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Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First GallerY 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr Varney at the Stage Door. No Persons to be admitted behind the Scenes, nor any money to be returned after the Curtain is drawn up. [Customary note in bills throughout the season.] House Open'd. Receipts. #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Event Comment: [Benefit] for a Gentlewoman under Misfortunes (Cross). Tickets to be had fo Mrs Powell, at the Golden Leg in Fleet St.; at the Turk's Head Coffee-House in New Bond St.; and of Mr Varney at the theatre, where places in the Boxes may be taken (Public Advertiser). Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: III: The Market, as17571126

Event Comment: Benefit for ye Middlesex Hospital. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Tickets to be had at Mr John Horne's, Treasurer of the Hospital, in Market St., near Newport Market; At Tom's Coffee House, Cornhill; The White Hart Tavern, Holborn; The Bedford Coffee House, Covent Garden; Berkeley Square Coffee House; at the Hospital, and of Varney at the Theatre, where places may be taken. Receipts: #280 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Song: I: Miss Young

Event Comment: For the Author (Cross). Box Tickets for the Benefit of the Author of Agis...are to be had of Mr Miller, in the Strand, Dodsley in Pall Mall, and Varney at the Stage Door. This Day at Noon will be publish'd, Price 1s. 6d. Agis, by the author of Douglas. Printed for A. Miller, where may be had the tragedy of Douglas as it was acted at Covent Garden. Price 1s. 6d. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Agis

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Arne. In the Manner of an Oratorio. The Music composed by Arne. Boxes Half a Guinea. Pit 5s. First Gallery 3s. Upper Gallery 2s. To begin exactly at half an hour after Six. Tickets to be had and places to be taken of Varney at the Stage Door; and of Arne, next door to the Passage, in Charles St., Covent Garden. The Book is sold at R. Francklin's in Covent Garden, and at the Theatre the night of the performance. Price 1s. [Cross lists no receipts.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eliza

Music: I: By Particular Desire, a Concerto on the Violin-Mr Hay

Event Comment: Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Tickets to be had of Dodsley in Pall Mall: Miller in the Strand; Chapelle in Grosvenor St.; and Varney at the Stage Door, where Places may be taken. Mrs Cibber's Benefit, on account of her illness, is oblig'd to be deferr'd till the 7th of next month. Cross For ye Author. Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Agis

Event Comment: The Profits of this Performance will be given to a Public Charity. Pit and Boxes 10s. 6d. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. The Ladies are desired for their own conveniency to come without Hoops, and to send servants by 3 o'clock to keep places. Tickets to be had at Arthur's Chocolate House and the St James Coffee House in St James's Street; The Mount Coffee-House in Grosvenor St.; the Cocoa-Tree in Pall Mall; George's facing the Haymarket; Tom's and the Bedford Coffee Houses in Covent Garden; and of Varney at the Stage Door, where Places may be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concerto Spirituale

Event Comment: MMrs Clive Ly Wishfort -(bad) Fribble Garrick (Cross). Benefit for Mrs Clive. Part of Pit laid into Boxes Tickets of her in Henrietta St. and of Mr Varney at the Stage Door. Receipts: #310 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: III: (By Desire) Cymon and Iphigenia-Beard; [It had been advertised in advance, but this night in Act III] Cantata-Miss Young

Event Comment: Benefit for Beard. Tickets of Beard next door to Old Slaughter's Coffee House, St. Martin's Lane, and of Varney at stage door. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Amphitheatre on stage. Receipts: #280 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petruchio

Song: Beard, Champnes

Music: A Piece on the Harp-Mr Evans

Event Comment: Benefit for Signora Lucchi, There will be no building on the stage. Tickets to be had of Sga Lucchi at her lodgings, a Grocer's in James St, CG, and of Varney at the Stage Door. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: II: A new Spanish Dance-Giorgi, Sga Lucchi; End: A new Comic Dance-Giorgi, Sga Lucchi

Event Comment: Benefit for Yates. Tickets and places to be had of Yates in Catherine St., Strand, and of Varney at the Stage Door. Tickets deliver'd for the 4th will be taken. Being the Last time of Garrick's performing Kitely this Season. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette

Dance: New Spanish Dance, as17580410

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Berry. Tickets of Berry at Mr Pope's Peruke Maker, Russel St., Covent Garden, and of Varney at the Stage Door, where, Places may be taken. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: IV: The Italian Peasants, as17571004

Event Comment: Benefit for Blakes. Tickets and places to be had of Blakes at his house in Duke's Court, Bow St., CG; and of Varney at the Stage Door. That there may not be any interruption to the Performance, there will be no Building on the Stage. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Ballet: The Prussian Camp. As17580328 but Officer-Blakes

Event Comment: Benefit for Leviez [Ballet-Master]. Tickets of Leviez at the last House on the right hand in Bedford Buildings in the Strand, and of Varney at the Stage Door, where places may be taken. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: End: A new Grand Dance-the Children; End Farce: Minuet-Leviez, Miss Macklin

Event Comment: MMr Woodward has enter'd into partnership with Mr Barry in a new Theater in Ireland & has taken from us Mr Walker and Wife (Miss Minors that was) Mr Vernon, Mr Jefferson and Wife-from Mr Rich, Mr Arthur, Mr White, Mr Chambers, Mr Finny (his Scene-man) & others (Cross). Receipts: #120 (Cross); #128 15s. (Winston MS 8). Places for Boxes to be had of Mr Varney at the stage door. No admittance behind scenes, nor any money returned after the Curtain is drawn up. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. [This notice regularly occurs at foot of bill and will not be noted further this season. The box receipts recorded from Winston MS 8 seem to have been taken by him from the Huntington Library playbills (second set) annotated by J. P. Kemble from a Treasurer's Book.] Letter to Mr G@k on Opening of the Theatre, With Observations on Managers, Actors, Authors, and their Audiences and Particularly New Performers. 6d. Published by Cooke opposite Drury Lane Theatre. [It is a plea for more frequent appearances of Garrick, especially in lighter parts, now that Woodward has left; for especially good plays on Saturday nights; for striking from the repertoire all immoral, immodest and cruel plays; for being a sport about competition with Rich; for better regulation of the boxes, on a first-come, first-pay basis; for training up the most promising young actors gradually and not casting them in parts beyond their reaches; for more new plays; and for an advisory council in selecting them; for omission of personal satirical attacks in comedy.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: I: A comic Dance call'd The German Hunters-Master Settree, Miss Twist

Event Comment: Benefit for the Use of the Marine Society. Towards collecting clothing and equipping the distressed (both men and boys) who are inclined to serve in the Navy. Boxes 10s. 6d. Pit 5s. First Gallery 3s. Upper Gallery 2s. Tickets to be had of Mr John Stephens, Secretary to the society, in Princes St., near the Bank; Batson's Coffee House, Cornhill; and of Mr Varney at the Stage Door, where Places may be taken. As this is the Entertainment exhibited this season for this most beneficial undertaking, by which so many distressed Persons as well as Vagabonds have been preserved and rendered useful in the highest degree, it is hoped the polite, the brave and humane, of both sexes, will shew their approbation of this design, by interesting themselves in the promotion of it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alfred The Great

Music: I: Concerto on Violin-Pinto; II: Concerto on Hautboy-Vincent; Concerto on Organ-Arne Jr

