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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "MMr Beard"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "MMr Beard")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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1183 results for: Keyword - MMr Beard
We found 564 matches on Performance Comments, 534 matches on Performance Title, 185 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

201
23 February 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All's Well That Ends Well

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwrecked

Song: I: Celia has ten thousand charms-Beard; III: Song with French Horns-Beard

Dance: II: A Concerto, as17420105; IV: The Italian Peasants, as17411205

202
25 February 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All's Well That Ends Well

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

Song: I: See from the Silent Groves-Beard; IV: Song in Italian-Beard

Dance: II: The Swiss, as17410926; III: A Miller's Dance-Delamain

203
01 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Song: I: See from the Silent Groves-Beard; III: The Early Horn-Lowe; IV: Duet-Beard, Lowe

Dance: II: Les Egyptiens, as17420224

Ballet: V: Les Satires Puny. As17420106

204
06 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Dance: II: Les Egyptiens, as17420224

Song: II: Happy Pair-Beard; IV: Early Horn-Beard

Ballet: V: Les Satires Puny. As17420304

205
09 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Dance: I: A Concerto, as17420105; III: The Swiss, as17410926; V: Le Boufon, as17411030

Song: II: See from the Silent Groves-Beard; IV: Happy Pair-Beard

206
18 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwrecked

Song: I: Celia has ten thousand Charms-Beard; IV: A Song with French Horns-Beard

Dance: III: The Swiss, as17410926

207
29 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Song: I: Song with French Horns-Beard; II: Was ever Nymph like Rosamond-Lowe; IV: Bumper Squire Jones (By Desire)-Beard

Dance: III: (At particular desire of several persons of quality) Le Boufon, Italian Peasants-Mechel, Mlle Mechel after the manner of the Fausans

208
22 April 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: I: Let Me Wander not Unseen-Beard; III: Song-Lowe; V: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard

Dance: II: A Dutch Dance-Phillips; IV: The Swiss, as17410926

209
23 April 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: Joe Actor: Beard.

Dance: I: By Particular Desire La Matelote-M. Muilment; III: A Grand Ballet call'd Pastor Fido-Muilment, Mrs Delagarde; V: A Minuet-Muilment, Mrs Delagarde

Song: II: Let me Wander not unseen-Beard; IV: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard

210
27 April 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv, Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Song: I: Let me wander not unseen-Beard; III: The Noontide Air-Lowe; V: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard, Lowe, Falstaff

Dance: II: A Dutch Dance-Phillips; IV: The Drunken Peasant-Phillips

211
04 May 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: Joe Actor: Beard.

Song: II: Happy Pair-Beard; IV: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard

Dance: I: Running Footman's Dance, as17420428 V: a Hornpipe-Philips

212
17 May 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Song: I: Let me wander not unseen-Beard; III: Happy Pair-Beard; V: Ellen@a@Roon-Mrs Clive

Dance: II: a Dutch Dance-Phillips; IV: A Hornpipe-Phillips

213
18 May 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: TThe Virgin Unmasked

Song: III: let me wander not unseen-Beard; V: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard

Dance: I: Running Footman's Dance, as17420428 II: A Concerto, as17420105; IV: The Swiss, as17410926

214
22 May 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Song: II: Song-Beard; III: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard

Dance: I: Running Footman's Dance, as17420428 II: Le Boufon, as17420325 IV: The Italian Peasants, as17411205; V: The Drunken Peasant, as17411029

215
25 November 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Song: I: Beard; III: A Duet-Beard, Lowe

Dance: II: Grand Comic Dance, as17421117; IV: Les Moisoneurs de la Styrie, as17421122

216
07 April 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Song: II: Stella and Flavia-Beard; IV: (By Particular Desire) Bumper Squire Jones-Beard

Music: IV: a Concerto-Piantanida

Dance: III: A Comic Dance-Boromeo, Mlle Bonneval

217
15 April 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The What D'Ye Call It

Song: III: Beard; IV: Gentle Parthenissa-Sullivan; V: Caesar and Urania-Beard, Lowe

Music: II: Concerto on German Flute-Burk Thumoth

218
20 April 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Devil To Pay

Song: I: Stella and Flavia-Beard; IV: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard; II: A Cantata (compos'd by Stanley)-Lowe

Music: III: Concerto on German Flute-Burk Thumoth

Dance: V: Grand Serious Ballet, as17421005

219
04 May 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: I: A French Peasant-Froment, Mlle Gondeau; III: A New Serious Dance-Desse, Mrs Walter; V: La Florana, as17430408

Song: II: Stella and Flavia-Beard; IV: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard, Lowe

220
16 May 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: I: a New song by Mr Boyce-Beard; III: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard, Lowe; V: A Cantata by Stanley-Lowe

Dance: II: Peasant Dance, as17420921; IV: The Hussar's Dance- , as17421211, but Checo, Chiaretta, Boromeo, Mlle Bonneval, Sga Costanza

221
12 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

Song: Cantata-Beard; To Arms, Britons Strike Home-Leveridge, Beard, Reinhold

Dance: NNew Serious Dance, as17440404

222
17 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Song: I: A new song The Cure for all Grief-Leveridge; III: The Favourite song in Il Penseroso, beginning The Trumpet's Loud Clangor excites us to Arms by $Handel-Beard; IV: The Miser's Passport-Leveridge; V:A New song call'd Advice to all Britons-Leveridge; followed with To Arms, Britons Strike Home-Beard, Reinhold

Dance: II: Serious Dance-Cooke, Mlle Bonneval; V: Grand Ballet, as17440404

223
21 October 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nonjuror

Song: GGenius of England-Beard; New Occasional Song and Chorus-Beard [see17451014]

224
13 March 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Duke and no Duke

Dance: PPeasant-Cooke; Comic Ballet-Cooke, Signora Campioni

Song: SSong of Diana from Dryden's Secular Masque,-Beard (set by Mr Boyce); Genius of England-Beard

225
01 April 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Cast
Role: Singing Master Actor: Beard, with a favorite French air

Song: I: Rise Glory Rise-Beard; III: (By desire) a Ballad-Beard

Dance: II: Devisse, Mad Auretti