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Event Comment: Benefit Beard. Tickets at Beard's House, New North Street, Red-Lion Square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: with The Eearly Horn Actor: Beard
Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: I: Punches Dance-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; III: Turkish Dance-Muilment; IV: Comic Dance-Poitier

Song: II: Wou'd You Taste the Noontide Air (from Comus)-Beard; IV: (By Desire,) Oh Happy Pair (out of Alexander's Feast)-

Event Comment: Benefit Poitier. [Tickets at Poitier's Lodgings, the Door before the New Bagnio in Great Suffolk Street, near the Haymarket.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Song: TThe Noontide Air (from Comus)-Beard

Music: Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Poitier

Dance: Poitier

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A new Interlude. [Apparently not published.] 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Angelica And Medoro

Afterpiece Title: LAsilo DAmore

Event Comment: A New Serenata. The whole set to Musick by Mr Galliard. 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Folly

Performance Comment: Intermix'd with the Choruses to the Tragedy of Julius Caesar-.
Event Comment: Benefit Miss Jenny and Miss Betty Cibber?, Two Infant Daughters of the late Mrs Jane Cibber. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Afterpiece: Taken from Moliere, and Intermixed with Songs. At 6:45 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Performance Comment: See17390514, but Foppington (new dressed)-Cibber, being the first time of his appearance on that stage; Berinthia-Mrs Horton; Loveless-Hallam; Worthy-Bridgwater; Young Fashion-Walker; Sir Tunbelly-Marten; Amanda-Mrs Stevens; Hoyden-Mrs Vincent; Coupler-Arthur; Bull-Littleton; Shoemaker-Clark; Nurse-Mrs Martin; Seringe and Lory-Chapman.

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performance Comment: See17390518, but Doctor-Cibber; Also an Epilogue by Jo. Haines, Comedian of facetious Memory) by particular Desire,-the young Captain in his Regimentals, Riding on an Ass.

Dance: Master Oates, Phillips from dl, Miss Oates, Master Ferg

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir Richard Steele. Afterpiece: Taken from Moliere, and Intermix'd with Songs. At Common Prices. Stage half a guinea. 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Indiana-Mrs Horton; Young Bevil-Hale; Phillis-Mrs Vincent; Sir John-Bridgwater; Myrtle-Hallam; Cimberton-Arthur; Sealand-Rosco; Humphrey-Mullart; Daniel-James; Mrs Sealand-Mrs James; Isabella-Mrs Mullart; Lucinda-Mrs Bellamy; Tom (new dressed)-Cibber.

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performance Comment: Mock Doctor-Cibber; Jasper-Arthur; Leander-Clark; Harry-Hale; James-Anderson; Davy-Smith; Hellebore-Roberts; Robert-Littleton; Charlotte-Mrs Brunette; Dorcas-Miss Burgess, the first time of her appearance on that stage.

Dance: II: Serious Dance-Desse, Miss Oates; V: Comic Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates

Music:

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Performance Comment: Touchwood-Bridgwater; Sir Paul-Hippisley; Maskwell-Rosco; Mellefont-Hale; Careless-Ryan; Froth-Neale; Saygrace-Arthur; Lady Touchwood-Mrs Cross; Lady Plyant-Mrs James; Cynthia-Mrs Vincent; Lady Froth-Mrs Horton; Brisk (new dressed)-Cibber.

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: I: Ballet-Desse, Miss Oates; III: Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; V: Grecian Sailors-Glover

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Performance Comment: Sir Novelty (new dressed)-Cibber; Sir William-Hippisley; Loveless-Ryan; Elder Worthy-Bridgwater; Young Worthy-Hale; Snap-James; Sly-Mullart; Hillaria-Mrs Stevens; Narcissa-Mrs Bellamy; Flareit-Mrs Kilby; Mrs Anne-Miss Horsington; Amanda-Mrs Hallam.

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne Author(s): Theophilus Cibber
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Event Comment: A new Tragedy. [By Anthony Brown.] A Compleat List (1747), pp. 182-83: With no Success, which the Friends of the Author imputed in a great Measure to Mr Quin's refusing to act a Part in it; whereupon, to shew their Resentment, he did not appear on the Stage for some Nights without being hissed or houted at

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Retirement

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 17 Nov.: The Audience in general last Night [Friday 16]...demanding the last new Farce call'd An Hospital for Fools, and persisting in that Demand so considerable a time, made it impossible to avoid giving it out for [Saturday 17]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not Or The Kind Impostor

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan

Dance: II: French Peasants-Lalauze, Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Ballet-Muilment; V: Grand Ballet-Mlle Chateauneuf

Event Comment: A New Serenata. [Music by Giovanni Battista Pescetti.] Tickets half a guinea. 6 p.m. Mrs Pendarves to Lady Throckmorton, 28 Nov.: The concerts begin next Saturday at the Haymarket. Caristini sings, Peschetti composes; the house is made up into little boxes, like the playhouses abroad; Lord Middlesex is the chief undertaker, and I believe it will prove to his cost, for concerts will not do. --Delany, Autobiography, II, 66

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Diana And Endymion

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 26 Dec.: The New Theatre in the Hay-Market is enlarging, in order to perform Italian Opera there

