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15098 results for: Keyword - Miss Kemble
We found 14044 matches on Performance Comments, 4407 matches on Performance Title, 2099 matches on Event Comments, 265 matches on Author, and 115 matches on Roles/Actors.

6226
11 November 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: "The great powers of Mrs Jordan cannot be better displayed than in the wonderful contrast of her Country Girl and Viola. In one all archness and vivacity; in the other serious, gentle, tender and sentimental" (Public Advertiser, 16 Nov.). [In afterpiece the playbill retains Parsons as Sir Anthony Halfwit, but on the Kemble playbill his name is deleted and a MS annotation substitutes Wilson's. "Parsons was taken suddenly ill & J. Wilson read his part" (MS annotation on British Museum playbill, in Harris, 11).] Receipts: #108 12s. (79/11/0; 28/13/6; 0/7/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Cast
Role: Jenny Actor: Miss Tidswell

Dance: As17851103

6227
09 December 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [In afterpiece the playbill retains Cubitt as Noodle, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Brett.] Receipts: #134 2s. 6d. (124/17/0; 9/5/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Cast
Role: Horatia Actor: Miss Brunton

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

6228
10 December 1785 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. [Mrs Warren is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill. In afterpiece "Mrs Inchbald had the satisfaction of speaking, vice Mrs Morton, her own neat dialogue" (Public Advertiser, 12 Dec.).] Receipts: #203 16s. 6d. (200/10/6; 3/6/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Percy

Afterpiece Title: Appearance is against Them

Cast
Role: Miss Angle Actor: Mrs Morton
Role: Miss Audley Actor: Miss Stuart

Monologue: 1785 12 10 Before the mainpiece an Occasional Address spoken by Holman

6229
16 April 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [The playbill announces Julia and Richard Coeur de Lion, but "Kemble was so ill that he could not appear...The substituted play was The Fair Penitent" (World, 17 Apr.), and "Harlequin's Invasion [was] substituted" (Morning Herald, 17 Apr.).] Receipts: #171 7s. 6d. (137.11.0; 31.18.0; 1.18.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

6230
24 April 1787 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera; the music by Paisiello. Under the direction of Storace. [Sga Storace was from the Opera, Vienna.] Morelli "was an actor such as the Italian stage has seldom witnessed. He was, I used to think, in his prime, quite upon a par with King of Drury Lane Theatre. Like him, he was distinguished for neat articulation, and an unremitting attention to the business of the whole stage" (Boaden, Kemble, I, 449). Receipts: #165 19s. 6d. [non-subscription]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gli Schiavi Per Amore

Dance: As17870329

6231
07 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Siddons [whose 1st appearance as Alicia was at York, 26 Apr. 1777]. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion, Ladies are desired to send their Servants by half past Four o'Clock. Public Advertiser, 27 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Siddons, Gower-street. [In the interim she changed the play. The Announcement of 27 Apr. advertises Romeo and Juliet, by Kemble and Mrs Siddons, in which play she did not appear until May 1789.] Receipts: #337 16s. 6d. (146.1.0; 8.7.6; 0.14.0; tickets: 182.14.0) (charge: #105 16s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Cast
Role: Lady Minikin Actor: Miss Pope
Role: Gymp Actor: Miss Tidswell
Role: Miss Tittup Actor: Miss Farren.

6232
03 December 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Kemble as Hamlet, but for his "indisposition an apology was made, and the audience requested to accept of Wroughton in his place--a request...no sooner asked than had" (World, 4 Dec.).] The Country Girl and Richard Coeur de Lion [both advertised on playbill of 1 Dec.] are obliged to be deferred, on Account of the Indisposition of a principal Performer. Receipts: #105 19s. 6d. (83.2.0; 21.7.6; 1.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Player Queen Actor: Miss Tidswell

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Cast
Role: Sukey Chitterlin Actor: Miss Collins
Role: Dolly Snip Actor: Miss Pope.

6233
03 January 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Kemble, but he "did not act. Barrymore...was his substitute for Percy" (World, 4 Jan.).] Receipts: #191 18s. (157.17.0; 32.11.6; 1.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Percy

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Cast
Role: French Ladies Actor: Miss Barnes, Mrs Cuyler, Miss Tidswell
Role: Fairy Actor: Miss Cranford
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Stageldoir

6234
09 January 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [As afterpiece the playbill announces the 7th night of The Pannel, but it was not acted (see 14 Jan.). Kemble Mem. and the Account-Book both list the substitute play.] Receipts: #142 18s. (106.15.0; 32.19.6; 3.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Cast
Role: Flippanta Actor: Miss Pope
Role: Clarissa Actor: Miss Farren.

