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Event Comment: [Their Majesties, Prince, Princesses Amelia and Caroline present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

Event Comment: [Text by Paul Rollo. Music by Nicholas Porpora.] A New Opera. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 3 Feb.: On Saturday Their Majesties ...the Prince of Wales, and the Princesses Amelia and Carolina . . . saw the Opera of Polifemo, which was perform'd to one of the greatest Audiences that hath King's been known this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Polifemo

Event Comment: Benefit Carlo Broschi Farinello. With several Alterations and Additions. Pit and Boxes, Places on the Stage, at Half a Guinea. N.B. Signor Farinello humbly hopes, that the Subscribers will not make use of their Tickets on this Occasion. The Stage will be in the same Manner as in the Assembly with a great Number of Benches. Mrs Pendarves to Mrs Granville, 15 March: Tonight is Farinelli's benefit; all the polite world will flock there, and go at four o'clock, for fear they should not be time enough. I don't love mobbing, and so I shall leave them to themselves. Daily Advertiser, 13 March: 'Tis expected that Signor Farinelli will have the greatest Appearance on Saturday that has been known. We hear that a Contrivance will be made to accommodate 2000 People. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has been pleas'd to give him 200 Guineas, the Spanish Ambassador 100, the Emperor's Ambassador 50, his Grace the Duke of Leeds 50, the Countess of Portmore 50, Lord Burlington 50, his Grace the Duke of Richmond 50, the Hon. Col. Paget 30, Lady Rich 20, and most of the other Nobility 50, 30 or 20 Guineas each; so that 'tis believ'd his Benefit will be worth to him upwards of 2000l

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Event Comment: Benefit Ryan. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: A Farce, never performed before. Taken from Moliere. [Author unknown. Apparently not printed. See London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 19, 20, and 21 March, for expressions of good will to Ryan, including a gift often guineas from the Prince of Wales.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: A School for Women

Dance: La Coquette Francoise by Lally, S. Lally, Mlle Salle. Scot's Dance, as17350315

Song: By Leveridge and Mrs Wright

Event Comment: Benefit Mlle Salle. By Command of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Tickets to be had at Madam Salle's Lodgings at Mr Belleur, Jeweller, opposite the Red-Lion, Brownlow-street, DL

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Dance: I: Pigmalion by Lally, Mlle Salle &c. II: Fawns by Lally, Mlle Grognet, Miss Rogers, Mrs De l'Orme. III: By Denoyer and Mlle Salle. IV: By Mlle Grognet, Miss Rogers, Mrs De l'Orme. V: Minuet by Denoyer and Mlle Salle

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the Duke, their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Amelia, Carolina, Maria and Louisa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Harlequin Astrologer, Infant, Ch1mney-sweeper, Statue, Parrot, & Skeleton

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Hulla

Music: Select Pieces. Solo on the German Flute by Burk Thumoth

Dance:

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom

Music: I: The last new Medley Overture, Composed by Charke

Dance: II: The Happy Shepherd and Shepherdess by Davenport and Miss Brett. III: Pierots by Davenport and Pelling. IV: Scot's Dance by Davenport and Mrs Davenport. V: By Desire, The Prince of Wales's Saraband, with a Minuet by Davenport and Miss Brett

Performance Comment: III: Pierots by Davenport and Pelling. IV: Scot's Dance by Davenport and Mrs Davenport. V: By Desire, The Prince of Wales's Saraband, with a Minuet by Davenport and Miss Brett .
Event Comment: Daily Advertiser, 18 Aug.: His Royal Highness the Prince, and several Persons of Quality, were present at the Play Love for Love, which was acted at the Theatre upon the Green

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Author's Farce

Afterpiece Title: The Mistake; or, The Lover's Quarrel

Performance Comment: By Men and Women. Concluding with the Grand Machine of the Royal Nuptials of the Prince of Orange in the Temple of Hymen .
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Ben Johnson. By Her Majesty's Command. [The Queen, Prince of Wales, Duke, and Princesses Caroline, Mary, and Louisa present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Grand Volgi: Being the Comic Interlude of Cephalus and Procris

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. [Prince of Modena present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restored

Music: Vocal and Instrumental proper to the Play, with Vocals by Salway, Mrs Clive, and others. Medley Overture, as17351018

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of a Foreigner of Distinction. [Prince of Modena present.] Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Viiith

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Dance: Le Chasseur Royal by Denoyer, Mlle Roland, &c. French Peasants by Poitier and Mlle Roland. By Essex and Mrs Walter

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of his Highness the Prince of Modena. [For a discussion of The Double Dealer, see Prompter, 11 Nov.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Greenwich Park

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Music: As17351018

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of His Highness the Prince of Modc1n [who was present)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Grand Volgi

Music: A New Sett of Act Tunes composed by Mr Arne

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet Laureat. [Prince of Wales present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: By Mlle Anne Roland. II: Grand Serious Ballet by Denoyer and others. III: Grand Ballet by Mlle Roland, Mlle Anne Roland, and others. IV: Comic Dance by Le Brun and Mrs Anderson. V: Le Badinage de Provence, as17351117

Event Comment: By particular Desire. [Prince of Wales present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Taste

Performance Comment: As17350909, but Dorothea-Mrs Pritchard; Horatio, Lewis,Diligence, Almanzor omitted. hathi. Horatio, Lewis,Diligence, Almanzor omitted. hathi.
Cast
Role: Lewis Actor: Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Music: Select Pieces between the Acts

Dance: I: By Mlle Anne Roland. III: Grand New Ballet by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c. IV: Le Badinage de Provence, as17351117

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. [The Prince present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: I: Ballet by Mlle Anne Roland. III: Grand Ballet by Denoyer, &c. V: Le Badinage de Provence by Poitier, Mlle Roland, &c

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness. Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Addison, Esq. [Prince present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Music: Select Pieces

Dance: I: Comic Dance by Le Brun and Mrs Anderson. II: By Mlle Anne Roland. II: Revellers by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c. IV: Le Badinage de Provence by Poitier, Mlle Roland

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Receipts: #96 8s. [Prince of Wales present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A La Mode

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Dance: By Mlle D'Hervigni, from Paris, the first time of her appearing on the English stage. Serious Ballet by Mlle D'Hervigni, &c. Dance of Sailors, as17351128 A Comic Ballet called Les Puisans by Lalauze, Mlle D'Hervigni, &c

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Mr Farquhar. [Prince of Wales present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: I: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. II: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. III: The Rover, as17360103

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness the Duke and their Highnesses the Princesses [who were present]. Prompter, 13 Jan.: the Rehearsal was perform'd by Command . . . Prince Prettyman's refusing to act. [See also a complaint in Grub St. Journal, 8 Jan., about Mlle Roland's immodest

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Dance: ]

Event Comment: Receipts: #46 11s. 6d. [Prince of Wales present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Dance: Ballet, as17360110 Harlequin by Mlle De L'Isle. French Peasants, as17360109

Event Comment: Receipts: #181 10s. [Prince of Wales expected to attend.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Event Comment: Daily Advertiser, 30 March: We hear that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales honour'd Pasquin last Night with his Presence, when it was acted the twentieth Time to a crowded Audience . . . and many thousands of People turn'd away for want of room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Norsa. Tickets at her Lodgings, Nassau Street, near Gerrard Street. Receipts: money #12 14s. 6d.; tickets #101 9s. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 29 April: We hear Mr Handel has compos'd a new Opera, on the Occasion of his Royal Highness's Marriage to the Prince[S] of Saxe Gotha, and as the Wedding was solemnized sooner than was expected, great Numbers of Artificers, as Carpenters, Painters, Engineers, &c. are employed to forward the same

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: Two Pierrots by Lalauze and Nivelon. The Peasants by Lalauze, Mlle D'Hervigni, &c. Sailors (from orestes) by Glover, Tench, Desse, Delagarde, Livier, Richardson