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6552 results for: Keyword - Mr French
We found 4505 matches on Event Comments, 1443 matches on Performance Comments, 1064 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1826
09 February 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Pigmy Revels

Dance: II: Comic Dance, as17720922

1827
23 October 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

1828
07 January 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

1829
03 March 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sethona

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

1830
09 December 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: The Cobler or a Wife of Ten Thousand

1831
01 February 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

1832
03 May 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preservd

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

1833
24 November 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: II: The Savage Hunters, as17751118

1834
12 April 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Dance: I: The Sailors Revels, as17751220

Entertainment: A Variety of New Imitations, vocal and rhetorical-Bannister

1835
13 December 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Afterpiece Title: A ChristmasTale

1836
19 February 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Cast
Role: French Gentleman Actor: Chaplin

Afterpiece Title: The Cady of Bagdad

Dance: In II: Masquerade Scene Dancing-Blurton, Henry; End III: The Provincalle, as17780128

Song: Masquerade Scene As17771031

1837
19 March 1785 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Follies Of A Day

Afterpiece Title: Midas

1838
28 December 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Patron

1839
29 January 1793 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every One Has His Fault

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

1840
15 September 1794 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens Or Drury lane And Covent garden

Afterpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Sprigs of Laurel

1841
19 November 1660 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Edward Gower to Sir R. Leveson, 20 Nov. 1660: Yesternight the King, Queen, Princess, &c. supped at the Duke of Albemarle's, where they had the Silent Woman acted in the cockpit (HMC, 5th Report, 1876, p. 200). The King's Company. Pepys, Diary, 20 Nov. 1660: This morning I found my Lord in bed late, he having been with the King, Queen, and Princess, at the cockpit all night, where General Monk treated them; and after supper a play, where the King did put a great affront upon John? Singleton's musique, he bidding them stop and bade the French musique play, which, my Lord says, do much outdo all ours. The prologue was printed in 1660: The Prologue to His Majesty at the first Play presented at the cock-pit in Whitehall, Being part of that Noble Entertainment which Their Majesties received Novemb. 19. from his Grace the Duke of Albemarle. [The Prologue has been reprinted by Wiley, Rare Prologues and Epilogues, pp. 11-12. Bodleian Wood 398 has a MS note: By Sir Jo. Denham.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

1842
05 December 1660 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: After dinner I went to the new Theatre and there I saw The Merry Wives of Windsor acted, the humours of the country gentleman and the French doctor very well done, but the rest but very poorly, and Sir J. Falstaffe as bad as any

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

1843
02 December 1661 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: On this date Jean Chamouveau received #300 for the services of a French company, who presumably acted at court on 16 Dec. 1661 (CSP, Treasury Books, 1660-1667, p. 311, in Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 252)

Performances

1844
02 October 1662 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Boswell, (Restoration Court Stage, p. 280) lists this as by the King's Company, which had given it on 23 July 1662. Pepys, Diary: Hearing that there was a play at the Cockpit (and my Lord Sandwich, who came to town last night, at it), I do go thither, and by very great fortune did follow four or five gentlemen who were carried to a little private door in a wall, and so crept through a narrow place and come into one of the boxes next the King's, but so as I could not see the King or Queene, but many of the fine ladies, who yet are really not so handsome generally as I used to take them to be, but that they are finely dressed. Here we saw The Cardinall, a tragedy I had never seen before, nor is there any great matter in it. The company that came in with me into the box, were all Frenchmen that could speak no English, but Lord! what sport they made to ask a pretty lady that they got among them that understood both French and English to make her tell them what the actors said

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cardinal

1845
15 September 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, to see a new play, acted but yesterday, a translation out of French by Dryden [see 14 Sept. 1668], called The Ladys a la Mode; so mean a thing as, when they come to say it would be acted again to-morrow, both he that said it, Beeson [Beeston], and the pit fell a-laughing, there being this day not a quarter of the pit full

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ladies A La Mode

1846
14 October 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, and there saw The Faithful Shepherdess again, that we might hear the French Eunuch sing, which we did, to our great content; though I do admire his action as much as his singing, being both beyond all I ever saw or heard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Faithful Shepherdess

1847
26 October 1669 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: On this day the Lord Chamberlain issued an order (L. C. 5@12, p. 252; in Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 252) signifying the King's pleasure that: "ye french Comoedians haue liberty to Act and Play And that noe Persons pr[e]sume to molest or disturbe them in their Acting & playing.

Performances

1848
17 December 1672 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: On this date a troupe of French comedians were granted permission to import their properties (Treasury Books, 1672-1675, p. 14). Their goods arrived in London on 9 January 1672@3, and the troupe remained in London until at least 1 June 1674, when they were given leave to depart (p. 533). Their departure apparently did not occur until 19 Aug. 1673 (p. 571). See Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 241

Performances

1849
12 September 1673 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: On this date the free export of the goods of the French comedians, under Tiberio Fiorelli, was ordered. See Nicoll, Restoration Drama, pp. 118-19

Performances

1850
27 March 1674 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: See L. C. 5@149, p. 456, in Nicoll, Restoration Drama, pp. 354-55, ordering the delivery of scenes in Whitehall to Louis Grabu for use in the French opera at dl. See 30 March 1674

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