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Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Reading, Wife of Mr Thomas Reading, Attorney at Law, of New Inn. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: A Farce (never perform'd before). Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Stage Half a Guinea. N.B. Mrs Reading is credibly informed, that a Hackney Writer, who has lately turn'd Author, and Player in his own Farce, has maliciously spread a Report about the Town, that she does not intend to have any Play perform'd: this is to assure the Publick, that she has taken a great deal of Pains to have the Play and Farce perform'd with all the Decency possible

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Performance Comment: Foppington-Pulling; Morelove-Machen; Sir Charles-Barton; Lady Easy-Mrs Reading; Lady Graveairs-Mrs Stewart; Lady Betty-Mrs Thompson; Edging-Miss Burgess .

Afterpiece Title: The Heroick Footman

Performance Comment: Footman-Whittaker; Pinwell-Miss Burgess. With a New Prologue and Epilogue .

Dance: II: Hornpipe by Adams. IV: Two Pierrots by Bodway and Shawford.

Performance Comment: IV: Two Pierrots by Bodway and Shawford. hathi.

Song: I: By Hemskerk. V: In Praise of English Plumb Pudding

Performance Comment: V: In Praise of English Plumb Pudding .
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: As17351126 .

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Performance Comment: As17360216.

Dance: II: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. III: Rover, as17360214

Performance Comment: III: Rover, as17360214.
Event Comment: Benefit Biggs. Written by Mr Farquhar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Performance Comment: Old Mirabel-Machen; Young Mirabel-Yarrow; Duretete -Jones; Dugard-Wallis; Petit-Pullen; Bisarre-Miss Jones; Lamorce-Mrs Harris; Oriana-Miss Jones Jr .

Music: IV: Solo on Violoncello by Biggs

Performance Comment: hathi.

Dance: I: Scaramouch. III: Scotch Dance. V: Running Footman by Shawford

Performance Comment: III: Scotch Dance. V: Running Footman by Shawford .
Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: #76 13s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: As17360213 .

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performance Comment: Cast not listed, but see17360126.
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Mr Wycherley. Receipts: #81 13s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Performance Comment: As17351208 .

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performance Comment: Cast not listed, but see17360126.
Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Sterling

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Parracide

Performance Comment: Cast not listed, but see17360129.

Afterpiece Title: Jupiter and Io: With Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Performance Comment: Jupiter-Kelly; Juno-Miss Jones; Io-Mrs Chambers; Mercury-Nichols; Inachus-Touchbury; Argus-Lyon; Iris-Miss Gerrard; Nereus-Haughton; his Followers-Vallois, Le Sac, Topham, Delagarde; Laverna-Mrs Bullock; Nymphs-Mrs Woodward, Miss Hughes, Mrs Vallois, Miss Gerrard .

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Lun Jr; Colombine-Mrs Dove; Pantaloon-Dove; Clown-Penkethman; Chimney Sweepers-Two Masters Hamilton, but see17360220.
Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: #70 4s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: As17360213 .

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Performance Comment: Cast not listed, but see17360126.
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. Daily Journal, 8 March: On Friday Night last died Mrs Mary Heron, a celebrated Actress belonging to Drury-lane Playhouse

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: As17360128.

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Performance Comment: As17360304.
Event Comment: By the Great Mogul's Company of English Comedians, Newly Imported. [By Henry Fielding.] N.B. Mr Pasquin intending to lay about him with great Impartiality, hopes the Town will all attend, and very civilly give their Neighbours what they find belong to 'em. N.B. The Cloaths are old, but the Jokes intirely new. N.B. All Ladies that intend to be present during the first Run, cannot take Places too early. To prevent any Interruption in the Movement of the Persons in the Drama (some of whom are Machines) no Person whatever can possibly be admitted behind the Scenes. Boxes 4s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin: A Satire On The Times

Performance Comment: Cast not listed, but edition of 1736 lists: Trapwit-Roberts; Fustian-Lacy; Sneerwell-Machen; Lord Place-Mrs Charke; Colonel Promise-Freeman; Sir Henry Fox Chase-Topham; Squire Tankard-Smith; Mayor-Jones; Mrs Mayoress-Mrs Egerton; Miss Mayoress-Miss J. Jones; Miss Stitch-Miss Burgess; Queen Common Sense-Mrs Egerton; Queen Ignorance-Strensham; Firebrand-Roberts; Law-Yates; Physic-Jones; Ghost of Tragedy-Pullen; Ghost of Comedy-Jones; Third Ghost-Wallis; Harlequin-Pullen; Officer-Pullen; Messenger-Wallis; Drummer-Lowder. Epilogue .
Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Otway

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Performance Comment: As17350923 .

