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6189 results for: Keyword - Bannister</i>.] Half past six went into ye Pit to see $<span class=
We found 4169 matches on Event Comments, 2324 matches on Performance Comments, 405 matches on Performance Title, 1 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

5651
22 March 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clive. Farce written by Mrs Clive not acted in 9 years. [See 19 April 1755.] Now with Alterations and Additional Scenes in which will be introduc'd Part of an Italian Burletta. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Send servants by 3 o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Rehearsal; or, Bayes in Petticoats

Dance: %New Dutch Comic Dance, as17610925

5652
22 March 1762 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Tickets and Places to be had of Smith, at his house, opposite the concert room in Dean Street, Soho, and of Mr Sarjant at the Stage Door of the Theatre. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes, where servants will be allowed to keep places. N.B. No building on the Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Entertainment: fter the Masque will be presented the Humours of the Age-in imitation of Shakespeare's STAGES by Smith

5653
01 April 1762 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Brent. Opera for the last time this season. Pit and Boxes to be laid together at 5s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Tickets sold at the doors will not be admitted. Tickets to be had of Miss Brent, at the China Shop in the Piazza, next the Church, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: I: New Dutch Dance, as17620202; End Opera: The Pleasures of Spring, as17620212

5654
14 April 1762 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Particular Desire of several persons of Quality. Being positively the Last Time of performing it this season. [See 23 Feb., and 1 April.] Part of Pit will be laid into Boxes. Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: I: The Pleasures of Spring, as17620212; II: New Dutch Dance, as17620202

5655
22 April 1762 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Peretti. To begin at Seven. Boxes 10s. 6d. Pit 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. Tickets delivered for 20 April will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Songs From Artaxerxes

5656
20 May 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer, Pit doorkeeper, Shawford, Berrisford, and Roberts. Tickets deliver'd by Wallis will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: II: Hornpipe-Wallis; V: New Hornpipe-Miss Dawson

5657
20 May 1762 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Aynscombe who because of illness is incapable of waiting on his friends personally. Pit and Boxes 5s. Gallery 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Songs From Artaxerxes

5658
21 May 1762 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Wilford and Ross (Pit door-keepers); A Widow in distress; Trott (lobby door-keeper). No building on Stage Tickets deliver'd by Slater, Darby, Dimmock, Mislebrook, and others will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Pitt

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Cast
Role: Betty Actor: Mrs Pitt

Dance: III: The Pleasures of Spring, as17620212; End Play: The Taylors, as17620107

5659
28 July 1762 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Authority. For the Entertainment of the Cherokee King and Chiefs. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Care will be taken to keep the house cool. The last time of performing this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: Middlemist

5660
01 September 1762 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Lowe. Boxes 5s. Pit 4s. Gallery 3s. To begin at 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast

5661
03 September 1762 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At Yeates' Theatrical Booth, Greyhound Inn, during the time of Bartholomew Fair. The whole to be decorated with decency, and propriety, together with a grand Band of Music, consisting of French Horns, Violins, Trumpets, Hautboys, &c. N.B. There is a convenient Way to the theatre in Cow Lane for coaches, where Ladies and Gentlemen may have admittance without interruption. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 2s. First Gallery 1s. Upper 6d. [Several persons had provided booths in the Inns at Smithfield to perform Drolls and Interludes, as had been customary for many years, and were preparing to exhibit accordingly; but the City Marshall and other officers, by order of the Lord Mayor oblig'd them to take down their Shew Cloths and decamp (Morley, Memoirs of Bartholemew Fair).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Trial Scenes Of The Cock Lane Ghost

Afterpiece Title: Tars of Old England

Entertainment: Exhortation of the Little Lilliputian Squire Hum, a child of five years old. TheGrand Hornpipical Balletin the taste and after the manner of Mrs Vernon and Miss Nancy Dawson,-a young lady

5662
25 October 1762 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: At the Request of several Scotch Nobility, as benefit for Mr Gibson, who perform'd Donald MacGregor in The Orators 38 Days...will be performed a Concert of Music...after which, &c. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Tickets to be had of Mr Gibson, next Door to the Golden Star in Lower Cross St., near Hatton Gardens...He will make it his chief care to conduct the whole with Regularity. To begin at 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orators

Entertainment: A Prologue, Singing, a Dutch Story, Hippisley's Drunken Man-, with alterations and additions

5663
08 December 1762 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Authority. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. To begin at 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Patie And Roger; Or, The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: Middlemist

5664
17 December 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for The General Lying In Hospital, By Particular Desire of the Foreign Ambassadors and others of the Nobility. Part of Pit will be laid into Boxes, where Servants will be allowed to keep places

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Dance: CComic Dance, as17621210

5665
10 February 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Published at 1s. 6d. Dialogue in Green Room or Disturbances in Pit: Manager: I say what an immense sum we have laid out in improvements,-and now that coals are 5 and 50 shillings a Chaldron; and they burn at least a bushel a night in the music room, as they pretend to keep their instruments in order,-what a loser I shall be." (32 pp.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Discovery

5666
08 March 1763 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Authority Benefit for Lauder. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. To begin at 6:30

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Patie And Roger; Or, The Gentle Shepherd

Dance: Middlemist

5667
15 March 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Cibber. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. [See 30 March 1761.] Part of Pit will be laid into Boxes. Ladies desired to send servants to keep places by 3 o'clock. That there may be no interruption in the Performance, Mrs Cibber begs leave to assure those Ladies and Gentlemen who shall please to honour her with their company, that there will be no Building upon the Stage, nor any admittance behind the scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petruchio

Dance: End of Play: The Cow@Keepers-Grimaldi, Miss Dawson

5668
17 March 1763 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. Mainpiece: For last time this Season. Part of Pit rail'd into Boxes. No Building on Stage. Tickets sold at the doors will not be admitted (playbill). [See 6 April 1763. Smith's Skit is Larpent MS 222, in which each of the seven ages is acted out and accompanied with generalized comment.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Cast
Role: Patch Actor: Mrs Pitt

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Entertainment: After: The Humours of the Age Imitation of Shakespeare's Stages-Smith

Dance: TThe Jealous Woodcutter, as17621023

5669
21 March 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clive. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire.Afterpiece: Never perform'd before. Ladies and Servants by 3 o'clock. Part of Pit laid into boxes; No Building on Stage. [See Theatrical Review; or, Annals of the Drama, 1763, 1 April, pp. 142-46, for critique of the Sketch of a Fine Lady's Return from a Rout. Rather damns the writing and the performance on all counts, Moody's part being so bad, to save his face he commenced Hibernian in his dialogue" to amuse the ears of his audience. The parts are listed in Larpent MS 220: Sir Gregory Jenkings, Mr Nettle (a Lawyer), 1st Clerk, 2nd Clerk, Porter, Footmen, Lady Jenkings, Nancy Jenkings, Fanny Jenkings, Jane (Lady's Maid).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Sketch of a Fine Lady's Return from a Rout

Song: End of Farce: A Mimic Comic Italian Song from the Opera of Il Filosopho di Campagna-Mrs Clive

Dance: End of Play: The Cow@Keepers, as17630315

5670
21 March 1763 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Shuter. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Daily Advertiser: Lost: a leather Pocket Book...containing 4 Box Tickets for Shuter's Benefit...As the Numbers are known, care is taken to have them stopped by the Box, Pit and Gallery Keepers. [The Daily Advertiser also lists as thefts at the theatres: 1 violin, 4 pocket books (two stolen in the 2s. gallery), 4 gold watches (one with baronial arms), 1 woman's coat, 1 diamond ring. At Drury Lane thieves has stolen 4 pockets books, 1 silver watch, 4 gold watches, 1 woman's coat, and 1 sable muff.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not; Or, The Kind Imposter

Performance Comment: Don Manuel-Shuter; Don Philip-Ross; Octavio-White; Trappanti-Woodward; Soto-Dunstall; Corrigidor-Wignel; Hypolita-Miss Macklin; Rosara-Miss Hallam; being 1st time for all the above actors; Flora-Mrs Vincent; Viletta-Mrs Pitt.
Cast
Role: Viletta Actor: Mrs Pitt.

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: TThe Jealous Woodcutter, as17621023

Entertainment: New Comic Lectural Exhibition in his Old Taste-Shuter

5671
26 March 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Holland. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. No building on Stage. Afterpiece not acted these 10 years. [See 19 April 1750.] Last time of company's performing till the Holidays

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: End: The Camp Alarm'd-Vincent, Miss Baker

5672
09 April 1763 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Composer. Pit and Boxes laid together

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: A New Comic Dance, as17630224; The French Gardeners, as17630407

5673
03 May 1763 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Tenducci. Pit and Boxes will be laid together at 5s. Mr Tenducci humbly requests Ladies and Gentlemen to send servants by 3 o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: I: A New Comic Dance, as17630224; II: The Sicilian Peasants, as17621125

5674
03 May 1763 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. To begin at 7 p.m. By Authority (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Patie And Roger

Entertainment: CCries of Edinburgh-Lauder, by Desire

Dance: Middlemist

5675
20 June 1763 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: A new Comedy. To begin at seven. Prices [as of 6 July]: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: II: Rogier, Miss Capitani; III: Double Hornpipe-Rogier, Miss Capitani