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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Miss King"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Miss King")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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18054 results for: Keyword - Miss King
We found 14863 matches on Performance Comments, 7016 matches on Performance Title, 3222 matches on Event Comments, 25 matches on Author, and 8 matches on Roles/Actors.

9351
31 October 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of King Arthur; afterpiece of The Lyar, both announced on playbill of 30 Oct.] Receipts: #202 12s. (155/7/0; 47/0/6; 0/4/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Cast
Role: Sir Bashful Constant Actor: King
Role: Mrs Lovemore Actor: Miss Farren
Role: Muslin Actor: Miss Pope
Role: Mignionet Actor: Miss Hale

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Cast
Role: Peggy Actor: Miss Wheeler.

9352
22 November 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces the 8th night of King Arthur and as afterpiece the 8th night of The Divorce, but they were not acted. The substitute plays are listed in the Account-Book. King Arthur, "The Eight Night," was next acted on 11 Dec; The Divorce, "The 8th Night," on 17 Dec] Account-Book, 1 Dec.: Paid Billstickers, Change of Play, 1s. 6d. Receipts: #118 4s. (82/17; 34/12; 0/15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Cast
Role: Jenny Diver Actor: Miss Collett
Role: Polly Actor: Miss Wheeler

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Cast
Role: Miss Kitty Sprightly Actor: Mrs Brereton
Role: Miss Bridget Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Dance: End of mainpiece The Devonshire Minuet, as17810915

9353
08 January 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Performance Comment: Warwick-Lewis; Suffolk-Hull; Pembroke-Whitfield; Officers-Thompson, J. Bates; King Edward-Wroughton; Lad) Eliz. Grey-Mrs Inchbald; Lady Clifford-Mrs Poussin; Margaret of Anjou-Mrs Yates .
Cast
Role: King Edward Actor: Wroughton

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Harlequin

Cast
Role: Columbine Actor: Miss Matthews

9354
04 February 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17811231, but King-Clarke; Polonius (1st time)-Edwin; Marcellus-Fearon; Bernardo-Booth .
Cast
Role: King Actor: Clarke
Role: Player King Actor: L'Estrange
Role: Ophelia Actor: Miss Satchell

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Harlequin

Cast
Role: Pleasure Actor: Miss Morris
Role: Columbine Actor: Miss Matthews

9355
27 September 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Performance Comment: Sciolto-Clarke; Lothario-Lewis; Altamont-Whitfield; Rossano-Davies; Horatio-Aickin; Lavinia-Miss Cleland; Lucilla-Mrs Poussin; Calista-A Gentlewoman (1st appearance at this theatre and 3rd on any stage [Mrs Wheatley]) .Mrs Wheatley]) .
Cast
Role: Lavinia Actor: Miss Cleland

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Performance Comment: Tom Thumb-Master Edwin; Grizzle-Edwin; Ghost-Reinhold; Noodle-Mahon; Doodle-Davies; King-Quick; Huncamunca-Mrs Kennedy; Glumdalca-Mrs Webb; Queen Dollalolla-Mrs Martyr (1st appearance in that character) .
Cast
Role: King Actor: Quick

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17820925

9356
03 February 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for King [who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #152 19s. (148/19; 4/0; tickets: none listed) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Cast
Role: Lord Ogleby Actor: King
Role: Brush Actor: Palmer If Miss Sterling-Miss Pope
Role: Palmer If Miss Sterling Actor: Miss Pope
Role: Chambermaid Actor: Miss Collett

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth

Cast
Role: Columbine Actor: Miss Collett
Role: Mirth Actor: Miss Field
Related Works
Related Work: The Triumph of Mirth; or, Harlequin's Wedding Author(s): Thomas King

9357
06 June 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: Hamlet-Williamson (from the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh; 1st appearance on this stage); King-Gardner; Horatio-Aickin; Rosencraus-Stevens; Guildenstern-Egan; Polonius-Edwin; Laertes-R. Palmer; Ostrick-Riley (1st appearance in London); Marcellus-Booth; Grave Diggers-Parsons, Massey; Ghost-Bensley; Ophelia-Mrs Bannister; Player Queen-Mrs Poussin; Queen-Mrs Wheatley. Prologue as17830531 .
Cast
Role: King Actor: Gardner
Role: Peggy Actor: Miss Hale

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail A Dramatic Proverb

Afterpiece Title: Medea and Jason

Cast
Role: Creusa Actor: Miss Byrn
Role: Children Actor: Miss Painter, Master Clarke

9358
26 September 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Performance Comment: Sir Giles Over-reach-Henderson; Lord Lovel-Davies; Justice Greedy-Quick; Allworth-Whitfield; Marall-Wilson; Order-Jones; Furnace-Wewitzer; Tapwell-Thompson; Amble-Stevens; Wellborn-Wroughton; Lady Allworth-Mrs Inchbald; Froth-Mrs Pitt; Margaret-Miss Satchell .
Cast
Role: Margaret Actor: Miss Satchell

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Performance Comment: Tom Thumb-Master Edwin; Grizzle-Edwin; Ghost-Reinhold; Noodle-Mahon; Doodle-Davies; King-Quick; Huncamunca-Mrs Kennedy; Glumdalca-Mrs Webb; Queen Dollalolla-Mrs Martyr .
Cast
Role: King Actor: Quick

9359
23 October 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17831003, but Player King-Booth; Rosencraus-J. Bates .
Cast
Role: Player King Actor: Booth
Role: King Actor: Clarke
Role: Player Queen Actor: Miss Stuart
Role: Ophelia Actor: Miss Satchell

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

9360
30 March 1784 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. Gazetteer, 16 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Hay-market. King Lear [announced on playbill of 29 Mar.] cannot be performed, on account of Henderson's Indisposition. Tickets for King Lear will be admitted. Receipts: #244 9s. 6d. (140/7/6; tickets: 104/2/0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Cast
Role: Violante Actor: Miss Younge

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Knights

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Song: End of mainpiece September the Thirteenth proud Bourbon may mourn, from Gretna Green (composed by Dr Arnold) by Bannister

9361
15 February 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17840920, but Hamlet-Holman (1st appearance in that character); King-Fearon; Horatio-Farren; Polonius-Edwin; Queen-Mrs Inchbald; omitted: Marcellus . omitted: Marcellus .
Cast
Role: King Actor: Fearon
Role: Player King Actor: Booth
Role: Player Queen Actor: Miss Stuart

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

9362
06 April 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: Shylock-King; Gratiano-Dodd; Bassanio (1st time)-Kemble; Launcelot-Parsons; Duke-Packer; Lorenzo (with songs)-Williames; Antonio-Bensley; Jessica (with a song)-Mrs Forster; Nerissa-Mrs Wilson; Portia-Mrs Siddons .
Cast
Role: Shylock Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Performance Comment: Petruchio (for that night only)-Kemble; Grumio-Baddeley; Baptista-Wright; Biondello-R. Palmer; Taylor-Burton; Music-master-Fawcett; Pedro-Phillimore; Hortensio-Wilson; Bianca-Miss Simson; Curtis-Mrs Love; Catherine-Mrs Wrighten .
Cast
Role: Bianca Actor: Miss Simson

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece The Lucky Return, as17860105; End of Act IV Minuet de la Cour, as17860116

9363
21 September 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Performance Comment: Moody-King; Sparkish (with a song)-Dodd; Belville-Bannister Jun.; Countryman-Jones; Servant-Spencer; Harcourt-Palmer; Lucy-Mrs Wrighten; Alithea-Mrs Brereton; The Country Girl-Mrs Jordan.
Cast
Role: Moody Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Performance Comment: Mr Doiley-Parsons; Granger-Barrymore; Sandford-R. Palmer; Gradus-Bannister Jun.; Charlotte-Mrs Wrighten; Miss Doiley-Mrs Brereton.
Cast
Role: Miss Doiley Actor: Mrs Brereton.

9364
11 January 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17860919, but King-Packer; Gravediggers-Suett, Burton; Queen-Mrs Ward; Bernardo-_.
Cast
Role: King Actor: Packer
Role: Player King Actor: Chaplin
Role: Player Queen Actor: Miss Tidswell

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Cast
Role: Sukey Chitterlin Actor: Miss Collins
Role: Dolly Snip Actor: Miss Pope.

9365
13 January 1787 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Performance Comment: Arbaces-Leoni (1st appearance in that character these 6 years); Artabanes-Darley; Rimines-King; Artaxerxes-Mrs Kennedy; Semira-Mrs Morton; Mandane-Mrs Billington (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Rimines Actor: King

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Castle

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Wilkinson

9366
27 March 1787 @ Red-Lion Inn, Lordship Road, Stoke Newington

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Or The Unhappy Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: The King-Young; Dick-Simpson; Joe (with a song)-Wilson; Lord Lurewell-Sidney; Keepers-Russel, Marriot; The Miller-Sterne; Peggy-Mrs Marriot; Madge-Mrs Fowler; Kate-Mrs Sterne.
Cast
Role: The King Actor: Young

Song: End I: The Wedding Day-Wilson; End III: Ma chere amie-Wilson; End Monologue: The Old Woman of 80-Wilson

Entertainment: Monologue. End: The Picture of a Playhouse; or, Bucks have ye all-Marriot

9367
18 May 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: Hamlet-Browne (1st appearance in London); King-Kemble; Polonius, 1st Grave Digger-Moss; Laertes-Baker; Horatio-Johnson; Ostrick-Meadows; Ghost-Williamson; Queen-Mrs Bulkley; Ophelia-Mrs Kemble (1st appearance on this stage).
Cast
Role: King Actor: Kemble

Afterpiece Title: Harvest Home

Cast
Role: Unah Actor: Miss George

Entertainment: Monologue As17870516

9368
01 April 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Ballet: End: The Wapping Landlady; or, Jack in Distress. Jack in Distress-Blurton; Wapping Landlady-Mr King; Orange Woman-Mrs Watts

Performance Comment: Jack in Distress-Blurton; Wapping Landlady-Mr King; Orange Woman-Mrs Watts.
Cast
Role: Wapping Landlady Actor: Mr King

9369
12 May 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Wild. 1st Piece: 1st Time at this Theatre, and with Permission of G. Colman, Esq. [owner of the copyright]; written by Joseph Atkinson, Esq. [i.e. altered from his The Mutual Deception (see hay, 29 Aug. 1786)]. 2nd piece: Not acted these 2 years. 3rd piece: Not acted these 7 years [acted 23 May 1783]. Receipts: #225 0s. 6d. (113.0.6; 5.5.0; tickets: 106.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tit For Tat

Afterpiece Title: The Nunnery

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace or Harlequin Skeleton

Performance Comment: Jupiter (in the character of Harlequin)-A Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified]); Pierrot-Blanchard; Hercules-Cranfield; Mezzetin-Ware; Punch-Jackson; Scaramouch-Ratchford; Doctor-King; Anatomist-Rock; Pantaloon-Thompson; Old Woman-Mr Stevens; Columbine-Mrs Watts; Diana-Mrs Martyr; a Hunting Song-Mrs Martyr.
Cast
Role: Doctor Actor: King

Song: End I 1st piece: Oh say Bonny Lass will you carry a Wallet?-Mrs Kennedy, Mrs Martyr

Entertainment: Monologue. End II 1st piece: A Description of the Curiosities in the Tower-Edwin

9370
16 February 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Law Of Lombardy

