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14789 results for: Keyword - Miss Evan
We found 13886 matches on Performance Comments, 4449 matches on Performance Title, 1795 matches on Event Comments, 1 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.

1651
20 October 1797 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 2nd piece: Compressed for First Time into two acts, with several new Airs, &c. [Miss Sims was from the Theatre, Sadler's Wells.] Receipts: #259 17s. (253.15; 6.2)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Cast
Role: Serina Actor: Miss Mansel
Role: Florella Actor: Miss Leserve

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Mill

Performance Comment: Lord Aimworth-Johnstone; Sir Harry Sycamore-Munden; Ralph-Knight; Farmer Giles-Townsend; Fairfield-Davenport; Mervin-Claremont; Fanny-Miss Sims (1st appearance at this theatre); Theodosia-Mrs Follett; Lady Sycamore-Mrs Davenport; Patty-Mrs Mountain.
Cast
Role: Fanny Actor: Miss Sims

Afterpiece Title: England's Glory

Cast
Role: Margaretta Actor: Miss Chapman

Dance: As17971018

1652
30 November 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Mrs Jordan as Lydia Languish, but "The Publick are respectfully informed that Mrs Jordan's sudden indisposition prevents her appearing this evening. The part of Lydia Languish will be performed by Miss Mellon" (printed slip attached to BM playbill, Harris, Vol.VI).] Receipts: #193 2s. (127.19; 61.1; 4.2)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: As17971124 but Lydia Languish-Miss Mellon.
Cast
Role: Lydia Languish Actor: Miss Mellon.
Role: Servants Actor: Evans, Webb, Fisher
Role: Mrs Malaprop Actor: Miss Pope
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Heard

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: The Lady Actor: Miss Heard
Role: Pastoral Nymph Actor: Miss Leak.

1653
08 May 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Mrs Goodall, but she "was taken suddenly ill yesterday, in consequence of which the part of the Countess was performed by Miss Biggs, at a very short notice, who acquitted herself with considerable ability" (Morning Herald, 9 May).] Receipts: #202 14s. 6d. (162.19.0; 38.15.6; 1.0.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stranger

Performance Comment: As17980326but Characters-Mrs _Goodall, Miss Biggs.
Cast
Role: 980326but Characters Actor: Mrs _Goodall, Miss Biggs.
Role: 980324but Characters Actor: _Webb, _Evans, _Fisher.
Role: Charlotte Actor: Miss Stuart
Role: Savoyard Actor: Miss Leak
Role: Stranger's Daughter Actor: Miss Beton
Role: unassigned Actor: Evans, Fisher

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

Cast
Role: Aurora Actor: Miss Heard

1654
12 May 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Murray. 1st piece: By Permission of the Author [Walsh Porter], and the Manager of the Theatre Royal Bath [William Wyatt Dimond]. [This was 1st acted at Bath, 27 Feb. 1798. It refers to the nation-wide attempt, being made at this time, to raise funds by voluntary contribution for the defense of the country. And see 9 Feb. Larpent MS 1197; not published. Miss Murray's 1st appearance on the stage was at Bristol, 1 July 1793.] Times, 27 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Murray, No. 77, Long Acre. Receipts: #198 17s. (102.6.0; 4.1.6; tickets: 92.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Voluntary Contributions

Performance Comment: Irishman-Johnstone; Englishman-Murray; Mail Coach Guard-Townsend; Ostler-Powel; Serjeant-Farley; Old Soldier-Thompson; Son-Simmons; Scotchman-Wilde; Welchman-Rees; Hawker-Gray; 2nd Irishman-Dyke; 2nd Sailor-Abbot; 1st Sailor-Farley [i.e. doubled Serjeant]; Old Woman-Mrs Henley; Persons represented in the Allegorical Action: Genius of the Isle; Demon of Discord; Children of Britain; Peace, with her Attributes; Britannia-Miss Chapman.
Cast
Role: Britannia Actor: Miss Chapman.

Afterpiece Title: Curiosity

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Holman, Murray, Whitfield, Johnston, Mrs Pope, Miss Chapman, Miss Mansel, Miss Betterton

Afterpiece Title: Florizel and Perdita; or, The Sheep Shearing

Performance Comment: Florizel-Holman; Polixenes-Murray; Antigonus-Hull; Camillo-Powel; Clown-Simmons; Autolicus (the Pedlar)-Munden; Dorcas (with the Sheep Shearing Song)-Mrs Mountain; Mopsa-Mrs Castelle; Perdita-Miss Murray (1st appearance on this, and 4th on any stage).
Cast
Role: Perdita Actor: Miss Murray

Song: End 1st piece: Black Ey'd Susan-; End 2nd piece: Admiral Benbow-Incledon

1655
15 April 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Crouch. [Miss Dixon is identified in European Magazine, Apr. 1799, p. 258.] Morning Chronicle, 5 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Crouch, No. 9, Lisle-street, Leicester-square. Receipts: #673 6s. 6d. (329.16.0; 58.12.6; 2.1.0; 7.0.6; tickets: 275.16.6) (charge: #250 5s. 9d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Celia Actor: Miss Mellon
Role: Phebe Actor: Miss Heard
Role: Audrey Actor: Miss Pope.

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

Performance Comment: As17981213, but Beda-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [Miss Dixon]).Miss Dixon]).
Cast
Role: Spahis Actor: Sedgwick, Caulfield, Trueman, Maddocks, Evans
Role: Irene Actor: Miss DeCamp

1656
07 May 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Knight. 2nd piece [1st time; F 1, by Thomas John Dibdin. Larpent MS 1252; not published]. 3rd piec : Not acted these 9 years. [Miss A. DeCamp had appeared as a dancer with the dl Company at king's in the season of 1792-93.] Morning Chronicle, 22 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Knight, No. 38, King-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #392 3s. (185.12.6; 3.18.0; tickets: 202.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Performance Comment: As17981003, but Goldfinch (for that night only)-Knight; Sophia-Miss A. DeCamp (1st appearance on any stage); Smith-_; Marker-_; Jacob-_; Sheriff's Officer-_; Tradesmen-_; Milliner-_; Mantua@maker-_.
Cast
Role: Sophia Actor: Miss A. DeCamp
Role: Milliner Actor: Miss Leserve

Afterpiece Title: Tagg in Tribulation

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Song: End II: song-Incledon; End: Old Towler-Incledon; The Beggar's Song-Townsend

Entertainment: A Variety of Imitations-Rees

1657
07 February 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [As afterpiece the playbill announces Of Age To-morrow, but "The Publick are most respectfully informed that in consequence of the accident Miss DeCamp met with in Lodoiska yesterday evening, Of Age To-morrow is unavoidably deferred. This Evening will be presented The Lying Valet" (printed slip attached to Kemble playbill). Receipts: #409 16s. (345.11.0; 63.7.6; 0.17.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pizarro

Performance Comment: As18000131, but Rolla-Cory; Davilla-Surmont; Gomez-Trueman; Blind Man-Clarke; Cora-Miss Heard.
Cast
Role: Cora Actor: Miss Heard.
Role: Soldiers Actor: Fisher, Evans, Webb, Chippendale

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: As17991228

1658
10 June 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Heard [who is named as the recipient in Morning Chronicle, 9 June, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #113 17s. 6d. (67.3.0; 44.6.6; 2.8.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #213 5s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Servants Actor: Fisher, Evans, Webb
Role: Mrs Candour Actor: Miss Pope
Role: Maria Actor: Miss Heard.

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Suett, Bannister Jun., Palmer, Wewitzer, Mrs Jordan, Miss DeCamp. Cast from Songs
Role: Rose Actor: Miss DeCamp
Role: Fanny Actor: Miss Heard.
Role: Angelica Goto Actor: Miss Leak

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Performance Comment: As18000124, but Angelica Goto (1st time)-Miss Arne.
Cast
Role: Angelica Goto Actor: Miss Arne.
Role: Fanny Actor: Miss DeCamp

Song: In III: song-Dignum; End 2nd piece: Soft Musick let my humble lay (composed by Suett)-Master Suett; In 3rd piece: Crazy Jane-Mrs Bland

1659
14 June 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Aberdein, Bennett, Calkin, Cameron, Dale Jun., Dashwood, Douglas, Ditcher, Dudley, Fishett, Francois, Fuller, Gooding, Humphries, Hough, Harman, Lings, Monday, Marks, Macdougall, Rogers, Scott, Smith, Tice, Tildsley, Tirrell, Wyatt, Waterer, Williams, Willey will be admitted. [Miss Usher is identified in MS list in Kemble playbills of new performers for this season.] Receipts: #56 1s. (31.1.6; 24.4.6; 0.15.0; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Cast
Role: Martin Actor: Evans.
Role: Cicely Actor: Miss B. Menage.
Role: Adela Actor: Miss DeCamp.

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: As18000611 but Maria-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [Miss Usher]).Miss Usher]).
Cast
Role: Quildrive Actor: Evans.
Role: Corinna Actor: Miss Tidswell.

1660
10 January 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus, King Of Thebes

Song: As17080109

Dance: Miss Santlow, others

1661
17 December 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Performance Comment: Corinna-Miss Santlow; Gripe-Leigh; Moneytrap-Norris; Dick-Booth; Brass-Pack; Clip-Miller; Clarissa-Mrs Knight; Araminta-Mrs Moore; Flippanta-Mrs Bradshaw; Mrs Clogget-Mrs Spiller.
Cast
Role: Corinna Actor: Miss Santlow

Dance: Miss Santlow

1662
27 December 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperour Of The Moon

Dance: Miss Santlow; A new Italian Night Scene between a Scaramouch, a Harlequin, others-

1663
02 January 1710 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Cast
Role: Corinna Actor: Miss Santlow

Dance: Miss Santlow

1664
12 January 1710 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist; Or, The Sham Doctor

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue

Dance: Miss Santlow; Scaramouch-Layfield; Italian Night Scene-

1665
17 January 1710 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue

Dance: Miss Santlow

1666
31 January 1710 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Successful Strangers

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue

Dance: Miss Santlow; particularly a French Peasant-; Scaramouch-Layfield

1667
02 June 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Custom of the Country

Song: Miss Booth, Mrs Willis; particularly The Dame of Honour-; Mock Song of the Country Life-

Music: Solo on Echo Flute-Paisable

Dance: Prince, Wade, Sandham, Newhouse, Mrs Santlow, Mrs Bicknell; Tub Dance between a Cooper His Wife His Man Scaramouch and Harlequin-; Four Scaramouches-

1668
17 June 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Carlos, Prince Of Spain

Performance Comment: King-Bowman's Son; Don Carlos-Mills' Son; Don John-Young Ray; Roi Gomez-Young Frisbe; Queen-Miss Younger; Eboli-Miss Willis; And the Original Epilogue-the Child that Acted Princess Elizabeth in Anna Bullen.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Miss Younger
Role: Eboli Actor: Miss Willis

Song: Miss Booth

1669
28 June 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bartholomew Fair

Performance Comment: Cokes-Miller; Quarlous-Mills; Wasp-Johnson; Busy-Bickerstaff; Overdo-Shepherd; Edgeworth-Ryan; Littlewit-Norris; Winwife-Quin; Ursula-Cross; Nightingale-Birkhead; Mrs Littlewit-Mrs Saunders; Mrs Wellborn-Miss Willis.
Cast
Role: Mrs Wellborn Actor: Miss Willis.

Song: Miss Booth; Mimic Song of the Country Life-Mrs Willis

Dance: Prince

1670
01 July 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Greenwich Park

Song: Singing in Italian-Bowman's Son; Roger and Dolly-Renton, Mrs Willis

Dance: Miss Younger

1671
06 July 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Martin Mar-all [the Feigned Innocence]

Afterpiece Title: The Custom of the Country

Song: Miss Booth

Dance: Birkhead, Mrs Willis

1672
19 August 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surprizal

Song: Purcell's Genius of England-Randal

Dance: Miss Younger

1673
23 April 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite; Or, The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wake; or, Hob

Song: As17170204

Dance: Miss Schoolding Scholar to Moreau, who never danc'd on the Stage before, Glover, Scholar of Dumirail, Mlle Cerail, from the Opera at Paris; Swedish Dal Karle-; a New Comic Scene, The Loves of Harlequin and Colombine-Salle, Mlle Salle

1674
28 June 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue

Dance: Miss Smith

1675
10 October 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: Horner-Wilks; Harcourt-Mills; Pinchwife-Booth; Sparkish-Cibber; Dorilant-Wilks Jr; Sir Jasper-Norris; Mrs Pinchwife-Mrs Bicknell; Lady Fidget-Mrs Saunders; Mrs Dainty-Mrs Horton; Mrs Squeamish-Miss Willis; Alithea-Mrs Santlow.
Cast
Role: Mrs Squeamish Actor: Miss Willis

Song: As17171009

Dance: Miss Tenoe, a Scholar of Mr Fairbank's, being the first Time of her Appearing on any Stage