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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.

3151
29 May 1735 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

3152
02 June 1735 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Benefit Bond. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality who have universally applauded the same. N.B. Many of the greatest Persons being engaged at the Opera last Saturday desir'd therefore this Delay, in order to crown this Gentleman's Benefit, with their Presence, that after so great an Expence, Reward may not be wanting to the Merit of the Piece

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

3153
29 July 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

3154
24 September 1735 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Art of Management; or, Tragedy Expell'd

Entertainment:

3155
06 October 1735 @ York Buildings

Performances

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3156
23 December 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman in Distress. [Advertised in London DaIly Post and General Advertiser, 22 Dec, not later: With other Entertainments, as will be express'd in the Day's Bills.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

3157
27 January 1736 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mithridates

3158
06 February 1736 @ Westminster School

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Andria

3159
16 April 1736 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Aston and a Gentleman under Misfortune. Afterpiece: A new Pastoral. Written by Mr Aston

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Performance Comment: Hamlet-Aston; King-Paget; Polonius-Hippisley; Laertes-Ridout; Ostrick-Clarke; Horatio-Boaman; Rosencraus-Houghton; Guildenstern-W. Hallam; Prologue-James; Francisco-Bencraft; Queen-Mrs Forrester; Ophelia-Miss Male; Ghost-Stephens; Gravediggers-Bullock Sr, Mullart .
Cast
Role: Francisco Actor: Bencraft

Afterpiece Title: Cleora; or, The Amorous Old Shepherdess

Dance: Hornpipe by Ferguson. Tambourine by Miss Rogers

Song: Cuckoo Solo by Master Oates. Mock Italian Song by E. Roberts

3160
30 April 1736 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

3161
05 May 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Dance: I: Tambourine by Mlle Roland. II: Russian Sailor by Denoyer, &c. IV: French Peasants by Poitier, Mlle Roland, &c

3162
17 May 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit a Private Gentleman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry IV, Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

3163
19 May 1736 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentlewoman under Misfortunes. [Rich's Register states that it was a benefit for a Gentleman.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Tambourine by Miss Rogers. Polonese by Mlle De L'Isle. Peasant by Tench and Miss Rogers

3164
26 May 1736 @ Chelsea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Death Of Julius Caesar (in French)

Afterpiece Title: The Forced Marriage (in English)

3165
28 May 1736 @ Chelsea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Death Of Julius Caesar (in French)

Afterpiece Title: The Forced Marriage (in English)

3166
31 December 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance: With proper Dances-

3167
08 January 1737 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

3168
19 February 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 19 Feb.: To the Author, &c. Sir, In a late Paragraph in one of your Papers [4 Feb.] it was insinuated, that there was a Design on foot for erecting a New Theatre, which by some Wise Heads was suppos'd to come from a certain Manager, in order to revive the Playhouse Bill this Session of Parliament; I think it proper therefore, in Justice to the Gentleman levell'd at, to inform the Publick, that it is actually intended for a Company of Comedians every Day expected here, late Servants to their Majesties Kouli Kan and Theodore, who in the mean time will entertain the Town in the true Eastern manner, at the New Theatre in the Hay-Market, with a celebrated Piece call'd A Rehearsal of Kings. I am, Sir, Yours, &c. Agent for the Company

Performances

3169
08 March 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 8 March: We hear that the Great Mogul has acceeded to the Treaty of the Hay-Market, which causes various Speculations. Our best Advices assure us, that the Town will be entertain'd there Tomorrow, by a Gentleman who never wrote for the Stage, with a new Performance call'd a Rehearsal of Kings: which will be immediately succeeded by a Dramatick Piece call'd The Historical Register, for the Year 1736, written by the Author of Pasquin. We hear this has given great Alarm to all the Pantomimical Houses in London, Southwark, Rag Fair, &c

Performances

3170
09 March 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Cast
Role: Sir Francis Actor: Penkethman

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida; or, Hymen's Triumph

3171
10 March 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Dance: II: Turkish Dance-Muilment, Villeneuve, Livier; IV: Russian Sailor-Denoyer

3172
14 March 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Rehearsal Of Kings; Or, The Projecting Gingerbread Baker; With The Unheard Of Catastrophe Of Macplunderkan, King Of Roguomania And The Ignoble Fall Of Baron Tromperland, King Of Clouts

3173
19 April 1737 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman in Distress

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Nivelon, Lalauze; Grecian Sailors-Glover

Song: RRosy Bowers (set by Purcell)-Beard; The Contented Mind, in the Anacreontic Stil,-Leveridge

3174
25 April 1737 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sabrina

3175
02 May 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman under Misfortunes. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: I: Drunken Peasant-Philips; III: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter; V: Dutchman and Frow-Philips, Miss Brett