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Event Comment: Benefit Vaughan, Powell, Gardiner [Box Keepers]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: Cooke, Picq, LaLauze; Also Scotch Dance, as17441012

Event Comment: Benefit Wright, Fenn [Stage Door-keeper], Saunders and Payne

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Tragedy of Tragedies

Dance: III: Sga Bettini

Song: I: Gentle Shepherd-Mrs Arne; V: Early Horn-Lowe

Music: IV: Concerto on the Bassoon-; End Farce: Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Woodbridge; concluding with Handel's Water Music-

Event Comment: Benefit for Lawrence and Evans (Box Keepers), and Gwinn (Pit Door-keeper)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: Cooke, Sga Campioni; Also Scotch Dance, as17450507

Event Comment: Benefit Page, Verhuyck, Palmer, Emmet, Mason, Cooper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Wives Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Schoolboy

Dance: LLe Gondalier-Cooke; Scotch Dance, as17450507

Event Comment: Benefit Raftor and Miss Edwards. Play By Desire. Being the last time of acting this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Event Comment: Benefit Morgan. By Particular Desire. Last night of the season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Song: I: Cantata-Lowe; III, IV: Beard

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Rayner. At the particular Desire of several Gentlemen and Ladies

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bacchus And Circe

Afterpiece Title: As You Like It or Harlequins Whim

Dance: Miss Rayner

Event Comment: Benefit Oates

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: Brett

Dance: As17451028

Event Comment: Benefit W. Hallam. Prices 3s., 2s., 1s. [With the usual synoptic account.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song: Brett

Dance: As17451028

Event Comment: Benefit Barlow. [Prices change to 3s., 2s., 1s. and repeated in bills in Daily Advertiser until 14 Jan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Or The Unhappy Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: Benefit a Widow in Distress. Prices 2s. 6d., 2s., 1s. Tickets at Mrs Huddy's, Fleece Tavern, corner of Ayliffe St., Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Woman Is A Riddle

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman and his Family under great Distress. Prices. 3s., 2s., 1s. Tickets of Daniel Findon, Union Coffee House, Cornhill. [Blakey was down for Filch in the advance notice of 21 Jan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Song: Brett

Dance: As17460114

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Lincoln. Prices 2s., 1s., 6d. At Hickford's Room, Panton St.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil To Pay

Entertainment: Rope dancing-; juggling-Yeates

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Hooper. Boxes 4s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Debauchees

Dance: Joseph Granier, Polly Granier, Jack Granier

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentlewoman under Misfortunes. Prices 3s., 2s., 1s. There will be a fire in the Pit to keep the House Warm

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Song: Between the Acts: (By particular Desire) Behold the sweet Flowers-; Come Rosalind O Come and See-; Blow ye Bleak Winds around-; Musick by Arne-Miss Medina

Event Comment: Benefit Burrows and Toole. [Prices as 14 Jan.] Tickets at the Taphouse of the Wells

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Flora or The Country Wake

Song: Barlow

Dance: The three Graniers

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Harrison. [Prices 4s., 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d., 1s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: As17451113, but Scrub-Morgan; Bonniface-W. Hallam; Foigard-Julian; Cherry-Miss Haughton; Mrs Sullen-Miss Harrison; her third performance on the stage. Epilogue in the character of a Volunteer-Miss Harrison.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: The two Masters Granier, Miss Granier

Event Comment: Benefit Owen and Starkey. [Prices, 2s. 6d., 2s., 1s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: The two Masters Granier, Miss Granier

Event Comment: Benefit Julian.[Prices 3s., 2s., 1s. Daily Advertiser.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: Between the Acts: the two Masters Granier, Miss Granier; Hornpipe-Williams

Song: Several favourite songs-Miss Medina

Event Comment: Benefit Kennedy and Miss Smith. [Prices 3s., 2s., 1s.] Tickets at Kennedy's, No. 2 Lambeth St.; at Miss Smith's, next door but One to the Old Playhouse in Ayliffe St.; King Harry's Head, Red Lyon St., and at the Taphouse of the Wells

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: By Desire,a Hornpipe, Wooden Shoe Dance-Banberry

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Haughton. [Prices as 4 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: Flora or Hob in the Well

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Clive. Mainpiece alter'd from Dryden by Colley Cibber. Not acted these 30 years [see 27 April 1722]. Servants will be admitted to keep places on the stage, which will be inclos'd and form'd into Front and Side Boxes. Tickets and places to be had of Mrs Clive, at her House in Great Queen St., Lincoln's Inn Fields; and of Hobson at the Stage Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Lovers Or Marriage A la mode

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: III: Italian Peasants, as17460206 IV: Shepherds Dance-Muilment, Desse, Miss Scott

Song: V: A New Scotch Dialogue-Lowe, Miss Edwards

Event Comment: Benefit Leonardo Pescatore...a Serenata. Music entirely new and composed by himself, 7 p.m., 5s. Tickets at the Mews Coffee House, Charing Cross; at Pescatore's, No 2, Meard's Court, Dean St., Soho. [And a long letter by Pescatore offering to give lessons on the harsichord and wounded by public suspicion of his loyalty.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Forza De Lamore

Event Comment: Benefit Delane. Mainpiece: At the Particular desire of several persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Three Hours after Marriage

Song: III: Lowe

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Horton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Dance: PPeasant-Cooke; Les Allemandes, as17451109