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1121 results for: Title - Old City Manners

1
09 November 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Old City Manners

Afterpiece Title: May Day

Dance: The Merry Peasants, as17751018

2
11 November 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Old City Manners

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

3
13 November 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Old City Manners

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

4
15 November 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Old City Manners

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: II: The Savage Hunters, as17751020

5
17 November 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Old City Manners

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: II: The Savage Hunters, as17751020

6
27 November 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Old City Manners

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: II: The Merry Peasants, as17751018

7
08 January 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Old City Manners

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

8
28 December 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Old City Manners

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

9
26 November 1713 @ Tennis Court

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rope Dancing

Entertainment: Mr Gibbons's Company of French Rope Dancers; where you will see stiff Rope-little Child (about two Years and a half old) perform such wonderful things, as is surprising to all that behold him; extraordinary Dancing on the stiff Rope-A Young Maiden who dances to Admiration; Dancing on the Rope, Playing on the Violin-the famous Scaramouch lately come from France, who turns himself as if he was going on the Ground; Walking on the Slack Rope after the Italian manner-A Young Man; Lastly Tumbles-The Famous Gibbon who has had the honour to perform before most of the Courts in Europe, for Lightness, and Agility, far beyond what has ever yet been seen; You will likewise be entertained with good Musick-

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11 September 1732 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Husband Outwitted

Entertainment: Several new and surprizing Performances, never perform'd by any one besides herself, on the Strait Rope [the famous-Signora Violante [[1] She Dances a Minuet as Neatly as a Dancing Master on a Floor. [2] She Dances with a Board, ten Foot in length, loose upon the Rope. [3] She Dances with two Boys fastned to her feet; which Occasions great Mirth. [4] She Dances with two heavy Men ty'd to her Feet. [5] She Performs the Exercise of the Colours. After this surprising Performance, Miss Violante will Dance a Louvre in Boys Cloaths

Dance: t the Desire of several Gentlemen and Ladies, the White Joke-will be danced by an Old Woman, with Pierrot in the Basket; Pierrot-Lalauze; Old Woman-Tobin

11
05 May 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: IV: Pastoral by Mrs Bullock. V: La Follette c'est Ravizee by Tench and Mrs Woodward

Song: II: old Anacreon (composed by Leveridge) sung by Nicholls in the Character of an Old Man. III: Waterman's Song, as17350502

12
27 April 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Song: I: The Opinions of the Ancients-Leveridge, Salway; II: Nestor's Advice to his Master when in Council-; III: By Particular Desire, The Roast Beef of Old England-Leveridge; IV: The Gallant Days of King Arthur (being the Sequel to The Roast Beef of Old England,)-Leveridge, Chorus

Dance: II: Two Pierots-Lalauze, Desse; III: Je ne scai quoy-Richardson, Villeneuve, Miss Oates; V: Scots Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland

13
11 April 1767 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: I: The Sicilian Peasants-Sga Manesiere, Miss Wilford [see17641001]; To conclude with the Original Dance[, in the characters of an Old Man and Old Woman-Arnauld, Miss Poitier; III: A Minuet-Fishar, Miss Wilford

14
27 April 1767 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: I: A New Tambourine Dance-Master Blurton (apprentice to Fishar, eleven years old, 1st appearance any stage); End I: Rural Love, as17661120; II: A Serious Dance-Miss Capon (Apprentice to Fishar, sixteen years old, 1st appearance any stage); III: A New Pantomime Ballet-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford (Apprentice to Fishar, ten years old, 1st appearance any stage as a dancer); IV: A Minuet-Fishar, Miss Capon; Double Hornpipe-Fishar, Sga Manesiere

Ballet: End: A New Grand Ballet call'd The Wapping Landlady. Jack (in Distress)-Fishar; the other Sailors-Petro, Hussey, Martin, Reynald, Curtat, King; Landlady-Miles; Milk Woman-Sga Manesiere; other women-Miss D. Twist, Miss S. Twist, Miss Barrowby, Miss Hilliard, Miss Daw, Mrs Viviez

15
24 May 1794 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of Martinico; Or, Britannia Triumphant

Afterpiece Title: THE BELLE'S STRATAGEM

Afterpiece Title: THE HIGHLAND REEL

Dance: In Act IV of 2nd piece a Masquerade, in which a Minuet by Mrs Pope and Byrn

Song: In Masquerade Old Towler by Incledon; End of 2nd piece A Catalogue of Plays and Farces; or, a Love Letter from Dick Ranter to Kitty Sprightly, to an old Tune, by Bernard; After which Sally in our Alley by Incledon

16
22 April 1661 @ no theater listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relation Of His Majesties Entertainment Passing Through The City Of London, To His Coronation: With A Description Of The Triumphal Arches, And Solemnity

17
22 April 1661 @ no theater listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cities Loyalty Display'd; Or The Four Famous And Renowned Fabricks

18
25 January 1662 @ The Red Bull Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

19
12 September 1667 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tu Quoque; Or, The City Gallant

20
31 July 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Troop; Or, Monsieur Raggou

21
01 August 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Troop; Or, Monsieur Raggou

22
28 September 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Match

23
29 October 1672 @ The City, London

Performances

Mainpiece Title: London Triumphant; Or, The City In Jollity And Splendour

24
March 1674 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Old Woman; Or, 'tis Well If It Take

25
13 June 1676 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: No Fool Like Ye Old Fool