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Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. We are assured that Mr Barry is so well recover'd from his late illness, that he will appear on Thursday next, in the character of Lord Townly in the Provok'd Husband; and that Mrs Cibber will perform the part of Lady Townly

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

Performance Comment: Pyramus-Lowe; Lion-Howard; Wall-Baker; Moonshine-Roberts; Thisbe-Mrs Lampe; With Dancing-Grandchamps, Madem Camargo.
Cast
Role: Thisbe Actor: Mrs Lampe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant Or The History Of George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Song: I: Mattocks

Event Comment: No alterations were made in the farce, but cutting out a little, & it was play'd with great Applause, & given out again with great Clapping. Benefit for Mr Worsdale (Cross). Tickets to be had at the Bedford Coffee House. Part of Pit laid into boxes. We hear that Miss Bellamy, belonging to Drury Lane Theatre, was taken ill on Sunday last, and continues very much indispos'd. Receipts: #230 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Taste

Dance: End IV: a Comic Dance-Sg Piettro, Sga Piettro

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Desire. The Comedy of Every Man in His Humour, will be played again on Tuesday, the 10th of March for the Benefit of Mr Woodward. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady Jane Gray

Cast
Role: Captain Actor: Ackman

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: As17520204

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A Pantomime entertainment not performed these 20 years. The Scenes painted by Mr Lambert. Nothing under Full Prices will be taken during the performance. Ladies send servants by three o'clock. [The note about full prices is repeated throughout the run of this pantomime this season. A rather detailed description of the action in this pantomime appeared in the Drury Lane Journal, reprinted in the Gentleman's Magazine for Feb. 1752, pp. 52-53.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Drummer

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer with the Loves of Pluto and Proserpine With Alterations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Womans Oratory

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cibber. Afterpiece: A Dramatic piece of one act taken from the French. Never perform'd before. The characters in it to be newdress'd. Pit and boxes laid together and amphitheatre on stage. Tickets deliver'd for 3 March will be taken. [See, 20 March. The note in Have at you all; or, The Drury Lane Journal (19 March) seems to comment on this performance: Those heroic full-bottomed perukes, whose bushy expanse is spread over the whole back of the wearer, have lately been exploded on the stage, and a more natural, I mean a less enormous covering for the head substituted in its stead. Unfortunately Mr Barry this night chose to appear in one of the most curiously frizzled out and of the fullest tragical flow I ever saw: When in the last act it was our heroes turn to be kill'd, honest Ryan being eager to dispatch him, just as he was to plump down upon the carpet, entangled his hand in the vast profusion of Macbeth's hair; and by jerking back his sword after the concluding stab, away came poor periwig along with it, while our hero was left expos'd, in the last agonies of death-bare headed. Ryan in the meanwhile with some confuconfusion contemplated Full-Bottom, which he held dangling in his hand, but sadly tumbled out of curl; at length he good naturedly adjusted it on the bald pate of the tyrant, who was then enabled to make his dying speech with proper regularity and decorum."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Oracle

Dance: GGrand Comic Ballet, as17511216

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Womans Oratory

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V

Afterpiece Title: The Miller Outwitted or Harlequin Statue

Dance: GGrand Dutch Dance, as17511021

Event Comment: Benefit for Ross. Mr Ross did Romeo & spoke an Elogium upon Shakespear in ye form of ye Monument in the Abby (Cross). Last time of performing the mainpiece this season. Nothing under full prices. After the play an Elogium wrote by Dryden, concluding with Milton's Epitaph to the Memory of Shakespeare, spoken by Ross representing the Shade of Shakespeare as figured on his monument in Westminster Abbey. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Performance Comment: As17510910 but only Crispin listed.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phaedra And Hippolitus

Afterpiece Title: The Shepherds Lottery

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-; The Little Swiss; End: The Grand Provincial Dance, as17520204

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Falkner. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Tickets for the Merchant of Venice will be taken. Mr Lowe being incapable of performing by a cold, obliges Miss Falkner to change the Farce [Pyramus and Thisbe had been advertised]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The What Dye Call It

Dance: GGrand Comic Ballet, as17511216; Grand Dutch Dance, as17511021

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Shepherds Lottery

Dance: Sg Piettro, Mad Janeton Auretti, Master Piettro

Event Comment: Benefit for Sowdon. No building on the stage on account of the Coronation. [With] The Death of the Duke of Buckinghamv; the Tryal and Divorce of Queen Catherinev; The Death of Cardinal Wolseyv; the Christening of Princess Elizabethv; and many other historical passages. Tickets to be had of Sowdon, next door to the Black Lyon, in Little Russel-St., Covent Garden; at Will's Coffee House in Cornhill; at Mr Thomas Sowdon's in Blackman St., Southwark, and at the stage door. Mainpiece: Not acted in 6 years [see 1 Jan. 1746]. Receipts: #230 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: Don Quixote

Cast
Role: Fairlove Actor: Ackman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Oracle

Dance: GGrand Comic Ballet, as17511216

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Lovers

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: II: A Peasant Dance-Master Piettro; III: A Comic Dance-Sg Piettro, Janeton Auretti; IV: a Hornpipe-the Little Swiss; V: L'Entree de Flore, as17511015; a Peasant Dance, as17511015

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Triumphs of Hibernia

Dance: I: Grand Comic Ballet, as17511216; III: Venetian Gardeners-Grandchamps, Madem Camargo; End of Play: Louvre, Minuet-Grandchamps, Madem Camargo

Event Comment: Benefit for the Widow of the Late Mr Lampe, and Miss Young. Afterpiece: By Particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Being Postiively the last time of acting it this season. Tickets deliver'd out for Macbeth will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Oracle

Dance: GGrand Comic Ballet, as17511216

Event Comment: Benefit for Mattocks and Dickenson. On Friday last died Mr Ray, an Old Comedian, belonging to Drury Lane; but his benefit, which is to be on Monday next, is put under the management of some eminent Tradesmen his friends, who intend to employ the profits of it towards the discharge of his creditors. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Don Quixote

Cast
Role: Fairlove Actor: Ackman

Dance: II: A Hornpipe-The Little Swiss; IV: A Comic Dance-Harvey, Miss Shawford

Song: III: Mattocks; IV: Mattocks

Entertainment: S+Specialty. After: An Elogium to $Shakespeare, as17520421

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Don Quixote

Dance: I: A Hornpipe-the Little Swiss; II: A Comic Dance-Harvey, Miss Shawford; III: A Dance-Sg Piettro, Mad Janeton Auretti; IV: A Scotch Dance-Harvey, Miss Shawford; V: The Minuet, Louvre-Harvey, Mrs Addison

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Bridges. Tickets deliver'd out for Monday the 11th will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: AA Grand Scots Ballet, as17511009

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Harlequin Ranger

Dance: II: Le Matelot Basque, as17521005; IV: L'Entree de Flore-Mad Auretti

Event Comment: [Noise, & some fighting in ye pit Mr Woodward when ye Entertainment was over each Night gave it out again, which the opposite Party look'd upon as Impudent--ye Inspector wrote against it--the fool, against the Silent Woman, as Indecent, & this Night whatever passages he had mark'd out were hiss'd by two or 3 people (Cross). [The Inspector edited by Dr John Hill.] Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Dance: [As17521102

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Dance: Maranesi, Sga Bugiani