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17409 results for: Keyword - Misses Young
We found 15048 matches on Performance Comments, 4669 matches on Performance Title, 2139 matches on Event Comments, 2010 matches on Roles/Actors, and 750 matches on Author.

2401
18 July 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Elizabeth Bewley, Mrs Aylett, and Young Gwin. Receipts: money #16 2s. 6d. and tickets #38 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woman Captain

Dance: Thurmond Jr, Newhouse, Mrs Cross, Miss Smith

2402
30 April 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Smith, Cook, Mrs Scot. [At this performance] a Gentleman sitting in a Side-Box pointed at a young Gentlewoman, which another Gentleman perceiving, and she being one of his Acquaintance, he went to him and challenged him: They made some passes at each other, which put the Play-House in an Uproar, but they were parted, and neither was killed.-Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 3 May

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Example

Dance: As17171022; Thurmond's new Comic Dance-Thurmond, Miss Smith

2403
20 March 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Younger. Afterpiece: At the Request of several Ladies of Quality. Never Acted there before. Written by the Author of the Beggar's Opera. Receipts: money #81 14s.; tickets #101 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Cast
Role: Country Wife Actor: Mrs Younger

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Performance Comment: Kitty-Mrs Younger.
Cast
Role: Kitty Actor: Mrs Younger.

Dance: PPierrots-Salle, Pelling; Scottish Dance-Mrs Bullock; Grand Dance-Salle, DuPre, Moreau, Pelling, Newhouse, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Ogden, Miss LaTour

2404
11 March 1734 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Younger. By Command of His Royal Highness. Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Dance: Scots Dance, as17341004 French Sailor and his Lass by Maker and Mlle Salle. The Nassau by Glover, Miss Rogers, Pelling, Miss Norsa, Le Sac, Mrs Ogden, De la Garde, Miss Baston. Pigmalion, as17340114

Song: By Miss Norsa

2405
01 December 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Related Works
Related Work: The Revenge Author(s): Edward Young

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

2406
21 February 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for a Citizen in Distress. Benefit for Mr Buss. Cash #47 1s. 6d. plus tickets #46 19s. Total income #94 6s. (Treasurer's Book). Tickets to be had at Pinchbeck's Toy Shop, in the Haymarket; the Mitre, Union St., Westminster; The Rummer, Charing Cross, the Gentleman and Porter, Fleet St.; Mr Dickenson, Printseller, Fleet St., Doctor's Commons Coffee House; the Dog Tavern, Garlick Hill; the Three Tuns Aldgate; and of Hobson at the stage door. Tomorrow, the Merchant of Venice, for the Benefit of a Young Gentlewoman under misfortunes, by the bankruptcy of her Guardian (General Advertiser). Receipts: #93 (Cross); charges, #80 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: CComic Dance-Mathews, MacNeale, Miss Baker

2407
10 October 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Related Works
Related Work: The Revenge Author(s): Edward Young

2408
21 September 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Related Works
Related Work: The Revenge Author(s): Edward Young

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

2409
18 September 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Related Works
Related Work: The Revenge Author(s): Edward Young

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

2410
08 October 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Related Works
Related Work: The Revenge Author(s): Edward Young

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: II: A New Dance, The Shepherd's Holiday-Campioni (his first appearance in 5 years), Mad Auretti

Song: IV: The School of Anacreon-Beard

2411
09 December 1755 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tomorrow Zara, Zara by a young Gentlewoman, who never yet appeared on any stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: Granier, Miss Hilliard

2412
27 October 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Related Works
Related Work: The Revenge Author(s): Edward Young

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

2413
11 November 1757 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Containing the Distresses and Death of King Henry VIv ; the Artful Acquisition of the Crown by Richardv ; the Cruel Murder of the young King Edward Vv and his brother in the Tower; the Landing of the Earl of Richmondv ; and the Death of Richard in the memorable Battle of Bosworth Fieldv ; being the last that was fought between the Houses of York and Lancasterv ; with many other historical passages [a regular notice appearing with performances of this play]. Receipts: #118 18s. 6d. [Paid to] Lee one third of the surplus of this night's receipts over the charge of #100, #3 19s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: Lucas, Miss Hilliard

2414
03 April 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Lowe. Afterpiece: Not acted these 16 years. Arethusa by a young lady [hiatus in MS] her first appearance--very decent (Hopkins MS Notes)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Performance Comment: Robin-Moody; Arethusa-Young gentlewoman, 1st appearance on any Stage; Rovewell-Lowe; Argus-Philips; Betty-Mrs Bradshaw.
Cast
Role: Arethusa Actor: Young gentlewoman, 1st appearance on any Stage

Dance: The last New Dance-the Georgi's, Miss Baker

2415
17 October 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Full Prices. [Young Gentleman-Bridges according to Genest, IV, 634.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: Othello-Bridges, first appearance on this stage; Desdemona-Mrs Cibber; Iago-Havard; Brabantio-Burton; Cassio-Palmer; Roderigo-Yates; Emilia-Mrs Kennedy [playbill, which names Othello as a Young Gentleman].playbill, which names Othello as a Young Gentleman].

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation

Dance: A Comic Dance-Master Rogie, Miss Capitani. As17610912

2416
18 May 1763 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Wignel, Stoppelaer, Young. No Building on Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17620927, but King-Walker; Polonius-Stamper; Laertes-Young; Pl. King-Wignel; 2nd Gravedigger-Stoppelaer; Player Queen-Miss Helm.
Cast
Role: Laertes Actor: Young

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Cast
Role: Members Actor: Tindal R. Smith, Young, Davis

Dance: IV: A Hornpipe, 1st time-Miss Twist

Entertainment: After: (this night only) Shuter will entertain with his Dish of All Sorts-Shuter; and Titbit for everyone, in which will be served up a humorous conversation between himself, an old man, an honest North Briton and a Gentleman of Connaught, including his ever memorable encounter with a Liverpool Sow, and other whimsical occurrences; The whole to End with: an Address to the Audience-

2417
07 May 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Younger (prompter). Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years. [See 7 April 1758.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear, And His Three Daughters

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: Young Wilding Actor: Dyer

Dance: II: Hornpipe-Miss Twist; End: Hippisley's Drunken Man-Master Morgan; by desire, and The Calabrian Peasants, as17631222

2418
15 July 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: NNeville MS Diary: Barry played Lear very well. His broken voice is appropriate in that character; tho' I am apt to imagine that certain nice inflections of voice in expressing ye language of passion, are mistaken for a failure of ye voice itself...[partial cast]. Young Barry was tolerable in some parts of Edgar, but very inanimate in ye last scenes...The House very full

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: IV: A serious Dance-; End: A comic Dance-Miss Froment

2419
01 December 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Burton made her first apperaranc on this stage in the part ofthe Country Girl. She is a pretty, genteel figure; Played the part well, and was much Applauded (Hopkins Diary). Country Girl, Young Gentlewoman, first Appearance (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Performance Comment: Moody-Holland; Harcourt-Palmer; Sparkish-Dodd; Belville-Cautherly; Lucy-Miss Pope; Alithea-Mrs Jeffries, 1st time; Country Girl-A young Gentlewoman[, 1st appearance [Miss Burton]., 1st appearance [Miss Burton].
Cast
Role: Country Girl Actor: A young Gentlewoman

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: II: A New Dance called The Hunters-Hamoir, Miss Hamoir

2420
04 November 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The Young Gentleman identified as Owenson by Hopkins MS Notes. Confirmed by Sir Nicholas Nipclose, in The Theatres (2nd. ed. London, 1722, p. 51) speaking of Inchbald's introduction to the London stage with advertisement of "first appearance" though he had been many years an itinerant actor, "this is a trick to gain, from curiosity, what may pay by one night the whole season's pitiful salary of such actors; several mushrooms have vegetated thus; but none more worthless or short lived, than Mr Owenson; brought forward modestly in Tamerlane, some weeks since; without even the requistes of a grown-up school-boy."] Receipts: #180 6s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: Tamerlane-a Young Gentleman, 1st appearance [Owenson]; Bajazet-Smith; Axalla-Hull; Dervise-Gardner; Moneses-Wroughton; Omar-Morris; Stratocles-Fox; Hali-Thompson; Prince of Tanais-R. Smith; Selima-Mrs Mattocks; Arpasia-Miss Miller; [The Original song To Thee, O gentle Sleep-DuBellamy; [The Usual Prologue-Wroughton.
Cast
Role: Tamerlane Actor: a Young Gentleman, 1st appearance

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Cast
Role: Young Cape Actor: Hull

Dance: End: A New Comic Dance, call'd The Jovial Gardners-Sga Manesiere, Miss Hamoir, Mr Drouville[, being his 1st appearance. [See17630312.

2421
19 February 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece. By Particular Desire. Paid Younger for license for Alzuma #2 2s. (Account Book). Receipts: #228 17s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Young Meadows Actor: Mattocks

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Dance: II: The Fingalian Dance-Miss Besford. [See17721009.

2422
07 May 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Related Works
Related Work: The Revenge Author(s): Edward Young

Afterpiece Title: Don Quixote in England

Dance: After monologue: The Humours of Leixlip, as17770425

Entertainment: End: Monologue. Tony Lumpkin's Adventures in a Trip to London, as17770428

2423
03 January 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Related Works
Related Work: The Revenge Author(s): Edward Young

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Dance: As17771229

2424
24 April 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Related Works
Related Work: The Revenge Author(s): Edward Young

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

2425
26 April 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Related Works
Related Work: The Revenge Author(s): Edward Young

Afterpiece Title: Tristram Shandy

Dance: As17820927