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Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince and Princess of Wales, but they not there (Egerton 2268). Receipts: #142 15s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: By Command. Ladies desired to send servants to keep places by three o'clock (General Advertiser). Present the Prince and Princess of Wales (Account Books, Egerton 2268). Receipts: #192 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince and Princess of Wales. Receipts: #187 8s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Event Comment: WWalpole to Sir Horace Mann: We have operas but no company at them; the Prince and Lord Middlesex Impresarii. Plays only are in fashion; at one house the best company that perhaps ever were together, Quin, Garrick, Mrs Pritchard, Mrs Cibber: at the other Barry, a favorite young actor and the Violette, whose dancing our friends don't like: I scold them, but all the answer is "Lord! you are so English."-Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Sir Horace Mann, II, 42

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Dance: The German Camp, as17461204; The Vintage, as17461204

Event Comment: By Command. The Prince and Princess of Wales present. Paid Mr Davis for a pair of stays for Miss Granier #1 1s. Receipts: #85 8s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. [Mlle Violette apparently did not appear in one of the dances scheduled. See note of 16 Jan. The reaction of the audience was noisy.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Dance: I: The German Camp, as17461217; III: Turkish Pirate, as17470105; V: Laundress's Visiting Day, as17470105

Event Comment: By Command. Present the Prince and Princess of Wales (Account Books, Egerton 2268). Receipts: #170 7s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Event Comment: Benefit Barry. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Ladies send servants by three. Tickets at his lodgings in Bow St

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved; Or, A Plot Discover'd

Dance: II: Salomon, Mlle Violette, Cook, Salomon's Son; III: Muilment; V: Grand Comic Dance-Salomon, Mlle Violette, Cooke, Sga Padouana

Event Comment: By Command of Prince of Wales and Princess of Wales. A Free Benefit for Mrs Cibber. [Receipts: #117 15s. 6d. plus #149 5s. from tickets, a clear profit to Mrs Cibber of #267 0s. 6d.], Paid Servandoni on acct. #21. [Notice of 23 March about amphitheatre repeated.] Tickets deliver'd out for the 19th will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distress'd Mother

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: As17461231

Event Comment: By Command of Prince and Princess of Wales. A Free Benefit for Quin. Receipts: #88 13s., plus #136 15s. from tickets. [Garrick had written Quin he was too ill to play in the mainpiece but would act in his farce. Notice of 23 March about Amphitheatre repeated.] Tickets deliver'd out for 9 March will be taken. To prevent mistakes none will be admitted into the Boxes but by tickets deliver'd by Quin, and at the Office in the Box Lobby.--General Advertiser. If any Gentlemen or Ladies shall be displeased with the alteration in the Performance of the Play [i.e., Garrick's absence] the money shall be return'd.--Theatrical Clippings, Folger Library

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: As17461231

Event Comment: A Free Benefit for Garrick. By Command of Prince and Princess of Wales. Pit and Boxes laid together at 5s. An Amphitheatre on stage. Total receipts: #274 17s., of which #189 came from his tickets (Account Books. Egerton 2268). Characters All New Dress'd. For the better accommodation of the company attendance will be given at the Pit Doors. To prevent mistakes Ladies are desired to send their servants by three o'clock. Tickets deliver'd out for the 6th of last month will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Receipts: #120 (Cross); #155 18s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: II: Grand Ballet, as17471102; IV: Dutch Dance, as17471128

Song: SSailors Rendezvous, as17471117

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Afterpiece: Being positively the last time

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: Tea

Event Comment: Both pieces By command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales (General Advertiser). On 8 Feb. will be performed the Suspicious Husband for the benefit of Bridgwater. The kind reception I have met with in the character of the Suspicious Husband, has emboldened me to hope for the further encouragement of the town, on my Benefit night; especially as I have not troubled them on such an occasion for several seasons (General Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Tea

Event Comment: Benefit for Anne Auretti. Mainpiece: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Seven rows of Pit will be rail'd into the Boxes. Stage to be form'd into front and side Boxes. Receipts: #270 (Cross); house charges, #50 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Le Charactere de la Dance-Anne Auretti; III: The Savage Dance-Cooke, Matthews, Anne Auretti; IV: Dutch Dance, as17471128; V: Hymen's Temple-Cooke, Janeton Auretti; End of Farce: a Minuet, Louvre-Cooke, Anne Auretti

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainment Of Music

Performance Comment: First Part: A new Overture [by Paradies-; D'Ogni Amator[ in L'Ingratitudine Punita-Ciacchi; Son Confusa Pastbrella [from same]-Sga Pirkir; Rasserena il mest Ciglio [in Artamene-Sga Galli; Concerto-Pasqualino; Se Fosse il mio Diletto (Hasse)-Reginelli; Leon Cacciato [in Selva in Scipione-Sga Casarini; [Second Part: Concerto-Carbenell; Heart thou Seat of soft Delight [in Acis and Galatea-Sga Frasi; Viv non ti contendono [in L'Ingratitudine Punita-Ciacchi; Vuoi Saper se tu mi piaci (Hasse)-Reginelli; Pender L'Amico [in Enrico-Sga Pirkir; Concerto-Miller; A me ritornate Speranzeptu Care [in Enrico-Sga Casarini; Passagier che su la Sponda (Hasse)-Reginelli;[ Third Part: Concerto-Vincent; O'inespettata Sorte (Veracina)-Sga Galli; The Prince unable to Conceal his Pain [from Alexander's Feast-Frasi; Come ever Smiling Liberty [in Judas Maccabaeus-Sga Casarini; Che quel Cor (Hasse)-Reginelli; A Grand Concerto [of Handel's-.
Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Event Comment: This farce of Lethe was wrote some years ago and play'd with Success, & was reviv'd this Night with great Alterations, & was but indifferently receiv'd by the Audience (Cross). The Poet, Frenchman, & Sot Mr Garrick perform'd most inimitably (Charles Adams to John Gilbert-Cooper, Theatre Notebook, XI (1957) p. 138). No After Money will be taken, and no Persons will be Admitted behind the Scenes (General Advertiser). Receipts: #180 (Cross); #186 7s. (Powel). N.B.: Mr G-k is the author of Lethe and did receive #36 8s. 6d. for this night which is the overplus after the charge of #63 for the House is paid, and which I must subtract from the rest (Powel). [A letter appeared in the General Advertiser this day giving advance notice and approval of a performance of Cato to be put on at Leicester House 7 Jan. by members of the Royal Family. The author noted that "proper Habits are absolutely in the making," and that the Princes would learn the principles of liberty from the lines of the play.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Event Comment: [P$Potter reprinted his letter of 18 Jan., and added the footnote: "The person who took the House was a man of genteel appearance, said his name was William Nicholls, and directed letters to be left for him at the Bedford Coffee House, Covent Garden."] [The Prologue and Epilogue spoken by the children of the Prince of Wales on their performing Cato at Leicester House, printed in the General Advertiser.] [This day published] A Letter to Mr G-k, relative to his treble Capacity of Manager, Actor, and Author; with some remarks upon Lethe. All Three! All three! Gay. Sold by W. Reeve in Fleet St.; and A. Dodd, at the Peacock opposite St. Clements Church in the Strand (General Advertiser). [This day published] Lethe, A Dramatick Satire, by David Garrick as it is perform'd at Drury Lane. Printed for P. Vaillant, facing Southampton Street in the Strand. Receipts: #140 (Cross); #144 17s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Foundling

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Music: I: By Desire, a piece of Music-the Child

Dance: II: Savoyards, as17480920; V: New Scotch Dance, as17490118

Event Comment: Benefit for Hobson. Tickets of him at the stage Door. Tomorrow, By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Merope. Receipts: #189 (Cross); charges, #63 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: II: Hornpipe-the Little Swiss; V: Savoyards, as17480920

Music: IV: Piece on Flute-the Child

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Receipts: #100 (Cross); #76 4s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Dance: Cook, Anne Auretti

Event Comment: t the chapel of the Foundling Hospital. Above 100 voices in performance. Tickets, 10s. 6d. [There] were present their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales....and a prodigious Concourse of the Nobility and Gentry (Deutsch, Handel, pp. 671, 672, from London Evening Post). 1,300 Tickets printed (Deutsch, Handel, p. 668, from Minutes of Hospital). Audience above a thousand (Deutsch, Handel, p. 670, from Gentleman's Magazine for May).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Grand Performance Of Vocal And Instrumental Music

Event Comment: Paid Ayliffe (a Turner) #1 14s. 6d.; Mr Lane (a Tailor) his bill #88 12s.; Xmas Box to Prince's Chairmen #2 2s.; and to Inns or Court [Porters] #3 4s.; Fryar (a Hosier) #6 12s.; Burgess [Bricklayer] his bill #50; Smart (Laceman) #11 1s.; a Coffin for Ophelia 15s. 6d.; Mr Shawford's son for dancing in the Tempest 10s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #100 (Cross); #102 6s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Ballet: SSavoyard Travellers. As17491110