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Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [Tickets for Miss Jones, Gibbs, and Pidgeon taken.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Performance Comment: As17360309 but Victoria-Miss Hughes .
Cast
Role: Victoria Actor: Miss Hughes

Afterpiece Title: The Chymical Counterfeits

Song:

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Burgess, who has so zealousy espoused the Country-Interest. Afterpiece: A Tragi-Comi-Operatic Pastoral Farce. [Presumably a variant of R. Drury's The Rival Milliners.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

Performance Comment: Cast not listed, but see17360427 With a New Epilogue to be spoke by Miss Burgess .

Afterpiece Title: The Temple Rake; or, The Rival Milliners

Performance Comment: Molly Wheedle-Miss Burgess .
Cast
Role: Molly Wheedle Actor: Miss Burgess
Event Comment: Benefit the Author of the Farce, and Miss Burgess. Mainpiece: As originally written by Shakespear. Supervised, Read over, Revised, and Unalter'd. [For a puff (signed by W. Shakespear), see Daily Advertiser, 4 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of King John

Performance Comment: Prince Arthur-Miss Burgess; With a New Prologue- in the Characters of Shakespear's Ghost, the Squire, Mr Student, and Mr Bays; concluding with an Address to the Ladies- of the Shakespear's Club.
Cast
Role: Prince Arthur Actor: Miss Burgess

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Milliners

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Kilby and Miss Bincks

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: See17370315 but Macheath-Walker; Polly-Miss Bincks; Lucy-Mrs Kilby; Peachum-Hippisley; Lockit-Mullart.
Cast
Role: Polly Actor: Miss Bincks

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Nell Actor: Miss Bincks.

Dance: SScot's Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre, Desse, Mrs Ogden, Tench, Mrs Delorme; Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Lalauze; Comic Dance-Nivelon, Lalauze, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs LeBrun

Event Comment: Benefit Winstone, Hill, Miss Cole. Tickets for Leigh, Peploe, Foxall also taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Taste

Performance Comment: As17370415 but Harcourt-Winstone; Horatio-Hill; Lady Henpeck-Mrs Hill; Lissetta-Miss Mann, .
Cast
Role: Lissetta Actor: Miss Mann, .
Role: Angelica Actor: Miss Holliday

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Performance Comment: As17370507. Epilogue-Miss Cole.
Cast
Role: Epilogue Actor: Miss Cole.

Dance: I: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; III: Two Pierrots-Livier, Pelling; IV: Wooden Shoe Dance-Livier, Villeneuve

Music: Select Pieces-

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay. [Tickets for Mrs Marshall, Mrs LeBrun, Miss Brunette taken.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-Walker; Polly-Mrs Vincent; Peachum-Hippisley; Lockit-Mullart; Jenny-Miss Brunette; Mrs Slammekin-Mrs Kilby; Lucy-Mrs Marshall, who never performed on that stage before.
Cast
Role: Jenny Actor: Miss Brunette

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Cast
Role: Mauxlinda Actor: Miss
Role: Margery Actor: Miss Isabella

Dance: FFrench Peasant, new Pantomime Dance-Nivelon, Mrs LeBrun; French Peasant-Lalauze, Mlle Roland

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Lampe and Miss Young. Afterpiece: Set to Musick by Mr Lampe. [Tickets at Lampe's House, Brownlow Street.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: The Opera of Operas; or, Tom Thumb the Great

Performance Comment: Tom Thumb-Mrs Lampe; Queen Dollalolla-Miss Young; King Arthur-Parry; Huncamunca-Salway; Grizzle-Waltz; Giantess-Bencraft; Noodle-Roberts; Doodle-Thompson; Merlin-Leveridge.
Cast
Role: Queen Dollalolla Actor: Miss Young

Dance: In Afterpiece: A new dance-the French Boy and Girl; Scotch Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Lampe and Miss Young. Afterpiece: A new Comic-Masque of Speaking, Singing, and Dancing. The Musick composed by Mr Lampe. Receipts: money #39 8s. 6d.; seals #69 16s. (Account Book); #130 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Performance Comment: As17401219, but Foppington-Cibber; Edging-Miss Young.
Cast
Role: Edging Actor: Miss Young.

Afterpiece Title: The Sham Conjurer

Event Comment: Benefit Tifer, Web, Rivers, Miss Ferguson. Receipts: #100 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: As17410406 but Gipsey-Miss Ferguson; Cherry-Mrs Vincent.
Cast
Role: Gipsey Actor: Miss Ferguson

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: Kate Actor: Miss Dodson

Dance: PPierots-Richardson, Delagarde

Event Comment: At the Theatre in James Street, near the Haymarket...between the two Halves of a Concert of Vocal and Instrumental Musick will be presented...gratis...Benefit of Miss Rogers. 6 p.m. Prices, Boxes 3s., Pit 2s., Gallery 1s. Tickets may be secured from Pinchbeck. [Customary notice of prices and concert formula repeated in every notice of performance.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: Sylvia-Miss Rogers, first time on any stage.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performance Comment: Nell-Miss Rogers.
Cast
Role: Nell Actor: Miss Rogers.
Event Comment: Benefit Miss Hippisley. Tickets to be had at the Fleece Tavern; and at Edward Giffard's, Box-keeper, at the Stage Door of the Theatre, Stage form'd into Amphitheatre, etc

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved; Or, A Plot Discover'd

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Performance Comment: See17420121, but Kitty-Miss Hippisley; Valet-Garrick.
Cast
Role: Kitty Actor: Miss Hippisley

Dance: TThe Leek, as17420224

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Bishop, Dighton, Pattendon, Miss Naylor, Marr. Pattenden's tickets at his house in Throgmorton St., near the Royal Exchange

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Cast
Role: Page Actor: Miss Naylor

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Performance Comment: As17420419 Epilogue-Miss Naylor.

Dance: TThe Welshman's Triumph; or, the Death of the Wild Goat-the Son and Daughter of David and Winifred apShenkin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Miss Lucy in Town

Cast
Role: Mrs Tawdry Actor: Miss Bennet.

Dance: II: Grand Serious Ballet, as17421005; Turkish Seraglio, as17421027

Song: III: Happy Pair-Beard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Miss Lucy in Town

Cast
Role: Mrs Tawdry Actor: Miss Bennet.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Fondlewife-Garrick; Bellmour-Mills; Heartwell-Delane; Sir Joseph Wittol-Neale; Noll Bluff-Macklin; Sharper-Hallam; Vainlove-Havard; Setter-Yates; Laetitia-Mrs Clive; Belinda-Mrs Mills; Araminta-Mrs Cross; Silvia-Mrs Ridout; Lucy-Mrs Bennett; Betty-Miss Minors; Barnaby-Leigh.
Cast
Role: Betty Actor: Miss Minors

Afterpiece Title: Miss Lucy in Town

Cast
Role: Mrs Tawdry Actor: Miss Bennet.

Dance: II: Les Matelotes, as17421009; V: Turkish Seraglio, as17421027

Song: III: The Early Horn-Lowe

Performances

Afterpiece Title: Miss Lucy in Town

Cast
Role: Mrs Tawdry Actor: Miss Bennet.

Dance: I: Grand Serious Ballet, as17421005

Music: IV: Concerto-Veracini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Miss Lucy in Town

Cast
Role: Mrs Tawdry Actor: Miss Bennet.

Dance: II: Les Matelotes, as17421009; V: Turkish Seraglio, as17421027

Music: III: Concerto-Veracini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Miss Prue Actor: Mrs Clive

Afterpiece Title: Miss Lucy in Town

Cast
Role: Mrs Tawdry Actor: Miss Bennet.

Dance: II: Grand Serious Ballet, as17421005; V: Turkish Seraglio, as17421025

Music: III: Concerto-Veracini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: Miss Lucy in Town

Cast
Role: Mrs Tawdry Actor: Miss Bennet.

Dance: II: La Mascarada-Brunoro, Mlle Bonneval; IV: Turkish Seraglio-Brunoro,Signora Costanza

Music: III: Concerto-Piantinada

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: Miss Lucy in Town

Cast
Role: Mrs Tawdry Actor: Miss Bennet.

Song: I: Beard; III: Lowe

Dance: II: La Mascarada, as17421112; IV: Grand Serious Ballet, as17421005; V: Turkish Seraglio, as17421112

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: Marplot-Macklin; Sir George Airy-Mills; Sir Francis Gripe-Taswell; Sir Jealous Traffic-Turbutt; Miranda-Mrs Clive; Patch-Mrs Pritchard; Charles-Havard; Whisper-Neale; Butler-Wright; Isabinda-Mrs Ridout; Scentwell-Miss Horsington.
Cast
Role: Scentwell Actor: Miss Horsington.

Afterpiece Title: Miss Lucy in Town

Cast
Role: Mrs Tawdry Actor: Miss Bennet.

Dance: II: Grand Comic Dance, as17421117; V: Harlequin Dance, as17421117

Song: III: Beard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Phoebe Actor: Miss Bennet

Afterpiece Title: Miss Lucy in Town

Cast
Role: Mrs Tawdry Actor: Miss Bennet.

Dance: I: Grand Comic Dance-Torinese, Signora Aquilanti; V: Les Moisoneurs de la Styrie, as17421126

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: Miss Lucy in Town

Cast
Role: Mrs Tawdry Actor: Miss Bennet.

Dance: II: Grand Comic Dance, as17421130; V: Les Moisoneurs de la Styrie-Checo, Signora Chiaretti

Event Comment: 1 Benefit W. Giffard [but earlier advertisements said benefit the two Miss Scotts]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 1 Henry Iv

Afterpiece Title: 1 The Lying Valet

Performance Comment: Lying Valet-W. Giffard; Kitty-Miss Scott.
Cast
Role: Kitty Actor: Miss Scott.
Event Comment: Benefit Miss Bradshaw. Tickets for 9 April will be taken. [Customary concert notice.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Performance Comment: Miser-Julian; Frederick-Clough; Clerimont-Naylor; Ramilie-Peterson; James-Dunstall; Harriet-Mrs Bambridge; Mariana-Mrs Marshall; Lappit-Miss Bradshaw.
Cast
Role: Lappit Actor: Miss Bradshaw.

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Performance Comment: See17421201. at lif. Lucy-Miss Bradshaw; Goodwill-Julian; Blister-Dunstall; Quaker-Hemskirk; Coupee-Peterson; Wormwood-Dighton; Thomas-Freeman.
Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Bradshaw

Song: Mrs Dunstall