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52 results for: Keyword - MMiss Cheney
We found 45 matches on Event Comments, 8 matches on Performance Comments, 1 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1
01 October 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Cheney made her first appearance this Night, in Miss Prue, a Pretty Figure, play'd with Spirit, very Aukward, & Speaks too much at the top of her Voice (Hopkins). Miss Prue by a young Gentlewoman. Great Applause (Cross Diary). This night Miss Cheney made her first appearance on the stage in the character of Miss Prue--play'd with spirit,--a very pretty, genteel Figure, but very raw and aukward--got great applause. Think there is materials in her composition with care and application to make an actress.--Mr Yates in the speech where he says 'the more she cries, the less she'll p--' happened to speak the words a little too plain, and was justly hissed by the Audience--his song was encored,--he sung it again,--a Hiss and a Clap when he went off (Hopkins Diary--MacMillan). Receipts: #187 16s. 6d. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: Valentine-Havard; Tattle-Obrien; Ben (with song)-Yates; Foresight-Weston; Sir Sampson Legend-Burton; Scandal-Palmer; Jeremy-King; Angelica-Miss Haughton; Mrs Frail-Mrs Clive; Miss Prue-Miss Cheney, first appearance [she was afterwards Mrs Gardner]; Trapland-Vaughan; Nurse-Mrs Bradshaw; Mrs Foresight-Mrs Bennet.
Cast
Role: Miss Prue Actor: Miss Cheney, first appearance

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

2
13 January 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Cheney Rose for the 1st time (Hopkins). Mainpiece: Not Acted these 4 Years. [See 21 May 1760.] Receipts: #217 7s. (MacMillan)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: Plume-Palmer; Brazen-Obrien; Kite-Bransby; Balance-Havard; Worthy-Lee; Bullock-Moody; Recruits-Yates, Parsons; Sylvia-Mrs Yates, first time; Melinda-Mrs Davies; Rose-Miss Cheney, first time; Welch Collier-Baddeley; Lucy-Mrs Bennet.
Cast
Role: Rose Actor: Miss Cheney, first time

Afterpiece Title: The Rites of Hecate

Dance: III: A New Comic Dance call'd, the The Shepherdesses, or, La Faux a Veugle-Mas. Clinton, Miss Street, Miss Ford. scholars to Gerhardi

3
07 May 1763 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zanaida

Dance: [M$Miss Asselin will dance only two dances because she has been indisposed (Daily Advertiser).]

4
03 May 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: MMiss Hollyday. By Command of His Royal Highness. Receipts: money #61 1s. 6d.; tickets #71 7s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: HHighland Dance-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden

5
13 January 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Thurmond play'd (Cross). Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years. Receipts: #150 (Cross); #141 15s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A-la-mode

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

6
19 November 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Bellamy Alicia (Cross). Afterpiece: By desire. Receipts: #70 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: CComic Dance, as17501117

7
28 January 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Norris did Polly (well) (Cross). Receipts: #110 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

8
03 December 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Bellamy spoke Orig. Epilogue for ye 1st time (Cross). Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phaedra And Hippolitus

Afterpiece Title: The Shepherd's Lottery

9
20 November 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Bellamy taken ill. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

10
01 February 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Bellamy has lain in & is up (Cross). [This month published, The Upper Gallery, a poem, neatly descriptive of the opening scene in a playhouse from the vantage point of the first Gallery. This is an expanded, revised and modernized version of The Upper Gallery inscribed to the Rev Dr Swift, Dublin, 1733.] Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

11
01 March 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Thomas sung for ye first time in ye Chaplet-very well (Cross). Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: Mlle Auretti

12
23 October 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: MMiss Nossiter's name first appeared in the Bills (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Dance: As17531018

13
14 November 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: MMiss Nossiter did Belvidera-vast applause (Cross). [$Murphy in Gray's Inn Journal, 16 Nov., noticed Miss Nossiter's appearance in Belvidera, commenting "that she is, upon many occasions Mistress of the Surprising Attitude and Action," agreeing that she gave promise of excellence, wishing that her voice would mellow into more harmony and softness, and delivering a paragraph of advice from Quintilian on the error of false emphasis in elocution.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd; Or, A Plot Discovered

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

14
20 November 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: MMiss Bellamy play'd Athenais. Sad House (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius; Or, The Force Of Love

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: The Italian Peasants-Granier, 1st performance there in Five years, Mlle Camargo

15
10 December 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: MMiss Kennedy from Bath did Clarinda. Dancing by Marinesi (who lately broke his arm) and Sga? Bugiani (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Dance: LLes Savoyards-Sg Maranesi, Sga Bugiani; Les Taileurs with New Scenes and Decorations,-Sg Maranesi, Sga Bugiani, being the first time of their appearing since their arrival from Paris

16
19 January 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Macklin's benefit will be on Tuesday the 5th of February; the Play will be the Recruiting Officer, in which she will act the part of Sylvia , and Mr Foote the part of Brazen , being the first time of their appearing in those characters. To which will added a piece by Foote call'd the Knights. Receipts: #110 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

17
26 September 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Macklin did Sylvia -G[reat] Ap[plause]. Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

18
26 September 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Midnight will give Tea. &c. Benefit for Pittard le Charpentier and a Free Mason

Performances

Mainpiece Title: New Carnival Concert

Afterpiece Title: La Pantomime du Charpentier

19
14 October 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Macklin did Polly -Well (Cross). Receipts: #100 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

20
04 December 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Haughton did second Constantia-Mrs Cibber gave it up-some days ago ($Cross). [Early in the next year was published The Devil upon Crutches in England; or, Night Scenes in London. By a Gentleman of Oxford. Chapter V gives a Short View of the Theatres including sharp criticism of 'the most barefaced bawdry Farce...that ever disgraced the stage, in which the Manager, who has caused it to be reviv'd, is to perform the principal part. The Play, Sir, is call'd the Chances...and this is the tenth night of its representation to crowded houses...Your fair country women...are fond of the most fulsome obscenity on the stage."] Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Song: II: (By desire) The School of Anacreon-Beard

Dance: IV: The Shepherd's Holiday, as17541008

21
28 January 1755 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Wilkinson has not only complied with the Vulgar Method of printing Bills, but as more elegant Form of Invitation, has sent complimentary Cards to all the Ladies of Distinction. [A debate on the superiority of the fair sex, after which Miss Wilkinson performed on the wire. A Praemium and peroration were spoken by George Alexander Stevens. Well advertised in advance bills. It began at 7 p.m. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. This performance, soon changed to A Short Comic Oratorio and had a run here, almost always advertised as by the particular desire of several ladies of quality.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Inquisition

22
10 February 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Young so hoarse she cou'd not sing one Song--Yet all went Calm (Cross). Books of the Masque will be sold at the Theatre. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Britannia

23
23 October 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Pritchard did Lady Betty, & had great applause (Cross). Receipts: #190 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

24
29 October 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Barton for her first appearance did Lady Pliant pretty well--Foote, Sir Paul--the farce was hiss'd ($Cross). [N.B. The Folger Shakespeare Library has this bill, as a stage manager's MS for the printer.] Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Return'd from Paris

25
16 November 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Pritchard did Juliet tho' Mrs Cibber is engag'd (Cross). Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist