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8032 results for: Keyword - Lady Beard
We found 5346 matches on Performance Comments, 2544 matches on Event Comments, 1030 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

276
23 April 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit of Mattocks and Hull. Tickets deliver'd for The Busy Body will be taken. No Building on Stage. [Playbill suggests Beard and Mattocks took the parts of Sailor and Squire for the 1st time this night. According to Genest they had performed them since 28 Nov. 1760, i.e., for 23 times this season. Possibly their parts were originally reversed.] Receipts: #79 17s. 6d. plus income from tickets: Mattocks #40 6s. (Box 37; Pit 159; Gallery 72); Hull #42 1s. (Box 80; Pit 111; Gallery 54) (Account Book). Charges: #64 6s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Cast
Role: Hearty Actor: Beard

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Performance Comment: As17601128, but full cast: Sailor-Beard;in which by Desire, Heart of Oak-Beard; Squire-Mattocks (being the first time of their appearing in tnese characters); Dorcas-Mrs Vernon; Sally-Miss Brent.
Cast
Role: Sailor Actor: Beard
Role: Heart of Oak Actor: Beard
Role: Actors only: Actor: Beard, Mattocks, Miss Brent, Mrs Vernon
Role: Thomas Actor: Beard

Dance: Last New Comic Dance-Maranesi, Mlle Capdeville

277
20 January 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The words of The Pastoral Dialogue as sung by Beard and Miss Hallam are printed in the Public Advertiser this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda and the Arcadian Nuptials

Performance Comment: As17640116, but concluding with a New Masque-; Colin-Beard; Phillis-Miss Hallam; Thyrsus-Duquesney; Daphne-Sga Manesiere; Cupid-Mas. Rogers; The Graces-Miss Wilford, Miss Valois, Miss Pitt; Hymen-Gallini. [New Cloaths and Scenes. [See17640119 for Pastoral Dialogue.]New Cloaths and Scenes. [See17640119 for Pastoral Dialogue.]
Cast
Role: Colin Actor: Beard

278
01 February 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Cast
Role: Joe Actor: Beard

Song: Beard

Dance: Muilment

279
05 February 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

Song: Beard

280
08 November 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband; Or, A Journey To London

Performance Comment: Townly-Mills; Manly-Berry; Sir Francis-Macklin; Lady Grace-Mrs Mills; Lady Wronghead-Mrs Roberts; Basset-Neale; Richard-Green; Poundage-Turbutt; John Moody-Winstone; Jenny-Miss Lee; Mrs Motherly-Mrs Cross; Myrtilla-Miss Horsington; Trusty-Mrs Bennet; Lady Townly-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Lady Grace Actor: Mrs Mills
Role: Lady Wronghead Actor: Mrs Roberts
Role: Lady Townly Actor: Mrs Clive.

Dance: Checo Torinese, Sga Charetta Aquilanti, their 1st appearance, Boromeo, Mlle Bonneval

Music: Concerto-Veracini

Song: Beard

281
09 November 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear And His Three Daughters

Dance: As17421108

Music: A Concerto-Piantinada

Song: Beard

282
11 November 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Vocal Parts Actor: Beard, Lowe, Raftor, Ray

Dance: As17421108

Song: Beard, Lowe

283
03 June 1743 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Song: Beard, Lowe

284
12 December 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Song: Beard

285
30 December 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Beard
Role: Lady Loverule Actor: Mrs Havard

Song: Beard; A New Occasional Ballad, as17451203

286
08 January 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Song: Beard; particularly a New English Ballad call'd The English Hero's Welcome Home-Leveridge, Reinhold, Roberts, Thompson, Mrs Lampe, Mrs Wright, Miss Faulkener; The Music-Lampe

287
24 January 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Song: Beard

Dance: Cooke, Sga Campioni

288
04 February 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Chasseur Royale Actor: Beard

Song: Beard

289
06 April 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Song: Beard, Miss Faulkner, Mrs Storer

290
12 April 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Lady Grace Actor: Mrs Hale
Role: Lady Wronghead Actor: Mrs Copen
Role: Lady Townly Actor: Mrs Horton.

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Cast
Role: Mystery Actor: Beard
Role: Huntsmen Actor: Beard, Desse, Delagarde, Froment, Vandersluys, Oates, Dupre
Role: Bacchus Actor: Beard

Song: Beard

291
29 April 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: Duke and no Duke

Dance: Sg Piettro, Mad Janeton Auretti

Song: Beard

Music: CConcerto on Violin cello-Mr Jones

292
17 April 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Cast
Role: Singing Master Actor: Beard, with a favorite French air

Song: Beard, Miss Thomas

Dance: Devisse, Mlles Auretti, Auguste

293
24 April 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Cast
Role: Fine Lady Actor: Mrs Clive.

Song: Beard

294
15 May 1754 @ The Chapel at the Foundling's Hospital, or at the Lock Hospital, Hyde Park Corner

Event Comment: At the chapel of the Foundling Hospital. [Beard and Ch. Smith gave their services free. Deutsch notes that this is the first list of Messiah performers preserved at the Foundling Hospital. The treasurer of the Hospital recorded receipts from 1,219 tickets and by cash-#666 15s. and an outlay of #58 17s. 6d., for Musicians, singers, constables, &c. Net to Hospital: #607 17s. 6d.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Performance Comment: [Deutsch, Handel, pp. 750-52, lists 33 musicians, 18 singers, five servants, plus a number of organ blowers, porters, and constables who put on this performance. Among the singers the following from the theatres and the opera performed: Beard, Giulia Frasi, Sga Galli, Christina Passerini, Wass, Baildon, and Baildon Jr Champness, Wilder, Dupre, Walz, Cox, and Legg.]

295
17 September 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant; Or, The Way To Win Him

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Song: Beard

296
10 December 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Song: Beard

297
04 April 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: Beard

298
21 April 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: In Act II Singing Actor: Beard.

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: Beard

Dance: A Hornpipe-Mathews

299
03 May 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Singing Actor: Beard.

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Cast
Role: Damon Actor: Beard

Dance: Poitier Jun; first appearance that stage Mrs Vernon;

Song: Beard, Champness

300
24 May 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Cast
Role: Mercury Actor: Beard.
Role: Fine Lady Actor: Mrs Clive.

Dance: The last New Comic Dance,The Indian Peasants, as17560515

Song: Beard