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Event Comment: Benefit for King. Tickets to be had of Mr King, at his lodgings in Broad Court, Bow Street; and of Mr Varney, at the Stage Door. The New Hippocrates, wrote by Dr Hiffernan--wretched, but went off quietly (Hopkins MS Notes)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The New Hippocrates or A Lesson for Quacks

Entertainment: After the Play: by Desire, for that night only The Picture of a Playhouse or, Bucks Have at Ye All-Mr King; a Mimic Comic opera song-Mrs Clive

Event Comment: Benefit for Sparks. Receipts: #42 4s. 6d. plus #192 2s. from Tickets (Box 345; Pit 543; Gallery 244). Bought of Lord Holderness's Valet by Blackmore 5 ensembles of clothing amounting to #49 10s. Paid Mrs Marg. Lamb Interest due on #315 due 8 March last: #15 (Account Book). Charges: #66 6s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Event Comment: Benefit for the Widow of the late Ryan. Receipts: #40 19s. plus #177 10s. from tickets (Box 438; Pit 280; Gallery 260) (Account Book). [The Prologue is Larpent MS 193, wherein Ryan is praised for his Hamlet and Archer. Apparently Widow Ryan came on stage weeping her gratitude]: @In duty bound by me she now appears@To say her thanks in tributary tears,@For favors manifold bestow'd tonight...@ Charges: #64 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: Granier, Mrs Granier

Event Comment: By Desire a Minuet-Noverre, Miss Pritchard. Benefit for Miss Pritchard. Mainpiece by the Particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Tickets deliver'd for Zara will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Vernon. Opera by Desire. Receipts: #101 4s. plus #44 4s. from tickets (Box 113; Pit 89; Gallery 26) (Account Book). Charges: #64 10s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: As17600924; End of Opera: The Waggoners, as17610228

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Kennedy. No Building on Stage. Tickets deliver'd for Much Ado and The Wonder will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The New Hippocrates

Entertainment: After:(by Particular Desire) Mimic Comic Opera Song-Mrs Clive

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Elmy. Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock. Receipts: #62 3s. plus #104 11s. from tickets (Box 241; Pit 220; Gallery 163) (Account Book). Charges: #63 7s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: LLes Charboniers, as17601215

Event Comment: Benefit for Bencraft. Receipts: #88 1s. 6d. plus #94 14s. from tickets (Box 211; Pit 223; Gallery 85) (Account Book). Charges: #64 3s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Gambarini. At the Great Concert Room, Dean St., Soho Tickets: Pit, half a guinea. Gallery 5s. Composed by Geminiani, who being lately returned to England, has lent the aforementioned composition in favour of this Benefit. Also a new Ode The Argument Britannia rising from the waves like the morning sun, pointing out her young Monarch, and predicts? the glory and felicity of his reign. The music composed by Sga Gambarini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inchanted Forest

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Dawson. Tripoline Ambassador [was present] (Winston MS 9). As the Indisposition of a principal performer oblig'd Miss Dawson to change her play, tickets deliver'd for As You Like It will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: II: A New Comic Dance call'd The May Day Morning, or Fingalian Dance , the Lass-Miss Dawson; End: By Particular Desire a Hornpipe-Miss Dawson

Event Comment: Benefit for Rooker. Not acted for 6 years. [See 7 May 1757.] Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Tickets for This Night will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: [Titles and dancers unspecified.]

Event Comment: Benifit for Blakes. By Particular Desire. Tickets deliver'd for The Beggar's Opera will be taken. Palmer married Miss Pritchard (Genest, IV, 612)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: TThe Italian Gardiners, as17601203

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunstall. No Building on the Stage. Farce not acted these 10 years. [See 12 Nov. 1750.] Receipts: #48 13s. 6d. plus income of #168 15s. from tickets (Box 216; Pit 677; Gallery 132) (Account Book). Charges: #63 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Phebe or The Beggars Wedding

Dance: LLes Charboniers, as17601215

Event Comment: Benefit for Philips and Bransby. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Tickets deliver'd for This Night will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: T+The May Day Morning Fingalian Dance, as17610416

Song: By Particular Desire, the Mimic Comic Opera Song-Mrs Clive

Event Comment: Benefit for Lalauze. Receipts: #63 5s. plus #112 19s. from tickets (Box 153; Pit 340; Gallery 237) (Account Book). Charges: #63 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Cast
Role: Whisper Actor: Costollo

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: LLa Petite Bergere-Lalauze's Daughter, a child between 7 and 8 years of age; a Serious Dance(for 1st time)-Lalauze's Daughter; also by desire a Ball-Dance call'd The Louvre and Minuet-Lalauze, Lalauze's Daughter; After: (this night only) A Day of Taste-Shuteras17600320

Event Comment: Benefit for Burton. Not acted this season. Tickets deliver'd for The Lady's Last Stake will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: TThe Fingalian Dance-Miss Dawson

Event Comment: Benefit for Collins, and Younger, Prompter. Receipts: #38 8s. plus income from tickets: Collins, #51 6s. (box 26; Pit 258; Gallery 161); Younger, #55 14s. (Box 50; Pit 152; Gallery 104) (Account Book). Charges: #63 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: End: The Waggoners, as17610228; End IV: A Hornpipe-Mrs Crawford

Event Comment: Benefit for Tindal. No Building on Stage. Receipts: #38 12s. plus #113 18s. from tickets (Box 102; Pit 442; Gallery 221). Paid Mr Hursfall, barber, a bill for work done for Mr Sodi's New Dance #2 1s. 6d. (Account Book). [See Hungarian Gambols, 9 March.] Charges: #84 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: TThe Waggoners, as17610228

Event Comment: Benefit for Marten, Anderson, R. Smith. Receipts: #27 2s. plus income from tickets: Marten #83 7s. (Box 59; Pit 326; Gallery 197); Anderson #64 3s. (Box 14; Pit 343; Gallery 92); Richard Smith #50 3s. (Box 13; Pit 206; Gallery 160) (Account Book). Charges: #63 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Cast
Role: Clause Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: The Last New Comic Dance-Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville

Event Comment: By Particular Desire a Minuet (for the first time)-Noverre, Miss Mowatt. Benefit for Miss Mowatt. Mainpiece: Acted but once these 5 years. No Building on stage. Tickets and places to be had of Miss Mowatt, Upper End of New Bond St., and of Mr Varney at the Stage Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Event Comment: Benefit for Legg and Bennet. Receipts: #34 13s. 6d. plus income from tickets: Bennet #102 19s. (Box 37; Pit 418; Gallery 310); Legg #64 10s. (Box 34; Pit 248; Gallery 188) (Account Book). Charges: #63 17s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Dance: III: Last New Comic Dance-Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville; End: By Desire Heart of Oak (the Song)-Legg; with a Hornpipe in character-Poitier Jr

Event Comment: Benefit for Roberts. Receipts: #23 14s. plus #87 15s. from tickets (Box 116; Pit 295; Gallery 145 (Account Book). Charges: #80 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Song: II: A Song-Roberts, accompanied on a Welch Harp by Evans; IV: A Piece on the Welch Harp-Evans

Dance: LLes Charboniers, as17601215

Event Comment: Benefit for Wignell and Mrs Lee. No building on Stage. Receipts: #38 10s. plus #134 17s. from tickets: Wignell #90 14s. (Box 52; Pit 324; Gallery 291); Mrs Lee #44 3s. (Box 94; Pit 107; Gallery 46) (Account Book). Charges: #63 10s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko Or The Royal Slave

Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: II: Hornpipe (2nd time)-Mlle Capdeville; IV: The Provincial Sailors, as17610508

Event Comment: Benefit for a Gentleman under Misfortunes. Receipts: #63 19s. 6d. plus #116 6s. from tickets (Box 389; Pit 127). [Profit to Mr Oliver, the beneficiary, #96 5s. 6d. (Account Book).] Charges: #84 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: LLes Charboniers, as17601215

Event Comment: Benefit for Vaughan, Condell, Letsam, and Potter, (box-Keepers). Receipts: #21 19s. plus #211 from tickets: Vaughan #64 19s. (Box 123; Pit 174; Gallery 81); Condell #65 18s. (Box 107; Pit 211; Gallery 75); Letsam #36 (Box 72; Pit 64; Gallery 84); Potter #44 3s. (Box 55; Pit 128; Gallery 112). [To make up the #70 receiv'd by the house, Vaughan and Condell each put in one-third (#16 4d. a piece), and Letsam and Potter each put in one-sixth (#8 2d. apiece). Vaughan, Condell, and Potter each receiv'd this night #10 "for attendance at ye boxes this season (Account Book).] Receipts: #70 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: LLast New Comic Dance-Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville