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12712 results for: Keyword - Mr Penkethman's New Theatre in Greenwich
We found 8123 matches on Event Comments, 3410 matches on Performance Comments, 3175 matches on Performance Title, 19 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

9601
28 March 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: HHorace Walpole to Sir Horace Mann, 29 March: The Town flocks to a new play of Thomson's call'd Tancred and Sigismunda: it is very dull: I have read it. I cannot bear modern poetry; these refiners of the purity of the stage, and of the incorrectness of English verse, are most woefully insipid. -Toynbee, Letters of Horace Walpole, II, 82

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

9602
16 April 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: 7 p. p.m. [New formula for evading Licensing Act as 15 April 1745.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Entertainment: Dancing, tumbling-M. Duge, Vangable

Related Works
Related Work: The Dancing Master Author(s): William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle
Related Work: The French Dancing Master Author(s): William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle

9603
17 April 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: 1 Benefit Paget. Tickets given for Comus taken this day, Several Gentlemen desiring to see him as Falstaff. [Originally scheduled for 4 April were Comus and a new Farce The Biter Bit; or, Vintner in the Suds.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 1 Henry Iv; With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Afterpiece Title: 1 The Miller of Mansfield

9604
02 May 1745 @ May Fair

Event Comment: A historical note about the patent for May Fair by Edward Shepherd. Daily Advertiser, 1 May: Whereas a Patent was granted by King Charles the First, and confirm'd by King James II, to the Proprietor of Great and Little Brookfield, then in the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields, now in the Parish of St. George, Hanover Square, to hold a Fair during the Space of fifteen Days, to begin the 1st Day of May next, and every May Day forever: the present Proprietor thinks it proper to apprize the Publick thereof, that it may not be thought that he attempts to do any thing but by Virtue of the said Patent, and no Ways to disturb the Publick Peace, or act in Contradiction to the Laws of the Realm. [Alluded to in 2 May news of the Daily Advertiser, as being proclaimed by Edward Shepherd.

Performances

9605
07 October 1745 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: GGeneral Advertiser: Yesterday Morning a Colonel's Guard (by Order) Marched to the Playhouse in Lincoln's Inn Fields, where they are to Continue, in order to be ready to quell any Disturbances that may happen from the Adherents of the Pretender, and the enemies of our present Happy Establishment. The Penny London Post, 7-9 Oct.: On Sunday morning early a party of Guards were detached from Whitehall to the New Playhouse in Lincoln's Inn Fields, of which they took possession; and soon after it was rumored that his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State had received intelligence that a great quantity of amunition & arms were secreted there for the use of the Pretender and his adherents; but whether they were found we know not: however a company of the 2nd regiment went on duty there that night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

9606
11 October 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

Performance Comment: All the vocal parts-to be performed as usual; to conclude with a New Occasional Song and Chorus by Lampe-.

9607
18 October 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by Colley Cibber, Poet Laureate. Never acted there before. Characters all New Dress'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nonjuror

Song: GGenius of England (composed by the late Henry Purcell)-Beard

Dance: Cooke

9608
26 December 1745 @ James Street

Event Comment: With a new Farce of two Acts...Written by the Gentleman who plays the Part of Lothario. The Play and Entertainment being both so long we shall positively begin at exactly six o'clock. 3s., 2s., 1s. [Usual concert notice.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Fortunate Adventurers; or, The Successful Lover

9609
18 January 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Characters new dressed. Written in six weeks by Macklin. Put in rehearsal act by act as it came from him. Of topical interest because of the rebellion (Genest, IV, 178). Only revisals were at the rehearsals [Preface to first edition]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Vii; Or, The Popish Imposter

9610
28 January 1746 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Opera. [Music by Galuppi (Nicoll, Early Eighteenth Century Drama, p. 400).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Trionfo Della Continenza

9611
06 February 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: As17451209, but Bullock-Taswell; Rose-Miss Scott; a New Occasional Prologue-_.

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Song: Lowe, Mrs Clive, Miss Edwards

Dance: I: Italian Peasants-the Mechels; III: Muilment; V: Grand Dance-Muilment, Desse, Miss Scott, Picq, Miss Hilliard

9612
04 March 1746 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera [a pasticcio by Gluck, chiefly from Tigrane, Sofonisbe, and Ipermestra; libretto revised by F. Vanneschi from B. Vitturi (Loewenberg, Annals of Opera, p. 104); see also W. B Squire, Musical Quarterly, I (1915).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artamene

9613
11 March 1746 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Note, Madem. Violette, a New Dancer from Vienna, will perform this day for the first time

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artamene

9614
14 March 1746 @ Devil Tavern

Event Comment: Benefit Leonardo Pescatore...a Serenata. Music entirely new and composed by himself, 7 p.m., 5s. Tickets at the Mews Coffee House, Charing Cross; at Pescatore's, No 2, Meard's Court, Dean St., Soho. [And a long letter by Pescatore offering to give lessons on the harsichord and wounded by public suspicion of his loyalty.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Forza De L'amore

9615
22 March 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: As17460208, but Jessica-Miss Edwards (in which character will be introduced several new songs proper to the character); EpilogueFemale Volunteer as17460317-Mrs Woffington. EpilogueFemale Volunteer as17460317-Mrs Woffington.

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Song: II: Gentle Shepherd-Mrs Arne; IV: Song in Honour of the Duke of Cumberland-Lowe

Dance: III: Muilment

9616
12 April 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Performance Comment: As17451019, but Monimia-Mrs Cibber; Polydore-Delane; Page-Master Cornel (with a new song in character); Chaplain-Blakes; Ernesto-Simpson; Chamont-Lacey 1st appearance on that stage.

Song: I: (By Desire) Per Pieta in L'Incostanza Delusa-Mrs Arne; III: Nature Fram'd thee sure for loving, in the Judgment of Paris-Mrs Arne; IV: (Being particularly desir'd by several Ladies of Quality) Rasserena il Mesto Ciglia in the Opera Artemene-Mrs Arne

9617
15 April 1746 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Possibly a pasticcio by Lampugnani, possibly a revival of Rossane, previously revived 15 Nov. 1743, and see the discussion under that date.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander In India

9618
22 April 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Performance Comment: As17460318 but a New Prologue to the Opera-_.

Song: III: Colin and Phebe-Lowe, Miss Edwards; IV: Cantata-Lowe

9619
23 August 1746 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: HHussey's Booth, George Inn Yard, Smithfield. A concert etc. 2s. 6d., 1s., 6d. Noon to 10 p.m. Note, the Booth is very large and Commodious [repeated in each bill. According to a note in the news of the Daily Advertiser, 25 Aug., the piece was performed and]: Shakespear followed justly. [Notice repeated 25, 26, 27 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Historical Piece Written By shakespear

Afterpiece Title: The Schemes of Harlequin; or, Mons Le Saxe's Disappointment

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Rayner; Colombine-Mlle Boneway; Clown-Davis; Father-Allen; M. Le Saxe-Bennett.
Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mlle Boneway

Song: Chorus in praise of the valiant hero the Duke of Cumberland-

9620
04 November 1746 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command, No Persons to be admitted behind the Scenes. A New Opera [another pasticcio]. Pit and Boxes a half Guinea; gallery 5s. 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Annibale In Capua

Dance:

9621
18 November 1746 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Some new Airs will be inserted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Annibale In Capua

Dance:

9622
22 November 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Dancers With New Habits

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Song: Lowe

Dance: As17461121

9623
02 December 1746 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: The subscribers to the Second Subscription for Operas, are desired to take Notice, that on Thursday Morning next will be a General Rehearsal of the new Opera called Mitridate upon the Stage, agreeable to the printed Proposals the Doors will be open'd at Ten, and the Rehearsal will begin at Eleven of the Clock. No Persons to be admitted without a Subscriber's Ticket, and each Ticket will admit four Persons

Performances

9624
04 December 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: With new Habits, scenes, Machines, and other Decorations for the Dances. Nothing under full price will be taken during the time of performance. The Refusal oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of the Indisposition of a Principal Performer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Dance: Grand Comic Dance call'dThe German Camp-Salomon, Mlle Violette, Mechel, Mlle Mechel, Salomon's Son; Also The Vintage-Salomon, Mlle Violette, Muilment, Mechel, Mlle Mechel

9625
15 December 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius; Or, The Force Of Love

Performance Comment: Varanes-Barry; Theodosius-Delane; Marcian-Sparks; Leontine-Berry; Athanais-Mrs Giffard; Pulcheria-Mrs Furnival; Atticus-Bridges; Lucius-Winstone; Aranthes-Blakes; With the Original Songs, new set by Arne-Lowe, Sullivan, Reinhold, Mrs Clive, Mrs Mozeen, others.

Dance: TThe German Camp, as17461204; The Vintage, as17461204