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Event Comment: As Written by Shakespear. The Words of the songs will be printed and deliver'd Gratis at the Door of the Theatre. [These notes appear on all subsequent announcements of the play this season and will not be recorded further.] Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: Prospero-Mossop; Ferdinand-Holland; Alonzo-Bransby; Gonzalo-Burton; Antonio-Austin; Sebastian-Mozeen; Stephano-Woodward; Trincalo-Yates; Caliban-Berry; Boatswain-Blakes; Ariel (with proper Songs)-Miss Young; Miranda-Miss Pritchard; Ceres-Mrs Vernon; Hymen-Beard; With Proper Decorations, particularly a Grand Dance of Fantastic Spirits-; and a Pastoral Dance proper to the Masque-Delater, Giorgi, Sga Lucchi.
Cast
Role: Ariel Actor: Miss Young
Role: Miranda Actor: Miss Pritchard
Event Comment: Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Performance Comment: Benedick-Garrick; Beatrice-Miss Pritchard; Don Pedro-Havard; Leonato-Berry; Claudio-Palmer; Don John-Bransby; Dogberry-Taswell; Balthazar (with a proper Song)-Beard; Antonio-Walker; Verges-Philips; Hero-Mrs Davies; Borachio-Blakes; In Act II, a Masquerade Dance, in which will be introduced a Minuet-Noverre, Miss Pritchard; To conclude with a Country Dance-the Characters of the Play.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With Restorations from Shakespear. [This note, which appears on all subsequent announcements of the play, will not be recorded further here.] Receipts: #210 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: Lear-Garrick; Cordelia-Mrs Cibber; Burgundy-Austin; Regan-Miss Haughton; Gloster-Berry; Edgar-Havard; Bastard-Palmer; Kent-Bransby; Albany-Usher; Cornwall-Blakes; Aranti-Miss Minors; Goneril-Mrs Bennet.
Cast
Role: Regan Actor: Miss Haughton
Role: Aranti Actor: Miss Minors

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Event Comment: Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Performance Comment: As17571013, but Lissardo-Yates; Inis-Miss Minors; Minuet-Miss Minors, Noverre.
Cast
Role: Inis Actor: Miss Minors
Role: Minuet Actor: Miss Minors, Noverre.
Role: Violante Actor: Miss Macklin
Role: in which Minuet Actor: Miss Macklin.

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Creusa

Performance Comment: Aletes-Mossop; Phorbas-Davies; Xuthus-Berry; Ilyssus-Miss Macklin; Pythia-Miss Haughton; Lycea-Mrs Bennet; Creusa-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Ilyssus Actor: Miss Macklin
Role: Pythia Actor: Miss Haughton

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Queen Mab Actor: Miss Young
Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performance Comment: Don John-Garrick; Frederick-Palmer; Duke-Usher; Petruchio-Blakes; Antonio-Yates; 1st Constantia-Miss Macklin; Mother-Mrs Clive; Landlady-Mrs Macklin; Kinswoman-Mrs Hippisley; 2d Constantia-Miss Haughton; To conclude with a Country Dance-the characters of the play.

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Cast
Role: Charlotte Actor: Miss Minors
Event Comment: Benefit for Burton and Philips. Mainpiece: At the Particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Not acted these 10 years. [See 18 Dec. 1749.] Music for Afterpiece compos'd by Mr Arne. Tickets deliver'd by Clough, Mossop, Peacop and Mrs Addison will be taken. Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Performance Comment: Squire-Woodward; Sir William-Yates; Belfond Jr-Havard; Mrs Termagent-Miss Barton; Isabella-Mrs Clive; Ruth-Mrs Macklin; Mrs Hackum-Mrs Bradshaw; Sir Edward-Burton; Trueman-Jefferson; Cheatly-Vernon; Hackum-Walker; Scrapeall-Clough; Attorney-Bransby; Termagent-Scrase; Lollpoop-Philips; Teresa-Mrs Davies; Lucia-Miss Minors; Shamwell-Blakes.
Cast
Role: Mrs Termagent Actor: Miss Barton
Role: Lucia Actor: Miss Minors

Afterpiece Title: Britannia

Performance Comment: Britannia-Mrs Jefferson; Vocal Parts-Beard, Vernon, Champnes, Atkins, Miss Young; To conclude with Rule Britannia-; Britons Strike Home-; with the Original Prologue in the Character of a Drunken Sailor-Yates.

Dance: IV: A Minuet, Louvre-Noverre, Mrs Addison

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunbar, Smith, Broad, & Bride. Mainpiece, By Desire. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, The History Of George Barnwell

Performance Comment: George Barnwell-Holland; Milwood-Miss Haughton; Uncle-Walker; Lucy-Miss Minors; Thorowgood-Berry; Truman-Blakes; Blunt-Mozeen; Maria-Mrs Davies; In Act I, Singing-Vernon.
Cast
Role: Milwood Actor: Miss Haughton
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Minors

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: Peggy Actor: Miss Minors.
Event Comment: Receipts: #160 (Cross); #174, 0s, 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Performance Comment: Benedick-Garrick; Don Pedro-Havard; Leonato-Berry; Claudio-Palmer; Don John-Bransby; Dogberry-Taswell; Fryar-Burton; Verges-Philips; Borachio-Blakes; Balthazar (with a proper song)-Beard; Hero-Mrs Davies; Beatrice-Miss Pritchard; In Act II Masquerade Dance, in which will be introduced a Minuet-Noverre, Miss Pritchard; To conclude with a Country Dance-the characters of the play.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: Receipts: #200 (Cross); #197 2s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Performance Comment: Strictland-Berry; Frankly-Palmer; Bellamy-Packer; Jack Meggot-O'Brien, 1st time in that character; Jacintha-Miss Macklin; Mrs Strictland-Mrs Davies; Lucetta-Miss Barton; Clarinda-Mrs Pritchard; to conclude with a Country Dance-the characters of the play.
Cast
Role: Jacintha Actor: Miss Macklin
Role: Lucetta Actor: Miss Barton

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Event Comment: GGarrick taken ill acting Lear. Went thro the part (Winston MS 8). Receipts: #200 (Cross); #207 13s. 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: King Lear-Garrick; Gloster-Berry; Edgar-Havard; Bastard-Palmer; Kent-Bransby; Steward-Yates; Albany-Packer; Cornwall-Blakes; Burgundy-Austin; Aranti-Miss Hippisley; Goneril-Mrs Bennet; Regan-Miss Haughton; Cordelia-Mrs Cibber.
Cast
Role: Aranti Actor: Miss Hippisley
Role: Regan Actor: Miss Haughton

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Barton
Event Comment: GGarrick's night for the farce (Winston MS 8). Receipts: #200 (Cross); Charges #63 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Creusa

Performance Comment: Aletes-Mossop; Phorbas-Davies; Xuthus-Berry; Illyssus-Miss Macklin; Pythia-Miss Haughton; Lycea-Mrs Bennet; Creusa-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Illyssus Actor: Miss Macklin
Role: Pythia Actor: Miss Haughton

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Event Comment: Benefit for Holland. Tickets of Holland, at his lodgings next door to the Bedford Arms, in the Piazza, Covent Garden; and at the Stage Door. Receipts: #170 (Cross); Charges #63 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Performance Comment: Tancred-Holland, 1st time; Sigismunda-Miss Pritchard, 1st time; Siffredi-Davies; Osmond-Havard; Rodolpho-Blakes; Laura-Miss Haughton.
Cast
Role: Sigismunda Actor: Miss Pritchard, 1st time
Role: Laura Actor: Miss Haughton.

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Cast
Role: fine Lady Actor: Miss Barton.
Event Comment: Benefit for Obrien. Afterpiece: By particualr Desire, being the last Time of Performing in this Season. No Building on the Stage. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Performance Comment: Foppington-Obrien, 1st time; Sir Charles-Havard; Edging-Mrs Clive; Lady Betty-Miss Pritchard; Morelove-Palmer; Lady Easy-Mrs Pritchard; Lady Graveairs-Mrs Bennet; In the Play will be introduc'd (for the first time) a Minuet-O'Brien, Miss Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Dance: TThe Swiss, as17590221

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Haughton. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Tickets at Mr Harrache's, Jeweller, in Pall-Mall. No Building on Stage. Receipts: #130 (Cross); charges #63 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Cast
Role: Mademoiselle Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Belinda Actor: Miss Haughton

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Performance Comment: As17590402 but a Minuet-Leviez, Miss Macklin.
Event Comment: N.B. We have engag'd Mr King; & Miss Baker from Ireland, one Mr Moody, a Stroler,-Mr Beard is gone to Covent Garden, 'tis said to be manager Mr Mossop to Ireland. Receipts: #120 (Cross). Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places from Mr Varney at the Stage Door. No admittance behind scenes. [The customary note about prices and admittance will not be noted further here.] [At the opening of the theatres this season appeared an essay in Goldsmith's Bee, giving close observations upon actors, and deploring the relative stiffness and formality of English actors in comparison with the French. Advised English actors to travel abroad. Yet (Vol. 1759, p. 12) commented on the magnificnece of "our theatres as far superior to any others in Europe where plays only are acted. The great care our performers take in painting for a part, their exactness in all minutiae of dress, and other little scenical proprieties has been taken notice of by Riccoboni." Complains of the convention of laying a rug before a dying scene and of the vacant expressions of mutes on stage.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: Plume-Palmer; Worthy-Austin; Kite-Bransby; Brazen-Obrien; Bullock-Phillips; Welsh Collier-Blakes; Recruits-Yates, Clough; Melhnda-Mrs Davies; Rose-Mrs Hippisley; Lucy-Mrs Bennet; Sylvia-Miss Macklin; Balance-Havard.
Cast
Role: Sylvia Actor: Miss Macklin

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Event Comment: Not acted in 9 years [but see 14 Nov. 1753]. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

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

Performance Comment: Atall-King; Careless-Havard; Clerimont-Holland; Sir Wilful-Burton; Sir Harry-Philips; Finder-Blakes; Strut-Austin; Situp-Mrs Bradshaw; Chinawoman-Mrs Simson; Lady Sadlife-Mrs Cibber; Clarinda-Miss Macklin; Sylvia-Miss Pritchard; Wishwell-Mrs Abington; Lady Dainty-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Clarinda Actor: Miss Macklin
Role: Sylvia Actor: Miss Pritchard

Dance: As17591006

Event Comment: bout this time in the month was printed a 42-page pamphlet, Reasons why David Garrick should not appear on the Stage, in a Letter to John Rich. This is high praise of Garrick: 'I am so blinded either by prejudice of admiration that I can see nobody else" when Garrick plays.] Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Performance Comment: Benedick-Garrick; Leonato-Davies; Balthasar (with a proper song)-Atkins; Beatrice-Miss Pritchard; Don Pedro-Havard; Claudio-Palmer; Dogberry-Yates; Frair-Burton; Don John-Bransby; Verges-Philips; Borachio-Blakes; Hero-Mrs Davies; In Act II a Masquerade Dance-; in which will be introduc'd a Minuet-Noverre, Miss Pritchard; To conclude with a Country Dance-the characters of the play.
Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan; Or, The Unhappy Marriage

Performance Comment: Castalio-Fleetwood; Chamont-Holland; Polydore-Obrien; Monimia-Mrs Pritchard; Acasto-Bransby; Serina-Miss Hippisley; Polydore-Obrien; Chaplain-Packer; Page-Miss Simson; Florella-Mrs Bennet.
Cast
Role: Serina Actor: Miss Hippisley
Role: Page Actor: Miss Simson

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: II: Italian Gardiner, as17591006

Event Comment: Receipts not in Cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: King Lear-Garrick; Cordelia-Mrs Cibber; Kent-Bransby; Gloster-Davies; Steward-Perry; Bastard-Palmer; Edgar-Havard; Albany-Packer; Cornwall-Blakes; Burgundy-Austin; Aranti-Miss Hippisley; Goneril-Mrs Bennet; Regan-Miss Haughton.
Cast
Role: Aranti Actor: Miss Hippisley
Role: Regan Actor: Miss Haughton.

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Event Comment: Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder; A Woman Keeps A Secret

Performance Comment: Don Felix-Garrick; Don Lopez-Philips; Don Pedro-Burton; Clonel Briton-Palmer; Frederick-Packer; Inis-Mrs Bradshaw; Lissardo-Yates; Gibby-Johnston; Isabella-Mrs Davies; Flora-Mrs Clive; Violante-Miss Macklin; To conclude with a Masquerade Dance, in which will be introduc'd a Minuet-Noverre, Miss Macklin.

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Performance Comment: Damon-Mrs Vernon1st time; Laura-Miss Young1st time; Pastora-Mrs Clive; Palemon-Rooker; To conclude with a Rural Dance-.
Cast
Role: Laura Actor: Miss Young1st time
Event Comment: Reciepts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Performance Comment: Tancred-Holland; Siffredi-Davies; Rhodolpho-Ackman; Osmond-Havard; Laura-Miss Haughton; Sigismunda-Miss Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Laura Actor: Miss Haughton
Role: Sigismunda Actor: Miss Pritchard.

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Performance Comment: Heartly-Garrick; Sir Charles-Yates; Young Clackit-Obrien; Lucy-Mrs Clive; Harriet-Miss Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Harriet Actor: Miss Pritchard.

Dance: TheShepherd's Holiday, as17591017

Event Comment: Two Entertainments by Mr Murphy of 3 Acts each (Cross Diary). With new Scenes, Cloaths, and other Decorations. Full Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Desert Island

Performance Comment: Actors only in bills, but Macmillan lists: Ferdinand-Holland; Henrico-Fleetwood; Constantia-Mrs Pritchard; Sylvia-Miss Pritchard; Prologue-Garrick in character of a Drunken Poet.
Cast
Role: Sylvia Actor: Miss Pritchard

Afterpiece Title: The Way to Keep Him

Performance Comment: Actors only in bill, but MacMillan lists: Lovemore-Garrick; Sir Brilliant Fashion-Palmer; William-King; Widow Bellmour-Miss Macklin; Mrs Lovemore-Mrs Yates; Muslin-Mrs Clive; Mignionet-Mrs Bradshaw; Servant-Ackman; Pompey-Miss Mills; A newComic Dance-at the end of Act II.
Cast
Role: Widow Bellmour Actor: Miss Macklin
Role: Pompey Actor: Miss Mills
Event Comment: [T+The Occasional Prologue is Larpent MS 214 wherein Woodward crosses the stage sneakingly, "Behold the Prodigal return'd quite tame..." and apologizes for his recent venture in Ireland.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: Marplot-Woodward; Sir George Airy-Smith; Charles-Clarke; Sir Francis Gripe-Shuter; Sir Jealous Traffick-Marten; Whisper-Costollo; Scentwell-Mrs Ferguson; Isabinda-Miss Hallam; Patch-Mrs Pitt; Miranda-Miss Macklin; Occasional Prologue-Woodward.
Cast
Role: Isabinda Actor: Miss Hallam
Role: Miranda Actor: Miss Macklin

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Cast
Role: Arethusa Actor: Miss Miller.
Event Comment: This Farce is suppos'd to be written by Mr King. & was tolerably well receiv'd. The Tunes are very dull (Hopkins). Farce well receiv'd (Cross Diary). Receipts: #144 2s. 6d. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: Love at First Sight

Performance Comment: Principal parts by King, Vernon, Packer, Burton, Baddeley, Clough, Strange, Mrs Lee, Miss Young. Smatter-King; Young Gilbert-Vernon; Lockworth-Baddeley; Modely-Packer; Sir Ralph-Burton; Celia-Miss Young; Lucy-Mrs Lee; Roger-Clough (MacMillan).
Cast
Role: Celia Actor: Miss Young

Dance: IV: The Provancalle, as17631014