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14 March 1748
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The
Rover; Or,
The
Banish'd Cavaliers
Afterpiece Title:
The
Muses
Looking
-
Glass
Song:
Singing In Italian and English-Miss Faulkner [Songs unspecified]
2
09 March 1749
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The
Provok'd Wife
Afterpiece Title:
The Muses Looking Glass
3
19 August 1784
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The
Clandestine Marriage
Afterpiece Title:
Foote, Weston, and Shuter in
the
Shades
Afterpiece Title:
The
Genius of Nonsense
Song:
As17840730
Monologue:
1784 08 19 Preceding mainpiece A
Looking
Glass
for
the
Times; or,
The
Charms of Money by Parsons in
the
Character of a distress'd Poet
4
08 December 1702
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The
Bath; Or,
The
Western Lass
Song:
Let
the
dreadful Engines
-Leveridge;
Since
the
Times are so Bad
-Leveridge, Mrs Lindsey;
Sing Sing All Ye
Muses
-Laroone, Hughs; A
Scotch Song
-Leveridge
Dance:
Between every Act:
Genteel Round
-a Devonshire Girl never seen on
the
Stage before, to
the
Harp alone; an
Irish Humour
,
The
Whip of Dunboyne
-Devonshire Girl, her Master; ano
the
r genteel dance-Devonshire Girl; a
Highland Lilt
-Devonshire Girl, her Master;
A Country Farmer's Daughter
-Devonshire Girl all in Natural Habits
5
05 June 1704
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The
Miser
Dance:
duRuel;
Miller's Dance
-Pinkeman
Entertainment:
And performing
the
se several Performances, first an Organ with three Voices,
the
n
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
o
the
r, and drinks a Health;
the
n plays several Tunes on
the
Violin, with fifteen o
the
r surprizing Performances which no man but himself can do-a Gentleman
6
06 March 1716
@ Lincoln's Inn Fields
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The
Fatal Vision
Song:
Sing All Ye
Muses
-Leveridge, Randal
7
04 April 1717
@ Lincoln's Inn Fields
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Julius Caesar
Song:
Genius of England
with a full Accompaniment of Instruments as it was never perform'd before-; and that Noble Martial Song for Two Voices,
Sing All ye
Muses
-
Dance:
Moreau, Thurmond Jr, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Schoolding
8
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 stands on
the
Top Round of
the
Ladder, drinks a
Glass
of Wine, with his o
the
r Hand 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, o
the
rs, just arrived from
Madrid
9
13 March 1734
@ King's Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Parnasso In Festa; Or, Apollo And
The
Muses
Celebrating
The
Nuptials Of
The
tis And Peleus
10
10 May 1742
@ Goodman's Fields
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The
Old Batchelor
Afterpiece Title:
The
Lying Valet
Dance:
I:
Dutch Skipper
-Master Morris; III:
A Running Footman
-Master Morris; V:
The
French Peasant
-Master Morris
Song:
IV:
Sing all ye
Muses
by
Purcell
-Stitchbury, a gentleman for his first appearance on any stage
11
07 May 1757
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
A Bold Stroke For A Wife
Afterpiece Title:
The
Lying Valet
Song:
I:
Sing all ye
Muses
, compos'd by
the
late
Mr H. Purcel
,-Beard, Champnes
Dance:
II: A
Hornpipe
-Walker; IV:
The
last new
Comic Dances
-
12
11 May 1761
@ Drury Lane Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The
Spanish Fryar
Afterpiece Title:
The
Chaplet
Song:
I:
Sing All Ye
Muses
(set by
Purcell
)-Kear, Champness; II, IV: Singing-Fawcett
13
02 May 1782
@ King's Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
A Grand Masked Ball, With A Supper
Dance:
End of Part I a new Dance (1st time; composed by Noverre), Apollon et let
Muses
by Le Picq (1st appearance in England), Nivelon, Mme Simonet, Mlle
The
odore, Sga Crespi, Mlle Baccelli; End of Part 11 a New Dance, demicharacter (composed by Noverre) by Le Picq, Nivelon, Slingsby, Mlle
The
odore, Sga Crespi, Mlle Baccelli
14
04 May 1782
@ King's Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
L'eroe Cinese
Dance:
End of Act I Pastoral Dance, as17811128; End of Act II Apollon et les
Muses
, as17820502; End of Opera New Dance, as17820502
15
07 May 1782
@ King's Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
La Contadina In Corte
Dance:
End of Act I Apollon et les
Muses
, as17820502; End of Opera New Dance, as17820502, but Mme Simonet in place of Nivelon
16
11 May 1782
@ King's Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
La Contadina In Corte
Dance:
End of Act I Apollon et let
Muses
, as17820509; End of Act II New Dance, as17820507
17
14 May 1782
@ King's Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
L'eroe Cinese
Dance:
End of Act I New Divertisement Dance, as17820216; End of Act II Apollon et les
Muses
, as17820509; End of Act III New Dance, as17820507
18
21 May 1782
@ King's Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
La Contadina In Corte
Dance:
End of Act I Apollon et les
Muses
, as17820509; End of Opera Medea and Jason, as17820411
19
01 June 1782
@ King's Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
La Contadina In Corte
Dance:
End of Act I Divertisement Dance, as17820525; End of Opera Apollon et les
Muses
, as17820502, but omitted: Mme Simonet, Mlle Baccelli
20
25 June 1782
@ King's Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
I Viaggiatori Felici
Dance:
End of Act I Apollon et les
Muses
, as17820601 End of Opera Medea and Jason, as17820411
21
01 March 1787
@ King's Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Giulio Cesare In Egitto
Dance:
End I: a new ballet, representing
The
Muses
on Mount Parnassus
-; End Opera: a new ballet,
The
Triumph of Julius Caesar
-
22
22 August 1788
@ Haymarket Theatre
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The
Catch Club [i
Afterpiece Title:
Gretna Green
Afterpiece Title:
Look before You Leap
Afterpiece Title:
The
Village Lawyer
Entertainment:
Monologue
End 1st piece:
George Alexander Stevens
's Original
Lecture on Heads
(
Head of Alexander
the
Great
,
Head of a Cherokee Chief
,
Head of a Quack-Doctor
,
Cuckold's Head
,
Nobody's Head
,
The
laughing and crying
Philosophers' Heads
,
Head of Flattery
, A
fine Lady's Head
,
Head of an Old Maid
,
Cleopatra's Head
,
Plain Moll's Head
,
Head of a Married Lady
)-Palmer
23
31 March 1789
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The
Castle Of Andalusia
Afterpiece Title:
Look before You Leap
Afterpiece Title:
Such Things Have Been
Song:
End 3rd piece:
Paddy's Ramble from Dublin to London
written and to be sung-Ryder
Entertainment:
Monologue
. In course of Entertainments:
Bucks have at Ye All
-Ryder
24
17 February 1791
@ Pantheon, Oxford Street
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
Armida
Dance:
End I:
Divertisement
by
D'Auberval
-
Ballet:
End II: an entire new Pantomime Ballet, in I act, composed by
D'Auberval
,
Amphion et Thalie; ou, L'Eleve des
Muses
. Principal dancers-[Didelot, Duquesney, Vigano, Fialon, Duchesne, Rousseau, Boisgirard, St.Aumer, Schweitzer, [Mme Didelot, Mme Vigano, Mlle
The
odore, [Mlle Gervaise Troche, Mlle Deligny, [Mlle L. Simonet, Mlle R. Simonet, Mlle Puisieux, [Mlle Bithmer Cadette, Mlle Bithmer, Mlle Rousseau, Mlle Vedie, Mlle Durand; [Cast from synopsis (
H. Reynell
[1791]:) Amphion (
eleve des
Muses
)-Didelot; Bergers de la Phocide-Duquesney, Vigano; Thalie (
Muse de la Comedie
)-Mme
The
odore D'Auberval; Jeune Nymphe de la Phocide (
eleve de Terpsichore
)-Mlle Gervaise Troche; Terpsichore (
Muse de la Danse
)-Mlle Leonore Simonet; Jeune Nymphe (favorite de Thalie)-Mlle Rosine Simonet; Melpomene (
Muse de la Tragedie
)-Mme Didelot; Clio (
Muse de L'Histoire
)-Mlle Augustine Bithmer; Erato (
Muse de la Poesie Lyrique
)-Mlle Bithmer; Euterpe (
Muse de la Musique
)-Mlle Rousseau; Uranie (
Muse de l'Astronomie
)-Mlle Jacobs; Calliope (
Muse de l'Eloquence
)-Mlle Birt; Polimnie (
Muse de la Rhetorique
)-Mlle Watson; Nymphes a la suite des
Muses
-Mlle Vedie, Mlle Durand, Mlle Berry, Mlle Bougier; Suite d'Amphion-Mme Fialon, Mme Duchesne, Mme Simonet, Mme Menage; Habitants de la Phocide-Mme Boisgirard, Mme Rousseau, Mme Omer, Mme Schweitzer
25
06 June 1800
@ Covent Garden
Performances
Mainpiece Title:
The
Birth Day
Afterpiece Title:
The
Deserter of Naples
Afterpiece Title:
St
Song:
End:
the
following songs illustrative of
the
Whims and Sports of
Bartholomew Fair
:
Raro Raro
-Delpini;
The
Wind blew fresh and fair
-Townsend;
By
the
gaily circling
Glass
-Linton; a
New Song
(composed by
Walsh
, and written in Commemoration of
His Majesty
's Providential Escape [from assassination; see
dl
, 15 May])-Incledon
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