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ASTLEY’S
Grand Spectacles! Monday, Aug. 5, 1833.
[image of man tied to a horse’s back, riding through water.]
By Desire,--LORD BYRON’s interesting and magnificent Drama of
Mazeppa and the Wild Horse
FOR TWELVE NIGHTS ONLY.
WITH NEW SCENERY, DRESSES, AND THE FOLLOWING UNEQUALLED NOVELTY IN THE CIRCLE AND ON THE STAGE
MR. DUCROW
WILL (FOR THE FIRST TIME THESE THREE YEARS) execute on his RAPID COURSER, his popular Scene of the
CARNIVAL OF VENICE;
AT FULL SPEED;--pourtraying the following Personages, without quitting the Horse
PUNCH—PIERO—HARLEQUIN—COLUMBINE—BACCHUS—ADONIS.
Previous to which, (First Time) Mr. DUCROW’s Grand Entree of
24 HIGH-TRAINED STEEDS!
RICHLY CAPARISONED, AND MOUNTED BY DAMES AND CAVALIERS, IN POMPOUS ATTIRE, DELINEATING THE BANQUET CAVALCADE OF
HENRY VIII.
And FRANCIS I, with the HERALDS, KNIGHTS OF OLD, LADIES OF THE COURT, ATTENDANT VASSELS, EQUESTRIANS, and concluding with
A NEW GAVOTTE DANCED BY THE HORSES.
Likewise will be produced, (for the First Time) A NEW COMIC EXTRAVAGANZA, executed by Messrs. A and J. DUCROW, for the purpose of introducing
THE TRAINED HORSES, called
1st of September, of the Cockney Sportsman!
Mr. JENKINS….Mr. A, DUCROW. Mr. KILL’EMWRONG….Mr. J. DUCROW.
The SHOOTING PONIES, by the Spanish Horse & Butterfly.
Wonderful Feats of VAULTING, by the Tartar Brothers,
ON A SINGLE HORSE, AT FULL SPEED.
Among the Scenes in the Circle, (for the First Time) Mr. DUCROW’S Pupils and Lilliputians Stud will appear as the ACTORS OF FAIRY LAND; or, the
CUPIDS AND THEIR ELFIN STEEDS
AFTER THE SPECTACLE OF MAZEPPA, THE
CHINESE SPRITE
Will go through his wonderful Performances in the Air, an introduction the Feat of THE GYNOMETICAL LADDER; accompanied by the unequalled EVOLUTIONS of the flexible RED MAN, and Mr. DUCROW’S CHINESE BALLET of The
16 DANCERS
OF PEKIN.—THE WHOLE TO CONCLUDE WITH THE INTERESTING AND GRAND MELO-DRAMA, OF THE CARAVAN
DRIVER AND HIS DOG!
CHARACTERS, SCENERY, &c. SEE BILLS OF THE DAY.
