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22514 results for: Keyword - John Williams
We found 20150 matches on Author, 3212 matches on Performance Comments, 1527 matches on Event Comments, 373 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

18426
31 January 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Harlequin

18427
31 January 1782 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Junius Brutus

Dance: End of Act I Divertisement Dance, as17811117, but omitted: Gardel; End of Act II Les Petits Riens, as17811211, but omitted: Gardel, Mme Simonet

18428
05 February 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Related Works
Related Work: Macbeth Author(s): John Philip Kemble

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Song: As17811105

18429
07 February 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Related Works
Related Work: Measure for Measure Author(s): John Philip Kemble

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Harlequin

18430
12 February 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Related Works
Related Work: The Tempest Author(s): John Dryden
Related Work: The Tempest; or, The Enchanted Island Author(s): John Philip Kemble

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: In Act IV of mainpiece a Dance by Henry, Miss Armstrong, &c

18431
26 February 1782 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Junius Brutus

Dance: End of Act I New Divertisement Dance, as17820216; End of Act II Rinaldo and Armida, as17820223

18432
04 March 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Performance Comment: King Richard-Mrs Lefevre; King Henry-Alfred; Buckingham-Knapp; Tressel-Benson; Lord Stanley-Johnson; Prince Edward-Miss Thomas; Duke of York-Miss Heyborn; Norfolk-Buxton; Lord Mayor-Molbery; Catesby-Essex; Ratcliff-Daniel; Richmond-Holland; Lady Ann-Miss Shelburne; Dutchess of York-Mrs Fowler; Queen-Mrs Jackson. An Occasional Prologue spoken by Mrs Lefevre .
Cast
Role: Lord Stanley Actor: Johnson
Related Works
Related Work: The English Princess; or, The Death of Richard III Author(s): John Caryll

Afterpiece Title: Don Quixote in England or The Humours of Sancho Pancha

Performance Comment: Don Quixote-Johnson; Guzzle-Rogers; Sir T. Loveland-Knapp; Mayor-Buxton; Squire Badger-Holland; Fairlove-Thompson; Brief-Eden; Dr Drench-Bateman; Drawer-Henry; Sancho Pancha-Fitzgerald; Mrs Guzzle-Mrs Fowler; Jezabel-Mrs Liddel; Dorothea-Miss Williams .
Cast
Role: Don Quixote Actor: Johnson
Role: Dorothea Actor: Miss Williams

Monologue: 1782 03 04 End of mainpiece Bucks have at ye all by Benson. vaudeville. End of Act I of afterpiece The Manual Exercise by Mrs Lefevre

18433
18 March 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Dance: As17820226

18434
19 March 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Performance Comment: Bayes (for that night only)-Henderson; Johnson-Hull; Smith-Fearon. The other Characters by Quick, Whitfield, Robson, W. Bates, J. Bates, Gushing, Stevens, Thompson, Baker, L'Estrange, Bates, J. Wilson; Miss Stuart, Miss Langrish, Mrs Poussin . Miss Stuart, Miss Langrish, Mrs Poussin .
Cast
Role: Johnson Actor: Hull
Related Works
Related Work: The Contrast: A Tragi-Comical Rehearsal of Two Modern Plays: Match Upon Match; or, No Match at All, and the Tragedy of Epaminodas Author(s): John Hoadley

Dance: End of mainpiece, as17811219

18435
01 April 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece, as17820223

18436
06 April 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Related Works
Related Work: The Tempest Author(s): John Dryden
Related Work: The Tempest; or, The Enchanted Island Author(s): John Philip Kemble

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: In Act IV of mainpiece Dance by Zuchelli, Miss M. Stageldoir, &c; End of Act I of afterpiece The Irish Fair by the Miss Stageldoirs

18437
08 April 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece, as17811101; End of Act IV, as17810921

18438
11 April 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece, as17820223

Song: In Act V of mainpiece song by Miss Field

18439
15 April 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Harlequin

18440
15 April 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dissipation

Afterpiece Title: The Recruiting Serjeant

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

Dance: In afterpiece a Postilion Dance incident to the piece; to conclude with a Country Dance

18441
16 April 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle

Dance: As17820409

18442
20 April 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: After song at end of mainpiece The Irish Fair, as17820406

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece How sweet in the Woodlands by Bannister and Miss Phillips; End of mainpiece The Soldier tir'd of War's Alarms by Miss Phillips

18443
23 April 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Related Works
Related Work: Sauny the Scot; or, The Taming of a Shrew Author(s): John Lacy

Dance: As17820302athi

18444
24 April 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Henry and Emma

Afterpiece Title: The Capricious Lovers

Dance: End of Act I of afterpiece The Irish Fair, as17820406

18445
25 April 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: In Act I of mainpiece a Minuet by Lemercier and Miss Stageldoir. With a Masquerade Dance

Song: Mainpiece: With the Funeral Procession. Vocal Parts by Williames, Chaplin, Fawcett, Phillimore, Helme; Miss Collett, Miss Wright, Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Miss Barnes, Mrs Smith, Mrs Granger, &c

18446
27 April 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Related Works
Related Work: The Comical Gallant: or, The Amours of Sir John Falstaffe Author(s): John Dennis

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece The Gala. A new Minuet, Rigadoon and Allemande (composed by Aldridge) by Aldridge and Miss Besford. The Quadrilles and Cotillons by Langrish, Holloway, Ratchford, Cranfield, Mrs Ratchford, Mrs Invill, Mrs Davenett, Miss Francis. To conclude with a Grand Figure by all the characters; End of Act III a new Comic Dance, Frisk and Fun; or, The Whimsical Triumvirate, by Aldridge, Miss Matthews, Miss Besford; End of mainpiece St. David's Day, as17811213, the Airs accompanied on the harp by Edwards

Song: End of Act I of afterpiece Tally-Ho by Miss Langrish

18447
30 April 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: As17820409

18448
01 May 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff

Cast
Role: Sir John Falstaff Actor: Henderson

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: End of mainpiece St. David's Day, as17820427

Song: End of Act II of mainpiece Cease, gay Seducers; End of Act III Tally Ho, both by Mrs Martyr

18449
07 May 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece, as17820223

18450
10 May 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: Don Juan or The Libertine Destroyd

Dance: End of Act III of mainpiece a new Masquerade Dance, in which a Minuet by Zuchelli and Miss M. Stageldoir; Afterpiece to conclude with a Dance of Furies (performers not listed)

Song: In Masquerade Dance a favorite song by Miss Romanzini, and to conclude with a Serious and Comic Air by Delpini