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28 April 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Dupre, Froment, and Oates

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Song: I: Ellen a Roon-Mrs Storer

Dance: II: Dance-Oates; III: Minuet and Louvre-Froment, Madem. Dumont; IV: Peasant-Oates; End: A Pantomime Dance call'd Pigmalion-; Pigmalion-Froment; Statue-Mlle Dumont

Performance Comment: Dumont; IV: Peasant-Oates; End: A Pantomime Dance call'd Pigmalion-; Pigmalion-Froment; Statue-Mlle Dumont.

Cast

Role: Pigmalion Actor: Froment

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24 April 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Sutton, late Miss Froment. Paid salary list #520 7s. 6d.; Rec'd from Mr Clutterbuck's [account] (1st) #100; Stopages #18 10s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #181 5s. 6d. Charges: #74 14s. Profits to Mrs Sutton: #106 11s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

Dance: II: A New Grand Turkish Dance, composed by Froment in which-Mrs Sutton will dance the character of a Sultana; IV: By Particular Desire. The Louvre and Minuet, also the Dauphin Minuet-Froment, Mrs Sutton, his scholar

Performance Comment: The Louvre and Minuet, also the Dauphin Minuet-Froment, Mrs Sutton, his scholar.

Cast

Role: also the Dauphin Minuet Actor: Froment, Mrs Sutton, his scholar.

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24 April 1749 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Desse, Dupre, Froment. Tickets sold at the door will not be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: I: Comic Dance-J. Granier, J. Granier's sister; II: A New Scotch Dance, in which will be introduced by Particular Desire the Scotch Measure, the Highland Reel-Froment, Mad DeLaCointrie; V: Minuet-Froment, Mad DeLaCointrie

Performance Comment: Granier, J. Granier's sister; II: A New Scotch Dance, in which will be introduced by Particular Desire the Scotch Measure, the Highland Reel-Froment, Mad DeLaCointrie; V: Minuet-Froment, Mad DeLaCointrie.

Cast

Role: the Highland Reel Actor: Froment, Mad DeLaCointrie
Role: Minuet Actor: Froment, Mad DeLaCointrie.

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08 September 1757 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Froment. The evening's Entertainment to begin postively at a Quarter after Six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Medley Concert

Performance Comment: Country Lass-Miss Valois; What's That To You? a Scots song,-Lauder; Oration-Miss Midnight; The Taylors-Master Settree, Miss Twist; Comic Lectures-Mr Cibber; Kitty or the Female Phaeton-Miss Gaudry; Cuckow Overture-; A new Scots Dance,with the Scots Measure,-Froment, Mme Dulisse; Singing-Sadler; Auction-Cibber; Italian Air-Signora Mimicotti; Dutch Peasant-Miss Valois; Marine Boys Marching to Portsmouth-; Hornpipe-Morris, Miss Durham; Comic Epilogueriding on an Ass-Miss Midnight; Voluntary on Cymbalo-Noel; Handel's Water Musick-; with Preamble on Kettle Drums-Woodbridge; Louvre, Minuet-Froment, Mme Dulisse.

Cast

Role: with the Scots Measure, Actor: Froment, Mme Dulisse
Role: Minuet Actor: Froment, Mme Dulisse.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Frolic

Performance Comment: As17570902 The music composed by Froment.

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25 January 1758 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Froment. Places in the Boxes to be had at the theatre. [The customary heading "By Authority" not in the bill.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Pigmalion; or, The Statue Metamorphosed

Performance Comment: Pigmalion-Froment; Statue-Mlle Dulisse.

Cast

Role: Pigmalion Actor: Froment

Afterpiece Title: , B, By Desire, The Battle of Rosbach, the whole to conclude with Bryan's song in honour of that day sung by Kear

Dance: I: Rural Dance-Master Settree, Miss Twist; III: Scots Dance-Froment, Miss Wilkinson

Song: III: Scots Song-Lauder; IV: young Italian Gentlewoman, 1st appearance on any stage

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02 May 1771 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Froment, principal dancer at the late Harmonical Meeting, Soho. By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: Macheath-Hudson; Polly-Miss Froment.

Cast

Role: Polly Actor: Miss Froment.

Afterpiece Title: A Farce

Dance: Louvre, Minuet-Froment, Miss Froment

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03 March 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd

Performance Comment: Apollo-Villeneuve; Daphne-Miss Vandersluys; Followers of Daphne-Mrs Gondou, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs Dumont, Mrs LaFont; Morpheus-Leveridge; Mystery-Beard; Slumber-Vincent; Harlequin-Phillips; Burgomaster-Bencraft; Colombine-Mrs Dunstall; Boor Servant-LaLauze; Scaramouche-Vandersluys; Huntsmen-Beard, Desse, Delagarde, Froment, Vandersluys, Oates, Dupre; Venus-Mrs Storer; Silenus-Leveridge; Pan-Vincent; Bacchus-Beard; Diana-Miss Faulkner; Frenchman-Villeneuve; Spaniard-Desse; Polonese-Delagarde; French Woman-Mrs Delagarde; Spanish Woman-Mrs Gondou; Polonese-Mrs Villeneuve; Zephyrus-Froment; Flora, representing an Inconstant-Miss Vandersluys.

Cast

Role: Huntsmen Actor: Beard, Desse, Delagarde, Froment, Vandersluys, Oates, Dupre
Role: Zephyrus Actor: Froment

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21 December 1750 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd If She Cou'd

Afterpiece Title: Merlin's Cave

Performance Comment: As17501220, but cast first listed here: Chasseur Royale-Lowe; Merlin-Leveridge; Diana-Miss Young; Aerial Spirits-Cooke, Villeneuve, Desse, Froment, Gardener, Mrs Delagarde, Mad Contrie, Mrs Villeneuve, Mad Gondou; Jupiter(Harlequin)-Miles; Mercury-Vincent; Pluto(Punch)-Froment; Neptune(Pantaloon)-Gardener; Pan(Scaramouche)-Desse; Hercules(Brighella)-Christian; Apollo(Mezzetin)-Villeneuve; Mars(Leander)-Jardin; Doctor-Bencraft; Colombine-Miss Haughton; Pierrot-LaLauze.

Cast

Role: Aerial Spirits Actor: Cooke, Villeneuve, Desse, Froment, Gardener, Mrs Delagarde, Mad Contrie, Mrs Villeneuve, Mad Gondou
Role: Pluto Actor: Froment

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14 September 1757 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Impromptu Faragolio

Performance Comment: A variety of entertainments as17570902 as17570908 as17570912; An Address-Mr Cibber; Hooley and Fairley, A Scotch Song-Lauder; Blind Man's Buff-Lilliputians; A Concerto for French Horns-; The Comic Lectures-Mr Cibber; Music-; The Taylors-Master Settree, Miss Twist; An Auction-Mr Cibber; Italian Air-Signora Mimicotti; Bassoon-Mynheer Von Poop@Poop Broomstickado; The Italian Peasants-Joly, Madam Dulisse; Marine Boys Marching to Portsmouth-; +Hornpipe-Morris, Miss Durham; Handel's Water Music, Preamble on Kettle Drums-; Comic Epilogue-Miss Midnight; Voluntary on the Cymbalo-Mr Noel Sr; Favourite English Song-Miss Gaudry; Kitty or the Female Phaeton-Miss Gaudry; Dialogue-Mr Gaudry, Miss Gaudry; The Lark Concerto-Mr Gaudry; Country Lass-Miss Valois; What's That to You?-Lauder; Oration-Miss Midnight; Cuckow Overture-; Singing-Sadler; Dutch Peasant-Miss Valois; Louvre, Minuet-Froment, Madam Dulisse; with the addition of La Bergere-Miss Vallois (scholar to Mr LaCointe); a new Scots Dance-Froment, Mlle Dulisse; an Epi@congee-Cibber; Alli Croker a comic dance-Miss Valois.

Cast

Role: Minuet Actor: Froment, Madam Dulisse
Role: a new Scots Dance Actor: Froment, Mlle Dulisse

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Frolic

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09 October 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

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

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Yates; Columbine-Mrs Dunstall; Father to Columbine-Julian; Florio-Marr; Dr Tack'em-Hemskirk; Clerk-Crofts; Mrs Drab-Mrs Bishop; Lawyer-Bennet; Keeper-Dunstall; Turnkey-Clough; Master of Punch House-Naylor; Porter-Laws; Dwarfs-Miss Naylor, two Masters Granier; Bustle-Vaughan; A grand Ballet-Froment, Granier, Dugay, Mlle Duval, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Vallois; Priests-Hemskirk, Naylor, Bennet; Priestesses-Mrs Bishop, Mrs Steel, Mrs Yates.

Cast

Role: A grand Ballet Actor: Froment, Granier, Dugay, Mlle Duval, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Vallois

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16 October 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment; with Triumphs of Love

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Yates; Columbine-Mrs Dunstall; Father to Columbine-Julian; Florio-Marr; Bustle-Vaughan; A grand Ballet-Froment, Granier, Osbeldiston, Mlle Duval, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Vallois; Priests-Hemskirk, Naylor, Bennet; Priestesses-Mrs Bishop, Mrs Steel, Mrs Yates.

Cast

Role: A grand Ballet Actor: Froment, Granier, Osbeldiston, Mlle Duval, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Vallois

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27 October 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd

Performance Comment: Apollo-Villeneuve; Daphne-Mrs Delagarde; Followers of Daphne-Mrs Gondou, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs Dumont, Mrs Vallois; Morpheus-Leveridge; Mystery-Baker; Slumber-Vincent; Harlequin-Phillips; Burgomaster-Bencraft; Boor Servant-Lalauze; Colombine-Miss Haughton; Scaramouche-Desse; Venus-Miss Young; Silenus-Leveridge; Bacchus-Baker; Pan-Vincent; Diana-Miss Falkner; Frenchman-Villeneuve; Frenchwoman-Miss Granier; Spaniard-Desse; Spanish Woman-Mrs Gondou; Polonese-Delagarde; Polonese Woman-Mrs Villeneuve; Zephyrus-Froment; Flora, representing an Inconstant-Mrs Delagarde.

Cast

Role: Zephyrus Actor: Froment

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25 April 1751 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King John

Afterpiece Title: Merlin's Cave

Performance Comment: As17510319 but Aerial Spirits-Villeneuve, Desse, Froment, Gardener, Mrs Delagarde, Mad Contrie, Mrs Villeneuve, Mad Gondou; Mars-Jardin.

Cast

Role: Aerial Spirits Actor: Villeneuve, Desse, Froment, Gardener, Mrs Delagarde, Mad Contrie, Mrs Villeneuve, Mad Gondou
Role: Pluto Actor: Froment

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17 June 1757 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Medley Concert

Performance Comment: Blind Man's Buff, les Bergeres, les Paisans, a Dutch Dance, And a grand Comic Ballet called The Marine Boys marching to Portsmouth-Froment, Settree, Lasci, Master Settree, Master Cawley, Master Hussey, Miss Derham, Miss Vivier, Miss Twiste, several Lilliputians.

Cast

Role: And a grand Comic Ballet called The Mari Actor: Froment, Settree, Lasci, Master Settree, Master Cawley, Master Hussey, Miss Derham, Miss Vivier, Miss Twiste, several Lilliputians.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Frolic; or, A Voyage to Prussia

Song: The Songs-Sga Peralta, others

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05 July 1757 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Medley Concert And Auction

Performance Comment: Singing-Signora Peralta; Dancing-Froment, Settree, Lasci, Jolly, Master Settree, Master Cawley, Master Hussey, Miss Denham, Miss Vivier, Miss Twyste.

Cast

Role: Dancing Actor: Froment, Settree, Lasci, Jolly, Master Settree, Master Cawley, Master Hussey, Miss Denham, Miss Vivier, Miss Twyste.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Frolic

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03 October 1757 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Impromptu Faragolio

Performance Comment: See17570928, but to begin with Grand Overture with French Horns-; Kitty-Miss Gaudry; Oratory-Miss Midnight; Scots Songs-Lauder; New Comic Lectures-Cibber; Les Tailleurs a new pantomime dance-Master Settree, Miss Twist; Scots Dance-Froment, Mme Dulisse; Italian Air-La Signora Mimicotti; accompanied on the bassoon-Mynheer Von Poop@Poop Broomstickado (as17570902); Acrobatics-Maddox; The Drunken Peasant, Irish Landlord and Landlady-Jolly, Settree, Mme Dulisse; Brown Beer of England-Lauder; Hornpipe-Morris.

Cast

Role: Scots Dance Actor: Froment, Mme Dulisse

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Frolic

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26 December 1757 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: New Medley Concert

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Frolic

Song: Kear

Ballet: LLe Carneval de Venice. Dutchman-Dupuis; Harlequin-T. Hussey; Scotchman-Froment; Pierrot-Rainel; Frenchman-Delascey; Punch-Joly; Dutchwoman-Miss Wilkinson; Harliquinette-Mad Stivaux; Scots Lass-Mad Dulisse; Pierotte-Mad Clary; Mademoiselle-Miss Durham; Mlle Ragonsby-Hussey

Performance Comment: Dutchman-Dupuis; Harlequin-T. Hussey; Scotchman-Froment; Pierrot-Rainel; Frenchman-Delascey; Punch-Joly; Dutchwoman-Miss Wilkinson; Harliquinette-Mad Stivaux; Scots Lass-Mad Dulisse; Pierotte-Mad Clary; Mademoiselle-Miss Durham; Mlle Ragonsby-Hussey.

Cast

Role: Scotchman Actor: Froment

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25 May 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Performance Comment: As17620520, but Buck-J. Palmer; Minuet-Froment, Miss Baker.

Cast

Role: Minuet Actor: Froment, Miss Baker.

Dance: I: The Cow Keepers, as17611215

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12 May 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Froment, who is oblig'd to change his play on account of the Indisposition of a Principal Performer. Tickets for As You Like It will be taken. No Building on the stage, and the House will illuminated with Wax Lights

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: I: A Serious Dance, call'd Les Characters de la Dance-Miss Froment , a Child six years old, Scholar of Mr Froment, being the First time of her appearing upon the stage; II: The Cow Keepers, as17611215; III: A Comic Dance, Le Petit Savoyard-Miss Froment; End: Louvre and Minuet-Froment, Miss Froment

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28 April 1750 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Messrs Desse and Froment. Charges #60. Deficit to the dancers, #19 16s. 3d. each, covered by income from tickets: Desse #47 14s.; Froment #35 2s. Mainpiece: At the desire of several Persons of Quality. Tickets sold at doors will not be admitted. Receipts: #20 7s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: II: The Scotch Measure, the Highland Reel-Froment; IV: Tambourine-Jardin; V: Louvre, Minuet-Froment, Mrs Delagarde

Song: III: A Song-Lowe

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21 May 1742 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Page (Housekeeper), Froment, and Mrs Stede

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker

Afterpiece Title: Rape of Proserpine

Song: OOld England forever, with the chorus-Leveridge

Dance: III: The Italian Peasants-Froment; V: Louvre, concluding with a Minuet-Froment, Mlle Auguste

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14 May 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Froment. Tickets deliver'd out by Moor will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: II: Lowe

Dance: III: a Scotch Dance-Froment; IV: Serious Ballet, as17430425 V: Les Amants Volages-Desse, Froment, Mrs Walter

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04 May 1751 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Froment, Gardner, Page (Housekeeper) and Mad Cointrie. Tickets deliver'd by Goodall, Rawlins, Goodwin, and the Widow Dupre will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Dance: I: La Paisane, as17510426 III: Scotch Dance-Froment, Mlle Heutte; End of Play: Louvre and Minuet-Froment, Mlle Heutte

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06 May 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for M Froment

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Dance: II: The Italian Gardiners, as17601203; End: Louvre and Minuet-Froment, a Young Lady (one of his Scholars)

Music: End Farce: by particular Desire, a solo on the Little Violin-Froment

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05 August 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: NNeville MS Diary: Went to ye Pit to see ye Beggar's Opera-oblig'd to stand till ye play was over-Read some parts of ye Opera which I borrowed at Davies's, before it began and between the acts. Barry is a good Macheath, but most persons who have seen him when young observe that he has not ye activity and fire he then had. He sings tolerably as does Mrs Dancer; but both are greatest in ye acting part. Mrs D. is ye best Polly I ever saw, having that sensibility which your mere singing Pollys generally want. Mrs Mahon did Lucy with great ease and propriety, and has a good deal of expression in her countenance. Thomson has a force and mellowness of voice very suitable to ye character of Lockit. I do not think Weston excels in Filch. Shuter raised vast applause by adding, after Trapes has said "done under the Surgeon's hand'--"Oh dreadful and in such weather too!" Bannister in Mat added--"Die hard"--and Palmer in Budge--"Die game--" Froment">Mrs Gardner's pretending to get drunk in Mrs Slam is new. We had at ye end of Act 2 the Fing., of Act 3 a New Hornpipe, and at ye end of ye Opera the H. Peasant by $Miss Froment, with Duke and No Duke-of which I am tired