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A TOTAL CHANGE of PERFORMANCE.
AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS,
ASTLEY’s, WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.
Under the Patronage of His Royal Highness
THE DUKE OF YORK.
THIS present EVENING , and To-morrow, WEDNESDAY, will be presented a Pantomimical Dance (composed and executed by Mr. West) called
NEW WHEAT; or, THE MILL IS GOING,
With new Scenery, Dresses, &c.
A Comic Eastern Entertainment (interspersed with Music and Dancing) taken from “The Arabian Nights,” called
ABON HASSAN; or, THE SLEEPER AWAKE.
A whimsical Spectacle, called,
THE TUMBLERS VAGARIES,
In which will be introduced several Comic Exercises, analogous to the Piece,
An Operatical Ballet (composed by Mons. Mercerot) called
LA FETE DE L’AMOUR,
In which will be introduced Monsieur VESTRIS’s last new favourite
ALLEMANDE EN ATTITUDE.
A Musical Piece, called
THE REASONABLE FOOL.
In the intervals
HORSEMANSHIP, BY THE WHOLE TROOP;
Particularly a Continuation of
THE PONEY RACES,
By the best Horses and Infant Riders in all England.
The whole to conclude with a new, splendid and brilliant Pantomime, called
THE FAIRY’s PHANTASY [sic];
Or, The Enchanted Manor.
With new Scenery, Machinery, Decorations, Dresses, and Music, interspersed with the greatest Variety of Mechanical Changes, Magical Transitions, and wonderful Metamorphoses.
A Sketch of the Business of the Pantomime, Plot, &c.
The Subject, taken from a Romance, is as follows:
Scene I. The Enchanted Island, &c.—Scene II. A calm Sea; Moonlight; Aerial Spirits; pleasant Dreams; Divine Science of Music; a Meeting in the Dark; Win her and wear her.—Scene III. The Manor Hours; Lover in the Dumps; Magical Trunk; the clown in the Suds; the Wardrobe bewitched; and Harlequin’s visible and invisible.—Scene Iv. A Chamber in the Manor House; a Morning Visit; a new Way to kick up a Rumpus; All in the Wrong; Battle Royal; the Cream of the Jest; a Way to cure Fits; sad Disaster; and Harlequin’s Escape with Miss.—Scene V. Outside of the Manor House and Stables; Columbine’s Adventure in a Water Tub; the Group of Pursuers at their last Shift; Harlequin Water Carrier, and his Discovery by Dolly Drippin.—Scene VI. Inside of the Stables; Coach Horses; Hunter and Roadsters; to excellent Lesson for lazy Grooms; a Punishment for injuring Cattle; Harlequin’s Vengeance; the Clown in a Hobble; and Columbine’s Escape out of a Truss of Hay.—Scene VII. A distant View of the Enchanted Country; the Clown in a critical Situation; and nothing done without Money,--Scene VIII. The Market Girls bewitched; hot Eggs in a Basket; the Clown in a Rage; and no Money to pay the Reckoning,--Scene IX. Outside of a Cottage; the good Woman and Pottage Plot; Old Mary’s Head dancing on the Floor; the Clown caught napping; and the Remedy worse than the Disease.—Scene X. Inside of a Cottage, and a Farm Yard; Columbine’s Escape in a Sedan Chair; All alive on the Road; Clown in a Hog Trough; Old Man in the Horse Pond; the Lover upon the Stool of Repentance; the Devil among the Swine, &c.—Scene XI. A View of a Grove; enchanting Science of Painting; a Display of the Fine Arts; Harlequin taken; coopered up in a hogshead; Columbine returned; the Fairy’s Vengeance; the Group in a Blaze; young Harlequin and the Russian Bear; the Clown in Love with Columbine; Hot Mutton Pies, all hot, &c.—Scene XII. The Enchanted Door; the Out in, and the In out, in spite of the Locksmith.—Scene XIII. A Chamber in the Manor House; Lord of the Manor indisposed; Doctor Polus’s Morning Visit; a new Way to pay the Doctor, and come off with flying Colours; the Sick cured, and the cured Sick; the Clown’s Disaster with the Playsic [sic] Bottles; needful Assistance; and Disaster with the Playsic [sic]; needful Assistance; and his aerial Flight to the Scare Crows; All in High Life; wonderful Magical Power; and Harlequin’s second Escape with Columbine,--Scene XIV. A Shrubbery; one above sees all; Lady of the Manor in the Strawberry Bed, and the Lover’s Downfall; Apricots and Peaches tell no Tales—Scene XV. A Landscape; the Watchman up to the Gossip; Adventures by Candle light.—Scene XVI. A View of a Cave; Lord of the Manor in a Scrape; the Clown pickled with Spirits of Salt; Lovers Melancholy; and Harlequin’s complete Victory.
The Entertainment to conclude with a View of
The Enchanted Island, Magnificent Fairy Palace, Superb Gardens, &c.
The marriage of Harlequin to the Lord of the Manor’s Daughter; Virtue Rewarded; Be Merry and Wise; Forget and Forgive; Old Grievances done way; Happiness concludes the Scene.
Doors to be opened at Half past Five, and the Curtin ascends at Half past Six o’clock.
Boxes 4s. Second Price 2s.—Pit 2s. Second price, 1s.—Gal. 1s. Second price, 6d.
[pointer finger symbol] Second price commences at Half past Eight o’Clock.
[three star symbol] Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mrs. Connell, at the Amphitheatre.
Vivant Rex & Regina.
