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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(perftitleclean,performancetitle) "Serious And Comic Oratory"/1)') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=150, performancetitle=100), ranker=wordcount

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1569 results for: Title - Serious And Comic Oratory

51
06 December 1742 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: I: Comic Ballet, as17421203; III: Welsh Boufon, as17421203; IV: Comic Ballet, as17421203; II: La Sabotier-M LaPierre

Ballet: The facetious Grand Dance by the whole Company. Thunder, Lightning, Players, Soldiers, Bishops, Judges, Lord@Mayor, Serjeants at Arms-the Comedians; With the Total Eclipse of the Sun and Moon-; Sol-Hemskirk; Luna-Stitchbury; Orbis-Worldly; Also a Representation of a Grand Theatrical Battle-; Mr Bayes' New Rais'd Troops-

52
13 December 1742 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: II: A Comic Dance-two Masters Granier, Miss Granier; III: The Welch Buffon-two Masters Granier; V: A Comic Ballet-Carney, Mlle Roland, Lapierre, Pelling, Granier, Mrs Saintquient, Mrs Vallois, Miss Story

53
31 December 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Dance: II: a New Comic Dance call'd Neopolitan Punch-Checo Torinese, Sga Chiaretta Aquilanti, Boromeo, Mlle Bonneval; IV: A New Comic Dance call'd Italian Gardeners-Checo, Chiaretta

54
18 April 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Dance: I: a Serious Dance-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde; II: New Comic Dance-Mr and Mrs Delagarde; III: Peasants, as17421230; IV: Louvre, Minuet-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde

55
18 April 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Serious Dance-Sga Campioni; III: Comic Dance call'd L'Allemande-Picq, Sga Campioni; V: Ball Dance call'd the Louvre-; concluding with: a Minuet-Picq, Sga Campioni

56
02 May 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: Comic Dance-Villeneuve, Delagarde, Mrs Delagarde; IV: Scotch Dance-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde, Delagarde, Destrade, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Villeneuve; V: Comic Dance- [see17450423

57
26 September 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Song: I: Lowe; IV: Colin and Phebe-Lowe, Mrs Arne

Dance: II: Grand Serious Dance-M and Mlle Mitchel (lately arrived from Paris); V: A New Grand Comic Dance-M and Mlle Mechel

58
28 September 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Song: I: Lowe; IV: Colin and Phebe-Lowe, Mrs Arne; God Save our Noble King by Arne-Mrs Cibber, Beard, Reinhold (Deutsch, Handel, p. 623)

Dance: II: Grand Serious Dance-; V: Grand Comic Dance, as17450926

59
01 October 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Song: I: Lowe; III: Mrs Arne; IV: Lowe

Dance: II: Grand Serious Dance-the Mechels; V: Grand Comic Dance, as17450926

60
30 April 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Afterpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband Criticised

Song: I: Cantata-Sullivan; IV: Lowe

Dance: II: Comic Dance-Mechel, Mlle Mechel; V: Comic Dance, as17470410

61
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]

62
05 April 1753 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory; Mrs Midnight's Concert And Oratory

63
07 April 1753 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory; Mrs Midnight's Concert And Oratory

Entertainment: Bombasto

64
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

65
13 October 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester (comedy)

Dance: II: A New Serious Dance, call'd The Shipwreck; or +The Distressed Lovers-Gardiner (1st appearance that stage), Mrs Vernon; IV: A new Comic Dance call'd The Press Gang; or +The Sailor's Farewell-Gardiner, Mrs Vernon

Song: III: Miss Young

66
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-

67
27 April 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: I: A Serious Dance-Miss Wilford (1st appearance on any stage), others; II: A Tambourine-Delaistre, Mlle Capdeville, Miss Wilford; III: A New Dance call'd Le Badinage-Miss Wilford, others; IV: A New Comic Dance call'd The Prussian Rope@Makers-Delaistre, Mlle Capdeville; V: (By Desire) a Minuet-Delaistre, Mlle Rousselet

68
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

69
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

70
23 April 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: I: A New Serious Dance-Miss Wilford, Miss Valois; II: Handel's Water Piece-, in which, by particular desire; Kettle@Drum-Mr Poitier; III: A New Comic Dance-Maranesi, Miss Wilford; IV: The Pleasures of Spring, as17620212; V: The Academy for Dancing-Poitier, Mrs Vernon; in which will be introduc'd a Minuet-Miss Valois, in boy's Cloaths, Miss Wilford

71
28 April 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Dance: I: A Minuet (for First Time)-Noverre, Miss Bride; III: A Serious Dance-Miss Rogers; End: A Comic Dance-Miss Rogers

72
12 May 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: A Serious Dance, call'd Les Characters de la Dance-Miss Froment , a Child six years old, Scholar of Mr Froment, being the First time of her appearing upon the stage; II: The Cow Keepers, as17611215; III: A Comic Dance, Le Petit Savoyard-Miss Froment; End: Louvre and Minuet-Froment, Miss Froment

73
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

74
14 April 1764 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: II: A Hornpipe-Miss Pitt; Between Play and Farce: Venus Reveng'd, as17631222

Entertainment: After play: Shuter (for Positively this night only) will entertain the audience with his serious, comic, post-haste Journey to Paris, with alterations and additions-Shuter

75
11 April 1765 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: III: A Tambourine, as17641015

Entertainment: After: (for this night only) Serious, Comic, Post-haste Observations in his Journey to Paris-Mr Shuter