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Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Gabrielli

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Ali Damore

Dance: Les Deux Soeurs, as17760229; Ballet Pastoral, as17760229; Pigmalion, as17760213 with the dancer N. N. omitted

Event Comment: Benefit for Trebbi. By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Ali Damore

Dance: Les Deux Soeurs, as17760229; Ballet Pastoral, as17760229; Pigmalion, as17760307

Event Comment: Benefit for Barry. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. [Send servants by 4 o'clock and come early to avoid confusion and trouble in getting to seats.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Barry. By Particular Desire. Mainpiece: A Tragedy by the author of Douglas [John Home], never acted there. Part of Pit laid into boxes. Ladies send servants by 4 o'clock, and come as early as possible to avoid Confusion and Trouble

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Discovery

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: Benefit for Slingsby. Part of Pit laid into boxes. Paid 2 additional Flutes and Trumpet. Receipts: #84 10s. 6d. Charges: #68 1s. Profits to Slingsby: #16 9s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Braganza

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

Dance: II: A Divertissement-; in which will be introduced a Passe Pied-; End: (By Particular Desire, and for the first time this season) The Grande Provencalle-; to conclude with an Allemande-Slingsby, Mrs Sutton, Como, Sga Crespi

Event Comment: Benefit for Lee. Mainpiece: With the characters for the time in old English Dresses, By Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: End: The Italian Gamesters, as17760305

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. N.B. HALF PRICE will be taken to the latter account [i.e., for those who came to see the pantomime only]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: Prometheus

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. Last Night of performing before the Holidays. [See first version of this afterpiece under title What We Must All Come To, 9 Jan. 1764. It was damned then but now met with success. A Comedy by Arthur Murphy. The reviewer for the Westminster Magazine for April stamped the afterpiece with his approval.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks After Marriage

Entertainment: End: (By Particular Desire) Bucks Have At Ye All, with alterations, spoken-Lewis

Dance: Before Farce: The Merry Sailors, as17760314

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Two Misers

Entertainment: InterludeEnd: True Blue; or, The Press Gang-Mattocks, Reinhold, Baker, Mrs Willems; The Dance-Aldridge

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Macklin. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Ladies send servants by 4 O'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: As17751006, but a Song for Jessica-Miss Dayes.

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Dance: II: A Minuet-Dagueville, Miss Macklin; III: The Pilgrim-Harris, Miss Mathews, as17750927; IV: Rural Merriment, as17751220

Event Comment: Benefit for Mattocks. N.B. Half Price will be taken to the latter account [see 25 March]. Being positively the last time of performing the Mainpiece this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Prometheus

Entertainment: Interlude.End: True Blue, as17760409

Event Comment: Benefit for Reinhold. Tickets delivered for An Opera will be taken. Books of the Entertainment [i.e., afterpiece] to be had at the theatre. Afterpiece: A Musical Entertainment by D. J. Piguenit. 8vo 1774, played this one night only (Biographia Dramatica). [It had been played as a Burletta at Marybone Gardens according to the Westminster Magazine for April, and though some of its music was good, the Burletta writer had taken great liberty with his original.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Don Quixote

Entertainment: Interlude.End: True Blue, as17760409

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Baccelli

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Sposa Fedele

Dance: I: New Grand Chaconne-Miss Baccelli; Pas de Deux-Mlle Sophie, Helm; II: La Fete du Village, as17760224; III: A Grand Serious Ballet with various Divertissements-Helm, Mlle Sophie, Fierville, Miss Baccelli

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunstall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man Or The Fops Fortune

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Entertainment: Interlude.End: True Blue, as17760409 but Mrs _Willems; The Dance, as17760409

Event Comment: Benefit for Leoni. Last Time of performing the Mainpiece this season. N.B. Half Price will be taken to the latter Account

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: Prometheus

Event Comment: Benefit for Hull. N.B. Half Price will be taken to the latter account

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: Prometheus

Music: End Tragedy: By Particular Desire a Piece of Music on the Triple Harp-Evans

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Sutton. Receipts: #74 14s. Charges: #70 18s. 6d. Profits to Mrs Sutton: #3 15s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Dance: II: (By Particular Desire) the Louvre, Minuet-Froment, Mrs Sutton, his scholar; V: The Grand Provencalle-Slingsby, Mrs Sutton

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Barsanti. Mainpiece [a comedy by Arthur Murphy]: Never acted there

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Performance Comment: Sir John Restless-Lee Lewes; Sir W. Belmont-L'Estrange; Young Belmont-Wroughton; Blandford-Fearon; Beverly-Lewis; Lady Restless-Mrs Mattocks; Tattle-Mrs Pitt; Clarissa-Miss Dayes; Belinda-Miss Barsanti.
Cast
Role: Blandford Actor: Fearon

Afterpiece Title: St Patricks Day

Dance: End: Mirth and Jollity, as17760102

Monologue: Before: The Occasional Prelude. Manager-Wroughton; Young Actress-Miss Barsanti. [See 10 May 1773.

