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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.

10201
05 July 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Written by the Author of The Son-in-Law [John O'Keeffe]. The Overture and New Music composed by Dr Arnold

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

Dance: As17820613

10202
31 October 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Wild [prompter] for 3 licenses [from Lord Chamberlain, to act new plays] #6 6s. Receipts: #147 7s. (142/9; 4/18)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle

Dance: As17821009

10203
04 November 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: "Among other Obligations that the Town has to the new Open is that it has, for this year, delivered the Play-goer from his periodical Endurance of Rowe's Tamerlane" (Public Advertiser, 6 Nov.). The reference is to the long established custom of performing Tamerlane either on 4 Nov. (the date of William III's birth) or 5 Nov. (the date of his landing in England). In the play the virtuous Tamerlane was held to be the portrait of an upright monarch, and the vicious Bajazet [i.e. Louis xiv] as that monarch's enemy. At DL Tamerlane was acted on either or both of these nights uninterruptedly from 1716 to 1777; at LIF and CG, with the exception of five seasons, from 1721 to 1784. The Doors to be opened at 5:15. To begin at 6:15 [see 1 May 1783]. Receipts: #155 2s. 6d. (153/4/0; 1/18/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

10204
05 November 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; mf 2, by John Dent. Prologue by the author (see text)]: A new Overture and Songs by Hook. Account-Book, 19 Nov.: Paid Dent for his farce #100. Receipts: #84 17s. (53/14; 30/18; 0/5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Too Civil by Half

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece, as17820917; End of mainpiece, as17821005

Song: As17820928

10205
12 November 1782 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Opera this Evening. The new Serious Opera of Medonte, intended for King's representation this Evening, is deferred till Thursday the 14th instant, on account of Sga Morigi's not being quite recovered from a very severe indisposition

Performances

Mainpiece Title:

10206
07 January 1783 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A Serious Opera in 2 acts [1st time; by Benedetto Pasqualigo]: The Music entirely new by Bertoni

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cimene

Dance: As17821212 throughout

10207
28 January 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by Richard Cumberland. Author of Prologue unknown. Epilogue by the author (Public Advertiser, 30 Jan. In 1796 this was acted at CG altered by the author in 4 acts]: With new Dresses, &c. Public Advertiser, 10 Feb. 1783: This Day at Noon will be published The Mysterious Husband (18d.). [Afterpiece in place of Barnaby Brittle, announced on playbill of 27 Jan.] Receipts: #275 9s. (269/14/6; 5/14/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mysterious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: As17820927

10208
27 February 1783 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A Comic Opera in 2 acts, not acted these 3 years [acted 15 Mar. 1781]. The Music by Gretry. With Dances incident to the Play, new Scenes, Dresses and Decorations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zemira And Azor

Dance: As17830218 throughout

10209
14 June 1783 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Singers and Dancers. Opera: A Comic Opera in 2 acts; the Music entirely new by Anfossi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'avaro

Dance: End of Act I La Begueule, as17830531; End of Act II Le Tuteur Trompe, as17830111, but omitted: Slingsby, Mlle Theodore

10210
20 October 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 20 years [not acted since 17 Jan. 1750]. With new Dresses and Decorations. Receipts: #193 11s. (169/7/0; 23/14/0; 0/2/6; tickets not come in: 0/7/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward The Black Prince; Or, The Battle Of Poictiers

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17831018

10211
29 October 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The new Comic Opera called The Poor Soldier [announced on playbill of 28 Oct.] is obliged to be deferred on account of Mrs Kennedy's Illness [see 4 Nov.]. Receipts: #126 13s. 6d. (124/9/6; 2/4/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Harlequin

10212
08 November 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; tc 5]: Altered from [The Picture, by Philip] Massinger [by Henry Bate; incidental music by William Shield. Prologue by William Pearce (see text)]. With New Dresses, Scenery, &c. Afterpiece: Written by O'Keeffe. London Chronicle, 10 Nov., prints the words of the Chorus, and also of a song sung by Quick, Poor Hillario, once so jolly, and of one sung by Mrs Martyr, Would you view the loveliest rose. Receipts: #209 16s. (205/3; 4/13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Magic Picture

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Song: In Act II of mainpiece a Grand Chorus [Crowned with conquest] by Bannister, Reinhold, Johnstone, Mattocks, Brett, Mahon, Doyle, Darley; Mrs Bannister, Mrs Johnstone, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Kennedy. [For songs, see below.]

10213
06 January 1784 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A Comic Opera (1st time [in London; 1st perfomed at Milan, 1782, as Fra Due Litiganti il Terzo Gode; and see 26 Feb. 1793]); The Music entirely new by Sard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Rivali Delusi

Dance: As17840103 throughout

10214
14 February 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Miles Peter Andrews. Prologue and Epilogue by Edward Topham (see text)]: With new Scenery and Dresses. Public Advertiser, 26 Feb. 1784: This Day at Noon will be published The Reparation (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #161 1s. (148/16/0; 11/19/6; 0/5/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Reparation

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: Afterpiece to conclude as17831104

10215
27 March 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Performance Comment: Cymon-Johnstone; Merlin-Bannister; Doras(with a new song)-Quick; Daemon of Revenge-Darley; Linco-Edwin; Urganda-Mrs Martyr; Farima-Mrs Wilson; Dorcas-Mrs Pitt; Shepherdesses-Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart; Sylvia-Mrs Bannister .

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: In Act I of mainpiece a Dance of Cupids; In Act IV a Dance of Daemons; In Act V a Grand Ballet (performers not listed)

10216
06 July 1784 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Elizabeth Inchbald; text, unauthorized (Dublin: For the Booksellers, 1788), assigns no parts]: With new Scenery, Machinery and other Decorations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: A Mogul Tale

Dance: As17840528

Song: As17840617

10217
25 August 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lord Russel

Performance Comment: As17840820, but Lord Howard and Hubert by two other Gentlemen; added: Attendant, Officers, Guards. Before the Play an entire new Address, written and to be spoken by the Gentleman who performs the part of Lord Russel [Home]. Prologue and Epilogue as17840820.

10218
22 November 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; ENT 2]: Consisting of Dialogue, Music [chiefly by Henry Purcell and Thomas Linley Sen. (Boaden, Kemble, I, 225)], and Machinery. Altered from [David Garrick's alteration of] King Arthur, by Dryden. With great Variety of very capital Scenery, new Dresses, and Decorations. [The alteration was probably made by John Philip Kemble.] Receipts: #148 11s. (107/13/0; 39/17/6; 1/0/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Arthur and Emmeline

Performance Comment: Arthur-Kemble; Oswald-Brereton; Merlin-Aickin; Conon-Packer; Osmond-Phillimore; Aurelius-R. Palmer; Grimbald-Bannister; Matilda-Miss Barnes; Emmeline-Miss Farren; Philidel-Miss Field; Venus-Miss Phillips. The rest of the Vocal Parts by Williames, Fawcett, Wilson, Chaplin, Alfred, Newbold; Miss Stageldoir, Miss Burnett, Miss Cranford, Mrs Love, Mrs Burnett, Mrs Booth, Miss George . Miss Stageldoir, Miss Burnett, Miss Cranford, Mrs Love, Mrs Burnett, Mrs Booth, Miss George .
Cast
Role: Venus Actor: Miss Phillips. The rest of the Vocal Parts by Williames, Fawcett, Wilson, Chaplin, Alfred, Newbold

10219
02 December 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by Richard Cumberland. Prologue and Epilogue by the author (see text)]: With new Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations. Public Advertiser, 14 Dec. 1784: This Day is published The Carmelite (1s. 6d.). "We never saw [Kemble] wandering to the audience; he never turned his eye around for applause when he had closed an animated period, nor ever entertained his intervals of silence with glances at the side-boxes, like some of his contemporaries, not to mention the great Palmer, nor Davies, &c." This behavior "he has so happily caught from Mrs Siddons" (Public Advertiser, 22 Dec.). Receipts: #233 17s. (216/15/0; 16/10/6; 0/11/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Carmelite

