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6552 results for: Keyword - Mr S. French
We found 4497 matches on Event Comments, 1443 matches on Performance Comments, 1064 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 2 matches on Roles/Actors.

101
01 May 1733 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

Music: New Grand Overture by Dr Pepusch-; III: Mr Handel's celebrated Water Musick-; Kettle Drums-Poitier

Dance: I: Tambourine-Miss Rogers; IV: Footing Dance with Hornpipe-Jones, Mrs Ogden; V: Scottish Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre, Dupre, Mrs Pelling, Delagarde, Mrs Ogden

Song: IV: The Hunting Song in Admetus-Mrs Wright; accompanyed with Trumpets and French Horns-. *uoÅcg II: A New Masque of Vocal and Instrumental Musick by Mr Rosengrave, in Honour of Flora, the Goddess of the Spring. Vocal Parts-Leveridge, Salway; Dances-Nivelon, Glover, Miss Rogers, Pelling, Delagarde, Newhouse, Mrs Pelling, Miss LaTour, Mrs Ogden

102
21 May 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Venus, Cupid, and Hymen

Music: Between the Acts: Trumpets, Kettle Drums, French Horns-; With a new Overture (to the Masque) for two Vox Humanes- , a new invented Instrument

Song: II: Mrs Seedo, who never appeared on the stage before; III: (At the particular Request of Seedo's Friends) Signora Margherita (who has not performed on any theatre these 14 years)

Dance: I: Drunken Peasant-LeBrun; IV: The Watteau-Miss Robinson; End Afterpiece: Les Bergeries-Essex, Haughton, Miss Robinson

103
11 March 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Dance: Scots Dance, as17341004 French Sailor and his Lass by Maker and Mlle Salle. The Nassau by Glover, Miss Rogers, Pelling, Miss Norsa, Le Sac, Mrs Ogden, De la Garde, Miss Baston. Pigmalion, as17340114

Song: By Miss Norsa

104
22 April 1734 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Lawyer

Dance: II: The Nassau, as17340117 III: French Sailor and his Lass by Malter and Mlle Salle. IV: Scotish Dance, as17341004 V: Shepherd and Shepherdess by Malter and Mlle Salle

105
06 February 1735 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Fille Capitaine

Afterpiece Title: The French Cuckold

Afterpiece Title: Arlequin Sauvage

Dance: A Lilliputian Dance call'd La Polissone

106
24 April 1735 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Dance: III: La Follette c'est Ravize by Tench and Mrs Woodward. V: Scotch Dance by Mrs Bullock

Song: II: A Song with French Horns by Miss Jones. IV: In Italian by Mrs Chambers

107
09 June 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom

Dance: By Command: II: French Peasants by Poirier and Mlle Roland. III: Pierots by Nivelon and Lalauze. V: Harlequin and Harlequine by Poirier and Mlle Roland

108
14 January 1736 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Music: I: Handel's Overture of Ariadne. II: Charke's Medley Overture

Dance: II: French Peasant by Shawford. IV: Scot's Dance

Song: III: Cbast Lucretia. V: Roast Beef Song

109
24 January 1737 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Dance: I: A Serious Dance-the eldest Miss Scott; II: Comic Dance-eldest Miss Scott's Sister; III: French Peasant-Lalauze; accompanied-others; IV: A new dance-two Misses Scott; V: A new Comic Dance-Nivelon, the Misses Scott

110
13 April 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: I: Lilliputian Punch-Master Ferg; II: Drunken Peasant-Phillips; III: Tambourine-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; IV: Turkish Dance, as17380412 V: French Peasants-Master Ferg, Miss Wright

111
14 April 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Dance: I: Tambourine-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; III: French Peasants-Master Ferg, Miss Wright; V: Drunken Peasant-Philips

112
20 April 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: FFrench Peasant, new Pantomime Dance-Nivelon, Mrs LeBrun; French Peasant-Lalauze, Mlle Roland

113
24 April 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Lucky Discovery; or, The Tanner of York

Dance: CComic Dance-Tench, Miss Cantrel; Je ne scai quoi-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates; French Sailors-Lalauze, Mlle Roland

114
10 May 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: A Comic Dance-Richardson, Miss Cantrel; Je ne scai quoi-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates; French Sailors-Lalauze, Mlle Roland; Grecian Sailors-Glover

Song: A New Cantata-Roberts; The Roast Beef of Old England-Leveridge

115
15 March 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: CComic Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; French Peasant-Lalauze, Mlle Roland

116
07 February 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: CComic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Tambourine-French Girl; Grand Ballet-Glover, Mlle Roland Ynger

117
30 April 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: The Opera of Operas; or, Tom Thumb the Great

Dance: In Afterpiece: A new dance-the French Boy and Girl; Scotch Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland

118
28 April 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller of Mansfield

Song: I: Song with French Horns-Beard; II: Sweet Bird from Milton-Mrs Arne; III: A Ballad-Lowe; IV: War he sung was Toil and Trouble-Mrs Clive

Dance: V: A New Running Footman's Dance-Phillips

119
04 May 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: I: A French Peasant-Froment, Mlle Gondeau; III: A New Serious Dance-Desse, Mrs Walter; V: La Florana, as17430408

Song: II: Stella and Flavia-Beard; IV: Bumper Squire Jones-Beard, Lowe

120
10 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband; Or, A Journey To London

Afterpiece Title: The Little French Lawyer

121
10 December 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: WWooden Shoe Dance-Sg Maranesi, Miss Wilford, Miss Valois; and a New Comic Pantomime Ballet, call'd The French Country Gentleman or the Female Metamorphoses-Sodi, Sga Manesiere (Being her first appearance on the English stage), Miss Wilford

122
02 March 1770 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Music: FFirst Violin, a Solo-Giardini; Concerto on French Horns-Sg Rodolpho

123
26 February 1773 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judith

Music: I: Solo on Violin-Barthelemon; II: Concerto on French Horn-Sg Spandau

124
30 August 1661 @ The Cockpit in Drury Lane

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: Then my wife and I to Drury Lane to the French comedy, which was so ill done, and the scenes and company and everything else so nasty and out of order and poor, that I was sick all the while in my mind to be there. See also Boswell (Restoration Court Stage, p. 280). W. J. Lawrence (Early French Players in England, The Elizabethan Playhouse and Other Studies (1912), pp. 139-40) argues that the play was Chapoton's Le Mariage d'Orphee et d'Eurydice. See also The Description of the Great Machines of the Descent of Orpheus into Hell. Presented by the French Comedians at the cockpit in Drury Lane. The Argument Taken out of the Tenth and Eleventh Books of Ovid's Metamorphosis (1661). Rugg's Diurnal the French players (BM Add. Mss. 10116, f243v)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A French Comedy

125
16 October 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V, With Conquest Over French At Agincourt

Performance Comment: King Henry-Smith; Exeter-Tindal; Achbp Canterbury-Sparks; Fluellin-Shuter; Gower-Anderson; French Ambassador-White; Mountjoy-Baker; French Soldier-Holtom; MacMorris-Barrington; Jamy-Dunstall; Pistol-Dyer; Bardolph-Marten; Hostess-Mrs Pitt; Williams-Buck; French King-Gibson; Burgundy-Bennet; Dauphin-Davis; Constable-Clarke; Isabel-Mrs Stephens; Catherine-Miss Hallam.
Cast
Role: French Ambassador Actor: White
Role: French Soldier Actor: Holtom
Role: French King Actor: Gibson

Afterpiece Title: Coronation