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BEP(F.740.017
12 May 1740:32 (249)
From the London Magazine for January, 1740.
Wednesday, Jan. 25. This night a disturbance happen'd at
Drury-Lane Playhouse, occasion'd by two of the principal
dancers not being there to dance at the end of the
entertainment, whereupon several gentlemen in the boxes and
pit pull'd up the seats and flooring of the same, tore down
the hangings, broke down the partitions, and all the glasses
and sconces; the King's arms over the middle front box was
pull'd down and broke to pieces; they also destroy'd the
harpsichord, bass viol, and other instruments in the
orchestra; the curtain they cut to pieces with their swords,
forc'd their way into the lesser green-room, where they
broke the glasses, &c. and after destroying every thing they
could well get asunder, to the amount of about 3 or 400 l.
damage, left the house in a very ruinous condition.
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