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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 for a Citizen who has suffer'd greatly by Fire. Tickets (Box 24; Pit 178; Gallery 175) brought #50 4s. Money #72 16s. Total income #123. Charges #85; Expenses #33 5s. 6d. On account to Rich #10. Receipts: #85 5s. (Winston Theatrical Record)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: TThe Pedlar Trick'd, as17611001

Event Comment: Benefit for City of London Lying In Hospital, Aldersgate St. Hecuba printed 1s. 6d. (Winston MS 9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Dance: TThe Cow Keepers-Grimaldi, Miss Dawson

Event Comment: Benefit for Middlesex Hospital for Lame, and Sick, and Lying-In Women

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Cast
Role: Woolfort Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: TThe Pedlar Trick'd, as17611001

Event Comment: Benefit for General Lying-In Hospital, Duke St

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [Foote] of both pieces

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lyar

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Dance: II: The Pedlar Trick'd, as17620107; End: The French Country Gentleman, as17611210

Event Comment: Benefit for a Widow Gentlewoman, at the Great Room, Dean St., Soho. Pit 10s. 6d. Gallery 5s. To begin at 7:00 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Patie And Roger Or The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: Middlemist

Event Comment: Benefit for Elizi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arianna E Teseo

Performance Comment: with many considerable alterations; and in particular the following favourite airs: A ! se un cor barbaro-Sga Mattei; Voi leggete in ogni core-Sga Mattei; Remdemi il figlio mio-Sga Mattei; Opprimete i contumaci-Elizi; Era stupido a pensolo-Elizi; With other Airs, all which will be new. The favourite Duetto Caro spiegar vorrei-; (in Demetrio) will also be sung. And serious new airs-the other performers.
Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Asselin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tolomeo

Event Comment: Benefit for Tenducci. For one Night only, By Desire. Boxes 10s. 6d. Pit 5s. Gallery 3s. To begin at Six o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Concert

Performance Comment: The vocal parts-Tenducci, Paretti, who will sing (by Dr Arne's permission) the favourite songs in Artaxerxes; The First Violin-, with a Concerto and a SoloPiffet (being his first public performance in England); a Concerto on German Flute-Florio; a Solo on Violincello-Siprutini; After which a Grand Dance-; the Pantomime-; in which will be introduced the Ghost of Cock-Lane; the disappearance of the Child; and after, the Chinese Fireworks; with many other curious performances. the disappearance of the Child; and after, the Chinese Fireworks; with many other curious performances.
Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cibber. No Building on Stage. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Song: HHearts of Oak-. [See17620209]

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pritchard. Part of Pit laid into Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Dance: End: By Particular Desire of several persons of Quality a Minuet-Noverre, Mrs Palmer. *uö‘dl New Interlude, call'dThe Farmer's Return from London. Farmer-Garrick; Farmer's Wife-Mrs Bradshaw

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clive. Farce written by Mrs Clive not acted in 9 years. [See 19 April 1755.] Now with Alterations and Additional Scenes in which will be introduc'd Part of an Italian Burletta. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Send servants by 3 o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Rehearsal or Bayes in Petticoats

Dance: %New Dutch Comic Dance, as17610925

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Yates

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Edgar and Emmeline

Song: I: Hearts of Oak-;[See17620209] End: song-Mrs Vincent

Event Comment: Benefit for Holland. Last time for Cymbeline this season. No Building on Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: Edgar and Emmeline

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. No Building on the Stage. Mrs Palmer? did not act (Winston MS 9). Mainpiece: Advertised as for the last time this season. Tickets deliver'd for Romeo and Juliet will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal or The Tars of Old England

Song: I: Hearts of Oak-. [See17620209]

Event Comment: Benefit for Shuter. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: Taken from a Comedy of Mrs Behn's. [The False Count.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Merry Counterfeit or Viscount a la Mode

Dance: TThe French Country Gentleman, as17611210

Entertainment: Between play and Farce:(For this night only) A Dish of All Sorts-Shuter. As17590322

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Brent. Opera for the last time this season. Pit and Boxes to be laid together at 5s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Tickets sold at the doors will not be admitted. Tickets to be had of Miss Brent, at the China Shop in the Piazza, next the Church, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: I: New Dutch Dance, as17620202; End Opera: The Pleasures of Spring, as17620212

Event Comment: Benefit for O'Brien

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Performance Comment: Fribble(for that night only)-Garrick; Flash-King; Biddy-Miss Pope; Loveit-Packer; Puff-Moody; Jasper-Ackman; Tag-Mrs Bennet. *uö·dl TThe Farmer's Return from London. As17620329.
Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Yates. Last time of performing till the Holidays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Entertainment: I: Hearts of Oak-. [See17620209]

Song: IV: Mrs Vincent

Dance: (BBy Desire) The Flemish Feast-. [See17611103, but Noverre omitted from playbill.

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke. Tickets for Romeo will be taken. Mainpiece by Particular Desire. No building on Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: TThe Pleasures of Spring, as17620212

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Palmer. By Desire of several Persons of Quality. Tickets deliver'd for Oroonoko will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Cast
Role: Lady Wishfort Actor: Mrs Clive

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: III: A Cantata-Miss Young. *uöÓdl TThe Farmer's Return from London. As17620329

Event Comment: Benefit for Lowe. Tickets deliver'd for Macbeth will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Haughton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Event Comment: Benefit for Gardner, Mrs Burden, Mrs Stephens, Miss Helm. Tickets deliver'd by Dumay, Hussey, Mrs Viviez, Miss Twist, Miss Daw, and others will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: IV: A Hornpipe (first time)-Miss Daw; End: A Minuet-Sodi, Miss Twist