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6419 results for: Keyword - English, French, Dutch Characters
We found 3996 matches on Performance Comments, 1727 matches on Performance Title, 1431 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

5101
18 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Runaway

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: As17761128

5102
21 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: As17761214

Song: End: O What a Charming Thing's a Battle-Bannister

5103
22 April 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: End: As17761109

5104
23 April 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caractacus

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace or Harlequin Skeleton

5105
29 April 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Dance: As17761128

5106
29 April 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: End Dialogue: As17761123; End I: Minuet-Aldridge, Miss Brown

Song: End: New Pastoral Dialogue [Tell me Silvia why so sad?] set to music by Dr Arnold-Miss Wewitzer, Miss Brown

5107
06 May 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Dance: End: All in the Downs, as17770425

Song: As17770505

5108
07 May 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Jackson. Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. The Characters to be dressed in the Habits of the Country. Public Advertiser, 3 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Jackson, Great Piazza, Covent Garden. Receipts: #189 14s. (87.7; tickets: 102.7) (charge: #64 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Afterpiece Title: Don Quixote in England

Dance: After monologue: The Humours of Leixlip, as17770425

Entertainment: End: Monologue. Tony Lumpkin's Adventures in a Trip to London, as17770428

5109
09 May 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: "A Gentleman who is as mad as myself about the School remark'd that the Characters upon the Stage at the falling of the Screen stand too long before they speak-I thought so too the first Night-he said it was the same on the 2d & was remark'd by others-tho they should be astonish'd & a little petrify'd, yet it may be carry'd to too great a length" (David Garrick to R. B. Sheridan, 12 May 1777, in The Letters of David Garrick, ed. D. M. Little and G. M. Kahrl, 1963, III, 1163). Receipts: #195 13s. (184.7; 10.19; 0.7)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

5110
10 May 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caractacus

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Frolicks

Dance: As17770121

5111
14 May 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: The Country Mad Cap

Dance: End: As17770218

Song: End I: a new air in the Scotch Taste (composed by Dr Arne)-Mrs Farrell

5112
24 May 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: As17761123

5113
24 May 1777 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orione

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Rauzzini, Trebbi, Savoi, Sga Prudom, Sga Luiggia and Marianna Farnese, Sga Pozzi, Sga Davies Inglesina.Cast from libretto (T. Cadell, 1777): Orione-Rauzzini; Enopione-Trebbi; Mercurio-Savoi; Oracolo-Micheli; Nice-Sga Prudom; Argia-Sga Luiggia Farnese; Tirsi-Sga Marianna Farnese; Retrea-Sga Pozzi; Candiope-Sga Davies Inglesina.

Dance: End I: New Serious Ballet, as17770412; End II: La Paysane Distraite, as17770520, but Mme _Simonet; End Opera: Serious Ballet-Mons and Mme Simonet, Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Vallouy@le@cadet, Mlle DeCamp, Mlle Baccelli

5114
29 May 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Word To The Wise

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Song: End I: a new cantata, Diana-Mrs Farrell

Music: End Epilogue: concerto on the violin-Fisher

5115
02 June 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Dance: As17761128

5116
11 June 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Dance: End III: The Merry Lasses-; End IV: The Venetian Regatta- [performers not listed for either dance, but "Monsieur Giorgi's infantile pupils, as dancers, were a complete burlesque upon a corps de ballet. The audience laughed, and tolerated the poor little things, when they were pushed on between the acts to caper and lose their shoes" (Peake, II, 15-16)]

5117
19 June 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Polly

Performance Comment: [Principal Parts by Du-Bellamy, Parsons, Davies, Massey, Fearon, Egan, Griffiths, Kenny, Bannister, Mrs Hitchcock, Mrs Davies, Mrs Love, Miss Hale, Miss Platt, A Young Gentlewoman (1st appearance Mrs Colles]). [Cast from text (T. Evans, 1777): Cawwawkee-DuBellamy; Ducat-Parsons; Culverin-Davies; Vanderbluff-Massey; Pohetohee-Fearon; Hacker-Egan; Capstern-Griffiths; Laguerre-Kenny; Morano-Bannister; Jenny Diver-Mrs Hitchcock; Trapes-Mrs Davies; Mrs Ducat-Mrs Love; Damaris-Miss Hale; Flimzy-Miss Platt; Polly-A Gentlewoman; [Characters in the Introduction: Poet-Davies; Players-Fearon, T. Davis; Signora Crotchetta-Miss Platt.

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Dance: End I: a Dance of Pirates-(see17770611; III: Dance of Indians- (see17770611. [These were danced in all subsequent performance.

5118
30 June 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Polly

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

5119
18 July 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; PAST 3]: Taken from [The Winter's Tale, by] Shakespeare [altered by George Colman elder]. Afterpiece: Likewise taken from [A Midsummer-Night's Dream, by] Shakespeare. Books of both pieces to be had at the Theatre. The Musick of both pieces by the most eminent Composers [i.e. Michael Arne, Dibdin, Dr Burney, Hook, Theodore Smith, Dr Arnold]. The Characters new dressed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sheep shearing

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Tale

Dance: With aPastoral Dance (incident to the [main]piece)-; End: As17770707

5120
23 July 1777 @ China Hall, Lower Road, Rotherhithe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

5121
24 July 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry Iv With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: The Portrait

5122
07 August 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: K

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

5123
12 August 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

Dance: I: a Country Dance [incident to the [main] piece-; End II: [a New Dance [of Demi Caractere-

5124
14 August 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: End: Dance-

5125
18 August 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton or High Life above Stairs

Dance: As17770814