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1122 results for: Keyword - the Girl
We found 987 matches on Roles/Actors, 244 matches on Performance Title, 141 matches on Performance Comments, 69 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

501
13 June 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Performance Comment: As17970926, but Alithea-Miss Mellon; Lucy-Miss Tidswell; Servants-_Evans.
Cast
Role: Alithea Actor: Miss Mellon

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Cast
Role: Sir Matthew Medley Actor: Maddocks
Related Works
Related Work: Sylvester Daggerwood Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: The Eleventh of June

Cast
Role: Sir Matthew Medley Actor: Maddocks
Role: Characters Actor: Bannister Jun., Wewitzer, Wathen, Master Chatterley, Master Walter, Master Tokely, Master Wells, Master Appleby, Mrs Sparks, Miss Tidswell, Miss Walcot, Miss Beton, Miss Chatterley, Miss Smalley.

Afterpiece Title: Don Juan

Cast
Role: Sir Matthew Medley Actor: Maddocks

502
17 September 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [Extra night] By Authority of the Most Noble the Marquis of Salisbury, Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty's Household. Benefit for Waldron, prompter. [Amarath the Fourth was "A musical tale," 1st acted at the Royalty, 27 Nov. 1797.] 3rd piece [1st time; P 1, author unknown]: Got up under the direction of Delpini. Tickets to be had of Waldron, No. 4, Cross-court, Bow-street, Covent-garden.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan; or, A Peep into the Seraglio

Performance Comment: Ismene (with songs)-Mrs Edward; Roxalana (with From England, Sir, I came, from Amarath the Fourth)-Mrs Harlowe.

Afterpiece Title: The Giant and Dwarf; or, Columbine Captive

Entertainment: Vaudeville. A Pasticcio, consisting of: From Shades of Night[, composed by Storace for Mahmoud,-D'Arcy; [The first Strophe, Epode, and Antistrophe of Gray's Bard-a Young Gentleman [, aged 10 years [unidentified]; Cheap Experience [; or, Cheats of London, composed by Dibdin,-Waldron Jun

Performance Comment: A Pasticcio, consisting of: From Shades of Night[, composed by Storace for Mahmoud,-D'Arcy; [The first Strophe, Epode, and Antistrophe of Gray's Bard-a Young Gentleman [, aged 10 years [unidentified]; Cheap Experience [; or, Cheats of London, composed by Dibdin,-Waldron Jun.

503
17 September 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Afterpiece Title: The Giant and Dwarf

504
21 December 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By permission of the Proprietor of the Theatre Royal, Hay-market. Receipts: #162 13s. 6d. (84.17.0; 75.19.6; 1.17.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Performance Comment: Moody-Dowton (1st appearance in that character); Harcourt-Barrymore; Sparkish-Russell; Belville-C. Kemble; Countryman-Grimaldi; Servants-Maddocks, Webb; Alithea-Miss Mellon; Miss Peggy-Miss Molini; Lucy-Miss Heard.
Cast
Role: Alithea Actor: Miss Mellon

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Performance Comment: Cranky-Suett; Vinegar-Wathen; Bouquet-Dignum; Bowkit-Bannister Jun.; Man of the House-Maddocks; Signior Arionelli-Miss DeCamp; Idle-R. Palmer; Mum-Wewitzer; John-Evans; Lilly-Master Chatterley; Cecilia-Miss Leak; Dolce-Mrs Jones.
Cast
Role: Vinegar Actor: Wathen
Role: Man of the House Actor: Maddocks

Ballet: End: The Scotch Ghost. As17981206

Cast
Role: The Lady of Dunblain Actor: Mlle Parisot

505
18 January 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: King Richard the Third, and also Moggy and Jemmy [both advertised on playbill of 17 Jan.], are obliged to be deferred. Receipts: #124 6s. 6d. (70.7.0; 52.6.0; 1.13.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Cast
Role: Alithea Actor: Miss Mellon

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

506
16 February 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Cast
Role: Alithea Actor: Miss Mellon

Afterpiece Title: Feudal Times

Cast
Role: Martin Actor: Wathen in place of Bannister Jun.
Role: Andrew Actor: Caulfield of Wathen
Role: Baron Ruthenwolf Actor: Barrymore
Related Works
Related Work: Feudal Times; or, The Banquet Gallery Author(s): George Colman, the younger

507
09 May 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Performance Comment: As17990209, but Hardy-Quick (1st and only appearance at this theatre); Lady Touchwood (1st time; with Listen to the voice of Love)-Miss Leak.

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Cast
Role: Sheepface Actor: Wathen
Related Works
Related Work: Sylvester Daggerwood Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: The Miser

Song: In IV 1st piece: Masquerade Scene-; Orphan Bess the Beggar Girl (the Musick by Hook)-; End 1st piece: A Musical Address (accompanied on the harp by Weippert, the Musick by Dr Arnold)-Miss Leak; In 2nd piece: The Country Club-Bannister Jun

508
07 June 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Hill, Rees and Miss Sims. Morning Chronicle, 6 June: Tickets to be had of Hill, No. 24, Bow-street, opposite the Pit Door. [Others not listed.] 2nd piece [1st time: M. INT 1]. Receipts: #287 7s. (50.17.6; 4.0.6; tickets: 232.9.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Brilliants

Performance Comment: Imitations-Rees; When the seaman quits the shore-Hill; The Tight Little Islands-Townsend; Flow thou regal purple stream-Burrows (1st appearance); A new Hunting Song-Hill; a Debating Catch-Simmons, Linton, Street.
Cast
Role: When the seaman quits the shore Actor: Hill
Role: The Tight Little Islands Actor: Townsend

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Holman; Principal Bacchanal-Hill; Bacchanals-Townsend, Linton, Street, Thomas, Oddwell; 1st Spirit-Thompson; Brothers-Farley, Claremont; 2nd Spirit (with a song)-Miss Sims; The Lady-Miss Chapman; Principal Bacchant-Mrs Chapman; Bacchants-Ms Wheatley, Ms Follett, Ms Castelle, Ms Leserve, Ms Norton; Sabrina=-Mrs Atkins; Pastoral Nymph-Mrs Atkins; Sweet Echo-Mrs Atkins; accompanied on the oboe-W. Parke; Euphrosyne-Mrs Martyr.
Cast
Role: Brothers Actor: Farley, Claremont
Role: The Lady Actor: Miss Chapman
Role: accompanied on the oboe Actor: W. Parke
Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: In II 3rd piece: a Dance-Naiads

Song: In: Maria; or, The Beggar Girl-Mrs Atkins; Young William-Incledon; a new song, The Negro Boy (written by Rees, and composed by Attwood)-Miss Sims (in character)

509
24 October 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: 36th Time [i.e. in continuation of the reckoning for the previous season]. The Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations new Painted and Augmented. The Music composed by Mazzinghi and Reeve. [The playbill assigns, in Europeans, Captain Sidney to Incledon, but he was ill (see 16 Oct., 7 Nov.). He did not act again until 14 Nov.] Receipts: #252 12s. 6d. (249.13.0; 2.19.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ramah Droog; Or, Wine Does Wonders

Afterpiece Title: The Jew and the Doctor

Entertainment: Procession End II: A Return from a Tiger Hunt- [to the Rajah's Palace, representing the Rajah on an Elephant, returning from Hunting the Tiger, preceded by his Hircarrahs, or military Messengers, and his State Palanquin-the Vizier on another Elephant-the +Princess in a Gaurie, drawn by Buffaloes-the Rajah is attended by his Fakeer, or Soothsayer, his Officers of State, and by an Ambassador from Tippoo Sultaun in a Palanquin; also by Nairs (or Soldiers from the South of India), Poligars (or Inhabitants of the Hilly Districts), with their Hunting-dogs, other Indians carrying a dead Tiger, and young Tigers in a Cage; a number of Seapoys-Musicians on Camels and on Foot-Dancing Girls. [This was included in all subsequent performances.

510
10 March 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Performance Comment: Moody-King; Harcourt-Barrymore; Sparkish-Palmer; Belville-C. Kemble; William-Maddocks; Countryman-Grimaldi; Alithea-Miss Mellon; Miss Peggy-Mrs Jordan (1st appearance this season); Lucy-Miss Heard.
Cast
Role: Alithea Actor: Miss Mellon

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

Related Works
Related Work: Blue-Beard; or, Female Curiosity! Author(s): George Colman, the younger

511
30 May 1800 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer and Caulfield. [In 3rd piece the playbill retains Miss DeCamp as Fanny, but "Miss DeCamp being reported ill during the representation of [1st piece], the part of Fanny, in the Entertainment, was undertaken, at a moment's notice, by Miss Heard, [who]...studying the character, scene by scene, acted the part to general satisfaction, which was announced merely to be read" (Dramatic Censor, II, 232).] Morning Chronicle, 19 May: Tickets to be had of Caulfield, No. 6, Southampton-place, Tottenham-court-road [Palmer not listed]. Receipts: #194 1s. 6d. (120.10.0; 66.10.6; 7.1.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #212 4s. 7d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Cast
Role: Alithea Actor: Miss Mellon

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Performance Comment: As18000428, but added: Apewell (with some favorite Imitations)-Caulfield; The Lord Mayor's Show-_.
Cast
Role: The Origin of Old Bachelors Actor: Bannister Jun.
Related Works
Related Work: Sylvester Daggerwood Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Cast
Role: Dick Actor: Master Heather

Song: In: The Blue Bell of Scotland, as18000512; accompanied on the Lute, as18000512; In course Evening: Crazy Jane-Mrs Bland; In 3rd piece: a new ballad, The Fisherman and the River Queen (Written and Composed by M. G. Lewis, Esq, M. P., Author of Crazy Jane.)-Mrs Bland

512
13 December 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir Richard Steele. [For an essay on the state of the drama, see Prompter, 13 Dec]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Afterpiece Title: Merlin

Cast
Role: Country Girl Actor: Mrs Clive
Related Works
Related Work: Merlin; or, The Devil of Stone-Henge Author(s): Lewis Theobald

513
14 December 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Merlin

Cast
Role: Country Girl Actor: Mrs Clive
Related Works
Related Work: Merlin; or, The Devil of Stone-Henge Author(s): Lewis Theobald

514
16 December 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Sir George Etheridge

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: Merlin

Cast
Role: Country Girl Actor: Mrs Clive
Related Works
Related Work: Merlin; or, The Devil of Stone-Henge Author(s): Lewis Theobald

Dance: As17341214

515
17 December 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Merlin

Cast
Role: Country Girl Actor: Mrs Clive
Related Works
Related Work: Merlin; or, The Devil of Stone-Henge Author(s): Lewis Theobald

Dance: Revellers by Essex, Mrs Walter, Pelling, Davenport, Mrs Pelling, Miss Mann

516
18 December 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wednesday Ss The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Merlin

Cast
Role: Country Girl Actor: Mrs Clive
Related Works
Related Work: Merlin; or, The Devil of Stone-Henge Author(s): Lewis Theobald

517
13 February 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Cast
Role: Arcadian Shepherdess Actor: French Girl

518
14 February 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Cast
Role: Arcadian Shepherdess Actor: French Girl

519
15 February 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Cast
Role: Arcadian Shepherdess Actor: French Girl

520
16 February 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 18 Jan.: Whereas a Bottle was flung out of one of the Galleries into the Pit...on Saturday Night last, during the Time of Performance, which struck a Gentleman on the Head, and very much hurt him, I hereby promise to pay to any one that shall discover the Person who threw the same, so that he may be brought to Justice, the Sum of Twenty Guineas, to be paid on Conviction....John Rich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cheats Of Scapin

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Cast
Role: Arcadian Shepherdess Actor: French Girl

521
18 February 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Cast
Role: Arcadian Shepherdess Actor: French Girl

522
19 February 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Cast
Role: Arcadian Shepherdess Actor: French Girl

523
21 February 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Cast
Role: Arcadian Shepherdess Actor: French Girl

524
23 February 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Cast
Role: Arcadian Shepherdess Actor: French Girl

525
25 February 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Cast
Role: Arcadian Shepherdess Actor: French Girl