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Event Comment: Benefit J. and Ch. Rich. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Receipts: money #64 4s. 6d.; tickets #66 6s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Amadis

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Related Work: Amadis; or, The Loves of Harlequin and Colombine Author(s): John RichChristopher Rich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amadis

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Related Work: Amadis; or, The Loves of Harlequin and Colombine Author(s): John RichChristopher Rich

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Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve, London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 2 Oct.: Last Night in the Entertainment of Dr Faustus...when the Machine wherein were Harlequin, the Miller's Wife, the Miller and his the Miller's Man, was got up to the full Extent of its flying, one of the Wires which held up the hind part of the Car broke first, and then the other broke, and the Machine, and all the People in it fell down Upon the Stage; by which unhappy Accident the young Woman who personated the Miller's Wife had her Thigh broke, and her Kneepan shatter'd, and was otherways very much bruised, the Harlequin had his Head bruised, and his Wrist strained; the Miller broke his Arm; and the Miller's Man had his Scull so fractured that his Life in despaired of. Thomas Gray to Horace Walpole, 6 Oct.: Covent Garden has given me a sort of surfeit of Mr Rich and his cleverness, for I was at [cg] when the machine broke t'other night; the house was in amaze for above a minute, and I dare say a great many in the galleries thought it very desterously performed, and that they screamed as naturally as heart could wish, till they found it was no jest, by their calling for surgeons, of whom several luckily happened to be in the pit. I stayed to see the poor creatures brought out of the house, and pity poor Mrs Buchanan not a little, whom I saw put into a chair in such a fright that as she is big with child, I question whether it may not kill her.-Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Thomas Gray, I, 113-14

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

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Related Work: The Necromancer; or, Harlequin Doctor Faustus Author(s): John Rich
Event Comment: Receipts: #147 11s. Paid Jno Rich for Mr Morris, #246 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Related Works
Related Work: The Fair Example: or the Modish Citizens Author(s): Richard Estcourt
Related Work: The Fair Author(s): John Rich
Related Work: Erminia; or, The Fair and Vertuous Lady Author(s): Richard Flecknoe
Event Comment: Full prices. Last time of performing till Easter Holidays. Receipts: #214 11s. Paid Kemp #6 8s.; Meares #0 10s. 6d.;Mr Platt for mahogany chair frames (12), #9 12s.; Paid Rich #50; Paid 10 night's Rents for Oratorios #100. I was to see the Jovial Crew and the Fair again, at the Gallery at Covent Garden, where I see Mrs Viebert, Miss Meredith & Mr Madan. Slept in at Drury Lane Gallery where I see the best part of Catherine & Petruchio for King's Benefit (Hailey, Brietzcke Diary, Vol. 197, p. 210)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Related Works
Related Work: The Jovial Crew Author(s): Richard Brome
Related Work: The Ladies' Frolic Author(s): Richard Brome

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

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Related Work: The Fair Example: or the Modish Citizens Author(s): Richard Estcourt
Related Work: The Fair Author(s): John Rich
Related Work: Erminia; or, The Fair and Vertuous Lady Author(s): Richard Flecknoe
Event Comment: Income from Boxes #15 17s. 6d. Given to Mr Shaw by Mr Rich for performing Osmyn 19 Oct. #10 10s. Receipts: #67 6s. (Winston Theatrical Record)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cleone

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

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Related Work: The Fair Example: or the Modish Citizens Author(s): Richard Estcourt
Related Work: The Fair Author(s): John Rich
Related Work: Erminia; or, The Fair and Vertuous Lady Author(s): Richard Flecknoe
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted there before. New Decorations incident to the play (General Advertiser). Advanc'd towards purchasing Mr Smollet's copy of Alceste #100 (Account Book). Handel remov'd to Covent Garden, and entered into some engagements with Rich, the particulars of which are not known, save that in discharge of a debt that he had contracted with him in consequence thereof, he some years after set to music an English opera entitled Alceste, written by Dr Smollet, and for which Rich was at great expense in a set of scenes painted by Servandoni; but it was never performed (Hawkins, General History of Music, V, 324). [For additional information on Alceste, see Deutsch, Handel, pp. 679-81. See also cg 14 Feb. 1749.] Receipts: #155 18s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Related Works
Related Work: The Fair Example: or the Modish Citizens Author(s): Richard Estcourt
Related Work: The Fair Author(s): John Rich
Related Work: Erminia; or, The Fair and Vertuous Lady Author(s): Richard Flecknoe

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Dance: End: Double Hornpipe-Walker, Miss Tetley

Entertainment: BBucks Have at Ye All-J. Palmer

Event Comment: Benefit John and Ch. Rich. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Estcourt. Receipts: #36 8s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Example

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Related Work: The Fair Example: or the Modish Citizens Author(s): Richard Estcourt

