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Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Clive. Mainpiece: Written by Sir George Etheridge. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Receipts: #230

Performances

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

Cast
Role: Sir Fopling Actor: Cibber Jun.
Role: Dorimant Actor: Mills
Role: Medley Actor: Delane
Role: Old Bellair Actor: Shepard
Role: Young Bellair Actor: Havard
Role: Handy Actor: Green
Role: Mrs Loveit Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Woffington
Role: Harriet Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Pert Actor: Mrs Macklin
Role: Shoemaker Actor: Raftor
Role: Emilia Actor: Mrs Butler
Role: Lady Woodville Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Lady Townly Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Pert Actor: Miss Macklin
Role: Busy Actor: Miss Brunette.

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Quaver Actor: Lowe
Role: Goodwill Actor: Taswell
Role: Blister Actor: Turbutt
Role: Wormwood Actor: Woodburn
Role: Coupee Actor: Macklin
Role: Thomas Actor: Raftor.

Song: I: Sweet Bird, from Milton,-Mrs Arne; III: The celebrated Irish Ballad Elin a Roon-Mrs Clive in Irish, as she perform'd it at the Theatre Royal in Dublin; IV: Singing in Italian and English-Miss Edwards

Dance: II: The Italian Peasants, as17411205; IV: A Ballet-Desse, Baudouin, Leviez

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Woffington. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Tickets to be had of Bradshaw, &c. Places for the stage (which will be form'd into Boxes carefully enclosed) may be had at Mrs Moor's in the Playhouse Passage. Receipts: #170

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Cast
Role: Clarissa Actor: Mrs Woffington
Role: Brass Actor: Macklin
Role: Dick Actor: Cibber
Role: Mrs Amlet Actor: Mrs Macklin
Role: Gripe Actor: Turbutt
Role: Moneytrap Actor: Taswell
Role: Araminta Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Corinna Actor: Mrs Walter
Role: Flippanta Actor: Mrs Clive.

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Cast
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Phillips
Role: en Petit Actor:
Role: Doctor Actor: Cibber
Role: Leander Actor: Lowe
Role: Charlotte Actor: Miss Woodman
Role: Sir Jasper Actor: Arthur

Song: I: Bright Author of my Present Flame-Lowe; III: A Ballad-Lowe; V: At the particular desire of several ladies of Quality, the celebrated Irish Ballad Elin@a@Roon-Mrs Clive, as she perform'd it in Dublin

Dance: II: New Serious Dance-the Mechels; IV: The Italian Peasants, as17411205

Event Comment: Benefit Desnoyer. Mainpiece: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Tickets deliver'd for the Careless Husband, will be taken. Servants allow'd to keep Places on the stage, which will be form'd into an amphitheatre. Tickets to be had at M Desnoyer's House in Gloucester Court, St. James's St.; and of Page at the stage door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Cast
Role: Wanton Wife Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Brittle Actor: Hippisley
Role: Lovemore Actor: Hale
Role: Cunningham Actor: Gibson
Role: Sir Peter Actor: Rosco
Role: Jeffrey Actor: James
Role: Clodpole Actor: Marten
Role: Lady Laycock Actor: Mrs James
Role: Lady Pride Actor: Mrs Martin
Role: Philadelphia Actor: Mrs Hale
Role: Damaris Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Prudence Actor: Mrs Woodward
Role: Merryman Actor: Woodward.

Dance: I: New Scots Dance-Desnoyer, Sga Barbarina; II: Tambourine-Desnoyer, Sga Barbarina; V: A Ball Dance call'd the Britannia, Louvre-; concluding with: a Minuet-Desnoyer, Sga Barbarina, By Command

Ballet: IV: Rural Assembly. See17420121, but only Chasseur-Desnoyer; Nymph-Sga Barbarina

Cast
Role: only Chasseur Actor: Desnoyer
Role: Nymph Actor: Sga Barbarina.
Event Comment: Benefit Picq and Sga Domitilla. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd If She Cou'd

Cast
Role: Rakehell Actor: James.
Role: Courtall Actor: Ryan
Role: Freeman Actor: Hale
Role: Sir Jocelin Actor: Marten
Role: Lady Cockwood Actor: Mrs James
Role: Ariana Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Gatty Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Sir Oliver Actor: Hippisley.

Dance: MMusette-Picq, Mlle Auguste; New Scots Dance, as17420401 New Dance call'd the Hussar-Desnoyer, Sga Domitilla; New Comic Dance-Picq, Mlle Auguste; Louvre, Minuet By Desire-Desnoyer, Sga Barbarina

Event Comment: Benefit a Fund established for the Support of decay'd Musicians and their Families. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Musical Entertainment

Event Comment: Benefit Dubuisson and Mlle Bonneval. Mainpiece: By command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Tickets of Dubuisson at his House in St. Martin's St., near Leicester Fields, and of Page at the stage door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Cast
Role: Caius Actor: Stoppelaer.
Role: Falstaff Actor: Stephens
Role: Ford Actor: Ryan
Role: Mrs Ford Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Shallow Actor: Chapman
Role: Slender Actor: Woodward
Role: Page Actor: Cashel
Role: Fenton Actor: Gibson
Role: Dr Caius Actor: Mullart
Role: Host Actor: Rosco
Role: Pistol Actor: James
Role: Simple Actor: Bencraft
Role: Mrs Page Actor: Mrs Bellamy
Role: Anne Page Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Mrs Quickly Actor: Mrs Mullart
Role: Sir Hugh Actor: Hippisley.

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: I: A New Peasant Dance-Picq, Mlle Auguste; III: A New Dance call'd the Quarrelling Lovers Reconciled-Dubuisson, Mlle Bonneval; IV: New Comic Dance, as17420419 V: A New Dance call'd Les Matelots-Dubuisson, Mlle Bonneval

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Benefit of a distrest Citizen. [The Intriguing Chambermaid had been announced as the afterpiece.] Receipts: #80

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Cast
Role: Syphax Actor: Turbutt
Role: Marcus Actor: Cross
Role: Decius Actor: Woodburn.
Role: Sempronius Actor: Berry.
Role: Cato Actor: Delane
Role: Juba Actor: Mills
Role: Portius Actor: Havard
Role: Lucius Actor: Winstone
Role: Marcia Actor: Mrs Roberts
Role: Lucia Actor: Mrs Mills.

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: Dick Actor: Arthur.
Role: Joe Actor: Beard.
Role: King Actor: Winstone
Role: Miller Actor: Shepard
Role: Peggy Actor: Miss Brunette
Role: Margery Actor: Miss Bennet
Role: Kate Actor: Miss Woodman

Song: II: Happy Pair-Beard; IV: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard

Dance: I: Running Footman's Dance, as17420428 V: a Hornpipe-Philips

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Cast
Role: Emilia Actor: Mrs Woodward.
Role: Othello Actor: Quin
Role: Iago Actor: Ryan
Role: Cassio Actor: Hale
Role: Roderigo Actor: Woodward
Role: Brabantio Actor: Gibson
Role: Lodovico Actor: Rosco
Role: Montano Actor: Cashell
Role: Desdemona Actor: Mrs Cibber, 1st appearance this stage.
Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved; Or, A Plot Discovered

Cast
Role: Pierre Actor: Quin
Role: Jaffier Actor: Ryan
Role: Priuli Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Duke Actor: Rosco
Role: Bedamar Actor: Hale
Role: Antonio Actor: Hippisley
Role: Renault Actor: Chapman
Role: Eliot Actor: Cashell
Role: Spinoza Actor: Harrington
Role: Officer Actor: Gibson
Role: Belvidera Actor: Mrs Cibber.

Dance: CComic Dance-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde; La Provencale-Picq; Dancing-Picq, Villeneuve, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade, Mrs Delagarde, Mrs Wright, Mrs Lebrun, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs Maudet

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Cast
Role: Plume Actor: Garrick.
Role: Silvia Actor: Mrs Woffington
Role: Kite Actor: Berry
Role: Bullock Actor: Morgan
Role: Ballance Actor: Winstone
Role: Worthy Actor: Havard
Role: Scale Actor: Raftor
Role: Scruple Actor: Woodburn
Role: Constable Actor: Turbutt
Role: Pearmain Actor: Neale
Role: Appletree Actor: Ray
Role: Collier Actor: Taswell
Role: Melinda Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Rose Actor: Mrs Ridout
Role: Brazen Actor: Macklin.

Afterpiece Title: Miss Lucy in Town

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Zorobabel Actor: Macklin
Role: Cantilino Actor: Beard
Role: Ballad Actor: Lowe
Role: Lord Bawble Actor: Cross
Role: Thomas Actor: Neale
Role: Mrs Haycock Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Mrs Tawdry Actor: Miss Bennet.

Dance: II: Grand Serious Ballet, as17421005; Turkish Seraglio, as17421027

Song: III: Happy Pair-Beard

Event Comment: By Command of Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Dance: As17421108

Song: Beard, Lowe

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Cast
Role: Maskwell Actor: Quin
Role: Lord Touchwood Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Mellefont Actor: Hale
Role: Brisk Actor: Woodward
Role: Careless Actor: Ryan
Role: Lord Froth Actor: Gibson
Role: Sir Paul Plyant Actor: Hippisley
Role: Lady Touchwood Actor: Mrs Woodward
Role: Cynthia Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Lady Froth Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Lady Pliant Actor: Mrs James.

Dance: As17421026

Event Comment: By Command of Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Hamlet Actor: Garrick
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Ophelia Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Ghost Actor: Delane
Role: Laertes Actor: Hallam
Role: Horatio Actor: Havard
Role: Polonius Actor: Taswell
Role: Osric Actor: Neale
Role: Guildenstern Actor: Green
Role: Lucianus Actor: Yates
Role: 1st Gravedigger Actor: Macklin
Role: 2nd Gravedigger Actor: Ray
Role: King Actor: Mills
Role: Rosencraus Actor: Woodburn
Role: Player King Actor: Turbutt
Role: Player Queen Actor: Miss Bennet.

Song: I: Beard; III: A Duet-Beard, Lowe

Dance: II: Grand Comic Dance, as17421117; IV: Les Moisoneurs de la Styrie, as17421122

Event Comment: By Command of his Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Cast
Role: Heartwell Actor: Quin
Role: Belmour Actor: Ryan
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Fondlewife Actor: Hippisley
Role: Sir Joseph Actor: Woodward
Role: Setter Actor: Chapman
Role: Sharper Actor: Hale
Role: Vainlove Actor: Gibson
Role: Araminta Actor: Mrs Hale
Role: Silvia Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Noll Bluff Actor: Rosco
Role: Barnaby Actor: Bencraft
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Mullart
Role: Betty Actor: Miss Hillyard
Role: Laetitia Actor: Mrs Cibber.

Dance: DDutch Skipper, as17421025; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; Musette-Picq, Sga Domitilla; Grand Ballet, as17421108

Event Comment: Both pieces by Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Cast
Role: Pistol Actor: Mullart.
Role: Falstaff Actor: Quin
Role: Ford Actor: Ryan
Role: Mrs Ford Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Shallow Actor: Chapman
Role: Slender Actor: Woodward
Role: Page Actor: Cashell
Role: Fenton Actor: Gibson
Role: Caius Actor: Stoppelaer
Role: Host of Garter Actor: Rosco
Role: Simple Actor: Bencraft
Role: Bardolph Actor: Harrington
Role: Mrs Page Actor: Mrs Bellamy
Role: Ann Page Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Mrs Quickly Actor: Mrs James
Role: Robin Actor: Miss Morrison
Role: Sir Hugh Actor: Hippisley.

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Event Comment: Both pieces by Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: Lady Macduff Actor: Mrs Stevens
Role: The Vocal parts Actor: Miss _Davis
Role: All the Dances proper to the play Actor: .
Role: Macbeth Actor: Quin
Role: Macduff Actor: Ryan
Role: King Actor: Gibson
Role: Banquo Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Malcolm Actor: Hale
Role: Donalbain Actor: Anderson
Role: Lenox Actor: Stephens
Role: Seyward Actor: Cashell
Role: Seyton Actor: Harrington
Role: Hecate Actor: Rosco
Role: Murderers Actor: Stoppelaer, Bencraft
Role: Witches Actor: Hippisley, Marten, James
Role: Lady Macbeth Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: With the Original Music Actor:

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Dance: LLa Provencale, as17421105; Dutch Skipper, as17421025; Peasants, as17421230

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Stage enclos'd and form'd into an amphitheatre. Send servants by three o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Albion Queens

Dance: CCharacters of Dancing, as17421025; Dutch Skipper, as17421025

Event Comment: Benefit Garrick. By Command of Prince and Princess of Wales. [Winston MS. from Dyer MS.: A prodigious audience] Farce never acted there. Seven rows of the Pit will be rail'd into the Boxes. Stage to be form'd into side boxes where servants may keep places. Tickets of Mr Valliant, Bookseller, Strand; or at Garrick's, Bow St., Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Cast
Role: Hastings Actor: Garrick, 1st time
Role: Dumont Actor: Delane
Role: Belmour Actor: Mills
Role: Jane Shore Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Alicia Actor: Mrs Woffington
Role: Duke of Gloster Actor: Macklin
Role: Catesby Actor: Winstone
Role: Ratcliff Actor: Blakes.

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Cast
Role: Sharp Actor: Garrick
Role: Kitty Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: with a New Epilogue written and Actor: Garrick.

Song: IV: Beard

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Clive. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Servants will be admitted to keep places on the stage, which for the better accommodation of the Ladies, will then be form'd into an Amphitheatre. Ladies are desir'd to send their servants by 3 o'clock. Tickets and Places to be had of Mrs Clive, at her house in Great Queen St, Lincoln's Inn Fields; and of Hobson at the stage door of the theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: Boromeo, Desse, Mlle Bonneval

Event Comment: It is Humbly desir'd that Ladies who have taken Places, will please to send for their Tickets to Mrs Cibber's Lodgings, at Mr Salt's, at Henrietta St., Covent Garden. Benefit Mrs Cibber. By Command of their Royal Highness the Prince and Princess of Wales. Stage formed into an amphitheatre, and to prevent the ladies's catching cold ciel'd after the manner of the Oratorios. Tickets sold at the door will not be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Cast
Role: Fair Penitent Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Sciolto Actor: Rosco
Role: Lothario Actor: Ryan
Role: Altamont Actor: Hale
Role: Lavinia Actor: Mrs Stevens
Role: Lucilla Actor: Mrs Hale
Role: Horatio Actor: Quin.

Dance: DDutch Skipper, as17421025; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; Grand Ballet, as17421108

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Benefit Beard...Tickets and Places to be had at Beard's lodgings on the North Side of Red Lyon Square. Those Ladies who have already taken places, are humbly requested to send for Tickets. Tickets and places also to be had of Hobson at the stage door. Stage will be form'd into side boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Macheath Actor: Beard
Role: Hornpipein Act III Actor: Yates.
Role: Diana Trapes Actor: Mrs Macklin.
Role: Mackheath Actor: Lowe
Role: Peachum Actor: Macklin
Role: Polly Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Mrs Peachum Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Lockit Actor: Turbutt
Role: Mat Actor: Ray
Role: Filch Actor: Raftor.

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Cast
Role: School Boy Actor: Garrick.
Event Comment: Benefit Anne Auretti. By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Tickets to be had of Anne Auretti at Mr Chisholm's, the Golden Head in Great Newport St., near Long Acre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Cast
Role: Fryar Actor: Quin
Role: Torrismond Actor: Hale
Role: Gomez Actor: Hippisley
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Elvira Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Lorenzo Actor: Ryan
Role: Bertran Actor: Cashell
Role: Raymond Actor: Rosco
Role: Alphonso Actor: Ridout
Role: Pedro Actor: Gibson
Role: Teresa Actor: Mrs Hale.

Dance: I: Scotch Dance-Delamain, Anne Auretti; II: Tambourine-Anne Auretti; III: Characters of Dancing, as17421025; IV: Un Pas de Deux-Anne and Janneton Auretti; V: L'Aimable Vainqueur, Minuet-Picq, Anne Auretti

Event Comment: Benefit Cervetto. Mainpiece by Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Tickets deliver'd out by Arthur for The Recruiting Officer will be taken this day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Cast
Role: Sempronius Actor: Turbutt
Role: Syphax Actor: Arthur
Role: Marcus Actor: Blakes
Role: Lucia Actor: Miss Bennet.
Role: Cato Actor: Delane
Role: Portius Actor: Havard
Role: Juba Actor: Mills
Role: Lucius Actor: Winstone
Role: Decius Actor: Woodburn
Role: Marcia Actor: Mrs Roberts

Dance: II: La Florana, as17430408

Song: III: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard, Lowe

Music: IV: New Violincello Concerto-Cervetto

Event Comment: We hear his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has fitted up a Theatre near Cliefden, for a Company of French Comedians, who play there three times a week (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Cast
Role: Gloster Actor: Ryan
Role: Hastings Actor: Hale
Role: Dumont Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Belmour Actor: Gibson
Role: Ratcliff Actor: Rosco
Role: Catesby Actor: Anderson
Role: Alicia Actor: Mrs Woodward
Role: Jane Shore Actor: Mrs Horton.

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Hippisley
Role: Goodwill Actor: Rosco
Role: Blister Actor: Marten
Role: Coupee Actor: Woodward
Role: Quaver Actor: Bencraft
Role: Wormwood Actor: Stoppelaer
Role: Thomas Actor: Anderson.

Dance: II: Serious Ballet-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde; V: New Scotch Dance-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde, Richardson, Delagarde, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs LeFont