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12847 results for: Keyword - John Wilford
We found 11035 matches on Author, 1743 matches on Performance Comments, 1158 matches on Event Comments, 363 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

11176
17 April 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Related Works
Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): John Philip Kemble

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: I: A new Comic Dance, The Knife Grinders-Poitier, Mlle Capdeville; II: A Shepherdess-Miss Wilford, as17600324 III: The Peasants-Miss Wilford, Miss Valois; IV: The Pygmalion Dance-Poitier, Miss Wilford; End: A Minuet , By Desire,-Poitier, Miss Wilford

11177
27 April 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: I: A Serious Dance-Miss Wilford (1st appearance on any stage), others; II: A Tambourine-Delaistre, Mlle Capdeville, Miss Wilford; III: A New Dance call'd Le Badinage-Miss Wilford, others; IV: A New Comic Dance call'd The Prussian Rope@Makers-Delaistre, Mlle Capdeville; V: (By Desire) a Minuet-Delaistre, Mlle Rousselet

11178
11 April 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Dance: I: A Shepherdess-Miss Wilford , Scholar to Poitier Sr; II: The Pygmalion Dance-Poitier Jr, Miss Wilford; End: A Minuet-Poitier Jr, Miss Wilford

11179
23 April 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: I: A New Serious Dance-Miss Wilford, Miss Valois; II: Handel's Water Piece-, in which, by particular desire; Kettle@Drum-Mr Poitier; III: A New Comic Dance-Maranesi, Miss Wilford; IV: The Pleasures of Spring, as17620212; V: The Academy for Dancing-Poitier, Mrs Vernon; in which will be introduc'd a Minuet-Miss Valois, in boy's Cloaths, Miss Wilford

11180
10 December 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Related Works
Related Work: The Miser; or, Wagner and Abericock Author(s): John Thurmond

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: WWooden Shoe Dance-Sg Maranesi, Miss Wilford, Miss Valois; and a New Comic Pantomime Ballet, call'd The French Country Gentleman or the Female Metamorphoses-Sodi, Sga Manesiere (Being her first appearance on the English stage), Miss Wilford

11181
20 March 1764 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: False Concord

Performance Comment: Principal characters-Woodward, Shuter, Dunstall, R. Smith, Mas. Morgan, Cushing, Mrs Pitt, Miss Hallam, Miss Elliot; With a Prologue [to the Farce-Woodward. [Larpent MS 236 lists the parts: Sudley; Raymond; Lord Lavender; Trimmer; Master Edward; Jasper; Footboy; Mrs Sudley; Miss Sudley; Miss Johnson; Servants.]Larpent MS 236 lists the parts: Sudley; Raymond; Lord Lavender; Trimmer; Master Edward; Jasper; Footboy; Mrs Sudley; Miss Sudley; Miss Johnson; Servants.]

Dance: II: A New Grand Ballet-Gallini, Miss Wilford, Sga Manesiere; End: A Grand Dance, call'd Hymen's Triumph-Gallini, Duquesney, Master Rogers, Miss Valois, Miss Wilford, Sga Manesiere

11182
12 December 1764 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Guardian Outwitted

Dance: I: New Comic Dance call'd The Tyrolese Peasants-Duquesney, Miss Wilford; II: New Grand Ballet call'd Rural Love-Fichar, Manesiere, Arnauld, Leppie, Miss Wilford, Miss Twist, Miss Pitt

11183
09 May 1765 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Cast
Role: The Dances Actor: Duquesney, Miss Wilford, Miss Valois.

Song: I: By Particular Desire a Song, 1st time-Miss Twist

Dance: II: A New Turkish Dance-Lariviere (his 1st appearance on English stage); III: A Hornpipe-Miss Twist, Miss Wilford; IV: A New Dance call'd The Lost Picture-Lariviere, Miss Wilford; End: A Minuet-Dumai, Miss Twist

11184
07 October 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Dance: New Grand Pantomime Ballet, call'dThe Swedish Gardeners, compos'd by Sodi,-Sodi, Miss Wilford, Miss Vallois

11185
24 November 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: New Dance call'd %The Sicilian Peasants-Sga Manesiere, Miss Wilford

11186
25 November 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: TThe Sicilian Peasants, the man Peasant-Sga Manesiere, the woman by Miss Wilford

11187
01 January 1763 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Dance: II: New Grand Comic Dance, call'd The Dutch Skippers-Duquesney, Miss Wilford. [See17591017]

11188
07 April 1763 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: I: A New Comic Dance-Granier, Miss Valois, as17630224; II: A New Dance call'd The French Gardeners-Duquesney, Miss Wilford

11189
15 April 1763 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple Or A Trip To The Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: II: A New Pantomime Ballet, The Savoyards, or Madam Catherina: Savoyards-Granier, Miss Poitier (with a song in Character); Mad Catherina-Miss Granier, 1st time of performing; Peasants-Miss Wilford; End: The Sicilian Peasants, as17621125

11190
05 October 1763 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Young Bevil-Ross; Myrtle-Smith; Sir John Bevil-Gibson; Sealand-Sparks; Cimberton-Shuter; Tom (with song in character)-Dyer; Phillis-Miss Elliot; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Stephens; Lucinda-Miss Miller; Isabella-Mrs Ferguson; Indiana-Miss Macklin; Singing-Miss Polly Young.
Cast
Role: Sir John Bevil Actor: Gibson

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: TThe Sicilian Peasants; Man Peasant-Sga Manesiere, Women Peasant- Miss Wilford

11191
22 December 1763 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Performance Comment: As17631110, but only Buck-; Sir John Buck-; Lucinda-.
Cast
Role: Sir John Buck Actor:

Dance: II: A Grand Ballet, call'd Venus Reveng'd-Sg Gallini (first appearance here in 6 years), Sga Mansiere, Miss Wilford, Miss Valois; End: A Grand Comic Ballet, call'd the The Calabrian Peasants-Gallini, Sga Manesiere

11192
02 May 1764 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: I: Venus Reveng'd, as17631222; II: The Cudgell'd Husband-Duquesney, Miss Wilford

11193
03 May 1764 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: II: By Particular Desire a Minuet-Gallini, Sga Manesiere; III: A Dance The Judgment of Paris-Gallini, Miss Wilford, Miss Pitt, Miss Valois, Mas. Rogers; End: A Dance Love Triumphant-Gallini, Sga Manesiere, Mas. Rogers

11194
09 May 1764 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens Or The Death Of Alexander The Great

Related Works
Related Work: The Amazon Queen; or, The Amours of Thalestris to Alexander the Great Author(s): John Weston
Related Work: Alexander the Great Author(s): John Philip Kemble

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: II: The Dutch Skippers, as17640505; IV: A Hornpipe-Miss Pitt; End: The Cudgell'd Husband, as17640502, but with Miss Wilford

11195
01 October 1764 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: TThe Sicilian Peasants-Man- Sga Manesiere, +Woman- Miss Wilford

11196
04 October 1764 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: I: The Sicilian Peasants, as17641001; III: A New Grand Pantomime Ballet, call'd La Femme Maitresse-Fichar, 1st appearance on English Stage, Miss Wilford, Arnauld, Miss Valois; End: New Grand Comic Ballet, Les Mattelots Provencals-Fichar, Sga Manesiere

11197
18 April 1765 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Related Works
Related Work: Sauny the Scot; or, The Taming of a Shrew Author(s): John Lacy

Dance: II: A New Pastoral Dance-Duquesney, a Young Gentlewoman, his scholar, who never appeared before; III: A Hornpipe-Sga Manesiere; IV: A Minuet-Duquesney, Sga Manesiere; End: A New Grand Ballet, call'd Les Caprices de Galatee-Duquesney, Leppie, Sga Manesiere, Miss Wilford, Miss Valois

11198
04 May 1765 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Cast
Role: Dances incidental to the opera Actor: Fichar, Duquesney, Sga Manesiere, Miss Wilford, Miss Valois.
Related Works
Related Work: The Maid in the Mill Author(s): John Fletcher

Dance: II: The Last New Dance-Miss Wilford[, as17650423

11199
21 May 1765 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Cast
Role: Dances incidental to the opera Actor: Fichar, Duquesney, Sga Manesiere, Miss Wilford, Miss Valois.
Related Works
Related Work: The Maid in the Mill Author(s): John Fletcher

Dance: II: A New Dance-Miss Wilford

11200
03 October 1765 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: End: New Grand Ballet call'd The Garland-Fichar, Miss Wilford

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