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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.

776
26 July 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ways And Means

Cast
Role: French Waiter Actor: Besford
Related Works
Related Work: Ways and Means; or, A Trip to Dover Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

777
07 August 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ways And Means

Cast
Role: French Waiter Actor: Besford
Related Works
Related Work: Ways and Means; or, A Trip to Dover Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: A Quarter of an Hour before Dinner

Afterpiece Title: The Gnome

Cast
Role: The other Characters Actor: Mathews, Chapman, Painter, Lyons, Abbot, Farley, Ledger, Rowson, Stannard, Clarke, Sands, Hobler, Aylmer, Mrs Love, Miss Francis, Mrs Lefevre, Miss Palmer, Mrs Invill, Miss Rowson, Mrs Gaudry A MS list of cast in Enthoven assigns the Clown-Degville
Role: assigns the Clown Actor: Degville
Role: Recruiting Serjeant Actor: Mathews
Role: Nuns Actor: Miss Francis, Mrs Invill, the 2 Miss Simonets

778
01 September 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Seeing is Believing and The Minor [both advertised on playbill of 30 Aug.] are obliged to be deferred on Account of the Indisposition of Bannister Jun

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Cast
Role: French Waiter Actor: Besford

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Afterpiece Title: A Mogul Tale

Cast
Role: The Mogul Actor: Williamson

Dance: End 1st piece: Dance-[probably The British Soldier Triumphant, as17880813

779
05 September 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Son-in-law

Cast
Role: French Waiter Actor: Besford

Afterpiece Title: A Quarter of an Hour before Dinner

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

780
11 September 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Cast
Role: French Waiter Actor: Besford

Afterpiece Title: The Suicide

Related Works
Related Work: The Suicide Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Dance: End I 2nd piece: The Minuet de la Cour, as17880904

781
13 September 1788 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Son-in-law

Cast
Role: French Waiter Actor: Besford

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

782
13 November 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: the Cuckoo Song Actor: Rosalind.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Cast
Role: French Gentlemen Actor: Lamash, Burton
Role: French Ladies Actor: Miss Barnes, Miss Tidswell, Mrs Heard

Dance: End I: Jamie's Return-the young D'Egvilles, Miss DeCamp

Song: As17881007

783
18 April 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marian

Cast
Role: Metheglin Actor: Edwin

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Cast
Role: The Characters Actor: _Aickin.
Role: The Vocal Parts Actor: _Blanchard.
Role: Aladin's Mother Actor: Mrs Davenett

Afterpiece Title: The Little Hunchback

Cast
Role: The Hunchback Actor: Quick
Role: French Doctor Actor: Cubitt

784
22 April 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosina

Cast
Role: Father Foigard Actor: Johnstone

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Cast
Role: The Characters Actor: _Aickin.
Role: The Vocal Parts Actor: _Blanchard.
Role: Aladin's Mother Actor: Mrs Davenett

Afterpiece Title: The Little Hunchback

Cast
Role: The Hunchback Actor: Quick
Role: French Doctor Actor: Cubitt

785
04 May 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Farmer

Performance Comment: As17890423*a1789 05 04 cg The Death of Captain Cook. As17890413.
Cast
Role: Father Foigard Actor: Johnstone

Afterpiece Title: The Little Hunchback

Cast
Role: The Hunchback Actor: Quick
Role: French Doctor Actor: Cubitt

786
10 June 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Cast
Role: French Valet Actor: Wewitzer

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Dance: As17890512

Song: End II: Poor Jack!-Darley

787
13 June 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Hall, Furkins, Lamp, Pilborough, Plank, Anselmo, Byrne, Copland, Rye, Mrs Arne, Mrs Linton, Jealous, Brereton, Varley, Doser, Loyde, the Band will be admitted. Receipts: #256 (21.10; 2.7; tickets: 232.3)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The Little Hunchback

Cast
Role: The Hunchback Actor: Quick
Role: French Doctor Actor: Cubitt

788
06 October 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Afterpiece Title: The Little Hunchback

Cast
Role: The Hunchback Actor: Quick
Role: French Doctor Actor: Cubitt

789
13 October 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Related Works
Related Work: Inkle and Yarico Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: The Little Hunchback

Cast
Role: The Hunchback Actor: Quick
Role: French Doctor Actor: Cubitt

Dance: End II: a new Negro Dance-

790
14 October 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist

Related Works
Related Work: The Female Dramatist Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Cast
Role: The Hunchback Actor: Quick
Role: French Doctor Actor: Cubitt

791
27 October 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: "Edwin condescended to make a buffoon of himself [in The Dramatist], for all he had to do was to amuse the audience with his knob of hair, and his versicolor'd knee strings. It is cruel to expose a great actor in such unmeaning characters" (Prompter, 28 Oct.). Receipts: #177 1s. 6d. (166.15.6; 10.6.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist

Related Works
Related Work: The Female Dramatist Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Cast
Role: The Hunchback Actor: Quick
Role: French Doctor Actor: Cubitt

792
28 October 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Received of the Proprietor of the Richmond Theatre for [permission to act] The Little Hunchback #10. Receipts: #170 1s. 6d. (166.18.0; 3.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood; Or, Sherwood Forest

Afterpiece Title: The Little Hunchback

Cast
Role: The Hunchback Actor: Quick
Role: French Doctor Actor: Cubitt

793
09 November 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Cast
Role: The Hunchback Actor: Quick
Role: French Doctor Actor: Cubitt

Song: Juliet's Funeral Procession-; Dirge-; Vocal Parts, as17890914, but W. _Thompson, Duffey, Mrs _Powell

794
18 November 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. To prevent inconvenience, Ladies and Gentlemen are requested to be early at the Theatre-and to order their Servants to keep Places at Four o'Clock. Receipts: #452 14s. 6d. (438.16.0; 13.18.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist

Related Works
Related Work: The Female Dramatist Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Cast
Role: The Hunchback Actor: Quick
Role: French Doctor Actor: Cubitt

795
14 December 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Receipts: #168 14s. (161.3; 7.11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Cast
Role: The Hunchback Actor: Quick
Role: French Doctor Actor: Cubitt

796
28 January 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Cast
Role: Host of the Garter Actor: Thompson

Afterpiece Title: The Child of Nature

Cast
Role: The Hunchback Actor: Quick
Role: French Doctor Actor: Cubitt

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Chaplet

Dance: As17891221

797
04 March 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist

Related Works
Related Work: The Female Dramatist Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Cast
Role: Lieutenant of the Marines Actor: Ratchford
Role: Emai Actor: Miss Francis. Part I. A Nuptial Procession, with the Performance of the Marriage Ceremony according to the Custom observed at O'Whyee. The Manner of Combat between two Natives. Part II. The Arrival of the Resolution. The Disembarkation of the English, with the Ceremonies observed at entering into a Treaty of Peace with the Natives. A Preparation for a Human Sacrifice. The Assassination of Captain Cook. Part III. A Representation of the Naval and Military Honours observed on erecting a Pile to the Memory of Capt. Cook, by the Officers of the Resolution. The Ceremony performed on the same Occasion, according to the Manner of the Natives of O'Whyee. To conclude with a Representation of a Burning Mountain.

Afterpiece Title: The Little Hunchback

Cast
Role: The Hunchback Actor: Quick
Role: French Doctor Actor: Cubitt

798
09 March 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist

Related Works
Related Work: The Female Dramatist Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Cast
Role: Lieutenant of the Marines Actor: Ratchford
Role: Emai Actor: Miss Francis. Part I. A Nuptial Procession, with the Performance of the Marriage Ceremony according to the Custom observed at O'Whyee. The Manner of Combat between two Natives. Part II. The Arrival of the Resolution. The Disembarkation of the English, with the Ceremonies observed at entering into a Treaty of Peace with the Natives. A Preparation for a Human Sacrifice. The Assassination of Captain Cook. Part III. A Representation of the Naval and Military Honours observed on erecting a Pile to the Memory of Capt. Cook, by the Officers of the Resolution. The Ceremony performed on the same Occasion, according to the Manner of the Natives of O'Whyee. To conclude with a Representation of a Burning Mountain.
Role: The Hunchback Actor: Quick
Role: French Doctor Actor: Cubitt

Afterpiece Title: The Little Hunchback

Cast
Role: The Hunchback Actor: Quick
Role: French Doctor Actor: Cubitt

799
15 March 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist

Related Works
Related Work: The Female Dramatist Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Cast
Role: Lieutenant of the Marines Actor: Ratchford
Role: Emai Actor: Miss Francis. Part I. A Nuptial Procession, with the Performance of the Marriage Ceremony according to the Custom observed at O'Whyee. The Manner of Combat between two Natives. Part II. The Arrival of the Resolution. The Disembarkation of the English, with the Ceremonies observed at entering into a Treaty of Peace with the Natives. A Preparation for a Human Sacrifice. The Assassination of Captain Cook. Part III. A Representation of the Naval and Military Honours observed on erecting a Pile to the Memory of Capt. Cook, by the Officers of the Resolution. The Ceremony performed on the same Occasion, according to the Manner of the Natives of O'Whyee. To conclude with a Representation of a Burning Mountain.
Role: The Hunchback Actor: Quick
Role: French Doctor Actor: Cubitt

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

800
08 April 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Related Works
Related Work: Inkle and Yarico Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: The Little Hunchback

Cast
Role: The Hunchback Actor: Quick
Role: French Doctor Actor: Cubitt

Dance: End II: As17891013; End: The Guardian Outwitted (1st time at this theatre)-Byrne, Boyce, Ratchford, the two Miss Simonets. [This was 1st performed at the king's, 11 Jan. 1783, as Le Tuteur Trompe.

Performance Comment: [This was 1st performed at the king's, 11 Jan. 1783, as Le Tuteur Trompe.]