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Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highness the Duke, their Highnesses the Princess Amelia, the Princess Caroline, the Princess Louisa, and the Princess Maria. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Voltaire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zaire

Performance Comment: Zaire-Mrs Fompre; Orosmane-Le Sage Sr; Lusignan-Verneuil; Nerestan-Le Sage Jr; Chatillon-Dessessars; Corasmin-Dubuisson; Meledor-De Lisle; Fatime-Mrs Mimi .

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Always Harlequin

Performance Comment: Cast not listed, but see17341218 .

Dance:

Performance Comment: hathi.
Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Benefit Mr Foster, at the Mitre in Islington, who has a large and sickly Family in Distress

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Performance Comment: As17341125 .

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Performance Comment: Cast not listed .

Dance: By Mlle Salle. The Medley by S. Lally, De la Garde, Miss Baston. Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Miss Rogers

Performance Comment: The Medley by S. Lally, De la Garde, Miss Baston. Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Miss Rogers .
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Performance Comment: Sir Wilful-Harper; Mirabel-Milward; Fainall-W. Mills; Witwoud-Cibber; Petulant-Mechlin; Waitwell-Shepard; Millamant-Mrs Heron; Marwood-Mrs Butler; Mrs Fainall-Mrs Pritchard; Lady Wishfort-Mrs Shireburn; Foible-Miss Mann .

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom

Performance Comment: As17350106.

Dance: As17350118, but Le Brun, Miss Brett, and Dutchman and his From added

Performance Comment: hathi.
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Mr Dryden. Afterpiece: A New Tragi-Comi-Farcical Operatical Grotesque Pantomime. [By John Kelly.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Performance Comment: As17341219 .

Afterpiece Title: The Plot

Performance Comment: Dr Chronos-Harper; Dr Thickscull-Turbutt; Dr Cathartick-Berry; Dr Mildman-Shepard; Dr Phlebotomy-Oates; Dr Proby-Cole; Crocus-Este; Emetick-Raftor; Porter-Turbutt Sr; Undertaker-Mechlin; Gravedigger-Wright; Torchbearer-Woodbourne; Harlequin-Le Brun; Monsieur Harlequin-Chose; Harlequin's Valet-Salway; Clark-Leigh; English Lady-Mrs Pritchard; Nurse-Mrs Willis; Ruffians-Hallam, Beckham; Coffin Makers-Grey, Jones; Frenchwomen-Mrs Charke, Mrs Shireburn; but edition of 1735 lists: Crocus-Raftor; Emetick-Este .

Dance: Polish Ballet, as17341221

Performance Comment: hathi.
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Mr Wicherley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Performance Comment: As17341018, but Petulant-Mullart .

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performance Comment: As17350103.
Event Comment: Written by Mr Wycherley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: Pinchwife-Quin; Horner-W. Mills; Sparkish-Cibber; Harcourt-Mills; Dorilant-Este; Sir Jasper-Griffin; Quack-Shepard; Mrs Pinchwife-Mrs Clive; Alithea-Mrs Butler; Lady Fidget-Mrs Pritchard; Mrs Squeamish-Mrs Grace; Dainty-Miss Mann; Lucy-Mrs Cross .

Music: For the Second Musick, the First Concerto of the 2d Opera of Geminiani. For the Third Musick, the Overture to Esther. I: Concerto for Hautboys by Geminiani

Performance Comment: For the Third Musick, the Overture to Esther. I: Concerto for Hautboys by Geminiani .

Dance: II: Pierrots by Nivelon and Lalauze. III: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. IV: Polonese by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c. V: Russian Sailor by Denoyer

Performance Comment: III: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. IV: Polonese by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c. V: Russian Sailor by Denoyer .
Event Comment: Benefit Cochoy, Mrs Cochoy, and their Children. Second Piece: A Farce of one Act (written by Moliere)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Fille Capitaine

Performance Comment: Le Professeur-Francisque unmasked; but see17341230 . but see17341230 .

Afterpiece Title: The French Cuckold

Performance Comment: To be perform'd by Mr Cochoy's Lilliputians .

Afterpiece Title: Arlequin Sauvage

Performance Comment: Cast not listed .

Dance: A Lilliputian Dance call'd La Polissone

Performance Comment: hathi.
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Performance Comment: As17350120, but Lady Wishfort-Mrs Cross .

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performance Comment: As17340914 .

Dance: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. A new Comic Dance called Tit for Tat by Denoyer, Nivelon, Mrs Walter, Miss Anderson

Performance Comment: A new Comic Dance called Tit for Tat by Denoyer, Nivelon, Mrs Walter, Miss Anderson .
Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Southern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Performance Comment: As17350123, but Nurse-Mrs Cross .

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom

Performance Comment: As17350106.

Dance: French Peasant by Lalauze, Mrs Walter, Miss Mann. Tit for Tat, as17350215

Performance Comment: Tit for Tat, as17350215.
Event Comment: Benefit Waltz, Singer in Mr Handel's Operas. 6 P.M. 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Performance Comment: hathi.

Music: Vocal by Waltz. Instrumental by Opera Masters, especially Flute by Hagan, French Horn by Antony Uhl and Cook

Performance Comment: Instrumental by Opera Masters, especially Flute by Hagan, French Horn by Antony Uhl and Cook .
Event Comment: Benefit Caporali, First Violoncello in Mr Handel's Operas. 7 P.M. 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Performance Comment: hathi.

Music: Singing by Mrs Young and her Sister. Concertos by Caporali

Performance Comment: Concertos by Caporali .
Event Comment: Benefit the Author of the Farce. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Addison. Afterpiece: Taken from Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Performance Comment: As17240914, but Lucia-Mrs Grace .

Afterpiece Title: A Cure for a Scold

Performance Comment: As17350225 And an Epilogue by Mrs Clive .
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Mr Otway. Afterpiece: A New Grotesque Pantomime

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Performance Comment: As17341024 .

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Orpheus; or, The Magical Pipe

Performance Comment: Apollo-Salway; Mercury-Roberts; Caliope-Mrs Cantrel; Attendants on Apollo-Essex, Villeneuve, Livier; Attendants on Cassiope-Mrs Walter, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Davenport; Harlequin-Le Brun; Country Squire-Nivelon; Pierot-Lalauze; Petit Maitre-Laguerre; Colombine-Miss Mann; Countrymen-Thurmond, Pelling, Davenport; Countrywomen-Mrs Walter, Mrs Pelling, Miss Brett; Farmer-Harper; Innkeeper-Thurmond; with Grand Ballet by Denoyer, Essex, Mrs Walter, Villeneuve, Livier, Dace, Davenport, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Davenport, Miss Brett . with Grand Ballet by Denoyer, Essex, Mrs Walter, Villeneuve, Livier, Dace, Davenport, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Davenport, Miss Brett .

Music: Select Pieces on the Violin by a Youth of 13 Years of Age, who never performed in public before, a Scholar of Signior Catanio

Performance Comment: hathi.

Entertainment: [Apparently not published. Author not known. For Poitier, see Daily Journal, 3 March.]

Performance Comment: Author not known. For Poitier, see Daily Journal, 3 March.] hathi.
Event Comment: As 5 March. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 13 March: Last Night their Majesties and the Princess Caroline . . . heard Esther, an Oratorio; and Mr Handel's two new inimitable Concertos on the Organ. [Egmont also present.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cast Not Listed, But See 5 March

Performance Comment: hathi.
Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Thurmond. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: As17341030, but Sir Sampson-Harper .

Afterpiece Title: A Cure for a Scold

Performance Comment: Cast not listed, but see17350225.

Dance: Russian Sailor by Denoyer. Amorous Swain and Rival Nympbs, as17350310

Performance Comment: Amorous Swain and Rival Nympbs, as17350310.
Event Comment: Benefit Milward. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Hughes. Part of the Stage formed into Side Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Performance Comment: Eumenes-Mills; Caled-Quin; Phocyas-Milward; Abudah-W. Mills; Daran-Cibber; Herbis-Berry; Artamon-Turbutt; Eudocia-Mrs Heron. With a New Prologue to his [Hughes'] Memory .Hughes'] Memory .

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Performance Comment: Valentine-Salway; Buff-Macklin; Rakeit-Oates; Lucy-Mrs Clive; Charlot-Mrs Cantrel; but see17341113 . but see17341113 .

Dance: Amorous Swain and Rival Nymphs, as17350310 Minuet (in Modern Habits) by Denoyer and Mrs Walter

Performance Comment: hathi.
Event Comment: Ijmdon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 27 March: We hear . . . that to perfect the Performance, Mr Handel designs to introduce, to-morrow Night (in the Oratorio of Deborah) a large new Organ, which is remarkable for its Variety of curious Stops; being a new Invention, and a great Improvement of that Instrument

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deborah

Performance Comment: Cast not listed, but Dean, Handel's Dramatic Oratorios, p. 238, conjectures: Deborah-Signora Strada; Barak-Carestini; Jael-Miss Cecilia Young; Priest of Baal-Hussey, with Reinhold and Beard possibly singing also. With a new Concerto on the Organ;..

Afterpiece Title: the two Concertos in the Oratorio of Esther

Performance Comment: hathi.
Event Comment: Benefit Cibber. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Afterpiece: Taken from Moliere. [Tickets of Cibber at Newton's Warehouse (the Crown and Scepters) in Tavistock-street.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Taste

Performance Comment: As17350308 but see17350325 With the Original Prologue, and a new Epilogue recommending the Support of the English Theatre To the Beauties of Great Britain, Both spoken by Mr Cibber .

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performance Comment: Doctor-Cibber; Dorcas-Mrs Clive, but see17341009 .

Dance: In: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. V: Russian Sailor by Denoyer. End of Afterpiece: Amorous Swain, as17350327

Performance Comment: V: Russian Sailor by Denoyer. End of Afterpiece: Amorous Swain, as17350327.
Event Comment: Benefit Michael Lally. By Command of Her Royal Highness the Princess Amelia. Tickets to be had at Mr Lally's House in Southampton-Row, Bloomsbury. Two Rows of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Cast not listed .

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Performance Comment: Cast not listed, but see17350203.

Dance: I: English Maggot by S. Lally, De la Garde, Miss Baston. II: Grand Pastoral Dance by Lally, Mlle Salle, Miss Rogers, S. Lally, Le Sac, Delagarde, Duke, Mrs De l'Orme, Miss Baston, Miss Norsa. III: Glover's Scotch Dance. IV: Minuet by Lally and Mlle Salle. V: Pigmalion by Lally and Mlle Salle

Performance Comment: Lally, De la Garde, Miss Baston. II: Grand Pastoral Dance by Lally, Mlle Salle, Miss Rogers, S. Lally, Le Sac, Delagarde, Duke, Mrs De l'Orme, Miss Baston, Miss Norsa. III: Glover's Scotch Dance. IV: Minuet by Lally and Mlle Salle. V: Pigmalion by Lally and Mlle Salle .
Event Comment: Benefit W. Mills. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Performance Comment: As17350215.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performance Comment: As17340914 .

Music: Select Pieces between the Acts

Performance Comment: hathi.

Dance: II: English Clown by Nivelon. III: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. IV: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. End of Farce: Amorous Swain, as17350327

Performance Comment: III: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. IV: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. End of Farce: Amorous Swain, as17350327.
Event Comment: Benefit Stoppelaer and Mrs Kilby. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-Stoppelaer; Peachum-Hippisley;Lockit-Mullart; Polly-Miss Norsa; Lucy-Mrs Kilby; but see17350103 . but see17350103 .

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Performance Comment: Cast not listed, but see17350418.

Dance: A new Tambourine by Glover and Miss Rogers

Performance Comment: hathi.

Song: Leveridge's Song In Praise of English Roast Beef

Performance Comment: hathi.
Event Comment: Benefit Mlle Salle. By Command of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Tickets to be had at Madam Salle's Lodgings at Mr Belleur, Jeweller, opposite the Red-Lion, Brownlow-street, DL

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Performance Comment: As17341125 .

Dance: I: Pigmalion by Lally, Mlle Salle &c. II: Fawns by Lally, Mlle Grognet, Miss Rogers, Mrs De l'Orme. III: By Denoyer and Mlle Salle. IV: By Mlle Grognet, Miss Rogers, Mrs De l'Orme. V: Minuet by Denoyer and Mlle Salle

Performance Comment: II: Fawns by Lally, Mlle Grognet, Miss Rogers, Mrs De l'Orme. III: By Denoyer and Mlle Salle. IV: By Mlle Grognet, Miss Rogers, Mrs De l'Orme. V: Minuet by Denoyer and Mlle Salle .
Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Haughton and the Widow of Joseph Giffard, Apothecary. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction. Any Gentleman, or Lady, who design to serve the Widow of Mr Joseph Giffard, Apothecary, who is left with Five Children are desired to take their Tickets at Pidgeon's Coffee-House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Performance Comment: As17350227, but Gravediggers omitted .

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performance Comment: Cast not listed .

Dance: III: La Follette c'est Ravize by Tench and Mrs Woodward. V: Scotch Dance by Mrs Bullock

Performance Comment: V: Scotch Dance by Mrs Bullock .

Song: II: A Song with French Horns by Miss Jones. IV: In Italian by Mrs Chambers

Performance Comment: IV: In Italian by Mrs Chambers .
Event Comment: Benefit the Author of the Farce [who plays Manly by Command]. By Command of His Royal Highness. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Dryden. Afterpiece: Taken from Shakespear's Taming of the Shrew

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Performance Comment: As17341219 .

Afterpiece Title: A Cure for a Scold

Performance Comment: Manly-the Author [Worsdale]; Peg-Mrs Clive, but see17350225 With the Prologue and Epilogue .

Dance: In II: Amorous Swain, as17350327 V: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. End I of Afterpiece: A Clown by Nivelon

Performance Comment: End I of Afterpiece: A Clown by Nivelon .
Event Comment: Benefit Roberts, Boxkeeper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Performance Comment: As17350217, but Basset-Bardin; Richard-Woodward; Moody-Wetherilt; Poundage-Dove; Jenny-Mrs Woodward; Mrs Motherly-Mrs Wetherilt; Myrtillo-Miss Tollet .

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Performance Comment: As17340918, but Mopsus-Bardin .

Song: I: A Song by Kelly. II: In Italian by Young Mr Cutting

Performance Comment: II: In Italian by Young Mr Cutting .