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5705 results for: Keyword - Mr Light
We found 4296 matches on Event Comments, 1149 matches on Performance Comments, 531 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1726
03 February 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Bayes-Garrick; Johnson-Giffard; Smith-W. Giffard; two Kings of Brentford-Vaughan, Clough; Prince Pretty@man-Marshall; Volscius-Peterson; Drawcansir-Paget; Thunder and Lightning-Dunstall, Miss Naylor; Players, Soldiers, Cardinals, Bishops, Judges, Lord@Mayor, Serjeants at Arms-the Comedians; the facetious Grand Dance-the Whole Company; King Phiz-Julian; Gentleman Usher-Yates; Amaryllis-Mrs Dunstall; Chloris-Mrs Yates; Pallas-Blakes; Parthenope-Miss E. Hippisley; With the total Eclipse of the Sun and Moon-; the part of Sol-Hemskirk; Luna-Stitchbury; Orbis-Mrs Bishop; Likewise Mr Bayes's Representation of a Grand Theatrical Battle by his new@rais'd Troops-; With Dancing-, Scenes, Machines, Habits, other proper Decorations.
Cast
Role: Thunder and Lightning Actor: Dunstall, Miss Naylor

Dance: As17420115

1727
29 March 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Cast
Role: Lightening Actor: Mrs Villeneuve

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Dance: A New Pierot Dance-Picq, Mlle Auguste

1728
08 April 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: As17420406

1729
24 April 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: I: A Concerto, as17420105; II: The Drunken Peasant, as17411029; III: Le Boufon, as17420325

Song: IV: A Ballad-Lowe; V: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard

1730
01 May 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Song: I: The Noontide Air-Beard; V: Ellen@a@Roon (by Particular Desire)-Mrs Clive

Dance: II: Running Footman's Dance, as17420428 IV: a Dutch Dance-Phillips

1731
07 October 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Song: I: Songs-Beard

Music: III: Concerto-Veracini

Dance: II: Peasant Dance, as17420921; IV: Tyrolean Dance, as17420921

1732
24 November 1742 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: Carney, Mrs Roland

1733
27 December 1742 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Imprisonment of Harlequin

1734
17 February 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wedding Day

1735
25 February 1743 @ Southwark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Flora; or, Hob in the Well

1736
16 March 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sampson

1737
21 March 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: II: Sicilian Peasant, as17430310 IV: Italian Gardeners, as17421231

Song: III: Beard

1738
02 January 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Dance: II: As17431013; IV: Italian Masquerade, as17431126

1739
19 January 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: By Desire, Bumper Squire Jones-Beard; Mary Scot-Mrs Clive

1740
10 February 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Performance After the manner of an Oratorio Set by Mr Handel. Tickets will be deliver'd to subscribers on paying their subscription money, this day and every day following at Mr Handel's House in Brook Street, near Hanover Square, where attendance will be given from nine o'clock in the Morning till three in the afternoon. Pit and Boxes to be put together, and no person to be admitted without tickets, which will be deliver'd at the Office in the theatre at Half a Guinea each, First Gallery 5s.; Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. [Customary notice which will not be repeated.] Gallery opened at Four o'clock, Pit and Boxes at Five. To begin at Six. Mrs Delany to Mrs Dewes: There is a four-part song that is delightfully pretty...there was no disturbance at the playhouse. -Delany, Autobiography, II, 262. [Libretto by Congreve.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Semele

1741
01 March 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Regulus

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Goddess

1742
28 March 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song: II: New Song by Handel-Beard; IV: To Arms, Britons Strike Home-Leveridge, Beard, Reinhold

Dance: III: Scotch Dance, as17431124; V: Ballet-Cooke, Mlle Domitilla

1743
04 April 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: I: Mrs Auguste; II: New Comic Dance-Muilment, Mrs Auguste; IV: New Serious Dance, as17440119 V: A New Comic Dance-Muilment, Mrs Auguste

1744
16 April 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Queen Of Spain

Afterpiece Title: The Kiss Accepted and Returned

1745
18 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

1746
20 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life Of King Henry The Fifth

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: As17440404

1747
28 April 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

1748
09 May 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

1749
11 June 1744 @ May Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Hermit

1750
27 September 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Music: Between the Acts: Select Pieces of Musick-