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76
17 September 1782
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Clandestine Marriage
Afterpiece Title:
Who's the Dupe
Dance:
End of Act I of afterpiece The Minuet de la Cour by the Miss Stageldoirs
Monologue:
1782 09 17 End of Act I of mainpiece a
Dramatic
Oglio by King
77
06 June 1783
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Hamlet
Afterpiece Title:
Nature Will Prevail: A
Dramatic
Proverb
Afterpiece Title:
Medea and Jason
78
22 August 1783
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Manager In Distress
Afterpiece Title:
Summer Amusement
Afterpiece Title:
Seeing is Believing: A
Dramatic
Proverb
Dance:
As17830610
79
08 May 1784
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Double Gallant
Afterpiece Title:
The Rival Knights
Afterpiece Title:
Rose and Colin
Dance:
End of Act II of mainpiece a
Dramatic
Romance, Adelaide de Brabant; or, The Triumph of Virtue. Principal Characters by Bithmere, Le Boeuf, Mme Bithmere. ["An infant son of Grimaldi (i.e. Joseph, aged 6) performs in an astonishing manner" (Gazetteer, 12 May).] End of Act IV an Allemande and Dance, called Malbrough (composed by Vestris Jun.) by Le Boeuf and Mme Bithmere
80
10 June 1784
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Seeing Is Believing: A
Dramatic
Proverb
Afterpiece Title:
Gretna Green
Afterpiece Title:
The Election of the Managers
81
22 June 1784
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Two To One
Afterpiece Title:
Nature Will Prevail: A
Dramatic
Proverb
82
13 June 1785
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Love In A Village
Afterpiece Title:
Seeing is Believing: A
Dramatic
Proverb
Dance:
As17850609
83
15 June 1785
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Summer Amusement
Afterpiece Title:
Nature Will Prevail: A
Dramatic
Proverb
Dance:
End of Act I of mainpiece, as17850601
84
16 June 1785
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Tancred And Sigismunda
Afterpiece Title:
A Beggar on Horseback: A
Dramatic
Proverb
85
16 August 1785
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Feast Of Thalia; Or, A
Dramatic
Olio
Afterpiece Title:
First Course, an Operatic Dish: The Dead Alive
Afterpiece Title:
Second Course, a Comic Dish: More Frighten'd than Hurt
Afterpiece Title:
a Desert: The Honest Yorkshireman
Monologue:
1785 08 16 End of Second Course, by way of Entremet, Joe Haynes's Epilogue, riding on an Ass, by Wilson
86
10 August 1786
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Seeing Is Believing: A
Dramatic
Proverb
Afterpiece Title:
The Spanish Barber
Afterpiece Title:
Rosin a
87
12 August 1786
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Siege Of Curzola
Afterpiece Title:
Nature Will Prevail: A
Dramatic
Proverb
Dance:
In mainpiece, by Byrn, the two Miss Simonets, Giorgi's Scholars, Master Degville, Miss De Camp. [Included, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]
88
01 August 1787
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Seeing Is Believing; A
Dramatic
Proverb
Afterpiece Title:
Tit for Tat
Afterpiece Title:
The Golden Pippin
89
25 April 1788
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Rosina
Afterpiece Title:
Barnaby Brittle
Afterpiece Title:
The Irish Widow
Entertainment:
End I, end 1st piece: those
Dramatic
Imitations
-Mrs Wells [of which the Public have deigned to think so flatteringly; In the First Part: Traits of Tragic Comic and Vocal Characters-; The Second will conclude: a Scene from Two great Tragic Actresses of this Country-. [The First Part consisted of imitations of
Mrs Siddons
in the "ring" scene in IV.ii of
Isabella
;
Mrs Wrighten
singing
Tally ho
;
Sga Sestini
as
Jessamy
in
Lionel and Clarissa
;
Mrs Abington
in
The Way to Keep Him
;
Mrs Martyr
in
Robin Hood
. The Second concluded with Mrs Siddons and
Mrs Crawford
as
Jane Shore
and
Alicia
in Jane Shore (
World
, 26 Apr.).
Public Advertiser
, 26 Apr., states that she also imitated
Mrs Crouch
,
Mrs Cargill
and
Mrs Pope
. The imitations were preceded by an
Introduction
written by
Miles Peter Andrews
(
World
, 28 Apr.).
90
22 August 1788
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Catch Club [i
Afterpiece Title:
Gretna Green
Afterpiece Title:
Look before You Leap
Afterpiece Title:
The Village Lawyer
Entertainment:
Monologue
End 1st piece:
George Alexander Stevens
's Original
Lecture
on Heads
(
Head of Alexander the Great
,
Head of a Cherokee Chief
,
Head of a Quack-Doctor
,
Cuckold's Head
,
Nobody's Head
, The laughing and crying
Philosophers' Heads
,
Head of Flattery
, A
fine Lady's Head
,
Head of an Old Maid
,
Cleopatra's Head
,
Plain Moll's Head
,
Head of a Married Lady
)-Palmer
91
22 May 1789
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Heiress
Afterpiece Title:
Don Juan; or, The Libertine Destroyed
Dance:
In Afterpiece: a
Fandango
-Miss DeCamp;
Dances
-Hamoir, Bourk, Miss Blanchet, Miss Stageldoir; conclude with:
Dance of Furies
-; Shower of Fire-
Entertainment:
Monologue
Preceding:
The
Lecture
on Heads
(for this night only)-Palmer
92
13 August 1790
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Spanish Barber
Afterpiece Title:
Taste and Feeling: A
Dramatic
Caricature
Afterpiece Title:
The Liar
Entertainment:
Monologue
. End I 3rd piece:
Liberty
; or,
Two Sides of the Water
-Bannister Jun
93
18 June 1791
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Seeing Is Believing: A
Dramatic
Proverb
Afterpiece Title:
Ways and Means
Afterpiece Title:
The Agreeable Surprise
94
28 April 1792
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Notoriety
Afterpiece Title:
Robin Hood
Entertainment:
Monologues
Preceding: [a New Address,
She Couldn't Help It
-[by
Harley
]; End: Collins's
Ode on the Passions
-Mrs Esten; [
Imitations
End II:
Dramatic
Imitations
[Comic, Vocal and Tragic,-Mrs Wells
95
31 May 1794
@ King's Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Il Burbero Di Bu0n Cuore
Dance:
End of Act I New Divertisement, as17940311End of Act II a new Ballet
Dramatic
Pantomime, composed by D'Egville, Le Bon Prince; ou, Les Infortunes Vertueux, by Favre Guiardele, Gentili, Aumer, Master Menage, D'Egville, Mlle Hilligsberg, Mlle Guiardele, Mme Del Caro
96
26 March 1795
@ King's Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Semiramide
Dance:
End I:
New Divertisement
, in which the
Pas Russe
-Mme Hilligsberg, Mme Hilligsberg's sister in men's clothes; End II: a new Grand
Dramatic
Pantomime Ballet, in 3 parts, composed by
Onorati
,
Paul et Virginie
-Gentili, Aumer, Lahante, Simpson, Mme DelCaro, Miss J. Hilligsberg, Mme Rossi, Mme Hilligsberg who will perform in men's clothes and dance a
Scotch Reel
in that character
97
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
98
17 May 1800
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Speculation
Afterpiece Title:
Marian
Afterpiece Title:
The Soldier's Festival
Song:
End II 1st piece: a Musical Address
Mark when beneath the western main
(
Dramatic
Censor
, II, 197), Written expressly for the occasion by
T. Dutton
, A. M., and composed by
Mazzinghi
-Miss Waters; End III:
O Strike the Harp
-Incledon, Linton, Miss Waters; accompanied on the Harp-Weippert; End IV:
Happy were the Days
-Miss Waters; End 1st piece:
Sigh no more Ladies
-Incledon, Townsend, Linton, Master Slape, Miss Waters
99
05 June 1800
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Clandestine Marriage
Afterpiece Title:
The Prize
Song:
End:
Strike the Harp
-Master Suett, Master Heather, Danby; with an accompaniment of Piano Forte-; [a New Loyal Song
Secure within her sea@girt Reign
[(
Dramatic
Censor
, II, 243)] (written by
Dutton
and composed by
Moorehead
,)-Trueman; End IV:
Crazy Jane
-Mrs Bland
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