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5293 results for: Keyword - English, Irish, Scotch, and Negroe Songs
We found 2638 matches on Performance Title, 2175 matches on Performance Comments, 1215 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

601
11 May 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Evans and Miss Cole

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Virtue Betrayed

Cast
Role: Northumberland Actor: Huddy

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Vallois, Delagarde; Friendly Lasses-Miss Wherrit, Miss Sandham; Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock

602
14 May 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Giles and Williams. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality and Distinction. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. [Tickets at Giles's Coffee House in Pall Mall.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Cast
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Giffard

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: Scotch Dance-Young Weeks, Scholar to Dupre; III: Masquerade Dance-; IV: Shepherd's Dance-Young Weeks

Song: a G Gentleman for his Diversion; A song, called Goodman's Fields Theatre address'd to the Merchants of the City of London-Excell , written by the Author of Bacchus one day gaily striding

603
29 May 1733 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

Cast
Role: Isander Actor: Hall
Role: Evandra Actor: Mrs Hallam
Related Works
Related Work: Timon of Athens Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Dance: TTambourine-Miss Rogers; Scotch Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre, DuPre, Mrs Pelling, Delagarde, Mrs Ogden

Music: Masque in Honour of Flora, with Vocal Parts-Leveridge, Salway, but see17330501

604
31 May 1733 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Dance: PPeasant-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre; Scotch Dance, as17330529

605
01 June 1733 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Dance: MMusette-LeSac, Miss Baston; Tambourine-Miss Rogers; Scotch Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre, LeSac, Miss Baston, Delagarde, Mrs Ogden

606
09 August 1733 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Afterpiece Title: The Stage-Mutineers

Music: The celebrated Water Musick by Handel-; in which Preamble on the Kettle Drums-B. Baker

Dance: FFrench Peasant-Vallois and Mrs Vallois; Scotch Dance-Davenport, Miss Baston

607
15 October 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A La Mode

Dance: II: Scotch Dance by Mrs Bullock. III: Friendly Lasses by Miss Wherrit and Miss Sandham. V: Pierrot and Pierraite by d'Vallois and J. De la Garde

Performance Comment: III: Friendly Lasses by Miss Wherrit and Miss Sandham. V: Pierrot and Pierraite by d'Vallois and J. De la Garde .

608
31 December 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

Cast
Role: Syrens Actor: Mrs Walter, Mrs Delorme, Mrs Davenport, Miss Anderson
Role: Harlequin Grand Volgi Actor: Le Brun
Role: Mandarin Gormogons Actor: Lally Sr, Topham, Boval, Lally Jr

Music: By Desire of several Persons of Quality, the 5th of Vivaldi's Concertos and the 7th of Corelli's Solos on the Welsh Harp by Mr Petry, from Wales

Dance: A new Scotch Sword Dance by Baker in a Highland Character. Drunken Peasant by Le Brun

609
03 March 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Jeu D'amour & Du Hazard

Afterpiece Title: The French Cuckolds

Afterpiece Title: Les Deux Arlequins

Dance: A new Lilliputian Scotch Dance

610
10 March 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Dessessars, the Pantalon, and Mrs Dessessars

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tartuffe

Afterpiece Title: Les Precieuses Ridicules

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Always Harlequin

Dance: The last new Lilliputian Scotch Dance

611
07 April 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Lilliputians. By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Mary and Louisa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The French Cuckold

Afterpiece Title: The Intrigues of Harlequin

Afterpiece Title: Don Pasquin d'Avalos

Afterpiece Title: Le Carillon Comique & Dame Alison & Maitre Gervase

Dance: The last Lilliputian Scotch Dance. A new Lilliputian Chacone of Characters: Harlequin Man and Woman. Pierot and Pierraite. Punch and Dame Ragondy. Scaramouch

Performance Comment: A new Lilliputian Chacone of Characters: Harlequin Man and Woman. Pierot and Pierraite. Punch and Dame Ragondy. Scaramouch .

612
29 April 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv, Part I

Cast
Role: Westmoreland Actor: Moore

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Music: IV: Solo on the Violin by Eversman

Dance: I: Scotch Dance by Mrs Woodward

Song: III: Song by Mrs Chambers. V: In Italian by Mrs Chambers

613
19 April 1736 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Music: Vocal and

Instrumental: Intermixed with several Scotch Airs, composed by David Rizzio. To be performed on the Violin by Charke

614
04 May 1736 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Fond Husband

Cast
Role: Fond Husband Actor: Penkethman

Afterpiece Title: The Lover's Opera

Dance: II: Scotch Sailor by a Gentleman for his Diversion. V: Scot's Dance by Haughton, Mrs Bullock, &c

Song: I: An Italian Song by Kelly. III: By Touchbury. IV: In Italian by Mrs Chambers

615
05 October 1736 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief; Or, The Husband's Cure

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: I: Richmond Maggot-Lesac, Mrs Woodward; III: French Peasant-Vallois, Mrs Bullock; V: Scotch Dance-Haughton, Mlle Roland, Vallois, LeSac, Mrs Woodward, Miss Oates

616
13 December 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: FFrench Peasant, as17361109; Glover's Scotch Dance-; The last new Comic Dance-Nivelon, Lalauze, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs LeBrun

617
07 January 1737 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: FFrench Peasant, as17361109; Glover's Scotch Dance-; New Comic Dance-Nivelon, Lalauze, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs LeBrun,

618
14 April 1737 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv, Part I

Dance: I: Clown-Nivelon; III: Peasant Dance-Lalauze; V: Scotch Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre

Song: II: The Lady's Lamentationfor the Loss of Sig Sensino-Roberts; IV: Beard

619
13 May 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Scandal Actor: W. Mills
Role: Trapland Actor: Griffin

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Wooden Shoes-Livier, Villeneuve; II: Two Pierrots-Livier, Pelling; III: Hornpipe-a Seafaring Gentleman for his Diversion; IV: Turkish Dance-Muilment, Villeneuve, Livier; V: A new Scotch Dance-Dupre, Mrs Pelling

620
25 May 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Bradshaw, Boxkeeper; Hobson, Housekeeper and Stage Door Keeper. Tickers for Gillibrand and Walker also taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Tambourine-Mlle Roland; III: French Peasants-Poitier, Mlle Roland; V: Turkish Dance-Muilment; End Afterpiece: A new Scotch Dance-Miss Wright

Song: II: The Protestation-Beard

621
18 October 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

Afterpiece Title: Robin Goodfellow

Dance: II: Scotch Dance-Master Matthews, Miss Wright; III: Pierots-Pelling, Liviez; IV: A new ballet-Mlle Chateauneuf

622
22 October 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone; Or, The Fox

Afterpiece Title: Robin Goodfellow

Dance: I: Pierots-Pelling, Liviez; III: Scotch Dance-Master Matthews, Miss Wright; V: Grand Ballet, as17391019

623
24 October 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Cast
Role: with a Grand Ballet Actor: Muilment, Baudouin, Rector, Liviez, Carney.

Dance: III: Scotch Dance-Master Matthews, Miss Wright; IV: Les Characters de la Dance-Mlle Chateauneuf

Song: II: By Desire, To Arms, Britons Strike Home-Beard

624
25 October 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

Cast
Role: with a Grand Ballet Actor: Muilment, Baudouin, Rector, Liviez, Carney.

Song: II: As17391024

Dance: III: Scotch Dance-Master Matthews, Miss Wright

625
26 October 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Scandal Actor: Mills
Role: Trapland Actor: Griffin

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton; Harlequin a Captive

Performance Comment: Clymene-Mrs Clive; Mercury-Beard; Turk-Pelling; Colombine-Mrs Walter; Morocco Servant-Penkethman; Harlequin's Good Genius-Miss Cole; Harlequin-Woodward; with a Grand Ballet-Denoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf, Liviez, Baudouin, Fromont, Carney, Mrs Walter, Mrs Thompson, Mrs Woodward, Mrs Vallois.
Cast
Role: with a Grand Ballet Actor: Denoyer, Mlle Chateauneuf, Liviez, Baudouin, Fromont, Carney, Mrs Walter, Mrs Thompson, Mrs Woodward, Mrs Vallois.

Song: II: As17391024

Dance: III: Pierots-Pelling, Liviez; IV: Scotch Dance-Master Matthews, Miss Wright