Performance Comment: Paladore-Kemble; The King-Aickin; Rinaldo-Packer; Lucio-Whitfield; Arcanio-Williames; Shepherd-Chaplin; Senator-Phillimore; Knight-Banks; Officer-Lyons; Foresters-Fawcett, Benson; Bireno-Wroughton; Alinda-Mrs Farmer; The Princess-Mrs Siddons; the original Epilogue-Mrs Siddons.
Cast
Role: The King Actor: Aickin

Afterpiece Title: Lethe or AEsop in the Shades

9371
06 March 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Prelude

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea Triumph of Truth 0

Cast
Role: Principal Vocal Parts Actor: Reinhold, Dignum, Kelly, Mrs Crouch, Miss Lockhart, Miss Hagley

Afterpiece Title: A Miscellaneous Concert

Performance Comment: Air on the Recovery of the King-, by Handel Reinhold; Concerto Bassoon-Parkinson; Sweet Bird-[L'Allegro] Mrs Ambrose; accompanied on the violin-Shaw; Sound an Alarm [Judas Maccabaeus]-Kelly; concerto hautboy-W. Parke; Se non avate O Dio![, by Sacchini-Mrs Crouch; Lungi del caro bene [Giulio Sabino, by Sarti-Mrs Ambrose; accompanied on the harp-Mme Krumpholtz; God save Great George our King-; 1st Violin-Shaw.
Cast
Role: Air on the Recovery of the King Actor: , by Handel Reinhold
Role: God save Great George our King Actor:

Music: End I: serenata solo on harp-Mme Krumpholtz (2nd appearance in this Kingdom)

9372
27 March 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Prelude

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea Triumph of Truth 0

Cast
Role: Principal Vocal Parts Actor: Reinhold, Dignum, Kelly, Mrs Crouch, Miss Lockhart, Miss Hagley

Afterpiece Title: The Monody on the Death of Garrick

Performance Comment: Recited (1st time in London)-Mrs Siddons; The Music by Linley Sen?.-; To conclude with God save Great George our King-.
Cast
Role: To conclude with God save Great George our King Actor: .

Music: As17890311

9373
01 April 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah Triumph Of Truth 0

Performance Comment: Principal Vocal Parts and Violin As17890227, but To conclude with God save Great George our King-.
Cast
Role: To conclude with God save Great George our King Actor: .

Music: As17890311

9374
03 April 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Redemption 0 see 11 Mar

Afterpiece Title: Redemption 1

Cast
Role: Jehovah is my shield Actor: Miss Hagley
Role: Jehovah crowned Actor: Miss Lockhart
Role: Welcome mighty King Actor: Chorus
Role: God save the King Actor: Chorus
Role: There beneath a lowly shade Actor: Miss Hagley
Role: God save Great George our King Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: Redemption 2

Cast
Role: Jehovah is my shield Actor: Miss Hagley
Role: Jehovah crowned Actor: Miss Lockhart
Role: Welcome mighty King Actor: Chorus
Role: God save the King Actor: Chorus
Role: There beneath a lowly shade Actor: Miss Hagley
Role: God save Great George our King Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: The Monody on the Death of Garrick

Performance Comment: As17890327but To conclude with God save Great George our King-.
Cast
Role: Principal Vocal Parts Actor: Reinhold, Dignum, Kelly, Mrs Crouch, Miss Lockhart, Miss Hagley
Role: To conclude with God save Great George our King Actor: .

Music: As17890311

9375
12 June 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Giant Defeated Or The Reward Of Valour

Performance Comment: Knight-Byrne; King-Boyce; Princess-Mrs Goodwin.
Cast
Role: King Actor: Boyce

Afterpiece Title: The Child of Nature

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Cast
Role: Miss Jeroboam Actor: Mr Blanchard
Role: Miss Somers Actor: Mrs Wells.

Song: End 2nd piece: Poor Thomas Day-Edwin, Davies, Bannister