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At the old Theatre, near the Capitol, by the Virginia Company of Comedians, on Friday the 3d of June will be presented The Beggar's Opera ... [16 lines listing performance information] ... After the Opera Mr. Godwin will perform the Dance called The Drunken Peasant ... [2 lines of performance information] ... To which will be added a Farce, called The Anatomist, or Sham Doctor ... [12 lines of performance information] ...
At the old Theatre near the Capitol, by the Virginia Company of Comedians, on Friday, being the 15th instant (April) will be presented a tragedy, called The Orphan, or The Unhappy Marriage ... [10 lines listing performance information] ... after the play a comic dance, called the Bedlamites ... [3 lines listing performance information] ... To which will be added (the second night) a pantomime entertainment, in which will be introduced a new scene, not before presented, called Harlequin Skeleton, or The Burgomaster Trick'd ... [8 lines listing performance information]
At the Old Theatre near the Capitol, By the Virginia Company of Comedians, will be presented on Friday, the 13th of May, A Comedy, called The Constant Couple, Or A Trip to the Jubilee ... [12 lines of performance information] ... Between the 1st and 2d Acts a Prologue, in the Character of a Country Boy ... After the 2d Act a Dance, called the Coopers ... After the 3d Act a Cantata ... And in, the 5th Act a Minuet ... After Play a Hornpipe, by Mr. Godwin. To which will be added a Farce, called The Miller of Mansfield... [11 lines of performance information].
At the Old Theatre near the Capitol, By the Virginia Company of Comedians, On Wednesday the 8th Instant (June) will be presented A Comedy, wrote by Mr. Fielding call'd, The Miser ... [13 lines of performance information] ... After the play, an Epilogue ... and Bucks Have At Ye All ... To which will be added, a Farce, called The Brave Irishman ... [10 lines of performance information] .. To conclude with a Dance, call'd the Drunken Peasant ...
By the American Company. At the Theatre in Williamsburg, this present Wednesday (the 20th June) The Clandestine Marriage ... [14 lines of performance information] ... To which will be added a Musical Entertainment, called Thomas & Sally: Or, The Sailor's Return. [4 lines of performance information].
By the American Company. At the Theatre in Williamsburg, this present Wednesday, the 1st of May, An English Comick Opera called Love in a Village ... [14 lines of performance information] ... To which will be added a Farce called The Buck: Or, The Englishman in Paris. [9 lines of performance information].
An Evening's Lounge; Or, Antidote for the Spleen ... Prologue ... Lottery Ticket ... Dissertation On Gaming and Drinking ... Portrait of the Audience. After which a Piece, call'd The Sultan: Or, A Peep into the Seraglio ... A Piece call'd the Country Girl; Or, Square Toes Outwitted ... After which, (by Particular Desire) the Romp. The whole to conclude with the Standard of Liberty.
An Evening's Lounge; Or, Antidote for the Spleen. Mr. & Mrs. Henderson (From the Theatre Charleston) Will perform several pieces ...On Wooden Heads; Connoisseur; Companion to ditto; Female Quaker; On Good Temper; Laughing Philosopher; Crying Philosopher; With Dibdin's Sound Argument; Or, Let us all be unhappy together. A Free Mason's Wife. On Oratory; Scotch Orator; Irish Orator; Favorite Song, called Lucky Escape. Polite Woman; Good Sort of a Woman; Mighty Good Sort of a Woman; What a Gentleman should be. Song, Dear Nancy I've sail'd &c.; Illustration on Law, or, Bullum versus Boatum. Selected Pieces from The School for Scandal. Comic Song John Bull's Expedition to Church ... The Country Girl; Hippisley's Drunken Man. The whole to conclude with a Piece called The Whimsical Courtship, or, The Cit Outwitted.
On Monday Evening next, Will be performed ... a Comic Entertainment, extracted from the Play of the Register Office To which will be added a New Pantomime called Robinson Crusoe, or Harlequin Friday ... Between the Play & Farce will be Exhibited a Currious dwarf Dance, by two Lilliputian Gentlemen ... Mrs. Dumoulin will dance in the Character of a Drunken Country Clown The whole to conclude with an Epilouge ...
This Evening, Friday March the 31st, 1797, Will Be Presented, A Variety of Entertainments, In Five Parts ...Part I. Selected Scenes From The Musical Entertainment of The Romp ...Part II. Selected Scenes From Row's Celebrated Tragedy of Jane Shore ... Part III. A Song From The Farce Of The Agreeable Surprise ... Part IV. Selected Scenes From The Musical Farce Of The Virgin Unmask'd ... Part V. ... The Scenes of Lackland And The Widdow Casey, From The Opera Of Fontain Bleau ; Or Our Way In France
On Thursday evening, the 20th of July, 1797, will be exhibited, the Beauties of the Comic Opera of Inkle and Yarico ... [five lines of performance information] Music on the Guitar. After which A Dish Of All Sorts, by Mr. Wall, viz. A Dissertation on Love, with a Poetical Picture of Jealousy. Also, Man the Soul of Contradiction. A Critical Dissertation on Noses, Hats, Sneezing, and Snuff-Taking. To which will be added, the Farce of the Wrangling Lovers, Or, Like Master Like Man ... [4 lines of performance information] The whole to conclude with Shakespears's Seven Ages, or All the World's a Stage Pronounced by Mr. Wall and sung by Mr. Lathy ...
By the American Company. At the Theatre in Fredericksburg, on Tuesday being the 28 of May will be presented a Comedy called The Provoked Husband : Or, A Journey to London ... [13 lines of performance information] ... To Which Will Be Added Love a-la-mode