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Event Comment: Benefit for Wilford, Ross (Pit Doorkeepers); Mislebrook, Dimmock, and Trott (Lobby Doorkeepers). Tickets delivered out by Besford, Slater, Clarke, Toten, J. Smith will be taken. Receipts: #29 8s. plus 1!2 value of tickets: @Tickets Wilford Box -@Pit 39@Gallery 45@Value #10 7s.@1!2 Value #5 3s. 6d.@Tickets Ross Box 4@Pit 153@Gallery 60@Value #29 19s.@1!2 Value #14 19s. 6d.@Tickets Mislebrook Box -@Pit 40@Gallery 128@Value #18 16s.@1!2 Value #9 8s. 6d.@Tickets Dymuck Box -@Pit 7@Gallery 41@Value #5 3s.@1!2 Value #2 11s. 6d.@Tickets Trott Box 165@Pit 40@Gallery 11@Value #48 7s.@1!2 Value #20 3s. 4d.@Tickets Besford Box -@Pit 12@Gallery 38@Value #5 12s.@1!2 Value #2 16s.@Tickets Slater Box -@Pit 56@Gallery 81@Value #16 10s.@1!2 Value #8 5s.@Tickets Clarke Box 4@Pit 33@Gallery 52@Value #11 3s.@1!2 Value #5 11s. 6d.@Tickets Toten Box -@Pit 32@Gallery 48@Value #9 12s.@1!2 Value 4 16s.@Tickets Smith Box 1@Pit 25@Gallery 29@Value #6 18s.@1!2 Value #3 9s.@Tickets S. Griffith Box -@Pit 11@Gallery 11@Value #2 18s.@1!2 Value #1 9s.@Tickets Coles Box 9@Pit 45@Gallery 80@Value #17@1!2 Value #8 10s.@Tickets Darby Box -@Pit 150@Gallery 161@Value 38 12s.@1!2 Value #19 6s.@Tickets Clingo Box -@Pit 37@Gallery 39@Value #10 9s.@1!2 Value #5 4s. 6d.@Total Box 187@Pit 681@Gallery 824@Value #231 6s.@1!2 Value #111 12s. 10d.@Money #29 8s.@Total #141 1s.@ Paid Rich on Acct #5

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: End: Comic Dance-Granier, Miss Hilliard

Event Comment: Benefit for J. Philips and Master Tariot. By particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Concert

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Hussar

Dance: Several new dances-Master Tariot, Miss Polly Capitaniboth from the Opera House, Tariot, Balthazar, Petre, Hussey, Mrs Garman, Mrs Tariot, the Misses Twist

Entertainment: By particular desire (this night only) Saunders will exhibit a great variety of new equilibres on the wire in full swing-Saunders never attempted before. The last time of his performing in the metropolis

Performance Comment: The last time of his performing in the metropolis.
Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Polly Capitani. Boxes 10s. 6d. Pit 5s. To begin at seven. The House will be illuminated with wax candles

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Instrumental parts-the best performers

Dance: A Minuetby Particular Desire,-Sga Asselin, Noverre; A new Terzetta-Miss Capitani, Miss Capitani's brother (six years old), Master Teriot

Event Comment: Benefit for Asylum for Orphan Girls. Composed and directed by Arne. Admittance 5s., Tea and Coffee included

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Judgement Of Paris

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Seratina. Tickets 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

Song: Before the burletta begins: several new songs-Sga Seratina, the rest of the performers will sing several new songs in the orchestra, and by particular Desire a Trio

Event Comment: [Benefit for Lauder. By Authority. To begin at seven o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: [As17600221

Event Comment: Benefit for Wilkinson. Receipts: #113 10s. 6d. plus #64 13s. from Tickets (Box 163; Pit 118; Gallery 62) (Account Book). Charges: #63 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Entertainment: By Desire, Lady Pentweazle's Scene from the Comedy Taste, Lady Pentweazle-Wilkinson; Carmine-Davis

Dance: LLes Charboniers-Sg Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville

Event Comment: Benefit for Foote. Mainpiece: By Desire. Afterpiece: Not acted this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Dance: II: The Cow Keepers, as17601008

Event Comment: Benefit for the composer to the theatre. Words of the songs in the pastoral will be printed and given out Gratis at the theatre. Receipts: #160 13s. 6d. plus #33 8s. from tickets. Profits to Dr Arne #129 19s. 6d. (Account Book). Charges: #63 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Florizel and Perdita

Dance: LLes Charboniers, as17601216

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Farce

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Event Comment: Benefit for Tenducci. At the Great Room, Dean St., Soho. The Petition of Ferdinand Tenducci, Musician, arrested for Debt and been in King's Bench for eight Months. Tickets to be had of Tenducci at the King's Bench Prison

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Performance Comment: Music directed by Abel. Vocal parts-Sga Calori, Mrs Storer, Tenducci; Instrumental parts-Pinto, Gordon, Tacet, Simpson, and all the rest of the principal performers in town.
Event Comment: Benefit for Author. Receipts #137 4s., but no separate account of moneys from Boxes. Paid for a license for Macklin's Play #2 2s. Paid Pattinson, tallow chandler #19 1s. (Account Book). Charges: #63 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Married Libertine

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author. Receipts:#215 4s. (Account Book). Charges: #63 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Married Libertine

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Dance: As17610202

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author. Receipts: #121 14s. [No indication of proportion that came from boxes.] Charges: #63 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Married Libertine

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Dance: As17610202

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Asselin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Mondo Nella Luna

Event Comment: Benefit for the Composer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: David And Jonathan

Music: As17610128; solo on violincello-Clagit

Event Comment: Benefit for Lauder. To begin at 6:30 p.m. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. A Scots Musical Pastoral

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Patie And Roger

Song: Two Masons Songs-Lauder

Event Comment: Benefit and Increase of a Fund for the support of Decayed Musicians or their Families. The words of the anthems will be given at the theatre. Pit and Boxes Half a Guinea. Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Performance Comment: Part I Overture-; Songs Hail Immortal Bacchus (from Judith Arne)-Champness; Di Nobil Alma (Ciampi)-Miss Frederick; Farewell ye Limpid Springs (from Jeptha, Handel)-Sga Frasi; Come Blooming Boy (from Choice of Hercules, Handel)-Miss Young; Concerto on violincello-Sig Cervetto; Anthem My Heart is Insisting-(Handel); Part II Concerto on Bassoon-Baumgarten; Songs, Nymphs and Shepherds (from Alfred, Arne)-Miss Brent; Happy Day (from Eliza, Arne)-Miss Young; Concerto on violin composed and performed-Dubourg; Anthem As pants the heart-(Handel); Part III Concerto on Hautboy-Vincent; Songs, Vain is Beauty's Gaudy Flow'r (from Judith, Arne)-Miss Brent; When Bacchus, Jolly God (Handel)-Beard; Verdi Prati (from Alcina, Handel)-Miss Frederick; Freely I to Heaven Resign (from Jeptha, Handel)-Sga Frasi; Anthem, The King Shall Rejoice-(Handel).
Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cibber. Part of Pit [made into] Amphitheatre. Ladies are desired to send their servants by three o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder Or A Woman Keeps A Secret

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Dance: TThe Cow Keepers, as17601008

Event Comment: Benefit for Ross. Receipts: #81 10s. 6d. plus #62 7s. from tickets (Boxes 166; Pit 139) (Account Book). Charges: #63 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Florizel and Perdita

Dance: HHornpipe-Poitier Jr

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pritchard. Part of Pit will be laid into the Boxes, where Servants will be admitted to keep Places, and on the Stage, which will be formed into an Amphitheatre. Ladies desired to send their servants by three o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Hamilton. Mainpiece: Not acted in 10 years. [See 16 Jan. 1753.] Afterpiece: By Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock. Receipts: #56 16s. plus #154 13s. from tickets (Box 203; Pit 514; Gallery 268) (Account 8ook). Charges: #64 5s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: LLes Charboniers, as17601216

Event Comment: Benefit for Yates

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

Dance: End Play: The Italian Gardener, as17601203

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Brent. Receipts: #90 18s. 6d. (Account Book). [No tickets seem to have been delivered.] Charges: #64 10s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: As17601024; a Comic Dance-Granier, Mrs Granier

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. Part of Pit will be laid into Boxes. Tickets sold at the Door will not be admitted. The Charges include House charge: #63, plus Wax Candles #1 5s. plus Extra Guards #1 5s. 6d., plus a French Horn and 2 Side drums 7s. Receipts: #83 4s. 6d. plus #174 7s. from tickets (Box 382; Pit 447; Gallery 118) (Account Book). Charges: #65 17s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The English Tars in America or The Good Woman Without a Head

Dance: III: A Comic Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville; After Play: An Epilogue on the Humours of tne Age in Imitation of Shakespeare's Stage-Cresswick