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Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Giffard. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. [Tickets at Mrs Giffard's House, No. 4, Craven Buildings, dl.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: III: Grand Ballet, as17390313 V: Turkish Dance-Muilment

Event Comment: Benefit Giffard. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Tickets at Giffard's, No. 4, Craven Buildings, dl

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant; Or, The Way To Win Him

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Punches Dance-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; III: Dutch Dance (new)-Baudoin, Miss Thompson; V: Grand Ballet-Muilment, Mrs Walter

Song: IV: By Desire, Oh Happy Pair (out of Alexander's Feast)-

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Pritchard. Tickets at Mrs Pritchard's, No. 8, Craven Buildings, dl

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mother-in-law; Or, The Doctor's The Disease

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

Song: II: The Noontide Air-Beard; IV: See from the Silent Groves Alexis Flies-Beard

Dance: III: Moors Dance-Muilment, Mrs Walter; V: Pieraites-Master Ferg, Miss Morrison

Event Comment: Benefit Milward. Mainpiece: Alter'd from Shakespear. [Stage enclosed, at 17 March. Tickets at Milward's House, No. 15, Craven Buildings, lower end of Drury Lane.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

Afterpiece Title: The Mock-Lawyer

Dance: I: Le Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Muilment; V: Ballet-Desnoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf

Song: The last new Song-Mrs Clive by Handel (17 March)

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Pritchard. [Tickets for Mrs Miller taken. Tickets at Mrs Pritchard's, No. 8, Craven Buildings.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: I: Muilment; III: Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; V: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg

Song: II: Beard; IV: The Noon Tide Air (Comus)-Miss Edwards; V: English Captain (as17400325-Beard

Event Comment: N.B. That the Ladies and Gentlemen may not be detained at the Theatre while Tickets are given them, they are desir'd to send for them to Mr Arne's House in Craven Buildings near Drury Lane, Number 17, or to Mr Bradshaw, Box-Keeper, at the Kings Arms in Great Russel St., where tickets may be had, and places taken. Boxes 6s. Pit 4s. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. Ladies are desir'd to send their servants to keep places by Four o'clock. NB: Mr Arne humbly hopes the Town will not be offended at this small advance of Prices, being at an extraordinary expence for copying all the Music, building the stage, additional instrumental performers, chorus singers, and erecting an Organ. [The attendance apparently was heavy. See note to repeated performance on 19 March.] Mainpiece: Written by Dryden and set to Music by Handel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast

Afterpiece Title: The Judgment of Paris

Event Comment: Benefit the Widow Milward and her 4 children. N.B. Mrs Milward greatly acknowledges the Favour of the Town to her on her former Benefit; and as a considerable number of persons, who had taken tickets for that night, could not find room, she has made application to Mr Rich who has generously given her at his theatre, a Day which he had reserved to himself; where tickets given out for her former benefit will be taken. The consideration of 4 fatherless children is the only apology she can plead for intreating this further indulgence from the public. Note If any persons are dispos'd to send for tickets on this occasion, they maY be had at Mrs Milward's, No. 15 in Craven Buildings, Drury Lane. Tickets to be had and places to be taken at the stage door in Bow st

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: TThe Peasants, as17420210; Chacone, as17411230; Rigadone Provencale, as17420226

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Giffard. Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of Several Persons of Quality. Servants will be admitted to keep places on the stage; and the ladies are desired to send their servants by 3 o'clock. Mr Giffard having receiv'd directions for places at his benefit takes this opportunity of acquainting his friends he shall desist from troubling them on that occasion this season. Tickets to be had of Mrs Giffard at No. 11, in Craven Buildings, Drury Lane; and of Hobson at the Stage door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Song: II: Lowe

Dance: III: Muilment; V: Sga Bettini

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Benefit Mrs Giffard. Tragedy not acted for 7 years. The Ballad Opera, by Mendez, never performed before. Servants admitted to keep places. Tickets at Mr Giffard's (No 11) in Craven Buildings, Drury Lane; and places for the boxes of Hobson, at the stage door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love; Or, The World Well Lost

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Song: II: Lowe; III: Polly Willis-Mrs Clive

Dance: IV: Muilment

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Benefit Mrs Giffard. Tickets to be had of her at her house, No 11 in Craven Buildings, Drury Lane, and of Hobson at the stage door where places may be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: Salomon, Sga Padouana, Muilment, Salomon's Son, the Mechels

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Giffard and Mrs Giffard. Mainpiece [by Thomas Baker]: Not acted these 15 years. [See 11 July 1738.] At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Afterpiece: A Farce of Two Acts never performed before, taken from a Comedy of the Celebrated Mr Otway. Tickets to be had of Giffard at No. 11 in Craven's Buildings, Drury Lane, and at the stage door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks; Or, The Yeoman Of Kent

Afterpiece Title: The Soldier's Fortune

Song: III: O Beauteous Queen Enclose those eyes, Come Ever Smiling Liberty-Mrs Storer; V: the 4th Cantata of Mr Stanly (in the character of Anacreon)-Beard

Event Comment: Benefit for Morgan and Miss Stevens. Tickets given out by Craven and Mrs Denton will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Knights

Afterpiece Title: The Auction

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett, Legg & Kear. Morning Chronicle, 3 May: Tickets to be of Fawcett, Craven Buildings, Drury-Lane; of Legg, Market-street, St James's Market; of Kear, No: 2, Stephen-street, Tottenham Court Road. Tickets delivered for Wednesday the 7th Inst. will be taken. Receipts: #229 1s. (36.12; 10.12; 0.0; tickets: 181.17) (charge: #64 15s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Runaway

