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6857 results for: Keyword - Mr Gay
We found 4258 matches on Event Comments, 1414 matches on Author, 1148 matches on Performance Comments, 535 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

5976
13 August 1759 @ The Long Room, Hampstead

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Related Works
Related Work: Acis and Galatea Author(s): John Gay

Music: CConcerto on the Harpsichord-Stanley; solo on Violin-Hay

5977
03 September 1759 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The French Flogg'd; Or, The English Sailors In America

Song: Diet, The Humours of Bartholomew Fair-Alley Croaker, Signora Ciperini; And a Song- on the late glorious success gained over the French by his Serene Highness Prince Ferdinand

5978
17 September 1759 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Galligantus

5979
03 October 1759 @ Haymarket Theatre

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5980
05 October 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: Comic Dance,The Threshers-Leppie, Granier, Mlle Capdeville

5981
08 October 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Performance Comment: Sharp-Shuter; Gayless-Anderson; Guttle-Dunstall; Kitty Pry-Mrs Green; Melissa-Miss White.
Cast
Role: Gayless Actor: Anderson

Dance: As17591005

5982
30 October 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

5983
01 November 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: High Life Below Stairs

5984
01 December 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

5985
08 December 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Song: Lowe

5986
04 January 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: TThe Plowman, as17591121; a Comic Dance-Granier, Miss Hilliard

5987
16 January 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

5988
19 January 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

5989
24 January 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Desert Island

Afterpiece Title: The Way to Keep Him

5990
26 January 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Desert Island

Afterpiece Title: The Way to Keep Him

5991
11 February 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

5992
16 February 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: Dances incident to the Opera. Likewise, a Comic Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville [probably The Plowman]

5993
20 February 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

5994
21 February 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Aquileia

5995
29 February 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Paradise Lost

Music: Concerto On Organ-Stanley; Solo on Violin-Giardini

5996
08 March 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Spirit of Contradiction

5997
17 March 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband; Or, The Accomplish'd Fools

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Cast
Role: Gaylove Actor: Baker

Song: WWhen Gentle Parthenissa-Lowe

Music: Several pieces on the Harp, particularly the favourite Irish Ballad Ellen@a@Roon, with variations, -Evans

Dance: FFingalian Dance, as17591102; The Plowman, as17591121

5998
18 March 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wake; or, Hob in the Well

Dance: II: A Comic Dance-Granier, Miss Hilliard; End: The Lamp Lighters-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville

5999
20 March 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Afterpiece Title: Every Woman in Her Humour

Dance: TThe Cow Keepers, as17600313

6000
20 March 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant; Or, The Beggar's Bush

Dance: TThe Dutch Skipper-Poitier

Entertainment: E+Extravaganza. Shuter will entertain the audience in an Oratorical, Poetical, Operatical Method (never befoer attempted) with a Comic Extravaganza call'd A Day of Taste; or, London Raree Show-Shuter being a Ranelagh Breakfast, a Coffee House Conversation, An Auction at Noon, and the Choice Spirits at Night; conclude with: The Cries of London-. *uó‘cg To which will (By Desire) be added (for this Night only) Mr Shuter's Droll that was perform'd at Bartholomew Fair, call'd The English Sailors in America. Mackfinnen (the Irish Volunteer)-Shuter; Princess-Miss Dawson, her first Time of speaking on the stage