Performances

Event Comment: By Desire. Afterpiece: A new Farce. [By Edward Phillips.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: Britons Strike Home or The Sailors Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Captain Briton-Berry; Lieutenant Meanwell (Bayes)-Macklin; Sir John Freehold-Winstone; Export-Turbutt; Dapperwit (Critick)-Woodward; Foremost (alias Don Guarda Costs)-Ridout; Bowsprit (alias Don Superbo Pistole)-Yates; Father Dominique-Taswell; Capstern-Marten; Starboard-Reed; Helmaloe-Woodburn; Don Jack-Leigh; Don Uric-Gray; Kitty (alias Donna Americana)-Mrs Clive; Edition of 1739 adds: Prologue-; Epilogue-Mrs Clive, Macklin.
Cast
Role: Father Dominique Actor: Taswell
Event Comment: A new Musical Drama. [By John Lockman. Set to Music by Mr John Christopher Smith.] 5s. To continue for twenty consecutive Fridays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosalinda

Performance Comment: Mrs Arne, Beard, Russel; A solo on the Violin-Festing; a Solo on the Violoncello-Caporale; and several Concertos-; but edition of 1740 lists: Rosalinda-Mrs Arne; Garcia-Beard.
Event Comment: Afterpiece: A new Pantomime Entertainment. [Author not known. Apparently not published.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Woodward; Queen of Gipsies-Miss Jones; Gipsies-Leigh, Green, Vaughan, Gray, Mrs Davenport, Mrs Vallois, Miss Woodman, Miss Story; Young Rustick-Liviez; Colombine-Mrs Walter; Colombine's Father-Pelling; Mittimus-Usher; Goaler-Reed; Mother-Yates; Maid-Mrs Woodward; Magician-Rheinhold; Pierrot-Lalauze.
Cast
Role: Colombine's Father Actor: Pelling
Role: Mother Actor: Yates

Ballet: with a Gwith a Grand Entertainment of Dancing call'd A Voyage to the Land of Cytherea. Adonis-Denoyer; Venus-Mlle Chateauneuf; Pilgrims-Liviez, Baudouin, Rector, Cook, Mrs Walter, Mrs Chetwood, Mrs Wright, Mrs Woodward; Cupid-Muilment

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Afterpiece: a New Dramatick Entertainment of Musick and Grotesque Dancing. Edition of 1740: Set to Musick by Mr John-Frederick Lampe. [For further letters concerning John Hill and Rich, see London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 11 and 12 Feb.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice With The Metamorphoses of Harlequin

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Alter'd from Beaumont and Fletcher, by Sir John Vanbrugh and Mr Dryden. Afterpiece: An English Opera, written by the late Mr Addison, and new set to Musick by Mr Arne, reserving two or three Favourite Songs, out of his former Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Afterpiece Title: Rosamond

Dance: I: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg; II: L'Allamande-Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: Punches-Master Ferg, Miss Wright

Event Comment: Benefit Beard. [Part of the Stage will be formed into Side-Boxes. Tickets at Beard's House, New North Street, Red Lion Square.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Related Works
Related Work: The Constant Couple; or, A Trip to the Jubilee Author(s): George Farquhar

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: I: Muilment; III: La Matelote-Desnoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf; V: Muilment

Song: II: See from the Silent Groves-Beard; IV: By particular Desire, a Song in the Character of a Sea Captain (as17400325-Beard

Event Comment: Benefit Giffard. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq; Poet-Laureat. Afterpiece: a new Dramatic Satire. [By David Garrick.] Tickets at Giffard's Lodgings [Mr Bolney's) in Great Queen Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Lethe or Esop in the Shades

Performance Comment: In which will be introduced Singing-Mr Beard, Mrs Clive; particularly The Life of a Belle, in Imitation of The Life of a Beau, -Mrs Clive; Esop-Taswell; Mercury-Beard; Charon-Marten; Drunken Man-Macklin; Beau-Woodward; Attorney-Turbutt; Thomas-Raftor; Lady-Miss Bennet; Lucy-Mrs Clive; With a Prologue-; Epilogue-.

Dance: II: La Matelote-Desnoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Muilment; V: Le Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 15 Sept.: [cg] is new painted and decorated, and will be open'd on Friday next...the Report of Mr Cibber and Mrs Horton being engag'd to another Theatre, is entirely without Foundation: That Company would have begun acting sooner, but for the finishing of a large additional Building, which is now cover'd in, whereby they will, on some Occasions, be enabled to add near 70 Feet to the Length of the Stage, which was before the longest in England, but will now exceed in Depth, any Theatre in Europe

Performances

Event Comment: A new Operetta. [By Handel.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hymen

Performance Comment: Deutsch, Handel, p. 508, lists cast from a copy in the National Library of Scotland; Imeneo-Savage; Tirinto-Andreoni; Rosmene-Signora Francescina; Clomiri-Miss Edwards; Argeno-Reinhold.
Event Comment: A New Serenata. 7 p.m. 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Trionfo Di Amore

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. Daily Advertiser, 22 Dec.: On Saturday last was performed...As you like it; the extraordinary Applause it met with, is a strong Proof of the Merit of that immortal Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: As17401220, but The Songs new Set by Mr Arne-.

Dance: I: Les Jardiniers Suedois-Fausan, Signora Fausan; III: L'Allamande-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf

Event Comment: A New Opera, [Text by Rolli. Music by Handel.] Boxes a half guinea. Pit 5s. First Gallery 3s. Second Gallery 2s. 6:30 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deidamia

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Serenata

Performance Comment: In which will be introduced several Pieces on a new-invented Instrument, called The Corno Cromatico-.