Lizzie Evans - List of Vaudeville and Theater Credits

List of Vaudeville and Theater Credits

• August 1881: Impersonation of Clip at the reopening of the Standard Theatre, 6th Avenue between 32nd Street and 33rd Street, Manhattan (New York). Evans was part of a show at Tony Pastor's Theatre, East 14th Street (Manhattan) between Irving Place and Third Avenue (Manhattan).

• May 5 through May 10, 1884, National Theatre (Washington, D.C.) DEWDROP – romantic comedy by Con.T. Murphy and C.E. Callahan. Starring Miss Lizzie Evans. Cast includes Al Phillips, George W. Deyo, Henry Scharf, C.R. Burrows, E.D. Tannehill, Ed Clifford, W.T. Sheehan, Ida Burrows, Marie LeGros, Selina Anderson, Charline Weidman.

• August 29, 1887: Our Angel, a drama at the Lexington Opera House in Ohio.

• January 1890: Haymarket Theatre, 722-24 West Madison Street (Chicago), Chicago. She had a role in The Buckeye at the Windsor Theatre, 1225 North Clark Street, Chicago, in April 1890. The following November she was again at the Haymarket, beginning a new rendition of Fogg's Ferry.

• In May 1891 she was featured in the same play at Havlin's Theatre, 1838 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago.

• Evans replaced Annie Lewis in the role of Cinders in A Nutmeg Match in March 1893. It was staged at the 14th Street (Manhattan) Theatre, 344 East 14th Street.

• Proctor's Pleasure Palace, East 58th Street between Lexington Avenue (Manhattan) and Third Avenue (Manhattan), hosted a production of The Man Up Stairs by Augustus Thomas in January 1897. Evans was in the cast with Lucille Lee, William Ranous, and Maggie Fielding.

• She was leading her own theatrical troupe when A Romance of Coon Hollow was presented before an audience at the Grand Opera House in 1896, 23rd Street (8th Avenue), Manhattan (New York), in April 1896. Set in the mountains of Tennessee,two quartets and twelve African American plantation singers embellished the performance.

• In July 1897 she was in a show with Phyllis Rankin and George Thatcher at Keith's New Union Square (Manhattan) Theatre, 50 East 14th Street (Manhattan). Evans returned to the Pleasure Palace in A Strange Catastrophe with Harry Mills in August.

• She performed in a comedy entitled A Gay Deceiver at the Harlem Opera House, 211 West 125th Street, in February 1898. In December 1899 Mills joined Evans in the comedietta, Two Girls and One Man, at Proctor's Theatre.

• She performed a sketch with Mills at the Union Square Theatre in July 1902. In June 1903 Evans was part of a bill at Hurtig & Seamon's (Apollo Theater), West 125th Street, Harlem. The travelling troupe was directed by Florenz Ziegfeld and William A. Brady.

• She played a comic servant who bore the worst part of the comic relief in a production of Two Little Sailor Boys at the Academy of Music (Manhattan), in May, 1904. Described as English melodrama, Evans depicted Lucy Wilson in the play.

• In September 1906 she appeared at the Metropolis Theatre, 142nd Street and 3rd Avenue and Alexander Avenue, in a presentation of When Knighthood Was In Flower. The show had enjoyed success in a previous staging at the Criterion Theatre, 1514 Broadway (Manhattan).