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14842 results for: Keyword - Miss Simson
We found 13827 matches on Performance Comments, 4406 matches on Performance Title, 1741 matches on Event Comments, 365 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.

12901
02 January 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Performance Comment: Kitely-Smith; Old Knowell-Aickin; Young Knowell-Brereton; Wellbred-Farren; Master Stephen-Dodd; Brainworm-Baddeley; Justice Clement-Parsons; Downright-Hurst; Cob-Moody; Master Mathew-Burton; Cash-R. Palmer; Capt. Bobadil-Henderson (1st appearance in that character [in London]); Bridget-Miss P. Hopkins; Tib-Mrs Bradshaw; Mrs Kitely-Mrs Baddeley.
Cast
Role: Bridget Actor: Miss P. Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Queen Mab Actor: Miss Abrams

12902
03 January 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Performance Comment: Zanga-A Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [Wright]); Don Carlos-Lewis; Don Alvarez-L'Estrange; Don Manuel-Robson; Don Alonzo-Wroughton; Isabella-Miss Ambrose; Leonora-Mrs Hartley; New Occasional Prologue-Hull.
Cast
Role: Isabella Actor: Miss Ambrose

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Cast
Role: Pastoral Actor: Reinhold, Miss Dayes

Dance: As17771229

12903
19 January 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Cast
Role: Clara Actor: Miss Brown

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: Shift, Smirk, Mrs Cole (with the Original Epilogue)-Wilkinson; Sir George Wealthy-Whitfield; Sir William Wealthy-Wewitzer; Mr Wealthy-L'Estrange; Loader-Fearon; Transfer-Jones; Dick-Stevens; Lucy-Miss Leeson.
Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Leeson.

12904
20 January 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Performance Comment: As17780117, but Cupid-Miss Field.
Cast
Role: Cupid Actor: Miss Field.
Role: Shepherdesses Actor: Miss Collett, Mrs Davies

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Cast
Role: Miss Tittup Actor: Mrs Davies
Role: Lady Minikin Actor: Miss Pope.

12905
29 January 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Performance Comment: Midas (1st time)-Wilkinson; Apollo-Mattocks; Pan-Mahon; Jupiter-Fox; Damaetas-Wewitzer; Sileno-Baker; Juno-Mrs Poussin; Daphne-Miss Brown; Mysis-Mrs Wilson; Nysa-Mrs Mattocks.
Cast
Role: Daphne Actor: Miss Brown

Dance: End: The Cricketters, as17780128

12906
02 February 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hastings

Cast
Role: Matilda Actor: Miss Younge

Afterpiece Title: The Note of Hand; or, Trip to Newmarket

Performance Comment: O'Conner MacCormuck-Moody; Sunderland (1st time)-Packer; Rivers-Farren; Sapling-Lamash; Dipp-Wright; Putty-Wrighten; Spavin-Carpenter; Tom Epping-Waldron; Francis-Burton; Jockey-R. Palmer; Secretary-Griffiths; Issachar-Holcroft; Revell-Palmer; Mrs Cheveley (1st time)-Miss Sherry.
Cast
Role: Mrs Cheveley Actor: Miss Sherry.

12907
06 February 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Performance Comment: Don Manuel-Wilkinson; Don Philip-Wroughton; Don Octavio-Whitfield; Trappanti (1st time)-Lee Lewes; Flora-Mrs Lessingham; Rosara-Miss Leeson; Viletta-Mrs Pitt; Hyppolita-Mrs Bulkley (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Rosara Actor: Miss Leeson

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Performance Comment: Cadwallader-Wilkinson; Young Cape-Whitfield; Vamp-Wilson; Governor Cape-Fearon; Sprightly-Robson; Arabella-Miss Ambrose; Mrs Cadwallader-Mrs Green; With the Original Prologue-.
Cast
Role: Arabella Actor: Miss Ambrose

Afterpiece Title: Tea; or, Tragedy a-la-Mode

Dance: As17780129

12908
16 February 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Performance Comment: Sciolto-Ross; Lothario-Lewis; Rossano-L'Estrange; Altamont-Wroughton; Servant-Thompson; Horatio-Aickin; Lavinia-Mrs Bulkley; Lucilla-Miss Dayes; Calista-Mrs Barry.
Cast
Role: Lucilla Actor: Miss Dayes

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Cast
Role: Grace Actor: Miss Dayes
Role: Maudlin Actor: Miss Brown

