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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phaedra And Hippolitus

Performance Comment: As17230118 With a new Prologue.
Event Comment: Benefit Betty Smith and Mrs Orfeur. All the Characters new dress'd. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bonduca; Or, The British General

Performance Comment: Caratach-Orfeur; Venutius-Miller; Nennius-Minns; Comes-Boman; Suitonius-Paul; Bonduca-Mrs Ratcliff; Claudia-Mrs Orfeur; Hengo-a Girl of nine Years of Age; Corporal Macer-Drew; Prologue-a Child.

Dance: Dancing Proper to the Play-; particularly, Dancing-Girl of Six years of Age, for her Diversion, Scholar to Mr Roussau; being the first Time she ever appeared on the Stage

Event Comment: [By Elijah Fenton.] With all new Habits. Receipts: #124 14s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

Event Comment: Admission as 7 Nov. 1722. London Journal, 2 March: The new Opera Tickets are very high, and like to continue so as long as Mrs Cotzoni is so much admired. They are traded in at the other End of the Town, as much as Lottery Tickets are in Exchange-Alley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

Event Comment: With an Addition of Four new Songs. Admission as 7 Nov. 1722

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

Event Comment: Admission as 7 Nov. 1722. The Royal Academy of Musick, to prevent the Crowd and Disorders at the Practices of the New Opera, have resolved that no Persons shall be admitted to such Practices, but by Tickets to be deliver'd at their Office the same Evening, at one Guinea each Ticket

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

Event Comment: Benefit a Person who has been a great Sufferer in Trade, and is new under Confinement for Debt. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A new Night Scene

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School Boy

Afterpiece Title: Hob; or, The Country Wake

Afterpiece Title: The Tricks of Harlequin; or, The Doctor Defeated

Event Comment: Not Acted these Twenty Years. Written by the Lord Lansdowne. With new Scenes and Habits

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Heroick Love

Event Comment: [Author unknown.] A New Dramatick Entertainment in Grotesque Characters. N.B. None will be admitted into the Boxes but by Printed Tickets which will be deliver'd at the Door at 5s. each. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Receipts: #162 1s. London Journal, 28 Dec.: 'Tis said, they had not less than 260l. in the House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer; or, Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Event Comment: Written by the Lord Lansdowne. With new Scenes and Habits

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Heroick Love

Event Comment: One of the Actors being indispos'd, the new Play called The Captives is deferr'd till further Notice

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highnesses's Command. N.B. We are obliged to defer the New Tragedy, called Edwin, till further Notice. Receipts: #156 7s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Event Comment: [Text by Haym. Music by Handel.] Admission as 14 Jan. Daily Journal, 21 Feb.: Last Night his Majesty, the Prince and Princess, with great Numbers of the Nobility, went to see the new Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Performance Comment: Edition of 1724 lists: Giulio Cesare-Senesino; Cornelia-Mrs Robinson; Sesto Pompeo-Signora Durastanti; Cleopatra-Signora Cuzzoni; Tolomeo-Berenstadt; Achilla-Boschi; Nireno-Bigonsi; Deutsch, Handel, p. 157 adds: Curio-Lagarde.
Cast
Role: Achilla Actor: Boschi
Event Comment: [By George Jeffreys.] With all new Habits. Receipts: money #91 6s. 6d.; tickets #2 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edwin

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Afterpiece: With several new Scenes of Action, and comical Incidents neverperformed before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distressed Mother

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Event Comment: Benefit Nivelon Jr. Afterpiece: A new Dramatick Entertainment of Dancing after the Italian Manner. Receipts: money #51 18s.; tickets #20 12s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Robbers; or, Harlequin Trapp'd by Colombine

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Nivelon Sr; Piero-Nivelon Jr; Mezzetin-Glover; Scaramouch-Newhouse; Punch-Lanyam; Colombine-Mrs Rogeir.
Cast
Role: Scaramouch Actor: Newhouse

Dance: The Scating Dance-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rise And Fall Of Massaniello

Performance Comment: As17240731 With a New Prologue.

Song: As17240731

Dance: As17240731

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rise And Fall Of Massaniello

Performance Comment: As17240731 With a New Prologue.

Song: As17240731

Event Comment: At (alias Jubilee Dicky), Norris's, Chetwood's, Orfeur's, and Oates' Great Theatrical Booth, next Mr Bullock's in Bird-Cage Alley. An excellent new Droll, never acted before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merlin The British Enchanter; Or, The Child Has Found His Father

Song: Mrs Boman

Event Comment: LLondon Journal, 17 Oct.: We hear there is a new Opera now in Practice...called, Tamerlane, the Musick composed by Mynheer Hendel, and that Signior Borseni, newly arriv'd from Italy, is to sing the Part of the Tyrant Bajazet. N.B. It is commonly reported this Gentleman was never cut out for a Singer

Performances

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A New Night Scene. The Scenes being all painted from tne real Place of Action. [By John Thurmond.] Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 5 Dec.: [It] was dismiss'd with a universal hiss.-And, indeed, if Shepherd had been as wretched, and as silly a Rogue in the World, as the ingenious and witty Managers have made him upon the Stage, the lower Gentry, who attended him to Tyburn, wou'd never have pittied him when eh was hang'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shepard

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By Lewis Theobald.] The Cloaths, Scenes, Machines, Flyings, and otehr Decorations, Being entirely new. N.B. Tis desir'd that no Persons will take it ill, that they are refus'd Admittance behind the Scenes, it being impossible to perform the necessary Decorations, unless the Passages are kept entirely clear. Receipts: #174 8s. Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 23 Jan.: In which was shewn the boldest Piece of Machinery that ever yet was seen upon the Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin a Sorcerer; With The Loves of Pluto and Proserpine

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Lun; Witches-Leveridge, Salway, Harrison, Mrs Chambers; First Bird Catcher-Nivelon; 2d-Spiller; Petit Maitre-Legar; Italian-Rochetti; Pluto-Leveridge; Proserpine-Mrs Barbier; Cerberus-Nivelon; Susiphus-Glover; Prometheus-Newhouse; Ixion-Lanyon; Clotho-Mrs Ogden; Lachesis-Mrs Wall; Atropos-Mrs Legar; Furies-DuPre, Lalley, Pelling.
Cast
Role: Prometheus Actor: Newhouse
Event Comment: DDaily Post, 25 Feb.: About 11 in the Morning, a Fire broke out at the Earl of Cardigan's House in Portugal Row, Lincoln's Inn Fields...and the New Play-house, which was in great Danger, escap'd with but little Damage

Performances

Event Comment: Benefit Mr and Mrs Legare. Afterpiece: [Author unknown.] A new Entertainment of Musick in one Interlude. Receipts: money #33 11s. 6d.; tickets #65 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Cornish Hero; or, Jack the Giant Killer

Dance: Proper Dances-