Toggle Sphinx Query
SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Bannister Half past six went into ye "/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Bannister Half past six went into ye ")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

Result Options

Download:
JSON XML CSV

Search Filters

Event

Date Range
Start
End

Performance

?
Filter by Performance Type










Cast

?
+
+

Keyword

?
New Search
4321 results for: Keyword - Bannister</i>.] Half past six went into ye <span class=
We found 2297 matches on Performance Comments, 2246 matches on Event Comments, 404 matches on Performance Title, 1 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2026
12 February 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: The Judgment of Paris

2027
22 March 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Applebee's, 31 March: On Thursday 7-Night last at the Performance of...Love runs all Dangers...one of the Commedians took the Liberty to throw out some Reflections upon the Prime Minister and the Excise, which were not design'd by the Author; Lord Walpole being in the House, went behind the Scenes, and demanded of the Prompter, whether such Words were in the Play, and he answering they were not, his Lordship immediately corrected the Comedian with his own Hands very severely

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: Love Runs All Dangers

Dance: End of Mainpiece: Hornpipe-Jones Sr; Concluding with a Dutch Skipper-Jones Sr, Jones Jr

2028
26 December 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction. Egmont, Diary, I, 472: I went... to see the famous moving tragedy, called George Barnwell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance:

2029
27 December 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire. Mainpiece: Written by Ben. Johnson. Egmont, Diary, I, 474: I went ... to see the Fox represented, a noted play of Benj. Johnson's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fox volpone

Afterpiece Title: The Festival

2030
28 December 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire. Mainpiece: Written by Ben. Johnson. Afterpiece: Set to Musick by Mr Arne. Egmont, Diary, I, 474: I went to ... see the Alchymist, wrote by Ben. Johnson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Afterpiece Title: The Opera of Operas

Dance: In Afterpiece: Les Bergeries by Essex, Miss Robinson, F. Tench, Holt, Miss Mann, Miss Brett

2031
01 January 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire. Written by Ben. Johnson. Egmont, Diary, II, 2: I went ... to see The Silent Woman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Music: Select Pieces

Dance: Clown by Nivelon. La Bagatell by Essex and Miss La Tour. A Dance by Miss Robinson alone

2032
09 January 1734 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: A new Comedy. [By William Popple.] All the Characters new drest. Preface to edition of 1734: A Report having been maliciously raised, and industriously spread all over the Town, that the Play was a Party Play, and supported by the Court, and therefore to be opposed, Numbers of Persons came into the House with an Intent ... to damn it at all Events. . . . However, the Play having had a fair Hearing, went off with infinitely more Applause than Blame

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ladys Revenge Or The Rover Reclaimd

Dance: By Malter and Mlle Salle

2033
11 January 1734 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. By Her Majesty's Command. Preface to edition of 1734: The Third Night it went off in the same Manner, to the most numerous and splendid Audience that could be seen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ladys Revenge

Dance: By Maker and Mlle Salle

2034
23 March 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Egmont, II, 68: After dinner I went... to hear Hendel's Serenata composed in honour of the marriage, call'd Apollo and Daphnis. The Royal Family was all there, the Prince of Wales excepted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Parnasso In Festa

2035
22 April 1734 @ James Street

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction. By the Lilliputian Company of Comedians. At the Tennis-Court, in James-street, in the Hay-Market. 7 P.M. Boxes 3s. Pit 2s. Gallery 1s. N.B. The Company will continue to Play every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, during the Summer Season. Daily Advertiser, 29 April: I went to see them; upon my entrance I was surpris'd at the Spaciousness and Decencies of the Place; when the Curtain was drawn up, I found the Scenes not inferior to any I had seen, the Stage copious, the Decorations regular, the Actors perfect both in Words and Performance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

2036
30 April 1734 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sosarmes

2037
04 May 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv Part Ii

Dance: I: Irish Trot by Young Master Oates. II: A new Comic Dance by Master Oates and Miss Oates Jr. V: Grand Dance of Momus, as17340426

Song: The usual Songs, adapted to the Subject of Masonry. II: The Enter'd Prentice's Song. IV: On, On, my dear Brethren. V: Let Matrimony be now my Theme

2038
05 November 1734 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Daily Advertiser, 6 Nov.: The King, the Prince of Wales and Princess Amelia, were again to . . . Artaxerxes, in which Signor Farnelli continues to sing to a crowded Audience, with all imaginable Applause. Egmont, Diary, II, 132: Went to the opera, where I heard the finest voice that Europe affords, Faranelli, lately come over. Norwich Gazette, 9 Nov.: We hear that both Operas (occasion'd by their dividing) are at a vast expence to entertain the Nobility and Gentry for the ensuing Season; the Opera House in the Haymarket are reckon'd to stand near 12000l. and Mr Handell at near 9000l. for the Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

2039
12 December 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Merlin or The Devil of Stone Henge

Entertainment: [By Lewis Theobald and John Galliard.] With New Habits, Scenes, Machines, and other Decorations. No Money under the full Price to be taken during the whole Time of the Performance. The advanc'd Money to be return'd to those who go out before the Overture of the Entertainment begins. 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s

2040
25 January 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Plot

Dance: Poloncse by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c

2041
08 February 1735 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Their Majesties present. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 11 Feb.: On Saturday Night a Disturbance happen'd at the Opera House . . . occasion'd by the Footmen's coming into the Passages with their lighted Flambeaux, which gave Offence to the Ladies, &c. in the House; whereupon the Footmen were order'd out, but they refus'd to go, and attack'd the Centinels, but a stronger Guard coming to their Assistance, with their Bayonets fix'd, drove them out; in the Fray one of the Footmen was stabb'd in the Groin, and in the Body, and its thought will die of the Wounds

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Polifemo

2042
24 February 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Egmont, Diary, n, 154: I went to the French play, where the farce that followed it . . . was very diverting and well acted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Fausse Coquette

Afterpiece Title: Le Francois a Londres

Dance:

2043
06 May 1735 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: At 7 P.M. Egmont, Diary, II, 174: I went to the opera called Iphigenia, composed by Porpora, and I think the town does not justice in condemning it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Iphigenia

2044
20 August 1735 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: The Royal Bounty of #1,000 went to the Opera of the Nobility. See Calendar of Treasury Papers, 1735-1738, p. 126

Performances

Mainpiece Title:

2045
27 January 1736 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mithridates

2046
28 February 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton With Harlequin a Captive

2047
25 March 1736 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Egmont, Diary, II, 250: I went to the Haymarket Playhouse to see Pasquin again, which was extremely Crowded, though the 17th day of its acting

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin

2048
05 May 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Dance: I: Tambourine by Mlle Roland. II: Russian Sailor by Denoyer, &c. IV: French Peasants by Poitier, Mlle Roland, &c

2049
05 May 1736 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Carey. Afterpiece: By Desire of several Ladies of Quality, who went to see it at DL, but were disappointed. Written by Mr Carey

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: French Peasant by Vallois and Mrs Bullock. English Maggot by Haughton and Mrs Bullock

2050
28 October 1736 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreckd