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Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Eminent Merchants in the City of London. Benefit a Family under Misfortunes. [The last performance of the season.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, The History Of George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Song: I: If Love be a Fault-Lowe; IV: Blow Blow thou Winter Wind-Lowe

Event Comment: New Theatre, James Street, near the Haymarket. Benefit Mrs King. [Designation of New Theatre repeated in remaining bills.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: Mrs Careless, Volage

Event Comment: A concert, etc. Benefit Mrs Careless. The Parts to be perform'd by Persons who intend to play as well as they can, tho' perhaps not so well as they wou'd. Boxes 3s. Pit 2s. Gallery 1s. 6:30 p.m. N.B. Mrs Careless hopes her Friends will favor her according to their Promise, to relieve her from the terrible fits of the Vapours, preceding from Bad Dreams, tho' the Comfort is, they generally go by contraries

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Song: II: The Life of a Beau-Hills

Dance: V: Minuet-Mrs Careless

Event Comment: For the Benefit of Mrs Loder, a Widow in Distress, having four children unprovided for. 4s., 2s., 6d., 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Cast
Role: Blandford Actor: W. Giffard

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: By particular Desire. Benefit Smith and Miss Davis. Note, Care will be taken that the House shall be kept warm

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Event Comment: At the French Theatre, over against the Opera House in the Haymarket, a Concert of Vocal and Instrumental Musick. Boxes 4s. Pit 1s. 6d., Gallery 1s. 6d. Between the two Halves of the Concert will be presented...gratis. 6 p.m. Benefit a Tradesman. Afterpiece: By the Author of The Toy-Shop. [Note, This customary concert formula and the notice of time and prices will not be repeated here.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pamela

Afterpiece Title: Sir John Cockle at Court

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By particular Desire. Benefit Delane. Places to be had of Bradshaw, &c. Tickets to be had at Delane's lodgings in Queen's Court, in King's St., Covent Garden. Tickets deliver'd out for Lady Jane Gray, will be taken this night. Servants will be admitted to keep places upon the stage. Receipts: #140

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Song: I: Song with French Horns-Beard; III: a Ballad-Lowe; IV: Song-Mrs Arne

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

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality, benefit Geminiani. Pit and Boxes together at Half a Guinea; Gallery 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Grand Concert Of Vocal And Instrumental Musick

Event Comment: RRylands MS.: Benefit Pierson, Treasurer. Receipts: #190

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Song: I: Let me Wander not unseen from Milton's Allegro & Penseroso, by Handel-Beard; III: Elin@a@Roon (by special Desire)-Mrs Clive; V: A Ballad-Lowe

Dance: II: A Concerto, as17420105; III: The Drunken Peasant, as17411029; V: The Italian Peasants, as17411205

Event Comment: RRylands: Benefit Muilment. Receipts: #130

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: By Particular Desire La Matelote-M. Muilment; III: A Grand Ballet call'd Pastor Fido-Muilment, Mrs Delagarde; V: A Minuet-Muilment, Mrs Delagarde

Song: II: Let me Wander not unseen-Beard; IV: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Benefit of a distrest Citizen. [The Intriguing Chambermaid had been announced as the afterpiece.] Receipts: #80

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Song: II: Happy Pair-Beard; IV: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard

Dance: I: Running Footman's Dance, as17420428 V: a Hornpipe-Philips

Event Comment: RRylands: Benefit for Doorkeepers Stevens, Bishop, Walker, Saunders, Pritchard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Running Footman-Master Morris; II: Dutch Dance-Phillips; III: Le Boufon, as17420325 IV: a Hornpipe-Phillips

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke, and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa. Rylands MS.: Garrick Play'd, Duke Attended. Died 31 July, aged 77, Ben Johnson (Winston MS. from Burney's Actors MSS). [See benefit for his daughter 15 Dec.] Receipts: #171

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17420430 but Richard-Garrick (last time of his performing this season); Duke of York-Miss Cibber; Lord Mayor-Turbutt; Blunt-Raftor; Tressel-_; Lieutenant-_.
Cast
Role: Oxford Actor: Woodburn
Role: Forest Actor: Gray

Dance: The Mechels

Event Comment: To begin exactly at Six o'clock. Play Written by Shakespear. The Principal Characters new dress.d, and the Theatre New Decorated. None will be admitted into the Boxes but by Printed tickets, which will be deliver'd at the Office in the Lobby at 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. N.B. For the Better Regulation of the stage, it is desired that no persons will take it ill, that they cannot be admitted behind the scenes. [The notice about time and prices remains constant throughout the season and will not again be noted here. The notice about refusal of admission behind the scenes appears on each bill till the benefits begin. It will not be repeated here.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Event Comment: GGreat Theatrical Booth, Bowling Green. Benefit Phillips from Drury Lane. To begin at 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Reveller

Dance: LLes Masons & Sabotiers-Phillips, Mrs Dove

Event Comment: A notice had appeared announcing for this date a performance of Love Makes a Man, with Clodio-$Peterson, Cholerick-$Paget, and the rest of the parts by members of Giffard's Goodman's Fields Company (now of course at Lincoln's Inn Fields) and the Lying Valet, for the benefit of Paget, who states, in the notice, that he is out of work. The performance was not given, but see 25 Nov., by which date Paget was resting in Fleet prison

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Event Comment: DDyer's MS: Garrick's first benefit, not crowded, opened lobby to dispose of tickets (Winston MS.). Tickets may be had at Garrick's lodgings in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden. Stage will be form'd into side boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Song: As17430103

Event Comment: With a Prologue on Shakespeare and his writings spoken by Garrick, and An Epilogue on Shakespeare's Women Characters spoken by Mrs Woffington-for the benefit of the author of the Prologue and Epilogue

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Song: As17430120

Dance: As17430120

Event Comment: By particular Desire, benefit a Family under Misfortunes and in great Distress. Prices 2s. 6d., 1s. 6 p.m. Note, Those Gentlemen and Ladies that please to honour us with their Company, need not doubt of being well entertain'd and their Favours gratefully acknowledg'd by us, who are humbly petitioning for their Company and Interest, and for which we shall be in Duty ever bound to pray, etc

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Performance Comment: Sharp-a Gentleman for his Diversion.
Event Comment: Not acted these 25 years. At the Particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality for the Benefit of Mrs Giffard. Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber Esq., Poet-Laureat. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. 6d. And the Company will continue to act every Day, Wednesdays and Fridays in Lent excepted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nonjuror

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: WWhittingham's Benefit oblig'd to be deferr'd till further notice

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: At the Great Theatrical Booth, Bowling Green. By Permission. Benefit Laguerre and Boaman. By a Company from the Theatres-Royal, for their Diversion, a Concert...gratis, etc. Boxes 3s. 6d. First Gallery 1s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6 p.m. Daily Advertiser lists Miss Hippisley for Miss Prue in mainpiece and for Kitty in afterpiece, and Mrs Yates for Melissa. In the London Daily Post and General Advertiser bill Mrs Dunstall doubles two roles

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: Sir Sampson-Marten; Valentine-Gibson; Scandal-Ridout; Tattle-Woodward; Ben-Yates, with hornpipe; Foresight-Arthur; Jereny-Vaughan; Trapland-Laguerre; Buckram-Bencraft; Angelica-Mrs Mullart; Mrs Foresight-Mrs Dunstall; Mrs Frail-Mrs Yates; Miss Prue-Miss Bradshaw.
Cast
Role: Foresight Actor: Arthur
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Dunstall

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Benefit Cibber. The play being chang'd, by Desire, Tickets deliver'd out for the Man of Taste; or the Guardian, taken from Terence and Moliere, will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nonjuror

Afterpiece Title: scenes from Tscenes from The Old Batchelor

Song: Between the Acts: particularly the Songs in the Masque of Comus-a Gentleman (who never perform'd in public before), Mrs Hooper, Mrs Dunstall

Dance: WWelch Buffoon-two Masters Granier [not in Daily Advertiser]

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Desire of Several Persons of Quality. N.B. Some few days ago Mrs Catherine Penny was Committed, by Col DeVeil, to Bridewell, for selling Counterfeit tickets, for the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane; and as she has deliver'd out others for several Benefits to come (Mrs Clive's in particular) it is thought proper to give this public notice of the fraud, in order to prevent any tickets being bought in the Passages of the Theatre, proper care being taken to prevent all Tickets so bought from coming into the House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Benefit Beard...Tickets and Places to be had at Beard's lodgings on the North Side of Red Lyon Square. Those Ladies who have already taken places, are humbly requested to send for Tickets. Tickets and places also to be had of Hobson at the stage door. Stage will be form'd into side boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy