Event Comment: [
Miss Brown is identified by MS annotation on
Kemble playbill. "Notwithst
anding the bills...[she acted] the summer before last, on the boards of the
Richmond theatre" (
Monthly Mirror, Nov. 1798, p. 308). In afterpiece the playbill retains
Mrs Roffey as
Nelly, but she "who usually performed the part of the Servant Maid, [was] suddenly taken ill; her substitute [was]
Miss Tidswell" (
Morning Herald, 12 Nov.).] Account-Book: Received of
Hammersley & Co., lent to pay the Company #500; paid
Lowndes, printer, #10; Chorus #6;
Rablus, tallow c
andles, #10. Receipts: #203 12s. (126.3.6; 76.7.6; 1.1.0)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Rivals
Performance Comment: Sir Anthony Absolute-Dowton; Captain Absolute-Powell; Faulkland-Kemble; Acres-Bannister Jun.; Sir Lucius O'Trigger-R. Palmer; Fag-Russell; David-Hollingsworth; Coachman-Maddocks; Servants-Fisher, Webb, Evans; Mrs Malaprop-Miss Pope; Lydia Languish-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [Miss Brown]); Julia-Miss Biggs; Lucy-Miss Heard; Maid-Mrs Jones.Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper
Related Works
Related Work: No Song No Supper Author(s): Prince Hoare