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15 April 1755
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Jane Shore
Afterpiece Title:
Damon
and
Phillida
Dance:
I:
Comic
Entertainment
, as17541203; II: a
Serious
Dance
-Miss Poitier; III:
Comic
Dance
-Lucas, Lepy; IV:
Comic
Dance
-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville; V: A
Masquerade Dance
, with a
Minuet
-Poitier Jr, Miss Poitier; To conclude with a
Hornpipe
-a scholar of Poitier Jr
Song:
II: By Particular Desire
The Choice
-Miss Poitier
2
29 November 1716
@ Lincoln's Inn Fields
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Old Batchelor
Song:
As17161030
Dance:
Gr
and
Comic
Dance
, as17161115; The last new
Serious
Dance
-Moreau, Mrs Bullock; new
Serious
Dance
by
Shaw
-Shaw, Kellum's Scholar, Newhouse, Mrs Schoolding, Mrs Cross
3
24 January 1737
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Oroonoko
Afterpiece Title:
The Toy Shop
Dance:
I: A
Serious
Dance
-the eldest Miss Scott; II:
Comic
Dance
-eldest Miss Scott's Sister; III:
French Peasant
-Lalauze; accompanied-others; IV: A new dance-two Misses Scott; V: A new
Comic
Dance
-Nivelon, the Misses Scott
4
19 March 1737
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Volpone
Afterpiece Title:
Flora
Dance:
In I:
Two Pierrots
-Nivelon, Lalauze; I:
Serious
Dance
, concluding with a
Minuet
-two Misses Scott; II:
Comic
Dance
-Nivelon, Mrs LeBrun; IV:
Comic
Dance
-called
Punch in Love with Dame Ragonde
Accompanied by her
Children
-Nivelon, Lalauze, both in Wooden Shoes
Song:
III: A New Song-Beard
5
06 May 1738
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Rule A Wife
And
Have A Wife
Afterpiece Title:
Flora
Dance:
I:
Comic
Dance
-Richardson, Miss Cantrel; II:
Serious
Dance
-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; IV:
Comic
Dance
-Nivelon, Mrs LeBrun; V:
French Sailors
-Lalauze, Mlle Rol
and
Song:
III: Leveridge, Laguerre
6
12 March 1740
@ Crown and Cushion
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Serious And Comic Oratory
7
14 March 1740
@ Crown and Cushion
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Serious And Comic Oratory
8
04 April 1744
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Old Batchelor
Afterpiece Title:
The Lying Valet
Dance:
I: Mrs Auguste; II:
New
Comic
Dance
-Muilment, Mrs Auguste; IV:
New
Serious
Dance
, as17440119 V: A
New
Comic
Dance
-Muilment, Mrs Auguste
9
16 April 1755
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Miser
Afterpiece Title:
Miss in Her Teens
Dance:
II:
New
Comic
Dance
-Frantzel, Sga Balbi; III:
New
Comic
Dance
-Frantzel; which introduces a
Drunken Peasant
-Frantzel; IV:
Chinese Dance
, as17550104; V: a
New Pastoral Pantomime
-Frantzel, Sga Balbi; a
Comic
Minuet
-Frantzel, Sga Balbi
10
18 April 1755
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Fatal Marriage; Or, Innocent Adultery
Afterpiece Title:
The Schoolboy
Dance:
I: New
Comic
Dance
-Granier, Mlle Capdeville; III:
Comic
Dance
-Lucas, Lepie; V:
New
Comic
Dance
-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville
11
07 September 1763
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Love Makes A Man
Afterpiece Title:
The Citizen
Dance:
Entertainment:
I:
Comic
Dance
-Rogier, Miss Street; III:
Serious
Dance
-Miss Street; IV:
Comic
Dance
-Master Clinton, Miss Street; End:
Hippisley
's
Drunken Man
-Weston; a
Hornpipe
in Taste-
12
18 October 1716
@ Lincoln's Inn Fields
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Unhappy Favourite
Dance:
Serious
and
Comic
Dancing-two Children Scholars of
