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985 results for: Title - They've Bit the Old One

1
01 May 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: They've Bit The Old One; Or, The Scheming Butler

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: May-Day; or, The Little Gipsey

Entertainment: Monologue. End 2nd piece: an Epilogue Address portraying the Characteristic Jealousies of the Spaniard, the Italian, the Dutchman, the Frenchman, & the Englishman,-Mrs Mattocks

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

7
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

8
25 January 1662 @ The Red Bull Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

9
31 July 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Troop; Or, Monsieur Raggou

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01 August 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Troop; Or, Monsieur Raggou

11
March 1674 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

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

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13 June 1676 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: No Fool Like Ye Old Fool

13
November 1681 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Count; Or, A New Way To Play An Old Game

14
December 1681 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roundheads; Or, The Good Old Cause

15
March 1693 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

16
08 November 1700 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

17
25 March 1701 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

18
19 November 1702 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Song: Let the dreadful Engines (the mad song in Don Quixote)-Leveridge

Dance: With several Dances-

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11 March 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Mode And The New; Or, Country Miss With Her Fourbeloe

20
13 March 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Mode And The New

Song: Leveridge

Music: Several Entertainments on the Violin-Gasperini

Dance: The Devonshire Girl-; particularly a Quaker's Dance-

21
07 July 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Rivals; Or, The School Boy

Afterpiece Title: The Old Batchelor (Act IV only)

Afterpiece Title: The Angry Doctor and the Doubting Philosopher (last Act of Le Medicin Malgre Luy)

Song:

Dance:

22
13 October 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Song:

Dance:

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18 November 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Dance: As17031026

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29 April 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Song: The Mad Song in Don Quixote set by Henry Purcell-Boman; Scotch Song in Imitation of an Old Woman-Mrs Willis; Mrs Hodgson, Davis, Cook

Dance: Between acts: Variety of Dancing-

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05 June 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Dance: duRuel; Miller's Dance-Pinkeman

Entertainment: And performing these several Performances, first an Organ with three Voices, then the Double Curtel, the Flute, the Bells, the Huntsman, the Horn, Pack of Dogs, all with his Mouth-Mr Clinch of Barnet; and an old Woman of Fourscore Years of Age nursing her Grand/Child all which he does open on the Stage-Mr Clinch; Next performing several Mimick Entertainments on the Ladder, first he stands on the top-round with a Bottle in one hand, and a Glass in the other, and drinks a Health; then plays several Tunes on the Violin, with fifteen other surprizing Performances which no man but himself can do-a Gentleman