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Event Comment: Benefit Williams. By Her Royal Highness's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Constancy

Dance: Shaw, Topham, Boval, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bullock, Miss Tenoe; particularly Myrtillo-

Related Works
Related Work: Small Talk; or, The Westminster Boy Author(s): William Shield
Event Comment: Benefit William Douglass, commonly called Prince. Tickets 5s. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Concerto, Solo on Hautboy-Kytch; Solo on Violin-Michael Festing; Sonata-Mr China

Event Comment: Benefit Chetwood. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. N.B. Tickets given out for The Merry Wives of Windsor will be taken at this Play. [See Daily Post, 3 Aug., for Penkethman's celebration at Richmond on 1 Aug., the anniversary of the Hanoverian succession to the throne, and British Journal, 8 Aug., for an account of William Marshall, of lif, as an anti-Hanoverian demonstrator on 1 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Cast
Role: Somebody Actor: Miller.
Related Works
Related Work: The Stage Coach Opera Author(s): William Chetwood

Dance: Drunken Man-Harper

Song:

Event Comment: Benefit Rob. Williams, Mrs Whitherilt [Mrs Wetherilt], Mrs Boman, Miss Davison. Afterpiece: Set to Musick by Mr Eccles

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don John

Related Works
Related Work: King Henry the Fourth: With the Humours of Sir John Falstaff Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: The Comical Gallant: or, The Amours of Sir John Falstaffe Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: King John Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea

Cast
Role: Acis Actor: Miss Lindar
Role: Galatea Actor: Miss Johnson
Role: Roger Actor: Oates
Role: Joan Actor: Mrs Willis.

Music: Mainpiece: Original Shepherd's Musick by the late Mr Henry Purcell-

Dance:

Event Comment: DDaily Journal, 3 Aug.: Mr Williams, one of the Comedians belonging to the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, is dead

Performances

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command.Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. The King, Queen, Prince William, and three Princesses present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Cast
Role: Lady Brute Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Lady Fanciful Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Sir John Actor: Cibber
Role: Constant Actor: Wilks
Role: Heartfree Actor: W. Mills
Role: Rake Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Bully Actor: Harper
Role: Justice Actor: Shepard
Role: Razor Actor: Miller
Role: Taylor Actor: Griffin
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Mademoiselle Actor: Miss Shireburn.
Event Comment: [T$Their Majesties, Prince, Prince William, Princess Royal, the young Princesses, and Duke of Lorrain present. See also Lord Hervey and his Friends, p. 115.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Porus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd If She Cou'd

Cast
Role: Sir Joslin Actor: Harper
Role: Sir Oliver Actor: Griffin
Role: Courtall Actor: Wilks
Role: Freeman Actor: Mills
Role: Rakehell Actor: Cibber Jr
Role: Lady Cockwood Actor: Mrs Shireburn
Role: Ariana Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Gatty Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Sentry Actor: Mrs Mills.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: Singing in Italian-Roberts

Dance: TThe Masques-Essex, Thurmond, Houghton, Lally Jr, F. Tench, Mrs Walter, Miss Robinson, Miss Williams, Mrs Delorme, Miss Mears, Mrs Rogers

Performance Comment: Tench, Mrs Walter, Miss Robinson, Miss Williams, Mrs Delorme, Miss Mears, Mrs Rogers.
Related Works
Related Work: King Henry the Fourth: With the Humours of Sir John Falstaff Author(s): William Shakespeare
Event Comment: At Rayner-Walker Booth. [Prince William and Princesses Mary and Louisa present, also His Excellency Ach Mahomet, Ambassador from Algiers.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Wife Well Manag'd; Or, Cuckoldom Prevented

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of Harlequin; or, The Life and Death of Dr Faustus

Event Comment: A new Opera. Written by the late Mr Gay. With New Habits and Scenes. Receipts: #207 11s. 6d. Daily Courant, 12 Feb.: Mr Pultney and Mr Pope were in the Pit....They were in the House before any body else was admitted. Sir William Windham was also present at this Performance; but notwithstanding the Countenance given to it, there was so much Obscenity and Scurrility in it, that it raised a general Abhorrence in the Audience. [See also The Bee, 17 Feb., for a puff concerning this performance and the play in general.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

