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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Miss Ambrose"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Miss Ambrose")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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15001 results for: Keyword - Miss Ambrose
We found 13762 matches on Performance Comments, 4403 matches on Performance Title, 1722 matches on Event Comments, 616 matches on Roles/Actors, and 153 matches on Author.

476
08 December 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Buthred

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Wroughton, Clarke, Farren, Peile, L'Estrange, Thompson, Aickin, Miss Platt, Mrs Hartley (1st appearance this season). [Cast from text (F. Newbery, 1779): Buthred-Wroughton; Morcar-Clarke; Elwin-Farren; Elbert-Peile; Ivar-L'Estrange; Randolph-Thompson (in text unassigned); Osbrighte-Aickin; Ela-Miss Platt; Rena-Mrs Hartley; Prologue-Hull; Epilogue-Mrs Bulkley. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]
Cast
Role: Ela Actor: Miss Platt

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Cast
Role: Emily Actor: Miss Ambrose

477
29 December 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Cast
Role: Clara Actor: Miss Brown

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Cast
Role: Miss Godfrey Actor: Miss Ambrose
Role: Miss Grantham Actor: Mrs Bulkley.

478
03 February 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Cast
Role: Laura Actor: Miss Ambrose

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Brown

479
02 March 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Cast
Role: Laura Actor: Miss Ambrose

Afterpiece Title: The Liverpool Prize

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Quick, Wilson, Lee Lewes, Whitfield, Robson, Fearon, Wewitzer, Brunsdon, Jones, Clarke, Mrs Morton, Miss Stewart, Miss Brown. Cast from text
Role: Adelaide Actor: Miss Stewart
Role: Harriet Actor: Miss Brown

Dance: End I afterpiece: As17780925

480
16 March 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Cast
Role: Miss Neville Actor: Miss Leeson
Role: La Rouge Actor: Miss Ambrose

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Brown

481
20 March 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Prelude And Prologue

Performance Comment: Characters by Wilson, Lee Lewes, Whitfield, Robson, Fearon, Hull, Miss Stewart, Mrs Poussin, Miss Platt. Cast from Morning Chronicle, 22 Mar.: Joe Type-Wilson; Ratsbane-Lee Lewes; Eustace-Whitfield; Greenwood-Hull; Passengers in a Stage-Miss Stewart; Landlady-Mrs Poussin; Mrs O'Flannagan-Miss Platt Larpent MS 472 adds: Lieut. of a Man of War, Sailor, Ostler, Boot Catcher, Printer's Devil, Chambermaid.
Cast
Role: Passengers in a Stage Actor: Miss Stewart
Role: Mrs O'Flannagan Actor: Miss Platt Larpent MS 472 adds: Lieut. of a Man of War, Sailor, Ostler, Boot Catcher, Printer's Devil, Chambermaid.

Afterpiece Title: Calypso

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Mrs Kennedy, Reinhold, Leoni, Miss Thornton, Miss Brown. Cast from text (T. Evans, 1779): Telemachus-Mrs Kennedy; Mentor-Reinhold; Proteus-Leoni; Antiope-Miss Thornton; Calypso-Miss Brown.
Cast
Role: Antiope Actor: Miss Thornton
Role: Calypso Actor: Miss Brown.

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Cast
Role: Emily Actor: Miss Ambrose

Dance: In: Incidental Dances-Dagueville, Miss Besford, Miss Valois

482
23 March 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Prelude And Prologue

Cast
Role: Passengers in a Stage Actor: Miss Stewart
Role: Mrs O'Flannagan Actor: Miss Platt Larpent MS 472 adds: Lieut. of a Man of War, Sailor, Ostler, Boot Catcher, Printer's Devil, Chambermaid.

Afterpiece Title: Calypso

Cast
Role: Antiope Actor: Miss Thornton
Role: Calypso Actor: Miss Brown.
Role: Emily Actor: Miss Ambrose

Afterpiece Title: The Liverpool Prize

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Quick, Wilson, Lee Lewes, Whitfield, Robson, Fearon, Wewitzer, Brunsdon, Jones, Clarke, Mrs Morton, Miss Stewart, Miss Brown. Cast from text
Role: Adelaide Actor: Miss Stewart
Role: Harriet Actor: Miss Brown

Dance: As17790320

483
25 March 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Prelude And Prologue

Cast
Role: Passengers in a Stage Actor: Miss Stewart
Role: Mrs O'Flannagan Actor: Miss Platt Larpent MS 472 adds: Lieut. of a Man of War, Sailor, Ostler, Boot Catcher, Printer's Devil, Chambermaid.

Afterpiece Title: Calypso

Cast
Role: Antiope Actor: Miss Thornton
Role: Calypso Actor: Miss Brown.
Role: Emily Actor: Miss Ambrose

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: In: Incidental Dances, as17790320afterpiece: Minuet, as17781212

484
05 April 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Performance Comment: Warwick-Lewis (1st appearance in that character); Suffolk-Hull; Pembroke-Whitfield; Officer-Robson; Buckingham-Stevens; King Edward-Wroughton (1st appearance in that character); Lady Eliz. Grey-Miss Leeson; Lady Clifford-Mrs Poussin; Margaret of Anjou (for this night only)-Mrs Yates; With the original Epilogue, written by Garrick,-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Grey Actor: Miss Leeson

Afterpiece Title: True-Blue

Afterpiece Title: The Liverpool Prize

Cast
Role: Antiope Actor: Miss Thornton
Role: Calypso Actor: Miss Brown.
Role: Emily Actor: Miss Ambrose
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Quick, Wilson, Lee Lewes, Whitfield, Robson, Fearon, Wewitzer, Brunsdon, Jones, Clarke, Mrs Morton, Miss Stewart, Miss Brown. Cast from text
Role: Adelaide Actor: Miss Stewart
Role: Harriet Actor: Miss Brown

Dance: In 2nd piece: Aldridge

485
06 April 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: True-Blue

Cast
Role: Antiope Actor: Miss Thornton
Role: Calypso Actor: Miss Brown.
Role: Emily Actor: Miss Ambrose
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Quick, Wilson, Lee Lewes, Whitfield, Robson, Fearon, Wewitzer, Brunsdon, Jones, Clarke, Mrs Morton, Miss Stewart, Miss Brown. Cast from text
Role: Adelaide Actor: Miss Stewart
Role: Harriet Actor: Miss Brown

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Cast
Role: Daphne Actor: Miss Brown

Dance: As17790405

486
08 April 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Annette Actor: Miss Brown.

Afterpiece Title: The Liverpool Prize

Cast
Role: Antiope Actor: Miss Thornton
Role: Calypso Actor: Miss Brown.
Role: Emily Actor: Miss Ambrose
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Quick, Wilson, Lee Lewes, Whitfield, Robson, Fearon, Wewitzer, Brunsdon, Jones, Clarke, Mrs Morton, Miss Stewart, Miss Brown. Cast from text
Role: Adelaide Actor: Miss Stewart
Role: Harriet Actor: Miss Brown

487
13 April 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Cast
Role: Erixene Actor: Miss Ambrose

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Bacchants Actor: Mrs Morton, Miss Ambrose
Role: Pastoral Nymph Actor: Miss Brown

Dance: As17790222

488
14 April 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rose And Colin

Cast
Role: Rose Actor: Miss Brown.

Afterpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Cast
Role: Antiope Actor: Miss Thornton
Role: Calypso Actor: Miss Brown.
Role: Emily Actor: Miss Ambrose
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Quick, Wilson, Lee Lewes, Whitfield, Robson, Fearon, Wewitzer, Brunsdon, Jones, Clarke, Mrs Morton, Miss Stewart, Miss Brown. Cast from text
Role: Adelaide Actor: Miss Stewart
Role: Harriet Actor: Miss Brown
Role: Daphne Actor: Miss Brown

Afterpiece Title: The Liverpool Prize

Cast
Role: Antiope Actor: Miss Thornton
Role: Calypso Actor: Miss Brown.
Role: Emily Actor: Miss Ambrose
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Quick, Wilson, Lee Lewes, Whitfield, Robson, Fearon, Wewitzer, Brunsdon, Jones, Clarke, Mrs Morton, Miss Stewart, Miss Brown. Cast from text
Role: Adelaide Actor: Miss Stewart
Role: Harriet Actor: Miss Brown

489
30 April 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer's Return from London

Cast
Role: Mademoiselle Actor: Miss Ambrose

Afterpiece Title: Gallic Gratitude; or, The Frenchman in India

Performance Comment: Characters by Wewitzer, Fearon, Robson, Thompson, L'Estrange, Mrs Morton, Miss Leeson. Cast from text (E. Johnson, 1779): La Bronze-Wewitzer; Cossim-Fearon; Haroun-Robson; Decca-Thompson; Sir ThomasCallico-L'Estrange; Ali-Jones; Derby O'Rudder-Egan; Teresa-Mrs Morton; Harriet-Miss Leeson; Prologue-Mrs Jackson in the character of Britannia.
Cast
Role: Harriet Actor: Miss Leeson

Song: In 3rd piece: the Vocal Parts-Reinhold, Miss Thornton, Mrs Wrighten

490
01 May 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

Cast
Role: Rose Actor: Miss Brown.

Afterpiece Title: Alexander the Great

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer's Return from London

Cast
Role: Mademoiselle Actor: Miss Ambrose

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Cast
Role: Daphne Actor: Miss Brown

491
04 May 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Illumination

Cast
Role: Miss Skylight Actor: Miss Green

Afterpiece Title: The Comedy of Errors

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Brown

Afterpiece Title: True-Blue

Cast
Role: Antiope Actor: Miss Thornton
Role: Calypso Actor: Miss Brown.
Role: Emily Actor: Miss Ambrose
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Quick, Wilson, Lee Lewes, Whitfield, Robson, Fearon, Wewitzer, Brunsdon, Jones, Clarke, Mrs Morton, Miss Stewart, Miss Brown. Cast from text
Role: Adelaide Actor: Miss Stewart
Role: Harriet Actor: Miss Brown

Afterpiece Title: The Invasion

Dance: 3rd piece: As17790405; End IV: Hornpipe-Master Davies (scholar to Hurst; 1st appearance in public)

Song: In III: song in character-Mrs Morton

492
07 May 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Cast
Role: Clara Actor: Miss Brown

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Cast
Role: Emily Actor: Miss Ambrose

Dance: End: The Sports of the Green-Aldridge

493
12 May 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Illumination

Cast
Role: Miss Skylight Actor: Miss Green

Afterpiece Title: A Bold Stroke for a Wife

Cast
Role: Rosara Actor: Miss Leeson
Role: Mrs Dimity Actor: Miss Weller

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer's Return from London

Cast
Role: Mademoiselle Actor: Miss Ambrose

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Garland, Rayner, Delpini, Messink, Miss Matthews, Miss Cranfield, Mrs Morton, Sga Tinte.

494
18 May 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Cast
Role: Annette Actor: Miss Brown.

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer's Return from London

Cast
Role: Mademoiselle Actor: Miss Ambrose

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Cast
Role: Daphne Actor: Miss Brown

495
19 May 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Strategem

Cast
Role: Cherry Actor: Miss Brown

Afterpiece Title: Gallic Gratitude

Cast
Role: Mademoiselle Actor: Miss Ambrose
Role: Harriet Actor: Miss Leeson

496
20 May 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Illumination

Cast
Role: Miss Skylight Actor: Miss Green

Afterpiece Title: The Albion Queens; or, The Death of Mary Queen of Scots

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer's Return from London

Cast
Role: Mademoiselle Actor: Miss Ambrose

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Bacchants Actor: Mrs Morton, Miss Ambrose
Role: Pastoral Nymph Actor: Miss Brown

497
20 November 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Cast
Role: Nerissa Actor: Miss Ambrose

Afterpiece Title: Love A-la-mode

Cast
Role: Charlotte Actor: Miss Ambrose.

Dance: End III: The Dockyard, as17791115; End IV: The Shepherd's Wedding, as17791013

498
04 December 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Cast
Role: Nerissa Actor: Miss Ambrose

Afterpiece Title: The Mirror

Cast
Role: Little Girl Actor: Miss Morris
Role: Sicilians Actor: Mrs Willems, Miss Green
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Brown

Dance: End III: The Dockyard, as17791123, but Jackson; End IV: a +New Dance-

499
27 December 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Cast
Role: Charlotte Weldon Actor: Miss Ambrose

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Every-where

Cast
Role: Little Girl Actor: Miss Morris
Role: Sicilians Actor: Mrs Willems, Miss Green
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Brown

500
03 January 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Cast
Role: Goneril Actor: Miss Platt
Role: Regan Actor: Miss Ambrose
Role: Arante Actor: Miss Green
Role: Cordelia Actor: Miss Younge.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Every-where

Cast
Role: Little Girl Actor: Miss Morris
Role: Sicilians Actor: Mrs Willems, Miss Green
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Brown