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Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Gay. At Common Prices. 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Song: TThe Ladies' Lamentation, as17370414

Dance: JJe ne scai quoi-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Otway. At Common Prices. 6 p.m. N.B. There is a new Passage to the Pit.,. also a large Lobby for the Servants that keep Places. Receipts: #65. Egerton 2320: ye first night of Mr Right's appearance. Cato given out, but cou'd not be play'd, Mrs Cibber not being ready in Maria we cou'd play no Play but the Orphan Mrs Thurmond having left us

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Or The Unhappy Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: Benefit the Reviver. N.B. To prevent any Interruption in the Musick, Dancing, Machinery or other Parts of the Performance, Side Boxes only will be form'd on the Stage, for the Accommodation of the Ladies. And (by Desire) five Rows of the Pit will be rail'd in at the Price of the BoXes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: As 4 Aug. Benefit the Author. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marina

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Countess

Event Comment: At Common Prices. Mainpiece: By C. Marsh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amasis King Of Egypth

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. At Common Prices. 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom or The Virgin Unmaskd

Event Comment: At Common Prices. The Stage Half a Guinea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: by Dby DesireThe Mock Lawyer

Event Comment: For a discussion of raised prices for afterpieces, see Daily Gazetteer, 8 Feb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

Dance: IV: Drunken Peasant-Master Ferg

Ballet: A Voyage to the Land of Cytherea. As17400115

Event Comment: Nothing under the full Price will be taken during the whole Concert

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Chymical Counterfeits or Harlequin Worm Doctor

Event Comment: At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: Desse

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Play to begin exactly at Six. Places for Boxes to be taken at Mr Bradshaw's, Box-Keeper, at the King's Arms in Russell Street, near the Playhouse. 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s. [This customary notice about time, tickets, and prices will hereafter be silently omitted.] Receipts: #120

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Event Comment: Benefit Gentleman under Misfortune. Prices, as 21 Dec

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Event Comment: RRylands: Benefit Fausan. At the Particular desire of several Ladies of Quality. Three rows of the Pit will be rail'd in at the Price of the Boxes. Tickets and places to be had of Mr West at the Green Door in Duke's St, Lincoln's Inn Fields; and at Mr Bradshaws, King's Arms in Russel St., near the theatre. Tickets deliver'd out for As You Like It will be taken this night, the play being oblig'd to be chang'd on Account of the indisposition of Mr Milward. Receipts: #173

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Dance: I: A New Dance call'd Le Petit Scaramouche-the Fausans; III: Les Matelotes, as17411110; V: A New Dance call'd Arlequin Petit@Maitre-the Fausans

Event Comment: Written by George Duke of Buckingham. Never perform'd there before. Tis hop'd no Gentleman will take it ill if they are not admitted behind the Scenes, it being impossible to go through the Performance, if the Passages are not kept clear. Tickets at 4s., 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d. [prices repeated for the run of this play]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Dance: As17420115

Event Comment: Tickets 4s., 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d. 'Tis hop'd no Gentlemen will take it ill if they are not admitted behind the Scenes, either with Money or the Silver Tickets, it being impossible to go through the Performance, if the Passages are not kept open. [Notice and prices repeated through the run of the pantomime.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Englishman or The Frenchman Bit

Event Comment: At Common Prices. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Receipts: #70

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

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Role: Louisa Actor: Mrs Roberts.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: I: Song with French Horn-Beard

Dance: II: A Concerto, as17420105; III: The Drunken Peasant, as17411029; IV: The Italian Peasants, as17411205

Event Comment: No Money under the full Price will be taken during the whole Concert [customary notice repeated during the run of the pantomime]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Englishman

Event Comment: N.B. That the Ladies and Gentlemen may not be detained at the Theatre while Tickets are given them, they are desir'd to send for them to Mr Arne's House in Craven Buildings near Drury Lane, Number 17, or to Mr Bradshaw, Box-Keeper, at the Kings Arms in Great Russel St., where tickets may be had, and places taken. Boxes 6s. Pit 4s. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. Ladies are desir'd to send their servants to keep places by Four o'clock. NB: Mr Arne humbly hopes the Town will not be offended at this small advance of Prices, being at an extraordinary expence for copying all the Music, building the stage, additional instrumental performers, chorus singers, and erecting an Organ. [The attendance apparently was heavy. See note to repeated performance on 19 March.] Mainpiece: Written by Dryden and set to Music by Handel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Afterpiece Title: The Judgment of Paris

Event Comment: At the Particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. [The same rise in price prevailed that occurred on 12 March, but without the explanatory note.] N.B. Those Tickets that could not be admitted on Mr Arne's Benefit night will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexanders Feast

Afterpiece Title: The Judgment of Paris

Event Comment: By Desire of Persons of Quality. [Prices 4s., 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d. have now become the standard.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment of Harlequin

Event Comment: To begin exactly at Six o'clock. Play Written by Shakespear. The Principal Characters new dress.d, and the Theatre New Decorated. None will be admitted into the Boxes but by Printed tickets, which will be deliver'd at the Office in the Lobby at 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. N.B. For the Better Regulation of the stage, it is desired that no persons will take it ill, that they cannot be admitted behind the scenes. [The notice about time and prices remains constant throughout the season and will not again be noted here. The notice about refusal of admission behind the scenes appears on each bill till the benefits begin. It will not be repeated here.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

Event Comment: Ever studious for Public Amusement, I...strayed last Week, to a place near the Haymarket in Westminster, and Temple Bar in Middlesex, call'd James's St., where at the New Theatre, a Play called the Miser, with an Entertainment called the Old Man Bit, or Harlequin Skeleton, I saw rehears'd. J. W. Gray's Inn 12 Oct.-Theatrical Clippings, Folger Library. Benefit Julian Late of Goodman's Fields Theatre. At the New Theatre in James St., near Haymarket...a Concert. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6 p.m. Note, Mr Julian taken this Opportunity to acquaint his Friends, that these Performances will be done with the utmost Regularity and Decoration, most of the Performers having belong'd to the Theatres. [This customary notice about the concert, time and prices will not be included unless changed.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Mock Doctor

Event Comment: With Alterations. Note, as the Pantomime is added at common Prices, no latter Account can be taken.-Daily Advertiser. [Repeated throughout the run of the pantomime.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Imprisonment of Harlequin

Event Comment: The Dramatick Piece being desir'd after the Play, the Prices (Latter Account) will be Boxes 2s. 6d. pit 1s. 6d. First Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Bickerstaffs Unburied Dead

Event Comment: By particular Desire. Latter Account Prices 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d., 1s., 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of King Lear And His Three Daughters

Afterpiece Title: Bickerstaffs Unburied Dead