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Event Comment: AAuretti danc'd for the first time this season (Cross). Receipts: #70 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Non juror

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Dance: LL'Entree de Flore-Mlle Auretti, Dennison, Mlle Lussant

Event Comment: Being the last time of performing this opera till after the Holidays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lamanti Gelosi

Dance: As17531217

Event Comment: Last time of performing till the Holidays. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: Hastings-Garrick; Shore-Mossop; Gloster-Davies; Belmour-Blakes; Darby-Burton; Catesby-Mozeen; Ratcliffe-Simson; Jane Shore-Mrs Pritchard; Alicia-Mrs Cibber.
Cast
Role: Hastings Actor: Garrick

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Event Comment: By Command of the Princess of Wales, for the first time since the Prince's Death (Cross). [This is the mother of George III, now Prince of Wales. His father Frederick, Prince of Wales, had died 19 March 1751.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Event Comment: Play never acted before. [This new tragedy by MacNamara Morgan is mercilessly scourged by Paul Hiffernan in Tuner No 1, (21 Jan.), pp. 41-61]: To Tune it in Lilliputian Score : @Such sighing@Such Billing@Such Flashing@Such Heeling@And Dying@And Killing@And Dashing@And Kneeling@Such Rizing@Surprizing!@Such Falling@And Bawling@Such Attitudes@And Flattitudes@Were ne'er exhibited before.@ In the representation Mr Barry spared no pains; Miss Nossiter and Mr Smith strained hard-Mrs Bland, as far as her part exposed itself, did it with alacrity, but vanished abruptly in a storm of Lust. Mrs Vincent put as good a face on wanton barbarity as possible-and Mr Sparks who can do justice to a more spirited character, supported his Arcadian Kingship with becoming equanimity...It is a Romance crush'd together without choice, unconnected and full of Exidents not Incidents. Musidorus and Pamela , are duplicates to Pyrocles and Philoclea , which lengthen by so much the play, with repetition of the same dull nauseous tale of love, stirr'd up now and then by a bounce and a cracker-many persons come on we know not why, and disappear we know not wherefore....This new piece is an outlaw from all rules of Criticism; the Unities of Time, Place, and Action are unobserv'd; Plot, Moral, Verisimilitude, or even Probability unknown: many scenes bid defiance to possibility....Mr Rich stopp'd at no expence as to the Dresses and Decorations, and reprieving the play's duration to the utmost extent of Managerian clemency

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Philoclea

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Particular Desire and for the last time this season (Public Advertiser). For Miss Macklin's benefit. Ye farce of ye two Knights was to have done, but Mr Yates not being perfect it was chang'd (Cross). Receipts: #210 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: HHornpipe-the Little Swiss

Event Comment: Tomorrow, by desire, Gli Amanti Gelosi, being the last time of performing the operas till Monday 4 March

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: As17531024, but Belinda-Mrs Mills; Laetitia-Miss Haughton; Fondlewife-Foote (for last time this season).

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Event Comment: Opera by Desire. Being the last time of performing the operas till Monday March 4

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gli Amante Gelosi

Dance: As17531217

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virginia

Performance Comment: Parts by Garrick, Mossop, Ross, Davies, Blakes, Mozeen, Mrs Bennet, a Gentlewoman (1st time on any stage), Mrs Cibber. Virginius-Garrick; Icilius-Ross; Appius-Mossop; Claudius-Davies; Virginia-Mrs Cibber; Marcia-Mrs Graham; Plautia-Mrs Bennet; Rufus-Mozeen; Caius-Blakes; Prologue-Garrick; Epilogue-Mrs Clive (Genest, IV, 386).
Event Comment: Opera by Desire. Being the last time of performing the operas this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lamanti Gelosi

Dance: As17531217

Event Comment: Benefit for Mlle Auretti. Last time of performing mainpiece this season. Part of Pit rail'd into the Boxes. Amphitheatre on Stage. [Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock.] Tickets of Mad Auretti, at her house in Leicester Fields, and at the Stage Door. Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: I: A New Dance call'd La Passecalle de Zaid-Mlle Auretti; III: New Dutch Dance-Devisse, Mlle Auretti; IV: Hornpipe-Granier; V: The Louvre, Minuet-Devisse, Mlle Auretti

Event Comment: Last time of performing [the afterpiece] this Season. Tickets deliver'd out by Vernon, Sanderson, &c. for a Bold Stroke for a Wife will be taken this night. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Event Comment: Benefit for Barrington and Miss Hilliard. Last time of performing the mainpiece this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Performance Comment: Loveless-Lowe; Gripe-Collins; Jeremy-R. Smith; Isabella-Miss Young; Fanfaron-Holtom; Phelim O'Blunder-Barrington.
Cast
Role: Loveless Actor: Lowe

Dance: I: Dutch Dance, as17531018; III: A Peasant Dance-Cooke, Miss Hilliard; V: By Particular Desire, a Louvre and Minuet-Cooke, Miss Hilliard

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Pritchard--pretty well (Cross). Tickets at Pritchard's Warehouse. The only time this play and farce will be performed this season. Afterpiece: Taken from Sir Charles Sedley. [The Larpent MS 112 indicates additional parts in The Grumbler: Lovemore-$Jefferson; Capt. Bellmount-$Ackman; Sir John Rightou'd-?; +Rigant-$Marr; Shallow-$Vaughan; Victoria-$Mrs Simson; Sersnet-Miss ?; +Footboy-?; The MS contains prompt notes also.] Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Cast
Role: Balthasar Actor: Beard

Afterpiece Title: The Grumbler

Dance: II: Masquerade Dance-

Event Comment: The Last time of performing

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mrs Midnights Concert

Afterpiece Title: The Adventures of Fribble

Entertainment: As17540425

Event Comment: Benefit for ye Author (Cross). Last time of performing it this season. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Creusa

Event Comment: Benefit for Roger, Shawford, Reinhold, & Gerard, he run away (Cross). Mons Gerard left England. His tickets not admitted (Winston MS 8). Last time of performing the Mainpiece this Season. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller

Dance: III: The Pierrot's Dance, as17540504; V: A Hornpipe-Walker

Song: Dialogue call'd% Damon and Chloe-Master Reinhold, Miss Thomas

Event Comment: Last time this season for the afterpiece. By Particular Desire. Receipts: 100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Horton. Last time of the Company's performing

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: IV: Country Amusements-; Devisse, Mlle Auretti

Event Comment: Being positively the last time of the Lilliputians performing

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The British Roratory

Dance: As17540718

Event Comment: At the Large Commodious Room at the lower end of the Swan Inn Yard, West Smithfield, during the short time of Bartholemew Fair, which begins this day. The Characters dressed in the Italian manner. Scenes, Cloaths, Machinery, and other Decorations entirely New. To began each day at 12:00 noon. A very extraordinary band of musick is provided, and the Room decorated in an elegant Manner, for the better reception of the Nobility and Gentry. There is a back door to Hosier Lane for the conveniency of those who don't chose to be crowded...The passages will be elegantly illuminated

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mrs Midnights New Carnival Concert Of Vocal And Instrumental Musick

Afterpiece Title: Gli Amanti Gelosi or The Birth of Harlequin

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Love in the Temple of Apollo

Event Comment: At Phillips's Great Theatrical Booth, Bowling Green. To begin each day at 12 Noon. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d. During the time of the Fair the Town will be entertain'd with an excellent droll, The Distress'd Merchant...Mr Phillips has been at great Expense in getting proper Machinery, Habits, and Decorations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distressd Merchant Or The Jew Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Escapes of Harlequin or Fribble Trickd

Dance: Comic Dance,%Humours of Cloth Fair-

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. It is the last time of performing (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Carnival Concert

Afterpiece Title: La Pantomime du Charpentier

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-Beard; Peachum-Yates; Lockit-Berry; Filch-Raftor; Mat@o@Mint-Blakes; Beggar-Simson; Player-Bransby; Lucy-Mrs Clive; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Cross; Diana Trapes-Mrs Havard; Polly-Miss Macklin (first time); In Act III a Hornpipe-Mathews, others; To conclude with a Country Dance-the characters of the play.

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet