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1453 results for: Keyword - Evans
We found 1607 matches on Roles/Actors, 386 matches on Performance Comments, 108 matches on Event Comments, 75 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Author.

1351
April 1673 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: A revival of this play (probably by the King's Company) at about this time is a possibility. The Prologue and Epilogue are in A Collection of Poems Written upon several Occasions by several Persons (1673), and the Epilogue refers to the Witches in Macbeth, which had been acted on 18 Feb. 1672@3. See The Plays and Poems of William Cartwright, ed. G. Blakemore Evans (Madison, Wis., 1951), pp. 610-12

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ordinary

1352
September 1699 @ St James's Palace

Event Comment: Alice Baxter, September 1699: I believe shall be on Munday at a ball at St. James, where, as they tell me, ther is a famose new danser to apere, which is to charme us all, but not make amends for ye loss of Mrs Ibbings (Evans?) who danced at Lincolns Inn Field and is lately dead (Hatton Correspondence, Camden Society, XXIII [1878], 240)

Performances

1353
25 December 1699 @ Drury Lane Theatre and Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: John Vanbrugh to the Earl of Manchester, 25 Dec. 1699: Miss Evans the dancer at the New Playhouse is dead too; a feaver Slew her in eight and forty hours. She's much lamented by the Towne as well as the House, who can't well bare her loss; Matters running very low with 'em this Winter; if Congreve's Play [The Way of the World] don't help 'em they are undone. 'Tis a Comedy and will be play'd about Six weeks hence, nobody has seen it yet. Liveridge is in Ireland, he Owes so much money he dare not come over, so for want of him we han't had one Opera play'd this Winter; tho' Purcell has set one New One and Fingar another. We have got the Woman from the Chesire Cheese upon the Stage, who has the best Voyce for't by much that has been there at any time. We have the Emperors Crooaed Eunuch here, Francisco. They give him a hundred and twenty Guineas for five times. He has sung Once and was well likt. Dogget was here last Week, they gave him thirty pound to act Six times, which he did and fill'd the house every time (The Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh [Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1928], IV, 4)

Performances

1354
05 July 1700 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical History Of Don Quixote

1355
01 May 1706 @ May Fair

Event Comment: At the Widow Barnes-Evans-Finley Booth. Be pleas'd to take notice, that there is no Rope-Dancing at Mr Penkethman's Booth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rope Dancing

Entertainment: The most famous Rope/Dancers of Europe, who perform such strange and surprizing things as were never before seen, and which are almost incredible to relate

1356
06 May 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Wetherilt, Evans, Grey, Peploe. Tickets for Cross, Leigh, Miss Ambrose also taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Greenwich Park

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: SScotch Woman-Miss Robinson; Bartholomew Fair-Tench, Miss Brett; The Masques-Essex, Thurmond, Houghton, Tench, Mrs Walter, Miss Williams, Mrs D'Lorme, Miss Mears

Song: Singing in Italian-E. Roberts

1357
08 January 1734 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: Tambourine by Miss Wherrit. Scot's Dance by Mrs Bullock. Dutch Skipper by Vallois and Mrs Bullock. Milk Pail Song and Dance by Delagarde, Sandham, Mrs Evans, Woodward, Miss Gerrard, Miss Wherrit, Miss Sandham, Mrs Vallois, Mrs Dove

Performance Comment: Scot's Dance by Mrs Bullock. Dutch Skipper by Vallois and Mrs Bullock. Milk Pail Song and Dance by Delagarde, Sandham, Mrs Evans, Woodward, Miss Gerrard, Miss Wherrit, Miss Sandham, Mrs Vallois, Mrs Dove .

1358
28 January 1734 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Dance: The Whin by Miss Wherrit and Miss Sandham. Chacone by Mrs Bullock. Two Pierrots by Vailois and J. Delagarde. Milk Pail Dance by Delagarde, Sandham, Mrs Evans, Woodward, Miss Wherrit, Miss Sandham, Mrs Vallois, Mrs Dove

Performance Comment: Chacone by Mrs Bullock. Two Pierrots by Vailois and J. Delagarde. Milk Pail Dance by Delagarde, Sandham, Mrs Evans, Woodward, Miss Wherrit, Miss Sandham, Mrs Vallois, Mrs Dove .

1359
08 May 1734 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Evans and Miss Cole

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Music: Second Musick: Concerto of the late Mr Woodcock's on the Little Flute. Third Musick: 8th Concerto of Corelli

Dance: I: Scots Dance by Mrs Bullock. III: The Whim by Miss Wherrit and Miss Sandham. IV: Pierrots by Vallois and Delagarde. V: Milk Pail Dance

Song: II: Was ever Nymph like Rosamund by Miss Hill

1360
25 April 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mason, Cossins, Skinner, Evans, Boxkeepers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Fille Capitaine

Afterpiece Title: Les Deux Arlequins

Dance: Two Pierrots by De Lisle and Badouin. Harlequin and Wooden Shoe Dance by Cochoy, the Lilliputian

1361
27 May 1736 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Wilmer and Evans, Boxkeepers. Receipts: money #7 7s. 6d.; tickets #111 12s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: Peasant Dance by Tench and Miss Rogers. Glover's Sailors Dance

1362
09 May 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Wilmer, Laurence, Evans, Boxkeepers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song: TThe Lady's Lamentation for the Loss of Senesino-Beard

Dance: HHornpipe-Ferguson; Comic Dance-Nivelon, Lalauze, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs LeBrun

1363
11 May 1738 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Guise, Warraner, Evans, Boxkeepers. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Wedding

Dance: I: Comic Dance-Richardson, Miss Cantrel; II: Je ne scai quoy-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates; III: Serious Dance-Mlle Roland; IV: Pantomime Dance-Nivelon, Mrs LeBrun; V: Grecian Sailors-Glover

1364
15 May 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Guise and Evans (Boxkeeper). At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Music: V: Handel's Water Musick-; with a Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Jo Woodbridge

Dance: I: Two Pierots, as17390514; II: Je ne scai quoy, as17390514; III: Hornpipe-Yates; IV: Glover's Grecian Sailors-

1365
28 May 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Marshall, Gray, Peploe, Rainton. Tickets also taken for Evans, Miss Chetwood and Gillibrand

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Song: I: By Desire, Come let us prepare-Brother Montgomery; V: On on my dear Brethren-Brother Montgomery

Dance: II: Pierots-Leviez, Pelling; In III: The usual Hornpipe-

1366
16 May 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Stede, Guise, and Evans (Boxkeeper). Afterpiece: With several Additions by the Author

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Country House

Afterpiece Title: The Parting Lovers

Dance: SSwiss Dance-the French Boy and Girl; Grand Ballet-Glover, Mlle Roland

1367
11 May 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Harrington, Thomson, Evans, Boxkeeper. Receipts: #100 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: PPierots-Richardson, Delagarde; Les Matelots-Mechell, Mlle Mechell

1368
25 January 1742 @ James Street

Event Comment: Benefit Evans and Baumgartner. Stage boxes 3s. Front Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s. The Farce to begin at Six, and the Concert on the Stage at Seven

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

1369
10 May 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Harrington, White, and Evans (Boxkeeper). Mainpiece: At the particular Desire of several ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: TThe Peasants, as17420210; Comic Dance-Richardson, Delagarde, Mrs LeBrun; Pantaloon and Enamorata, as17420420

1370
31 May 1742 @ James Street

Event Comment: Benefit Bostock and Evans

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ulysses

Song: Paul

Entertainment: TThe Drunken Man-Day

1371
05 May 1743 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit White, Vaughan, Evans (Boxkeepers)

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: LLes Boufons du Cour, as17430305 Characters of Dancing, as17421025; Dutch Skipper, as17421025

1372
09 May 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Vaughan and Evans (Box-Keepers); and Gwinn (Door-Keeper)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

1373
13 May 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Lawrence and Evans (Box Keepers), and Gwinn (Pit Door-keeper)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: Cooke, Sga Campioni; Also Scotch Dance, as17450507

1374
05 May 1746 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Vaughan and Evans [Boxkeepers] and Gwynn[Pit doorkeeper]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: Duke and no Duke

1375
20 May 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Vaughan and Evans [Box-Keepers]. Their profits from this night unspecified. Charges #70. Each was paid #10 in full for attendance on Boxes this season. Rec'd of Baron Schutz by Mr Lawrence for the King's Account #70

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet