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Event Comment: Play Particular Desire. Tomorrow, The Funeral, for the benefit of a Family in Distress. Tickets for Lady Jane Gray will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Event Comment: MMr Garrick's Benefit tho not in ye bills. Mainpiece by Particular Desire (Cross). Receipts: #230 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Event Comment: For the Benefit and Increase of a Fund established for the Support of Decayed Musicians, or their Families. To begin at 6:00 p.m. [Box and Pit at Half a Guinea. Gallery at 5s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainment Of Vocal And Instrumental Music

Event Comment: fterpiece] A farce of 3 Acts taken from Shaks Taming ye Shrew (by Garrick) call'd new Catharine & Petruchio (Cross). Mrs Pritchard's Benefit. Tickets of Mrs Pritchard at her lodgings at Pritchard's Warehouse, in Tavistock St. Part of pit laid into boxes. Amphitheatre on stage. Receipts: #298 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: Devisse, Mlle Auretti, Mlle Auguste

Event Comment: MMrs Midnight's Concert Vocal and Instrumental Music after which for one night only will be given [Sack Posset, &c.] gratis. Benefit for Mrs Midnight. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. To begin exactly at 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sack Posset

Afterpiece Title: La Pantomime du Charpentier

Entertainment: Mad Tom-Sg Musardo; New Concerto on the Tambour de Basque-; accompanied with the original Jews Harp-; Hurdy Gurdy-; and an Oration on the Salt Box-Mrs Midnight

Dance: Several New Dances-Bambaregines, Sambucio, Atterino

Song: Several New Songs-Lauder, others

Event Comment: MMiss Midnight will give Tea. &c. Benefit for Pittard le Charpentier and a Free Mason

Performances

Mainpiece Title: New Carnival Concert

Afterpiece Title: La Pantomime du Charpentier

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the request of several persons of Distinction, for the Benefit of a gentleman who served as an Officer in Flanders with Reputation during the late war, now under misfortunes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

Event Comment: Compos'd by Sg Pergolesi. Benefit of the Managers of the Italian Company who played the Burlettas at Covent Garden Theatre this Season. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. To begin at 7 p.m. Will be presented the Second Concert of Vocal and Instrumental Musick...Between the first and second part of the Concert will be given, gratis, an Italian Interlude, called, La Serva Padrona

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

Music: First violin-Marella; The rest-the best hands in town

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fairies

Performance Comment: See17550203*d1755 2 10 dl See17550203*c1755 2 10 dl Benefit for the Composer (Cross). Receipts: #170 (Cross).
Event Comment: A New Italian Comic Opera. Benefit for Sga Spiletta and Giordani

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lalbergatrice

Event Comment: N.B. Mrs Cibber's Benefit oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of her illness. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Event Comment: By Handel. Benefit for Miss Turner. Oratorios by Handel. At the Great Room, Dean St., Soho. To begin at 7 p.m. Tickets 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Esther

Song: I: Praise the Lord- accompanied by Parry

Music: II: Concerto (Arne) on Harpsichord-Miss Turner

Event Comment: For the Benefit and Increase of a Fund to Support Decay'd Musicians, or their Families. Boxes and Pit at Half a Guinea. Gallery 5s. Tickets delivered to Subscribers to this Charity will admit one Person into any Part of the House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainment Of Vocal And Instrumental Music

Performance Comment: Part I: New Overture by DuBourg-; Non Pensi (Latilles)-Mondini; Cantata (Arne)-Beard; Voglio Amor-Sga Curioni; Concerto on violincello-Pasqualino; Pensa che amante (Cocchi)-Guadagni; S'e spoze (Hasse)-Mingotti; Part II: Concerto on Bassoon-Miller; Per lei fra l'armi-Ciprandi; Sorge nell' alma mia (Perez)-Sga Mattei; Concerto on Violin-Dubourg; Tremende oscuri atroci (Pergolesi)-Sga Frasi; Fra quest Ombra (Hasse)-Ricciarelli; Part III: Concerto on oboe-Vincent; Non via Piaque (Conforto)-Sga Mingotti; Destrir che all' armi usato (Ciampi)-Guadagni; Return O God of Hosts (Handel)-Sga Frasi; Uniti a Lupi (Hasse)-Ricciarelli; Grand Concerto-Handel.
Event Comment: Farce never performed before, taken from second part of ye Busy Body (Cross). For the benefit of Woodward. Garrick had Woodward act Polonius seriously (Genest, IV, 408). Receipts: #300 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Marplot in Lisbon

Event Comment: MMr Garrick's Benefit (Cross). Receipts: #212 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: NNew Comic Dance, as17560205

Event Comment: Afterpiece from ye Village Opera (Cross). Benefit for Mrs Pritchard. Tickets at her house in York St., and at Pritchard's Warehouse in Tavistock St. Receipts: #240 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Villagers

Dance: IV: New Sailor's Dance, as17560217

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted in 15 years. [See 3 Nov. 1743.] Afterpiece: By Desire. Benefit for Woodward. Part of pit will be laid into the Boxes. Boxes and Stage 5s. No person can be admitted to any part of the House till the usual time of opening of doors, which will be exactly at Four o'clock. Ladies are desired to send their servants by Three o'clock. Receipts: #250 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Event Comment: A Concert of Music in which will be introduced a Musical Entertainment composed by Allen Ramsay. Benefit for a Family in Distress

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Song: SScots songs-Lauder

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A new farce by Doctor Heffinal [sic] for his benefit. O Sad! (Cross). Tickets at Forrest Coffee House, The Bedford, and Randall's, and author's lodgings at Mew's Coffee House. To the Printer of the Public Advertiser, 24 April: Sir, Let this suffice for a general answer to all unfriendly whispers or paragraphs against the new farce to be performed tonight at Drury Lane -its author never previously Caballed, never published his sentiments of any stage performance till after the run -then neither the writer nor manager could be injured -its principal characters are Lady Protea, a coquet alarmed at the apprehension of dying amid; Lord Epigram Strainwit, a pert coxcomical witling; Dr Matho, a Virtuoso, Antiquarian, and in love; Dreadnought Broadside, a sea-officer and strenuous Antigallican. I am &c. Receipts: #90 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Afterpiece Title: The Maiden Whim or The Critical Minute

Event Comment: Last time of performing Mainpiece this season. Benefit for Pritchard, treasurer. Tickets at his house in York St., and at Pritchard's Warehouse, Tavistock St. Mrs Cibber went sick to Bath in Passion Week, & plays no more this season (Cross). Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winters Tale

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Event Comment: First time in 12 years. [See 11 April 1747.] Benefit for Burton and Philips. Tickets at Burton's at the Lock and Key in Brownlow St., Long Acre, and at stage door. Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Crononhotonthologos

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A pantomime. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit or Gallery 1s. 6d. Benefit for W. Hallam. As I am refused the use of my own House, I hope the Town will indulge me with their Company at this. Sadler's Wells, Islington. Those who chuse Wine of Shrub may have it at 2s. a bottle

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Contrivances

Entertainment: Isabella Wilkinson, Sga Caterina, Franklin

Event Comment: Tormorrow Othello, Desdemona by a Young Gentlewoman, being her 3rd time of performing on any stage. N.B. The Comedy of Love for Love, which was to have been acted tomorrow for the Benefit of the Widow Ladbrooke, is, by her Deisre, deferr'd till further Notice

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Cast
Role: Ford Actor: Ryan
Role: Mrs Ford Actor: Mrs Woffington.

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Event Comment: At the Haberdashers Hall, Maiden Lane. For the Benefit of the City of London Lying-in Hospital, in Aldersgate St. Tickets Half a Guinea. To begin at 6 p.m. [Postponed from 2 Dec. because of indisposition of Signora Frasi.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sampson An Oratorio

Event Comment: At the Great Room, Dean St., Soho. At 6:30 p.m. Prices half a Guinea and 5s. Benefit Mrs Pontifex, Downey, West Wycombe, Bucks, whose Husband was murdered, and all Stock in their Farm destroyed by Fire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lallegro Il Pensoroso