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Event Comment: Admission by tickets only to pit and boxes, not to exceed 400, at 7s. 6d. Stage Boxes half a Guinea. First Gallery 3s. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. No Person to stand upon the Stage. Receipts: #77 17s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Dance: Cherrier, Debargues, Mrs Debargues

Event Comment: Afterpiece [by Richard Estcourt]: Mr Bayes's Practice of an Interlude, call'd, Prunella, done from the Italian. Benefit Estcourt. And at the Request of many of the Nobility (who have taken Tickets) 2 Benches of the Pit will be Rail'd in, for more Conveniency. And to prevent any Disappointment, by coming late, 'tis desire'd that their Servants may be sent by 2 a Clock with the Tickets to keep Places

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Prunella

Event Comment: [Words by P. A. Motteux.] Never perform'd before. The Dances, Choruses, and other Entertainments being properly introduc'd as on Foreign Stages. Admission to pit and boxes by tickets only (not to exceed 400) at half a guinea; stage boxes, half a guinea; first gallery 5s., upper gallery 2s. 6d. Receipts: #240 6s. 9d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Triumph

Event Comment: Admission: boxes 8s., pit 5s., first gallery 3s., upper gallery 1s. 6d., stage boxes half a guinea. And by Order hence-forward to begin precisely at 6 a Clock. Receipts: #84 7s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Triumph

Event Comment: Benefit Valentini. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Admission to pit and boxes by tickets only at half a guinea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Triumph

Event Comment: [Text translated by Owen Swiney. Music adapted by N. Haym.] By Subscription. None to be admitted into the Pit or Boxes but by the Subscribers' Tickets. Stage Boxes 15s. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Event Comment: Benefit Cavaliero Nicolini Grimaldi. And (at the Desire of several Persons of Quality) the Boxes are to be open'd to the Pit, and none to be admitted but by printed Tickets, which are deliver'd by him. [Ch. Dering, writing to John Percival, stated that Nicolini got 800 guineas.-Egmont MS, p. 246.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Event Comment: The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit. And no Person to be admitted but by Printed Tickets at half a Guinea each Tickets, the Number not to exceed 460. Stage Boxes half a Guinea. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Event Comment: Benefit Valentini. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit. And no Person to be admitted but by printed Tickets [at half a Guinea]. Stage Boxes half a Guinea. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. Note, the Tickets deliver'd for Pyrrhus and Demetrius to be taken this Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Event Comment: [Words from the Italian of G. B. Neri. Music by Francesco Conti and others.] A new Opera. By Subscription. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and no Person to admitted but by the Subscribers' Tickets. Stage Boxes 15s. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 2s. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Clotilda

Event Comment: Benefit Estcourt, Two Benches of the Pit being Rail'd in to the Boxes for the Conveniency of the Persons of Quality who have taken Bounty Tickets. Admission: 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Fourth Part I

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. And at the request of some Persons of Quality, 2 Benches of the Pit will be rail'd into the Boxes at the same Price. [Receipts: possibly #127 2s., according to Baggs.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral Or Grief A La Mode

Event Comment: Benefit Betterton. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and No Person to be admitted but by printed Tickets at half a Guinea each. Note, That the Tickets deliver'd out for the Moor of Venice, and Great Mogul, will be taken at this Play. [Receipts: possibly #154 6s. 7 1!2d., according to Baggs.] For a comment on this occasion, see Tatler, 12 April. Whincop (pp. 175-76) states: But Mr Betterton being new past Seventy Years of Age, and lame with the Gout, seemed but to burlesque the Part of youthful Valentine

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Event Comment: With an addition of a whole new Scene, consisting of Three Songs, compos'd by Signior Scarlatti, and perform'd by the famous Signior Cavaliero Nicolini Grimaldi. The Scenes, as 2 April. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Admission to pit and boxes by Printed tickets only. Stage boxes half a guinea. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Event Comment: Benefit Nicolini. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. The boxes and pit open by tickets only at 7s. 6d. First Gallery 2s. 6d. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music entirely new by the famous Scarlatti Bononcini, other the greatest Italian Masters-; To which will be added, the new Scene which was perform'd on Saturday last in the Opera of Pyrrhus and Demetrius-; The Vocal Parts-Signior Nicolini, others

Event Comment: [Music by G. Bononcini? Librettist unknown.] By Subscription. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and no Person to be admitted but by the Subscribers Tickets

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Almahide

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Boxes upon the Stage 8s. Being oblig'd to begin exactly at half an Hour after 5 a Clock. [In Daily Courant, 24 Feb., Venice Preserved had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Event Comment: Benefit Nicolini. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. With all the Scenes and Decorations of the last new Opera of Almahide. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and no Person to be admitted but by printed Tickets, at a half guinea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Event Comment: Never perform'd before. By Subscription. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and no Person to be admitted but by the Subscribers' Tickets. Edition 1710: Music composed by Francesco Mancini. The Scenes painted by Signor Marco Rizzi of Venice

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hydaspes

Event Comment: For the entire Benefit of Mr Penkethman. Note, The Subscribers Tickets have free Admittance in any part of the House that Day' and during the whole Season. To begin exactly at half an Hour after 5, by reason the Gentlemen and Ladies that come from London may have time to return again the same Night. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s. [The opening, originally advertised for Monday 12, was deferred to this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Event Comment: Benefit Haughton, pit doorkeeper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Event Comment: By Subscription. Pit and Boxes laid together, and no Body to be admitted but by the Subscribers' Tickets....The Boxes upon the Stage at 15s. Those one Pair of Stairs at half a Guinea. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 2s. [Premiere.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Etearco

Event Comment: Admission: boxes 8s., pit 5s., first gallery 2s. 6d., upper gallery 1s. 6d., stage boxes half a guinea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Etearco

Event Comment: Benefit Nicolini Grimaldi. The Boxes and Pit put together, with admission by ticket only at a half guinea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hydaspes

Event Comment: Benefit Valentini Urbani. Admission: pit and boxes together at half guinea; galleries and stage boxes as 7 April

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo