Search

Toggle Sphinx Query

SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(perftitleclean,performancetitle) "A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner"/1)') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=150, performancetitle=100), ranker=wordcount

Result Options

Download:
JSON XML CSV

Search Filters

New Search

547 results for: Title - A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

251
13 January 1731 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Clown

Song: A Gentlewoman that never appear'd on this Stage before; End I: An English Opera Song-; accompanied with the German Flute-; II: Pur di Cesti, in Arminius-; III: A Diverting Song-a Gentlewoman of Fourscore; IV: Mad Dialogue of Purcell's-

Music: Music on the German Flute-a Gentleman for his Diversion

252
21 January 1731 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song: Harlequin-a person

Dance: Particularly a Harlequin-a Person that never appear'd on this Stage before

253
23 March 1731 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach [Opera]

Song: A Gentleman who never appeared on any Stage before

Music: Water Piece of Instrumental Musick-; beat on the Kettle Drum-; Preamble-Joab Baker, who never appear'd on the Stage before

254
01 June 1731 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sophonisba

Song: Singing in Scotch and English-the two Misses Hambleton, who n ever appeared on any Stage before

255
19 October 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Dancing-The same that were perform'd with this Play before the Royal Family last Night at Hampton-Court

256
19 November 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Song: Singing in Italian-Mrs Saunderson, who never appear'd on this Stage before

Dance:

257
28 February 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Music: A Piece proper to the Play-Leveridge, Legar

Dance: TThe Pastorella (new)-a Little Boy, who never appeared on the Stage before. and Miss Rogers, both Scholars of Salle

258
09 May 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Music: Instead of Act Tunes will be perform'd Select Pieces of Musick adapted to various Instruments, Being deisgn'd as a Concert Intermix'd with the Play. For theOverture: a Grand Concerto- by Dr Pepusch, in which the Kettle Drums are principal,; accompanied with Trumpets Hautboys Violin-; The Kettle Drums-Mr Benj. Baker; V: That celebrated Piece, The Water Musick-; by Mr Handel, for Trumpets, French Horns, Kettle-Drums, Hautboys. Concluding with a Preamble on the Kettle@Drums-Benj. Baker

Dance: II: Tambourin-Miss Rogers; In III: Scots Dance-Mrs Bullock; III: Two Pierrots-Poitier, Pelling; IV: Sicilian-Glover, Mrs Pelling; V: Comic Dance in the Footing Manner-Jones, Mrs Ogden, with some Additions to it, never performed before

Song: I: Mrs Wright

259
11 May 1732 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach Opera

Music: II: Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Joab Bakeron the Stage; Mr Handel's Water Musick-; V: Tollet's Grounds-Mr Baker on a Side Drum, accompanied with a Violin, the like having never been attempted by any Person before

Dance: III: Tambourine-Miss Wherrit

260
22 August 1732 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Envious Statesman; Or, The Fall Of Essex; With The Humours Of The Forc'd Physician

Dance: Mons D'Ferrou Ville , lately arrived from Paris, Miss Brett, Miss Mears

Music: A Band , including Burk Thumoth

Entertainment: Before the Opera: Postures-Phillips

261
28 November 1732 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Song: Master Cuttin, a Youth of 14 Years of Age, who never appear'd on any Stage before

Dance: As17321125

262
24 January 1733 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Dance: s performed last night before Their Majesties, but order of dances is: %II: New Comic Dance-; IV: Tambourine-; V: Scottish Dance-

263
30 April 1733 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Musette-LeSac, Miss Baston; II: The Mattelot (new)-Dupre, Miss Latour; III: Sicilian-Glover, Mrs Pelling; IV: Hornpipe-Jones, Mrs Ogden; V: Scottish Dance-Young Weeks, Scholar to Dupre; Clown-Nivelon; Before Farce: Shepherd-Young Weeks; End: La Mariee, Minuet-Dupre, Miss LaTour

264
21 May 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Venus, Cupid, and Hymen

Music: Between the Acts: Trumpets, Kettle Drums, French Horns-; With a new Overture (to the Masque) for two Vox Humanes- , a new invented Instrument

Song: II: Mrs Seedo, who never appeared on the stage before; III: (At the particular Request of Seedo's Friends) Signora Margherita (who has not performed on any theatre these 14 years)

Dance: I: Drunken Peasant-LeBrun; IV: The Watteau-Miss Robinson; End Afterpiece: Les Bergeries-Essex, Haughton, Miss Robinson

265
21 May 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: HHornpipe-a Sailor who never appeared on any stage before; The Difference of Nations-

Song: Excell

266
10 September 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar: With The Deaths Of Brutus And Cassius

Dance: By Mr Delamaine, who never appear'd on the English Stage before

267
10 September 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar: With The Deaths Of Brutus And Cassius

Dance: By Mr Delamaine, who never appear'd on the English Stage before

268
16 September 1734 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Dance: La Folette c'est Ravisez by F. Tench and Mrs Woodward. Scot's Dance by Mrs Bullock

Song: In Italian and English by Mrs Chambers, who never appeared on this stage before

269
07 October 1734 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Britannia

Dance: By Haughton, who never appeared on this stage before

270
03 March 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Orpheus; or, The Magical Pipe

Music: Select Pieces on the Violin by a Youth of 13 Years of Age, who never performed in public before, a Scholar of Signior Catanio

Entertainment: [Apparently not published. Author not known. For Poitier, see Daily Journal, 3 March.]

271
24 March 1735 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Music: Solo on Violin by a Youth of 13 Years, who never performed in public before, a scholar of Signor Catanio

Dance: Scot's Dance, as17350311 By Lally, S. Lally, Mlle Salle

272
02 September 1735 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies

Dance: Hornpipe by Taylor

Song: A New Ballad (never sung before) In Praise of English Plumb Pudding by Mullart

273
19 May 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Music: With theOriginal Musick, carefully reviv'd,-Mrs Clive, Ray, Stoppelaer, Rainton, Este, Raftor, Mrs Pritchard, Mrs Willis, Mrs Marshall

Dance: II: Two Pierrots-Livier, Pelling; III: Punch's Dance-a Child of Six Years old that never performed on the Stage before; V: Wooden Shoe Dance-Livier, Villeneuve

Song: I: The Lady's Lamentation, as17370503

274
05 August 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Three Hours After Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates

275
09 August 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Three Hours After Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

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