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Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Cast
Role: Belvidera Actor: Mrs Thurmond

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Clive, but see17350421

Music: I: The last new Medley Overture, Composed by Charke

Dance: II: The Happy Shepherd and Shepherdess by Davenport and Miss Brett. III: Pierots by Davenport and Pelling. IV: Scot's Dance by Davenport and Mrs Davenport. V: By Desire, The Prince of Wales's Saraband, with a Minuet by Davenport and Miss Brett

Performance Comment: III: Pierots by Davenport and Pelling. IV: Scot's Dance by Davenport and Mrs Davenport. V: By Desire, The Prince of Wales's Saraband, with a Minuet by Davenport and Miss Brett .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Cast
Role: Lady Wealthy Actor: Mrs Bullock
Role: Favourite Actor: Mrs Stevens
Role: Mrs Security Actor: Mrs Martin

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Music: The Overture of Ariadne

Dance: I: Les Bergers Champetre by Mlle Grognet, Miss Rogers, Mlle Delorme. III: Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Miss Rogers. IV: Flanderkins by Duke and Mrs Ogden. V: Tambourine by Glover and Miss Rogers. End Afterpiece: Minuet by Mlle Grognet in Men's Cloths, and Miss Baston

Performance Comment: III: Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Miss Rogers. IV: Flanderkins by Duke and Mrs Ogden. V: Tambourine by Glover and Miss Rogers. End Afterpiece: Minuet by Mlle Grognet in Men's Cloths, and Miss Baston .

Song: II: As17350422

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd If She Cou'd

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Countess

Cast
Role: Mrs Guzzle Actor: Mrs Mullart

Dance: II: Tambourine by Miss Rogers. IV: Flanderkins by Duke and Mrs Ogden. Iv: Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Miss Rogers

Performance Comment: IV: Flanderkins by Duke and Mrs Ogden. Iv: Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Miss Rogers .

Song: As17350422

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Odell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unnatural Parents

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore And The Art Of Management

Performance Comment: Advertised but deferred by Mrs Charke's Indisposition .
Event Comment: Benefit a Family in Great Distress. Written by the late Mrs Centlivre. 5s., 3s., 2s. 6 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Song:

Dance: By some of the best Masters

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Segatti. Tickets a half guinea. 7 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Performances

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 .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Epithalamium

Performance Comment: Principal Characters sung by Phillippo Palma, lately arrived from Italy, Miss Isabella Young, Miss Esther Young, Salway, Kelly, Waltz, Mrs Clive, Miss Jones .

Music: An extraordinary Band of Musick is provided. An Organ will be erected on which Mr Roseingrave will accompany the Songs and Choruses

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 .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Fond Husband

Cast
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: 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

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-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ritons Strike Home; Or, The English Sailor's Triumphs

Performance Comment: Punch's Celebrated Company of Comedians, formerly Mrs Charke's.
Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 15 Sept.: [cg] is new painted and decorated, and will be open'd on Friday next...the Report of Mr Cibber and Mrs Horton being engag'd to another Theatre, is entirely without Foundation: That Company would have begun acting sooner, but for the finishing of a large additional Building, which is now cover'd in, whereby they will, on some Occasions, be enabled to add near 70 Feet to the Length of the Stage, which was before the longest in England, but will now exceed in Depth, any Theatre in Europe

Performances

Event Comment: Bedefit Mr and Mrs Arne. Written by the late Mr Addison, and set to Musick by Mr Arne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosamond

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