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9740 results for: Keyword - Mr Samuel French
We found 4557 matches on Event Comments, 3489 matches on Author, 1468 matches on Performance Comments, 1065 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

5451
21 December 1771 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For the Benefit of the British Lying In-Hospital for Married Women in Brownlow Street, Long Acre (Hopkins). Paid Salary list #501 13s. 6d.; Mrs Abington cloaths acct #2; Mrs S. French, 6 days #1 10s.; Mrs Weston 29 nights at 2s. 6d. per night #3 12s. 6d. Rec'd stopages #10 10s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #180 10s. 6d. Charges #84. Profit to hospital #96 10s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Performance Comment: As17711209, but to avoid confusion full cast listed: Irishman-Moody; LeBrush-Palmer; Gulwell-Packer; Harwood-J. Aickin; Williams-Ackman; Brilliant-Fawcett; Frankly-Davies; Frenchman-Baddeley; Scotsman-Love; Marjorie Moorpout-Mrs Love; New Character-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Frenchman Actor: Baddeley

5452
10 April 1772 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concerto Spirituale

Performance Comment: Part I. Addison's Hymn-(music by Handel); with a solo on the Violincello-Duport; Part II. Milton#s Morning Hymn, with a Duetto on the Hautboy and French Horn-Fisher, Ponta; Part III. Dixit Dominus, with concerto on Violin-Sga Sirmen; Her last time of performing in England. Part IV. Anthem-Negri (Theatrical Review, p. 223).
Cast
Role: with a Duetto on the Hautboy and French Actor: Fisher, Ponta

5453
27 April 1772 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Part I.Overture-Abel; Duo Violincello, Violin-Vachon, Duport; Concerto on German Flute-Wendling; Solo on Viol di Gamba-Abel; Concerto on French Horn-Ponta; Part II.Concerto Hautboy-Fischer; Concerto on Harpsichord-Hulmandel; Solo on Violincello-Duport; Concerto on Violin-Vachon; Full piece-Vachon

Performance Comment: Overture-Abel; Duo Violincello, Violin-Vachon, Duport; Concerto on German Flute-Wendling; Solo on Viol di Gamba-Abel; Concerto on French Horn-Ponta; Part II.Concerto Hautboy-Fischer; Concerto on Harpsichord-Hulmandel; Solo on Violincello-Duport; Concerto on Violin-Vachon; Full piece-Vachon.
Cast
Role: Concerto on French Horn Actor: Ponta

5454
05 February 1773 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert Of Vocal And Instrumental Music

Performance Comment: Part I, Overture in Artaserse-(Giordani); Songs-Savoi, Sga Carara, Ristorini; Concerto on the Basson-Richter, first time of performing publicly in England; Part II, Songs-Savoi, Sga Girelli, Ristorini, Millico; Concerto on the German Flute-Tacet; Concerto on the Violincello-Crosdill; Concerto on the French Horn-Spandau; Part III, Songs-Sga Carara, Sga Girelli, Millico; Concerto on the Hautboy-Fischar; Solo on the Violin-Hay; a favourite overture for two orchestras composed by Bach. a favourite overture for two orchestras composed by Bach.
Cast
Role: Concerto on the French Horn Actor: Spandau

5455
08 May 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick. Afterpiece: A new Farce never performed. Altered from Sir Charles Sedley's Piece of the same title by Dr Goldsmith. Acted only this night (playbill). [The notation on the alteration is by Kemble on the playbill. The characters are: Sourby, Octavio, Wentworth, Dancing Master, Scamper, Clarissa and Jenny. See Edition by Alice I. Perry Wood (Cambridge, Mass., 1931).] Charges #66 5s. Profit to Quick #7 6d., plus #80 from tickets (Box 100; Pit 263; Gallery 156) (Account Book). [Brief review of the Grumbler in the Westminster Magazine for May 1773: "It was several years ago translated from the French, and received this night some additional touches from the pen of Dr Goldsmith. An entertainment of one act cannot be expected to contain much. The whole merit of this is centered in one character, and perhaps in one scene."] Receipts: #73 5s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Grumbler

Dance: After the Interlude: The Whim, as17730426

Monologue: 1773 5 8 End of Play: Interlude. An Interlude by S. Foote Esq; Lady Pentweazle-Quick; Carmine-Davis

5456
12 April 1774 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bulkley. Mainpiece: A New Comedy [by a Lady] never perform'd in this Kingdom. As performed with Universal Applause at the Theatre Royal in Dublin. [The Edition of 1774 lists the Irish Actors. The characters are: Mowbray, Sir Thomas O'Shaughnesy; Admiral Swivel; Leslie; Egerton; Capt. Egerton; Issacher; Donald M'Pherson; Strap; Elfrida Audley; Henrietta Egerton; Mrs Ornel; Mrs Issacher; Jenny, a Mantua Maker, a Maid; French servants and porters. Genest suggests a casting for ten of the characters.] Charges: #66 6s. 6d. Profit to Mrs Bulkley #33 17s., plus #93 13s. from tickets Box 232; Pit 177; Gallery 91). Paid Mrs Carne half year' salary due Lady day last #15. Paid half year's water rent due Xmas last #4. Receipts: #100 3s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The South Briton

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: IV: A Double Hornpipe-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford; End I Farce: A Minuet-Aldridge, Mrs Bulkley

Monologue: Interlude.End: True Blue. As 26 March

5457
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.

5458
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

5459
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

5460
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

5461
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

5462
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

5463
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

5464
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

5465
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

5466
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

5467
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

5468
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

5469
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

5470
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

5471
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

5472
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

5473
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

5474
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

5475
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