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Event Comment: Mainpiece: Alter'd from Beaumont and Fletcher, by Sir John Vanbrugh and Mr Dryden. Afterpiece: An English Opera, written by the late Mr Addison, and new set to Musick by Mr Arne, reserving two or three Favourite Songs, out of his former Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Afterpiece Title: Rosamond

Dance: I: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg; II: L'Allamande-Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: Punches-Master Ferg, Miss Wright

Event Comment: Benefit Michael Lally. At the Desire of several Ladies of Qualit(. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat. [Two Rows of Pit and part of Stage formed into Side-Boxes. Tickets at Lally's House in Southampton-Row, Bloomsbury.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Related Works
Related Work: The Stage Coach Opera Author(s): William Chetwood

Dance: I: Wooden Shoe Dance-French Boy; II: Je ne scai quoy-Villeneuve, Richardson, Miss Oates; IV: Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; V: Ball Dance, Minuet-Lally, Mlle Roland; End Afterpiece: Scots Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland

Event Comment: Benefit Wright. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Afterpiece: In Two Dramatick Dialogues, written by D@@Swift, [Compiler unknown. Apparently not published. Tickets for Lowe also taken.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Polite Conversation: Morning, or Tea-chat; Noon, or Table-Talk a-la-mode

Performance Comment: Mr Neverout-Woodward; Lord Smart-Taswell; Lord Sparkish-Yates; Colonel Atwit-Wright; Sir John Linger-Macklin; Lady Smart-Mrs Pritchard; Lady Answerwell-Miss Bennet; Miss Notable-Mrs Clive; With a New Prologue proper to the Occasion-.
Event Comment: Benefit Oates and Miss Oates. Tickets at Oates', within two Doors of Mitre Tavern, James Street, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover; Or, The Banish'd Cavaliers

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: I: A Serious Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; II: Je ne scay quoi-Villeneuve, Oates Jr, Miss Oates; III: Minuet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; IV: Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; V: Grecian Sailors-Glover

Event Comment: Benefit Stoppelaer. For the Entertainment of the Grand, the Vice-Grand, and the rest of the Ancient and Honourable Order of Gregoreans. Two Rows of the Pit will be railed in for Gregoreans only

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: I: Muilment; II: Punch-Master Ferg; V: Le Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

Song: IV: A Dialogue between a Town Rxke and Country Lass-; End Afterpiece: A Trumpet Gregorian Song-; accompanied-a Chorus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rambling Lovers; Or, A New Way To Play An Old Game

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Hayes; Softhead-Pelling; Bullcalf-Dove; Nincompoop-Lee; Mother Catterwawl-Mrs Hill; Colombine-Mrs Dove.
Cast
Role: Softhead Actor: Pelling
Role: Mother Catterwawl Actor: Mrs Hill

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Contention; or, The Politic Maid

Performance Comment: The Two Masters Granier, Miss Granier.

Afterpiece Title: Neptune's Palace

Dance: Janno; Tumbling-Steward, Williams, Tindal

Related Works
Related Work: A Midsummer Night's Dream Author(s): George Colman, the elder
Event Comment: Tickets at Three, Two, and One Shilling

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband; Or, A Journey To London

Performance Comment: Townly-Giffard; Lady Townly-Mrs Giffard; Manly-Paget; Lady Grace-Mrs Dunstall; Sir Francis-Julian; Basset-Linnet; Richard-Yates; Poundage-Wallis; Moody-Dunstall; Lady Wronghead-Mrs Lamball; Mrs Motherly-Mrs Jones; Jenny-Miss Hippisley; Myrtilla-Miss Gerard; Trusty-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Jones

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: As17401029

Event Comment: Tickets at Three, Two, and One Shilling. Places for the Boxes to be taken at the Fleece near the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: Hastings-Walker; Gloster-Paget; Dumont-W. Giffard; Rathcliff-Wallis; Catesby-Naylor; Jane Shore-Mrs Giffard; Alicia-a Gentlewoman who never perform'd there before.

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: As17401029

Event Comment: Benefit Mr Connor, who kept the Key and Garter Tavern in Pall-Mall. Written by the late Mr Addison, and Set to Musick by Mr Arne. Reduced to Two Acts. 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosamond

Performance Comment: King Henry-Lowe; Queen Elinor-Mrs Arne; Rosamond-Mrs Clive; Page-Miss Edwards; Sir Trusty-Savage; Grideline-Mrs Jones; between the Interludes will be performed several Grand Concertos-; end Act I, will be performed the Solemn Invocation@Scene in Oedipus-; with the Chorusses-; And after the Opera the Songs and Chorusses in As You Like It-; In which (By Desire) will be introduced the Song of Sweet Bird in the L'Allegro-Mrs Arne; accompanied on the Violin-Mr Arne.
Event Comment: By Authority. By the Hurlothrumbo Company of Comedians. Mainpiece: An Operatical Comedy of Three Acts. Written by Lord Flame [Samuel Johnson of Chesire]. Afterpiece: a Farce of Two Acts. [Presumably by Johnson also.] Box 4s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d. 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Fool Made Wise

Afterpiece Title: Sir John Falstaff in Masquerade

Event Comment: Benefit Mechel, Mlle Mechel (the French Boy and Girl). Afterpiece: a new Pantomime Entertainment. [Tickets at Mechel's in Newport Street.] Receipts: money #70 8s. 6d.; seals #71 14s. (Account Book); #150 (Rylands MS.). [The two dancers were charged #60 for their benefit. This is the last entry in the incomplete Account Book.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Barber

Dance: I: Concerto-Mlle Mechel; II: Minuet, French Rigadoon-Mechel the Father, who never appeared in any theatre in England, Mlle Mechel the Daughter; Minuet-Mechel the Son, Miss Polly Woffington, the first time of her appearing on the stage; IV: The Metamorphoses of the Windmills-Mechel, Mlle Mechel, Miss Woffington, Master Ferg, a little French Boy; lately come from France. End Afterpiece: A Wooden Shoe dance called Les Sabotiers de Piemont-Mechel Sr, Mechel Jr., Mlle Mechel, little French Boy

Event Comment: Benefit a Widow Gentlewoman under Misfortunes. The Theatre near the Tennis Court in the Haymarket. Tickets at Three Shillings, Two Shillings, and One Shilling. The whole will be conducted with all possible Decency and Regularity. To begin exactly at half an Hour after Six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Wrangling Lovers

Performance Comment: A Prologue- Proper to the Occasion.

Dance: DDrunken Peasant-Chettle

Event Comment: DDaily Post, 12 Sept.: Yesterday betwixt One and Two in the Morning, some Rogues broke into the Booth of the younger Yeates, in Southwark Fair, and stripp'd his Wardrobe of Cloaths to the Value of near Forty Pounds, so that he was for some time incapacitated from acting yesterday. [From this notice, it appears that Yeates had a booth at the Fair and may have been open during the entire period from 7 to 21 Sept.

Performances

Event Comment: At the Theatre in James Street, near the Haymarket...between the two Halves of a Concert of Vocal and Instrumental Musick will be presented...gratis...Benefit of Miss Rogers. 6 p.m. Prices, Boxes 3s., Pit 2s., Gallery 1s. Tickets may be secured from Pinchbeck. [Customary notice of prices and concert formula repeated in every notice of performance.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years. Written by George Duke of Buckingham. With Songs, Dances, New Scenes, Machines, Habits and other proper decorations. The Music New-compos'd by Mr Arne. No After Money will be taken. To prevent any interruption in the movement of the machines, 'tis hoped no Persons will take it ill that they cannot be admitted behind the scenes. Receipts: #90

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Bayes-Cibber Jr; Smith-Delane; Johnson-Mills; Other Characters-Johnson, Macklin, Neale, Havard, Ridout, Taswell, Arthur, Turbutt, Winstone, Leigh, Green, Wright, Ray, Woodburn, Miss Woodman, Mrs Cross, Miss Story, Miss Cole; Vocal Parts-Beard, Lowe, Johnson, Ray, Raftor; Particularly the Representation of a Battle of the Two Operatical Generals-Per gli Signori Giovanni and Tomasino detti Beard, Lowe; With the Additional reinforcement of Mr Bayes's New Rais'd Troops-.

Dance: I: Ballet, as17411015; II: Sailor's Dance, as17411015; III: The Drunken Peasant, as17411029; IV: A Dutch Dance, as17411114; V: The Swiss, as17410926

Event Comment: A Farce of Two Acts (never perform'd before). [Farce by Garrick]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Performance Comment: Gayless-Blakes; Melissa-Mrs Yates; Justice Gattle-Paget; Trippit-Peterson; Mrs Trippit-Mrs Steele; Mrs Gadabout-Mrs Bambridge; Priscilla-Mrs Dunstall; Patty-Mrs Vallois; Kitty Pry-Miss Hippisley; Dick-Yates; Lying Valet-Garrick; With the original epilogue-.
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Role: With the original epilogue Actor: .
Event Comment: At the French Theatre, over against the Opera House in the Haymarket, a Concert of Vocal and Instrumental Musick. Boxes 4s. Pit 1s. 6d., Gallery 1s. 6d. Between the two Halves of the Concert will be presented...gratis. 6 p.m. Benefit a Tradesman. Afterpiece: By the Author of The Toy-Shop. [Note, This customary concert formula and the notice of time and prices will not be repeated here.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pamela

Afterpiece Title: Sir John Cockle at Court

Event Comment: With all new Habits and other Decorations proper to the Entertainment

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Ballet: nd in which will be introduc'd a New Grand Ballet call'd the% Rural Assembly. Chasseur-Desnoyer; Pastors-Richardson, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade, Bencraft; Shepherdesses-Mrs Wright, Mlle Fabres, Mrs LeBrun, Mlle Rhenos, Mlle Maudet; Nymph of the Plain-Sga Barberina; Old Herdsman-Villeneuve; Cottage Nymph-Sga Domitilla; Two Nymphs of the Vale, a Sylvan-Picq, Mlle Bonneval, Mlle Auguste

Performance Comment: Chasseur-Desnoyer; Pastors-Richardson, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade, Bencraft; Shepherdesses-Mrs Wright, Mlle Fabres, Mrs LeBrun, Mlle Rhenos, Mlle Maudet; Nymph of the Plain-Sga Barberina; Old Herdsman-Villeneuve; Cottage Nymph-Sga Domitilla; Two Nymphs of the Vale, a Sylvan-Picq, Mlle Bonneval, Mlle Auguste.
Event Comment: Benefit Michael Lally. Two rows of the Pit will be rail'd in, and added to the boxes, and the stage will be formed into an Amphitheatre, where servants will be allowed to keep places. Ladies are desired to send servants by three. Tickets to be had at Lally's House in Great Russel St., opposite Montague House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: TThe Peasants, as17420210; Chacone, as17411230; Rigadone Provencale, as17420226; Louvre, Minuet By Particular Desire,-Mr Lally, a young Gentlewoman (a scholar of Mr Lally) who never appeared on the stage before

Event Comment: Benefit of Havard, Arthur, and Ridout. Tickets deliver'd by the two Miss Scotts will be taken, Receipts: #70

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Song: IV: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard

Dance: I: a New Scots Dance-Miss Scott; II: a New Comic Dance-Froment, Miss Scott; III: Running Footman's Dance, as17420428

Event Comment: PPhillips and Yeates' Booth, opposite Hospital Gate, West Smithfield, during the time of bf. Boxes, 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. First Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d. There is an extraordinary Band of Music promis'd. [Notice repeated 26 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Merchant; Or, The Happy Pair; Interspers'd With The Comical Humours Of The intriguing Chambermaid, sir John Oldcastle, And The drunken Colonel

Performance Comment: A Comedy of two Acts. Merchant-Dove; Oldcastle-Smith; Colonel-Phillips; Rakert-Yeates; Valentine-Wallis; Pride-Powell; Puff-Davis; Security-Johnson; Trick-Evenel; Constable-Wood; Slap-Archer; Mrs Highman-Mrs Tucker; Charlotte-Miss Ferguson; Lady Pride-Mrs Habito; Lady Ruff-Mrs Simmons; Lettice-Mrs Phillips, from Theatre Royal in Drury Lane.

Afterpiece Title: The Miser Bit; or, Harlequin Reveller

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Phillips, from Theatre Royal in Drury Lane; Miser-Smith; Colombine-Mrs Dove; Clown-Dove.

Song: I: Bumper Squire Jones-Phillips

Dance: LLa Mason and Sabotiers-Phillips, Mrs Dove

Event Comment: None will be admitted to the Boxes but by printed tickets, which will be deliver'd at the Office in the Lobby. [Customary notice.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Dance: Mr Cook; being the 1st time of his performance since his arrival from the Opera at Paris. Also Les Demoiselles Anne and Janneton Auretti; Two French Girls, being the 1st time of their appearing on the English Stage

Performance Comment: Also Les Demoiselles Anne and Janneton Auretti; Two French Girls, being the 1st time of their appearing on the English Stage.
Event Comment: AAnderson played two roles

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv; With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Related Works
Related Work: The Humours of Sir John Falstaff, Justice Shallow, and Ancient Pistol Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: GGrand Ballet-Cooke, Ann Auretti, accompanied Villeneuve, Dumont, Delagarde, Richardson, Mrs Delagarde, Mrs LaFont, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Villeneuve; Characters of Dancing-Janneton Auretti; Tambourine-Cooke; Dutch Skipper-Delamain, Anne Auretti

Event Comment: On Friday Night last as Mr Lowe, belonging to Drury Lane Playhouse was going down Snow Hill, he was stopt by two fellows, one of whom, without speaking a word, gave him a most violent blow on the Temple, with a great stick, which stunned him so that he fell back against a shop Window, and remained insensible for some time; as soon as he recover'd he felt in his pockets and found they had robb'd him only of 11 shillings in silver, being (as he supposes) disturb'd by some people passing by, for they had not taken his watch, nor a Guinea and a half which he had also in his pockets

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Song: II: Beard; IV: Lowe

Music: Concerto on Violincello-Cervetti

Event Comment: At the Great Theatrical Booth, Bowling Green. By Permission. Benefit Laguerre and Boaman. By a Company from the Theatres-Royal, for their Diversion, a Concert...gratis, etc. Boxes 3s. 6d. First Gallery 1s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6 p.m. Daily Advertiser lists Miss Hippisley for Miss Prue in mainpiece and for Kitty in afterpiece, and Mrs Yates for Melissa. In the London Daily Post and General Advertiser bill Mrs Dunstall doubles two roles

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet