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Event Comment: Benefit Hippisley. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth

Cast
Role: Bedford Actor: A. Ryan

Afterpiece Title: The Lucky Discovery

Dance: CComic Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Grand Ballet-Glover, Mlle Roland

Event Comment: Benefit Johnson. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: by Ben Johnson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: III: Grand Ballet, as17390313 V: Aethiopian Dance-Muilment

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Giffard. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. [Tickets at Mrs Giffard's House, No. 4, Craven Buildings, dl.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: III: Grand Ballet, as17390313 V: Turkish Dance-Muilment

Event Comment: Benefit Michael Lally. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Two Rows of the Pit will be laid into Boxes. [Tickets at Lally's House in Southampton-Row, Bloomsbury.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: I: Tambourine-Mlle Roland; II: Two Pierots-Lalauze, Desse; III: By particular Desire, a Ball Dance, concluding with a Minuet-Lally, Mlle Roland; IV: Comic Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; V: Glover, Mlle Roland

Event Comment: Benefit Griffin. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: Punch Dance-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; III: Pierots-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; IV: Turkish Dance-Muilment

Song: V: See from the Silent Groves-Beard

Event Comment: Benefit Muilment. As 27 Nov. 1738. Tickets at Muilment's, The Dial and Crown in Castle Street, over against Cranbourn Alley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreckd

Dance: I: The Pieraites-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; II: Grand Ballet-Denoyer; III: Aethiopian Dance-Muilment; IV: A new dance-Muilment

Event Comment: Benefit Beard. Tickets at Beard's House, New North Street, Red-Lion Square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Foresight Actor: Johnson
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Pritchard

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Punches Dance-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; III: Turkish Dance-Muilment; IV: Comic Dance-Poitier

Song: II: Wou'd You Taste the Noontide Air (from Comus)-Beard; IV: (By Desire,) Oh Happy Pair (out of Alexander's Feast)-

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Hallam. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. [Tickets at Mrs Hallam's House, No. 6, Wild Court, in Wild Street, near lif.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: Glover, Lalauze, Mlle Roland, Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Two Pierots-Lalauze, Desse; Grand Ballet-Glover, Mlle Roland

Event Comment: Benefit Poitier. [Tickets at Poitier's Lodgings, the Door before the New Bagnio in Great Suffolk Street, near the Haymarket.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: Foresters Actor: Turbutt, Gray, Leigh.

Song: TThe Noontide Air (from Comus)-Beard

Music: Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Poitier

Dance: Poitier

Event Comment: Benefit Bridgwater. Tickets at Bridgwater's Lodgings, Brownlow Street in dl

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: Master Cooke, Miss Scot; Comic Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Scots Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. As 27 Nov. 1738

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: Foresters Actor: Turbutt, Gray, Leigh.

Song: II: The Noontide Air, as17390407

Dance: III: Grand Ballet-Muilment; V: Minuet-Denoyer, Mrs Walter

Event Comment: Benefit Lalauze. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Country Farmer Deceivd or Harlequin a Statue

Dance: II: Grand Ballet-Lalauze, others; IV: French Peasant-Lalauze, Mlle Roland; V: Grecian Sailors-Glover

Event Comment: Benefit Giffard. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Tickets at Giffard's, No. 4, Craven Buildings, dl

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant Or The Way To Win Him

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: Foresters Actor: Turbutt, Gray, Leigh.

Dance: I: Punches Dance-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; III: Dutch Dance (new)-Baudoin, Miss Thompson; V: Grand Ballet-Muilment, Mrs Walter

Song: IV: By Desire, Oh Happy Pair (out of Alexander's Feast)-

Event Comment: Benefit Havard and Miss Mann. As 27 Nov. 1738. Tickets The Siege of Damascus also taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreckd

Dance: I: Harlequins-Poitier, Mlle Roland; III: Moors Dance-Muilment, Mrs Walter; IV: French Peasants-Poitier, Mlle Roland; V: Minuet-Poitier, Mlle Roland

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Stevens and Mlle Roland. Mainpiece: Written by Beaumont and Fletcher

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Dance: II: Tambourine-Mlle Roland; IV: Scots Dance-Glover; Mlle Roland

Event Comment: Benefit Hallam and Mrs Kilby

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Wedding

Dance: TTambourine-Mlle Roland; Je ne scai quoi-Villeneuve, Richardson, Miss Oates; Grecian Sailors-Glover

Event Comment: Benefit Denoyer. By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. [Tickets at Denoyer's Lodgings, the Corner of St. James's-Square, in Pall-Mall.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Dance: After Overture: a new Grand Ballet-Denoyer, others to the Overture of Flavius, composed by Handel; II: Hungarian Dance (in the Manner of the Country,)-Denoyer, Mrs Walter; IV: Russian Sailors-Denoyer; V: Ball Dance, concluding with a Minuet-Denoyer, Mrs Walter

Song: I: Oh Happy Pair-Beard; III: Mary Scot-Mrs Clive

Event Comment: Benefit Walker. Tickets for Mrs Vincent also taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Coblers Opera

Dance: TTwo Pierots-Lalauze, Desse; Serious Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Grecian Sailor-Glover

Event Comment: Benefit Macklin. As 27 Nov. 1738. Tickets at Macklin's House, No. 12, Wild-Court, lif

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Taste Or The Guardians

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Song: III: The Noontide Air, as17390407; IV: Oh Happy Pair-Beard

Dance: II: Hungarian Dance, as17390424 V: Ball Dance, with a Minuet-Denoyer, Mrs Walter

Event Comment: Benefit Stephens. Tickets at Stephen's House, Paternoster Row

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: Falstaff-Stephens; Ford-Ryan; Page-Hallam; Shallow-Chapman; Sir Hugh-Hippisley; Slender-Neale; Caius-Mullart; Fenton-A. Ryan; Simple-Bencraft; Pistol-James; Nym-Stoppelaer; Bardolph-Dove; Mrs Ford-Mrs Horton; Mrs Page-Mrs Hallam; Anne-Mrs Vincent; Mrs Quickly-Mrs Mullart; Host-Bullock.
Cast
Role: Ford Actor: Ryan
Role: Mrs Ford Actor: Mrs Horton

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance: TTwo Pierots-Lalauze, Desse; Je ne sai quoi-Villeneuve, Richardson, Miss Oates; Serious Dance-Mlle Roland; Grecian Sailors-Glover

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Mills. By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: As17390405 but King-Mills; Kate-Miss Chetwood; Attendants-_; Foresters-_.
Cast
Role: Foresters Actor: Turbutt, Gray, Leigh.

Dance: SSaraband-Miss Scott; Serious Dance-Muilment, Mrs Walter; Minuet-Rector, Mrs Walter

Song: OOh Happy Pair-Beard

Event Comment: Benefit Ellis Roberts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Song: WWar he sung is Toil and Trouble (out of Alexander's Feast)-Roberts; English Cantata-Roberts

Dance: JJe ne scai quoi-Villeneuve, Richardson, Miss Oates; Scots Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland

Music: Concerto on the Harp-Parry

Event Comment: Benefit Wright. By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: II: Punches Dance-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; V: Russian Sailors-Denoyer

Song: TThe Noontide Air (from Comus)-Mrs Clive

Event Comment: Benefit Leveridge

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Song: I: The Opinions of the Ancients-Leveridge, Salway; II: Nestor's Advice to his Master when in Council-; III: By Particular Desire, The Roast Beef of Old England-Leveridge; IV: The Gallant Days of King Arthur (being the Sequel to The Roast Beef of Old England,)-Leveridge, Chorus

Dance: II: Two Pierots-Lalauze, Desse; III: Je ne scai quoy-Richardson, Villeneuve, Miss Oates; V: Scots Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Pritchard. Tickets at Mrs Pritchard's, No. 8, Craven Buildings, dl

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mother in law Or The Doctors The Disease

Afterpiece Title: The Harlots Progress

Song: II: The Noontide Air-Beard; IV: See from the Silent Groves Alexis Flies-Beard

Dance: III: Moors Dance-Muilment, Mrs Walter; V: Pieraites-Master Ferg, Miss Morrison