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Event Comment: By Command. Afterpiece: Written by Mr Garrick. Acted by children. Prince of Wales & 4 more went off very well (Cross). New Scenes, Habits and Decorations. Full prices. Prologue-writ by Garrick, spoken by Woodward; Epilogue-Lady Flimnap. [The run of seventeen performances of the afterpieces seems to contradict the judgement of the author of the Theatrical Examiner (1757, p. 89): Lilliput is, I think, the most petit, trifling, indecent, immoral, stupid parcel of rubbish, I ever met with; and I can't help judging it a scandal to the public, to suffer such a thing to pass a second night, which at best was alone calculated to please boys and girls, and fools of fashion; it may gratify them; the manager to debauch the minds of infants, by putting sentiments and glances in their breasts and eyes, that should never be taught at any years, which are sufficiently bad when naturally imbibed. The question of Gulliver, in answer to the infant lady's gross adresses, is horrid, if we allow an audience a common share of delicacy, what should we do with her? and what the devil does it mean. Finally where is the instruction, or even tolerable language, to gild the dirt over. O tempora! O mores!"] Receipts: #210 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: a new farce call'dLa new farce call'dLilliput

Event Comment: Benefit for the Widow Jona and her Five Children. Tickets to be had at Arthur's Chocolate House, St James's St.; Prince of Orange's Coffee House, Haymarket; Forrest's Coffee House, Charing Cross; the Rainbow Coffee House in Cornhill; and Places for Boxes to be taken of Mrs Jona in Little Warwick St., Charing Cross, and of Mr Crudge at the stage Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: As17561023

Event Comment: Both pieces by Command of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Mainpiece: A Comedy reviv'd (never acted there) by Beaumont and Fletcher

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: Granier, Leppie, Lucas, Miss Hilliard

Event Comment: Both pieces by Command of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Mainpiece: Not acted these 10 years [see 8 May 1753]. Written by Beaumont and Fletcher. Afterpiece: Taken from Dryden and Colley Cibber, Poets Laureate. [Lucy was played by Miss Sledge; see 4 Feb. 1757.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: The Frenchified Lady never in Paris

Dance: Poitier, Granier, Lucas, Mlle Capdeville, Miss Hilliard

Event Comment: Both pieces by Command of his Roayl Highness the Prince of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Dance: As17570128

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Ladies are desired to send servants to keep places in the Boxes at Half an Hour after Three o'clock. This play will not (after this night) be perform'd till Saturday the 2nd of April, on account of the Actor's Benefits

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Event Comment: Both Pieces By Command of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. This day is publish'd The Male Coquette, or 1757, a Farce in 2 acts, As it is performing at Drury Lane. Printed for Paul Vaillant, faning Southampton St. in the Strand. Price 1s. (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette

Event Comment: Receipts: #76 15s. 6d. Rec'd #27 12s. for the deficiency 21 Dec. Paid Barry his one third of the surplus above the #80 House Charges: #0. Paid Mrs Martha Bedwell, Mrs Creighton, Mr Bedwell and Mr Griffin their renter's interest, #24 12s. Gave King's Footmen and Chairmen #4 4s., the Prince of Wales's Footmen and Chairmen #2 2s., and the Princess of Wales's Footmen and Chairmen #2 2s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: FFingalian Dance, as17571013

Event Comment: PPrince of Wales & 4 (Cross). By Command of Prince of Wales. This day is publish'd Belisarius: A Tragedy, written by Mr Philips, to which is prefixed some account of the life of Belasarius. Printed for J. Staples, opposite Stationer's Hall. Neatly printed. Price 1s. (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #200. (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Ballet: TThe Prussian Camp. As17571223

Event Comment: For ye Author. Prince of Wales & 5 of ye Fam. Mrs Cibber taken ill in the Play, but made shift to finish-Mrs Yates did ye Part on Monday-(Well). Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Agis

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Agis

Event Comment: Mainpiece, Dance, and Afterpiece: By Command of the Prince of Wales. [No receipts in Cross.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: TThe Market, as17571126

Event Comment: By Command of his R. H. Prince Edward. To begin at exactly seven o'clock. Doors to be opened at five. [Advertised this night for the first time as a burletta.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

Event Comment: Benefit of the Author. By command of Prince of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cleone

Dance: As17581016

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: FFingalian Dance, as17581111; The Threshers, as17581016

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: Benefit for the Use of the Marine Society. Towards collecting clothing and equipping the distressed (both men and boys) who are inclined to serve in the Navy. Boxes 10s. 6d. Pit 5s. First Gallery 3s. Upper Gallery 2s. Tickets to be had of Mr John Stephens, Secretary to the society, in Princes St., near the Bank; Batson's Coffee House, Cornhill; and of Mr Varney at the Stage Door, where Places may be taken. As this is the Entertainment exhibited this season for this most beneficial undertaking, by which so many distressed Persons as well as Vagabonds have been preserved and rendered useful in the highest degree, it is hoped the polite, the brave and humane, of both sexes, will shew their approbation of this design, by interesting themselves in the promotion of it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alfred The Great

Music: I: Concerto on Violin-Pinto; II: Concerto on Hautboy-Vincent; Concerto on Organ-Arne Jr

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales. Last time of performing till after the Easter Holidays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

Afterpiece Title: Florizel and Perdita

Dance: [Unspecified in the bill]

Event Comment: By command of the Prince of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: Benefit for Pritchard, Treasurer. At the Desire of the African Prince the Farce of Catharine and Petruchio is changed to the above pantomime. Tickets of Pritchard at his house in Queen St., and at Stage Door. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Event Comment: & a new P a new +Prologue upon the Prince Wales's birth-day, being now 21. So ended the Season. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Event Comment: By Command of the Prince of Wales. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Recipts: #222 0s. 6d. Paid Meares (Tailor) #1 11s. 4d.; Paid Mr Monck 80 days salary to this day #20; Paid Xmas Boxes: King's Footmen, #2 2s., Chairmen, #2 2s., Prince of Wales Footmen, #1 1s., Chairmen, #1 1s., Princess of Wales Footmen #1 1s., Chairmen #1 1s., Porters at Inns of Court #3 14s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Dance: II: The Threshers, as17591005