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Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Taken from the French of Moliere. [The first appearance of the Haymarket actors at DL.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mother-in-law

Music: Select Pieces between the Acts

Dance: Pierrots by Poitier and Nivelon. Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. Revellers by Essex, Miss Latour, Janno, Holt, Miss Mann, Miss Brett. Polish Dance (new) by Essex, Miss Robinson, S. Lally, Davenport, Holt, Mrs Walter, Miss Mann, Mrs Davenport

Event Comment: Benefit Topham, Gardiner, Miss Jones. Afterpiece: Which was originally acted at the Haymarket. With Alterations, Additions, and Amendments. Written by Mr Carey

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant; Or, The Way To Win Him

Performance Comment: Young Mirabel-a Gentleman of the Temple; Old Mirabel-Topham; Duretete-Jones; Dugard-Blastock; Petit-Boothby; Bissare-Miss Jones; Oriana-Miss Jones Jr; Lamorce-Miss Atherton .

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: Pierrot by Baudvin

Event Comment: Egmont, Diary, II, 250: I went to the Haymarket Playhouse to see Pasquin again, which was extremely Crowded, though the 17th day of its acting

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

Event Comment: EEgmont, Diary, II, 390: To the Haymarket Playhouse, where a farce was acted called Eurydice First Hiss'd?, an allegory on the loss of the Excise Bill. The whole was a satire on Sir Robert Walpole, and I observed that when any strong passages fell, the Prince, who was there, clapped, especially when in favour of liberty. [The Princess of Wales was also present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Historical Register

Afterpiece Title: Eurydice Hiss'd

Event Comment: Benefit Poitier. [Tickets at Poitier's Lodgings, the Door before the New Bagnio in Great Suffolk Street, near the Haymarket.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Song: TThe Noontide Air (from Comus)-Beard

Music: Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Poitier

Dance: Poitier

Event Comment: Benefit a Widow Gentlewoman under Misfortunes. The Theatre near the Tennis Court in the Haymarket. Tickets at Three Shillings, Two Shillings, and One Shilling. The whole will be conducted with all possible Decency and Regularity. To begin exactly at half an Hour after Six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Wrangling Lovers

Performance Comment: A Prologue- Proper to the Occasion.

Dance: DDrunken Peasant-Chettle

Event Comment: New Theatre, James Street, near the Haymarket. Benefit Mrs King. [Designation of New Theatre repeated in remaining bills.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: Mrs Careless, Volage

Event Comment: FFawkes and Pinchbeck's Booth, end of Hosier Lane, West Smithfield. Noon to 10 p.m. Boxes 2s. Pit 1s. Gallery 6d. Mainpiece: Written by Henry Fielding, Esq. Afterpiece: The Present Tense...by Punch's Company of comical Tragedians from the Haymarket [i.e., a puppet show]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Humours Of Covent Garden; Or, The Covent Garden Tragedy

Afterpiece Title: The Universal Monarch Defeated; or, The Queen of Hungary Triumphant

Entertainment: While the booth is filling, the Audience will be diverted by Curious Performances-Ruffian Boy

Event Comment: Ever studious for Public Amusement, I...strayed last Week, to a place near the Haymarket in Westminster, and Temple Bar in Middlesex, call'd James's St., where at the New Theatre, a Play called the Miser, with an Entertainment called the Old Man Bit, or Harlequin Skeleton, I saw rehears'd. J. W. Gray's Inn 12 Oct.-Theatrical Clippings, Folger Library. Benefit Julian Late of Goodman's Fields Theatre. At the New Theatre in James St., near Haymarket...a Concert. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6 p.m. Note, Mr Julian taken this Opportunity to acquaint his Friends, that these Performances will be done with the utmost Regularity and Decoration, most of the Performers having belong'd to the Theatres. [This customary notice about the concert, time and prices will not be included unless changed.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Mock Doctor

Event Comment: Notices of performances on this date had appeared since 8 Sept., as at common prices and written by the late Sir Richard Steele, yet under the unsettled circumstances Fleetwood may not have assembled the players necessary for the production. Macklin, Garrick, Mills, Pritchard, Havard, Berry, Leigh, Blakes, Woodburn, Mrs Clive, Mrs Pritchard, and Mrs Mills had withdrawn and were attempting to form a company for acting at the New Haymarket. See Drury Lane Management in the Introduction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Event Comment: We hear that the Lord Chamberlain has refus'd granting a License to the seceding players to act in the Theatre in the Haymarket. (Daily Advertiser) To the Author of the London Daily Post, Sir: As I have engag'd myself for this winter to perform in Dublin, by an Invitation of Several Persons of Distinction in Ireland, I think it my duty before I leave London, by your paper, to return my sincere and hearty thanks to the Town for the many favours I have receiv'd during the Time of my Performing in Publick, which I hope they will Candidly accept from their most of Oblig'd, humble Servants, Thomas Lowe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favorite; Or, The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

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Role: Father Benedict Actor: Taswell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Performance Comment: As17431112, but Lord Foppington-Gentleman who performed it at the Haymarket [Foote]; Lory-Yates; [With an Epilogue [in the character of Lord Foppington-.

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Goddess

Dance: III: Last New Turkish Dance, as17440406

Event Comment: Benefit a Brave Soldier, who suffer'd extremely at the Battle of Dettingen [Thomas Brown]. A Concert, et. 4s., 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d. Tickets at Pinchbeck's shop facing the Haymarket

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: See17440206, but Othello-a Citizen for his Diversion.

Song: A Gentleman who never appeared on any stage before

Entertainment: A new Quack Doctor's speech-, in character, by a noted Humorist

Event Comment: The New Theatre in the Haymarket will speedily be open'd with Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, by Permission, according to Act of Parliament. This Piece, it's said, has not been played these hundred years. The character of Juliet is to be acted by Miss Jenny Cibber, a young daughter of Mr Cibber, by his first wife....A new Comedy, call'd the Prodigal; or, Recruits for the Queen of Hungary, will soon after be brought on that Stage.-Daily Advertiser

Performances

Event Comment: We hear, that the company of Dutch/Children that are to perform to Tuesday next at the new theatre in the Haymarket, joyn'd with English, German, and Italian amount to above 25, and most of them excel either in Vocal or Instrumental Musick, Dancing Exercises, and playing of Pantomimes

Performances

Event Comment: The Company of Children that are to perform next Tuesday at the New Theatre in the Haymarket, we hear excel anything of that sort ever seen here, for their great abilities in all sorts of exercises, Dancing, Music and Pantomimes, and are to perform but a few nights, they being oblig'd to return before Easter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'incostanza Deluza

Event Comment: A New Comedy never acted Before. [By John Stevens.] Formula as 15 April. Prices 2s., 1s. [Published in 1745 by John Stevens, with the announcement As it was acted Gratis, at the New Theatre at the Haymarket, By a Company of Gentlemen for Diversion. No record of such a production has been found.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Modern Wife; Or, The Virgin Her Own Rival

Performance Comment: With the Prologue-Goodfellow; the Epilogue-Mrs Carlisle.

Dance: As17450415

Event Comment: FFoote a Fool. Whoever attacks my Reputation or Livelihood, is a mad Bull to me, and ought to be knocked down, prosecuted, etc. I hear I am to be hung up on Wednesday, at the Haymarket, by one Foote, a Fool. [The orator Henley, who usually advertised in the Daily Advertiser, placed this notice in the General Advertiser today.

Performances

Event Comment: PPrince &c. (Cross). Lost on Wednesday Night the 21st Instant at Drury Lane Playhouse. A Steel and Gold Sword, with a Silver Gripe, the maker's name Fleaureau. Whoever has taken it up, and will bring it to Mr Fleaureau, Swordcutler in the Haymarket, shall have a Guinea and a half reward, and no Questions asked. N. B.: No greater reward will be offered (General Advertiser). Receipts: #190 (Cross); #176 5s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: DDance-Cooke

Event Comment: The Fourth Day. We hear, there will be an Execution this Day at the Puppet Show in Panton Street near the Haymarket [Mlle delaNash]; and as Mr Foote hath thought proper , instead of Tea to give Punch, Mr Punch will give Foote (General Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Event Comment: By Desire, at his Auction Room, late the New Theatre in the Haymarket, Mr Foote will exhibit a Choice Collection of Pictures, all warranted Originals, with some entire new Lots. Places for boxes to be taken at the Auction Room. The Thirty-ninth Day. The auction to begin at exactly half an hour after six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Music: A Piece of Musick-the Child between the parts of the Auction

Event Comment: Published at 1s. 6d. Romeo and Juliet, revised by Theo. Cibber, first rev[ived] in Sept. 1744 at the Theatre in the Haymarket. Now acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. Great objects only strike the Gen'rous Heart@Praise the Sublime, o'er look the Mortal Part@Be there your judgment, Here your Candor shown@Small is our Portion-and we wish 'Twere none.-Prologue to Comus alter'd, &c. To which is added a Serio-Comic Apology for part of the life of Theophilus Cibber, Comedian, written by himself. Interspers'd with Memoirs and Anecdotes relating to the Stage managements, Theatrical Resolutions, &c., also Cursory Observations on some Pribcipal players. Particularly, Mr Quin, Ryan, Delane, Mrs Woffington, Mrs Ward, Miss Bellamy, Mr Garrick, Barry, Mrs Cibber, Mrs Clive, Mrs Pritchard and others. Likewise Original Letters that passed between the late Sir Thomas deVeil and Mr Theophilus Cibber relating to the Stage Act. "Each Puny Critic can Objections raise@The Greatest still is Knowing when to praise,"-Buckingham. Concluding with a Copy of Verses called The Contrite Comedian's Confession. Printed for C. Corbett &c. (General Advertiser). [This pamphlet details Cibber's troubles with Fleetwood during the years 1743-46.] Receipts: #160 (Cross); #151 11s. (Powel)

Performances

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Event Comment: Rout at ye Haymarket (Cross). Receipts: #90 (Cross); #118 16s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Event Comment: MMr Foote is so exceedingly Hoarse, that the Benefit intended this evening at the Haymarket must be deferr'd till some day next week

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Event Comment: GGeneral Advertiser, 13 March: Don Jumpedo, who lately was to have performed at the Little Theatre in the Haymarket, appeared on Saturday last, at the Theatre in Covent-Garden, in the Character of Harlequin in the Royal Chace; in which he made his first Essay of Jumping down his own Throat, and was universally applauded

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace