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6841 results for: Keyword - Bannister</i>.] Half past six went into ye Pit to see $Barry
We found 4327 matches on Event Comments, 3001 matches on Performance Comments, 405 matches on Performance Title, 2 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

5226
21 January 1707 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: By Subscription. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and no Person to be admitted but by the Subscribers' Tickets

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A King And No King

5227
04 March 1707 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by Joseph Addison. Music by Thomas Clayton.] A new Opera never yet perform'd. By Subscription. None to be admitted into the Boxes or Pit but by the Subscribers' Tickets. [Both A Critical Discourse upon Operas (1709) and Jacobs (I, 3) refer to the unsatisfactory nature of the music; as a result, according to Jacobs, "It had not the Success due to its Merit."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosamond

5228
22 March 1707 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By subscription, with the pit, front boxes, and two side boxes for the subscribers; the galleries for the house

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosamond

Performance Comment: See17070304.

5229
01 April 1707 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by P. A. Motteux. Music adapted by Pepusch.] A new Opera. By Subscription. The Front Boxes and Side Boxes to be laid open into the Pit; where none are to be admitted but by the Subscribers' Tickets. And the Stage Boxes, Balconies, and Galleries are for the Benefit of the House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Thomyris

5230
13 May 1707 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [in Daily Courant, 7 May, Thomyris had been advertised by subscription for Saturday 10 and Thursday 15 at two guineas for three tickets on each day, the number not to exceed 420 in the front boxes, side boxes, and pit, all to be laid together.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Thomyris, Queen Of Scythia

5231
12 February 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [by Richard Estcourt]: Mr Bayes's Practice of an Interlude, call'd, Prunella, done from the Italian. Benefit Estcourt. And at the Request of many of the Nobility (who have taken Tickets) 2 Benches of the Pit will be Rail'd in, for more Conveniency. And to prevent any Disappointment, by coming late, 'tis desire'd that their Servants may be sent by 2 a Clock with the Tickets to keep Places

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Prunella

5232
14 December 1708 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text translated by Owen Swiney. Music adapted by N. Haym.] By Subscription. None to be admitted into the Pit or Boxes but by the Subscribers' Tickets. Stage Boxes 15s. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

5233
19 January 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Cavaliero Nicolini Grimaldi. And (at the Desire of several Persons of Quality) the Boxes are to be open'd to the Pit, and none to be admitted but by printed Tickets, which are deliver'd by him. [Ch. Dering, writing to John Percival, stated that Nicolini got 800 guineas.-Egmont MS, p. 246.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Performance Comment: See17081214.

5234
02 March 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: [Words from the Italian of G. B. Neri. Music by Francesco Conti and others.] A new Opera. By Subscription. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and no Person to admitted but by the Subscribers' Tickets. Stage Boxes 15s. First Gallery 5s. Upper Gallery 2s. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Clotilda

5235
10 March 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Estcourt, Two Benches of the Pit being Rail'd in to the Boxes for the Conveniency of the Persons of Quality who have taken Bounty Tickets. Admission: 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Fourth, Part I

Performance Comment: See17090101.

5236
31 March 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. And at the request of some Persons of Quality, 2 Benches of the Pit will be rail'd into the Boxes at the same Price. [Receipts: possibly #127 2s., according to Baggs.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A La Mode

5237
04 June 1709 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Nicolini. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. The boxes and pit open by tickets only at 7s. 6d. First Gallery 2s. 6d. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music entirely new by the famous Scarlatti Bononcini, other the greatest Italian Masters-; To which will be added, the new Scene which was perform'd on Saturday last in the Opera of Pyrrhus and Demetrius-; The Vocal Parts-Signior Nicolini, others

5238
10 January 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: [Music by G. Bononcini? Librettist unknown.] By Subscription. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and no Person to be admitted but by the Subscribers Tickets

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Almahide

5239
23 March 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Never perform'd before. By Subscription. The Boxes to be open'd to the Pit, and no Person to be admitted but by the Subscribers' Tickets. Edition 1710: Music composed by Francesco Mancini. The Scenes painted by Signor Marco Rizzi of Venice

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hydaspes

5240
04 August 1710 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Haughton, pit doorkeeper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: See17091215, but Kite-Pack.

5241
05 August 1710 @ Greenwich

Event Comment: Benefit Penkethman, Note, The Subscribers are desir'd not to bring their Tickets this Day, his Friends having promis'd to make this a Jubilee Day to him, and fill the House at the full Price, Mr Penkethman being at a greater Charge than ordinary. For the Entertainment of Madam la Signiora Fount, Signiora, Espagnola, Native d'Barcellone di cale Quallificatta, who will, in a particular Manner, hounour Mr Penkethman...by appearing in her own Country Habit. The Boxes opened to the Pit at 2s. 6d. At five o'clock, by reason of thelength of the Entertainments, and that the Gentry may return to London before 'tis Dark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess; Or, The Generous Portuguese

Dance: Whimsical Dance between a Miller, his Wife, and a Town Miss-; Chest Dance, after the Italian Manner, between Scaramouch, Punchanello, Coachman, and Cookmaid-; French Peasant and his Wife-; Ladder Dance-a famous Master; Scaramouch-LeSac; Dance by a Flemming in Wooden Shoes-; Dance by a Switzer-; Night Scene of Scaramouch, Harlequin, Cooper, Wife, and others-

5242
21 July 1711 @ Greenwich

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. By the same Company who acted there last Summer. Note, the Company will continue acting every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday during the Summer Season. At 6 p.m. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

5243
12 January 1712 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission to pit and boxes by tickets only at 8s. First Gallery 4s. Upper Gallery 2s. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hydaspes

Performance Comment: See17111205.

5244
17 May 1712 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by John Hughes. Music by John Galliard.] Never Performed before. Admission as 24 Nov. 1711, but Benches in the Pit rail'd in at the Price of the Boxes. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Calypso And Telemachus

5245
21 May 1712 @ St Martin's Lane

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Younger. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Song: Italian songs from Hydaspes-Young Boman

5246
19 July 1712 @ Greenwich

Event Comment: The Boxes will be laid open to the Pit for this Day. Tickets 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Loves Of Baldo And Media

Music: Between the Acts: Concertos-

Dance: Four Scaramouches-; Dutch Skipper-; Miller and his Wife-

5247
01 January 1713 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: As 5 Nov. 1712. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

5248
30 May 1713 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: It being the last Opera this Season. Boxes 8s. Pit 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. Stage Boxes 15s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ernelinda

Performance Comment: See17130411.

5249
05 April 1714 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. Admission to Pit and Boxes by printed ticket only, at the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Performance Comment: See17131128.

5250
04 June 1714 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Newman and Mrs Baker. With Scenes, Machines, Dances, and all the Original Decorations proper to the Play. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Dance: Mrs Santlow