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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Miss Pit"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Miss Pit")') 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

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16191 results for: Keyword - Miss Pit
We found 13763 matches on Performance Comments, 4403 matches on Performance Title, 4054 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

5901
05 May 1711 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Gioseppe and Francesca Boschi. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Admission to pit and boxes by ticket only at half guinea; first gallery 2s. 6d., upper gallery 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo

5902
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

5903
24 November 1711 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes 8s. Pit 5s. First Galley 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. The Boxes on the Stage half a Guinea. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hydaspes

5904
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

5905
14 January 1712 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission to pit and boxes by ticket only at 8s. First Gallery 3s. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. Stage Boxes half a guinea. As 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Almahide

5906
23 January 1712 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission to pit and boxes by ticket only at half a guinea. First Gallery 4s. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo

5907
22 March 1712 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Nicolino Grimaldi. Admission to boxes and pit by ticket only at half a guinea. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert And Thomyris one Scene

Music: The Entertainment of Musick, which was performed before Her Majesty on her Birth Day-; To which will be added, the famous Scene of Thomyris, by Signior Scarlatti-Signior Cavalliero Nicolino Grimaldi

Dance: Several Entertainments-Mrs Santlow, young Mr Camille, composed by Mr Isaack

5908
27 March 1712 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission to boxes and pit by ticket only at half a guinea. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hydaspes

5909
05 April 1712 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Signora Elizabetta Piloti Schivaonetti. Admission to pit and boxes by ticket only at half a guinea. At 6 p.m. Lady Hervey to John Hervey, 5 April: Yet I venture to the Opera, because poor Pilota has great faction made against her (Hervey, I, 323)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antiochus

Afterpiece Title: Thomyris the famous Scene only

5910
30 April 1712 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Barbier. Admission to pit and boxes by ticket only at half a guinea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antiochus

5911
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

5912
24 May 1712 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author and the Composer. Boxes and Pit put together at half a guinea. First Gallery 2s. 6d. Upper Gallery 1s. 6d. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Calypso And Telemachus

5913
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-

5914
12 November 1712 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Being a choice Collection of Musick composed by Scarlatti, Bononcini, Albinoni, Caesarini, Gasperini, and several other the most celebrated Italian Masters. Boxes 8s. Pit 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. Boxes on the Stage half a guinea. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumph Of Love

5915
22 November 1712 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by Giacomo Rossi. Music by George Frederic Handel.] Never Perform'd before. Compos'd by Mr Hendel. Colman's Opera Register: This was not by Subscription but at ye usuall Opera Price of Boxes 8s. Pit 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. The Scene represented only ye Country of Arcadia. ye Habits were old.--ye Opera Short. [Published as Pastor Fido.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Faithful Shepherd

5916
26 November 1712 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Composed by Mr Hendel. Boxes 8s. Pit 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. Boxes on the Stage half a guinea. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Faithful Shepherd

5917
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

5918
10 January 1713 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by N. F. Haym. Music by G. F. Handel.] Colman's Opera Register: Mr O. Swiny ye Manager of ye Theatre was now setting out a New Opera, Heroick. all ye Habits new & richer than ye former with 4 New Scenes, & other Decorations & Machines. Ye Tragick Opera was called Theseus. Ye Musick composed by Mr Handel....ye Opera being thus prepared Mr Swiny would have got a Subscription for Six times, but could not.--he then did give out Tickets at half a Guinea each, for two Nights ye Boxes lay'd open to ye Pit, ye House was very full these two Nights

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theseus

5919
21 January 1713 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: The Musick Composed by Mr Hendel. At the ordinary Prices, viz. The Boxes on the Stage Half a Guinea, the other Boxes 8s., the Pit 5s., the first Gallery 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theseus

5920
21 March 1713 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission to pit and boxes by ticket only at half a guinea. The Boxes upon the Stage 15s. Gallery 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dorinda

Music: A Serenata, consisting of Eight Songs-Signior Albinoni

5921
18 April 1713 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: With all the Scenes, Decorations, Flights, and Machines. Boxes 8s. Pit 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. Stage Boxes half a guinea. Colman's Opera Register: A thin House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theseus

5922
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

5923
09 June 1713 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: For Mrs Robinson. Pit and Boxes by ticket only at half a guinea. Stage Boxes 15s. Gallery 5s. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality, to begin exactly at Half an Hour after Eight

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Several Opera Songs Duettis and Cantatas of the best Masters, never Sung before,-Mrs Robinson, Valentino Urbani

5924
26 November 1713 @ Tennis Court

Event Comment: The lowest Price 6d. The rest 1s. Pit 1s. 6d. and the Stage 2s. 6d. At 6 p.m. For the Diversion of the Quality and Gentry. [The same company performed occasionally during the winter.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rope Dancing

Entertainment: Mr Gibbons's Company of French Rope Dancers; where you will see stiff Rope-little Child (about two Years and a half old) perform such wonderful things, as is surprising to all that behold him; extraordinary Dancing on the stiff Rope-A Young Maiden who dances to Admiration; Dancing on the Rope, Playing on the Violin-the famous Scaramouch lately come from France, who turns himself as if he was going on the Ground; Walking on the Slack Rope after the Italian manner-A Young Man; Lastly Tumbles-The Famous Gibbon who has had the honour to perform before most of the Courts in Europe, for Lightness, and Agility, far beyond what has ever yet been seen; You will likewise be entertained with good Musick-

5925
09 January 1714 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes 8s. Pit 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. Stage Boxes, half a guinea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dorinda