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Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bellamy. Tragedy reviv'd and never acted there before. Afterpiece: Written by Foote

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alzira

Afterpiece Title: Taste

Dance: Comic Entertainment-Poitier, Mlle Capdeville

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Bugiani and Maranesi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ricimero

Dance: Three several entertainments of Dancing: A New Pantomime Dance-Sga Bugiani in men's clothes; after which Minuet-Maranesi, Sga Bugiani

Event Comment: Benefit for Sparks. Afterpiece: A farce never perform'd before. [Possibly Thomas Sheridan's The Brave Irishman, but see Ten English Farces, Leo Hughes and A. H. Scouten (Austin, Texas, 1948), pp. 221 ff.] Last time of the company's performing till the holidays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Song: Lowe

Dance: As17541203

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Macklin (Cross). Receipts: #180 (Cross). Ladies to send for tickets for the places they taken at Miss Macklin's, Russel St. next door to Tom's Coffee House. Part of Pit laid into Boxes and Amphitheatre on stage. Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Last time of Performing till the Holidays. On seeing Miss Macklin in the character of the Mourning Bride: @Should Death (for Oh! what power can save Our tragic heroine from the grave)@At Cibber aim his dart:@Tears should forever speak my moan,@For oh! 'tis she, and she alone@Can melt the feeling heart.@Britannia spake, when Lo! a Voice@Britain be happy, and rejoice,@That, when your Cibber dies@The Gods have yet in store for thee,@A Macklin; and in her you'll see@Another Cibber rise.--Public Adveriser@

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: As17550203

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Hamilton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Lover His Own Rival

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

Dance: Granier, Mrs Granier

Event Comment: Benefit for T.? Cibber

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Press Gang or Love in Low Life

Song: II: Ellen a Roon-Mrs Donaldson (late Miss Falkner); IV: The Lady's Lesson a Cantata-Arne Jr

Dance: Granier, Mrs Granier

Event Comment: Benefit for Murphy. Tickets for Macbeth will be taken. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: As17541203

Event Comment: Benefit for Mlle Auretti--she sick in bed (Cross). Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: A Hornpipe-Mathews

Event Comment: Benefit for Ryan

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: As17541203

Event Comment: Benefit for Arthur. Mainpiece: Not acted in 5 years. [See 1 Dec. 1749.] Printed books of the Entertainment will be sold at the Theatre. Price 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar Or The Double Discovery

Afterpiece Title: The Press Gang

Dance: PPantomime Peasant Dance, as17550104

Event Comment: Benefit for Lowe. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Not acted these 6 years. [See 27 March 1750.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: Granier and Mrs Granier

Song: RRule Britannia, Britons Strike Home-

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Curioni

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lipermestra

Dance: See17541109

Event Comment: Benefit for Dyer. No building on the stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Press Gang

Dance: Granier, Mrs Granier

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Haughton--masters share (Cross). Full Prices. That there may be no Obstruction in the Machinery, there will be no building on the stage. Tickets of Miss Haughton, in Chandois St., and at Stage Door. Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Proteus

Event Comment: Benefit for Blakes. No building on Stage. Tickets at Blakes' House in Duke's Court, Bow St., Covent Garden. Macklin's Coffee House sold by Auctioneer under the Commissioner of Bankruptcy (Winston MS 8). Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Event Comment: Benefit for Ridout. No Building on Stage. [The printer of the Public Advertiser seems to have kept his form for the old notices of the cast for the mainpiece, for although changing Bayes to Shuter, with the appropriate remark about his first appearance in the character, he also lists Gentleman Usher as Shuter.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: IItalian Peasants-Granier, Mrs Granier

Event Comment: Benefit for Poitier Jr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: I: Comic Entertainment, as17541203; II: a Serious Dance-Miss Poitier; III: Comic Dance-Lucas, Lepy; IV: Comic Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville; V: A Masquerade Dance, with aMinuet-Poitier Jr, Miss Poitier; To conclude with a Hornpipe-a scholar of Poitier Jr

Song: II: By Particular Desire The Choice-Miss Poitier

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Mattei

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siroe

Event Comment: Benefit for Frantzel and Sga Rosina Balbi. No Building on stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: II: New Comic Dance-Frantzel, Sga Balbi; III: New Comic Dance-Frantzel; which introduces a Drunken Peasant-Frantzel; IV: Chinese Dance, as17550104; V: a New Pastoral Pantomime-Frantzel, Sga Balbi; a Comic Minuet-Frantzel, Sga Balbi

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Elmy. Mainpiece: By Particlar Desire. Tickets delivered out for All for Love will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Oxford Actor: Bencraft

Afterpiece Title: The Schoolboy

Dance: Granier and Mrs Granier

Event Comment: Benefit and support of the General Lying-In Hospital for Married and Unmarried Poor Objects in Duke Street Grosvenor Square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Penelope

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Vincent and Mlle Capdeville. Mainpiece: Not acted these 8 years. [See 13 March 1742.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage Or Innocent Adultery

Afterpiece Title: The Schoolboy

Dance: I: New Comic Dance-Granier, Mlle Capdeville; III: Comic Dance-Lucas, Lepie; V: New Comic Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Passerini. Pit and Boxes half a Guinea. Gallery 5s. The Overture and some songs composed by his Majesty the King of Prussia. The Remaining songs by the best masters as Quantz, Nichelman, Benda. The Duet and chorus-Graun, chief composer of the court, poetry-Villati. The afterpiece "an Italian Pastoral.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Afterpiece Title: Charlottenburg Festeggiante

Event Comment: Benefit for Mathews and Miss Minors. Receipts: #90 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: Beard

Dance: A Hornpipe-Mathews

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Green. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Afterpiece: By Desire. Tickets delivered out for Lady Jane Gray and for this day will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: CComic Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville