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Total Change of Performances, and the second and last Week of the Cabinet of MONKIES. Their Performances as follow: Rope dancing; Comic Consultation, or Tete a Tete; seated at a Table at Public Breakfast; wonderful Attitudes and Agility of Body on the Slack Rope, on full Swing, &c. &c. entirely new in England, and positively beyond human credibility.
[pointer-finger symbol] Mr. ASTLEY most respectfully informs the Frequenters of this Theatre, tat the celebrated Sig. Lionardi, and his famous Comic Cabinet of Performers, are just arrived from Hamburgh, in the Good Ship Elizabeth, and engaged at a very considerable sum, to perform their uncommon various Exercises, in a most pleasing, wonderful, and astonishing manner.
AMPHITHEATRE of ARTS, ASTLEY’s, Westminster-bridge.—Under the Patronage of H.R.H. the DUKE of YORK.
THIS present Evening, FRIDAY, will be exhibited, (5th time this season) a Comic Medley Dance, called the DUTCH TEA GARDEN; in which the whole Company will assist in Dance, Song, and Spectacle. (5th time this season) a new Historical Pantomime, in two parts, translated from the French, and as performed at the Theatres in Paris, called The AMERICAN HEROINE; taken from, facts, as related in the Philosophical and Political History of the East and West Indies:--(See Vol. V. Page 271.)—Savages, Sailors, Spanish Soldiers, Female Dancers, &c. by the Company. The Scenery, Machinery, Decorations, Dresses, Music, &c. entirely new. Most assuredly the Last Week of the celebrated Sig. Lionardi’s Cabinet of MONKIES, who will perform in a most extraordinary and surprising manner, on different Tables, Chairs, Pyramids, &c. &c. Likewise astonishing TIGHT ROPE DANCING; also Consultation at Table at Public Breakfast; likewise singular Performances on the SLACK-ROPE, &c. &c.
[pointer-finger symbol] The Cabinet of Monkies has for a long time been the admiration of the Curious on the Continent, as well from their singularity as their agility in their different Performances. A new comic Song, by Mr. Johannot, called “The Humours of Bartholomew Fair.” Tumbling and the Pyramids, by a Capital Group. Second time this season, a musical Piece, called The HAUNTED VILLAGE. In the intervals, various EQUESTRIAN EXERCISES, &c.
[pointer-finger symbol] Singior Romaldo, Professor of Natural Philosophy, is engaged at this Theatre, and will exhibit, in the course of the Evening’s Performances, various Experiments, with different Chemical Aparatus [sic].; representing Hydraulical [sic] Devices, and Mechanical Fire-Works.
The whole to conclude with a grand Mechanical Pantomime, called The FAIRY’s FANTASY; replete with entire new Scenery, Machinery, Dresses and other Decorations; interspersed with Songs, Chorusses [sic], Recitative, Dancing, &c.
Doors to be open at Half past Five, and to begin at Half past Six precisely.
Boxes 4s. second price 2s.—Pit 2s. second price 1s.—Gl. 1s. second price 6d.—Second price at half past eight o’clock.
