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Event Comment: Suppos'd Garrick's Benefit (Cross). This day publish'd at 1s. Every Man in his Humour, a Comedy written by Ben Johnson [sic] with alterations and additions, as it was perform'd at Drury Lane (General Advertiser). [Inspector No 298 comments on a blemish in the performance of Richard III, where the character of the Lord Mayor has Buffoonry in the handling." Taswell frequently acts it thus, but perhaps is not to blame, the decision as to the manner of the part probably having been made by the Manager (Daily Advertiser and Literary Gazette, 13 Feb.)] Receipts: #210 (Cross)

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Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years. [See 12 Nov. 1745.] Very Dull Play & No Garrick (Cross). We hear the Comedy of the Comical Lovers will be reviv'd for the benefit of Mrs Clive on Monday, 9 March; to which will be added, Miss in her Teens, the part of Fribble by Garrick, being the only time of his performing it this season. Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lady Jane Gray

Performance Comment: Pembroke-Mossop (1st time); Lord Guilford-Dexter 1st time; Gardiner-Havard; Northumberland-Burton; Suffolk-Winstone; Sussex-Mozeen; Sir John Gates-Simson; Lieut.-Scrase; Captain-Ackman; Duchess of Suffolk-Mrs Mills; Lady Jane Gray-Miss Bellamy (1st time).

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: GGrand Provincial Dance, as17520204

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 7 p.m. [Repeated in subsequent bills.] At the particular Desire of Several Persons of Quality. Benefit for Benjamin Hallet, a child of nine Years of age. The Tenth Day. By Gentlemen masked after the manner of Grecian and Roman Comedy. [Not repeated in subsequent bill after this date.] The House to be made very warm and illuminated with wax candles

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory 1

Afterpiece Title: Old Woman's Oratory 2

Afterpiece Title: Old Woman's Oratory 3

Event Comment: We hear that Mrs Cibber's Benefit, which was advertis'd for the 3rd of March, is oblig'd to be deferr'd till Tuesday the 17th

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Event Comment: [If this were the announcement of a bona fide concert, there would be no infraction of the Licensing Act. The singers are not named, as they usually are in advertisements of musical entertainments.] Benefit for Brown. Boxes 3s. Pit 2s. Gallery 1s. No persons to be admitted without tickets

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Concert Of Vocal And Instrumental Musick, Etc

Event Comment: The farce went off dull. Taken from a play so call'd (Cross). Part of pit laid into the boxes, and Stage formed into an Amphitheatre & Commodiously enclos'd for the Reception of Ladies. Ladies send servants by three. Doors opened at half past three. Benefit for Woodward. Boxes and Stage 5s. Receipts: #280 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Performance Comment: As17520116, but Justice Clement-Taswell; Cob-_; Master Matthew-_; Cash-_; Formal-_; Bridget-_; Tib-_.
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Role: Formal Actor: Costollo

Afterpiece Title: The Man of Taste

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Mrs Norris was to had her Benefit (ye Inconst) this Night but gave it up-her Tickets came in Notwithstanding (Cross). Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Event Comment: A Concert, &c. Benefit a Person under Misfortunes. To begin at 6:00 p.m. [No prices listed.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Event Comment: By Particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Benefit for Francis Callaway Citizen of London, under Misfortunes, being unavoidably involved in a most litigious Chancery Suit. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory

Event Comment: At the New Wells, Lemon St., A Concert, etc. Benefit for Hallam. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit and First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Devil in a Wood; or Harlequin Skeleton

Event Comment: By particular Desire. A Concert, &c., Benefit for Hallam at the New Wells, Lemon St., now open only upon this occasion. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit and First gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. [Prices repeated.

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom; or, The Virgin Unmasked

Entertainment: Singing-

Event Comment: By particular Desire, at the New Wells, Lemon St., Benefit for Hallam. A concert, etc. To begin at 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Entertainment: Singing-; Dancing-; new Fireworks-

Event Comment: A concert, etc. at the New Wells, Lemon St. Benefit for Hallam. Positively the last night of performing

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Entertainment: New Fireworks-

Event Comment: On Friday the 22nd a Benefit for Mrs Allen, Daughter of the late Thomas Allen, Barrister at Law, and Niece to the late Col. James Allen, who has for many years lost the use of her limbs by Palsy,--The Suspicious Husband, with entertainment as will be express'd in the Bill of the Day. Tickets to be had at Searle's Coffee House, Lincoln's Inn; at the Rolls, Chancery Lane; at George's Temple Bar; at Grigsby's behind the Change; at the Southsea Coffee House, Bishopsgate St.; and at the stage door, where places may be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: As17521028

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. The Play of As You Like It designed for tomorrow, for the Benefit of a Distress'd Family, is oblig'd, on account of the Ball at the Haymarket, to be deferr'd till farther notice (playbill). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Event Comment: [Fifty-sixth Day. Benefit Sig Piantofugo. Tickets for the 15th will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory

Event Comment: At the Desire of Several Persons of Quality. Benefit for a Gentleman under Misfortunes. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory

Event Comment: A concert, etc. at Phillips's Great Theatrical Booth, facing the Tiled Booth, Bowling Green. To begin at 7:00 p.m. Benefit for a Gentlewoman in Distress. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. First gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Old Witch of Endor; or, Harlequin Turn'd Beau

Event Comment: [G+Gray's Inn Journal contains a puff' for Macklin's coming benefit (see 20 Dec.), deplores his dismissal from Covent Garden, and hopes for a good audience to help set him up in his new venture.] Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Event Comment: Play Particular Desire. Tomorrow, The Funeral, for the benefit of a Family in Distress. Tickets for Lady Jane Gray will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Event Comment: MMr Garrick's Benefit tho not in ye bills. Mainpiece by Particular Desire (Cross). Receipts: #230 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Event Comment: For the Benefit and Increase of a Fund established for the Support of Decayed Musicians, or their Families. To begin at 6:00 p.m. [Box and Pit at Half a Guinea. Gallery at 5s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainment Of Vocal And Instrumental Music

Event Comment: fterpiece] A farce of 3 Acts taken from Shaks Taming ye Shrew (by Garrick) call'd new Catharine & Petruchio (Cross). Mrs Pritchard's Benefit. Tickets of Mrs Pritchard at her lodgings at Pritchard's Warehouse, in Tavistock St. Part of pit laid into boxes. Amphitheatre on stage. Receipts: #298 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: Devisse, Mlle Auretti, Mlle Auguste

Event Comment: MMrs Midnight's Concert Vocal and Instrumental Music after which for one night only will be given [Sack Posset, &c.] gratis. Benefit for Mrs Midnight. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. To begin exactly at 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sack Posset

Afterpiece Title: La Pantomime du Charpentier

Entertainment: Mad Tom-Sg Musardo; New Concerto on the Tambour de Basque-; accompanied with the original Jews Harp-; Hurdy Gurdy-; and an Oration on the Salt Box-Mrs Midnight

Dance: Several New Dances-Bambaregines, Sambucio, Atterino

Song: Several New Songs-Lauder, others

Event Comment: MMiss Midnight will give Tea. &c. Benefit for Pittard le Charpentier and a Free Mason

Performances

Mainpiece Title: New Carnival Concert

Afterpiece Title: La Pantomime du Charpentier