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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.

1326
09 January 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Robin Goodfellow

Cast
Role: Father to Colombines Actor: Leigh

Dance: I: French Peasants-Nivelon, Mlle Duval; III: La Provencale-Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: La Tambourin Matelote-Maltere, Mlle Maltere

1327
15 January 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Never Acted there before. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

Cast
Role: Colombine's Father Actor: Leigh
Role: Mother Actor: Jones

Song: In II: Songs by Mr Arne-Lowe

Dance: II: French Peasants-Nivelon, Mlle Duval; IV: La Tambourin Matelote-Maltere, Mlle Maltere

1328
29 January 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

Cast
Role: Colombine's Father Actor: Leigh
Role: Mother Actor: Jones

Dance: I: Desse; III: French Peasants-Nivelon, Mlle Duval; V: La Tambourin Matelote-Maltere, Mlle Maltere

1329
07 February 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Egerton

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

Cast
Role: Colombine's Father Actor: Leigh
Role: Mother Actor: Jones

Dance: II: French Peasants-Nivelon, Mlle Duval; IV: La Tambourin Matelote-Maltere, Mlle Maltere

1330
12 March 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Horton. Tickets at Mrs Horton's, at the Angel, in Bedford Street. Receipts: money #78; seals #81 17s. (Account Book); #160 (Rylands MS.). [Mrs Horton received a Free Benefit.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Abra Mule; Or, Love And Empire

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: LLouvre-Signora Barberini; French Peasant-Mechel; Comic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates

1331
02 April 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa. Benefit Glover. [Tickets at Glover's, in Chandos Street.] Stage as 10 March. Receipts: money #45 4s.; seals #126 17s. [In the Account Book, the space for the nightly charge is blank.] #200 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Cast
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Martin

Dance: I: French Peasants-Mechel; II: English Peasants-Glover, Mlle Mechel, Delagarde, Oates, Mrs Villeneuve, Miss Horsington; III: Scots Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland, Villeneuve, Richardson, Oates, Mrs Villeneuve; IV: Serious Ballet-Glover, Mlle Mechel; V: Louvre, Minuet-Glover, Signora Barberini

1332
07 April 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Hallam. [Tickets at Hallam's, next the Chapel, Great Queen Street. Tickets for Mullart also taken.] Receipts: money #28 17s.; seals #78 12s. (Account Book); #110 (Rylands MS.). [Hallam was charged #50 for his benefit.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies

Dance: I: The Swiss-Mechel, Mlle Mechel; IV: Comic Dance-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde; V: French Peasants-Mechel, Mlle Mechel

Song: In II: Roberts

1333
09 April 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Benefit Bridgwater. As Written by Shakespear. Receipts: money #23 17s.; seals #64 19s. (Account Book); #100 (Rylands MS.). [Bridgwater was charged #50 for his benefit.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Performance Comment: King John-Delane; Arthur-Mrs Vincent; Bastard Faulconbridge-Hale; Hubert-Bridgwater; Phillip, King of France-Ryan; Dauphin-Hallam; Pandulph-Roberts; Constance-Mrs Mullart; Blanche-Mrs Stevens; With a New Epilogue, in the Person of Shakespear (ushered in by Solemn Musick) on Occasion of the Monument erected by the Publick to his Memory.-Mr Theobald; With an exact Representation of the said Monument-.
Cast
Role: on Occasion of the Monument erected by the Publick Actor: Mr Theobald
Role: With an exact Representation of the said Monument Actor: .

Dance: LLes Matelots-Mechel, Mlle Mechel; Comic Dance-Villeneuve, Mrs Delagarde; French Peasants-Mechel, Mlle Mechel

1334
21 April 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Afterpiece Title: The Sham Conjurer

Performance Comment: As17410418, but concluding with% The Swiss-Mechel, Mlle Mechel.
Cast
Role: The Swiss Actor: Mechel, Mlle Mechel.
Role: in the Masque Les Matelots Actor: Mechell, Mlle Mechell

Dance: I: French Peasants-Mechel, Mlle Mechel

1335
05 May 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Dance: II: Wooden Shoe Dance-French Boy, lately arrived; IV: Comic Dance-Richardson, Mlle Ozanne; V: Pierots-Richardson, Delagarde

1336
25 May 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: Scots Dance-Master Morris, the first time of his appearance on this stage; IV: French Peasant-Master Morris; V: La Tambourine Matelote-Maltere, Mlle Maltere

Song: III: Blow Blow thou Winter Wind-Lowe

1337
26 September 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance: TThe Swiss-M Mechell, Mlle Mechell (the French Boy and Girl) 1st time; The Peasant-M Mechell

1338
16 January 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwrecked

Dance: I: The French Peasants-the Mechels; III: A Dutch Dance, as17411114; IV: Les Matelotes, as17411208

Song: II: Happy Pair-Beard

1339
23 January 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Play of All's Well That Ends Well is deferr'd 'till Monday next, on account of the Indisposition fo Mrs Woffington, when it will be acted, with dancing by Sg and Sga Fausan. Receipts: #40

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance: I: The French Peasants, as17420116; II: A Dutch Dance, as17411114; III: The Swiss, as17420119; In III: a Hornpipe-Phillips

1340
02 February 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwrecked

Song: I: a Ballad-Lowe; III: Happy Pair-Beard

Dance: II: The French Peasants, as17420116; IV: The Swiss, as17420119

1341
17 February 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwrecked

Song: I: Sylvia wilt thou was e thy Prime-Lowe; III: a Song with French Horns-Beard

Dance: II: The Italian Peasants, as17411205; IV: a New Dance call'd Les Pelerins Voyageur-the Mechels

1342
19 February 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All's Well That Ends Well

Song: I: a Song with French Horns-Beard

Dance: II: The Italian Peasants, as17411207; III: The Drunken Peasant, as17411029; IV: Les Pelerins Voyageur, as17420217

Ballet: V: Les Satires Puny. As17420106

1343
20 February 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All's Well That Ends Well

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

Cast
Role: Mother Actor: Barclay.
Role: Colombine's Father Actor: Leigh

Song: I: Song with French Horns-Beard; IV: Song-Beard

Dance: II: A Dutch Dance, as17411114; III: The Italian Peasants, as17411205

1344
23 February 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All's Well That Ends Well

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwrecked

Song: I: Celia has ten thousand charms-Beard; III: Song with French Horns-Beard

Dance: II: A Concerto, as17420105; IV: The Italian Peasants, as17411205

1345
26 February 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All's Well That Ends Well

Song: I: Song with French Horns-Beard; III: A Ballad-Lowe

Dance: II: Les Egyptiens, as17420224; V: New Grand Ballet, as17420224

1346
02 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Song: I: Song with French Horn-Beard

Dance: II: A Concerto, as17420105; III: The Drunken Peasant, as17411029; IV: The Italian Peasants, as17411205

1347
11 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke, and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa. Receipts: #70

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Song: I: a Song with French Horns-Beard; III: A Ballad-Lowe

Dance: II: Les Matelotes, as17411110

Ballet: V: Les Satires Puny. As17420304

1348
15 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By particular Desire. Benefit Delane. Places to be had of Bradshaw, &c. Tickets to be had at Delane's lodgings in Queen's Court, in King's St., Covent Garden. Tickets deliver'd out for Lady Jane Gray, will be taken this night. Servants will be admitted to keep places upon the stage. Receipts: #140

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Song: I: Song with French Horns-Beard; III: a Ballad-Lowe; IV: Song-Mrs Arne

Dance: II: A Concerto, as17420105; V: The Italian Peasants, as17411205

1349
16 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Song: I: Celia has Ten thousand charms-Beard; III: Bright Author of my Present Flame-Lowe; IV: Happy Pair-Lowe

Dance: II: A Concerto, as17420105; V: The French Peasants, as17420116

1350
18 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwrecked

Song: I: Celia has ten thousand Charms-Beard; IV: A Song with French Horns-Beard

Dance: III: The Swiss, as17410926