Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Jones ye author of the play. A Gift Night. Mrs Pritchard ill, Mrs? Bennet read ye Queen . So ended the Season. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Event Comment: Benefit for the Widow Jona and Her Children

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not performed these 12 years. With Alterations and Additions. Cloaths, Scenes, and Decorations entirely New. Nothing under Full Price will be taken. None admitted behind the Scenes

Event Comment: Benefit for Author of the Farce [Dr Hiffernan]. Farce never perform'd in this version before [see Maiden Whim at dl, 24 April 1756]. Farce publish'd at 1s

Event Comment: Benefit for the General Lying-In Hospital, Duke Street. Receipts: #56, plus #142 6s. from tickets. Total #198 6s. Charges #84. Paid J. Rich on acct, #547 10s

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Henry Jones. Afterpiece: [See note under cg play this night. During this year appeared An Essay Upon the Present State of the Theatre, in France, England, and Italy, a "work absolutely necessary to be read by every lover of Theatrical Exhibitions," printed for J. Pottinger. It contains twenty-two chapters on tragedy, thirteen on comedy, opera, authors, and the art of acting. Pages 147-51 discuss the obligation of English farces to French ones.] Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Event Comment: Receipts: #115 3s. [The Weekly Magazine; or, Gentleman and Lady's Polite Companion (1760), pp. 61-63, deplores the lack of new plays and lack of competition for the Patent houses. "Our theatres seem now to aim at glorious opposition: Harlequin is set against Harlequin, one dancing master opposes another; the scene shifters, the singers, and even the drummers figure at each house by turns, and it is to be hoped soon that the mere actor will become useless....The Fair has scarce even pantomime probability...for instance Harlequin should never exercise his magical power without reason, and should never make escapes without being pursued, but here he conjures, leaps, runs and waggles without any apparent design; and the whole seems destitute of plot, a if contrived by a dancing master. Harlequin's Invasion at the other House is still rather more absurd." The author expected a speaking Harlequin, Pantaloon, Pierot, Mezzetin, &c. but found the customary figures banished for the substitution of a "stupid Taylor and his more stupid wife." Regrets the sinking of stage performance to such absurdity.

Event Comment: No Persons to be admitted behind the scenes. Boxes: #9 17s. 6d. (Account Book). Receipts: #79 19s. (Account Book)

Event Comment: [The column for receipts from Boxes is left blank (Account Book).] Receipts: #166 4s. (Account Book)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A Tragedy [by Henry Brooke]. New dressed in the habits of the times. This tragedy was wrote by Mr Brooks and performed some years ago at Dublin. The first four Acts went off heavy, the last very well--Miss Mowat made her first appearance in this Piece at Drury Lane--Prologue by Mr Murphy heavy. Epilogue by Mr Garrick, great applause (Hopkins MS Notes)

Event Comment: Income from Boxes #10. Expenses #36 14s. 11d. Receipts: #80 3s. 6d. (Winston Theatrical Record)