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27803 results for: Keyword - Mrs William Mills
We found 23720 matches on Performance Comments, 10798 matches on Author, 4679 matches on Event Comments, 4471 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

26426
19 December 1768 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Cast
Role: Mandane Actor: Mrs Yates
Role: Aspasia Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: lists Mirza Actor: Davis, but Davis does not appear on the playbill, which lists Mrs Lessingham, though no part appears for her in the 1768 edn.. Mrs Lessingham played Aspasia according to the listing in Lloyd's Evening Post, 2 thru 5 Dec.

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Performance Comment: Drunken Colonel-Woodward; Oldcastle-Lewis; Goodall-Dunstall; Lettice-Mrs Green.
Cast
Role: Lettice Actor: Mrs Green.

Dance: End: The Garland, as17681028

26427
28 December 1768 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Performance Comment: As17681216, but Elvira-Mrs Vincent; Manuel-_; Governor-_; Monsieur-_; Sancho-_.
Cast
Role: Elvira Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Honoria Actor: Miss Mills
Role: Louisa Actor: Mrs DuBellamy, 1st time
Role: Angelina Actor: Mrs Bulkley.

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Cast
Role: Venus Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: Diana Actor: Mrs Thompson
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Dyer

26428
02 January 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: Hamlet-Smith; King-Gibson; Ghost-Bensley; Laertes-Davis; Horatio-Hull; Polonius-Shuter; Rosencraus-R. Smith; Pl. King-Redman; Guildenstern-Perry; Lucianus-Cushing; Ostrick-Dyer; Gravediggers-Dunstall, Stoppelaer; Ophelia-Miss Macklin; Queen-Mrs Ward.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Ward.
Related Works
Related Work: Hamlet Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Cast
Role: Venus Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: Diana Actor: Mrs Thompson
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Dyer

26429
04 January 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Performance Comment: As17680923, but Flora-Mrs Gardner; Soto-_.
Cast
Role: Flora Actor: Mrs Gardner
Role: Rosara Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: Viletta Actor: Mrs Pitt

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Cast
Role: Venus Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: Diana Actor: Mrs Thompson
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Dyer

26430
06 January 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Cast
Role: Flora Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs W. Barry
Role: Inis Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Role: Violante Actor: Mrs Barry.
Related Works
Related Work: Ramah Droog; or, Wine does Wonders Author(s): William Reeve

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performance Comment: Loverule-Vernon; Lady Loverule-Mrs Johnston; Jobson-Love; Nell-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Lady Loverule Actor: Mrs Johnston

Dance: I: New Comic Dance, as17681210

26431
23 January 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tom Jones

Cast
Role: Mrs Western Actor: Mrs Green
Role: Sophia Actor: Mrs Pinto
Role: Honour Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: Nancy Actor: Mrs Baker

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: As17681022, but Miller-Lewis; Add Kate-Miss Helme; Margery-Mrs Copin.
Cast
Role: Margery Actor: Mrs Copin.

Dance: End of Opera: The Tartars, as17681004

26432
25 January 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Performance Comment: As17681222, but Old Mirabel-Shuter; Oriana-Mrs Vincent (playbill); New Occasional Prologue-_; Old Mirabel-Lewis (Public Advertiser).
Cast
Role: Oriana Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Lamorce Actor: Mrs Dyer

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Cast
Role: Diana Actor: Mrs Thompson
Role: Venus Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Dyer

Dance: IV: The Irish Lilt, as17680930

26433
02 February 1769 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Attic Evening's Entertainment

Performance Comment: Readings from Milton-; Caractacus-; Gray's Elegy-Sheridan; Two Pieces of prose composition of interest to both sexes. Dryden's Ode on the Power of Music-; pieces of vocal and instrumental music-; the vocal parts-Guistinelli, Mrs Jewel [formerly Miss Edwards].formerly Miss Edwards].
Cast
Role: the vocal parts Actor: Guistinelli, Mrs Jewel

26434
13 February 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Rakes

Cast
Role: Sir William Evans Actor: Holland
Role: Mrs Winifred Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Harriet Actor: Mrs Baddeley
Role: Betty Actor: Mrs Smith

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Performance Comment: Flash-Palmer; Fribble-Dodd (with Song in Character); Loveit-Packer; Puff-Moody; Jasper-Ackman; Tag-Mrs Love; Miss Biddy-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Tag Actor: Mrs Love

Dance: I: New Comic Dance, as17681210

26435
22 February 1769 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Performance Comment: Singers-Vernon, Reinhold, Pinto, Mattocks, Mrs Jewel (Isaac Reed Diaries).
Cast
Role: Singers Actor: Vernon, Reinhold, Pinto, Mattocks, Mrs Jewel

Music: As17690215

26436
23 February 1769 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Attic Evening's Entertainment

Performance Comment: As17690202, but including Pope's Verses to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady-Sheridan, Mrs Jewel.
Cast
Role: including Pope's Verses to the Memory of an Unf Actor: Sheridan, Mrs Jewel.
Role: the vocal parts Actor: Guistinelli, Mrs Jewel

26437
25 February 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Performance Comment: As17681209, but Clement-Lewis; Cash-Perry; Cob-Barrington; Cob's Wife-Mrs Pitt.
Cast
Role: Cob's Wife Actor: Mrs Pitt.
Role: Dame Kitely Actor: Mrs Bulkley
Role: Bridget Actor: Mrs Baker

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Cast
Role: Venus Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Dyer.
Role: The New Character would seem to be Venus Actor: Mrs Baker. But playbill gives no indication of who played Mrs Baker's old part of Diana.
Role: Diana Actor: Mrs Baker

26438
27 February 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Ward.
Related Works
Related Work: Hamlet Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Performance Comment: As17681004, but Watchman-Morgan; Charlotte-Mrs Evans.
Cast
Role: Charlotte Actor: Mrs Evans.

26439
28 February 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tom Jones

Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Miss Valois replaces Mrs White
Role: Mrs Western Actor: Mrs Green
Role: Sophia Actor: Mrs Pinto
Role: Honour Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: Nancy Actor: Mrs Baker

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Performance Comment: See17690221, but short bill; only Harlequin-Lewes; Colombine-Mrs Dyer; Pierrot-Miles listed.
Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Dyer

26440
04 March 1769 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: N.B. On Saturday Next, 11 March, for the Benefit of Woodward will be presented Cymbeline...and a New Tragedy in Two Acts, call'd The Rival Favourites; or, The Death of Bucephalus the Great: Alexander-$Woodward; Philip-$Shuter; Statira-$Mrs Green. With a Triumphal Entry. The Funeral Procession of Bucephalus to the Monument of the Houyhnhnms and a Solemn Dirge [See Comment 7, 9, 11 March.] Receipts: #208 7s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Cast
Role: Isabinda Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: Patch Actor: Mrs Pitt

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Dyer

26441
09 March 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Mianpiece. Garrick to Bath apparently to recover from an illness (Winston MS 10). From the Public Advertiser: To Mrs Barry, upon her acting the part of Rivine in the new Tragedy [The Fatal Discovery]: Grosvenor-Square, March 8

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Discovery

Cast
Role: Rivine Actor: Mrs Barry

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Ursula Actor: Mrs Dorman

26442
14 March 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False Delicacy

Cast
Role: Lady Betty Lambton Actor: Mrs Abington
Role: Miss Marchmont Actor: Mrs Baddeley
Role: Miss Rivers Actor: Mrs Jeffries
Role: Sally Actor: Mrs Millidge

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Mrs Trumbel Actor: Johnston
Role: Mrs Snip Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Role: Sukey Chitterlin Actor: Mrs Millidge
Role: Mrs Harslet Actor: Mrs Johnston
Related Works
Related Work: Harlequin's Invasion; or, A Christmas Gambol Author(s): William Boyce

Dance: I: New Comic Dance, as17681210. *u•Ndl End: Linco's Travels. Linco-King; Dorcas-Mrs Bradshaw (With Linco's particular remarks on London)

Performance Comment: *u•Ndl End: Linco's Travels. Linco-King; Dorcas-Mrs Bradshaw (With Linco's particular remarks on London).
Cast
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Bradshaw

26443
30 March 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Performance Comment: As17690204, but Isabella-Mrs Baker.
Cast
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Baker.
Role: Flora Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Inis Actor: Mrs Green
Related Works
Related Work: Ramah Droog; or, Wine does Wonders Author(s): William Reeve

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Cast
Role: Daphne Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: Mysis Actor: Mrs Thompson.

26444
05 April 1769 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ruth

Performance Comment: Vocals-Vernon, Reynolds, Master Brown, Miss Lindley, Mrs Weichsell.
Cast
Role: Vocals Actor: Vernon, Reynolds, Master Brown, Miss Lindley, Mrs Weichsell.

26445
08 April 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Performance Comment: As17690330 but Isabella-Mrs Bulkley, 1st time; Pedro-Morris.
Cast
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Bulkley, 1st time
Role: Flora Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Inis Actor: Mrs Green
Related Works
Related Work: Ramah Droog; or, Wine does Wonders Author(s): William Reeve

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Lady Loverule Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Nell Actor: Mrs Green. u§´cg IInterlude: The Royal Garland. As17681010.
Role: Rhodope Actor: Mrs Lampe
Role: Mrs Mattocks Genius of England Actor: Mahon
Role: Calliope Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: Young Shepherdess Actor: Mrs Mattocks
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Copin
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Dyer
Role: Eurydice Actor: Mrs Baker.

Dance: I: A New Pantomime Dance, call'd The Florist-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford, Miss Ford (scholars to Fishar), Arnauld, Miss Capon (Apprentice to Fishar); II: A Minuet-Fishar, Sga Manesiere; III: [By Particular Desire, The Garland[, with an Allemand, as17681028; End: The Wapping Landlady (not performed this season) [see17670427] [but Sga Manesiere impersonates an Orange@Woman instead of a Milk@woman, [with a Double Hornpipe-Fishar, Sga Manesiere; End I Afterpiece: A New Tripple Hornpipe-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford, Miss Ford

26446
17 April 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko; Or, The Royal Slave

Performance Comment: Oroonoko-A Gentleman never on any stage before; Aboan-Bensley; Blandford-Hull; Governor-Perry; Stanmore-Davis; Capt. Driver-Dunstall; Hotman-Lewis; Imoinda-Mrs Yates, 1st time.
Cast
Role: Imoinda Actor: Mrs Yates, 1st time.

Afterpiece Title: The Oxonian in Town

Performance Comment: As17690331 but Lucy-Mrs Bulkley; Rook-DuBellamy; Shark-Mahon; MacShuffle-Barrington.
Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Bulkley

Dance: End: The Garland, as17681028

26447
26 April 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False Delicacy

Cast
Role: Lady Betty Lambton Actor: Mrs Abington
Role: Miss Marchmont Actor: Mrs Baddeley
Role: Miss Rivers Actor: Mrs Jeffries
Role: Sally Actor: Mrs Millidge

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

Performance Comment: As17690421 but Country Girl (with song in character)-Mrs Scott.
Cast
Role: Country Girl Actor: Mrs Scott.
Role: Old Lady Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs King

Dance: II: The Wake, as17680929; IV: Hearts of Oak, as17681013

26448
29 April 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Cast
Role: Cob's Wife Actor: Mrs Pitt.
Role: Dame Kitely Actor: Mrs Bulkley

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Performance Comment: As17690307 but Harlequin-Lewes; Masquerade Scene-_; Merlin-Legg; Diana-Mrs Thompson; to conclude with a Country Dance-.
Cast
Role: Diana Actor: Mrs Thompson
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Dyer

Dance: B Particular Desire a Ball dance call'd the Louvre, Minuet-Lalauze, his Daughter

26449
04 May 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Performance Comment: As17681012, but Altamont-Wroughton; Rossano-Davis; Lavinia-Mrs Bulkley[, 1st time]., 1st time].
Cast
Role: Lavinia Actor: Mrs Bulkley
Role: Lucilla Actor: Mrs DuBellamy
Role: Calista Actor: Mrs Yates.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Cast
Role: Diana Actor: Mrs Thompson
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Dyer

26450
05 May 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Cast
Role: Alicia Actor: Mrs Bellamy
Role: Jane Shore Actor: Mrs Yates.

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Performance Comment: Flash-Davis; Fribble-a Gentleman (who never appeared on this stage); Rhodophil-Perry; Jasper-Holtom; Puff-Dunstall; Tag-Mrs Green; Miss Biddy-Miss Ogilvie.
Cast
Role: Tag Actor: Mrs Green

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors, as17680920