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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Performance Comment: Parts-Persons who never appeared on any Stage before; With a new Prologue-; Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: With a new Prologue Actor:

Music: The best Masters

Event Comment: [By Sir Richard Steele.] With new Scenes, and all the Characters new drest. Daily Journal, 8 Nov.: Where a greater Concourse of People was never known to be assembled. [See also Cibber, Apology, II, 206; Dennis, Remarks on a Play call'd The Conscious Lovers; and British Journal, 10 Nov. and 8 Dec.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phaedra And Hippolitus

Performance Comment: Phaedra-Mrs Seymour; Hippolitus-Ryan; Theseus-Boheme; Lycon-Quin; Cretander-Diggs; Ismena-Mrs Bullock; With a new Prologue-.
Cast
Role: With a new Prologue Actor: .

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phaedra And Hippolitus

Performance Comment: As17230118, but With the New Prologue-.
Cast
Role: With the New Prologue Actor: .
Event Comment: By Subscription. Afterpiece: A new Dramatic Entertainment of Dancing in Burlesque Characters. With new Scenes, Machines, Cloaths, and other Decorations. N.B. No Persons to be admitted into the Boxes but by Subscribers' Tickets, which will be deliver'd at the Theatre at 7s. each. Pit 4s. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. Receipts: subscription and money #111 18s.; tickets #33 19s. [For an essay on the afterpiece, see Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post. 6 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Jupiter and Europa; or, The Intrigues of Harlequin

Event Comment: Benefit Signora Francesca Cuzzoni. With an Addition of three new Songs, and an entire new Scene. Whereas this Benefit for Signora Cuzzoni is part of her Contract, the Directors...resolve not to make use of the Liberty of the House for this Night. And particular Care will be taken to place Benches on the Stage for the Accomodation of the Company. London Journal, 30 March: On Tuesday last was perform'd...Otho...for the Benefit fo Mrs Cuzzoni; and a considerable Benefit it was to her indeed, for, we hear, that some of the Nobility gave her 50 Guineas a Tickets. Daily Journal, 29 March: The Benefit of the famous Seignora Francesca Cuzzoni...we hear amounted to upwards of 700l

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho, King Of Germany

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phaedra And Hippolitus

Performance Comment: As17230118, but Phaedra-Mrs Boheme; With a new Prologue-Walker.
Cast
Role: With a new Prologue Actor: Walker.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busie Body

Performance Comment: Charles-Mills; Sir George-Wilks Jr; Marplot-Miller; Sir Francis Francis-Norris; Sir Jealous-Shepard; Miranda-Mrs Booth; Isabinda-Mrs Younger; A new Epilogue-Miss Lindar.
Cast
Role: A new Epilogue Actor: Miss Lindar.

Song: Singing in Italian-Miss Lindar

Dance:

Event Comment: With an Addition of three new Songs, and an intire New Scene. N.B. The Directors of the Royal Academy of Musick resolve not to make use of their Tickets for the Liberty of the House for this Night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho; King Of Germany

Event Comment: With an Addition of three new Songs, and an intire New Scene. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

Event Comment: Mainpiece: [By Mrs Eliza Haywood.] By Reason of the Indisposition of an Actress, the Part of the Wife is to be perform'd by Mrs Haywood, the Author. Afterpiece (Daily Post, 10 Aug.): A new Dramatic Entertainment...design'd by Mr Theo. Cibber, with new Music compos'd and adapt'd by Mr Jones, which proper Judges allow to be the best of the kind now extant

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Wife To Be Let

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By John Thurmond.] A new Grotesque Entertainment...in the Character of Harlequin, Mephostophilus, Scaramouch, Pierrot, Punch, and the Spirit of Helen. The whole concluding with a grand Masque of the Heathen Deities, (viz), Apollo, Mars, Bacchus, Mercury, Diana, Ceres, Flora, and Iris. All the Scenes, Machines, Habits, and other Decorations being entirely New. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. N.B. No Money (under the full Price) will be taken during the Time of the Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

Performance Comment: With a new Prologue-.
Cast
Role: With a new Prologue Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: The Adventures of Half an Hour

Afterpiece Title: The Plots of Harlequin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medley

Performance Comment: All new Scenes-Tony Aston.
Cast
Role: All new Scenes Actor: Tony Aston.
Related Works
Related Work: The Triumphant Widow; or, The Medley of Humours Author(s): William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medley

Performance Comment: All new Scenes of his Medley-Tony Aston.
Related Works
Related Work: The Triumphant Widow; or, The Medley of Humours Author(s): William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian, King Of Portugal

Performance Comment: Sebastian-Walker; Moloch-Boheme; Dorax-Quin; Benducar-Ogden; Mufti-Bullock; Mustapha-Spiller; Antonio-Egleton; Almeyda-Mrs Parker; Morayma-Mrs Sterling; Johayma-Mrs Egleton; A New Epilogue-Mrs Brett.
Cast
Role: A New Epilogue Actor: Mrs Brett.

Dance: Nivelon Sr, Mrs Brett; Flag Dance, Wooden Shoe Dance-Nivelon Sr

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Performance Comment: As17231202. A New Epilogue-Quin in the Character of a Fryar.

Dance: Dupre, Glover, Newhouse, Lanyon, Mrs Rogeir, Mrs Wall, Mrs Ogden; particularly Tollet's Grounds, Myrtillo-

Event Comment: [By Colley Cibber.] With new Scenes and new Habits. Victor, History of the Theatres, II, 164: But alas! I can remember being of the merry Party in the Pit the first Night of Cibber's Caesar in Egypt, in which he performed the Part of Achoreus ; and we then laught at his quavering Tragedy Tones, as much as we did at his Pasteboard Swans which the Carpenters pulled along the Nile. [See also Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 12 Dec.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caesar In Aegypt

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: See17241221, but With a New Prologue-.
Cast
Role: With a New Prologue Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A New Dramatick Entertainment of Dancing. The Cloaths, Scenes, Machines, Flyings, and other Decorations being entirely New

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne; or, Harlequin Mercury

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: Archer-Ryan; Aimwell-Walker; Sullen-Quin; Sir Charles-Diggs; Bonniface-Bullock Sr; Foigard-Morgan; Gibbet-Egleton; Scrub-Hippisley; Mrs Sullen-Mrs Bullock; Dorinda-Mrs Vincent; Lady Bountiful-Mrs Egleton; Cherry-Mrs Legar; With a new Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: With a new Epilogue Actor: .

Song: Leveridge

Dance: Dupre, Glover, Lally, Pelling, Newhouse, Lanyon, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Wall, Mrs Ogden; Peasant-Nivelon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: With a new Prologue-; Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: With a new Prologue Actor:

Song:

Dance:

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Contrivance

Performance Comment: Belmie-Ogden; Octavio-Milward; Selfwill-Bullock; Sir Toby-H. Bullock; Martin-Morgan; Belliza-Mrs Vincent; Lucinda-Mrs Rice; Martin's Wife-Mrs Morgan; With a New Prologue to the Town-.

Song: TThe Play of Love-Salway

Dance: CChacone-Mrs Anderson; Swedish Darl Carl-Pelling, Mrs Ogden; Miller's Dance-Newhouse, Morgan, Mrs Ogden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Contrivance

Performance Comment: As17260617 but With a new Prologue to the Town-Salway.

Dance: CChacone-Mrs Anderson; Swedish Darl Carl-Pelling, Mrs Ogden; Spinning Wheel Dance-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wits

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Doctor

Performance Comment: As17260719 but With a new Prologue-.
Cast
Role: With a new Prologue Actor: .
Role: Scaramouch Actor: Newhouse

Song: TThe Genius of England-Salway

Dance: CChacone-Mrs Anderson; Scottish Dance-Smith, Mrs Ogden; Pastoral-Burney, Mrs Anderson