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Dance: End: Grand Dance, as17770425

Event Comment: Benefit for the Establishment for the Discharge of Persons imprisoned for small Debts. [The Society in charge of this charity was located at 7, Craven-street, Strand (Public Advertiser, 15 Dec.).] Receipts: #181 12s. (125.9; tickets: 56.3) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: As17771104

Song: End II: song-Mrs Farrell

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Love & Mrs Johnston. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Public Advertiser, 1 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Bradshaw, at Nichol's, baker, Bridge Street, Covent Garden; of Mrs Love, No. 36, Gerrard Street, Soho; of Mrs Johnston, No. 97, near Craven Buildings, Drury-lane. Receipts: #120 1s. 6d. (31.10.0; 20.13.0; 0.7.6; tickets: 67.11.0) (charge: #66 7s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Song: As17790503

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett and Sga Crespi. Morning Chronicle, 12 May: Tickets to be had of Fawcett, Craven Buildings, Drury-Lane; of Sga Crespi, No. 26, Poland-street, Oxford-street. Receipts: #194 3s. 6d. (32.8.0; 14.5.6; 0.10.0; tickets: 147.0.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End I: Grand Dance, Chaconne (composed by Zuchelli)-Henry, Miss Armstrong, Sga Crespi; and a Minuet-Zuchelli, Sga Crespi; End I afterpiece: As17780919

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett and Butler. Morning Herald, 27 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Fawcett, Craven-buildings, Drury-lane; of Butler, next door to the stage-door, Little Russel-street, Covent-garden. Receipts: #281 16s. 6d. (43/0/0; 8/1/6; 0/8/0; tickets: 230/7/0) (charge: #109 2s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lord Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: Linco's Travels

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Related Works
Related Work: The Platonic Wife Author(s): Elizabeth Griffith

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece a Hornpipe by Master Butler (Scholar of Miller)

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Wheeler. Public Advertiser, 19 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Wheeler, No. 9, Craven-buildings, Drury-lane. Afterpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #111 12s. 6d. (33/8/0; 15/19/0; 0/7/6; tickets: 61/18/0) (charge: #106 4s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

Dance: End of mainpiece The Butterfly, as17830426

Event Comment: Benefit for Fawcett and the Widow Butler. Morning Chronicle, 17 May: Tickets to be had of Fawcett, Craven Buildings; of Mrs Butler, next door to the theatre. Receipts: #235 1s. (21/17/0; 16/16/6; 0/6/6; tickets: 196/1/0) (charge: #108 18s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lord Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Dance: As17860522

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Powell. 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT 1, author unknown. MS not in Larpent MS; not published]: Founded on a recent fortunate Event [the escape of Sir William Sidney Smith from The Temple, Paris, on 24 Apr. 1798 (European Magazine, June 1798, p. 395)]. With appropriate Scenery, and Machinery. [3rd piece in place of The Children in the Wood, advertised on playbill of 19 May.] Times, 15 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Powell, No. 43, Craven-street, Strand. Receipts: #548 17s. (233.4.6; 61.4.6; 0.17.0; tickets: 253.11.0) (charge: #214 12s. 1d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

Afterpiece Title: The Escape

Related Works
Related Work: An Escape into Prison Author(s): Elizabeth Inchbald

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Powell. [1st piece: Prologue by the author (see text).] 3rd piece: To conclude with Robinson Crusoe's departure from the Island. Morning Chronicle, 22 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Powell, No. 6, Craven-street, Strand. Receipts: #489 14s. 6d. (164.8.0; 67.15.6; 0.16.6; odd money: 6.14.6; tickets: 250.0.0) (charge: #213 2s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The East Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Afterpiece Title: The First Act of Robinson Crusoe; or, Harlequin Friday

Dance: In 3rd piece: the original Savage Dance-

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Powell. Morning Chronicle, 14 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Powell, No. 6, Craven-street, Strand. Receipts: #352 3s. 6d. (79.14.6; 68.14.0; 2.14.6; tickets: 201.0.6) (charge: #214 12s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Empress Of Morocco

Performance Comment: Edition of 1673: The first Prologue at Court-Lady Elizabeth Howard; The second Prologue at Court-Lady Elizabeth Howard; Prologue at the Play House-; Muly Labas-Harris; Muly Hamet-Smith; Grimalhaz-Batterton; Hametalhaz-Medbourne; Abdelcador-Crosby; Laula-Mrs Batterton; Mariamne-Mrs Mary Lee; Morena-Mrs Johnson; Epilogue-.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Vertue Betray'd; Or, Anna Bullen

Performance Comment: Anna Bullen-Mrs Oldfield; Henry VIII-Powell; Wolsey-Cibber; Northumberland-Keene; Piercy-Wilks; Rochford-Mills; Lady Diana-Mrs Rogers; Lady Elizabeth-Mrs Porter; Princess Elizabeth-Miss Smith.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virtue Betray'd; Or, Anna Bullen

Performance Comment: Henry VIII-Booth; Wolsey-Cibber; Northumberland-Thurmond; Piercy-Wilks; Rochford-Will. Mills; Anna Bullen-Mrs Oldfield; Diana-Mrs Johnson; Elizabeth-Mrs Horton; Young Princess Elizabeth-Miss Robinson Jr.