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12717 results for: Keyword - Mr Penkethman's New Theatre in Greenwich
We found 8127 matches on Event Comments, 3410 matches on Performance Comments, 3176 matches on Performance Title, 19 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

6751
31 October 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Harlots Progress

Performance Comment: Kitty-Mrs Phillips; Harlequin-Phillips; Beau Mordicai-Macklin; Debauchee-Turbutt; Poudre-Raftor; Constable-Gray; Porter-Barclay; Jenny-Miss Story; Mother Midnight-Hough; Pompey-Young Brooks; Justices-Ray, Woodburn, Taswell; Ladies of Pleasure-Mrs Jackson, Miss Budgell; Concluding with a new Comic Dance-Delamayne, M Mechell, Mlle Mechell.
Cast
Role: Concluding with a new Comic Dance Actor: Delamayne, M Mechell, Mlle Mechell.

Song: I: The Early Horn-Lowe; III: Happy Pair-Beard

Dance: II: A Sailor's Dance, as17411015; IV: a Ballet, as17411015

6752
31 October 1741 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Opera House in the Haymarket. A new Opera...Dances and other Decorations entirely New. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be deliver'd this Day, at the Office in the Haymarket, at Half a Guinea each. Gallery 5s. By His Majesty's Command, no Persons Whatever to be admitted behind the Scenes. The Gallery will be open'd at Four o'Clock. Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at Six o'clock. This Day Attendance will be given at the Opera-Office from Nine to One in order to deliver the Silver Tickets to the Subscribers. Each Subscriber is desir'd to send his printed Receipt, it being necessary for the Delivery of the Tickets [customary notice on the bills throughout the season]. BBurney, History of Music, IV, 445: A pasticcio, music mainly composed by Galuppi, now the resident composer for the Opera House. Edition lists libretto by Francesco Vanneschi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander In Persia

6753
04 November 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Harlots Progress

Performance Comment: As17411031, but a new Comic Dance-M _Mechell, Mlle _Mechell, Baudouin, +Leviez, Miss +Story, Mrs +Rayner.
Cast
Role: a new Comic Dance Actor:
Role: Concluding with a new Comic Dance Actor: Delamayne, M Mechell, Mlle Mechell.

6754
07 January 1742 @ James Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Performance Comment: (Daily Advertiser, 6 Jan.) A new Prologue on the Gamesters-.
Cast
Role: A new Prologue on the Gamesters Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: Nancy or The Parting Lovers

Song:

Dance:

6755
19 January 1742 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Opera [A pasticcio. See Burney, History of Music, IV, 447.]With Dances, and other Decorations entirely new. Dedication by librettist Francesco Vanneschi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Polidoro

6756
02 March 1742 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera...With Dances and Decorations entirely new. [Libretto by Vanneschi. Music by Galuppi (Burney, History of Music, IV, 447).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Scipione In Cartagine

6757
26 April 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Phillips and Mrs Walter. Tickets to be had at Phillips, Lodgings in Little Wild St., near Lincoln's Inn Fields; at the Bedford Coffee House, Covent Garden; of Mrs Walter, at the Three Queens, a Hosier, in New St., Covent Garden; and at Bradshaws. Afterpiece: a New Pantomimic Entertainment. Receipts: #170

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Cooper Outwitted or Harlequin Happy

Song: I: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard; III: The Early Horn-Lowe

Dance: II: Le Boufon, as17420325 IV: The Drunken Peasant-Phillips

6758
26 April 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: As17411209, but Othello-Stephens; Roderigo-Woodward; Brabantio-Gibson; Emilia-Mrs Woodward; Lodovico-_; Gratiano-_; With a New Prologue-Hale.
Cast
Role: With a New Prologue Actor: Hale.

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Dance: III: The Peasants, as17420210; IV: Chacone, as17411230; V: Pantaloon and Enamorata, as17420420

Song: End Farce: a Gregorean Song-Stoppelaer

6759
19 May 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Miss Lucy in Town

Performance Comment: As17420506, but with a New Epilogue-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: with a New Epilogue Actor: Mrs Clive.

6760
02 November 1742 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. With Dances and other Decorations entirely new. Pit and Boxes to be put together; and no person to be admitted without Tickets, which will be deliver'd this Day at the Office in the Hay-Market, at Half a Guinea each. Gallery 5s. By His Majesty's Command, No Person to be admitted behind the Scenes. The Gallery to be open'd at Four o'clock, Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at Six o'clock. [Customary notice will not be included again. A pasticcio; music by Hasse, Lampugnani, Brivio, and Rinaldo da Capua; librettist--Apostolo Zeno. See Burney, History of Music, IV, 447.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gianguir

Dance: Barbara Campanini (Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Sir Horace Mann, I, 191)

6761
01 January 1743 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Text-Vanneschi; Music-Galuppi (Burney). A new Opera [Description as before] but the Silver Tickets will be deliver'd to the Subscribers at the Opera-Office, where Attendance will be given from Nine to One for that Purpose. [Not entered as a new piece in the Larpent MS.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Enrico

6762
04 February 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Performance Comment: As17430202, but a New Dance call'd Les Amant Volages-Desse, Froment, Mrs Walter, Leviez, Baudouin, Mrs Thomson, Mlle Gondeau, Mlle Fabres, Miss King.
Cast
Role: a New Dance call'd Les Amant Volages Actor: Desse, Froment, Mrs Walter, Leviez, Baudouin, Mrs Thomson, Mlle Gondeau, Mlle Fabres, Miss King.

6763
05 April 1743 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Opera. [Not listed as a new piece in the Larpent MS.] Music by Galuppi (Burney, History of Music, IV, 450)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sirbace

6764
07 April 1743 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Beckham, the prompter, Blakey, Edw. Giffard, and Miss Story. [Dove's name is in the bill for Seringe, but is also announced to perform this night at the New Wells, Clerkenwell, where he had been dancing regularly; Carney's name is also in the bills to dance this night at the New Wells, Lemon St., Goodman's Fields, where he had been appearing regularly since Easter Monday.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Carney, Mrs Roland, Miss Story; V: a Minuet-Carney, Miss Story

6765
25 April 1743 @ James Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: Plume-Gentleman from Oxford; with a new Prologue-; Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: with a new Prologue Actor:

Song: End I: Hail! Windsor, favourite Air,-a Gentleman; III: Stella & Flavius-; IV: Gentle Jessica in the Merchant of Venice-Mrs Lowe

Dance: II: A Comic dance, The Drunken Peasant-

6766
06 December 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Bayes-Garrick; Smith-W. Giffard; Johnson-Mills; others-Yates, Havard, Taswell, Blakes, Turbutt, Gray, Usher, Mrs Ridout, Mrs Cross, Miss Cole, Miss Wright; With Additional Reinforcements of Bayes's New Rais'd Troops-.
Cast
Role: With Additional Reinforcements of Bayes's New Rais Actor: .

6767
05 January 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: Columbine Courtezan

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Yates; The Petit Maitre-Blakes; Pierot-Liviez; Colombine-Mrs Mann; Concluding with a New Dance-Muilment.
Cast
Role: Concluding with a New Dance Actor: Muilment.

6768
07 January 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tragedy reviv'd. As written by Shakespear. The Characters new Dress'd. [See G. W. Stone Jr., Garrick's Handling of Macbeth," pp. 609-28.] An Essay on Acting (London, 1744): In which will be Consider'd the Mimical Behaviour of a Certain Fashionable faulty Actor....A short criticism on His Acting Macbeth. [See especially first part, pp. 1-12, on Acting; second, pp. 12-27, on Garrick as Macbeth.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Columbine Courtezan

Cast
Role: Concluding with a New Dance Actor: Muilment.

6769
09 January 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Columbine Courtezan

Performance Comment: As17440105, but a New Dance-_; Italian Masquerade-.
Cast
Role: Concluding with a New Dance Actor: Muilment.

6770
01 February 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A New Grotesque Pantomime Entertainment never acted before. As the least Obstruction will be detrimental to the working the Machinery, 'tis hoped no persons will take it ill, that they can't be admitted behind the scenes. The Music, Scenes, Habits, and Decorations entirely new

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favorite

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Goddess or Harlequin Married

6771
02 February 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [The 1 Feb. note about nonadmission of persons behind the scenes continues to appear on all bills for nights of this afterpiece, as from now on, occurs the note: Nothing under Full Price will be taken during the time of the performance. These will not be copied out further.] We hear the new Pantomime Entertainment that was perform'd last night at Drury Lane, was receiv'd with great applause; the Scenes, Deceptions, and Decorations, all being in an entire new taste

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Goddess

6772
03 February 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: We hear the new Pantomime Entertainment that was perform'd last night at Drury Lane was receiv'd with great applause, the Scenes, Deceptions, and Decorations all being in an entire new taste.--Daily Advertiser. [This "puff" worded identically with that appearing the day before in the London Daily Post and General Advertiser.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Goddess

6773
05 March 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: As17440303 but with a New Grand Scene of the Palace of Comus-.
Cast
Role: a New Grand Scene of the Palace of Comus Actor: .

6774
19 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life Of King Henry The Fifth

Performance Comment: King Henry-Hale; Fluellin-Hippisley; Pistol-Woodward; French King-Cashell; Dauphin-Goodall; Archbishop of Canterbury-Chapman; Exeter-Stephens; English Soldier-Rosco; Constable of France-Bridgwater; Burgundy-Gibson; Queen of France-Mrs James; Catherine-Mrs Hale; French Soldier-Destrade (being the first time of his attempting to speak on the stage); With the Chorus (after the manner of the ancients)-Ryan; In the play will be properly introduc'd the Songs To Arms, Britons Strike Home-Leveridge, Beard, Reinhold; With a New Prologue for the Occasion-.
Cast
Role: With a New Prologue for the Occasion Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

6775
24 April 1744 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera [Altered by Rolli from Metastasio's Demetrio; music by Lampugnani (Nicoll, Early Eighteenth Century Drama, p. 388); not listed as a new piece in the Larpent MS.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alceste