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Event Comment: Benefit Anne Auretti. By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Tickets to be had of Anne Auretti at Mr Chisholm's, the Golden Head in Great Newport St., near Long Acre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Dance: I: Scotch Dance-Delamain, Anne Auretti; II: Tambourine-Anne Auretti; III: Characters of Dancing, as17421025; IV: Un Pas de Deux-Anne and Janneton Auretti; V: L'Aimable Vainqueur, Minuet-Picq, Anne Auretti

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke, and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Song: As17430120

Music: II: Concerto on German Flute-Burk Thumoth

Dance: IV: Sicilian Peasant, as17430310

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince George, Prince Edward, and the Princess Augusta. Mainpiece a Farce of three Acts. Afterpiece also by command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Song: As17430413

Dance: III: La Florana, as17430408

Event Comment: Benefit Cervetto. Mainpiece by Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Tickets deliver'd out by Arthur for The Recruiting Officer will be taken this day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: II: La Florana, as17430408

Song: III: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard, Lowe

Music: IV: New Violincello Concerto-Cervetto

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa

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Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Song: As17430413

Dance: III: Tyrolean Dance, as17421129

Event Comment: We hear his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has fitted up a Theatre near Cliefden, for a Company of French Comedians, who play there three times a week (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: II: Serious Ballet-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde; V: New Scotch Dance-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde, Richardson, Delagarde, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs LeFont

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Event Comment: Benefit for a Gentleman in Misfortune. Mainpiece: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Saunders, many years a Comedian, by Command of his Royal Highness the Duke. Tickets to be had of Mrs Saunders at her house, No 7, in Duke's Court, in the Great Almonry, Westminster, of Mr Morrison, at the Two Golden Balls in Long Acre; and of Mr Page at the stage door of the theatre. N.B.: Mrs Saunders humbly hopes those Gentlemen and Ladies who intend to favour her of their company, will excuse her not waiting on them, she not having been able to go out of her House these eighteen months

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: By Desire, Bumper Squire Jones-Beard; Mary Scot-Mrs Clive

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Dance: Cooke

Event Comment: Written by Mr Dryden. Benefit Quin. By command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. For the better accomodation of the ladies, the stage will be enclos'd and form'd into an Amphitheatre, where servants will be allow'd to keep places. Ladies send servants by three

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian, King Of Portugal

Event Comment: Benefit Beard. Mainpiece: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Afterpiece: By Command a Ballad Farce not acted these 3 years [see 30 Nov. 1742]. Amphitheatre on Stage. Send servants by three. Tickets to be had of Beard in Red Lion Square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song: II: New Song by Handel-Beard; IV: To Arms, Britons Strike Home-Leveridge, Beard, Reinhold

Dance: III: Scotch Dance, as17431124; V: Ballet-Cooke, Mlle Domitilla

Event Comment: Benefit Hippisley. Both pieces By Command of his Royal Highness the Duke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: Song-Beard; To Arms, Britons Strike Home-Leveridge, Reinhold, Bencraft

Dance: SScotch Dance, as17431124; Dance-Cooke

Event Comment: Both pieces by Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince George, Prince Edward and the Lady Augusta

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Cooke, Mlle Domitilla

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Princess of Wales. This day is Publish'd The Case of Mrs Clive Submitted to the Publick. [This is Mrs Clive's 22-page complaint against the 'opression' of the managers of both patent theatres, who, it seems, formed a cartel to drive down actors' salaries, and caused by Mrs Clive's unemployment. She was dropped from Covent Garden without due notice and not for cause. She was not applied to by the Manager of Drury Lane, although he knew her to be unemployed, because he still owed her #160 12s. Her case seemed doubly hard to her since she had equipped herself with a fine wardrobe for theatrical use, had acted diligently in main and afterpiece, often on the same night to the prejudice of her health; had been at great expense in Masters for singing, for which article alone the managers now give #6 a week." Concludes by pleading for publick support of her Case. She returned to cg to play Lappet in the Miser, 30 Nov. She states that the published list of salaries in the London Daily Post of 15 Oct. 1734 is incorrect.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Dance: LLe Gondalier, as17441010; Scotch Dance-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde

Event Comment: A concert. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Benefit Mrs Clive

Performances

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Temple of Dulness

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: Rosamond

Dance: II: Serious Dance-Muilment; III: Grand Dance, as17450108; IV: Peasant Dance-Muilment

Event Comment: Last night the Dutch Children performed before their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales and to a most numerous and polite audience, with universal applause; but by command were oblig'd to shorten their performance, and leave out several things that they will exhibit this night and the few nights they are to perform.--Daily Advertiser, 7 March

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequino Triumphante

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Benefit Garrick. Boxes and Pit laid together at 5s. Victor to Garrick: My closest attention was never more commanded than by you last night in Othello....I was most inclined to fear for you in your address to the Senate, but there, even there, you excelled your present rival (Quin) whose merit lies chiefly in declamation-I found you had very judiciously applied your study to the great and striking passages in the character--the trance had a fine effect, your manner of falling into it, and recovery from it, was amazingly beautiful...it would be ridiculous to doubt of your ability to act this part in the utmost perfection; but to arrive at that point there are some things to be done.--Genest, IV, 147

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Dance: II: Muilment

Song: III: A Cantata-Lowe

Event Comment: Benefit Quin. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince George, Prince Edward, and the Lady Augusta. N.B.: Servants will be permitted to keep places on the stage which will be form'd into an amphitheatre, enclos'd, covered, and kept ward, as at the late Oratorios. Tickets to be had at Quin's House in Bedford St., Covent Garden; and of Page at the stage door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

Dance: Cooke, Sga Campioni

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Cibber. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Servants admitted to keep places on the stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Song: II: Gentle Shepherd-Mrs Arne; IV: Vo Solcando a Favourite song of Farinelli's-Mrs Arne

Dance: III: a Serious Dance-Muilment; V: Turkish Dance-Muilment

Event Comment: Benefit Beard. Play By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince George, Prince Edward, and the Lady Augusta. Tickets of Beard in Red Lyon Square, and of Page at the stage door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance: Cooke, Lalauze, Picq, Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde

Song: (BBy Particular Desire) the song made on the Famous Sea Fight at La Hogue-Beard, in the characters of a sailor