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Rivals

10220
14 December 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Thomas Holcroft, based on Le Mariage de Figaro, by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais; incidental music by William Shield. In 1789 reduced to an afterpiece of 3 acts. Prologue by the author (Europaen Magazine, Dec. 1784, p. 467)]: With new Dresses, Decorations, &c. Public Advertiser, 10 Mar. 1785: This Day is published The Follies of A Day (1s. 6d.). [For an account of Holcroft's shorthand transcription of the original, taken down during a performance in Paris, and the hasty rehearsals of it in London, see Elbridge Colby, A Bibliography of Thomas Holcroft, 1922, pp. 48-50.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Follies Of A Day; Or, The Marriage Of Figaro

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Lewis, Quick, Edwin, Wilson, Wewitzer, Thompson, Holcroft, Mrs Martyr; Mrs Bates, Mrs Webb, Miss Wewitzer, Miss Younge. [Cast from text (G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1785): Count Almaviva-Lewis; Don Guzman-Quick; Antonio-Edwin; Doctor Bartholo-Wilson; Basil-Wewitzer; Doublefee-Thompson; Figaro-Holcroft [in text: Bonnor (see17841215)]; Page-Mrs Martyr; Bounce-Stevens; Courier-Jones; Crier of the Court-Bates; Servant-Newton; Countess-Mrs Bates; Marcelina-Mrs Webb; Agnes-Miss Wewitzer; Susan-Miss Younge.] Prologue spoken by the Author. [This was spoken at the 1st 22 performances only (see17841217, and 22 Feb. 1785).] hathi. Prologue spoken by the Author. [This was spoken at the 1st 22 performances only (see17841217, and 22 Feb. 1785).] hathi.
Cast
Role: Servant Actor: Newton

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

10221
22 December 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Richard Cumberland. Prologue by the author. Epilogue by Edward Topham (see text). In 1794 this was altered by the author, and reduced to 4 acts]: With new Scenes and Dresses. Public Advertiser, 25 Jan. 1785: This Day is published The Natural Son (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #175 19s. 6d. (154/12/0; 21/0/0; 0/7/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Natural Son

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

10222
04 January 1785 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Sga Ferrarese continuing very much indisposed the new Serious Opera [Demetrio, announced in Public Advertiser, 3 Jan.] is unavoidably postponed [see 8 Jan.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Rivali Delusi

Dance: As17850101 throughout

10223
11 January 1785 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: 2nd dance: With several new Airs composed by Barthelemon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Rivali Delusi

Dance: End of Act I Divertissement, as17841218; End of Opera The Deserter. Skirmish-Slingsby; the other characters by Lepicq, Mme Rossi [playbill of 13 May 1784 lists: The Deserter-Lepicq; Louisa-Mme Rossi], Henry, Zuchelli, Mme Degville, Nivelon, Mlle Dorival

10224
19 January 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Windham Diary (30 Jan. 1784), 41: On the Wednesday 1 went to see Mrs Crawford in 'Belvidera', and found her much as I expected, though her disparity was very great. I can perhaps better conceive the delusion that, aided by a little prejudice [in favor of Mrs Siddons] and the recollection of Mrs C. in better times, could hesitate about the preference. The chief faults that I should find would be, that her articulation was cramped and timid, her tones sometimes colloquial and vulgar, her action confined, and her countenance inexpressive. A new man of the name of Pope performed; I pronounced him in my own judgment as inferior, upon the whole, to Brereton. [Henderson's 1st appearance as Pierre was at Bath, 14 Oct. 1773.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Cavern

10225
25 January 1785 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera [1st performed at Rome, 1781]; the Music by Cimarosa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Pittore Parigino

Dance: As17850122 throughout