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Mainpiece Title: The Town-shifts; Or, The Suburb-justice

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Mainpiece Title: How To Grow Rich

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

Entertainment: Afterpiece: [To conclude with Three Entire New Scenes, representing the Town and Harbour of Toulon; with a View of the Manoeuvring of the British, Spanish, and French Fleets, after the Surrender of the Town and Fortifications to the English] on the Twenty-ninth of August [1793]. In which, When in War on the Ocean-Davies; an Entire New Song [composed by Shield,-Incledon; The Music- [Selected by Shaw from Pepusch, Dr Arne, Arnold, Fisher, [Michael] Arne, Vincent, Dibdin, Reeve, Shield; The Dances-Byrn, Holland[; The Scenery-Hodgins, Walmsley, Phillips

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Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Ramble; Or, The Town-humours

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Town-fopp; Or, Sir Timothy Tawdry

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Town Fop; Or, Sir Timothy Tawdry

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Mainpiece Title: The Captain; Or, Town Miss

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Mainpiece Title: The English Frier; Or, The Town Sparks

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

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Mainpiece Title: The Pretenders; Or, The Town Unmask'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Mr Abell; having had the Honour lately, to Sing to the Nobility and Gentry of Richmond and the Neighbouring Towns, thinks himself bound in Gratitude...to return his most Humble Thanks with a Performance of New Musick, in English, Latin, Italian, French-Mr Abell; &c....being Honour'd and Accompany'd-the Greatest Masters of Europe

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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

Performances

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

Song: As17031023

Dance: Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Lucas, the Devonshire Girl

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Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

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Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Music: As17031222

Dance: Devonshire Girl, Claxton, others; Night Scene between Scaramouch Harlequin and Punchanello-

Song: As17031227

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Dance: As17040325

Song: As17040325

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Mainpiece Title: A Match In Newgate; Or, The Vintner Trick'd

Song: A dialogue from The Mad Lover representing a Drunken Officer and a Town Miss,-Boman, Pack

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Like Master Like Man

Song: That celebrated Dialogue-Boman, Pack, A Drunken Officer and a Town Miss, originally performed in The Mad Lover; A Country Dialogue-Mrs Willis, Short; A new Trumpet Song composed by Eccles-Davis

Dance: The last new Entry-Firbank, Firbank's Scholar; Blowsabella-Prince, Mrs Clark; Comic dances-Prince, others; A Right Irish Trot-a child of five years

Performances

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

Song: As17050410 particularly the Frost Music in Act IV of King Arthur, composed by Henry Purcell-

Dance: As17050303

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

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Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Dance: Three dances-Miss Bruce

Song: Mrs Hodgson, Cook; A new Dialogue between a Town Miss and a Drunken Soldier-Pack, Cook

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian, King Of Portugal

Song: Dialogue Between a Town Miss and a Drunken Officer-Pack, Cook

Dance: Italian Scaramouch-Layfield; Comical Dances-Godwin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Antient History Of King Lear

Song: Comical Songs and Dialogues from Wonders in the Sun-; particularly a Song-Mrs Willis representing one of Queen Elizabeth's Dames of Honour ; Comical Dialogue-Pack, Bowman , representing a vain promising Courtier and a Sycophant ; a Comical Dialogue-Dogget, Cook representing a Widdow in Tears for the Loss of her Husband and a Town Rake making Love to her

Dance: A new Entry-deBarques, Mrs Elford; French Peasant-Firbank, Mrs Bicknell; The famous Italian Scaramouch-Layfield

Performances

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

Song: Singing in English and Italian-Mrs Tofts

Dance: As17061130