12909
24 February 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: Jaques-Aickin; Orlando-Lewis; Adam (1st time)-Hull; Duke Senior-L'Estrange; Amiens (with songs)-Mattocks; Oliver-Whitfield; Duke Frederick-Fearon; Touchstone-Quick (1st appearance in that character); Caelia (with the Cuckoo Song)-Mrs Mattocks; Phoebe-Miss Dayes; Audrey-Mrs Pitt; Rosalind-Mrs Barry.
Cast
Role: Phoebe Actor: Miss Dayes

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Dance: End I: As17771222; In V: a Dance of Foresters-Dagueville

12910
25 February 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

Performance Comment: Clodio-Lewis; Antonio-Thompson; Charino-Cushing; Don Luis-Dunstall; Don Duart-Booth; Manuel-Robson; Sancho-Death; Monsieur-Wewitzer; Carlos-Wroughton; Elvira-Mrs Jackson; Louisa-Miss Ambrose; Angelina-Mrs Bulkley.
Cast
Role: Louisa Actor: Miss Ambrose

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

12911
28 February 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: Archer-Lewis; Aimwell-Wroughton; Gibbet-Booth; Boniface-Dunstall; Foigard-Fox; Sir Charles Freeman-Robson; Sullen-Clarke; Scrub-Quick; Dorinda-Mrs Lessingham; Cherry-Miss Brown; Lady Bountiful-Mrs Poussin; Mrs Sullen-Mrs Barry (1st appearance in that character at this theatre).
Cast
Role: Cherry Actor: Miss Brown

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

12912
07 March 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Performance Comment: Tancred-Lewis; Osmond-Clarke; Rhodolpho-L'Estrange; Officer-Thompson; Siffredi-Hull; Laura-Miss Ambrose; Sigismunda-Mrs Barry.
Cast
Role: Laura Actor: Miss Ambrose

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

12913
12 March 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: Sir Anthony Absolute-King; Acres-Dodd; Sir Lucius O'Trigger-Moody; David-Parsons; Fag-Baddeley; Coachman-Carpenter; Faulkland-Webster (1st appearance in that character); Capt. Absolute-Palmer; Mrs Malaprop-Mrs Hopkins; Julia-Mrs Baddeley; Lucy-Mrs Wrighten; Lydis Languish-Miss Younge.
Cast
Role: Lydis Languish Actor: Miss Younge.

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Cast
Role: Queen Mab Actor: Miss Abrams
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Collett.

12914
14 March 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Last Stake; Or, The Wife's Resentment

Performance Comment: Ld. Wronglove-Wroughton; Sir Friendly Moral-Hull; Brush-Booth; Surgeon-Fearon; Snug-Jones; Stranger-Smith; Lord George Brilliant-Lewis; Lady Wronglove-Mrs Jackson; Lady Gentle-Mrs Bulkley; Miss Notable-Mrs Mattocks; Mrs Hartshorn-Mrs Pitt; Mrs Conquest-Mrs Lessingham.
Cast
Role: Miss Notable Actor: Mrs Mattocks

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Cast
Role: Grace Actor: Miss Dayes
Role: Maudlin Actor: Miss Brown

Dance: End IV: as17780309

12915
25 March 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Acis And Galatea

Afterpiece Title: A Miscellaneous Act

Performance Comment: Concerto on the viole d'amore-Stamitz; a favourite Hunting song-Mrs Wrighten; duetto for the violin and tenor-Master Weichsel, Stamitz; a favourite Trumpet song-Mrs Weichsel; concerto on the piano forte-Miss Weichsel.
Cast
Role: concerto on the piano forte Actor: Miss Weichsel.

Music: End Part I oratorio: concerto on the German flute, as17780306

12916
31 March 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: As17770926, but Young Meadows-Leoni (1st appearance in that character); Deborah-A Gentlewoman (1st appearance on this stage [unidentified]); Margery-Mrs Wilson; Lucinda (1st time)-Miss Dayes.
Cast
Role: Lucinda Actor: Miss Dayes.
Role: Rosetta Actor: Miss Brown

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: As17771222

12917
31 March 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Benefit for Follet, Smith & T. Smith, late of the Bear, Westminster-bridge. Tickets to be had of Follet, No. 20, Little Wild-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields; of T. Smith at the Golden Cross, Charing Cross. T. Smith hopes to be honoured with the company of his brother Free Masons, Bucks, &c., Gentlemen of the Welsh Society, Hereford Society and West-moreland Society

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Performance Comment: Colonel Feignwell-Smith; Sir Philip Modelove-Massey; Periwinkle-Bailey; Freeman-Swindall; Simon Pure-Thompson; Tradelove-Bowles; Sackbut-Kenny; Quaker's Boy-Master Follet; Obadiah Prim-Follet; Ann Lovely-Miss Hale; Betty-Mrs Waldron; Mrs Prim-Mrs Lee.
Cast
Role: Ann Lovely Actor: Miss Hale

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Song: Between Acts: Singing, particularly Black Ey'd Susanthe new Hunting Song-T. Smith

Entertainment: Monologue.End: The Farmer's Blunder-Follet

12918
04 April 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Performance Comment: As17771127, but Anna-Mrs Morton (late Miss Dayes).

