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255 results for: Title - No Joke Like a True Joke

1
24 May 1732 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Afterpiece Title: No Joke Like a True Joke

Song:

Dance:

2
28 April 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man's Bewitch'd; Or, The Devil To Do About Her

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Turn'd Dancing-Master

Dance: TThe White Joke (new)-Eaton

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18 May 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Clown's Stratagem; or, A New Way to get a Wife

Music: III: Sonata of Corelli, proper to the Play-

Song: End III: A New Ballad to the tune of the Second Joke,-Mrs Roberts

Dance: IV: La Matellote-Miss Robinson; V: Last new Comic Dance-Rainton, Mrs Walter

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19 May 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: TThe White Joke-Eaton

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26 May 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Antient History Of King Lear And His Three Daughters

Dance: TThe White Joke-Eaton

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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

7
04 June 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Dance: TTollet's Ground-Burney, Eaton; Flag Dance-Burny; White Joke-Eaton

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17 June 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lady

Dance: TThe White Joke-Eaton

9
19 June 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: TThe White Joke-Eaton; Two Pierrots-Burny, Eaton

10
24 June 1730 @ Richmond

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Dance: The Celebrated Dance in Momus, to the Black Joke Tune,-Nivelon

11
29 June 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Song: TThe White Joke-Mrs Thomasin Man's Cloaths; A new Mad Tom-Bart Platt

Dance: TThe Yellow Joke (new)-Eaton by Ravenscroft

12
30 June 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Music: End II: A Voluntary on the Welch Harp-Jones; III: A Trumpet Piece call'd See@larco@a Veasi-Burk Thumoth; IV: A Solo-Ravenscroft upon the Stage; accompany'd by the Harpsichord-

Dance: I: The Yellow Joke, as17300629 V: Shepherds Holiday-Burny, Sandham, Eaton, Mrs Haughton, Mrs Mountfort, Miss Sandham

13
06 July 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Dance: End Act I: The White Joke-Eaton; III: -Dukes

Song: II: a Youth, aged 13; IV: Mrs Mountfort

14
17 July 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach (Opera)

Song: Some Songs-Excell

Dance: TThe Medley of Jokes-Eaton, Miss Sandham

15
09 September 1730 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Generous Free-mason; Or, The Constant Lady

Dance: Smith, Young Clark, Miss Williams; particularly French Peasant, Black Joke-

16
24 September 1730 @ Southwark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Song: TThe Bath Teazer (that celebrated Ballad) by Leveridge-Ray

Dance: End II: The White Joke-Eaton; III: A new Dance-Hind, Eaton, Mrs Hill

17
20 October 1731 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Woman's A Riddle

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: Eaton, Miss Sandham; particularly the Medley of Jokes-

18
11 September 1732 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Husband Outwitted

Entertainment: Several new and surprizing Performances, never perform'd by any one besides herself, on the Strait Rope [the famous-Signora Violante [[1] She Dances a Minuet as Neatly as a Dancing Master on a Floor. [2] She Dances with a Board, ten Foot in length, loose upon the Rope. [3] She Dances with two Boys fastned to her feet; which Occasions great Mirth. [4] She Dances with two heavy Men ty'd to her Feet. [5] She Performs the Exercise of the Colours. After this surprising Performance, Miss Violante will Dance a Louvre in Boys Cloaths

Dance: t the Desire of several Gentlemen and Ladies, the White Joke-will be danced by an Old Woman, with Pierrot in the Basket; Pierrot-Lalauze; Old Woman-Tobin

19
27 March 1733 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Married Philosopher

Dance: I: Sleeping Dutchman and his Frow-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre, introduced by Newhouse, Pelling, LeSac, Delagarde, Miss LaTour, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Ogden, Miss Baston; II: Saraband, Minuet, Tambourine-Miss Rogers; III: Scottish Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre; IV: Je ne scai quoy-Poitier, Miss LaTour; V: Grand Dance of Momus, concluding with the-; Black Joke-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre

20
04 September 1733 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Comical Humours of Sir John Falstaff, Justice Shallow, Ancient Pistol, and Others

Afterpiece Title: The Ridotto Al' Fresco

Dance: End I Second Piece: Black Joke-Smith, Miss Brett; II: Comic Dance-Mrs Booth

21
19 April 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Dance: Scots Dance, as17341004 Shepherd and Shepherdess by Malter and Mlle Salle. Engiish Maggot by Haughton and Mrs Laguerre. The Kilkenny (new) by Glover and Mrs Laguerre. By Desire, Hippisley's Drunken Man

Song: The Black and White Joke, as17340416

22
24 April 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone

Dance: II: Tambourine by Glover and Miss Rogers. In III: The Kilkenny by Glover and Mrs Laguerre. IV: By Desire, La Marrie, combined with a Minuet, by Glover and Miss Rogers. V: Scottish Dance, as17331004

Song: I: The Black and White Joke by Leveridge and Laguerre

23
27 April 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Lawyer

Dance: II: The Kilkenny by Glover and Mrs Laguerre. III: Les Charactres de l'Amour by Mlle Salle. IV: The Nassau, as17340117 V: Pigmalion by Malter, Dupre, Pelling, Duke, Le Sac, Newhouse, De la Garde, with the Statue-Mlle Salle

Song: I: The Black and White Joke by Leveridge and Laguerre

24
03 May 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: French Sailor and his Lass by Malter and Mlle Salle

Song: The Black and White Joke by Leveridge and Laguerre

25
04 May 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: II: Tambourine by Glover and Miss Rogers. IV: The Kilkenny by Glover and Mrs Laguerre. V: By Malter and Mlle Salle

Song: I: The Black and White Joke by Leveridge and Laguerre. III: By Mrs Wright