Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Event Comment: [Receipts: #140 (Cross)

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Event Comment: Receipts: #90 (Cross)

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Event Comment: Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Henry Jones never acted there. Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Event Comment: The play of Merope will be reviv'd on Tuesday next, at Drury Lane, in which Mr Holland, who play'd the part of Oroonoko, will appear in the character of Eumenes. The Opera of the Fairies (By Desire) will be performed there someday next week. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Event Comment: The Last New English Opera, Taken from Shakespeare's Midsummer-Night's Dream. The Music compos'd by Mr Smith. Nothing under full prices will be taken during the whole performance. [See Genest, IV, 407.] Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. Receipts: #210 (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Event Comment: The Entertainment of Dancing call'd the Chinese Festival deferred till Wednesday, on account of some Decorations which could not possible be completed in time for the first Performance. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. A great Noise, the whole House against us-When Garrick appear'd one from the Slips cry'd out Monsieur, & great Numbers Hiss'd-the play went on-wch done, the Mutiny began, amazing noise-no plating, except one Apple; ye pit to ye Boxes cry'd-now draw yr Swords, wch makes us think, the Riot was occasion'd by the Box people being so busy & turning some out of the pit & Gall: before. Some benches were pull'd up, & Mr Lacy gave up the Dance to appease 'em-being Sat: our friends were at ye Opera, & the common people had leisure to do Mischief (Cross). [Lynham in The Chevalier Noverre, quotes from the Journal Etranger of 25 Nov. 1775: 'The blackguards...tore up the benches and threw them into the Pit on the opposing party; they broke all the mirrors, the chandeliers, &c., and tried to climb onto the stage to masacre everybody; but, as there is a magnificent organization in this theatre, in three minutes all the decor had been removed, all the traps were ready to come into play to swallow up those who might venture up, all the wings were filled with men armed with sticks, swords, halberds, &c., and behind the scenes the great reservoir was ready to be opened to drown those who might fall on the stage itself."Cross lists no Receipts.

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Desire. This Morning at Ten will be publish'd at 6d. An Epistle from Mr The. Cibber to David Garrick, Esq; to which are prefix'd some occasional verses, Petitions, &c.: @Lowliness is young Ambition's ladder,@Whereto the Climber upwards turns his face;@But when he once attains the upmost Round,@He then unto the ladder turns his back,@Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees@By which he did ascend.@Shakespeare@"Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so we would have it; let them not say, we have swallow'd him up," Ps. XXXV. v.25. Printed for R. Griffiths. [A thirty-five-page apologia, and bitter attack upon Garrick for supposed complicity in prohibiting the license of the Haymarket to him.] Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Event Comment: [Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With Alterations. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #60 (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #70 (Cross)