Clowns -- Great Britain -- Biography; Grimaldi, Joseph, 1779-1837
Dancing both serious and comic, viz.:--1. "The Miller's Dance," by
Signor Duval, Signor Amoire, Signora Mercucius, Mrs. Preston, and
others.--2. "The Shoemakers," by Signor Grimaldi, Signor Amoire,
Miss Wilkinson, and others.--3. "The Country Wedding," by Signor
Duval, Signor Amoire, Signora Mercucius, Miss Wilkinson, and
Signor Grimaldi, and others.
And by particular desire, for that night only,
A Double Hornpipe by Master Cape and Miss Taylor.
Tumbling by Mr. Sturgess, Signor Pedro, and Mr. Garman.
Singing by Mr. Prentice, Mr. Cooke, and Miss Brown.
With a variety of Curious Performances by
THE VENETIAN AND HIS CHILDREN.
The Wire by Master Wilkinson.
The Musical Glasses by Miss Wilkinson, accompanied by Master Wilkinson.
The whole to conclude with a New Entertainment of Music and Dancing,
called
D O N Q U I X O T E.
Harlequin Mr. Banks.
Don Quixote, Mr. Niepeker. Sancho, Mr. Warner.
Columbine Miss Wilkinson.
The Paintings, Music, and Habits, are all entirely New.
Pit and Boxes, 2s. 6d. Gallery, 1s. 6d.
[To begin exactly at Six.] [Vivant Rex et Regina.]
Tickets and Places to be had of Signor Grimaldi, at the New
Tunbridge Wells; and he begs the favour of those Ladies and
Gentlemen, who have already taken Places, to send their
servants by Half-an-Hour after Four o'clock.
At Drury Lane, December 26, in the same year, was performed the Tragedy
of "The Earl of Essex" at the end of Act IV. a Dance called "The Irish
Lilt," by Mr. Aldridge, Miss Baker, and others. After which, not
performed these three years, an Entertainment in Italian Grotesque
Characters, called "Queen Mab." Harlequin, by Mr. Rooker; Pantaloon,
by Signor Grimaldi; Silvio, by Mr. Baddeley; Puck, Master Cape; Queen
Mab, by Miss Ford; Columbine, by Miss Baker. The facetious Ned Rooker,
principal Harlequin at Drury Lane, was a painter of great excellence:
his paintings and drawings are still held in high repute, and his
theatrical scenery was not surpassed in his time; some of it was in use
till recently at the Haymarket Theatre.
Grimaldi continued at Sadler's Wells till the close of the season of
1767, and never afterwards was employed there. Signor Spinacuti and his
"funambulistical" monkey, so took the town by surprise in 1768, that
dancing at that theatre was altogether thrown into the back-ground.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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