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Event Comment: Benefit for Watkins, Mortimer, Tomlinson, and West. Tickets deliver'd for This Night will be taken. Tickets sold at doors will not be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Dance: II: By Desire, a Hornpipe-Miss Watkins; IV: The Provancalle, as17631014

Entertainment: End: A New Panegyri@Satiri@Serio@Comic Epilogue upon Epilogues-Tomlinson

Event Comment: Benefit for Berrisford and Cridland, Watson, Smith &c. Tickets deliver'd by Berrisford and Humphreys will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycomb

Dance: II: The Provancalle, as17631014

Event Comment: Benefit for Messrs Palmer [pit doorkeeper], Keygille, &c. Robinson, Roberts (box lobby doorkeeper). Tickets deliver'd for This Night will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: III: Double Hornpipe, as17640514; End: The Provancalle, as17631014

Event Comment: Benefit for Holtom, Buck, Dibdin and Miss Sledge. Mainpiece: Not acted in 3 years. [See 11 May 1762.] Afterpiece: Music by Dibdin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Shepherds Artifice

Event Comment: Benefit for Foley, Chinnall, Robinson, Lings,and Kaygill

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Event Comment: Benefit for Dumai, Hussey, Merrifield, Mrs Viviez, Miss Daw

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Formal Actor: Costollo

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: II: A Double Hornpipe-Merefield, first time, Miss Daw; III: A Comic Dance, The Tricks of Pierrot-Duquesney, Dumai, Hussey; IV: Venus Reveng'd, as17631222; End: A Minuet-Dumai, Miss Twist

Event Comment: Benefit for Evans and Green (box-keepers)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: III: Hornpipe-Miss Pitt; End: Venus Reveng'd, as17631222

Event Comment: Benefit for Vaughan, Potter and Ansell (box-keepers)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: III: Hornpipe-Miss Pitt; End: The Calabrian Peasants, as17631222

Event Comment: Benefit for a Gentleman under Misfortunes

Performances

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: Beaufort Actor: Baker
Event Comment: Benefit of Miss Mozart of eleven, and Master Mozart of seven Years of Age, Prodigies of Nature. At the Great Room, Spring Garden, St James's Park. Tickets at half a guinea each. By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. [For Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his sister. Their father had brought them to visit London in May. See hay 21 Feb. 1765. They remained through July 1765. See also Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, III, p. 539 (3rd edn. New York, 1947).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Concert Of Vocal And Instrumental Musick

Music: FFirst Violin solo-Barthelemon; Violincello Concerto-Ciri; Harpsichord and Organ-Miss Mozart, Master Mozart

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Brent. Tickets 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Event Comment: Benefit for Weston and Davis

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Performance Comment: Kitely-Wilkinson; Young Knowell-Davis; Old Knowell-Granger; Bobadil-Young Gentleman, first time on any stage; Downright-Francis; Brainworm-Lewis; Matthew-Parsons; Wellbred-Death; Cobb-Brown; Cash-C. Lewis; Formal-Pierce; Justice Clement-Moor; Servant-Taylor; Master Stephen-Weston; Bridget-Mrs Granger; Cobb's Wife-Mrs Parsons; Dame Kitely-Mrs Jeffreys.
Cast
Role: Formal Actor: Pierce

Afterpiece Title: Tragedy a la Mode

Dance: II: New Dance-Gherardi, Master Clinton, Miss Street; III: Hornpipe-Rogier

Song: IV: A young Gentleman, Mrs Weston, being their first Appearance

Event Comment: Benefit for British Lying In Hospital, Brownlow St., Long-Acre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Cast
Role: Belford Actor: Packer
Role: Bell Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Dance: End: The Lamplighters, as17641029

Event Comment: Benefit for City of London Lying In Hospital, Aldersgate St.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Cast
Role: Laura Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: I: A Comic Dance, as17641213

Event Comment: Benefit for a Family in Distress. [Prologue printed in Public Advertiser.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Event Comment: Benefit for Manzoli. The Music entirely new, composed by Giardini. On account of the great Demand for Gallery Tickets, Sig Manzoli is obliged to appropriate the Upper Gallery for this Night. Gallery, Pit and Boxes will be open at 4. To begin precisely at 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Re Pastore

Event Comment: Benefit for Yates. Set to music by Yates. Pit and Boxes 5s. Gallery 3s. The Serenata published this day at 6d. Books of the performance to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Choice Of Apollo

Music: Concerto on German Flute-Florio; Concerto on Violincello-Siprutini; Concerto on Harpsichord-Yates; First Violin, Concerto-Barthelemon

Event Comment: Benefit for Woodward. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Afterpeice: By Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Formal Actor: Costollo

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: Beaufort Actor: Baker

Dance: End: Rural Love, as17641212

Event Comment: Benefit for Shuter. No persons admitted behind the scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Cast
Role: Lady Wishfort Actor: Mrs Pitt

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Entertainment: After: Lecture upon Heads-Shuter (as originally given at the Theatre in the Hay-Market by G. A. Stevens)

Event Comment: Benefit for Ross. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: Beaufort Actor: Baker

Dance: End: Rural Love, as17641212

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Poitier. None admitted behind Scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: II: A Tambourine, as17641015

Event Comment: Benefit for Signora Scotti

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ezio

Song: New airs-Manzoli, Mrs Scotti

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Yates. Farce in 2 acts written by Murphy for Mrs Yates (Genest, V, 67)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Choice

Dance: I: The Medley, as17641120; End: The Irish Lilt, as17641011

Event Comment: Benefit for Powell. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Send Servants to keep places at 3 o'clock. Last time for performing mainpiece this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Cast
Role: Regan Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Capricious Lovers

Dance: I of Entertainment: The Irish Milkmaids, as17650321 End: The Medley, as17641120

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bellamy. None admitted behind Scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: Minuet Actor: Fichar, Miss Wilford

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: End: Rural Love, as17641212