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

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123 results for: Title - The British Heroine

51
26 July 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The British Roratory

Dance: As17540718

52
01 August 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The British Roratory

Dance: As17540718

53
19 September 1754 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory

Afterpiece Title: [The Birth of Harlequin; or, The Old Woman's Whim

Dance: To conclude with A Dance in the Ancient British Taste-Choice Spirits from Comus's Court

Music: [NNew Concerto for the Tambour de Basque-

54
21 September 1754 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser Outwitted; Or, Phelim In The Suds

Dance: A Grand Dance in the British Manner-

55
03 September 1756 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ngland Triumphant; Or, The British General

Afterpiece Title: The Merry Beggars; with the Comical Humours of his Royal Consort Queen Tatter

Entertainment: Variety of Singing, Dancing, Rope Dancing, Tumbling-eminent performers lately arrived from Italy

56
02 September 1758 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Widow Bewitch'd; Or, The Devil To Do About Her

Afterpiece Title: The Joyous Return of the Brave British Tars from the Conquest of Cape Breton

57
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-

58
16 April 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief

Afterpiece Title: Florizel and Perdita

Entertainment: After the Farce:(this night only) the Origin, Nature, and Progress of the: Order of British Bucks, with the Whimsical Behavior of Choice Spirits and M. Thurot's Trip to Carrickfergus-Mr Shuter. See17610326

Dance: The Last New Comic Dance-Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville

59
31 August 1761 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Bride; Or, The Unexpected Event

Afterpiece Title: The British Tar's Triumph over M Soup-Maigre

Entertainment: of singing and dancing.of singing and dancing

60
08 August 1765 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: I: The Dutchman, as17650719

Song: II, IV: The British Fair, Through the Wood, Laddie-a young Lady

Entertainment: CComic Post Haste Observations in his Journey to Paris-Shuter; followed by Dance The English Sailor at Marseilles-Mas. Clinton, Miss Street

61
13 December 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur; Or, The British Worthy

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

62
12 November 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur; Or, The British Worthy

Afterpiece Title: Wits Last Stake

63
19 March 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heroine Of The Cave

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Music: II: A Solemn Hymn-

Dance: IV: The Sailors Revels, as17730918

64
25 March 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heroine Of The Cave

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Dance: The Grand Provencalle Dance, as17750202

65
12 May 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: A New Comic Dance call'dThe Country Macaroni Assembly-Daguville, Daguville's Scholar; in which (by Desire) Minuet-Helme, Sga Vidini; End Opera: A New Dance call'd The British Bacchanalian , or The Hop-Pickers, an Interlude of Singing and Dancing,-Helme, Sga Vidini; in which The Wooden Shoe Dance- introduced by Daguville

Ballet: II: A New Grand Historical Dance of Warriors, call'd Boadicea Queen of Britain. Queen-Mrs Daguville; her Two Daughters-Miss Ross, Miss Armstrong (Scholars to Daguville); Helme, Daguville

66
16 May 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The What D'Ye Call It

Dance: I: The Country Macaroni Assembly, as17750512; With Minuet, as17750512; End Opera: The British Bacchanalian, as17750512; with Wooden Shoe Dance, as17750512

Ballet: II: Boadicea Queen of Britain. As17750512, but in addition are Twenty@three Combatants-, dressed after the manner of the ancient Britons and Romans

67
07 July 1775 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eldred; Or, The British Freeholder

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: The Medley-

68
01 May 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eldred; Or, The British Freeholder

Afterpiece Title: The Two Misers

Dance: End: Mirth and Jollity, as17760102

69
02 May 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Dance: End I: a new Comic Dance-Langrish, Master Jackson, Miss Parish, Miss Lings (pupils of Aldridge); End II: [The Cricket@Match [sic]The Cricketters, as17780128; [in which part of the celebrated Tambourine Dance-Aldridge[, originally composed and danced by him; III: Hornpipe, as17771017

Ballet: End: a new, Grand Marine Pantomimical Dance, suited to the times, The Sailors' Revels at Portsmouth; or, British Glory. in which an accurate view of the Isle of Wight and the Fleet now riding at Spithead. Principal Characters: Bobby Flip the Boatswain-Aldridge; Powder Monkey-Master Jackson; Mat Mizen-Langrish; Molly Topknot-Miss Besford; Susan Constant-Miss Valois; with variety of other Characters, and Hornpipe Dancing-in an entire new stile

70
28 December 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Macaroni Adventurer; Or, Woman's A Riddle

Afterpiece Title: Fashionable Love; or, The Happy British Tar

Afterpiece Title: The Covent Garden Tragedy

Dance: Entertainments ofDancing-

Entertainment: Monologue.End III: Imitations [Vocal and Rhetorical, never attempted, a Trumpet-a Choice Spirit [who will (to his vocal performances) accompany himself with the Symphonies (his 1st appearance on the stage [unidentified])

71
10 March 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dissipation

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Song: III: Smiling love to thee belong-Miss Field, Miss Wright (British Union-Catalogue, p. 621)

72
19 October 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur; Or, The British Worthy

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Dance: In mainpiece by Zuchelli, Henry, Miss Armstrong, Miss M. Stageldoir. [This was the same, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances, but beginning with 11 Dec. Henry is omitted.]

Song: In mainpiece the Vocal Parts by Du-Bellamy, Williams, Fawcett, Chaplin, Phillimore, &c.; Miss Phillips, Miss Collett, Miss Wright, Miss Stageldoir, Mrs Wrighten

73
22 March 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heroine Of The Cave

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Knights

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Song: In Act II of mainpiece an Anthem (singers not listed)

74
15 August 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Election

Afterpiece Title: Inkle and Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Dance: End 2nd piece: The British Soldier Triumphant-Byrn, Ratchford, Miss DeCamp, Mrs Goodwin

75
01 September 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Afterpiece Title: A Mogul Tale

Dance: End 1st piece: Dance-[probably The British Soldier Triumphant, as17880813