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Event Comment: Benefit Dunstall, Vaughan, Stede, Laguerre. Tickets delivered out for Paddick, Messing, and Miss Faulkner will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Cast
Role: Tippet Actor: Miss Hippisley.

Song: CCome let us Trip by Handel-Miss Faulkner

Dance: DDrunken Tyrolese-Sodi

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Major. Prices 2s. 6d., 2s., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Performance Comment: As17461202, but add Morelove-Lee; Sir Charles-Furnival; Lady Graveairs-Miss Budgell; Lady Easy-Mrs Wignell; Edging-Miss Major.
Cast
Role: Lady Graveairs Actor: Miss Budgell
Role: Edging Actor: Miss Major.

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Performance Comment: As17470206; but Kitty-Miss Major.
Cast
Role: Kitty Actor: Miss Major.

Dance: Master Morgan, Miss Baker

Event Comment: Benefit for Leveridge. [See his advance notices on 18 and 24 March.] Wednesday Next Hamlet, Towards the Relief of the Unhappy sufferers by the late Fire. The Monies arising by that to be lodg'd with Messrs Ironside and Belchior to be paid by them into the Hands of the Committee (that is or shall be appointed) to be apply'd with the other charitable Collection towards the relief of the unhappy sufferers by the late dreadful calamity. [Miss Faulkner's song "Liberty" was probably the aria from Judas Maccabaeus: Come, ever smiling Liberty [Deutsch, Handel, p. 649).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Cast
Role: Rose Actor: Miss Hippisley
Role: Melinda Actor: Miss Copen

Song: I: Who'll Buy a Heart a Cantata by Stanley-Beard; II: Cupid's Power I Despise, Liberty-Miss Faulkner; III: a Song in the Anacreontic style- of Leveridge; IV: O Peace, Shepherd what art thou pursuing-Mrs Storer; V: Mirth Gives Courage-Leveridge; Epilogue of Thanks in Music-Leveridge

Dance: Master Granier, Miss Granier

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Dunstall, Mrs Lampe and Miss Young. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years [see 4 Feb. 1746]. Tickets to be had at Lampe's, the Sign of the Holy Lamb, Drury Lane, near Long Acre; at Dunstall's in Hunt's Court, Castle St., Leicester Fields; and at the Stage Door. Afterpiece: Words by Shakespeare, Music by Lampe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal; Or, The Humours Of The Navy

Performance Comment: Worthy-Ryan; Sir Charles-Giffard; Flip-Dunstall; Beau Mizen-Cibber; Arabella-Mrs Dunstall; Rovewell-Gibson; Easy-Storer; Cribbige-Anderson; Purser-Paget; Belinda-Mrs Bland; Jenny Private-Miss Young; Jiltup-Miss Copen; Advocate-Miss Ferguson; Barmaid-Miss Haughton; Sailors-Morgan, James, Collins, Bencraft; Fair Quaker-Mrs Hale; In II, the Famous Song of Ninety Two-Beard; In III, Hornpipe-Oates.
Cast
Role: Jenny Private Actor: Miss Young
Role: Jiltup Actor: Miss Copen
Role: Advocate Actor: Miss Ferguson
Role: Barmaid Actor: Miss Haughton

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

Song: I: Duet-Mrs Lampe, Miss Young; IV: Myself I Shall adore by Handel-Mrs Lampe

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Karver. A Concert, etc. Prices: 4s., 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d. To begin at 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Song: Particularly by Desire Women and Wine-Miss Karver who sang some years ago at the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane; since at Mr Foote's Theatre in the Haymarket

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Bellamy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Performance Comment: Maskwell-Quin; Touchwood-Bridgwater; Careless-Ryan; Mellefont-Ridout; Brisk-Cibber; Froth-Gibson; Sir Paul Pliant-Collins; Saygrace-Paget; Lady Froth-Miss Bellamy 1st time; Lady Pliant-Mrs Hale; Cynthia-Mrs Ridout; Lady Touchwood-Mrs Woffington 1st time.

Afterpiece Title: Phoebe

Performance Comment: As17490404 but Tippet-Miss Young; Phoebe-Mrs Dunstall.
Cast
Role: Tippet Actor: Miss Young

Song: III: a Ballad call'd Lothario-Miss Norris

Dance: Comic Dance-J. Granier, J. Granier's Sister

Event Comment: Benefit for Stoppelaer and Miss Young

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant; Or, The Sick Lady's Cure

Afterpiece Title: Phoebe

Cast
Role: Tippet Actor: Miss Young

Song: Between the acts: Miss Young

Dance: I: Comic Dance-J. Granier, J. Granier's Sister

Event Comment: Benefit for Collins, Mrs Bambridge, Mrs Cowper, and Miss Ferguson. Tickets deliver'd by Wilder, Mr Line and Widow Powell will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: As17481027, but Busy Body-Cibber; Isabinda-Mrs Cowper; Scentwell-Miss Ferguson.
Cast
Role: Scentwell Actor: Miss Ferguson.

