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1918 results for: Keyword - Frances Street
We found 1434 matches on Event Comments, 288 matches on Author, 203 matches on Performance Comments, 88 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

776
02 December 1724 @ Dog Tavern

Event Comment: At the Desire of the Worthy Inhabitants of Farringdon Ward, at the Dog Tavern, in Ludgate Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Song: New Song-Tony Aston in the Habit of a Fryar

777
13 April 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Leveridge. Tickets may be had at Mr Leveridge's in Tavistock Street. Receipts: money #54 12s. 6d.; tickets #82 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Song: End I: The Play of Love-Leveridge; II: The Wheel Turn'd To Some Tune (new)-Leveridge; III: Singing-Mrs Chambers; V: A Piece of Musick between a Fop and a Toper: In Praise of Love and Wine-Leveridge, Legare

Dance: II: Wooden Shoe Dance-Nivelon; III: French Sailor-Salle, Mlle Salle; IV: French Peasant-Nivelon, Mrs Legare

778
28 March 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Leveridge. Tickets to be had at Mr Leveridge's in Tavistock-Street, to some Tune. Receipts: money #47 5s.; tickets #138 11s. Probable attendance: boxes, 57 by money and 259 by tickets; stage, 66 by money and 40 by tickets; pit, 39 by money and 350 by tickets; slips, 9 by money; first gallery, 100 by money and 113 by tickets; second gallery, 130 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Song: End I: Si Caro, Lass of Patie's Mill-Miss Warren; III: Plain Truth, Wheel of Life-Leveridge; IV: Ballad written, set to music by Leveridge-Miss Fenton; V: Merry Cobler's Tragical End At Last-

Dance: II: Peasant-Nivelon; III: Scots Dance-Mrs Bullock

779
19 November 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: PPost Boy, 19 Nov.: We hear the Celebrated Mrs Oldfield is very Ill at her House in Grosvenor-street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage Or The Innocent Adultery

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

780
21 January 1729 @ Bow Street

Event Comment: The Lilliputian Theatre, Under the Direction of Mr Richardson...in Mr Hewetson's Great Room, the Upper End of Bow-Street, Covent-Garden. A New Opera. Price 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Enchanter

781
05 December 1729 @ Stationer's Hall

Event Comment: Benefit Tho. Foster, late Mercer in Ludgate Street. Tickets 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d.At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

782
15 April 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Leveridge. N.B. Tickets with the Black Joak to be had at Mr Leveridge's in Tavistock-Street. Receipts: #235

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

Related Works
Related Work: Hamlet Author(s): Francesco Gasparini

Song: End I: Mrs Wright; II: Since Times are so Bad-Leveridge, Salway; III: Mrs Chambers

Dance: IV: Nivelon

783
23 October 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Post, 24 Oct, Yesterday...dy'd at her House in Grosvenor-Street, that celebrated Actress Mrs Oldfield

Performances

784
27 January 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Cunningham, Linnen-Draper (lately an Inhabitant of the Golden Key, in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden) in Order to release him out of Prison. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Emperor

Dance: Essex, Lally, Houghton, Rainton, Miss Robinson

785
10 February 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Performance Comment: See17310208*c1731 2 10 dl UUniversal Spectator, 20 Feb.: On Wednesday [10 Feb.] dy'd (at his House in Brownlow-street) that celebrated Comedian Mr Henry Norris, commonly call'd Jubilee Dicky, who has entertain'd the Town, near Forty Years, with general Applause, and always follow'd Nature (thro' every Character) in a Masterly Way.
Cast
Role: at his House in Brownlow Actor: street that celebrated Comedian Mr Henry Norris, commonly call'd Jubilee Dicky, who has entertain'd the Town, near Forty Years, with general Applause, and always follow'd Nature

786
08 April 1731 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Leveridge. Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh. Tickets to the Tune of Mad Robin may be had at Leveridge's House, Tavistock-street. Receipts: money #54 2s. 6d.; tickets #127 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Song: I: Since Times are so Bad (Henry Purcell)-Leveridge, Salway; III: A Dialogue of Ballad Tunes-Leveridge, Mrs Wright; V: Chancon a Boire-Leveridge, Legar

Dance: II: Highlander and his Mistress-Salle, Mrs Legar; IV: Numidian-Glover, Miss LaTour

787
26 April 1731 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Chapman. Receipts: money #39 12s.; tickets #89 19s. Daily Post, 24 April: We hear that on Monday next the Hon. and Antient Company of Lumber Troopers will perform a fine Exercise in New-street Square, and from thence proceed in a Body...to...Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, to see...the Busy Body, with the Opera of Flora...for the Benefit of Mr Chapman, belonging to the said Troop

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: II: Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Poitier; IV: Scotch Dance-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; V: Tambourin-Mlle Salle

788
05 June 1731 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: There being a great Demand for the Welch Opera, we are obliged to advertise the Town, that it being now made into a whole Night's Entertainment, intituled, The Grub-Street Opera, now in Rehearsal, it cannot possibly be performed any longer with this Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of Mortimer

