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15324 results for: Keyword - Miss Street
We found 13817 matches on Performance Comments, 4431 matches on Performance Title, 2983 matches on Event Comments, 42 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.

6026
29 April 1779 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Sestini. Tickets to be had of Sga Sestini, No. 8, Great Suffolk-street, Charing-cross

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Buona Figliuola

Dance: End I: Les Oiseleurs, as17790123; End Opera: New Ballet, as17790227

Ballet: End II: Annette et Lubin. As17781124

6027
01 May 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Peile. Mainpiece: With the Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Babylonv. Public Advertiser, 22 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Peile, North-street, Westminster

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

Cast
Role: Rose Actor: Miss Brown.

Afterpiece Title: Alexander the Great

Afterpiece Title: The Farmers Return from London

Cast
Role: Mademoiselle Actor: Miss Ambrose

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Cast
Role: Daphne Actor: Miss Brown

6028
04 May 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Whitfield and Mrs Morton. Public Advertiser, 17 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Whitfield, No. 14, New Crown Court, Russel Street, Covent Garden; of Mrs Morton, No. 15, same address

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

6029
13 May 1779 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sacchini. Tickets to be had of Sacchini, No. 5, Whitcomb-street, Leicester Fields. Opera: With some Alterations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lavaro Deluso

Dance: End I: Les Oiseleurs, as17790123; End II: Ballet by Fairies, as17790302End Opera: New Ballet, as17790227

6030
26 May 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Dickinson, pit office-keeper, and Carleton Jun., box lobby door-keeper. [Afterpiece in place of The Irish Widow, announced on playbill of 25 May.] Morning Chronicle, 18 May: Tickets to be had of Dickinson, No. 5, Wild-court, Wild-street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields [Carleton not listed]. Receipts: #280 3s. 6d. (26.1.0; 6.9.0; 0.18.6; tickets: 246.5.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Cast
Role: Niece Actor: Miss Kirby
Role: 2nd Constantia Actor: Miss Farren

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Cast
Role: Miss Godfrey Actor: Mrs Colles
Role: Miss Grantham Actor: Mrs Davies.

Dance: End: Hornpipe, as17790521

6031
10 August 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Dimond. Tickets to be had of Dimond, No. 3, Upper James-street, Golden-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Cast
Role: Lady Freelove Actor: Miss Sherry
Role: Harriot Actor: Miss Harper
Role: Toilet Actor: Miss Hale

Afterpiece Title: Tony Lumpkin in Town

Cast
Role: Lavender Actor: Miss Hale

Dance: As17790618

Entertainment: Monologue End: Bucks have at ye all-Master Hitchcock

6032
13 August 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Jewell, treasurer. Tickets to be had of Jewell, in Suffolk-street. Mainpiece: Written by the late $S. Foote, Esq.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Upon Two Sticks

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Cast
Role: Eliza Actor: Miss Harper.

Dance: As17790610

6033
07 September 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Tickets to be had of Palmer, Bow-street, Bloomsbury

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Cast
Role: Fidget Actor: Miss Hale
Role: Amelia Actor: Miss Harper

Afterpiece Title: The Tailors

Entertainment: Monologue. End: The Picture of a Playhouse; or, Bucks have at ye all-Palmer

6034
13 October 1779 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Benefit for Massey. Afterpiece: Never performed in London, written by the author of The Son-In-Law [John O'Keeffe; 1st acted at Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, 14 Jan. 1767. See also cg, 16 Mar. 1782, when it was acted as The Positive Man]. To begin at 7:00. Tickets delivered for the 4th instant will be taken. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be had of Rice at the Theatre, and of Massey, No.4, St. Martin's-street, Leicester-Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The She Gallant

6035
09 March 1780 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Opera: The music by several Eminent Masters [chiefly Bertoni, with additions by Paisiello and Gluck]; under the Direction of Bertoni. Benefit for Pacchierotti. Tickets to be had of Pacchierotti, No. 20, Queen Ann Street, Westminster

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lolimpiade

Dance: End I: Grand Serious Ballet, as17800208; End II: La Bergere Coquete, as17800122; End Opera: Serious Ballet, as17800122; Grand Chaconne, as17800122

6036
14 March 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Vernon. Public Advertiser, 29 Feb.: Tickets to be had of Vernon, at Jones's, No. 7, Catherine Street, Strand. Receipts: #173 13s. 6d. (86.14.0; 21.10.0; 0.12.6; tickets: 64.17.0) (charge: #74 14s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Angelica Actor: Miss Farren
Role: Mrs Frail Actor: Miss Pope
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Miss Sherry
Role: Miss Prue Actor: Mrs Abington.

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Wright, Grimaldi, Delpini, Burton, Wrighten, Philimore, Williams, Norris, Miss Kirby, Miss Collett
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Collett.

6037
14 March 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Henderson. Ode: With the Songs, Chorusses, &c. The Music by Dr Arne. "When I recited Mr Garrick's Ode in a private room, I felt what I said, and I believe gave it some effect. Very different was it upon the stage. My feelings were weakened and confounded by the band, my voice lost its scale, and was overpowered by the music in the orchestra" (Ireland, p. 47). Public Advertiser, 26 Feb.: Tickets to be had of Henderson at his house, Great Buckingham-street, York Buildings. [His 1st appearance as Sir John Brute was at Bath, 1 Jan. 1774.] Receipts: #234 13s. 6d. (charge:#105). Account-Book notes that Henderson sold 319 tickets for the boxes and 85 for the pit, together worth #92 10s., and that tickets sold at the doors were worth #142 3s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: An Ode by Garrick

Dance: As17790922

6038
16 March 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Public Advertiser, 7 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Palmer at his house in Bow-street, Bloomsbury. Receipts: #222 19s. 6d. (116.13.0; 29.11.6; 1.8.0; tickets: 75.7.0) (charge: #71 4s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Cast
Role: Marwood Actor: Miss Sherry
Role: Foible Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Cast
Role: Principal Tragedians Actor: Farren, Waldron, Burton, Packer, Lamash, Bannister Jun., Mrs Davenett, Mrs Bradshaw, Miss Pope. Cast adjusted from text
Role: Tilburina Actor: Miss Pope.

Dance: End III: As17791122

6039
17 March 1780 @ Crown Inn, Lower Street (now Essex Road), Islington

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Palmer (the Lady who perform'd Calista). [Mainpiece: Prologue by Thomas Baker.] No Person to be admitted without a ticket, which may be had of Mrs Palmer, No. 13 Pierpont-Row; at the King's Head Tavern in the upper-Street; and at the place of Performance. [The date of the performance of The Fair Penitent, of which play Calista is the heroine, has not as yet come to light.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

6040
27 March 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. Morning Chronicle, 25 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Mattocks, Russel-street, Covent-garden. 2nd piece: Founded on Nancy; or, The Parting Lovers [by Henry Carey]. Books of the Interlude to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #203 1s. (179.11; tickets: 23.10) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Cast
Role: Clara Actor: Miss Brown

Afterpiece Title: The Spaniards Dismayed or True Blue for Ever

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Brown. For additional, unassigned characters listed by Larpent MS, see17790104.

Dance: End 2nd piece: Dance of Sailors-see17800401

6041
01 April 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kennedy. Public Advertiser, 16 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Kennedy at her house, No. 36, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. Receipts: #231 12s. 6d. (150.16.6; tickets: 80.17.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Cast
Role: Mandane Actor: Miss Brown.

Afterpiece Title: The Spaniards Dismayed

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Brown. For additional, unassigned characters listed by Larpent MS, see17790104.

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Miss Brown. For additional, unassigned characters listed by Larpent MS, see17790104.

Dance: End 2nd piece: Dance of Sailors-Langrish, others

6042
04 April 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Brereton. 2nd piece [1st time; INT I, by Hannah Cowley; not published]. Public Advertiser, 18 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Brereton, No. 11, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #246 14s. 6d. (90.4.0; 26.0.6; 0.0.0; tickets: 130.10.0) (charge: #69 9s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Cast
Role: Miss Sterling Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: The School of Eloquence

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

Cast
Role: Lesbia Actor: Miss Abrams.
Role: Fatima Actor: Miss Collett

6043
13 April 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Hopkins, prompter, and Mrs Hopkins. Afterpiece: In honour of Shakespeare; in which will be introduced a grand Pageant, the music by Dibdin. Public Advertiser, 4 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Hopkins, No. 7, Little Russel Street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #205 9s. 6d. (122.5.0; 34.17.6; 1.16.0; tickets: 46.11.0) (charge: #64 4s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Cast
Role: Marwood Actor: Miss Sherry
Role: Foible Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee

Song: End III: Tally ho!, as17800411

6044
13 April 1780 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Bernasconi. Tickets to be had of Sga Bernasconi, No. 5, Dover-street, Piccadilly. Opera: As originally composed by Piccinni

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Schiava

Dance: End I: Il Desertore, as17791214; End II: New Pastoral Ballet, as17800215, but _Slingsby, Sg and Sga _Zuchelli; End Opera: Grand Serious Ballet, as17800208

Song: II: song-Sga Pozzi; with obligato on the flute-; End Opera: an Italian Canzonetta-Sga Bernasconi; accompanied on the guitar-Noferi, giving thanks to the Audience

6045
18 April 1780 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Reinhold. Tickets delivered for Friday the 14th will be admitted. Public Advertiser, 7 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Reinhold at his house in Charlotte Street, Rathbone Place. Receipts: #246 13s. 6d. (112.18.6; tickets: 133.15.0) (charge: #66 15s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Cast
Role: Nurse Actor: Miss Stewart
Role: Niece Actor: Miss Platt
Role: 2nd Constantia Actor: Miss Younge.

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Cast
Role: Eliza Actor: Miss Brown.

Song: End II: several of the newest and most favourite Catches and Glees-Reinhold, Vernon, Champness, Leoni, assisted by several of the most eminent performers; End: Mad Tom, in character, as17800410

6046
20 April 1780 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mme Simonet. Tickets to be had of Mme Simonet, No. 5, Dover-street, Piccadilly

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Schiava

Dance: End I: New Minuet-Simonet (1st appearance this season), Mme Simonet; a Cossaque, as now danced at the Court of Versailles (the music by Gluck)-; End II: The Serenade Interrupted (composed by Simonet)-; in which a Pas de Deux-Simonet, Mlle Baccelli (the music by Noferi); End Opera: The Female Warriors- (composed by Simonet), which the Author hopes will meet with the satisfaction of the Nobility and Gentry, and the Ladies in particular, as this is intended to shew that the Fair Sex may with success improve in that kind of Exercise that seems confined only to the Men. The Ballets will be executed entirely by principal Dancers

6047
21 April 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. Mainpiece: As originally written by Shakespeare. [Genest's remark (VI, 133), "Garrick's alteration [which had been performed uninterruptedly at this theatre since Dec. 1772] seems never to have been acted after this night", is correct.] Public Advertiser, 15 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 8, Air-street, Piccadilly. Receipts: #280 8s. 6d. (124.18.0; 20.0.0; 0.5.6; tickets: 135.5.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Cast
Role: Principal Tragedians Actor: Farren, Waldron, Burton, Packer, Lamash, Bannister Jun., Mrs Davenett, Mrs Bradshaw, Miss Pope. Cast adjusted from text
Role: Tilburina Actor: Miss Pope.

Entertainment: Imitations. End II: contrasted vocal Imitations in the Italian and English stile-Bannister; End V: a variety of Imitations-Bannister Jun

6048
22 April 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Farren. Morning Chronicle, 15 Apr.: Tickets to be of Farren, No. 41, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Receipts: #132 14s. 6d. (42.6.0; 21.10.6; 1.5.0; tickets: 67.13.0) (charge: #64 17s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Cast
Role: Lydia Languish Actor: Miss Farren

Afterpiece Title: Whos The Dupe

Cast
Role: Miss Doiley Actor: Mrs Brereton.

Dance: As17791215

6049
27 April 1780 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mme LeBrun. Tickets to be had of Mme LeBrun, No. 36, Great Suffolk-street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lolimpiade

Dance: End I: Grand Serious Ballet, as17800208; End II: La Bergere Coquete, as17800122; End Opera:

6050
28 April 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Hurst and Burton. Public Advertiser, 26 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Hurst at More's, pastry cook, the East End of the New Church, Strand; of Burton, No. 149, Fleet-street. Receipts: #111 18s. (27.0.0; 20.19.6; 0.13.6; tickets: 63 .5.0) (charge: #64 11s. 6d.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: Whos The Dupe

Cast
Role: Miss Doiley Actor: Mrs Brereton.

Dance: As17791215

Song: End IV: As17800411