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Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bellamy. Afterpiece: Written by Aaron Hill not acted these 20 years. [See 17 April 1750.] Tickets deliver'd for the Distrest Mother will be taken. Charges #65 10s. Balance to Mrs Bellamy #86 11s. Plus #116 11s. from Tickets (Box 330; Pit 227). Paid the Italian Giant for 10 Nights performance in the Masquerade #38 17s Receipts: #152 1s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens Or The Death Of Mary Queen Of Scots

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue or The Devil in the Wine Cellar

Performance Comment: Toby, the Statue (for that night only) in the character of Harlequin-Woodward. In which he will introduce the different attitudes.

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17680930

Event Comment: Benefit for Dyer. Charges #64 5s. Balance to Dyer #4 3s. plus #143 1s. from tickets (Box 383; Pit 234; Gallery 122). Paid Music Porter as per bill 10s. 6d. Receipts: #68 8s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Song: II: A Song-DuBellamy

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17680930

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. The Tragedy Altered by Dr Hawkesworth. Part of Pit will be Laid into the Boxes. [Winston MS 10, from O. Smith from the Town & Country Magazine, suggests Oroonoko--Fleetwood, son of the late manager, and brother to the gentleman who appeared about Nine years ago at dl.] Charges #66 19s. Balance to Bensley #51 15s. 6d. plus #113 15s. from tickets (Box 416; Pit 59; Gallery 9). Paid Younger for writing parts #6 3s. 4d. Receipts: #118 4s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko Or The Royal Slave

Afterpiece Title: The Oxonian in Town

Dance: End: The Garland, as17681028

Event Comment: Benefit for Wroughton. [Listed as Rotten in the Account Book.] Rec'd from tickets only #5 11s. (Box 12; Pit 17). Charges: 1!2 House charge, plus 1!2 value of tickets, plus half receipts amounted to #66 1s. 6d. and left the actor with an uncovered deficit of #5 19s. (Account Book), which he paid up on 20 May. Receipts; #60 3s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Cast
Role: only Harlequin Actor: Lewes
Event Comment: Benefit for Condell, Potter (box-keepers) and Eddis. Tickets sold at the door will not be admitted. Tickets deliver'd for the Conscious Lovers will be taken. Charges #83 11s. 6d. Deficit to beneficiaries #27 10s., covered by income from tickets: Condell #84 7s. (Box 225; Pit 140; Gallery 71); Potter #60 7s. (Box 142; Pit 93; Gallery 109); Eddis #52 9s. (Box 118; Pit 153) (Account Book). Paid Miss Morris in Full for her performance this season #50 (Account Book). [But see note 1 May.] Receipts; #56 1s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: III: A Pantomime Dance-Fishar, Miss Capon

Event Comment: Benefit for Bates, Dumay, Curtat, Redman, Mrs Naylor. Tickets deliver'd for The Albion Queens will be taken. Charges #64 5s. Deficit #31 11s., covered by income from tickets: Bates #21 14s. (Box 8; Pit 66; Gallery 98); Dumay #49 13s. (Box 90; Pit 125; Gallery 84); Curtat #42 13s. (Box 61; Pit 90; Gallery 139); Redman #57 17s. (Box 35; Pit 180; Gallery 221); Mrs Naylor #33 9s. (Box 36; Pit 103; Gallery 90) (Account Book). Receipts: #32 14s. (Account Book). Stoppelaer and Sarjant paid up their deficiencies for 11th and 15th Inst

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: II: A Minuet-Dumay, Miss Madden; End: A Pantomime Dance-Fishar, Miss Capon

Event Comment: The Doors to be opened at Half an Hour after Five. To begin exactly at Half an Hour after six. [The Account Book indicates that the following paid up their deficits of half values of tickets: Rose, Mrs Griffiths, Claridge, Doe, Pullen, Fransdorf, Norbury, Robson, Pilfold, Roberts and Singleton.] Receipts: #163 9s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Cast
Role: only Harlequin Actor: Lewes
Event Comment: [The Account Book indicates the following Paid up their half value for tickets: Whatley, Dixon, Reed, Bushell, Wooley.] Receipts: #53 9s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Paid Younger for a License for the Brothers #22s. (Account Book). Receipts: #127 11s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: Author's Night [for Mainpiece]. Charges #64 9s. Balance to Author #92 6s. 6d. Paid Mrs Lessingham on acct #100 (Account Book). Receipts: #156 15s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Lady

Dance: End: The Whim, as17691123

Event Comment: Mainpiece; Performed but once. Afterpiece: By Desire. Paid Cumberland balances for author's nights 5th, 8th, 12th Insts. #265 1s. 6d. (Account Book). Receipts: #132 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amintas

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Dance: I: A New Pastoral Dance, as17691215

Event Comment: Benefit for New General Lying In Hospital in Store St., Tottenham Court Road. Charges #85 10s. Balance to Hospital #10 17s. 6d., plus income from tickets #116 15s. (Box 377, Pit 150). Paid Tenducci for his performance in Amintas the 21st Inst. #30 (Account Book). [Shuter's Occasional Epilogue is Larpent MS 303.] Receipts: #96 7s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: IV: The Lamplighters, as17691005

Event Comment: Gave Princess of Wales' Footmen #1 1s.; and Chairmen #1 1s. Paid James Dyer 9 nights as extra dancer #1 17s. 6d. (Account Book). Receipts: #97 19s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Afterpiece Title: The Court of Alexander

