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3604 results for: Keyword - Francis Gentleman
We found 1641 matches on Performance Comments, 1013 matches on Author, 942 matches on Event Comments, 255 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3101
18 December 1731 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Song: With the usual Songs-

Dance: Burney, Miss Wherrit

3102
05 January 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness the Duke. Benefit a Gentleman's Family in Distress. Receipts: money #71 0s. 6d.; tickets #51 15s. [Duke of Cumberland present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Poitier, Nivelon; Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; Tambourine-Miss Rogers; French Sailor-Salle, Mrs Laguerre

3103
19 January 1732 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady Jane Gray

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

3104
26 January 1732 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Burney, Mrs Tollet

3105
05 February 1732 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: Father Girard the Sorcerer

3106
07 February 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman who has wrote for the Stage. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: money #64 7s. 6d.; tickets #134 8s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Dance: FFrench Sailor-Salle, Mrs Laguerre

3107
10 February 1732 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman in Distress. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Related Works
Related Work: The Royal Slave Author(s): Francis Gentleman

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance:

3108
25 February 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: The Performers are to be in the following Characters. The Harpsichord-Colombine; Violoncello-Harlequin; Bassoon-Scaramouch; Double Bass-Pierot; Singing-Diana, an Indian King; Violins-a Spaniard, a Roman, an Hungarian, a Persian, a Turk, a Polander, an Arabian, a Muscovite; the Tenor-a Highlander; the German Flute-a Satyr; French Horns-Foresters; Hautboys-two Shepherds; others. The Concert of Performers will consist of between 40 and 50 of the best Hands

3109
15 March 1732 @ Chancery Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

3110
11 April 1732 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Dance:

3111
01 May 1732 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: II: Tambourine-Miss Wherrit

Song: I: Song in Character of a Butcher's Wife-Mrs Palmer; IV: Bacchanalian Song-Excel

3112
08 May 1732 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman who has Wrote for the Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Afterpiece Title: The Lovers Opera

Dance:

3113
10 May 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Andria

3114
22 May 1732 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: TTambourine-Miss Wherrit

3115
21 August 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman who has wrote for the Stage. At the Desire of severl Persons of Distinction. [Daily Advertiser, 21 Aug., has a poem: On Miss Atherton's Playing the Part of Lucy.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Song: Miss Raftor

Dance:

3116
01 November 1732 @ Soho Square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

3117
13 November 1732 @ Fulham

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eunuchus

3118
16 November 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman. Receipts: money #23 14s.; tickets #62 12s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: I: A new dance-LeSac, Miss LaTour; II: Je ne scai quoy, or The Merry Couple (new)-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre; III: Voulez Vous, or The Frisky Lad (new)-Poitier, Miss LaTour; IV: The Sicilian (new)-Glover, Mrs Pelling; V: Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden

3119
20 November 1732 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Distinction. N.B. Mr Giffard hopes the Gentleman who bespoke the Spanish Fryar, for Tomorrow, will not take it ill, that Hamlet is to be perform'd; because the Ladies, whom he mention'd, have since sent to him for that Play-but he shall be very glad to oblige him any other day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Dance: As17321115

3120
22 November 1732 @ Chancery Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eunuch

3121
30 November 1732 @ Fleet Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of Mortimer

3122
14 March 1733 @ Academy in Drury Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eunuch

3123
17 March 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. A New Oratorio in English. Composed by Mr Handel. And to be perform'd by a great Number of the best Voices and Instruments. The House to be fitted up and illuminated in a new and particular manner. Tickets One Guinea. Gallery Half a Guinea. [Text by Samuel Humphreys. Their Majesties, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.] Daily Advertiser, 20 March: An Entertainment, perhaps, the most magnificent that has ever been exhibited on an English Theatre....The Composition of the Musick is by no means inferior to the most finish'd of that Gentleman's Works; but the Disposition of the Performers was in a Taste beyond what has been attempted. There was a very great Number of Instruments by the best Hands, and such as would properly accompany three Organs. The Pit and Orchestre were cover'd as at an Assembly, and the whole House Illuminated in a new and most beautiful manner. [See also Lady A. Irwin to Lord Carlisle, in Deutsch, Handel, pp. 309-10.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deborah

3124
09 May 1733 @ Chelsea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zaire

3125
11 May 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman who has wrote for the Stage. Receipts: money #22 13s. 6d.; tickets #40 17s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: TTambourine-Miss Rogers; Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; Mock Minuet, as17330507, but Miss Latour, Miss _Baston