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Event Comment: Mainpiece; By Particular Desire, [The playbill mistakenly reports afterpiece as for fifth day. Actually it is the sixth.] Receipts: #215 9s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: To begin (by Desire) by seven. Box 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. The Second Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fashion Displayd

Event Comment: The Third Day. By Particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction. The last time of Performance, as her Licence was extended only for Three Nights

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fashion Displayd

Afterpiece Title: With a Farce

Dance: Between the acts: Miss Street

Event Comment: This day Publish'd Price 6d. Three Old Women Weatherwise: an Interlude, as performed with great applause at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. Printed for S. Bladon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Event Comment: The Second Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lame Lover

Afterpiece Title: Hob in the Well

Dance: The Cowkeeper, as17700521

Event Comment: The The Third Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lame Lover

Afterpiece Title: The The Devil to Pay

Dance: The The Cowkeeper, as17700521

Event Comment: The Fifth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lame Lover

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: The Nosegay, as17700611

Event Comment: The Sixth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lame Lover

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: I: The Nosegay, as17700611 End of Play: Double Hornpipe-Master and Miss West

Event Comment: The Seventh Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lame Lover

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: As17700704

Event Comment: The Eighth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lame Lover

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: The Nosegay, as17700611

Event Comment: The Ninth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lame Lover

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: II: The Pedlar; End of Play: Double Hornpipe-Master and Miss West

Event Comment: [On this day Isaac Reed saw J. Streeton and some others executed at Tyburn, then went to Westminster Abbey, and then to the Haymarket.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lame Lover

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: II: The Cowkeeper, as17700521; End of Play: Double Hornpipe-Master and Miss West

Event Comment: great applause to the Play (Hopkins Diary). Mainpiece: A tragedy never before acted [by Mrs Celisia]. Prologue (by Whitehead)-Reddish; Epilogue (by Garrick)-Mrs Barry. New Scenes, Dresses and Decorations (Winston MS 10). [The Gentleman's Magazine for Feb. reviewed the mainpiece in great detail, concluding: "A combat between two knights in the days of chivalry and honour, not to determine whether a person accused is innocent or guilty, but whether a person under the infamy of acknowledged guilt shall suffer, is, as the Scotch peasant says emphatically of his pupil, a phenomenon. It is, however, but justice to Mrs Barry, to say, that in performing the part allotted her in this piece, she rises like perfection out of chaos, and therefore those who have not yet seen it represented should by no means be deterred by these strictures on the composition, supposing them to be just."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Almida

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Cast
Role: Old Wilding Actor: Bannister
Event Comment: [The play bill of the day noted that Baddeley from Drury Lane would play Polonius for Shuter who had sprained his ankle (Hogan).] Receipts: #207 6s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Event Comment: The favourite comic opera. Music by Guglielmi. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no person to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered this day at Half a Guinea each. First Gallery 5s. Second Gallery 3s. The Galleries, Pit and Boxes to be opened at Five. To begin at six precisely. By their Majesties Command, no Persons whatsoever can be admitted behind the Scenes or into the Orchestra

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Viaggiatori

Dance: Mt Lepie, other new dancers will make their first appearance

Event Comment: Tomorrow being the birthday of her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales is the reason of performing this day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Disertore

Event Comment: By the unfortunate death of her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales a temporary stop was put to theatrical entertainments to this day. Opera will be performed at this theatre three times or at least twice every week till Passion Week. Such of the Nobility and Gentry, subscribers to the Opera who do not care to keep their Boxes on the Thursday, and have the extra weekly performance reckoned into their Subscription nights are desired to send word

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Felosofo Di Campagna

Dance: Mlle Heinel will dance

Event Comment: N.B. The above opera is oblig'd to be perform'd this day instead of Saturday on account of the preparations making for the entertainment given the Knights of the Bath

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaserse

Dance: I: Provenzale, as17720603 II: A New Pas de Trois en Berger Gallante-Slingsby, Sga Guidi, Sga Crispi; Last Act: New Ballet La Clauchette-Mlle Curtz, Sga Crispi, other principals

Event Comment: The New Tragedy of Alonzo oblig'd to be deferr'd for a few days. Receipts: #168 10s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Cast
Role: Mervin Actor: J. Bannister

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: I: Comic Dance, as17720922; End Act I Afterpiece: The Irish Fair, as17721023

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. N.B. The Sacred Oratorio The Messiah will be performed on Wednesday and Friday in the next week. Receiv'd of Mrs Johnston one year's rent to Lady Day 1772 #6. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson Judas Maccabaeus

Music: I: Violin Concerto-ThomasLinley

Event Comment: A New Serious Opera. The Music entirely new composed by Sacchini. The whole entirely new dressed agreeable to the opera and dances. And a new scene for the opera and last dance painted by M. Munich. The great preparations making for the opera have rendered it impossible to perform it till this day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlano

Dance: End Opera: Les Tartare-Mlle Heinel, Fierville

Event Comment: Doors open at 5 o'clock. Play begins at 6 o'clock. [Young Lady identified by Kemble note on playbill and by Winston MS 10. Her identity appears from playbill of 13 Oct. where her name occurs in character of Rosetta along with the statement that it is her fourth appearance on any stage. She appears on the weekly payroll from the first week at 16s. 6d. per day (Account Book). The Westminster Magazine believed her to be no actress (October issue): "Her musical powers were not extraordinary; her acting powers still worse."] Receipts: #206 14s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: The Fingalian Dance-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford; Double Hornpipe-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford. [See17720921.

Event Comment: Music by Sacchini and other celebrated composers. The Dances under the direction of Pitrot. With New Cloaths, Scenes and other Decorations. Pit and Boxes Half a Guinea; Gallery 5s.; Second Gallery 3s. Doors to open at 5:30. To begin at 7:00 p.m. N.B. Fierville having unfortunately sprained his ankle by a fall at the rehearsal yesterday...Mariottini, who never appeared in England before, has kindly undertaken to supply his place. The Managers beg leave to acquaint the Nobility and Gentry that Mesdames Favier having arrived from Florence, but being indisposed from the great fatigue of the journey are incapable of dancing this day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lucio Vero

Dance: I: Grand Comic Pantomime Ballet, call'd La Bagatelle-Bocchini, Sga Mazzoni, other principals; II: A Pastoral Dance with a Pas de Trois, de Deux-Mariottini, Bocchini, Sga Mazzoni; End Opera: A Grand Serious Ballet-; with a Grand Chaconne-Fierville

Entertainment: A Poetical Exordium-Mrs Yates [In which she proposed to intermix plays and operas this season. (Burney, II, 879, notes she could not get permission.)]

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [See 25 Jan. 1772.] [Brown identified by Kemble note on playbill. Macklin no longer appears on the playlist. This day is published at 1s. 6d. The Duellist, a Comedy, as it was represented at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. To which is prefixed a concise Narrative of the very Extraordinary Circumstances attending its Reception. T. Evans Bookseller.] Receipts: #188 1s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: End: The Highland Reel, as17731112

Event Comment: Both pieces By Command of their Majesties. Present Their Majesties. Gave Yeomen of Guards #2 2s. (Account Book). [Winston MS 10 suggests (from Burney Actor's MS) that Wignell died this day. If so his name is carried in the Bill for the Sylphs until 26 Jan., and he appears regularly upon the payroll through Sat 29 Jan. On this latter occasion he is marked for only half his customary salary, and does not appear thereafter. He would seem to have died in the middle of the week of 22-29 Jan. 1774.] Receipts: #243 1s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Sylphs