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164 results for: Author - Thomas Bellamy
Results not only include performances of plays known to be by 'Thomas Bellamy', but also performances of associated titles, including adaptations.

76
16 March 1731 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

77
26 May 1731 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: III: French Peasant-Mrs Laguerre; IV: Saraband, Tambourin-Miss Rogers, Scholar to Salle; After I afterpiece: Highlander and his Mistress-Salle, Mrs Laguerre

Song: II: Miss Rogers; V: Mrs Wright

78
08 October 1731 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

79
18 January 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Dance: HHornpipe (by Desire)-Jones

80
14 March 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

81
03 November 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

82
21 May 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Venus, Cupid, and Hymen

Music: Between the Acts: Trumpets, Kettle Drums, French Horns-; With a new Overture (to the Masque) for two Vox Humanes- , a new invented Instrument

Song: II: Mrs Seedo, who never appeared on the stage before; III: (At the particular Request of Seedo's Friends) Signora Margherita (who has not performed on any theatre these 14 years)

Dance: I: Drunken Peasant-LeBrun; IV: The Watteau-Miss Robinson; End Afterpiece: Les Bergeries-Essex, Haughton, Miss Robinson

83
10 September 1733 @ Richmond

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

84
10 September 1733 @ Richmond

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

85
08 November 1733 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Dance: By Mons Malter and Mlle Salle, newly arrived

86
22 January 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Related Works
Related Work: Hob; or, The Country Wake Author(s): Thomas Doggett

Dance: Scottish Dance, as17341004 Pigmalion, as17340114

87
17 May 1734 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Related Works
Related Work: Wonders in the Sun, or, The Kingdom of the Birds Author(s): Thomas D'Urfey

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Dance: I: A Scot's Dance, called The Lomphergall (after the manner of the Country) by a Gentleman at the Request of his Friends. II: The Whim by Miss Wherrit and Miss Sandham. III: Tambourine by Miss Wherrit. IV: Scot's Dance by Mrs Bullock. V: Dutch Skipper by Vallois and Mrs Bullock

88
20 May 1734 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: I: An Indian Dance, with Castenets, called The Kanario, by a Gentleman at the Request of his Friends. II: Scot's Dance by Mrs Bullock. III: Tambourine by Miss Wherrit. IV: Dutch Skipper by Vallois and Mrs Bullock. V: Milk Pail Dance

89
02 February 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

90
22 April 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Related Works
Related Work: The Jealous Clown; or, The Lucky Mistake Author(s): Thomas Gataker
Related Work: Like Master Like Man Author(s): Thomas Ryder

Dance: I: Rigadone Provencale, as17420226; III: Chacone, as17411230; V: The Peasants, as17420210

Song: II: A Duetto Jovial-Leveridge, Salway; IV: Ballad of Advice to a Friend-Leveridge; V: Epilogue in Music address'd to the Town-Leveridge, Salway, Mrs Lampe

Music: I: Handel's Celebrated Water Music-; with a preamble on the Kettle Drums-Joseph Woodbridge; IV: A Grand Concerto-; accompanied by French Horns-

Entertainment: III: A Dialogue explaining The Truth on both sides,-Roberts, Miss Hillyard [probably sung]

Related Works
Related Work: London Triumphant; or, The City in Jollity and Splendour… Invented and performed for Congratulation and Delight of the well-deserving Governour, Sir Robert Hanson Knight, Lord Mayor of the City of London Author(s): Thomas Jordan
Related Work: Hannibal Author(s): Thomas Dekker

91
25 April 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of Purgatory

92
07 September 1748 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Northern Heroes; Or, The Bloody Contest Between Charles The Twelfth, King Of Sweden, And Peter The Great, Czar Of Muscovy

Afterpiece Title: The Volunteers; or, The Adventures of Roderick Random and His Friend Strap

Related Works
Related Work: The Volunteers; or, The Stock-Jobbers Author(s): Thomas Shadwell

Dance: Particularly a Hornpipe-

93
28 January 1752 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: As17520127

94
29 January 1752 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Dance: As17520127

95
13 February 1752 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

96
06 February 1753 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Dance: IIl Morlaco, as17521219; Grand Scots Ballet-Cooke, Miss Hilliard; Il Pastore-Maranesi, Signora Bugiani

97
23 December 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Related Works
Related Work: The Cheats of Scapin Author(s): Thomas Otway

Dance: As17561217

Song: By the Desire of the Friends of Old Cole we will endeavor to sing a Song at the End of the Play (Public Advertiser)

98
26 February 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Related Works
Related Work: The Opera of Operas; or Tom Thumb the Great Author(s): Thomas Arne

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17820221

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece The Huntsman's sweet Halloo; End of Act II If o'er the cruel Tyrant, Love (from Artaxerxes); In afterpiece the original song to Fischar's Minuet; End of Act I The Wanton God (from Comus); End of afterpiece Push about the Jorum, with an additional verse to Miss Catley's Friends, all five sung by Miss Catley

99
24 October 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

100
28 October 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Afterpiece Title: Arthur and Emmeline

Related Works
Related Work: Arthur and Emmeline Author(s): Thomas ArneThomas Linley Sr.