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26
22 April 1755
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Coriolanus
Afterpiece Title:
The Devil to Pay
Dance:
II: A
Comic
Dance
-Sg and Sga Sabatini; IV: A
Comic
Dance
-Sg and Sga Sabatini, Sabatini the Younger; V: A
Minuet
-Leviez, Miss Macklin
27
02 May 1757
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
A Bold Stroke For A Wife
Afterpiece Title:
The Tamer Tam'd
Song:
I: Miss Young
Dance:
II: A
Comic
Dance
[dancers unspecified]-; III: A
Hornpipe
-Harrison; IV: A
New
Comic
Dance
-
28
09 November 1759
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Comic Lectures
29
09 September 1760
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Comic Lectures
30
26 March 1761
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Wife's Relief; Or, The Husband's Cure
Afterpiece Title:
The Cheats of Scapin
Dance:
II: (By Desire)
Hornpipe
-Poitier Jr
Entertainment:
End:
A
Comic
Lecture
; or, Tea a-la-Mode, in the manner of
Foote
-Wilkinson;
The Cries of London
-Shuter; End Afterpiece: the Origin, Nature, and Progress of the Order of
British Bucks
-Mr Shuter; with the whimsical behaviour of Choice Spirits, and
Mons Thurot
's
Trip to Carrickfergus
-
31
21 April 1761
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Cleone
Afterpiece Title:
The Englishman in Paris
Dance:
III:
A
Comic
Dance
-a young Gentleman, a young Gentlewoman (Scholars of
Leppie
); End: The last new
Comic
Dance
-Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville
32
07 January 1762
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Merry Wives Of Windsor
Afterpiece Title:
The Knights
Dance:
III: A
Comic
Dance (not perform'd these 9 years) call'd
The Taylors
-Sg Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville; V: A New
Comic
Ballet,
The French Country Gentleman
, as17611210
33
08 March 1763
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Artaxerxes
Dance:
I: A New
Comic
Dance,
The Catalonian Marriage
-Duquesney, Sga Manesiere; II: A New
Comic
Dance,
The Tyrolese
-Sg Muzioli, 1st appearance English Stage, Sga Manesiere
34
07 September 1763
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Love Makes A Man
Afterpiece Title:
The Citizen
Dance:
Entertainment:
I:
Comic
Dance
-Rogier, Miss Street; III:
Serious Dance
-Miss Street; IV:
Comic
Dance
-Master Clinton, Miss Street; End:
Hippisley
's
Drunken Man
-Weston; a
Hornpipe
in Taste-
35
10 October 1770
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Earl Of Essex
Afterpiece Title:
Midas
Dance:
II: A
Comic
Dance
-; IV: [A
Comic
Ballad call'd the
Countryman Metamorphosed
-Mr Hamois, Mad[mlle] Hamois[, their first appearance this stage
36
25 April 1777
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
She Stoops To Conquer
Afterpiece Title:
The Country Mad-Cap
Dance:
End II:
New
Comic
Dance
-Master Jackson, Miss Parish (A pupil of
Aldridge
; 1st appearanae on the stage); End III: a new characteristic
Irish Dance
,
The Humours of Leixlip
; or,
A Jaunt to the Salmon-Leap
, in which an
Irish Jigg
,-Aldridge, Miss Besford; End IV: a new
Comic
Dance,
The Coopers
-Langrish, Master Jackson, Miss Nicols (Scholar to Aldridge; 1st appearance also); End: a new pantomimical Naval Dance,
All in the Downs
; or,
Farewell to Deal
,-Aldridge, Jackson, Besford, Miss Besford, Miss Valois
37
13 May 1784
@ King's Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
I Rivali Delusi
Music:
The Dancers, incomparably the best Groupe in Europe, exerted themselves very successfully; D'Auberval's Drunkenness was well managed; Rossi's Fainting Fit, her Agitation preceding it, and her Revival from it; Lepicq's hovering over Rossi, when in the Swoon, and in his Separation from her, were all told very expressively indeed. Lepicq is the most graceful dancer in Europe, and excells every Competitor in the Narrative and Pathos of Gesticulation
Dance:
End of Act I Le Reveil du Bonheur, as17840203, but D'Auberval in place of Slingsby; End of Opera an entirely new grand Ballet, or Tragi-
Comic
Dancing Pantomime, composed by D'Auberval, Le Deserteur; ou, La Clemence Royale (taken from the well-known
comic
opera, The Deserter). The Deserter-Lepicq; Skirmish-D'Auberval, who in that character will execute a Pas in a stile entirely new, and never before attempted in England; Louisa-Mme Rossi; other Principal Parts by Vestris [Jun.], Henry, Zuchelli, Mme Theodore, who will also dance the favourite Pas de Basque
38
05 June 1788
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The West Indian
Afterpiece Title:
All the World's a Stage
Dance:
End III:
New Dance
taken from the Favourite
Comic
Opera of
Gli Schiavi par Amore
(recte per)-the two young D'Egvilles, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp; End: a new dance,
The
Comic
Concert
, in which will be introduced
The Devonshire Reel
,
Jack Tar's Delight
-the two young D'Egvilles, Miss D'Egville, Miss Blanchet, Miss DeCamp
39
16 April 1799
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Wild Oats
Afterpiece Title:
Sunshine after Rain
Afterpiece Title:
The Jolly Crew; or, Tars at Anchor
Song:
In Course Evening: a new
Comic
Song (never sung in
London
),
A Bundle of Proverbs
; or,
Odds and Ends
, in the Character of
Ephraim Smooth
-Munden; A new
Comic
Song (never performed),
A Touch at Old Times
; or,
No Days better than our Own
-Munden;
The Barber's Petition
, with a song in character,
Wigs
, including His Own Wig, the Lover's Wig, Doctor's Wig, Coachman's Wig, Councellor's Wig,-Fawcett
Entertainment:
Monologue
The Barber's Petition-Fawcett
40
15 October 1703
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Rover; Or, The Banish'd Cavaliers
Dance:
Comic
dances-the Devonshire Girl, Mrs Bicknell
41
01 November 1703
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Funeral; Or, Grief A La Mode
Song:
As17031023
Dance:
Comic
Dances-Laferry, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Lucas, Devonshire Girl
42
05 November 1703
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Don John; Or, The Libertine Destroy'd
Dance:
Comic
dances-Essex, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Lucas, Devonshire Girl
43
11 November 1703
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Pilgrim
Entertainment:
Singing,
Comic
Dancing-
44
25 January 1705
@ Lincoln's Inn Fields
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Like Master Like Man
Song:
That celebrated Dialogue-Boman, Pack,
A Drunken Officer and a Town Miss
, originally performed in
The Mad Lover
; A
Country Dialogue
-Mrs Willis, Short; A new
Trumpet Song
composed by
Eccles
-Davis
Dance:
The last new
Entry
-Firbank, Firbank's Scholar;
Blowsabella
-Prince, Mrs Clark;
Comic
dances-Prince, others; A
Right Irish Trot
-a child of five years
45
28 June 1705
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Young Coquet
Afterpiece Title:
The Country House
Afterpiece Title:
The Quacks
Song:
As17050410
Dance:
Comic
dances-Mrs Cross, Mrs Moss, others
46
29 June 1706
@ Queen's Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Orphan
Song:
Dialogue between a Dutch and French Woman
-Pack, Mrs Willis; A song-Laurence
Dance:
French Peasant
-Firbank, Mrs Bicknell;
Comic
Dance
-deLegarde, Young l'Abbe, Miss Bruce;
Scaramouch
-Layfield
47
16 August 1706
@ Queen's Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The
Comic
al History Of Don Quixote
Song:
As17060706 very
comic
singing-Mrs Willis
Dance:
As17060810; Godwin
48
03 January 1708
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Island Princess
Music:
Mrs Lindsey, Hughs; Laurence; particularly the
Enthusiastick Song
-Leveridge
Dance:
Miss Santlow, Mrs Evans;
comic
dancing proper to the play-Legard, Miss Norris
49
19 September 1709
@ Hampstead
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Concert
Music:
Several Celebrated Songs,
Comic
Dialogues by the late
Mr Henry Purcel
, other great
English Masters
, for 1, 2 and 3 voices; the whole, as it will be perform'd, and by whom, in our great Bills to which we refer-
50
12 November 1709
@ Queen's Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Careless Husband
Afterpiece Title:
Acis and Galatea (
comic
part only)
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