M Ballon
, lately arriv'd from the
Opera at Paris
[
M
and
Mlle Salle
]; [particularly
Two Punchanellos, Two Harlequins
and
a Dame Ragonde
-; The Harlequins-the two Children
13
01 November 1716
@ Lincoln's Inn Fields
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Aurengzebe; Or, The Great Mogul
Dance:
A new
Dutch Skipper
-Thurmond Jr, Miss Smith;
Serious
and
Comic
Dancing-Salle, Mlle Salle
14
11 December 1716
@ Lincoln's Inn Fields
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Twin Rivals
Dance:
A new
comic
dance,
The Drunken Man
-Salle, Mlle Salle; A Scene in the French
And
romache
burlesqued with
Orestes
-Salle,
Hermione
-Mlle Salle;
Gr
and
Comic
Dance
, as17161115
15
22 April 1718
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Indian Emperour
Dance:
Serious
and
Comic
Dancing-
16
20 May 1718
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Distrest Mother
Afterpiece Title:
Hob
Dance:
Serious
and
Comic
Dancing-
17
23 May 1718
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Love Makes A Man
Dance:
Serious
and
Comic
Dancing-
18
14 April 1719
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Old Batchelor
Afterpiece Title:
The What D'ye Call It
Dance:
Serious
Dance
-Shaw, Mrs Santlow;
Comic
Dance
-Topham, Mrs Bicknell
19
02 September 1723
@ Richmond
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Pyramus
And
Thisbe
Afterpiece Title:
The Blind Beggar of Bednal Green; or, The Woman Never Vex'd
Music:
Concerto on small Flute-John Baston
Dance:
Several surprizing Entertainments of Rope Dancing-a Young Lad lately come from
France
, who flourishes the Colours, plays on the Violin,
and
turns several Times on the Rope without a Pole; Ladder Dancing-the greatest Performer in the World, who st
and
s on the Top Round of the Ladder, drinks a Glass of Wine, with his other H
and
above his Head in the Middle of the Stage; Dancing , both
Serious
and
Comic
,-Monsieur De Long Dents, Monsieur De Long Dents'@two@children , just arrived from
Paris
; To which will be added, Variety of Tumbling-Mons Tollard, others, just arrived from
Madrid
20
21 December 1724
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Stratagem
Dance:
Serious
and
Comic
Dancing-Miss Robinson, Young Rainton
21
14 April 1726
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Colombine Fille Scavante Et Marinete Captaine D'infanterie
Afterpiece Title:
Arlequin Courier de Batavia
Dance:
Serious
and
Comic
Dancing-Poitier, Boudet, Lalauze, Welman, Madam Boudet, Madam Violante
22
17 May 1727
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Love Makes A Man
Dance:
End I:
Comic
Dance-Duplessy, Mrs Walter; III:
La Matlotte
-Lally, Miss Tenoe; IV:
French Peasant
-a Gentleman just arrived from
Paris
; V:
Serious
Dance-Young Rainton, Miss Robinson
23
30 April 1728
@ Lincoln's Inn Fields
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The Mistake
Afterpiece Title:
Hob
Dance:
End I: Miss Latour; III: A new
Gr
and
Serious
Dance
by
Dupre
-Dupre, others; IV:
Flag Dance
-Nivelon; V:
Peasant
-LaLoge; End Farce: A new
Gr
and
Comic
Dance
-Dupre, others
Song:
II:
The Merry Month of May
-Miss Warren; End Farce:
The Merry Cobler's Tragical End
-Leveridge
24
05 May 1729
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Tamerlane
Afterpiece Title:
Harlequin Doctor Faustus
Dance:
Between the Acts: Variety of new Dances both
Serious
and
Comic
-
25
21 November 1729
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune
Dance:
Both
Serious
and
comic
Dancing-
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