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We found 2454 matches on Performance Title, 1866 matches on Event Comments, 224 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Capricci Del Sesso

Dance: End I: La Force de l'Amour, as17761214; End II: New Serious Ballet, as17770412; End Opera: La Clochette, as17770531

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orione

Dance: End I: New Serious Ballet, as17770412; End II: Les Amans Heureux, as17770104; End Opera: Serious Ballet, as17770524

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Capricci Del Sesso

Dance: End I: La Paysane Distraite, as17770524; End II: Serious Ballet, as17770225; End Opera: La Clochette, as17770531

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Fraschetana

Dance: End I: La Paysane Distraite, as17770524, but Sga _Zuchelli; End II: Serious Ballet, as17770225, but Sga _Zuchelli; End Opera: La Clochette, as17770315but Sga _Zuchelli

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Orione

Dance: End I: La Paysane Distraite, as17770617 End II: New Serious Ballet, as17770412, but Sga _Zuchelli; End Opera: Serious Ballet, as17770524, but Sga _Zuchelli

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Capricci Del Sesso

Dance: End I: La Paysane Distraite, as17770617 End II: Serious Ballet, as17770617 End Opera: La Clochette, as17770315but Sga _Zuchelli, Mlle DeCamp

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Capricci Del Sesso

Dance: End I: La Paysane Distraite, as17770617 End II: La Clochette, as17770624 End Opera: Serious Ballet, as17770621

Event Comment: [Extra night] By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Benefit for Mrs Jewell. The Out-standing Tickets of Mr Jewell [from his benefit on 3 Sept.], and those issued for King Richard III will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Performance Comment: Major Sturgeon-Bannister; Sir Jacob Jollup-Jackson [Public Advertiser: Massey]; Bruin-Griffiths; Heel@tap-T. Davis; Jerry Sneak-Parsons; Mrs Bruin-Miss Platt; Mrs Sneak-Mrs Burden (1st appearance in London these 8 years).

Dance: III: a Hornpipe-

Entertainment: ImitationsEnd: New Imitations Vocal and Rhetorical-Hutton

Event Comment: By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Benefit for Digges. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30. Morning Post, 7 Oct.: Digges, far advanced in the autumn of his life, wanted that fire which is so indispensable to Macheath. His dress was beyond measure ridiculous, and his songs...discordant and tedious. [His 1st appearance as Macheath was at Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, 10 Oct. 1752.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: A Farce and Entertainments

Event Comment: Some of the Audience having objected to the Omission of a Scene on Friday night, that Scene will be restored this Evening. [Public Advertiser, 18 Oct., specifies the scene as that of Diana Trapes in Act III, the exclusion of whom "breaks a principal Link in the Chain of the Plot."] Paid Guard [master carpenter] for Scene-men #19 15s. Receipts: #287 16s. (286.8; 1.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Baker

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: Hornpipe, as17771017; End: As17771001

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Baker

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal

Dance: Hornpipe, as17771017; End II: As17771021

Song: As17771021

Event Comment: Paid Land Tax one-half year on Theatre #52 10s.; Tax on Window Lights #6 12s. 6d. Receipts: #171 11s. 6d. (171.3.6; 0.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Baker

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Cast
Role: The Apprentice Actor: Lewis

Dance: Hornpipe, as17771017; End II: As17771008

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Baker

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal

Dance: Hornpipe, as17771017; End II: As17771021

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Baker

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal

Dance: Hornpipe, as17771017

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Baker

Afterpiece Title: St

Dance: Hornpipe, as17771017; End II: La Soiree a@la@Mode-Dagueville, Harris, Master Holland, Sga Tinte

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years [acted 6 May 1776]. With Accompaniments to the Airs composed by Thomas? Linley Sen?.. Public Advertiser, 10 Nov.: "Jenny Diver forgot her song...and continued inflexibly silent till a Wag behind the Scenes assumed her Voice, and sung the Song for her"; ibid, 15 Nov., identifies this wag as Bannister, who sang "in a feigned voice." [Webster was from the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin.] Receipts: #192 6s. 6d. (167.2.0; 24.16.0; 0.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Dance: III: a Hornpipe-Blurton. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Event Comment: [The playbill retains Mrs Baddeley as Polly, but she "being indisposed Miss Walpole played the part of Polly on Tuesday night' (London Chronicle, 12 Nov.).] Paid Chettell, timber merchant, #286 13s. Receipts: #135 15s. 6d. (118.10.0; 16.18.6; 0.7.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Dance: End II: The Minuet de la Cour, as17771107, but Master _Holland, Henry

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Baker

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: Hornpipe, as17771017; End: As17771111

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Creso

Dance: End I: Le Devin du Village, as17771104; End II: New Ballet, as17771104; End Opera: a Ballet Demi-caractere, La Clochette-Mons and Mme Simonet, Mlle Baccelli, Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Vallouy@le@cadet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: As17771111

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Due Contesse

Dance: End I: Le Devin du Village, as17771104; End II: La Polonaise Favourite, as17771104; End Opera: La Clochette, as17771115

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Dance: End II: New Dance-Henry, Miss Armstrong

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Baker

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Dance: In: Hornpipe, as17771017; In afterpiece: Dancing, as17771125

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Creso

Dance: End I: New Ballet, as17771104; End II: Le Devin du Village, as17771104; End Opera: La Clochette, as17771115

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Mat o' the Mint Actor: Baker

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Dance: In: Hornpipe, as17771017; Afterpiece: Dancing, as17771125