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Event Comment: Benefit Neale and Winstone. Mainpiece by particular Desire. Tickets deliver'd out for Amphytrion will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Cast
Role: Sir Andrew Aguecheek Actor: Neale

Afterpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Song: II: Lowe; IV: Colin and Phebe-Lowe, Miss Edwards

Dance: III: Italian Peasants, as17460206

Event Comment: By particular Desire. Benefit Goodfellow and Barrington. Tickets for Barrington at Mrs Gwyn's a Silk Dyer in Drury Lane. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. [Simpson doubled in the part of Tyrrel.] Tickets delivered out by Hussey will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17460108, but Ratcliffe-Simpson; Prince Edward-Miss Budgell; Blunt-_; Lord Mayor-_.
Cast
Role: Prince Edward Actor: Miss Budgell
Role: Edward V Actor: Miss Cole
Role: Duke of York Actor: Miss Macklin

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Cast
Role: Isabel Actor: Miss Edwards

Song: III: Colin and Phebe-Lowe, Miss Edwards; IV: Cantata-Lowe

Event Comment: Benefit Desse and Liviez. Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of Several Persons of Quality. Tickets deliver'd by Fowlis will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Lovers

Cast
Role: Flavia Actor: Miss Edwards
Role: Beliza Actor: Miss Minors
Role: Sabina Actor: Miss Budgell

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Cast
Role: Beatrice Actor: Miss Royer.
Role: Angelica Actor: Miss Bradshaw
Role: Maid Actor: Miss Cole.

Dance: II: Italian Peasants, as17460206; IV: Swiss Dance, as17460416 V: Minuet, Louvre-Desse, Miss Hilliard

Event Comment: Benefit Picq, Bibby and Mrs Mann, Brownlow St., Long Ave

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Cast
Role: Martha Actor: Miss Edwards

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Goddess

Performance Comment: Harlequin's Wife-Mrs Mann; Harlequin-Yates; Swiss-Blakes; Pierot-Leviez; Harlequin's Child-Miss Yates; Harlico-Collins; Goddess Hecate-Miss Edwards; Spright-Bibby; Shepherds, Shepherdesses-Desse, Shawford, Mrs Pritchard, Picq.

Song: Bibby

Dance: Picq, Miss Hilliard

Event Comment: Benefit Ray, Gray [Constable] and Dunbar [Boxkeeper. See note 29 April.] I hope my diligence as a Constable, in preserving Ladies from the Insults of the Pickpockets... may entitle me to some small Indulgence at my Benefit. James Gray.--Daily Advertiser

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Cast
Role: Isabel Actor: Miss Edwards

Song: III: Miss Young; IV: Lowe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Cast
Role: Day Actor: Cartwright

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Cast
Role: Isabella Actor: Miss Moreau.
Role: Bazil Actor: Cartwright

Dance: Between the Acts: Miles, Mrs Miles, Master Morgan, Miss Baker

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth-Goodfellow; Lenox-Cushing; Hecate-L. Hallam; Fleance-Master Morgan; Macduff-Furnival; Banquo-Paget; Duncan-Holmes; Witches-Hallam Sen, Shuter, Banks; Malcolm-Lee; Donalbain-Mrs Moreau; Seyward-Hart; Seyton-Wignell; Doctor-Miles; first Murderer-Dove; 2nd Murderer-Baker; Lady-Mrs Beckham; Lady Macduff-Mrs Bambridge; Lady Macbeth-Miss Budgell.
Cast
Role: Lady Macbeth Actor: Miss Budgell.

Song: Brett, Mrs Cushing, Miss Tench

Dance: As17461124

Event Comment: Benefit Dupre and Roberts on a one-half value of tickets and minimum charge basis. Receipts: #12 6s. 6d. leaving a deficit for the minimum charge of #14 11s. 6d. Tickets: Dupre #45 13s. (Boxes 36; Pit 191; Gallery 80); Roberts #78 19s. (Boxes 50; Pit 359; Gallery 126). Half value of total #62 6s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Cast
Role: Tippet Actor: Miss Hippisley

Song: II: Liberty Alone-(from the Oratorio of Judas Maccabaeus sung by Roberts); IV: Come Smiling Liberty-Roberts

Dance: III: Peasant Dance-Matthews, Miss Vandersluys; V: The English Boy, English Girl

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bf Miss In Her Teens

Afterpiece Title: Frolicksome Lasses or Harlequin Fortune Teller

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Chettle; Colombine-Miss Moreau; Clodpole-Smith.
Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Moreau

Song:

Dance: NNew Hornpipe-Chettle

Music: A Grand Band of Musick

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite Or The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song: Cunningham, Adams, Miss Lincoln, Mrs Bullock

Dance: Cunningham, Adams, Miss Lincoln, Mrs Bullock

Event Comment: Benefit for Relief of Sufferers by the late Fire. [It happened in the Exchange on 25 March. See General Advertiser accounts.] Boxes and Pit laid together at 5s. each. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. [Statement about gift of the night's box receipts (31 March) repeated. See note, 11 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Song: Beard, Miss Faulkner, Mrs Storer

Event Comment: Benefit for Bridges and Desse

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone Or The Fox

Performance Comment: Volpone-Bridges; Mosca-Ryan; Corbaccio-Bridgwater; Voltore-Ridout; Corvino-Rosco; Sir Politic-James; Bonario-Gibson; 1st Avocatori-Marten; Peregrine-Anderson; Celia-Mrs Hale; Lady Wou'dbe-Mrs Horton; In I, Dance-Master Granier, Miss Granier; In III, a Punch Dance-Harrison.
Cast
Role: Peregrine Actor: Anderson
Role: Dance Actor: Master Granier, Miss Granier

Afterpiece Title: Phebe or The Beggars Wedding

Performance Comment: Hunter-Beard; Phebe-Mrs Dunstall; Tippet-Mrs Bland; Justice Quorum-Marten; Chanter-Bridgwater.
Cast
Role: Tippet Actor: Mrs Bland

Song: II: Mrs Storer; IV: Miss Faulkner

Dance: HHornpipe-Harrison

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Cast
Role: Blandford Actor: Ridout
Role: Hotman Actor: Anderson
Role: Charlotte Weldon Actor: Mrs Bland
Role: Lucy Weldon Actor: Miss Copen.

Afterpiece Title: The Perplexd Husband

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Philips; Husband-Bencraft; Colombine-Mrs Dunstall; Pierot-LaLauze; The whole to Conclude with a Country Dance-Philips; Hornpipe-Philips.
Cast
Role: Husband Actor: Bencraft

Song: I: Beard; III: Consider Fond Shepherd, Tis Liberty alone-Mrs Storer

Dance: II: Drunken Peasant-Philips; IV: The Amorous Swain, or Rival Nymphs-LaLauze, Mrs Delagarde, Miss Hillyard; V: a Ball Minuet (By Desire)-three scholars of LaLauze

Event Comment: By Subscription. A Burletta, or Comic Opera...being the first of this Species of Musical Drama ever exhibited in England. [But see Burney, II, 248, on both cast and music.] Pit and Boxes Half a guinea. Gallery 5s. To begin at 6 p.m. Last Wednesday arrived in London, from Italy, Signor Croza, with his New Company of Italian Performers, who are to entertain the Town the approaching Season, at the King's Theatre in the Haymarket, with Operas of a new kind, call'd Burlettas (General Advertiser, 23 Sept.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Comedia In Comedia

Performance Comment: Lucinda-Angelica Saiz; Celindo-Gaetano Guadagni; Florilind-Filippo Laschi; Dorinna-Anna Laschi; Pandolfo-Pietro Pertici; Nobilia-Caterina Pertici; Marcion-Francesco Bianci; Vespino-Sga Giustina Amoretti [1748 Libretto].1748 Libretto].
Cast
Role: Pandolfo Actor: Pietro Pertici

Dance: GGrand Dance (compos'd by Poitier)-Mlle Poitier, Master Charles, Miss Jenny Poitier

Music: Rinaldo da Capua

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone Or The Fox

Performance Comment: Volpone-Quin; Mosca-Ryan; Corbaccio-Collins; Voltore-Ridout; Corvino-Sparks; Sir Politick-Arthur; Bonario-Gibson; First Avocatori-Marten; Peregrine-Anderson; Caelia-Miss Bellamy; Lady Wou'dbe-Mrs Horton.
Cast
Role: Peregrine Actor: Anderson
Role: Caelia Actor: Miss Bellamy

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Dance: CComic Dance-Master and Miss Granier

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Song: I: Lothario-Miss Falkner; II: The Truly Happy Man-Leveridge; IV: Mirth Gives Courage-Leveridge

Dance: V: Comic Dance-J. Granier, J. Granier's Sister

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Performance Comment: Sir Philip Modelove-Shuter; Betty-Mrs Bennet; Col. Feignwell-Woodward; Obadiah-Taswell; Tradelove-Barnet; Perriwinkle-James; Freeman-Palmer; Sackbut-Winstone; Simon-Usher; Mrs Prim-Mrs James; Anne-Mrs Clive; Lady-Miss Cole.
Cast
Role: Lady Actor: Miss Cole.

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Performance Comment: As17491212, but add Pelling, M'Neale, Harrison, Shawford, Miss Cole, Mrs Lafont, Mlle Mariet, Mrs Pitt.

Dance: NNew Comic Dance-Grandchamps, Mrs Addison, Miss Baker

Song: Master Mattocks

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Performance Comment: Zanga-Quin; Alonzo-Ryan; Carlos-Delane; Alvarez-Sparks; Manuel-Ridout; Isabella-Mrs Bambridge; Leonora-Miss Bellamy.
Cast
Role: Leonora Actor: Miss Bellamy.

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Dance: TTambourine-DeJardins; Grand Scotch Ballet-Cooke, Miss Hilliard her 1st time of appearing on that stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lavare

Cast
Role: Le Commissaire Actor: Costo
Role: Frosine Actor: Miss Rawlinson

Dance: Dancing, as17500221, but Miss Poitier

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lavare

Cast
Role: Le Commissaire Actor: Costo
Role: Frosine Actor: Miss Rawlinson

Afterpiece Title: Les Precieuse Redicul

Dance: Mme Roland, Miss Poitier

Event Comment: Benefit for Barry. By Command of his Majesty. Duke and Amelia [present] (Cross). Pit and Boxes laid together, and servants will be allowed to keep places there and on the stage, which will be formed into front and side boxes. Ladies desired to send their servants by three o'clock. Tickets and places to be had of Barry, the corner of Bow St., Covent Garden; and of Hobson at the stage door. Receipts: #280 (Cross); #252 (Treasurer's Book). @Rec'd: Cash Front #84 14s. 6d.@Stage #45 16s. 6d.@Tickets Front #119 10s.@Stage-@ Paid salary List 4 days, #203 7s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Dance: Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti, Mathews, Miss Baker

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pritchard. Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years [see 2 May 1744]. Tickets and places of Mrs Pritchard, at her house next the chapel in Great Queen St., Lincoln's Inn Fields, and of Hobson at the Stage Door. Five rows of Pit will be rail'd into the Boxes. [Stage as of 10 March.] Paid Blandford (Tallow Chandler) #18 17s. 3d.; Paid Blakes for 2 wiggs #3 3s.; Paid Mrs Pritchard for a ticket as per agreement #10 10s.; Norton 1 chorus 5s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #220 (Cross); charges, #60 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Performance Comment: Biron-Garrick; Villeroy-Havard; Baldwin-Berry; Carlos-King; Fernando-Yates; Frederick-Palmer; Fabian-Blakes; Jaqueline-Shuter; Victoria-Mrs Willoughby; Julia-Mrs Mills; Nurse-Miss Pitt; Child-Miss Yates; Isabella-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Fernando Actor: Yates
Role: Nurse Actor: Miss Pitt
Role: Child Actor: Miss Yates

Dance: I: Comic Dance-Mathews, Miss Baker; II: The Venetian Peasant-Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lavare

Cast
Role: Le Commissaire Actor: Costo
Role: Frosine Actor: Miss Rawlinson

Afterpiece Title: Arlequin Fourbe Anglois ou le Traiteur Mal Traitte

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Mrs Bright; Clerimont-Jackson; Belamy-Edwards; Dumelange-Costo; Princemaille-Williams; Alain-Ives; Julie-Miss Rawlinson; Mme du Melange-Miss Talbot.
Cast
Role: Julie Actor: Miss Rawlinson
Role: Mme du Melange Actor: Miss Talbot.

Dance: Mme Roland, Miss Poitier

Event Comment: Benefit for Ryan. Income: #51 12s. 6d. in money; #99 15s. in tickets. A Free Benefit. Advanced to Servandoni #5 5s. Receipts: #151 7s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv Part I

Performance Comment: As17491026, but abbreviated cast only listed: Falstaff, Wales, King, Hotspur, Carriers, Francis; and Lady Percy-Mrs Woffington.
Cast
Role: and Lady Percy Actor: Mrs Woffington.
Role: Prince John Actor: Miss Hippisley
Role: Northumberland Actor: Redman
Role: Douglas Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Performance Comment: As17491117, but full cast with Tippet-Mrs Dunstall; Phebe-Miss Falkner.
Cast
Role: Phebe Actor: Miss Falkner.
Role: Tippet Actor: Miss Young

Dance: III: Dutch Dance-Jossett, Jardin, Miss Hillyard; End: Grand Scotch Ballet, as17500201

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Green. Tickets of Mrs Green in Broad Court, Bow St., Covent Garden, and at the stage Door. Tickets deliver'd out for the Provok'd Wife will be taken. Paid Blandford (Tallow Chandler) #12 15s. 9d. Cash rec'd #77 2s., plus #79 8s. from tickets. Total #156 10s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #170 (Cross); charges, #63 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Cast
Role: Fernando Actor: Yates
Role: Nurse Actor: Miss Pitt
Role: Child Actor: Miss Yates

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti, Mathews, Miss Baker