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14810 results for: Keyword - Miss Polly Capitani
We found 13870 matches on Performance Comments, 4559 matches on Performance Title, 1744 matches on Event Comments, 1 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.

2901
10 November 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Cast
Role: Dorcas Actor: Miss Pritchard
Role: Charlotte Actor: Miss Brett.

Dance: II: A new Scot's Dance-Haughton, Mrs Walter, Vallois, Rector, Mrs Pelling, Miss Brett; IV: The Flanderkins, as17371107

Cast
Role: Serious Dance Actor: Misses Scott.

2902
11 November 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: I: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; III: Drunken Peasant-Phillips; V: Scot's Dance, as17371110

Cast
Role: Serious Dance Actor: Misses Scott.

2903
12 November 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: In II: A Song-Beard

Music: Select Pieces-

Dance: III: Drunken Peasant-Phillips; IV: Flanderkins-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; V: Scot's Dance, as17371110

Cast
Role: Serious Dance Actor: Misses Scott.

2904
14 February 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don John

Cast
Role: Flora Actor: Miss Thynne
Role: 1st Wife Actor: Miss Karver
Role: 5th Wife Actor: Miss Woodman

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

Cast
Role: Queen of Gipsies Actor: Miss Jones

Song: As17400213, but Vocal Parts-Mrs Arne, Reinhold, Rainton, Miss Jones; First Nymph-Mrs Arne

Cast
Role: Vocal Parts Actor: Mrs Arne, Miss Jones, others.

Dance: As17400213; Also End I: Le Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: French Peasant-Lalauze

Ballet: A Voyage to the Land of Cytherea. As17400115

2905
15 February 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Performance Comment: Brute-Bridgwater; Constant-Ridout; Heartfree-Ryan; Razor-James; Bully, with songs in character-Beard; Lady Fanciful-Mrs Giffard; Belinda-Mrs Hale; Mademoiselle-Miss Morrison; Lady Brute-Mrs Horton.
Cast
Role: Mademoiselle Actor: Miss Morrison

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: II: Chi nacque alle pene, Lusingo piu Cara-; IV: As17480213 Miss Faulkner

Cast
Role: Tis Liberty dear Liberty alone Actor: Miss Faulkner.

2906
20 February 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Song: II: As17480213; IV: Go Rose, My Chloe's bosom Grace, Tis Liberty dear Liberty-Miss Faulkner

Cast
Role: Tis Liberty dear Liberty alone Actor: Miss Faulkner.

2907
08 March 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Shepherd

Cast
Role: Thamiris Actor: Miss Young
Role: Camilla Actor: Miss Wright

Dance: I: New Dance call'd The Sheep Shearers-Grimaldi, Miss Baker; II: The Faggot Binders, as17640224; End Opera: A Dance, as17640224

Cast
Role: The Faggot Binders Actor: Aldridge, Miss Baker
Role: A Dance Actor: Grimaldi, Lauchery, Miss Baker.

2908
27 April 1764 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Cast
Role: Leonora Actor: Miss Macklin.

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Cast
Role: Maid Actor: Miss Cockayne.
Role: Harriet Actor: Miss Miller

Dance: IV: A Hornpipe-Miss Pitt; End: The Knife Grinders, as17631012

Cast
Role: i>The Knife Grinders Actor: Duquesney, Miss Wilford. See17600417.

Entertainment: CCries of London-Shuter, by desire

Ballet: III: The Drunken Peasant. Peasant-Miles; Clown-Bennet

2909
16 May 1764 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Cast
Role: Angelina Actor: Miss Hallam

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Performance Comment: As17640105, but Jenny-Miss Cokayne; Penelope-_; Sukey-_.
Cast
Role: Jenny Actor: Miss Cokayne

Dance: II: A Hornpipe-Miss Pitt; End: The Knife Grinders, as17631012

Cast
Role: i>The Knife Grinders Actor: Duquesney, Miss Wilford. See17600417.

2910
28 May 1767 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Cast
Role: Lady Blanch Actor: Miss Vincent

Afterpiece Title: Coronation

Dance: III: A Serious Dance-Miss Capon (3rd time), as17670427 IV: Double Hornpipe, as17670427

Cast
Role: A Minuet Actor: Fishar, Miss Capon

Ballet: IV: The Wapping Landlady. As17670427

Cast
Role: other women Actor: Miss D. Twist, Miss S. Twist, Miss Barrowby, Miss Hilliard, Miss Daw, Mrs Viviez.

2911
30 August 1770 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Cast
Role: Constance Actor: Miss Burton, first time
Role: Blanch Actor: Miss Trowel

Afterpiece Title: hay Miss in Her Teens

Cast
Role: Miss Biddy Actor: Mrs Gardner.

Dance: hay End of Play: The Cowkeeper, as17700521

2912
25 May 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Cast
Role: Lamorce Actor: Miss Ogilvie
Role: Bizarre Actor: Miss Macklin.

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Performance Comment: As17730206, but Dolly-Miss Helme.
Cast
Role: Dolly Actor: Miss Helme.
Role: Commissary Actor: Quick
Role: Jenny Actor: Miss Pearce

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-Miller, scholar to Fishar; IV: A New Dance-Langrish, Miss Besford, as17730426

Cast
Role: A New Dance Actor: Aldridge, Miss Capon

Music: End: Concerto on Harpsichord-Master Condell

2913
05 October 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: Shylock-Macklin; Antonio-Clarke; Bassanio-Wroughton; Gratiano-Dyer; Lorenzo (with Songs)-Mattocks; Duke-Thompson; Launcelot-Shuter; Jessica (with a song)-Miss Valois; Nerissa-Mrs Baker; Portia-Miss Macklin.
Cast
Role: Jessica Actor: Miss Valois
Role: Portia Actor: Miss Macklin.

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Performance Comment: Sir Callaghan-Shuter; Groom-Woodward; Goodchild-Dunstall; Mordecai-Quick; Charlotte-Miss Macklin; Sir Archy-Macklin.
Cast
Role: Charlotte Actor: Miss Macklin

Dance: III: Fingalian Dance, as17730929; Double Hornpipe, as17730929; IV: The Irish Lilt-Aldridge, Miss Twist. [See17721028.

Cast
Role: Double Hornpipe Actor: Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford.

2914
13 October 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: As17731007 [Rosetta identified as Miss Jameson.]
Cast
Role: Margery Actor: Miss Valois

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: II: The Irish Lilt, as17731005; End Opera: The Corsican Sailors [Punch House]-Fishar, Miss Twist. [See17720930.

Cast
Role: Double Hornpipe Actor: Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford.

2915
14 October 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Cast
Role: Jessica Actor: Miss Valois
Role: Portia Actor: Miss Macklin.

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Cast
Role: Charlotte Actor: Miss Macklin

Dance: III: The Fingalian Dance, as17730929; Double Hornpipe, as17730929; IV: A Dance-Aldridge, Miss Capon

Cast
Role: Double Hornpipe Actor: Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford.

2916
14 November 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Cast
Role: Ariel Actor: Miss Field
Role: Chorus of Spirits Actor: Gaudry, Legg, Carpenter, Chaplin, Holcroft, Miss Abrams, Miss Collett, Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Mrs Pitt, Mrs Smith.

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Performance Comment: Lovel-Lamash; Sir Harry's Servant-Dodd; Lord Duke-Palmer; Philip-Baddeley; Robert-Griffiths; Tom-Kear; Freeman-Farren; Lady Charlotte-Mrs Davies; Lady Bab-Mrs Johnston; Kitty (with a song)-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Kitty Actor: Miss Pope.

Dance: IV: Rural Grace, as17771002 II afterpiece: a Mock Minuet-Palmer, Miss Pope. [This was danced, as here assigned, in both subsequent performances.

Cast
Role: Rural Grace Actor: Gallet, Henry, Miss Armstrong, Mlle Dupre.

2917
19 November 1781 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Count Of Narbonne

Cast
Role: Adelaide Actor: Miss Satchell
Role: Hortensia Actor: Miss Younge.

Afterpiece Title: The Jovial Crew, As17811031, but Meriel (1st time)-Miss Morris

Cast
Role: Amie Actor: Miss Stuart
Role: Rachel Actor: Miss Catley

Dance: After the Epilogue The Arcadian Festival, as17811108

2918
20 April 1784 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Regina Di Golconda

Dance: End of Act I Ballet, as17840318but omitted: the two Miss Simonets; End of Act II Dance, as17840318End of Opera Divertissement by all the principal Dancers

Cast
Role: . Childhood Actor: the two Miss Simonets

2919
30 April 1794 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: PATRICK IN PRUSSIA [i

Dance: As17931022

Song: As17931007, but added: Townsend, Richardson//Miss Hopkins, Miss Kirton; omitted: Williamson, Gray, Mrs Watts, Mrs Davenett, Mrs Masters

2920
02 April 1677 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Captain; Or, Town Miss

2921
11 March 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Mode And The New; Or, Country Miss With Her Fourbeloe

2922
21 December 1703 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Singing in Italian and English-Mrs Tofts, who did not sing on 14 Dec. because of a cold; A new piece of vocal and instrumental music- composed by Clark

Dance: L'Abbe, Cherrier, DuRuel, Mrs Elford, Miss Evans

2923
23 March 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Solomon Single

Cast
Role: Betty Actor: Miss Mountfort.

Dance: Firbank, Firbank's Scholar, Godwin, Mrs Clark, Miss Evans, others

Song: Mrs Hodgson

2924
01 June 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Song: Several new Songs-Mrs Hodgson; A New Song by way of Ballad, call'd The Misses' Lamentation for want of their Vizard Masks in the Play/house-Mr Boman

Dance:

2925
04 July 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Villain

Song: Mrs Hodgson, Cook, Davis

Dance: Firbank, Firbank's scholar, Miss Evans; Blouzabella-Prince, Mrs Clark