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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Gentleman"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Gentleman")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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3410 results for: Keyword - Gentleman
We found 2257 matches on Roles/Actors, 977 matches on Performance Comments, 861 matches on Event Comments, 390 matches on Author, and 196 matches on Performance Title.

2976
01 September 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

2977
15 January 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman who has wrote for the Stage. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Song: Leveridge, Salway

Dance: CComic Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Serious Dance-Mlle Roland; Grecian Sailors-Glover, Villeneuve, DelaGarde, Dupre, Richardson, Thompson

2978
12 February 1739 @ Chancery Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eunuch

2979
08 May 1739 @ Chelsea

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'enfant Prodigue

Afterpiece Title: Squire Lubberly

2980
23 January 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: The Fortune Tellers

Ballet: AA Voyage to the Land of Cytherea. As17400115

2981
29 January 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Distinction. [A letter to the London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 29 Jan., states that the occasion of the riot at dl, 23 Jan., was the failure of Denoyer and Mlle Chateauneuf to dance. The latter had been ill but on 22 Jan., thought that she could dance on the following night, and her name was placed in the bill; on Wednesday a misunderstanding about the absence of her and Denoyer caused the disturbance. A gentleman concerned in the affair sent the manager #100 for his share of the damage.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwreck'd

2982
28 March 1740 @ Ashley's Punch House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oratory

2983
10 December 1740 @ Soho Square

Performances

2984
19 December 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: For the Benefit of a Gentleman, with a large Family, who has suffered very great Losses. Receipts; Benefit Turner. Money #19 14s.; seals #42 3s. (Account Book); #60 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Nancy

Dance: CComic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Miller and his Wife-Mechel, Mlle Mechel; The Yorkshire Maggot-Haughton, Mlle Roland

2985
24 February 1741 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman who has wrote for the Stage. [Professor John B. Shipley of the University of Colorado has called to my attention a letter written by James Ralph to Thomas Birch, dated 14 February 1741, in which he states that this benefit is to be for Ralph. See B.M. Add. MSS. 4317, fol. 94.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: LLa Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf; Shepherds and Shepherdesses-Muilment, Mlle Chateauneuf

2986
19 May 1741 @ James Street

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nonjuror

Afterpiece Title: Nancy

2987
22 September 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

2988
09 October 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: No after Money will be taken during the whole Concert. It is to be hoped no Gentleman will take it ill that they are refus'd admittance behind the Scenes, it being impossible to perform the Entertainment unless the Entrances are kept entirely clear. [This notice is repeated throughout the run of the pantomime.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment, Release, Stratagems, and Marriage of Harlequin; with The Triumphs of Love

2989
16 December 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman that has wrote for the stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: What D'ye Call It

Dance: % Scotch Dance, as17411130; Le Matelot, as17411130; Comic Dance, as17411209

2990
22 December 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Gentleman under Misfortune. Prices, as 21 Dec

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

2991
23 January 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The dances depending principally on the Musick-Room's being kept clear from all persons but the performers, 'tis desired that no Gentleman will take it ill, that they cannot be admitted therein. [Customary notice on every night the Rural Assembly was performed.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Ballet: In which will be introduc'd the Rural Assembly. As17420121

2992
29 January 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Gentleman with a large Famil y, under Misfortunes. Tickets 4s., 2s. 6d., to be had of Alexander Burges, Hardwareman, near Finch Lane, Cornhill; Tickets deliver'd out for the Tender Husband, which was to have been perform'd at Covent-Garden on Friday the 8th Instant, will be taken at this concert

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: Three Graniers

2993
01 March 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Englishman; or, The Frenchman Bit

2994
12 March 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander's Feast

Afterpiece Title: The Judgment of Paris

2995
15 March 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: II: La Provencale, as17420212; IV: Chacone, as17411230; V: Les Maquignons-Delemain[see17420309; End Farce: The Peasants, as17420210

Song: III: Of English Brown Beer-Leveridge, Roberts, Salway, Bennet; V: When English Roast Beef-Leveridge

2996
26 April 1742 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: II: The Leek, as17420224; IV: Scots Dance, as17420406

2997
30 April 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Turbutt and Leviez. N.B. There having been a Parcel of Tickets lost or Mislaid, to prevent Impositions on the Publick, notice is hereby given, that proper persons are appointed to attend the Passages of the Theatre, and stop the Admission of Tickets sold by Orange Woman, and others. Tickets deliver'd out by a Gentleman will be taken. Tickets and places to be had of Bradshaw, &c; and at Ben Johnson's Head, in Little Britain; and of Leviez at the Blue Door in Great Queen St., Lincoln's Inn Fields. Receipts: #150

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Song: I: Song with French Horns-Beard; IV: War he sung was Toil and Trouble-Mrs Clive

Dance: III: New Running Footman's Dance-Phillips; V: a Hornpipe-Phillips

2998
08 February 1743 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: We are inform'd that Mr Giffard, as an Expedient to recover, in some Degree, the Loss he has sustained by his late Undertaking in [lif] has apply'd to the late Patentee of the Theatre@Royal in Drury@Lane, for the favour of his Appearance in the Character of Lothario (in which it is observable, he amus'd himself some years since to very numerous and polite Audiences) with which Request the said Gentleman has very generously complied

Performances

2999
01 March 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for a Gentleman in Distress, and by Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke, and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: As17430120

3000
21 March 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Related Works
Related Work: The Tobacconist Author(s): Francis Gentleman

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: II: Sicilian Peasant, as17430310 IV: Italian Gardeners, as17421231

Song: III: Beard