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Event Comment: For the Benefit of the Author, Mr Chaves. Never acted but twice

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cares Of Love

Song: Mrs Hodgson

Dance: The little Girl, Mrs Elford's scholar

Event Comment: Afterpiece [by Richard Estcourt]: Mr Bayes's Practice of an Interlude, call'd, Prunella, done from the Italian. Benefit Estcourt. And at the Request of many of the Nobility (who have taken Tickets) 2 Benches of the Pit will be Rail'd in, for more Conveniency. And to prevent any Disappointment, by coming late, 'tis desire'd that their Servants may be sent by 2 a Clock with the Tickets to keep Places

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Prunella

Event Comment: For the entire Benefit of Mr Penkethman. Note, The Subscribers Tickets have free Admittance in any part of the House that Day' and during the whole Season. To begin exactly at half an Hour after 5, by reason the Gentlemen and Ladies that come from London may have time to return again the same Night. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s. [The opening, originally advertised for Monday 12, was deferred to this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Performance Comment: Cholerick-Penkethman; Antonio-Bullock; Charino-Cross; Sancho-Jubilee Dicky [Norris]; Carlos-Thurmond; Clodio-Thurmond Jr; Governor-Elrington; Duart-Cory; Angelina-Mrs Granger; Louisa-Mrs Sapsford; Elvira-Mrs Kent; Honoria-Mrs Spiller; With a new Prologue-Penkethman.
Cast
Role: Louisa Actor: Mrs Sapsford
Event Comment: Note, That Subscribers' Tickets pass this Day, and every Day during Mr Penkethman's stay at Greenwich, unless it be some particular Actor's Benefit-Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Cast
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Sapsford.

Entertainment: Gentlewoman, as17100817; Ladder Dancer

Event Comment: Thurmond Jr, Boval, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Booth. Benefit Corey and Mrs Wetherilt. Written by the late Mr Wycherley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Event Comment: [By John Williams] At Mr Penkethman's Theatre. Benefit Author. At 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richmond Wells Or Good Luck At Last

Song: Drunken Man-Harper

Dance: Drunken Man-Harper

Event Comment: Rich's Register: Dismiss'd at a very full House by reason Mrs Seymour wou'd not Act for the Benefit fo Mr Ch. M. Rich. Abt #200 in Money and Tickets. British Journal, 23 March: As they were performing...Mariamne...before a Crowded Audience, the Celebrated Mrs Seymour was suddenly taken ill, and the Money return'd to the Value of 150 Pounds

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

Event Comment: Receipts: #163 18s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 230 paid and 3 orders; stage, 28 paid; balcony, 4 paid; pit, 273 paid and 3 orders; slips, 57 paid; first gallery, 420 paid and 4 orders; second gallery, 195 paid. Daily Journal, 28 Feb.: Whereas Mrs Barbier has advertized that the Beggar's Opera is to be performed, for her Benefit, on the 16th of March next; This is to inform the Publick, That such Advertisement was published without Consent of Mr Rich, and that the same will not be allow'd of

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Gentlemen and Ladies. Benefit Charles the Merry Trumpeter, a Batchelor, who used to Sound with Mr Bullock. At Lee's Booth on the Bowling Green. The Doors will be open'd at Five, and begin pricisely at Six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Dance: AA Comic Dance between Scaramouch and a Countryman-; Countryman-Charles the Trumpeter

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Gentlemen and Ladies. For the Benefit of a Young Man. By a Company of Young Gentlemen. At Lee's Great Booth, on the Bowling-Green. Afterpiece: Being particularly desired. Written by Mr Gibson Jr. Intermix'd with Songs. [Announced only in Craftsman, 16 May.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Perfidious Brother

Afterpiece Title: Love at First Sight

Related Works
Related Work: Love at First Sight Author(s): David Crauford
Event Comment: Tickets deliver'd out for the Tragedy of Tragedies, with an Opera call'd, The City Apprentice Turn'd Beau, or Love in a Hamper which was to have been performed this Day, for the Benefit of Mr Green, Prompter, will be taken at this Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of Mortimer

Related Works
Related Work: King Edward the Third: With the Fall of Mortimer, Earl of March Author(s): William Mountfort

Afterpiece Title: The Welch Opera

Event Comment: By Their Majesties' Command. Benefit the late Mr Wilks's Widow. Written by Beaumont and Fletcher. Part of the Seats on the Stage (for the better Accommodation of the Ladies) will be form'd into Side-Boxes. Part of the Pit (by Desire) will be rail'd in at the Price of the Boxes. [Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present. The Epilogue is in Weekly Miscellany, 10 March 1733.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Performance Comment: Sir Roger-Cibber; Savil-Johnson; Scornful Lady-Mrs Heron; Elder Loveless-Wm. Mills; Young Loveless-A. Hallam; Welfort-Bridgwater; Martha-Miss Hollyday; Abigail-Mrs Willis; Widow-Mrs Butler; With a new Prologue-; Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: Welfort Actor: Bridgwater

Dance: Denoyer, Mrs Booth, Miss Robinson, Mrs Walter

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the late Mr Gay. Receipts: #51 6s. [See Daily Advertiser, 26 March, for a letter from Francis Nivelon to the author of The Married Philosopher, to be acted on 27 March for the benefit of Nivelon.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Dance: TTambourine-Miss Rogers

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Benefit Mr Foster, at the Mitre in Islington, who has a large and sickly Family in Distress

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance: By Mlle Salle. The Medley by S. Lally, De la Garde, Miss Baston. Richmond Maggot by Le Sac and Miss Rogers

