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5726 results for: Keyword - Comical Songs, Scots, English, and Italian
We found 2756 matches on Performance Title, 2315 matches on Performance Comments, 1352 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3301
28 March 1706 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Song: As17060227

Dance: duRuel, Mrs duRuel, Cherrier, Mrs Santlow; particularly Harlequin Dance-. *'s Comical Dance-Firbank, Mrs Bignall; Scaramouch, Tub Dance-Layfield

Performance Comment: *'s Comical Dance-Firbank, Mrs Bignall; Scaramouch, Tub Dance-Layfield.
Cast
Role: 's Comical Dance Actor: Firbank, Mrs Bignall

Dance: duRuel, Mrs duRuel, Cherrier, Mrs Santlow; particularly Harlequin Dance-

3302
05 April 1706 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By Thomas D'Urfey.] Mainpiece: a Comical Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonders In The Sun Or The Kingdom Of The Birds

Performance Comment: Edition of 1706 lists no actors' names. Prologue-; Epilogue [begun-Mrs Porter [, The Parrot, a young girl, standing by]., The Parrot, a young girl, standing by].

3303
25 February 1707 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Oldfield. Tickets for The Comical Lovers [advertised on 22 Feb. for this day] taken at this play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

3304
16 March 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: With the Comical Interlude of Floro and Blesa set to Musick by the famous Signior Bononcini. [In Daily Courant, 15 March, the premiere of Hydaspes had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Floro and Blesa

Dance: Between acts: Thurmond Jr, Mrs Bicknell

3305
11 April 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: The Third piece: A Comical Masque of Musick

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Afterpiece Title: Rogers Wedding

3306
15 September 1715 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: Ryder (p. 101): We first went into Norris's booth and then into Penkethman and Bullock booth. They are both of them very mean and fit only to make us laugh. The farces are made up out of several very comical parts of other plays which are collected together. Penkethman and Bullock are a mere farce to look at them only; they have both of them so very simple a look, but yet in a very different kind. There was the Duke of Montague and some compnay of fashion. There was rope dancing and tumbling at Penkethman and Bullock. It was very low life represented. There were now and then some good humorous turns came in that made us laugh with a just pleasure

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

3307
24 August 1719 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At Mr Penkethman's and Mr Miller's Booth, at the Horns-Inn at Pye Corner, entering into Smithfield. A Celebrated Droll, Shewing the Pomp and Grandeur she lived in King Edward the IVth's Time, and the Misery she fell into upon Richard Duke of Gloucester's being made Protector. How she was oblig'd to do Penance in a white Sheet, carrying a lighted Torch bare Foot thro' the City, and then turn'd out to Starve; as also how she wandering met with her Husband, and the Tragick End of them Both. With the comical and diverting Humours of Sir Anthony Noodle, a foolish Courtier, and his Man Weezel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Song:

Dance:

3308
24 September 1723 @ Southwark

Event Comment: At Penkethman's and Dicky's Booth in Southwark. Mainpiece: a Tragi-Comical Interlude. No Person, except the Author, to be admitted behind the Scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Noble Stroller Or The Humours Of Avignon And Cripplegate

3309
29 February 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Afterpiece: With several new Scenes of Action, and comical Incidents neverperformed before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distressed Mother

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

3310
22 August 1724 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prodigal Son Or The Libertine Reclaimed Wherein Is Represented His Vicious Life And The Devil Appearing To Him To Go On In His Wickedness And The Miserable State He Was Brought To Be His Extravagance Being Reduced To That Extremity That He Was Forced To Eat Husks With The Swine To Satisfy His Hunger Also An Angel Descending Exhorting Him To Repent And Return To His Father Who Receives Him With Great Joy

Performance Comment: With the Comical Humours of his Man Roger. Roger-Harper; Country Farmer-Aston; Lucia-Mrs Spiller.

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Harlequin and Colombine

Entertainment: Drunken Man-Harper

3311
28 October 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. N.B. This being the first Time of Acting on Account of Subscriptions, the General Tickets will be sent to the Subscribers. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Most Knowing Least Understanding Or Harlequins Metamorphosis Viz

Performance Comment: Chimney Sweeper, Blackmoor, Astrologer, Moving Statue, Infant, Zodiack, and Diana; With The Comical Transformation of Brighella and Doctor into Mercurius and Apollo.

Afterpiece Title: The Pleasant Marriage Concluding with The Singing Deities

Dance: Dancing and other Decorations proper to the Play , entirely new and diverting-

3312
30 November 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Disgrazie Darlechino Viz

Performance Comment: Harlequin's Misfortune; or, His Marriage Interrupted by Brighella's Cunning: With his Comical Circumcision. none listed in edition of 1726.

Dance: As17260928

3313
07 December 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Furbarie Per Vendetta Or Bridghellas Revenge Contrariated By Argentina With Harlequins Transformation Viz

Performance Comment: a Physician, Master of Musick, Madam Patasia, or Lady Pancake, Swaggerer, Giant, and Grand Bashaw; Together with his Comical Egress and Regress to and from the Tower.

3314
24 August 1728 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At Lee-Harper-Spiller Booth. Mainpiece: With all proper Decorations of Scenery, Machinery, &c. particularly the Sea where Leander was drown'd with Neptune, Tritons and Mermaids, floating. With the Comical Humours of Otter and Nurse. Afterpiece: [By Thomas Walker. Cast not listed in edition of 1728.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ero And Leander

Afterpiece Title: The Quakers Opera or The Escapes of Jack Sheppard

3315
06 September 1728 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Royal Champion Or St

Performance Comment: George for England , Shewing how St. George in his Travels fell in Love with the beautiful Sabrina, Daughter to the King of Egypt, and slew a Monstrous Dragon that was to have Devour'd her, and also Kill'd the great Giant Demigorean; With the Comical Humours of Rumbelo.

3316
01 August 1730 @ Tottenham Court

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A Comical Tragival Farcical Droll. Afterpiece: A celebrated Operatical Puppet-Show. No Wires, all alive. At Reynolds' Booth. [Advertised also on 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rum Duke And The Queer Duke Or A Medley Of Mirth And Sorrow

Afterpiece Title: Punchs Oratory or The Pleasures of the Town Containing several diverting Passages

Performance Comment: ..a very elegant and learned Dispute between Punch and another great Orator: Punch's Family Lectures; or, Joan's Chimes on her Tongue to some Tune. Punch-Reynolds; Joan-Mrs Egleton; from lif; Orator-Jones; Opera-Stoppelaer; Goddess of Nonsense-Mrs Mullart; Mrs Novel-Mrs Nokes.

Dance: St.Luce

3317
16 January 1734 @ Bloomsbury

Event Comment: Mr Anthony Aston, commonly call'd Tony Aston . . . His Comical and Unparallelled Medley at the Bouffler's Tavern. 6 P.M. Tickets 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tony Astons Medley

Performance Comment: Gomez and Elvira (Spanish Fryar); Humours of Scrub (Stratagem); Humours of Teague (Committee); Humours of Hob (Country Wake); Fondlewife and Laetitia (old Batchelor); Ben and Prue (Love for Jjjve); Jerry Blackacre (Plain Dealer); Vellum and Abigail (Drummer). And the Drunken Man .

3318
28 March 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Balourd

Dance: I: Les Warriors. II: Les Transfigurations. III: The Prisoner. IV: Comical Pantomime Dance. V: Pierot and Peraitte. Wooden Shoe Dance. Pantomime after the Venetian Manner. All by Castiglione

Performance Comment: II: Les Transfigurations. III: The Prisoner. IV: Comical Pantomime Dance. V: Pierot and Peraitte. Wooden Shoe Dance. Pantomime after the Venetian Manner. All by Castiglione .

3319
01 May 1738 @ George Tavern

Event Comment: TTony Aston from Bath. At the George Tavern at Charing-Cross...exhibits his most Learned, Serious, Comical and Whimcal Extra-Rhapsodical Declamation. 7 p.m. 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Declamation

3320
17 May 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Chetwood and Miss Brett. Afterpiece: Not Acted these Twenty-five Years. A Comical Tragedy of two short Acts. Decorated with proper Cloaths, Scenes, Musick, and Attendants. [Tickets at Chetwood's Lodgings, Blue Door, in Maiden Lane, cg.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Queans With the odd Humours of little Alexander the Great

Performance Comment: Alexander-Cross; Clytus-Harper; Hephestion-Woodward; Lysimachus-Hill; Cassander-Cole; Perdiccas-Winstone; Aristander-Furnival; Philip-Marshall; Sysigambis-Ray; Parisatis-Green; Roxana-Macklin; Statira-Turbutt.
Cast
Role: Alexander Actor: Cross
Role: Cassander Actor: Cole
Role: Aristander Actor: Furnival

Dance: I: Punch-Master Ferg; II: A new Sailor's Dance-Phillips; III: Dance of Turks-Muilment; End I Afterpiece: Pierrots-Pelling, Vallois; II: Drunken Peasant (for the Entertainment of Alexander)-Phillips; III: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright

Song: IV: See from the Silent Groves-Beard

Music: H$Handel's Water Musick-; with Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Woodbridge, his first appearance here

3321
22 August 1741 @ New Wells, London Spa, Clerkenwell

Event Comment: During the summer of 1741, at the New Wells, London Spaw, Clerkenwell, the proprietor presented daily programs of pantomime, singing, and dancing. In midsummer, however, he added a single play to his program but did not list the cast. The sequence of plays included: July 9-16: Flora; or, Hob in the Well. July 17-25: Damon and Phillida. July 27-August 10: The Honest Yorkshireman. August 11-17: The Mock Doctor. August 24-September 7: The Generous Free-Mason; or, The Constant Lady; With the Comical Humours of Squire Noodle and his Man Doodle

Performances

3322
26 August 1742 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: FFawkes and Pinchbeck's Booth, end of Hosier Lane, West Smithfield. Noon to 10 p.m. Boxes 2s. Pit 1s. Gallery 6d. Mainpiece: Written by Henry Fielding, Esq. Afterpiece: The Present Tense...by Punch's Company of comical Tragedians from the Haymarket [i.e., a puppet show]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Humours Of Covent Garden Or The Covent Garden Tragedy

Afterpiece Title: The Universal Monarch Defeated or The Queen of Hungary Triumphant

Entertainment: While the booth is filling, the Audience will be diverted by Curious Performances-Ruffian Boy

3323
01 May 1744 @ May Fair

Event Comment: DDaniel and Smith's Great Theatrical Booth will be perform'd a Droll with the Comical Humours of his Squire Pancho, etc....the memorable battle betwixt his Donship and the Windmillv. [Announced for the entire time of May Fair, May 1-15, but no bill after 30 April.] Noon to nine p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Quixote De Le Mancha

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Captive

Song: Convers, Miss Clarke

3324
24 August 1748 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At Bridges, Cross, Burton and Vaughan's Great Theatrical Booth in the George Inn Yard, will be presented an Historical Drama never acted before call'd The Northern Heroes; or, The Bloody Contest between Charles XII, King of Sweden, and Peter the Great, Czar of Muscovy, with the Loves of Count Gillensternia, a Swedish General and the Fair Elimira, a Russian Princess, Containing the most remarkable Events of that Time; and concluding with the Memorable Battle of Pultowav, and Charles's Retreat into the Turkish Dominionv. Interspers'd with a Comic Interlude (never perform'd before) called The Volunteers; or, the Adventures of Roderick Random and his Friend Strap. Also the Comical Humours and Amours of Corporal Garbage and Serjeant Slim, with Mrs Vanspriggen the Swedish Sutler's Widow; the merry Pranks of her foolish son Janny, and several other diverting incidents. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. First Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d. To begin each Day at Twelve o'clock. [This notice repeated during "the short Time of the Fair." Notice repeated 24, 26, 27 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Northern Heros

Afterpiece Title: The Volunteers or The Adventures of Roderick Random and his Friend Strap

Performance Comment: Roderick Random-Cross; Garbage-Bridges; Slim-Storer; Strap-Paddick; Widow Vanspriggen-Mrs Bridges; Moll-Mrs Vaughan; Mrs Rank-Miss Ferguson; Mrs File-Mrs Shawford; Mrs Machegogan-Mrs Paddick; Madge-Miss Tyler; Janny-Vaughan.
Cast
Role: Roderick Random Actor: Cross

Dance: Mr Shawford, Mrs Shawford, Master Cross, Mrs Vaughan

3325
24 August 1748 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At Lee and Yeates Sen and Jun great Theatrical Booth...will be reviv'd that celebrated Droll, call'd The Unnatural Parents; or, The Fair Maid of the West. Shewing the Manner of her being forced to wander from Home, by the Cruelty of her Parents and beg her Bread; and directs her to a Nobleman's House: How she was there taken in as a Servant; and, at length, for her Beauty and modest Behaviour, married to a Gentleman of great Fortune; with her Return to her Parents, and their happy Reconciliation. Also the Comical Humours and Adventures of Trusty her Father's Man, and the three Witches. The Scenes and Cloaths are entirely new; and the Droll the same that was perform'd by Mrs Lee 15 Years ago with great Applause. Boxes: 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. First Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d. To begin each Day at Twelve o'Clock. [Notice repeated 25, 26, 27 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unnatural Parents

Dance: The original Dance-Three Wild Cats of the Wood; Between the Acts: Dancing-Adams, Mrs Ogden

Music: A Good Band of Musick