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16914 results for: Keyword - Miss Cross
We found 14416 matches on Performance Comments, 4613 matches on Performance Title, 4263 matches on Event Comments, 110 matches on Author, and 14 matches on Roles/Actors.

16876
23 March 1782 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid Miss Harper in lieu of a Benefit #80. Receipts: #215 11s. (211/15; 3/16)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Which Is The Man

Afterpiece Title: The Positive Man

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17811219

16877
12 June 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Polly

Cast
Role: Damaris Actor: Miss Hale
Role: Polly Actor: Miss Hooke. In Introduction: Poet-Gardner

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of an Election

Performance Comment: Characters by Wilson, Edwin, Staunton, Egan, Usher, Wewitzer, Darley, Davis, Barrett, Painter, Kenny, Massey, Webb, Stevens, Swords, Ledger, Parsons; Miss Morris, Mrs Webb. Cast not known. Prologue spoken by Palmer .

Dance: As17820611

16878
04 November 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Cast
Role: Erixcne Actor: Miss Hale

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe; or, Harlequin Friday

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Wright, Grimaldi, Delpini, Suett, R. Palmer, Spencer, Phillimore, Williames, Waldron, Fawcett, Alfred, Chaplin; Miss Collett. Cast not known .

Dance: As17820921

16879
07 March 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Oratorio announced for Representation this Evening [L'Allegro il Penseroso, also Dryden's Ode for St. Cecilia's Day] cannot be performed on account of the Indisposition of a Principal Performer [Public Advertiser, 10 Mar.: Miss Linley]

Performances

Mainpiece Title:

16880
12 March 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: oratorio, presumably because of Miss Linley's illness (see 7 and 14 Mar.)]

Performances

Mainpiece Title:

16881
07 May 1783 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Edwin. Public Advertiser, 2 May: Tickets to be had of Edwin, No. 2, Piazza., Covent Garden. Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years. Miss Younge having refused performing the Part of Viola, Mrs Robinson has kindly undertaken that Character at a short Notice; and Mr Edwin humbly hopes she will be honoured by the Indulgence of the Public. Receipts: #304 0s. 6d. (211/3/6; tickets: 92/17/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will

Afterpiece Title: Tristram Shandy

Song: End of Act III of mainpiece The Pigeon by Mrs Kennedy; End of mainpiece Four and Twenty Fiddlers all on a Row by Edwin

Monologue: 1783 05 07 End of Act I of afterpiece A Description of the Tombs in Westminster-Abbey by Edwin

16882
08 May 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair American

Cast
Role: Miss Bale Actor: Miss Wheeler
Role: Miss Kitty Dreadnought Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Miss Melcomb Actor: Miss Simson
Role: Angelica Actor: Miss Phillips

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Performance Comment: As17821104, but Mrs Pulley in place of Miss Collett.

Dance: As17820920

16883
27 February 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'allegro Il Penseroso

Performance Comment: Principal Vocal Parts by Norris, Reinhold; Miss George, Mrs Kennedy. 1st Violin by Richards .

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation Anthems

16884
05 March 1784 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Public Advertiser, 6 Mar.: In 1st piece Love in her Eyes was sung by Norris; O ruddier than the cherry by Reinhold; Consider, fond shepherd by Mrs Kennedy; Heart, thou seat of soft delight by Miss George. The concerto consisted of "two Movements made up of common Ballads."

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Afterpiece Title: Dryden's de

Music: End of Part I of oratorio concerto on the violoncello by Crosdill

16885
21 May 1784 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Husband

Cast
Role: Inis Actor: Miss Platt
Role: Olivia Actor: Miss Younge

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece a New Divertissement (composed by Harris) in which the Minuet de la Cour and a new Pas de Deux by Harris and Mme Bithmere; End of Act IV a new Pantomime Ballet (composed by Harris) The Charms of a Camp; or, The Female Volunteer by Harris, Byrn, Mrs Ratchford, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Goodwin, &c.; End of mainpiece, The Rival Nymphs, as17840318but Mrs Ratchford in place of Miss Matthews

Performance Comment: ; End of mainpiece, The Rival Nymphs, as17840318but Mrs Ratchford in place of Miss Matthews .

16886
11 March 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Music: End of Part I concerto on the Piano Forte ["the sixth concerto of Schroeter's last set [i.e. Op. V]" (London Magazine, Mar. 1785, p. 217)] by Miss Parke

Performance Comment: e. Op. V]" (London Magazine, Mar. 1785, p. 217)] by Miss Parke .

16887
11 May 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Cast
Role: Clara Actor: Miss Platt

Afterpiece Title: The Lawyers' Panic

Performance Comment: As17850507, but added: Jones, Newton, Thompson, Bates, Darley, Painter, Besford, Bonnor; Miss Brangin; omitted: Cubitt, Wilson .

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

16888
28 May 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Which Is The Man

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: End of mainpiece Minuet de la Cour and Gavot by Ansell Jun. and Miss Rowson

Performance Comment: and Miss Rowson .

16889
12 January 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Strangers At Home

Performance Comment: As17851220, but Mrs Forster [i.e. formerly Miss Field] .

Afterpiece Title: Hurly-Burly

Cast
Role: Fairy Actor: Miss Cranford

16890
04 February 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Strangers At Home

Performance Comment: As17851208, but Mrs Forster [i.e. formerly Miss Field] .

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Cast
Role: Penelope Actor: Miss Stageldoir
Role: Miss La Blond Actor: Miss Barnes

16891
02 March 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Cast
Role: Miss Lucy Actor: Mrs Jordan

Song: As17851001, but Mrs Forster [i.e. formerly Miss Field]

Performance Comment: e. formerly Miss Field] .

16892
22 March 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Redemption

Performance Comment: Vocal Parts and Violin as17860310elections as17860310but added: Pious orgies [by Miss George (Public Advertiser, 31 Mar.)]; March (Judas Maccabaeus) .

Music: End of Part II concerto, as17860308athi

16893
24 March 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Performance Comment: Vocal Parts as17860308The trumpet shall sound was sung by Bellamy; I know that my redeemer liveth by Miss George (Morning Chronicle, 25 Mar.).] hathi.

Music: End of Part I concerto on the violin by Shaw

16894
29 March 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Redemption

Performance Comment: Vocal Parts and Violin as17860310elections as17860322but Where is this stupendous stranger? [i. e. Verdi prati] by Master Pring; He masbrought as a lamb [i. e. Nel riposo] by Bellamy; Holy Lord God Almighty [i. e. Dove sei] by Miss George; added: When the earth was without form by Arrowsmith; Master Pring as soloist in In sweetest harmony .

Music: End of Part I concerto on the violoncello by Mason

16895
27 April 1786 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Scuola De Gelosi

Dance: End of Act I L'Amour Jardinier, as17860406, but added: With an additional Pas Seul by Mlle Mozon; End of Opera an entirely new Ballet, composed by D'Egville, La Fife Marine, in which La Provencale by Mlle Mozon; also a Pas de Trois to the favourite tune of Bon Andre taken from the French Comic Opera L'Epreuve Villageoise, the music by Gretry, performed by Vestris, Duquesney Jun., Mlle Baccelli; and to conclude with the Pas de SLuatre, so much admired in Paris, in the Opera called Pamrge, and got up here under the direction of Vestris, and performed by Vestris, Mlle Baccelli, Fabiani, Mlle Mozon. [In a review Morning Herald, 1 May, adds: Sequedilla by Miss De Camp and Master D'Egville.]

Performance Comment: , Mlle Baccelli; and to conclude with the Pas de SLuatre, so much admired in Paris, in the Opera called Pamrge, and got up here under the direction of Vestris, and performed by Vestris, Mlle Baccelli, Fabiani, Mlle Mozon. [In a review Morning Herald, 1 May, adds: Sequedilla by Miss De Camp and Master D'Egville.] hathi.

16896
11 May 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bird In A Cage

Cast
Role: Cassiana Actor: Miss Platt
Role: Katherina Actor: Miss Stuart
Role: Fidelia Actor: Miss Rowson

Afterpiece Title: Small Talk; or, The Westminster Boy

Performance Comment: Principal Parts by Quick, Booth, Palmer, Brown, Wewitzer, Fearon, Davies, Edwin; Mrs Webb, Miss Brangin, Mrs Wells. Cast not known. Prologue spoken by Holman .

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece a Grand Dance, as17860424; End of Act I of afterpiece Leap Year, as17860227

16897
12 May 1786 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pinto (formerly Miss Brett). [And see 26 Apr. 1785.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Entertainment: Not specified

16898
03 October 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Performance Comment: Petruchio-Palmer; Grumio-Baddeley; Baptista-Wright; Biondello-R. Palmer; Taylor-Jones; Music@master-Fawcett; Pedro-Phillimore; Hortensio-Wilson; Bianca-Mrs A. Palmer [Public Advertiser: Miss Simson]; Curtis-Mrs Love; Catherine-Mrs Wrighten.

16899
11 October 1787 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Afterpiece Title: Bonds without Judgement; or, The Loves of Bengal

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Ryder, Wewitzer, Fearon, Macready, Quick, Mrs Pitt, Mrs Mountain, Mrs Wells. Cast from London Chronicle, 2 May 1787: Japan-Ryder; Congo-Wewitzer; Nankeen-Fearon; Manly-Macready; Colonel Fury-Quick; Governess-Mrs Pitt; Charlotte-Mrs Mountain (i.e. formerly Miss Wilkinson); Sophy-Mrs Wells.

16900
22 August 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Catch Club [i

Afterpiece Title: Gretna Green

Cast
Role: Milkmaid Actor: Miss Collett
Role: The British Soldier Triumphant Actor: Byrn, Ratchford, Miss DeCamp, Mrs Goodwin.
Role: Miss Plumb Actor: Miss Collett

Afterpiece Title: Look before You Leap

Performance Comment: Characters by Bannister Jun., Phillimore, Wewitzer, Mrs Barresford, Mrs Kemble. [Cast from text (Harrison and Co., 1788): Lucas-Bannister Jun.; Corporal-Phillimore; Duval-Wewitzer; Lawyer-Painter; Margaret-Mrs Barresford [in text: Miss Prideaux]; Lucette-Mrs Kemble.

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Entertainment: Monologue End 1st piece: George Alexander Stevens's Original Lecture on Heads (Head of Alexander the Great, Head of a Cherokee Chief, Head of a Quack-Doctor, Cuckold's Head, Nobody's Head, The laughing and crying Philosophers' Heads, Head of Flattery, A fine Lady's Head, Head of an Old Maid, Cleopatra's Head, Plain Moll's Head, Head of a Married Lady)-Palmer