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Doctor

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Related Work: The Jealous Doctor, or, The Intriguing Dame Author(s): John Rich

Dance: Dupre, Mlle Gautier; particularly a Chacone-; Harlequin-

Event Comment: Benefit John Rich. At the Desire of several Persons of Qulaity. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Addison. Receipts: money #92 12s. 6d.; tickets #37 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Afterpiece Title: Amadis

Related Works
Related Work: Amadis; or, The Loves of Harlequin and Colombine Author(s): John RichChristopher Rich

Song: With some Chansons a Boir to be sung-Leveridge; Also a New Ballad call's, The Faithful Mariner, after the Manner of a true English Sailor-

Event Comment: Benefit John Rich. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Otway. Receipts: #126 7s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cheats Of Scapin

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

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Related Work: The Necromancer; or, Harlequin Doctor Faustus Author(s): John Rich

Song: Mrs Barbier

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Afterpiece: Not acted these 12 years. [See 9 Nov. 1761.] With Additions and Alterations. [The Additions to The Fair seem to have included a number of actual animals (instead of the men costumed as an Ass and a Hog as used in Mother Shipton), for the Account Book this year for the first time notes payments, 22 March 1774, "for the hire of Horses in The Fair," and 18 June 1774, "To Mr Brooks for attending with the Camels &c. in the Fair." The tradition of bigger and better spectacles seems to have passed on from Rich to Colman.] Receipts: #180 17s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Related Works
Related Work: The Fair Example: or the Modish Citizens Author(s): Richard Estcourt
Related Work: The Fair Author(s): John Rich
Related Work: Erminia; or, The Fair and Vertuous Lady Author(s): Richard Flecknoe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Related Works
Related Work: The Necromancer; or, Harlequin Doctor Faustus Author(s): John Rich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgo-Master Trick'd

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Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd Author(s): John Rich
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, Harlequin Mercury Author(s): Richard Jones
Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Prologue, Epilogue and Pastoral Dialogue. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Addison. A New Pastoral Dialogue for the benefit of ye Author of ye Dialogue, Cook ye Poet (Cross). [The Prologue was on comic poetry (spoken by Ryan); the Epilogue was on the Comic Characters of Women (spoken by Mrs Bland). See published version (London, 1753 "to which is prefixed an Ode to John Rich, Esq:"--British Museum 11795 K 31).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer; Or, The Haunted House

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Entertainment: NNew Prologue, Epilogue, likewise a New Pastoral Dialogue (never perform'd before)-Lowe, Mrs Lampe; The music by Mr Arne-

Dance: LLes Chasseurs Allemandes, as17521207

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Hillyard. Receipts: #46 17s. Charges: #63. Deficiency cover'd by tickets, #105 9s. (boxes 170; pit 279; gallery 211). Rec'd from John Rich, #100, being part of the sum paid to Mr Finny on account of the New Building (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Related Works
Related Work: The Red-Cross Knights Author(s): Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Dance: II: Prussian Sailors-Master Settree, Miss Twist (Scholars to Mr Settree); III: Comic Dance-Master Settree, Miss Twist; IV: Roast Beef of Old England or The Antigallican-Leppie, Miss Hilliard; V: A Grotesque Minuet-Leppie, Miss Hilliard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Related Works
Related Work: The Fair Example: or the Modish Citizens Author(s): Richard Estcourt
Related Work: The Fair Author(s): John Rich
Related Work: Erminia; or, The Fair and Vertuous Lady Author(s): Richard Flecknoe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Related Works
Related Work: The Fair Example: or the Modish Citizens Author(s): Richard Estcourt
Related Work: The Fair Author(s): John Rich
Related Work: Erminia; or, The Fair and Vertuous Lady Author(s): Richard Flecknoe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Richmore Actor: Ridout

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Related Works
Related Work: The Fair Example: or the Modish Citizens Author(s): Richard Estcourt
Related Work: The Fair Author(s): John Rich
Related Work: Erminia; or, The Fair and Vertuous Lady Author(s): Richard Flecknoe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: First Violin-Dubourg; Concert-Kytch; Solo-J. Festing

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

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

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

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

Song: By E. Roberts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Comic Dancing-Master J. and Miss Granier

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Abel

Music: I: Concerto on the Violin-Degiardini; II: An Organ Concerto by Arne-Mr Arne Jun

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amadis

Related Works
Related Work: Amadis; or, The Loves of Harlequin and Colombine Author(s): John RichChristopher Rich

Dance: deMirail's Scholar, Mlle Cerail

Event Comment: By Subscription. Benefit John and Chr. Rich and Hamilton. Pit and Boxes together at 7s. Receipts: money #34 8s.; tickets #78 13s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats

Related Works
Related Work: The Cheats; or, The Tavern Bilkers Author(s): John Rich

Music: As17200205

Song: A new Cantata in Italian by Mr Rosengrave-Gordon

Dance: As17200120