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78 results for: Title - The Ambitious Slave

51
05 December 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Slave

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

52
15 December 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Slave

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

53
27 April 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Slave

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Dance: II: By Particular Desire, for the first time, a Minuet, Allemande-Sieur Daigville, Miss Ross (his apprentice of 4 months); IV: The English Gardeners, as17691206

Entertainment: End: Bucks Have At Ye All-Palmer

54
07 May 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko; Or, The Royal Slave

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Dance: IV: The Whim, as17691123

55
23 April 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko; Or, The Royal Slave

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Dance: I: A New Comic Dance-Aldridge, Sga Manesiere; III: (By Particular Desire) The Old ground Young, as17710318 concluding with: Allemande, as17710318

Monologue: Interlude.End: Press Gang; True Blue. As 18 April, but Mrs Mattocks; Dance-Aldridge

56
02 October 1776 @ China Hall, Lower Road, Rotherhithe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko; Or, The Royal Slave

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Song: As17760925

Entertainment: Monologue.Before: Bucks have at ye all-Master Russell; Imitations, as17760930

57
16 December 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Mirror

Dance: End II: Dance of Slaves-

58
17 May 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko; Or, The Royal Slave

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Dance: End IV: The Devonshire Minuet (1st time)-the Miss Stageldoirs (scholars of LeMercier); End: The Butterfly, as17800921

Song: End I: As17810424

59
29 October 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko; Or, The Royal Slave

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: End of Act I of afterpiece a Highland Reel by Blurton and the two Miss Stageldoirs. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

60
17 March 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko; Or, The Royal Slave

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth

61
01 January 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko; Or, The Royal Slave

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

62
17 January 1784 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Trionfo D'arianna

Dance: End of Act I Friendship leads to Love, as17840103; End of Act II an entirely new dance, connected with the Opera, composed by D'Auberval, The Slaves of Conquering Bacchus, with a Pas de Trots by Mme Rossi, Slingsby, Mme Simonet; a Pas de Deux by Vestris [Jun.], Mme Theodore; by Blake, Henry; [by] Zuchelli, Monetti. The Music by Barthelemon

63
05 May 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Convivial Coterie [i

Afterpiece Title: Rule a Wife and Have a Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Caldron

Dance: End of Act II of 2nd piece The Slave in Chains by Hamoir

64
24 March 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko; Or, The Royal Slave

Afterpiece Title: Omai; or, A Trip round the World

65
04 October 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: End: The Slave in Love-the young D'Egvilles, Miss DeCamp; In afterpiece: Mock Minuet-R. Palmer, Miss Pope [which was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances]

66
05 August 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Friends; Or, The Benevolent Planters

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner at Large

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: In: a new dance, Liberty or We Slaves Rejoice-

Entertainment: Monologues End 2nd piece: As17890617 Preceding: An Address to the Humane Society on the Abolition of the Slave Trade in the character of a Negro , by-Kemble; End 3rd piece: Belles have at Ye All-Mrs Kemble

67
31 October 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko; Or, The Royal Slave

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

68
27 May 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gli Schiavi Per Amore

Dance: End I: Divertisement, as17900515; End Opera: The Generous Slave-Blake [see17900513], Duquesney, Labourie, Mlle de'Caro, Mlle Dorival, Mlle Hilligsberg

69
28 May 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Andromache [recte andromaca]

Dance: End I: Divertisement, as17900513; End Opera: The Generous Slave-Blake [see17900513], Mlle Hilligsberg

70
29 May 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Andromaca

Dance: End I: Divertisement, as17900515, but Mlle _Dorival, Mlle Ferrere; End Opera: +The Generous Slave, as17900527

71
01 June 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'usurpator Innocente

Dance: End I: Divertisement, as17900529; End Opera: The Generous Slave, as17900527, but Mlle Ferrere, Mlle _Dorival

72
15 June 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Andromaca

Dance: End I: Les Mariages Flamands, as17900227 at hay; End Opera: The Generous Slave, as17900527 at hay

73
22 March 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Greek Slave; Or, The School For Cowards

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

74
03 December 1791 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Day In Turkey; Or, The Russian Slaves

Afterpiece Title: Hob in the Well

75
17 March 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Regent

Afterpiece Title: The Algerine Slave