# Kate Everleigh

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'''Kate Everleigh''' (1864 – 8 February 1926) was a serio-comic actress and singer of the late [Victorian era](/source/Victorian_era) who was a [music hall](/source/music_hall) and [burlesque](/source/Victorian_burlesque) performer as well as appearing in [pantomime](/source/pantomime) and [musical theatre](/source/musical_theatre).

In America in 1877, with [Lydia Thompson's Company](/source/Lydia_Thompson), she appeared in [Reece](/source/Robert_Reece) and [Farnie](/source/Henry_Brougham_Farnie)'s [burlesque](/source/Victorian_burlesque) ''Oxygen, or, Prince Fritz of Virgamen''<ref>Gänzl, Kurt. [https://books.google.com/books?id=VhEiAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA179 ''Lydia Thompson, Queen of Burlesque''], pp. 185–186</ref> Reece's burlesque of ''[Robinson Crusoe](/source/Robinson_Crusoe)''<ref>Bordman, Gerald Martin. [https://books.google.com/books?id=OVdShkzkX74C&pg=PA44 "Act One: 1877–1878"], ''American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle'', [Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press) (2010), p. 44</ref> and a version of ''[Bluebeard](/source/Bluebeard)''. Other appearances in the United States included a production of ''The Magic Slipper'' with the Colville Opera Company at the Bush Street Theatre in [San Francisco](/source/San_Francisco) in November 1879. A critic wrote of her performance, "Miss Kate Everleigh made a handsome Prince, and might perhaps have scored a success had she been compelled to act the part in pantomime".<ref>[http://footlightnotes.tumblr.com/post/80483938871/ada-lee-1856-1902-english-music-hall Review of ''The Magic Slipper''], ''The New York Clipper'', New York, New York, 22 November 1879, p. 274</ref> Everleigh also appeared in a burlesque with the Famous Colville Opera Burlesque Company at the [California Theatre](/source/California_Theatre_(San_Francisco)) in San Francisco called ''Ill Treated Il Travotore, Or, The Mother, The Maiden, and The Musicianer'' (1880).<ref name=Cabinet/><ref>[http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist3/playbill.html Play bill fin the collection of The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco]</ref>

In London she appeared in the burlesque ''The Babes, or, Whines from the Wood'' (1884) and as Captain Delaunay in the original London cast of  ''[Erminie](/source/Erminie)'' (1885). The magazine ''The Theatre'' in 1885 stated that she had also appeared in the shows ''Nemesis'' (1885); ''The Bride of Song'' (1864), a one-act operetta with music by [Julius Benedict](/source/Julius_Benedict) and words by [Henry Brougham Farnie](/source/Henry_Brougham_Farnie),<ref>''The Morning Post'', 3 December 1864, p. 4</ref> and ''Family Ties''.<ref name=Cabinet>[https://cabinetcardgallery.wordpress.com/tag/erminie/ Everleigh on The Cabinet Card Gallery website]</ref> Everleigh acted in ''Eastward Ho!'' at the [Opera Comique](/source/Opera_Comique) (1894).<ref>Wearing, J.P. ''The London Stage 1890–1899: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel'', Rowman & Littlefield (2014), p. 235</ref> In 1889 she appeared at the [Alexandra Theatre](/source/Alexandra_Theatre%2C_London) in a benefit night for Alfred Hemming. She played the lead role of Daisy in the musical comedy drama ''Kittens'' at the [Theatre Royal, Brighton](/source/Theatre_Royal%2C_Brighton) and also appeared in ''The Pet of Park Lane''.

A stage beauty, her portrait was printed on the front page of ''[The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News](/source/The_Illustrated_Sporting_and_Dramatic_News)'' in 1885 and 1886. She was also known for playing the [Principal Boy](/source/Principal_boy) in [pantomime](/source/pantomime), including playing [Dick Whittington](/source/Dick_Whittington).

She died in 1926 aged 62.

==Gallery==
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File:Kate Everleigh 1885.jpg|Kate Everleigh on the cover of ''[The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News](/source/The_Illustrated_Sporting_and_Dramatic_News)'' (1885)
File:Kate Everleigh 1886.jpg|Kate Everleigh on the cover of ''The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News'' (1886)
</gallery>

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Category:British burlesque performers
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Category:Women of the Victorian era
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