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109 results for: Title - The Folly of Age

1
18 May 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Song: End IV: Listen to the Voice of Love-Master Welsh

Music: End: A Lilliputian Performance-; consisting of a Quintetto for First Violin-Master Pinto, aged 11 years; Second Violin-Master Sharp, aged 11; Violoncello-Master Ware, aged 10; Piano Forte-Miss Hoffman, aged 9; Voice-Master Welsh. The Musick composed expressly for the Occasion by Dr Arnold

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18 May 1721 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Dance: Son, age 8, and Daughter, age 7 of Sandham; A Comic Scene-Harper, mimicking a Drunken Man

3
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

4
09 June 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mask'd Friend

Afterpiece Title: The Folly of Age; or, The Accomplished Lady

Afterpiece Title: Barataria

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Medley

Dance: In 2nd piece: A la Parisot, Le Pas Russe-Delpini

Song: In 2nd piece: La Verginella, My dear Molly@oh! what Folly (composed by Carter)-Delpini

Entertainment: Vaudeville. In 4th piece: The Farm Yard- (from The Rape of Proserpine), with the Birth of Harlequin, and his Emancipation from the Egg Shell; The favorite Scene from Aladin of Pantaloon's Death-, and the Whimsical Lamentation of Pierrot; A Jump through a Hogshead of Fire-; and the celebrated Dying and Skeleton Scenes-

5
December 1696 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Lady; Or, Folly Reclaim'd

6
01 March 1701 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humours Of The Age

7
13 March 1701 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humours Of The Age

8
25 August 1701 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

Dance: [By] 6 Companies of Rope Dancers; who] [are joyned in one, they being the greatest Performers of Men, Women, and Children, that could be found beyond the Seas, where will be performed such wonderful variety of Dancing, Vaulting, Walking on the Slack Rope, the Sloaping Rope-; [you will see a wonderful Girl of 10 years of Age, who walk backward up the sloaping Rope-Girl of 10 years[, driving a Wheel-barrow behind her; [also you will see the Great Italian Master, who not only passes all that has yet been seen upon the low Rope, [but he Dances[ without a Pole upon the Head of a Mast [as high as the Booth will permit, and afterwards stands upon his Head on the same-Great Italian Master; [You will also be entertained with the many Conceits of an Italian Scaramouch, who Dances on the Rope [with 2 Children and a Dog in a Wheel-barrow, and a Duck on his Head-Italian Scaramouch

Dance: Such variety of Dancing, Vaulting, Walking on the Slack/Rope, Tumbling, as has never been seen in this Fair before-

9
24 February 1703 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the best Italian and English Masters; an Italian Sonata on the Trumpet-a Boy of about Eight Years of age, who never yet perform'd in Publick

10
30 June 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humour Of The Age

Afterpiece Title: An Interlude of City Customs

Dance: DuRuel; Also an extraordinary comical entertainment, Scaramouch Harlequin and Punchinello-

11
05 June 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Dance: duRuel; Miller's Dance-Pinkeman

Entertainment: And performing these several Performances, first an Organ with three Voices, then the Double Curtel, the Flute, the Bells, the Huntsman, the Horn, Pack of Dogs, all with his Mouth-Mr Clinch of Barnet; and an old Woman of Fourscore Years of Age nursing her Grand/Child all which he does open on the Stage-Mr Clinch; Next performing several Mimick Entertainments on the Ladder, first he stands on the top-round with a Bottle in one hand, and a Glass in the other, and drinks a Health; then plays several Tunes on the Violin, with fifteen other surprizing Performances which no man but himself can do-a Gentleman

12
24 July 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Madam Fickle; Or, The Witty False One

Song: The Turky/Cock Music-Mrs Willis; a comical country dialogue-Mrs Willis, Cook; a song-older of Mrs Willis' daughters; Eccles' three-part song set for the Queen's Birthday-Short, Cook, Davis

Dance: Irish Trot-younger of Mrs Willis' daughters, age five

13
06 December 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens; Or, The Man Hater

Music: A Masque by the late Mr Henry Purcell-; wherein Mr Leveridge performs the Part of Bacchus and a little Girl of Ten Years of Age the Part of Cupid

Dance: Cherrier, Mrs duRuel, Mrs Moss

14
18 January 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Farewell Folly; Or, The Younger The Wiser

15
19 January 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Farewell Folly

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20 January 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Farewell Folly

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22 January 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Farewell Folly

18
23 January 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Farewell Folly

Song: As17041123

Dance: As17041129

19
07 February 1705 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Farewell Folly

Song: As17041123

Dance: Several Entertainments of Dancing which were perform'd last Night before Her Majesty-duRuel, Mrs duRuel

20
07 September 1710 @ Greenwich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar (one Scene)

Afterpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Entertainment: Rope/Dancing after the French, Italian, and Bohemian Manner-; also a Stiff Rope, Vaulting the Slack Rope beyond Imagination-little Girl of 4 Years of Age

21
07 April 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wake

Music: A Solo to be performed on the Stage by the famous-Matthew Dubourg a Youth of 12 Years of Age

Dance: As17150305

22
03 January 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The School of Folly

Dance: Dances for the afterpiece composed by DuPre-DuPre, Boval, Cook, Pelling, Cook Jr, Newhouse, Mlle Gautier, Mrs Schoolding, Mlle Corail, Miss Schoolding Jr

23
08 January 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Afterpiece Title: The School of Folly

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Executed; or, The Farmer Disappointed

24
10 January 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

Afterpiece Title: The School of Folly

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Executed

Dance: Dupre; Grand Indian Dance-Moreau

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08 March 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Dance: delaGarde's Two Sons, Miss Francis; Comic Dance-Sandham's Son who is not Eight Years of Age, and never perform'd on any Stage before