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85 results for: Title - A Variety Show

51
24 January 1774 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Entertainment: Between the Play and Farce: a Variety of Imitations-Young Lady who never appeared on any stage

52
07 June 1774 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert Of Vocal And Instrumental Music

Song: O What a Charming Thing's a Battle-Bannister; With Hounds and With Horns-Mrs Thompson; Favourite Cantata sung at Ranelagh-Mrs Smith; Nymphs and Shepherds (Arne), Soldier Tir'd of War's Alarm (from Artaxerxes)-Miss Catley

Music: Solos and Concertos on varieties of instruments-

53
07 September 1775 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Dance: A Tambourine Dance-

Entertainment: End: A Variety of Imitations-Hutton, Bannister

54
30 October 1775 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Tobacconist

Entertainment: A Variety of New TheatricalImitations-Hutton

Song: End Opera: Several celebrated Catches and Glees by Dr Arne-

55
12 April 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Dance: I: The Sailors Revels, as17751220

Entertainment: A Variety of New Imitations, vocal and rhetorical-Bannister

56
24 March 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Song: A variety of Entertainments of Singing, particularly The Soldier tir'd-a Lady [unidentified]

Entertainment: Monologue. End: an occasional Address-Master Benson

57
16 May 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Dance: End II: New Dance-; in which the Minuet de la Cour, Gavot-Harris, Miss Valois; End IV: Le Minuet a Quatre-Dumay, Holloway, Miss Matthews, Miss Ross; with a variety of new Quadrilles-

Ballet: End: The Sailors' Revels at Portsmouth. As17780502

58
03 January 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Modish Wife

Afterpiece Title: Wit's Last Stake

Dance: End II: Miller

Entertainment: End: Variety of Rhetorical Imitations-a Gentleman (1st appearance [unidentified])

59
02 August 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bonduca

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Entertainment: End: (for that night only) a Variety of Imitations-G. Saville Carey

60
17 August 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Dance: II afterpiece: As17800615

Entertainment: End: a Variety of Imitations-Bannister Jun

61
31 August 1780 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-law

Dance: End: As17800615

Entertainment: After the dance: a Variety of Imitations , vocal and rhetorical, and (never attempted before) several in Dialogue-Messrs Bannister

62
26 March 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And A Bottle

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: End: Minuet de la Cour, Allemande-Master Byrne, Miss Byrne

Song: End I, IV: a variety of select Catches and Glees-

63
25 February 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Variety

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

64
26 February 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Variety

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

65
28 February 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Variety

Afterpiece Title: Comus

66
02 March 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Variety

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17820223

67
04 March 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Variety

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

68
05 March 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Variety

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

69
07 March 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Variety

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

Dance: End of Act I of afterpiece New Dance, as17820121, but omitted: Miss Armstrong

70
09 March 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Variety

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

71
12 April 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Variety

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: End of Act I of afterpiece the Minuet de la Cour, as17820104

72
13 February 1783 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Trionfo Della Costanza

Dance: End of Act I Le Tuteur Trompe, as17830111, with two Pas de Deux, in a stile entirely new, called Pas de Lapons; or, Laplanders' Dance, by Slingsby and Mlle Theodore; End of Act II a new Pastoral Ballet by the principal Dancers, with a variety of Pas Seuls and a Pas de Deux by Slingsby and Mlle Theodore, and to conclude with a Grand Allemande by Lepicq, Mme Rossi, Slingsby, Mlle Theodore

73
24 May 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece Diversion a-la-Mode, as17821211, in which The Devonshire Minuet, as17821129, and variety of new Quadrilles, composed by Harris; End of Act iv, as17820925; End of mainpiece new Dance, composed by Harris, The Rival Nymphs, by Byrne, Ratchford, Harris, Mrs Ratchford, Miss Byrne, Miss Matthews

Song: As17821227, but Mrs Bannister [i.e. formerly Miss Harper (see17830129)]; omitted: Bannister

74
08 January 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Devil upon Two Sticks

Entertainment: End: a variety of Theatrical and Senatorial Imitations-Kean

75
26 March 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Of China

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle; or, A Wife at her Wit's End

Entertainment: End: a variety of Imitations-Kelly; Monologue. After which: A Monody on the late Mr Henderson-the Gentleman who performs Zamti