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6056 results for: Keyword - Mr Matthew Birkhead
We found 4266 matches on Event Comments, 1292 matches on Performance Comments, 751 matches on Performance Title, 107 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

576
20 May 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Song: As17170102; Ballad of Sally-Mrs Willis

Dance: Dupre, Boval, Dupre Jr, Prince, Birkhead, Mrs Bicknell, Miss Younger, Miss Willis

577
06 June 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Song: As17170102

Dance: Dupre, Boval, Dupre Jr, Prince, Birkhead, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Willis

578
16 July 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bartholomew Fair

Song: As17161022

Dance: Prince, Birkhead, Mrs Willis

579
06 August 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Troop; Or, Monsieur Raggou

Song: Harvest Home-Birkhead; Sally-Mrs Willis like a Shoemaker's Prentice

Dance: Countryman and Women-Prince, others

580
30 October 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew; Or, The Merry Beggars

Song: As17171025

Dance: Prince, Birkhead, Wade, Miller, Mrs Santlow, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Willis; Chacone, Minuet, Jigg-Miss Lindar, being the first time of her dancing on any Stage

581
21 January 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Dance: Prince, Shaw, Wade, Topham, Birkhead, Mrs Tenoe, Miss Lindar

582
12 November 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew; Or, The Merry Beggars

Dance: Weaver, Thurmond Jr, Shaw, Wade, Topham, Birkhead, Mrs Santlow, Mrs Bicknell, Miss Younger, Miss Smith

583
05 May 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Dance: Flute Chacone-Mrs Santlow; The Strippers-Birkhead, Mrs Bicknell; Harlequin-Miss Lindar; Dance-Shaw, Mrs Younger

584
02 June 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don John; Or, The Libertine Destroy'd

Music: With the Original Shepherd's Musick by the late Henry Purcell-Birkhead, Bowman

585
21 July 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Dance: Thurmond Jr, Topham, Birkhead

586
04 August 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Song: Songs proper to the Play-Birkhead, Mrs Willis, Miss Tenoe

Dance: With all the Dances proper to the Play-Birkhead, Mrs Willis, Miss Tenoe

587
16 August 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Song: With the original Sailor's Song-Birkhead

Dance: Drunken Dance-Birkhead, others

588
21 May 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Pierots-Lalauze, Liviez; II: Mlle Chateauneuf; III: Muilment; A new Saraband-Miss Wright; IV: Le Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; V: Le Gout Anglois-Master Matthews, Miss Wright; End Afterpiece: Larry Grogan-Master Matthews, Miss Wright

Music: I: Trumpet Piece-Adcock; IV: Concerto on French Horns-Charles; V: Preamble on Kettle Drums-Woodbridge; with Handel's Water Musick-

589
04 December 1740 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: III: A new dance-Master Matthews; V: Drunken Peasant and Clown-Master Matthews, Master Shawford

590
23 March 1743 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Dance: The Swedish Gardeners (after the Manner of the Fausans)-Master Matthews, Miss Wright; The Medley a Joke-Master Matthews, Miss Wright

591
26 May 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Song: III, IV: Love

Music: V: Concerto on German Flute-Burk Thumoth

Dance: I: Scotch Dance-Master Matthews, Miss Wright; II: a Tambourine-Master Matthews, Miss Wright after the Manner of the Moors

592
19 October 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: I: A Masquerade Dance-Matthews, Mad Janeton Auretti; End: L'Entree de Flore-Mad Auretti; Peasant Dance-Matthews, Mad Janeton Auretti

593
18 May 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: Minuets, Cotillons-Merryfield, Dumay, King, Curtat, Mrs Invill, Miss Bassan, Miss Matthews, Mrs Hartle; End I Farce: A New Dance-Rudd, his 1st appearance any stage Miss Matthews

Ballet: End: The Wapping Landlady (with Sixfold Hornpipe). As17740512

594
26 May 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Two Misers

Dance: II: A New Dance call'd The Nosegay-Rudd (2nd appearance), Miss Matthews [See dl 27 April 1767]; IV: Minuets, Allemandes, Cotillions-Dumay, Hussey, King, Merrifield, Miss Matthews, Miss Brown, Miss Ross, Mas. Holland, Miss Armstrong, a young Lady[, scholar to Dumay [See17740518]; End: The Enchantress, as17750201

595
18 May 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: IV: Minuet de la Cour en Quatre-Holloway, Holland, Miss Francis, Miss Matthews; a Minuet-Harris, Miss Younge; End IV: a new Pastoral Dance-Harris, Miss Matthews

Ballet: End: St. David's Day. As17810501

Monologue: End II: The Humours of New-Market; with the Poney Races. Jockeys-Harris, Holland, Ratchford, Holloway; Ladies-Miss Besford, Miss Francis, Miss Matthews

Performance Comment: Jockeys-Harris, Holland, Ratchford, Holloway; Ladies-Miss Besford, Miss Francis, Miss Matthews.
Cast
Role: Ladies Actor: Miss Besford, Miss Francis, Miss Matthews.

596
07 April 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wake

Music: A Solo to be performed on the Stage by the famous-Matthew Dubourg a Youth of 12 Years of Age

Dance: As17150305

597
13 May 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Song: Trumpet Song-the little boy; the Instrumental part-Mr Grenoust; Vocal Part-Mr Rawlins

Music: Violin solo-Matthew Dubourg

Dance: delaGarde, Bovil, Mrs Bullock; Harlequin and a Countryman-; Swedish Dal Karl and His Wife, as17150509

598
03 April 1717 @ Hickford's Room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the best Masters; With a Solo-Matthew Dubourg

599
03 May 1717 @ Hickford's Room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; The Vocal Parts-Turner, Mrs Fitzgerald; the Instrumental Parts-the best Hands in the Opera; Also several new Solos and Concertos-Matthew Dubourg; German Flute-Pietro

600
10 May 1717 @ Stationer's Hall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music consisting of Compositions of both Kinds-the best Masters; and particularly a New Symphony-Babel; with a Solo on the Harpsicord-Babel; and also several New Solos and Concertos-that celebrated Youth, Matthew Dubourg