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Event Comment: Receipts: #200 (Cross); #191 9s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Related Works
Related Work: The Guardian Outwitted Author(s): Thomas Arne
Related Work: Love Finds the Way Author(s): Thomas HullThomas Murphy
Related Work: The School for Guardians Author(s): Thomas Murphy
Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #180 (Cross); #189 1s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Oracle

Ballet: TThe Prussian Camp. As17581214

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #140 (Cross); #149 16s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Related Works
Related Work: The Tempest; or, The Enchanted Island Author(s): Thomas Shadwell
Related Work: The Mock-Tempest; or, The Enchanted Castle Author(s): Thomas Duffett
Related Work: The Mock Tempest Author(s): Thomas Duffett

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Event Comment: The third night of Eurydice will be on Saturday next. Receipts: #130 (Cross); #150 3s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eurydice

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Event Comment: EEurydice is deferr'd a few days on account of indisposition of a Principal Performer. Receipts: #180 (Cross); #151 10s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Related Works
Related Work: The Guardian Outwitted Author(s): Thomas Arne
Related Work: Love Finds the Way Author(s): Thomas HullThomas Murphy
Related Work: The School for Guardians Author(s): Thomas Murphy
Event Comment: Receipts: #130 (Cross); #147 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross); #157 4s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eurydice

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Ballet: TThe Prussian Camp. As17581214

Event Comment: [G$Genest notes Berry's performance of Sir Epicure in this piece as his last appearance on the stage.] Receipts: #170 (Cross); #183 1s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cibber. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Receipts: #213 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: Sg Giorgi, Sga Lucchi

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #200 (Cross); #194 16s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clive. Part of Pit will be laid into Boxes and Amphitheatre on Stage. Receipts: #230 (Cross ); Charges #60 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Related Works
Related Work: Wonders in the Sun, or, The Kingdom of the Birds Author(s): Thomas D'Urfey

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Macklin. Part of pit laid into Boxes, Amphitheatre on Stage. Receipts: #180 (Cross); Charges #63 ( Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette

Event Comment: Benefit fot Beard. Pit laid into boxes, Amphitheatre on stage. Receipts: #280 (Cross); Charges #63 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: I: A New Ballad-Beard; II: The Goldfinch-Miss Young; III: A Bacchanalian Song compos'd by Dr Boyce-Beard; V: A New Comic Dialogue compos'd by Dr Boyce-Beard, Miss Young

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Receipts: #180 (Cross); charges #63 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Song: II: A Bacchanalian Song-Beard; V: The new Dialogue of Jenny and Kate-Beard, Miss Young

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross); #108 2s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ambitious Stepmother

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Event Comment: Benefit for Berry, who having been confined for some time past by a severe Illness, humbly hopes those Gentlemen and Ladies, who intend to favor him at his Benefit, will send for Tickets to his Lodgings at Mr Pope's, a Peruke Maker in Russel St., Covent Garden; the Star Tavern, in Coleman St.; or to Mr Varney at the Stage door where Places for the Boxes may be taken. Receipts: #130 (Cross); #104 8s. 6d. (Winston MS8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Related Works
Related Work: The Tempest; or, The Enchanted Island Author(s): Thomas Shadwell
Related Work: The Mock-Tempest; or, The Enchanted Castle Author(s): Thomas Duffett
Related Work: The Mock Tempest Author(s): Thomas Duffett

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Event Comment: Benefit for Fleetwood. Receipts: #160 (Cross); charges #63 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Event Comment: Benefit for Holland. Tickets of Holland, at his lodgings next door to the Bedford Arms, in the Piazza, Covent Garden; and at the Stage Door. Receipts: #170 (Cross); Charges #63 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Yates. Miss Young had tickets. Receipts: #150 (Cross); charges #63 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Related Works
Related Work: The Guardian Outwitted Author(s): Thomas Arne
Related Work: Love Finds the Way Author(s): Thomas HullThomas Murphy
Related Work: The School for Guardians Author(s): Thomas Murphy

Song: I: Johnny and Kate-Beard, Miss Young; III: A Cantata-Miss Young; IV: Miss Young

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author. Full Prices. Receipts: #160 (Cross); charges #63 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Of China

Event Comment: Benefit for Obrien. Afterpiece: By particualr Desire, being the last Time of Performing in this Season. No Building on the Stage. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Related Works
Related Work: The Guardian Outwitted Author(s): Thomas Arne
Related Work: Love Finds the Way Author(s): Thomas HullThomas Murphy
Related Work: The School for Guardians Author(s): Thomas Murphy

Dance: TThe Swiss, as17590221

Event Comment: [This month published Observations on the Use of Theatres, their present regulations and possible improvements. Price 1s. Printed for Cooper. See review in Gentleman's Magazine (p. 232). Proposal is that the "conduct of theatrical entertainments be for the future taken under the care of the goverment, and a person of judgment and integrity appointed by the name of comptroller, or conductor of the stage, who alone shall determine what old plays shall be acted, and what new ones received; and who shall take charge of the money received, and defray the necessary expenses, accounting for the remainder to the public. The author seemingly Dr John Hill, lately (see 21 Dec. 1758) upset by the failure of his farce, The Rout. (Winston MS 8). Receipts: #108 (Cross); #122 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Of China

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Vernon and Rooker. Receipts: #140 (Cross); charges #63 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Dance: I: The Swiss, as17590221; III: A Hornpipe-Mrs Vernon

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author. Receipts: #150 (Cross); charges #63. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Of China

Event Comment: Receipts: #108 (Cross); #108 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Of China