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We found 4159 matches on Event Comments, 341 matches on Performance Title, 195 matches on Roles/Actors, 171 matches on Performance Comments, and 0 matches on Author.
Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Daily Journal, 25 July: To Miss Raftor, on her Success in the Part of Polly in The Beggar's Opera (a poem)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance:

Event Comment: Benefit Sandham. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance:

Music: H$Handel's Water Musick-; Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Job Baker

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality- Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Done from the French of Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: Juoan d'Vallois , lately arriv'd from Paris

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: Done from the French of Moliere. [For additional comments on the stage, see Grub St. Journal, 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: Juvan d'Vallois

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Afterpiece: a new Pastoral Opera. [Author unknown. Apparently not published.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Rural Love; or, The Merry Shepherd

Dance: d'V'Vallois, Mrs Walter

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Afterpiece: a new Farcical Ballad Opera of one Act. [By Robert Drury.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Devil of a Duke; or, Trapolin's Vagaries

Dance: HHighland Dance-Native of Scotland; A new Scotch Dance-Holt, Mrs Walter; Je ne scai quoy-Vallois, Mrs Walter

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: SSt. Giles' Jig-Lilliputian; Highland Dance-Native of Scotland; Je ne scai quoy-D'Vallois, Mrs Walter

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: Done from the French of Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: Proper to the Opera. Je ne scai quoy-de Vallois, Mrs Walter

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. For the Benefit of the Famous Signora Violante, who is just arriv'd with a new extraordinary fine Company....After the Irish Manner, Which was perform'd 96 Times in Dublin with great Applause. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. [For performances at the Fairs in September, see season of 1731-1732.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance: HHarlequin-Master LaFevre, Miss Violante; Louvre in Boys Cloaths-Miss Violante; Two Pierrots-Lalauze, Tobin

Event Comment: Benefit the Famous Signiora Violante. At the Request of several Persons of Quality. At the Great Assembly Room at Richmond Wells. 3s. 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Entertainment: As at hay, 11 Sept. Signora Violante; Harlequin-Master LaFevre, Miss Violante; Louvre in Boys' Clothes-Miss Violante; Two Pierrots-Lalauze, Tobin

Event Comment: At the Request of several Persons of Quality. The last Time of Acting. [Admission as 6 Sept.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Husband Outwitted

Entertainment: Strait Rope-Signora Violante

Dance: As17320911

Event Comment: At the Request of several Persons of Quality. The last Time of Acting. [Admission as 6 Sept.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Husband Outwitted

Dance: As17320911

Entertainment: As17320911

Event Comment: Being positively the last Time of her Performance here. At the Request of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Husband Outwitted

Entertainment: As17320911

Dance: As17320911

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Ballet: With New Habits. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Devil of a Duke; or, Trapolin's Vagaries

Dance: Grand Ballet: Les Bergeries, Composed in the Taste of Monsieur Dumoulin and Mademoiselle Camargo, of the Opera at Paris-Essex, Miss Robinson, Houghton, being the first Time of their Dancing since their Arrival from Paris; Thurmond, Mrs Walter, Tench, Miss Williams, Davenport, Miss Mears

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. [Daily Journal, 30 Sept., has a poem: On the Death of Mr Wilks.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse; Or, Virtue In Danger

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: LLes Bergeries, as17320923

Event Comment: [Written by Shakespear. With new Scenes and Cloaths. At the Desire of several Persons of Distinction the Pit and Boxes will be put together at 3s. Boxes on the Stage 4s. Gallery 1s. [The Prologue is in The Comedian, No. VII, October 1732, with a long essay on the major theatres of the present season.] Daily Advertiser, 4 Oct.: A very splendid and crowded Audience...testify'd their Approbation both of the Decorations and Performance. The principal Embellishments are as follows: On a large Oval over the Pit is represented the Figure of His Majesty, attended by Peace, Liberty, and Justice, trampling Tyranny and Oppression under his Feet; round it are the Heads of Shakespear, Dryden, Congreve, and Betterton. On the Coving on the Left Hand is painted the Scene of Cato pointing at the dead Body of his Son Marcus; in the Middle, that of Julius Caesar stabb'd in the Senate-House; and on the Right, that of Marc Anthony and Octavia, where the Children are introduc'd in All for Love. On the Sounding-Board over the Stage is an handsome Piece of Painting of Apollo and the Nine Muses. [See also Daily Post, 4 Oct. and Gentleman's Magazine, II (October 1732), 1028.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv; With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Dance: TTambourine-Miss Wherrit; Sailor's Dance-Jones; French Peasant-D'Valois, Mlle D'Valois; Entry-Scholar of Denoyer

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd

Dance: new Scots Dance-Houghton, Mrs Walter

Event Comment: [Mainpiece: Alter'd from Shakespear by Mr Betterton. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv, Part Ii

Afterpiece Title: [The Devil of a Duke

Dance: [LLes Bergeries-Essex, Houghton, Miss Robinson, Lally Jr, Tench, Davenport, Mrs Walter, Miss Williams, Miss Mears[; but see17320923

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: #53 0s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Dance: SScot's Dance-Mrs Bullock; Sailor's Dance-Jones

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Dance: SSailor-Jones; Tambourine-Miss Wherrit

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Song: Mimick Song-Stoppelaer (from Ireland) in the Character of a Ballad Singer

Dance: Mrs Bullock, Miss Wherrit; particularly Scot's Dance, Merry Lass-

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady Jane Gray

Song: As17321026

Dance: DDutch Skipper-Valois, Mrs Bullock; Merry Lass-Miss Wherrit; Sailor's Dance-Jones

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the late Mr Congreve. [Prince of Wales and Princess Royal present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Dance: Mrs Booth