Event Comment: Benefit for
Sparks. Tickets to be had of
Mrs Sparks, at her house in
Crown Court. Tickets deliver'd out for the
Distress'd Mother will be taken. N.B.
Mr Sparks having been very long indisposed and rendered incapable of attending the theatre, with the greatest deference persuades himself that Circumstance will readily plead his Apology, and induce his friends to dispense with his personal appearance, and favor him with their commands; and that they will excuse the changing of his play, to which he is oblig'd by the illness of a principal performer; of which and his former obligations, he shall always retain the most gratful sense. [
Sparks had been ill since 14 Jan. when
Hull took over his part of
Buckingham in
King Richard III.
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor
Afterpiece Title: The Merry Counterfeit
Song: Between Acts: some Favorite Songs from the English Opera Artaxerxes-; viz: I: In Infancy our hopes and fears-Tenducci; II: If e'er the Cruel Tyrant Love-Miss Brent; III: Water parted from the sea-Tenducci; IV: Let no rage thy bosom fire-Miss Brent
Dance: TThe Pleasures of Spring, as17620212