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6843 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, 4 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

6101
01 February 1752 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: TThe Sorcerer, a Pantomime Entertainment, originally performed at the Theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields, is preparing, with alterations, at Covent Garden (The scenes painted by Mr Lambert) and will be performed one day next week. [Another letter appeared in the General Advertiser on innocent entertainment for the lower classes (see 29 Jan. 1752), but severely criticized the existence of Prize fights, Cock-pits, and Gambling houses as the real nuisances and nurseries of theft and disorder."] It is whispered that the Townwill shortly be entertained with a phenomenon of the Monosyllable Fun,--the match between Sir Alexander Drawcansir, Kent. and their Lownesses of Grub Street, being certainly to be decided on the Stage; great bets depending on this Battle, it is thought the Knowing ones will be taken in (General Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Barry

Afterpiece Title: Mock Doctor

6102
06 February 1752 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 7 p.m. [Repeated in subsequent bills.] At the particular Desire of Several Persons of Quality. Benefit for Benjamin Hallet, a child of nine Years of age. The Tenth Day. By Gentlemen masked after the manner of Grecian and Roman Comedy. [Not repeated in subsequent bill after this date.] The House to be made very warm and illuminated with wax candles

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Womans Oratory 1

Afterpiece Title: Old Womans Oratory 2

Afterpiece Title: Old Womans Oratory 3

6103
13 February 1752 @ Castle Tavern

Event Comment: The Twelfth Day. At the Particular Desire of Several Persons of Quality. Boxes 4s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 2s. [Repeated in bills for this theatre.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Womans Oratory

6104
29 February 1752 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Signor Antonio Ambrosia, Operator on the Cremona Staccato, vulgarly call'd the Salt-Box. Tickets delivered for 5 March will be taken. Prices, Boxes 4s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. [The fifteenth night.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Womans Oratory

6105
05 March 1752 @ James Street

Event Comment: [If this were the announcement of a bona fide concert, there would be no infraction of the Licensing Act. The singers are not named, as they usually are in advertisements of musical entertainments.] Benefit for Brown. Boxes 3s. Pit 2s. Gallery 1s. No persons to be admitted without tickets

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Concert Of Vocal And Instrumental Musick Etc

6106
07 March 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pritchard. By Particular Desire. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Servants admitted to keep places on the Stage. Ladies are desired to send servants by 3 o'clock. Play to begin at 6. Tickets and places to be had of Mrs Pritchard in Great Queen Street, and at the stage door of the theatre. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Shepherds Lottery

Performance Comment: As17511119, but Pastoral Dance-_Harvey.
Cast
Role: Pastoral Dance Actor: _Harvey.
Role: To conclude with a Pastoral Dance Actor: Harvey, Sg and Sga Piettero, Mad Janeton Auretti, etc.

Dance: Mad Auretti

6107
09 March 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clive. Mainpiece: Not acted in seven years [see 7 May 47]. Altered from Dryden by Colley Cibber, Esq. Part of Pit laid into boxes. Amphitheatre on Stage. Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: III: Mattocks

Dance: IV: Mad Auretti

6108
12 March 1752 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: A Morning's Entertainment of Vocal and Instrumental Musick. The Oratory given gratis. Benefit Mr James Lowe. To begin At 12 noon. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Womans Oratory

6109
12 March 1752 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for a Tradesman Under Misfortunes. A Concert, &c. To begin at 6. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Song: Vocals-an Italian Gentleman

6110
14 March 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Bellamy. No Building on stage. Part of Pit only [laid into boxes]. Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock. Tickets at her house in Thrift St., Soho. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: A Provincial Dance-Sg Piettro, Mad Auretti

6111
16 March 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mad Auretti. Pit and Boxes together & Amphitheatre on stage. Tickets and Places to be had of Mad Auretti at her house in Leicester Fields; and at the Stage Door of the Theatre. Receipts: #220 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: I: Les Characters de la Danse-Madam Auretti; II: A Hornpipe-the Little Swiss; III: A Chacone in Italian Characters- Harlequin Mad Auretti; Polonese Sg Piettro, Mad Janeton Auretti; Scaramouch, Punch, Messitin, Pantaloon, Pierot, others; IV: A Tambourine-Master Pietro; V: The Louvre, Minuet-Sg Piettro, Mad Auretti

6112
01 April 1752 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [The twenty-first Day. Pit price reduced to 2s. 6d. Ladies desired to send their servants early.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Womans Oratory

Performance Comment: See17520321 but Concerto, Solo on Cymballo-Noell; Two new Orations-Mrs Midnight; the humourous performances of Bombasto; Bambaseno; Solo in new Taste-Sig Piantafugo; The Declamatory Piece on the Jew's Harp-a Casuist; the Oration on a Salt Box-a Rationalist; Solo of Humour on French Horn-Mrs Midnight's Daughter; New Prologue-Mr Toe.

6113
18 April 1752 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Toe. Boxes 4s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Womans Oratory

6114
28 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for a Widow and Family in Distress. Part of Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Receipts: #250 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: Sg Piettro, Mad Auretti

Song: II: Mattocks

6115
09 May 1752 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Benefit for Francis Callaway Citizen of London, under Misfortunes, being unavoidably involved in a most litigious Chancery Suit. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Womans Oratory

6116
12 May 1752 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Prices as usual. Boxes 4s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Womans Oratory

Performance Comment: Short bill; See17520509.

6117
18 September 1752 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Places for Boxes to be taken at the stage door of the theatre. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. To begin exactly at 6 o'clock. [Customary notices repeated throughout the season.] Mr W. Giffard and Mrs Bland from the Theatre in Dublin, are arrived in London, and will shortly make their appearance at Covent Garden (General Advertiser 14 Sept.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

6118
18 September 1752 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At the Great Tiled Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark. To begin during the time of the fair each day at 12 noon. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rake Reformed Or The Happy Lovers

6119
21 September 1752 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Phillips's Great Theatrical Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wanton Widow Or The Fool In Fashion

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment of Harlequin or The Quaker Outwitted

Song: Phillips, Mr and Mrs Denison

Dance: Phillips, Mr and Mrs Denison

6120
22 September 1752 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: During the short time of the Fair, at Bence's Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark. Boxes 2s. Pit 1s. Gallery 6d. To begin at Twelve and end at Ten at night. [N.B. at a Booth next to Yeates's ran Parsloe's Grand Medley, including The Town Miss; or, The Miser Outwitted,' by operational moving figures (puppets) followed by dancing, jiggs, disjointments, concluding with a piece of German Clockwork, for the diversion of the Curious.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Intriguing Chambermaid Or The Wanton Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Triumphant

Dance: I: A new Grand Comic Dance-Sg and Sga Codgerino; End: A new Irish Dance-

6121
16 November 1752 @ New Wells, Lemon Street

Event Comment: At the New Wells, Lemon St., A Concert, etc. Benefit for Hallam. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit and First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Devil in a Wood or Harlequin Skeleton

6122
20 November 1752 @ New Wells, Lemon Street

Event Comment: By particular Desire. A Concert, &c., Benefit for Hallam at the New Wells, Lemon St., now open only upon this occasion. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit and First gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. [Prices repeated.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant Or The History Of George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom or The Virgin Unmasked

Entertainment: Singing-

6123
07 December 1752 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. 6d. [Prices repeated in subsequent Bills.] The House is well-aired and will be illuminated with Wax-Lights. Jews@Harp-a casuist

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Womans Oratory

6124
19 March 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pritchard. Tickets of Mrs Pritchard in Great Queen St. Lincoln's Inn-Fields, and at Stage Door. Part of the Pit will be taken into the Boxes, and servants will be admitted to keep places on the stage. [A Complaint of the Tragic Poets, addressed to Dr Young appeared in the Public Advertiser, praising him on the Brothers: "And your last efforts prove your strength divine."] Receipts: #250 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Cast
Role: Pastora Actor: Mrs Clive

Dance: As17521201

6125
22 March 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clive-She did Zara (Cross). Farce (not acted these 2 years) with Alterations and an Additional Scene. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. [None behind scenes.] Tickets of Mrs Clive in Henrietta St., Covent Garden, and at The Stage Door. Receipts: #250 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Bayes in Petticoats