SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Miss Williams"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Miss Williams")') 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

Result Options

Download:
JSON XML CSV

Search Filters

Event

Date Range
Start
End

Performance

?
Filter by Performance Type










Cast

?

Keyword

?
We found 14633 matches on Performance Comments, 11030 matches on Author, 4432 matches on Performance Title, 2118 matches on Event Comments, and 467 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Laugh When You Can

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp or Patrick in Prussia

Performance Comment: Captain Patrick-Johnstone; Darby-Munden; Quiz (1st time)-Simmons; Marshal Ferbelin-Claremont; Father Luke-Waddy; Olmutz-Emery; Rupert-Denman; Adjutant-Davenport; Mabel Flourish-Mrs Gilbert; Norah-Miss Mills; Flora-Mrs Martyr.
Cast
Role: Norah Actor: Miss Mills

Song: End I: The Sailor's Journal-Incledon; In course Evening: Young William was a seaman true-Incledon; All get drunk together-Townsend; United Englishmen-Munden; The Anchor Smiths-Townsend

Event Comment: Tickets delivered for the 12th of June will be admitted. [For Miss Rogers see 13 June.] Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Townsend (constable), Mrs Linton, Jackson, Plinne, Hacketts, Standen, Wells, Ansell, Little, Bagley, Noble, Dibdin, Hill, Callagan, J. Brandon will be admitted. Receipts: #384 4s. (46.12.6; 6.5.0; tickets: 331.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Cast
Role: Milliner Actor: Miss Leserve

Afterpiece Title: The Turnpike Gate

Cast
Role: Peggy Actor: Miss Sims
Role: Mary Actor: Miss Waters.

Dance: End: New Hornpipe-a Young Lady (1st appearance in public [Miss Rogers]); End I afterpiece: A Scotch Pas Deux-Jackson, Miss Bologna

Song: After 1st dance: The Little Farthing Rushlight-Master Standen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: As18000322but Valentine-Powell (1st appearance in that character); Jeremy-Trueman; Trapland-Webb; Angelica-Miss Heard (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Angelica Actor: Miss Heard
Role: Miss Prue Actor: Mrs Jordan.
Role: Mrs Frail Actor: Miss Pope

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Cast
Role: Page Actor: Miss DeCamp
Role: The Countess Actor: Miss Heard
Role: Agnes Actor: Miss Wentworth
Role: Susan Actor: Miss Mellon.

Song: In course evening: The Soldier tir'd of War's alarms-Miss Stephens; End I afterpiece: Crazy Jane-Mrs Bland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Cast
Role: Caroline Dormer Actor: Miss DeCamp.

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Performance Comment: Patrick-Miss DeCamp; Dermot-Trueman; Fitzroy-J. Palmer; Father Luke-Caulfield; Bagatelle-Farley; Darby-Wathen; Kathlane-Mrs Bland; Norah-Mrs Mountain.
Cast
Role: Patrick Actor: Miss DeCamp

Song: In course evening: Sweet Echo-Mrs Mountain; accompanied on the Hautboy-Forster=; The Soldier Tir'd-Mrs Mountain

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: To White Hall, and got my Lord Bellasses to get me into the playhouse; and there, after all staying above an hour for the players, the King and all waiting, which was absurd, saw Henry the Fifth well done by the Duke's people, and in most excellent habits, all new vests, being put on but this night. But I sat so nigh and far off, that I missed most of the words, and sat with a wind coming into my back and neck, which did much trouble me. The play continued till twelve at night. A Prologue for this play is in A Letter from a Gentleman to the Honourable Ed. Howard (London, 1668)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry V

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Santlow. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Markham and Miss Lindar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Dance: Mrs Booth, Thurmond Jr, Mrs Bullock, Lally's Brother, Miss Lindar

Event Comment: Benefit Wilcox, Randal, Miss Connelley. Written by Shakespear. Receipts: money #7 5s. 6d.; tickets #120 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Dance: End I: Country Girl-Mrs Brett; II: Tollet's Grounds-Newhouse, Mrs Rogier; III: Louvre-Mrs Wall; IV: A new Pastoral-Glover, Mrs Rogier

Event Comment: Benefit Houghton, Clark, Miss Palin. Receipts: money #28 14s. 6d.; tickets #168 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: FFingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; Highlander and Mistress-Salle, Mrs Legar

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Raftor. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Song: Singing In Italian and English-Miss Raftor

Dance: TTambourin-Miss Robinson; English Maggot-Rainton, Mrs Walter

Event Comment: Benefit the Author of The Mad Captain. [Tickets for Tench and Miss Norris taken.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Mad Captain

Song: E. Roberts

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Vallois, J. Delagarde; Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock; Masqueraders-Vallois, Mrs Bullock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Deceit

Performance Comment: Parts by Ryan, Hippisley, Walker, A. Hallam, Chapman, Neale, Mrs Horton, Miss Bincks, Mrs Buchanan, Mrs Stevens, Mrs Mullart, Mrs Templer, Mrs Kilby, Mrs Martin .

Dance: Tambourine by Glover and Miss Rogers. Comic Ballet by Lalauze, Mlle d'Hervigni, &c. French Peasant by Tench and Miss Rogers. Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers, Desse, Mrs Ogden, Tench, Mlle Delorme

Performance Comment: Comic Ballet by Lalauze, Mlle d'Hervigni, &c. French Peasant by Tench and Miss Rogers. Scot's Dance by Glover, Miss Rogers, Desse, Mrs Ogden, Tench, Mlle Delorme .
Event Comment: Benefit Muilment, Miss Mann. At the particular Desire of sever`l Ladies of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Dance: III: Turkish Dance-Muilment

Event Comment: Benefit Yates, Bowcher, Mrs Elmy, Miss Oates

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Beggars Wedding

Dance: P Peasant Dance-Master and Miss Oates; Serious Dance-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Je ne scai quoi-Tench, Villeneuve, Miss Oates

Event Comment: Benefit Misses Scott. Tickets at Scott's, Villers Street, York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Performance Comment: As17390303 but Lucy-Miss Scott; Thomas-Green; Quaver-Raftor.
Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Scott

Dance: II: Comic Dance-the younger Miss Scott; V: French Peasants-Poitier, Mlle Roland; In III: Tambourine-the Elder Miss Scott

Event Comment: Benefit Cross (Prompter), Anderson, Clarke, White. Tickets for Miss Burgess also taken. Receipts: #110 (Rylands MS.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

Cast
Role: Mauxalinda Actor: Miss Young

Dance: II: Comic Dance-Richardson, Mlle Ozanne; IV: Pierots-Richardson, Delagarde

Song: III: Roberts

Event Comment: Play By Particular Desire. [Miss Woodman now Mrs Ridout.] Receipts #50

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Dance: LLe Genereux Corsaire-Sig and Siga Fausan; only; but see17411214 Les Jardiniers Suedois, as17411128

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular desire. Afterpiece: Never Acted Before. [The Farce by Fielding is a sequel to The Virgin Unmasked.] Forbidden soon by the Lord Chamberlain. It being supposed that a particular man of quality was pointed at in one of the characters. The prohibition short of duration (Genest, III, 652). See A Letter to a Noble Lord to whom it alone belongs, occasioned by a representation at Drury Lane of a Farce call'd Miss Lucy in Town (1742), [a 20 page pamphlet criticizing the Lord Chamberlain for allowing this farce. Author gives a scene by scene account emphasizing the bawdry and discounting the pious conclusion. He concludes with remarks on theatrical dancing]: As to Dances, I think your province of prohibition does not extend; so the Public cannot owe their gratitude to you for several. I appeal to those who have been on the coast of Malabar and the banks of the Ganges whether we have not had some that have exceeded on posture, or anything of that kind so common amongst the polite Indians of Indostan. Afterpiece: Mrs Clive mimics the Muscovita admirably, and Beard Amorevoli intolerably (H. Walpole to H. Mann, 26 May).-Horace Walpole Correspondence with Sir Horace Mann, I, 435. Receipts: #70

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: Miss Lucy in Town

Event Comment: 1 Benefit W. Giffard [but earlier advertisements said benefit the two Miss Scotts]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 1 Henry Iv

Afterpiece Title: 1 The Lying Valet

Performance Comment: Lying Valet-W. Giffard; Kitty-Miss Scott.
Cast
Role: Kitty Actor: Miss Scott.
Event Comment: Play By Particular Desire. The tragedy of Jane Shore in which character Miss Macklin is to make her appearance, is in rehearsal at Covent Garden, and will be acted there on Friday next

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Event Comment: Benefit for Lacey & Miss Thomas (Cross). Tickets deliver'd by Clough, G. Burton, and Mrs Addison will be taken. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Cast
Role: Mrs Tatoo Actor: Miss Minors
Event Comment: This night (Sat. 27th) Mr Vernon, was hiss'd off: in the part of Palemon in ye Chaplet-the anger of the Audience proceeded from this-towards the end of last Season he married Miss Potier at the Savoy, without friends consent, & afterwards was drawn in to inform against Mr Grieston, the Parson, who was immediately seiz'd & thrown into Newgate; where he was remov'd to ye King's bench on account of his Sickness. where he now lies for his Tryal. He publish'd his Case, & beg'd the Charity of the Town to keep his Family from starving (Cross). Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Young Bevil-Ross; Indiana-Mrs Cibber; Myrtle-Palmer; Tom-Woodward; Phillis-Mrs Clive; Lucinda-Miss Minors; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Cross; Isabella-Mrs Bennet; Sir John Bevil-Burton; Sealand-Berry; Cimberton-Taswell; Humphrey-Blakes; in ActII, Singing-Beard.
Cast
Role: Lucinda Actor: Miss Minors

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Event Comment: Wth Shakespear's ode (by Havard). Mrs Cibber ill, she came tho', and went thro' Ye two first Acts & then Miss Haughton finish'd the Part (Cross). For bt. of Ross, but Ross did not act. Receipts: #180 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Performance Comment: As17551106, but Shore-Ross (Playbill); Havard (Public Advertiser); Catesby-Mozeen; Alicia-Miss Haughton.
Cast
Role: Alicia Actor: Miss Haughton.

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: IV: New Dance-

Song: Anniversary Ode in Commemoration of Shakespeare, as17560401

Event Comment: Tomorrow The Careless Husband, Lady Betty-Miss Pritchard, 1st time in that character. Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Hillyard. Receipts: #46 17s. Charges: #63. Deficiency cover'd by tickets, #105 9s. (boxes 170; pit 279; gallery 211). Rec'd from John Rich, #100, being part of the sum paid to Mr Finny on account of the New Building (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Dance: II: Prussian Sailors-Master Settree, Miss Twist (Scholars to Mr Settree); III: Comic Dance-Master Settree, Miss Twist; IV: Roast Beef of Old England or The Antigallican-Leppie, Miss Hilliard; V: A Grotesque Minuet-Leppie, Miss Hilliard