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10 April 1749
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Beggar's Opera
Afterpiece Title:
Miss in Her Teens
Dance:
I: (By Desire)
Savoyards
, as17480920; II:
Dutch Dance
, as17481203
Music:
Between
Play
and Afterpiece: a piece of Music-the Child
177
08 February 1750
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Relapse
Afterpiece Title:
The Chaplet
Dance:
II:
Grand Scotch Dance
, as17491031; End of
Play
:
Swedish Gardeners
, as17491219
178
29 March 1750
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Rule A Wife And Have A Wife
Song:
I:
O Lovely Peace
(a duetto from
Judas Macchabaeus
)-Lowe, Miss Falkner; II:
Mirth gives Courage
-Leveridge; III:
Spara il Pastor contente
(from the opera
Phaeton
)-Miss Falkner; IV:
The Truly Happy Man
-Leveridge; End of
Play
:
Epilogue
to Music-Leveridge
Dance:
V: Cooke, Miss Hillyard
179
31 March 1750
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Provok'd Wife
Afterpiece Title:
Phebe
Dance:
I:
New Dance
-Cooke, Miss Hillyard; II:
Dutch Dance
, as17500319 but -Cooke, Miss Hillyard; III:
Grand Scotch Ballet
, as17500201; End of
Play
:
Louvre
,
Minuet
-Cooke, Miss Hillyard
180
03 April 1750
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Mourning Bride
Afterpiece Title:
The Devil to Pay
Dance:
III:
Dutch Dance
, as17500319 End of
Play
:
A Tambourin
-Jardin
181
17 April 1750
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Albion Queens
Afterpiece Title:
Phebe
Dance:
III:
Tambourine
-Jardin; End of
Play
:
Scots Dance
-Cooke, Miss Hillyard
182
18 April 1750
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Romeo And Juliet
Afterpiece Title:
Perseus and Andromeda
Dance:
III: (By desire) the
Two Pierots
, as17500108, but-LaLauze, Dennison his apprentice, being his 1st appearance on the stage; IV:
Grand Scots Dance
-Cooke, Miss Hillyard; End of
Play
:
Louvre
,
Minuet
-Master Settree, a Young Lady who never appeared before, both scholars of
Mr Lalauze
183
20 April 1750
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Conscious Lovers
Afterpiece Title:
A Duke and no Duke
Dance:
I:
Fingalian Dance
-McNeil; II:
Black Joke
-the Little Swiss, Miss Foulcade; III:
Grand Scotch Dance
, as17491031; IV:
Hornpipe
-Mathews; End of
Play
:
Minuet
-Mathews, Mad DeLaContri
184
21 April 1750
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Jane Shore
Afterpiece Title:
Miss in Her Teens
Song:
II: Roberts; IV: Roberts
Dance:
III:
Tambourine
-Jardin; End of
Play
:
Grand Scots Dance
-Cooke, Miss Hillyard
185
06 December 1750
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
As You Like It
Afterpiece Title:
Miss in Her Teens
Dance:
I:
Comic Dance
, as17501117; End of
Play
:
Comic Dance
-McNeil, Mad Camargo. [the Dance which was inserted in
Way of the World
; see17501115]
186
04 May 1751
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not
Afterpiece Title:
The King and Miller
Dance:
I:
La Paisane
, as17510426 III:
Scotch Dance
-Froment, Mlle Heutte; End of
Play
:
Louvre and Minuet
-Froment, Mlle Heutte
187
18 April 1752
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
King Richard Iii
Afterpiece Title:
The Triumphs of Hibernia
Dance:
I:
Grand Comic Ballet
, as17511216; III:
Venetian Gardeners
-Grandchamps, Madem Camargo; End of
Play
:
Louvre
,
Minuet
-Grandchamps, Madem Camargo
188
09 November 1753
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
King Henry Viii
Afterpiece Title:
Queen Mab
Song:
IV: Miss Thomas, proper to the
play
189
01 December 1753
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Boadicia
Music:
With new pieces of Between the Acts: Music , adapted to the
play
, and by
Dr Boyce
-
190
23 January 1754
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
King John
Music:
Between the Acts: The Pieces of Music , are adapted to the
play
, and taken from the Works of Handel and Martini-
191
04 April 1754
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Siege Of Damascus
Afterpiece Title:
The Lying Valet
Dance:
II:
Italian Peasants
, as17531120; IV:
Les Charboniers
, as17540307 End of
Play
: (By Particular Desire)
Louvre and Minuet
-Cooke, Miss Hilliard
192
29 April 1754
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Fair Penitent
Afterpiece Title:
The Lottery
Dance:
I:
Les Taileurs
-Maranesi, Sga Bugiani; II:
Les Sabotiers
-Maranesi, Sga Bugiani; IV:
Le Matelot
-Maranesi, Sga Bugiani; And by particular desire at End of
play
: A
Mock Minuet
[All]-Maranesi, Sga Bugiani
193
12 March 1755
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Abel
Music:
CConcerto
-Giardini who
play
s the first violin
194
22 April 1755
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Conscious Lovers
Afterpiece Title:
The Cheats of Scapin
Song:
Lowe
Dance:
II:
Italian Peasants
, as17550414 IV:
Louvre and Minuet
-Villeneuve, Sga Balbi; End of
Play
:
Comic Dance
-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville
195
13 May 1756
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The London Merchant
Afterpiece Title:
The Anatomist
Dance:
II:
Hornpipe
-Morris; End of
Play
: A
Minuet
-Shawford, Mrs Vernon
Song:
I: Miss Young
196
23 December 1756
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Merchant Of Venice
Afterpiece Title:
The Cheats of Scapin
Dance:
As17561217
Song:
By the Desire of the Friends of
Old Cole
we will endeavor to sing a Song at the End of the
Play
(
Public Advertiser
)
197
18 May 1757
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Busy Body
Afterpiece Title:
The Toyshop
Dance:
III: A
Hornpipe
-Morris; End of
Play
:
The Louvre
-Shawford, Mrs Gibbons
198
25 November 1757
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Rehearsal
Afterpiece Title:
The Author
Dance:
After the
Play
:
The Italian Peasants
, as17571004
199
03 April 1758
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
A Bold Stroke For A Wife
Afterpiece Title:
The Country House
Dance:
SSicilian Peasants
, as17571217;
Fingalian Dance
, as17571013
Entertainment:
(BBy Desire,) End of
Play
:
Hippisley's Drunken Man
-Shuter; (By Desire,) End of Farce:
Cries of London
-Shuter
200
22 March 1759
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Busy Body
Afterpiece Title:
The Double Disappointment
Entertainment:
Between
play
and farce:
Dish of All Sorts
-Mr Shuter; will entertain the Audience. The Bill of Fare consisting of a
Medley@Song
-Shuter; A Dialogue upon Himself between an Old Man a North Briton and a Gentleman of Connaught-Mr Shuter; The History of Mr Shuter and the Sow-Shuter; To be sung by him as a Cantata in Sga Gruntinella's Taste.
The Cries of London
, as17581020
Dance:
TThe Threshers
, as17581016
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