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13703 results for: Keyword - John French
We found 11035 matches on Author, 1995 matches on Performance Comments, 1542 matches on Event Comments, 883 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

11251
03 April 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Related Works
Related Work: Venus and Adonis Author(s): Dr. John Blow

Dance: As17151122

11252
18 November 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Related Works
Related Work: Venus and Adonis Author(s): Dr. John Blow

Dance: Dancing proper to the Masque-delaGarde, delaGarde's Two Sons, Moreau, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Moreau

11253
20 November 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Related Works
Related Work: Venus and Adonis Author(s): Dr. John Blow

Dance: As17181024

11254
17 February 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Related Works
Related Work: Venus and Adonis Author(s): Dr. John Blow

Dance: As17190209

11255
02 April 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Related Works
Related Work: Venus and Adonis Author(s): Dr. John Blow

Song: Mrs Chambers; The Play of Love-Leveridge

11256
12 April 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Related Works
Related Work: The Pilgrim Author(s): John Fletcher

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Related Works
Related Work: Venus and Adonis Author(s): Dr. John Blow

Song: Singing in Italian-Rochetti

Music: Solo on Bass Viol-Sig Chelleri, being the first Time of his appearing on the English Stage

11257
21 March 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Related Works
Related Work: The Comical Gallant: or, The Amours of Sir John Falstaffe Author(s): John Dennis

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Related Works
Related Work: Venus and Adonis Author(s): Dr. John Blow

11258
15 April 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder Or A Woman Keeps A Secret

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Related Works
Related Work: Venus and Adonis Author(s): Dr. John Blow

Song: II: The Smiling Hour by Handel-Mrs Storer; III: From Rosie Bowers by Henry Purcel-Mrs Storer

11259
21 May 1701 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: English Italian and French Music-John Abell

11260
26 December 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: Cassander Actor: Johnson
Related Works
Related Work: The Amazon Queen; or, The Amours of Thalestris to Alexander the Great Author(s): John Weston
Related Work: Alexander the Great Author(s): John Philip Kemble

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Dance: MMuzette-French Girl; Tambourine-French Girl; Wooden Shoe Dance-French Boy; French Peasants-French Girl and Boy

11261
26 March 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Letourdy

Afterpiece Title: Arlequin Sauvage

Music: Several Concertoes, particularly a Grand Concerto with French Horns and Trumpets; and another with one French Horn, the French Horn part by Mr Charles

11262
10 March 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

Dance: I: Grand Ballet-Desse, Miss Oates; II: French Peasant-French Boy and Girl; III: Miller and His Wife-French Boy and Girl; IV: Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; V: Grecian Sailors-Glover

11263
18 March 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Parting Lovers

Dance: I: French Peasant-French Boy and Girl; III: Miller and His Wife-French Boy and Girl; IV: Scots Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland

Song: II: Leveridge, Salway

11264
May 1696 @ May Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Williams Happy Deliverance And Glorious Triumph Over His Enemies Or The Consultation Of The Pope Devil French King And The Grand Turk With The Whole Form Of The siege Of Namurv And The Humours Of A renegade French man And brandy Jean With The Conceits Of A scaramouch And harlequin

11265
23 August 1703 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

Dance: Dancing on the Ropes , after the French and Italian Fashion-a Company of the finest Performers that ever yet have been seen in the whole World; For in the same Booth will be seen the two Famous French Maidens , so much admir'd in all Places and Countries where ever they come, (especially in May-Fair last) where they gain'd the highest Applause from all the Nobility and Gentry, for their wonderful Performance on the Rope, both with and without a Pole....To which is added; Vaulting on the High/Rope-; Tumbling on the Stage-; As also Vaulting on two Horses, on the great Stage, at once-

11266
06 September 1718 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jepthahs Rash Vow Or The Virgin Sacrifice

Entertainment: And to give a general Satisfaction to the Town, Mr Penkethman has hir'd Dance after the New French Mode-the Dancing-Dogs lately arriv'd from France, which have been receiv'd both at Hampton-Court and at Richmond, as well as at most Courts of Europe, with wonderful Applause, to perform on his Stage; their Dresses as well as their Dances being entirely after the New French Mode, and only, at the common Prices of the Droll

11267
20 March 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Overture for French Horns, Hautboys, and Violins by Gasperini-; Three Airs-Mrs Robinson; Concerto by Corelli-Castrucci, Claudio, Pepo; Three Airs-Mrs Robinson; Solo for Hautboy-Kytch; Cantata by Handel-Mrs Robinson; New Concerto with French Horns by Handel-; Three Airs-Mrs Robinson

11268
07 May 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Dance: A French Boy of 11 Years of Age, lately arrived from Paris, who also will perform; several Pieces of Musick on the Bass Viol-A French Boy

11269
02 November 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Dance: SShepherd and Shepherdess-Salle, Mlle Salle; Spanish Entry-LeSac, Miss LaTour; French Peasant-Nivelon, Mrs Bullock; French Sailor and Wife-Salle, Mlle Salle

11270
08 November 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Soldiers Fortune

Related Works
Related Work: The Touchstone of Invention; or, The Soldier's Fortune Author(s): John Brownsmith

Dance: PPolonese-Lally, Mrs Wall; Shepherd and Shepherdess-LeSac, Miss LaTour; French Peasant-Nivelon, Mrs Bullock; French Sailor and Wife-Salle, Mlle Salle

11271
03 January 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperor Of The Moon

Dance: Salle, Dupre, Lally, Nivelon, Mlle Salle, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Wall, Mrs Anderson; particularly French Sailor-Salle; French Peasant-Nivelon; Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock

11272
13 April 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Related Works
Related Work: The Country Wife Author(s): John Lee

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

11273
07 February 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): John Hawkesworth

Dance: WWooden Shoe Dance in the Character of a Clown-Nivelon; French Sailor and his Wife-Salle, Mlle Salle; French Peasant-Poitier, Mrs Bullock

11274
17 April 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew Of Venice

Song: TThe Genius of England-Salway

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Nivelon, Poitier; French Peasant-Poitier, Mrs Bullock; French Sailor and Wife-Salle, Mlle Salle

11275
16 January 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Dance: Salle, Moreau, Pelling, Newhouse, Lanyon, DuPre Jr, DelaGarde Jr, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs Moreau, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Ogden, Miss LaTour

Music: A Piece of Musick-; accompanied on Two French Horns-Joachim Frederic Creta , who will blow the First and Second Treble on Two French Horns, in the same Manner as if Two Persons: Being the first Time of his appearing in Publick, since his Arrival in Great-Britain