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Event Comment: MMr Fleetwood in ye fight with Paris in ye last Act, having a Sword by his Side instead of a Foil, run Mr Austin (Paris) into the belly, he lay some time but at last call'd to be taken off--a Surgeon was sent for--No harm, a Small Wound, & he is recover'd (Cross). Receipts: #140 (Cross); #153 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Dance: TThe Millers, as17581012

Event Comment: Yesterday died Mr Benj. May many years principal Director of Entertainments at king's Theatre (Winston MS 8). Receipts: #150 (Cross); #148 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Event Comment: Pit and Boxes to be put together; and no persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be deliver'd this day, at the office, at Half-a-Guinea each. Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. Galleries will be open'd at Four, Pit & Boxes at Five, and to begin at half an four after Six o'clock. Tickets delivered out for 25 Jan. will be take. Subscribers tickets may be had of Richard Dawson, at his house near Henry the Seventh's Chapel, Westminster, who is empower'd by the Society to deliver them, and receive the subscriptions. N.B. Tickets deliver'd to subscribers to this charity will admit one person into any part of the House. Benefit for Increase of a Fund establish'd for the support of Decay'd Musicians, or their Families. [The governors report that they have expended from June 1757 to June 1758 #541 8s. 6d. from this fund.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alfred The Great

Performance Comment: With several new Songs composed by Mr Arne. The Vocal Parts-Sga Frasi, Miss Brent, Miss Frederica, Beard, Selves, Master Soper, the Gentlemen of the Choirs; First Violin-Dubourg; Concerto on Violincello-Pasqualino; Concerto on Hautboy-ThomasVincent; Concerto on Violin-Dubourg.
Event Comment: For the Benefit of Mr Crisr Smart, an Ingenious young Man In poetry, but now confin'd in a Mad house the farce had universal applause (Cross). Afterpiece: A new Comedy in 2 Acts. Part of Pit laid into boxes. Tickets delivered out for the 26th of January will be taken. Receipts: #285 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Event Comment: This day is publish'd Judas Maccabaeus: a Sacred Drama. Set to Music by Mr Handel, as it is Performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. Printed for J. Watts and sold by B. Dod at the Bible and Key

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabeus

Performance Comment: The parts were: Judas-; Israelite Man-; Israelite woman-; Chorus-; Simon-(Brother to Judas); Messenger-; Eupolemus- (Jewish Ambassador to Rome) (Larpent MS 65).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette

Event Comment: This Day Publish'd elegantly printed in one Volume Octavo (Dedicated to the Right Hon. Garret, Lord Mornington) A General View of the Stage, by Mr Wilks, of Dublin. Printed for J. Coote. [Contains 355 pages on the stage and its usefulness in presenting tragedy, comedy, opera, farce and pantomime. Discusses the art of acting, reviews plays and parts. Chapter VI on [Dress and its propriety" suggests the growing interest in historical authenticity in costume: [The judicious propriety in 'dress' adapted with sufficient exactitude to the age, time, and circumstances of [the] character...may be call'd the last colourings and finishings of [the] picture; and in this case very much will depend on knowledge of ancient history and historical paintings." Thirty-two pages praising Garrick the actor, and discussing in some detail all the characters he had performed to that time.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus

Event Comment: By Particular Desire. The Burletta, with the Addition of a new Act and a new Character, as originally performed at the Theatre Royal in Naples. At the Great Room in Marybone Gardens properly and elegantly fitted up for that purpose. 7:30 p.m. Admittance 3s. N.B. Mr Trotter's dauthter continues to make the rich seed and plumb cake, so much admired by the Nobility and Gentry at 2s. 6d. each, and likewise makes almond cheesecakes in a small size at 2s. per dozen. Six or eight make a Dish, and are hot every day one o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

Event Comment: A Tragedy written by Mr Murphy went off with great applause (Cross). Scenes, Habits, and Decorations entirely New. No Gentlemen can possibly be admitted behind the Scenes or into the Orchestra. Full prices. Receipts: #170 (Cross); #158 3s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Of China

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Hilliard. Tickets to be had, and places to be taken of Mr Sarjant, at the Stage Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: I: The Roast Beef of Old England-Miss Hilliard; III: The Fingalian Dance, as17581111; End: A Dance (never perform'd before) call'd The Milkmaid's Holiday-Miss Hilliard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Event Comment: Benefit for Clough, Raftor, Shawford, Walker. Tickets deliver'd by Mr Danny, and for Friday the 18th will be taken. Last time of performing the afterpiece this season. [Moody's actual first appearance was in Antony and Cleopatra, 12 Jan.] Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Performance Comment: As17580921, but Henry-a Gentleman [Moody], first appearing on the stage; Gardiner-Clough.

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer, Bowers; We borrow'd Smith from Cov. Garden to do Osmyn Mr Mossop's Father being dead (Cross). [Genest suggests that this was Mossop's last appearance at dl.] Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: HHornpipe-Walker

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Strattaggemma; Or, The Stratagem

Related Works
Related Work: The Stratagem Author(s): George Farquhar

Song: Before the Burletta: Singing-; several songs, a duetto-Signora Saratina, Reinhold

Event Comment: Benefit for Beard. At the Long Room, Hampstead. Tickets to be had of Mr Beete, at the long Room. To begin at six. After the concert will be a ball

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Music: CConcerto on the Harpsichord-Stanley; solo on Violin-Hay

Event Comment: By Authority [repeated in each bill]. A new English Burletta. Taken from the Memoirs of Jeffrey Ap Arthur of Monmouth, interspersed with Critical Remarks by Mess Snarler and Hum for Mr Bombast the Author. The Music, Scenes, Cloaths, and other Decorations entirely new. Prices: 4s., 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d. 6:30 p.m. [First announced on 7 Sept. for 10 Sept., and deferred on account of death of Princess Elizabeth. It was adapted from Henry Brooke's Jack the Giant Queller, 1748. Published 1778.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Galligantus

Event Comment: To the Printer of the Public Advertiser: Sir, On seeing the Burletta of Galligantus at the little theatre in the Haymarket, I was agreeably surprised to see a performance of the kind carried on in so genteel a manner, no way inferior to any opera; and after the nicest inspection of the whole performance, I have the pleasure to inform the Nobility, Gentry, &c., I found all the performers were English, their Dresses very completely adapted, their voices excellent, and their actions quite genteel and comic, their music charming and set without the assistance of any Foreigner, it being composed by Mr J@@D@@, a Native of Ireland, whose excellency in that art needs no encomium. I am, yours A True Briton

Performances

Event Comment: Receipts: #109 15s. 6d. Bill setter's bill paid, #3 15s. 6d. [Miss Brent enter'd the 8th ins. at 13s. 4d. per night. Mr and Mrs Tariot enter'd ditto at 5s. each per night. Mrs Stephens advanc'd to 5s. per night.

Performances

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Performance Comment: Petruchio-Shuter; Catherine-Mrs Green.
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Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Green.

Dance: As17591012; The Threshers, as17591005

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #196 13s. 6d. Paid Mr Hildersley a bill for wig #4 19s. 6d. Rec'd from Barrington #3 5s. 11d. being so much stopp'd from his for 6 nights performance lost on the Princess of Orange's death

Performances

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Related Works
Related Work: The Fairy Prince, with the Installation of the Knights of the Garter Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: As17591012; with a New Comic Dance call'd The Irish Turf@Cutters-Poitier Jr, 1st time here in 3 years, Miss Capdeville

Event Comment: Receipts: #118 16s. Paid Gum carpenter's bill #12. Paid Hull 16 nights from 24 Sept. at 6s. 8d. per night: #5 6s. 8d. Paid Mr Sanders 6 nights from the 13th inst. at 13s. 4d. per night: #4. [By this date Rich shows an income of #1,809 and an expenditure of #1, 541, holding a profitable balance of #268.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Bayes-Garrick; Smith-Burton; Johnson-Palmer; others-Yates, Packer, Philips, Blakes, Mozeen, Clough, Scrase, Bransby, Ackman, Atkins, Marr, Vaughan, Raftor, Johnston, Rooker, Mrs Abington, Mrs Hippisley, Miss Mills, Miss Simson, Moody, Gray; With an Additional Reinforcement of Mr Bayes's New Rais'd Troops-.
Related Works
Related Work: The Rehearsal; or, Bayes in Petticoats Author(s): Katherine Clive

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Event Comment: Farce not so much hiss'd (Cross). This month published A Defence of Mr Garrick in Answer to the Letter Writer [See 13 Oct.], 37 pp. [Closes with the paragraph: "Nor need I take notice of your accusation against the manager for his neglect in the Decorations of the Scenery, since it is notorious to everyone who has eyes, that the scenes at Drury Lane are as well adapted to the Representations, and as well executed, as any Covent Garden can boast of (though you are pleased to assert the contrary) Pantomimical Decorations not excepted."] Receipts:#100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

Event Comment: Receipts: #139 9s. 6d. Paid Gom for carpenters #7 11s. 6d. Paid Mr Arne for composing as per bill #12 12s. Was at Covent Garden to hear Miss Brent, I sat in the Boxes but there was not much company there (Hailey, "Brietzcke Diary," p. 361)