Afterpiece Title: True-Blue

Performance Comment: As17780330but Characters-Mrs Morton, late Miss _Dayes [see above].see above].
Cast
Role: 780330but Characters Actor: Mrs Morton, late Miss _Dayes
Role: Characters Actor: Reinhold, Mahon, Baker, Miss Dayes.
Role: Nancy Actor: Miss Dayes.
Role: Charlotte Actor: Miss Dayes.

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Cast
Role: Nancy Actor: Miss Dayes

12919
07 April 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Countess Of Salisbury

Performance Comment: Alwin-Aickin (1st appearance in that character); Raymond-Wroughton; Grey-Clarke; Laroche-Whitfield; Morton-L'Estrange; Sir Ardolphe-Fearon; Peasant-Booth; Knight-Robson; Ld. William-Miss Francis; Eleanor-Mrs Morton; Countess of Salisbury-Mrs Barry.
Cast
Role: William Actor: Miss Francis

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Performance Comment: . As17780207, but Mrs Morton [i.e. formerly Miss Dayes].
Cast
Role: Grace Actor: Miss Dayes
Role: Maudlin Actor: Miss Brown

Dance: As17780121

12920
09 April 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Cast
Role: Clara Actor: Miss Brown

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Performance Comment: As17771226, but Mrs Morton [i.e. formerly Miss Dayes].
Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Miss Dayes
Role: Pastoral Actor: Reinhold, Miss Dayes

Dance: As17771229

12921
11 April 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Performance Comment: As17771031, but Gymp-Miss Collett.
Cast
Role: Gymp Actor: Miss Collett.
Role: Miss Tittup Actor: Mrs Davies
Role: Lady Minikin Actor: Miss Pope.

Dance: As17780409

12922
23 April 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love; Or, The World Well Lost

Performance Comment: Marc Antony-Lacy (1st appearance in that character); Dollabella-Brereton; Alexis-Farren; Serapion-Chambers; Romans-Chaplin, Norris; Ventidius-Palmer; Octavia-Mrs Robinson (1st appearance in that character); Charmion-Mrs Johnston; Iras-Mrs Colles; Cleopatra-Miss Younge.
Cast
Role: Cleopatra Actor: Miss Younge.

Afterpiece Title: A ChristmasTale

Cast
Role: Camilla Actor: Miss Collett.

Dance: As17780422

12923
30 April 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Messink and Miss Reynolds for The Orphan will be admitted this Evening. [Afterpiece in place of The Little French Lawyer, announced on playbill of 29 Apr.] Receipts: #139 2s. (121.0; 3.0; tickets: 15.2)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Cast
Role: Erixene Actor: Miss Ambrose

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Miss Dayes
Role: Pastoral Actor: Reinhold, Miss Dayes

Dance: As17771229

12924
30 April 1778 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Performance Comment: Lord Ogleby-Hertford (1st appearance); Sterling-Massey; Sir John Melvil-West; Lovewell-Cooke; Brush-Creswick; Canton-Holtom; Miss Sterling-Mrs Robinson; Fanny-Mrs Dawes; Betty-Mrs West; Mrs Heidelberg-Mrs Roach; Prologue by Hertford-West; Epilogue-Creswick [as17780323 .as17780323 .
Cast
Role: Miss Sterling Actor: Mrs Robinson

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

Performance Comment: Clerimont-Creswick; Mr Harlowe-Kenny; Captain Cape-West; Mrs Harlowe-Mrs West; Miss Harlowe-Mrs Roach.
Cast
Role: Miss Harlowe Actor: Mrs Roach.

Song: End III: a new Cantata, suitable to the occasion, composed by Barthelemon,-Mrs Barthelemon

Music: End: concerto on the violin-Barthelemon; in which Grammacree with variations-

12925
01 May 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: As17771027, but Lucy-Mrs Morton; Polly-A Young Lady (pupil of the late Dr Arne; 1st appearance in that character [probably Miss Twist]). 1st appearance in that character [probably Miss Twist]).

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Bacchants Actor: Miss Dayes, Miss Ambrose

Dance: Hornpipe, as17771017; End: The Poney Races, as17780421