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Event Comment: Benefit Poitier. Receipts: #76 4s. 6d. plus #96 in tickets (boxes 185; pit 225; gallery 160). Charges: #63 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Spanish Dance-Poitier Jr, Sga Banti; II: New Peasant Dance-Master Banti, Miss Wilford, her 1st on the stage, both scholars to Poitier Sr; III: A Dutch Dance-Poitier Jr, Sga Banti; IV: A Wooden Shoe Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville; V: A Minuet-Poitier, Sga Banti

Event Comment: Benefit for Gallini. Receipts: #47 13s. Charges: #63. Deficiency covered by #65 16s. from tickets (boxes 193; pit 81; gallery 54) (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: II: By Desire, a new dance-Gallini, Mrs Granier, Miss Viviez; III: Sicilian Peasants, as17571217, but Mlle Capdeville, Miss _Hilliard; IV: +She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not-Gallini, Sga Forti; V: A Minuet-Gallini, a Gentlewoman

Ballet: I: Judgment of Paris. As17580407

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Elmy. Receipts: #46 7s. Charges: #63. Deficiency covered by #80 15s. from tickets (boxes 169; pit 162; gallery 142) (Account Book). Mainpiece: Not acted there these 4 years. [See 28 Jan. 1755.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar With The Deaths Of Brutus And Cassius

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Ballet: Judgment of Paris. As17580413 Paris-Gallini; Mercury-Leppie; Juno-Miss Viviez; Pallas-Mrs Granier; Venus-Mlle Capdeville; Sicilian Peasants-Gallini, Hilliard; Shepherdess-Miss Valois

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pritchard. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. This day publish'd, Price 1s. Brief Remarks on the Original and Present State of the Drama. To which is added Hecate's Prophecy, being a characteristic Dialogue between future Mangers and their Dependents. [William Shirley? A most virulent attack on Garrick's management as well as Rich's Quotes from the Herald No. XX, a denunciatory article on the managers, deplores the pamphleteering attempt to praise Garrick, asks "Shall he shine the God of our Idolatry, merely for excluding every other emulous and aspiring candidate?"] Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: II: The Italian Peasants, as17571004; End: By Desire, a Minuet-Noverre, Miss Pritchard

Event Comment: Benefit for Blakes. Tickets and places to be had of Blakes at his house in Duke's Court, Bow St., CG; and of Varney at the Stage Door. That there may not be any interruption to the Performance, there will be no Building on the Stage. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Ballet: The Prussian Camp. As17580328 but Officer-Blakes

Event Comment: Benefit for Miles, Mrs Baker, Miss Young. Receipts: #47 0s. 6d. Charges: #63. Deficiency of #5 6s. 6d. apiece covered by income from tickets: Miles #51 3s. (boxes 79; pit 161; gallery 71); Mrs Baker, #36 16s. (boxes 60; pit 99; gallery 62); Miss Younger, #28 19s. (boxes 17; pit 112; gallery 79). Rec'd #16 8s. 3d. being overcharge for Taxes, &c. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Statue

Dance: II: Hornpipe-Miles; IV: Drunken Peasant with Peasant-Miles; Clown-Bennet

Song: III: A new song composed by Arne, Miss Young

Event Comment: Benefit for Holland. [The additions, according to the Larpent MS 146, consist of a Scene between Master and a Beauv , wherein the Master's reflections are sound and moral, whilst the Beau's are frivolous and fatuous.] Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Toyshop

Dance: The Italian Peasants, as17571004

Event Comment: Benefit for Leviez [Ballet-Master]. Tickets of Leviez at the last House on the right hand in Bedford Buildings in the Strand, and of Varney at the Stage Door, where places may be taken. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Cast
Role: Stephano Actor: Vernon.
Role: Ceres Actor: Mrs Vernon

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: End: A new Grand Dance-the Children; End Farce: Minuet-Leviez, Miss Macklin

Event Comment: Benefit for Mattocks, Mrs Pitt, Mrs Chambers. No Building on Stage. Tickets sold at door not taken. Receipts: #50 9s. 6d. Charges #63. Deficit of #4 3s. 6d. apiece convered by income from tickets: Mattocks, #34 3s. (boxes 48; pit 91; gallery 85); Mrs Pitt, #55 15s. (boxes 14; pit 177; gallery 257); Mrs Chambers, #42 18s. (boxes 70; pit 116; gallery 80 ) (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: The Provincial Sailors, as17580408 a Comic Ballet-

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Yates. Farce damn'd & Half-pence thrown. Mrs Cibber's Son dy'd two Days ago & she never came ot play for Holland, Mrs Yates, or me ye old Game at this Season. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: No Matter What

Dance: IV: The Italian Peasants, as17571004

Event Comment: Benefit for Me & Wife (Cross). Afterpiece: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: #236 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winters Tale

Cast
Role: The Trio Actor: Beard, Mrs Vernon, Miss Young

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Cast
Role: Codicil Actor: Vernon.
Role: Brisk Actor: Vernon
Event Comment: Benefit for General Lying-In Hospital. Pit and Boxes to be laid together at half a guinea. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 2s. 6d. To begin at half an hour after Six. Tickets deliver'd out for the 27th will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Demetrio

Dance: Between the Acts: Great variety of Dancing-

Event Comment: Benefit for Pritchard. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Entertainment: New Magic Scene-, in the characters of Harlequin, Punch, Scaramouch, Pantaloon, Mezzetin, and Drawcansir

Event Comment: Benefit for Roberts. Receipts: #33 17s. 6d. Charges: #80. Deficiency covered by income from tickets, #115 9s. Two New Renters came in a 1 share each: Mrs Tabitha Mendez, and Mrs Susan White. [This addition brought the total of New Renters' shares to 50, which equalled the holdings of the Old Renters] (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: III: Country Lass-Miss Vallois; V: Comic Ballet, as17580428

Song: II, IV: Roberts

Event Comment: Benefit for Ballard (treasurer). Tickets sold at Doors will not be admitted. Receipts: #54 19s. 6d. Charges: #63. Deficit covered by income from tickets, #191 19s. (boxes 169; pit 786; gallery 318) (Account Book)

Performances

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Event Comment: Benefit for Marten, Anderson, and R. Smith. Tickets sold at the Door will not be admitted. [Receipts: missing for rest of season.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: Drunken Peasants-Miles; Comic Ballet-Guerin, Dumay, Gosly, Miss Dawson, Miss Viviez, Mrs Guerin, Mlle Jansolin

Event Comment: Benefit for Rooker and Chamness. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Event Comment: Benefit for Cushing, Desse and Stede

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: II: Tambourine-Miss Vallois; IV: Dutch Dance-Miss Vallois; End: By Particular Desire, The Roast Beef of Old England, as17580420

Event Comment: Benefit for Austin and Wood. Wood, Sub Treasurer (Winston MS 8). No Building on Stage. Receipts: #140 (Cross). [The Prologue was The Night's Adventure of a Buck, Larpent MS 147. The mid-portion shows the Buck at the playhouse]: @First to the Playhouse,--not to hear the play--@I went to pass an hour or so away,@For what to me are Shakespears, Otways, Rowes,@Their, Jaffiers, Bajazets, andRomeos?@Such mouthing rascals give no joy to me@I get behind the scenes, and there d'ye see,@I strut, and ogle, pull the girls about@Stand in the way, and put the actors out.@These, these are joys, which only Bucks can know,@And all the pleasures playhouses bestow...

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Entertainment: TheNew Magic Scene in the characters of Harlequin, as17580428

Event Comment: Benefit for Dickinson [first Gallery Office-Keeper]. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alls Well That Ends Well

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Song: Beard

Event Comment: Benefit for Wignell and Stoppelaer. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Dance: II: Tambourine-Miss Valois; IV: Dutch Dance-Miss Valois; V: The Roast Beef of Old England, as17580420

Event Comment: Benefit for Ackman, Harrison, and Scrase. Tickets deliver'd by Walker will be taken. No Building on the Stage. [Genest, IV, 519, lists The Mock Doctor for the afterpiece, apparently by mistake.] Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Afterpiece Title: Britannia

Dance: A Hornpipe-Harrison

Ballet: TThe Prussian Camp. As17580421 but Blakes_

Event Comment: Benefit for Redman, Buck, Lucas, Dumay, Mrs Granier, and Miss Cokayne. Tickets deliver'd out by Martin, Letsam, Mrs Jarvis, and Mrs Gold will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: CComic Dance, as17580417

Event Comment: Benefit for Box-Keepers, Vaughan, Green, and Potter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Foresight Actor: Arthur
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Elmy

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: CComic Dance, as17580417

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Simson and 3 Children. Afterpiece: At the Particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Being the last time of performing it this season. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Cast
Role: Codicil Actor: Vernon.
Role: Brisk Actor: Vernon

Dance: III: A Minuet, Louvre-Master Simson, Miss Simson