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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr French"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr French")') 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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6552 results for: Keyword - Mr French
We found 4497 matches on Event Comments, 1443 matches on Performance Comments, 1064 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

301
02 May 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Lawyer

Dance: French Sailor and his Lass by Maker and Mlle Salle. Scotish Dance, as17331004

302
03 May 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: French Sailor and his Lass by Malter and Mlle Salle

Song: The Black and White Joke by Leveridge and Laguerre

303
24 August 1734 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don John; Or, The Libertine Destroy'd

Afterpiece Title: The Barren Island; or, Petticoat Government

Dance: French Peasant by Vallois and Miss Rogers. A new Pantomime Dance: The Force of Inclination: Sailors-Vallois, Clark, Woodward, Bencraft, Smith; Amazonians-Miss Rogers, Miss Mann, Mrs Vallois, Miss Tollett, Miss Norman

304
01 January 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Performance Comment: Apollo-Glover; Nymphs-Miss Sandham, Mrs Ogden, Mrs De L'Orme, Miss Norman, Miss Rogers; Burgomaster-Nivelon; Boor Servant (Pierot)-Lalauze; Colombine-Mrs Kilby; Scaramouch-Bencraft; Harlequin-Lun; Peasants-Bencraft, Ferguson, Du Pre; Women Peasants-Mrs Forrester, Miss Horsington, Miss Brunette; with The Triumphs of Love: Venus-Mrs Wright; Silenus-Leveridge; Bacchus-Stoppelaer; Zephyrus-Glover; Frenchman-Desse; Frenchwoman-Mlle De L'Orme; Spaniard-Livier; Spanish Woman-Miss Sandham; Polonese-Tench; Polonese Woman-Mrs Ogden; Flora-Miss Rogers; Diana-Miss Hillyard; but see17351020 . but see17351020 .
Cast
Role: Frenchman Actor: Desse
Role: Frenchwoman Actor: Mlle De L'Orme

Dance: French Peasant by Lalauze and Mlle D'Hervigni

305
02 March 1736 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus, King Of Thebes

Dance: French Peasants, as17360223 Harlequin by Mlle De L'Isle. Sailors (from Orestes) by Glover, Tench, Desse, Delagarde, Livier, Richardson

306
24 March 1747 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: TThe Early Horn-Brett

Music: French Horns-Baker, Stroud

Dance: As17461124

307
26 October 1795 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: With a Representation of the Indian Manner of Preparation for Battle, and their extraordinary Method of Laying in Ambush. A Representation of an Engagment between an English and French Man of War. And a Shipwreck. To conclude with the original Allegoric Scene from Provocation. A View of the British Fleet at Anchor. Receipts: #221 12s. 6d. (221.3.6; 0.9.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Performance Comment: As17951023, but added to English Characters: Jack Haulyard (with Saturday Night, composed by Dibdin)-Townsend; Susan-Miss Smyth; to French Characters: Officers-Williamson, Rees, Abbot, Wilde, Rayner, King; to Indian Characters: Principal Warriors-Simpson, Price.

Dance: In afterpiece: a Dance-Byrn, Mlle St.Amand

Song: As17951019

308
16 November 1682 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Title Unknown

309
15 February 1675 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Calisto; Or, The Chaste Nimph

Afterpiece Title: Calisto's Additional performers

310
30 November 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fathers; Or, The Good Natur'd Man

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: As17780919

311
15 October 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

312
14 November 1696 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist; Or, The Sham Doctor

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Mars and Venus

313
November 1698 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess; Or, The Generous Portuguese

314
19 January 1683 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Politiques

315
November 1697 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Deceiver Deceived

316
28 November 1682 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duke Of Guise

317
September 1697 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Imposture Defeated; Or, A Trick To Cheat The Devil

318
09 July 1700 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Courtship A La Mode

319
12 February 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks

Music: A piece of Instrumental Musick- to be perform'd on the Stage

Song: Mr Laroon, Mrs Hughs; particularly a Two/part Song-Mr Laroon, Mrs Hughs compos'd by the late Mr Henry Purcell

Song: Country Farmer's Daughter, Highland Lilt-the Devonshire Girl; The Whip of Dunbyn-Claxton; a new Entry-Mrs Campion, others; A Scotch Dance-Mrs Bicknell; a new Scaramouch Man and Scaramouch Woman-Laferry, Mrs Lucas

320
21 March 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: The Historical Register

321
12 December 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: IV: A Dutch Dance-Master Settree, Master Blagdon, Miss Blagdon

322
14 January 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple; Or, A Trip To The Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Song: End of Act I of afterpiece Horn sweet are the Woodlands by Forrest and Groves. imitations. End of mainpiece, Vocal and Rhetorical, by the Gentleman who performs Beau Clincher

323
April 1689 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

324
May 1691 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur; Or, The British Worthy

325
April 1692 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cleomenes, The Spartan Heroe