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Event Comment: Benefit Milward. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Hughes. Part of the Stage formed into Side Boxes

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Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Performance Comment: Eumenes-Mills; Caled-Quin; Phocyas-Milward; Abudah-W. Mills; Daran-Cibber; Herbis-Berry; Artamon-Turbutt; Eudocia-Mrs Heron. With a New Prologue to his [Hughes'] Memory .Hughes'] Memory .
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Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: Amorous Swain and Rival Nymphs, as17350310 Minuet (in Modern Habits) by Denoyer and Mrs Walter

Event Comment: A New Opera [a pasticcio, Metastasio text altered by Rolli, form Pergolesi's Olimpiade, 1735 (Loewenberg, Annals of Opera, I, 183)]. Music by Pergolesi, Scarlatti, Lampugnani. L. Leo, F. Leo [libretto in L. C.]. Two of the principal Performers being greatly indispos'd, the Dancers are oblig'd to be deferr'd. Thomas Gray to John Chute, 24 May: Our fifth Opera was the Olimpiade, in which they retain'd most of Pergolesi's Songs & yet 'tis gone already, as if it had been a poor thing of Galuppi's. Two nights did I enjoy it all alone, snugg in a Nook in the Gallery, but found no one in those regions had ever heard of Pergolesi, nay, I heard several affirm it was a Composition of Pescetti's.-Gray, Correspondence, I, 203

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Mainpiece Title: Meraspe O L'olimpiade

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Related Work: Meraspe o L'Olimpiade Author(s): F. Leo
Event Comment: A new Comic Opera. [Leo's Amor Vuol Sofferenza. See Loewenberg, Annals of Opera, I, 195.] By His Majesty's Command no Person whatsoever to be admitted behind the Scenes

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Mainpiece Title: La Finta Frascatana

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Related Work: La Finta Frascatana Author(s): Leonardo Leo

Dance: Between Acts: Dancing-

Event Comment: Comic Opera in Italian and French, 3 Acts (Larpent MS 107). Subtitle, O Sia, Il Finto Femmina. La Musica e del Sig Leonardo Leo, Maestro di Capella Napolitano (Edition of 1752, Amsterdam). [Rich had applied for license to Duke of Grafton 8 Feb.] This day at Noon will be publish'd at 1s. L'Amor Costante, Dramma Comico, pe Musica, as it is acted at Covent Garden. With an English translation. Sold by H. Woodfall

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Mainpiece Title: L'amour Costante

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Related Work: L'Amour Costante Author(s): Leonardo Leo

Dance: [Unspecified.]

Event Comment: Benefit Hughes. At 4 p.m

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; particularly a Song-[Hughes] [before Her Majesty, in Congratulation of Her Majesty's Happy Accession to the Crown; [Also several Entertainments-Mr Dean, Signior Francisco; [And three New Songs [never perform'd anywhere-Mr Hughs; [And that much celebrated Song for the Trumpet[, perform'd originally-Mr Pate [in The Island Princess, beginning Rouse ye Gods of the Main; [Also a Sonata for two Trumpets-; [and positively there will be perform'd an Extraordinary Entertainment on the Arch/Lutes-an Eminent Master [who never perform'd there before; accompanied-Mr Dean, others

Event Comment: [By John Hughes.] Never Acted before. The Orphan Reviv'd or Powell's Weekly Journal, 20 Feb.: On Wednesday last, the Ingenious Mr John Hughes, Author of the Tragedy call'd the Siege of Damascus, died without seeing it acted

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Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

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Event Comment: [Text by John Hughes. Music by John Galliard.] Never Performed before. Admission as 24 Nov. 1711, but Benches in the Pit rail'd in at the Price of the Boxes. At 6 p.m

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Mainpiece Title: Calypso And Telemachus

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Related Work: Calypso and Telemachus Author(s): John Hughes
Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By John Hughes.] A New Musical Masque, perform'd all in English. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Sir Richard Steele

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Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

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Related Work: Apollo and Daphne Author(s): John Hughes

Dance: As17151122

Event Comment: [Music by Galliard. Text by Hughes. Performed in English.] Receipts: #99 2s

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Mainpiece Title: Calypso And Telemachus

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Event Comment: Written by the late John Hughes

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Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

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Event Comment: Benefit Quin. Not Acted these Twelve Years. Written by the late Mr Hughes. Receipts: money #116 7s.; tickets #102 13s

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Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

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Dance: TTambourine-Miss Rogers; La Fette Ramsii-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre

Song: new Dialogue-Leveridge, Mrs Wright

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Hughes. Receipts: #103 14s

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Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

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Dance: TTambourine-Mrs Rogers; La Follett s'est Ravisee-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre

Song: As17330315

Event Comment: Benefit Neale and Mrs Vincent. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Hughes. Receipts: money #28 15s. 6d.; tickets #85 16s. Tickets at Neale's, a Silk Dyer, in David Street, near Grosvenor Square

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Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

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Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Performance Comment: As17330329 but New Prologue written to the Memory of the Author (Hughes)-.

Dance: TTambourine-Miss Rogers; Scottish Dance-Glover, DuPre, Pelling, Delagarde, Mrs Ogden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Hughes, Esq. [For Occasional Prompter XVI, see Daily Journal, 14 Jan.

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Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

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Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Song: II: Son Priginiero-Miss Cecilia Young; IV: Would You Gain the Tender Creature-Miss Young

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late $J. Hughes, Esq.

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Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

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Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Song: II: La Nuvoletta, an Italian Ballad.-Miss Young; IV: Wou'd you gain the Tender Creature-Miss Young

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late $J. Hughes, Esq.

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Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

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Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Song: II: La Nuvoletta-Miss Cecilia Young; IV: Wou'd you gain the Tender Creature-Miss Cecilia Young

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Hughes, Esq. Afterpiece: a New Dramatick Tale. Written by the Author of the Toy Shop [R. Dodsley]

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Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

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Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Tambourine-Mlle Roland; III: Muilment; V: Ballet-Denoyer

Event Comment: Benefit the Daughter of the late Mr Mills. Mainpiece: Written by the late $J. Hughes, Esq.

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Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

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Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: EEnglish Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; Drunken Peasant-Philips; Russian Sailor-Denoyer

Event Comment: By Desire. Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Hughes, Esq. London Evening Post, 28 Jan.: It's remarkable that the new Comedy call'd The Nest of Plays...and the new Farce call'd The Coffee House...and which are the two first that have been perform'd since the Act of Parliament took Place, obliging all Plays, Farces, &c. to be licens'd before play'd, were both damn'd by the Town

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Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

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Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Grand Volgi

Music: Select Pieces-

Dance: I: Flanderkins, as17380120 II: Drunken Peasant-Philips; III: Grand Polish Dance-Haughton, Mrs Walter, Liviez, Pelling, Vallois, Rector, Mrs Thompson, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Woodward, Miss Brett

Event Comment: By Desire. Mainpiece: Written by the late J. Hughes, Esq

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Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

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Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked; or, An Old Man Taught Wisdom

Event Comment: A Free Benefit for Ryan. Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years. [See 3 April 1756.] Written by the late Mr Hughes. [For Afterpiece, see note.] Receipts: Door, #87 7s. Tickets #121 17s. (boxes 267; pit 286; gallery 122). (Account Book). [Ryan had advertised his benefit on 15 March to be The Siege of Damascus and a new Dramatic Satire called The Anniversary, being a Sequel to Lethe. On 16 March the following letter appeared in the Public Advertiser: "Upon reading Ryan's advertisement of a New Dramatic Satire, I was extremely pleas'd with a Description of the motive that occasioned it. He being last week at dinner with a set of particular friends, they inquired what Play and Farce he had chose this year for his Benefit. He inform'd them the Siege of Damascus and Lethe. Lethe, replied a Gentleman is very pleasing, but your friends have seen it, and you must fall into the fashion of having a new additional Scene; for a little bit of novelty may give assistance to its merit, and prove to your advantage. Why, then, said a facetious Gentleman, who sat very near him, Pray sir, do you write him one; 'twill cost you little trouble, and, you know, you are very capable. No more capable than yourself, Good Sir, answered the other; but to show I am full as willing, if you'll attempt to please his friends with one, upon my word I'll use my best endeavor to do the same, in writing of another. We need not fear Severity, for none will blame a friendly inclination to serve a man, who, I believe everyone wishes well. "Twas agreed, but Ryan judiciously observed, 'twould be a shame that two Gentlemen, each capable of writing to give an audience satisfaction, should condescend to make mere Lacqueys of their pens, and send them forth to hold the tail of Lethe; therefore if they should once begin, let them each write only one Hour longer, and they might raise a Structure of their own. They kindly undertook it, and in a Week sent him the piece he has now advertised."

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Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

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Afterpiece Title: The Anniversary : Being a Sequel to Lethe

Dance: SSicilian Peasants, as17571217; Fingalian Dance, by Desire, as17571013

Event Comment: The first entertainment a Serenata written by the late celebrated Mr Hughes. Music entirely new compos'd by Hook. The second a Burletta [by Lady Dorothea Dubois] in 2 Acts. Benefit for Hook

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Mainpiece Title: Apollo And Daphne

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Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the first performance is not known. Luttrell, however, dated the copy he purchased 6 July 1680 (VanLennep, Two Restoration Comedies, pp. 57-58) and attributed it to Mrs Aphra Behn. If copies were available in early July, the play was most probably performed in June 1680. Langbaine (English Dramatick Poets, p. 547) had heard that Mrs Behn was the author, but A Comparison between the Two Stages (p. 11) attributed it to Thomas Betterton. For a discussion of the authorship, see also Ten English Farces, ed. Leo Hughes and A. H. Scouten (Austin, Texas, 1948), pp. 203-4

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Mainpiece Title: The Revenge; Or, A Match In Newgate

Event Comment: Benefit for Sparks. Afterpiece: A farce never perform'd before. [Possibly Thomas Sheridan's The Brave Irishman, but see Ten English Farces, Leo Hughes and A. H. Scouten (Austin, Texas, 1948), pp. 221 ff.] Last time of the company's performing till the holidays

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Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Song: Lowe

Dance: As17541203

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Mainpiece Title: L'embarras Des Richesses

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin always Harlequin

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Related Work: Harlequin always Harlequin Author(s): Leo fils

Dance: The Frolick by a Gentleman for his Diversion and Miss Chateauneuf