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Event Comment: A New Opera...Written by Metastasio and set to Musick by Signor Hasse

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dido

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Afterpiece Title: The Author's Farce

Performance Comment: Luckless (the Author)-Cibber; Witmore-Bridges; Bookweight-James; Player-Anderson; Jack Pudding-Dunstall; Mrs Moneywood-Mrs James; Harriet-Miss Haughton; Wherein will be introduc'd an Operatic Puppet Show, call'd The Pleasures of the Town: Punch-Dunstall; Joan-Collins; Charon-Stoppelaer; Poet-Paddick; Sailor-Barnard; Robgrave-Smith; Don Tragedio-Storer; Dr Orator-Cushing; Signior Opera-Mrs Dunstall; Mrs Novel-Miss Copin; Goddess of Nonsense-Miss Young; With the Restoration of the King of Bantum, and the Foundlings Found Out: Murdertext-Morgan; Constable-Hacket; Bantomite Governor-Anderson; Bantomime Courier-Barnard; Foundlings-Cibber, Dunstall, Collins, Miss Haughton; Concluding with the Last New Grand Country Dance, call'd The Mouse Trap, or Foot's Vagaries: Miss in her Teens-La Petite Parisienne; Sg Piede-Villeneuve; Maitre de Ballet-Bencraft; Councillor-Morris; Lady Autumn-Oates; Rout, Drum Hunters-Delagarde, Anderson, Paddick, Mrs Dunstall, Mrs Gondou, Mrs Daniel, Mrs Villeneuve.

Song: I: Go lovely Rose-Beard; II: Tis Liberty-Mrs Storer; III: Sper il Fostore-Miss Faulkner; IV: Smiling Liberty-Miss Faulkner

Dance: V: Drunken Peasant-Philips

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainment Of Music

Performance Comment: First Part: A new Overture [by Paradies-; D'Ogni Amator[ in L'Ingratitudine Punita-Ciacchi; Son Confusa Pastbrella [from same]-Sga Pirkir; Rasserena il mest Ciglio [in Artamene-Sga Galli; Concerto-Pasqualino; Se Fosse il mio Diletto (Hasse)-Reginelli; Leon Cacciato [in Selva in Scipione-Sga Casarini; [Second Part: Concerto-Carbenell; Heart thou Seat of soft Delight [in Acis and Galatea-Sga Frasi; Viv non ti contendono [in L'Ingratitudine Punita-Ciacchi; Vuoi Saper se tu mi piaci (Hasse)-Reginelli; Pender L'Amico [in Enrico-Sga Pirkir; Concerto-Miller; A me ritornate Speranzeptu Care [in Enrico-Sga Casarini; Passagier che su la Sponda (Hasse)-Reginelli;[ Third Part: Concerto-Vincent; O'inespettata Sorte (Veracina)-Sga Galli; The Prince unable to Conceal his Pain [from Alexander's Feast-Frasi; Come ever Smiling Liberty [in Judas Maccabaeus-Sga Casarini; Che quel Cor (Hasse)-Reginelli; A Grand Concerto [of Handel's-.
Event Comment: A Concert, etc. Prices: 4s., 2s. 6d., 2s. A New Farce of Three acts. 12 p.m. Tickets deliver'd out for 31 March will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyclopedia

Afterpiece Title: The Poet Buskin will give Chocolate

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Storer. Mainpiece: Not acted these 12 years. [See 1 Jan. 1735.] Tickets at Mrs Storer's lodgings at the corner of New Broad Court, Bow Street, and at the Stage Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder; Or, A Woman Keeps A Secret

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Song: II: The Smiling Hour by Handel-Mrs Storer; III: From Rosie Bowers by Henry Purcel-Mrs Storer

Event Comment: Benefit for Pritchard (Treasurer). Tickets delivered for the London Merchant will be taken. On April 12 that play was advertised for this evening--the part of George Barnwell to be performed (by particular desire) by Mrs Pritchard, Millwood by Mrs Furnival, and Lucy by Mrs Clive. Tickets to be had of Pritchard at his House in Duke's late Earl's Court, Bow St., Covent Garden; and of Hobson at the stage door. Tomorrow Lover's Melancholy, and a New Farce call'd The Club of Fortune Hunters for the Benefit of Mrs Macklin. Receipts: #180 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel); cash #85 6s. 6d.; tickets, #81 9s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: V: Savoyards, as17471215

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Macklin. Mainpiece [by John Ford]: Reviv'd not acted these Hundred years. Afterpiece: A New Farce never acted before by Charles Macklin. Note: Tickets deliver'd out for 22 April will be taken. Tickets to be had of Mrs Macklin in Bow St., and of Hobson at the Stage door. Cross: The play lik'd--farce not. Receipts: #93 (Cross); house charges, #60 (Powel); cash, #80 19s. 6d.; tickets, #12 15s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lover's Melancholy

Afterpiece Title: The Club of Fortune Hunters; or, The Widow Bewitch'd

Dance: III: Savoyards, as17471215; V: Pastoral Dance, as17480326

Event Comment: The Thirteenth Day. Several new Lots

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of Several Persons of Quality. N.B.: [This bill] was put up, but Mr Garrick was seiz'd with an ague, & there was no play, nor the Doors open'd (Cross). The Managers of Drury Lane Playhouse paid the sum of #208 1s. [Being the whole money taken at the play of King Lear, for the benefit of the Sufferers by the late Fire] into the hands of Mt Knight and Mt Jackson; and not as mentioned by Mistake in yesterday's paper; and the whole company gave their night's pay for the said benefit. The last new Reviv'd Play, call'd The Lover's Melancholy, will be acted by particular desire next Thursday, at Drury Lane, to which will be added, Miss in her Teens, being the last time of performing it this season (General Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Dance: II: Pastoral Dance, as17480326 III: Les Characteres de La Dance-Ann Auretti; V: Dutch Dance, as17471128

Event Comment: This Day open'd for the Summer Season at the New Wells, Shepherd's Market [near Hyde Park corner]...the usual Diversions after which will be presented Gratis, etc. The Doors to be open'd each day at Two o'Clock. We hear, that the Opera La Semiramide Reconosciuta (in which Signora Cassarini is to act the part of a King) will be performed but twice (General Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Miss In Her Teens

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Fortune Teller

Entertainment: Italian Fireworks-as perform'd in the Opera House in the Haymarket

Event Comment: A new Opera written by Metastasio and the Musick compos'd originally by Signor Hasse. [First time performed in England.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Semiramide Reconosciuta

Event Comment: At Hussey's Great Theatrical Booth facing the Hospital Gate. A new Droll...during the short time of the Fair. Prices: 2s., 1s., 6d. [Notice repeated 25, 26, 27 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Quaker; Or, The Humours Of Wapping

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Frolicks; or, The Rambles of Covent Garden

Song:

Dance: tween acts: Cunningham, Master Mattocks, Master Harrison, Mme Dominique; Foote's Vagaries-Master Harrison, Mme Dominique; Italian Fireworks-

Event Comment: The songs and chorusses new set by Mr Arne. Receipts: #70 (Cross); #71 4s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Event Comment: At the New Wells near the London Spa Clerkenwell. By Desire. For one night only. Benefit for Yeates Jun. A Concert, etc. Prices: 2s., 1s. 6d., 1s. To begin exactly at 6 p.m. There will be fires in proper Places to keep the Wells warm. It will be moonlight. Mr Yeates entreats the favor of those Gentlemen and Ladies who intend to honour him...that they will please to come at the time prefix'd on account of the length of the Performances; and they may depend on the whole being conducted with the utmost Decorum (General Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Event Comment: By Particular desire at the New Wells, Shepherd's Market, Mayfair. A Concert, etc. Prices: 1s. 6d., 1s., 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko; Or, The Royal Slave

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Event Comment: At the New Wells, London Spaw, Clerkenwell. Benefit for Mrs Yeates. By Desire of some Gentlemen and Ladies. Particular care is taken to have the House warm. To begin at half an hour after six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Event Comment: At the New Wells, Shepherd's Market, May Fair. Benefit for Butler. [No concert formula.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan; Or, The Unhappy Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Chrononhotonthologos

Song: NNancy, or +the Parting Lovers-

Event Comment: At the New Wells, Shepherds Market, May Fair. Daily Advertiser, 3 Jan. 1749: The House being so crowded on Thursday last, Tickets that could not be taken will be admitted on Thursday next

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance: JJockey Dance-Adams

Event Comment: At the New Wells, London Spaw, Clerkenwell. A concert, etc. To begin at six o'clock. Last night of performing

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, The True And Ancient History Of George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera. [Leo's Amor Vuol Sofferenza. See Loewenberg, Annals of Opera, I, 195.] By His Majesty's Command no Person whatsoever to be admitted behind the Scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Finta Frascatana

Dance: Between Acts: Dancing-

Event Comment: At the New Wells, May Fair. [A notice to the effect that because of the large crowd "last Thursday" tickets for that day would be taken on 5 Jan. (Daily Advertiser).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: JJockey Dance-Adams

Event Comment: At the New Wells, May Fair. "Not acted but once.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: JJockey Dance-Adams

Event Comment: On Friday will be presented a New Tragedy call'd Coriolanus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian, King Of Portugal

Dance: Mons Billiony , Sga Desdechina first appearance on an English Stage

Event Comment: A New Comic Opera [by G. Barlocci; music from Gaetano Latille's La Finta Cameriera, 1738]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Calascione

Dance: Between the Acts: Dancing-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Performance Comment: A Choice Collection of Pictures-; with a New Prologue-.
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