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Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Green-This House was hurt by Mr Handel's Music at ye Foundling Hospt (Cross). Tickets of Mrs Green at Broad Court, Bow St., Covent Garden and at Stage Door. Tickets deliver'd for the 10th will be taken. Last time of acting the mainpiece this season. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: Devisse, Mad Auretti

Event Comment: Benefit for ye Wid. Mills & Mr Matthews (Cross). Tickets and places to be had of Mathews in Fountain Court, Aldermanbury; of Mrs Mills, at Mr Gardiner's a Printer in Little Russel St., Covent Garden and at the Stage Door. Tickets deliver'd for the Way of the World, and for the 18th will be taken, and those for the Fair Penitent the 25th. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: I: Hornpipe-the Little Swiss; II: The Savoyard-Mathews, Mad Camargo; III: Running Footman's Dance, as17501020; IV: A Harlequin Dance-the Little Swiss; V: The Scotch Dance-Mathews, Mad Auretti

Event Comment: [Benefit for] Taswell, Layfield, Marr, Mad Mariet, Mrs Addison had Tickets (Cross). Receipts: #90 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Event Comment: Benefit for Dickenson, Harrison and Chamness. Tickets sold by the orange women will not be taken. Receipts: #210 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Cast
Role: Careless Actor: Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: III: Hornpipe-Harrison, Walker; V: Running Footman's Dance, as17501020, but _Mathews, Harrison

Song: IV: Song-Master Mattocks

Event Comment: Benefit for Foley, Bride Berrisford, Tomlinson, Smith, Atkinson. [Cross lists The Virgin Unmasked as the afterpiece, but not so advertised in the papers.] Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: II: Comic Dance, as17501231; IV: Hornpipe-the Little Swiss

Song: III: Master Mattocks

Event Comment: Benefit for Hobson. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Cast
Role: Mrs Anne Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Song: III: Master Mattocks

Dance: IV: Hornpipe-the Little Swiss

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By particular desire. Last time of performing this season (General Advertiser). Mr Garrick set out for Paris next Day (Cross). Receipts: #80 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: Devisse, Mad Auretti

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Ye Audience allarm'd in the Middle of ye farce by Cap Robinson & Cap Loyde fighting behind ye Boxes; people suspected at first it was fire, but being convinc'd to ye Contrary set down again. Cap Rob was wounded (Cross). Was a terrible alarm at Drury Lane theatre by a noise from behind the boxes, occasion'd by two gentlemen quarrelling and drawing their swords, which produc'd a rumor of fire through the house, and so great a confusion that many were hurt in attempting to force their way out. A woman was with difficulty saved from throwing herself over the gallery into the pit (Gentleman's Magazine, p. 425). Receipts: #80 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Song: III: Mattocks

Dance: IV: Will be introduced a Comic Dance-Harvey, Mrs Addison

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Desire. Mr Ross Castalio --well. Barry & Mrs Cibber, play'd Romeo & Juliet this Night a C. Garden (Cross). [Inspector No 187 appeared with comments on Ross and further ones on Mossop as actors (Daily Advertiser and Literary Gazette).] Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Performance Comment: Zanga-Mossop; Alonzo-Havard; Carlos-Ross; Leonora-Miss Bellamy; Don Alvarez-Burton; Don Manuel-Mozeen; Isabella-Mrs Mills.*a1751 10 10 dl The Anatomist.*c1751 10 10 dl Mainpiece: Not acted these 20 Years. Mr Mossop (Zanga ) Havard (Alonzo ) play'd well, but ye appear'd as it is wrote, Dull (Cross). The Comedy call'd Sir Courtly Nice, or It Cannot Be, is now reviving at Drury Lane, and will be played there in a few days. Receipts: #140 (Cross).
Event Comment: MMr Harris James dy'd at 8 in ye Morn (Cross). Mainpiece: Acted there but once these 20 years. Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Event Comment: MMonr & Mad Piettero danc'd first-(Sad) no Hissing No App. (Cross). Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: II: A New Comic Dance-Sg and Sga Piettero; being their first time of appearing on the English Stage ; End: L'Entree de Flore-Mad Auretti; Peasant Dance-Mathews, Mad Janeton Auretti

Event Comment: A blunder in ye same place (the Giants) a great noise-Horse beans thrown-when ye curtain was down, Mr Woodward went on & said-Gentlemen I am very sorry this Accident shou'd happen, but before this little piece is perform'd again, I'll take care to see it so well practis'd that no Mistake can happen for ye furture. Great Applause.-The play was hiss'd again at the End (Cross). Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: II: A Comic Dance-Sg Piettero, Sga Piettero second time upon English Stage; IV: By Desire a Hornpipe-the Little Swiss

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted in 5 years. [See 11 Dec. 1744. For further comment on Dexter, see Genest, IV, p. 341.] One Mr Dexter did Oroonoko , a Gent of Ireland--who never appear'd upon a Stage before--he had ye Greatest applause ever heard & indeed deservedly a Sweet Voice, great feeling--his name was not in ye Bills--only by a Gent (Cross). We hear that a Comedy call'd Eastward Hoe; or, The Prentices, written by Ben Johnson, Chapman, and Marston, is now reviving at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, and will be acted the 29th. [A four page double column account of the text of Oroonoko appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1752, pp. 163-67.] Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko; Or, The Royal Slave

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. King, Duke, Princess, P. of Wales & P. Edward (Cross). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Dance: Mad Auretti, Matthews, Mad Janeton Auretti

Event Comment: MMr Mossop did Bajazet -Oh (Cross). [Inspector No 211, in Daily Advertiser and Literary Gazette commented on the magnificent performance of Garrick and Miss Bellamy in King Lear the preceding Saturday.] Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Song: IV: O Gentle Sleep-Beard

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: Lady Bountiful Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Ballet: SSavoyard Travellers. As17511105

Event Comment: A new Musical Masque. This Masque was written by ye Author of the Chaplet (Mr Mendez) & set by Dr Boyce. Great Applause. I had the copy (Cross). [On this and all subsequent bills this season for The Shepherd's Lottery announcement is made of the composition of the music by Dr Boyce.] Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Afterpiece Title: The Shepherd's Lottery

Event Comment: Went off well--Dexter Hip :--Mossop-Ths ; Pritchard Phaedra ; Bellamy Ismena (Cross). Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phaedra And Hippolitus

Ballet: SSavoyard Travellers. As17511105

Event Comment: MMiss Bellamy spoke Orig. Epilogue for ye 1st time (Cross). Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phaedra And Hippolitus

Afterpiece Title: The Shepherd's Lottery

Event Comment: This day is publish'd Every Man in His Humour, a Comedy written by Ben Johnson, with Alterations and Additions (as it was performed at Drury Lane). Printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Tib Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Event Comment: Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Tib Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Tib Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Tib Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: LL'Entree de Flore, as17511015; Peasant Dance, as17511015

Event Comment: Receipts: #175 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Tib Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: LLes Caprices de la Dance, as17511212