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8059 results for: Keyword - Moll Davis</i>] (whom I never saw act before) dancing <span class=
We found 5146 matches on Event Comments, 2008 matches on Performance Title, 1835 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1126
26 July 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Acted but Once these Twenty Years. [As lif acted on Tuesdays and Fridays, possibly these plays were given earlier on 22 June.] By a Company of Comedians, acting under Letters-Patent. Mainpiece: Written by Thomas Shadwell, Esq; Poet-Laureat

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woman Captain

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song: TThe Ladies' Lamentation, as17370414 A Dialogue set by Henry Purcell-the Masters Hamilton

Dance: JJe ne scai quoi-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates

1127
15 September 1755 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Acted there but once. By Authority. Tickets deliver'd out by Miss Barton which could not get in on Thursday last, will be admitted this Night. [An Epistle from Mr Theophilus Cibber, to David Garrick, Esq. London: 1755, dated Nov. 20, 1755: When Th. Cibber returned from Guilford last July, he found a discharge from Covent Garden (p.5) He got a license from the Duke of Grafton to open Little Haymarket (p. 6). He began and acted ten nights in three weeks, with some success, but when Drury Lane opened, Th. Cibber was ordered to stop (p. 7). He then petitioned the Duke of Grafton to have The Haymarket for two or three times weekly for the rest of the season. He hoped that the Little Haymarket might be a nursery for young performers, as well as for new pieces (p. 24). See dl 24 Nov.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: PPierrots Dance-Settree, Walker, Sga Fiorentina; Hornpipe-a small jolly Tar, seven years old; La Dance de Village-Settree, Sga Fiorentina

1128
19 March 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Pasticio With Concertos

Performance Comment: Act I a Pasticcio consisting of select airs and concertos-; Symphony-; Song-Ristorini; Accompanied Recitative and song-Reinhold (composed by Giordani); A new Song-Miss Venables (composed by Mr Arne); Chorus-Mr Nigri; song-Mrs Mattocks (composed by Bach); New Song-Mrs Barthelemon (composed by Mr Barthelemon; accompanied on the French Horn-Sg Spandau; a Song-Miss Catley (composed by Dr Arne); . .
Cast
Role: Act I a Pasticcio consisting of select airs and co Actor:

Music: I: Concerto on violin-Barthelmon; II: a Serenata Beauty and Virtue-; translated from Metastasio and composed by Dr Arne; II: Concerto on Organ-Mr Arne; III: (Never Performed) The Thunder Ode written on the Hurricanes of the West Indies, by Mr Arne, Principal singers-Miss Catley, Mrs Mattocks, Miss Venables, Sg Ristorini, Mrs Barthelemon, Mr Reinhold; The concertos-Barthelemon, Spandau, Mr Arne

1129
01 November 1669 @ Inner Temple

Event Comment: This entry in A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, 65, follows one for a play on 2 Feb. 1668@9, suggesting that this play fell on All Hallows Day. The customary fee of #20 was paid the actors

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secret Love; Or, The Maiden Queen

Performance Comment: Acted by the King's Company.

1130
02 February 1670 @ Inner Temple

Event Comment: This play is not certainly indicated as the one given on this day in A Calendar of Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, III, 73; but the sequence of performances listed there suggests that this may have been the play offered on Candlemas Day. The actors received the customary fee of #20

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Little French Lawyer

Performance Comment: Acted by the King's Company.

1131
08 November 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Acted but once these Ten Years, [but see 6 Nov.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Danger

Song: Leveridge, Mrs Campion

Dance: As17031019

1132
17 November 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Acted but twice these Twenty Years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Danger

Song: As17031102

Dance: Laferry, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Lucas

1133
10 January 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Acted but once these Ten Years. Written by Sir George Etheridge

Performances

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

1134
21 May 1711 @ Greenwich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pastor Fido; Or, The Faithful Shepherd

Performance Comment: Acted all by Women.

Dance: Dances with Swords to Admiration-A girl of five

Song: Between the Acts: Singing-

1135
24 January 1718 @ Westminster School

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Miles Gloriosus

Performance Comment: Acted in Latin King's Scholars.

