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2134 results for: Keyword - the French
We found 1256 matches on Roles/Actors, 561 matches on Performance Title, 446 matches on Event Comments, 329 matches on Performance Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

576
30 August 1770 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Cast
Role: French Herald Actor: Saunders

Afterpiece Title: hay Miss in Her Teens

Dance: hay End of Play: The Cowkeeper, as17700521

577
04 May 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: French Cook Actor: Holtom
Role: The Dances Actor: Hamoir, Miss Valois.

Entertainment: End: The Cries of London, last time this season-Shuter

578
13 May 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: French Cook Actor: Holtom
Role: The Dances Actor: Hamoir, Miss Valois.

Dance: IV: Comic Dance, as17701017

579
15 May 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: French Cook Actor: Holtom
Role: The Dances Actor: Hamoir, Miss Valois.

Dance: II: Double Hornpipe-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford; V: The Fingalian Dance-Miss Besford. [See17591102.

Performance Comment: Blurton, Miss Besford; V: The Fingalian Dance-Miss Besford. [See17591102.]See17591102.]
Cast
Role: The Fingalian Dance Actor: Miss Besford.

Music: III: Concerto on Trumpet-Mas. Green (Scholar to Mr Jones)

580
21 May 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Cast
Role: With the Triumphal Entry of Alexander Actor: into Babylon.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: French Cook Actor: Holtom
Role: The Dances Actor: Hamoir, Miss Valois.

581
27 May 1771 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: French Cook Actor: Holtom
Role: The Dances Actor: Hamoir, Miss Valois.

582
29 November 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Cast
Role: Othello Actor: a Gentleman, first appearance any stage

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: French Cook Actor: Holtom
Role: The Dances Actor: Blurton, Miss Valois, Miss Capon.

583
30 November 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Golden Pippin oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of Indisposition of Mattocks. Receipts: #139 6s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: incidental to the opera Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: French Cook Actor: Holtom
Role: The Dances Actor: Blurton, Miss Valois, Miss Capon.

584
01 December 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Paid 1 year's Assurance on #3,000 in the Royal Exchange Office to 15 Dec. 1774, #6 (Account Book). [Query: The insurance policy probably extended to 15 Dec. 1775?] Receipts: #105 3s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: French Cook Actor: Holtom
Role: The Dances Actor: Blurton, Miss Valois, Miss Capon.

585
06 December 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: French Cook Actor: Holtom
Role: The Dances Actor: Blurton, Miss Valois, Miss Capon.

Dance: III: The Fingalian Dance, as17730929; Double Hornpipe, as17730929

586
10 December 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: French Cook Actor: Holtom
Role: The Dances Actor: Blurton, Miss Valois, Miss Capon.

587
14 December 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The New Tragedy of King Henry II, is still oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of Indisposition of Mrs Hartley. Receipts: #133 19s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: French Cook Actor: Holtom
Role: The Dances Actor: Blurton, Miss Valois, Miss Capon.

588
15 December 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: French Cook Actor: Holtom
Role: The Dances Actor: Blurton, Miss Valois, Miss Capon.

Dance: III: The Highland Reel, as17731112

589
27 December 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Entertainment of The Harlequin Dr Faustus, will be laid aside after tomorrow, on account of the preparation for the New Entertainment. Paid Mrs Day (habit maker) #2 12s. 6d., and Rowson for swords &c. #2 7s. 6d. Receipts: #184 14s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: French Cook Actor: Holtom
Role: The Dances Actor: Blurton, Miss Valois, Miss Capon.

590
28 December 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Pantomime will be laid aside after this Night on Account of the preparation for the New entertainment. Receipts: #169 7s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Cast
Role: French Cook Actor: Holtom
Role: The Dances Actor: Blurton, Miss Valois, Miss Capon.

591
12 November 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Cast
Role: French Gentleman Actor: Fawcett

Afterpiece Title: A ChristmasTale

Cast
Role: The Other Characters Actor: Hurst, Burton, Lamash, R. Palmer, Wright, Fawcett, Kear, Master Pulley, Miss Platt, Mrs Scott, Miss Jarratt, Edition of 1776

Dance: Masquerade Scene,Dancing, as17761026Singing-_

592
19 February 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Hamlet [announced on playbill of 18 Feb.] is obliged to be deferred on account of the Indisposition of a principal Performer. Afterpiece [1st time; CO 3, by Abraham Portal. Larpent MS 445; not published]: The Overture and Music [by Thomas Linley Jun.] entirely new. With New Scenes, Dresses and Decorations. Words of the Songs, Chorusses, &c. to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 19 Feb. 1778: This Day at Three will be published the Songs in The Cady of Bagdad (6d.). Receipts: #180 0s. 6d. (130.9.0; 49.7.6; 0.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Cast
Role: French Gentleman Actor: Chaplin

Afterpiece Title: The Cady of Bagdad

Dance: In II: Masquerade Scene Dancing-Blurton, Henry; End III: The Provincalle, as17780128

Song: Masquerade Scene As17771031

593
18 May 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth

Cast
Role: French Soldier Actor: Wewitzer
Role: Catherine Actor: Mrs Mattocks

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Cast
Role: Mother Shipton Actor: Mr Baker
Role: other Characters Actor: Wewitzer, Jones, Smith, Thompson, Stevens, Ledger, Mrs White, Mrs Poussin.
Related Works
Related Work: Mother Shipton Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Song: As17780511

594
05 January 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Lord of the Manor Actor: Fearon

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: French Officer Actor: Wewitzer

595
06 January 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Cast
Role: Lord of the Manor Actor: Fearon

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: French Officer Actor: Wewitzer

596
07 January 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Percy

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: French Officer Actor: Wewitzer

597
08 January 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: French Officer Actor: Wewitzer

598
09 January 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: French Officer Actor: Wewitzer

599
11 January 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: French Officer Actor: Wewitzer

600
12 January 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Buthred

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Cast
Role: French Officer Actor: Wewitzer