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Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. With New Scenes, Machines, Dances, and all other Decorations, proper to the Play. At Common Prices. [Prince and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperour Of The Moon

Event Comment: With all new Cloaths, Scenes, and Decorations proper to the Play. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First gallery 2s. Receipts: #139 7s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

Music: Frost Music out of King Arthur by the late Mr Henry Purcel-Leveridge, Pack, Cook, Jones, Reading, Mrs Cross, Mrs Cook

Dance: Dancing-Dupree, delaGarde, Moreau, Bovill, Sandham, Miss Russel, Miss Schoolding

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By Colley Cibber. Music by Dr Pepusch.] A New Musical Masque...in two several Interludes, compos'd after the Italian manner and perform'd all in English. N.B. A Printed Book of the Masque will be given each Person that pays in the Pit or Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Music: A select Band of the best Masters of Instrumental Musick

Event Comment: Benefit Nicolino. With New Scenes and Cloaths, particularly the Scene with the Fountain. Pit and Boxes half a guinea. Stage Boxes 15s. Gallery 4s. At 6 p.m. Weekly Packet, 25 June: Signior Nicolini's Quail-Pipe continues to lug the Nobility and Gentry by the Ears, who have gone very far on his last Benefit-Night, towards equipping him for another purchase at Venice, he having already built a stately Edifice there, near the Rialto, upon which is written in Characters of Gold, Villa Britannica, as a Testimony that Scaliger's Saying, that we are Hospitibus Feri, is a downright Untruth, and falsly imputed to our Nation

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit Henry Rich, Pit Officekeeper. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Tickets for the New Medley will be taken. Receipts: #124 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The City Ramble

Dance: delaGarde, Mrs Bullock; Scaramouch-a Gentleman for his Diversion

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Beaumont and Fletcher, and since Revis'd. Afterpiece: [By Henry Carey.] A New Farce

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bonduca

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances; or, More Ways Than One

Performance Comment: Edition of 1715 lists: Argus-Norris; Hearty-Shepard; Rovewell-Quin; Robin-Miller; Constable-Cross; First Mob-Weller; 2d Mob-Pendroy; 3d Mob-Cole; Woman Mob-Wright; Servant-Harris; Boy-Young Norris; Arethusa-Miss Willis; Betty-Mrs Baker.

Music: Mainpiece: by Henry Purcell

Event Comment: [Afterpiece: By Colley Cibber.] Never perform'd before. Compos'd to Musick after the Italian Manner and performed all in English. The Habits being all New

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: Myrtillo

Dance: Dancing Proper to the Masque-Dupre, Boval, Dupre Jr, Miss Santlow, Mrs Bicknell, Miss Younger

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [Author unknown. Apparently not published.] A New Farce (Never Acted before). At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Bulls and Bears

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With New Scenes, Machines, Dances, and all other Decorations proper to the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis (First Interlude)

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By John Hughes.] A New Musical Masque, perform'd all in English. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Sir Richard Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Dance: As17151122

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By Christopher Bullock]. A New Farce of one Act. Receipts: #26 19s. 6d. In the preface Bullock states that he began the farce on Friday 20, finished it on Saturday 21, acted it on Tuesday 24

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler of Preston

Dance: As17151029

Event Comment: By Command. With all the New Scenes and Cloaths. In which above 20 Songs are chang'd. Pit and Boxes together by ticket only at half a guinea, the number not to exceed 400. Stage Boxes 15s. Gallery 2s. 6d. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lucius Verus

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By Charles Johnson.] A New Farce of Two Acts only

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler of Preston

Event Comment: With all the New Scenes, Machines, and Cloaths belonging to the Opera. Admission as 1 Feb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amadis

Event Comment: Mainpiece: [By William Taverner. Apparently not printed.] Never Acted before. Afterpiece: [By William Taverner.] A New Masque of Vocal and Instrumental Musick of Two Acts. Receipts: #31 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Body Mistaken

Afterpiece Title: Presumptuous Love

Event Comment: By Command. With New Scenes. Admission as 1 Feb. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By Christopher Bullock.] A New Farce of One Act. Benefit Bullock Sr. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: #69 16s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Sea Voyage

Afterpiece Title: The Adventures of Half an Hour

Song: As17160317

Dance: As17151104

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By Benjamin Griffin.] A New Farce of Two Acts. Receipts: #27 4s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical History Of Don Quixote, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of Purgatory

Song: As17160206

Dance: As17151104

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A New Italian Piece by Mons Sorin and Mr Baxter. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Afterpiece Title: La Guinquette; or, Harlequin Turned Tapster

Dance: An Entertainment of Mimick Dancing, call'd, La Caprice-Harlequin (in Imitation of Mlle Provost, the Famous Dancer in the Opera at Paris)

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs del'Epine. Afterpiece: [Words by Barton Booth. Music by Pepusch.] A New Masque, Set to Musick after the Italian Manner, and perform'd all in English. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Dido; Dido and Aeneas

Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command. With Magnificent New Scenes, Particularly one in Perspective of a Royal Palacev, which exceeds any that has been seen in England, containing about One Thousand Yards of Painting by Sig Roberto Clerici, and to be seen again this Year. Admission as 1 Feb. [The Prince and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Music: As17160502

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Soldier's Fortune; Or, The Witty And Humorous Ladies

Afterpiece Title: Oration

Performance Comment: With a New Oration on [several famous Heads [design'd as an Entertainment for the Court, and the rest of his Friends, written-[D'Urfey] [on the Stage.D'Urfey] [on the Stage.

Song: The Best Performers

Dance: the best Performers

Event Comment: Benefit Antonio Bernacchi. By Command. With an Addition of a New Scene perform'd by Bernacchi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: See17161105, but Bajazet-Quin [Chetwood, General History of the Stage, p. 214]; With a New Prologue [by the Author of the Play-.
Event Comment: By His Royal Highness's Command. All the Characters being New Dress'd. [The Prince of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode; Or, Sir Fopling Flutter

Dance: As17161027