SEASON OF
1741-1742
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HE 1741-42 season, remarkable in the annals of the stage
for tlte debut of David Garrick at the Ayliffe Street Theatre
649
with a total of
presented Lon
- in ۶oodman's Fi
Lane, 172 at
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performances, of these 189 appealed a
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OVent Garden, 174 at Goodman’s Fields, anti 94 (including 56 operas
about in five theatrical booths at Fairs and in the peripltery of
:
£18,255
Thi. fi profitable one, for tlie Drury Lane box receipts totalled
includes., Itowever, many hundreds of pounds wliicli went directly
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and not into the coffers
benefit ni
of : pockets ;factors ;n t
the after!!: tlte manager, ^hc only new play Fleetwood proyided was
Miss Lucy in Town, Fielding’s sequel to his popular Virgin
The manager
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season and ran
ProvidJd ! r late in
Bcsid,: ;any revivals of old plays, but capitalized mainly on dances,
tun of hornpipes and minuets between the acts, twenty-nine
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name
new dance teams from
performed by
titre
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Paris
two returned to
The las
Fausans, and tlte I
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Paris be
of May,
October .until the
en
two to(-' ended^ but from e
Ween h elaborate dances were performed as drawing specialties bet-
the acts