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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Harlots Progress

Performance Comment: Kitty-Mrs Phillips; Harlequin-Phillips; Beau Mordicai-Macklin; Debauchee-Turbutt; Poudre-Raftor; Constable-Gray; Porter-Barclay; Jenny-Miss Story; Mother Midnight-Hough; Pompey-Young Brooks; Justices-Ray, Woodburn, Taswell; Ladies of Pleasure-Mrs Jackson, Miss Budgell; Concluding with a new Comic Dance-Delamayne, M Mechell, Mlle Mechell.

Song: I: The Early Horn-Lowe; III: Happy Pair-Beard

Dance: II: A Sailor's Dance, as17411015; IV: a Ballet, as17411015

Event Comment: The King's Opera House in the Haymarket. A new Opera...Dances and other Decorations entirely New. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be deliver'd this Day, at the Office in the Haymarket, at Half a Guinea each. Gallery 5s. By His Majesty's Command, no Persons Whatever to be admitted behind the Scenes. The Gallery will be open'd at Four o'Clock. Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at Six o'clock. This Day Attendance will be given at the Opera-Office from Nine to One in order to deliver the Silver Tickets to the Subscribers. Each Subscriber is desir'd to send his printed Receipt, it being necessary for the Delivery of the Tickets [customary notice on the bills throughout the season]. BBurney, History of Music, IV, 445: A pasticcio, music mainly composed by Galuppi, now the resident composer for the Opera House. Edition lists libretto by Francesco Vanneschi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander In Persia

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Performance Comment: (Daily Advertiser, 6 Jan.) A new Prologue on the Gamesters-.

Afterpiece Title: Nancy or The Parting Lovers

Song:

Dance:

Event Comment: A new Opera [A pasticcio. See Burney, History of Music, IV, 447.]With Dances, and other Decorations entirely new. Dedication by librettist Francesco Vanneschi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Polidoro

Event Comment: A New Opera...With Dances and Decorations entirely new. [Libretto by Vanneschi. Music by Galuppi (Burney, History of Music, IV, 447).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Scipione In Cartagine

Event Comment: Benefit for Phillips and Mrs Walter. Tickets to be had at Phillips, Lodgings in Little Wild St., near Lincoln's Inn Fields; at the Bedford Coffee House, Covent Garden; of Mrs Walter, at the Three Queens, a Hosier, in New St., Covent Garden; and at Bradshaws. Afterpiece: a New Pantomimic Entertainment. Receipts: #170

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: As17410908, but Bullock-Taswell; Lucy-Mrs Walter; Rose-Mrs Phillips; Appletree-a Gentleman, 1st time on any stage; Welch Collier-Phillips; Brazen-Macklin; Scale-_; Scruple-_; Constable-_; Pearmain-_.
Cast
Role: Rose Actor: Mrs Phillips
Role: Welch Collier Actor: Phillips

Afterpiece Title: The Cooper Outwitted or Harlequin Happy

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Philips; Cooper-Hough; Cooper's Wife-Mrs Walter; Cooper's Man-Leigh; to Conclude with a Grand Scaramouche Dance-Phillips.

Song: I: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard; III: The Early Horn-Lowe

Dance: II: Le Boufon, as17420325 IV: The Drunken Peasant-Phillips

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: As17411209, but Othello-Stephens; Roderigo-Woodward; Brabantio-Gibson; Emilia-Mrs Woodward; Lodovico-_; Gratiano-_; With a New Prologue-Hale.
Cast
Role: With a New Prologue Actor: Hale.

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: As17411209, but Miller-Marten; Margery-_; Kate-_; Joe-Salway.
Cast
Role: Miller Actor: Marten

Dance: III: The Peasants, as17420210; IV: Chacone, as17411230; V: Pantaloon and Enamorata, as17420420

Song: End Farce: a Gregorean Song-Stoppelaer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Miss Lucy in Town

Performance Comment: As17420506, but with a New Epilogue-Mrs Clive.
Event Comment: A New Opera. With Dances and other Decorations entirely new. Pit and Boxes to be put together; and no person to be admitted without Tickets, which will be deliver'd this Day at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. Gallery 5s. By His Majesty's Command, No Person 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. [Customary notice will not be included again. A pasticcio; music by Hasse, Lampugnani, Brivio, and Rinaldo da Capua; librettist--Apostolo Zeno. See Burney, History of Music, IV, 447.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gianguir

Dance: Barbara Campanini (Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Sir Horace Mann, I, 191)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Related Works
Related Work: Britons Strike Home; or, The Sailors' Rehearsal Author(s): Edward Phillips

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: I: Comic Ballet, as17421203; III: Welsh Boufon, as17421203; IV: Comic Ballet, as17421203; II: La Sabotier-M LaPierre

Ballet: The facetious Grand Dance by the whole Company. Thunder, Lightning, Players, Soldiers, Bishops, Judges, Lord@Mayor, Serjeants at Arms-the Comedians; With the Total Eclipse of the Sun and Moon-; Sol-Hemskirk; Luna-Stitchbury; Orbis-Worldly; Also a Representation of a Grand Theatrical Battle-; Mr Bayes' New Rais'd Troops-

Performance Comment: Thunder, Lightning, Players, Soldiers, Bishops, Judges, Lord@Mayor, Serjeants at Arms-the Comedians; With the Total Eclipse of the Sun and Moon-; Sol-Hemskirk; Luna-Stitchbury; Orbis-Worldly; Also a Representation of a Grand Theatrical Battle-; Mr Bayes' New Rais'd Troops-.
Event Comment: Text-Vanneschi; Music-Galuppi (Burney). A new Opera [Description as before] but the Silver Tickets will be deliver'd to the Subscribers at the Opera-Office, where Attendance will be given from Nine to One for that Purpose. [Not entered as a new piece in the Larpent MS.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Enrico

Event Comment: Benefit Rogers, Simson, and Mrs Chetwood. Tickets to be had of Rogers at Mr Molloy's, Wine Merchant in Bear Yard, Lincoln's Inn Fields; at Mr Settre's, Linen Draper, at the Golden Anchor, next Tom's Coffee House, Covent Garden; of Mrs Chetwood, Castle Tavern, Drury Lane; and of Simson, at Mr Gill's, a shoemaker, Basinghall St. [At 5 p.m. this day Jack, Joseph and Polly Granier are scheduled to dance in several dances at the New Wells, Lemon St., Goodman's Fields. Carney has also gone over to the New Wells.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: III: Welch Buffoons, as17430308 V: Scotch Dance, as17430308

Event Comment: A new Opera. [Not listed as a new piece in the Larpent MS.] Music by Galuppi (Burney, History of Music, IV, 450)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sirbace

Event Comment: Benefit Beckham, the prompter, Blakey, Edw. Giffard, and Miss Story. [Dove's name is in the bill for Seringe, but is also announced to perform this night at the New Wells, Clerkenwell, where he had been dancing regularly; Carney's name is also in the bills to dance this night at the New Wells, Lemon St., Goodman's Fields, where he had been appearing regularly since Easter Monday.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Carney, Mrs Roland, Miss Story; V: a Minuet-Carney, Miss Story

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: Plume-Gentleman from Oxford; with a new Prologue-; Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: with a new Prologue Actor:

Song: End I: Hail! Windsor, favourite Air,-a Gentleman; III: Stella & Flavius-; IV: Gentle Jessica in the Merchant of Venice-Mrs Lowe

Performance Comment: Windsor, favourite Air,-a Gentleman; III: Stella & Flavius-; IV: Gentle Jessica in the Merchant of Venice-Mrs Lowe.

Dance: II: A Comic dance, The Drunken Peasant-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: Columbine Courtezan

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Yates; The Petit Maitre-Blakes; Pierot-Liviez; Colombine-Mrs Mann; Concluding with a New Dance-Muilment.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Columbine Courtezan

Performance Comment: As17440105, but a New Dance-_; Italian Masquerade-.
Event Comment: Afterpiece: A New Grotesque Pantomime Entertainment never acted before. As the least Obstruction will be detrimental to the working the Machinery, 'tis hoped no persons will take it ill, that they can't be admitted behind the scenes. The Music, Scenes, Habits, and Decorations entirely new

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favorite

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Goddess or Harlequin Married

Event Comment: [The 1 Feb. note about nonadmission of persons behind the scenes continues to appear on all bills for nights of this afterpiece, as from now on, occurs the note: Nothing under Full Price will be taken during the time of the performance. These will not be copied out further.] We hear the new Pantomime Entertainment that was perform'd last night at Drury Lane, was receiv'd with great applause; the Scenes, Deceptions, and Decorations, all being in an entire new taste

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Goddess

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: As17440303 but with a New Grand Scene of the Palace of Comus-.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life Of King Henry The Fifth

Performance Comment: King Henry-Hale; Fluellin-Hippisley; Pistol-Woodward; French King-Cashell; Dauphin-Goodall; Archbishop of Canterbury-Chapman; Exeter-Stephens; English Soldier-Rosco; Constable of France-Bridgwater; Burgundy-Gibson; Queen of France-Mrs James; Catherine-Mrs Hale; French Soldier-Destrade (being the first time of his attempting to speak on the stage); With the Chorus (after the manner of the ancients)-Ryan; In the play will be properly introduc'd the Songs To Arms, Britons Strike Home-Leveridge, Beard, Reinhold; With a New Prologue for the Occasion-.

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Event Comment: A New Opera [Altered by Rolli from Metastasio's Demetrio; music by Lampugnani (Nicoll, Early Eighteenth Century Drama, p. 388); not listed as a new piece in the Larpent MS.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alceste

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Cast
Role: Hillaria Actor: Mrs Stevens

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Performance Comment: As17440430 but a new Ballad-_.
Cast
Role: a new Ballad Actor: Beard.

Dance: Cooke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Bayes-a Gentleman; an occasional Epilogue in the character of Bays-James Dance; see17450312; With an additional Re-inforcement of Mr Bayes's new rais'd Troops- (General Advertiser).
Related Works
Related Work: Britons Strike Home; or, The Sailors' Rehearsal Author(s): Edward Phillips
Event Comment: Written on a plan of Shakespear by Colley Cibber. The characters new Dress'd. With New Scenes and Decorations. No persons admitted behind the scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Papal Tyranny In The Reign Of King John