Event Comment: Benefit for Lee Lewes. Doors open half past 5. To begin at half past 6 o'clock. Afterpiece: Never performed there

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: Valentine-Lewis; Tattle-Woodward; Scnadal-Hull; Jeremy-Lee Lewes; Sir Sampson-Dunstall; Foresight-Quick; Trapland-Cushing; Ben (with song)-Wilson; Mrs Frail-Mrs Bulkley; Miss Prue-Mrs Mattocks; Mrs Foresight-Miss Ambrose; Nurse-Mrs Pitt; Angelica-Miss Macklin.
Cast
Role: Foresight Actor: Quick
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Miss Ambrose

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Monologue: Interlude. Taken from The Register Office. End of Play, By Particular Desire and for that night only. The New Character-Mrs Gardener , her first appearance here these 2 years; Melpomene-Miss Francis

Performance Comment: Taken from The Register Office. End of Play, By Particular Desire and for that night only. The New Character-Mrs Gardener , her first appearance here these 2 years; Melpomene-Miss Francis.

Entertainment: After Interlude: Epilogue-Lee Lewes in the character of Harlequin (Written by late Dr Goldsmith) which will conclude with an escape thro' the Tub, as in the Pantomime of Mother Shipton

Dance: End Epilogue: The Merry Sailors, as17760314

Event Comment: Benefit for Wilson. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. By the Author of the Duenna. Acted but once this season. Tickets deliver'd for the Lady's Last Stake will be Admitted. x Doors open half past 5. To begin at half past 6 o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Man of Quality

Dance: End: Mirth and Jollity, as17760102

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Newton and a lady who has not appeared upon the stage these seven years. By Permission

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: Young Philpot-Cresswick; Old Philpot-Reynolds; Young Philpot [sic]-Hague; Beaufort-Trotter; Maria-Miss Reynolds.
Cast
Role: Beaufort Actor: Trotter

Song: Between the Acts: Miss Barrett

Event Comment: Benefit for Dagueville (ballet master) and Sga Vidini. Doors open half past 5. To begin a half past 6 o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward And Eleonora

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: II: New Dance Call'd The Academy-; in which will be introduced the New Court Minuet, Rigadoon (never perform'd before)-Mas. Holland, Miss Armstrong; with a Minuet, Allemande-Mas. Dagueville, a Girl only 5 years old; to conclude with a new Cadrille-Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Dagueville, Sga Vidini; End: a New Dance call'd The Humours of the New@Market Races with all the usual performances,-Dagueville, Harris, Rudd, Mas. Holland, Miss Ross, Miss Armstrong, Sga Vidini; to conclude with the Pony Races-

Performance Comment: Holland, Miss Armstrong; with a Minuet, Allemande-Mas. Dagueville, a Girl only 5 years old; to conclude with a new Cadrille-Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Dagueville, Sga Vidini; End: a New Dance call'd The Humours of the New@Market Races with all the usual performances,-Dagueville, Harris, Rudd, Mas. Holland, Miss Ross, Miss Armstrong, Sga Vidini; to conclude with the Pony Races-.
Event Comment: Benefit for Wright, Carpenter, and Butler. Paid salary list #621 16s. 6d. Receipts: #44 1s. 6d. Charges: #74 14s. Deficit to Wright, Carpenter, and Butler: #30 12s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Dance: IV: The Jealous Harlequin, as17760117

Event Comment: Benefit for Wild (prompter) and Mahon. Mainpiece: Acted there but once. [See 20 March 1773.] Afterpiece: For the last time this season. Doors open half past 5. To begin half past 6 o'clock. [The Recruiting Serjeant interlude a Musical Entertainment by Isaac Bickerstaffe.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon Or The Two Sosias

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: II: The Humours of the New@Market Races, as17760503

Monologue: Interlude. End: A Favourite Interlude (never perform'd there) call'd The Recruiting Serjeant. Serjeant-Mahon; Countryman-Wilson; Wife-Miss Dayes; Mother-Mrs Willems

Performance Comment: End: A Favourite Interlude (never perform'd there) call'd The Recruiting Serjeant. Serjeant-Mahon; Countryman-Wilson; Wife-Miss Dayes; Mother-Mrs Willems.
Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Hunter. Doors open half past 5. To begin half past 6 o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End: The Humours of the New@Market Races, as17760503