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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.

1751
29 May 1735 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

1752
16 April 1736 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Aston and a Gentleman under Misfortune. Afterpiece: A new Pastoral. Written by Mr Aston

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: Cleora; or, The Amorous Old Shepherdess

Dance: Hornpipe by Ferguson. Tambourine by Miss Rogers

Song: Cuckoo Solo by Master Oates. Mock Italian Song by E. Roberts

1753
30 April 1736 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

1754
26 May 1736 @ Chelsea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Death Of Julius Caesar (in French)

Afterpiece Title: The Forced Marriage (in English)

1755
28 May 1736 @ Chelsea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Death Of Julius Caesar (in French)

Afterpiece Title: The Forced Marriage (in English)

1756
08 January 1737 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

1757
17 March 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

1758
25 April 1737 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sabrina

1759
02 May 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman under Misfortunes. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: I: Drunken Peasant-Philips; III: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; V: Dutchman and Frow-Philips, Miss Brett

1760
08 May 1739 @ Chelsea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'enfant Prodigue

Afterpiece Title: Squire Lubberly

1761
08 February 1743 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: We are inform'd that Mr Giffard, as an Expedient to recover, in some Degree, the Loss he has sustained by his late Undertaking in [lif] has apply'd to the late Patentee of the Theatre@Royal in Drury@Lane, for the favour of his Appearance in the Character of Lothario (in which it is observable, he amus'd himself some years since to very numerous and polite Audiences) with which Request the said Gentleman has very generously complied

Performances

1762
22 March 1743 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: I: a Serious Dance-Mlle Roland; III: Sailor's Dance-Delamayne, Mlle Roland; V: (by Desire) a Minuet, Louvre-Delamayne, Mlle Roland. [Dances not in Daily Advertiser.

1763
09 April 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Music: II: Concerto on German Flute-Burk Thumoth

Song: IV: Stella and Flavia-Beard

1764
11 April 1743 @ Sadler's Wells

Event Comment: On Saturday Morning early died, after a few days Illness, Mr Francis Forcer, Master of Sadler's Wells, near Islington. He was a kind and indulgent Husband, a tender and loving Father, a generous Friend, and a Good Master. In short he had all the necessary Qualifications to render a Person a Compleat Gentleman, which makes his death universally lamented by all those who had the pleasure of his Acquaintance. We hear the usual Diversions will be carried on by his Widow

Performances

1765
18 May 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: III: Song-Lowe

Dance: II: Tyrolean Dance, as17421129; IV: Sicilian Peasant, as17430310

1766
09 December 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

1767
02 April 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Dr Clancy. "The Day returns, but not to me returns," Milton. This Gentleman being deprived of the Advantages of following his profession; and as the writing he had produced for the stage could not be brought out this season, the Master of the Playhouse has been so kind as to favour him with a Benefit Night: It is therefore hoped, that as this will be the first instance of any person laboring under so heavy a deprivation, performing on the stage, the Novelty, as well as the Unhappyness of his case, will engage the favour and protection of a British Audience. Note: Tickets to be had at the Temple-Exchange Coffee House in Fleet Street; Tom's Coffee House in Cornhill; St. James Coffee House, St. James's Street; Child's Coffee House, St. Paul's Churchyard and the Chapter Coffee House in Paternoster Row. Places for Boxes to be Taken at the Stage Door of the Theatre. [General Advertiser, 4 April, publish'd a fifty-six Prologue (licensed) Intended for Oedipus, acted for the Benefit of the Very Ingenious Dr Clancy, written by Mr Lockman.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus, King Of Thebes

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

1768
01 May 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Flora; or, Hob in the Well

Dance: GGrand Ballet, as17440423

1769
11 December 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Song: Lowe, Miss Edwards

1770
04 February 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: The two Masters Granier, Miss Granier

1771
01 April 1745 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Concert

1772
03 April 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Whereas it was first intended to lay the pit and boxes together, for the better accommodation of the ladies, who are desirous of having their places kept, the boxes will be enclosed as usual. -General Advertiser. The songs added to the farcical opera call'd the What D'Ye Call It to be performed tomorrow night at cg, were wrote some years ago by a Gentleman since deceased, whose pieces of the Lyric kind have been often admir'd by people of Taste; there is a pleasing variety in them, and they are thought to be well adapted to the several characters in which they are introduced. The Music, which is entirely new, and compos'd by Mr Lampe, is allow'd by all who have heard it, to be an agreeable mixture of humour, spirit, and harmony. -Daily Advertiser. General Advertiser, 4 April: Yesterday was a rehearsal of The What D'Ye Call It

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Joseph

1773
15 May 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Banks, Connor, Carney, and Trott [Lobby Doorkeeper]. Tickets deliver'd by a Gentleman under Misfortunes, Mr Bianchini, and others will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Schoolboy

Dance: As17450514

1774
28 September 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Related Works
Related Work: The Tobacconist Author(s): Francis Gentleman

Song: I: Lowe; IV: Colin and Phebe-Lowe, Mrs Arne; God Save our Noble King by Arne-Mrs Cibber, Beard, Reinhold (Deutsch, Handel, p. 623)

Dance: II: Grand Serious Dance-; V: Grand Comic Dance, as17450926

1775
31 March 1747 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens