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58 results for: Title - The Whim

1
14 June 1703 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Villain

Song: Henry Purcell's celebrated Trumpet Song, The Fife and Harmony of War-; The Mad Song in Don Quixote-Boman, by request

Dance: Chacone-Mrs Elford; a new Entry-Fairbank; Venetian, a new Whim-Godwin

Music: New Italian Trumpet Sonatas-

2
19 June 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Song: Leveridge; particularly Genius of England-

Dance: DuRuel; Scotch Whim-Mrs Bicknell

Entertainment: Imitations.As17030618

3
08 June 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caesar Borgia; Son Of Pope Alexander Vi

Song: Mrs Hodgson; A two/part song-Cook, Davis; Indian Trumpet Song-Davis; Song in Imitation of an Old Woman, Irish Whim-Mrs Willis

Music: A new Set of Airs for the Trumpet Hautboys and Violins composed by Corbett-

Dance: Miss Evans, Clark, Firbank, Firbank's scholar

4
09 August 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Quixote

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Song: Mrs Hodgson, Cook, Mrs Clark

Dance: Blousabella-Prince, Mrs Clark; Scotch Whim, Irish Trot-Mrs Evans

5
29 May 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: English Maggot-Lally Jr, Mrs Walter; V: Harlequin-Miss Brett; End Farce: The Midsummer Whim (new)-Lally Jr, Holt, Mrs Walter, Mrs D'Lorme

Song: In I: Miss Raftor; End IV: E. Roberts

6
06 June 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Debauchees

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Pieraite-Holt, Mrs Walter; II: Harlequin-Miss Brett; III: English Maggot-Lally Jr, Mrs Walter; End Farce: Midsummer Whim-Lally Jr, Mrs Walter, Holt, Mrs D'Lorme

7
23 June 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Debauchees

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor; or, The Dumb Lady Cur'd

Dance: I: The Pieraite-Holt, Mrs Walter; II: Harlequin-Miss Brett; III: English Maggot-Lally Jr, Mrs Walter; End Afterpiece: Midsummer Whim, as17320606

8
28 June 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Debauchees

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: Harlequin-Miss Brett; III: English Maggot-Lally Jr, Mrs Walter; End Afterpiece: Midsummer Whim, as17320606

9
07 July 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Debauchees

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: Harlequin-Miss Brett; II: Dance after the Highland Manner-Gentleman for his Diversion; III: Midsummer Whim, as17320606 End Farce: English Maggot-Lally Jr, Mrs Walter

Music: III: Handel's Water Musick-; Preamble on the Kettle@Drums-Job Baker

10
13 December 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: Whim by F. Tench and Miss Mann. II: Scaramouch by Janno. III: Tambourine by Miss Robinson. IV: La Bagatell by Essex and Miss La Tour. V: Harlequin by Nivelon

11
05 February 1734 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: The Whim by Miss Wherrit and Miss Sandham. Scotch Dance by Mrs Bullock. Two Pierrots by Vallois and J. Delagarde

12
24 April 1734 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: I: The Whim by Miss Wherrit and Miss Sandham. III: Scots Dance by Vallois and Mrs Bullock. V: Milk Pail Dance

Song: IV: By Mr Nichols

13
31 December 1734 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Chymical Counterfeits

Dance: Whim by Mrs Woodward and Miss Sandham. La Follette c'est Ravizee by Tench and Mrs Woodward

14
25 March 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: I: The Whim by Delamayne. II: The English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. IV: By Mlle Anne Roland. V: Rover by Essex, Mrs Walter, Miss Mann, &c

15
17 April 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Whim; or, The Merry Cheat

Song: Leveridge, Salway

Dance: Glover, Mlle Roland, Mechel

16
07 May 1745 @ May Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Argalus And Parthenia

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Whim; or, A True Touch of the Times

17
03 September 1745 @ James Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bacchus And Circe

Afterpiece Title: As You Like It; or, Harlequin's Whim

Dance: Miss Rayner

18
15 September 1746 @ New Wells, London Spa, Clerkenwell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Strephon And Delia

Afterpiece Title: As You Like It; or, Harlequin's Whim

Music: HHercules and Omphale-

19
25 January 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: To conclude with: Country Dance called The Whim-

20
18 July 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The British Roratory

Dance: As17540716 but Entertainment of Music and Dancing-_; The Old Woman's Whim-a company of Lilliputians

21
19 September 1754 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Woman's Oratory

Afterpiece Title: [The Birth of Harlequin; or, The Old Woman's Whim

Dance: To conclude with A Dance in the Ancient British Taste-Choice Spirits from Comus's Court

Music: [NNew Concerto for the Tambour de Basque-

22
24 April 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Afterpiece Title: The Maiden Whim; or, The Critical Minute

23
15 June 1757 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Medley Concert; Or, An Impromptu Of Whim, Novelty And Amusement

24
02 September 1757 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Medley Concert; Or, An Impromptu Of Whim And Novelty

Afterpiece Title: With a Lilliputian Pantomime call'dHarlequin's Frolic; or, A Voyage to Prussia

25
27 April 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: I: (By Particular Desire) a Minuet-Aldridge, Mrs Bulkley; III: The Tambourine, as17690314 End: A New Dance call'd the Whim-Aldridge, Sga Manesiere