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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Gentleman"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Gentleman")') 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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7364 results for: Keyword - Mr Gentleman
We found 4804 matches on Event Comments, 2056 matches on Performance Comments, 716 matches on Performance Title, 408 matches on Author, and 1 matches on Roles/Actors.

3201
12 November 1746 @ James Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Patie And Roger; Or, The Gentle Shepherd

3202
15 January 1747 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

3203
27 January 1747 @ Red Lion Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

3204
01 April 1747 @ James Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Patie And Roger

Song: Select Songs-Cunningham

3205
09 April 1747 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: As17461231

3206
20 April 1747 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Performance Comment: Monimia-Miss Cymber her second time on any stage; Castalio-(by desire) young Gentleman that played Hastings; parts-company that played Jane/Shore see17470324.

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

3207
25 April 1747 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Diversions Of The Morning

3208
28 April 1747 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Diversions Of The Morning

3209
04 May 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Artful Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: III: Mechel, Mlle Mechel

Song: V: A Preamble on the Kettle-drums-Jo Woodbridge

3210
07 May 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman under misfortunes. Mainpiece Alter'd from Dryden by $Colley Cibber, Esq.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Song: I: By Particular Desire, The Early Horn-Lowe

3211
24 October 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple; Or, A Trip To The Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

3212
30 October 1747 @ King's Theatre

Performances

3213
05 March 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Foundling

Dance: Cooke, Anne Auretti

3214
14 March 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Woffington. As ye Curtain was rising for ye farce a Gentleman's sword was taken out of ye Scabbard & carry'd up with ye Curtain & there Hung to ye terror of those under it (least it shou'd fall) & ye Mirth of ye rest of ye Audience--a Scene man fetch'd it down (Cross). Four rows of the Pit will be rail'd into the Boxes; and the stage form'd into front and side boxes. Tickets and places of Hobson at the stage door. Receipts: #240 (Cross); house charges, #50 (Powel).This was also in her agreement to pay no more than the above sum (Powel). Cash, #84 19s. 6d.; tickets, #100 3s. (Clay MS)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: II: Tambourine-Anne Auretti; IV: New Comic Dance-Matthews, Mrs Addison; V: Dutch Dance, as17471128

3215
18 July 1748 @ Southwark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite; Or, The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor; or, The Dumb Lady Cur'd

3216
24 August 1748 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At Lee and Yeates Sen and Jun great Theatrical Booth...will be reviv'd that celebrated Droll, call'd The Unnatural Parents; or, The Fair Maid of the West. Shewing the Manner of her being forced to wander from Home, by the Cruelty of her Parents and beg her Bread; and directs her to a Nobleman's House: How she was there taken in as a Servant; and, at length, for her Beauty and modest Behaviour, married to a Gentleman of great Fortune; with her Return to her Parents, and their happy Reconciliation. Also the Comical Humours and Adventures of Trusty her Father's Man, and the three Witches. The Scenes and Cloaths are entirely new; and the Droll the same that was perform'd by Mrs Lee 15 Years ago with great Applause. Boxes: 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. First Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d. To begin each Day at Twelve o'Clock. [Notice repeated 25, 26, 27 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unnatural Parents

Dance: The original Dance-Three Wild Cats of the Wood; Between the Acts: Dancing-Adams, Mrs Ogden

Music: A Good Band of Musick

3217
10 November 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Particular Desire. [A long critical analysis of The Orphan appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine this month, admitting that it evoked compassion, but finding it deficient in "exhibiting some useful instruction."] Receipts: #130 (Cross); #109 4s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: V: Savoyards, as17480920

3218
26 December 1748 @ New Wells, London Spa, Clerkenwell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

3219
27 December 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

3220
01 March 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This month, as recorded in the Gentleman's Magazine Register of Books, was published A General History of the Stage, from its origin in Greece down to the present time. With the Memoirs of most of the principal performers that have appeared on the English and Irish Stage. With notes antient and modern, foreign, domestic, serious, comic, moral, merry, historical, and geographical. Containing many theatrical anecdotes; also several pieces of poetry never before published. Collected and digested by W. R. Chetwood, twenty years prompter to His Majesty's Company of Comedians at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. Printed for W. Owen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

3221
01 March 1749 @ The Black Bull Tavern, Pudding Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dramatic Lecture

3222
31 March 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Havard. [Stage arranged as on 7 March.] Tickets and places at Havard's House in Broad Court the upper end of Bow St., and of Hobson at the stage door. The manager of the Smock Alley theatre Dublin in order to support decayed players, has resolved to apply the whole receipts of one night every year towards raising a fund for the purpose, which is to be increased by the players allowing a small portion of their salaries to be deducted weekly. A scheme worthy the imitation of the managers and players of our theatres. -Gentleman's Magazine, March 1749, p. 238

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat

Dance: SSavoyards, as17480920

3223
03 April 1749 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Knights

3224
21 April 1749 @ Vauxhall Gardens

Event Comment: The rehearsal of Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks, by a band of 100 musicians, to an audience of above 12,000 persons.--Deutsch, Handel, p. 666., from Gentleman's Magazine, April 1749

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

3225
01 May 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Simpson, Raftor, Usher. Tickets and places of Hobson at the stage door. Receipts: #180 (Cross); charges, #63 (Powel). [This month, the Gentleman's Magazine Register of Books listed as published Remarks on Three Plays of B. Johnson, viz: The Fox, Silent Woman, and Alchymist, by James Upton.] This week will be published The Hen Peck'd Captain,...as it was intended to be acted...on Saturday last. Taken from The Campaigners; or, the pleasant Adventures at Brussels with a Preface by R. Cross, prompter (General Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: SSavoyards, as17480920