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Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: #172 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Wives Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Related Works
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda: With the Rape of Colombine; or, The Flying Lovers Author(s): John Weaver
Event Comment: Benefit John Festin. At Topham's Concert Room. Tickets 5s. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Event Comment: Benefit Johnson. Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Cast
Role: Coupler Actor: Johnson
Related Works
Related Work: The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Dance: Roger, Essex, Lally, Boval, Rainton, Mrs Booth, Mrs Mills, Mrs Walter, Mlle Delorme; particularly Myrtillo-

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Related Work: The Unhappy Favourite; or, The Earl of Essex Author(s): John Banks
Event Comment: Benefit Ray, alias Little John. At Lee-Harper Great Booth, on the Bowling-Green, Southwark. At 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Song: TThe Bath Teazer (that celebrated Ballad) by Leveridge-Ray

Dance: End II: The White Joke-Eaton; III: A new Dance-Hind, Eaton, Mrs Hill

Event Comment: By Desire. By a Company of Comedians from all the other Theatres. In which the Character of John Moody will be preserved (by Desire)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Related Works
Related Work: The Provok'd Husband; or, A Journey to London Author(s): John Vanbrugh

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Event Comment: Mainpiece: With New Habits. Afterpiece: A new Comic Opera. [Author unknown. It may be a reworking of John Mottley's The Craftsman, a farce.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Craftsman

Related Works
Related Work: The Craftsman; or, The Weekly Journalist Author(s): John Mottley
Event Comment: Benefit John Biggs. Tickets 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By John Hoadley. Apparently not published. For a discussion of this play, see Daily Journal, 30 April,] Receipts: #82 11s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Contrast; A Tragi-comical Rehearsal Of Two Modern Plays: Match Upon Match; Or, No Match At All, And The Tragedy Of Epaminodas

Related Works
Related Work: The Contrast: A Tragi-Comical Rehearsal of Two Modern Plays: Match Upon Match; or, No Match at All, and the Tragedy of Epaminodas Author(s): John Hoadley
Related Work: A Woman's Revenge Author(s): John Marston
Related Work: The Dreamer Awake; or, The Pugilist Matched Author(s): Edmund John Eyre
Event Comment: Benefit John Christian Schickhard, lately arrived from Germany. In the Great Room at the Three Tuns and Bull-Head. 7 p.m. 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Event Comment: A New English Opera (after the Italian Method). [Text by Henry Carey. Music by John Frederick Lampe.] Subscribers' Tickets will not be taken after the first four Nights. Pit and Boxes 6s. Gallery 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amelia

Related Works
Related Work: Amelia Author(s): John Frederick Lampe
Event Comment: Benefit Nivelon. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. Afterpiece: Containing Variety of New Songs, to old Ballad-Tunes [By John Hippisley]. Receipts: money #84 2s. 6d.; tickets #53 8s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Sequel to the Opera of Flora; or, Hob's Wedding

Related Works
Related Work: Sequel to the Opera of Flora; or, Hob's Wedding Author(s): John Hippisley
Related Work: Hob's Wedding Author(s): John Leigh

Dance: new Wooden Shoe Dance by Nivelon-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre; Afterpiece:A new Dance-Nivelon for the Afterpiece

Event Comment: Benefit John Festin. 7 p.m. 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Event Comment: Benefit Leveridge. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Receipts: money #68 17s. 6d.; tickets #126 12s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Wives Confederacy

Dance: I: Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; III: The Sicilians-Glover, Mrs Pelling; V: Hornpipe-Jones

Song: II: No Kissing At All-Leveridge, Salway; III: Bacchanalian Song-Leveridge; V: Pastoral Dialogue-Leveridge, Mrs Wright

Event Comment: Benefit John Baston. At the Academy in Chancery Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of the Free Masons Ladies. Receipts: #123 19s. 6d Rich's Register: Benefit John Rich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Related Works
Related Work: A Duke and No Duke Author(s): John Thurmond

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Related Works
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda: With the Rape of Colombine; or, The Flying Lovers Author(s): John Weaver
Event Comment: On Monday Night last died, at his Lodgings in Richmond, Mr John Ogden, one of the Comedians...in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Daily Journal, 5 July

Performances

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. St. James's Evening Post, 31 Oct.: We are informed, that John Ellys Esq: the eminent painter, succeeds Mr Wilks in the management of Drurylane Play-House; and that Mr Cibber Jr succeeds his father, who has resign'd to him

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Foresight Actor: Johnson

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: Mrs Booth

Event Comment: Benefit the Author of The Mock Doctor. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Afterpiece: By Desire. Done from the French of Moliere (Revised by the Author)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Cast
Role: Coupler Actor: Johnson
Related Works
Related Work: The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: LLes Bergeries, as17321019

Event Comment: A New English Opera. [Text by Thomas Lediard.] Set to Musick after the Italian Manner by Mr John Frederick Lampe. The Scenes and Cloaths are entirely New. With the Representation of a Transparent Theatre. Curiously Illuminated, and adorn'd with a great Number of Emblems, Mottos, Devices, and Inscriptions; and embellish'd with Machines, in a Manner entirely new. N.B. The Illuminations and other Preparations for this Opera are such, that no Person whatever can be admitted to the Stage. Pit and Boxes put together at 6s. Gallery 3s. 6 p.m. [For a discussion of Lediard and this work, see a series of articles by Ifan Kyrle Fletcher, Sybil Rosenfeld, and Richard Southern in Theatre Notebook, II (1948), 42-54.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Britannia

Event Comment: Benefit John Festin. 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Event Comment: FFog's, 24 March: Colley Cibber, Esq; one of the Patentees of [dl], being now possessed of a more commodious Post, has sold his entire Share of the Cloaths, Scenes, and Patent, to John Highmore, Esq; and at the End of this Season he is, we hear, to quit the Stage

Performances

Event Comment: Benefit Mr Thurmond. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality and Distinction. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. [Tickets at Thurmond's House, Haydon Square.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Related Works
Related Work: The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Ballet: DDifference of Nations. As17330312

Event Comment: Benefit Giles and Williams. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality and Distinction. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. [Tickets at Giles's Coffee House in Pall Mall.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Related Works
Related Work: The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: Scotch Dance-Young Weeks, Scholar to Dupre; III: Masquerade Dance-; IV: Shepherd's Dance-Young Weeks

Song: a G Gentleman for his Diversion; A song, called Goodman's Fields Theatre address'd to the Merchants of the City of London-Excell , written by the Author of Bacchus one day gaily striding

Related Works
Related Work: A Song for St Cecilia's Day Author(s): John Dryden
Event Comment: Benefit Allen, the Numberer [Rich's Register adds: the late Mr Wilks' Nephew.] Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Afterpiece: Intermix'd with Songs; taken from Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Cast
Role: Coupler Actor: Johnson
Related Works
Related Work: The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Imaginary Cuckolds

Dance: I: Drunken Peasant-LeBrun; II: Dutchwoman-Miss Robinson; III: Harlequin-Miss Brett; IV: English Maggot-Haughton, Mrs Walter; V: The Flight-Essex, Miss Robinson

Event Comment: Benefit W. Grove, M.R. by Command of the Honourable Court of Non-Common-Pleas. The Gentlemen of the Society are desir'd to meet at their Court, at Sir John's, at 5 o'Clock exactly, from thence to proceed to the Theatre. 6 p.m. 5s., 4s., 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Related Works
Related Work: Sequel to the Opera of Flora; or, Hob's Wedding Author(s): John Hippisley
Related Work: Hob's Opera Author(s): John Hippisley

Music: I: Trumpet Concerto-Burk Thumoth; II: Concerto-Vivaldi; III: Solo on the German Flute-Thumoth; V: Sonata for the Harpsichord and Violin Harpsichord-Thumoth

Dance: II: Dutch Skipper-Jones Sr, Jones Jr; IV: Sailor's Dance-Jones