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Event Comment: Benefit Ray, Gree, Beckham, Rogers, Mrs Penkethman, and a Widow under Misfortunes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: TTambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; Ballet-Maltere, Mlle Maltere

Song: IV: Was Ever Nymph Like Rosamond-Lowe

Event Comment: Benefit a Person under Misfortunes. At the Tennis Court, James Street. A Concert. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber, Esq. Places: 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d., 1s. 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nonjuror

Afterpiece Title: Nancy

Performance Comment: Both which will be given Gratis by Gentlemen for their Diversion.
Event Comment: Benefit Rawlinson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: II: Le Matelote-Maltere, Mlle Maltere; III: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: Ballet-Maltere, Mlle Maltere

Event Comment: Benefit Hobson (House Keeper and Stage Door Keeper), and Moor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Song: I: The Eccho Song in Comus-Mrs Arne; II: Blow Blow thou Winter Wind-Lowe; V: The Noon@Tide Air-Mrs Clive

Dance: III: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: La Matelote-Maltere, Mlle Maltere

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Karver, Miss Cole, Walker, and John George

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Ballet-Maltere, Mlle Maltere

Song: HHorse and away to Newmarket (in the Character of a Jockey)-Adams

Event Comment: Benefit Walker, Pritchard, Stevens, Bishop, Saunders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: See17410428 but Sir Sampson-Shepard; Valentine-Milward; Foresight-Johnson; Scandal-Mills; Ben-Macklin; Tattle-Chapman; Trapland-Ray; Jeremy-Woodward; Angelica-Mrs Mills; Mrs Frail-Mrs Butler; Mrs Foresight-Mrs Pritchard; Prue-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Foresight Actor: Johnson
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Pritchard

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: Scots Dance-Master Morris, the first time of his appearance on this stage; IV: French Peasant-Master Morris; V: La Tambourine Matelote-Maltere, Mlle Maltere

Song: III: Blow Blow thou Winter Wind-Lowe

Event Comment: Benefit Edwards, Fenn, Fulwood, Fuller

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Song: I: Blow Blow-Lowe; IV: The Noon@Tide Air-Lowe; V: Revenge Timotheus Cries (a favourite song in Alexander's Feast)-Savage

Dance: II: Minuet-Liviez, Miss Story; III: Le Matelote Tambourine-Maltere, Mlle Maltere

Music: IV: The March in Zara-; end Afterpiece: Preamble on Kettle Drum-Jo. Woodbridge

Event Comment: Benefit a Widow Gentlewoman under Misfortunes. The Theatre near the Tennis Court in the Haymarket. Tickets at Three Shillings, Two Shillings, and One Shilling. The whole will be conducted with all possible Decency and Regularity. To begin exactly at half an Hour after Six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Wrangling Lovers

Dance: DDrunken Peasant-Chettle

Event Comment: Benefit Wood, Treasurer (Theatrical Clippings, Folger Library)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Song: AA Chacon a Boire-Leveridge

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Lalauze, Delagarde

Event Comment: Benefit Spackman. By Desire of the Honourable Society of Mercurians. Tickets to be had at Pinchbeck's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Comic part of Spanish Fryar

Song: SSwains I Scorn, Who're Nice and Fair-Miss Carter; The Life of a Beau-Mrs Morrison

Event Comment: Benefit Richard Neale

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: LLe Matelot-Master Mathews; Scotch Dance-Master Mathews; scholar to Davenport

Music: Between the acts: Select Pieces-; Handel's Water Music-; with a preamble on the Kettle Drums-Woodbridge

Event Comment: Benefit Cox

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Performance Comment: Oroonoko-Cox, first time on any stage; Other-Persons for their Diversion.

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Event Comment: Benefit Garrick, who perform'd King Richard. Pit and Boxes 4s. Gallery 1s. 6d. Tickets to be had at Garrick's Lodgings in Mansfield Street, Goodman's Fields, Bedford's, Tom's, Carey's, and Fleece Tavern. The Stage will be built after the Manner of an Amphitheatre, where Servants will be allow'd to keep Places, and likewise in the First Boxes, but not in the Pit, who are desire'd to be at the House by Three o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Event Comment: Benefit Christopher Perry. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by Shakespear. Tickets delivered for 18 Nov. will be taken on this day (Theatrical Clippings, Folger Library)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: II: A new Comic Dance-Dubuisson, Villeneuve, Sga Bonneval; III: Scots Dance-Mathews; IV: Hornpipe-Taylor; V: Matelot-Master Matthews

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman that has wrote for the stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: What Dye Call It

Dance: % Scotch Dance, as17411130; Le Matelot, as17411130; Comic Dance, as17411209

Event Comment: Benefit Gentleman under Misfortune. Prices, as 21 Dec

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Event Comment: Benefit a Person under Misfortunes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Event Comment: Benefit Evans and Baumgartner. Stage boxes 3s. Front Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s. The Farce to begin at Six, and the Concert on the Stage at Seven

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Performance Comment: Persons for their own Diversion; An Instrumental Concert-; Coronation Anthem-.
Event Comment: Benefit Gentleman with a large Famil y, under Misfortunes. Tickets 4s., 2s. 6d., to be had of Alexander Burges, Hardwareman, near Finch Lane, Cornhill; Tickets deliver'd out for the Tender Husband, which was to have been perform'd at Covent-Garden on Friday the 8th Instant, will be taken at this concert

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: Three Graniers

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Yeames. Tickets 4s., 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Event Comment: Benefit Aspey

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: I: The Two Pierrots-two Masters Granier; III: The two Millers and Courtezan-two Masters and Miss Granier; V: a Hornpipe-Yates

Song: II: 'Tis Wine was made to rule the Day-Aspey; who never appear'd on any Stage before. IV: L'Allegro, Il Penseroso-Aspey; V: Joy to the Happy Pair-Aspey

Event Comment: Benefit for a Family under Misfortune

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: As17420215

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Stonnell, who lately kept the Coffee House in Scarborough

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Dance: TTambourine, as17411230; Chacone, as17411230; La Provencale, as17420212

Event Comment: Benefit Sga Barberina. Mainpiece: By His Majesty's Command. Pit and Boxes put together, and none admitted without Tickets, which will be deliver'd at the Office at the Box Doors, at 5s. Gallery 2s. The Gallery doors will be open'd at three o'clock, and the Box Doors at Five o'clock. Servants will be allow'd to keep places on the stage. To begin exactly at six o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Dance: TTyrolean Dance, as17420206; A New Dance call'd Les Amants Heureux-Desnoyer, Sga Barberina

Ballet: RRural Assembly. As17420121

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Pritchard. Tickets and Places to be had of Page at the stage door and of Mrs Pritchard at the Blue Door in Great Queen St., Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: LLa Provencale, as17420212; Chacone, as17411230; The Peasants, as17420210