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6655 results for: Keyword - Mr Poitier Sr
We found 4292 matches on Event Comments, 1755 matches on Performance Comments, 884 matches on Performance Title, 224 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

801
05 December 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius; Or, The Force Of Love

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: TThe Dutch Skipper-Poitier Jr, as17591017

802
12 January 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: As17600108, but Comic Dance [probably The Plowman]-Poitier, Mlle Capdeville

803
12 February 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Dance: As17600108, but Comic Dance-_; The Plowman-Poitier, Mlle Capdeville

804
03 March 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: Incident to the play and The Plowman-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville

805
20 March 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant; Or, The Beggar's Bush

Dance: TThe Dutch Skipper-Poitier

Entertainment: E+Extravaganza. Shuter will entertain the audience in an Oratorical, Poetical, Operatical Method (never befoer attempted) with a Comic Extravaganza call'd A Day of Taste; or, London Raree Show-Shuter being a Ranelagh Breakfast, a Coffee House Conversation, An Auction at Noon, and the Choice Spirits at Night; conclude with: The Cries of London-. *uó‘cg To which will (By Desire) be added (for this Night only) Mr Shuter's Droll that was perform'd at Bartholomew Fair, call'd The English Sailors in America. Mackfinnen (the Irish Volunteer)-Shuter; Princess-Miss Dawson, her first Time of speaking on the stage

806
10 April 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: CCountry Dance-characters of the play; Hornpipe-Miss Dawson; I: Fingalian Dance-Miss Hilliard; II: Dutch Skipper-Poitier

807
08 May 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: I: The Drunken Peasant-Miles; Clown-Bennet; II: The Threshers, as17591005; III: The Dutch Skipper-Poitier; End: The Lamp Lighters, as17600318

808
02 January 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal; Or, The Ladies Philosophy

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: A Minuet-Miss Macklin, Poitier; Dances [unspecified]-Sg Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville

809
08 January 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: As17600924; End II: Dancing [Unspecified in playbill]-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville

810
28 February 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Refusal

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: Spanish Dance,%The Serenade-; The Waggoners (Comic Dance)-Poitier Jr, Mrs Vernon

811
24 March 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Cast
Role: With a Minuet Actor: Poitier Jr, Miss Macklin , a Masquerade Dance proper to the play

Afterpiece Title: Florizel and Perdita

Cast
Role: With a New Rural Dance Actor: Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville.

Dance: HHornpipe-Poitier Jr

812
26 March 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wife's Relief; Or, The Husband's Cure

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: II: (By Desire) Hornpipe-Poitier Jr

Entertainment: End: A Comic Lecture; or, Tea a-la-Mode, in the manner of Foote-Wilkinson; The Cries of London-Shuter; End Afterpiece: the Origin, Nature, and Progress of the Order of British Bucks-Mr Shuter; with the whimsical behaviour of Choice Spirits, and Mons Thurot's Trip to Carrickfergus-

813
30 March 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The English Tars in America; or, The Good Woman Without a Head

Dance: III: A Comic Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville; After Play: An Epilogue on the Humours of tne Age in Imitation of Shakespeare's Stage-Cresswick

814
01 May 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Dance: III: Last New Comic Dance-Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville; End: By Desire Heart of Oak (the Song)-Legg; with a Hornpipe in character-Poitier Jr

815
15 March 1763 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: II: The Garland, or the +Milk-Maid's Holiday-Miss Poitier; [see17590421] [in which will be introduced a Hornpipe; End: The Jealous Woodcutter, as17621023

816
18 April 1763 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Poitier
Role: Hornpipe Actor: Miss Poitier

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: A Hornpipe-Miss Poitier; a Country Dance-characters in the Opera; End II: A New Comic Dance, as17630224

817
09 April 1764 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

Performance Comment: As17640103, but Solemn Hymn-Miss Poitier.
Cast
Role: Solemn Hymn Actor: Miss Poitier.

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: II: A Hornpipe-Miss Poitier; End: Venus Reveng'd, as17631222

818
11 April 1767 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Cast
Role: Dorcas Actor: Miss Poitier

Dance: I: The Sicilian Peasants-Sga Manesiere, Miss Wilford [see17641001]; To conclude with the Original Dance[, in the characters of an Old Man and Old Woman-Arnauld, Miss Poitier; III: A Minuet-Fishar, Miss Wilford

819
19 November 1707 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and instrumental Music-the best Performers the music composed by Claxton Jr for the Entertainment of the Foreign Ministers and other Persons of Quality

Dance: Several Grotesque Dances-; particularly The Whip of Dunboyn-Claxton Sr

820
25 April 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical History Of Don Quixote, Part Ii

Song: Leveridge, Mrs Fitzgerald; particularly Since Times Are So Bad-

Music: A New Concerto for the Flute-Bastion Sr, Bastion Jr

Dance: As17151217

821
06 December 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Mars and Venus

Dance: Dupre, Moreau, Boval, Thurmond Jr, Tully, Cook Sr, Newhouse, Pelling, Cook Jr, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Schoolding, Mlle Gautier, Mlle Corail, Miss Smith, Miss Schoolding Jr; particularly Dupre's Harlequin-Dupre, Mlle Gautier; and a new French Peasant-Moreau, Mrs Bullock

822
26 July 1718 @ Richmond

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Dance: Moreau, Mrs Moreau, Cook Sr, Cook Jr, Pelling, Spiller; An Italian Night Scene between a Harlequin and a Countryman-Cook, Spiller

823
29 April 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part I

Dance: Rice, Tape a Scholar of Topham Sr, who never appear'd on any Stage before, Topham Jr, Sandham, Miss Bullock, Miss Francis, Sandham's Little Boy

824
27 November 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Song: As17231116

Dance: Drunken Swiss-Nivelon Jr; Running Footman's Dance-Nivelon Sr

Ballet: The Humours of Bedlam. Mad Taylor-Nivelon Sr; Mad Dancing Master-Glover; Mad Gamester-Pelling; Mad Soldier-Nivelon Jr; Mad Astrologer-Lanyam; Mad Lady-Mrs Rogeir

825
28 November 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Like To Like; Or, A Match Well Made

Dance: Two Pierrots-Nivelons; French Peasant-Nivelon Sr, Mrs Rogeir