Event Comment: Benefit for
Mrs Cibber (
Cross).
And the Stage (for the better Accommodation of the Ladies) will be form'd into Front
and Side Boxes, where Servants will be allow'd to keep Places, as well as in the Boxes
and the Pit. Ladies are desired to send Servants to keep Places by 3 o'clock. Tickets to be had of
Mrs Cibber, at her house in
Thrift St,
Soho,
and of
Hobson, at the Stage Door of the Theatre, where Places may be taken. Tomorrow
The Foundling (being the 13th Night). Receipts: #250 (Cross); house charges, #60 (
Powel); cash, #81 17s.; tickets, #187 5s. 6d. (
Clay MS). This charge was also set down that the principle [sic] treasurer should not know to the contrary, because it was told him that
Mrs Cibber paid for her benefit,
and if he had imagin'd otherwise, he perhaps would have insisted upon the same terms for his wife (
Mrs Pr-h-d). I must therefore subtract it with Mr G-k's Benefit, it st
anding in their Books exactly in the same manner as his (Powel)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved
Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet
Dance: Cooke, Anne Auretti