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Event Comment: Benefit for Paget, Lawrence and Powell (Box Keepers). Tickets deliver'd out for the Provok'd Wife for this day will be taken. Mainpiece: At the Desire of Several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: Master Granier, Miss Granier

Event Comment: Benefit for Collins, Mrs Bambridge, Mrs Cowper, and Miss Ferguson. Tickets deliver'd by Wilder, Mr Line and Widow Powell will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song: A Dialogue of Jack and Jenny-Wilder, Miss Falkner

Dance: CComic Dance-J. Granier, J. Granier's Sister

Event Comment: [Benefit] for a Gentlewoman under Misfortunes (Cross). Tickets to be had fo Mrs Powell, at the Golden Leg in Fleet St.; at the Turk's Head Coffee-House in New Bond St.; and of Mr Varney at the theatre, where places in the Boxes may be taken (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: III: The Market, as17571126

Event Comment: Receipts: #140 17s. Barry's 1!3 of surplus came to #20 5s. 8d. The Renters were this night increased to 17 by purchases of one share each by Robert Randoll, Margaret Randoll, and John Powell. Paid Mr Arne for composing the Music in Dioclesian, #26 5s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: SSicilian Peasants, as17571217

Event Comment: Receipts: #41 13s. 6d. Paid J. Powell 6 nights Renters to instant: #72 6s.; Guards 6 nights #4 4s.; Mrs Rich 6 nights to instant #31 10s.; C. Rich ditto #6; J. Rich #20; Mr Gum for Scenemen #6 9s. 3d.; Performers 5 nights #185 11s. 6d.; Servants 6 nights #23 13s. [The expenditures for renters (100) at 2s. 4d. each per acting night, is a weekly constant. The amount for Mrs Rich of #5 5s. each acting night as well as that of #1 for C. Rich each acting night, is a constant. These will not be further recorded, nor will the nightly constant of 13s. for the guards, and 5s. 4d. nigthly for the barber.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: Comic Dance,The Threshers-Leppie, Granier, Mlle Capdeville

Event Comment: Receipts: #95 19s. Paid J. Powell for the balance due on account of the renters for the season ending May 1759, #30 14s. 4d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: As17591023

Event Comment: Receipts: #151 15s. 6d. Sent Mrs Ward by order of Rich #10. Paid Messrs Powell & Co for Miss White #3 12s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: As17591023

Event Comment: Receipts: #155 2s. Miss Mowat's 2nd appearance. Paid Powell for his attendance and adjusting the Accounts for two seasons to the end of May #100

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these two years. [George II's death had closed the theatres on 4 Nov. the previous year.] Income from Boxes #14 15s. Paid Mr Powell for two years att[endin]g Office & pass [?] Ac[count]. #100. Advanced to Hull #20. Receipts: #64 16s. (Winston Theatrical Record)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Event Comment: Full Prices. Afterpiece: A Pantomimic dance by Love (Biographia Dramatica). Much followed and brought several crowded houses, and the success chiefly owing to the reports our newspapers were, at that time, daily filled with, of the French wild Beast that was devouring (and yet pursued by) children. This wild beast was happily introduced in this pantomime, pursued by boys led on by a Frenchman. At last the Beast made his Re-entry, and ran across the stage with the poor Frenchman in his mouth, to the great joy of the Pit, Box and Galleries (Victor, History of Theatres, III, 72). Dorilas for the first time by Mr Cautherly--very decent, but wanted spirit. This pantomime is fathered by Mr Lowe [?]--went off with applause, --Mr Garrick made most of the Business to it, which is very good (Hopkins Diary). [Letter from C. V. Theatricus on ladies' removing their hats in the theatre. A Gentleman had requested it and a debate ensued in the Public Advertiser, as to whether he wished to see the play better or to gaze more audaciously on many pretty faces. Long letter also from G. F. Theatricus to the Public Advertiser, commenting on the excellence of Powell, Mrs Yates, Holland, the Palmers, Cautherly and Bensley for their performance in Venice Preserved, Romeo and Juliet, and Mahomet respectively.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit; or, Harlequin at Rhodes

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Benefit for Bowers (box-keeper) and Veal (1st gallery door-keeper). Play begins exactly at six o'clock. House charges #84. [Deficit to beneficiaries #61 5s. 6d.] Tickets deliver'd for The Busy Body will be taken. Paid Rector's rate and Watch 4 quarters #1 13s. Rec'd from Messrs Powell & Co for cloaths #11 11s.; Eight days from the Certainties #82 13s. 4d.; Stopages #1 18s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #22 14s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Took a place in ye front Boxes at Drury Lane for Wednesday next, when ye Suspicious Husband is to be performed for ye Decayed Actors' Fund, scarcely a place remaining untaken. I wanted one in ye Pit (Neville MS Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Event Comment: Benefit for Shuter. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Afterpiece: By Particular Desire of several persons of Distinction, to be added for that night only. Neville MS Diary: Covent Garden Theatre after being shut up for the season was open'd tonight as a high favour to Shuter...Before [the farce] the Gods having call'd for the Music to play Roast Beef, would not suffer the play to begin till their request was complied with. They pelted Davies and Hull, who appeared first, with orange skins, crying Off, Off'...Glad Shuter had a good house. He is an excellent comedian and is said to have a good heart. [The income for this night not listed in the Account Books. On 10 June however, the treasurer received from Shuter #10 'for the renters for the night of his benefit," and #1 13s. 9d. for oyl that night. On 20 July the treasurer received from Shuter #43 15s. for tickets for his first benefit, and #1 4s. 1 1!2d. in money, along with #20 for his second benefit." On July 22, the treasurer paid "to sundry Creditors of Mr Shuter as per Receipt Books #245 4s. 1 1!2d., and to Mr Wilford by order of Shuter #60, and to Beard #26 16s." N.B. On Wednesday 1 July The sum of #60,000 was this day paid down for the purchase of the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden, pursuant to agreement. The patentees are Messieurs Colman, Harris, Rutherford and Powell"--Gentleman's Magazine, p. 379.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 12 years. [See 24 Jan. 1758.] Prologue written by Paul Whitehead. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr Sarjant (only) at the Stage-Door. No persons can be admitted behind scenes, nor any Money returned after curtain is drawn up. To begin exactly at 6 o'clock. [Customary note in succeeding bills.] Receipps: #190 14s. (Account Book). @The New Occasional Prologue@As when the merchant to increase his store@For Dubious seas, advent'rous quits the shore;@Still anxious for his freight, he trembling sees@Rocks in each buoy, and tempest in each breeze@The curling wave to mountain billow swells,@And every cloud a fancied storm fortells:@Thus rashly launch'd on this Theatric main,@Our All on board, each phantom gives Us pain;@The Aatcall's note seems thunder in our ears,@And every Hiss a hurricane appears;@In Journal Squibs we lightning's blast espy,@And meteors blaze in every Critic's eye.@Spite of these terrors, still come hopes we view,@Hopes, ne'er can fail us--since they're plac'd--in you.@Your breath the gale, our voyage is secure,@And safe the venture which your smiles insure;@Though weak his skill, th' adventurer must succeed,@Where Candour takes th' endeavor for the deed.@For Brentford's state, two kings could once suffice;@In ours, behold! four kings of Brentford rise;@All smelling to one nosegay's od'rous savor@The balmy nosegay of--the Public favor.@From hence alone, our royal funds we draw,@Your pleasure our support, your will our law.@While such our government, we hope you'll own us;@But should we ever Tyrant prove--dethrone us.@Like Brother Monarchs, who, to coax the nation@Began their reign, with some fair proclamation,@We too should talk at least--of reformation;@Declare that during our imperial sway,@No bard shall mourn his long-neglected Play;@But then the play must have some wit, some spirit,@And We allow'd sole umpires of its merit.@For those deep sages of the judging Pit,@Whose taste is too refin'd for modern wit,@From Rome's great Theatre we'll cull the piece,@And plant on Britain's stage the flow'rs of Greece.@If some there are, our British Bards can please,@Who taste the ancient wit of ancient days,@Be our's to save, from Time's devouring womb,@Their works, and snatch their laurels from the tomb.@For you, ye Fair, who sprightlier scenes may chuse,@Where Music decks in all her airs the Muse,@Gay Opera shall all its charms dispense,@Yet boast no tuneful triumph over sense;@The nobler Bard shall still assert his right,@Nor Handel rob a Shakespear of his night,@To greet the mortal brethren of our skies [upper galleries]@Here all the Gods of Pantomime shall rise:@Yet midst the pomp and magic of machines,@Some plot may mark the meaning of our scenes;@Scenes which were held, in good King Rich's days,@By sages, no bad epilogues to plays.@If terms like these your suffrage can engage,@To fix our mimic empire of the stage;@Confirm our title in your fair opinions,@And crowd each night to people our dominions.@--(Poems and Miscelaneous Compositions, Ed. Capt. Edward Thompson, 1777) Covent Garden opened with the Rehearsal with alterations. I was in the Pit. Powell, from Drury Lane, one of the new managers who have bought the patent from Rich's heirs, spoke an occasional Prologue. Shuter did Bayes pretty much to my liking, adding many crochets of his own.... Entertainment The Mock Doctor,...Young Jasper pretty well by one Massey, being his first appearance on that stage (Neville MS Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Event Comment: RRomeo and Juliet oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of Indisposition of Powell. Paid Jos. Besford for performing the Lyon two nights in Perseus 5s.; Paid Wm Gard for performing on the Horse and in the Lyon two nights in Perseus 7s. (Account Book). [See Perseus and Andromeda 19 and 25 Sept.] Receipts: #103 7s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: II: Pantomime Dance, as17670926

Event Comment: At 5 went into the Pit to see Mrs Yates' first appearance on that stage....Hastings for the first time by Powell, but I like Barry better in that character....Mrs Bellamy always excelled in the character of Alicia. Jane Shore by Mrs Yates who far surpasses Mrs Dancer in that character...Woodward is the best Fine Gentleman [in the farce] I ever saw. Drunken man very well by Dunstall (Neville MS Diary). Receipts: #189 12s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: Hastings-Powell,1st time; Shore-Bensley,1st time; Catesby-Perry; Ratcliffe-Davis; Gloster-Clarke; Belmour-Gibson; Derby-R. Smith; Alicia-Mrs Bellamy; Jane Shore-Mrs Yates, 1st time on that stage.
Cast
Role: Hastings Actor: Powell,1st time

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: IV: The Merry Sailors, as17671009; End: A New Pantomime Dance-Fishar, Sga Manesiere

Event Comment: [The playbill notes Powell and Bensley as appearing in the parts of Hastings and Shore for "second time," but see 17 Oct. 1767.] Receipts: #171 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Cast
Role: Hastings Actor: Powell,1st time

Afterpiece Title: The Oxonian in Town

Dance: End: The Female Archer, as17671029

Event Comment: Books of the Opera to be had at the Theatre. Received of Condell 45 Nights Fruit Rent due 8th Inst. #20 (Account Book). Paid Powell and Bickerstaffe balances due them. Paid Mrs Paddick for cleaning of feathers #1 19s. (Account Book). Receipts: #188 17s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: End of Opera: The Provenzales, as17680301

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Thompson. The Roman Father is oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of the indisposition of Powell (playbill). Charges #66 2s. 6d. Balance to Mrs Thompson #62 11s. plus #31 14s. in tickets (Box 92; Pit 58) (Account Book). Receipts: #128 13s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Dance: III: The Merry Sailors, as17671009

Event Comment: Doors will be open'd at 5 o'clock. Play to begin exactly at six o'clock. Powell after the play advised the Audience they had been applied to make 5 o'clock the hour to admit the company and that the Doors in the future would not be opened till that hour (London Evening Post, 7 Oct.). Receipts: #102 19s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Event Comment: Paid Powell the clear receipt of his Night the 15th Inst.: #178 8s. (Account Book). Receipts: #224 11s. 16d. (Account book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Event Comment: The Tragedy of Cyrus is oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of the illness of Powell. Receipts: #113 8s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Event Comment: Benefit for Younger. Tickets deliver'd for Macbeth , by Branson and Miss Helme, will be taken. Mr Younger being oblig'd by Mr Powell's illness, to change his play of Macbeth to the above tragedy, humbly hopes for the Indulgence of his Friends and the Public in general. Charges #67 9s. Balance to Younger #18 3s. 6d. plus #48 9s. from tickets (Box 97; Pit 110; Gallery 77). [Branson and Miss Helme seem to have borne none of the charges and to have received full value for their tickets]: Branson #33 (Box 29; Pit 99; Gallery 109); Miss Helme #16 14s. (Box 1; Pit 63; Gallery 70). Receipts: #85 12s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Dance: III: The Wapping Landlady, Double Hornpipe, as17690408

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Drury Lane--New Painted and Decorated. Miss Pope's good acting is said to have made up for her deficiency in singing (Genest, V, 314). On Sept. 19 Fisher, Musician, married the widow of the late Powell, Patentee of cg (Winston MS 10). Rec'd Mrs Johnston's 1 year's rent to Lady Day Last #6; Paid Mr French on Acct per order Mr G. G. #20. Paid Renters #8. [This payment occurs each playing night throughout the season, and is not noted further.] The total amounted to #1576 (Drury Lane Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #188 15s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: II: A Comic Dance-Daigville, Sga Vidini

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Mr Babett for Papier Machee Ornaments 19s. 4s.; Paid Colman & Mrs Powell for Branson's additional salary for the last 3 seasons being advanc'd by them #93 7s. 6d. Paid ditto for 4 years' rent for apartments in their House, due lady Day next #80 (Account Book). Receipts: #124 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fox

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Event Comment: Rosetta first time by Miss Sharp--a loud Voice a bad face and mean figure She had Applause--but it won't do (Hopkins Diary). [MacMillan's note from Kemble differs slightly and adds: Miss Sharpe was a Scholar of Mr Bates's--since married to Mr William Palmer, brother to Mr John and Mr Robert Palmer."] Rec'd the late Mr Powell's bond for #200 and 9 years interest in full #290; Stopages #11 18s. Paid Barrow and Co., Oil Bill #50 3s.; Powney, (stationer) #14 11s. 6d.; Tallow Chandler's third bill #47 12s. 4d.; Evans on Wardrobe acct #10 10s.; Grist on acct #6 6s.; Machin, Chorus 13 nights, #3 5s. Receipts: #116 13s. [Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: II: The Savage Hunters, as17751118