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Event Comment: Music entirely new by Giovanni Christiano Bach [1765 libretto]. By Command of their Majesties. A new Opera by Mr Back [sic]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adriano In Syria

Performance Comment: Adriano-Tenducci; Osroa-Ercole Ciprandi; Emirena-Sga Teresa Scotti; Farnaspe-Giovanni Manzoli; Sabina-Sga Clementina Cremonini; Barsene-Miss Young; Aquilio-Leopoldo Micheli (Edition of 1765).
Cast
Role: Osroa Actor: Ercole Ciprandi

Dance: Between the acts: As17650105; New Dances-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adriano In Syria

Dance: As17650105

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pharnaces

Dance: I: A Dance call'd The Coopers-Aldridge, Miss Baker; II: A New Comic Dance-Berardi, Sg Giorgi, Sga Giorgi, Miss Baker, Grimaldi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Demofoonte

Dance: As17650105

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clive. Mainpiece: Not acted for 3 years. [See 21 March 1763.] Part of Pit laid into Boxes. No building on Stage. Farce never before acted. [Attributed to Mrs Clive, not printed.] Tickets and places to be had of Mrs Clive, at the Two Red Lamps, in Great Queen St., Lincoln's Inn Fields, and of Mr Johnston at the Stage Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Lovers

Performance Comment: Sir John Dorilant-Holland, 1st time; Modely-Palmer; Bellmour-Packer; Steward-Baddeley; Caelia-Mrs Palmer, 1st time; Araminta-Mrs Yates; Lady Beverley-Mrs Clive.

Afterpiece Title: The Faithful Irish Woman

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17641011

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Brent. Part of the Pit will be railed into the boxes. Ladies and Gentlemen, who have taken Boxes, or Places, before Miss Brent's Benefit was advertised, are requested to send for their tickets, otherwise such Boxes or Places cannot be insured. Tickets deliver'd for the 21st of March will be taken. No Person can be admitted behind the Scenes, Nor any money retuned after the curtain is drawn up. Books of the Opera to be sold at the Theatre. Tickets to be had of Miss Brent, in the Piazza, next the Church, Covent Garden; and of Mr Sarjant, at the stage-door of the theatre, where Places for the Boxes may be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: II: A Tambourine, as17641015

Event Comment: Benefit for Miles, Mrs Green and Mrs Baker. None admitted behind Scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: As17650325 but Nurse-Mrs Green(, 1st time); Minuet-Mas. King (scholar to Mr Miles, his 1st appearance on any stage), Miss Valois; Solemn Dirge-Miss _Poitier. [Masquerade Dance and Funeral Procession same.]Masquerade Dance and Funeral Procession same.]
Cast
Role: Escalus Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: III: A Scotch Dance-Mas. King, Miss Pitt; IV: The Drunken Peasant-Miles, Clown-Bennet; End: A Hornpipe-Mas. King

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Cast
Role: Randal Actor: Dunstall

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: I: A Wooden Shoe Dance-Leppie, Miss Pitt; End: (This night only) A Medley Hornpipe-Walker, from Drury Lane, Miss Pitt his scholar; End Opera: Hornpipe-Miss Pitt; End I Afterpiece: Rural Love, as17641212

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: Archer-Smith; Aimwell-Ross; Sullen-Gibson; Foigard-Barrington; Gibbet-Bennet; Scrub-Shuter; Boniface-Anderson; Sir Charles Freeman-R. Smith; Lady Bountiful-Mrs Ferguson; Cherry-Miss Vincent; Dorinda-Mrs Mattocks; Mrs Sullen-Mrs Ward.
Cast
Role: Boniface Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Cast
Role: Osmyn Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

Event Comment: Author's Day. Books of the Comedy to be had at the Theatre. N.B. The Author has generously given the profits of this day to a Fund, lately establish'd, by the Performers of the above Theatre, for the Maintenance of Decayed Actors and their Families. Public Advertiser, 3 Feb. 1766: The Performers of Covent Garden Theatre return their sincere thanks to Mr Cumberland for his generous donation of the profits of the 9th performance of The Summer's Tale, amounting to #74, for use of the newly established Theatrical Fund

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Summer's Tale

Cast
Role: Ferdinand Actor: Morris
Related Works
Related Work: The Summer's Tale Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: I: Rural Love, as17651115; II: The Garland, as17651003

Event Comment: Jan. 30, 1766, died Mrs Cibber. Was Miss Arne, born 1715. Married Theo Cibber 21 April 1734. Brought to bed of a son 5 April 1736. Left stage 1738 with Mr Sloper, who was charged with damages. Acted Dublin 1741. Returned to Covent Garden and performed till 1747. Joined Garrick till 1750. Returned to cg till 1753. Returned to dl and remained till she died (Winston MS 9 from Burney's Actor's MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Event Comment: Benefit for Woodward. Mainpiece: Not acted these 20 years. To prevent mistakes, Ladies are desired to send their servants by 3 o'clock. Tickets and places to be had of Mr Sarjant, at the Stage Door and NO WHERE ELSE

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode; Or, Sir Foppling Flutter

Performance Comment: Sir Foppling-Woodward; Dorimont-Ross; Old Bellair-Shuter; Young Bellair-Dyer; Medley-Clarke; Shoemaker-Dunstall; Handy-Gardner; Harriet-Miss Wilford; Belinda-Mrs Gardner; Lady Townly-Mrs Vincent; Emilia-Mrs Baker; Lady Woodville-Mrs Pitt; Pert-Mrs Green; Loveit-Mrs Bellamy.
Cast
Role: Handy Actor: Gardner

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Performance Comment: As17660107, but Old Maid (New Dress'd)-Woodward (Being the first and, he believes, the last time of his appearing in that character). [But see17660401] .But see17660401] .

Dance: End: The Village Romps, as17651019

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love; Or, The World Well Lost

Performance Comment: Antony-Smith; Ventidius-Gibson; Dolabella-Clarke; Alexas-Dyer; Serapion-Anderson; Myris-Redman; Octavia-Mrs Ward; Iras-Mrs Godwin; Cleopatra-Mrs Bellamy; Charmion-Mrs Stephens.
Cast
Role: Serapion Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: End: Rural Love, as17651115

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanter

Song: II: An Air by Dr Arne-Miss Polly Young; IV: An Air by Sg Vento-Polly Young

Dance: III: The Irish Lilt, as17651004

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Baddeley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Entertainment: End: Baddeley, By Particular Desire, will present Bucks Have at ye All-Baddeley

Dance: End I Farce: Hearts of Oak, as17660207

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Master Burton. Tickets deliver'd by W. Yates and Miss Berkley will be taken. Afterpiece: Not acted these two years. [See 9 May 1764.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: Romeo Actor: Holland

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: End: New Tambourine, as17660123

Event Comment: Benefit for Kear, Keen and Watkins. Tickets deliver'd by Mr Wilson will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: II: A Song Call'd The Whistling Plowman-Kear

Dance: End: Tambourine, as17651004; End Farce: Hornpipe-Miss Watkins

Event Comment: Benefit towards the Increase of a Fund, established by the Performers of the Theatre Royal Covent Garden for the Support of Decayed Actors and their Families. This Fund having been begun by voluntary contributions among the performers, improved by a proportionable Weekly Deduction on their salaries, and intended as a reciprocal Provision for them their widows and children, in sickness and infirmity, it is humbly hoped and appeal to the Generosity of the Public will not be taken amiss. Such of the Nobility, Gentry, &c. who are pleas'd to favour this Undertaking, are desired to send for places, Box or Pit tickets, to Mr Sarjant, at the Stage Door. Mainpiece [by John Banks]: Not acted these 20 years. Occasional Prologue, written by Hull [printed in the Jester's Magazine, May 1766, p. 241]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens; Or, The Death Of Mary Queen Of Scots

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Performance Comment: As17651223, but Andromeda-Mrs Weichsel; Cassiope-Mrs Baker; Amazon-Mrs Lampe; Husaar-Clarke.
Event Comment: To begin at 7:00 p.m. Boxes 5s. Pits 3s. Gallery 2s. Places for the Boxes to be had of Mr Jewell at the Theatre. Vivant Rex et Regina. [Repeated in the bills. Note in St James Chronicle speaks of great crowd and of numbers turned away.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Entertainment: Dancing-

Event Comment: This Week a Patent passed the Great Seal for the Establishment of a new Theatre, to Samuel Foote, Esq. only (Public Advertiser, London notes, p. 2, col. 3). Mr Barry and Mrs Dancer from Dublin are said to be engaged for this summer at the Theatre Royal in the Haymarket (Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, London notes, p. 2, col. 2, which corroborates the Foote patent)

Performances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orators

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: As17660715

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: As17660715