haughton.
Event Comment: Benefit Hayman, who performed the part of Capt. Macheath, and Dove. See 14 Feb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband Or Journey To London

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: Hayman

Event Comment: Benefit Phillips, Dignam, Legar, Ford, Levy, and others

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: Benefit Pierson, Treasurer. Garrick refused to act. So he got Bridges from Dublin to play for him. (Winston MS. from Dyer MS.). Tickets and places to be had at Pierson's House, the Green Door, the Upper End of Great Queen St., Lincoln's Inn Fields, and of Hobson at the Stage Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Song: II: Stella and Flavia-Beard; IV: (By Particular Desire) Bumper Squire Jones-Beard

Music: IV: a Concerto-Piantanida

Dance: III: A Comic Dance-Boromeo, Mlle Bonneval

Event Comment: Benefit Mlle Auguste and Woodward

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Dance: PPeasants, as17421230; New Grand Comic Ballet-Picq, Mlle Auguste

Event Comment: Benefit Jo. Miller, nephew of the late Jo. Miller, Comedian

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

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Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit Beckham, the prompter, Blakey, Edw. Giffard, and Miss Story. [Dove's name is in the bill for Seringe, but is also announced to perform this night at the New Wells, Clerkenwell, where he had been dancing regularly; Carney's name is also in the bills to dance this night at the New Wells, Lemon St., Goodman's Fields, where he had been appearing regularly since Easter Monday.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Carney, Mrs Roland, Miss Story; V: a Minuet-Carney, Miss Story

Event Comment: Benefit Bridgwater. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Tickets deliver'd out by Rawlins, and for Rule a Wife will be taken at this play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius Or The Force Of Love

Dance: II: Les Matelots, as17430324 III: New Grand Comic Ballet, as17430407 IV: French Peasant, as17430324 V: a New Ball Dance by Kellom Tomlinson (by Desire)-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde

Music: Between the Acts: Select pieces-

Event Comment: Benefit Mills

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Music: I: Concerto-Piantinida; IV: A New Concerto (never perform'd before) on the German Flute-Burk Thumoth

Dance: II: Neopolitan Punch, as17430324

Song: III: Distracted I Turn-Beard

Event Comment: Benefit Woodward

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Event Comment: Benefit widow and four children of actor Milward

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: As17430217, but Prue-Miss Hippisley, from the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden; Snap-Freeman; Mrs Foresight-Mrs Bambridge; Nurse-Mrs Haughton; Jeremy-Miss Royer; Epilogue [kindly sent to his [Milward's] Widow the Night before by the Gentleman who wrote The Man of Taste [James Miller]-Cibber. (Theatrical Clippings, Folger Library.)
Cast
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Bambridge
Role: Foresight Actor: Julian

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Performance Comment: See17430314 but Lucy-Miss Hippisley; Coupee-Gentleman, who never appear'd on any Stage before.
Event Comment: Benefit Roberts and Mrs Stevens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: TTambourine-Cooke; Peasants, as17421230; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; New Grand Comic Ballet, as17430407

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Macklin. Tickets of Mrs Macklin, Bow Street, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: Forgard Actor: Yates

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Song: II: Beard; IV: Lowe

Dance: III: Sicilian Peasant, as17430310

Music: V: Concerto on German Flute-Burk Thumoth

Event Comment: Benefit Lalauze

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Dance: CCharacters of Dancing, as17421025; Tambourine-Cooke; Peasants, as17421230

Event Comment: Benefit Lowe. Tickets at his lodgings next Seven Stars, Bedford Street, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Performance Comment: School Boy-Garrick, positively for last time this season.
Event Comment: Benefit Michael Lally. Two Rows of the Pits will be laid into the Boxes. And for the better accommodation of the ladies, the stage will be form'd into side boxes, where servants will be allow'd to keep places. Ladies desired to send servants by three

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Dance: I: Dutch Skipper, as17421025; II: Characters of Dancing, as17421025; III: Grand Ballet, as17421108; IV: Grand Comic Ballet, as17430407 V: (By particular Desire) a Louvre, Minuet-Lally, Mlle Anne Auretti

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Bradshaw. Tickets for 9 April will be taken. [Customary concert notice.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Song: Mrs Dunstall

Event Comment: Benefit Neale and Turbutt. Tickets to be had of Neale, a Dyer, in David St., near Grosvenor Square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The What DYe Call It

Song: III: Beard; IV: Gentle Parthenissa-Sullivan; V: Caesar and Urania-Beard, Lowe

Music: II: Concerto on German Flute-Burk Thumoth

Event Comment: Benefit Leveridge. Tickets and places to be had of Page at the stage door, or at Leveridge's Lodgings, the third door on the right hand in Hanover St., turning out of Long Acre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Dance: I: Peasants, as17421230; III: Grand Ballet, as17421108; V: Les Boufons du Cour, as17430305

Song: II: The Contented Man-Leveridge; IV: The Miser's Passport-Leveridge; V: An Epilogue in Music, address'd to the Town,-Leveridge: What I have said before I still recite, All shall be over about Nine at Night

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Tame, late Mrs Turner, of Bow St. Tickets delivered out for 9 April will be taken. [Customary concert formula.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies or Tom Thumb

Event Comment: Benefit Harrington, Master Gillier, Miss Allen, and others

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Dance: CCharacters of Dancing-Janneton Auretti; Tambourine-Master Gillier; L'Aimable Vainquers-Master Gillier, Mlle Janneton Auretti

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Mills. At the particular desire of several Ladies of Quality. Servants admitted to keep places on the stage. Tickets to be had of Mrs Mills at her House in Nassau Street, near Soho. Stage form'd into side boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Devil To Pay

Song: I: Stella and Flavia-Beard; IV: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard; II: A Cantata (compos'd by Stanley)-Lowe

Music: III: Concerto on German Flute-Burk Thumoth

Dance: V: Grand Serious Ballet, as17421005

Event Comment: Benefit Rosco, Lacy, and James

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: II: Dutch Skipper, as17421025; III: Characters of Dancing, as17421025; V: Grand Ballet, as17421108