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1881 results for: Keyword - L. Baker.
We found 1184 matches on Performance Comments, 558 matches on Event Comments, 156 matches on Performance Title, 86 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1
17 January 1746 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks; Or, The Yeoman Of Kent

Related Works
Related Work: Tunbridge-Walks: or, The Yeoman of Kent Author(s): Thomas Baker

Afterpiece Title: Flora

2
11 October 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Dance: II: A New Comic Dance call'd The Vintage-Sga Giorgi, Sg Guidetti (his first appearance in England); End: A New Entertainment of Dancing call'd The Italian Bakers-Guidetti, Mrs King

3
30 April 1729 @ Hickford's Room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: I: Overture out of Ptolomy-; Songs: Dico su questa sponda-; Svenalo traditor-; Sonata by Corelli-; Songs: Ombre piante-; Sgombra dall' Anima-; Solo for German Flute-L. Granom; II: Concerto-Castrucci; Songs: Non lo diro col Labro-; La mia speranza-; Trumpet Piece-Granom; Songs: No no my Heart , from an Italian Song out of Ptolomy-; Si Caro Si-; Concerto for Trumpets-J. Granom, L. Granom

4
06 October 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Baker</a> from Dublin Danc'd (Well). Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: II: The Shepherd's Holiday-Miss Baker from Dublin, Giorgi; End: A Pantomime Dance, The Italian Gardiner-Sg Grimaldi, Miss Baker

5
20 April 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Baker</a>

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Cast
Role: Others Actor: Moody, Ackman, Johnston, Watkins, Clough, Mrs Hippisley, Miss Baker</a>, Miss Tetley

Entertainment: I: King will By Desire repeat a Comic Paraphrase on the Seven Ages of Shakespeare-King; V: (The Last time this season) King will present the Audience with Bucks Have at Ye All, as17650330

Dance: II: The Medley, as17641120; III: A New Dance-Grimaldi, Miss Baker; IV: Hearts of Oak-Aldridge, Miss Baker

6
19 April 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Baker</a>. [Ralph's Ramble (Larpent MS 254) seems patterned on the Farmer's Return from London. Ralph returns to the Mill and gives impressions, not all complimentary, of his trip to London. A Monologue in Couplets with a song.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Cast
Role: Dances incident to the piece Actor: Aldridge, Giorgi, Tassoni, Miss Baker</a>, Miss Rogers, Miss Tetley, Sga Giorgi

Dance: I: A Dance-Aldridge, Miss Baker; After the Entertainment: A New Dance call'd the Fortune Tellers-Aldridge, Miss Baker

Entertainment: End: King (for that night only) will present the Audience with a New Comic Descriptive Piece call'd Ralph's Ramble Or O'Rare London! (being a short sequel to a comic character in the Maid of the Mill.)-King

7
21 May 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Pitt, Baker</a>, Gwinn. Written by the late Mr Addison. Receipts: money #16 18s.; tickets #156 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Dance: End I: Chacone-Miss Betty Rogers , the Lilliputian Polly; III: Flag Dance-Nivelon; Saraband-Delagarde, Miss Wherrit; IV: Highlander and his Mistress-Salle, Mrs Legar; V: Sailor's Dance-; in which Hornpipe in the Character of a Boatswain-Salle

Song: II: Ye Nymphs and Sylvan Gods-Miss Sukey Rogers the Lilliputian Lucy; IV: A new Song by Dr Pepusch-Baker; V: Polwart on the Green-Miss Sukey Rogers

8
28 February 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Job Baker</a>. Pit and Boxes 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: End Part I: Preamble on the Kettledrums-Baker; End part II: Tollet's Grounds-; on one Kettle-Drum, accompanyed with a Hautboy and Violin, in Scaramouch and Harlequin Dresses. Concluding with Handel's Grand Water Musick-; Thumoth also plays on Trumpet and German Flute-Thumoth

9
31 December 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Baker

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

Music: By Desire of several Persons of Quality, the 5th of Vivaldi's Concertos and the 7th of Corelli's Solos on the Welsh Harp by Mr Petry, from Wales

Dance: A new Scotch Sword Dance by Baker in a Highland Character. Drunken Peasant by Le Brun

10
01 March 1701 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By Thomas Baker</a>. Premiere.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humours Of The Age

Related Works
Related Work: The Humour of the Age Author(s): Thomas Baker

11
27 January 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By Thomas Baker</a>. Date of premiere uncertain, but this day has generally been accepted by Nicoll, Genest, Winston, and Latreille. Published 29 Jan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks; Or, The Yeoman Of Kent

Related Works
Related Work: Tunbridge-Walks: or, The Yeoman of Kent Author(s): Thomas Baker

12
22 April 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A Rehearsal of a New Ballad-Opera, burlesqued [By Richard Baker</a>]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Madhouse

Related Works
Related Work: The Madhouse Author(s): Richard Baker

13
08 March 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Giffard and Mrs Giffard. Mainpiece [by Thomas Baker</a>]: Not acted these 15 years. [See 11 July 1738.] At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Afterpiece: A Farce of Two Acts never performed before, taken from a Comedy of the Celebrated Mr Otway. Tickets to be had of Giffard at No. 11 in Craven's Buildings, Drury Lane, and at the stage door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks; Or, The Yeoman Of Kent

Related Works
Related Work: Tunbridge-Walks: or, The Yeoman of Kent Author(s): Thomas Baker

Afterpiece Title: The Soldier's Fortune

Song: III: O Beauteous Queen Enclose those eyes, Come Ever Smiling Liberty-Mrs Storer; V: the 4th Cantata of Mr Stanly (in the character of Anacreon)-Beard

14
20 January 1685 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rollo

Performance Comment: Edition of 1686 (licensed 27 Nov. 1685): Rollo-Kynnaston; Otto-Williams; Aubrey-Gillo; Gisbert-Saunders; Baldwin-Cartwright; Grandpree-Baker; Verdon-Lowe; Trevice-Percival; Duprete-Harris; Latorch-Griffin; Hamond-Perin; Allan-Baker; Norbret-Powel; La Fisk-Bowman; Rufee-Lowe; De Bube-Saunders; Pipeau-Miss Cockye, the little Girl; Cook-Underhil; Yeoman of the Seller-Harris; Butler-Lowe; Pantler-Powel; Sophia-Mrs Corey; Matilda-Mrs Percival; Edith-Mrs Cooke.

15
17 March 1677 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens; Or, The Death Of Alexander The Great

Performance Comment: Edition of 1677: Prologue to Alexander by Sir Char. Scroop, Baronet-; Epilogue-; Alexander-Hart; Clytus-Mohun; Lysimachus-Griffin; Hephestion-Clarke; Cassander-Kenaston; Polyperchon-Goodman; Philip-Powell; Thessalus-Wiltshire; Perdiccas-Lydall; Eumenes-Watson; Meleager-Perin; Aristander-Coysh; Sysigambis-Mrs Corey; Statira-Mrs Boutell; Roxana-Mrs Marshall; Parisatis-Mrs Baker.
Cast
Role: Parisatis Actor: Mrs Baker.

16
March 1678 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the first production is not known. It was not entered in the Term Catalogues until May 1678, but the very large number of new plays acted by the Duke's Company in the spring of 1678, many of them more precisely dated, makes it probable that this was an early spring production which had title success. The title page states: Written by a Person of Quality. Langbaine (English Dramatick Poets, 1691, p. 554) ascribes it to "Mr Rawlins." A Library of Congress copy has on the title page: "by L. Baker.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Wells; Or, A Day's Courtship

Related Works
Related Work: Tunbridge-Walks: or, The Yeoman of Kent Author(s): Thomas Baker

17
20 April 1742 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Meraspe O L'olimpiade

18
10 January 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Song: III: Lowe; IV: New Duet-Mrs Clive, Lowe

Dance: IV: Tambourine-Miss Mechel

19
09 March 1747 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral; Or, Grief A La Mode

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: As17461124

20
27 February 1749 @ New Wells, Lemon Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: Flora; or, Hob in the Well

21
22 January 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L S Bains De La Porte St

Entertainment: Vaulting, Tumbling-; A Lesson on the Harp Organnisee to be perform'd-a Person lately arriv'd from Germany, who never appear'd on the Stage before

Dance: As17190113

22
01 June 1720 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L S Bains De La Porte De St

Dance:

23
21 June 1720 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L S Bains De La Porte St

Afterpiece Title: Les Adieux D'Arlequin, Pierrot et Colombine

Dance: As17200531

24
02 January 1721 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L Foire De St

Afterpiece Title: the Scene of The Hatt

Dance:

25
27 January 1721 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L S Bains De La Porte St

Afterpiece Title: Le Carillon

Dance: