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6683 results for: Keyword - Dance
We found 4004 matches on Performance Title, 3242 matches on Roles/Actors, 1418 matches on Performance Comments, 470 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

4401
05 July 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suicide

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece The Merry Lasses [performers not listed, but see17850623; End of Act III Dance by Giorgi's Scholars

4402
07 October 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fontainbleau Or Our Way In France

Afterpiece Title: Barnabv Brittle

Dance: End of mainpiece a new dance (composed by Byrn) The Recruiting Serjeant by Byrn, Ratchford, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Goodwin

4403
10 October 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

Dance: End of mainpiece Leap Year; or, A New Way of Wooing (composed by Byrn) by Byrn, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Goodwin; In Act I of afterpiece Dance by Byrn, Miss Andre, Miss Besford

4404
24 October 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Caldron

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece a new Comic Dance, The Market [on 28 Oct., and thereafter, entitled The Market-Day], by Hamoir and Mrs Sutton; In afterpiece, as17851018

4405
02 November 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Dance: In Act II of mainpiece a Masquerade Dance incident to the Play; End of mainpiece The Wapping Landlady by Blurton, Rayner, Miss Besford

4406
07 November 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

Dance: End of mainpiece The Wapping Landlady, as17851102; In Act I of afterpiece Dance, as17851010, but Mrs Goodwin in place of Miss Andre

4407
10 November 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Choleric Fathers

Afterpiece Title: Appearance is against Them

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece The Recruiting Serjeant [performers not listed (see17851007)]; End of mainpiece new dance, The Piping Pedlar, by Byrn and Mrs Goodwin

4408
23 November 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: End of mainpiece The Recruiting Serjeant, as17851007; Afterpiece to conclude with a Grand Dance. Chief of the Bostanges-Byrn; Principal Female Dancers-Mrs Ratchford, Miss Besford

Performance Comment: Chief of the Bostanges-Byrn; Principal Female Dancers-Mrs Ratchford, Miss Besford .
Cast
Role: Principal Female Dancers Actor: Mrs Ratchford, Miss Besford

4409
05 January 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: Arthur and Emmeline

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece a new Scotch Dance, The Lucky Return, by Williamson, Mrs Sutton, Miss J. Stageldoir, and others

4410
24 January 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Omai

Dance: Masquerade Dance, as17851102

4411
04 March 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ladys Last Stake

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Dance: End of Act IV of mainpiece a new dance, The Drunken Sailor Reclaim'd, by Byrn, Ratchford, Mrs Goodwin, Miss Besford

4412
06 March 1786 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane The Great

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: After the Imitations, The Dwarf Dance by Powel

Song: Between the acts of mainpiece several Catches and Glees by some of the principal performers in London. imitations. End of mainpiece Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical, by Decastro

4413
21 March 1786 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Perseo

Dance: End of Act I Divertissement Villageois, as17860218; End of Act II Dance incidental to the Opera by Henry, Duquesney Qun.], the two Mlles Simonet; End of Opera New Divertissement, as17860311athi

4414
18 April 1786 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Marchese Tulipano With The Dance Of Le Premier Navigateur Intended For This Evening Is By Particular Desire Postponed To Thursday Next

4415
26 April 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Bewitchd

Afterpiece Title: End of Act I of mainpiece Jewish Education

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: In Act V of mainpiece a Masquerade and Dance [performers not listed]

Song: In Act IV of mainpiece a song in character by Mrs Crouch

Monologue: 1786 04 26 End of mainpiece John Gilpin's Ride by Baddeley

4416
10 May 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Follies Of A Day

Afterpiece Title: True Blue or The Parting Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: In 2nd piece Dance incident to the piece by Blurton

Song: End of Act II of 1st piece The Tobacco Box by Mr and Miss Brett

4417
11 May 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bird In A Cage

Afterpiece Title: Small Talk or The Westminster Boy

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece a Grand Dance, as17860424; End of Act I of afterpiece Leap Year, as17860227

4418
13 May 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: In Act II of mainpiece a Banquet and Masquerade Dance [performers not listed]; End of mainpiece Leap Year, as17851010

4419
30 June 1786 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: The Widows Vow

Dance: End of mainpiece Dance by Byrn, Mrs Goodwin, the two Miss Simonets

4420
01 July 1786 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Armida

Dance: End of Act I L'Amour Jardinier, as17860401, but added: Miss Hervey; End of Opera Ninette a la Cour, as17860601 but added: Sga Carolina Pitrot; omitted: Rochfort, the 3 incidental dances

4421
06 July 1786 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Son in law

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Dance: End of mainpiece a new dance, Jamie's Return (in which a Scotch Reef) by the two Master Degvilles and Miss De Camp

4422
17 July 1786 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Here and There and Every Where

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece Dance by Byrn, Master Giorgi, Miss Byrn, the two Miss Simonets; In afterpiece, as17860703

4423
26 July 1786 @ Windsor Castle Inn, King Street, Hammersmith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Fool

Afterpiece Title: Hurly Burly or Chiswick Fair

Dance: In Act IV of 1st piece a Masquerade Scene, with a Grotesque Dance by the Characters; Between the Acts Hornpipe by Wright

Song: Between the Acts of mainpiece, by Price and Miss Phillips

4424
01 September 1786 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Two To One

Afterpiece Title: The Widows Vow

Dance: End of mainpiece a new Dance, The Spanish Serenade; or, The Old Lover Outwitted, by the two Master Degvilles and Miss De Camp

4425
13 January 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Dance: End III: a new Dance, La Soiree Provencalle-the two young D'Egvilles, Miss DeCamp