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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,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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16203 results for: Keyword - Miss Pit
We found 13766 matches on Performance Comments, 4403 matches on Performance Title, 4056 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

7001
12 April 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke. Charges #66 1s. Balance tj Clarke #31 6s. 6d. plus #147 5s from tickets (Box 347; Pit 310; Gallery 140). Receipts; #97 7s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: End: The Wapping Landlady-, Double Hornpipe, as17690408

Cast
Role: A New Tripple Hornpipe Actor: Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford, Miss Ford.

7002
14 April 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Dunstall. Charges #64 15s. Balance to Dunstall #3 16s. 6d. plus #184 tickets (Box 422; Pit 443; Gallery 121). Receipts: #68 11s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Husband

Cast
Role: Lady Wronghead Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Myrtilla Actor: Miss Pearce
Role: Trusty Actor: Miss Mills
Role: Miss Jenny Actor: Miss Ward

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Cast
Role: the Hornpipe Actor: Miss Twist.

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17680930

7003
19 April 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Lessingham. Charges #65 12s. Balance to Mrs Lessingham #7 12s. plus #69 19s. from tickets (Box 151; Pit 128; Gallery 130). Receipts: #73 4s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens

Cast
Role: Douglas Actor: Miss Macklin

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Cast
Role: Mrs Subtle Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: With a Minuet Actor: Fishar, Miss Macklin.

Dance: End: The Wapping Landlady, Double Hornpipe, as17690408

Cast
Role: A New Tripple Hornpipe Actor: Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford, Miss Ford.

7004
25 April 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Hull. Charges #66 11s. Balance to Hull #23 1s. 6d. plus #91 3s. from tickets (Box 168; Pit 205; Gallery 184) (Account Book). Receipts: #89 12s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Lady Loverule Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Dwarf Actor: Miss Ford

Dance: III: The Merry Sailors, as17680920

7005
04 May 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Wroughton. [Listed as Rotten in the Account Book.] Rec'd from tickets only #5 11s. (Box 12; Pit 17). Charges: 1!2 House charge, plus 1!2 value of tickets, plus half receipts amounted to #66 1s. 6d. and left the actor with an uncovered deficit of #5 19s. (Account Book), which he paid up on 20 May. Receipts; #60 3s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

7006
08 May 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Havard, whose bad state of health obliges him to retire from the stage. Part of Pit will be laid into the Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Cast
Role: Mrs Doggerel Actor: Miss Pope

Entertainment: End: New Epilogue-Mr Havard Upon his Leaving the Stage

Dance: After Epilogue=: New Comic Dance, as17681210

7007
18 May 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Theatrical Fund, Archer--Mr Garrick (Cross Diary). Pit and boxes together. Play to begin at Half past 6. Doors opened Half past 5

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Cast
Role: Cherry Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Nell Actor: Miss Pope.

Dance: IV: The Wake, as17680929, but Sga Giorgi, Mrs _King

7008
18 December 1769 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Authority and particular Desire for the Benefit of Middlemist and the Widow and child of the deceased Lauder, a Scots Musical Pastoral. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. To begin exactly at 6

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pattie And Roger Or The Gentle Shepherd

7009
02 March 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Tickets to be had and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr Johnston at the Stage Door of the Theatre, at Half a Guinea. Pit 5s. First Gallery 3s. 6d. Second Gallery 2s. The doors to be opened at 5 o'clock. To begin at Half past six. [Stanley and Smith carried their Royal Prerogative over to Drury Lane this season.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Music: FFirst Violin-Barthelemon; Concerto on Hautboy-Fischer

7010
24 March 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Abington. Part of Pit laid into Boxes. Afterpiece: Not played for 8 years. [See 11 April 1765.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Cast
Role: Shepherdesses Actor: Mrs Jefferies, Miss Burton
Role: Sylvia Actor: Miss Radley, first time
Role: Dances Actor: Grimaldi, Giorgi, Leppie, Mrs King, Sga Dagueville, Miss Rogers, Miss West, Miss Collet

Afterpiece Title: The Frenchified Lady Never in Paris

7011
26 March 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Shuter. Charges #64 15s. 6d. Balance to Shuter #109 8s., plus #85 17s. from tickets (Box 200; Pit 239). Woodward, Mrs Yates and Smith paid their balances (Account Book). Receipts: #174 3s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Deborah Actor: Mrs Pitt

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Dance: II: The Lamplighters, as17691005; II of the Comedy: The Dutch Milkmaid Dance=, as17691111

Entertainment: End: The Cries of London-; Epilogue Riding upon an Ass-Shuter

7012
29 March 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Vernon. Part of Pit laid into the Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Cast
Role: Shepherdesses Actor: Mrs Jefferies, Miss Burton
Role: Sylvia Actor: Miss Radley, first time
Role: Dances Actor: Grimaldi, Giorgi, Leppie, Mrs King, Sga Dagueville, Miss Rogers, Miss West, Miss Collet

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leonora Actor: Miss Radley.

7013
02 April 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. Charges #64 12s. Balance to Mrs Mattocks #37 6s. plus #67 12s. from tickets (Box 199; Pit 119). Paid Mr Simpson for wine &c. for the Orchestra at rehearsals of musical performances #5 5s. Mrs Bellamy's balance paid (Account Book). Receipts: #101 18s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt-Aldridge, Sga Manesiere. [See17670921.

7014
03 April 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Dyer. Afterpiece: By Particular Desire. Charges #64 15s. 6d. Balance to Dyer #22 11s. plus #158 6s. from tickets (Box 434; Pit 232; Gallery 150) (Account Book). Receipts: #87 6s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Cast
Role: Lady Sycamore Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: with a Dance Incidental to the Opera, Actor: Fishar, Arnauld, Sga Manesiere, Miss Valois.

Afterpiece Title: The Oxonian in Town

Dance: End Opera: The Whim, as17691123

7015
18 April 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Thompson. Charges #69 19s. 6d. Deficit to Mrs Thompson #14 1s. 6d. covered by income from tickets (barely) #17 2s. (Box 21; Pit 79) (Account Book). Receipts: #55 18s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Dance: III: A Minuet-Fishar, Mrs Thompson

7016
19 April 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke. Tickets deliver'd by Clarke for Friday the 19th Instant will be taken. [Some mistake seems to have been made in the printing of his tickets.] Charges #66 6s. Balance to Clarke #24 15s. plus #144 13s. in tickets (Box 344; Pit 281; Gall. 165) (Account Book). Receipts: #91 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Cast
Role: Lady Clifford Actor: Miss Pearce

Afterpiece Title: The Oxonian in Town

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17700402

7017
23 April 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Gibson. Charges #69 7s. Balance to Gibson #33 15s. 6d., plus #26 13s. from tickets (Box 39; Pit 88; Gallery 37) (Account Book). Receipts: #103 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Cast
Role: Harriet Actor: Miss Valois.

Dance: End: The Reel, as17700329

7018
23 April 1770 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Zamperini. Pit tickets at 10s. 6d. To begin at 7 p.m. [Repeated.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Buona Figliuola

7019
28 April 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Lessingham. Charges #70 1s. Balance to Mrs Lessingham #24 4s. 6d., plus #92 8s. from tickets (Box 200; Pit 170; Gallery 169) (Account Book). Receipts: #94 5s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Pitt

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Dance: End: The Whim, as17691123

7020
30 April 1770 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: To begin (by Desire) by seven. Box 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. The Second Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fashion Displayd

7021
03 May 1770 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Tenducci. By Authority and at the particular desire of Several Persons of Distinction. Boxes Half a Guinea. Pit 5s. First Gallery 3s. Upper Gallery 2s. To begin at 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amintas

Music: I: Concerto on Hautboy-Fishar; II: Sonata on Violincello-Duport; First Violin, a Concerto-Barthelemon

7022
04 May 1770 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Sga Frasi. Boxes 10s. 6d. Pit 5s. First Gallery 3s. 6d. Second Gallery 2s. To begin at Twelve. Doors open at 11:00 a.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus

Music: FFirst Violin, Solo-Giardini; Solo on Violin@Cello-Duport

7023
04 May 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Reinhold. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. [Tenducci advertised to play Arbaces for "positively the last time this season."] Tomorrow Isabella; or, the Fatal Marriage [which seems to indicate Garrick's adaption]. Charges #73 11s. Balance to Reinhold #55 15s. 6d., plus 90 10s. from tickets (Box 259; Pit 127; Gallery 67) (Account Book). Receipts: #55 15s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Cast
Role: Harriet Actor: Miss Valois.

Dance: I: The Dutch Dance, as17691111; II: The Old Ground Young, as17700501; Allemande, as17700501

7024
21 May 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Sarjant and his Son (Book and Box-keeper). Charges #81 5s. plus extras #3 5s., total #84 10s. Deficit to Sarjant #20 18s., covered by income from tickets #166 14s. (Box 272; Pit 252; Gallery 109), half value of tickets paid up by Ansell, Symonds, Abbott, Furkins, Mrs Trott, Pilfold, Doe and Claridge. Paid half year's Paving tax for theatre #18 15s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Cast
Role: Widow Belmore Actor: Miss Macklin

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Ceres Actor: Miss Valois

7025
24 May 1770 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tickets deliver'd by Saunders will be taken. Half House charge, plus half extras and half value of tickets came to #63 9s. 6d. [This minus half the receipts left a deficit to Saunders of #37 11s. 9d., just covered by] income from tickets #53 17s. (Box 89; Pit 158; Gallery 79); William Gard and Singleton rec'd usual pay [see 15 Feb.] (Account Book). Receipts: #51 14s. Half value of tickets received from Ellis, Stephenson, Bushell and Francis

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Cast
Role: Fanny Actor: Miss Ward
Role: Kitty Actor: Miss Valois
Role: Fanny Goodwin Actor: Miss Ward

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Jubilee