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Performances

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Cast
Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Green.

Dance: CCountry Dance-characters of the play; Hornpipe-Miss Dawson; I: Fingalian Dance-Miss Hilliard; II: Dutch Skipper-Poitier

Event Comment: Last time of performing the mainpiece this season. [See same note on 24 March, also later on 26 May.] Receipts: #95 9s

Performances

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Related Works
Related Work: The Fair Captive Author(s): Eliza Haywood
Related Work: Patie and Peggy; or, The Fair Foundling Author(s): Theophilus Cibber
Event Comment: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #86 1s. Paid Mr Stergess & son for attending Mr Saunders on the wire 48 nights #14 14s. 6d.; Advanc'd to Saunders #4 7s

Performances

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Related Works
Related Work: The Fair Captive Author(s): Eliza Haywood
Related Work: Patie and Peggy; or, The Fair Foundling Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance: A New Hornpipe compos'd by Dr Arne-Mrs Vernon, 1st appearance there; a Country Dance-the Characters in the Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance: As17600924

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: As17601011

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: As17600924; The Pedlar Trick'd-Sg Maranesi, Sga Maranesi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Related Works
Related Work: The Fairy Prince, with the Installation of the Knights of the Garter Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: As17600924; End II: A Comic dance, not performed these 8 years, call'd Les Charboniers-Sg Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: As17600924; End II: Dancing [Unspecified in playbill]-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville

Event Comment: Boxes #35 15s. Mr Sutton enter'd from the 17th inclusive at 3s. 4d. (Account Book). Receipts: #115 2s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: As17600924; and a New Comic Dance-Sg Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: As17601024; a Comic Dance-Granier, Mrs Granier

Event Comment: Benefit for King. Tickets to be had of Mr King, at his lodgings in Broad Court, Bow Street; and of Mr Varney, at the Stage Door. The New Hippocrates, wrote by Dr Hiffernan--wretched, but went off quietly (Hopkins MS Notes)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The New Hippocrates; or, A Lesson for Quacks

Entertainment: After the Play: by Desire, for that night only The Picture of a Playhouse or, Bucks Have at Ye All-Mr King; a Mimic Comic opera song-Mrs Clive

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Yates. Mainpiece for the Last Time this season. The last time Mrs Yates acted till May 30th-See April 14th (Hopkins MS Notes)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Cast
Role: Prince Henry Actor: Mas. Cautherly

Afterpiece Title: Edgar and Emmeline

Song: By particular Desire aMimic Comic Opera Song-Mrs Clive

Event Comment: Tickets delivered out by Poitier for Friday 10th instant, will be taken this night. The Rape of Proserpine oblig'd to be deferr'd on Account of the Indisposition of a principal performer. [Poitier Sr had 74 Box tickets which brought to him #18 10s. (Account Book).] Receipts: #62 18s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: As17610408

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Kennedy. No Building on Stage. Tickets deliver'd for Much Ado and The Wonder will be taken

Performances

Afterpiece Title: The New Hippocrates

Entertainment: After:(by Particular Desire) Mimic Comic Opera Song-Mrs Clive

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Performance Comment: As17610401 but Bobadil-Yates; Master Mathew-Vaughan.
Cast
Role: Master Mathew Actor: Vaughan.

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and No Duke

Entertainment: End: Mimic Comic Opera Song-Mrs Clive

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: King Edward Actor: Master Cautherly

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: T+The May Day Morning Fingalian Dance, as17610416

Song: By Particular Desire, the Mimic Comic Opera Song-Mrs Clive

Event Comment: Benefit for Clough, Cautherly, &c. Tomlinson? and Watkins had tickets. Tickets deliver'd for This Night will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

Song: The Mimic Comic Opera Song-Mrs Clive By Particular Desire, and for the last time this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Dance: PPantomime Dance-Master Rogie, Miss Capitani, from the Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Opera of Operas; or Tom Thumb the Great Author(s): Eliza Haywood
Event Comment: Boxes, 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for Boxes of Mr Johnson at the stage door. No persons may be admitted behind scenes or into orchestra. No money to be returned after curtain is drawn up. [Usual note not to be further recorded.] Theatre newly painted and decorated (Winston MS 9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Performance Comment: As17610919. *uöÔdl TThe Farmer's Return from London. (by Particular Desire) As17620329.
Related Works
Related Work: Polly Honeycomb Author(s): George Colman, the elder
Event Comment: Benefit for Hull. Mainpiece: Hull's "Alteration with Additions" to Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors. Not acted these 30 years. [See 9 Oct. 1734, according to Genest, IV, 653.] No Building on Stage. [This alteration acted but once, not printed. Done again 1779, and printed in 8vo 1793 under title Comedy of Errors. [See Hogan, II, 151.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twins; Or, A Comedy Of Errors

Performance Comment: The characters of the play-Shuter, Dunstall, Gibson, Hull, Davis, Anderson, Wignell, Tindal, Perry, R. Smith, Holtom, Buck, Mrs Vincent, Mrs Lessingham, Mrs Stephens, Mrs Ward; A New Prologue-Smith; A New Epilogue-Mrs Ward.
Related Works
Related Work: The Twins; or, Is It He, or his Brother? Author(s): Matthew Gregory Lewis

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Song: II: Let not the Rage, from the opera Artaxerxes, by Particular Desire,-Miss Brent

Dance: After the Epilogue: The Taylors, as17620107

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: I: The Cow Keepers, as17611215