Event Comment: [This Pastoral Serenata first appeared 21 March 1744 at the
Crown and Anchor in the
Strand, qv. At that time
Beard,
Savage,
Mrs Clive and
Miss Edwards sang in it.] By Subscription for three nights will be performed an English Pastoral Serenata, set to Music by
Mr DeFesch. Pit and Boxes laid together at 5s. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. On the 20th of March and 3rd of April will be performed a New Oratorio call'd
Joseph, also set to Music by Mr DeFesch. For the encouragement of such persons as shall please to favour Mr Defesch by subscribing one Guinea, they shall be entitled to six tickets, each of which will admit one into the boxes, or Two into the Gallery. Nobody to be admitted into the boxes without printed tickets, which will be deliver'd at the theatre. Subscriptions to be taken till the 5th of March, at Mr DeFesch's at the sign of the
Angel and Trumpet, in
St. Martin's Lane, at the
Bedford Coffee House,
Covent Garden; and at Mr
Page's Stage Door-keeper. To begin at half an hour after six. This day is publish'd
Papal Tyranny in the Reign of King John. [No price given, but the 1st edition lists it as 1s. 6d.
Watts would have had to sell about two thousand copies to cover his investment in copyright and printing costs.
Performances
Mainpiece Title: Love And Friendship