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24326 results for: Keyword - Mr and Mrs Legare
We found 23607 matches on Performance Comments, 7609 matches on Event Comments, 4634 matches on Performance Title, 27 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

601
28 May 1724 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Widow of Keene, Mrs Orfeur, Mrs Taylor. Written by Mr Congreve. Receipts: money #11 16s. 6d.; tickets #92 13s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: As17240323 but Sir Joseph-Will. Bullock; Sharper-Orfeur; Lucy-Mrs Taylor.
Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Taylor.
Role: Araminta Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Sterling
Role: Laetitia Actor: Mrs Cantrell

Dance: End I: Saraband-Mrs Brett; II: Louvre-Mrs Wall; III: Tollet's Grounds-Newhouse, Mrs Rogier; IV: Entry-Glover; V: Peasant-Lanyon, Mrs Ogden

602
11 December 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Smith; Elder Brother-Clarke; Younger Brother-Dyer; 1st Spirit-Ross; 2nd Spirit-Mattocks; Lady-Mrs Ward; Bacchanals-Beard, Baker; Bacchants-Miss Brent, Mrs Vernon; Chorusses-Legg, Whitaker, Roberts, Ryley, Dibdin, Courts, Mrs Lampe, Miss Young, Miss Davis, Miss Sledge; Euphrosyne-Mrs Vernon; Sabrina, the Pastoral Nymph, and the song of Sweet Echo-Miss Brent.
Cast
Role: Lady Actor: Mrs Ward
Role: Bacchants Actor: Miss Brent, Mrs Vernon
Role: Chorusses Actor: Legg, Whitaker, Roberts, Ryley, Dibdin, Courts, Mrs Lampe, Miss Young, Miss Davis, Miss Sledge
Role: Euphrosyne Actor: Mrs Vernon
Role: and the song of Sweet Echo Actor: Miss Brent.

Dance: The Dances incident to the masque-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville, Granier, Leppie, Desse, Rochford, Dumai, Gosley, Hussey, Balthazar, Mrs Granier, Mrs Jansolin, Mrs Mariane, Mrs Crawford, Mrs Welch, Miss Daw

603
14 April 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Parker. Written oy Mr Dryden. Receipts: money #20 13s.; tickets #64 15s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian King Of Portugal

Performance Comment: Sebastian-Walker; Dorax-Quin; Muley Moluch-Boheme; Benducar-Ogden; Mufty-Bullock; Antonio-Egleton; Mustapha-Spiller; Alvarez-Hulett; Almeyda-Mrs Parker; Morayma-Mrs Bullock; Johayma-Mrs Egleton.
Cast
Role: Almeyda Actor: Mrs Parker
Role: Morayma Actor: Mrs Bullock
Role: Johayma Actor: Mrs Egleton.

Dance: SScot Dance-Mrs Bullock; Flag Dance-Nivelon; Myrtillo-DuPre, Glover, Pelling, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs Wall, Mrs Ogden

Song: Salway

604
22 May 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Lacy, Pitt, Mrs Rice. Written by Mr Farquhar. Receipts: money #4 10s.; tickets #87 11s. Probable attendance: boxes, 3 by money and 76 by tickets; stage, 4 by money; pit, 4 by money and 261 by tickets; first gallery, 4 by money and 294 by tickets; second gallery, 18 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And A Bottle

Performance Comment: As17280406 but Club-Bullock; Brush-Pitt; Rigadoon-Lacy; Pamphlet-Chapman; Beggar-Giffard; Pindress-Mrs Rice; Bulfinch-Mrs Cook.
Cast
Role: Pindress Actor: Mrs Rice
Role: Bulfinch Actor: Mrs Cook.
Role: Lucinda Actor: Mrs Bullock
Role: Judge's Lady Actor: Mrs Clarke
Role: with singing after the Irish Manner Actor: Mrs Egleton.

Dance: SScottish Dance-Mrs Bullock; Grand Dance of Moors-Glover, Newhouse, Pelling, Lanyon, Mrs Ogden, Mrs Anderson, Miss LaTour; Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden

605
23 May 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Lovelace and Taylor, Boxkeepers. Written by the late Mr Otway. Receipts: money #13 17s.; tickets #99 7s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Soldiers Fortune

Performance Comment: As17230205, but Bloody Bones-Hall; Lady Dunce-Mrs Boheme.
Cast
Role: Lady Dunce Actor: Mrs Boheme.
Role: Silvia Actor: Mrs Bullock

Dance: The Galliard-Lally, Mrs Cross; Two Punches and Harlequin-; Dutch Skipper-Pelling, Mrs Bullock; Lally, Lally Jr, Newhouse, Pelling, Mrs Cross, Mrs Bullock

606
24 May 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Brett and Mrs Campbell. Written by Mr Shadwell, late Poet Laureat. Daily Journal, 25 May: Yesterday Morning died Mrs Bicknell (an eminent Actress in the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane) of a Consumption. Her Parts will be very well supply'd by her Sister Mrs Younger, a Person of a very promising Genius

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Performance Comment: As17230124, but Teresia-Mrs Campbell; Isabella-Mrs Horton; Lucia-Mrs Brett.
Cast
Role: Teresia Actor: Mrs Campbell
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Lucia Actor: Mrs Brett.
Role: Mrs Termagent Actor: Mrs Thurmond.

Dance: Shaw, Mrs Booth, Mrs Younger

607
23 March 1724 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: Heartwell-Quin; Belmour-Walker; Vainlove-Ryan; Sir Joseph-Bullock Sr; Bluff-Hall; Sharper-Leigh; Fondlewife-Hippisley; Setter-Spiller; Araminta-Mrs Cross; Belinda-Mrs Sterling; Laetitia-Mrs Cantrell; Sylvia-Miss Purden; Lucy-Mrs Egleton.
Cast
Role: Araminta Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Sterling
Role: Laetitia Actor: Mrs Cantrell
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Egleton.

Song: Leveridge, Mrs Chambers; particularly The Tipling Philosophers-Leveridge

Dance: Dupre, Nivelon Sr, Nivelon Jr, Glover, Newhouse, Mrs Ogden, Mrs Rogeir, Mrs Wall; particularly Two Pierrots-the Nivelons; Running Footman's Dance-Nivelon Sr, Mrs Rogeir; Flag Dance-Nivelon Sr

608
16 May 1724 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Soldiers Fortune

Cast
Role: Silvia Actor: Mrs Sterling
Role: Lady Dunce Actor: Mrs Vincent.

Dance: End I: Saraband-Mrs Brett; II: Peasant-Lanyon, Mrs Ogden; III: Louvre-Mrs Wall; IV: Tollet's Ground-Newhouse, Mrs Rogier; V: Myrtillo-

609
17 May 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Morgan, Mrs Cook, Mrs Butcher. Written by Mr Congreve. Receipts: money #9 0s. 6d.; tickets #98 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performance Comment: As17250104, but Sir Joseph-Morgan; Sharper-Egleton; Araminta-Mrs Moffet.
Cast
Role: Araminta Actor: Mrs Moffet.
Role: Laetitia Actor: Mrs Bullock
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Butcher
Role: Sylvia Actor: Mrs Legar
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Egleton.

Dance: CChacone-Mrs Bullock; Irish Dance-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; Pastoral-Lally, Mrs Wall

610
13 April 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

Performance Comment: See17320124, but Othello-Quin; Iago-Ryan; Cassio-Walker; Desdemona-Mrs Younger.
Cast
Role: Desdemona Actor: Mrs Younger.

Dance: I: Pastoral-Vallois, lately arrived from the Opera at Paris, the first Time of his dancing in England; a Scholar to M Marcelle; II: Wooden Shoe Dance-Poitier; Serious Dance-Poitier, Mrs Laguerre; III: Sicilian Dance-Glover, Mrs Pelling; (at Desire) Two Pierrots-Poitier, Pelling; IV: Highlander and his Mistress-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; V: A new Peasant Dance-Poitier, Mrs Laguerre

Music: Grand Concert of Water Musick by Mr Randal [Handel?]-; [in which Poitier will beat the Kettle@Drums-Poitier

611
20 January 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 22 Jan.: Last Saturday Night his Majesty, his Royal Highness the Duke, the Princesses, with several Foreign Ministers and their Ladies, were at [cg]: So great a Concourse of People came in order to see his Majesty there, as has scarcely been seen; many Persons who came to the Play-House at Four o'Clock, offering any Price, if they could possibly be admitted. In the Fury Dance of Macbeth, Mr Haughton had the misfortune to dislocate his Ankle-Bone, and fell down upon the Stage, and was obliged to be carried off; upon which his Majesty was graciously Pleased to send him Ten Guineas instantly, and to order him to be taken Care of

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: Lady Macbeth Actor: Mrs Hallam
Role: Lady Macduff Actor: Mrs Stevens

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda or The Cheats of Harlequin

Performance Comment: Perseus-Salway; Cepheus-Leveridge; Aethiopian-Thompson; Cassiope-Mrs Wright; Andromeda-Mrs Chambers; Mercury-Vincent; Amazons-Mrs James, Miss Oates, Mrs Bullock, Mlle Ozanne, Miss Norman, Mrs LeBrun, Miss Dancey; Infernals-Leveridge, Haughton, Villeneuve, Dupre, Richardson, Delagarde, Thompson; Hussar-Bencraft; Harlequin-Lun; Colombine-Mrs Kilby; Hussar's Servant-Hippisley; Valet-James; Petit Maitre-Lalauze; Concluding with the Grand Dance in Momus, a Fawn-Glover.
Cast
Role: Cassiope Actor: Mrs Wright
Role: Andromeda Actor: Mrs Chambers
Role: Amazons Actor: Mrs James, Miss Oates, Mrs Bullock, Mlle Ozanne, Miss Norman, Mrs LeBrun, Miss Dancey
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Kilby

Music: Vocal Parts [for Macbeth]-Leveridge, Salway, Roberts, Thompson, Stoppelaer, Mrs James, Mrs Wright, Mrs Vincent, Mrs Kilby

612
08 May 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Chetwood and Mrs Moor. Written by the late Mr Wycherley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Music: A New Solo on the Stage-Bitty

Song: As17180414

Dance: Shaw, Wade, Mrs Santlow, Mrs Tenoe, Miss Lindar; Harlequin-Mrs Santlow

613
14 April 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Saunders.Written by Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Performance Comment: Fainall-Booth; Mirabel-Wilks; Witwoud-Cibber; Petulant-Boman; Sir Wilful-Miller; Waitwell-Shepard; Lady Wishfort-Mrs Saunders; Millamant-Mrs Oldfield; Marwood-Mrs Porter; Mrs Fainall-Mrs Horton; Foible-Mrs Willis.
Cast
Role: Lady Wishfort Actor: Mrs Saunders
Role: Millamant Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Marwood Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Mrs Fainall Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Foible Actor: Mrs Willis.

Dance: Shaw, Desnoyer, Thurmond Jr, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Younger; Myrtillo-

614
20 April 1722 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs White, the Boxkeeper's Widow. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by Mr Congreve. Receipts: money #9 19s. 6d.; tickets #54 13s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Cast
Role: Lady Touchwood Actor: Mrs Seymour
Role: Lady Froth Actor: Mrs Bullock
Role: Lady Plyant Actor: Mrs Egleton
Role: Cynthia Actor: Mrs Rogier.

Dance: Lally, Pelling, Newhouse, Mrs Rogier, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Hutton; particularly a Hornpipe-Jones

615
24 April 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Buchanan. Not Acted these Eight Years. Writtan by the late Mr Dryden. Receipts: money #33 15s.; tickets #127 17s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian King Of Portugal

Performance Comment: Sebastian-Walker; Almeyda-Mrs Buchanan; Dorax-Quin; Muley Moluch-Milward; Muley Zeydan-Lacy; Benducar-Ogden; Antonio-Chapman; Alvarez-Hulett; Mufti-Bullock Sr; Johayma-Mrs Egleton; Morayma-Mrs Bullock; Mustapha-Penkethman.
Cast
Role: Almeyda Actor: Mrs Buchanan
Role: Johayma Actor: Mrs Egleton
Role: Morayma Actor: Mrs Bullock

Dance: I: Hornpipe-Jones, Mrs Pelling; III: Scots Dance-Mrs Bullock; IV: Two Pierrots-Poitier, Pelling; V: The Baulk-Salle, Mrs Laguerre

616
28 April 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Cibber and her sister, daughters of Mr Cibber by the late Mrs Jane Cibber. Mainpiece: At the Particular desire of several Persons of Quality. Tickets to be had of Bradshaw, &c., and of Miss Cibber and her Sister, at Mrs Brett's (their Aunt)in Berwick St., near Soho. Tickets deliver'd out by Mrs Boultby will be taken. Receipts: #78

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Performance Comment: Acasto-Winstone; Castalio-Havard; Polydore-Mills; Chamont-Delane; Ernesto-Ridout; Chaplain-Raftor; Monimia-Mrs Mills; Serina-Mrs Ridout; Florella-Mrs Bennet; Cordelio-Miss Cibber.
Cast
Role: Monimia Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Serina Actor: Mrs Ridout
Role: Florella Actor: Mrs Bennet

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Song: I: Song with French Horns-Beard; II: Sweet Bird from Milton-Mrs Arne; III: A Ballad-Lowe; IV: War he sung was Toil and Trouble-Mrs Clive

Dance: V: A New Running Footman's Dance-Phillips

617
28 February 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mills. By His Royal Highness's Command. Written by Mr Steele

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband Or The Accomplisd Fools

Performance Comment: Biddy-Mrs Oldfield; Humphrey-Penkethman; Clerimont-Mills; Captain Clerimont-Wilks; Tipkin-Norris; Mrs Clerimont-Mrs Bicknell; Fainlove-Mrs Porter; Aunt-Mrs Saunders.
Cast
Role: Biddy Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Mrs Clerimont Actor: Mrs Bicknell
Role: Fainlove Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Aunt Actor: Mrs Saunders.

Dance: Dutch Skipper-Wade, Mrs Bicknell; Harlequin-Mrs Santlow; French Peasant-Wade, Mrs Santlow

618
29 October 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don John Or The Libertine Destroyd

Music: Original Shepherd's Musick by Purcell-

Dance: Shaw, Thurmond Jr, Topham, Boval, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Younger, Mrs Bullock, Miss Teno

619
13 December 1722 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Soldiers Fortune

Cast
Role: Silvia Actor: Mrs Bullock
Role: Lady Dunce Actor: Mrs Seymour.

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats

Dance: Lally, Lally Jr, Newhouse, Pelling, Mrs Rogeir, Mrs Cross, Mrs Bullock, Miss Francis; particularly Myrtillo-

620
19 November 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Soldiers Fortune

Performance Comment: Sir Davy-Hippisley; Beaugard-Quin; Courtine-Ryan; Sir Jolly-Bullock Sr; Fourbin-Spiller; Bloody Bones-Hall; Silvia-Mrs Sterling; Lady Dunce-Mrs Vincent.
Cast
Role: Silvia Actor: Mrs Sterling
Role: Lady Dunce Actor: Mrs Vincent.

Dance: Dupre, Glover, Pelling, Mrs Rogeir, Mrs Wall, Mrs Bullock; Wooden Shoe Dance, Drunken Swiss, Running Footman-the Nivelons

621
03 January 1724 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Soldiers Fortune

Cast
Role: Silvia Actor: Mrs Sterling
Role: Lady Dunce Actor: Mrs Vincent.

Song: In Praise of Love and Wine-Leveridge, Legar

Dance: Dupre, Nivelon, Glover, Pelling, Mrs Rogeir, Mrs Wall, Mrs Bullock; particularly Scating Dance-

622
04 May 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Friend

Cast
Role: Leonora Actor: Mrs Bullock
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Moffat
Role: Jacinta Actor: Mrs Egleton.

Dance: SScots Dance-Mrs Bullock; Irish Dance-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; French Peasant-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre

623
03 October 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: Horner-Ryan; Pinchwife-Quin; Harcourt-Walker; Sparkish-Milward; Dorilant-Diggs; Sir Jasper-Hippisley; Quack-Hall; Country Wife-Mrs Younger; Alithea-Mrs Berriman; Lady Fidget-Mrs Bullock; Mrs Dainty-Mrs Rice; Mrs Squeamish-Miss Fenton; Lucy-Mrs Morgan.
Cast
Role: Country Wife Actor: Mrs Younger
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Berriman
Role: Lady Fidget Actor: Mrs Bullock
Role: Mrs Dainty Actor: Mrs Rice
Role: Mrs Squeamish Actor: Miss Fenton
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Morgan.

Dance: FFrench Peasant-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre; French Sailor-Salle, Mlle Salle; Pastoral Dance-Glover, Dupre Jr, Lanyon, Mrs Ogden, Mrs Anderson

624
12 September 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: Valentine-Wilks; Scandal-W. Mills; Tattle-Cibber; Sir Sampson-Shepard; Foresight-Johnson; Trapland-Norris; Jeremy-Oates; Ben-Miller; Mrs Frail-Mrs Porter; Angelica-Mrs Thurmond; Mrs Foresight-Mrs Heron; Prue-Mrs Cibber; Nurse-Mrs Willis.
Cast
Role: Scandal Actor: W. Mills
Role: Trapland Actor: Norris
Role: Mrs Frail Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Angelica Actor: Mrs Thurmond
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Heron
Role: Prue Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Willis.

Dance: Lally, Essex, Boval, Rainton, Mrs Booth, Mrs Mills, Mrs Walter, Miss Robinson; particularly Myrtillo-

625
14 May 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Chetwood. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Mr Wycherley. Afterpiece: [By W. R. Chetwood.] A new Dramatick Entertainment of one Act. Intermixed with above 40 Airs, made to Old Ballad Tunes and Country Dances. N.B. Books of the Opera will be sold at the Theatre the Night of Performance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performance Comment: Horner-Wilks; Harcourt-Mills; Sparkish-Cibber; Sir Jasper-Norris; Dorilant-Watson; Pinchwife-Harper; Mrs Pinchwife-Mrs Cibber; Lady Fidget-Mrs Horton; Alithea-Mrs Butler; Lucy-Mrs Shireburn; Mrs Fidget-Mrs Walter; Mrs Squeamish-Mrs Grace.
Cast
Role: Mrs Pinchwife Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Lady Fidget Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Butler
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Shireburn
Role: Mrs Fidget Actor: Mrs Walter
Role: Mrs Squeamish Actor: Mrs Grace.

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Performance Comment: Parts-Oates, Miller, Harper, Griffin, Berry, Ray, Mrs Thurmond, Mrs Cibber, Miss Raftor; but edition of 1729 lists: Justice Dalton-Harper; Edgar-Oates; Moody-Ray; Varole-Miller; Aminadab Prim-Griffin; Squire Clodpole-Berry; Clara-Mrs Cibber; Flora-Miss Raftor; Lucy-Mrs Thurmond; Prologue-Cibber Jr.
Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Oates, Miller, Harper, Griffin, Berry, Ray, Mrs Thurmond, Mrs Cibber, Miss Raftor
Role: Clara Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Thurmond

Dance: FFrench Peasant-a Gentleman just arrived from Paris; Polonese-Rainton, Miss Robinson; Village Dance-Thurmond, Essex, Houghton, Rainton, Mrs Mills, Miss Robinson, Mrs Walter, Mrs Houghton