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876 results for: Title - The Distressed Sailor

1
06 April 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Dutch and Scotch Contention

Dance: WWooden Shoe Dance-Nivelon; French Sailor-Salle, Laguerre; Flag Dance-Nivelon; Grand Comic Dance of Sailors-; Hornpipe-Salle in the Character of a Boatswain, Being his first Attempt in that Way

2
27 March 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fond Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance: A new Dance (in the Footing Manner) between a Sailor and a Country Girl by Jones-; the Sailor-Jones, the +Country Lass- Mrs Ogden

3
22 April 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: CClown-Nivelon; French Sailors-Lalauze, Mlle Roland; Grecian Sailors-Glover

4
02 May 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Second

Dance: I: Je ne scai quoy-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates; II: Comic Dance-Nivelon, Mrs LeBrun; III: French Sailors-Lalauze, Mlle Roland; V: Grecian Sailors-Glover

Song: II: The Roast Beef of Old England-Leveridge; IV: Since Times are so bad-Leveridge, Salway

5
10 May 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: A Comic Dance-Richardson, Miss Cantrel; Je ne scai quoi-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates; French Sailors-Lalauze, Mlle Roland; Grecian Sailors-Glover

Song: A New Cantata-Roberts; The Roast Beef of Old England-Leveridge

6
03 September 1753 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distressed Sailor; Or, The Merry Humours Of The Ladies Of Pleasure

Entertainment: Wire@Walking-Evans

7
04 September 1753 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distressed Sailor

Entertainment: Wire@Walking-Evans, Vanhout

8
05 September 1753 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distressed Sailor

Entertainment: As17530904

9
13 October 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester (comedy)

Dance: II: A New Serious Dance, call'd The Shipwreck; or +The Distressed Lovers-Gardiner (1st appearance that stage), Mrs Vernon; IV: A new Comic Dance call'd The Press Gang; or +The Sailor's Farewell-Gardiner, Mrs Vernon

Song: III: Miss Young

10
29 May 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: I: The last new Comic Dance-Sg and Sga Giorgi; II: The Cow Keepers, as17600313 but Mrs _Vernon, Mrs Preston

Song: III: By Desire, The Sailor's Song-Champnes, and a Dance in character by the Sailor

11
02 April 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Charles The First

Afterpiece Title: True Blue

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Dance: 2nd piece: a Dance of Sailors Sailor's Dance-Aldridge

12
16 April 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: End: The Wapping Landlady; or, The Sailor in Distress-

Entertainment: Monologue. After Dancing: fable, The Old Man Son and Ass-Ryder; End afterpiece: Bucks have at ye All-Ryder

13
18 September 1753 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sham Physician; Or, Trick For Trick

Afterpiece Title: The Distress'd Sailor; or, The Comical Humours of the Wapping Landlady

Entertainment: Slack Wire-a Gentleman

14
19 September 1753 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sham Physician

Afterpiece Title: The Distress'd Sailor

15
20 September 1753 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sham Physician

Afterpiece Title: The Distress'd Sailor

16
21 September 1753 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sham Physician

Afterpiece Title: The Distress'd Sailor

17
January 1686 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Banditti; Or, A Ladies Distress

18
April 1698 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Beauty In Distress

19
March 1701 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Distress

20
24 February 1707 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Song: Leveridge, Lawrence, others

Music: Instrumental Music-the best Masters

Dance: duRuel, Mrs Evans, others; particularly a new dance, Three Sailors and Their Wives-

21
24 July 1710 @ Greenwich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Dance: Original Sailor's Dance-Commodore Flip, Commodore Flip's/Boadly/Crew

22
30 May 1712 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Dance: Four Scaramouches-Prince, l'Abbe Jr, Sandham, Birkhead; Dutch Skipper-Sandham; Sailor's Jig-a Gentleman for his Diversion

Song: A dialogue-Pack, Birkhead

23
10 January 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Dance: French Sailors-DuPre, Miss Schoolding; Also Moreau, Bovil, Miss Russell

24
14 November 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist; Or, The Sham Doctor

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Dance: Moreau, Shaw, Thurmond Jr, Mrs Cross, Mrs Schoolding, Miss Smith; French Sailor-Shaw, Mrs Schoolding; Dutch Skipper-Thurmond Jr, Miss Smith

25
29 April 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Doctor; or, The Intriguing Dame

Dance: French Sailor-Shaw, Miss Schoolding; Miss Schoolding's Sister

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