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Event Comment: See Universal Spectator, 13 Feb., for an essay on a rehearsal of The Indian Empress, forthcoming at hay, and British Journal, 13 Feb., for a discussion of some new plays of the season

Performances

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [Author unknown. Apparently not printed.] With New Habits

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Empress; Or, The Conquest Of Peru

Event Comment: Benefit Giffard. At the particular Desire of several Gentlemen and Ladies. Afterpiece: a new Comic Opera. [Author unknown. Apparently not published.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Merry Throwster

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Performance Comment: Antony (new drest)-a Gentleman; Ventidius-Mills; Dolabella-Marshall; Alexas-W. Mills; Serapion-Corey; Myris-Oates; Cleopatra-Mrs Horton; Octavia-Mrs Porter.

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

Event Comment: Benefit Bardin. At the particular Desire of several Gentlemen and Ladies. Afterpiece: A new Comic Opera (never perform'd before). [Author unknown. Apparently not published.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Sailor's Wedding; or, The Humours of Wapping

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Mainpiece Title: Orestes

Performance Comment: As17310403 but With a New Prologue, Epilogue-.

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Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies

Performance Comment: Tom Thumb-Master Woodward; With a New Prologue by Master Woodward-Master Woodward.
Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Benefit Miss Holliday. Afterpiece: A New Pastoral Ballad Opera of one Act [Author unknown]. Receipts: money #47 16s.; tickets #123 13s. [Prince and two of three eldest Princesses present.] Gentleman's Magazine, I (1731), 216: Miss Holliday...received from the Royal Family, over and above the usual Present, a large Gold Medal, weighing about 50 Guineas, with the Bust of her Majesty as Electress of Hanover on each Side

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Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Judgment of Paris; or, The Triumph of Beauty

Dance: SShepherds and Shepherdesses by Nivelon-Nivelon, Newhouse, Pelling, Dupre Jr, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Ogden, Miss LaTour; Chacone-Dupre, Mrs Pelling

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of Mortimer

Performance Comment: As17310517, but New Prologue, Epilogue-.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of Mortimer

Performance Comment: As17310517. new Prologue, Epilogue.
Event Comment: At Lee's Great Booth: a new Entertainment of the Opera kind

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Libertine

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Mainpiece: a New Play of Three Acts. [By Thomas Cooke.] At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of Love And Honour

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Music: Select Pieces-

Dance:

Event Comment: At Lee-Harper Booth. An excellent new Droll

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Guy, Earl Of Warwick: With The Comical Distresses Of Rogero, Guy's Servant

Song: The best Masters

Dance: The best Masters

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: With new Scenes, Habits, Machines, and other Decorations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris; With Harlequin Grand-Volgi

Song: Miss Raftor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: Eaton, Miss Sandham. With New Habits

Performance Comment: With New Habits.
Event Comment: All the Characters new dress'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Song: Singing in English-Miss Raftor

Dance:

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. With a new set of Scenes being a prospect of the Ponte Rialto at Venice, painted by Mr Devoto

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By Aaron Hill.] With new Habits, Scenes, and other Decorations, proper to the Play. Admission: 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s. [See Pope, Correspondence, III, 253-54.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Athelwold

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Performance Comment: As17311117, but Parly-Mrs Haughton; With a new Prologue, Epilogue on the Occasion-.

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Song: With the usual Songs-

Dance: Burney, Miss Wherrit

Event Comment: DDaily Journal, 14 Jan.: We hear...that...The Modish Couple, which met with great Opposition the two first Nights, but was acted the third with Success, before one of the finest Assemblies of Persons of Quality that has been seen, was last Night again so interrupted, that the Players could not perform but were forced to dismiss the Audience.' The violent Treatment which this Piece has met with, is supposedles those People who made it their Business to raise Disturbances at every new Performance that comes on the Stage. [For another account, see Egmont, Diary, I, 216.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Modish Couple

Event Comment: [Music by Handel. Translation by Samuel Humphreys.] Wherein the Cloaths and Scenes are all entirely New. Colman's Opera Register: But did not draw much Company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aetius

Event Comment: Not Acted [there] these Seven Years. With all New Habits. Receipts: #49 7s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Dance: TThe Grand Aga and his Sultana-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; The Baulk-Salle, Mrs Laguerre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Music by Handel. Done into English by Humphreys. Their Majesties, Prince, eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sosarmes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Modern Husband

Performance Comment: As17320218 With a new Epilogue.
Event Comment: As 2 March. According to Daily Post, 4 March, the new English Opera of Amelia was rehearsed at hay on 3 March by a Set of Performers that never appeared before upon any Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Blazing Comet