Dancing, Music, Singing, and Specialty Acts
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Survey of the Calendar of performances will show tlie great amount
‘nging, dancing, and music used in a night’s production at a London
,,atrc• Of this entertainment, dancing occupied the largest share. Formal
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twenty-eight of whom were engaged only for dancing
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as. tlie .New Wells, clerkenwell, or the New Wells,
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tliat liad plenty of money for dancers and scenery. It was at
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whe.re innovations in the ballet could be found, sucli as on
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1741, when "The Amorous Mandarins, a new picturesque Ballet
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with a constant stream of
as in dancers being introduced to the London theatres. In some seasons,
pieces the theatrical dance was the craze, and the names of the
\C(J ? the dancers filled the notices. At Covent Garden, tilirty-two
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at Drury Lane, the two new dance teams,
Chiaretta and Boromeo and Costanza produced twenty-one new
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the vogue at the Rng’s Opera House, tlioug
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in the second quarter of the century did not include them