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4333 results for: Keyword - Baker
We found 5614 matches on Roles/Actors, 1057 matches on Performance Comments, 132 matches on Performance Title, 108 matches on Event Comments, and 86 matches on Author.

126
10 December 1756 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

Performance Comment: Demetrius-Barry; King-Ridout; Seleucus-Anderson; Ptolomy-Wignel; Lysimachus-White; Timon-Stoppelaer; Lieutenant-Shuter; Charinthus-Bencraft; 1st Ambassador-R. Smith; Menipphus-Costello; 2nd Ambassador-Holtom; Leontius-Sparks; Gentlemen Ushers-Arthur, Dunstall; Physician-Redman; 1st Gentleman-Bennet; Host-Marten; 2nd Gentleman-Cushing; Magician (with Incantaion Song)-Baker; Singing Spirits-Mrs Lampe, Mrs Chambers (with Music compos'd by Mr Arne Jr); Herald-Buck; Old Woman-Miss Ferguson; Governess-Mrs Copen; Phoebe-Miss Cokayne; Leucippe-Mrs Pitt; Caelia-Mrs Woffington.
Cast
Role: Magician Actor: Baker

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: Granier, Leppie, Lucas, Miss Hilliard

127
21 March 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Performance Comment: Sapskull-Shuter; Gaylove-Baker; Muckworm-Collins; Blunder-Dunstall; Slango-White; Arabella-Mrs Chambers; Combrush-Mrs Green.
Cast
Role: Gaylove Actor: Baker

Dance: As17561217

128
22 April 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Performance Comment: As17560924, but Loveless-Baker; Gripe-_.
Cast
Role: Loveless Actor: Baker

Song: II: New Song By Arne-Mrs Lampe; III: Myself I shall Adore, composed by Handel,-Mrs Lampe; IV: Ellen a Roon,accompanied on the German Flute-Miss Davis (her 2nd time of appearing on any stage)

Dance: FFingalian Revels, as17570329 a Dutch Dance-Miss Valois

129
27 April 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humorous Lieutenant

Performance Comment: As17561210, but [abbreviated listing of cast to allow room for listing entertainment of dancing. Only the following mentioned]: Demetrius-Barry; King-Ridout; Lieut.-Shuter; Leontias-Sparks; Gentlemen Ushers-Arthur, Dunstall; Magician-Baker; Singing Spirits-Mrs Lampe, Mrs Chambers; Leucippe-Mrs Pitt; Celia-Mrs Woffington.
Cast
Role: Magician Actor: Baker

Afterpiece Title: Colombine Courtezan; or, Harlequin Restor'd

Dance: II: Fingalian Dance (for 2nd time)-Miss Toogood, apprentice to Lalauze; IV: By Desire a Ball Dance, call'd Queen Caroline, with a Minuet-Miss Toogood, Lalauze; End: A Harlequin Dance-Miss Toogood, 1st time

130
30 April 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performance Comment: As17570114, but Loverule-Baker.
Cast
Role: Loverule Actor: Baker.

Dance: Poitier, Mlle Capdeville, unspecified

131
11 May 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Performance Comment: As17570506, but Friendly-Baker.
Cast
Role: Friendly Actor: Baker.

Song: II: Roberts; IV: Mrs Chambers

Dance: V: As17561023

132
18 May 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Cast
Role: Corinna Actor: Mrs Baker

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Performance Comment: As17570516, but Mercury-Baker; Fine Gentleman-_; Aesop-_.
Cast
Role: Mercury Actor: Baker

Dance: As17561023

133
25 May 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Performance Comment: As17570518, but: Chalkstone (introduced for the last time)-Shuter; Esop-Wignel; Mercury-Baker; Old man-Pittard 1st appearance on that stage; Drunken Man-Dunstall; Frenchman-Holtom; Fine Lady (with life of a Belle)-Mrs Green; Bowman-White; Charon-Buck; Fine Gentleman-Cibber 1st time; With an Epilogue-Nobody.
Cast
Role: Mercury Actor: Baker

Dance: II: Dutch Peasant, as17570512; III: Dutch Sailor-Master Settree, scholar to Mr Settree; IV: Country Lass, as17570512; V: A Minuet-Master Settree, Miss Twiste

134
12 October 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Merlin's Cave; or, The Royal Chase

Performance Comment: Chasseur Royal-Lowe; Aerial Spirits-Granier, Mrs Granier; Jupiter (in the character of Harlequin)-Miles; Doctor-Arthur; Anatomist-Stoppelaer; Colombine-Mrs Dyer; Merlin-Howard; Mercury-Baker; Pierrot-Lalauze.
Cast
Role: Mercury Actor: Baker

135
04 November 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: Tamerlane-Ryan; Bajazet-Sparks; Moneses-Ross; Omar-Gibson; Prince of Tanais-Anderson; Stratocles-Cushing; Dervise-Arthur; Hali-Baker; Zama-Redman; Axalla-White; Selima-Mrs Vincent; Arpasia-Mrs Hamilton; With the Song To Thee O Gentle Sleep-Lowe; and the Usual Prologue-.
Cast
Role: Hali Actor: Baker

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

136
05 November 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V : With The conquest Of The French At Agincourtv

Performance Comment: Henry-Smith; Exeter-Ridout; Gloucester-Bennet; Bedford-Holtom; Salisbury-Bencraft; Westmoreland-Buck; Canterbury-Sparks; Fluellin-Arthur; Ely-Wignell; Scroop-R. Smith; Gower-Anderson; Bardolph-Marten; Pistol-Dyer; Erpingham-Redman; Macmorris-Barrington; Nym-Stoppelaer; Falstaff's Boy-Miss Mullart; France-Gibson; Burgundy-Cushing; Dauphin-White; Mountjoy-Baker; Isabel-Mrs Stephens; Hostess-Mrs Pitt; Williams (the English Soldier)-Dunstall; Catharine-Mrs Hamilton; Chorus-Ryan.
Cast
Role: Mountjoy Actor: Baker

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: Several New Entertainments-Guerin, Mlle Capdeville

137
13 March 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Sheep Shearing; or, Florizel and Perdita

Performance Comment: Florizel-Barry; Polixenes-Ridout; Alcon-Sparks; Camillo-Redman; Clown-Costollo; Autolicus (The Ballad-Singing Pedlar)-Shuter; Dorcas-Miss Mullart; Mopsa-Miss Helm; Perdita-Mrs Bellamy; Singing Shepherds, Shepherdesses-Baker, Mrs Chambers, Mrs Lampe, Miss Young; With a New Dabce , adapted to the Comedy,-Gallini; Music by Arne-; Epilogue in Character-Shuter.
Cast
Role: Shepherdesses Actor: Baker, Mrs Chambers, Mrs Lampe, Miss Young

Dance: As17571217

Ballet: TThe Judgment of Paris. As17571217

138
24 April 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Performance Comment: Damon-Mattocks; Palemon-Baker; Laura-Mrs Chambers; Pastora-Mrs Lampe.
Cast
Role: Palemon Actor: Baker

Dance: The Provincial Sailors, as17580408 a Comic Ballet-

139
06 October 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan; Or, The Unhappy Marriage

Performance Comment: Castalio-Ross; Polydore-Clarke; Acasto-Sparks; Chaplain-Anderson; Ernesto-Redman; Page-Miss Vallois; Chamont-Dyer; Serina-Mrs Baker; Florella-Mrs Pitt; Monimia-Mrs Bellamy.
Cast
Role: Serina Actor: Mrs Baker

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Performance Comment: Jupiter Harlequin-Miles; Pluto Punch=-; Neptune Pantaloon=-; Pan Scaramouche=-; Hercules Brigella=-; Apollo Mezzetin=-; Mars Leander=-; A Chasseur Royal-Lowe; Aerial Spirits-Granier, Mrs Granier; Doctor-Bencraft; Merlin-Howard; Columbine-Mrs Dyer; Mercury-Baker; Pierrot-Lalauze. [The newspaper notice lists the parts but not the players for those marked?] .The newspaper notice lists the parts but not the players for those marked?] .
Cast
Role: Mercury Actor: Baker

140
01 February 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V; With The Conquest Over The French At Agincourt

Performance Comment: King Henry-Smith; Exeter-Ridout; Gloster-Bennet; Bedford-Holtom; Salisbury-Bencraft; Westmoreland-Buck; Archbishop of Canterbury-Sparks; Fluellin-Shuter; Bishop of Ely-Wignel; Scroop-R. Smith; Gower-Anderson; Bardolph-Marten; Pistol-Dyer; Williams (English soldier)-Barrington; Erpingham-Redman; Captain Jammy-Dunstall; Nym-Stoppelaer; Falstaff's Boy-Miss Mullart; King of France-Gibson; Constable-Clarke; Burgundy-Cushing; Dauphin-Davis; Mountjoy-Baker; Isabella-Mrs Stephens; Hostess-Mrs Pitt; Catherine-Mrs Dyer; Chorus-Ryan.
Cast
Role: Mountjoy Actor: Baker

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

141
25 April 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V

Cast
Role: Mountjoy Actor: Baker

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Performance Comment: As17581120, but Old Man-Lalauze; Drunken Man-Lalauze; Mercury-Baker; Frenchman-Holtom.
Cast
Role: Mercury Actor: Baker

Dance: III: (By Desire) a Ball Dance call'd La Mariee-Lalauze, Miss Toogood; concluding with: a Minuet-Lalauze, Miss Toogood, his Daughter, a Child between 5 and 6 years of age, her 1st appearance on any stage; IV: Fingalian Dance-Miss Toogood; End: The Threshers, as17581016

142
05 November 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Performance Comment: Chasseur Royal-Lowe; Aerial Spirits-Granier, Mrs Granier; Jupiter (as Harlequin)-Miles; Doctor-Bencraft; Colombine-Mrs Dyer; Merlin-Legg; Mercury-Baker; Pierrot-Lalauze.
Cast
Role: Mercury Actor: Baker

