22 March 1750
Event Information
Theatre:
Drury Lane Theatre
Theatrical Season:
1749-1750
Volume:
4
Comments:
Benefit for Sowdon. Last time of performing the Mainpiece this season. A Gent: play'd Puff in the farce--Bug (Cross). [Seems to have been a clear benefit, as Treasurer's Book lists no charges.] Cash #65 8s. 6d., plus tickets #95; Paid Reynolds for wax & [brickdust] 3s. 9d. Paid Mr Pope a Bill #7 14s. [wigmaker] (Treasurer's Book). Tickets of Sowdon at his lodgings, the Sign of the Sun, a Milliner's facing Exeter exchange in the strand, and of Hobson at the stage door. Tickets otherwise to be had at Will's Coffee House in Cornhill, and of Mr Thomas Sowdon in Blackman St., Southwark. We hear William Mills, Comedian, lies at the point of death, at his lodgings in Russell St., Covent Garden. Receipts: #170 (Cross); #160 3s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)
Performance List
Mainpiece
Title:
The Fair Penitent
Comments:
As17491021, but Altamont-Sowdon 1st time; Lucilla-Miss Cole.
As17491021, but Altamont-Sowdon 1st time; Lucilla-Miss Cole.
Afterpiece
Title:
Miss in Her Teens
Comments:
As17500319 but Fribble-Yates; Capt. Loveit-Palmer; Puff-a young Gentleman who never appeared; Miss Biddy-Miss Cole.
As17500319 but Fribble-Yates; Capt. Loveit-Palmer; Puff-a young Gentleman who never appeared; Miss Biddy-Miss Cole.
Cast:
- Role: Fribble Actor: Yates
- Role: Loveit Actor: Palmer
- Role: Puff Actor: a young Gentleman who never appeared
- Role: Miss Biddy Actor: Miss Cole.
- Role: Tag Actor: Mrs James
- Role: Flash Actor: Woodward
- Role: Capt Loveit Actor: Havard
- Role: Biddy Actor: Mrs Green.
Dance
Comment:
CComic Dance, as17500221; Venetian Gardeners-Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti