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6090 results for: Keyword - Mr Banks
We found 4270 matches on Event Comments, 1367 matches on Performance Comments, 541 matches on Performance Title, 255 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

151
18 June 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Dance: As17610616

152
08 November 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years. [Afterpiece in place of The Critic, advertised on playbill of 6 Nov. For Banks see also 10 Nov.] Receipts: #103 15s. (75.2.0; 27.14.6; 0.18.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant Or The Sick Ladys Cure

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: As17881023, but Elder Brother-Benson [Public Advertiser; Burton]; Younger Brother-Banks.
Cast
Role: Younger Brother Actor: Banks.

153
16 April 1791 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by John O'Keeffe. Prologue by John Taylor. Epilogue by George Colman, ynger (see text)]. "No piece in the remembrance of this writer was ever better acted. No piece was ever better cast...The palm of acting, however, must be given to Blanchard. One short scene of rustic generoisity, in which he gives his purse to Farmer Banks, displayed finer efforts than we ever saw before" (Oracle, 18 Apr.). Public Advertiser, 15 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Lewis, Bow-street. Receipts: #315 (225.6.6; 3.15.6; tickets: 85.18.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wild Oats Or The Strolling Gentlemen

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Lewis, Quick, Holman, Blanchard, Wilson, Munden, Hull, Cubitt, Macready, Thompson, Powel, Rock, Evatt, Reeve, C. Powell, Cross, Farley, Ledger, Milburne, Master Simmons, Mrs Wells, Miss Chapman, Mrs Pope.[Cast from O'Keeffe's Dramatic Works, Vol. II (T. Woodfall, 1798), and text (Dublin: For the Booksellers, 1791): Rover-Lewis; Sir George Thunder-Quick; Harry-Holman; Sim-Blanchard; John Dory-Wilson; Ephraim Smooth-Munden; Banks-Hull; Gammon-Cubitt; Muz [in subsequent seasons: Midge]-Macready; Sailors-Thompson, Farley, Milburne; Landlord-Powel; Twitch-Rock; Trap-Evatt; Zachariah-Reeve [in text: Rees (see17911012)]; Lamp-C. Powell; Sheriff's Officers-Cross, Ledger; Waiter-Master Simmons; Jane-Mrs Wells; Amelia-Miss Chapman; Lady Amaranth-Mrs Pope; Prologue-Harley; Epilogue-Mrs Pope. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 10 performances only (see17910530).]These were spoken, as here assigned, at the 1st 10 performances only (see17910530).]
Cast
Role: Banks Actor: Hull

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Dance: As17901204

154
31 May 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tickets delivered for this Evening [Account-Book: by Alfred, Appleby, Benson, Banks, Cooke, Jones, Maddocks, Stokes, Whitmell, Gregson, Pilsbury, Mrs Edwin, Mrs Bramwell, Miss Redhead, Miss Menage] will be admitted. Receipts: #466 18s. (82.15.6; 16.18.0; 4.11.6; tickets: 362.13.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Performance Comment: As17921204, but Capt. Meadows (1st time)-Benson; Canteen-Maddocks; Sternhold-Jones; William-Banks; Bob-Webb; Betsey Blossom 's song-_.
Cast
Role: William Actor: Banks

Dance: End: Le Pas Russe-Master and Miss Menage; End I afterpiece: Dance-Whitmell

155
08 November 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Palmer as Stukely, and in afterpiece retains Trueman, but "Palmer being ill Barrymore play'd Stukely. Trueman being Ill, Banks play'd the Servant in The Wedding Day" (Powell).] Powell: School for Scandal rehearsed at 11. Receipts: #288 12s. (222.5.6; 61.4.6; 5.2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Cast
Role: Waiter Actor: Banks

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

Performance Comment: As17941101, but Servant-Banks in place of Trueman.
Cast
Role: Servant Actor: Banks in place of Trueman.

156
22 January 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Russell was from the Margate theatre; he had 1st acted in London at the China Hall Theatre in 1776. In mainpiece the playbill assigns Careless to Barrymore, but "Careless Dignum, Barrymore Ill; Surface's Servant Evans for Banks" (Powell).] Powell: School for Scandal rehearsed at 11; Miss in her Teens at 12; New Ballet at 12. Receipts: #186 4s. (130.18.6; 53.13.6; 1.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Performance Comment: As17941112, but Sir Benjamin Backbite-Benson; Joseph Surface-Palmer; Charles Surface-Russell (1st appearance in London); Crabtree-Waldron; Moses-Banks; Trip-R. Palmer; Maid-_.
Cast
Role: Moses Actor: Banks

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

Song: As17941112

157
13 April 1692 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Gentleman's Journal, April 1692 (licensed 13 April): Mr Banks hath writ a Tragedy call'd the Innocent Usurper....However, there being some reasons which hinder it from appearing on the Stage, he designs to submit it to the Judgment of every Impartial Reader, and it will very speedily appear in print

Performances

158
02 April 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rec'd of Mr Banks 1 year's rent to Lady Day last #3; Paid Gastrill (mercer) 2 Bills #83 3s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #153 5s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dido

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: End: The Lilliputian Camp, as17670227

159
16 November 1682 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Title Unknown

160
15 February 1675 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Calisto Or The Chaste Nimph

Afterpiece Title: Calistos Additional performers

161
30 November 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fathers Or The Good Naturd Man

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: As17780919

162
15 October 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee Or The Faithful Irishman

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

163
14 November 1696 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist Or The Sham Doctor

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Mars and Venus

164
November 1698 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess Or The Generous Portuguese

165
December 1699 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles Or Iphigenia In Aulis

166
January 1692 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Marriage hater Matched

167
04 July 1672 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Citizen Turned Gentleman

168
19 January 1683 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Politiques

169
November 1697 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Deceiver Deceived

170
28 November 1682 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duke Of Guise

171
September 1697 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Imposture Defeated Or A Trick To Cheat The Devil

172
09 July 1700 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Courtship A La Mode

173
12 February 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks

Music: A piece of Instrumental Musick- to be perform'd on the Stage

Song: Mr Laroon, Mrs Hughs; particularly a Two/part Song-Mr Laroon, Mrs Hughs compos'd by the late Mr Henry Purcell

Song: Country Farmer's Daughter, Highland Lilt-the Devonshire Girl; The Whip of Dunbyn-Claxton; a new Entry-Mrs Campion, others; A Scotch Dance-Mrs Bicknell; a new Scaramouch Man and Scaramouch Woman-Laferry, Mrs Lucas

174
26 August 1710 @ Greenwich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Entertainment: Young Gentlewoman, as17100817; Likewise a Vaulting the Managed Horse-famous Master who never appear'd on the Publick Stage

Dance: Ladder Dance-; French Peasant-; Wooden Shoe-; Harlequin Scaramouch Cooper and Wife-

175
21 March 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: The Historical Register