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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.

9801
13 January 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: An Entertainment in Grotesque Characters, not acted these 4 years.[See 2 Dec. 1754.] The Scenes, Habits and Decorations entirely new. Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

9802
18 January 1758 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Authority. With new Scenes, Dresses and Decorations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved; Or, A Plot Discovered

Afterpiece Title: Numps's Courtship

Dance: As17580112

9803
24 January 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Bayes-Lee; Johnson-a Gentleman, his 1st appearance; Smith-Sparks; With Occasional Decorations, viz: A Dance of State-; Grand Battle of Horse and Foot-; A New Prologue on the Birthday of the King of Prussia-Lee.

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: FFingalian Dance, as17571013

9804
03 February 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. New Scene in Knights; or, Foote's Fresh Tea, published at 6d. Printed for J. Wilkie behind the Chapter House in St Paul's Churchyard. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Male Coquette

Dance: IV: The Italian Peasants, as17571004

9805
13 February 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The New Tragedy is deferr'd on account of Mrs Cibber's illness. Receipts: #80 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

9806
18 February 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: As Mrs Cibber is not quite recover'd of her illness, the new Tragedy of Agis is deferred for a day or two longer. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

9807
22 February 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: With New Additions and Alterations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Belshazzar

9808
24 February 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: With new Additions and Alterations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Israel In Egypt

9809
01 March 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: With new Additions and Alterations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jeptha

9810
03 March 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: With New Additions and Alterations. [On 1 March (Baker, Diary, p. 106) went to Handel's and heard the rehearsal by "Frasi, Miss Young als [alias], Miss Scott, Cassandra Frederick, Beard, Champness, Baildon."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus

9811
07 March 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #124 7s. 6d. Barry's 1!3 of surplus came to #14 15s. 10d. [Three new Renters came in: James Partridge, Abraham Langford, William Williams at 1 share each] (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: SSicilian Peasants, as17571217

9812
09 March 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bellamy. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Tickets delivered for The Humorous Lieutenant will be taken. Receipts: #113 5s. Charges #63. Income from Tickets #152 5s. (boxes 339; pit 364; gallery 129). Profit to Mrs Bellamy #202 10s. [Her daily salary was #2 2s.; on this night she cleared more than 4 months' wages at 24 acting days per month.] Two New Renters came in: Solomon Paul Juliot and Francis Wilson at 1 share each. Rec'd of Benj. Read for 6 Box tickets for the 2nd inst. #1 10s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love; Or, The World Well Lost

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Dance: As17571217

Ballet: TThe Judgment of Paris. As17571217

9813
01 April 1758 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: With the change of a new Duet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Issipile

9814
18 April 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts:#66 4s. 6d. Hutchison Mure came in as a New Renter for 2 shares, and Mary Mure for 1 share commencing this night (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Dance: NewComic Dance, as17580417

9815
25 April 1758 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: With the New Song and Duet. To begin at half an hour after Six precisely

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Solimano

9816
01 May 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: TheFrenchified Lady

Performance Comment: As17580311 but Rhodophil-Usher; Palamede-Vernon; Doralice-Miss Barton; Philotis-Miss Minors; New Epilogue-_; To conclude with a Minuet-Miss Pritchard, Noverre.

Dance: TThe Italian Peasants, as17571004

9817
20 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for ye General Lying-in-Hospital. Afterpiece a new farce (Cross). Part of Pit laid into Boxes & Amphitheatre on Stage. Ladies are desired to send their servants at 3 o'clock. Receipts: #320 (Cross); Charges #84 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Rout

9818
04 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Rooker; other characters-Blakes, Johnston, Ackman, Miss Hippisley, Miss Barton, Mrs Vernon; conclude with a new Comic Dance, The Flemish Feast (taken from the Pictures of Teniers)-Grimaldi, Giorgi, Noverre, Sga Lucchi, Mrs Vernon.

9819
01 February 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ambitious Step Mother

Performance Comment: Parts- Mossop, Fleetwood, Holland, Mrs Pritchard, Mrs Cibber, Miss Macklin Burton, Austin, Havard, Ackman, Scrase, Miss Hippisley; With the original Hymn to the Sun new set by Dr Arne-Beard, Miss Young, Miss E. Young; Genest, IV, p. 564-47, lists: Memnon-Mossop; Artaxerxes-Fleetwood; Artaban-Holland; Artemisa-Mrs Pritchard; Amestris-Mrs Cibber; Cleone-Miss Macklin.

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

9820
20 February 1759 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: With new Alterations. By Particualar Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Tempio Della Gloria

9821
01 March 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not performed these 12 years. With Alterations and Additions. Cloaths, Scenes, and Decorations entirely New. Nothing under Full Price will be taken. None admitted behind the Scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine; With the Birth and Adventures of Harlequin

9822
26 March 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clive. Part of Pit will be laid into Boxes and Amphitheatre on Stage. Receipts: #230 (Cross ); Charges #60 (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Performance Comment: Pamphlet-Palmer; others-Yates, Holland, Austin, Blakes, Vaughan, Mrs Yates, Mrs Clive; who will sing a New Balladin Character-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: who will sing a New Balladin Character Actor: Mrs Clive.

9823
12 May 1759 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Farnace

Performance Comment: See17590421. But no Mention of the New Dance in Act I%.

9824
21 May 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Performance Comment: As17580920, but Jack Meggot-Cresswick, 1st time; a New Epilogue-Cresswick.
Cast
Role: a New Epilogue Actor: Cresswick.

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: As17581016

9825
09 August 1759 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: Benefit for Reinhold. 2s. 6d. [Advance notices had promised a new burletta.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Strattaggemma

Song: Signora Saratina, Reinhold; will sing several Songs in the Orchestra with a Concerto on the Organ-Reinhold

Dance: I: Comic Dance-Miss Burn, from Opera House; II: Hornpipe-Summers