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17426 results for: Keyword - Mr William Smith
We found 10821 matches on Author, 4811 matches on Event Comments, 4282 matches on Performance Comments, 806 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2301
07 April 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. Part of Pit laid into Boxes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Performance Comment: As17521209; but Abudah-Smith.
Cast
Role: Abudah Actor: Smith.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: GGrand Scots Ballet, as17521216

2302
26 March 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Young Bevil-Barry; Sir John-Bridgwater; Sealand-Sparks; Tom-Dyer; Phillis-Mrs Vincent; Cimberton-Arthur; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Bambridge; Lucinda-Mrs Baker; Humphrey-Anderson; Isabella-Miss Ferguson; Daniel-Collins; Myrtle-Smith, 1st time; Indiana-Miss Bellamy; Singing-Lowe.
Cast
Role: Myrtle Actor: Smith, 1st time

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: Maranesi, Sga Bugiani

2303
15 May 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Bennett, Reed, R. Smith. No Building on Stage. [The usual notice about fraudulent tickets.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: Archer-Dyer; Aimwell-Ridout; Scrub-Collins; Sullen-Dunstall; Boniface-Marten; Foigard-Barrington; Sir Charles-R. Smith; Dorinda-Mrs Chambers, 1st appearance that stage; Gibbett-Bennet; Gipsey-Miss Young; Lady Bountiful-Mrs Bambridge; Cherry-Mrs Baker; Mrs Sullen-Mrs Bland.
Cast
Role: Sir Charles Actor: R. Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Cast
Role: Jeremy Actor: R. Smith

Song: I: No Never-Lowe, Mrs Chambers; III: Song-Mrs Chambers

Dance: V: Dutch Dance, as17531018

2304
10 October 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. It is the last time of performing (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Carnival Concert

Performance Comment: Prologue-Smith.
Cast
Role: Prologue Actor: Smith.

Afterpiece Title: La Pantomime du Charpentier

2305
07 November 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: A Tragedy [by Edmond Smith] revived. Never acted there before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phaedra And Hippolitus

Performance Comment: Theseus-Sheridan; Hippolitus-Smith; Lycon-Ridout; Ismene-Mrs Baker; Phaedra-Mrs Woffington.
Cast
Role: Hippolitus Actor: Smith

2306
28 November 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Henry Smith. Concert divided into five parts. To begin at 6:30 p.m. Boxes 4s. Pit 2s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aethiopian Concert

Performance Comment: Cleopatra will entertain the town with the surprizing History of Elizabeth Canning. Song-Smith; Cantata-Sadler; Clown-Mulliner; Singing-Sadler, Mrs Yeates; Singing-Lauder; Dance-Mme Katharine.
Cast
Role: Song Actor: Smith

2307
09 May 1755 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Redman, R. Smith, Mrs Griffiths and Miss Ferguson. Tickets delivered out by Hurst, Paddick, Miss Cokayne &c. will be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Performance Comment: As17550407 but Lady Grace-Mrs Griffith; James-R. Smith; Poundage-Stoppelaer.
Cast
Role: James Actor: R. Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Schoolboy

Cast
Role: Tom Actor: R. Smith

Dance: IItalian Peasants-Granier and Mrs Granier

2308
03 April 1756 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Performance Comment: Phocyas-Barry; Abudah-Smith; Eumenes-Ryan; Herbis-Gibson; Caled-Sparks; Daran-Anderson; Eudocia-Miss Nossiter, first time.
Cast
Role: Abudah Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: Taste

Dance: FFingalian Dance, as17551126

2309
02 May 1758 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Marten, Anderson, and R. Smith. Tickets sold at the Door will not be admitted. [Receipts: missing for rest of season.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Performance Comment: As17571020, but Strut-Wignel; Supple-R. Smith; Bolus-_.
Cast
Role: Supple Actor: R. Smith
Role: Careless Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: Drunken Peasants-Miles; Comic Ballet-Guerin, Dumay, Gosly, Miss Dawson, Miss Viviez, Mrs Guerin, Mlle Jansolin

2310
27 March 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. Mainpiece: Not acted in 3 years. [See 29 March 1757.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple; Or, A Trip To The Jubilee

Performance Comment: Sir Harry Wildair-Smith, 1st time; Standard-Sparks; Clincher Sr-Shuter; Vizard-Ridout; Smuggler-Collins; Young Clincher-Bennet; Dicky-Costollo; Constable-Marten; Tom Errand-Perry; Angelica-Mrs Dyer; Lady Darling-Mrs Copin; Parley-Mrs Pitt; Lady Lurewell-Mrs Hamilton.
Cast
Role: Sir Harry Wildair Actor: Smith, 1st time

Afterpiece Title: Florizel and Perdita

Cast
Role: Florizel Actor: Smith
Related Works
Related Work: The Sheepshearing; or, Florizel and Perdita Author(s): William Shakespeare

Dance: As17581111

2311
05 May 1762 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Marten, Anderson, R. Smith. No Building on Stage. Tickets sold at Doors not admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Performance Comment: As17611106, but Governor-Anderson; Jaques-Bennet; Don Manuel-Gardner; Sancho-R. Smith; Lawyer-Redman; Page-Miss Valois; Honoria-Mrs Stephens; Priest-Wignel.
Cast
Role: Sancho Actor: R. Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: TThe Taylors, as17620107

2312
14 May 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Marten, Anderson, R. Smith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Performance Comment: As17631015, but Shoemaker-Anderson; Sir John Friendly-R. Smith; Miss Hoyden-Mrs Green.
Cast
Role: Sir John Friendly Actor: R. Smith
Role: Loveless Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: II: A Hornpipe-Miss Pitt; End: The Dutch Skippers, as17640509

2313
07 May 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Anderson; R. Smith, Widow Marten. None admitted behind scenes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Performance Comment: As17641030, but Lord Rake-R. Smith; Lady Fanciful-Mrs Bellamy; Belinda-[under her new neme] Mrs Mattocks.under her new neme] Mrs Mattocks.
Cast
Role: Lord Rake Actor: R. Smith
Role: Heartfree Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-Miss Pitt; End of Play: Rural Love, as17641212

2314
02 May 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Bennet and R. Smith

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Performance Comment: As17660320 but Comus-Smith; First Spirit-Ross; 3rd Spirit-_; The Dances-Miss Valois.
Cast
Role: Comus Actor: Smith
Role: Second Spirit Actor: R. Smith

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: End of Masque: The Drunken Peasant, as17660421

2315
08 May 1771 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for R. Smith and Miss Twist

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Performance Comment: As17710206, but Phillip-R. Smith; In Act IV: a Minuet-Fishar, Miss Twist.
Cast
Role: Phillip Actor: R. Smith

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Ballet: End: The Wapping Landlady. As17710422[with Double Hornpipe, as17710422

2316
21 March 1772 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Yates. Mainpiece: Altered from Corneille [by Colley Cibber?]. Never Performed There. Pit and Boxes laid together (playbill). Charges #66 7s. 6d. Profit to Mrs Yates #39 7s. 6d., plus #179 from tickets (Box and Pit 716). Paid Younger a Bill for writing parts #5 19s. 9d. Paid John Smith for a Blue cloth suit lac'd with gold #9 9s. (Account Book). Receipts: #105 15s. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ximena; Or, The Heroic Daughter

Performance Comment: Don Carlos-Smith; Don Alvarez-Bensley; Don Gormaz-Clarke; Don Ferdinand-Hull; Don Sanchez-Savigny; Don Alonzo-Wroughton; Belzara-Mrs Mattocks; Ximena-Mrs Yates; By Particular Desire an Epilogue-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Don Carlos Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: Man and Wife

Cast
Role: Fleece Actor: R. Smith

Dance: End: The Whim, as17720312 End II Farce: A Comic Dance, as17711031

2317
18 December 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Smith Don Felix--very so, so. The Play was very imperfect (+Hopkins Diary). Receipts: #249 12s. 6d. (235.6.0; 12.15.6; 1.11.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Performance Comment: Don Felix-Smith (1st appearance in that character); Don Lopez-Baddeley; Don Pedro-Parsons; Colonel Briton-Brereton (1st appearance in that character); Frederick-Packer; Gibby-Moody; Lissardo-King; Isabella-Miss Hopkins; Flora-Miss Pope; Inis-Mrs Bradshaw; Violante-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Don Felix Actor: Smith
Related Works
Related Work: Ramah Droog; or, Wine does Wonders Author(s): William Reeve

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

Dance: End II: The Double Festival-Gallet, Mlle Dupre, Helme, Slingsby, Sga Vidini, Sga Crespi, Sga Ricci, Mrs Sutton

2318
17 October 1777 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 7 years. No joke ever raised such loud and repeated mirth, in the galleries, as Sir John 's labour in getting the body of Hotspur on his back...At length this upper-gallery merriment was done away [with] by the difficulties which Henderson encountered in getting Smith on his shoulders. So much time was consumed in this pick-a-pack business that the spectators grew tired, or rather, disgusted. It was thought best, for the future, that some of Falstaff 's ragamuffins should bear off the dead body" (Davies, I, 273-75). [For Henderson as Falstaff see hay, 24 July 1777.] Receipts: #207 10s. 6d. (185.6.0; 20.7.0; 1.17.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Performance Comment: Hotspur-Smith; King Henry-Bensley (1st appearance in that character); Worchester-Aickin; Sir Richard Vernon-Farren; Northumberland-Packer; Sir Walter Blunt-Hurst; Prince John-Lamash; Westmorland-Wrighten; Douglas-Chaplin; Poins-R. Palmer; Carriers-Moody, Parsons; Francis-Waldron; Bardolph-Wright; Sheriff-Griffiths; Gadshill-Holcroft; Peto-Nash; Prince of Wales-Palmer; Falstaff (1st time [at this theatre])-Henderson; Hostess-Mrs Bradshaw; Lady Piercy (1st time)-Mrs Cuyler.
Cast
Role: Hotspur Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Dance: End II: Comic Dance-the Miss Stageldoirs

2319
29 April 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tickets delivered by Mrs Pitt, Miss Bassan, Miss Green, Mrs Sharpe, R.? Smith, Ledger, Garland and the Performers in the Orchestra will be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: As17790106, but Sir George Airy-A Young Gentleman (1st appearance on this stage [unidentified]); Whisper-R.? Smith; Isabinda-Mrs Whitfield.
Cast
Role: Whisper Actor: R.? Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Liverpool Prize

Dance: As17790302

Music: End IV: trumpet concerto-Sarjant

2320
25 March 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by Half past Four o'clock. Receipts: #326 14s. (142/12/0; 6/14/6; 0/7/6; tickets: 177/0/0) (charge: #67 4s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Performance Comment: As17821214, but Pierre (for this night only)-Smith .
Cast
Role: Pierre Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Related Works
Related Work: The Divorce Author(s): William Shield

2321
30 September 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Charles to Bannister Jun., but he "being suddenly taken ill, Barrymore was under the necessity of reading the part" (Morning Herald, 2 Oct.).] Error Smith, pit office-keeper, #2 11s. Receipts: #219 15s. (169.7; 49.15; 0.13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Performance Comment: Oakly-Smith; Lord Trinket-Dodd; Major Oakly-Baddeley; Charles-Read by Barrymore; Russet-Aickin; Captain O'Cutter-Moody; Sir Harry Beagle-Palmer; Lady Freelove-Mrs Hopkins; Harriet-Mrs Brereton; Mrs Oakly-Miss Farren.
Cast
Role: Oakly Actor: Smith

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

2322
08 January 1753 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: A Gentleman did Theodosius. First appearance. He played pretty (Cross). He is identified as William? Smith in Rich's Register

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius; Or, The Force Of Love

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: LLes Charboniers, as17521028; Il Pastore, as17521219

2323
04 December 1689 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian

Performance Comment: Edition of 1690: Prologue [Sent to the Author By an Unknown Hand-Mrs Mountfort [Dressed like an Officer; Prologue-a Woman; Don Sebastian-Williams; Muley Moluch-Kynaston; Dorax-Betterton; Benducar-Sandford; Mufti-Underhill; Muley Zeydan-Powell Jr; Don Antonio-Betterton [an error; corrected in 1692 edition to Mountfort]; Don Alvarez-Bowman; Mustapha-Leigh; Almeyda-Mrs Barry; Morayma-Mrs Montfort; Johayma-Mrs Leigh; Epilogue-Antonio, Morayma.
Cast
Role: Don Sebastian Actor: Williams

2324
21 October 1690 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon; Or, The Two Sosias

Performance Comment: The music by Henry Purcell. Edition of 1690: Prologue-Mrs Bracegirdle; Jupiter-Betterton; Mercury-Lee; Phoebus-Bowman; Amphitryon-Williams; Sosia-Nokes; Gripus-Sandford; Polidas-Bright; Tranio-Bowen; Alcmena-Mrs Barry; Phaedra-Mrs Montfort; Bromia-Mrs Cory; Night-Mrs Butler; Epilogue-Phaedra.
Cast
Role: Amphitryon Actor: Williams

2325
March 1692 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Traytor

Performance Comment: Edition of 1692: Duke of Florence-Hodgson; Lorenzo-Kynaston; Sciarrha-Williams; Pisano-Cibber; Cosmo-Harris; Florio-Alexander [Verbruggen]; Depazzi-Haynes; Frederico-Mich. Lee; Alonzo-Bright; Petruchio-Freeman; Rogero-Tommy Kent; Amidea-Mrs Bracegirdle; Oriana-Mrs Lassells; Morossa-Mrs Cory.
Cast
Role: Sciarrha Actor: Williams