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1087 results for: Keyword - the Widow Trott
We found 430 matches on Performance Title, 422 matches on Performance Comments, 329 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

376
16 April 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb the Great

Dance: SScotch Dance-Mrs Bullock; Miss Naylor; The Parting Lovers-; Drunken Peasant-Chettle

Song: DDialogue of the Widow and the Rake-Laguerre, Mrs Jones

377
01 April 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Desnoyer. Mainpiece: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. Tickets deliver'd for the Careless Husband, will be taken. Servants allow'd to keep Places on the stage, which will be form'd into an amphitheatre. Tickets to be had at M Desnoyer's House in Gloucester Court, St. James's St.; and of Page at the stage door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Dance: I: New Scots Dance-Desnoyer, Sga Barbarina; II: Tambourine-Desnoyer, Sga Barbarina; V: A Ball Dance call'd the Britannia, Louvre-; concluding with: a Minuet-Desnoyer, Sga Barbarina, By Command

Ballet: IV: Rural Assembly. See17420121, but only Chasseur-Desnoyer; Nymph-Sga Barbarina

378
27 April 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Cast
Role: the Villagers Actor: Waltz, Thompson, Roberts, Miss Davis included in the Metamorphoses of Harlequin pantomime

Dance: II: A New Comic Dance-Richardson, Delagarde, Mrs Jackson; IV: Sailor's Dance-Richardson

379
05 May 1746 @ May Fair

Event Comment: YYeates's Great Theatrical Booth. 12:00 to 9:00 p.m. A Concert, etc. Boxes 2s. Pit 1s. 6d. First Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d. [Notice repeated 6 and 12 May.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow's Wish; Or, An Equippage Of Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Mariner; or, The Wapping Landlady

Song: A grand Song and Chorus upon the late Happy Victory-

380
28 April 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Macklin. Mainpiece [by John Ford]: Reviv'd not acted these Hundred years. Afterpiece: A New Farce never acted before by Charles Macklin. Note: Tickets deliver'd out for 22 April will be taken. Tickets to be had of Mrs Macklin in Bow St., and of Hobson at the Stage door. Cross: The play lik'd--farce not. Receipts: #93 (Cross); house charges, #60 (Powel); cash, #80 19s. 6d.; tickets, #12 15s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lover's Melancholy

Afterpiece Title: The Club of Fortune Hunters; or, The Widow Bewitch'd

Dance: III: Savoyards, as17471215; V: Pastoral Dance, as17480326

381
06 January 1752 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these six years. [See 17 April 1746.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Related Works
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Spaniard Outwitted Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: The Medley; or, Harlequin At-All Author(s): Lewis Theobald

Music: Concerto on the Cymbal-Noell

382
21 April 1752 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

383
21 September 1752 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Phillips's Great Theatrical Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wanton Widow; Or, The Fool In Fashion

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment of Harlequin; or, The Quaker Outwitted

Song: Phillips, Mr and Mrs Denison

Dance: Phillips, Mr and Mrs Denison

384
22 September 1752 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wanton Widow

Cast
Role: The whole to conclude with several curious perform Actor: the famous Steward on the Slack Wire

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment of Harlequin

385
11 March 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Related Works
Related Work: The Fairy Prince, with the Installation of the Knights of the Garter Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: As17571217

Ballet: TThe Judgment of Paris. As17571217

386
28 April 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunstall and Miss Ferguson. Tickets sold at the doors will not be admitted. Receipts: #37 1s. Charges: #63. Dunstall paid the whole deficiency of #25 19s. from his tickets: #140 5s. (boxes 108; pit 685; gallery 105). Miss Ferguson cleared from her tickets #20 15s. (boxes 1; pit 68; gallery 103) (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Cast
Role: McRuthen Actor: Shuter

Dance: A Tambourine-Miss Vallois; a Comic Ballet-Guerin, Lucas, Rochford, Dumay, Gosly, Miss Dawson, Miss Viviez, Mrs Guerin, Mlle Jansolin

387
04 September 1758 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Widow Bewitch'd

388
05 September 1758 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Widow Bewitch'd

389
06 September 1758 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Widow Bewitch'd

390
18 September 1758 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Warner's Tiled Booth, Bowling Green. The Fair begins this day ends on Thursday next

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Widow Bewitched: With The Courtship Of loadham The Fat, pinchgut The Lean, And His Man meager; And The Adventures Of capt Puff Culverin, And dermot Majrah Ballingbrogue

Afterpiece Title: The Taking of Cape Breton

Performance Comment: With the Procession of the Colours and Standards .

Song: AA new Song-on the Late Successes

391
19 September 1758 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Widow Bewitched

Afterpiece Title: The Taking of Cape Breton

Song: As17580918

392
20 September 1758 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Widow Bewitched

Afterpiece Title: The Taking of Cape Breton

Song: As17580918

393
21 September 1758 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Widow Bewitched

Afterpiece Title: The Taking of Cape Breton

Song: As17580918

394
10 May 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: No Building on Stage. Tickets deliver'd for This Night will be taken. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Afterpiece: With alterations and an additional scene acted but once these 9 years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Woman Is A Riddle; Or, The Way To Win A Widow

Afterpiece Title: Bayes in Petticoats

Related Works
Related Work: The Rehearsal; or, Bayes in Petticoats Author(s): Katherine Clive

Dance: II: New Hornpipe-Miss Baker; IV: The Cow Keepers, as17611215

395
08 May 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wrighten and Miss Rogers. Music and words by author and composer of Padlock [I. Bickerstaffe]. Book of the Entertainment to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Ephesian Matron; or, The Widow's Tears

Performance Comment: Parts-Bannister, Davis, Mrs Dorman, Mrs Wrighten. Centurian [?]-Bannister; Father [?]-Davies; Maid [?]-Mrs Dorman; Matron [?]-Mrs Wrighten (MacMillan).

Song: I: The Sycamore Shade-Mrs Wrighten; IV: The Soldier Tir'd-Mrs Wrighten

Dance: End: A Minuet, Louvre-Noverre, Miss Rogers, his scholar

396
02 February 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Frederick Pilon, altered from his The Device (see 27 Sept. 1779); incidental music by William Shield; Prologue by the author (see text)]. Account-Book, 16 June: Paid Pilon for the Deaf Lover #100. Receipts: #192 3s. (190.0.6; 2.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Delphi

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

397
03 February 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: none listed (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Delphi

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

398
07 February 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Delphi

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

399
10 February 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Delphi

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

400
15 February 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receips: none listed (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow Of Delphi

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover