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Event Comment: Benefit for Mlle Anne Auretti. Five rows of the Pit will be laid into the boxes, &c. [as on 7 March]. Tickets to be had at Mlle Auretti's at the second House on the left hand, the corner of Panton St., Leicester Fields, and of Hobson at the stage door. Receipts: #180 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: I: L'Entree de Flore, as17481027; II: Scotch Dance, as17490118; III: A Harlequin Dance-Matthews, Anne Auretti; V: Louvre and Minuet-Cooke, Anne Auretti

Event Comment: Paid 1!2 year's water rent due Misdummer #1; Paid Read (Turner) for 5 wheels 5s.; Paid Mrs Rogers for wax, &c. 4s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #60 (Cross); #63 2s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Song: Master Mattocks

Ballet: TThe Savoyard Travellers. As17491110

Dance: End II: by desire a Hornpipe-Matthews

Event Comment: By Particular Desire. Paid Norton 3 Chorus 15s.; Mr Knight for lamps &c. #10 11s.; for 15 lbs lampwick #1 5s.; Paid Leviez (Ballet Master) a bill as per order #13 19s., and ditto on a Note as per order #34 3s. (Treasurer's Book). We hear Mrs Pritchard, that justly celebrated Actress, is much recovr'd of her late illness, and we are in hopes that she will be able in a short time to perform again at Drury Lane (General Advertiser). Receipts: #140 (Cross); #153 6s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Event Comment: With proper scenes, Machines, &c. [This is the Dryden-Davenant version.] Paid G. Garrick balance of his bill #6 13s.; Christmas Box to ye Beadle 3s. 6d.; Mr Norton 5 chorus #1 5s.; Xmas Jury #1 1s.; Mr Madden for an Embroidered Coat and a velvet suit of Cloaths #12 (Treasurer's Book). [This month was published A Dissertation on Comedy (by John Hippisley, Jr) in which the Rise and Progress of that Species of the Drama is particularly considered and deduced from the earliest to the present age. By a Student of Oxford. Printed for T. Lowndes (Gentleman's Magazine, Register of Books). The "Student of Oxford" seems to have been a Garrick apologist in the extreme: "But whatever reason there may have been formerly for this complaint [the immorality of the stage] since Mr Garrick's management the Stage is become the school of manners and morality: Ribaldry and Profaneness are no longer tolerated, Sense and Nature exert their influence; Pantomime daily declines, Dancers are but little encouraged; the Burletta performs to empty benches, and the British can now vie with the Athenian Drama when in its severest state of purity" (p. 15). Also, from the same source, Reflections on that Species of Dramatic Writing which it improperly call'd Serious Comedy: from the French of M Maillet du Boulley.] Receipts: #120 (Cross); #126 3s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest; Or, The Inchanted Island

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Event Comment: Benefit for Berry. Tickets at Pope's Peruke Maker Russell St. Rec'd Cash #93 3s., plus #92 11s. from tickets. Total #185 14s.; Paid Salary List #203 7s.; Norton 5 chorus #1 5s. (Treasurer's Book). To the Public, Gentlemen and Ladies, I am very sorry that a long, sharp, and severe fit of Illness prevents me the satisfaction of making my personal application to my friends as usual, against my Benefit; but finding myself every day rather worse than better, I hope you will be so kind as to take this notice, that the Stratagem, will be performed on Saturday the 21st of April; the part of Archer by Mr Garrick, for the benefit of Mr and Mrs Mills; with a Farce and all other usual Entertainments. From your most oblig'd Servant, William Mills. Mr Mills hopes his friends who intend to honour him with their company, will be so kind as to send to him for Places, Tickets, &c., or call upon him at Mr Gardner's Printing Office in Russel St., Covent Garden; or at Hobson's at the stage door (General Advertiser). Receipts: #180 (Cross); charges, #60 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: VVenetian Gardeners-Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti

Event Comment: This day is publish'd a Guide to the Stage; or Select Instructions and Precedents from the best Authorities towards forming a polite Audience; with some account of the Players, &c. Printed and sold by D. Job, at the Spread Eagle in King St. [An ironical post-Addisonian quip at theatrical behavior]: I boldly enter the lists as the first champion for theatric decorum. The next thing to be consider'd is disapprobation, which I think may be sufficiently shewn, by an attention to something else, by loud discourse, profuse laughter, and the like. I cannot help thinking it a little out of character, for a polite audience to distort their features by a hiss: however for the sake of some ambitious youths, who thus love to signalize themselves, I shall leave a new play to their mercy. They then are at liberty to exercise their several talents whether they hiss or groan most successfully, or have a greater genius for the cat-call. If you desire to know when you are to shew your dislike, my answer is, when anything displeases you, or in fine when you will provided you have a strong party to second you; for the best hiss or groan in the universe may be drown'd in a general applause. [Never laugh at what passes on stage save it be an error, blunder, or accident. In tragic scenes avoid being visibly moved by humming a tune, regarding the audience, engaging in conservation, or turning your back to the stage. When a female social rival calls attention to herself and away from the stage, let fall your handkerchief into the pit, or call out to an acquaintance in the opposite box, or burst into loud and unexpected laughter. You'll know when to applaud, for the actors will tell you.] On these occasions Cato looks more than unusually big, Hamlet stares with great emphasis, Othello has a most languishing aspect, Monimia is all sighs and softness, Beatrice will bridle, and pretty Peggy Wildair leers you into a clap. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Event Comment: Benefit for ye Author, tho' not put so in the Bills (Cross). To the Publick: As Mr Arne originally composed the Music in the Masque of Alfred, and the town may probably on that account imagine the Music, as now perform'd, to he all his production, he is advised by his friends to inform the publick that but two of his songs are in that performance, viz.: the first song beginning O Peace thou fairest child of Heaven; and the Ode in Honour of Great Britain, beginning, When Britain first at Heaven's Command, with the chorus, Rule Britannia, Rule the Waves, &c. which songs he submitted to be mix'd with the productions of others, to oblige the author of the poem. Tho. Aug. Arne (General Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alfred

Event Comment: Benefit for Havard. Mainpiece: By particular desire. No building on the stage on account of the machinery for the Masque. Tho' Mr Havard's long and severe indisposition has prevented his personal solicitation, yet he hopes it will not deprive him of the preference of those Persons of Quality, &c. who used to favour his Benefits. N.B. Those ladies and gentlemen who applied for places and were disappointed the last time the Masque was performed, may have them for this night, by sending to Mr Hobson at the stage door, by whom tickets will be deliver'd; As also at the Bedford Coffee House, and at Mr Havard's in Broad Court, the upper end of Bow St., Covent Garden. Tickets hitherto deliver'd will be taken. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alfred

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs James and Miss Minors. No building on stage. Tickets of Mrs James at her lodgings at Mr Saunder's Carpenter, in Little Wild St., Lincoln's Inn Fields; Miss Minors' at Mr Nicholl, a Baker in Catherine St., and at stage door. An Information was given to Henry Fielding, Esq; that a Set of Barber's apprentices, journeymen staymakers, maid-servants, &c. had taken a large Room at the Black Horse in the Strand, to act the tragedy of The Orphan; the Price of Admittance One Shilling. About eight o'clock the said Justice issued his warrant, directed to Mr Welch, High Constable, who apprehended the said actors, and brought them before the said Justice, who, out of compassion to their youth, only bound them over to their good behavior. They were all conducted through the streets in their Tragedy Dresses, to the no small Diversion of the Populace. (General Advertiser). Receipts: #138 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: IV: Sg Piettro, Janeton Auretti, Master Piettro

Event Comment: MMr Woodward said--I have been getting you (to Bayes) a fine parcel of Monsters, & they have knock'd me down & taken 'em from me--(thinking of the late Dispute) a little hissing &c. but it went off--Great Applause all thro'. Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Concluding: Devisse, Mad Auguste

Event Comment: 'TTis said Miss Bellamy, who engag'd lately with Mr Rich is off again. Mr Colthorp who kept her, swears to kick Rich &c. Great noise about it in ye Bedford Coffee House (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses; Or, The Custom Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Dance: Grandchamps, Mlle Camargo

Event Comment: Last time of performing [the afterpiece] this Season. Tickets deliver'd out by Vernon, Sanderson, &c. for a Bold Stroke for a Wife will be taken this night. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. This Morning at Ten will be publish'd at 6d. An Epistle from Mr The. Cibber to David Garrick, Esq; to which are prefix'd some occasional verses, Petitions, &c.: @Lowliness is young Ambition's ladder,@Whereto the Climber upwards turns his face;@But when he once attains the upmost Round,@He then unto the ladder turns his back,@Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees@By which he did ascend.@Shakespeare@"Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so we would have it; let them not say, we have swallow'd him up," Ps. XXXV. v.25. Printed for R. Griffiths. [A thirty-five-page apologia, and bitter attack upon Garrick for supposed complicity in prohibiting the license of the Haymarket to him.] Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: Tomorrow a Comedy (not acted these 02 years) call'd The Gamester with Dancing by Mr Gardiner, being his first time of appearing on that stage, Mrs Vernon, &c. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Beard. Part of Pit will be laid into boxes, &c. Receipts: #350 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Song: I: The Country Wedding-Beard; II: The Bonny Broom-Miss Young; III: By Desire, Music: Sir Watkins Delighton the Harp-Parry; IV: The Toast-Beard; V: A Duetto When Phoebus the top of the Hills does Adorn-Beard, Miss Young

Event Comment: TTaswel &c. had Tickets. Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Afterpiece Title: Mercury Harlequin

Event Comment: Benefit for Leviez. No Building on the stage. Tickets of Leviez at the last House on the right hand in Beaufort Buildings, Strand, &c. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: New entertainment of dancing, particularly End: , by Desire a Minuet-Leviez, Miss Pritchard

Event Comment: Benefit for Wood [Sub-Treasurer]. Mainpiece: For last time this season. Tickets deliver'd by Miss Minors will be taken. Tickets to head of Wood at Mr Burn's in James St., Covent Garden, &c. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Event Comment: At the Request of several Scotch Nobility, as benefit for Mr Gibson, who perform'd Donald MacGregor in The Orators 38 Days...will be performed a Concert of Music...after which, &c. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Tickets to be had of Mr Gibson, next Door to the Golden Star in Lower Cross St., near Hatton Gardens...He will make it his chief care to conduct the whole with Regularity. To begin at 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orators

Entertainment: A Prologue, Singing, a Dutch Story, Hippisley's Drunken Man-, with alterations and additions

Event Comment: Nothing under Full Price will be taken. Benefit for the author of the Alterations [in mainpiece]. A Riot to demand admittance at 1!2 price after 3rd act, all times except at the run of New Pantomime, wch. not agreed to, the Mob broke Chandeliers, &c. No Play (Cross Diary). [Fuller account in Victor, History of the Theatres, III, 46 ff., he being the beneficiary that night. Elvira publish'd at 1s. 6d. (Winston MS 9). See account of riot in Gentlemen's Magazine (p. 31). See Comment 5 Feb.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Two Gentlemen Of Verona

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Entertainment: s 15 Dec. 1762.

Event Comment: Benefit for Vincent. Tickets deliver'd by Mrs Cross, Mrs Bradshaw, Miss Rogers, and others will be taken. No Building, &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: A Comic Dance call'd the Old Fool, or the Farmer Trick'd-Vincent, Miss Rogers; IV: Dutch Dance, as17630425 V: By Desire, a Louvre and Minuet-Noverre, Miss Rogers; By Particular Desire a Hornpipe-Vincent

Event Comment: Bills was prhnted for Zingis but Mr Holland being taken very ill an Apology was made for the Change (Hopkins Diary). Chang'd from Zingis...Mr Holland Ill, Small Pox (Cross Diary). [The playbill for Zingis reads: Timur-Holland; Zingis-Aickin; Zemouca-Reddish; Cubla-Jefferson; Zena-Palmer; Aunac-Packer; Nevian-Bannister; Sidacou-Hurst; Nadir-Wright; Jelizou-Keen; Suida-Wrighten; Officers-Ackman, Fawcett, &c.; Mila-Mrs Stephens; Ovisa-Miss Younge.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Event Comment: Tickets delviered for The Merry Wives of Windsor will be admitted. Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Rowson, Blurton, Evatt, Jackson, Ratchford, Cross, Letteney, C. Powell, Little, Hall [box-keeper], Mrs Masters, Egan, Mrs Rock, Mrs Harris, Mrs Lefevre will be admitted. Receipts: #397 7s. (55.4.6; 4.7.6; tickets: 337.15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: End: The Jockey Dance-Ratchford, Blurton, Jackson, Mrs Watts, Mrs Ratchford; finish: a Reel-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Author

Afterpiece Title: HOW TO BE HAPPY

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All The World's A Stage

Afterpiece Title: THE BATTLE OF HEXHAM; or, Days of Old