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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr J French"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr J 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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7440 results for: Keyword - Mr J. French
We found 4765 matches on Event Comments, 2249 matches on Performance Comments, 1154 matches on Performance Title, 30 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

451
21 March 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Barry. King Arthur oblig'd to be deferr'd on account of Mr Barry's illness. Tickets deliver'd for The Distressed Mother will be taken. Pit and Boxes are laid together. Send servants by Four o'clock. Afterpiece: Not acted these seven years. [See 21 April 1760.] The Farce hiss'd. Mrs Barry Sir Harry (Hopkins Diary). Paid Salary list #333 19s.; Mrs Abington's Cloaths Acct, #1; Mr S. French 6 days, #1 10s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #296 14s. Charges: #65. Profit to Mrs Barry: #231 14s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Music: II: The Amusements of Strasburgh-Daigville, Sga Vidini, Daigvilles scholars, as17711118

452
02 May 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. Rec'd stopages #11 15s. 6d.; From Sinking Fund, 1st, #157 10s. (Treasurer's Book). [N.B. this last bookkeeping transfer seems to have enabled treasurer to pay off Mr Calthorpe. See 1 May 1772.] Paid Salary list #497 18s. 6d.; Mrs Abington's cloaths acct #2; Mr S. French #1 10s.; Master Brown 3 nights #1 2s. 6d. Receipts: #140 9s. 6d. Charges: #58 16s. 6d. Profits to Bannister: #81 16s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Entertainment: IV: Scrub's Trip to the Jubilee, as17720427 (for that Night only) a Variety of Imitations-Bannister

Dance: End: The Sailors Revels, as17711008

453
09 May 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mrs King being to Quit the Stage at the end of this Season Mr G. kindly play'd for her Benefit great Applause (Hopkins Diary). Benefit for King. Pit and Boxes laid together. Paid salary list #494 18s. 6d.; Mrs Abington's Cloaths acct #2; Mr S. French, 6 days #1 10s. Receipts: #287 6s. Charges: #64 4s. Profits to Mrs King: #223 2s. [Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Dance: V: A Minuet-Giorgi, Mrs King

454
23 May 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire. House (Hopkins Diary). Last time performing Mainpiece this season. Rec'd from Mr Clutterbuck #150; Stopages #7 17s. 10d.; Paid salary list #494 18s. 6d.; Mrs Abington's cloaths acct #2; Mr S. French #1 10s.; Dr Nares & Mrs Cooke's boys 3 nights (13th inst incl.) #6 (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #64 14s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lover

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

455
06 June 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rec'd Stopages #1 3s. Paid 4 days salary list #289 5s. 8d. at #72 6s. 5d. per diem; Mrs Abington in full of #60, for cloaths #1; Mr S. French #1 10s.; Mr S. Barry and Wife 1 days salary in full #8 6s. 8d.; Sieur Daigville and Wife ditto #1 (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

456
01 January 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Orphan, announced on playbill of 31 Dec. 1776. Public Advertiser assigns the Ghost to Farren.] Afterpiece: With Additions and Alterations, New Music, Scenes [by Greenwood, Leroy and French Jun. (Morning Post, 4 Jan.)], Dresses, and Decorations. Receipts: #175 1s. 6d. (137.1.0; 34.17.0; 3.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

457
31 March 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Ryder. Public Advertiser, 20 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Ryder at his house, No. 5, Bow-street, Covent-garden. 1st piece: The Overture, Airs, &c. by Dr Arnold. The selected by Handel, Vento, Giordani, Giardini, Bertoni, Dr Arne, Carolan the Irish Bard. 2nd piece: 1st time Here. Translated from the French of La Bonne Mere, by Horatio Edgar? Robson, and at this Time reading with great success and general applause by LeTexier in Lisle-Street [and 1st acted at the hay, 22 Aug. 1788]. 3rd piece [1st time; F 2, by Thomas Ryder, altered from The Man of Parts, by Isaac Jackman; not published]. Receipts: #271 0s. 6d. (191.15.6; 5.7.0; tickets: 73.18.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: Look before You Leap

Afterpiece Title: Such Things Have Been

Song: End 3rd piece: Paddy's Ramble from Dublin to Londonwritten and to be sung-Ryder

Entertainment: Monologue. In course of Entertainments: Bucks have at Ye All-Ryder

458
21 February 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Perfidious Brother

459
05 November 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Dance: Shaw, Miss Schoolding; Dutch Skipper, as17161101; Night Scene-Salle, Mlle Salle

460
09 July 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The False Count

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Song:

Dance:

461
05 March 1736 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pasquin: A Satire On The Times

462
16 May 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: I: Punch-Master Ferg; III: Polonese-Haughton, Mrs Walter

Song: IV: Beard

463
26 December 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Ranger

Song: I: Mattocks

464
24 May 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Dance: II: Hearts of Oak, as17620421 End: Dancing-Baltazar, Miss Dawson

465
26 December 1763 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: The Rites of Hecate; or, Harlequin from the Moon

466
18 February 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Dance: End: The Provancalle, as17631014

467
06 May 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Performance Comment: Capt. Le Brush-King; Gulwell-Packer; Harwood-Aickin; Irishman (with the original song)-Moody; Frenchman-Baddeley; Scotchman-Love; Frankly-J. Palmer; Maria-Miss Mills; Margery-Mrs Love; Williams-Ackman; Lord Brilliant-Fawcett; Trickit-Fox.
Cast
Role: Frenchman Actor: Baddeley

Dance: II: The Lilliputian Camp composed by Grimaldi, as17670227; III: Hearts of Oak, as17670212; End: The Vintage, as17661011, but-Grimaldi, Mrs King

468
22 June 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

469
26 September 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

470
19 December 1767 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce Is in Him

Dance: End: Hearts of Oak, as17671022

471
17 September 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Flora; or, Hob in the Well

472
28 September 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens; Or, The Death Of Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

473
06 October 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

474
25 January 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: Wit's Last Stake

475
18 May 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: IV: The Wake, as17680929, but Sga Giorgi, Mrs _King