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Event Comment: Benefit for Scrase, Fawcett and Miss Reed. No Building on Stage. Tickets sold at the Doors not admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Song: II: A New Song, set by Dr Arne,-Fawcett; End: If o'er the Cruel Tyrant Love, from Artaxerxes,-Fawcett

Event Comment: Benefit for Redman, Lewis, Dibdin. Hussey, Miss Cokayne. Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years. [See 18 May 1757.] Tickets deliver'd by Rawlins, Dufour, and Mrs Gwinn, and others will be accepted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Wives Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: III: The Pierrots-Hussey, Dufour; End: The Taylors, as17620107

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Simson. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Cast
Role: Clarissa Actor: Mrs Hopkins.
Role: Blandford Actor: Bransby

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Song: III: The Camp Alarm'd, as17610926; IV: Mrs Vincent

Dance: HHornpipe-Miss Baker

Event Comment: Benefit for Shaw

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd Or A Plot Discoverd

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: II: The Cossacks, as17620427 End: The Pleasures of Spring, as17620212

Event Comment: Benefit for Burton and Packer. Tickets deliver'd for Macbeth, and for This Night will be taken. Mainpiece: For Last Time this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Song: Between Acts: Mrs Vincent

Dance: TThe Cow Keepers, as17611215

Event Comment: Benefit for Stevens, Weston, Courtney. Tickets deliver'd by Randall will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: Falstaff-Stevens, first time; Ford-Havard; Sir Hugh Evans-Williams, first time; Shallow-Weston; Mrs Ford-Mrs Pritchard; Mrs Quickly-Mrs Bradshaw; Dr Caius-Blakes; Page-Packer; Fenton-Scrase; Slender-O'Brien; Rugby-Marr; Mrs Page-Miss Haughton; Anne Page-Mrs Hippisley; Host-Philips; Simple-Vaughan; Pistol-Ackman; Bardolph-Clough; Nym-Watkins.
Cast
Role: Ford Actor: Havard
Role: Mrs Ford Actor: Mrs Pritchard

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal

Song: Between the Acts: Randall; II: Mrs Vincent

Dance: III: Hearts of Oak, as17620421

Entertainment: By Particular Desire, Hippisley's Drunken Man-Weston

Event Comment: Benefit for Charles Sarjant, housekeeper. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Being positively the last time of performing it this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Farmer Deceivd

Dance: By Desire a Hornpipe-Mlle Capdeville

Event Comment: Benefit for the Lock Hospital, at the Lock Hospital Chapel, near Hyde Park Corner. The music taken from the Oratorios. To begin at twelve o'clock. No persons admitted without tickets at 10s. 6d. each

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sacred Music

Event Comment: Benefit for Dickinson. First Gallery Office Keeper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: II: New Dutch Comic Dance, as17610925; IV: Hearts of Oak, as17620421

Entertainment: End: for that night only, a Whimsical Roratorical Description of a Man o'War and Sea Fight-Moody, with Bog of Allen; Notes on the whole

Event Comment: Benefit for Evans, Potter and Ansell, boxkeepers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: II: The Cossacks, as17620427 End: The Pleasures of Spring, as17620212

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer, Pit doorkeeper, Shawford, Berrisford, and Roberts. Tickets deliver'd by Wallis will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: II: Hornpipe-Wallis; V: New Hornpipe-Miss Dawson

Event Comment: Benefit for the Box-Keepers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: III: The Pleasures of Spring, as17620212; End: Les Charboniers, as17611012

Event Comment: Benefit for Aynscombe who because of illness is incapable of waiting on his friends personally. Pit and Boxes 5s. Gallery 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Songs From Artaxerxes

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith, Cridland, Dalton, Widow Dunbar. Doors open half past 4. Play to begin exactly at half past 6 o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: IV: Hearts of Oak, as17620421

Event Comment: Benefit for Robinson and Foley. No Building on Stage. Tickets deliver'd by Hodges will be taken. Tickets sold at Doors will not be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: I: The Cow Keepers, as17611215

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnston, housekeeper. Last Night of Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: II: The Cow Keepers, as17611215; End: A Hornpipe-Miss Baker

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Brent. Tickets 5s., coffee and tea included

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Songs From Artaxerxes

Performance Comment: Principal performers-Tenducci, Champness, Hudson, Mas Johnson, Miss Thomas, Miss Brent. With additional instrumental performers and chorus singers. The whole to conclude (by desire) with a Ball.

Afterpiece Title: Beauty and Virtue

Event Comment: Benefit for Tenducci. Tickets 5s. Coffee and Tea included. [Pasqualino had a similar musical evening there, 18 June, with fireworks.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Music In Four Acts

Event Comment: Benefit for Lowe. Boxes 5s. Pit 4s. Gallery 3s. To begin at 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Event Comment: Benefit for Lauder. By Particular desire and by Authority

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Performance Comment: With an Alteration in the performers. In which Lauder will introduce several favourite Scots Songs.

Dance: Middlemist

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Dance: TThe Sicilian Peasants, as17621129

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Dance: II: The Jealous Woodcutter, as17621023

Event Comment: Benefit for The General Lying In Hospital, By Particular Desire of the Foreign Ambassadors and others of the Nobility. Part of Pit will be laid into Boxes, where Servants will be allowed to keep places

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: CComic Dance, as17621210

Event Comment: Benefit for Author of Mainpiece

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elvira

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cibber. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [See 30 March 1761.] Part of Pit will be laid into Boxes. Ladies desired to send servants to keep places by 3 o'clock. That there may be no interruption in the Performance, Mrs Cibber begs leave to assure those Ladies and Gentlemen who shall please to honour her with their company, that there will be no Building upon the Stage, nor any admittance behind the scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petruchio

Dance: End of Play: The Cow@Keepers-Grimaldi, Miss Dawson