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249 results for: Keyword - Lilliputians
We found 287 matches on Roles/Actors, 63 matches on Performance Title, 48 matches on Performance Comments, 23 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

226
12 May 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Music: between the Aetween the Acts: Pieces of Musick , selected from the Works of Signor Michael Archangelo Corelli-

227
17 May 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Afterpiece Title: The Strollers

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Music: C$Corelli's Eighth Concerto-

Dance: PPieraite-Roger, Mrs Brett; Harlequin-Lally, Mrs Brett

228
01 January 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: All the Parts to be perform'd by Lilliputians, but edition of 1728 lists: Peachum-Mary Shaftoe; Lockit-James Bencraft; Nimming Ned-James Bencraft; Macheath-Elizabeth Binks; Filch-Henry Woodward; Ben Budge-Henry Woodward; Beggar-Henry Woodward; Crookfinger'd Jack-James Weeks; Wat Dreary-James Weeks; Robin-John Wilson; Harry Paddington-Fisher Tench Charke; Player-Fisher Tench Charke; Mat-John Verhuyck; Mrs Peachum-Esther Wherrit; Diana Trapes-Esther Wherrit; Mrs Slammekin-Esther Wherrit; Polly-Elizabeth Rogers; Lucy-Susanna Rogers; Mrs Coaxer-Margaret Lowe; Dolly Trull-Sarah Foxwell; Mrs Vixen-Mary Vincent; Betty Doxy-Mary Weyman; Jenny Diver-Margaret Gold; Sukey Tawdry-Beatrice Boitar; Molly-Susanna Caun.

229
24 January 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit all the Lilliputians. As there will be no Tickets printed on this Occasion, we hope that our Friends will be so kind as to encourage our Endeavours, and favour us with their Companies. Receipts: #85 16s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 126 paid; stage, 5 paid; pit, 200 paid; slips, 20 paid; first gallery, 135 paid; second gallery, 129 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

230
09 May 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim; With The Humours Of Bedlam

Dance: SScots Dance-Mrs Bullock; A new Comic Dance-Fisher Tench, Young Filch; Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; French Peasant-Moreau, Mrs Bullock

231
02 May 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fond Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Poitier, Pelling; Hornpipe-Jones, Mrs Ogden

232
15 May 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Dance: I: Sicilian-Glover,Mrs Pelling; II: Pastoral-Master Weeks, Miss Rogers; III: Scots Dance-Mrs Bullock; IV: Tambourin-Miss S. Rogers; V: Hornpipe, as17320505

Song: I: Mrs Wright; III: Thomasand Harry-Miss S. Rogers, the Lilliputian Lucy

233
22 April 1734 @ James Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

234
23 May 1734 @ James Street

Event Comment: By Desire. At the Lilliputians Theatre, the Old Tennis-Court. 6:30 P.M. Boxes 3s. Pit 2s. Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

235
12 March 1735 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Burges. By a Company of Lilliputians. Pit and Boxes 3s. Gallery 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Extravagance

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

236
25 April 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Fille Capitaine

Afterpiece Title: Les Deux Arlequins

Dance: Two Pierrots by De Lisle and Badouin. Harlequin and Wooden Shoe Dance by Cochoy, the Lilliputian

237
01 May 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'embarras Des Richesses

Afterpiece Title: La Sylphide

Dance: By Castiglion. Scot's Dance by Lilliputians

Performance Comment: Scot's Dance by Lilliputians .

238
29 June 1736 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Brett. By a Select Company of Lilliputians

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Dance:

239
07 July 1736 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By a Select Company of Lilliputians. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Dance: V: Saraband by Miss Brett

Song: II: A dialogue by the two Misses Clark. III: Roger's Courtship to Dolly by Miss Norsa

240
02 April 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Performance Comment: See17370331 but By Captain Gulliver's Company of Lilliputians: Gaylove-Master W. Hamilton; Squire Sapscull-Master J. Hamilton; Arabella-Miss Norris; Combrush-Miss Roberts.

Song: II: A Dialogue composed by Purcell-the Masters Hamilton; IV: Singing in Italian -Mrs Chambers

Dance: III: Dutchman and Frow-Vallois, Mrs Bullock; V: Scot's Dance-Haughton, Mlle Roland; End Afterpiece: French Peasant-Master Oates, Miss Oates

241
07 May 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Richardson, Miss Jones, Miss Roberts, Biggs, and Master Nansan. Afterpiece: By Capt Gulliver's Company of Lilliputians

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Emperor

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: II: The Princess of Wales-Vallois, Miss Oates; V: Pierrots-Vallois, Delagarde

Song: IV: Miss Jones

242
16 May 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Performance Comment: Perform'd by the Lilliputians: More-Master W. Hamilton; Gubbins-Master J. Hamilton; Margerinia-Miss Edward, the first time of her appearance on any stage; Mauxalinda-Miss Cole; Dragon-Master Ferg.

Dance: I: Punch-Master Ferg; III: Polonese-Haughton, Mrs Walter

Song: IV: Beard

243
22 January 1754 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Philoclea

244
01 August 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Being positively the last time of the Lilliputians performing

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The British Roratory

Dance: As17540718

245
03 September 1754 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mrs Midnight's New Carnival Concert Of Vocal And Instrumental Musick

Afterpiece Title: Gli Amanti Gelosi; or, The Birth of Harlequin

Performance Comment: The Lilliputians (who performed with such universal applause at the Haymarket); Dancing-Sg and Sga Balletino, others (just arrived).

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Love in the Temple of Apollo

246
19 September 1754 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: [MMrs Midnight will entertain the Town with her Grand Carnival Concert. After the Concert, gratis, will be given...at Bence's Booth, upper end of Bowling Green. The Afterpiece: a Pantomime Burletta by the Company of Lilliputians. To begin at 12 Noon each day. To prevent mistaking the Booth, Mrs Midnight has thought proper to hoist English Colours. [Bill repeated each day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory

Afterpiece Title: [The Birth of Harlequin; or, The Old Woman's Whim

Dance: To conclude with A Dance in the Ancient British Taste-Choice Spirits from Comus's Court

Music: [NNew Concerto for the Tambour de Basque-

247
03 November 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

248
08 December 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: One of the Principal Lilliputians being ill, the Entertainment cannot be performed tonight. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

249
24 July 1786 @ Windsor Castle Inn, King Street, Hammersmith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband; Or, A Journey To London

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Gambols

Song: End of 1st Monologue A Tax on Old Maids, as sung by Mrs Kennedy at Vauxhall, by Mrs Benson. monologues. End of mainpiece Peeping Tom of Coventry's Peep into Hammersmith; End of 3rd piece A Description of the Tombs in Westminster Abbey, both by Benson