1136
15 June 1722 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Acted but once these Thirty Years. As 13 June. Receipts: #15 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The History And Fall Of Domitian

1137
01 November 1732 @ Soho Square

Event Comment: Acted in English, according to the New Translation

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

1138
26 January 1737 @ Loriner's Hall

Event Comment: Acted in Loriners Hall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Les Precieuses Ridicules

1139
04 February 1743 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Acted there but once

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All's Well That Ends Well

Afterpiece Title: Bickerstaff's Unburied Dead

1140
12 September 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Acted but once these hundred Years. Played at the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

1141
19 January 1747 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Acted but once this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

1142
27 December 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Performance Comment: Acted by Gentlemen; with an Occasional Prologue-.

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Performance Comment: an Epilogue-in the Character of Sharp.
Cast
Role: an Epilogue Actor: in the Character of Sharp.

1143
21 January 1752 @ Castle Tavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory 1

Performance Comment: As17520114 for Act I.

Afterpiece Title: Old Woman's Oratory 2

Performance Comment: For Act II. As17520114.

Afterpiece Title: Old Woman's Oratory 3

Performance Comment: Act III, 1. A Voluntary on the Cymbalo-; 2. A new Dissertation-Mrs Midnight; 3. A French Horn Concerto-.

1144
31 January 1752 @ Castle Tavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory 1

Performance Comment: for Act I As17520107, but Occasional Prologue-Master Hallet.

Afterpiece Title: Old Woman's Oratory 2

Performance Comment: Act II, 1. A Full Piece-; 2. A Piece-Signior Bombasto; 3. The Speech of Mrs Midnight in Defence of her Existence-; 4. Solo on the Viol d'Amor-; 5. Overture from Otho-; 6. An Oration on the Salt@Box-a Rationalist.

Afterpiece Title: Old Woman's Oratory 3

Performance Comment: Act III, 1. An Italian Song-Sg Bombazino; 2. A New Dissertation-Mrs Midnight; 3. A French Horn Concerto-; 4. A Declamatory Piece on the Jew's Harp-a Casuist; 5. March in Judas Maccabeus with the Side Drum-; Epilogue-Master Hallet.

1145
04 February 1752 @ Castle Tavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory 1

Performance Comment: Act I As17520107, but new Occasional Prologue by a Gentleman of the University-.

Afterpiece Title: Old Woman's Oratory 2

Performance Comment: Act II, III As17520131, but Solo on Cymbals-; Solo on the Viol d'Amour-_.

Afterpiece Title: Old Woman's Oratory 3

1146
06 March 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'allegro Ed Il Penseroso [, Part I Only]; Grand Selection 0

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea

Performance Comment: [Act I only.]

Afterpiece Title: A New Grand Selection

Song: In 1st piece: Sweet bird-Mrs Ferguson (her 1st performance); accompanied on the violin-Shaw; End 2nd piece: an Italian Scena-Mrs Ferguson

1147
08 March 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'allegro Ed Il Penseroso , Part I; Grand Selection 0

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea

Performance Comment: Act I, As17930306 .

Afterpiece Title: A New Grand Selection

1148
15 March 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah , Part I; Grand Selection 0

Afterpiece Title: The Resurrection

Performance Comment: [Act I only.]

Afterpiece Title: A New Grand Selection

Song: End 2nd piece: Ye spotted Snakes-(Stevens)

1149
20 March 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Afterpiece Title: The Resurrection

Performance Comment: [Act I only.]

Afterpiece Title: A New Grand Selection

1150
22 September 1722 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Distress'd Beauty; Or, The London Prentice

Song: As17220905; Mrs Willis, Miss Francis, Sandham's Son, Sandham's Daughter

Dance: Mrs Willis, Miss Francis, Sandham's Son and Daughter

Entertainment: For the Diversion of Gentlemen and Ladies, several excellent Entertainments of Dancing on the Ropes and Tumbling-a Company lately arrived from Holland, which never perform'd on Mr Penkethman's Stage before; besides Dancing on the Rope without a Pole-a Youth lately come from France