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Event Comment: Benefit for Barnshaw. By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: Lincos Travels Barnshaw

Entertainment: I: Overture in Artaxerxes-; Favourite Cantata from Anacreon (set by Sterling Goodwin)-A. Smith; Favourite Scots air-Miss Dowson (words and Music by A. Smith); Overture-Abel; New Hunting Song (set by Brewster)-Barnshaw; II: Soldier Tir'd-Miss Dowson; Songs-the Italian Young Gentleman; Trumpet Concerto-Mas. Green (pupil to Jones); What a Charming Thing's a Battle (from the Recruiting Sergeant)-Barnshaw

Event Comment: Benefit for the Doorkeepers. Prices 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Magnet

Entertainment: Singing, Soldier Tir'd, the Wanton God-Miss Catley; With Horns and with Hounds-Miss Thompson; Concerto on Organ-Hook; Solo on Violin-Reeves

Event Comment: Benefit the Waiters 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Magnet

Entertainment: Singing-Miss Harper, Miss Esser; Concerto on Organ-Hook; Solo on Violin-Reeves; Musical Imitations, O What a Glorious Thing's a Battle-Bannister; With Horns and With Hounds-Mrs Thomson

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Fearon. By Authority

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Event Comment: Benefit for General-Lying-In Hospital, Oxford Road (playbill). Charges #87 17s. Profit to Hospital #11 15s. plus #152 4s. from tickets (Box 511; Pit 115; Gallery 72). Receipts: #99 12s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Cast
Role: Blandford Actor: Hull

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: End: The Corsican Sailor's Punch House, as17711011

Event Comment: Benefit for Increase of a Fund for the support of Decayed Musicians, or their Families. Governors report that from June 1770-June 1771 they have laid out #826 17s. 3d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert Of Vocal And Instrumental Music

Performance Comment: By the Opera singers and orchestra and other celebrated performers. Part I: Overture to Le Pazzie di Orlando (Guglielmi)-; Songs-Savoi, Sga Boschett; Concerto on the Bassoon-Baumgarten; Song-Morigi (composed by Giordani); Part II: Concerto on German Flute-Tacet; Songs-Savoi, Sga Guglielmi; Solo on Violincello-Duport; Concerto on French Horn-Ponta; Part III: Concerto on Hautboy-Fischer; Songs-Sga Boschetti, Sga Guglielmi; accompanied by German Flute-; Concerto on Violin-Sga Sirmen; Favourite Overture for two Orchestras by Bach-.
Event Comment: Benefit for Mlle Heinel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Schiava

Dance: I: A Half@Comic Ballet-Mlle Heinel, her 1st appearance that character; End Last Act: Admete and Alceste, as17720310

Event Comment: Benefit for Signora Sirmen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Concert

Music: Concerto on Oboe-Fischer; Concerto on Violincello-Cirri; Concerto on French Horn-Ponta; Concerto on German Flute-Tacet; Solo-Sga Sirmen

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. Mainpiece: Not acted these 10 years. [See 15 May 1765.] Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [See 6 April 1771.] Part of Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Ladies send servants by 4 o'clock. Charges #67 6s. 6d. Profit to Smith #51 9s. 6d. plus #153 2s. from tickets (Box 427; Pit 205; Gallery 106) (Account Book). Receipts: #118 16s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: Citizen-Woodward; Old Philpot-Shuter; Sir Jasper-Dunstall; Young Wilding-Davis; Beaufort-Baker; Quildrive-Thompson; Maria-Mrs Mattocks; With Epilogue-Woodward, Shuter.
Cast
Role: Beaufort Actor: Baker

Dance: End: The Whim, as17720312

Event Comment: Benefit Sig & Signora Guglielmi. Music by Guglielmi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Pazzie Dorlando

Event Comment: Benefit for Fischer. Pit and Boxes 6s. First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Concert

