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Event Comment: All quiet (Cross). Don Sebastian is oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of Mossop's indisposition. Receipts: #60 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Cast
Role: Other characters Actor: Johnson, Mrs +Simpson.

Dance: II: L'Entree de Flore, as17521122; III: A Hornpipe-Master Granier

Event Comment: [The afterpiece] An Arabian Night's Entertainment produc'd in two parts with New Scenes, Habits, Music & Decorations. Full Prices. Went off with great applause (Cross). It is hop'd no Gentlemen will take it ill that they cannot possibly be admitted behind the Scenes or into the Orchestra, the Entertainment depending chiefly upon the Machinery and Music. [Repeated on all Genii Bills this season.] This new entertainment...hath fully decided the controversy and fix'd the superiority of Pantomime to Drury Lane Theatre, as it had before had of almost everything else;...for beauty of scenery, elegance of dress, propriety of music, and regularity of designs, it exceeds all the boasted grandeur of Harlequin Sorcerer, or of any I have seen either separate or collective. The last scene beggars all description; the most romantic Eastern account of sumptuous palaces are but faint to this display of beauty, this glow of light, this profusion of glittering gems, which adorn the whole, and much exceeds all expectations. I rejoice and congratulate myself that I am not of that modern way of thinking (or rather seeming to think) that nothing can deserve the epithet good from their superior taste, but while I am pleased will own it, and not endeavor to gain the character of a critick, ar the expense of violation of my senses (Scourge No. 14, quoted in the Gentleman's Magazine, Dec. 1752, p. 582). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Audry Actor: Mrs James
Role: Celia Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Phebe Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Rosalind Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: The Genii Arabian Nights Entertainment

Event Comment: Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Cast
Role: Lady Townly Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Lady Grace Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Mrs Trusty Actor: Miss Hippisley
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Myrtilla Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Lady Wronghead Actor: Mrs James

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Event Comment: Receipts #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Bennet.
Role: Phyllis Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Lucinda Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Indiana Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Cross.

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Song: II: Beard

Event Comment: Mainpiece: by Desire. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Cast
Role: Isabinda Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Patch Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Miranda Actor: Mrs Clive
Event Comment: Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: Gipsey Actor: Mrs Simson.
Role: Lady Bountiful Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Mrs Sullen Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Dorinda Actor: Mrs Mills

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Event Comment: Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Tib Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Mrs Kitely Actor: Mrs Davies.

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Event Comment: [Benefit] A Distress'd family had tickets (Cross). Tickets deliver'd out for Thursday the 18th, for the play As You Like It, for the benefit of a Distress'd Family will be taken this night. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Cast
Role: Mrs Marwood Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Mrs Fainall Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Mincing Actor: Mrs Toogood
Role: Millamant Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Lady Wishfort Actor: Mrs James

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Event Comment: MMiss Bellamy has lain in & is up (Cross). [This month published, The Upper Gallery, a poem, neatly descriptive of the opening scene in a playhouse from the vantage point of the first Gallery. This is an expanded, revised and modernized version of The Upper Gallery inscribed to the Rev Dr Swift, Dublin, 1733.] Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Cast
Role: Lavinia Actor: Mrs Davies

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Cast
Role: Anne Lovely Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Boy Actor: Mas. Cross
Role: Mrs Prim Actor: Mrs James
Role: Betty Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Masked Lady Actor: Mrs Toogood.

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Event Comment: [The same notice as that for 7 Feb. concerning Havard's illness, and hoping no gentlemen will desire to be admitted behind scenes, appears on the bottom of the playbill this night.] Went off very well (Cross). Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Cast
Role: Mrs Beverly Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Price.
Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Cast
Role: Lady Townly Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Lady Grace Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Mrs Trusty Actor: Miss Hippisley
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Myrtilla Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Lady Wronghead Actor: Mrs James

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Event Comment: All went well (Cross). Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Event Comment: For a Public Benefaction-Mr Garrick taken ill (Cross). [Play published at 1s. 6d.] Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. [Mainpiece] Put up ye 8th night tho' but ye 7th (Cross). Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Event Comment: Benefit for Morris, Gray, Dunbar, Smith. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Bennet.
Role: Phyllis Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Lucinda Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Indiana Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Cross.

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: II: A Comic Dance-Morris, Miss Shawford; IV: A Hornpipe-Morris; V: Minuet-Morris, Miss Shawford

Event Comment: Both pieces By Particular Desire. The lamp at ye Alter boil'd over & Frank Heath was burnt in ye loins in getting it out (Cross). Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Cast
Role: Merope Actor: Mrs Pritchard

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Event Comment: MMr Foote interrupted in ye Prologue by a Drunk: Gent-nothing (Cross). Afterpiece: Published at 1s. by Foote. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Laetitia Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Araminta Actor: Mrs Davies
Role: Sylvia Actor: Mrs Cowper

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Event Comment: Farce not lik'd (Cross). Receipts: #80 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Audrey Actor: Mrs James
Role: Celia Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Phoebe Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Rosalind Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: Mr Footes Tea

Dance: I: A New Dutch Dance, as17531117

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales. Prince of Wales & 5 Chil. (Cross). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Cast
Role: Goneril Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Regan Actor: Mrs Cowper
Role: Cordelia Actor: Mrs Cibber.

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: Gipsy Actor: Mrs Simson
Role: Dorinda Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Lady Bountiful Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Mrs Sullen Actor: Mrs Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Dance: IV: L'Entree de Flore, as17531123

Event Comment: BBellamy Play'd (Cross). [Cross suggests the Lottery as afterpiece, but the papers advertise Harlequin Sorcerer.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: The Harlequin Sorcerer

Event Comment: Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

Cast
Role: Mrs Loveit Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Emelia Actor: Mrs Cowper
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Davies
Role: Orangewoman Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Role: Lady Townly Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Lady Woodvil Actor: Mrs James
Role: Pert Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Event Comment: For the Author (Cross). Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Music: As17531201

Event Comment: For the Author (Cross). Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Music: As17531201