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Event Comment: Benefit for Austin and Wood, Sub-Treasurer. Tickets delivered out for Mozeen will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: V: The Cow Keepers, as17600313

Event Comment: Benefit for Ballard, Treasurer. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years [see 20 Oct. 1759]. Receipts: #37 11s. 6d. plus #205 4s. from tickets (Boxes 260; Pit 830; Gallery 247). Total income #242 15s. 6d. Charges #64 5s. Paid Ledley for 8 doz. wax candles at #1 11s. per dozen, #12 8s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral Or Grief A La Mode

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: II: The Lamp Lighters, as17600318 End: The Knife Grinders, as17600417

Event Comment: Benefit for Gibbs, Miss White, and a Gentleman in Distress. Tickets delivered out by Courtney, Rawlins, Mrs Gold, Mrs Gwinn, and others for 26 April will be taken. Tickets sold at the doors will nto be admitted. Receipts: #89 5s. in cash and 1!2 value of tickets: @Tickets Gibbs Box@Pit 4@Gallery 22@Value #2 16s.@1!2 Value #1 8s.@Tickets Courtney Box 30@Pit 141@Gallery 39@Value #32 11s.@1!2 Value #16 5s. 6d.@Tickets Rawlins Box 17@Pit 44@Gallery 44@Value #15 5s.@1!2 Value #7 12s. 6d.@Tickets Person Distress'd Box 37@Pit 92@Gallery 57@Value #28 15s.@1!2 Value #14 7s. 6d.@Tickets Miss White Box 17@Pit 29@Gallery 37@Value #12 6s.@1!2 Value #6 3s.@Tickets Mrs Gold Box 3@Pit 15@Gallery 31@Value #6 2s.@1!2 Value #3 1s.@Tickets Mrs Hitchcock Box 12@Pit 30@Gallery 10@Value #8 10s.@1!2 Value #4 5s. Gratis@Tickets Mrs Gwynn Box 2@Pit 28@Gallery 47@Value #9 8s.@1!2 Value #4 14s. Gratis@Box 108@Pit 383@Gallery 287@Value #115 13s.@1!2 Value #57 16s. 6d.@Cash #31 8s. 6d.@Receipt #89 5s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Statue

Dance: III: The Lamp Lighters, as17600318 End: The Knife Grinders, as17600417

Event Comment: Benefit for Packer and Champnes. Tickets delivered out for The Squire of Alsatia and The Lady's Last Stake will be taken. No Building on Stage. Full prices. [Rich's Register lists The Lady's Last Stake as mainpiece.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Dance: III: The Cow Keepers, as17600313

Event Comment: Benefit for Marten, Anderson, R. Smith. Receipts: #32 7s. 6d. in cash. Charges #64 5s. Deficit to each #10 4s. 2d. covered by income from tickets: Marten #80 1s. (Boxes 55; Pit 306; Gallery 204); Anderson #56 12s. (Boxes 21; Pit 280; Gallery 92); R. Smith #57 15s. (Boxes 30; Pit 208; Gallery 192). Total income #226 15s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: II: The Drunken Peasant-Miles; Clown-Bennet; III: The Fingalian Dance, as17591102; End: The Lamp Lighters, as17600318

Event Comment: Benefit for Clough, Raftor, Walker, Watkins. Tickets delivered by Denny, Costin, and Cagle will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: V: The Cow Keepers, as17600313

Event Comment: Benefit for Roberts, and Sarjant, House Keeper. Receipts: #46 7s. 6d. Charges #64 5s. Deficit to each #16 16s. 3d., covered by income from tickets: Sarjant #45 14s. (Boxes 50; Pit 178; Gallery 65); Roberts #82 9s. (Boxes 100; Pit 293; Gallery 135). Total income #174 10s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Statue

Dance: II: The Threshers, as17591005; IV: The Lamp Lighters, as17600318

Song: III: Song-Roberts

Music: III: accompanied on the Harp-Evans; after which, By Desire, A Lass that was Laden with Care, with variations -Evans

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Simson and Miss Simson. No Building on Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

Dance: I: The Cow Keepers, as17600313 End: Louvre, Minuet-Noverre, Miss Simson

Event Comment: Benefit for Bennet and Legg. Receipts: #32 11s. in cash. Charges #64 5s. Deficit to each beneficiary #15 4s. 6d., covered by income from tickets: Bennet #95 11s. (Boxes 13; Pit 408; Gallery 311); Legge #77 2s. (Boxes 71; Pit 305; Gallery 136). Total income #205 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Music: II: A Piece on the Harp-Evan Evans

Dance: III: The Drunken Peasant-Miles; Clown-Bennet; IV: The Lamp Lighters, as17600318

Event Comment: Benefit for Ackman, Scrase, Harrison

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette

Song: II: Ode to Echo (Dr Hayes)-Miss Young

Dance: III: Hornpipe-Harrison; IV: A Minuet-two of Harrison's Scholars

Event Comment: Benefit for General Lying-In Hospital. Pit and boxes Half a Guinea. First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Clemenza Di Tito

Event Comment: Benefit for Cresswick, Desse, Miss Sledge, and Madam Jansolin. Receipts: #32 2s. in cash. Charges #64 5s. Deficit to each #7 14s. 6d., covered by income from tickets: @Tickets Cresswick Box 45@Pit 89@Gallery 31@Value #27 14s.@Tickets Desse Box 157@Pit 54@Gallery 70@Value #19 12s.@Tickets Jansoleene Box 58@Pit 179@Gallery 125@Value #53 17s.@Total Box 278@Pit 486@Gallery 381@Value #180 10s. and money #32 2s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Performance Comment: Sir Wilful-Shuter; Fainall-Ridout; Mirabel-Gibson; Witwou'd-Dyer; Petulant-Cresswick; Waitwell-Dunstall; Marwood-Mrs Elmy; Foible-Mrs Ferguson; Mincing-Miss Helm; Lady Wishfort-Mrs Pitt; Mrs Fainall-Miss Sledge; Millamant-Mrs Hamilton.
Cast
Role: Lady Wishfort Actor: Mrs Pitt

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: I: The Drunken Peasant-Miles; Clown-Bennet; II: The Threshers, as17591005; III: The Dutch Skipper-Poitier; End: The Lamp Lighters, as17600318

Event Comment: Benefit for Dickinson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette

Dance: HHornpipe-a sailor from the Royal Sovereign

Event Comment: Benefit for Stoppelaer. Receipts: #26 2s. 6d. in cash. Charges #64 5s. Deficit of #36 17s. 6d. covered by #119 5s. from tickets (Boxes 107; Pit 478; Gallery 208)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: III: The Fingalian Dance, as17591102; End: The Threshers, as17591005

Event Comment: Benefit for Cape, West, Tomlinson, Robinson, Roberts, and Mortimer. Tickets delivered by Marr and Page will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Bennet.
Role: Foresight Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Event Comment: Benefit for Wignel, Davis. Receipts: #28 2s. 6d., in cash. Charges #64 5s. Deficit to each #17 8s. 9d. covered by tickets: Wignell #99 9s. (Boxes 58; Pit 401; Gallery 248); Davis #68 19s. (Boxes 90; Pit 199; Gallery 166). Total income #196 10s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man Or The Fops Fortune

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: III: A new Comic Dance-Granier, Miss Hilliard; End: The Knife Grinders, as17600417

Event Comment: Benefit for Shawford, Berrisford, Roberts, Miss Bride. Tickets delivered by Spilsbury will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: HHornpipe-Walker

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunbar, Smith, and Broad (boxkeepers). Tickets delivered by Prentis will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Song: II: Jubal's Lyre-Prentis; IV: So shall the Lute and Harp Awake [in Judas Macchabaeus]-Prentis; accompanied on the Harp-Rice

Event Comment: Benefit for Holtom, Perry, Buck, Weller. No Building on Stage. Receipts: #41 in cash. Charges #64 5s. Deficit to each #5 10s., covered by tickets: @Tickets Holtom Box 9@Pit 109@Gallery 92@Value #27 16s.@Tickets Buck Box 17@Pit 56@Gallery 97@Value #22 7s.@Tickets Perry Box 10@Pit 119@Gallery 191@Value #39 9s.@Tickets Weller Box 13@Pit 87@Gallery 131@Value #29 8s. Total income #160.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Cast
Role: Woolfort Actor: Sparks

Afterpiece Title: The Siege of Quebec or Harlequin Engineer

Entertainment: M+Monologue. An Epilogue in Imitation of Shakespeare's Stage of Human Life=-Cresswickas17600508

Dance: II: The Drunken Peasant-Miles; Clown-Bennet; IV: The Fingalian Dance, as17591102

Event Comment: Benefit for Bowers (boxkeeper) and Palmer (Pit doorkeeper). Tickets delivered by Humphrys will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: HHornpipe-Master Wallace1st appearance, a student of Walker

Event Comment: Benefit for Signora Calori

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antigona

Song: Four new songs composed by Giardini

Event Comment: Benefit for Evans, Letsam, Potter (boxkeepers) and Stede. Tickets delivered out for The Rover will be taken. Receipts: #18 5s. 6d. in cash. Charges #44 2s. 9d. plus 1!2 value of tickets: @Tickets Evans Box 299@Pit 144@Gallery 136@Value #109 19s.@1!2 Value @Tickets Letsam Box 45@Pit 46@Gallery 50@Value #23 3s.@1!2 Value #11 11s. 6d.@Tickets Potter Box 28@Pit 58@Gallery 79@Value #23 12s.@1!2 Value #11 16s.@Tickets Stede Box 12@Pit 94@Gallery 84@Value #25 10s.@1!2 Value #12 15s.@Total Box 384@Pit 342@Gallery 349@Value #182 4s.@1!2 Value #36 2s. 6d.@Evans was charged #25 17s. 3d.@Money #18 5s. 6d.@Rec'd to Rich #80 5s. 3d.@Paid Evans for his attendance #10

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Song: Lowe

Dance: III: A Comic Dance-Granier, Miss Hilliard; End: The Lamp Lighters, as17600318

Event Comment: Benefit for Foly (Box lobby doorkeekper) and Veal (First Gallery doorkeeper). British Chronicle, 16 May: Yesterday Foulkes, a Beadle of Vere St Clare Market fell from the upper gallery of Drury Lane play house into the pit & expired immediately. The seat on which he fell was broke in half. British Chronicle, 16 May: It is said Mrs Pritchard is appointed Dresser to her intended Majesty for the Royal Wedding

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal Or The Humours Of The Navy

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Dance: HHornpipe-a sailor on board the Royal Sovereign

Event Comment: Benefit for Vaughan, Condell, Green (boxkeepers). Receipts: #18 18s. in cash. Charges #64 5s. Deficit to each #17 0s. 8d. covered by tickets: Condell #74 12s. (Boxes 132; Pit 212; Gallery 98); Vaughan #71 2s. (Boxes 151; Pit 147; Gallery 113); Green #73 13s. (Boxes 206; Pit 119; Gallery 456). Total income #238 9s. Paid Kemp #8 6s.; Paid Pattinson (Tallow chandler) 6 bills to 8 May #100 14s. 6d.; Advanced to Barrington #21. [The house is now, according to the books, showing a deficit of #634 14s. 6d.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part I

Cast
Role: Vernon Actor: Gibson

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: The Fingalian Dance, as17591102; End: The Knife Sharpeners, as17600417

Event Comment: Benefit for Varney. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Tickets delivered for the 10th instant will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: IV: Miss Spencer

Dance: HHornpipe-a sailor from the Royal Sovereign