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2209 results for: Keyword - F. W. Gent
We found 1405 matches on Performance Comments, 440 matches on Event Comments, 404 matches on Author, 60 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1926
24 April 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Afterpiece Title: The Sailor's Prize

Afterpiece Title: Blue Devils

Song: In 2nd piece: New Sea Ballad-Incledon; Master Teddy Shemus O'Shaughnessey O'Finnigen Delany's History of Himself-Johnstone; Fat Dolly the Cook-Munden; Soldier's Song-Townsend; New Ballad-Mrs Martyr; To conclude with: Hearts of Oak, Rule Britannia-

Entertainment: Monologue and SingingEnd 1st piece: (for that night only) [an aquatic, historic, romantic, eccentric, sadly comic story, in character, Travels of Trudge, [including Trudge's Exordium on the Quay, [a new song, Under@Ground Lodging, [Trudge's Escape and Voyage; Wowski's Prattle on Shipboard; Mishaps at Barbadoes; a new song, The Marvellous [to Jemmy Linkum Feedle-Fawcett. [This was chiefly based on episodes from Inkle and Yarico.

1927
08 May 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnstone. 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT 1]. 3rd piece [1st time; F 2, by Walley Chamberlain Oulton. In it the playbill assigns Jack Hopeful to Fawcett, but text (George Cawthorn, 1798) has note: The part of Jack Hopeful, intended for Mr Fawcett, was, on account of that gentleman's severe indisposition, obligingly read by Mr Knight, who afterwards performed it (see 17 May)]. Times, 20 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Johnstone, No. 19, Piazza, Covent-garden. Receipts: #440 13s. (192.13.0; 4.0.6; tickets: 243.19.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Afterpiece Title: The Quarter Deck; or, Half an Hour's Festivity

Afterpiece Title: Botheration; or, A Ten Years Blunder

Dance: In 2nd piece: a Hornpipe (in Character)-Blurton

Song: In course Entertainment: Old Towler-Incledon; Black Ey'd Susan-Incledon; Incidental to 3rd piece: Mr O'Blarney's Description of London (Including his Remarks on St. James's, St. Giles's, St. Paul's, Debating Clubs, Squares, Gardens, The Monument, Wigs and Crops, Boarding Schools, Inns, Fields, Soldiers, Sailors, and Volunteers) in Character-Johnstone

1928
08 April 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Twins; or, Is It He, or his Brother

Song: By permission of Dibdin End I: Advice; or, Old Mary and John-Bannister Jun; End II: The Country Club-Bannister Jun; III: Tom Tough-Bannister Jun

1929
04 May 1799 @ Covent Garden

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Mainpiece Title: The Birth Day

Afterpiece Title: The Horse and the Widow

Afterpiece Title: Albert and Adelaide

Dance: In 3rd piece: Procession and Dance of Swabian Peasants, as17981211, but Miss _Gray

1930
07 May 1799 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: Tagg in Tribulation

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Song: End II: song-Incledon; End: Old Towler-Incledon; The Beggar's Song-Townsend

Entertainment: A Variety of Imitations-Rees

1931
18 May 1799 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Townsend and Mrs Johnson. 3rd piece [1st time in London; F 1, by William Dunlap]: Performed with distinguished Applause at the John St.? Theatre, New York [on 9 Jan. 1797]; compressed into one act [from two], and adapted for the English Stage by a Gentleman [perhaps the author]. "Commencing at half past eleven o'clock, and after a tiresome variety of other entertainments, the audience thought they had had enough for their money, and demanded the fall of the curtain before the conclusion of [Tell Truth and Shame the Devil]" (Monthly Mirror, June 1799, p. 367). Morning Chronicle, 8 May: Tickets to be had of Townsend, No. 9, Leicester-place. [Mrs Johnson not listed.] Receipts: #442 17s. 6d. (108.1.0; 1.11.0; tickets: 333.5.6, of which Townsend sold 218.2.0; Mrs Johnson 115.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Iron Chest

Cast
Role: Wilford Actor: A Young Gentleman

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Afterpiece Title: Tell Truth and Shame the Devil

Song: End: Mad Tom-Betts (1st appearance on the stage); Young William-Incledon; The Golden Days-Munden; The Tight Little Island-Townsend; The Wind blew fresh and fair-Townsend

Music: End I 1st piece: Concerto Clarionet-Orsato (of the Theatre Royal Venice; 1st appearance in this Metropolis); a duetto solo by means of the Pression and Repercussion of the Air-Orsato This his curious Discovery has received the greatest Applause in most of the Courts

1932
25 May 1799 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secrets Worth Knowing

Afterpiece Title: Fortune's Frolic

Dance: The Highland Lovers [see17990423]-; with Un Pas de Trois-Bologna, Miss E. Cabanel, Miss H. Cabanel; Un Pas Seul Serieux-Miss H. Cabanel; Un Pas Seul de Demie Caractere-Miss E. Cabanel, Platt

Song: End II: The Death of Admiral Benbow-Incledon; End IV: Black Ey'd Susan-Incledon; The Tight Little Island-Townsend

1933
05 August 1799 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Afterpiece Title: Gander Hall

1934
16 June 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: 'Tis All a Farce

1935
16 August 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

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1936
30 August 1661 @ The Cockpit in Drury Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A French Comedy

1937
28 September 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

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Mainpiece Title: Father's Own Son

1938
02 October 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

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Mainpiece Title: Vittoria Corombona

1939
26 October 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

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Mainpiece Title: The Country Captain

1940
25 November 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Captain

1941
29 November 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Princess; Or, Love At First Sight

1942
30 December 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bussy D'ambois

1943
05 February 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

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Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

1944
31 March 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

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Mainpiece Title: The Little Thief

1945
19 May 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Little Thief

1946
02 June 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

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Mainpiece Title: Cornelia

1947
06 June 1662 @ Theatre in Vere Street

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Mainpiece Title: The Renegado

1948
02 February 1663 @ Middle Temple

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Mainpiece Title: An Unidentified Play

1949
25 August 1663 @ no theater listed

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1950
24 October 1663 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

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