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Cast
Role: Phillida Actor: Miss Young.

Song: A Dialogue of Jack and Jenny-Wilder, Miss Falkner

Dance: CComic Dance-J. Granier, J. Granier's Sister

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Norris. Tickets at Stage Door. Rec'd Cash #73 11s. 6d., plus #73 6s. from tickets. Total #146 17s. 6d. Paid Blandford (Tallow Chandler) #17 18s.; Paid Mr Field for Mr Killigrew's 9 s[hares] for 100 nights #105 (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #160 (Cross); charges, #63 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Rehearsal; or, Bayes in Petticoats

Song: Between the acts: Miss Norris

Event Comment: Benefit for Raftor, Reinhold and Miss Pitt. Rec'd cash #54 16s., plus #83 from tickets. Total #137 16s. Paid Mrs Reynolds for wax and brick dust 3s. 11d. (Treasurer's Book). Last time of performing the Afterpiece this season. Receipts: #160 (Cross); charges, #63 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Cast
Role: Iris Actor: Miss Cole

Afterpiece Title: Bayes in Petticoats

Song: IIf God could lengthen life forever-Reinhold; (by desire) Honour and Arms from the Oratorio Sampson,-Reinhold

Dance: WWooden Shoe Dance-Maltere; Tambourine-Miss Foulcade

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Hillyard. Tickets deliver'd out for the 11th instant will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Cast
Role: Cornet Actor: Miss Ferguson

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Performance Comment: See17500924, but Damon-Lowe; Phillida-Miss Young.
Cast
Role: Phillida Actor: Miss Young.

Dance: I: (By Desire) Pigmalion, as17510412 III: Grand Scots Ballet, as17500926; End: Louvre and Minuet-Cooke, Miss Hillyard

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Hilliard, and Mrs Storer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantly

Dance: I: Grand Dutch Dance, as17511021; III: A Grand Scots Ballet, as17511009; V: Louvre, Minuet-Cooke, Miss Hilliard

Song: II: (By Particular Desire) an Irish Song call'd Ellen a@roon-Mrs Storer

Event Comment: Benefit for LaLauze. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Tickets delivered by Miss Haughton will be taken. This Day Publish'd the last New Oratorio Jeptha, in Score, composed by Mr Handel at 10s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: Royal Chace

Dance: I: Two Pierrots-Dennison, Settree (Scholars of LaLauze); II: Shepherd's Dance-Settree; III: Pigmalion, as17510925; IV: Le je ne scay quois-Dennison, Madem Camargo, Settree; V: "By Desire"Louvre, Minuet-Settree, Miss Hillyard

Event Comment: Benefit for Signor Maranesi and Miss Hilliard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: Lover His Own Rival

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Pitt

Dance: II: A New Dance Il Guastatore-Maranesi, Sga Bugiani; III: Grand Scots Ballet, as17521216; IV: Mock Minuet-Sg Bugiani, Sga Bugiani; V: Minuet, Louvre-Cooke, Miss Hilliard

Event Comment: Benefit for Stede &c. Tickets deliver'd by Miss Ferguson will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Statue

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Morrison

Dance: II: Drunken Peasant-Miles; the Clown-Bennet; IV: Grand Scots Ballet-Cooke, Miss Hilliard

Song: III: Smiling Dawn from Jeptha-Mrs Chambers

Event Comment: By Handel. Benefit for Miss Turner. Oratorios by Handel. At the Great Room, Dean St., Soho. To begin at 7 p.m. Tickets 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Esther

Song: I: Praise the Lord- accompanied by Parry

Music: II: Concerto (Arne) on Harpsichord-Miss Turner

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Macklin. Last time of Performing the Mainpiece this season. Afterpiece: Translated from the French by Macklin. Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: Jacintha Actor: Miss Macklin
Role: Lucetta Actor: Miss Minors

Afterpiece Title: A Will and no Will; or, A new case for the Lawyers

Performance Comment: The Principal Characters-Yates, Palmer, Usher, Philips, Blakes, Simson, Mrs Bennet, Miss Minors.

