Event Comment: Benefit for
Barry. Mainpiece [by
Edward Young]: not acted these 30 years. Part of Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Servants allowed to keep places on the Stage. Tomorrow, not acted these 20 years,
Ulysses for the Benefit of
Mrs Woffington. A Young
lady, remarkably handsome, appeared in the Pit of
Covent Garden Playhouse on Monday Night last; she had on a white hat with pink ribbons; a pink colour'd Cardinal trimm'd with white fur, which she took off on account of people spitting down from the slips...She was standing near the Pit Door before the play began, but soon had room made for her at the end of one of the seats (
Daily Advertiser, 22 March)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: Busiris King Of Egypt
Afterpiece Title: The Knights
Dance: FFingalian Dance, as17551126; Les Statues Animees, as17560302