Event Comment: The Tragedy of Zara, Made English [by Aaron Hill]. Applauded Thirty-Six Nights running at Paris. The Characters, by a Sett of Gentlemen and Gentlewomen, who never acted before. None will be admitted but by Tickets into the Room that Night, which (by Reason of the Smallness of the Place) will be all commodiously made into Boxes, for the easy Reception of those many Great Personages, who have read and perus'd this Play with Approbation, and desir'd a long Time to see it acted; and charitably agreed to favour and encourage this Design, for the Benefit of [Mr William Bond, the Proprietor], who brings it on at a great Expence (tho' all that act in it, are so good to appear Gratis for him) who has lain ill of the Gout, and Rheumatism, upwards of Four Years. [This bill, in the London Daily Post and General Advertiser, differs considerably in phraseology, though not in basic fact, from that in the Daily Advertiser.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Benefit Mrs Hervey and Miss Pattison. Written by Mr Farquhar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Music: I: Handel's Overture of Ariadne. II: Charke's Medley Overture

Dance: II: French Peasant by Shawford. IV: Scot's Dance

Song: III: Cbast Lucretia. V: Roast Beef Song

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Benefit Cibber. [Tickets at Cibber's Lodgings, at Mr Bolney's, Great Piazza, cg.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

Dance: I: Grand Ballet-Desse, Miss Oates; II: French Peasant-French Boy and Girl; III: Miller and His Wife-French Boy and Girl; IV: Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; V: Grecian Sailors-Glover

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. For the Benefit of the Brave and Unfortunate Capt John Peddie, of the Prince of Orange, who, after defending his Ship, and saving her by the most Gallant Behaviour, against a Spanish Privateer, had the Misfortune to lose her, and all he had on Board, in the late Storm. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Addison. Pit and Boxes 5s. Galleries 2s. and 1s. Receipts: money #52 1s.; tickets #295 (Account Book); #350 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Nancy

Dance: CComic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Wooden Shoe-Mechel

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Benefit Signora Barberini. Written by the late Mr Farquhar. The Stage will be formed into Boxes. Receipts: money #174 6s.; seals #65 15s. (Account Book); #270 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: A new Tambourine-Desnoyer, Signora Barberini; Les Savoyards (new)-Villeneuve, Signora Barberini; By particular Desire, Louvre, Minuet-Denoyer, Signora Barberini; Glover

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Benefit Mrs Clive. Mainpiece: Alter'd from Shakespear. [Tickets at Mrs Clive's, at Mr Dandrige's in Great Queen Street.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Universal Passion

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Song: The Favourite Airs out of L'Allegro il Penseroso by Handel-Miss Edwards; I: Miss Edwards; IV: Miss Edwards

Dance: II: L'Arlequine deux visages-Mlle Chateauneuf; III: La Tambourine Matelote-Maltere, Mlle Maltere; V: La Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke, and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa. Benefit Signora Fausan. Part of the Pit will be rail'd in, and added to the front boxes. Tickets and places in the Boxes to be had only of Mr West, at the Green Door in Duke St., Lincoln's Inn Fields; and for the Stage, of Mrs Moor, at the Sign of the Theatre in the Playhouse Passage. Receipts: #160. Rylands MS.: Duke &c attended

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Dance: I: Les Jardiniers Suedois, as17420208; II: Les Egyptiens-the Fausans; V: A New Grand Ballet-the Fausans, LaCroix, Constantini, Mrs Walter, Miss Story

Event Comment: At the Particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. [The same rise in price prevailed that occurred on 12 March, but without the explanatory note.] N.B. Those Tickets that could not be admitted on Mr Arne's Benefit night will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Afterpiece Title: The Judgment of Paris

Event Comment: Written by Colly Cibber Esq. Benefit Theophilus Cibber. No persons to be admitted into the Boxes, or behind the scenes, but by Box ticket, which will be deliver'd at White's Chocolate House in St. James' St.; Tom's Coffee House in Covent Garden, and of Mr Bradshaw, &c. Places for the stage (which will be form'd into Boxes and carefully enclos'd) may be taken at Mrs Moor's in the Playhouse passage. Tickets for the Boxes and the stage will also be deliver'd at the proper offices of the theatre. Receipts: #150

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Song: I: Sweet Bird, from Milton,-Mrs Arne; II: A Cantata by Stanley-Beard; IV: Was ever Nymph like Rosamond-Lowe; V: War he sung was Toil and Trouble-Mrs Clive

Dance: III: A Concerto, as17420105; V: The Italian Peasants, as17411205

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Benefit Lowe. Amphitheatre on stage. Tickets and places to be had of Lowe, next the Seven Stars in Bedford St., Covent Garden; at the Globe and Sceptre in Old Jewry; at Ben Johnson's Head in Little Britain; and at Mr Benskin's, Stationer, next the Ship-Tavern, Gracechurch St. Receipts: #180

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Cross.
Role: Foresight Actor: Johnson

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: I: Let me Wander not unseen-Beard; III: Sweet Bird from Milton-Beard; IV: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard

Dance: II: The Italian Peasants, as17411205; V: Le Boufon, as17420325

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Sir John VanBrugh. For the Entertainment of the Grand Master, and the brethren of the Honourable and Antient Society of Free and Accepted Masons, for the Benefit of a Brother, who has had great misfortunes. None to be admitted Without printed Tickets (Daily Advertiser). The Brethren are desired to meet the Right Honourable the Grand Master, at Mr Filkes, at the Bedford Arms in the Piazza in Covent Garden, at Four o'clock in the afternoon, in order to accompany him to the play. Stage form'd into an amphitheatre. Servants allowed to keep places

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Song: Songs in Masonry-Salway, Bencraft; Arra my Judy (by desire)-Stoppelaer

Entertainment: CCries of London-Salway

Dance: PPantaloon and Enamorata, as17420420