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6701 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 19 matches on Author.

101
06 March 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: As17681223, but Witches-Dunstall, _Quick; +Dance of the Furies-_.
Cast
Role: Dance of the Furies Actor: Arnauld
Role: with a Dance of Furies Actor: Fishar.

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

102
12 April 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit; or, Harlequin at Rhodes

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Rooker; Colombine-Mrs King; others as usual; Dances-the Giorgis; Pantaloon-Grimaldi; Old Lady-Mrs Cross; Clown-Ackman; Hermit-Kear; French Lady-Johnston; Country Girl-Miss Young; J. Burton, Castle. See17670923. J. Burton, Castle. See17670923.
Cast
Role: Dances Actor: the Giorgis

Dance: I: The Wake, as17680929

Entertainment: End of Opera: King (for that night only) will present the Audience with a Comic Paraphrase-King on Shakespeare's The Seven Ages

103
29 December 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part I, With The Humours Of Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performance Comment: As17691228, but Ceres-Miss Valois; Dances-Miss Capon, Miss _Valois.
Cast
Role: Dances Actor: Miss Capon, Miss _Valois.
Role: Dances Actor: Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Miss Valois.
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Sga Manesiere, Arnauld, Miss Valois, Dumay, Hussey, Petro, Merrifield, the Miss Twists, Miss Madan, Miss Garman.

Dance: II: The Merry Sailors, as17691018

104
09 February 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Performance Comment: As17691128, but Patty-Mrs Mattocks; Giles-Barnshaw; Aimworth-DuBellamy; Mervin-Fox; Dance-_ incidental to the Opera.
Cast
Role: Dance Actor: _ incidental to the Opera.
Role: with a Dance Incidental to the Opera, Actor: Fishar, Arnauld, Sga Manesiere, Miss Valois.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jubilee

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Sga Manesiere.

105
19 March 1770 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Performance Comment: Patie-McPherson; Roger-Ramsay; Bauldy (with a new Prologue)-Walker; Peggy-Miss Graham; Jenny-Miss Gordon; with several favorite English and Scotch Songs-; Dances-.
Cast
Role: Dances Actor: .

106
02 May 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Performance Comment: As17700403 but dance-.
Cast
Role: dance Actor: .
Role: Dance Actor: _ incidental to the Opera.
Role: with a Dance Incidental to the Opera, Actor: Fishar, Arnauld, Sga Manesiere, Miss Valois.

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Dance: End Opera: The Dutch Dance, as17691111

107
15 May 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Performance Comment: Posthumus-Reddish; Jachimo-Palmer; Cymbeline-Hurst; Cloten-Dodd; Belarius-J. Aickin, first time; Pisanio-Packer; Lucius-Wrighten; Philario-Parsons; First Gentleman-Ackman; French Gentleman-Fawcett; Guiderius-Cautherly; Arviragus-Brereton; Queen-Mrs Reddish; Imogen-Miss Younge; In [Act II: Masquerade scene with Dancing and Singing-Mrs Scott; Dances-Giorgi, Tassoni, Sga Giorgi. [See17700118] .See17700118] .
Cast
Role: Dances Actor: Giorgi, Tassoni, Sga Giorgi.

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Cast
Role: The dances Actor: Giorgi, Atkins, Mrs King

Dance: III: As17700428

108
12 November 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Performance Comment: As17701103, but Vocal parts-Mrs _Baddeley, Mrs Scott; Dances-Sga +Vidini, Sga _Giorgi.
Cast
Role: Dances Actor: Sga +Vidini, Sga _Giorgi.
Role: Dances Actor: Daigueville, Mrs King, Sga Giorgi, Miss Rogers
Role: The Dances Actor: Sga Giorgi, Sga _Vidini.

109
19 November 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: Prospero-Packer; Ferdinand (with songs)-Vernon; Stephano-Love; Trincalo-Baddeley; Caliban-Sparks; Sebastian-Keen; Antonio-Hurst; Alonzo-Bransby; Gonzalo-J. Aickin; Francisco-Wright; Master of Ship-Ackman; Boatswain-Booth; Hyman-Kear; Ceres-Mrs Dorman; Ariel (with songs)-Mrs Scott; Miranda-Miss Rogers, first time; With a Grand Dance of Fantastic Spirits-; The Other Dances-Daigueville.
Cast
Role: With a Grand Dance of Fantastic Spirits Actor:
Role: The Other Dances Actor: Daigueville.

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Performance Comment: As17701112, but Parts-Mrs Dorman, Mrs _Bradshaw; Dances-Sga +Giorgi, Sga _Vidini.
Cast
Role: Dances Actor: Sga +Giorgi, Sga _Vidini.
Role: Dances Actor: Daigueville, Mrs King, Sga Giorgi, Miss Rogers
Role: The Dances Actor: Sga Giorgi, Sga _Vidini.

110
11 December 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Performance Comment: As17701205, but Dances-Sga Dagueville, Sga _Giorgi.
Cast
Role: Dances Actor: Sga Dagueville, Sga _Giorgi.
Role: Dances Actor: Sga +Giorgi, Sga _Vidini.
Role: The Dances Actor: Sga Giorgi, Sga _Vidini.

111
21 December 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Performance Comment: As17700925, but Miss Flack-Miss Burton; Chambermaid-Miss Platt; Dances-Mrs King.
Cast
Role: Dances Actor: Mrs King.
Role: With Dances incidental to the piece Actor: Giorgi, Atkins
Role: To Conclude with a Country Dance Actor: .

Dance: III: Comic Dance, as17701025

112
01 January 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 'tis Well It's No Worse

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Performance Comment: As17701205, but Parts-Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs _Dorman; Dances-Sga +Vidini, Sga _Giorgi.
Cast
Role: Dances Actor: Sga +Vidini, Sga _Giorgi.
Role: Dances Actor: Daigueville, Mrs King, Sga Giorgi, Miss Rogers
Role: The Dances Actor: Sga Giorgi, Sga _Vidini.

113
07 March 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Performance Comment: [As17710101, but to avoid confusion full cast listed.] Parts-Moody, Ackman, J. Burton, Hurst, Castle, Booth, Wright, Parsons, Jacobs, Keen, Hartry, Messink, Mas. Cape, Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Love; Ralph-W. Palmer; The Vocal parts-Vernon, Dibdin, Bannister, Champness, Fawcett, Kear, Miss Radley, Mrs Baddeley; Dances-Daigville, Mrs King, Sga Vidini, Miss Rogers; in which will be introduc'd the Pageant-.
Cast
Role: Dances Actor: Daigville, Mrs King, Sga Vidini, Miss Rogers
Role: Dances Actor: Sga +Vidini, Sga _Giorgi.
Role: The Dances Actor: Sga Giorgi, Sga _Vidini.

114
09 May 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Performance Comment: As17720507, but Dance-Hamoir, Miss Valois.
Cast
Role: Dance Actor: Hamoir, Miss Valois.
Role: Dances Actor: Hamoir, Miss Hamoir.
Role: The Dance Actor: Fishar, Hamoir, Sga Manesiere, Miss Hamoir.

Dance: III: Comic Dance (with Allemande), as17711031

115
16 March 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquor

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Performance Comment: As17721120, but Dance-Miss Capon, Miss _Twist .
Cast
Role: Dance Actor: Miss Capon, Miss _Twist .

116
25 March 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquor

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Performance Comment: As17730316 but Dance-_.
Cast
Role: Dance Actor: Miss Capon, Miss _Twist .

117
29 April 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquor

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Performance Comment: As17730316 but Dance-Miss Twist.
Cast
Role: Dance Actor: Miss Twist.

118
26 May 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Cast
Role: to conclude with a Country Dance Actor: the characters.

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Performance Comment: As17730429 but the Dance-Miss Twist, Miss Valois.
Cast
Role: the Dance Actor: Miss Twist, Miss Valois.
Role: Dance Actor: Miss Twist.

Dance: III: Minuets, Cotillons-Merrifield, Dumay, Curtat, Settree, Miss Twist, Mrs Invill, Miss Mathews, Mrs Hartle

Ballet: End: The Wapping Landlady. As17730424 but with a New Hornpipe-Fishar, Mas. Blurton, Sga Manesiere, Miss Twist

119
21 October 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Albumazar

Afterpiece Title: The Pigmy Revels

Performance Comment: As17730925, but Dances-_Daigville, Sga _Vidini.
Cast
Role: Dances Actor: _Daigville, Sga _Vidini.
Role: The Dances Actor: Daigville, Atkins, Giorgi, Sga Vidini.

120
05 January 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Sylphs

Performance Comment: As17740103, but Dances-Master Blurton.
Cast
Role: Dances Actor: Master Blurton.
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Miss Valois, Miss Capon

121
30 April 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Monologue: Interlude.End: True Blue. As 26 March, but Principal Parts-_Reinhold, Owenson; Dance-Blurton

Performance Comment: End: True Blue. As 26 March, but Principal Parts-_Reinhold, Owenson; Dance-Blurton.
Cast
Role: Dance Actor: Blurton.

122
03 May 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantly

Monologue: Interlude.End: True Blue. As 30 April, but Principal Parts-_Owenson, Reinhold; Dance-Aldridge

Performance Comment: End: True Blue. As 30 April, but Principal Parts-_Owenson, Reinhold; Dance-Aldridge.
Cast
Role: Dance Actor: Aldridge.

123
04 May 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Fishar, Miss Valois, Blurton, Miss Besford.

Dance: II: The Whim (1st time this season) [but see17740416-Aldridge, Miss Twist; IV: An Allemande-Aldridge, Miss Twist

Monologue: Interlude.End: True Blue. As 3 May, but Dance-Blurton; Principal Parts-Mrs _Baker, Miss Twist

Performance Comment: End: True Blue. As 3 May, but Dance-Blurton; Principal Parts-Mrs _Baker, Miss Twist.
Cast
Role: Dance Actor: Blurton

124
21 November 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winter's Tale

Afterpiece Title: The Druids

Performance Comment: As17741119, but Dances-Miss Besford.
Cast
Role: Dances Actor: Miss Besford.
Role: The Dances Actor: Aldridge, Helm, Harris, Blurton, Miss Valois, Mrs Stephens, Mas. Holland, Mas. Scriver, Miss Armstrong, Daiguville, Sga Vidini

125
26 December 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Druids, With Additions & Alterations

Performance Comment: As17741121, but unassigned-Dunstall, _Fox; Graces-_; Dances-Mas. _Holland, Mas. _Scriver, Miss _Armstrong (playbill). [Advertised as With an Additional Scene. [The +Public Advertiser makes no mention of a change.]Advertised as With an Additional Scene. [The +Public Advertiser makes no mention of a change.]
Cast
Role: Dances Actor: Mas. _Holland, Mas. _Scriver, Miss _Armstrong
Role: The Dances Actor: Aldridge, Helm, Harris, Blurton, Miss Valois, Mrs Stephens, Mas. Holland, Mas. Scriver, Miss Armstrong, Daiguville, Sga Vidini