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539 results for: Title - May Day

151
23 May 1754 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'allegro And Il Penseroso

Afterpiece Title: Ode to St Cecelia's Day

Afterpiece Title: First Violin Concerto

152
21 February 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'allegro And Il Penseroso

Afterpiece Title: Song for St Cecelia's Day

153
01 May 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song:

Dance: [As express'd in the Bills of the Day (playbill). Advance notice.]

154
25 January 1758 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Pigmalion; or, The Statue Metamorphosed

Afterpiece Title: , B, By Desire, The Battle of Rosbach, the whole to conclude with Bryan's song in honour of that day sung by Kear

Dance: I: Rural Dance-Master Settree, Miss Twist; III: Scots Dance-Froment, Miss Wilkinson

Song: III: Scots Song-Lauder; IV: young Italian Gentlewoman, 1st appearance on any stage

155
03 September 1759 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Shipwrecked Lovers; Or, Friendly Perfidy Punished

Song: tragi-comic song in the Welch Taste call'd% Hugh Morgan's Lamentation-a Choice Spirit from Common's Court

Dance: Conclude: a song, dance-

Music: An extraordinary Band of Musick is furnished such as you don't hear every day

156
29 November 1759 @ no theater listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Thanksgiving Day

157
22 April 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: LLa Petite Bergere-Lalauze's Daughter, a child between 7 and 8 years of age; a Serious Dance(for 1st time)-Lalauze's Daughter; also by desire a Ball-Dance call'd The Louvre and Minuet-Lalauze, Lalauze's Daughter; After: (this night only) A Day of Taste-Shuteras17600320

158
28 July 1768 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Capochio And Dorinna

Entertainment: last Aast Act: a Burlesque Ode-by the late Bonnel Thornton, in banter of the Odes written on St Cecilias Day, set to music by an eminent master; The whole to conclude with: Grand Fireworks-

159
15 July 1773 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wedding Day

160
17 July 1773 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wedding Day

161
26 August 1773 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wedding Day

162
13 September 1773 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wedding Day

163
02 May 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: St Patrick's Day; or, The Scheming Lieutenant

Dance: End: The Vintage Festival, as17741007

164
06 May 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: St Patrick's Day

Dance: II: New Comic Dance-Langrish[, as17750429; End: The Irish Lilt, as17741202

165
09 May 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: St Patrick's Day

Entertainment: End: Hippisley's Drunken Man-Massey

Dance: After Entertainment: The Humours of Blackwall, as17750429

166
15 May 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius

Afterpiece Title: St Patrick's Day

Dance: III: A Minuet-King, Miss Brown

Entertainment: Interlude.End: True Blue-Miss Brown, Mrs Baker, Reinhold, Mattocks; Dances-Aldridge

167
25 May 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: St Patrick's Day

168
01 June 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: St Patrick's Day

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17741202

169
25 September 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: St Patrick's Day; or, The Scheming Lieutenant

170
02 October 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: St Patrick's Day

171
11 October 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: St Patrick's Day

Dance: II: A New Grand Ballet, The Italian Gardeners-; End Comedy: [A New Dance call'd The Gamesters-Sg and Sga Zuchelli[, being their first appearance in England. [For Italian Gardeners see17740919.

172
14 October 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: St Patrick's Day

173
19 October 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: St Patrick's Day

174
08 November 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: St Patrick's Day

Dance: End Comedy: The Gardeners, as17751104

175
23 November 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: St Patrick's Day

Dance: End Opera: A New Spanish Dance, as17751121