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ON MONDAY EVENING, May 8, 1797,
BENEFIT of the CABINET of MONKIES,
A TOTAL CHANGE, VIZ.
1st, Grand Ballet of DUTCH TEA GARDEN.
2d, The Performances of the astonishing CABINET OF MONKIES, who will appear in elegant New Dresses.
3d, Grand Pantomime of the AMERICAN HEROINE.
4th, Musical Spectacle of GABY and DOLLY.
5th, HORSEMANSHIP IN PERFECT CADENCE.
6th, A Comic Pantomime called the
WEIRD SISTERS; or, HARLEQUIN EVERY WHERE.
AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS, ASTLEY’s,
WESTMINSTER-BRIDGE,
Under the Patronage of his Royal Highness the Duke of York.
MR. LEONARDI, Proprietor of the FAMOUS CABINET of MONKIES, craves Permission to announce his Benefit, which takes place on Monday Evening, May 8, 1797.
The Nobility, Gentry, and others, who intend honouring the Theatre, may depend on seeing the whole of the various and surprising Performances by the different TROOPS of MONKIES, in a manner that will astonish the Spectators.
[three cross symbol] Mr. Astley has obligingly condescended and expressly prepared an ENTIRE NEW CHANGE of ENTERTAINMENTS, with the whole strength of his Company.
Places to be taken of Mrs. CONNELL, BOX-OFFICE, Theatre, Westminster-bridge, to begin precisely at Half past Six.
[pointer-finger symbol] Mr. Astley having received information that several itinerant Performers, Mountebanks, and the like, having established Lotteries in various Villages throughout the Kingdom under his Name, thereby collecting very large sums of money from the credulous, he hereby declares, that he has no knowledge whatever of such Persons, and hopes the Magistrates, in whose district such nefarious practices are carrying o, will enforce the Penalties of the Act of 10th and 11th of William, Chap. 17.