Song: Savoi, Signora Grassi

Music: First Violin, Solo-Linley Jr, from Bath; Solo on Viola di Gamba-Abel; Solo on German Flute-Wendling; Concerto on French Horn-Ponta; Concerto on Violincello-Duport; Concerto on Hautboy-Fischer

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. Mainpiece: Never Acted There. Afterpiece (music by Dr Arne): Not acted this season (playbill). Charges #64 5s. Profit to Mrs Mattocks #89 2s. 6d., plus #57 11s. from tickets (Box 211; Pit 32). Rec'd from Condell for Fruit Rent this season #20 (Account Book). Receipts: #153 7s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Country Madcap

Dance: End: The Old ground Young=, as17711030

Event Comment: Benefit for Dodd. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [See 27 March 1770.] Afterpiece: Not acted these 12 years. [See 23 April 1755.] Receipts: #236 19s. 6d. Charges: #64 9s. Profits to Dodd: #172 10s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband Or The Accomplishd Fools

Afterpiece Title: Marplot in Lisbon

Dance: End: The Amusements of Strasburgh, as17711118

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Charges #69 3s. 6d. Profit to Clarke #51 4s. 6d. plus #133 12s. from tickets (Box 308; Pit 274; Gallery 155) (Account Book). Receipts: #120 8s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Dance: End of Play: The Old ground Young-Aldridge, Sga Manesiere

Event Comment: Benefit for Wendling. A serenata written by Metastasio, set by Bach, with Grand Chorusses. Pit and Boxes half a Guinea. First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. To begin at 7:00 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Endimione

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bulkley. Charges #69 1s. 6d. Profit to Mrs Bulkley #78 13s., plus #100 3s. from tickets (BoX 241; Pit 200; Gallery 99) (Account Book). Receipts: #147 14s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timanthes

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: Beaufort Actor: Baker

Dance: End: A New Dance-Aldridge, Mrs Bulkley

Music: A Concerto on the Trumpet-Master Green

Event Comment: Benefit for Lovattini. Signora Guglielmi not being ready with her part in La Buona Figliuola as proposed for the evening Lovattini is oblig'd to have Le Pazzie which he humbly hopes will be acceptable

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Pazzie Dorlando

Dance: I: Turkish Dance-Mlle Heinel, other principals; End Last Act: Admete and Alceste, as17720310

Event Comment: Benefit for Weston. [See Comment 24 April.] Afterpiece: A Comedy of Two Acts altered from Ben Jonson's Alchemist, by Francis Gentleman. Receipts: #242 12s. 6d. Charges: #64 13s. Profits to Weston: #177 19s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Tobacconist

Entertainment: Interlude. All up at Stockwell; or, The Ghost no Conjuror, a New Interlude-Characters-Weston, Bannister

Dance: After Interlude: The Sailors Revels, as17711008

Event Comment: Benefit for Reinhold. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Charges #77 18s. Profit to Reinhold #38 3s., plus #137 1s. from tickets (Box 357; Pit 234; Gallery 127) (Account Book). Receipts: #116 1s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: II: The Old ground Young, as17711030

Event Comment: Benefit for Fishar (Ballet Master) and Sga Manesiere. Charges #64 10s. Profit to each beneficiary #26 7s. 3d., plus income from tickets: Fishar #55 13s. (Box 115; Pit 112; Gallery 106); Sga Manesiere, #34 7s. (Box 59; Pit 74; Gallery 85) (Account Book). Receipts: #117 4s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: I: The Fingalian Dance, Double Hornpipe-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford (both apprentices to Fishar) [see17710515]; II: A Serious Dance-Miss Capon (Apprentice to Fishar) [see17670427]; III: [A New Pastoral Dance call'd The Rural Amusements of the Shepherds and Shepherdesses-Fishar, Sga Manesiere;[, in which by Particular Desire will be be introduced an Allemande-Fishar, Sga Manesiere; IV: [A New Pantomime Dance call'd The Italian Gardner-Mas. Blurton, Miss Capon, Miss Besford. [see dl 9 Dec. 1760]

Performance Comment: Blurton, Miss Besford (both apprentices to Fishar) [see17710515]; II: A Serious Dance-Miss Capon (Apprentice to Fishar) [see17670427]; III: [A New Pastoral Dance call'd The Rural Amusements of the Shepherds and Shepherdesses-Fishar, Sga Manesiere;[, in which by Particular Desire will be be introduced an Allemande-Fishar, Sga Manesiere; IV: [A New Pantomime Dance call'd The Italian Gardner-Mas. Blurton, Miss Capon, Miss Besford. [see dl 9 Dec. 1760] .see dl 9 Dec. 1760] .

Ballet: V: The Wapping Landlady. Jack-Fishar; Landlady-Banks; Orange Woman-Sga Manesiere; with a Sixfold Hornpipe[, that night only, by six principal dancers-Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Miss Twist, Mas. Blurton, Miss Capon, Miss Besford. [For Wapping Landlady, see17710412.

Performance Comment: Jack-Fishar; Landlady-Banks; Orange Woman-Sga Manesiere; with a Sixfold Hornpipe[, that night only, by six principal dancers-Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Miss Twist, Mas. Blurton, Miss Capon, Miss Besford. [For Wapping Landlady, see17710412.]For Wapping Landlady, see17710412.]
Event Comment: Benefit for Savigny. Charges #64 5s. Deficit to Savigny #2 10s. 6d., covered by #58 7s. from tickets (Box 127; Pit 154; Gallery 35). Receipts: #61 14s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors, as17711026

Event Comment: Benefit for Duport. Boxes and Pit half Guinea. Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 3s. To begin at 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Part I.Overture-Abel; Duo Violincello, Violin-Vachon, Duport; Concerto on German Flute-Wendling; Solo on Viol di Gamba-Abel; Concerto on French Horn-Ponta; Part II.Concerto Hautboy-Fischer; Concerto on Harpsichord-Hulmandel; Solo on Violincello-Duport; Concerto on Violin-Vachon; Full piece-Vachon

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunstall. Charges #69 4s. Profit to Dunstall #13 19s 6d. plus #164 1s. from tickets (Box 390; Pit 399; Gallery 67) (Account Book). Receipts: #83 3s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: End: The Old ground Young, as17711030

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Miller. Charges #73 7s. Profit to Miss Miller #64 14s. 6d. plus #47 1s. from tickets (Box 157; Pit 52). Cash advanc'd to Redman as per note #8 8s. (Account Book). Receipts: #138 1s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Performance Comment: As17720407 but Clytus-Bensley; Roxanna-Miss Miller; Statira (that night only)-a Young Lady;never on any stage before. Sysigambis-_; Parisatis-_.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Dance: End: The Old ground Young, as17711030

Event Comment: Benefit for Aldridge. Charges #64 5s. Profit to Aldridge #22 12s. plus #46 15s. from tickets (Box 90; Pit 125; Gallery 55). Receipts: #86 17s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: II: By Particular Desire, a Minuet-Aldridge, Mrs Bulkley; III: (Not done these 3 years) [a Dance call'd A Tambourine-Aldridge, Sga Manesiere [see17700501]; End I Farce: [a Hornpipe-Miss Matthews

Ballet: End: (For That Night Only) a New Grand Pantomimical Dance call'd The Recruits. Recruiting Captain-Aldridge; Drummer-Mas. Harris; Serjeant-Hussey; Soldiers, recruits-Petre, King, Settree, Merrifield, Holloway; Captain's Lady-Sga Manesiere; Landlady-Mrs White; Landlady's Daughter-Miss Twist; Soldiers, wives, country girls-Mrs Willems, Mrs Hartle, Mrs Invill, Miss Stede, Miss Lawrence