Event Comment: Rich's Company. Lady Morley attended this performance: Lady Morley and one in the Box at the Grove an Opera. 10s. See Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Drama, p. 378. It is not known whether this performance was the premiere, but the publication of this work on 16 March 1699@1700 (Post Man, 14-16 March 1699@1700) suggests that if the usual month between premiere and publication intervened for this work, the premiere may have been in mid-February. On the other hand, a letter-see 20 Jan. 1699@1700-may refer to this work. The music was composed by Daniel Purcell. In Songs in the New Opera Called The Grove or Love's Paradice (1700) the following singers are listed: Mrs Irwin, Freeman, The Boy, Hughes, Mrs Lindsey, Pate, and Mrs Shaw. The Preface implies that the opera was a failure: As for the Persons who were not so generous...who thought the Catastrophe was not enough prepar'd, and that the discovery in the last Act was huddled and in confusion, they will now see if what he had writ had been spoken, every thing would have appear's clear and natural, which, to shorten the Entertainment had been before broken and disorder'd

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Knight. Written by Sir John Vanbrugh

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Martin. Tickets for Wednesday 4 taken

Event Comment: Benefit Mullart, Mrs Mullart, Stopler

Event Comment: Benefit Bewley, Gallant, Mrs Keene, Mrs Atkins. Receipts: money #11 12s.; tickets #140 11s

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Morgan. At the particular Desire of a Person of Quality

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Sandham and Mrs Pullen. Afterpiece: A Pastoral Ballad of one Act. [Author not known. Apparently not published.

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Cooper. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. [For a puff, see Mrs Cooper's letter in Grub St. Journal, 25 April.]

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Roberts

Event Comment: Benefit Thurmond. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Ben. Johnson. Tickets for Este and Mrs Cross taken

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Charke. Mainpiece: Written by Mrs Charke. Intermixed with Songs. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Cibber. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. [Tickets at Mrs Cibber's, Great Queen Street.] N.B. Mrs Cibber's present Condition not permitting her to play on her Benefit Night, as she purpos'd, she is oblig'd to change the Play; and Tickets deliver'd out for The Conscious Lovers will then be taken

Event Comment: Benefit A. Hallam. Tickets at Hallam's, next the Chapel in Great Queen Street.Tickets for Mrs Forrester taken also

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Taken from Plautus, Moliere. Egerton 2320: Receipts: #82. Hamlet Posted for a week but put off upon Mrs Cibber's refusing to do Ophelia for which she was forfeited five pounds--the Miser play'd instead of it

Event Comment: Benefit Yates, Bowcher, Mrs Elmy, Miss Oates

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Giffard. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. [Tickets at Mrs Giffard's House, No. 4, Craven Buildings, dl.

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Pritchard. [Tickets for Mrs Miller taken. Tickets at Mrs Pritchard's, No. 8, Craven Buildings.

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Never acted there before. Receipts: #90. Daily Advertiser, 23 Jan.: Last Night Shakespear's Play of All's Well was acted for the first time at Drury Lane, to a numerous Audience, with universal applause; but Mrs Woffington being indisposed, it is deferr'd

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Vincent and Mrs Bellamy. Tickets deliver'd out by Mrs Good and others will be taken

Event Comment: Tickets deliver'd out by Mrs Wright will be taken

Event Comment: Benefit Villeneuve, Mrs Kilby, Mrs Woodward

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular desire. Afterpiece: Never Acted Before. [The Farce by Fielding is a sequel to The Virgin Unmasked.] Forbidden soon by the Lord Chamberlain. It being supposed that a particular man of quality was pointed at in one of the characters. The prohibition short of duration (Genest, III, 652). See A Letter to a Noble Lord to whom it alone belongs, occasioned by a representation at Drury Lane of a Farce call'd Miss Lucy in Town (1742), [a 20 page pamphlet criticizing the Lord Chamberlain for allowing this farce. Author gives a scene by scene account emphasizing the bawdry and discounting the pious conclusion. He concludes with remarks on theatrical dancing]: As to Dances, I think your province of prohibition does not extend; so the Public cannot owe their gratitude to you for several. I appeal to those who have been on the coast of Malabar and the banks of the Ganges whether we have not had some that have exceeded on posture, or anything of that kind so common amongst the polite Indians of Indostan. Afterpiece: Mrs Clive mimics the Muscovita admirably, and Beard Amorevoli intolerably (H. Walpole to H. Mann, 26 May).-Horace Walpole Correspondence with Sir Horace Mann, I, 435. Receipts: #70

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

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Lampe and Mrs Vincent

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Mills. Mainpiece at the desire of several Ladies of Quality. [For Mrs Woffington in this role, see 12 Dec. and 18 Feb. 1747.] Tickets to be had of Mrs Mills at her Lodgings at Mr Long's in Bow Street, and at the stage Door of the Theatre