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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Leigh"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Leigh")') 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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6220 results for: Keyword - Mr Leigh
We found 4290 matches on Event Comments, 1742 matches on Performance Comments, 537 matches on Performance Title, 38 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1526
05 February 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Blackamoor

1527
08 June 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

1528
15 August 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Song: In course of Entertainment: his favourite Planxty [descriptive of Ireland-Johnstone (in the character of Murtough Delany) [see The Irishman in London, cg, 21 Apr.]

1529
September 1680 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Princess Of Cleve

Performance Comment: Edition of 1689: The Prologue-; Prince of Cleve-Williams; Duke Nemours-Betterton; St. Andre-Lee; Vidam of Chartres-Gillo; Poltrot-Nokes; Princess of Cleve-Mrs Barry; Tournon-Mrs Lee [Elinor Leigh]; Marguerite-Lady Slingsby; Elianor-Mrs Betterton; The Epilogue-.

1530
01 November 1680 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the first production is not certain, particularly since an entry in L. C. 5@145, p. 120 (see also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349) lists this play for 8 March, the year uncertain. Since the entry follows one for The Souldier's Fortune which followed the premiere of The Female Prelate, 31 May 1680, the L. C. entry probably is one for 8 March 1680@1. That the premiere occurred near 1 Nov. 1680 is suggested by a letter of Anne Montague to Lady Hatton, 1 Nov. 1680: For I never see the towne fuller, for I was to see the new play, The Spanish Frier, and there was all the world, but the Court is a letell dull yet; the Queen being sick, there is noe drawing room (Hatton Correspondence, Camden Society, XXII [1878], 240). A song, Farewell ungratefull Traytor, with music by Captain Pack and sung by Mrs Crofts, is in Act V. For Leigh's and Nokes' acting, see Cibber, Apology, ed. Lowe, I, 143, 145-46. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 37): 'Twas Admirably Acted, and produc'd vast Profit to the Company

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar; Or, The Double Discovery

1531
July 1686 @ Oxford University

Event Comment: In 1686 at Oxford the Act was cancelled at a late moment, but the players performed nevertheless. In mid-July Anthony Leigh, acting in The Committee, added some lines to his role that created a commotion. See Sybil Rosenfeld, Some Notes on the Players in Oxford, p. 370; Memoirs of the Verney Family, ed. Margaret M. Verney (London, 1899), IV, 381; Anthony Clark, The Life and Times of Anthony Wood (Oxford, 1894), III, 192-93

Performances

1532
18 October 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Colley Cibber states that Estcourt imitated Tony Leigh's conception of this role.--Apology, I, 304-5.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar; Or, The Double Discovery

1533
29 May 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Leigh and Mrs Willis

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

1534
07 February 1710 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For the Benefit of your Humble Servant Francis Leigh. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue

Dance: Between the Acts: With 6 several Entertainments of Dancing as are express'd at large in the great Bills-

1535
26 July 1711 @ Greenwich

Event Comment: Benefit your humble Servant Commodore Flipp, alias Leigh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Song: Between the Acts: With several Dialogues-

1536
19 June 1713 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew; Or, The Merry Beggars

Performance Comment: Powell, Booth, Keene, Johnson, Penkethman, Bullock, Norris, Leigh, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Mountfort.

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: Prince, Mrs Bicknell; Two Dutch Skippers-

1537
28 May 1714 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Leigh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Dance:

1538
19 March 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit John Leigh. Receipts: #103 12s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue

Dance: As17150314

Song: As17150310

1539
19 April 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Your Humble Servant Francis Leigh. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: #102

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Song: Leveridge, Pack, Cook, Jones, Little Boy

Dance: duPre, Moreau, Bovil, Miss Russell, Miss Schoolding

1540
09 November 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar; Or, The Double Discovery

Performance Comment: Torrismond-Booth; Bertrand-Mills; Lorenzo-Wilks; Friar-[F.] Leigh; Queen-Mrs Porter; Elvira-Mrs Oldfield.

1541
30 November 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Performance Comment: Wiseacre-Bullock Sr; Doddle-Knapp; Dashwell-Scot; Townly-Husband; Ramble-[J.] Leigh; Loveday-Bullock Jr; Eugenia Eugenia-Mrs Knight; Arabella-Mrs Moor; Peggy-Mrs Schoolding; Aunt-Mrs Hunt.

Song: As17151105

Dance: As17151109

1542
24 March 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit John Leigh. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: money #45 9s. and tickets #53 11s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

Music: As17151006, but Mrs Cross

Dance: As17151104; Yellow Stockings-Schoolding; A new Spanish Entry-a Person who never yet perform'd on the Stage

1543
05 August 1717 @ Tottenham Court

Event Comment: From the Theatre Royal, Leigh and Jubilee Dicky, alias Norris, At the great Theatrical Booth at Tottenham Court, during the time of the Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The History Of Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Pleasant and Comical Adventures of Sir Anthony Noodle and His Little Man Weazle

1544
09 September 1717 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Bullock's and Leigh's Great Theatrical Booth, in Angel-Court, next the King's Bench. Mainpiece: a Dramatick Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Noble Soldier; Or, Love In Distress

Afterpiece Title: The Comical Adventures of Master Billy Softhead, His Mother, and Sister Sally

1545
20 September 1717 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: Post Boy, 26 Sept.: On Friday last, his Royal Highness the Prince came incognito to Southwark-Fair, and saw the Droll at Penkethman's, and after at Bullock and Leigh's Booth

Performances

1546
17 April 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit F. Leigh. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Dance: As17180318

1547
25 April 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Thurmond. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. On this evening, according to the Original Weekly Journal, 26 April, [the corpse of Bowen was] put on Board the Prince Frederick Yacht, lately built by his Nephew, an Officer in the Customs, in order to be carried to Leigh in Essex to be Inter'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Dance: Wade, Topham, Mrs Santlow, Mrs Bicknell, Miss Lindar

1548
23 April 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Leigh. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Dance: Shaw, Mrs Santlow, Topham, Miss Lindar, Miss Tenoe

1549
24 August 1719 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At Bullock and the Widow Leigh's Great Booth, in the Greyhound Inn Yard. An excellent new Droll

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Lovers; Or, The False Friend; With The Comical Humours Of Sir Timothy Timberhead And His Man Pismire

Song: Mrs Willis

Dance: Newhouse, Pelling, Miss Francis, Mrs Willis

1550
25 May 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Leigh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite; Or, The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Executed

Dance: Pelling, Topham Jr, Newhouse, Miss Bullock; The Italian Shadows-