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Event Comment: Mainpiece: Reduc'd to two acts. After which (being particularly desired) will be performed the New Serenata, composed by Dr Arne in honour of the late Royal Nuptials

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alfred The Great

Afterpiece Title: Beauty and Virtue

Music: As17620305

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Dance: End: By Particular Desire of several persons of Quality a Minuet-Noverre, Mrs Palmer. *uö‘dl New Interlude, call'dThe Farmer's Return from London. Farmer-Garrick; Farmer's Wife-Mrs Bradshaw

Performance Comment: *uö‘dl New Interlude, call'dThe Farmer's Return from London. Farmer-Garrick; Farmer's Wife-Mrs Bradshaw.
Event Comment: N.B. Sg Paganini being taken very ill is the reason of the above Opera being performed this evening instead of the new Comic Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tolomeo

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera. Music by Cocchi...New Cloaths, Decorations, and Dances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Famiglia In Scompiglio Or The Family In An Uproar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Songs From Artaxerxes

Performance Comment: by permission of Dr Arne, The favorite songs-Sg Peretti (who performed the part of Artaxerxes at Covent Garden), Tenducci, others; comic songs in Italian-Leopoldo Micheli (who never appeared on the English stage before); A Concerto on German Flute-Florio; Concerto on Violincello-Siprutini; (By Particular Desire) a new song by Dr Arne on the Taking of Martinico-Peretti.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Related Works
Related Work: The Universal Passion Author(s): James Miller

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Performance Comment: As17620424 but Rosin-Fox; a New Epilogue in Character-Miss Pope.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Performance Comment: As17620427 but New Epilogue-_.

Dance: II: The Tambourine Dance-Vincent; III: The Italian Gardiners, as17611010; IV: Hornpipe-Vincent; The Camp Alarm'd, as17610926. End: The Farmer's Return from London. As17620320

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Grand Concert Of Vocal And Instrumental Music

Performance Comment: Overture by Cocchi-; Song Che Legge Spietata-Zonca; Disperata in Van m'affano-Sartori; Concerto on Violin-Pinto; Padre conquesto Amplesso-Elizi; Nel pensare al gran cimento-Sga Mattei; Part II:Concerto on Bassoon-Baumgarten; Song Mi dona mi Vende-Sga Eberardi; Sperai Vicino al lido-Sga Curioni; Concerto on Violincello-Gordon; Song La Speme Amabile-Sga Mattei; La Bella mia Tiranna-Elizi; Part. III:Concerto on Oboe-Simpson; Song-Sga Sartori; Odo il suo no de quendiaccenti-Zonca; a New Duet Tuo voi che viva O Cara (Hasse) never performed in England-Sga Mattei, Elizi; Coronation Anthem-(Handel).
Event Comment: Tomorrow, Not acted this Season. The Wonder, Felix-$Garrick; Violante-$Mrs Cibber, and On Wednesday will be reviv'd The Second Part of King Henry the 4th, New Dress'd in the Habits of the times

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: II: The Bavarian Shoemakers, as17621009

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not perform'd these 4 years. [See 12 Feb. 1759.] Habits and Scenes for it entirely new. Nothing under Full Price will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer with the Loves of Pluto and Proserpine

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Woodward; Pantaloon-Lalauze; Clown-Miles; Colombine-Miss Poitier; The Witches-Beard, Miss Polly Young, Miss Catley, Miss Davies; Constable-Redman; Surveyor-Cushing; Shepherd-Tenducci; Shepherdess-Miss Brent; Harvest Men and Women-Mattocks, Warren, Dibdin, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Jones; Pluto-Legg; Proserpine-Miss Miller; Ascalax-Baker; The Dances-Maranesi, Sodi, Sga Maranesi, Tassoni, Granier.
Event Comment: Tomorrow (acted but once these 5 years) King Henry IV, Part II. New Dress'd in the characters of the times, to which be added, not acted this season, The Genii

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: I: Hearts of Oak, as17620925; III: The Bavarian Shoemakers, as17621009

Event Comment: A new serious Opera. Music by several celebrated Composers. [Rehearsed at 11 a.m., 3 Dec.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Astarto Re Di Tiro

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. A new comic Opera...by several...composers. [A general Practice upon the Stage at 11 a.m. 6 Jan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Cascina

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: Touchstone-Yates; Jaques-Burton; Orlando-Palmer; Adam-Havard; Amiens (with proper songs)-Vernon; Rosalind-Mrs Yates; Celia-Mrs Clive; Audrey-Mrs Bradshaw; Duke Senior-Blakes; Duke Frederick-Bransby; Oliver-Packer ; New Dances incident to the play,-Aldridge, Vincent, Sga Giorgi.

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

Dance: I: A Comic Dance-Miss Rogers, as17621210

Event Comment: Benefit For the Author. A Riot to demand the same [half-price after third act] agreed to (Cross Diary). [Advertised for Drury Lane that particulars will be published in a few days on the charge of innovation in prices which last night prevented the play being heard.] When Holland appeared for the Prologue-hiss'd. Garrick appeared and agreed to take half-price at the end of the third act to all performances except the first [Winter] of a New Pantomime (Winston MS 9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elvira

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petruchio

Event Comment: A new comic Opera...By Command of their Majesties. Music-Galuppi. Overture-J. S. Bach. Text-Goldoni. The first performance in England. Deferred from 30 Jan., because of Martyrdom of King Charles I. [A general Practice upon the Stage at noon 28 Jan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Calamita Di Cuori

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera. Music by several composers. [General rehearsal had taken place at noon 13 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Finta Sposa

Dance: The Industrious Farmer- by Paricular Desire

Event Comment: A new serious Opera...composed by Bach with grand chorusses

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zanaida

Dance: [M$Miss Asselin will dance only two dances because she has been indisposed (Daily Advertiser).]

Event Comment: [Forthcoming]: some new Entertainments, which will be given in the Beginning of June, at Seven O'clock in the Evening, by Permission of the Lord Chamberlain

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Morning Lectures

Event Comment: Benefit for Capitani, now in the King's Bench, singer in the Opera for 20 years past. Boxes 10s. 6d. Pit 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. To begin at 7 p.m. [A long note hn the Public Advertiser about the nature of Capitani's distresses--death of wife after an expensive illness loss of considerable sums in trade, now in debtor's prison. The Public Advertiser this day Published the following Sonnet V, seemingly a new sort of puff' for Foote]: @To Mr F-@While party rage, my F., distracts the state@And mutual lies contending parties raise,@As int'rest leads, or Pitt or Bute to praise,@Let vet'ran Tories with staunch Whigs debate.@With gen'rous Punch our spirits we'll dilate,@Laugh at those loud-tongued politicians' frays,@And to good Brookman's fame attune our lays,@Whose genial bowl all cares can dissipate.@Safely to Harrogate let Bute retire,@His gout at Hayes lett Pitt in quiet nurse,@And Wilkes at either Secretary rail:@These party feuds unsocial rage inspire,@Destroy all mirth, and all good humour curse,@But shall not o'er our joyous souls prevail.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Dance: Miss Capitani, Master Rogers

Event Comment: A new Comedy. To begin at seven. Prices [as of 6 July]: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: II: Rogier, Miss Capitani; III: Double Hornpipe-Rogier, Miss Capitani

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Prince Volscius-Davies; Gentleman Usher-Weston; Tom Thimble-Quin; Thunder-Johnson; Smith-Lewis; Prettyman-Death; The Sun-Blakey; Amaryllis-Mrs Osborne; Chloris-Miss Platt; two Kings of Brentford-Hayes, Jackson; Parthenope, Moon-Mrs Daly; Bayes-Wilkinson (with a variety of imitations); Johnson-Kennedy; with an additional Reinforcement of Mr Bayes's new rais'd Troops-.
Related Works
Related Work: Britons Strike Home; or, The Sailors' Rehearsal Author(s): Edward Phillips

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: II: A Serious Dance-Miss Street (scholar to Ghendi); V: The Venetian Gardeners-Master Rogier, Miss Street

Event Comment: Characters in Mainpiece New Dress'd in the Habits of the Times. Afterpiece: With Alterations and Additions. [See Larpent MS 227. Codicil not listed in alterations.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Performance Comment: Barber-Woodward; Feeble-Hayes; Rovewel-Davis; Belmour-White; Watchman-Weller; Quidnunc-Dunstall; Pamphlet-Shuter; Harriet-Miss Miller; Maid-Miss Cokayne; Termagant-Miss Elliot.

Dance: TThe Knife Grinders, as17631012

Event Comment: The New Comedy call'd The Dupe, oblig'd to be deferr'd till Friday. Receipts: #175 3s. 6d. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

Event Comment: MMr Foote's Night as Author (Hopkins). Foote (Cross Diary). The New Comedy, The Dupe, deferred until Saturday. Receipts: #108 7s. 6d.; charges: #84. [Profits to auth. #24 7s. 6d. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt