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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.

176
13 April 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: As17380221, but Attendants-Winstone, Cross, Green; Forresters-Turbutt, Leigh, Marshall.
Cast
Role: Forresters Actor: Turbutt, Leigh, Marshall.

Dance: I: Lilliputian Punch-Master Ferg; II: Drunken Peasant-Phillips; III: Tambourine-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; IV: Turkish Dance, as17380412 V: French Peasants-Master Ferg, Miss Wright

177
05 April 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Performance Comment: As17390120, but King-Winstone; Attendants-Woodburn, Cross, Green; Foresters-Turbutt, Gray, Leigh.
Cast
Role: Foresters Actor: Turbutt, Gray, Leigh.

Dance: I: Punches Dances-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; V: Grand Ballet-Muilment, Mrs Walter

178
26 September 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Walter Raleigh

Cast
Role: Young Raleigh Actor: Mills
Role: Lady Raleigh Actor: Mrs Butler

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress; or The Ridotto Al' Fresco

Performance Comment: Kitty-Mrs Clive; Harlequin-Woodward; Beau Mordecai-Macklin; Debauchee-Turbutt; Constable-Marshall; Porter-Peploe; Jenny-Miss Thynne; Mother Midnight-Hough; Bess Brindle-Leigh; Pompey-Young Brooks; Justices-Taswel, Raftor, Cole; Ladies of Pleasure-Mrs Bennet, Miss Thynne; concluding with a new Masquerade Dance-Leviez, Woodward, Pelling, Rector, Carney, Mrs Walter, Mrs Thomson, Mrs Bennet, Mrs Vallois.
Cast
Role: Bess Brindle Actor: Leigh

Dance: As17390920

179
25 March 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Indiana-Mrs Giffard; Bevil Jr-Quin; Sealand-Milward; Phillis-Mrs Clive; Sir John-Wright; Myrtle-Mills; Humphrey-Shepard; Daniel-Leigh; Cimberton-Taswell; Lucinda-Mrs Mills; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Marshall; Isabella-Mrs Pritchard; Tom-Giffard.
Cast
Role: Daniel Actor: Leigh

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: III: Muilment; La Matelote, as17400324

Song: I: Would You Taste the Noon@Tide (Comus)-Miss Edwards; II: Nel Pugnar-Beard; V: Beard in the Character of a Captain of an English Man of War upon the taking Porto Bello

180
01 November 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Fondlewife-Garrick; Bellmour-Mills; Heartwell-Delane; Sir Joseph Wittol-Neale; Noll Bluff-Macklin; Sharper-Hallam; Vainlove-Havard; Setter-Yates; Laetitia-Mrs Clive; Belinda-Mrs Mills; Araminta-Mrs Cross; Silvia-Mrs Ridout; Lucy-Mrs Bennett; Betty-Miss Minors; Barnaby-Leigh.
Cast
Role: Barnaby Actor: Leigh.

Afterpiece Title: Miss Lucy in Town

Dance: II: Les Matelotes, as17421009; V: Turkish Seraglio, as17421027

Song: III: The Early Horn-Lowe

181
28 September 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Performance Comment: Abel Drugger-Collins; Subtle-Mills; Face-Macklin; Sir Epicure-Berry; Lovewit-Turbutt; Doll Common-Mrs Macklin; Ananias-Neale; Tribulation-Taswell; Surly-Havard; Dapper-Leigh; Kastril-Yates; Dame Pliant-Mrs Horsington.
Cast
Role: Dapper Actor: Leigh

Song: I: Lowe; IV: Colin and Phebe-Lowe, Mrs Arne; God Save our Noble King by Arne-Mrs Cibber, Beard, Reinhold (Deutsch, Handel, p. 623)

Dance: II: Grand Serious Dance-; V: Grand Comic Dance, as17450926

182
23 April 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humours Of The Army; Or, The Female Officer

