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3583 results for: Keyword - Francis Gentleman
We found 1641 matches on Performance Comments, 992 matches on Author, 942 matches on Event Comments, 255 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3376
21 December 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Farce dislik'd (Cross). Receipts: #160 (Cross); #169 18s. 6d. (Winston MS 8). [See review of the reception and circumstances of publication in Gentleman's Magazine (p. 37), which presents Hill in no good light. See also review of A Letter to the Honourable Author of the Rout (idem.) with its charges against Garrick.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Rout

3377
03 January 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: This Play tho' all new dress'd and had Fine Scenes did not seem to give ye audience any great plasure, or draw any applause (Cross). Written by Shakespear. Never Acted there. New Habits, Scenes, and Decorations. Nothing under Full Prices will be taken during the Performance. No Gentleman can possibly be admitted behind the Scenes, or into the Orchestra on account of the Music, Decorations, and number of Performers which are necessary to the Representation (playbill). [See "Garrick's Presentation of Antony and Cleopatra," RES, Jan. 1937. The following characters appear in Capel's acting text, 23 Oct. 1958, Maecenas-Atkins; Proculeius-$Austin; Soothsayer-$Burton; Mardian-$Perry; Seleucas-$Burton.] Receipts: #200 ($Cross); #193 14s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antony And Cleopatra

3378
23 March 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alfred The Great

Music: I: Concerto on Hautboy-Vincent; II: Concerto on Organ-Arne Jr

3379
16 April 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

3380
17 April 1759 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

3381
21 April 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Of China

3382
01 May 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [This month published Observations on the Use of Theatres, their present regulations and possible improvements. Price 1s. Printed for Cooper. See review in Gentleman's Magazine (p. 232). Proposal is that the "conduct of theatrical entertainments be for the future taken under the care of the goverment, and a person of judgment and integrity appointed by the name of comptroller, or conductor of the stage, who alone shall determine what old plays shall be acted, and what new ones received; and who shall take charge of the money received, and defray the necessary expenses, accounting for the remainder to the public. The author seemingly Dr John Hill, lately (see 21 Dec. 1758) upset by the failure of his farce, The Rout. (Winston MS 8). Receipts: #108 (Cross); #122 6d. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan Of China

3383
23 November 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: TThe Guardian deferred; Mrs Clive indisposed. Tomorrow will be reviv'd Comus, the characters of the Bacchanal and Euphrosyne by a Gentleman and Gentlewoman who never appeared on the stage before. Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

3384
07 December 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan; Or, The Unhappy Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Fair: With Additional Scenes of Action

3385
31 December 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Went off with applause (Cross). Afterpiece: a New Pantomime after the Manner of the Italian Comedy, with New Scenes, Habits, Decorations. Nothing under Full Prices will be taken. No Gentleman can possibly be admitted behind the Scenes or into the Orchestra, on account of the Machinery and Music. The Music composed by Dr Boyce. The Songs will be printed, and deliver'd at the doors. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, The History Of George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion; or, A ChristmasGambol

3386
01 January 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Receipts: #115 3s. [The Weekly Magazine; or, Gentleman and Lady's Polite Companion (1760), pp. 61-63, deplores the lack of new plays and lack of competition for the Patent houses. "Our theatres seem now to aim at glorious opposition: Harlequin is set against Harlequin, one dancing master opposes another; the scene shifters, the singers, and even the drummers figure at each house by turns, and it is to be hoped soon that the mere actor will become useless....The Fair has scarce even pantomime probability...for instance Harlequin should never exercise his magical power without reason, and should never make escapes without being pursued, but here he conjures, leaps, runs and waggles without any apparent design; and the whole seems destitute of plot, a if contrived by a dancing master. Harlequin's Invasion at the other House is still rather more absurd." The author expected a speaking Harlequin, Pantaloon, Pierot, Mezzetin, &c. but found the customary figures banished for the substitution of a "stupid Taylor and his more stupid wife." Regrets the sinking of stage performance to such absurdity.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

3387
14 February 1760 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mrs Midnight's Concert And Oratory

Performance Comment: Bombasto, Signora Tambourina, Miss Karver, Miss Gaudry, a young Gentleman (1st appearance on the stage); Orations-Mrs Midnight; Instrumentals-the best performers With a band of originals, viz. Mynheer Broomsticado; Solo-Sg Twangdillo; and a Rhapsody on the Death of a late Noble Commander-Mrs Midnight.

Afterpiece Title: The Contest of Love and Glory

3388
03 May 1760 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Gibbs, Miss White, and a Gentleman in Distress. Tickets delivered out by Courtney, Rawlins, Mrs Gold, Mrs Gwinn, and others for 26 April will be taken. Tickets sold at the doors will nto be admitted. Receipts: #89 5s. in cash and 1!2 value of tickets: @Tickets Gibbs Box@Pit 4@Gallery 22@Value #2 16s.@1!2 Value #1 8s.@Tickets Courtney Box 30@Pit 141@Gallery 39@Value #32 11s.@1!2 Value #16 5s. 6d.@Tickets Rawlins Box 17@Pit 44@Gallery 44@Value #15 5s.@1!2 Value #7 12s. 6d.@Tickets Person Distress'd Box 37@Pit 92@Gallery 57@Value #28 15s.@1!2 Value #14 7s. 6d.@Tickets Miss White Box 17@Pit 29@Gallery 37@Value #12 6s.@1!2 Value #6 3s.@Tickets Mrs Gold Box 3@Pit 15@Gallery 31@Value #6 2s.@1!2 Value #3 1s.@Tickets Mrs Hitchcock Box 12@Pit 30@Gallery 10@Value #8 10s.@1!2 Value #4 5s. Gratis@Tickets Mrs Gwynn Box 2@Pit 28@Gallery 47@Value #9 8s.@1!2 Value #4 14s. Gratis@Box 108@Pit 383@Gallery 287@Value #115 13s.@1!2 Value #57 16s. 6d.@Cash #31 8s. 6d.@Receipt #89 5s.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Statue

Dance: III: The Lamp Lighters, as17600318 End: The Knife Grinders, as17600417

3389
29 May 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Being positively the last time for the afterpiece this season. [In June was published A Scotsman's Remarks on the Farce Love-a-la-Mode (Gentleman's Magazine, p. 339), scene by scene.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: I: The last new Comic Dance-Sg and Sga Giorgi; II: The Cow Keepers, as17600313 but Mrs _Vernon, Mrs Preston

Song: III: By Desire, The Sailor's Song-Champnes, and a Dance in character by the Sailor

3390
29 July 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman who has written for the Stage. Tickets delivered by Sansom, and for The Conscious Lovers will be taken. For ye Bricklayers Benefit. (Cross Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The King and The Miller

Dance: DDutch Dance, as17600619

3391
03 September 1760 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dramatic Turtle

3392
08 September 1760 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Concert

Afterpiece Title: Britannia's Triumph

3393
11 September 1760 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

3394
18 September 1760 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Quixote In England

3395
03 January 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tickets deliver'd out for the 2nd of January will be taken. [Full value from these tickets amounted to #33 7s. (Box 74; Pit 99). House receiv'd half value paid 14 Jan. by Mrs Young "for the benefit of a Gentleman under Misfortune." Sg Maranesi and his wife (as a team) receiv'd a pay increase of 6s. 8d. per day from 29 Dec. 1760, and Mrs Burden received an advance in her salary of 1s. 8d. per day from the same date (Account Book).] Receipts: #114 1s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

3396
21 February 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Dance: TThe Cuckow, as17610212

3397
14 March 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Entertainment: MMedley Epilogue, written by Garrick-Beard

3398
01 May 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted this season. Full Prices. [Sparked by Victor's publication of his History of the Theatres of London and Dublin, 1730 to the Present, a series of articles on the Rise and Progress of the English Stage appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine for May (p. 214 ff); June (p. 264 ff); and July (p. 297).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

3399
12 May 1761 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for a Gentleman under Misfortunes. Receipts: #63 19s. 6d. plus #116 6s. from tickets (Box 389; Pit 127). [Profit to Mr Oliver, the beneficiary, #96 5s. 6d. (Account Book).] Charges: #84 (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: LLes Charboniers, as17601215

3400
12 June 1761 @ Ranelagh Gardens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Judgment Of Paris

Song: Several favourite songs consisting of four intervals

Entertainment: Upon the Octagan Square in said Gardens will be displayed the following curious invention in Fireworks, viz. A long pole will be fixed in the middle of the square; at the bottom of which will stand an artificial Harlequin, which with a touch becomes transparent, swarms up the pole and lights up a garland of flowers. N.B. 'Tis humbly desired that the Public will not mistake this gentleman Harlequin for the scoundrel that formerly pretended to go into a bottle. After the above ingenious Fancy will be performed in the theatre the celebrated Masque call'd The Judgment of Paris, composed by Dr Arne, which being finished, upon the canal in the Gardens will be displayed several superb Fireworks called the Chinese Festival, invented and executed by Sg Carlo Genorinij, the famous Roman artificer. He will avoid all common exhibitions, as Rockets &c., which for want of novelty give no entertainment to the Public, and confine himself to works of real ingenuity, so innocent in their nature, that the ladies may stand ever so near, without the least possibility of danger, or being alarmed with uncouth noises. The intended exhibition will be as follows: A light ediface will be fixed near the Chinese Temple, and a boat will sail at the end of the canal, containing several persons performing on musical instruments, the boat moving to the Temple, and giving fire to the ediface, it will display several ingenious conceits; particularly the operations of the fireworks will change to ten different colours. Other fancies are reserved till the perfformance, which, it is hoped, will give general satisfaction to the public

Performance Comment: A long pole will be fixed in the middle of the square; at the bottom of which will stand an artificial Harlequin, which with a touch becomes transparent, swarms up the pole and lights up a garland of flowers. N.B. 'Tis humbly desired that the Public will not mistake this gentleman Harlequin for the scoundrel that formerly pretended to go into a bottle. After the above ingenious Fancy will be performed in the theatre the celebrated Masque call'd The Judgment of Paris, composed by Dr Arne, which being finished, upon the canal in the Gardens will be displayed several superb Fireworks called the Chinese Festival, invented and executed by Sg Carlo Genorinij, the famous Roman artificer. He will avoid all common exhibitions, as Rockets &c., which for want of novelty give no entertainment to the Public, and confine himself to works of real ingenuity, so innocent in their nature, that the ladies may stand ever so near, without the least possibility of danger, or being alarmed with uncouth noises. The intended exhibition will be as follows: A light ediface will be fixed near the Chinese Temple, and a boat will sail at the end of the canal, containing several persons performing on musical instruments, the boat moving to the Temple, and giving fire to the ediface, it will display several ingenious conceits; particularly the operations of the fireworks will change to ten different colours. Other fancies are reserved till the perfformance, which, it is hoped, will give general satisfaction to the public.