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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.

6051
25 September 1724 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: None will be admitted into the Boxes but by printed Tickets, which will be deliver'd at the Theatre at 5s. each. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Receipts: #98 7s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Jupiter and Europa or The Intrigues of Harlequin

Performance Comment: Jupiter-Lun; Mercury-Legar; Leander (Mars)-Dupre; Scaramouch (Pan)-Lanyon; Mezzetin (Apollo)-Glover; Punch (Pluto)-Nivelon Sr; Doctor (Neptune)-Hall; Pierrot (Hercules)-Pelling; Europa-Mrs Legar; Clown-Spiller; Colombine-Mrs Egleton.
Cast
Role: Jupiter Actor: Lun

6052
13 October 1724 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Norris Jr, alias the Young Jubilee Dicky. Boxes 5s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Hob or The Country Wake

Dance: To be express'd in tne great Bills

6053
09 December 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By Colley Cibber.] With new Scenes and new Habits. Victor, History of the Theatres, II, 164: But alas! I can remember being of the merry Party in the Pit the first Night of Cibber's Caesar in Egypt, in which he performed the Part of Achoreus ; and we then laught at his quavering Tragedy Tones, as much as we did at his Pasteboard Swans which the Carpenters pulled along the Nile. [See also Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 12 Dec.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caesar In Aegypt

6054
17 December 1724 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By the Company of Italian Comedians, just arriv'd. Mainpiece: an Italian Comedy. Afterpiece: Opera Comique. At 6 p.m. Boxes by printed tickets only at 5s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Les Metamorphoses Darlequin

Afterpiece Title: LIsle des Amazones

6055
08 March 1725 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Defonpre, the Arlequin. Pit and Boxes laid together at 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Les Quatres Arlequin Par Magie

Afterpiece Title: Arlequin Docteur Faustus

Dance: vec un% Nouveau Ballet Comique & Autres Danses-Mr Roger

6056
11 March 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. Pit and Front Boxes put together by Tickets at 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Cast
Role: Hoyden Actor: Miss Tenoe.

Dance: As17250304

6057
12 April 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Shaw. Written by Mr Congreve. Pit and Front Boxes put together at 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Dance: As17241216

6058
04 May 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit a Person who has wrote for the Stage (Mr Froud). Written by Sir John Vanbrugh. Three Rows of the Pit will be rail'd into the Boxes at 5s.Receipts: money #16 4s.; tickets #87 6s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Dance: SScots Dance-Mrs Bullock; Irish Dance-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; French Peasant-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre

6059
05 May 1725 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman in Distress. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. The Pit and Boxes to be laid together at 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Les Metamorphoses Darlequin

Dance: As17250205

6060
07 May 1725 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Jacobs, the new Colombine, lately arrived from France. Mainpiece: The only Master-Piece that the famous Mons d'Noble ever writ. Afterpiece: Written by M Moliere. Pit and Boxes to be laid together at 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Les Deux Darlequin

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor against His Will

Dance: Roger, new Colombine

6061
10 May 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Harrison, Pit Officekeeper, and Clarkson. Written by Shakespear. Receipts: money #20 0s. 6d.; tickets #157

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Dance: End II: The last new Chacone-Mrs Bullock; III: Scots Dance-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; IV: Chacone-Lally, Mrs Wall; V: Irish Dance-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden

6062
12 May 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Ward and Gwinn, Pit Doorkeepers. Receipts: money #8 15s.; tickets #100 13s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Dance: End I: Chacone-Mrs Bullock; II: Irish Dance-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; III: Flag Dance-Nivelon; IV: Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock; V: Polonese-Lally, Mrs Wall

6063
20 May 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Gallant and Rowland, Pit Doorkeepers. Receipts: money #7 3s.; tickets #125 16s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Music: Concerto-Mrs Woodbridge

Dance: DDutch Burgomaster-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; Scots Dance-Mrs Bullock; Pastoral-Lally, Mrs Wall

6064
30 November 1725 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: With several Additionals and Alterations. Admission to Boxes and Pit by Tickets only (not to exceed 350) at half a guinea. Gallery 5s. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elpidia Or The Generous Rivals

6065
22 February 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Pit and Boxes to be laid together by Tickets at 5s. Receipts: money #43 4s.; tickets #143 15s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Money The Mistress

6066
07 March 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. The Pit and Front Boxes put together at 5s. [The Prince and Princess of Wales present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ladys Last Stake

Cast
Role: Miss Notable Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Mrs Hartshorn Actor: Miss Tenoe.

Dance: As17251204

6067
11 March 1726 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mr Karba, the famous Bassoon. By Her Royal Highness' Command. Pit and Boxes 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Consort of several Sorts of Instruments-

6068
24 March 1726 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By the Company of Italian Comedians just arriv'd. Boxes 4s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Fille Allamode Ou La Parisien Duppe

Afterpiece Title: LOmbre DArlequin

Dance: Mr Poitiers, others

6069
20 April 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Shaw. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. Three Rows of the Pit (at the particular Desire of several Ladies and Gentlemen) will be Rail'd in, at the Price of the Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Dance:

6070
29 April 1726 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Forsyth, who never appeared in Publick before. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Pit and Boxes 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal Part, consisting of the choicest Songs from the Operas-Mrs Forsyth; Instrumental Music-best Hands from the Opera-House

6071
23 May 1726 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes half a guinea. Pit 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: French Consort of Musick-two Ladies who have had the Honour to sing in several Courts of Europe with great Applause

6072
27 September 1726 @ Southwark

Event Comment: Benefit Egleton, who has been three Months under Confinement. At his Great Booth, the lower End of Mermaid Court, next the Marshalsea-Gate. Boxes 4s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Dance:

6073
28 September 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. By the Italian Company of Comedians newly arriv'd. Pit and Boxes together by tickets only at 4s. Gallery 2s. N.B. Whereas the Number of Subscribers for this Company that are in Town, is very little, some of the first Representations will not be on thair Account. Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 1 Oct.: Last Wednesday Night his Majesty and their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, together with great Numbers of the Nobility and Persons of Distinction...saw the Comedy...The Faithful Wife

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Faithful Wife Or Arlequin Stripd Sentry Brave Coward Terrour Of The Turks And Judge Of His Own Cause

Dance: Monsieur Poictier, others

6074
24 October 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these Ten Yeats. Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Afterpiece: A Masque in Two Interludes. Receipts: #76 10s. Probable attendance: boxes, 74 paid and 17 by orders; balcony, 1 paid; pit, 218 paid and 20 by orders; slips, 11 paid and 14 by orders; first gallery, 161 paid and 7 by orders; second gallery, 101 paid. The Prince and Princess of Wales present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Afterpiece Title: Pan and Syrinx

Dance: Dancing proper to the Masque-Nivelon, Salle, DuPre, Lally, Pelling, Newhouse, Lanyon, DuPre Jr, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Ogden

6075
26 October 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of quality. Receipts: #118 15s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 154 paid and 32 orders; balcony, 1 paid; pit, 279 paid and 9 orders; slips, 21 paid and 16 orders; first gallery, 273 paid and 11 orders; second gallery, 117 paid and 6 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne