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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.

10076
08 March 1774 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Serious Opera. Music by Giordani and other eminent composers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antigono

Dance: I: A Grand Serious Ballet, never performed-Mariottini, Nina Favier; II: Pastoral Ballet, as17740222

Ballet: End of Opera: Orfeo e Eurydice. Orfeo-Pitrot; Eurydice-Mlle Mimi Favier

10077
24 March 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Business

Performance Comment: As17740228, but New Occasional Epilogue (Never Spoken)-Miss Barsanti; Woodward restored to Public Advertiser List of Actors. Woodward restored to Public Advertiser List of Actors.
Cast
Role: New Occasional Epilogue Actor: Miss Barsanti

Afterpiece Title: Midas

10078
12 April 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Afterpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [See 9 April 1771. Seemingly MacNamara Morgan's adaptation of the Winter's Tale.] Paid half yrs. New River Water to Xmas last #3 2s.; Housekeeper's Bills 2 weeks #8 8s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #199 16s. Charges: #65 5s. Profit to J. Palmer: #134 11s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: Florizel and Perdita

Entertainment: End: Bucks have at ye all-Palmer

10079
14 April 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Business

Performance Comment: As17740324 2nd time for New Occasional Epilogue, but Dunstall is omitted; Handy-Wroughton replaces Dyer.

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

10080
19 April 1774 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A serious Opera, the Music entirely new composed by Sacchini. The Tempest Dance composed by Barthelemon. The last Serious Ballet composed by Jomelli

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Nitteti

Dance: I: Ballet-Mariottini, Nina Favier; II: The Tempest; or, The Happy Shipwreck, an Heroic Ballet with a Grand Chaconne-Pitrot, Mimi Favier, other parts-Nina Favier, Sga Mazzoni, Mariottini, Bocchini; End Opera: Ballet, Chaconne-Fierville

10081
20 April 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Ii

Performance Comment: As17740317 but New Prologue-Hull; Epilogue-Mrs _Mattocks, Miss Miller.
Cast
Role: New Prologue Actor: Hull

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: End: The Frolick, as17740416

Cast
Role: A New Dance call'd The Pilgrim Actor: Mas. Harris, Miss Matthews
Role: A New Comic Dance call'd The Frolick Actor: Aldridge, Miss Capon, Miss Besford
Role: A New Hornpipe Actor: Aldridge.

10082
15 July 1774 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A new comedy [Foote]. [On confusion between printed casts, see Genest, V, 430-33.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cozeners

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: As17740613

10083
08 August 1774 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A new ballad opera by [C. Dibdin]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nabob

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman; or, The First of August

Dance: As17740613

10084
17 September 1774 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission. Benefit for Fearon and Kennedy. Mainpiece: A new Comedy. Afterpiece: A farce altered from Cibber['s comedy of same title]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Fools

Entertainment: II: Dissertation on Hobby Horses-Wilson

Song: Scotch Song-Aitkin, first appearance on that stage

10085
29 September 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With a New Medley Overture of Favourite Sea-Tunes. Paid Housekeeper's Bill #3 10s. 5d.; Properties #1 8s. 11d.; Chorus 2 nights (this incl.) #3 6s.; Printer's Bill #18 4s. (Treasurer's Book). [These four items are weekly constants with averages and totals as follows. No further mention of them will be made except in unusual cases.] Receipts: #228 6s. (Treasurer's Book). @Item Weekly Average Total Season Payment@Housekeeper's Bill #5 10s. #203 10s.@Properties #1 5s. #55 10s.@Chorus #4 10s. #203 10s.@Printing #9 6s. #347 4s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker; Or, The Humours Of The Navy

Afterpiece Title: The Meeting of the Company

Cast
Role: Newphew Actor: Cautherly

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

10086
22 October 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: With a New Overture for the Musical Interlude. Paid 6 days salary list at #94 10s. 2d. per diem, #557 1s.; J. French on acct #5 5s.; Rec'd Stopages #18 5s. Receipts: #145 17s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Electra

Afterpiece Title: The Election

Afterpiece Title: The Note of Hand

Cast
Role: Newphew Actor: Cautherly

10087
31 October 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [tragedy by Arthur Murphy]: Never acted there. New Dresses, Scenery, and Decorations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

10088
23 December 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Westminster New Lying In Hospital, near Westminster Bridge

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Song: I: The Favourite Song of Guardian Angels (for this Night only)-Miss Catley; II: The Favourite Duet of Ellen Aroon-Miss Catley, Miss Brown

Dance: End Comedy: The Reel, as17741028

10089
02 February 1775 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: Young Meadows-Bradney; Justice Woodcock-Merryfield, first appearance on any stage; Hawthorne-Massey; Sir William-Lewis; Eustace-Trotter; Hodge-Winton; Madge-Mrs Nost; Debora-Mrs Cokayne; Lucinda-Mrs Simmons; Rosetta (with a new introductory song composed by Bates)-Mrs Woodman; Servants at the Statute-Williams, Hayes, Baldwin, King.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay; or, the Wives Metamorphosed

Dance: II: Hornpipe-Rawlins

Song: End Opera: Aileen a Roon-Mrs Woodman

10090
21 February 1775 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A Tragedy [by Edmund Smith] not acted these 20 years. [See 1 Nov. 1756.] The Characters New Dress'd. [The Barrys had revived it at dl the year before.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phaedra And Hippolitus

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: End Tragedy: Rural Merriment, as17741209

10091
22 February 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: As17750217, but New Prologue, the Usual Epilogue-Mrs Bulkley.

Afterpiece Title: The Druids

Cast
Role: Concerto on A Violin Without Strings Actor: OrchestraWith the Last New Scene, Additional Performances. Characters of the Pantomime and Dances as usual.

10092
02 March 1775 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: A New Tragedy [by John Hoole] never perform'd. [The author in his Advertisement to the 1775 Edition express "singular obligations to Mrs Hartley, who most readily undertook the part of Cleonice, which she has continued to support, with unremitted assiduity and friendly alacrity, amidst the repeated attacks of severe indisposition." Reviewed, but without praise in the Westminster Magazine, March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cleonice, Princess Of Bithynia

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

10093
16 March 1775 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Rauzzini. Afterpiece: A new Tragic Cantata

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Armida

Afterpiece Title: Piramo E Tisbe

10094
27 April 1775 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The New Comedy of The Rivals oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of Miss Barsanti's illness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: The Two Misers

10095
17 May 1775 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Upon Two Sticks

Performance Comment: As17750515, but a new listing: Characters-Foote, Aickin, Davis, Williams, Wilson, Eagan, Jacobs, Griffiths, Jones, Chaplin, Lloyd, Everard, Walker, Weston, Mrs Gardner, Miss Weller.

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: As17750515

10096
23 May 1775 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new comic opera; music-Piccini and other eminent Composers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Donna Di Spirito

Dance: As17750516

10097
29 May 1775 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Upon Two Sticks

Performance Comment: As17750517, but new listing: Roles-Foote, Aickin, Wilson, Fearon, Whitefield, Eagan, Jacobs, Griffiths, Jones, Chaplin, Lloyd, Everard, Walker, Weston, Mrs Gardner, Miss Weller.

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: End: A Dance-

10098
30 May 1775 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Donna Di Spirito

Dance: I: Serious Ballet, Grand Chaconne-S. Vallouis, Mme Vallouis; II: New Ballet-; with Pas de Deux-M Vallouis, Mlle Sophie; and a Louvre-Mlle Baccelli; End Opera: Silvie-S. Vallouis, Mme Vallouis

Performance Comment: Vallouis, Mme Vallouis; II: New Ballet-; with Pas de Deux-M Vallouis, Mlle Sophie; and a Louvre-Mlle Baccelli; End Opera: Silvie-S. Vallouis, Mme Vallouis.
Cast
Role: New Ballet Actor:

10099
21 August 1775 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: A new Musical Entertainment of Two Acts never performed before by Thomas Brydges?. Music by Hook

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of Bath

Afterpiece Title: The Dutchman

Dance: The Merry Lasses-

10100
28 September 1775 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Managers have given orders that no performer shall appear behind the scenes who is not concerned in the business of the night. The performers now come on and go off without interruption, and the audience in the Upper Boxes are no longer insulted with the monkey tricks of the unemployed actors who used to infest the wings (Folger news clipping from the Morning Post 28 Sept.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: No Performance