Performance Comment: The Female Officer (New Dress'd)-Mrs Woffington in which she will speak an Epilogue in character; Major Youngfox-Mills; Capt. Wildish-Delane; Wilmot-Havard; Bisket-Yates; Col. O'Gaghegahagogan-Barrington; Capt. Machyland-Neale; Mons. Capitaine Les Mathematiques-Blakes; Brigadier Bloodmore-Berry; Capt. Cadwallader-Macklin; Capt. Hearty-Winstone; Serjeant Fileoff-I. Sparkes; Corp. Pilfer-Collins; Lieut. Plunder-Marshall; Knapsack-Ray; Judge Advocate-Bridges; Provost-Usher; Clerk-Bransby; Lady Bloodmore-Mrs Macklin; Vicoria-Mrs Mills; Jenny Firelock-Miss Minors; Nine Husbands-Miss Pitt; Leonora-Mrs Bennet; Clara-Miss Cole; With Singing-Lowe, Miss Edwards; General Advertiser: 5 adds Forage-Taswell; Ensign Rag-Goodfellow; Ensign Standard-Marr; Henroust-Simpson; Gauntlet-Leigh.
Cast
Role: Gauntlet Actor: Leigh.

Afterpiece Title: Will and no Will; or, A Bone for Lawyers

183
11 April 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17470324 but Ostrick-Neale; Lucianus-Yates; Rosencraus-Simpson; Guildenstern-Usher; Marcellus-Bransby; Bernardo-Winstone; Franciso-Leigh; Player Queen-Mrs Yates; 2nd Gravedigger-Ray.
Cast
Role: Franciso Actor: Leigh

Afterpiece Title: Chrononhotonthologos

Dance: Salomon, Sga Padouana

184
19 April 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Performance Comment: As17480312 but Epilogue-_; Strictland-Berry; Valet-Leigh; Country Dance-.
Cast
Role: Valet Actor: Leigh

Afterpiece Title: [The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: [II: Savoyards, as17471215; V: Gondoliers-Cooke

185
January 1693 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Gentleman's Journal, December 1692 (appearing not earlier than January 1693): We are like to be without new Plays this month and the next; the death of Mr Mountfort, and that of Mr Leigh soon after him being partly the cause of this delay. The first that is promised us is a Comedy by Mr Southern, whose Plays are written with too much Politeness and Wit, not to be read by you with uncommon pleasure

Performances

186
26 March 1708 @ Stationer's Hall

Event Comment: Benefit Leigh. Tickets 3s. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and instrumental Music-; viz. A full Piece of the late Mr Henry Purcell-Dean, Holmes, Feiston; A new Set of Airs for the Arch Lute and Violin Composed on purpose by Tho. Dean-; That celebrated Sonata for a Violin and Flute made by the famous Signor Gasperini, and played by him and Paisable often before her Majesty, and at the Theatre,-two young Gentlemen that never Play'd in Publick; who also perform some new Italian Sonatas of the most Eminent Masters in Europe, Double/stopped Solos of the Famous Archangelo Corelli-two young Gentlemen; Singing to the Lute-Dean; Several Pieces for Trumpets Flutes and Haut/boys-; Also Select Airs out of the Operas of Camilla and Thomyris, with their Symphonies-the best Performers

187
31 May 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

188
25 September 1717 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: Benefit Penkethman, Pack, and Spiller. At Penkethman's Booth near St. George's Church, in Southwark. The Boxes and Pit are laid together, and the Booth will be pull'd down on Thursday. At 6 p.m. Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 5 Oct.: Wednesday at the Quarter-Sessions for the Borough of Southwark, Mr Penkethman, Mr Leigh, and other Persons taken out their Booths by the Informing Constables during the Time of the Fair, appear'd upon their Recognizances, and were immediately Discharg'd, there being no Prosecution, upon which Occasion the Recorder severely reprimanded the Constables for presuming to molest such as Acted upon a Lawful Patent, whilst they let others pass undisturb'd, who were really under the Censure of the Act against Strolling, or Vagrant Players

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: Lancashire Hornpipe-Esq Timothy's Countryman who perform'd it with so much Applause during the Time of the Fair; Mimic Scene between Harlequin and a Peasant-; Vaulting on the Horse-a Gentleman lately arriv'd from France

189
31 May 1677 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@143, p. 162: At the Fond Husband. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 36): [This comedy and Otway's The Soldier's Fortune] took extraordinary well, and being perfectly Acted; got the Company great Reputation and Profit. One song, Under the branches of a spreading tree, set by William? Turner, is in Choice Ayres and Songs, The Second Book, 1679. For Nokes and Leigh in this play, see Cibber, Apology, ed. Lowe, I, 149. According to The Guardian, 15 June 1713, Charles II attended three of the first five nights of this play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Fond Husband; Or, The Plotting Sisters

Performance Comment: Edition of 1677: Rashley-Smith; Ranger-Harris; Peregrine Bubble-James Nokes; Old Fumble-Anth. Leigh; Sir Roger Petulant-Sandford; Sneak-Jevan; Spatterdash-Richards; Apothecary-Percival; Emillia-Mrs Barrer; Maria-Mrs Marshal; Cordelia-Mrs Hughes; Betty-Mrs Napper; Governess-Mrs Norrice; Prologue-; Epilogue-Fumble; Edition of 1678 adds: Jeremy-Richards.
Cast
Role: Old Fumble Actor: Anth. Leigh

190
June 1680 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date of the first performance is not known; an entry in L. C. 5@145, p. 120, lists it for 1 March, but leaves the year in question. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349. Because the Prologue upbraids the audience for deserting Dorset Garden to see The Female Prelate at Drury Lane (beginning 31 May 1680) and because the Epilogue refers to railing at the Penny Post, a service inaugurated on 1 April 1680, a performance in mid-June 1680 seems the likely first production. If so, the L. C. entry for 1 March probably represents a revival for 1 March 1680@1. A song, Bonny lass gin thou wert mine, with music by Thomas Farmer, is in Choice Ayres and Songs, The Third Book, 1681. For Leigh as Sir Jolly and Nokes as Sir Davy, see Cibber, Apology, ed. Lowe, I, 147-48. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 36): These two Comedies [The Soulder's Fortune and D'Urfey's The Fond Husband] took extraordinary well, and being perfectly Acted; got the Company great Reputation and Profit

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Souldiers Fortune

Performance Comment: Edition of 1681: Beaugard-Betterton; Courtine-Smith; Sir Davy Dunce-Nokes; Sir Jolly Jumble-Leigh; Fourbin-Jevon; Bloody Bones-Richards; Vermin-A Boy; Lady Dunce-Mrs Barry; Sylvia-Mrs Price; Prologue by the Lord Falkland-; Epilogue-.
Cast
Role: Sir Jolly Jumble Actor: Leigh

191
03 April 1707 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Bickerstaff and Leigh. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

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

Performance Comment: Yeoman-Estcourt; Squib-Pinkethman; With a new Epilogue to the Town-Leigh.
Cast
Role: With a new Epilogue to the Town Actor: Leigh.

Afterpiece Title: A Visiting Scene of 4 Aldermen's Ladies

Song: The Mad Dialogue, other songs-Leveridge, Mrs Lindsey

Dance: duRuel, Cherrier, duBargues, Miss Santlow; particularly the Union Dance, as twas perform'd before Her Majesty at St. James's-Mrs Santlow, duBargues

192
18 March 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit J. Leigh. Receipts: money #111 9s.; tickets #63 16s. [The afterpiece is presumably the same as that of 14 March with an altered title.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Emperor; Or, The Conquest Of Mexico By The Spaniards

Performance Comment: As17170108, but Guyomar-J. Leigh; Orbellan-_; Vasquez-_; Pizarro-_; Odmar-_; Cydaria-Miss Rogers; And a new Epilogue in praise of the Hoop'd Petticoat-Bullock.
Cast
Role: Guyomar Actor: J. Leigh

Afterpiece Title: The Butcher Turned Gentleman

Dance: Moreau, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Schoolding, Salle, Mlle Salle; with Irish Jigg-Mrs Schoolding

193
03 March 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

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

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth-Keene; Macduff-J. Leigh.
Cast
Role: Macduff Actor: J. Leigh.

Afterpiece Title: Amadis

194
06 August 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Leigh and Spiller. At Common Prices. This is the last Time of the Company's Acting this Season

Performances

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

Performance Comment: Reynard-J. Leigh; Squib-Spiller.
Cast
Role: Reynard Actor: J. Leigh

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Performance Comment: Hob-Spiller; Friendly-J. Leigh.
Cast
Role: Friendly Actor: J. Leigh.
Related Works
Related Work: Hob's Wedding Author(s): John Leigh

Song: Oh! London Is A Fine Town-

Dance: Moreau, Cook, Pelling, Newhouse, Mrs Moreau, Miss Smith, Miss Schoolding

195
19 March 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Leigh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian, King Of Portugal

Performance Comment: See17180926, but Sebastian-Leigh; Dorax-Quin.
Cast
Role: Sebastian Actor: Leigh

Dance: Moreau, Mrs Moreau, Mrs Bullock, Miss Schoolding, Miss Francis; A new Passacaille-Miss Francis

Song: As17181006

196
21 November 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Original Weekly Journal, 21 Nov., announces forthcoming plays: On 26 Nov. Leigh's The Pretenders and on 10 Dec. Theobald's Richard II, Alter'd and Improv'd from Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Woman's A Riddle

Performance Comment: Courtwell-Ryan; Manly-Leigh; Sir Amorous-C. Bullock; Vulture-Bullock; Butler-Ogden; Aspin-Spiller; Lady Outside-Mrs Bullock; Miranda-Mrs Biggs; Clarinda-Mrs Spiller; Betty-Mrs Giffard; Necessary-Mrs Robertson.
Cast
Role: Manly Actor: Leigh

Dance:

197
19 April 1721 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Leigh. Receipts: money #18 2s. 6d.; tickets #26 11s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Emperor; Or, The Conquest Of Mexico By The Spaniards

Performance Comment: Montezuma-Quin; Cortez-Leigh; Guyomar-Ryan; Odmar-Ogden; Almeria-Mrs Bullock; Alibech-Mrs Giffard; Cydaria-Miss Stone.
Cast
Role: Cortez Actor: Leigh

Dance: Dupre, Mrs Cross

198
02 September 1721 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Hall-Leigh Great Theatrical Booth in Bird-Cage Alley. Mainpiece. an excellent Droll

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True, Famous And Ancient History Of King Saul, And The Witch Of Endor; Containing The Death Of Gyant Goliath, The Friendship Of David And Jonathan, And The Defeat Of King Saul And His Host, By The Philistine Army; With The Comical Humours Of Dame Double-dabber, Weezel Her Son, And Corporal Bowling-pin

Performance Comment: Parts-Leigh, Hall, Williams, Oates, Hewlet, Mrs Willis, Mrs Cook.
Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Leigh, Hall, Williams, Oates, Hewlet, Mrs Willis, Mrs Cook.

Song: Ray, Mrs Bowman

Dance: The best Masters

199
18 May 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Berry and Boman. Tickets for Leigh taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Performance Comment: As17360415 but Manly-Berry; Richard-Leigh; Myrtilla-Mrs Villeneuve .
Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Leigh

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. III: Dutchman and his Frow by Phillips and Miss Brett. V: Revellers by Essex, Mrs Walter, &c

200
29 April 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Woodward. Tickets for Leigh taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers; With Harlequin Skeleton

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Woodward; Pierot-Lalauze; Queen of Gypsies-Miss Jones; Sir Positive-Winstone; Staytape-Leigh; Constable-Reed; Lady Positive-Yates; Maid-Miss Story; Young Rustick-Liviez; Colombine-Mrs Walter.
Cast
Role: Staytape Actor: Leigh

Ballet: concluding with Aconcluding with A Voyage to the Island of Cytherea. Adonis-Desnoyer; Venus-Mlle Chateauneuf; Pilgrims-Liviez, Cooke, Mrs Walter, Mrs Thompson; Cupid-Muilment