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Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

Performance Comment: Cast not listed, but see17360305 According to A Narrative of the Life of Mrs Charlotte Charke, p. 63, Charlotte Charke took the role of Lord Place on this night .
Event Comment: Benefit Phillips, the Harlequin. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [Tickets at Phillips' House, No. 6, Eagle Court in the Strand.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Taste

Cast
Role: Dorothea Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Lady Henpeck Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Dorinda Actor: Mrs Thurmond
Role: Maria Actor: Mrs Clive

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Dance: I: A new Pantomime Dance called Damon and Phillida: Damon-Phillips; Phillida-Miss Mann; Cimon-Pelling; Mopsus-Davenport. II: Pierrots by Poitier and Pelling. III: Drunken Peasant by Phillips. IV: Black and White Joak by Phillips and Miss Mann. V: The Rover by Essex, Mrs Walter, Miss Mann, &c

Performance Comment: II: Pierrots by Poitier and Pelling. III: Drunken Peasant by Phillips. IV: Black and White Joak by Phillips and Miss Mann. V: The Rover by Essex, Mrs Walter, Miss Mann, &c .

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Mainpiece Title: A Fond Husband

Cast
Role: Fond Husband Actor: Penkethman
Role: Emilia Actor: Mrs Giffard
Role: Governess Actor: Mrs Wetherilt
Role: Maria Actor: Mrs Roberts

Afterpiece Title: The Lover's Opera

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Roberts, but see17360205

Dance: II: Scotch Sailor by a Gentleman for his Diversion. V: Scot's Dance by Haughton, Mrs Bullock, &c

Performance Comment: V: Scot's Dance by Haughton, Mrs Bullock, &c .

Song: I: An Italian Song by Kelly. III: By Touchbury. IV: In Italian by Mrs Chambers

Performance Comment: III: By Touchbury. IV: In Italian by Mrs Chambers .
Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales [who were present]. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat. 6:30 P.M

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Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Cast
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Narcissa Actor: Mrs Thurmond
Role: Flareit Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Anne Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Cast
Role: Chloe Actor: Mrs Clive

Dance: III: By Denoyer's Apprentice. IV: By Mlle Anne Roland. V: Revellers by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c

Performance Comment: IV: By Mlle Anne Roland. V: Revellers by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c .
Event Comment: Benefit Turbutt and Mrs Pritchard. [Princess of Wales present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A Practice of a Dramatick Entertainment. [Author not known. Apparently not published.] Afterpiece: A Mock Tragedy. [Author not known, but Mrs. Lois G. Morrison of San Antonio College believes that it was written by Eustace Budgell. Apparently not published.] At Common Prices. Note, No Money to be return'd after the Curtain is drawn up. The Doors will be open'd at Fou , and begin exactly at Six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Defeat Of Apollo; Or, Harlequin Triumphant

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Bob, Alias Gin

Event Comment: Benefit Wallis, Noble, and Mrs Pattison

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Lover His Own Rival

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit Hatchett. Third Piece: an additional Addition of a new entertaining Scene. In which the whole Art and Mystery of Free-Masonry is delineated, by the Admission of a Lady. At 6:30 p.m. Tickets for Mrs Haywood's benefit taken this day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Historical Register

Afterpiece Title: Eurydice Hiss'd

Afterpiece Title: The Female Free Mason

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Haywood the Muse, Author of Love in Excess, and many other entertaining Pieces. 6:30 p.m. Daily Advertiser, 23 May: We hear that her Grace the Dutchess Dowager of Marlborough will be at the Theatre in the Hay-Market this Night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Historical Register

Afterpiece Title: Eurydice Hiss'd

Event Comment: A New Serenata. [Music by Giovanni Battista Pescetti.] Tickets half a guinea. 6 p.m. Mrs Pendarves to Lady Throckmorton, 28 Nov.: The concerts begin next Saturday at the Haymarket. Caristini sings, Peschetti composes; the house is made up into little boxes, like the playhouses abroad; Lord Middlesex is the chief undertaker, and I believe it will prove to his cost, for concerts will not do. --Delany, Autobiography, II, 66

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Diana And Endymion

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. 5s. To begin at six and end at eight

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosalinda

Afterpiece Title: David's Lamentation over Saul and Jonathan

Performance Comment: See17400229, but Mrs Arne, Beard, Russel, Rheinhold.

Music: Violin-Festing?; Violoncello-Caporale?; Several Concertos-

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Phillips, Pidgeon, Levy, Doorkeepers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Student

Event Comment: +RRylands MS.: The Rehearsal was design'd but Mrs Kilby not being able to perform in Orpheus, and Advertisement was put into Papers on Tuesday taking leave of the Town, and so we concluded for this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: the Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: +OOrpheus and Eurydice intended but not given

Event Comment: Benefit Garrick. The Stage will be tubn'd into an Amphitheatre, where Servants will be allow'd to keep Places. Tickets 4s., 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d., but be had at Tom's Coffee-House, Cornhill; and at Mrs Garrick's in Mansfield St., Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: TThe Leek, as17420224

Event Comment: HHorace Walpole to Horace Mann, 24 Feb.: Handel has set up an Oratorio against the Operas and succeeds. He has hired all the goddesses from farces [i.e., Kitty Clive] and the singers of Roast Beef [i.e., Lowe] from between the acts at both theatres, with a man with one note in his voice [i.e., Beard] and a girl without ever a one [i.e., Mrs Cibber]; and so they sing.-Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Sir Horace Mann, II, 180

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sampson

Event Comment: The Earl of Egmont and Mrs Delany both were present (Deutsch, Handel, p. 588)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Saul

Music: Concerto on Organ-

Event Comment: The Company in the Haymarket being busily employ'd in reviving several pieces, are oblig'd to defer playing till further notice (General Advertiser). [T. Cibber stated that when his troupe had a successful run of Romeo and Juliet, and when Mrs Clive arranged for a benefit performance there, the Patentees applied to the Lord Chamberlain and, in consequence, the Lord Chamberlain's Office legally stopped the performances at the Haymarket. Cibber's next move was the Academy device of 1 Nov.--Cibber, A Serio-Comic Apology, p. 10.

Performances

Event Comment: A concert. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Benefit Mrs Clive

Performances

Event Comment: A letter in Daily Advertiser 4 March complains of Mrs Cibber's absence from this revival

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Haughton. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 2s. 1st gallery 1s. 6d. Upper gallery 1s. Tickets at Miss Haughton's Lodgings, at Mrs Simpson's, Church Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Cushing

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Henry Iv

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Frederica

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'incostanza Deluza

Event Comment: There will be no play 'till tomorrow on account of one to be performed this evening at the other theatre; the receipt of which is to be subscribed to the Veteran Scheme at the Guildhall. We hear Mrs Cibber is soon to perform the part of Polly, three nights at cg, and the Proprietor has agreed to lend his house, free of all charges; and we hear the company will contribute their pay on those days, that the performance may be entirely charge-free; the receipts of each night to be subscribed to the Veteran's scheme at Guildhall

Performances

Event Comment: A Musical Drama, in Two Parts...with Dances and other Decorations Entirely new. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered this Day, at the Opera Office in the Haymarket, at Half a Guinea each. Gallery 5s. By His Majesty's Command, No Persons whatsoever to be admitted behind the Scenes. The Gallery to be open'd at Four o'Clock. Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at Six o'clock. A New Opera [composed by Gluck; text by F. Vanneschi]. The Subscribers to the Opera are desired to make the last Payment of their Subscription Money to the Treasurer, at the Opera Office in the Haymarket, where Attendance will be given this and every Day, from Ten till Two, to receive the same, and deliver out the Silver Tickets. [Repeated until 28 Jan.] The new Musical Italian Drama; entitled La Caduta de Giganti, or the Fall of the Giants, writ on Occasion of the expulsion of the Rebels, was perform'd last Night at King's Theatre in the Haymarket. The performance was received and carried on with great Attention, Tranquility, and Applause: and not a little enliven'd by the Presence of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland.--Daily Advertiser, 8 Jan

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Caduta De Giganti; Or, The Fall Of The Giants

Performance Comment: Singers-Monticelli, Jozzi, Ciacchi, Signora Imer, Signora Pompeati (or Mrs Cornelie), Signora Frasi (Burney, History of Music, IV, 452). [See program of 25 March where Jozzi, Ciacchi, Imer and Pompeati are listed as singing in this opera.]See program of 25 March where Jozzi, Ciacchi, Imer and Pompeati are listed as singing in this opera.]
Event Comment: HHickford's Great Room, Brewer St. Benefit Brown. Tickets 5s. Tickets at Walsh, in Catherine St., Strand; Mrs Wamsley's/Musick/shop the Corner of Picadilly; Simpson's Musick shop in Swithin's Alley, Cornhill; Johnson's Musick shop, Cheapside; Brown's in Margaret St., near Cavendish Square; and at the place of performance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Concert