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Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By John Weaver.] A new Dramatick Entertainment of Dancing after the Manner of the Ancient Pantomimes. With proper Scenes and Habits. Mainpiece: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Event Comment: [Written by Lewis Theobald.] The Music by Mr Galliard. By Subscription. A new Comic-Dramatic Opera. With all new Cloaths, and the Scenes are Machines after the Venetian Manner. N.B. There are above two Thousand Ells of Cloath employ'd in the Painting. Pit and Boxes by tickets only. Stage Boxes 15s. First Gallery 3s. Box in the Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d

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Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Triumph

Performance Comment: Edition of 1718 lists: In Act V a Masque of Decius and Paulina. Decius Mundus-Mrs Barbier; Simon-Leveridge; Paulina-Mrs Thurmond; Ida-Pack; Priestess of Isis-Mrs Fitzgerald.
Event Comment: Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 11 Oct.: Last Friday Night...three Gentlemen demanded to go behind the Scenes; but there being an Order of the House made to the contrary, they were denied Admittance; upon which they went into the Pit, and with Apples, &c. pelted the Players in a shameful Manner, after which they got upon the Stage and drew their Swords and broke down the Scenery, Lamps, &c. which put the House in an Uproar, and 'twas an Hour before the Gentlemen could be brought to a civil Behaviour

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal; Or, The Humours Of The Navy

Dance: delaGarde, Moreau, Mrs Bullock, Miss Schoolding; Dutch Skipper-delaGarde, Mrs Bullock

Event Comment: It seems a very scandalous Interlude, or Play, has been prepar'd for Action at...Lincoln's Inn Fields notwithstanding the Discouragement that was given but a little while since to one of the same Kind; but a proper Authority has put a Stop to such Outrages against Common Decency and Manners.-Weekly Packet, 4-11 July

Performances

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A new Dramatick Entertainment of Dancing, compos'd by Mr Thurmond (after the Manner of the Pantomimes)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and No Duke

Event Comment: Daily Post, 3 Feb.: Whereas several Persons on Wednesday last came to the Play-House in a Riotous Manner, to the Interruption of the Play, and Disturbance of the Audience: The Company think fit to desist from Acting till proper Care be taken to prevent the like Disorders for the future

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Event Comment: Not Acted these Ten Years. As it was alter'd from Beaumont and Fletcher, by C. Cibber. Daily Journal, 5 Jan.: Last Night the Rival Fools...was violently hiss'd, upon which Mr Cibber, in a very civil manner, address'd himself to the Audience, and told'em, 'That they did not offer that Play as one of their most polite Entertainments, that they had been reflected on by the Town for not pushing forward their young Actors; that this Play had been revived for no other Purpose, that it was impossible for the old ones to last forever, and therefore he beg'd the Audience to be silent, and give those who were desirous of it the liberty of hearing.' This Speech was interupted by a thundering Clap, and produced a good effect for an Act, and then the hissing began again, and grew so violent towards the latter end, that they were obliged to give the Play out two or three times, and much ado had the ingenious Mr Penkethman to be heard at last. (See also Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 6 Jan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Fools; Or, Wit At Several Weapons

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Performance Comment: Careless-Ryan; Bookseller-Egleton; Blunt-Quin; Day-Spiller; Abel-Bullock Sr; Obadiah-Morgan; Ruth-Mrs Bullock; Arabella-Mrs Seymour; Mrs Day-Mrs Egleton; Teague-Aston; after the Manner of the late Mr Estcourt. With a New Epilogue-Mr Aston , in the Character of Teague riding on an Ass.

Afterpiece Title: The Magician

Song: As17220210

Event Comment: Their Habits were very rich, after the Roman Manner, and the performance of all the Parts was so just that it gave general Satisfaction, and gained the Applause of a very numerous Audience

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Event Comment: Daily Post, 30 Nov.: Harlequin Doctor Faustus...meets with universal Approbation. The Incidents are taken from the old History of the doctor and several Tricks supposed to be done by the Power of the Black Art, art executed in a very surprising Manner, and the last Grand Scene is superior in Magnificence to any thing that has ever yet appeared on the British Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Event Comment: [By John Gay.] True Briton, 22 Jan.: I was a Spectator, the first Night, at...The Captives; when I was Witness to a Ceremony, which I can never judge to be either beneficial to the Author, or contribute much to the Entertainment of the Town. There were large Quantities of Brandy distributed amongst the Footmen in the Boxes, and that in so plentiful a manner, that several of them were carried out of the House dead drunk. This, it seems, is call'd, Christening a Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Captives

Event Comment: Benefit Hallam, Rob. William, and Miss Tynte. Written by Shakespear. Th. Cibber (Lives and Characters, pp. 49-49): I remember, some Years ago, on Mr Giffard's coming from Ireland (then a young Actor) Mr Booth performed the Character of Hotspur one Night, when Mr Giffard played the Part of the Prince of Wales ; Mr Booth knowing Mr Giffard must be naturally prejudiced in favour of Mr Thomas Elrington, to whose Performance in Hotspur he had many times attended with no small Admiration-Mr Booth, piqued on this Occasion, exerted himself in a particular Manner, and played the whole Part with such Fire, and Engergy of Spirit, as rouzed his Auditors to an Extravagance of Applause, and made Mr Giffard confess (as he has often done in my Hearing) that, notwithstanding his Prepossession in favour of Mr Elrington,-Mr Booth, in Power, Spirit, and Judgment, went far beyond him in this Part; as he afterwards, with Admiration confessed,-he did in every other

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: Thurmond, Boval, Mrs Brett, Miss Tenoe, Young Rainton, Miss Robinson

Event Comment: With the Ceremonial of her Coronation in the same Manner as it was Perform'd in the Play of King Henry the Eighth

Performances

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

Performance Comment: King Henry-Booth; Anna Bullen-Mrs Oldfield; Wolsey-Cibber; Northumberland-Bridgwater; Piercy-Wilks; Rochford-Wm. Mills; Lady Elizabeth-Mrs Horton; Lady Diana-Mrs Cibber; Young Princess Elizabeth-Miss Robinson.
Cast
Role: Northumberland Actor: Bridgwater
Event Comment: Benefit Walker. Written by Farquhar. Receipts: money #80 1s.; tickets #87 15s. Probable attendance: boxes, 100 by money and 202 by tickets; stage, 32 by money; pitt, 115 by money and 147 by tickets; slips, 30 by money; first gallery, 160 by money and 152 by tickets; second gallery, 114 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And A Bottle

Performance Comment: Roebuck-Walker; Lovewell-Ryan; Lyric-Hippisley; Mockmode-Morgan; Club-Hall; Brush-Spiller; Beggar-Chapman; Lucinda-Mrs Bullock; Judge's Lady-Mrs Clarke; Pindress-Mrs Morgan; Leanthe with singing in the Character of the Page-Miss Fenton; Trudge, with singing after the Irish Manner-Mrs Egleton.

Dance: FFingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; Two Pierrots-Poitier, Nivelon; Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock

Song: MMerry Cobler's Tragical End at Last-Leveridge

Event Comment: UUniversal Spectator, 11 Jan.: Last Sunday Night [5 Jan.] Mrs Baker, the Actress of Drury-Lane Theatre, was buried in a very handsome Manner at St. Clement's Danes, the Master of the House and most of the Actors attending the same

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Cast
Role: Ferdinand Actor: Wilks
Role: Miranda Actor: Mrs Booth
Event Comment: Benefit Kontzen, a Youth of Seven Years old, who plays on the Harpsichord in a surpizing manner. Boxes half a guinea. Pit 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Several Pieces on Harpsichord-the Youth [Kontzen]; Some Sonatas and Concertos on the Violin-Kontzen's Father; accompanied on the Harpsichord-the Youth; Cantata-the Youth; [Also a Cantata-one lately arrived in England

Event Comment: DDaily Post, 10 June; The Beggar's Wedding...is very entertaining; but the Part of Hunter , in particular, is perform'd by a Person, who, altho his Voice is but indifferent, sings, in the Opinion of all Judges, with a Manner almost as agreeable as Senesino

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Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Wedding

Dance: As17290603

Event Comment: [By Ebenezer Forrest.] By Command of His Royal Highness. After the Manner of the Beggar's Opera. All the Habits and Scenes entirely New. Receipts: #161 18s. 6d. [For a comment on this performance, see Thomas Edwards to John Clerke, "Unrecorded Comments on John Gay, Henry Travers, and Others", N & Q (August 1953), p. 338.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Momus Turn'd Fabulist; Or, Vulcan's Wedding

Event Comment: An Oratorio in English. Formerly Compos'd by Mr Handel, and now revised by him, with several Additions, and to be performed by a great Number of the best Voices and Instruments. N.B. There will be no Action on the Stage. but the House will be fitted up in a decent Manner for the Audience. The Musick to be disposed after the maner of the Coronation Service. [Their Majesties, Prince, Princess Royal and Amelia present. See also Egmont, Diary, I, 266, and Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, pp. 205-97.

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Mainpiece Title: Esther

Event Comment: There will be no Action on the Stage, but the Scene will represent, in a Picturesque Manner, a Rural Prospect, with Rocks, Groves, Fountains and Grotto's, amongst which will be disposed a Chorus of Nymphs and Shepherds, the Habits and every other Decorations suited to the Subject

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Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Performance Comment: King's Music MSS (BM) R.M. 20d. 2 and R.M. 19.f.7 lists: Galatea-Signora Strada; Acis-Senesino; Damon-Campioli; Polifemo-Montagnana; Clori-Miss Robinson; Filli-Signora Bagnolesi; Dorinda-Signora Bertoli; Eurillo-Mrs Davis; Silvio-Pinacci.
Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. For the Benefit of the Famous Signora Violante, who is just arriv'd with a new extraordinary fine Company....After the Irish Manner, Which was perform'd 96 Times in Dublin with great Applause. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. [For performances at the Fairs in September, see season of 1731-1732.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance: HHarlequin-Master LaFevre, Miss Violante; Louvre in Boys Cloaths-Miss Violante; Two Pierrots-Lalauze, Tobin

Event Comment: Formerly Compos'd by Mr Handel, and now again Revis'd by him. With several Additions, to be perform'd by a great Number of the best Voices and Instruments. There will be no Action on the Stage, but the Scenes will represent (in a Picturesque Manner) a Rural Prospect, with Rocks, Groves, Fountains, and Grottos, amongst which will be disposed a Chorus of Nymphs and Shepherds. The Habits and every other Decoration suited to the Subject. [Prince of Wales and Princess Royal present. See letter from Hill to Handel, in Hill, Works, I, 174-75, and in Deutsch, Handel, p. 299.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Event Comment: DDaily Post, 18 Dec.: We hear from Southwark, that a Theatre will be ready to open there the 26th Day of this Month, on the Bowling Green, by a new Company of Comedians, who intend to play the remaining part of the Winter; and that Preparations are making in a handsome Manner for the Reception of the Gentry

Performances

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. By Her Majesty's Command. Preface to edition of 1734: The Third Night it went off in the same Manner, to the most numerous and splendid Audience that could be seen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Revenge

Dance: By Maker and Mlle Salle

Event Comment: A Serenata. Being an Essay of several different Sorts of Harmony.[Music by Handel. Done into English by George Oldmixon.] Daily Advertiser, 14 March: Last Night Mr Handell's new Serenata, in Honour of the Princess Royal's Nuptials with the Prince of Orange, was perform'd before their Majesties, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, the Prince of Orange, and all the Royal Family, and was received with the greatest Applause; the Piece containing the most exquisite Harmony ever furnish'd from the Stage, and the Disposition of the Performers being contriv'd in a very grand and magnificent Manner. [The marriage of the Prince of Orange and Royal Princess occurred on Thursday, 14 March.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Parnasso In Festa; Or, Apollo And The Muses Celebrating The Nuptials Of Thetis And Peleus