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Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 10 Years. Afterpiece: Not acted these 20 years. Music, Dances and Other Decorations for afterpiece entirely new. [In a letter to John Gilbert-Cooper, the actor Charles Adams states that "the Prompter gave me a little Part in the Emperor of the Moon...I appear'd in it thrice." He was "paid Twenty Shilling Pr Week." See Theatre Notebook, XI (1957), p. 136. The only male parts left were Baliardo's servant Peter and the figures in the tableau of the final scene.] Receipts: #160 (Cross); #158 11s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Emperour of the Moon

Music: A Piece of Music-the Child

Dance: TThe Sailors Revels-Mathews

Event Comment: A Dramatick Satire call'd Lethe is now in Rehearsal at Drury Lane and will be acted in a few days (by Desire). Receipts: #130 (Cross); #127 14s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Emperour of the Moon

Music: As17481226

Dance: As17481226; the Black Joke-Mathews, Mrs Addison

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 10 Years. Afterpiece: Acted for the last time these Holidays. Receipts: #140 (Cross); #137 6d. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Afterpiece Title: Emperour of the Moon

Music: As17481226

Dance: SSailors Revels,as17481227; Black Joke, as17481227

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross); #128 15s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: DDutch Dance, as17481203; Italian Cabaret, as17481109

Event Comment: Play by Command of His Majesty. Receipts: #170 (Cross); #181 16s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross); #158 16s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross); #149 13s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: Cooke, Anne Auretti, Mathews, Mrs Addison

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years. [See 11 Apr. 1746.] Receipts: #150 (Cross); #119 8s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: Cooke, Anne Auretti, Mathews, Mrs Addison

Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross); #124 8s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Music: I: (By desire) a piece of Music-the Child

Dance: III: Characters de la Dance-Cooke, Anne Auretti, Janneton Auretti; IV: Italian Cabaret, as17481109

Event Comment: Letter from John Potter, Proprietor of the New Theatre in the Haymarket, to the author of the General Advertiser: As the resentment of the Town for the disappointment of the performance advertised to be exhibited at my theatre on Monday last, shall fall entirely upon me, I hope I may be allowed to acquaint the public with the nature of my case. [Suggests he should not be to blame for misbehavior of any person who hired his house, that he had some apprehensions in this case, but that the Bottle Conjurer paid the rent in advance and agreed to have a House officer in the box office to return the money if the audience was displeased.] All the caution above mentioned was taken, and the money locked up in the office, guarded by persons of reputation, who would have returned it, and publicly on the stage told them, that if the person did not appear, their money should be return'd. But instead of complying with that offer, my House was pulled down, the Office broken open, the money taken out, and the servants oblig'd to fly to save their lives. I hope therefore this may be deem'd a sufficient justification in my behalf, and all that could be reasonably expected from me; and that those gentlemen who are conscious of having injured me, will be so generous as to make me a reasonable Satisfaction, considering the damage I have suffer'd, which in a moderate computation will amount to upwards of four thousand pounds. This day is Publish'd, at 1s. Lethe, a Dramatic Satire, by David Garrick as it is perform'd at Drury Lane. By Paul Vaillant, facing Southampton Street in the Strand. [A letter from Samuel Foote to the Author of the General Advertiser clears himself from any imputation of confederacy in the Bottle Conjuror fraud. See also my Introduction, note 103.] Receipts: #100 (Cross); #119 2s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Music: I: A Piece of Music-the Child

Dance: II: New Scotch Dance-Cooke, Ann Auretti

Event Comment: By desire. [N.B. John Potter's letter of 18 Jan. is repeated in the General Advertiser for this day. Also further statements by Potter and Foote concerning the use of Mr Lewis's name (Potter's attorney).] Receipts: #120 (Cross); #103 4s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

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: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #160 (Cross); #145 3s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Foundling

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: NNew Scotch Dance, as17490118

Event Comment: By Desire. Receipts: #80 (Cross); #98 1s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Music: I: Concerto on Flute-a Child; III: Piece of Music-the Child

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

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross); #159 4s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: II: New Scotch Dance, as17490118

Event Comment: Receipts: #100 (Cross); #105 14s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: II: New Scotch Dance, as17490118

Event Comment: Receipts: #190 (Cross); #108 15s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Event Comment: By Desire. Don John de Nasaquitine, sworn brother and champion to the man that was to have jumped into the bottle...hereby invites all such as were then disappointed to repair to the theatre on Monday the 30th, and that shall be exhibited to them which never was before, nor ever will be hereafter seen. All such as shall swear upon the Book of Wisdom that they paid for seeing the Bottle man, will be admitted gratis; the rest at Gotham prices (General Advertiser). Receipts: #50 (Cross); #70 11s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Dance: II: New Scotch Dance, as17490118

Event Comment: By particular Desire. Receipts: #150 (Cross); #138 14s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: V: Savoyards, as17480920

Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross); #154 11s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: New Scotch Dance, as17490118

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #80 (Cross); #89 9s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: NNew Scotch Dance, as17490118

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Performance Comment: [No Performance (Cross).]
Event Comment: Receipts: #120 (Cross); #137 19s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet And Irene

Event Comment: Receipts: #100 (Cross); #115 18s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet And Irene

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #120 (Cross); #1O5 5s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet And Irene

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: SScotch Dance, as17490118