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9 results for: Keyword - Duck
We found 7 matches on Event Comments, 1 matches on Performance Title, 1 matches on Performance Comments, 1 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.

1
24 August 1702 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rope Dancing

Entertainment: they being the greatest Performers of Men, Women and Children that can be found beyond the Seas, so that the World cannot parallize them for Dancing on the Low/Rope, Vaulting on the High/Rope, Walking on the Slack and Sloping Ropes-the Famous Company of Rope-Dancers out-doing all others to that Degree, that it has highly recommended them, both in Bartholomew Fair and May Fair last, to all the best persons of Quality in England. And by all are owned to be the only amazing Wonders of the World, in every thing they do: 'tis there you will see the Italian Scaramouch dancing on the Rope, wiph a Wheel-barrow before him, with two Children and a Dog in it, and with a Duck on his Head; who sings to the Company and causes much Laughter

Performance Comment: And by all are owned to be the only amazing Wonders of the World, in every thing they do: 'tis there you will see the Italian Scaramouch dancing on the Rope, wiph a Wheel-barrow before him, with two Children and a Dog in it, and with a Duck on his Head; who sings to the Company and causes much Laughter. who sings to the Company and causes much Laughter.
Cast
Role: wiph a Wheel Actor: barrow before him, with two Children and a Dog in it, and with a Duck on his Head

2
25 August 1701 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

Dance: [By] 6 Companies of Rope Dancers; who] [are joyned in one, they being the greatest Performers of Men, Women, and Children, that could be found beyond the Seas, where will be performed such wonderful variety of Dancing, Vaulting, Walking on the Slack Rope, the Sloaping Rope-; [you will see a wonderful Girl of 10 years of Age, who walk backward up the sloaping Rope-Girl of 10 years[, driving a Wheel-barrow behind her; [also you will see the Great Italian Master, who not only passes all that has yet been seen upon the low Rope, [but he Dances[ without a Pole upon the Head of a Mast [as high as the Booth will permit, and afterwards stands upon his Head on the same-Great Italian Master; [You will also be entertained with the many Conceits of an Italian Scaramouch, who Dances on the Rope [with 2 Children and a Dog in a Wheel-barrow, and a Duck on his Head-Italian Scaramouch

Dance: Such variety of Dancing, Vaulting, Walking on the Slack/Rope, Tumbling, as has never been seen in this Fair before-

3
19 May 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Duck, Rivers, Jones

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Cast
Role: Sir George Actor: Ryan
Role: Sir Francis Actor: Hippisley
Role: Sir Jealous Actor: Mullart
Role: Marplot Actor: Chapman
Role: Charles Actor: Walker
Role: Whisper Actor: James
Role: Miranda Actor: Miss Bincks
Role: Isabinda Actor: Mrs Bellamy
Role: Patch Actor: Mrs Stevens
Role: Scentwell Actor: Miss Horsington.

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Cast
Role: Damon Actor: Salway
Role: Phillida Actor: Miss Bincks
Role: Arcas Actor: Aston
Role: Corydon Actor: James
Role: Cymon Actor: Stoppelaer
Role: Mopsus Actor: Mullart.

Dance: HHornpipe-Ferguson; Fingalian-Smith, Mrs Ogden

Song: TThe Lady's Lamentation, as17370414

4
16 May 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Banks, Duck, Rivers, Jones

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Cast
Role: Arabella Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Mizen Actor: Neale.
Role: Beau Mizen Actor: Boman, his first appearance on that stage
Role: Flip Actor: Rosco
Role: Worthy Actor: Ryan
Role: Rovewell Actor: Hallam
Role: Sir Charles Actor: Hale
Role: Cribbidge Actor: Salway
Role: Fair Quaker Actor: Mrs Bellamy
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Mullart
Role: Jiltup Actor: Mrs James
Role: Advocate Actor: Miss Hillyard
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Ware, the first time of her appearance on that stage
Role: Sailors Actor: Penkethman, James, Mullart, Yates, Lyon, W. Hallam.

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Wedding

Cast
Role: Justice Actor: Rosco
Role: Chaunter Actor: Mullart
Role: Tippet Actor: Mrs Mullart
Role: Cant Actor: Bencraft.
Role: Harry Hunter Actor: Mrs Kilby
Role: Phoebe Actor: Mrs Vincent.

Dance: I: Serious Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; II: Pantomime-Nivelon, Mrs LeBrun; II: Je ne scai quoy-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates

5
07 May 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Naylor, Banks, Duck. Tickets for Trott also taken. Receipts: #100 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Cast
Role: Carlos Actor: Ryan
Role: Leonora Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Lopez Actor: Rosco
Role: Sancho Actor: Hippisley
Role: Alvarez Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Felix Actor: Mullart
Role: Lorenzo Actor: Hale
Role: Metaphrastus Actor: Neale
Role: Toledo Actor: James
Role: Camillo Actor: Mrs Stevens
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Mullart
Role: Jacinta Actor: Mrs Kilby.

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Cast
Role: Scapin Actor: Hippisley.

Dance: CComic Dance-Richardson, Mlle Ozanne

6
11 May 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Verhuyck, Naylor, Duck, Banks (Pit and Gallery Doorkeepers). Tickets deliver'd out by Mlle Fabres. Miss Dodson, Miss Short, and Mr. Bowcher will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Cast
Role: Vandunk Actor: Marten
Role: Jaqueline Actor: Miss Short
Role: Boors Actor: James.
Role: Merchant Actor: Ryan
Role: Clause Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Wolfort Actor: Rosco
Role: Hemskirk Actor: Cashell
Role: Hubert Actor: Hale
Role: Prince Prigg Actor: Woodward
Role: Orator Higgen Actor: Hippisley
Role: Prince Ferrit Actor: Stoppelaer
Role: Gincks Actor: Bencraft
Role: Merchant Actor: Gibson
Role: Bertha Actor: Mrs Bellamy

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: CComic Dance, as17420510; Rigadone Provencale, as17420226; Minuet-Villeneuve, Mlle Fabres

7
06 May 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Page (Housekeeper), Banks and Duck. See London Daily Post and General Advertiser for arrest and seizure of William Brown, notorious pick-pocket in cg playhouse passage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Cast
Role: Pilgrim Actor: Ryan
Role: Alphonso Actor: Hippisley
Role: Roderigo Actor: Bridgwater
Role: Mad Scholar Actor: Hale
Role: Curio Actor: Cashell
Role: Seberto Actor: Gibson
Role: Old Pilgrim Actor: Harrington
Role: Verdugo Actor: Goodall
Role: Mad Englishman Actor: Rosco
Role: Mad Welchman Actor: James
Role: Mad Priest Actor: Bencraft
Role: Mad Taylor Actor: Woodward
Role: Master of Madhouse Actor: Marten
Role: Lopez Actor: Carr
Role: Jaques Actor: Anderson
Role: Fool Actor: Miss Ferguson
Role: Alinda Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Juletta Actor: Miss Hippisley.

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Hippisley%.

Dance: TThe Happy Lovers, as17421006; Characters of Dancing, as17421025; Grand Comic Ballet, as17430407

8
14 May 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Duck, Banks, Trott and Connor. Tickets deliver'd by Bianchini, Mrs Tubman, Mrs Marten, Widow Rivers, and others will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Cast
Role: Lavinio Actor: Hale
Role: Trappolin Actor: Chapman
Role: Brunetto Actor: Gibson
Role: Barbarino Actor: Rosco
Role: Alberto Actor: Carr
Role: Mago Actor: Ridout
Role: Puritan Actor: Hippisley
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs James
Role: Prudentia Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Flametta Actor: Mrs Hale.

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Cast
Role: Scapin Actor: Hippisley.

Dance: Cooke

9
23 August 1749 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At Harris and Godwin's Booth, next Duck Lane, West Smithfield. To begin at twelve every day of the Fair. Praces: 1s. 6d., 1s., 6d., 3d. Afterpiece: With the Escapes of Harlequin into a Quart Bottlev (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Intriguing Footman; Or, Jack Spaniard Bit

Cast
Role: Prologue Actor: Harris in the Character of a Seaman.

Afterpiece Title: Trick upon Trick