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particula9 Desire. Paid Mrs Lessingham on account of her salary #50 (Account Book). Receipts: #148 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Court of Alexander

Event Comment: Benefit for Woodward. Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years. [See 7 May 1766.] Charges #74 4s. Balance to Woodward #82 7s. plus income from 190 Box tickets, #47 10s.; Paid Williams 3 nights performing the Bells, #1 2s. 6d., and Gard & Singleton 3 nights for perfoming in the Lyon 7s. 6d. each (Account Book). Receipts: #156 11s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse Or Virtue In Danger

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Jubilee

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. To prevent confusion Servants are desired to be at the theatre by 4 o'clock. Charges #73 19s. Balance to Smith #62 3s. plus income from tickets #141 9s. (Box 413; Pit 162; Gallery 139). Paid Miss Potts for walking 12 nights in Man and Wife #1 10s. and Mrs Morris for walking 26 nights in Harlequin's Jubilee #3 5s. (Account Book). Receipts: #136 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens Or The Death Of Alexander The Great

Performance Comment: Alexander-Smith; Hephestion-Dyer; Lysimachus-Hull; Cassander-Clarke; Polyperchon-Perry; Thessalus-R. Smith; Perdiccas-Davis; Clytus-Gibson; Roxana-Mrs Bellamy; Sysigambis-Mrs Vincent; Parisatis-Miss Ogilvie; Statira (for that night only)-Mrs Yates , first time; With the Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Babylon-.

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: End: The Whim, as17691123

Event Comment: Benefit for Shuter. Charges #64 15s. 6d. Balance to Shuter #109 8s., plus #85 17s. from tickets (Box 200; Pit 239). Woodward, Mrs Yates and Smith paid their balances (Account Book). Receipts: #174 3s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Dance: II: The Lamplighters, as17691005; II of the Comedy: The Dutch Milkmaid Dance=, as17691111

Entertainment: End: The Cries of London-; Epilogue Riding upon an Ass-Shuter

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. Mainpiece: Not acted this season. Charges #68 14s. Balance to Bensley #81 17s. plus #63 13s. from tickets (Box 221; Pit 56). Balances to Shuter and Yates paid (Account Book). Receipts: #150 11s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: End: The Reel-Aldridge, Miss Valois, Sga Manesiere. [See17680307.

Event Comment: Benefit for Condell, Potter, Hussey. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. Charges #81 10s. Deficit to the beneficiaries #18 1s. 10d. apiece. Covered by income from Tickets: Condell #71 12s. (Box 186; Pit 122; Gallery 68); Potter #48 14s. (Box 116; Pit 74; Gallery 86); Hussey #64 4s. (Box 118; Pit 152; Gallery 119); Walters, Dixon, Reed, and Wooley paid up half values of tickets (Account Book). Receipts: #24 4s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: I: A Hornpipe-Dyer (Scholar to Fishar); III: The Irish Lilt, as17700402 End: A Minuet-Hussey, Miss Twist

Event Comment: Benefit for Redman, Miss Besford, Dumay, Mrs Naylor, Curtat. Tickets deliver'd for All for Love will be taken. [The Account Book has crossed out The Jovial Crew and indicated the performance of The Beggar's Opera.] Charges #64 10s. Deficit to the 5 beneficiaries #7 4s. 7 1!2d. apiece, covered by income from tickets: Redman #32 11s. (Box 38; Pit 83; Gallery 106); Besford #18 1s. (Box 23; Pit 42; Gallery 60); Dumay #62 9s. (Box 165; Pit 88; Gallery 80); Mrs Naylor #30 17s. (Box 39; Pit 90; Gallery 76); Curtat #18 16s. (Box 12; Pit 68; Gallery 56). Sarjant and Condell paid up their deficiencies. Receipts: #28 7s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: II: A Minuet-Dumay, Miss Besford

Ballet: End Opera: The Wapping Landlady, Double Hornpipe,. As17700420

Event Comment: Benefit for Ansell and Green (Box-keepers). Tickets sold at Doors will not be admitted. Charges #82 17s. Deficit to each #29 5s. 9d., covered by income from tickets: Ansell #117 12s. (Box 355; Pit 173; Gallery 29); Green #132 12s. (Box 436; Pit 128; Gallery 44); Deficiencies and half value paid up by Wild, Potter, Mrs Lampe & Mrs Jones, Mrs Paddick and Sharratt (Account Book). Receipts: #24 5s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Lady

Dance: IV: The Whim, as17691123

Event Comment: Last time of performing this season. Williams for performing the Bells 7s. 6d.; Gard and Singleton 2s. 6d. each for performing in the lion. LeLewes and Quick paid up deficiencies for last season, and Ansell and Green theirs for the 26th inst. (Account Book). Receipts: #155 17s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timanthes

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Jubilee

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid half year's water rent due Mids. last #2 (Account Book). Receipts: #190 14s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Dance: End: The Corsican Sailor's Punch House-Fishar, Miss Twist, Hussey, Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford. [See17710412.

Event Comment: Doors open at 5:00 o'clock. Play to begin at 6:00 o'clock. Paid Printer's Bill #11; Copper plate printing Bill #6 3s. 6d.; Chorus for 2 nights (28 Sept. Inc.) #3 5s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #185 17s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Don Diego Actor: Bannister

Dance: III: Comic Dance, as17710921

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Afterpiece: By Desire. Paid Printer's Bill #8 5s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #203 1s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Cast
Role: Joseph Harrow Actor: Ackman