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1558 results for: Keyword - M$Miss Miller
We found 1098 matches on Performance Comments, 406 matches on Performance Title, 166 matches on Event Comments, 63 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

126
23 February 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Otway. Afterpiece: A new Dramatick Piece of One Act: Being the Sequel to the King and the Miller of Mansfield. [By Robert Dodsley.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: Sir John Cockle at Court

Performance Comment: Sir John Cockle-Miller; King-Cibber; Sir Timothy Flash-Beard; Greenwood-Hill; French Cooke-Woodward; Miss Kitty-Mrs Clive; Mrs Starch-Miss Tollett; Vintner-Turbutt; Joe-Marshall; Barber-Ray; Taylor-Gray; Attendants-Raftor, Woodburn, Leigh; Edition of 1738 adds: Prologue-Cibber; Epilogue-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Sir John Cockle Actor: Miller

Dance: V: Ballet-Denoyer, Haughton, Miss Thompson

127
09 October 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Young Gentlewoman-Miss E. Miller, marryed since to Mr Thomas Baker, an actor of cg, and a singing master. Mrs Baker is at present separated from her husband (1792) and performs only at Sadler's Wells in Pantomimes &c! Qu: Count Haslang and Mrs Baker (Hopkins MS Notes). Income from Boxes #27 2s. 6d. Nightly expense as usual #32 16s. 11d. Receipts: #74 7s. 6d. (Winston Theatrical Record)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cleone

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Performance Comment: Rovewell-Mattocks; Argus-Collins; Hearty-Redman; Robin-Dunstall; Betty-Mrs Pitt; Arethusa-A Young Gentlewoman who never appeared on any stage Miss Miller.
Cast
Role: Arethusa Actor: A Young Gentlewoman who never appeared on any stage Miss Miller.

Dance: TThe Pedlar Trick'd, as17611001

128
27 April 1763 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miles, Mrs Green, and Miss Miller. No Building on Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: As17630406 but Isabinda-Miss Miller, 1st time; Patch-Mrs Green.
Cast
Role: Isabinda Actor: Miss Miller, 1st time

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Statue; or, The Jealous Farmer Outwitted

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Miles; Farmer-Buck; Clown-Weller; Country Girl (with a Song in character)-Miss Miller; Colombine-Mrs Dyer; To conclude with a Country Dance-.
Cast
Role: Country Girl Actor: Miss Miller

Dance: II: The Drunken Peasant-Miles, Bennet (Peasant-Miles; +Clown-Bennet); IV: A New +Comic Dance, as17630224

129
28 April 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Hull and Miss Miller. Afterpiece: A Farce in 2 Acts Never perform'd before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: As17640324 but Comus-Smith; 1st Spirit-Hull; Lady (that Night Only)-Mrs Morrison; Euphrosyne-Miss Miller.
Cast
Role: Euphrosyne Actor: Miss Miller.
Role: Bacchants Actor: Miss Brent, Miss Miller

Afterpiece Title: The Absent Man

Performance Comment: Principals-Shuter, Dunstall, Mattocks, Anderson, White, Bennet, Miss Cokayne, Weller, Mrs Stephens, Miss Miller, Haynes, Lewis; Occasional Songs-.
Cast
Role: Principals Actor: Shuter, Dunstall, Mattocks, Anderson, White, Bennet, Miss Cokayne, Weller, Mrs Stephens, Miss Miller, Haynes, Lewis

Dance: End Masque: A Hornpipe-Miss Pitt

130
30 April 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Miller. Afterpiece: By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: Romeo-Smith; Capulet-Younger; Friar Lawrence-Hull; Mercutio-Dyer; Tibalt-Gardner; Paris-Perry; Benvolio-Fox; Escalus-Morris; Peter-Quick; Apothecary-Holtom; Lady Capulet-Mrs Barrington; Nurse-Mrs Pitt; Juliet-Miss Miller; first time; In I, a Minuet-Fishar, Miss Besford; a Masquerade Dance- incident to the play; With the Funeral Procession of Juliet-; a Solemn Dirge-; the Vocal Parts-Mattocks, DuBellamy, Baker, Barnshaw, Legg, Fox, Mrs Thompson, Mrs Baker, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Jones.
Cast
Role: Juliet Actor: Miss Miller

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: End: Comic Dance, as17701017

131
10 August 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lancashire Witches

Dance: Miller's Dance-Pinkeman

132
12 May 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Restor'd

Dance: Miller and his Wife by Poitier and Mlle Roland. Le Badinage de Provence by Poitier, Mlle Roland, &c

133
03 May 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: MMiss Hollyday. By Command of His Royal Highness. Receipts: money #61 1s. 6d.; tickets #71 7s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: HHighland Dance-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden

134
13 January 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Thurmond play'd (Cross). Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years. Receipts: #150 (Cross); #141 15s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A-la-mode

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

135
19 November 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Bellamy Alicia (Cross). Afterpiece: By desire. Receipts: #70 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: CComic Dance, as17501117

136
28 January 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Norris did Polly (well) (Cross). Receipts: #110 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

137
03 December 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Bellamy spoke Orig. Epilogue for ye 1st time (Cross). Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phaedra And Hippolitus

Afterpiece Title: The Shepherd's Lottery

138
20 November 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Bellamy taken ill. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

139
01 February 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Bellamy has lain in & is up (Cross). [This month published, The Upper Gallery, a poem, neatly descriptive of the opening scene in a playhouse from the vantage point of the first Gallery. This is an expanded, revised and modernized version of The Upper Gallery inscribed to the Rev Dr Swift, Dublin, 1733.] Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

140
01 March 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Thomas sung for ye first time in ye Chaplet-very well (Cross). Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: Mlle Auretti

141
23 October 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: MMiss Nossiter's name first appeared in the Bills (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Dance: As17531018

142
14 November 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: MMiss Nossiter did Belvidera-vast applause (Cross). [$Murphy in Gray's Inn Journal, 16 Nov., noticed Miss Nossiter's appearance in Belvidera, commenting "that she is, upon many occasions Mistress of the Surprising Attitude and Action," agreeing that she gave promise of excellence, wishing that her voice would mellow into more harmony and softness, and delivering a paragraph of advice from Quintilian on the error of false emphasis in elocution.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd; Or, A Plot Discovered

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

143
20 November 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: MMiss Bellamy play'd Athenais. Sad House (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius; Or, The Force Of Love

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: The Italian Peasants-Granier, 1st performance there in Five years, Mlle Camargo

144
10 December 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: MMiss Kennedy from Bath did Clarinda. Dancing by Marinesi (who lately broke his arm) and Sga? Bugiani (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Dance: LLes Savoyards-Sg Maranesi, Sga Bugiani; Les Taileurs with New Scenes and Decorations,-Sg Maranesi, Sga Bugiani, being the first time of their appearing since their arrival from Paris

145
19 January 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Macklin's benefit will be on Tuesday the 5th of February; the Play will be the Recruiting Officer, in which she will act the part of Sylvia , and Mr Foote the part of Brazen , being the first time of their appearing in those characters. To which will added a piece by Foote call'd the Knights. Receipts: #110 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

146
26 September 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Macklin did Sylvia -G[reat] Ap[plause]. Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

147
26 September 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Midnight will give Tea. &c. Benefit for Pittard le Charpentier and a Free Mason

Performances

Mainpiece Title: New Carnival Concert

Afterpiece Title: La Pantomime du Charpentier

148
14 October 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Macklin did Polly -Well (Cross). Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

149
04 December 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Haughton did second Constantia-Mrs Cibber gave it up-some days ago ($Cross). [Early in the next year was published The Devil upon Crutches in England; or, Night Scenes in London. By a Gentleman of Oxford. Chapter V gives a Short View of the Theatres including sharp criticism of 'the most barefaced bawdry Farce...that ever disgraced the stage, in which the Manager, who has caused it to be reviv'd, is to perform the principal part. The Play, Sir, is call'd the Chances...and this is the tenth night of its representation to crowded houses...Your fair country women...are fond of the most fulsome obscenity on the stage."] Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Song: II: (By desire) The School of Anacreon-Beard

Dance: IV: The Shepherd's Holiday, as17541008

150
28 January 1755 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Wilkinson has not only complied with the Vulgar Method of printing Bills, but as more elegant Form of Invitation, has sent complimentary Cards to all the Ladies of Distinction. [A debate on the superiority of the fair sex, after which Miss Wilkinson performed on the wire. A Praemium and peroration were spoken by George Alexander Stevens. Well advertised in advance bills. It began at 7 p.m. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. This performance, soon changed to A Short Comic Oratorio and had a run here, almost always advertised as by the particular desire of several ladies of quality.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Inquisition