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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Legard"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Legard")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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21 results for: Keyword - Legard
We found 15 matches on Roles/Actors, 8 matches on Performance Title, 2 matches on Performance Comments, 2 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

1
22 September 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant; Or, The Sick Lady's Cure

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine; With the Birth and Adventures of Harlequin

Performance Comment: Pluto-Leveridge; Ceres-Mrs Wright; Proserpine-Mrs Chambers; Jupiter-Roberts; Mercury-Laguerre; Sylvans-Mlle Roland, Miss Oates, Miss Rogers, Mlle Ozanne, Mrs LeBrun; Furies-Desse, Villeneuve, Richardson, Dupre; Harlequin-Lun; Yeoman-Bencraft; Clodpole-Hippisley; Old Man-Smith; Old Woman-Miss Oates; Colombine-Mrs Kilby; Countrymen and Lasses-Dupre, Richardson, Legard, Miss Brunette, Miss Horsington, Miss Dancey; Savoyard-Salway; Gardeners-Dupre, Legard; Earth-Richardson; Air-Villeneuve; Fire-Desse; Water-Glover; Females-Miss Rogers, Miss Oates, Mrs LeBrun, Mlle Roland.
Cast
Role: Countrymen and Lasses Actor: Dupre, Richardson, Legard, Miss Brunette, Miss Horsington, Miss Dancey
Role: Gardeners Actor: Dupre, Legard

2
04 November 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine; With The Birth and Adventures of Harlequin

Performance Comment: Ceres-Mrs Barbier; Proserpine-Mrs Chambers; Jupiter-Rochetti; Mercury-Legar; Sylvans-Mrs Legar, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Vincent, Miss LaTour, Mrs Ogden; Gods of the Woods-Salle, Dupre, Pelling, Poitier; Sicilians-Lanyon, Dupre Jr, Delagarde Jr, Newhouse; Pluto-Leveridge; Demons-Salle, Dupre, Newhouse, Lanyon; Yeoman-Nivelon; Clodpole-Hippisley; Old Man-Smith; Harlequin-Lun; Colombine-Mrs Younger; Old Woman-Miss LaTour; Countrymen and Lasses-Newhouse, Lanyon, Delagarde Jr, Mrs Cantrel, Miss Holliday, Mrs Rice; Savoyard-Salway; Gardeners-Smith, Legard; Earth-Dupre; Air-Pelling; Fire-Poitier; Water-Salle; Females-Mrs Pelling, Miss LaTour, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Legar.
Cast
Role: Gardeners Actor: Smith, Legard

3
11 November 1707 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Song: Leveridge, Hughes

Dance: Legard, Miss Santlow, his Scholar

4
21 October 1707 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Song: Laurence

Dance: The last new Dances-Legard, Legard's Scholar that were performed in The Recruiting Officer

5
03 November 1707 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Reform'd Wife

Dance: As17071031; also Legard, Legard's Scholar

Song:

6
12 December 1705 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love; Or, The World Well Lost

Dance: Grand Dance-l'Abbe, deBarques, Davencourt, Legard, Mrs Elford, Mlle de Noisy

7
25 April 1706 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aureng Zebe

Dance: deBarques, Legard, Mrs Elford, l'Abbe's Scholar, Miss Bruce (taught by Mrs Elford.)

8
13 June 1706 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus, King Of Thebes

Dance: Genteel and Comical Dances composed by deBarques-deBarques, others; Three Clowns-deBarques, Firbank, Legard; Chacoon, Passacail-Mrs Elford

9
13 February 1707 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Dance: duRuel, Cherrier, Debarques, Legard, others

10
03 January 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

Music: Mrs Lindsey, Hughs; Laurence; particularly the Enthusiastick Song-Leveridge

Dance: Miss Santlow, Mrs Evans; comic dancing proper to the play-Legard, Miss Norris

11
05 November 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Gardeners Actor: Smith, Legard

12
08 November 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid's Tragedy

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Gardeners Actor: Smith, Legard

13
20 November 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Gardeners Actor: Smith, Legard

14
24 November 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Gardeners Actor: Smith, Legard

15
16 December 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Gardeners Actor: Smith, Legard

16
19 December 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Walter Raleigh

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Gardeners Actor: Smith, Legard

17
25 September 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Countrymen and Lasses Actor: Dupre, Richardson, Legard, Miss Brunette, Miss Horsington, Miss Dancey
Role: Gardeners Actor: Dupre, Legard

Dance: IV: Scots Dance-Glover, Mlle Anne Roland

18
27 September 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Countrymen and Lasses Actor: Dupre, Richardson, Legard, Miss Brunette, Miss Horsington, Miss Dancey
Role: Gardeners Actor: Dupre, Legard

19
29 September 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens; Or, The Death Of Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Countrymen and Lasses Actor: Dupre, Richardson, Legard, Miss Brunette, Miss Horsington, Miss Dancey
Role: Gardeners Actor: Dupre, Legard

20
26 November 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #116 10s. Probable attendance: boxes, 191 paid and 12 orders; pit, 262 paid and 5 orders; slips, 25 paid and 2 orders; first gallery, 242 paid and 6 orders; second gallery, 50 paid and 1 order. For an essay on Camilla, see London Journal, 26 Nov. Mrs Pendarves to Anne Granville, 27 Nov.: I was at the opera of Camilla...performed by a Mrs Chambers, Mrs Barbiere, Mrs Fletchere, a Signor Rochetti, Mr Leveridge, Mr Legard. I can't say I was much pleased with it, I liked it for old acquaintance sake, but there is not many of the songs better then ballads.-Mrs Delany@Autobiography, I, 125

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

21
15 June 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Oates. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Farquhar. 6 p.m. Tickets [for Demagny, a Widow in Distress, Leigh, Nosom, and Legard taken at this play. For another comment on the Licensing Act, see Daily Gazetteer, 15 June.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: I: A new Serious Dance-Master and Miss Oates; II: Irish Trot-Master and Miss Oates; V: Peasant Dance-Master and Miss Oates