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5822 results for: Keyword - Comical Songs, Scots, English, and Italian
We found 2756 matches on Performance Title, 2315 matches on Performance Comments, 1352 matches on Event Comments, 122 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

726
30 April 1703 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cheats Of Scapin

Afterpiece Title: The Comical Rivals; or, The School Boy

Music: As17030423

Dance: The Devonshire Girl, being now upon her Return to the City of Exeter, will perform three several Dances, particularly her last New Entry in Imitation of Mademoiselle Subligni, Whip of Dunboyn by Mr Claxton, her Master-The Devonshire Girl; ...And at the desire of several Persons of Quality (hearing that Mr Pinkeman hath hired the two famous French Girls lately arriv'd from the Emperor's Court), They will perform several Dances on the Rope upon the Stage, being improv'd to that Degree, far exceeding all others in that Art.-two famous French Girls; Newest Humours of Harlequin , as perform'd by him before the Grand Signior at Constantinople-father of two famous French Girls; Also the Famous Mr Evans, lately arriv'd from Vienna, will shew you Wonders of another kind, Vaulting on the Manag'd Horse, being the greatest Master of that kind in the World-Mr Evans

Performance Comment: ..And at the desire of several Persons of Quality (hearing that Mr Pinkeman hath hired the two famous French Girls lately arriv'd from the Emperor's Court), They will perform several Dances on the Rope upon the Stage, being improv'd to that Degree, far exceeding all others in that Art.-two famous French Girls; Newest Humours of Harlequin , as perform'd by him before the Grand Signior at Constantinople-father of two famous French Girls; Also the Famous Mr Evans, lately arriv'd from Vienna, will shew you Wonders of another kind, Vaulting on the Manag'd Horse, being the greatest Master of that kind in the World-Mr Evans.
Cast
Role: as perform'd by him before the Grand Signior at Actor: father of two famous French Girls

727
30 June 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humour Of The Age

Afterpiece Title: An Interlude of City Customs

Dance: DuRuel; Also an extraordinary comical entertainment, Scaramouch Harlequin and Punchinello-

728
07 July 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Rivals; Or, The School Boy

Afterpiece Title: The Old Batchelor (Act IV only)

Afterpiece Title: The Angry Doctor and the Doubting Philosopher (last Act of Le Medicin Malgre Luy)

Song:

Dance:

729
23 August 1703 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At Parker's and Dogget's Booth near Hosier-Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The History Of Bateman; Or, The Unhappy Marriage, With The Comical Humours Of Sparrow His Man

Entertainment: With variety of Scenes and Machines, Singing, Dancing- never seen before in the Fair

730
23 August 1703 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jeptha's Rash Vow; Or, The Virgin Sacrifice; With The Comical Humours Of Nurse And Her Two Sons, Toby And Ezekiel; Together With The Pleasant Manner Of Didimo, Toby's Son

Entertainment: Singing and dancing-

731
12 October 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virtue Betray'd; Or, Anna Bullen

Dance: A Comical Entertainment in a Tavern between Scaramouch, Harlequin and Punchanello-

732
25 October 1703 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woman Captain; Or, A Usurer Turned Soldier

Song: Mrs Hodgson, Davis, Cook

Dance: Between every Act: Variety of Comical Dances-

733
27 November 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [This performance, following the Great Storm of 1703, aroused the wrath of the reformers, typified by Jeremy Collier's remark in his Dissuasive from the Play-House: "But Stupidity under that Convulsion was not the worst of our Case: No, that dreadful Hurricane, the Voice of an angry Heaven, and Terrour of Earth and Sea, was it seems a Jest at the Play House: Macbeth with his Lightning and Thunder the Entertainment of the Day, and the Mention of Chimnies blown down, clapt by the Audience with an unusual Length of Pleasure and Approbation" (p. 18).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Music: All the Musick being compos'd-Mr Leveridge, wherein he performs his own parts

Song: As17031125

Dance: Several comical Dances-

734
13 December 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Music: As17031109

Dance: The Devonshire Girl; A Comical Entertainment between Scaramouch Harlequin and Punchanello-

735
15 December 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Dance: A Comical Night Scene between Scaramouch Harlequin and Punchanello-

736
26 January 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge; Or, Love In A Tub

Song:

Dance:

737
16 February 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Contrivance

Afterpiece Title: The Comical Rivals; or, The School Boy

Song: As17031102

Dance: duRuel, others

738
21 February 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge

Dance:

739
28 March 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School Boy; Or, The Comical Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Le Medecin Malgre Luy (last act)

Music: The Prologue to The Indian Queen-; the Sacrifice in King Arthur-; the Masque in Timon of Athens, all by Henry Purcell-

Dance: As17040226

740
30 June 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Short and Mrs Willis. Mainpiece: Not Acted these Five Years. Afterpiece: in four Musical Entertainments

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Transformation; Or, The Devil Of A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Mars and Venus

Song: Mrs Willis' two Daughters

Dance: Mrs Willis's two Daughters, who never perform'd before

741
14 July 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Circe

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea

Music: Bacchanalian Music from The Mad Lover-; A new piece of instrumental music-; with a solo-Dean

Dance: Between the Acts: Comical dances-

742
04 October 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Feign'd Innocence; Or, Sir Martin Marall

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy; or, The Comical Rivals

Song:

Dance:

743
27 October 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy; or, The Comical Rivals

Dance: Mrs Mosse, Mrs Bicknell

744
10 January 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge; Or, Love In A Tub

745
13 January 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge

Song: As17050104

Dance: As17041014

746
24 January 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge

Music: As17041127

Dance: As17041014

747
12 October 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Revenge; Or, Love In A Tub

Song:

Dance:

Music: Sonatas on the Violin-a Scholar of Gasperini

748
27 October 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arsinoe, Queen Of Cyprus

Afterpiece Title: The Comical Rivals; or, The School Boy

Dance: As17050929

749
03 December 1705 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cheats Of Scapin

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar (Comical Part only)

Song:

Dance:

750
03 April 1706 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Dance: deBarques, Mrs Elford; with a Comical Dance-Firbank, Mrs Bignal