Dance: II: New Sailor's Dance, as17560217; End: A Minuet-Miss Macklin, Leviez. By Desire

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Hilliard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Lover His Own Rival

Dance: II: New Dance-Granier, Miss Hilliard; III: Fingalian Dance, as17551126; IV: The Villagers, as17560315

Song: I: Mrs Chambers

Event Comment: Both pieces by Command of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Mainpiece: Not acted these 10 years [see 8 May 1753]. Written by Beaumont and Fletcher. Afterpiece: Taken from Dryden and Colley Cibber, Poets Laureate. [Lucy was played by Miss Sledge; see 4 Feb. 1757.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: The Frenchified Lady never in Paris

Dance: Poitier, Granier, Lucas, Mlle Capdeville, Miss Hilliard

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Nossiter. No Building on stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Statira Actor: Miss Nossiter

Afterpiece Title: The Frenchified Lady

Dance: As17570103 Granier, Miss Hilliard, Lucas

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Macklin. Last time of performing till the Holidays. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Receipts: #330 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Performance Comment: As17561021, but Lord Townly-Garrick, 1st time for 10 years; Lady Townly-Miss Macklin, 1st time in the part here; John Moody-_; Trusty-_; Mrs Motherly-_; Myrtilla-_; Miss Jenny-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Dance: By particular Desire, aMinuet-Miss Macklin

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pritchard. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. This day publish'd, Price 1s. Brief Remarks on the Original and Present State of the Drama. To which is added Hecate's Prophecy, being a characteristic Dialogue between future Mangers and their Dependents. [William Shirley? A most virulent attack on Garrick's management as well as Rich's Quotes from the Herald No. XX, a denunciatory article on the managers, deplores the pamphleteering attempt to praise Garrick, asks "Shall he shine the God of our Idolatry, merely for excluding every other emulous and aspiring candidate?"] Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Cast
Role: Horatia Actor: Miss Pritchard, 1st time

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Cast
Role: Charlotte Actor: Miss Minors

Dance: II: The Italian Peasants, as17571004; End: By Desire, a Minuet-Noverre, Miss Pritchard

Event Comment: MMr Woodward has enter'd into partnership with Mr Barry in a new Theater in Ireland & has taken from us Mr Walker and Wife (Miss Minors that was) Mr Vernon, Mr Jefferson and Wife-from Mr Rich, Mr Arthur, Mr White, Mr Chambers, Mr Finny (his Scene-man) & others (Cross). Receipts: #120 (Cross); #128 15s. (Winston MS 8). Places for Boxes to be had of Mr Varney at the stage door. No admittance behind scenes, nor any money returned after the Curtain is drawn up. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. [This notice regularly occurs at foot of bill and will not be noted further this season. The box receipts recorded from Winston MS 8 seem to have been taken by him from the Huntington Library playbills (second set) annotated by J. P. Kemble from a Treasurer's Book.] Letter to Mr G@k on Opening of the Theatre, With Observations on Managers, Actors, Authors, and their Audiences and Particularly New Performers. 6d. Published by Cooke opposite Drury Lane Theatre. [It is a plea for more frequent appearances of Garrick, especially in lighter parts, now that Woodward has left; for especially good plays on Saturday nights; for striking from the repertoire all immoral, immodest and cruel plays; for being a sport about competition with Rich; for better regulation of the boxes, on a first-come, first-pay basis; for training up the most promising young actors gradually and not casting them in parts beyond their reaches; for more new plays; and for an advisory council in selecting them; for omission of personal satirical attacks in comedy.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: Touchstone-Yates; Orlando-Palmer; Jacques-Berry; Duke Sr-Blakes; Frederick-Bransby; Oliver-Burton; Amiens (with proper Songs)-Beard; Adam-Havard; Corin-Taswell; Silvius-Austin; Celia-Mrs Clive; Phebe-Miss Hippisley; Audrey-Mrs Bradshaw; Rosalind-Miss Macklin.
Cast
Role: Phebe Actor: Miss Hippisley
Role: Rosalind Actor: Miss Macklin.

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: I: A comic Dance call'd The German Hunters-Master Settree, Miss Twist

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Brent. Receipts: #175 13s. in cash, plus #92 7s. from tickets (Boxes 330; Pit 95; Gallery 56). Charges #64 5s. Total income #268. Bought 6 doz. Wax candles #7 7s

Performances

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Performance Comment: As17591212, but Fine Lady-Miss Brent, in Which she will introduce Ah se un cor barbaro, a favourite song in Demetrio.

Song: (B(By Desire) introduce the Favourite Song in Alfred called Nymphs and Shepherds-Miss Brent

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pritchard. Part of pit laid into boxes. Building on Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: Valentine-Fleetwood; Tattle-King; Scandal-Palmer; Angelica-Miss Pritchard; Mrs Frail-Mrs Clive; Prue-Miss Pope; Mrs Foresight-Mrs Pritchard; Trapland-Vaughan; Nurse-Mrs Bradshaw; Ben-Yates; Sir Sampson-Burton; Foresight-Blakes; Jeremy-Austin.
Cast
Role: Angelica Actor: Miss Pritchard
Role: Prue Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Cast
Role: Harriet Actor: Miss Pritchard.

Dance: By Particular Desire, a Minuet-Noverre, Miss Pritchard