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Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Palmer. By Desire of several Persons of Quality. Tickets deliver'd for Oroonoko will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Cast
Role: Lady Wishfort Actor: Mrs Clive

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: III: A Cantata-Miss Young. *uöÓdl TThe Farmer's Return from London. As17620329

Event Comment: Benefit for Lowe. Tickets deliver'd for Macbeth will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Haughton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Event Comment: Benefit for Gardner, Mrs Burden, Mrs Stephens, Miss Helm. Tickets deliver'd by Dumay, Hussey, Mrs Viviez, Miss Twist, Miss Daw, and others will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: IV: A Hornpipe (first time)-Miss Daw; End: A Minuet-Sodi, Miss Twist

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Vincent. N.B. To prevent any Interruption in the Performance, No Building on the Stage. Last time of performing the Mainpiece this season. Tickets of Mrs Vincent at the Norwich Stuff Warehouse in King St. Covent Garden, and at the Stage Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanter

Song: Between Acts: Mrs Vincent

Event Comment: Benefit for Gallini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tolomeo

Event Comment: Benefit for Blakes. Tickets deliver'd for The Way of the World, and by Mess. Settree and Hayes will be taken. Positively the last time of performing Mainpiece this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Hopkins.

Entertainment: II: Hearts of Oak-Mrs Vincent, Mrs Baker; End Play: By particular Desire, and for that night only, Bucks Have at Ye All-King as17620330

Dance: After Entertainments: the Louvre and Minuet-Settree, Miss Blagdon (his scholar)

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunstall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: III: Will be introduc'd a Minuet-Sg and Sga Maranesi

Entertainment: End: will be introduc'd a new Dialogue@Epilogue-(never perform'd before) Between a certain GREAT SOMEBODY and NOBODY;after which Les Charboniers-Sg Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville, as17611012

Event Comment: Benefit for Signora Frasi. At the Great Room, Dean St. Tickets half a Guinea; Gallery 5s. Tickets delivered for 25 March will be taken. To begin at 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus

Music: CConcerto on Organ-Stanley

Event Comment: Benefit for Peretti. To begin at Seven. Boxes 10s. 6d. Pit 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. Tickets delivered for 20 April will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Songs From Artaxerxes

Performance Comment: by permission of Dr Arne, The favorite songs-Sg Peretti (who performed the part of Artaxerxes at Covent Garden), Tenducci, others; comic songs in Italian-Leopoldo Micheli (who never appeared on the English stage before); A Concerto on German Flute-Florio; Concerto on Violincello-Siprutini; (By Particular Desire) a new song by Dr Arne on the Taking of Martinico-Peretti.
Event Comment: Benefit for Champness and Miss Young. No Building on Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Song: II: A Duet-Champness, Miss Young; IV: A Cantata-Miss Young; End: Song in Character of a Sailor-Champness

Event Comment: Benefit for Grimaldi and Vincent. No Building on Stage. Full Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: I: The Camp Alarm'd, as17610926; III: The Drunken Swiss-Grimaldi, Baltazar, Miss Baker; IV: A New Tambourine-Vincent. (playbill) *uö¯dl TThe Farmer's Return from London. As17620320

Entertainment: TThe Savoyard Travellers-Grimaldi, Sg and Sga Giorgi, Miss Baker

Event Comment: Benefit for Hull. Mainpiece: Hull's "Alteration with Additions" to Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors. Not acted these 30 years. [See 9 Oct. 1734, according to Genest, IV, 653.] No Building on Stage. [This alteration acted but once, not printed. Done again 1779, and printed in 8vo 1793 under title Comedy of Errors. [See Hogan, II, 151.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twins Or A Comedy Of Errors

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Song: II: Let not the Rage, from the opera Artaxerxes, by Particular Desire,-Miss Brent

Dance: After the Epilogue: The Taylors, as17620107

Event Comment: Benefit for Collins and Younger, prompter. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Tickets deliver'd for Venice Preserv'd will be taken. No Building on Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: After Epilogue: Les Sabotiers, as17620419

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pope

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Green, Miles, and Sga Maranesi. Tickets deliver'd for The Pilgrim, as also those by Miss Sledge, will be taken. Mainpiece for last time this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Vernon
Role: With a Hornpipe Actor: Mrs Vernon

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: I: The Cossacks-Sg and Sga Maranesi, as17601014; II: The Taylors, as17620107; End Opera: A Minuet-Sg and Sga Maranesi

Event Comment: Benefit for the General Lying-in Hospital, Duke St. [a long advertisement in the Public Advertiser, similar to that for 16 April 1761, notes the service the hospital has performed for some 6000 destitute "female objects" wives of soldiers and sailors.] Second Gallery 3s. 6d. 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Filosofo Di Campagna

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Elmy. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Afterpiece: Taken from Mrs Centlivre's Sequel to the Busy Body. [Afterpiece is Woodward's adaptation (Crow St. Theatre, Dublin 1760) pruned to three acts (Biographia Dramatica).

Performances

Afterpiece Title: Marplot in Lisbon

Event Comment: Benefit for Costollo, Mrs Pitt, Stede. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. No Building on Stage. Tickets sold at the door will not be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Afterpiece Title: Marplot in Lisbon

Dance: II: New Comic Dance, The Woodcutters-Leppie, a young gentlewoman his scholar; IV: The Taylors, as17620107

Entertainment: After: Hippisley's Drunken Man-Shuter (This Night only)

Event Comment: Benefit for Maguire and Tindal. Afterpiece: Never perform'd there

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Dance: TThe Taylors, as17620107

Event Comment: Benefit for Leviez, ballet master. Full Prices. Afterpiece: By Desire. The Farmer, for last time this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: As17620107, but Mrs Foresight-Mrs Bennet.
Cast
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Bennet.
Role: Foresight Actor: Blakes

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: II: The Tambourine Dance-Vincent; III: The Italian Gardiners, as17611010; IV: Hornpipe-Vincent; The Camp Alarm'd, as17610926. End: The Farmer's Return from London. As17620320

Event Comment: Benefit for Ballard, treasurer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Florizel and Perdita

Dance: III: The Taylors, as17620107

Entertainment: End: (By particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction) for this night only, A Dish of All Sorts-Shuter, as17620329

Event Comment: Benefit for Roberts, Widow Lampe, Miss Young. Afterpiece: For the last time this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part I

Cast
Role: Vernon Actor: Gibson

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantly

Cast
Role: Mauxalinda Actor: Mrs Vernon

Dance: III: The Taylors, as17620107

Music: II: A Piece upon the Welch Harp-Evans

Event Comment: Benefit for Marten, Anderson, R. Smith. No Building on Stage. Tickets sold at Doors not admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: TThe Taylors, as17620107

Event Comment: Benefit for Davis, Perry, and Mad Jansolin. No Building on stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: II: A Serious Dance-Miss Capdeville (8 years of age, first time of performing on any stage); III: The Taylors, as17620107; End: Hornpipe-Mlle Capdeville; Likewise an Epilogue-a Young Gentlewoman who never appeared on any stage