143
16 January 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performance Comment: See17591124, but Ceres-Mrs Lampe; Proserpine-Mrs Abegg; Jupiter-Lowe; Mercury-Baker; Followers of Ceres-Mlle Capdeville, Mrs Viviez, Mrs Jansolin, Mrs Dawson, Mrs Granier, Mrs Leppie, Mrs Terrier; Pluto-Legg; Daemons-Poitier Jr, Granier, Leppie, Rochford, Desse, Dumay, Terrier; Harlequin-Miles; Yeoman-Lalauze; Clodpole-Shuter; Old Woman-Mrs Pitt; Old Man-Costollo; Colombine-Mrs Dyer; Country Lads and Lasses-Dumay, Gosley, Terrier, Miss Helm, Miss Mullart, Mrs White; Gardners-Dumay, Gosley; The Elements : Earth-Desse, Mrs Jansolin; Air-Leppie, Mrs Granier; Fire-Granier, Miss Hilliard; Water-Poitier, Mlle Capdeville. With Scenes, Machines, and other Decorations.
Cast
Role: Mercury Actor: Baker

144
21 February 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: As17600208, but Molly-Miss Helm; Jenny-Mrs Baker.
Cast
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Baker.
Role: Mat Actor: Baker

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Cast
Role: Lucinda Actor: Mrs Baker.

Dance: As17600212

145
22 September 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

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

Performance Comment: Old Rents-Sparks; Hearty-Beard; Springlove-Clarke; Randal-Dunstall; Oliver-Dyer; Justice Clack-Shuter; Hilliard-Baker; Vincent-Mattocks; Meriel-Mrs Vincent; Rachel-Miss Brent, with dances incident to the Opera.
Cast
Role: Hilliard Actor: Baker

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

146
24 September 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-Beard; Peachum-Collins; Lockit-Dunstall; Player-Anderson; Beggar-Benet; Mat@o@Mint-Baker; Ben-Wignel; Filch-Holtom; Wat-C. Smith; Jemmy-Redman; Nimming@Ned-R. Smith; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Stephens; Lucy-Miss Young; Mrs Coaxer-Mrs Ferguson; Mrs Vixen-Mrs Burden; Jenny Diver-Mrs White; Sukey Tawdry-Miss Mullart; Molly-Miss Helm; Betty Doxey-Miss Cokayne; Dolly Trull-Miss Morrison; Mrs Slammekin-Mrs Green; Diana Trapes-Mrs Copin; Polly-Miss Brent.
Cast
Role: Mat@o@Mint Actor: Baker

Dance: A New Hornpipe compos'd by Dr Arne-Mrs Vernon, 1st appearance there; a Country Dance-the Characters in the Opera

147
08 October 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband; Or, The Journey To London

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Performance Comment: Loveless-Baker; Gripe-Collins; Marquis-Holtom; Jeremy-R. Smith; Isabella-Miss Young; Phelim-Barrington.
Cast
Role: Loveless Actor: Baker

148
15 October 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Performance Comment: A Chasseur Royal-Mattocks; Aerial Spirits-Granier, Mrs Granier; Jupiter in character of Harlequin-Miles; Doctor-Bencraft; Colombine-Mrs Dyer; Merlin-Legg; Mercury-Baker; Pierrot-Lalauze.
Cast
Role: Mercury Actor: Baker

Dance: As17601013

149
20 October 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine, with the Birth and Adventures of Harlequin

Performance Comment: Ceres-Mrs Lampe; Proserpine-Mrs Abegg; Jupiter-Mattocks; Mecury-Baker; Followers of Ceres-Mlle Capdeville, Mrs Viviez, Mrs Jansolin, Mrs White, Mrs Granier, Mrs Leppie, Mrs Belfort; Pluto-Legg; Daemons-Poitier Jr, Granier, Leppie, Rochford, Desse, Dumay, Gosley; Harlequin-Miles; Yeoman-Lalauze; Clodpole-Shuter; Old Man-C. Smith; Old Woman-Mrs Pitt; Colombine-Mrs Dyer; Country Lads and Lasses-Dumay, Gosley, Rochford, Miss Helm, Miss Mullart, Mrs White; Gardeners-Dumay, Gosley; The Elements: Earth-Gosley, Mrs Jansolin; Air-Leppie, Mrs Granier; Fire-Granier, Mlle Capdeville; Water-Poitier, Sga Maranesi.
Cast
Role: Mecury Actor: Baker

150
18 November 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V; With The Conquest Of The French At The Battle Of Agincourt

Performance Comment: Henry-Smith; Exeter-Ridout; Achbp Canterbury-Sparks; Fluellin-Shuter; Gower-Anderson; Scroop-R. Smith; Bp Ely-Wignel; Bedford-Holtom; Westomreland-Buck; Pistol-Dyer; Williams-Barrington; King of France-Gibson; Burgundy-Bennet; Constable-Clarke; Dauphin-Davis; Mountjoy-Baker; Bardolph-Marten; Hostess-Mrs Pitt; Isabel-Mrs Stephens; Catherine-Mrs Dyer.
Cast
Role: Mountjoy Actor: Baker

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: As17601013