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Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Ward. Mainpiece: Not acted this season. Afterpiece: A comedy of one act by Mrs Cibber not acted these 12 years. [See 2 May 1753.] None admitted behind Scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens Or The Death Of Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: The Oracle

Dance: III: The Sicilian Peasants, as17641001; End: A Hornpipe-Miss Pitt

Event Comment: Benefit for Tenducci. By Particular Desire. Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. The House will be doubly Illuminated for the Upper Boxes and Upper Gallery to read their Books. Books of the opera to be had at the Theatre. Nor will any Pit Tickets be admitted into the Gallery

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antigonus

Related Works
Related Work: Antigono Author(s): G. Roccaforte

Dance: As17650105

Event Comment: Benefit for King. Last till Holidays. No building on Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

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

Dance: III: The Medley, as17641120

Entertainment: For that Night Only, a short Epilogic Lecture on Conjurors-King; By Particular Desire, a Picture of the Playhouse; or, Bucks Have at Ye All-King

Event Comment: Benefit for Sparks. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. None admitted behind Scenes. Last time of performing till Easter Holidays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: End of Play: The Jealous Woodcutter, as17641101

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Macklin. Afterpiece: Only time this season. Send serv'ts by 3. None admitted behind Scenes. [Public Advertiser assigns Mordecai to Cushing.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love a La Mode

Dance: I: A Minuet-Duquesney, Miss Macklin; III: A Hornpipe-Miss Pitt; IV: A Tambourine, as17641015

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Cast
Role: Emilia Actor: Mrs Hopkins.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: IV: The Medley, as17640929; End: The Irish Lilt, as17641011

Event Comment: Benefit for Dyer. None Admitted behind Scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: Beaufort Actor: Baker

Dance: II: A Tambourine, as17641015; End Opera: A Hornpipe-Miss Pitt

Event Comment: Benefit for Havard. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. No persons whatever to be admitted behind the Scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

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

Dance: End: The Medley, as17641120

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke. None admitted behind Scenes. Books of the Entertainment (a Musical Afterpiece, perform'd but once) to be sold at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Formal Actor: Costollo

Afterpiece Title: The Shepherds Artifice

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-Miss Pitt; End: A Tambourine, as17641015

Event Comment: Benefit for Walker. Mainpiece: Not acted these 9 years. [See 7 Feb. 1755.] None admitted behind Scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: Beaufort Actor: Baker

Dance: End: A Tambourine, as17641015

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Elliot

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Cast
Role: Lady Wishfort Actor: Mrs Pitt

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-Miss Pitt; End: A Tambourine, as17641015

Event Comment: Benefit for Rooker. [Rooker himself did not perform that night.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: Mrs Strictland Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

Related Works
Related Work: The Witch of the Wood; or, The Nutting Girls Author(s): Reginald Spofforth

Dance: II: New Tambourine, as17640929

Event Comment: Benefit for Duquesney and Sga Manesiere. None admitted behind the Scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: II: A New Pastoral Dance-Duquesney, a Young Gentlewoman, his scholar, who never appeared before; III: A Hornpipe-Sga Manesiere; IV: A Minuet-Duquesney, Sga Manesiere; End: A New Grand Ballet, call'd Les Caprices de Galatee-Duquesney, Leppie, Sga Manesiere, Miss Wilford, Miss Valois

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Palmer. No Building on Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Cast
Role: Lady Wronghead Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: II: New Tambourine, as17640929; End: (By Desire) a Minuet-Giorgi, Mrs Palmer

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunstall. Afterpiece: A Burlesque traged)'by Colley Cibber. Not acted in 20 years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Queens or Death of Alexander the Little

Dance: II: Blind Man's Buff, as17641003

Event Comment: Benefit for Mattocks. Ladies send serv'ts by 3 p.m. Books of Opera at Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Cast
Role: Principal Parts Actor:

Dance: I: Blind Man's Buff, as17641003; II: The Sicilian Peasants, as17641001

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: As17650330 but Sir Jealous-Dunstall; Isabinda-Mrs Mattocks; Miranda-Miss Wilford, 1st appearance as actress.

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Performance Comment: As17650417 but Termagant-Mrs Green; End Act I, a New Dance-Miss Wilford.
Cast
Role: a New Dance Actor: Miss Wilford.

Dance: III: Rural Love, as17641212; End: A Minuet-Miss Valois, Miss Wilford

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Vincent

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: As17650108, but Macheath-Lowe, 1st appearance on this stage in two years, and for this night only.

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Dance: II: The Medley, as17641120

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Afterpiece: Never perform'd there. Tickets delivered by Barrington will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Entertainment: After Masque: (this night only) his Serious, Comic, Post-haste Observations in his Journey to Paris, as17650411

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs and Miss Vincent. None admitted behind Scenes. The Dragon of Wantly cannot be perform'd on account of the indisposition of Miss Poitier

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: End: The Jealous Woodcutter, as17641101

Event Comment: Benefit for Squibb. None admitted behind Scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Cast
Role: a New Dance Actor: Miss Wilford.

Dance: II: Blind Man's Buff, as17641003

Event Comment: Benefit for Champnes. The Jealous Wife deferred. Mrs Pritchard ill. Tickets deliver'd for The Jealous Wife will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Cast
Role: Selima Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: Rosamond

Dance: II: The Medley, as17641120

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Polly Young

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Demofoonte

Dance: As17650105

Event Comment: Benefit for Tenducci. Send Serv'ts by 3 p.m. Books of the Opera at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: I: Blind Man's Buff, as17641003; II: Rural Love, as17641215

Event Comment: Benefit for Packer and Bransby. Afterpiece: By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

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

Dance: II: Double Hornpipe-Walker, Miss Tetley; End: The Medley, as17641120