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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.

301
31 December 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damscus

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: Dances-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville [the particular ones unspecified]

302
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

303
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

304
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

305
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

306
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-

307
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

308
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

309
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

310
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

311
03 November 1763 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Dance: I: The Sicilian Peasants, as17631005; II: The Cudgell'd Husband, as17631101

Music: II: Mr Handel's Water@Music, with a preamble on the Kettle Drums-Poitier

312
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

313
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

314
31 January 1795 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Scola Dei Maritati

Dance: As17950127

315
21 February 1795 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Scola Dei Maritati

Dance: As17950127

316
24 February 1795 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Scola Dei Maritati

Dance: As17950124

317
03 March 1795 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Scola Dei Maritati

Dance: End I: New Divertisement, as17950228; End II: L'Amant Retrouve, as17950124

318
17 March 1795 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Scola Dei Maritati

Dance: As17950303

319
07 April 1795 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Scola Dei Maritati

Dance: End I: New Divertisement, as17950228; End II: Paul et Virginie- see17950326Mme Hilligsberg will perform in men's Clothes

320
25 April 1795 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Scola Dei Maritati

Dance: As17950411

321
28 April 1795 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Scola Dei Maritati

Dance: As17950411

322
14 May 1795 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Scola Dei Maritati

Afterpiece Title: Ati e Cibele

Dance: End I: L'Amant Retrouve, as17950120, but Mme Bossi [DelCaro], Mlle _Rosine [no other ballet listed]

Music: End II: concerto on the hautboy-Harrington

323
02 June 1795 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'isola Del Piacere

Dance: As17950512

324
09 June 1795 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'isola Del Piacere

Dance: As17950512

325
23 January 1798 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Scola Dei Maritati

Dance: As17980116

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