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4540 results for: Keyword - Richard Baker
We found 2075 matches on Author, 1713 matches on Performance Comments, 828 matches on Performance Title, 574 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

76
08 December 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Young Bevil-Ross; Myrtle-Smith; Sir John-Gibson; Sealand-Sparks; Cimberton-Shuter; Tom (with song in character)-Dyer; Humphrey-Anderson; Daniel-Collins; Lucinda-Mrs Baker; Phyllis-Mrs Vincent; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Stephens; Isabella-Mrs Ferguson; Indiana-Mrs Ward.
Cast
Role: Lucinda Actor: Mrs Baker
Related Works
Related Work: The Conscious Lovers Author(s): Richard Steele

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Related Works
Related Work: The Fair Example: or the Modish Citizens Author(s): Richard Estcourt
Related Work: Erminia; or, The Fair and Vertuous Lady Author(s): Richard Flecknoe

Song: Lowe

77
13 November 1765 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Young Bevil-Ross; Myrtle-Smith; Sir John-Gibson; Sealand-Walker; Cimberton-Shuter; Tom (with song in character)-Dyer; Humphrey-Anderson; Daniel-Morgan; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Hopkins; Isabella-Mrs Ferguson; Phillis-Miss Wilford (first time); Lucinda-Miss Baker; Indiana-Mrs Bellamy; Song in Act II-Mrs Weichsel.
Cast
Role: Lucinda Actor: Miss Baker
Related Works
Related Work: The Conscious Lovers Author(s): Richard Steele

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Mercury Actor: Baker

78
09 December 1765 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Summer's Tale

Performance Comment: As17651206, but Parts-_Barrington, _Baker, _Squibb, _Buck, Mrs _Lampe, Mrs _Jones.
Cast
Role: Parts Actor: _Barrington, _Baker, _Squibb, _Buck, Mrs _Lampe, Mrs _Jones.
Related Works
Related Work: The Summer's Tale Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Dance: I: The Village Romps, as17651019; II: The Garland, as17651003

79
09 December 1766 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Young Bevil-Ross; Myrtle-Smith; Sir John Bevil-Gibson; Sealand-Walker; Cimberton-Shuter; Tom (with song in character)-Dyer; Humphrey-Anderson; Daniel-Morgan; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Stephens; Isabella-Mrs Ferguson; Phillis-Miss Wilford; Lucinda-Mrs Baker; Indiana-Mrs Bellamy; Songin Act II-DuBellamy.
Cast
Role: Lucinda Actor: Mrs Baker
Related Works
Related Work: The Conscious Lovers Author(s): Richard Steele

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

80
07 April 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Young Bevil-Powell, 1st time; Myrtle-Smith; Cimberton-Shuter; Sir John-Gibson; Sealand-Hull, 1st time; Humphrey-Lewis; Daniel-Morgan; Tom (with a Song)-Dyer; Phillis-Mrs Bulkley; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Pitt; Lucinda-Mrs Baker; Indiana-Mrs Bellamy.
Cast
Role: Lucinda Actor: Mrs Baker
Related Works
Related Work: The Conscious Lovers Author(s): Richard Steele

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Cast
Role: Calliope Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: Eurydice Actor: Mrs Baker.

Song: II: A Song-DuBellamy

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17680930

81
15 December 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amintas

Performance Comment: Alexander-Reinhold; Amintas-Tenducci, first appearance that stage these 4 years; Agenor-Mattocks; Eliza-Mrs Mattocks; Thamiris-Mrs Baker (playbill matched with Edition of 1769).
Cast
Role: Thamiris Actor: Mrs Baker
Related Works
Related Work: Amintas Author(s): Richard Rolt

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: I: A New Pastoral Dance-Fishar, Sga Manesiere

82
22 May 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Bevil-Bensley, first time; Myrtle-Wroughton; first time; Sealand-Clarke; Cimberton-Shuter; Sir John Bevil-Gardner; Humphrey-Wignell; Tom (with Song)-Dyer; Daniel-Hollingsworth; Phillis-Mrs Bulkley; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Pitt; Isabella-Mrs Ferguson; Lucinda-Mrs Baker; Indiana-A Young Lady; her first appearance any stage. In Act II, Singing-DuBellamy.
Cast
Role: Lucinda Actor: Mrs Baker
Related Works
Related Work: The Conscious Lovers Author(s): Richard Steele

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

Cast
Role: Mindora Actor: Mrs Baker

Dance: End: A Hornpipe[, in the character of a Sailor (for first time)-Miss Stede. [See17650510.

83
11 May 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: As17741025, but Lucinda-Mrs Baker; Indiana-Mrs Bulkley; Humphry-_; Daniel-_.
Cast
Role: Lucinda Actor: Mrs Baker
Related Works
Related Work: The Conscious Lovers Author(s): Richard Steele

Afterpiece Title: The Druids

Dance: III: Double Hornpipe-Blurton, Miss Mathews; IV: The Humours of Blackwall, as17750429

84
29 October 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Performance Comment: Ferdinand-Mattocks; Isaac-Quick; Don Jerome-Wilson; Antonio-Reinhold; Father Paul-Mahon; Friars-Fox, Baker; Carlos-Leoni; Clara-Miss Brown; The Duenna-Mrs Green; Louisa-Mrs Mattocks.
Cast
Role: Friars Actor: Fox, Baker
Related Works
Related Work: The Duenna; or, The Double Elopement Author(s): Richard B. Sheridan

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: As17771010

85
12 March 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Performance Comment: Belcour-Baker; Stockwell-Simpson; Young Dudley-A Young Gentleman (1st appearance on that stage); Captain Dudley-Lloyd; Fulmer-Jackson; Varland-Cooper; Stukeley-Smith; Major O'Flaherty-Griffiths; Louisa Dudley-Mrs Fox; Lady Rusport-Mrs Crisp; Mrs Fulmer-Mrs Waldron; Lucy-Miss Clerk; Charlotte Rusport-Miss Powell (from the Theatre-Royal, Richmond).
Cast
Role: Belcour Actor: Baker
Related Works
Related Work: The West Indian Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Song: End: This is the life of a frolicksome fellow-the Gentleman who performs Young Dudley; Four@and@twenty fidlers-Simpson

Entertainment: After Singing: Theatrical Imitations, vocal and rhetorical,-Weston (1st appearance on any stage)

86
21 June 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Performance Comment: Antonio (by permission of the Managers of Vauxhall)-Dignum; Ferdinand-Clarke (from the Theatre Royal Edinburgh; 1st appearance on this stage); Don Jerome-Powel; Isaac-Baker; Father Paul-Haymes; Lopez-Pitt; Starved Friar-Evans; Carlos (by Permission of the Proprietors of the king's Theatre)-Braham (1st appearance in that character, and on this stage); Louisa-Mrs Martyr; The Duenna-Mrs Wentworth; Clara (by Permission of the Proprietors of the king's Theatre)-Sga Storace.
Cast
Role: Isaac Actor: Baker
Related Works
Related Work: The Duenna; or, The Double Elopement Author(s): Richard B. Sheridan

Dance: End II: Peggy's Love (by permission of the Proprietors of the king's Theatre), as17970614 End Opera: Cupid and Psyche, as17970614 With Corps de Ballet from the Opera House

87
13 August 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wilson. 1st piece [1st time; prel I (?)]: A Tragical Tragedy, altered [probably by Richard Wilson] from Fielding's Pasquin. In the Tragedy will be introduced the Triumphal Entry of the Queen of Ignorance. 2nd piece: In 3 acts. [This play is by Thomas Baker; it is not TUNBRIDGE Wells; or, A Day's Courtship, by Thomas Rawlins, the younger.] 3rd piece [1st time; M. INT I, author unknown. Words printed complete in Public Advertiser 19 Aug. 1782]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of Common Sense

Related Works
Related Work: The Life and Death of Common Sense Author(s): Richard Wilson

Afterpiece Title: Tunbridge Wells [recte Walks]; or, The Yeoman of Kent

Related Works
Related Work: Tunbridge-Walks: or, The Yeoman of Kent Author(s): Thomas Baker

Afterpiece Title: The Tobacco Box; or, The Soldier's Pledge of Love

Afterpiece Title: The Author

88
06 October 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMiss Baker from Dublin Danc'd (Well). Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Related Works
Related Work: The Conscious Lovers Author(s): Richard Steele

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: II: The Shepherd's Holiday-Miss Baker from Dublin, Giorgi; End: A Pantomime Dance, The Italian Gardiner-Sg Grimaldi, Miss Baker

89
22 May 1776 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Miller, Longley, Shuter, Robson, Colley, and Stephenson. Tickets deliver'd by Varley, Walker, Robinson, Brereton, Baker, Mrs Hitchcock, Smallwood, and W. Ansell will be taken this night. Doors open half past 5. To begin at half past 6 o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Related Works
Related Work: The West Indian Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: End: The Pilgrim, as17750927

90
23 November 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17411019, but King Richard-Garrick first named as Richard.
Cast
Role: King Richard Actor: Garrick first named as Richard.
Role: The Part of King Richard Actor: a Gentleman

Dance: two Mwo Masters and Miss Granier

91
26 November 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: LLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, 27 Nov.: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Last Night there was a great Number of Persons of Quality and Distinction at the Theatre in Goodman's Fields, to see the Play of Richard the Third, who all express'd the highest Satisfaction at the whole Performance, several hundred Persons were obliged to return for want of room, the House being full soon after Five o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Cast
Role: King Richard Actor: Garrick first named as Richard.
Role: The Part of King Richard Actor: a Gentleman

Dance: two Mwo Masters and Miss Granier

92
09 January 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Last night Mr Goodfellow played the part of King Richard the Third, at the tr/dl with uncommon applause. It is remarkable that this is the second King Richard that has greatly suceeded from Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Richard III Actor: Goodfellow

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

93
18 March 1734 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Performance Comment: King Richard-Hulett .
Cast
Role: King Richard Actor: Hulett

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Music: A new Overture to the Play, composed by Mr Bellear

Dance: The Dutch Boar (new) by Sandham and Miss Wherrit. Scaramouch by Sandham

94
06 March 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Performance Comment: See17411223, but Richard III-Garrick.
Cast
Role: Richard III Actor: Garrick.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Englishman

95
30 April 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17411228, but Richard (by Desire)-Turbutt; King Henry-Berry; Richmond-Cross; Ratcliffe-Woodburn; Tressel-Ridout; Duke of York-Miss Cole; Norfolk-_; Oxford-_; Forest-_; Dighton-_; Blunt-_.
Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Turbutt

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Song: I: Song with French Horns-Beard; IV: War he sung was Toil and Trouble-Mrs Clive

Dance: III: New Running Footman's Dance-Phillips; V: a Hornpipe-Phillips

96
31 May 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17420430 but Richard-Garrick (last time of his performing this season); Duke of York-Miss Cibber; Lord Mayor-Turbutt; Blunt-Raftor; Tressel-_; Lieutenant-_.
Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Garrick

Dance: The Mechels

97
10 December 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17430928, but Richard-Quin; Duchess of York-Mrs James.
Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Quin

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: SScotch Dance, as17431124

98
05 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17431210, but Richard-Sheridan.
Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Sheridan.

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

99
05 March 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17450212, but Richard-Sheridan; Norfolk-Mozeen; Blunt-Usher.
Cast
Role: Richard Actor: Sheridan

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

100
29 April 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Performance Comment: As17460422 but Richard III-Thomas? Lacy; King Henry-Davies; Tyrrel-Bransby.
Cast
Role: Richard III Actor: Thomas? Lacy

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist