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311 results for: Title - Hobson's Choice; or, Thespis in Distress

1
03 July 1787 @ Royalty Theatre, Well (now Ensign) Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Reopened (see 20 June) With Three Burlettas: The Birth-day; Or, The Arcadian Contest [1st Time, Anonymous]

Afterpiece Title: The Recruiting Serjeant

Afterpiece Title: Hobson's Choice; or, Thespis in Distress [1st time]

Entertainment: Occasional Address-Palmer

Dance: End: a new dance, The Triumph of Cupid-

2
January 1686 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Banditti; Or, A Ladies Distress

3
April 1698 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Beauty In Distress

4
February 1700 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Generous Choice

5
March 1701 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Distress

6
03 October 1705 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Unhappy Choice; Or, The Dutchess Of Malfey

Song: Entertainments-

Dance: Extraordinary entertainments, to be expressed in the Bills-

7
25 April 1713 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dorinda (acts I And Ii)

Music: An Entertainment of the choicest Songs out of several Operas-; Also a Piece (never perform'd before)-Signior Cavaliero Valeriano; The Songs out of the Opera will be as follows Convezzo luinghiero, Pria che la doglia-Signora Pilotti; Del fallo ful camin, Ti stringo o miodiletto-Signor Valentini; E vano ognipensiero, To Beauty devoted, Love wou'd invade me-Signora Margaretta; Di se senti, Nume Alata-Mrs Barbier; Solo pieta vi chiedo-; Di luci adourno-Mrs Manina; concluding with the Chorus of Clotilda-; a new piece-Signior Cavaliero Valeriano

8
22 February 1714 @ Stationer's Hall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-Eminent English and Foreign Masters; Among other choice Compositions, a celebrated Song of Mr Hendel's-a Gentlewoman from Abroad, who hath never before exposed her Voice publickly in this Kingdom; To which will be added an uncommon Piece of Musick by Bassoons only-

9
09 September 1717 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Noble Soldier; Or, Love In Distress

Afterpiece Title: The Comical Adventures of Master Billy Softhead, His Mother, and Sister Sally

10
05 September 1719 @ Bullock-Leigh Booth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Noble Soldier; Or, Love In Distress

Dance: Comical Scene-Mr Harper , Mimicking a Drunken Man; Newhouse, Pelling, Mrs Willis, Miss Francis

11
23 October 1721 @ Richmond

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: A choice Collection of extraordinary Musick-

12
27 January 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distressed Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Mars and Venus

13
29 February 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distressed Mother

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

14
29 April 1726 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal Part, consisting of the choicest Songs from the Operas-Mrs Forsyth; Instrumental Music-best Hands from the Opera-House

15
17 March 1727 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal Part consisting of the Choicest Songs in the Operas-Mrs Foresyth; As also, a new Cantata on St. Patrick's Day by Dr Pepusch-

16
10 December 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: The Comical Distresses of Pierot

Afterpiece Title: With the Scene of Apollo and Daphne

17
02 June 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady

Music: SSee@larce A Trumpet Farce-Burk Thumoth; accompanied-the rest of the Musick upon the Stage

Song: new Song, called Myra's Choice , to the Tune of the White Joke,-Mr Russell who sung Hunter at the Hay-Market

18
24 August 1731 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Guy, Earl Of Warwick: With The Comical Distresses Of Rogero, Guy's Servant

Song: The best Masters

Dance: The best Masters

19
28 February 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Parthian Hero; Or, Love In Distress

Afterpiece Title: The Sharpers; or, The Female Match-Maker

20
17 January 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Parracide; Or, Innocence In Distress

21
08 August 1739 @ Tottenham Court

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Harlequin's Distress; Or, The Happiness Of Colombine

Song: A dialogue between Punch and Colombine-; The Beau-

Dance: DDrunken Peasant-Phillips; Scaramouch Dance-Phillips

22
14 December 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distressed Mother

Song: I: a Ballad-Lowe; III: The Early Horn-Lowe

Dance: II: Le Matelot-Fausan, Signora Fausan; V: Le Genereux Corsaire-Fausan, Signora Fausan, LaCroix, Delemain, Dumont, Constantini, Mrs Walter, Miss Thomson, Miss Story, Miss Rayner, Miss Wright

23
05 February 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distressed Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Les Matelotes, as17411208; II: A Dutch Dance, as17411114; III: A Hornpipe-Phillips; IV: The Italian Peasants, as17411205

24
29 April 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distressed Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Song: As17430427

Music: V: Concerto-Burk Thumoth

25
17 October 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distressed Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Goddess; or, Harlequin Marry'd