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Taylor

789
14 June 1731 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: We are oblig'd to defer the Grub Street Opera till further Notice. 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of Mortimer

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Taylor

790
July 1731 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The 1731 edition of The Grub Street Opera lists a cast for it, but there are no known bills which made certain that it was actually performed

Performances

791
09 August 1731 @ St. Albans Street

Event Comment: Benefit Skiddy. At the Great Room in St. Alban's Street. 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Trumpet Piece-Mr Burk Thumoth, a Youth of fourteen Years of Age

792
13 April 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Poitier, Petit-Maitre. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Tickets at Poitier's, at Mr Rainaud's, Great Suffolk Street. Receipts: money #64 6s.; tickets: #77 8s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

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

793
25 April 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Glover. Tickets at Glover's in Chandois Street. Receipts: money #27 14s. 6d.; tickets #90 15s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: II: Sicilian-Glover, Mrs Pelling; III: French Peasant Dance-Poitier; IV: Grand Dance of Ethiopians-Glover, Pelling, Newhouse, Miss LaTour, Mrs Ogden; V: Ball Dance called The Marie-; Also a Minuet-Glover, Mrs Laguerre; In Afterpiece: Hornpipe-Jones

794
09 May 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Short. Written by the late Mr Congreve. Tickets at Short's House, Milman Street. Receipts: money #26 1712s.; tickets #128 12s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Music: Instead of Act Tunes will be perform'd Select Pieces of Musick adapted to various Instruments, Being deisgn'd as a Concert Intermix'd with the Play. For theOverture: a Grand Concerto- by Dr Pepusch, in which the Kettle Drums are principal,; accompanied with Trumpets Hautboys Violin-; The Kettle Drums-Mr Benj. Baker; V: That celebrated Piece, The Water Musick-; by Mr Handel, for Trumpets, French Horns, Kettle-Drums, Hautboys. Concluding with a Preamble on the Kettle@Drums-Benj. Baker

Dance: II: Tambourin-Miss Rogers; In III: Scots Dance-Mrs Bullock; III: Two Pierrots-Poitier, Pelling; IV: Sicilian-Glover, Mrs Pelling; V: Comic Dance in the Footing Manner-Jones, Mrs Ogden, with some Additions to it, never performed before

Song: I: Mrs Wright

795
27 September 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Post, 28 Sept.: Yesterday Morning [27 Sept.] between Nine and Ten o'Clock, Robert Wilks, Esq., one of the Patentees and Managers of his Majesty's Company of Comedians, died, at his House in Bow-street, Covent-Garden

Performances

796
11 October 1732 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. Daily Advertiser, 12 Oct.: The same Day [11 Oct., the Anniversary of His Majesty's Coronation] Mr Giffard...gave a handsome Entertainment, with a Concert of Musick, to the Company of Comedians, and a large Bonfire and Liquor to the Populace, when the Healths of their Majesties, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales; the Duke, and the Princesses, were drank, with the sounding of Kettle Drums and Trumpets, and repeated Acclamations of Joy. Daily Post, 13 Oct.: Mr Fielding the Player (who keeps a Booth...during...Bartholomew Fair) gave to the Populace before his own Door in Hart-street, Bloomsbury, a Butt of the strongest Beer that could be got; also a large Bonfire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Dance: DDutch Skipper-D'Valois, Mrs Bullock; Tambourine-Miss Wherrit; Sailor's Dance-Jones

797
30 November 1732 @ Fleet Street

Event Comment: At the Old House in Crane Court, Fleet Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of Mortimer

798
07 December 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [The opening of Covent Garden Theatre.] Written by the late Mr Congreve. The Cloaths, Scenes, and Decorations entirely New. And, on Account of the great Demand for Places, the Pit and Boxes, by Desire, will be laid together at 5s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. And to prevent the Scenes being crowded, the Stage Half a Guinea. All Persons who want Places are desir'd to send to the Stage Door (the Passage from Bow-street leading to it), where Attendance will be given, and Places kept for the following Nights as usual. Receipts: #115

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

799
28 March 1733 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Poitier, Petit-Maitre. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Tickets at Poitier's at Mr Lamote's in Oxenden Street, near Leicester Fields. Receipts: money #80 15s.; tickets #71 6s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Dance: I: new Scottish Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre, Dupre, Mrs Pelling, Legarde, Mrs Ogden; II: Two Pierrots-Poitier, Nivelon; III: new Comic Dance-Nivelon, Pelling, Newhouse, Legarde, Lesac, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs Pelling, Miss Latour, Mrs Ogden, Miss Baston; V: The Judgment of Paris-Poitier, Glover, Pelling, Newhouse, Lesac, Legarde, Mrs Laguerre, Miss Latour, Miss Rogers

Music: IV: (at the Desire of several Persons of Quality) Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Poitier

800
28 March 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Rosco. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction. [Tickets at Rosco's House, Mansfield Street, gf.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Loves Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor