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1179 results for: Title - An Hospital for Fools (being generally Insisted on by last Night's Audience)

76
13 September 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift; Or, The Fool In Fashion

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: Master Mattocks

77
30 March 1754 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Dance: new Dance never performed before, Le Matelot-Maranesi, Sga Bugiani; Les Sabotiers-Maranesi, Sga Bugiani; being the first time of its being performed this season. By Particular Desire Minuet-Sga Bugiani, Sg Bugiani

78
27 August 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mrs Midnight's New Carnival Concert

Dance: As17540815, but with several new dances-Bombasto, Bombazin (being the Originals) for this night only

Song: Several Scots Songs, a Prologue-Lauder

79
29 October 1754 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift; Or, The Fool In Fashion

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

80
04 May 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

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

Entertainment: End: Tea a@la Mode-Wilkinson; into which will be introduc'd a Male Mock Italian Burletta Song-Wilkinson; and by Desire The Epilogue to the Minor-Wilkinson , being his last time of performing this season (playbill)

Entertainment: End Afterpiece: The Cries of London-Shuter

81
14 February 1763 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift; Or, The Fool In Fashion

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: III: The Dutch Skippers, as17630101

82
18 May 1763 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: IV: A Hornpipe, 1st time-Miss Twist

Entertainment: After: (this night only) Shuter will entertain with his Dish of All Sorts-Shuter; and Titbit for everyone, in which will be served up a humorous conversation between himself, an old man, an honest North Briton and a Gentleman of Connaught, including his ever memorable encounter with a Liverpool Sow, and other whimsical occurrences; The whole to End with: an Address to the Audience-

83
12 October 1763 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift; Or, The Fool In Fashion

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: New Grand Comic Dance (Never Perform'd Before) call'd, The Amorous Knife Grinders. The Knife Grinders-Duquesney, Miss Wilford. See17600417.

84
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

85
18 May 1764 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All's Well That Ends Well

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Dance: II: A Hornpipe-Miss Twist; IV: The Cudgell'd Husband, as17640502

Entertainment: After: Mr Shuter (For Last time this Season) will entertain the audience with his Journey to Paris, as17640414

86
12 October 1764 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift; Or, The Fool In Fashion

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: III: Blind Man's Buff, as17641003; End: La Femme Maitresse, as17641004

87
20 April 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Entertainment: I: King will By Desire repeat a Comic Paraphrase on the Seven Ages of Shakespeare-King; V: (The Last time this season) King will present the Audience with Bucks Have at Ye All, as17650330

Dance: II: The Medley, as17641120; III: A New Dance-Grimaldi, Miss Baker; IV: Hearts of Oak-Aldridge, Miss Baker

88
28 November 1765 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift; Or, The Fool In Fashion

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

89
19 April 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Dance: I: A Dance-Aldridge, Miss Baker; After the Entertainment: A New Dance call'd the Fortune Tellers-Aldridge, Miss Baker

Entertainment: End: King (for that night only) will present the Audience with a New Comic Descriptive Piece call'd Ralph's Ramble Or O'Rare London! (being a short sequel to a comic character in the Maid of the Mill.)-King

90
14 October 1766 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift; Or The Fool In Fashion

Afterpiece Title: Midas

91
18 April 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

Dance: End: The Medley, as17680416

Entertainment: End: Mr King for that night only will entertain the Audience with a Picture of the Playhouse, or Bucks Have at Ye All-Mr King

92
07 April 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: Florizel and Perdita

Dance: III: New Comic Dance-, as17681210

Entertainment: End: (for that Night Only) will present the audience with the favourite EpilogueBucks Have at Ye All with Alterations by the Author-Miss Younge

93
12 April 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit; or, Harlequin at Rhodes

Dance: I: The Wake, as17680929

Entertainment: End of Opera: King (for that night only) will present the Audience with a Comic Paraphrase-King on Shakespeare's The Seven Ages

94
17 March 1770 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Afterpiece Title: The Whim; or, The Hospital Fools

Entertainment: I+Interlude. Three Old Women Weatherwise-

95
15 January 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift; Or, The Fool In Fashion

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Dance: End: A Comic Dance, as17711031

96
15 June 1779 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Governante

Dance: End I: Les Paysans Voles, as17790515; End II: Les Moissonneurs, as17781229; End Opera: New Ballet, in which the Quadrilles danced at the Pantheon last night (composed by Simonet)-Slingsby, Mme Simonet, Banti, Sga Tinti, Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Simonet, Mlle Baccelli

97
01 April 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Follies Of A Day

Afterpiece Title: The April Fool; or, The Follies of a Night

Song: In the course of the evening Sweet Echo (from Comus) by Mrs Bannister

98
13 May 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa; Or, The School For Fathers

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Song: In: Sweet Passion of Love-Mrs Mountain; End I afterpiece: Hark the Lark at Heaven's Gate (with accompaniments by Dr Arnold)-Johnstone, Blanchard, Bannister, Mrs Mountain

Music: Mainpiece: With a new Overture (for that night only)-Pleyel; End I: (for that night only) a duet on the violin and tenor-Mme Gautherot, Mountain; End: a concerto on the violin-Mme Gautherot

99
25 May 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahmoud

Afterpiece Title: A Dramatic Cento

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: End I: (by permission of the Proprietor of the king's Theatre) the new favorite Ballet, in the Scots' Stile, Little Peggy's Love- The Pantomime, Principal Steps by Didelot; the Principal Characters the Dancers of the Opera House: Didelot, Gentili, Ms Vidi, Ms Bossi, Ms Barre, Ms Parisot, Ms Hilligsberg, Ms Rose

Song: End 3rd piece: the Finale to The Iron Chest, Harmony Harmony- being the last Composition of Storace

100
11 September 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night