Cast
Role: Lycomedes Actor: Quin
Role: Diphilus Actor: Aston
Role: Achilles Actor: Salway
Role: Ulysses Actor: Chapman
Role: Diomedes Actor: Laguerre
Role: Ajax Actor: Hall
Role: Periphas Actor: Walker
Role: Agyrtes Actor: Leveridge
Role: Thetis Actor: Mrs Buchanan
Role: Theaspe Actor: Mrs Cantrell
Role: Deidamia Actor: Miss Norsa
Role: Lesbia Actor: Miss Binks
Role: Philoe Actor: Miss Oates
Role: Artemona Actor: Mrs Egleton
Role: Gay Actor: Quin.
Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Father; or, The Death of Achilles Author(s): William Hatchett
Event Comment: On this day died Mrs William Mills

Performances

Event Comment: Set to Musick after the Italian Manner. The Habits and Decorations entirely New. [Probably by Eliza Haywood and William Hatchett, with music by Arne.] 7 p.m. 5s., 3s., 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Opera Of Operas; Or, Tom Thumb The Great

Related Works
Related Work: The Opera of Operas; or Tom Thumb the Great Author(s): William Hatchett
Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 22 June: On Monday last died Mr William Bullock, one of the Comedians of Goodman's-Fields, and Master of a Coffeehouse in that Neighborhood

Performances

Event Comment: A new Comedy. [By William Popple.] All the Characters new drest. Preface to edition of 1734: A Report having been maliciously raised, and industriously spread all over the Town, that the Play was a Party Play, and supported by the Court, and therefore to be opposed, Numbers of Persons came into the House with an Intent ... to damn it at all Events. . . . However, the Play having had a fair Hearing, went off with infinitely more Applause than Blame

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Revenge; Or, The Rover Reclaim'd

Related Works
Related Work: The Lady’s Revenge; or, The Rover Reclaim'd Author(s): William Popple

Dance: By Malter and Mlle Salle

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman under Misfortunes. [In London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 24 March, Ryan thanks the public for assistance at his benefit and adds that Sir William Saunderson engaged for Ryan "near a fourth Part of his Audience."]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Cast
Role: Sir George Actor: A. Hallam
Role: Sir Francis Actor: Hippisley
Role: Sir Jealous Actor: Morgan
Role: Charles Actor: Walker
Role: Marplot Actor: Chapman
Role: Miranda Actor: Miss Norsa
Role: Isabinda Actor: Mrs Bullock
Role: Patch Actor: Mrs Stevens
Role: Scentwell Actor: Miss Horsington

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Music: Solo on Violin by a Youth of 13 Years, who never performed in public before, a scholar of Signor Catanio

Dance: Scot's Dance, as17350311 By Lally, S. Lally, Mlle Salle

Event Comment: London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 6 Oct.: The Young Company . . . defer playing 'till next Wednesday se'nnight, at which time they perform a Play, call'd The Two Gentlemen of Verona, written by the celebrated William Shakespear, it being the first Comedy ever he wrote, and which has not been acted these 73 Years

Performances

Mainpiece Title:

Event Comment: In Imitation of Shakespear [By William Havard]. The Characters Dress'd After the Manner of the Time

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Charles The First; An Historical Play

Cast
Role: King Charles Actor: Giffard
Role: Duke of York Actor: Master Giffard
Role: Duke of Gloucester Actor: Master W. Hamilton
Role: Bishop Juxon Actor: Havard
Role: Duke of Richmond Actor: Bardin
Role: Marquis of Lindsey Actor: Richardson
Role: Oliver Cromwell Actor: Wright
Role: Fairfax Actor: Johnson
Role: Bardshaw Actor: Rosco
Role: Ireton Actor: W. Giffard
Role: Colonel Tomlinson Actor: Hamilton
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Giffard
Role: Princess Elizabeth Actor: Miss Norris
Role: Lady Fairfax Actor: Mrs Roberts
Role: Prologue Actor: Giffard
Role: Epilogue Actor: Mrs Giffard.
Related Works
Related Work: An Historical Play Author(s): William Havard
Event Comment: Benefit William Savage. 7 p.m. 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-some of the Best Performers in the Operas; particularly a Solo, Concerto on the Violoncello-Caporale; a Solo, Concerto on the Violin-Collet; several Songs-Savage; and at the End of each Part: will be perform'd one of Handel's Coronation Anthems- with Voices and Instruments

Event Comment: Benefit William Jackson. 5s. 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: The Vocal Part-Lowe; the First Violin-Jackson; several Grand Trumpet Pieces-Valentine Snow; a Concerto, a Solo-Jackson's Brother, a lad eleven years of age

Event Comment: RRylands: William Milward died. Receipts: #30

Performances

Dance: I: A Concerto, as17420105; II: The Drunken Peasant-Phillips; III: A Dutch Dance, as17411114; IV: Les Matelotes, as17411208

Ballet: V: Les Satires Puny. As17420106

Event Comment: By Desire. Daily Advertiser, 23 Dec.: On Saturday night last, at Covent Garden Playhouse, one William Wright, a young Man, who was in the Shilling Gallery, disapproving of Signora Domitilla's Dancing between the second the Third Acts, was without any Provocation, kick'd, beat, and abus'd etc

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Cast
Role: Distrest Mother Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Orestes Actor: Ryan
Role: Hermione Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Pylades Actor: Hale
Role: Phoenix Actor: Rosco
Role: Cephisa Actor: Mrs Hale
Role: Cleone Actor: Mrs Mullart
Role: Pyrrhus Actor: Quin.

Dance: TTambourine-Cooke; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; Les Savoyards-Villeneuve, Sga Domitilla; La Provencale, as17421105

Event Comment: Benefit Page (Housekeeper), Banks and Duck. See London Daily Post and General Advertiser for arrest and seizure of William Brown, notorious pick-pocket in cg playhouse passage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Cast
Role: Pilgrim Actor: Ryan
Role: Alphonso Actor: Hippisley
Role: Roderigo Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Mad Scholar Actor: Hale
Role: Curio Actor: Cashell
Role: Seberto Actor: Gibson
Role: Old Pilgrim Actor: Harrington
Role: Verdugo Actor: Goodall
Role: Mad Englishman Actor: Rosco
Role: Mad Welchman Actor: James
Role: Mad Priest Actor: Bencraft
Role: Mad Taylor Actor: Woodward
Role: Master of Madhouse Actor: Marten
Role: Lopez Actor: Carr
Role: Jaques Actor: Anderson
Role: Fool Actor: Miss Ferguson
Role: Alinda Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Juletta Actor: Miss Hippisley.

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Hippisley%.

Dance: TThe Happy Lovers, as17421006; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; Grand Comic Ballet, as17430407

Event Comment: Never before acted [by William Havard, who inserted a long advertisement in the Daily Post with quotations from Roman history and the comment: thus much I think is necessary to be known by everybody who designs to see the play.] Last night the Tragedy of Regulus was perform'd...to a numerous and polite Audience, and met with great Applause.-London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 22 Feb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Regulus

Cast
Role: Corvus Actor: Delane
Role: Decius Actor: Havard
Role: Metullus Actor: Mills
Role: Mutius Actor: Bridges
Role: Manlius Actor: Berry
Role: Quintus Actor: Blakes
Role: First Cartheginian Ambassador Actor: Turbutt
Role: 2nd Ambassador Actor: Usher
Role: Attilus Regulus Actor: Taswell
Role: Scaurus Actor: Green
Role: Emilius Actor: Woodburn
Role: Mantia Actor: Mrs Giffard
Role: Clelia Actor: Miss Budgell
Role: Regulus Actor: Garrick
Role: Prologue Actor: Havard
Role: Epilogue Actor: Miss Woffington.
Related Works
Related Work: Regulus Author(s): William Havard
Event Comment: A new English Pastoral Serenata. Set to Musick by William DeFesch. 6 p.m. 5s. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Tickets at the Author's Lodgings, at Mrs Misaubain's, on the Pav'd Stones, in St. Martin's Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Friendship