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Performance Comment: As17360304.
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Mr Cibber

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Performance Comment: Amanda-Mrs Cibber; Sir Novelty-Cibber; Sir William-Johnson; Loveless-Milward; Elder Worthy-Berry; Young Worthy-W. Mills; Snap-Mechlin; Sly-Miller; Narcissa-Mrs Thurmond; Hillaria-Miss Holliday; Flareit-Mrs Pritchard; Anne-Mrs Cross .

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Performance Comment: As17360304.
Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by Mr Dryden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur

Performance Comment: As17351217 .
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Mr Cibber

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Performance Comment: As17360313.

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Performance Comment: As17360304.
Event Comment: Benefit Cibber. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Taken from Racine by Mr Philips. [Tickets at Cibber's House in Great Queen Street.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Performance Comment: Andromache-Mrs Cibber; Pyrrhus-W. Mills; Orestes-Cibber; Hermione-Mrs Butler; Pylades-Berry; Phoenix-Boman; Cephisa-Mrs Pritchard; Cleone-Mrs Cross. With the Original Epilogue, by Desire, to be spoken by Mrs Cibber .

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Performance Comment: As17351112, but Chloe-Mrs Clive .

Dance: I: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. II: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. III: Le Ballet d'Amour by Denoyer, Mlle Anne Roland, &c. IV: Rover by Essex, Mrs Walter, Miss Mann, &c. V: French Peasants by Poitier, Mlle Roland, &c

Performance Comment: II: Drunken Peasant by Le Brun. III: Le Ballet d'Amour by Denoyer, Mlle Anne Roland, &c. IV: Rover by Essex, Mrs Walter, Miss Mann, &c. V: French Peasants by Poitier, Mlle Roland, &c .
Event Comment: Benefit Poitier. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Cibber

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Performance Comment: As17360313.

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Performance Comment: Phoebus-Mrs Cantrell; Phaeton-Cross; Clymene-Mrs Clive; Ethiopian-Essex; Turkish Dancers-Delamayne, Mrs Walter; Turk-Salway; Harlequin-Le Brun; Morocco Servant-Poitier; Colombine-Miss Mann; Colombine's Maid-Mrs Pritchard; Harlequin's Good Genius-Miss Cole; Adonis-Denoyer; Venus-Mlle Anne Roland, but see17360304.

Music: IV: Kettle Drums by Poitier

Performance Comment: hathi.

Dance: I: Tambourine by Mlle Roland. III: The Double Jealousy: Miller-Poitier; His Wife-Mlle Roland; Coquet-Mrs Walter; Followers-Villeneuve, Pelling, Duke, Davenport, Mrs Pelling, Miss Mann, Mrs Davenport, Miss Brett (with New Habits)

Performance Comment: III: The Double Jealousy: Miller-Poitier; His Wife-Mlle Roland; Coquet-Mrs Walter; Followers-Villeneuve, Pelling, Duke, Davenport, Mrs Pelling, Miss Mann, Mrs Davenport, Miss Brett (with New Habits) .
Event Comment: At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Cibber

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Performance Comment: As17360313.

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Performance Comment: As17360327.
Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Distinction. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Dryden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur

Performance Comment: As17351217 .

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Performance Comment: Cast not listed, but see17350926 .
Event Comment: Benefit Pritchard. At the Desire of several Persons of Distinction. Afterpiece: A New Ballad Opera. [By Henry Ward.] Plays are like Mirrours, made for Men to see, How bad they are, how good they ought to be

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Performance Comment: Careless-Keene; Blunt-Boaman; Day-Smith; Abel-Ward; Obadiah-Johnson; Bookseller-Noland; Prentice-Young Littleton; Ruth-Mrs Templer; Arbella-Miss Brunette; Mrs Day-Mrs Herle; Teague-Pritchard. New Prologue to be spoke by Miss Piternesso, who never appeared on any stage before .

Afterpiece Title: The Happy Lovers; or, The Beau Metamorphos'd

Performance Comment: Sir Timothy-Careful-Payne; Beau-the Author; Constant-Hemskirk; Friendly-Pritchard; Charles-Hussy; Jeremy-Ferguson; Celia-Mrs Forrester; Betty-Miss Brunette. With a New Prologue and Epilogue .

Music: V: Preamble on the Kettle-Drums by J. Woodbridge, and the celebrated Water Musick, composed by Mr Handel, accompanied with Trumpets and French Horns

Performance Comment: Woodbridge, and the celebrated Water Musick, composed by Mr Handel, accompanied with Trumpets and French Horns .

Dance: Hornpipe by Ferguson. By Cox, a Pewterer of the City of London, who never appeared on any stage before, particularly a Harlequin and a Scaramouch. Two Pierrots by Smith and La Back. End Afterpiece: Drunken Man of Pritchard

Performance Comment: By Cox, a Pewterer of the City of London, who never appeared on any stage before, particularly a Harlequin and a Scaramouch. Two Pierrots by Smith and La Back. End Afterpiece: Drunken Man of Pritchard .

Song: By E. Roberts

Performance Comment: Roberts .
Event Comment: Benefit MacSwiny. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: money #61 17s. 6d.; tickets #60 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: As17360213.

Dance: I: A new Comic Ballet by Nivelon and Mlle De L'Isle. II: French Peasants by Lalauze, Mlle D'Hervigni, &c. V: Glover's Scot's Dance

Performance Comment: II: French Peasants by Lalauze, Mlle D'Hervigni, &c. V: Glover's Scot's Dance .
Event Comment: Benefit Miller. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Mr. Farquhar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Performance Comment: As17360103.

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Performance Comment: As17360325.

Dance: II: Dutchman and Frow by Le Brun and Miss Brett. III: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. V: Revellers by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c

Performance Comment: III: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. V: Revellers by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c .
Event Comment: Benefit Mich. Lally. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. By Desire, two Rows of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. [Ticket's at Lally's in Southampton Row, Bloomsbury.] Receipts: money #26 12s. 6d.; tickets #180 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Performance Comment: As17351121, but Mincing and Peg omitted .

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Lawyer

Performance Comment: As17360315.

Dance: I: Tambourine by Miss Rogers. II: Two Pierrots by Nivelon and Lalauze. III: Peasant by Nivelon and Mlle De L'Isle. IV: Harlequine by Mlle De L'Isle. V: Shepherd and Shepherdess by Glover and Miss Rogers

Performance Comment: II: Two Pierrots by Nivelon and Lalauze. III: Peasant by Nivelon and Mlle De L'Isle. IV: Harlequine by Mlle De L'Isle. V: Shepherd and Shepherdess by Glover and Miss Rogers .
Event Comment: Benefit Fustian, the Tragedy Poet. At the particular Desire of all the Friends of Common Sense. Mr Fustian desires the Audience (notwithstanding his Brother Trapwit's Unfair Advertisement to the Contrary) to take particular Notice of the Tragedy, there being several New and very deep Things to be spoke by the Ghost of Tragedy, if the Cock does not crow him away too soon. [Tickets at Fustian's, the Turk's Head in Castle-Yard, Holborn.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

Performance Comment: Cast not listed, but see17360319.
Event Comment: Benefit the Author of the Farce. [Author not known. Apparently not published.] N.B. Mr Marforio hopes those who have paid a Visit to his Brother Pasquin, will not refuse him the same Favour. His Clothes are as old, and the Jokes somewhat more New. Receipts: money #100 14s.; tickets #68 8s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Performance Comment: As17360110.

Afterpiece Title: Marfor1o, being a Comi-Tragical Farce, called The Critick of Taste; or, A Tale of a Tub, with Characters of Singlewit, Drawcansir, Modern, Dapper, Buskin, Prompter, the Great Mogul, Dunceada, Prince Prettyman, Common Sense, the Embryo of Common Sense, Lord Haranguewell, Falarini, Signior Tweedledum, Signior Tweedledee, Prologues, Senators, Patriots, Courtiers, Fidlers, Eunucks, Gentleman Usher, Ghosts, and Chorus of Ghosts

Performance Comment: Cast not listed .

Dance: Tambourine by Miss Rogers. Peasants by Lalauze, Mlle D'Hervigni, &c. Harlequine by Mlle De L'Isle

Performance Comment: Peasants by Lalauze, Mlle D'Hervigni, &c. Harlequine by Mlle De L'Isle .
Event Comment: Benefit I. De LaGarde. At the particular Desire of the Grand and the rest of the Brethren of the Ancient and Honourable Society of Gregorians. Afterpiece: Written by Mr Carey

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Performance Comment: As17360318.

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Performance Comment: Cast not listed, but see17351010 .

Dance: II: Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Mrs Woodward. IV: Dutch Skipper by Vallois and Mrs Bullock. V: Scot's Dance by Haughton, Mrs Bullock, &c

Performance Comment: IV: Dutch Skipper by Vallois and Mrs Bullock. V: Scot's Dance by Haughton, Mrs Bullock, &c .
Event Comment: Benefit Vallois. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. [Tickets delivered by Mr World, the Prompter, taken also.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth

Performance Comment: As17351126 .

Afterpiece Title: The Lover His Own Rival

Performance Comment: Cast not listed, but see17360325.

Dance: II: Minuet and Louvre (at the Desire of several Persons of Quality) by Vallois and Mrs Bullock. III: French Peasant by Vallois and Mrs Bullock. V: Pierrots by Vallois and Delagarde. End of Afterpiece: Dutch Skipper by Vallois and Mrs Bullock

Performance Comment: III: French Peasant by Vallois and Mrs Bullock. V: Pierrots by Vallois and Delagarde. End of Afterpiece: Dutch Skipper by Vallois and Mrs Bullock .

Song: IV: Italian Song by Mrs Chambers

Performance Comment: hathi.