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

6235
05 February 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in Kemble Mem., but not on playbill]. Receipts: #133 14s. 6d. (103.10.0; 23.13.0; 6.11.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Impostors

Cast
Role: Mrs Dorothy Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

Cast
Role: Fatima Actor: Miss Romanzini

6236
11 February 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in Kemble Mem., but not on playbill]. Receipts: #107 18s. 6d. (86.9.0; 19.15.6; 1.14.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Impostors

Cast
Role: Mrs Dorothy Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Sabrina Actor: Miss Romanzini
Role: Bacchant Actor: Miss Collett

6237
10 March 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Gamester [advertised on playbill of 9 Mar.] cannot be acted on Account of Mrs Siddons's Hoarseness. [As afterpiece the playbill announces the 20th night of The Doctor and the Apothecary, but it was not acted (see 14 Mar.). Kemble Mem. lists the substitute play.] Receipts: #25 19s. 6d. (19.5.0; 2.16.0; 2.16.0 [sic]; tickets not come in: 1.2.6). [This sum is the lowest recorded for this theatre between 1776 and 1791, the year of its demolition.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Phoebe Actor: Miss Barnes

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Song: As17890220

6238
02 April 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. A new and accurate edition of Isabella to be had at the Theatre. [In mainpiece the playbill retains Kemble as Biron, but he being ill on Thursday night, an apology was made for Whitfield's assumption of Biron, on the ground of his having studied the character on two hour's notice" (Diary, 6 Apr.) Public Advertiser, 28 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Palmer, No. 3, London Road, St. George's Fields. Receipts: #274 6s. 6d. (117.4.0; 15.5.6; 3.1.0; tickets: 138.16.0) (charge: #123 13s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Collins.

Song: As17881028, but Vocal Parts-Mrs _Forster, Dignum

6239
06 November 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Kemble as Valentine, but "he could not play--Whitfield was Valentine" (World, 7 Nov.).] Receipts: #112 16s. 6d. (77.12.0; 32.7.0; 2.17.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Miss Prue Actor: Miss Prideaux
Role: Mrs Frail Actor: Miss Pope
Role: Jenny Actor: Miss Tidswell
Role: Angelica Actor: Miss Farren.

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Cast
Role: Antonio Actor: Miss Romanzini
Role: Lauretta Actor: Miss Hagley
Role: Julie Actor: Miss DeCamp

Dance: As17891026

6240
10 November 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: 1st piece: 1st Time [at this theatre; see dl, 7 Nov.]. "Mr Hayley's Marcella, which was anticipated on Saturday evening at Drury Lane, and was received with considerable marks of disapprobation...was brought forward [at Covent Garden] under the auspices of the Author" (Public Advertiser, 11 Nov.). "[The performers all acted well at Covent Garden; and Kemble was the only one at Drury Lane who even knew his part" (Prompter, 11 Nov.). Receipts: #201 17s. (197.13.6; 4.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marcella

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Cast
Role: Emai Actor: Miss Francis. Part I. A Nuptial Procession, with the Performance of the Marriage Ceremony according to the Custom observed at O'Whyee. The Manner of Combat between two Natives. Part II. The Arrival of the Resolution. The Disembarkation of the English, with the Ceremonies observed at entering into a Treaty of Peace with the Natives. A Preparation for a Human Sacrifice. The Assassination of Captain Cook. Part III. A Representation of the Naval and Military Honours observed on erecting a Pile to the Memory of Capt. Cook, by the Officers of the Resolution. The Ceremony performed on the same Occasion, according to the Manner of the Natives of O'Whyee. To conclude with a Representation of a Burning Mountain.

6241
26 November 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #207 5s. 6d. (177.10.0; 28.12.6; 1.3.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Cast
Role: Cicely Actor: Miss Romanzini

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: Corinna Actor: Miss Tidswell
Role: Maria Actor: Miss Farren.

6242
03 December 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author and Composer [of mainpiece, who are named in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #161 10s. (141.18.0; 16.16.6; 2.15.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Cast
Role: Cicely Actor: Miss Romanzini

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Cast
Role: Charlotte Actor: Miss Collins

6243
09 January 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [As afterpiece Kemble Mem. lists The Island of St. Marguerite, but the playbill for 8 Jan. has "15th Night," for 13 Jan. "16th Night," for 15 Jan. "17th Night," &c. The enumeration for Harlequin's Frolicks is likewise consistent.] Receipts: #242 (222.12; 18.11; 0.17)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Cast
Role: Cicely Actor: Miss Romanzini

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Frolicks

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Stageldoir
Role: Vocal Parts Actor: Dignum, Sedgwick, Phillimore, Fawcett, Haymes, Danby, Reynoldson, Mrs Fox, Miss Barnes, Mrs Butler, Mrs Edwin, Mrs Shaw, Mrs Davies, Mrs Edwards, Miss Hagley.

Dance: As17891204

6244
29 January 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of High Life below Stairs, advertised on playbill of 28 Jan., and erroneously listed in Kemble Mem.] Receipts: #225 2s. 6d. (198.15.0; 25.3.0; 1.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Cast
Role: Cicely Actor: Miss Romanzini

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Frolicks

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Stageldoir
Role: Vocal Parts Actor: Dignum, Sedgwick, Phillimore, Fawcett, Haymes, Danby, Reynoldson, Mrs Fox, Miss Barnes, Mrs Butler, Mrs Edwin, Mrs Shaw, Mrs Davies, Mrs Edwards, Miss Hagley.

Dance: As17891204

6245
08 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: ["The Play to-night was to have been The Confederacy, by Desire of the Duchess of Leinster, with The Spoiled Child (both advertised on playbill of 7 May), for Mrs Jordan's benefit...but she suspecting the House would be thin, pretended to be ill, would not act" (Kemble Mem.). "Love for Love (announced in playbill of this present night) and The Spoiled Child were deferred on account of the indisposition of Mrs Jordan, and The West Indian and The Island of St. Marguerite substituted...Aickin and Packer...could not be met with, and no other means of presenting The West Indian remained than Messrs Williames and Maddocks being permitted to read the parts of Stockwell and Capt. Dudley. This the audience refused to comply with, and insisted on having their money returned, which was at last done. The pit was cleared, not even one person remaining; but during the second act, four people came in...About thirty stayed in the boxes, and not a sufficient number to fill the front rows in the galleries...The West Indian, with two parts in it read, and a house thus uncomfortably thin, dragged dismally through the three first acts. The half-price produced considerable amendment in the appearance of the house" (London Chronicle, 10 May).] Receipts: #45 0s. 6d. (11.13.0; 32.5.0; 1.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Island of St

6246
13 November 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In afterpiece the playbill retains Dodd as Dangle, but he "would not act the Part...Benson studyed and did it, at a few Hours Notice" (Kemble Mem.).] Receipts: #262 14s. 6d. (204.11.0; 55.9.0; 2.14.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Cast
Role: Lady Elinor Actor: Miss Hagley

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Cast
Role: Italian Girls Actor: Miss Hagley, Mrs Bland, Miss DeCamp
Role: Nieces Actor: Miss Heard, Miss Barnes
Role: Tilburina Actor: Miss Pope.

6247
05 January 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author and the Composer [of mainpiece, who are named in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #301 17s. 6d. (268.10.0; 32.5.0; 1.2.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #124 7s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Cast
Role: Fatima Actor: Miss Hagley

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: Maria Actor: Miss Farren
Role: Corinna Actor: Miss Tidswell.

6248
01 June 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Portal, Shade, Hicks, J. Shade, Gibson. Kemble Mem.: Benefit for the Boxkeepers. Receipts: #389 4s. 6d. (22.13.0; 10.15.6; 1.8.0; tickets: 354.8.0) (charge: #116 8s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Angelica Actor: Miss Farren
Role: Mrs Frail Actor: Miss Pope
Role: Miss Prue Actor: Mrs Jordan.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Barnes
Role: Lettice Actor: Miss Tidswell

6249
04 January 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. "The crowd and the tumult at the doors of the Theatre last Wednesday [raised the question] why the Box and Pit passages, which were the same last year, are now separated. The answer is because at the Opera, the Boxes and the Pit are for the same price and company; at the Playhouse they are different in both respects. Repeated notices were sent by Kemble both to those on foot and in carriages that the house was full; and the doors were actually closed before the house was really filled in the hope of dispersing the crowd--but they were a second time forced open" (Morning Chronicle, 7 Jan.). Receipts: #582 8s. 6d. (552.15.6; 26.14.0; 2.19.0, being the largest amount received at this theatre during its occupancy by the dl company)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Cast
Role: Sylvia Actor: Miss Hagley
Role: Phebe Actor: Miss DeCamp
Role: Spirits Actor: Master D'Egville, Miss D'Egville, Miss Gawdry, Miss Edwin
Role: Queen of the Amazons Actor: Miss Blanchet.

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

6250
23 January 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Event Comment: [As afterpiece the playbill announces Katharine and Petruchio, in place of Richard Coeur de Lion, advertised on playbill of 21 Jan., but "On Acct. of the sudden Indisposition of Mrs Goodall Katharine & Petruchio was put off and The Apprentice substituted in its stead" (MS annotation on Kemble playbill).] Receipts: #236 5s. (189.8; 45.1; 1.16)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Cast
Role: Terpsichore Actor: Miss DeCamp
Role: Euterpe Actor: Miss Collins

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice