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1296 results for: Keyword - Dan. French
We found 576 matches on Performance Title, 452 matches on Event Comments, 331 matches on Performance Comments, 5 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.

1
02 April 1736 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Dan French of Hampstead. [The bill has a long song about the performance, written presumably by Dan French. For a full account of the expenses of this performance, see BM Add MSS 32, 251, p. 308.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Performance Comment: Oroonoko-Walker; Aboan-Stephens; Daniel-Hippisley; Governor-Paget; Blandford-Chapman; Stanmore-Aston; Driver-Mullart; Jack Stanmore-Houghton; Hotman-Bencraft; Imoinda-Miss Bincks; Widow Lackit-Mrs Mullart; Charlotte-Mrs Kilby; Lucy-Miss Horsington .
Cast
Role: Daniel Actor: Hippisley

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Performance Comment: Flora-Miss Norsa; Betty-Mrs Kilby; Hob-Dan French; Roger-Sibblis .
Cast
Role: Hob Actor: Dan French

Song: English Roast Beef by Leveridge. Mock Italian Song by E. Roberts

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06 May 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Dan French

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Performance Comment: Careless-Giffard; Blunt-W. Giffard; Ruth-Mrs Roberts; Day-Penkethman; Mrs Day-Mrs Wetherilt; Abel-Woodward; Obadiah-Lyon; Story-Hamilton; Bookseller-Norris; Arbella-Mrs Hamilton; Mrs Chat-Miss Tollett; Teague-Dan French.
Cast
Role: Teague Actor: Dan French.

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Performance Comment: Young Hob-Dan French; Friendly-Kelly; Sir Thomas-Lyon; Old Hob-Rosco; Dick-Norris; Flora-Miss Jones; Betty-Miss Tollett.
Cast
Role: Young Hob Actor: Dan French

Dance: II: Clown-Vallois; V: Two Pierrots-Vallois, Delagarde

Song: III: Miss Jones

3
08 April 1735 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Performance Comment: Timothy Peascod (by particular Desire)-Dan French .
Cast
Role: Timothy Peascod Actor: Dan French

Dance: Pigmalion by Glover, Lally, Mlle Salle. Scot's Dance, as17350315

Performance Comment: Scot's Dance, as17350315.

4
15 March 1737 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue; or, The Devil in the Wine Cellar

Performance Comment: Sir Timothy Tough-Hippisley; Sprightly-Houghton; Cut'em-James; Toby-Salway; Leonora-Miss Bincks; Robin-Dan French.
Cast
Role: Robin Actor: Dan French.

Dance: I: Comic Dance-Nivelon, Mrs LeBrun; II: Comic Dance-Nivelon, Lalauze, Mrs Laguerre, Miss LeBrun; In III: Hornpipe-Ferguson; End Afterpiece: Glover's Dance of Sailors-

Song: V: As I saw Fair Clara-Beard, Salway

5
20 April 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mechel, Mlle Mechel (the French Boy and Girl). Afterpiece: a new Pantomime Entertainment. [Tickets at Mechel's in Newport Street.] Receipts: money #70 8s. 6d.; seals #71 14s. (Account Book); #150 (Rylands MS.). [The two dancers were charged #60 for their benefit. This is the last entry in the incomplete Account Book.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Barber

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Master Ferg; Colombine-Mlle Mechel; Petit Maitre-Miss Woffington; Drawer-Little French Boy; Servant to Colombine-Miss Bellamy, who never appeared on any stage before; Pierot-Mechel Jr.
Cast
Role: Drawer Actor: Little French Boy

Dance: I: Concerto-Mlle Mechel; II: Minuet, French Rigadoon-Mechel the Father, who never appeared in any theatre in England, Mlle Mechel the Daughter; Minuet-Mechel the Son, Miss Polly Woffington, the first time of her appearing on the stage; IV: The Metamorphoses of the Windmills-Mechel, Mlle Mechel, Miss Woffington, Master Ferg, a little French Boy; lately come from France. End Afterpiece: A Wooden Shoe dance called Les Sabotiers de Piemont-Mechel Sr, Mechel Jr., Mlle Mechel, little French Boy

Performance Comment: End Afterpiece: A Wooden Shoe dance called Les Sabotiers de Piemont-Mechel Sr, Mechel Jr., Mlle Mechel, little French Boy.
Cast
Role: A Wooden Shoe dance called Les Sabotiers de Pie Actor: Mechel Sr, Mechel Jr., Mlle Mechel, little French Boy.

6
26 May 1794 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Wild, prompter. 1st piece: Not acted these 20 years; altered from Dryden (by Joseph George Holman (Not. Dram.)]. 2nd piece [Ist time; M.INT 1, probably by John Cartwright Cross. MS: Larpent 1028; not published]. 3rd piece: In which an Engagement between an English and a French Man of War, a Shipwreck, and a Grand Military Procession as it pass'd, when the French Colours taken by the British Army were conveyed from St. James's to St. Paul's Cathedral [on 17 May 1794]. The above Procession is represented by Moving Figures, in which the Horse and Foot Guards, the Band of Music, the French Colours, &c. are seen to pass in the exact order they appeared on that memorable occasion. Morning Herald, 17 May: Tickets to be had of Wild, No. 46, Drury-lane. Receipts: #293 2s. 6d. (112/17/6; 14/2/0; tickets: 166/3/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian

Performance Comment: Don Sebastian-Pope; Muley Moluch-Harley; Muley Zeydan-Middleton; Don Antonio-Lewis; Abdallah-Fawcett; Don Alvarez-Thompson; M ustapha-Quick; Dorax-Holman//Morayma-Mrs Mattocks; Johayma-Mrs Henley; Almeyda-Mrs Pope .
Cast
Role: Muley Zeydan</a> Actor: Middleton

Afterpiece Title: THE NEW DIVERTISEMENT

Performance Comment: Cast not listed. [Larpent MS lists the parts: Palate, Fieldtree, Ensign Hardy//Patty, Jenny.] Written to introduce the following favorite Songs: Mary's Dream, The moon had climbed the highest hill (composed by Ralph [recte Relfe]), by Miss Poole; The Vestry Dinner, Churchwarden I have been (written by Cross, composed by Reeve), by Rees; The High Mettled Racer, See the course throng'd with gazers (composed by Dibdin), by Incledon (1st time); The Gipsey Ballad, A wand'ring Gipsey, Sir, am I (words and melody by Peter Pindar, Esq. [pseud. for John Wolcot], accompaniments by Shield), by Mrs Clendining; Kitty Grogan, Tho' I'm no Dancing Master (written by Collins, composed by Reeve), by Johnstone; The Storm, Cease, rude Boreas (written by George Alexander Stevens), by Incledon; [Auld] Robin Gray, Young Jamie lov'd me well, by Mrs Clendining; From morn till night I take my glass, by Incledon and Johnstone; Vo sol cando (composed by Vinci), by Miss Poole; The Triumph of Wine, What tho' from Venus Cupid sprung (composed by Dibdin), by Johnstone; Father, Mother and Suke (composed by Dibdin), by Fawcett. To conclude with the following Selection of Catches and Glees from Harrison and Knyvett's Vocal Concert: as17940523, but God preserve his Majesty in place of Water parted from the sea .

Afterpiece Title: THE SHIPWRECK; or, French Ingratitude

Performance Comment: Cast not listed, but probably same as17930527: English Characters. Captain Briton-Byrn; Boatswain-Farley; Midshipman-Jackson; Cabin Boy-Simmons//Captain's Lady-Mme Rossi. French Characters. General Sanguinaire-Cranfield; Monsieur L'Ingrate-Holland. Indian Characters. Indian Chief-Follett//Female Savage-Mr Rock .
Cast
Role: Cabin Boy Actor: SimmonsCaptain's Lady-Mme Rossi. French Characters. General Sanguinaire-Cranfield
Role: SimmonsCaptain's Lady Actor: Mme Rossi. French Characters. General Sanguinaire-Cranfield

Music: End of Act II of 1st piece a Solo on the Union Pipes by Courtney; In the course of the Evening a Duetto on the Union Pipes and Harp by Courtney and Weippert

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27 May 1793 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Wild. 2nd piece [1st time; F 1, by Robert Woodbridge]. Morning Herald, 4 June 1793: This day is published The Pad (price not listed). 3rd piece [1st time; BALL. P 2 (?), by James Byrn, altered from his The Provocation!]: The Incidents partly new, and partly selected from the much admired Pantomime called Provocation. In the course of the Pantomime a representation of an Engagement between an English and French Man of War; A Ship-wreck; The original Allegoric Scene from Provocation: A View of an English Camp; A Naval and Military Procession. Morning Herald, 9 May: Tickets to be had of Wild, No. 46, Drury-lane. Receipts: #335 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every One Has His Fault

Afterpiece Title: The Pad

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck; or, French Ingratitude

Performance Comment: English Characters : Captain Briton-Byrn; Boatswain-Farley; Midshipman-Jackson; Cabin Boy-Simmons; Captain's Lady-Mme Rossi; French Characters : General Sanguinaire-Cranfield; Monsieur L'Ingrate-Holland; Indian Characters : Indian Chief-Follett; Female Savage-Mr Rock.

Song: End: Captivity (Supposed to be sung by an Unfortunate Queen [Marie Antoinette] during her confinement)-; End 2nd piece: Black Eyed Susan-; In 3rd piece: Farewell to old England dear Mary adieu-Incledon

8
07 March 1719 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Performed after the French Manner. With New Scenes and Decorations proper to the Play. In which will be seen a Battle on Horseback between the Knight of the Sun and the Emperour of the Moon, call'd in French La Cavalcade Espagnol, a Performance never yet seen in England

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Empereur Dans La Lune; Or, Harlequin Emperor In The Moon

Entertainment: A new leap over 14 Men-the Tumblers

9
30 August 1661 @ The Cockpit in Drury Lane

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: Then my wife and I to Drury Lane to the French comedy, which was so ill done, and the scenes and company and everything else so nasty and out of order and poor, that I was sick all the while in my mind to be there. See also Boswell (Restoration Court Stage, p. 280). W. J. Lawrence (Early French Players in England, The Elizabethan Playhouse and Other Studies (1912), pp. 139-40) argues that the play was Chapoton's Le Mariage d'Orphee et d'Eurydice. See also The Description of the Great Machines of the Descent of Orpheus into Hell. Presented by the French Comedians at the cockpit in Drury Lane. The Argument Taken out of the Tenth and Eleventh Books of Ovid's Metamorphosis (1661). Rugg's Diurnal the French players (BM Add. Mss. 10116, f243v)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A French Comedy

10
16 October 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V, With Conquest Over French At Agincourt

Performance Comment: King Henry-Smith; Exeter-Tindal; Achbp Canterbury-Sparks; Fluellin-Shuter; Gower-Anderson; French Ambassador-White; Mountjoy-Baker; French Soldier-Holtom; MacMorris-Barrington; Jamy-Dunstall; Pistol-Dyer; Bardolph-Marten; Hostess-Mrs Pitt; Williams-Buck; French King-Gibson; Burgundy-Bennet; Dauphin-Davis; Constable-Clarke; Isabel-Mrs Stephens; Catherine-Miss Hallam.
Cast
Role: French Ambassador Actor: White
Role: French Soldier Actor: Holtom
Role: French King Actor: Gibson

Afterpiece Title: Coronation

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13 May 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Bencraft, Gibson, the French Boy and Girl. Tickets for Thomson and Lestrade also taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: I: Minuet (By Desire)-Lestrade, Mlle Ozanne; II: Les Characteres de la Dance-the French Girl; III: Je ne scay quoy-Villeneuve, Richardson, Miss Oates; IV: La Pantomime de Suisse & D'Alemande-the French Boy and Girl; V: Grand Ballet-Glover, Mlle Roland

Related Works
Related Work: Pamela Author(s): James Dance

12
01 November 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Dancing by Mon: LeFevre & Mlle Prudhomme, 2 French children-Danc'd Well & Well Appl: (Cross). Receipts: #80 (Cross)

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Cast
Role: To conclude with a Rural Dance Actor: M Gerard, Mlle Lussant.

Dance: a Ca Comic Dance The Neopolitans-Lefevre, Mlle Prudhomme, the French Children; and a Dance in Demi@Characters-Lefevre, Mlle Prudhomme, the French Children (1st appearance on the English Stage)

13
May 1670 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. The date of the premiere is not known, but the play was entered in the Term Catalogues, June 1670, and the Prologue refers to the arrival of French royalty at Dover (May 1670); hence, it is likely that the play was first produced in the late spring. Edition of 1670: Written in French by Moliere; and rendered into English with much Addition and Advantage By Mr Medbourne, Servant to His Royal Highness

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tartuffe; Or, The French Puritan

14
June 1677 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. There is considerable uncertainty as to the date of production of this play. Because it was licensed for printing on 2 Aug. 1677, it was probably first acted not later than July 1677. Because some of the names in the cast represent younger actors, it has been thought to be a Lenten production (see Gray, Lenten Casts, pp. 789-90). It seems, however, that the play, because of its reference to performances by the French comedians (the Epilogue refers to "de French Troop at toder end o'Town ") and the offering of Rare en Tout on29 May 1677, probably was acted in June 1677. The Prologue also refers to the comedy as The Women's Play," suggesting that it was produced for the actresses' annual benefit

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The French Conjuror

15
13 December 1700 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: London Post, 13-16 Dec.: There being a French Scaramouch Dance betwixt the second and third Acts, a certain Person went in a Frolick, Incognito, up into the upper Gallery, and so pelted the Dancers with Oranges, that they were forced to quit the Stage, and the Play-house was all in an Uproar; but some of the Auditory perceiving who threw them, cryed out, fling him down into the Pit, which so startled him, that he was forced to make the best of his way down Stairs; however, a Constable having been sent for in the mean time, he was secured. Preface to Ximena (1719): The Fop's Fortune lagg'd on the Fourth Day and only held up its Head by the Heels of the French Tumblers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Dance: End II: a French Scaramouch-

16
06 April 1727 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cartouche The French Robber

Performance Comment: Brighella : With his surprizing Disguises, and counterfeiting the Personages of a Foreign Prince, a Turk, a Petit Maitre, a Merchant, a Gniais, a Swiss, an English Waterman, an Armenian, a Florentine, a Venetian Gondolier, a Scaramouch, a Stuttering Musick-Master, and a French Dwarf Lady, condemn'd at last to the Galleys.
Cast
Role: a Stuttering Musick Actor: Master, and a French Dwarf Lady, condemn'd at last to the Galleys.

Entertainment: The Representation of a true Accident that lately happen'd in this City-; Likewise some Italian Catches, Musical Entertainments, extraordinary Comical by the said-Brighella; The usual Concert of Instruments will be augmented-; and the Dances entirely new, by several Grotesque Characters, the last-sixteen different Dancers; Dances-Signor Grimaldo Francolino of Malta, Operator for the Teeth, being on his Daparture will perform for this Time only some of his wonderful Dances; particularly one within a Dark Lanthorn

17
08 April 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Performance Comment: Pilgrim-Ryan; Roderigo-Quin; Alphonso-Hippisley; Mad Scholar-Milward; Mad Taylor-Hall; Drunken Servant-Bullock; Alinda-Mrs Bullock; Juletta-Mrs Younger; With the Humours of Bedlam-; Mad Soldier-Salle; Mad Dancing Master-Moreau; Mad Gamester-Pelling; Mad Taylor-Newhouse; Mad Beau-Tabatier; Mad Lady-Mrs Legare.
Cast
Role: Mad Dancing Master Actor: Moreau

Afterpiece Title: Italian Jealousy; or, French Gallantry; With the Tavern Bilkers

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Lun; Scaramouch-Grimaesse [Daily Journal or Pelling: Daily Courant]; Punch-Newhouse [Daily Journal or Pelling: Diary Courtant]; Noble Venetian-Legare; Lady-Mrs Legare; French Marquis-Salle; Masqueraders-DuPre, Moreau, Newhouse, Pelling, DuPre Jr, DelaGarde, Mrs Bullock, Miss LaTour, Mrs Ogden.
Cast
Role: French Marquis Actor: Salle

Dance: HHighlander and Mistress-Salle, Mrs Legare; French Sailor-Salle, Mrs Legare

18
15 February 1764 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V; With Conquest Of French At Agincourt

Performance Comment: King-Smith; Exeter-Tindal; Achbp. Canterbury-Sparks; Fluellin-Shuter; Pistol-Dyer; Williams-Buck; French King-Gibson; Constable-Clarke; Isabel-Mrs Stephens; Catherine-Miss Hallam; Westmoreland-White; Gower-Anderson; Bardolph-Marten; Hostess-Mrs Pitt; MacMorris-Barrington; Jamy-Dunstall; Ambassador-White; Burgandy-Bennet; Dauphin-Davis.
Cast
Role: French King Actor: Gibson

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda and the Arcadian Nuptials

19
16 December 1661 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary: Saw a French Comedy acted at Whitehall. [See 2 Dec. 1661.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A French Comedy

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11 March 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 118. See also The Variety, in Bentley, Jacobean and Caroline Stage, III, 149-51; and James Shirley's The Ball; or, French Dancing Master, in Bentley, V, 1079. See also 10 Nov. 1661

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The French Dancing Master

Performance Comment: [The Variety? by William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle.] Dancing Master-Lacy?. See16620521.
Cast
Role: Dancing Master Actor: Lacy?. See16620521.

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21 May 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre to The French Dancing Master, and there with much pleasure gazed upon her (Lady Castlemaine); but it troubles us to see her look dejectedly and slighted by People already. The play pleased us [Pepys and Mrs Pepys] very well; but Lacy's part, the Dancing Master, the best in the world

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The French Dancing Master

Performance Comment: [For authorship, see16610311@2.] Dancing Master-Lacy.
Cast
Role: Dancing Master Actor: Lacy.

22
09 May 1730 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: In Flora: Wrestling Dance-Lanyon, Newhouse; Entr'acte: French Peasant-de St.Luce; French Sailors-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; Pierrot-de St.Luce; Flag Dance-Nivelon

Performance Comment: Luce; French Sailors-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; Pierrot-de St.Luce; Flag Dance-Nivelon.
Cast
Role: French Sailors Actor: Salle, Mrs Laguerre
Role: Flag Dance Actor: Nivelon.

Music: Preamble on Kettle Drum-Job Baker

23
26 November 1735 @ Swan Tavern

Event Comment: Benefit Mr Charles, Master of the French Horn. 51. 6 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: A Solo and several Pieces on the French Horn by Mr Charles. And several Songs and Duets by the two Miss Youngs. The German Flute by Mr Pelicour [Balicourt in Daily Advertiser], lately arrived from abroad; Being the first Time of his Performing in England

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08 May 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: 1: French Peasant by Tench and Miss Rogers. II: Comic Dance by Nivelon and his Scholar. III: Wooden Shoe Dance by Leviez. IV: By Desire, a Ball Dance by Dupre and Mlle Delorme. V: French Peasants by Lalauze and Mlle D'Hervigni. End Afterpiece: Scot's Dance by Glover and Miss Rogers

Performance Comment: II: Comic Dance by Nivelon and his Scholar. III: Wooden Shoe Dance by Leviez. IV: By Desire, a Ball Dance by Dupre and Mlle Delorme. V: French Peasants by Lalauze and Mlle D'Hervigni. End Afterpiece: Scot's Dance by Glover and Miss Rogers .

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21 March 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Cibber. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Sir George Etheridge. Afterpiece: Taken from the French of Moliere

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of Mode; Or, Sir Fopling Flutter

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: A new Punch Dance-Master Ferg; III: French Peasants-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; IV: Grand Ballet-Muilment, Mrs Walter

Song: (BBy Desire) Ballad of Mary Scot-Mrs Clive

Music: Instead of an Overture to the Farce, will be performed a Grand Piece of Musick with Trumpets (being the Chorus...by Mr Handel)-; with a Preamble on the Kettle Drums-Master Ferg