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Event Comment: Benefit the Author. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Briton

Event Comment: Benefit the Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busie Body

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. With a new Additional Scene of the Madness of Cobham. Receipts: money #18 11s. 6d.; tickets #44 18s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Walter Raleigh

Event Comment: [By John Williams] At Mr Penkethman's Theatre. Benefit Author. At 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richmond Wells; Or, Good Luck At Last

Performance Comment: Actors only listed, but edition of 1723 lists: Randome-Shephard; Loveworth-Char. Williams; Gaylove-Wilks Jr; Cheatly-Oates; Tony Souscrown-Miller; Robin-Harper; Belinda-Mrs Morgan; Mrs Fainal-Mrs Wetherilt; Prologue-W. Wilks; Epilogue-Penkethman.
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Role: Mrs Fainal Actor: Mrs Wetherilt

Song: Drunken Man-Harper

Dance: Drunken Man-Harper

Event Comment: Written by the Author of the Busie-Body [Susanna Centlivre]. A New Comedy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Artifice

Event Comment: Written by the Author of The Busie-Body

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Artifice

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. As 3 Oct

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Artifice

Event Comment: Written by the Author of the Distress'd Bride. Receipts: #25 8s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Compromise

Event Comment: Benefit Author. As 9 Jan. London Post, 14 Jan.: At which there was as numerous an Audience as has for this great while been seen; not only the Boxes, Pit and Galleries, but the Stage too being crowded with Spectators

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Forest

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. As 9 Jan

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Forest

Event Comment: Benefit the Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Humphrey, Duke Of Gloucester

Event Comment: Mainpiece: [Edition of 1722 gives Louis Legrand as author.] Afterpiece: Written by Sir John Vanbrug. Receipts: #82 18s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cartouche; Or, The French Robbers

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit the Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Humphrey, Duke Of Gloucester

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Pit and Boxes put together at 5s. Gallery 2s. Receipts: money #64 2s. tickets #119 17s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Admission as 2 March. Receipts: money #66 3s.; tickets #95 17s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Receipts: money #85 6s. 6d.; tickets #15 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Receipts: money #10 18s. 6d.; tickets #69 15s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Legacy

Event Comment: For the Encouragement of a Young Author. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: money #11 15s. 6d; tickets #13 16s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phaedra And Hippolitus

Cast
Role: Theseus Actor: Boheme
Event Comment: [By Richard Savage.] Edition of 1724: I think it my Duty also, to return Thanks to the Town, for their favourable Reception of this Play; and for the Applause their Indulgence bestow'd on the Performance of the Young Actors: Particularly for my own Success, in a double Capacity, as Actor and Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Thomas Overbury

Event Comment: First Piece; [Author unknown. Apparently not published.] A New Farce of Two Acts. Second Piece: Written by Aaron Hill, Esq. Third Piece: The Words by Mr Motteux, and set to Musick by Mr Eccles

Performances

Mainpiece Title: It Should Have Come Sooner: Being The Historick, Tragic Comic Humours Of Exchange Alley

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea

Dance: Saraband-Miss Tenoe; Drunken Man-Harper

Music: As17230625

Event Comment: Mainpiece: [By Mrs Eliza Haywood.] By Reason of the Indisposition of an Actress, the Part of the Wife is to be perform'd by Mrs Haywood, the Author. Afterpiece (Daily Post, 10 Aug.): A new Dramatic Entertainment...design'd by Mr Theo. Cibber, with new Music compos'd and adapt'd by Mr Jones, which proper Judges allow to be the best of the kind now extant

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Wife To Be Let

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne Author(s): Theophilus Cibber
Event Comment: At Penkethman's and Dicky's Booth in Southwark. Mainpiece: a Tragi-Comical Interlude. No Person, except the Author, to be admitted behind the Scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Noble Stroller; Or, The Humours Of Avignon And Cripplegate

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [Author unknown.] A new Entertainment of Vocal and Instrumental Musick. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. N.B. The printed Books for this Entertainment will be sold at the Theatre. Price 6d. Receipts: #116 3s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Union of the Three Sister Arts

Dance: Dupre, Nivelon, Glover, Mrs Rogier, Mrs Wall, Mrs Bullock

Event Comment: [By John Gay.] True Briton, 22 Jan.: I was a Spectator, the first Night, at...The Captives; when I was Witness to a Ceremony, which I can never judge to be either beneficial to the Author, or contribute much to the Entertainment of the Town. There were large Quantities of Brandy distributed amongst the Footmen in the Boxes, and that in so plentiful a manner, that several of them were carried out of the House dead drunk. This, it seems, is call'd, Christening a Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Captives

Related Works
Related Work: The Happy Captive Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: The Temple of Dulness; with the Humours of Sg Capochio and Sga Dorinna Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Event Comment: Benefit the Author. By Their Royal Highnesses's command. [The Prince and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Captives

Related Works
Related Work: The Happy Captive Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: The Temple of Dulness; with the Humours of Sg Capochio and Sga Dorinna Author(s): Lewis Theobald