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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(perftitleclean,performancetitle) "The April Fool; or The Follies of a Night"/1)') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=150, performancetitle=100), ranker=wordcount

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675 results for: Title - The April Fool; or, The Follies of a Night

1
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

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13 June 1676 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: No Fool Like Ye Old Fool

3
17 November 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

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

Song:

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28 April 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Farmer Deceiv'd [Harlequin Statue]

Dance: II: La Petite Bergere-Miss Lalauze (Eight years of age) being her fourth appearance on the stage [see17590425; 23 April 1760; 22 April 1761]; IV: A Serious Dance-Miss Lalauze; V: [A Ball Dance, call'd The Louvre, Minuet-a Young Gentleman (Eight years of age, a scholar to Mr Lalauze, his first appearance on any stage), Miss Lalauze

Entertainment: After: By Particular Desire, for this night only Hippisley's Drunken Man-Shuter

5
28 April 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood

Afterpiece Title: The April Fool

Dance: End of mainpiece The Piping Pedlar [performers not listed, but sec 12 Nov. 1785]

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece The Highland laddie (the Music by Dr Hayes) by Johnstone

6
05 May 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zenobi A

Afterpiece Title: The April Fool

Dance: End of Epilogue, as17860504

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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

8
11 September 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

9
29 September 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream

10
06 January 1663 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will

11
October 1663 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Marriage Night

12
01 November 1664 @ Inner Temple

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Night Walker; Or, The Little Thief

13
20 March 1667 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wedding Night

14
21 March 1667 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Marriage Night

15
20 January 1669 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

16
18 November 1676 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fool Turn'd Critick

17
June 1678 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Squire Oldsapp; Or, The Night-adventurers

18
March 1679 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Feign'd Curtizans; Or, A Night's Intrigue

19
06 March 1680 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Feign'd Curtizans; Or, A Night's Intrigue

20
April 1688 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Fool's Preferment; Or, The Three Dukes Of Dunstable

21
March 1689 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fortune-hunters; Or, Two Fools Well Met

22
January 1696 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

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

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22 August 1702 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew; Or, The Merry Beggars

Dance: Dance between Two Frenchmen and two Frenchwomen-; Night Scene by a Harlequin and a Scaramouch , after the Italian manner,-Serene, another Person lately arrived in England

Entertainment: The famous Mr Clench of Barnet, who will perform an Organ with 3 Voices, the double Curtell the Flute and the Bells with the Mouth-Mr Clench; the Huntsman the Hounds and the Pack of Dogs-Mr Clench; with vaulting on the Horse-

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20 October 1702 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ibrahim; The 13th Emperor Of The Turks

Song: A new song-Mrs Shaw, never perform'd before, compos'd by a Gentleman lately arriv'd from Dublin

Music: An Extraordinary Entertainment , all of Flutes-Mr Paisible

Dance: A Mimick Night Scene- after the Italian Manner by a newScaramouch, Harlequin; A new dance-Cottin, Mrs Bicknell

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18 June 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

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

Music: Entertainment of flute music-Bannister, Bannister's son; A new instrumental piece-the best hands

Dance: The Highland, The Whip of Dunboyne-Claxton

Entertainment: Imitations. The Famous Mr Clynch will for this once, at the desire of several Persons of Quality, perform his Imitation of an Organ with 3 Voices, the Double Curtel, the Bells, the Huntsman with his Horn and Pack of Dogs-Mr Clynch; All which he performs with his Mouth on the open Stage, being what no Man besides himself could ever yet attain to