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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Y Poitier"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Y Poitier")') 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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552 results for: Keyword - Y. Poitier
We found 316 matches on Performance Title, 201 matches on Performance Comments, 74 matches on Event Comments, 20 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

276
25 April 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: CComic Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville

277
28 April 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Lady Moore; or, the Dragoness

Dance: CComic Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville

278
30 April 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Non Juror

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: CComic Dance-Poitier, Mlle Capdeville

279
30 March 1756 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ricimero

Dance: End I: New Dance-Signora Banti, Lucas (first time of appearing on this Stage); II: Dancing-Signora Banti, Poitier Jun; III: Minuet-Signora Banti, Bugiani

280
18 April 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: By Desire aHornpipe-Poitier Jr

Entertainment: The Cries of London with Additions-Shuter

281
25 April 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Statue; or, The Jealous Farmer Outwitted

Dance: FFingalian Revels, as17570329 Hornpipe-Poitier Jr

282
26 April 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: I: Hornpipe-Poitier Jr; II: Old Scotch Dance-Leppie, Miss Hilliard; III: Fingalian Revels, as17570329 V: Louvre and Minuet-Leppie, Miss Hilliard

Song: IV: A song-Mrs Chambers

283
29 April 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: III: Haymakers Dance, as17570423 V: The Lamplighters-Poitier, Mlle Capdeville

284
04 May 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Dance: IV: A Hornpipe-Poitier; V: The Lamplighters, as17570429

285
17 May 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: HHornpipe-Poitier

286
04 April 1758 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Creso

Dance: New Dances-Marionesi, Signora Provenrali (1st time), Poitier, Signora Forti

287
15 October 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Dance: As17591012; with a New Comic Dance call'd The Irish Turf@Cutters-Poitier Jr, 1st time here in 3 years, Miss Capdeville

288
17 October 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: As17591015; End I: The Dutch Skipper-Poitier Jr

289
21 November 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: As17591012; End II: a New Comic Dance call'd The Plowman-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville

290
05 December 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius; Or, The Force Of Love

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: TThe Dutch Skipper-Poitier Jr, as17591017

291
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

292
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

293
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

294
18 March 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wake; or, Hob in the Well

Dance: II: A Comic Dance-Granier, Miss Hilliard; End: The Lamp Lighters-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville

295
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

296
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

297
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

298
11 December 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Dance: The Dances incident to the masque-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville, Granier, Leppie, Desse, Rochford, Dumai, Gosley, Hussey, Balthazar, Mrs Granier, Mrs Jansolin, Mrs Mariane, Mrs Crawford, Mrs Welch, Miss Daw

299
20 December 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Dance: II: Les Charboniers, as17601216; End: A New Rural Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville

300
23 December 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: The Last New Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville