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1106 results for: Keyword - Dr Bacon
We found 391 matches on Performance Title, 390 matches on Event Comments, 365 matches on Performance Comments, 23 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

26
03 March 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judith

Music: End of Act I concerto on the organ (composed by Dr Arne) by [Michael] Arne; End of Act II concerto on the violin by Barthelemon

27
07 November 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secrets Worth Knowing

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Mouth of the Nile

Song: [not listed on playbill] End: A new Loyal Song and Chorus- which recounts all the recent victories fo our Naval Heroes"Incledon, Johnstone, Townsend, Hill [, the music by Dr Burney (Morning Herald, 8 Nov.)

28
10 June 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Flitch of Bacon [announced on playbill of 9 June] is obliged to be deferred. [Mainpiece: Prologue by George Colman, the elder.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suicide

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: End: The Country Wake, as17790609

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25 December 1756 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: This Day publish'd at 1s. The Taxes, a Dramatic Entertainment [Dr Bacon] Printed for W. Owen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

30
02 October 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Mrs Pollock's 1st two appearances were on 24 Nov. 1792 and 14 Jan. 1793.] Afterpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Being a Collection of Favorite Scenes from the following celebrated Pantomimes: Harlequin Sorcerer, Mother Shipton, Choice of Harlequin, Lord Mayor's Day, Druids, Fryar Bacon, Harlequin Freemason, Norwood Gipsies, Omai, Magic Cavern, Harlequin Rambler. [Synopsis of Entertainment in Public Advertiser, 3 Oct.] Receipts: #261 11s. (245.5; 16.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: How To Grow Rich

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

Entertainment: Afterpiece: [To conclude with Three Entire New Scenes, representing the Town and Harbour of Toulon; with a View of the Manoeuvring of the British, Spanish, and French Fleets, after the Surrender of the Town and Fortifications to the English] on the Twenty-ninth of August [1793]. In which, When in War on the Ocean-Davies; an Entire New Song [composed by Shield,-Incledon; The Music- [Selected by Shaw from Pepusch, Dr Arne, Arnold, Fisher, [Michael] Arne, Vincent, Dibdin, Reeve, Shield; The Dances-Byrn, Holland[; The Scenery-Hodgins, Walmsley, Phillips

31
29 January 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Lord Lumbcrcourt to Wilson, but "Lee Lewes was the substitute for Wilson, and far indeed better than the man he appeared for" (Public Advertiser, 31 Jan.).] Afterpiece [1st time; P 2, by John O'KeerFe]: The Music composed by Shield. The Scenery designed by Richards and Carver, and executed by them, Hodgins, and others. The 1st Part of this Pantomime is an Alteration of the Last New One [Friar Bacon (see 23 Dec. 1783)], and the 2nd Part entirely new and never before exhibited. Nothing under Full Price will be taken. "If Macklin once loses the Catch Word he is gone irretrievably." At the end of the 3rd act, at half price, some apprentices coming into the pit talked so loudly that "Macklin stopped; he lost himself. ... He came to the Side of the Stage, and stooping down to the Talkers, said, 'Gentlemen, I must beg you to be silent; my Hearing and Recollection are not so perfect as they were; I cannot proceed for your Talking'" (Public Advertiser, 5 Feb.). Receipts: #286 14s. (282/15; 3/19)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Rambler; or, The Convent in an Uproar

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Chalmers; Sea Captain-Bannister; Friar Bacon-Davies; Father-Fearon; Friar Bungy-Darley; Clown-Stevens; Sportsmen-Mahon, Booth; Hunchback Barber-Edwin; Abbess-Mrs Templeton; Mother-Mrs White; Waiting Woman-Mlle Semini; Columbine-Mlle Bithmere. Musical and Other Characters by Johnstone, Thompson, Doyle, Rayner, Jones, Helme, Bates, Ledger, Painter; Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Martyr. The Lilliputians, Blefuscudians and Brobdignagians by New Performers . Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Martyr. The Lilliputians, Blefuscudians and Brobdignagians by New Performers .
Cast
Role: Friar Bacon Actor: Davies

32
19 December 1793 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: HARLEQUIN AND FAUSTUS; or, The Devil will have his Own

33
02 April 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus, King Of Thebes

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

34
31 March 1732 @ Hickford's Room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Consisting of several full Pieces of Vocal and Instrumental Musick by antient and modern Authors, viz. Edwardo Lupi, Paulo Pretti, Wm. Bird, Collonna, Stephani, Corelli, Purcel, Dr Pepusch-

35
20 April 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Lady's Choice

Ballet: The Feast of Bacchus. As17581116

36
08 January 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

37
31 March 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Country Madcap

Dance: End: The Old ground Young=, as17711030

38
02 July 1773 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Commissary

Afterpiece Title: The Cooper

Dance: As17730630

39
27 December 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Falstaff's Wedding

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Milliners; or, A Medley of Suitors

Dance: V: Lonsdale

Song: End: Blow high blow low-Colvill

40
23 March 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Music: End Part I: concerto on the hautboy-LeBrun; End Part II: concerto on the violin-Salomon (1st public performance in this Kingdom)

Entertainment: Monologue.End Oratorio: Collins's Ode on the Passions-Henderson (Public Advertiser, 24 Mar.); , accompanied with new Airs, Chorus-Dr Arnold, under whose direction the whole Music will be conducted

41
02 July 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Afterpiece Title: None are so Blind as Those Who Won't See

42
17 August 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The East Indian

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague; or, The Giant's Causeway

Dance: Afterpiece to conclude with a Grand Ballet, in Spanish Characters, by Giorgi, Byrn, Miss Byrn, Sga Vidini, and others

43
30 June 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Teague; or, The Giant's Causeway

Dance: Afterpiece to conclude with a Grand Ballet in Spanish Characters by Giorgi, Byrn, Miss Byrn, Sga Dagueville and others. [This was danced, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]

Song: In Act I of mainpiece a song in character by Miss Hooke

44
20 August 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lord Russel

45
28 May 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Two To One

Afterpiece Title: A Mogul Tale; or, The Descent of the Balloon

Dance: End of mainpiece, by Master Giorgi, Miss Byrne, and others

46
26 December 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: HARLEQUIN PEASANT; or, A Pantomime Rehearsed

Song: Masque as17931119, but Neptune-Caulfield. Vocal Parts omitted

47
26 December 1794 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Mago and Dago; or, Harlequin the Hero

48
28 December 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Oberon

49
23 November 1691 @ Stationer's Hall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

50
30 November 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess; Or, The History Of Dioclesian

Afterpiece Title: To conclude with the Masque ofThe Sultan

Afterpiece Title: The Judgment of Paris

Music: II: A Concerto on the Violin-Hay; End Opera: A Concerto on the Haut@Bois-Simson