Event Comment: Benefit for Berry, who having been confined for some time past by a severe Illness, humbly hopes those Gentlemen and Ladies, who intend to favor him at his Benefit, will send for Tickets to his Lodgings at Mr Pope's, a Peruke Maker in Russel St., Covent Garden; the Star Tavern, in Coleman St.; or to Mr Varney at the Stage door where Places for the Boxes may be taken. Receipts: #130 (Cross); #104 8s. 6d. (Winston MS8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Event Comment: For one night only. Never acted before. By particular desire. An Historical Play, taken from Holinshead's Chronicles, and written by the late Mr Lillo, Author of George Barnwell. Tickets for Boxes and Pit to be had of Mr Cross, at his House in Crown Court, Russel St., Covent Garden; and of Mr Varney at the Stage Door. 7 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arden Of Feversham

Dance: II: A New Dutch Dance, as17590515; End: The Threshers-Master Settree, Master Blagdon, Miss Twist; with a Prologue-; Epilogue-

Event Comment: N.B. We have engag'd Mr King; & Miss Baker from Ireland, one Mr Moody, a Stroler,-Mr Beard is gone to Covent Garden, 'tis said to be manager Mr Mossop to Ireland. Receipts: #120 (Cross). Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places from Mr Varney at the Stage Door. No admittance behind scenes. [The customary note about prices and admittance will not be noted further here.] [At the opening of the theatres this season appeared an essay in Goldsmith's Bee, giving close observations upon actors, and deploring the relative stiffness and formality of English actors in comparison with the French. Advised English actors to travel abroad. Yet (Vol. 1759, p. 12) commented on the magnificnece of "our theatres as far superior to any others in Europe where plays only are acted. The great care our performers take in painting for a part, their exactness in all minutiae of dress, and other little scenical proprieties has been taken notice of by Riccoboni." Complains of the convention of laying a rug before a dying scene and of the vacant expressions of mutes on stage.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Event Comment: Benefit for Varney. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Tickets delivered for the 10th instant will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: IV: Miss Spencer

Dance: HHornpipe-a sailor from the Royal Sovereign

Event Comment: Places for the boxes to be had of Mr Varney at the Stage Door. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. There can be no admittance to the Orchestra on account of the Music and Dancing in the Play. [N.B. This statement customarily appears at the foot of each bill during the season, and will not be noted further.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Event Comment: Music composed by Dr Arne. Pit and Boxes will be laid together at Half a Guinea, and no person to be admitted without Tickets, which may be had at Dr Arne's in the Piazza next the Church, Covent Garden, and of Varney at the Stage Door of the Theatre. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. [Information concerning this Oratorio appeared in the Public Advertiser, 23 Feb.. "on Saturday last the New Oratorio called Judith, composed by Dr Arne, to be at Drury Lane on Friday, was rehearsed at the House of a Lady of Quality, where was present a numerous Assembly of the First Distinction, who honoured it with the highest approbation. We are assured that in the Sacred Oratorio, Sg Tenducci has obtained Permission from his Plaintiff, to sing the part which Signora Eberhardi was so obliged as to understudy for him, in Case he could not obtain such Indulgence."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judith

Music: A Concerto on the Organ-

Event Comment: Tickets my be had of Varney at the Stage Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judith

Music: As17610227

Event Comment: Benefit for Havard. By Particular Desire. Ode written by Havard, and set to music by Mr Bates. Tickets to be had at Mr Havard's in Broad Court, Bow-Street; at Tom's and the Bedford Coffee Houses; and of Mr Varney at the Stage Door, where places for the Boxes may be taken. Ode deliver'd Gratis

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Entertainment: End: will be perform'd a New Coronation Ode by Havard; Vocal parts-Lowe, Champness, Mrs Vincent, Miss Young

Event Comment: Benefit for King. Tickets to be had of Mr King, at his lodgings in Broad Court, Bow Street; and of Mr Varney, at the Stage Door. The New Hippocrates, wrote by Dr Hiffernan--wretched, but went off quietly (Hopkins MS Notes)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The New Hippocrates; or, A Lesson for Quacks

Entertainment: After the Play: by Desire, for that night only The Picture of a Playhouse or, Bucks Have at Ye All-Mr King; a Mimic Comic opera song-Mrs Clive