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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "duPre"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "duPre")') 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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1809 results for: Keyword - duPre
We found 2484 matches on Roles/Actors, 281 matches on Performance Title, 166 matches on Performance Comments, 56 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

151
26 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Ridout, Dupre, Goodall, and Mlle Fabres

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

Cast
Role: Aerial Spirits Actor: Cooke, Delagarde, Destrade, Dupre, Mlle Fabres, Mrs Lebrun, Mrs Villeneuve

Music: Concerto on German Flute (by Desire)-Lawson

152
31 October 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar: With The Deaths Of Brutus And Cassius

Afterpiece Title: The Neocromancer; or, Harlequin Dr Faustus

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Woodward; Infernal Spirit-Leveridge; Furies-Picq, Villeneuve, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade; Shade of Leander-Beard; Shade of Hero-Mrs Lampe; Miller-Bencraft; Miller's wife-Mrs Delagarde; Doctor's Man-Hippisley.
Cast
Role: Furies Actor: Picq, Villeneuve, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade

153
01 January 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Funeral

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Performance Comment: Orpheus-Beard; Rhodope-Mrs Clive; Eurydice-Mrs Lampe; 1st Nymph, Follower of Eurydice-Sga Campioni; Pluto-Leveridge; Ascalax-Reinhold; Demons-Picq, Villeneuve, Delagarde; Harlequin-Woodward; Colombine-Mrs Kilby; Pantaloon-Rosco; Squire-Bencraft; Mrs Mannerly-Mrs Martin; Goody Gurton-Marten; Drudge (servant to Pantaloon)-Hippisley; Woman Dwarf-a French Boy; Country Lads-Villeneuve, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade; Country Lasses-Mrs Duval, Mrs Delagarde, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Ozane; a Rural Swain, Nymph-Cooke, Sga Campioni.
Cast
Role: Country Lads Actor: Villeneuve, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade

154
14 January 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: Comus-Quin; Elder Brother-Ryan; Young Brother-Cashell; 1st Spirit-Hale; 2nd Spirit-Ridout; Lady-Mrs Pritchard; The Vocal Parts: Euphrosyne-Mrs Clive; Bacchanal-Beard; Sabrina-Mrs Lampe; Attendant Spirits on Comus-Leveridge, Reinhold, Messing, Roberts, Thompson, Mrs Wright; The Dance proper to the masque-Cooke, LaLauze, Picq, Sga Campioni, Villeneuve, Delagarde, Destrade, Dupre, Mrs Delagarde, Mrs Duval, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Ozanne.
Cast
Role: The Dance proper to the masque Actor: Cooke, LaLauze, Picq, Sga Campioni, Villeneuve, Delagarde, Destrade, Dupre, Mrs Delagarde, Mrs Duval, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Ozanne.

155
23 November 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Performance Comment: Orpheus-Beard; Rhodope-Mrs Lampe; Eurydice-A Young Gentlewoman who never appeared on any stage before; 1st Nymph, follower of Eurydice-Sga Campioni; Harlequin-Woodward; Colombine-Mrs Havard; Pantaloon-Arthur; Squire Gawky-Bencraft; Mrs Mannerly-Mrs Martin; Goody Gurton-Marten; Drudge (servant to Pantaloon)-Hippisley; Woman Dwarf-a French Boy; Country Lads-Villeneuve, Destrade, Delagarde, Dupre; Country Lasses-Mrs Duval, Mrs Phillips, Mrs LeBrun; Mrs Gondau; Rural Swain-Cooke; Nymph-Sga Campioni.
Cast
Role: Country Lads Actor: Villeneuve, Destrade, Delagarde, Dupre

156
27 December 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performance Comment: As17451129, but 3rd Follower-Mrs Phillips; Country Lads-Villeneuve, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade; Country Lasses-Miss Vandersluys, Mrs Delagarde, Mrs Phillips, Mrs Gondou; Rural Nymph-Signora Campioni; [rest of bill missing]. [rest of bill missing].
Cast
Role: Country Lads Actor: Villeneuve, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade
Role: Demons Actor: Villeneuve, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade
Role: Gardeners Actor: Destrade, Dupre

157
17 April 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Afterpiece Title: Loves of Mars and Venus

Performance Comment: Mars-Cooke; Followers-Villeneuve, DuPre, Destrade, Vandersluys; Venus-Sga Campioni; The Graces-Miss Vandersluys, Mrs Gondou, Mrs Vaughan; Vulcan-Essex; Bacchus-Sodi; Cyclops-Bencraft, Vaughan, Smith.
Cast
Role: Followers Actor: Villeneuve, DuPre, Destrade, Vandersluys

Dance: II: Pigmalion-Cooke, Signora Campioni; III: The Revellers-Essex, Miss Vandersluys, Sodi

158
22 April 1746 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Anderson, Dupre, Mrs Bland. Tickets delivered out for Goodall, Mrs Daniel, Miss Morrison will be taken. Mainpiece not acted these 5 years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Lasses; Or, The Custom Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Country Lads Actor: Villeneuve, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade
Role: Demons Actor: Villeneuve, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade
Role: Gardeners Actor: Destrade, Dupre

Song: WWe're Gaily yet-Beard

Dance: Sodi

159
13 May 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Performance Comment: As17460425 but add Country Lads-Villeneuve, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade; Country Lasses-Mrs Vaughan, Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Gondou.
Cast
Role: add Country Lads Actor: Villeneuve, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade
Role: Country Lads Actor: Villeneuve, Destrade, Delagarde, Dupre

Dance: Cooke, Sga Campioni

160
31 December 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Performance Comment: Orpheus-Beard; Rhodope-Mrs Lampe; Eurydice-Miss Younge; 1st Nymph (follower of Eurydice)-Sga Campioni; Harlequin-Woodward; Colombine-Mrs Havard; Pantaloon-Arthur; Gawky-Bencraft; Mrs Mannerly-Mrs Martin; Goody Gurton-Marten; Drudge-Hippisley; Woman Dwarf-French Boy; Country lads-Villeneuve, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade; Country lasses-Mrs Villeneuve, Mrs LeBrun, Mrs Gondou, Mrs LeFont.
Cast
Role: Country lads Actor: Villeneuve, Delagarde, Dupre, Destrade

161
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

162
23 November 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Cheats of Harlequin

Performance Comment: Perseus-Lowe; Cepheus-Leveridge; Aethiopian-Baker; Cassiope-Mrs Wright; Mercury-Wilder; Amazons-Miss Young, Miss Allen, Miss Ferguson, Miss Hippisley, Miss Morrison; Cyclops-Roberts, Smith, Holtham, Bennet, Davis; Infernals-Waltz, Villeneuve, Desse, Froment, Delagarde, Dupre, Dumont; Harlequin-Oates; Hussar-Bencraft; Hussar's servant-Arthur; Colombine-Miss Haughton; Valet de Chambre-Atkins; Petit Maitre-LaLauze; Concluding with the Original Grand Dance-; Andromeda-Miss Falkner.
Cast
Role: Infernals Actor: Waltz, Villeneuve, Desse, Froment, Delagarde, Dupre, Dumont

163
29 October 1750 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Cheats of Harlequin

Performance Comment: Perseus-Lowe; Cepheus-Waltz; Aethiopian-Baker; Cassiope-Mrs Wright; Mercury-Vincent; Andromeda-Miss Falkner; Amazons-Miss Young, Miss Allen, Miss Ferguson, Miss Hippisley, Miss Morrison; Cyclops-Roberts, Smith, Holtham, Bennet, Davis; Infernals-Villeneuve, Desse, Froment, Delagarde, Dupre, Dumont; Harlequin-Miles; Hussar-Bencraft; Colombine-Miss Haughton; Hussar's Servant-Arthur; Valet de Chambre-Atkins; Petit Maitre-Lalauze; Concluding with the Original Grand Dance-.
Cast
Role: Infernals Actor: Villeneuve, Desse, Froment, Delagarde, Dupre, Dumont

164
30 October 1750 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Performance Comment: As17501029, but Infernals-Gardiner, +Christian, _Delagarde, _Dupre.
Cast
Role: Infernals Actor:

165
08 October 1755 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Performance Comment: Romeo-Garrick; Escalus-Bransby; Capulet-Berry; Paris-Scrase; Benvolio-Mozeen; Montague-Burton; Tybalt-Blakes; Fryar Lawrence-Havard; Mercutio-Woodward; Nurse-Mrs Macklin; Lady Capulet-Mrs Bennet; Juliet-Mrs Cibber; With the Additional Scene representing The Funeral Procession to the Monument of the Capulets-; The vocal parts-Beard, Champness, others; In Act I, a Masquerade Dance proper to the play-Mathews, Dennison, Granier, Harrison, Mrs Vernon, Mrs Preston, Mrs Dupre, Mrs Phillips.
Cast
Role: a Masquerade Dance proper to the play Actor: Mathews, Dennison, Granier, Harrison, Mrs Vernon, Mrs Preston, Mrs Dupre, Mrs Phillips.

166
20 September 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage

Dance: I: Dance of Spirits-Miss Armstrong; III: Dance of Fantastic Spirits-; [These were danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.] V: a Ballet, Demie Caractere, composed by Gallet, The Double Festival-Gallet, Slingsby, Miss Armstrong, Sga Dupre

Performance Comment: ] V: a Ballet, Demie Caractere, composed by Gallet, The Double Festival-Gallet, Slingsby, Miss Armstrong, Sga Dupre.
Cast
Role: The Double Festival Actor: Gallet, Slingsby, Miss Armstrong, Sga Dupre.

167
02 October 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Dance: I: Country Dance (incident to the [main]piece)-; This was danced in both performances.] End II: [New Ballet, Demi-Caractere (composed by Gallet), Rural Grace-Gallet, Henry, Miss Armstrong, Mlle Dupre

Performance Comment: ] End II: [New Ballet, Demi-Caractere (composed by Gallet), Rural Grace-Gallet, Henry, Miss Armstrong, Mlle Dupre.
Cast
Role: Rural Grace Actor: Gallet, Henry, Miss Armstrong, Mlle Dupre.

168
06 December 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: Mars and Venus

Dance: Dupre, Moreau, Boval, Thurmond Jr, Tully, Cook Sr, Newhouse, Pelling, Cook Jr, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Schoolding, Mlle Gautier, Mlle Corail, Miss Smith, Miss Schoolding Jr; particularly Dupre's Harlequin-Dupre, Mlle Gautier; and a new French Peasant-Moreau, Mrs Bullock

169
14 October 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Dance: Dupre, Boval, Dupre Jr, Prince, Birkhead, Mrs Santlow, Mrs Bicknell, Miss Younger

170
29 October 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid's Tragedy

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis (First Interlude)

Dance: Dupre, Boval, Dupre Jr, Mrs Santlow, Miss Younger

171
17 November 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis (Second Interlude)

Dance: Dupre, Boval, Dupre Jr, Mrs Santlow, Mrs Bicknell, Miss Younger

172
22 November 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timon Of Athens

Afterpiece Title: Myrtillo

Dance: Dupre, Boval, Dupre Jr, Miss Santlow, Mrs Bicknell, Miss Younger

173
05 December 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: The Bulls and Bears

Song: As17151123

Dance: Dupre, Boval, Dupre Jr, Wade, Birkhead, Mrs Santlow, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Younger

174
19 December 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Last Stake

Dance: Dupre, Boval, Dupre Jr, Wade, Mrs Bicknell

175
14 January 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Dance: Dupre, Boval, Dupre Jr, Wade, Mrs Santlow, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Younger