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6552 results for: Keyword - Mr French
We found 4497 matches on Event Comments, 1443 matches on Performance Comments, 1064 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2026
16 June 1774 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Il Dilletante

Performance Comment: Parts-Reinhold, DuBellamy, Miss Wewitzer; with Imitations of the German, French, and Italian style of singing-Reinhold.

2027
13 August 1774 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Event Comment: These performers will entertain the audience with singing in the same manner as at the Synagogues. Before the Entertainment they will sing in French, and after the first part in Italian

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Quixote

2028
22 October 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: With a New Overture for the Musical Interlude. Paid 6 days salary list at #94 10s. 2d. per diem, #557 1s.; J. French on acct #5 5s.; Rec'd Stopages #18 5s. Receipts: #145 17s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Electra

Afterpiece Title: The Election

Afterpiece Title: The Note of Hand

2029
12 November 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rec'd Stopages #18 3s.; Paid Salary List #567 16s.; J. French on Acct #5 5s. Receipts: #239 5s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Oaks

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

2030
24 December 1774 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Rec'd stopages #12 6s. 6d.; Paid salary list #564 6s.; J. French on acct #5 5s.; Mrs Staggledore 3 weeks not on list #3 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

2031
31 December 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid 5 days salary list at #94 7s. 8d. per diem-#471 18s.; J. French on acct #5 5s. Receipts: #192 17s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler

Dance: II: The Grand Provencalle Dance, as17741213

2032
07 January 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rec'd stopages #14 3s.; Paid salary list #566 6s.; J. French on acct #5 5s. Receipts: #248 2s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distress'd Mother

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jacket

2033
14 January 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rec'd stopages #14 19s. 6d.; Paid salary list #567 11s.; J. French on acct #5 5s.; Miss Robins (Country Girl) on acct #20. Receipts: #199 5s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Choleric Man

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jacket

2034
28 January 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rec'd Stopages #15; Paid salary list #567 11s.; J. French on acct #5 5s. Receipts: #205 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Matilda

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jacket

2035
04 February 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid 5 days salary list #472 19s. 2d.; J. French on Acct #5 5s. Receipts: #194 7s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Oaks

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petruchio

2036
11 February 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rec'd stopages #14 7s.; Paid salary list #567 11s.; Tallow chandler's 6th bill #38 8s. 7d.; J. French on acct #5 5s. Receipts: #254 5 s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jacket

2037
18 February 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rec'd stopages #13 19s. 6d.; Paid salary list #567 11s.; J. French on acct #5 5s. Receipts: #226 10s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Braganza

Afterpiece Title: Catharine and Petruchio

2038
25 February 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rec'd stopages #14 4s. 6d. Paid Salary List #567 11s.; J. French on acct #30. Receipts: #242 12s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Braganza

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

2039
11 March 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid salary list 4 days #377 4s.; J. French on acct #5 5s.; Tallow chandler's 7th bill #39 9s. 7d. Receipts: #184 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Braganza

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jacket

2040
08 April 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted in two years. [See 13 May 1772.] Benefit for Miss Pope. Last time of performing till Easter. Part of p1t laid into boxes. Last play till Holidays. Paid 4 days salary list #378 10s. 8d.; J. French on acct #5 5s.; Tallow chandler's 8th bill #27 11s. 4d. Receipts: #287 3s. Charges: #66 3s. 6d. Profits to Miss Pope: #220 19s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

2041
22 April 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. Mainpiece: By Desire. Rec'd stopages #12 7s. Paid salary list #566 6s.; J. French on acct #5 5s. (Treasurer's Book). Mrs Smith's Benefit for 2 May advertised as Cymbeline and a new Comic Opera (in 2 Acts) call'd the Wish. The Music entirely new, the principal characters by Vernon, Bannister, Davies, Mrs Wrighten and Mrs Smith. With a New Occasional Prologue spoken by King. [But this was changed on 27 April.] Receipts: #212 1s. Charges: #66 3s. Profits to Bannister #145 18s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: II: A New Dance, call'd The Pirates-Como, Sga Crespi. [See17730422.

Entertainment: End Opera: (By particular Desire) Imitations Vocal and Rhetorical-Bannister

2042
06 May 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Messrs Grimaldi and Hurst. Rec'd from Sinking Fund #420; from Stopages #11 7s. 6d. Paid salary list #564 16s.; J. French on acct #5 5s. Receipts: #166 16s. 6d. Charges: #70 19s. Profits to Grimaldi and Hurst: #95 17s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lover

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Dance: End: The Lilliputian Camp-, not performed these 6 years

2043
13 May 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mrs Bradshaw & Mrs Johnston great Applause to the Farce (Hopkins Diary). Benefit for Mrs Bradshaw and Mrs Johnston. Afterpiece: Written by Henry Fielding, not played for 25 years. [Actually last played there 19 May 1759.] Music compiled from the works of the most eminent composers. Rec'd from Sinking Fund (2nd) #525, from Stopages #14 2s. Paid salary list #564 16s.; J. French on acct #5 5s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #114 2s. 6d. Charges: #66 12s. 6d. Profits to Mrs Bradshaw and Mrs Johnston: #47 10s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

2044
16 April 1776 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Particular Desire. A dispute...between a German Baron and a French Gentleman would have terminated in a duel, but that an Englishman of rank sent an account of the matter to Bow Street, on which the parties were desired to attend when it appeared that the Baron had insulted the Gentleman at the Opera, insisted on his fighting immediately in the street or the next morning at Hyde Park with pistols. [The Baron was charged with the responsibility of keeping the peace (Public Advertiser)]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Buona Figliuola

Dance: I: Le Retour des Matelotes, as17760319 II: La Fete du Village, as17760224

Ballet: End Opera: Astolphe. As17760312

2045
09 October 1777 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission [of the Lord Chamberlain]. Mainpiece [1st time in London; C 5, by Robert Hitchcock, 1st acted at Hull, 14 Nov. 1775]. Afterpiece: Written by George Alexander Stevens. [This was not Charles Macklin's play, The True-Born Irishman, 1st published in Jones' British Theatre, 1795, but Stevens's The French Flogged; or, The British Sailors in America.] Tickets delivered for the 23rd of September and for the Evening will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Coquette; Or The Mistakes Of The Heart

Afterpiece Title: The True-Born Irishman; or, The English Sailors and Soldiers in America

Dance: End IV: a Hornpipe-Miller

Entertainment: ImitationsEnd: Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical,-Decastro ; several new ones, and those which Foote introduced him in before their Majesties

2046
30 April 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Messink and Miss Reynolds for The Orphan will be admitted this Evening. [Afterpiece in place of The Little French Lawyer, announced on playbill of 29 Apr.] Receipts: #139 2s. (121.0; 3.0; tickets: 15.2)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Norwood Gypsies

Dance: As17771229

2047
18 September 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: With alterations [by David Garrick]. "The managers, to our astonishment, continue to play with Garrick's alterations. [The original play] is materially injured by those which Garrick adopted in compliance to the French criticks" (Morning Chronicle, 20 Sept.). [For a summary of these alterations see my Shakespeare in the Theatre, II, 188-89.] Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Ist Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be had of Fosbrook, at the Stage-door. No Money to be taken at the Stage-Door, nor any Money returned after the Curtain is drawn up. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [see 30 Oct.]. Receipts: #174 6s. 6d. (135.1.0; 38.17.6; 0.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Comus

2048
19 October 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 6 years [not acted since 28 Apr. 1773]. With new Scenes [by French and Carver (text)] and Dresses. [In the Vocal Parts the playbill lists Sga Prudom, but "at the end of the second act, Smith came forward and apologized for the absence of Signora Prudom, and begged that Mrs Wrighten might be permitted to take her part . . . Mrs Wrighten was received with applause" (London Chronicle, 20 Oct.). Sga Romanzini was from the Royal Circus.] Receipts: #123 8s. 6d. (92/15/0; 29/11/0; 1/2/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur; Or, The British Worthy

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Dance: In mainpiece by Zuchelli, Henry, Miss Armstrong, Miss M. Stageldoir. [This was the same, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances, but beginning with 11 Dec. Henry is omitted.]

Song: In mainpiece the Vocal Parts by Du-Bellamy, Williams, Fawcett, Chaplin, Phillimore, &c.; Miss Phillips, Miss Collett, Miss Wright, Miss Stageldoir, Mrs Wrighten

2049
28 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; MF 2, by Charles Stuart and John O'Keene. Text 1st published, unauthorized, Dublin: For the Booksellers [1783]. Prologue by George Colman, the elder (O'Keeffe, I, 140)]: With a new Overture by Dr Arnold. With Italian, French, Irish, Scotch, Welsh and English

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Separate Maintenance

Afterpiece Title: GRETNA GREEN

Music: Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre

Song: As17830613

2050
18 March 1784 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for D'Auberval, ballet-master. Opera: An entirely new Species of Entertainment, after the French style [1st time; ser 3, by Antonio Andrei]. The Music entirely new, composed by Rauzzini. [Libretto (H. Reynell, 1784) is entitled Alina; o sia, La Regina di Golconda.] The Scenery and Decorations devised and painted by Novosielski. The Dresses in character, and entirely new by Lupino. Tickets, half a guinea each, to be had of D'Auberval, No. 5, Great Pultney-street, Golden-square. To prevent all manner of confusion, the Subscribers are most respectfully entreated to give early notice, addressed as above, of their intention concerning their Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Regina Di Golconda

Dance: Three new ballets composed by D'Aubcrval. End of Act I Ballet [of Warriors] by Lepicq, Henry, Zuchelli, the two Miss Simonets, Mme Theodore; End of Act II Dance [of Shepherds] by Lepicq, Mme Simonet, D'Aubcrval (1st appearance), Mme Rossi, Vestris [Jun.], Mme Theodore; End of Opera The Four Ages of Man, in which a Pas de Trois of Chinese by Henry, Zuchelli, Blake. Childhood-the two Miss Simonets; Youth-Slingsby and Mme Theodore; Manhood-Lepicq, Mme Rossi, Vestris [Jun.]; Old Age-D'Auberval and Mme Simonet, who will dance to the celebrated Musette of Handel. To conclude with a Pas de Huit, in a stile entirely new, by the Couples who represent the Four Ages